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JANUARY 7, 1 ,S3 1.

STATISTICS OF

REPRESENTATIOA.

Among Ow numerous sources from which these Tables have been compiled, the following mity,44;speeffied Thomas Birch and Sir Animist Hall's

Returns issued in the Session of 1852, and Aft. Hume's issued in the Session of 1853, Sliotatizon rarioue forms the number of Electors and the Population, and the Quetlffications which regulate the right of voting in England and Scotland: Return presented_ in 1853 by Mr. FiLrOy, supplying the like ,particulars as regards -freland : several _Returns Owed for by :W.. .Phflin and 2fi'. Locke lingoes the subject :7;f Election Petitions : Lord John .Russell's Reform Bill of 1852 for Engkindi and theBills introdueedat the same time ili.J.lencreiff, the Lord Advocate, for Scotland, and by Sir William Somerville, Chief iSecretary, for Is Air Dod 's "Elecfm.al Facts 7'-• Nr. Cheshii.e's recently published " RessitSe the censers" ; Adams's "Parliamentary Hand- book," published at the close of the lost Session. Tce Parliaraintary Returns are frequently wanting in clerical exactness : they seem to have been got up in a hurry. Perhaps none of the authorities referred to are altogethei %free from error ;4endthougliAniiikpains.have been bestowed upon the present com- pilation, it hardlg can have escaped the occasional inaceutackS to which every production of 'the kind io liable in a first edition. Of party or personal bias there is none. The object has been, to present the simple elements of. the subject in a convenient arrangement; bringinglogether, in moderate space, the multitudinous fads scattered over many documents, and leaving the political student to draw his own conelusions.