The Representation of the .People.—West Riding of Yorkshire. By S.
M. Milne. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—It would be well if some one would do for every county what Mr. Milne, with much ingenuity, and, as it seems to us, success, has done for the West Riding. Ile has divided it into 24 electoral districts, having each a population of 54,000 or thereabouts, or some multiple thereof. These have been arranged as far as possible to be urban or rural. Of course, boundaries cannot be arranged with mathematical accuracy; but, on the whcle, the principle in view has been kept to with commendable fidelity. The result is that there are seven districts wholly or mainly urban, viz.,—Bradford (4), Leeds (6), Halifax (2), Dewsbnry (2), Huddersfield (2), Barnsley (1), and Sheffield (6). These together would return, it will be seen, 23 Members. Then there are 17 dis- tricts rural, or of which the chief towns are small (Doncaster, e.g., is the centre of one of them), each of which would nit= one Member.
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