SCHEDULE B.
AMONG the boroughs which have been snatched from the grasp of Schedule A, as brands from the burning, is Eye, the nomination borough of Sir EDWARD KERRISON. Touching this place, and in- cidentally of others, a trustworthy correspondent has sent us some interesting particulars, which we subjoin. Eye, we may ob- serve, according to the Return V (21) on Parliamentary Repre- sentation, contains 397 houses occupied, and 7 empty; and its assessed taxes amount to 4101. 178. 2d. Whether any undue means have been employed to swell the latter, would, in so extra- ordinary a case, be a fitting subject of' inquiry; nor would it have been improper to subject the Population Return also to inquiry, had mere population formed the groundwork of the new disfran- chising schedules. It must appear passing strange, that this borough—which in 1801 contained 1,734, in 1811 1,893, and in 1821 1,882—should on a sudden, and without any assignable cause, start forward in 1831 to 2,313, being an increase of '25 per cent., the increase of the county at large being only 9 per cent. It is amusing to observe, that the charter of this miserable little borough declares, " that the town and borough of Eye shall be and remain for ever hereafter, a free town and borough of itself: This leads us to our correspondent's information.
The new Reform Bill has reduced the number of condemned bo- roughs—Why? asks every Reformer. First on the list of those re- prieved, stands Eye : concerning which borough, we shall endeavour to supply a little of the information so clamorously desired by Mr. CRO- KER and other Anti-Reformers.
1. Eye is one of the most insignificant market-towns in Suffolk. Trade or manufactures it has none. It is far inferior, in every respect, to Woodbridge, Bungay, Beceles, Lowestoft, Halesworth, or Stow- market. In each of these towns, as much money is returned in a month as at Eye in six, probably in twelve.
2. Such as it is, it is the property of Sir EDWARD KERRISON; who possesses, and will possess, the absolute nomination of its members. Eye was formerly the property of the Marquis CORNWALL'S; and was sold by the present Earl to a Mr. KERRISON, formerly a cooper at Bungay, who amassed a fortune of about half a million, by stoikjob- bing and saving. It is related of him, that, on the completion of this purchase, he dragged his son up the church tower of Broome (a village on the estate), and, stretching his arms to each point of the compass, congratulated him, in his native dialect, in these brief but comprehen- sive words—" Thare, Ned, thas all yarn!" (Anglia, " There, Ned, that is all lours.") And Ned's it ■•seis and is, Eye inclusive. The subserviency of its electors to their master, past, present, or to come, was, is, and will be, as complete as that of any persons %Viso ever stood in a similar relation to each other. In short, it will be a mere nomi- nation borough. 3. The electors have no desire for the distinceson which Ministers seek to bestow upon them. The right of voting, they feel to be a badge of servitude and a yoke of bondage, which they would gladly throw off. In this borough, " freeman" and " slave" are not terms op- posed to each other, but may be indifferently used to designate the same person. The present patron of the borough sent down a peti- tion against the late Bill for the signature of his slaves. As soon as the affair was known, some hid themselves, and some went out of town, in order to avoid such an •act of self-degradation. On Monday night, Mr. CM- KM had the brazen assurance to move that Orford and Aldeburgh should be united, and continue to send members to Parliament. As he gave no "information" respecting these " twin cherries," we will supply it. Orford is a miserable vil- lage, having eight voters, all.of whom are immediate dependents of the .Marquis of HERTFORD, whose seat (at Sudbourne) is in its neighbour- hood. Aldeburgh is a decayed fishing-town, nearly half of which has Theen swallowed up by the sea. The voters here may amount to twenty; all of whom are also slaves to the same noble Marquis. Of the neigh- bouring borough of Dunwich, not a vestige remains. At low-water traces of it may be discovered some way from the shore. But your Boroughmonger is an animal whom not even the sea can dislodge. Though no longer part of England, this borough is, according to "the .Peel and Dawson Crew," part of the constitution of England.
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