First Returns for Cities and Boroughs, 23 Edward I. The first sum mons for Representatives for Counties was in the 49th year of the reign of Henry III. The first Returns for Shires on record, 18 Edw. III. 147 Counties, Cities, and Boroughs, sent Representatives to Parliament at the accession of Henry VIII., 1509. To avoid the disfranchisement of Electors in Cities and Boroughs, all the Poor Rates and Window Tax (if any) payable from them, in respect of their premises, previously to the 6th of April, must be paid on or before the 20th July. The Window Tax is payable, by Act of Parliament, whether demanded or not. As many Electors remove in the month of May from one part of a Parliamentary Borough to another, those persons should take care to inform the Overseers or Collectors of the Poor Rates of their removal, and require to be rated for the premises to which they remove, to avoid being left out of the List of Voters when next made, and to prevent any objection made against them from being substantiated, if taken to their vote in the Registration Court. OCCUPATIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND AND WALES. An Abstract of the official return, giving the totals under each branch of occupation as regards the aggregate population of “England and Wales, and the Islands of the British Seas," according to the Census of 1841. The results are as follows: The centesimal proportions of each of the two great classes of the employed population in these several parts of the Kingdom, stand The decimal proportions of the different classes may therefore be thus ENGLAND AND WALES--Counties. Freehold; including freeholders of inheritance, freeholders for life or lives, pew-renters, rent-charges, rectorial and vicarial tithes, or other freehold qualifications 334,458 Copyhold and customary; including tenants by copy of court roll, tenants by custom of the manor, tenants in ancient demesne 25,459 Leasehold for period of years or for lives Occupying tenants at a rent of £50 per annum 29,872 115,991 Trustees and mortgagees in actual receipt of the rents and profits 1,889 Offices; including all ecclesiastical or parochial appointments, as holders of benefices, &c., organists, parish-clerks, sextons, &c. 2,107 Joint qualifications, including all who are registered for more than one qualification 7,727 Total number on the register 518,187 Increase since 1839-40 22,461 Boroughs, Ten-pound freeholders 250,074 Freemen; including burgesses, freemen, liverymen, and any other similar qualification, whether obtained by servitude or otherwise 54,742 Freeholders or burgage tenants in the case of county cities and towns 6,318 8,792 Potwallers 3,630 Offices; including any corporate or other appointments, as portreeves, holders of benefices, &c., organists, parish-clerks, sextons, &c 54 Joint qualifications, including all who are registered for more than one qualification Leaseholders, including sole or joint occupants, tenants paying a gross sum of £300, or any other similar qualification 23,853 Husband in right of wife 650 Offices; including parochial ministers, schoolmasters, &c. 1,175 Joint qualifications, including all who are registered for more than one qualification 507 Numbers who have been transferred from the old roll of freeholders to the Occupiers, sole or joint, including tenants at an annual rent of £10. Life renters, sole or joint Husband in right of wife Joint qualifications, including all who are registered for more than one qualification 12,012 22,663 259 497 1,988 36,424 624 America (various States) Austria Bavaria Belginm Brazil Buenos Ayres Chili Columbia NATIONAL DEBTS. Exhibiting the variations of the following Countries in 1843, with the Amount of Tax on each Person, calculated from the Population of each Country, in comparison to their Debts. COUNTRY. TAX ON EACH PERSON. AMOUNT. 54,255,000 87,534,000 13,140,000 1,000,000 1,325,000 Denmark Equador 4,150,314 0 12 09 1 3 3 2 3 2 095 The Turks pay about 11s. each person; the Poles 10s.; the Irish, 10s. 3d.; Hungarians, 9s. 10d.; Italians, 9s. 10d.: Persians, 6s. 10d.; Swedes, 5s. 9d.; Bengalese, 5s. 1d.; Chinese, 4s. 7d.; Burmese, 3s. 9d.; Egyptians, 3s. 3d.; Swiss, 4s. 4d.; and Norwegians, 3s. 9d. DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1847. The session of 1847 was closed this day by Her Majesty in person, and with the last words of the speech from the Throne virtually ended the existence of the Parliament elected in 1841. The double interest thus imparted to the form of prorogation was greatly increased by the fact that the ceremonial assembled together the three estates of the realm for the first time in that magnificent hall of the "New Palace at Westminster," destined, it may be hoped, to be the theatre of their combined and harmonious action for centuries to come. The Duke of Wellington arrived at half-past one. His appearance excited some attention, for he wore a light summer Paletot over his uniform; he entered into an animated conversation with Lord Campbell. A few minutes after the Noble Duke arrived, the Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack, and, there being a judgment left on the paper to be disposed of, he proceeded immediately to business. Silence was obtained, and the parties in "Irving v. Manning" called in. The ladies, who had not come prepared for a Bishop and Divine service, were yet more surprised at finding themselves in a Court of Law, and sat quite attentive, as if curious to see what would happen next. Ια |