Tho Boundary Commission, with the Speaker as Chairman, which has
redistributed the English constituencies after a genera. tion, has made many drastic changes. London gains three Members, and the Parliamentary and municipal boroughs in London are now to be the same areas, so that the Tower Hamlets, for instance, disappear as a unit. Wandsworth is to have five Members. in place of one. The boroughs outa'de London gain twenty-seven Members. The small Cathedral cities, each as Canterbury, Win- chester, Hereford, and Salisbury, cease to return Members, though York, Lincoln, Worcester, Carlisle, and- Exeter have been saved by their modern industrial development. The great cities will be more fully represented, Birmingham with twelve Members being followed by Liverpool with eleven and Manchester with ten. The densely populated areas- round London now assume their true importance. East Ham, Leyton, Tottenham, IValthtunstow, and Willesden will each have two Members. Ealing, Edmonton, Ilford; Hornsey, Kingston, Richmond, Bromley, and Wimbledon are also taken out of the Home Counties. Other now boroughs are created in Lancashire and Yorkshire. Tho county divisions will he reduced by one to two hundred and thirty. The Home Counties gain eight seats, but most counties lose.
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