ABSTRACT OF THE CHANGES MADE IN THE REPRESENTATION OF COUNTIES AND BOROUGHS, BY THE REFORM BILL, BOROUGHS DISFRANCHISED. Aldborough, Yorkshire Lostwithiel, Cornwall Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amersham, Bucks. Brackley, Northamptonshire East Grinstead, Sussex Gatton, Surrey Ludgershall, Wiltshire Milborne Port, Somersetshire Newport, Cornwall New Romney, Kent Newtown, Isle of Wight, Hants. St. Michael's, or Midshall, Corn- Steyning, Sussex Storkbridge, Hants. Tregony, Cornwall Wendover, Bucks. Weobly, Herefordshire West Love, Cornwall Whitchurch, Hants. Winchester, Sussex Wotten Basset, Wiltshire Yarmouth, Isle of Wight COUNTIES. Six Members to be returned for the County of York, instead of four, viz. Two for each of the three Ridings, to be elected in like manner as if each Riding was a separate County. Four Members to be returned for the County of Lincoln, instead of two, viz.; Two for the parts of Lindsey, and Two for the parts of Kesteven and Holland, to be elected as if each was a separate County. Each of the following Counties to be divided into Two Divisions as settled by the Boundary Act, viz. ;— And to return Four Members instead of two, i. e. Two for each Division, such Members to be chosen in like manner as if each Division was a separate county. Three Members to be returned for each of the following Counties instead of two, viz.: Berks, Bucks, Cambridge, Dorset, Hereford, Hertford, Oxford; and Two instead of one for each of the Counties of Carmarthen, Denbigh, and Glamorgan. The Isle of Wight, for the purposes of the Act, to be a county of itself, separated from Southampton, and return One Member, to be chosen in the same manner as Members for Counties. THE FOLLOWING PLACES FORMERLY SENT MEMBERS TO PARLIAMENT, WHICH NOW DO NOT. Canebrig, Northumberland Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire Farnham, Surrey Longport, Somersetshire Mere, Wiltshire Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire Modbury, Devonshire Montacute, Somersetshire Newbury, Berkshire Odiham, Hants. Overton, Hants. Pershore, Worcestershire Pickering, Yorkshire Polerun, Cornwall Ross, Herefordshire Sherborne, Dorsetshire South Moulton, Devonshire Spalding, Lincolnshire Stoke Curcy, Somersetshire Teignmouth, Devonshire Tickhill, Yorkshire Torrington, Devonshire Tunbridge, Sussex Wainfleet, Lincolnshire Watchat, Somersetshire Were, Somersetshire Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire Witney, Oxfordshire Yarmouth Parva, Suffolk BOROUGHS WHICH FORMERLY SENT MEMBERS, AND WERE AGAIN ENFRANCHISED BY THE REFORM ACT. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF EMINENT BRITISH STATESMEN. ROBERT HARLEY, EARL OF OXFORD AND MORTIMER. Robert Harley was the eldest son of Sir Edward Harley, who greatly distinguished himself as a parliamentary partizan in the reign of Charles II.; he was born in Bow street, Covent Garden, on the 5th of December, 1661. After the accession of William and Mary he was chosen member of parliament for Tregony; and subsequently served for Radnor, from 1690 until called to the house of lords. Bishop Burnet says he was of a whig family, yet joined with the tories to create jealousies. He was made speaker of the house in 1700; and was a great favourite with Queen Anne. He was a great encourager of literature, and collected a large number of books and manuscripts, especially of those concerning the history of his own country, and formed the nucleus of the celebrated Harleian library, which was completed by his son, and now constitutes one of the richest treasures of the British Museum. 4 ROBERT WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. The ancestors of this eminent statesman derived their surname from the town of Walpole, in Norfolk, where |