HC Deb 14 May 1866 vol 183 cc873-4
VISCOUNT CRANBOURNE

said, he would beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, Whether the Government are in possession of any estimates tending to show the relative extent to which urban and rural populations enter into the composition of each constituency under the new Bills and the number of Electors which each franchise would add to each constituency?

THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER

stated that the Government had no such statistics to lay before the House. The matter was simply one for argument, and not for statistical proof.