ABSTRACT
On the Motion of Earl Grey, the House went into Committee on the Reform of Parliament (England) Bill. One of the present Representatives of that county was a decided enemy to the Corn laws those laws which were considered by the landed interest as their especial protection. In the county of York it was possible that there might be a gain of one Member to the landed interest; but he apprehended that in that of Leicester one-half would go to the manufacturing interest, and this, too, in a county in which hitherto the agricultural interest had predominated. It was certainly, in part, a Bill of disfranchisement, if not wholly so. In one county there would be not less than fourteen of these new boroughs; in that county, therefore, it was certain that if the existence of this clause were allowed, the influence of those voters would, of course, predominate at a county election.
