Copy 1, Volume 1
England in 1835: being a series of letters written to friends in Germany, during a residence in London and excursions into the provinces / by Frederick von Raumer... Translated from the German, by Sarah Austin. [vol. III, by H.E. Lloyd].
- Friedrich von Raumer
- Date:
- 1836
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: England in 1835: being a series of letters written to friends in Germany, during a residence in London and excursions into the provinces / by Frederick von Raumer... Translated from the German, by Sarah Austin. [vol. III, by H.E. Lloyd]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![hence as to the wealth, the more or less demo- cratical tendency, &c. [Here follows a list of towns and counties, with the numbers ahovementioned annexed, which it is thought unnecessary to insert.] This list, which comprises the most important towns, and the most considerable counties, shows that the number of voters in these places, though large, is yet very far from approaching to uni¬ versal suffrage. You will see also that the popu¬ lation is by no means in the direct ratio, either of the property, or of the number of voters ; and lastly, that the number of members of Parliament is neither exactly apportioned to the population, nor to the number of voters. If, therefore, the English electoral system is far less based on an aristocracy of wealth than the French, it is still farther from being thoroughly democratical. But by their fruits ye shall know them. What has the reformed House (according to the Duke of Wellington, a democratical assembly of the worst kind) proposed to do, and what has it done ? It was in a difficult and unfortunate position, in¬ asmuch as the most exaggerated expectations were excited in the people ; and still more critical seems the position of the Whig ministry between Tories and Radicals. But in spite of these dis¬ advantages, there has been nothing of that con¬ vulsion, that overthrow of all order, which many predicted ; on the contrary, much has been ef¬ fected, which, though at the time denounced as destructive by the opposition, is now approved by Peel and Wellington.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29327003_0001_0313.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
