MR. MILESSir, I beg to give notice that in Committee on the Representation of the People Bill, I propose "To move a clause giving to the electors of cities and boroughs now represented the right, as long as they themselves possess freeholds within such cities and boroughs for which they have qualified for a county, to retain the right of voting for such county provided their votes have been duly registered in the Register of Electors for the year 1858–9: Upon transfer by sale, or in any other manner of such freeholds, or by the decease of such elector, the freehold for which he has voted for the county to merge in the city or borough in which such freehold shall be situate."
§ LORD JOHN RUSSELLI beg Sir, to give notice that on the Motion for the Second Reading of the Representation of the People Bill I shall move as a Resolution—
That this House is of opinion that it is neither just nor politic to interfere in the manner proposed in this Bill with the Freehold Franchise as hitherto exercised in the Counties in England and Wales; and that no readjustment of the Franchise will satisfy this House or the country which does not provide for a greater extension of the suffrage in cities and boroughs than is contemplated in the present measure.