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There was a general parade Lancers, at int drafs from t1:121 "n' regi ment, the Enniskillen , Dragoons, the 9th Lancers, and !the 14th Ltlrt Dragoons, accompanied by the band of the depot. A square having been formed the warrant of the Secretary at War was read, directing the gratuity to be given, and Doogan was then called from the ranks, and Captain Miller, the adjutant,lilaced the medal on his breast, and handed him the gratuity. The whole of the troops then marched past the commanding officer, and the proceedings terminated. A handsome mural monument-has --been--ereeted in the fine old church of St. John's, Perth, to the memory of the officers and privates of her Majesty's 90th Regiment o f . Light Inf an t ry, or Perthshire Volunteers, - Whc fell .or died during the Crimean campaign. The monument is of pyramidal form, on a massive polished marble base which heat s an inscription containing the n ames of the officers - and the number of brave men of the regiment who-were lost to the country in the capture of Sebastopol and conquest of the Crimea. In high relief above the base, sculptured in pure white marble, are some figures and appropriate emblems. The work is from .the studio of Mr. S. Manning, of London, and is executed with rare good taste and artistic elegance. Instructions have been received at Woolwich from the office of the Commander-in-Chief, direct ing a change to be effected in the clothing of two regimental staff sergeants of each battalion of tho corps of Royal Artillery. " These non-commissioned officers are to be distinguished by a superior style of uniform to that worn at present, the embroidery decorating the cuffs and collars to be similar to that worn by the subaltern commissioned officers. The new regulation' is to take effect 'on the Ist April, 1859. Officers commanding battalions and corps are ordered to be held responsible for the issue of the new uniforms according to the time specified as above. An allowance of 6d. a day, or £9 2s. 6d. per an num, having been granted for the past year, to the service 'clerks ,in the battalion offices of the Royal Artillery, holding the rank of company sergeants, and enjoying the 4th good conduct stripe, an order has been received at Head Quarters, Woolwich, from the War-office, directing that item to be disallowed in future, and, moreover, the whole of the sum hitherto paid under that head is to be refunded by stoppages in future payments. The following named transports have been taken up by the War Department, in readiness to ship ammunition and other war stores from the military store department of Woolwich Arsenal--viz., the Jenny Jones, for Corfu ; the Robinson, for Malta ; the Index, for East London ; the Adventure, for Sierra Leone ; the St. Clair, for Algoa Bay the Jane, for St. Helena ; the Nipisiguit, for Cape Town; and the Brcadwater, for Hobart Town. iecuted, NOW OPEN-ADMISSION FREE. .T UtLIE N' S C N-C ER T S.— LYCEUM THEATRE. M. NIGHT BUT FOUR, ending positively next 74 , TURDAY, December 18th.—TO- NIGHT, at Eight —First 9Pearance of Madame ANNA BISHOP, who is engaged for thepe laat Five Nights only.—Thirty-sixih Appearance 91 the celebrated Violinist, M. WIENIAWSKI—Last time Out Two of the Grand Selection from "Der Freischutz." Private Boxes, £2 25., £1 Us. 6d., £1 ls. and 10s. od. ; Re served Seats, 2s. ; Promenade, ls.—Promenade, Pit ? tr ance, in' the Strand, and Burleigh-street, Strand. Private Boxes and. Reserved Seats to be secured at Jullien and Co.'s, 214, Regent-street ; Mr. Hammond ; and at the B 0 $ - office of the Theafre. )ending t sober - . Is home on. He night."' t," and rn, and but was ‘ntually 3 found lentified uncle, Lonlarly s. Mr. red him itifying Le same THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1858. No. 20,742. -RICE 4D • STAMPED, 51). PUBLICATIONS. they were when the denial of the ballot acquired a shape ten times more offensive than it had at pre sent—when it was not accidental but deliberate— when it was 'not founded on convenience but Fin eiple--wheu it did not take the form o f adjourn ment and delay, but that of permanent and abso lute resistance? The absence of the ballot must deprive this comprehensive scheme of the duration and stability which its whole design appeared to be to bring abOut. In point of fact, a Minister opposing vote by ballot would find it difficult to enter upon any of the well-known projects of Reform with ease or with consistency. For what was the dormant view by . which such a Minister was swayed in his"resistance -to that measure ? Sir Robert Peel, in 1833, when Mr. Grote submitted hii first motion on the sub sleet, manfully avowed the principles which urged him to resist it. Mid - although few might have the manliness and frankness of Sir Robert, all leading men, they might depend upon it; who opposed the ballot, shared the views which on that occasion he avowed. The argument he used was, in other terms, that the ballot - would emancipate the voter from the influence of property—that it would give perfect vigour to the system of 1832, and put an end to the subtle causes by which that system was impaired in its efficiency. Sir Robert Peel opposed the ballot because it seemed to him adapted to pro duce the very end t it was desired to obtain by it. (Hear.) And there was not any reason to suppose that in that respect Sir Aohert Peel was less liberal than others. Tile point' which he. (the speaker) submitted to tlfein was, how could a Government imbued with such a hle of thinking on the ballot advance towards the other changes which were now so frequently discussed ? Let them glance for a moment at the franchise of the boroughs. He offered no opinion on that day—he was not entitled to offer an opinion as to what ought to be done upon the franchise—but this he would maintain without fear or hesitation, that if they went beyond the barrier imposed in 1832, th would not find it pos sible to stand on a£s or £6 limit. (Cheers.) A limit not founded upon any of the natural divisions of society, not sheltered by prestige of any kind, or by prescription, could not be a lasting one. No prudent man would take the trouble to defend it against the classes excluded, and who would naturally seek for an encroachment on it. If they went beyond the borough franchise of 1832, they must advance, it might be with good effects, or it might be with bad ones, to household suffrage. (Hear, hear.) As regarded housthold suffrage, they knew, because authentic figures had explained it to them, that it would more than double the electors in nearly every place where it occurred. (Cheers.) It would be, in point of fact, a transfer of elective power from one class to another. He did not say that such a transfer would be mischievous. But in what manner would it strike the mind of any Minister who reasoned against the ballot as Sir Robert Peel had done in 1833 ? It was clear that all consistency would lead him to oppose it to the utmost of his power. Such a man, therefore, would find himself unable to touch the borough franchise—(hear, hear)—unless he in troduced a bill rather to amuse the country than to influence the statute-book. So with regard to Mr. Locke King's proposition. Much ability had been shown in supporting it. Specious arguments had been directed by Lord J. Russell, Lord Palmerston, and other grave authorities against it. Whether for good or evil, it was now explained by statistics that the addition of electors would be such as to ma:-.e a new class ascendant in the counties. (Cheers.) And how was it possible to reconcile the views of Sir R. Peel against the ballot with a change so much more serious and violent as that of Mr. Locke King ? Resistance to the ballot, on the grounds which always had impelled resistance to it, al though they had not always been avowed, cut off the Minister from another means of giving satis faction to Reformers. 'So also with regard to the well-known project of electoral divisions. The very essence of that scheme (he did not mean to praise or to condemn it) was to make numbers the foundation of our system. Could Sir IL Peel, or those who reasoned with him in our day, accept the project of electoral. divisions, and at the same THE WELLINGTON RESTAURANT, ST. JAMES'S -STREET, AND 160, PICCADILLY. THE TROOP TRANSPORT BOMBAY. Now ready, uniform with " The Peerage" Volume. LODGE'S GENEALOGY of the PEERAGE and BARONETAGE of the BRITISH EMPIRE. New Edition, considerably enlarged and improved, com prising, for the first time, the ANCESTRAL HISTORY of the BARONETS at well as the I'EERS of the Realm. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Gentlemen visiting the Metropolis will find ample accom modation for dinners at this establishment. The arrange ments are varied and perfect, and the tariff of charges is very moderate. Private rooms for large or small parties may be engaged on application to the Superintendent. By Order. JAMES GOFTON, Superintendent. 27th November, 1858. PLYMOUTH, DFc. 13. By order of Major-General Eden, Commander of the Forces in the wefit, dated 9th inst., the follow ing communication from Col. Gordon has been read on pardde to the several detachments who embarked ill the Bombay, and a r e now distributed in the va rious barracks of this garrison : ADELAIDE ROOMS, LOWTHER ARCADE, "STRAND.—EVERY EVENING, at 8. Day Perform lice I VEDNESDAY and SATURDAY, at 3. Immense suc rose of the " Pas de Crinoline." The' Ohio Minstrels, fifteen number, whose surpassing talent as musicians, vocalists 2 1 d dancers, i s nightly greeted with rapturous applause by iliolvded and fashio n able au di e nces. Stalls, 3s. ; Boxes, 2s. ; i o t, 18 . ; Gallery, Get. Schools and Families Half-price. The bi lilies' Soirees attended. Director, M. Schmidt. GREAT EASTERN. Completion for Sea. — REFRESHMENTS.—Mr. WILLIAM D'ONALD,7of the St. James's Hall,loegs_ to inform the public that he has arranged with the Directors to supply all the Refreshments on board during the free day admission. Tickets for Free Admission to be had of Mr. W. DONALD, 69, Regent-street. ;ranary, Rind on vas also is since pools of the en missions nstables night in had left t of the oof had R. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, Market). TICHBOURNE-STREET (Opposite the Hay. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR - OF " ANNE DYSART." On Friday, Dec. 17, in 3 vols., A By the Author of " Anne Dysart," " The Heir of Ardennan," Sze. Hurst and Blaekett, Publishers, successors to H. Colburn " Horse Guards, Dec. 7. "To MAJOR-GENERAL EDEN.- " Sir,—With reference to your letter of the sth inst.; forwarding Captain Steel's report of the freightship Bom bay, I have the honour, by desire Of the G eneral Command ing-in-Chief, to acquaint you that his Royal Highness has been much gratified at the perusal of this report, which reflects great credit on Captain Steel ; and lam directed to request that you will communicate to him and the officers and nien on board his .Royal Highness's entire approval of their conduct under the trying circumstances in which they were placed. " ALEXANDER GORDON, Deputy Quartermaster- General, for the Quartermaster-General." The prejudice in the minds of the troops against a. resumption o f th e i r passage to-the- East Indies in the Bombay still continues, and until Friday they hoped that another ship would be substituted for her. On that day furlough came down for a 33d man, an instructor in, musketry, permitting him to. go to Dublin, ‘with a view to his joining the Boni- I bay at Cork.- This fact is said to have excited the rank and file, four of whom are already absent without leave. To justify their forebodings the troops aver that, from inquiries made on board and by their own -observation, they are enabled to sus• tam their case. The railway. iron, part of cargo, variously estimated-at from 500 to 700 tons, is said to have been thrown loosely into the bottom of the ship, instead of being stowed systematically. - When. off Margate, on the first .or second night after de parture, large quantities of fresh water, which must by some defective arrangement have escaped from the ship's tanks or casks, were pumped up from the hold. The main and fore mast were peon spars, the mizen was of teak. The rigging was so old and worn that, previous to the fall of the masts, the main and fore yards worked to such a degree as to bring down four shrouds .each side ; and the top sail sheets (chain) were so weak that they gave way seven or eight times, with a consequent loss of sails and gear. The cooking galley for the troops went with the mainmast in consequence of the deck bolts being only about four inches long. Capt. Steel, 17th Lancers, who was in command, foresaw the proba bility of the accident, and had his troops between decks to receive their after dinner porter. It is alleged that when the masts fell the ship rolled so violently that several of the soldiers, with the officer of the day, were thrown from side to side right across the open hatchway, some of them three times. When the wash of the sea leaked through the decks and topsides it was discovered that the pump hose was not adequate to the discharge of the water from the main pumps, it being large enough only for the hand pumps. This serious defect was only over come by the strenuous exertions of the military. On Nov. 17th a screw steamer hove in sight, and if the captain of the Bombay had used signals she would have assisted her ; his disinclination to do so has been attributed to the terms of the charter-party, which involves payment of 2-3ds of the passage money after being 14 days out ; the Bombay kad been absent 10 days only. She lost her foremast on the 23d, and lay unmanageable in the.trough of the sea from 11 p.m. to 7 30 a.m. on the 24th ; she was then struck in the bow by a heavy sea, and went before the wind until noon, when Capt. Flamank refused to hoist a flag of dis tress to an American barque ; but Capt. Steel, with the concurrence of all the military officers on board, insisted on his doing so, and he reluctantly con sented. The American was lost sight of during the night. It is also stated that when ll.M.'s steam frigate Argus hove in sight, on the 3d inst., and asked, " Are you in want of any assistance ?" he was answered, " Not under present circumstances." The Bombay was at that time jury-rigged. Dur ing the storm two of the beams on the gun deck were broken. In consequence of a deficiency of listing round the port tills the fore part of the gun deck was flooded several inches deep, and the water ran to the orlop deck, whence it had to be pumped. Many of the dead lights are so much less than their frames that water gained admission there as well. The officers complain also that from the first there was no bread baked for their use, and that the provisions were inferior and scanty. 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Vow ready, in 3 vols., with Illustrations by WEIR, THE MASTER OF THE HOUNDS By " SCRTJTATOR," Author of "The Squire of Beeehwood." WHO WILL PAY THE CHINESE v v INDEMNITY ? Why, the English themselves. Au export duty is to be levied, and then not even the East India Tea Company will be able, as they now are, to sell 01b. of Black, Green, or Mixed Tea, at is. 10d. per lb. and Coffee, in the Berry, at 10d.—Warehouse, 9, Great St. Helen's-church yard, City. ess, sen nprison- " d thost amusing and clever bgok. It will be read with Pleasure by all classea, and will be as welcome in the boa loirs of Belgravia and Mayfair as in the club-rooms of Mel :on."—Sporting Review.• ' Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. was a life was ssuredly A R GYLL-ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, c el „, Plecadilly.GßAND CASINO—These popular and „rorated rooms are open every evening, with R. R. Bignell's and Orchestra, conducted by that °Teat composer, 31ons. IP,PnY Lamotte, 'of Paris. Leader, Charles Hall, of her it-ilsets,_etsy:s Theatre - Mons. Boulcourt, the celebrated cornet pla er, 'performs nightly, with other talented seieeted Y 'from the Philharmonic Concerts, and Royal La T ian Opera Houses. Selections from Rigroletto, Trovatore, Traviata, Huguenots, Robert le Diable, and thenew opera &,lartha. Likewise the following new music, will be play e d ohay :—"The Lucknow Quadrilles," and " The Fairest °, e of Autumn," by M. Lamotte, introducing a solo obligato C r i Saxophon, played by M. Tyl er; a New Waltz, by tarles Hall ; Mr. Calkin's New Polka, selected from the ° t ßular opera " Guy Manneriug ;,, and the New Polka, "The G„,,8., with a solo for the cornet-a-piston. Me ", Big,nell, assisted by Mr. C. Brown, and Mons. Jarvis, Masters of th e Ceremonies;Messrs. A. and J. Calkin, yiL r " , , and Birch. D oors open at half-past 8, close at ten mutes before 12. Admission, is. to Promenade. 4 1 1 • 8 / 3 .—All applications for the above band for Concerts and 110 0 , 3 1: 43 be made to Mr. William Price, treasurer, at the ADIANIi , OF THE HON. TV. F. CAMPBELL ON THE QUESTION OF THE BALLOT. PEOPLE'S EDITION; AND ONLYCOMPLETE EDITION 01' MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES, WITH THE MUSIC. Just published, No. I. price ls., to be completed in 10 Numbers, monthly, price ls. each, MOORE'S IRISH MELODIES, with Symphonies and Accompaniments for the Pianoforte. People's Edition, in stela! 4t0.. On Tuesday evening a public meeting was held in the Assembly Rooms, Taunton, for the purpose of hearing addresses on the subject of the ballot, and of adopting a petition to Parliament, praying that any measure of reform proposed .during the next session should include the only means by which the voter could be protected from undue and prejudicial influence in the exercise of his vote ac- k in any ai. upward London Longman, Brown, and Co., and Addison and Co. Manchester': Mime and Addison. PEOPLE'S EDITION OF SYDNEY SNIITIVS WORKS. On Saturday, January 1, 1859, will be- published, PART. L in crown Bvo., uniform with the People'll'Editionof " Lord Macaulay's Essays," price 'One Shilling (to be continued monthly), .. eat. Ill es sold at ago. THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH'S MISCEL LANEOUS WORKS ; including his Contributions to the "Edinburgh Review." People's edition, to be completed in 7 Monthly Parts, price One Shilling each. London : Longman, Brown, and Co., Paternoster-row. cording to his conscientious conviction. The doors had not been open more than a few minutes before the room was crowded, and the entrance of the Hon. W. F. Campbell. with Mr. W. Beadon, was the signal for several rounds of hearty cheering, waving g hats, &c. The chairman having opened the proceedings, The Hon. W. F. CAMPBELL, after some remarks of a local character, said that he should not betray his trust to the society of which Mr. Berkeley was chairman, - if, in the outset, he admitted that vote by ballot would not be a remedy for every evil the Reform Act might disclo se . Th ere was one. grave and palpable defect to which it could not be consi dered as applying. The defect to which he alluded was this—that while our large commercial cities were able to send representatives to Parliament— while the landed interest was always able'to return the organs it confided in—the empire, as a whole, was too often without the power of returning to the House of Commons men who, in parliamentary and national opinion, were entitled to remain there. Since 1832 there had been too many-illustrations of this serious anomaly. At present it could not be more strikingly displayed than by referring to the name of Mr. Cobden. (Hear.) In that room, most likely, there were persons who disagreed with Mr. Cobden in political opinions, but not one who went so far as to maintain that a man of such abilities and services was properly excluded from the Legislature. If they went beyond the limit of their town, or of their county, or the island, in the most remote dependencies of Britain, it would be difficult to find a person who would sanction that exclusion; yet the country, however strongly and unanimously it might feet upon that point, had not the power to return him. This de fect of the Reform Act the ballot would not reach ; but so neither would any of the changes which it was now the fashion to discuss among reformers. And if the ballot did not remedy, at least it would not aggravate, the evil. If it did not multiply, it would not reduce, the avenues to Parliament of men -s to —s 40s to 453 40s to 44s 40s to 425 dull mar- DE:POSIT, Established A.D. 1814. 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To which are added remarks on the wonders of the Microscope in revealing the hidden mysteries "of Life with!n Life," and its advantages in detecting, by urinary examina tion, the cause and effect of every variety of these complaints, with numerous engravings and cases. BY SAMUEL LAWERT, M.D., 37, BEDFORD SQUARE, LONDON, Matriculated Member of the University of 'Edinburgh, Hono rary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Li centiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fear ful consequences resulting from certain habits, irregularities, and excesses, which hav e pro d uced more misery in Youth, degradation in Manhood, and premature decay at all stages o f life, than, perhaps, any other class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is particularly recommended to persons entertaining secret doubts of their physical condi tion, and who are conscious of having hazarded the health happiness, and privileges to which every human being titled. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that tl i t io e sl r da e ot principles of personal managem en t w hi ch cannot be violated without incurring grievous pen a lti es , and when et succeed the heyday of inco ns id erate self indulgence, indulgence, how those penalties may be mitigated, ho w th e m eadre and rennet sting; of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, and, above all, that there is scarcely any . degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of scienze cannot apply a cure. Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick-lane, Paternoster-row, and may be had of Mann;39, Cornhill ; Horne, 19, Leicester square; y Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; or from the Author, who be consulted daily, from 11 till 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, 37, Bedford-square, London. The work may be bad in India, et' Mr. Von Li tzky, Loll Bazaar; Calcutta—Messrs. C. and J.3lormusjee, Apollo-street ; Bombay—Circulator Office ; Madras—Mofussilite Office, Agra; Dodsworth, Colombo, Ceylon and of all Booksellers through out the Colonies like Mr. CObden, who depended more on gifts of mind than territorial advantages. And this could not he said, perhaps, of all the changes into which Governments were likely to be driven unless the ballot was adopted. It was not unusal for politi cians to inquire by what solid facts such a change as vote by ballot could be justified. There were many answers to that question, but he preferred one which rested on the basis of statistics. It should first, however, be remarked that indifference to the franchise they possessed was no prevailing quality in our electors—the many strong motives were in the habit of impelling them to vote—that every facility of locomotion was afforded without expense —that polling-booths were much nearer and more frequent than they , used to be, and that the limited duration of the poll made it important for either party to exert its strength without delay. If, in spite of these circumstances, all urging men to vote, a large per tentage of electors in the counties on the register were found absent from the poll, it was. not easy to suppose that their power to vote was unimpaired and independent. Mr. Campbell then quoted statistics, showing the number of re gistered electors in 1852 who had not voted in counties :—ln Middlesex, out of 14,610 electors on the register, only 8,721 had polled; in East Kent, out of 7,119, only 5,221 ; West Kent, out of 9,379, only 5,852; East Surrey, out of 6,618, only 4,584; Berkshire, out of 5,129, only 1,971 ; East Somerset, out of 10,840, only 7,505 ; and about 20 other coun ties were namedin which the election books showed a similar state of things, the total number of elec tors on the various registers being 170,024 out of which only 116,153 had polled. He then re ferred to some of the distinguished men by whom the ballot had been advocated, and particularly to Lord Macaulay, who, on his return to Parliament after a long absence, pronounced himself in his speech on th e 18th o f June, 1839, as a supporter of that measure. That speech was not answered then, and never since had been refuted. (Hear.) Among many strong considerations it urged one too re markable to be forgotten at this moment. Intimi dation and corruption, as Lord Macaulay reasoned, were identical. (Hear.) Each of them consisted in an irregular appeal to hopes and fears, with a view to supersede the judgment and bribe the con• science of the voter. (Cheers.) But against cor• ruption new laws had been perpetually aimed since the Revolution of 1688, and are still being aimed now. Consistency and policy required that laws should be directed against intimidation also—(loud cheers)—which was but another form of offence. (Continued cheers.) And how could they direct laws against intimidation ? It was not possible, according to our manners and ideas, to restrain the customer in the choice of his .tradesman, or to fetter the landowner in the disposal of his farms. The only alternative remaining was to direct their aim to the intimidated party—to throw around him the strongest shelter they were able to devise. And no other shelter but the ballot had ever been pro pounded with that object. Such was the position to which Lord Macaulay was entitled in 1839. But how different and how much firmer was the ground on which the friends of the ballot stood at that very Moment. It might be said with some degree of plausibility,in answer to the distinguished man he had referred to, that the Reform Act of 1832 was then a recent settlement—that it was not expedient to disturb it even for a benefit of which the value was demonstrated. The time for such an answer was exhausted. The settlement was less recent—at all events was going to be disturbed. Four Governments had found it necessary to make engagements to disturb it. From whatever cause the necessity arose, it was a necessity which all states men united in acknowledging. To re-open our re presentative arrangements, and still turn a deaf ear to the supporters of the ballot, was far more vio lent a course than to resist it on the ground that the time had not yet come for unsettling our sys tem. And in the same way the demand for the ballot was far more rational and forcible, when organic change was going to be proposed, than when the intention was to keep it at a distance. A Minister proposing to alter the Reform Act could only do so by two methods. He must either go upon the plan of occasional and gradual reform, or h d i tcus s s o io l n un t c h h an lig th h e t he must go on that of large and comprehensive partl: .h e e fi r i n e e c o t l l e ; eda ripe ned none on N o v n h b which which it was so useless to legislation. As regarded occasional reform, there ibNiVaaaldsl beennt.o tried, they knew as much t eLpo e se xp t e o ri f m ur e t n h t ei w . aLitation and inquiry. Unless about it now as they would in half a century. It ought to be adopted or rejected ; hainindselfto a final what states manna would venture to commit negative against it ? If, however, a Minister pre ferred the plan of comprehensive legislation, his comprehensive legislation, no doubt, was intended to be permanent. It was only with a view to per manence that comprehensive legislation on organic questions could be offered or accepted. But what permanence could really mark any comprehensive scheme from which the ballot was excluded ? (Hear, hear.) Would boroughs be more silent than time maintain a firm resistance to the ballot ? He need not touch upon the plan of large disfranchise. ment, because it was implied in the system of elec toral divisions. But the conclusions to which his observations tended was that a Minister who started as an opponent of the ballot on the grounds of Sir R. Peel—and no other grounds could be embraced, although others might be stated—would find him self obliged to give his negative to every scheme by which it was proposed to meet the expectations of the moment. If it was an easy thing to alter the Reform Act—if it imposed no grave responsibilities on any Government attempting it—if a Minister, by turning to his papers or his friends, could at once command a budget of safe ideas and useful pro positions on the question--it might be less desirable and urgent to embrace a proposition so moderate in scope, so luminous in principle, and so little to be apprehended in its operation as the ballot. "In real fact, however, the problem of amending the Reform Act was so difficult and grave that scarcely any plan was found to meet it satisfactorily. The boundless difficulty of the problem arose from this circumstance that the House of Commons was a body with two functions—Lone to represent the people, the other to make laws and watch admini strations. If they merely viewed it in its repre sentative capacity, it was easy to suggest improve ments which bore alone upon that point. If they viewed it in its legislative character, it was easy to propose reforms by which that character would singly be elevated. But the task before which statesmanship and genius were exhausted was to construct a scheme which answered one of these demands, and did not militate against the other. As he had no desire to perplex them by vague and barren generalities, he would ask leave to g ive an illustration so clear and brief that it would reach the mind of every man he was addressing. Sup pose their aim was merely to improve the represen tative exactness and fidelity of Parliament, to have general elections once a year or more frequently would do it. No doubt, under such a change, the House of Commons would respond with greater pliancy and quickness to the views of its consti tuents. It would be more fully and precisely the organ and the reflex of the people than it had ever been before. It would therefore gain in point of representative capacity, but it would lose in legis lative character ; since the excitement of general elections constantly impending would take away that power of weighing and investigating details, without which public business could not be effec- tually advanced. Suppose their aim was merely to increase the business-like capacity and legislative vigour of the house, they might do it in a moment by a large reduction in the number of the members. No man of common observation ever sat in Parlia- ment without forming the opinion that the present number went beyond the limit by which the inte rests ofbusiness would be most effectually consulted. Why should they not reduce it ? Because, if they reduced it, the different portions of the country could not have that full representation and that iufluenc- ing voice to which they were entitled. The duty of a Government approaching the Reform Act, to dis• turb and to revise it, was to discover changes by which representative efficiency would be more thoroughly secured, and by which the character, the elevation, and the power of the governing as sembly would not in any way be injured. He had not any hesitation in contending that vote by ballot would not be found to run counter to either of the tests it was so difficult to satisfy. It must, by emancipating voters, improve the representative efficiency of Parliament. (Cheers.) Its influence extended to all the various constituencies into which our system was divided. Neither counties, nor great cities, or the boroughs of an intermediate kind, would be withdrawn from its power. By a single blow it touched the whole representation. But in what manner could it sully or degrade the character of Parliament ? No party would be strengthened, and no party would be weakened by it. No class would be elevated of those who sat in Parliament, and no class would be depressed. Questions of finance, of foreign policy and war, would not be debated or determined by a body less independent in its circumstances, or less enlightened. in its views, or less respected out of doors, than the body who now controlled these matters. (Cheers.) So much might be contended for the ballot ; and he would venture to inquire if there were many schemes of which the same assertion could be hazarded ? (Hear, hear.) It might be urged, however, that although Governments had ovary inducement to view the ballot in a friendly manner in connection with the whole question of amending the Reform Act, if examined on its Inuits it was found to threaten evils too great to be submitted to in spite of the advantages it very obviouuly implied. He would therefore reply briefly to the prevalent objections. The most commonly ad vanced of them involved a fallacy so barefaced that it was riot easy to approach it with the 'calmness. he was anxious to preserve. It was all summed up in the word responsibility. The elector, it was argued, was responsible for the use of the power he enjoyed; and they could not ascertain how far his exercise of that power was correct unless it w 3.1 exercised before the criticism- of the public. He would put two questions. .First, what was the duty of the voter? secondly, under what cir cumstances would his duty be most faithfully per formed ? The duty of the voter :was—and he might state this without fear of contradiction—out of all candidates proposed to him, to support the candidate he most approved; Here his dirty began and here it ended. Would that duty be most faitlifblly - performed when his mind was influenced by fear, or when no fear of any sort controlled him ? The fact was, no publicity- w h a t ever cou ld exert thejletective f l Orce which these reasoners so eagerly insisted on. If the -vote -was declared with the power of a thousand trumpets in all the market place's of the kingdom, they had no better means of proving -its accordance with the judgment of the voter than if the vote remained a secret in his breast. But the only thing to be inquired into, the only thing on which his integrity or the want of it depended, was the accordance of his vote with his ideas, The upshot of the whole was, that publicity was no aid to a conclusion of the question as to how far the elector gave effect to his convictions, while the fears publicity beget were, in inimmerable cases,' a solid guarantee that these convictions would be stifled on the polling day. Mr. Campbell then referred to the controversies • on the balhit, drawn from practical experience of the United States. Some maintained that it worked well there; some maintained that it worked ill. Some thought it aimed at secrecy in the United States, -and s+ine only at rapidity in voting. He did not care in what way this controversy ended, because he felt that-neither opponents nor supporters of the ballot could rest on the United States as an autho rity against it or in favour of it. Britain was an old country; the United States had not long en-. joyed a national existence, In Britain society was complex and divided; in the United States great equality prevailed. In Britain capital and labour did not always find the scope which was essential to them; the United States possessed a territory which was at once rich and unexhausted. The United States were governed by a President and Congress ; in Britain the form of monarchy sur vived; and the question our Governments and Parliaments were called on to decide was, not whether vote by ballot would succeed in a republic of America, but whether it was well adapted to a monarchy of Europe. Instead of plunging into difficulties with regard to the United States, which could not lead to any satisfactory conclusion, their eyes ought to be directed to those monarchies of Europe in which, along with institutions not unlike our own, the ballot was established. (Much cheer ing.) Holland, Belgium, and Sardinia, were those monarchies. (Hear, hear.) It was only there that the political experience of other countries could be useful to us on this question. If it was shown that in Holland, Belgium, and Sardinia the ballot was inoperative, that it left the voter in the Same con dition he would be without it, or that it led to evils by which his independence was too dearly bought in those communities; Britain was bound to hesi tate before consenting to adopt it. But if from these three monarchies not a single argument had yet been drawn against the ballot, while many had arisen in its favour from them, so far as the experi ence of other countries could guide our own, there was nothing to prejudge the course which he was advocating. He would now refer to an objection less frequently avowed, but more weighty in its influence, perhaps, than any he had mentioned. It was thought by some that, provided they did not go so far as to emancipate the voter—provided they kept alive the subtle forces which controlled him— it did not much matter what other organic changes were conceded ; the publicity so much vaunted as a detective power would always neutralise and balance them. The generous and unlimited reli ance, he might almost say the warm-hearted en thusiasm, with which these reasoners confided in the influences which vote by ballot would remove, often called to his mind the well-known terms in which Mr. Sheridan had eulogised the power of a free press in 1810. " Give them," said Mr. Sheri dan, " a tyrannical Court, give them a servile aris tocracy, give them a venal House of Commons ; but give me a free press, and I defy them to encroach a hair's breadth on the liberties of England." (Loud cheers In a very different sense, b u t w ith the same d egree of chivalrous audacity, these rea soners appeared inclined to exclaim, " Give them electoral divisions, give them universal suffrage, give them unlimited enfranchisement ; but give us intimidation and corruption—with these simple means we undertake to keep the con stitution on its basis." (Laughter.) The reply to this argument, if it ought to be considered, was , that the organic changes these men were so ready to propound as a kind of set-off against their refusal of the ballot, must so far extend the number of electors in want of shelter and exposed to interfe rence, that the measure which they deprecated would become an object of more imperious and irre sistible demand. He had dwelt at length upon the arguments which ought, as it occurred to him, to recommend the ballot to the minds of Govern ments and statesmen; but he was not indifferent to the views which made the topic a familiar one amongst the haunts and firesides of electors. In this country Ministers of State were exposed to no coercion in the discharge of public duty. The in dependence of judges; had long been a common theme of pride and exultation. Since 1688 no Court had dared to attempt the coercion of our representative 3in Parliament. It was therefore an anomaly, as well as a misfortune, that the elector, by whom the whole machinery of Government was caned into existence, should be oppressed in his performance of the duty the Reform Act had as signed to him. They knew, for well-authenticated figures had explained to them, that a very large proportion of electors in the country lived in houses between the values of £lO and £l5. Such men, however honest in their characters, however sound in their political opinions, were cut off from the various excitements of which wealth and ease were indispensable conditions. It must occasionally happen that rent and local rates pressed with too much severity upon them. Unhappy speculation might embarrass them. Debt might choose them for its victims. And these evils undoubtedly re ceived a cruel aggravation if, at the very moment the elector would seem to be enabled to dismiss them from his memory —when he was called upon to do his duty to the public —to assert the tenets which he held, and which perhaps his forefathers had left to him—he found himself compelled, as he ad vanced towards the hustings, to balance the reproach of sacrificing his convictions, and the fear of ruin ing his home. Why had he refrained from dwelling upon these topics ? Because they appealed to senti ments and touched on passions which were wholly unnecessary to the purpose he had in view. He had no occasion to appeal to any animosities on which a revolutionary system might be founded. If free dom of election, at •which the ballot aimed, were thoroughly established, they might still have a national establishment, as they had at present. However thoroughly the voter. was emancipated from any judgment but his own, there was nothing to prevent them from retaining one hereditary chamber, as they done for many ages ; or that un paid magistracy of which the chairman of the meet ing was himself an exemplary ornament. (Cheers.) It was not from the fragments of a throne or plun der of a church that the supporters of the ballot desired to raise another temple to the freedom which imparted a dignity and charm to every homestead of the island we belong to-:-that freedom of which; the Laureate assured us— " Her open eyes desire the truth ;" but of which he afterwards described a better image as ho viewed her " Turning to scorn with lips divine The falsehood of extremes." (Cheers.) He had only one more 'word to add. None of those present would have forgotten that we had only just emerged from two national exertions, cal culated, beyond almost any event which history had recorded, to try the energy, the heart, the firm ness, and resources of an empire. He need not say that he advertei to the Indian mutiny and to the Russian war, Among the various advantages by which they were enabled to pass those fiery ordeals unseilthed in power and in name, a high place ought t o be given to that union of purpose and of senti ent in all the classes of society which free trade had signally extended a few years before. (,Cheers.) With an eye to new emergencies, it was not a rash. or short-sighted policy to draw still closer these moral ties which doubled the strength by con-ecu trating the opinio ns o f th e na ti on . Without a+Lach ing too much importanceto the rumours and anxieties of which Europe was full just HOW, no one could deny that its affairs for many centuries had exhi bited an unvarying propensity to move to conflict, and to gravitate to arms. Whatever struggle might await us, and whatever quarter it proceeded from, no reproach would fall on those who, like themselves, had come forward to the utmost of their power to support, to countenance, and vindicate the only practicable remedy for an evil which continued to estrange the aristocracy and people. At the conclusion of the speech the whole meet ing rose from their seats and gave a round of loud applause. THE NAVY. Her Majesty's steamer Vivid sailed from Wool wich yesterday morning at 6, and proceeded to Ostend to embark his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for England. The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle left Woolwich during the day for Southend, in the service of the Lords of the Admiralty. From the various satisfactory trials and results of the Admiralty apparatus for superheating the whole of the steam required for the propulsion of steam-engines (invented by Mr. Patridge, inspector of steam machinery in Woolwich Dockyard), and which, on board her Majesty's ship Dee, has been pronounced to effect an economy in fuel to the amount of from 25 to 30 per cent., the Woolwich Steam Navigation Company having obtained per mission to introduce the apparatus on board their line of packets. The first vessel belonging to the company is the Arid, for which the apparatus is in course of preparation. The Ariel yesterday pro ceeded down the river to the Nore and back, for the purpose of ascertaining the exact amount of her present consumption of fuel, so that when com pleted the precise amount of economy derived may be registered with accuracy. The freight ship Aries was yesterday taken up by th. War Department for the transport of mili tary stores from Woolwich for Colombo. The Barracouta steam vessel has been fitted with her boilers and machinery, and is to be brought forward for service. THE ARMY. The reinforcements of cavalry and infantry which have been selected to proceed to Kurrachee and Bombay, will embark at Gravesend this day, on board the Bloomer, 890 tons, Capt. C. F. Smith. The troops for Bombay consist of 12 men of the 14th Light Dragoons, from Maidstone ; 32 men of the Bth Hussars, and 32 men of the 17th Lancers, from Canterbury ; 32 men of the 56th Regiment, from Colchester; 20 men of the 71st Highlanders (Light Infantry), from Stirling; 16 men of the 89th Regiment, and 14 men of the 95th Regiment, from Fermoy ; and 15 men of the 57th Regiment from Cork. ,The following are the draughts for Kurra chee :-32 men of the 7th (Princess Roy-al's) Dra goon Guards, 1 man of the 70th Regiment, and 16 men of the 98th Regiment, from Canterbury; 18 men of the 81st Regiment and 20 men of the 94th Regiment, from 'Chatham ; 28 men of the 27th Enniskillens and 12 men of the 87th Royal Irish Fusileers, from Buttevant. Assistant-Surgeon Kirwan, 13th (Prince Albert's) Light Infantry, sailed on Sunday last in the Mar seilles, for Calcutta, in medical charge of 409 men and 13 officers, draughts for regiments in Bengal. The following officers at Chatham garrison have embarked for India for the purpose of joining the service companies of their respective regiments as instructors of musketry to the officers and men of their corps, each of them having undergone a course of rifle instruction at Hythe to qualify them for their important duties, viz. :—Capt. W. J. Ander son, 32d Light Infantry; Lieut. T. Lloyd, 35th Regiment ; Ensign I'. P. Butler, 24th Regiment ; and. Ensign C. Finnerly, 75th Regiment. The whole of the Queen's British regiments now serving in India having been armed with the Enfield rifle, the following officers have left Chat ham garrison and embarked for Calcutta and Ma dras, for the purpose of acting as instructors of musketry to the officers and men of their respective regiments, viz. :—CP.,ptain W. J. Anderson, 32nd Light Infantry ; Lieutenant T. Lloyd, 35th Regi ment ; Ensign F. P. Butler, 2 4 th egiment; and Ensign C. Fiurerty, 75th Regiment. Yesterday morning the examination of candidates for admission into the Royal Military College took place at Tjurlington House, Piccadilly, under the direciiou of the Council of Military Education. The examination will extend over the week. We have to record the death of William Hay ward, Esq., retired deputy commissary -general of her Majesty's forces, which occurred at Kensington on the 7th instant, at the age of 83. This gallant officer had received the war medal with sever clasps, for Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, and Toulouse. He was appointed deputy commissary-general on the 20th of Jan., 1837. A rather interesting proceeding took place at the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone on Friday, by the presentation of a medal and gratuity to Michael Doogan, a private in the 12th Royal Lancers, for twenty-two years' good conduct as a soldier. Doogan entered the army at a very early age, and went to India as a private in the 15th Hussars. He afterwards volunteered to the 12th Lancers, in which regimont he has continued ever since. He served a good many years in India, and was also At the Brompton County Court, yes terday, in the case of Boreham v. Perry, an action was brought to recover a reward offered by a young lady for the restoration of a valuable pet dog. The plaintiff stated that Miss Perry's dog fol lowed his wife home, and he kept it three weeks before he c ou ld find the owner. Upon the dog being taken to 10, Victoria-grove, the young lady said she was sure the dog had been stolen, as it had only been used to the companionship of well-dressed ladies and gentlemen, and she was certain it would not have voluntarily followed such a person as the witness's wife. If it cost her £5O she would not pay witness the reward she had offered. Mr. Smythe, solicitor, of Denbigh-street, said the plaintiff had also sued Sir E. Hutchinson, Bart., for the same reward, and Sir Edward had felt it a public duty to defend the action. It was a notorious fact that a lady could not keep a dog three months in London without its being lost or stolen, and the more liberal ladies were in their rewards the more often were they victimised. • If a dog were utterly valueless the London dog stealers would send ladies notice that unless they offered a good reward an ear would be sent per post, and if that did not do, the head would follow in a basket. In the present case the young lady's dog had been frequently picked up, and was never found without a reward being offered, and the plaintiff kept his client's dog three weeks in expectation of an increased reward being offered—a common trick of the " fancy." He was in a position to prove that the plaintiff kept the dog back corruptly, and Miss Perry had in a spirited manner stood up as the champion of the ladies who like herself were continually losing their favourites, and had allowed herself tt be sued in a county court rather than submit to be victimised by this man. A witness named Haslett said he met Boreham at Sir E. Hutchinson's house, where the young lady was on a visit, and Boreham asked him if there were any chance of his getting anything for the dog. Witness told the man he was employed to find the dog, and had left a bill about it at nearly all the police stations in London. Boreham said he had kept the dog to get a higher reward, and if he had been such a fool as to inform the police he had got the dog, the bobbies would have collared it and have got the reward for themselves. (Laughter.) Witness asked if he had ever brought the dog out of doors, and he replied, " Not likely." He then told Boreham that if he had let the dog have its liberty it would have found its way home or some one would have told him the owner of it, as it had been picked up so many times, and the police knew the dog well ; that he would not stand in Bore ham's place for £2O. Boreham said he would send Sir E. Hutchinson a summons, as a gentleman like him would sooner pay anything than figure in a county court. The judge was of opinion that the plaintiff had kept the dog with a corrupt motive to obtain an increased reward. If the plaintiff had been taken before a police magistrate be would have been punished for his conduct, and could now be, if the defendant chose. Verdict for defendant. Sir E. Hutchinson then handed the reward offered (X 1 10s.) to the High Bailiff for the poor box. THE FIRST THEATRE IN MOSCOW. Peter the Great, when, in the midst of so many other reforms, he undertook the re-organisation of the Russian stage, looked naturally abroad for the means of effecting the change. A Hungarian actor happened to be at Moscow. Peter sent him to Dantzic to engage a -German troop, who arrived, to the number of nine, th©, following year. Twelve children, the sons of priests, merchants, and citizens (that is to say, traders not belonging to a guild) joined them in the capacity of pupils. Kunst, the director, also taught shipbuilding ; but whether he was an actor who had turned shipbuilder, or a ship builder who had turned actor, does not appear. Probably Peter, unwilling to spend money on the ornamental alone, had told his Hungarian to find him a man who under s to o d b o th arts. e However that may have been, Kunst appears to have been thoroughly successful in each. His performances in the Soukhareff tower were honoured by the presence of Peter himself, and several officers and nobles allowed their children to join his troop. A wooden theatre was now commenced in the Kitai Gorod (Chinese town), in the middle of the " Krasuoi Ploschad," or fled Square, just outside the Krem lin. While the building was being erected the per formances took place in the residence of Lefort, of Finland (all the ship-building interest appears to have been engaged just then on behalf of the stage). Lefort is known to have been an able man. A writer, who was well acquainted with him, says that ho was " of a good understanding," and adds, that he was " very personable, engaging, and entertaining —a true Swiss for probity and bravery, but chiefly for drinking." The performances at the wooden theatre must have finished early, for it is mentioned as an extraordinary fact that, on the night of re presentation the gates of the city were kept open until 9 o'clock. It used, also, to be publicly an nounced Ihat no money would be taken at the doors, " so as to encourage a taste for the drama." Kunst, when not building ships, used to construct plays. After the battle of Pultava he had to write a pieco on the subject, and to introduce the Swedish gem rals under fictitious names. Of this task he appears to have acquitted himself very successfully. The piece was played during Peter's triumphat entry into Moscow, and was much applauded. At this time the nobles formed the chief part of the audi ence, and had their places assigned to them accord ing to their rank. The entry was free The female parts were played by men.— N a atio 1 Magazine. The cabs from Mr. Mayhew's, of Great Ormond yard, provided for public use with patent caoutchoue wheels, furnished by Mr. Davis, of Lyon's-inn, Strand, are built is a neat and unpretending style. The emblem is a sign of peace, a dove carrying a sprig of myrtle ; motto, " ten e vere." These caoutchCue wheels hive rra le Mr. Mayhew's cabs not only the best public vehicles on the road, but su perior in comfort to any private carriage. We say to all omnibus and cab proprietors, insure patronage by deserving it; therefore "Go thou and do likewise."--Aforiting Post. [ADVERT'S ENENT.l—liolloway's Ointment.—Meailas, Coughs, Wheezing.—Tho symptoms of coming measles are generally recognised by every parent ; but the safe mode of treatment is not universally known or happily followed. The grand object is to keep the rash well out, to prevent inflammation, to check cough. • Holloway's Ointment, assisted by a regulated temperature, ensures these desirable results • when well- rubbed upon the back and chest it is absorbed, and acts so wholesomely on the entire system that the morbid matte is naturally expelled, and with moderate care afterwards, all danger of pulmonary or head disease passes away. It is prudent, in every case, to use this remedy, nor should the mildest attack lull us into delusive or censurable securit3-.