be taken out of schedule B and transferred
to schedule A. If successful in this, he intended to follow up the
motion by one regarding Eye, Wareham, Midhurst, and Woodstock. He
conceived it impossible that his motion should be rejected, considering
what had been done to Amersham, as that town had far higher claims
to return a member than Petersfield, whether as regarded population,
wealth, rental, or number of ten-pound houses. Lord Althorp admitted
that he could not oppose the motion on principle, though he resisted
it on the ground of expediency. Prudence, he said, required that the
success of the bill in the house of lords should not be hazarded by
sending up to their lordships a bill disfranchising a greater number of
boroughs than had been contained in that which they had rejected. Mr.
Shiel withdrew his motion; and on the 28th of February the committee
proceeded to the consideration of the thirty boroughs which were to
form schedule B. Having thus disposed of the disfranchising clauses, the
committee proceeded to schedule C, which gave members to places
hitherto unrepresented. The only debate or division which took place in
considering this schedule, was on the clause which proposed to confer
eight members on the metropolitan districts: the Tower Hamlets, Finsbmy,
Marylebone, and Lambeth. The Marquis of Chandos, after contending that
to extend the elective franchise in that quarter would lead to a great
excitement, and give the capital a preponderating influence over the
rest of the country, moved an amendment, that the clause should be
omitted. He was supported by Sir E. Sugden, Sir George Murray, and Lord
Sandon, who argued that the provision was unnecessary, and far from
being expedient. The clause was defended by Lords Althorp and John
Russell, and Messrs. Macaulay and C. Grant, who, on the other hand,
maintained that an increase to the metropolitan representation, was
required both by justice and by the principles of the bill; and that
the dangers apprehended from it were visionary, while those which would
attend its refusal were real and unavoidable. On a division, the motion
of the Marquis of Chandos was lost by a majority of three hundred and
sixteen against two hundred and thirty-six. In the consideration of
schedule D, which contained those new boroughs which were only to
return one member, an unsuccessful attempt was made to include
Stockton-on-Tees, and Merthyr Tydvil; but on the bringing up of the
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