The Overseers have published the lists of Parliamentary electors for
the borough of Liverpool. The total number is 10,600, being an in- crease of 1,132 upon the list of last year. The number of persons re- gistered or claiming to be registered on the County, for the township of Liverpool, is 1,858, being an increase of 381 on the list of last year.-- Liverpool Chronicle.
In Birmingham, as we learn from the Birmingham Journal, the num- ber of electors is only 3544; although, by the returns under the Re- form Act, the houses with an annual rental exceeding 10/. were 6.532, the population being then 142,251. The editor of the Birmingham paper estimates the present population at 160,000, and the number of 10/. houses at 7320; yet the electors are only 3544. It is to the ope- ration of the rate-paying clauses that he attributes this great falling off. The population of Liverpool was estimated in 1831 at 165,000, and the number of 10/. houses was put down at 17,927. Liverpool has asso in- creased rapidly in population since that statement was made ; yet the total number of electors, including freemen, of whom there are pro- bably now more than 2000, is only 10,600 in 1836. To retain provisions which have so extensive a disqualifying operation, is a manifest fraud on the men by whose aid the Reform Act was carried, and who sup- posed that they were contending for the acquirement of electoral rights. The Reform Act being passed, nearly half of the Birmingham "ten. pounders" find they have no vote. How long will it be safe to treat the mass of the population after this fraudulent fashion
In Leeds, it would seem that the rates are better paid than in Liver. pool or Birmingham. The estimated constituency of that borough un- der the Reform Act was 6683; and there are 6716 on the Overseers' • lists.
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