"REPRESENTATION OP MINORITIES."
Sin—With your correspondent of last week I hope you Will resume the consideration of the injustice done at present by the non-representation in Parliament of local minorities. That the minority of the West Riding (15,000) should have no Member, and that the majority of Thetford (100) should be represented, is a gross anomaly.
Your correspondent's plan but plasters up, not eradicates, the sore. Why should not (say) every thousand electors in the kingdom club their vote and return any man they liked ? Mr. Cardwell, for instance, could command 10,000 supporters scattered through the land; but because his 10,000 appre- ciators do not reside in the same town or county, they cannot have their nominee in Parliament. A few hundred men in a small locality lay their heads together and send a Member to the Legislature, but 10,000 men linked together by an honourable reverence for genius cannot. Also, would it not be advantageous to destroy local irritation, by making votes capable of
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