The Sun. — London, England, 1867-03-20 00:00:00

TEE GOVERNMENT REFORM BILL. The following is the complete text of the bill in troduced on Monday into the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is entitled, "A bill further to amend the laws relating to the representation of the people of England and Wales," and it is backed by the names of the Chancellor of Se Exchequer, Mr. Walpole, and Lord Stanley. A Bill further to amend the Laws relating to the Representation of the People of England and Wales. " Whereas it is expedient to amend the laws re lating to the representation of the people in Eng land and Wales : " Be it further enacted by the Queen's most Ex cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and con sent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Com mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows " 1. This Act shall be cited for all purposes as The Representation of the People Act, 1867.' "2. This Act shall not apply to Scotland or Ire land, nor to the Universities of Oxford or Cam bridge. PART I. "FRANCHISES. " 3. Every man shall be entitled to be registered as a voter, and, when registered, to vote for a member or members to serve in Parliament for a borough, who is qualified as follows ; that is to say : 1. Is of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity; and 2. Is on the last day of July in any year, and has during the whole of the preceding two years been an inhabitant occupier, as owner or tenant, of any dwelling house within the borough ; and 3. has during the time of such occupation been rated in respect of the premises so occupied by him within the borough, to all rates (if any) made for the relief of the poor in respect of such premises ; and 4. Has before the 20th day of July in the same year paid all poor rates that have become payable by him in respect of the said premises up to the preceding sth day of January. "4. Every man shall be entitled to be registered as a voter, and, when registered, to vote for a member or members to serve in Parliament for a county, who is qualified as follows, that is to say :-1. Is of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity ; and, 2. Is on the last day of July in any year, and has during the twelve months immediately preceding been the occupier, as owner or tenant, of premises of any tenure within the county of the rateable value of £l5 or upwards; and, 3. Has during the time of such occupation been rated in respect to the pre mises so occupied by him to all rates (if any) made for the relief of the poor in respect of the said pre mises ; and 4. Has before the 20th day of July in the same year paid all poor rates that have become payable by him in respect of the said premises up to the preceding sth day of January. " 5. Every man shall be entitled to be registered, and, when registered, to vote at the election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for a county or borough, who is of full age, and not sub ject to any legal incapacity, and is on the last day of July in any year, and has during the year immedi- ately preceding, been resident in such county or borough, and is possessed of any one or more of the qualifications following ; that is to say Is, and has been during the period of such residence, a grada ate or associate in arts of any university of the United Kingdom ; or a male person who has passed at any senior middle-class examination of any university of the United Kingdom. 2. Is, and has been during the period aforesaid, an ordained priest or deacon of the Church of England ; or 3. Is, and has been during the period aforesaid, a minister of any other religious denomination, appointed either alone or with not more than one colleague to the charge of any registered chapel or place of worship, and is, and has been during such period, officiating as the minister thereof ; or 4. Is, and has been during the period aforesaid, a sergeant-at-law or barrister-at- law in any of the inns of court in England, or a cer- tificated pleader or certificated conveyancer ; or 5. Is, and has been during the period aforesaid, a cer tified attorney or solicitor or proctor in England or Wales; or 6. Is, and has been during the period aforesaid, a duly qualified medical practitioner re- gistered under the Medical Act, 1858; or 7. Is, and has been during the period aforesaid, a schoolmaster holding a certificate from the committee of her Majesty's Council on Education : Provided that no person shall be entitled to be registered as a voter or to vote in respect of any of the qualifications men- tioned in this section in more than one place. "6. Every man shall be entitled to be registered and when registered, to vote at the election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for a county or borough, who is of full age, and not sub ject to any legal incapacity, and is on the Ist day of July in any year and has during the two years immediately preceding been resident in such county or borough, and is possessed of any one or more of the qualifications following, that is to say :-1. Has on the Ist day of July in any year, and has had during the two years immediately preceding, a balance of not less than £5O deposited in some savings bank in his own sole name and for his own use ; or 2. Holds on the Ist day of July in any year, and has held during the two years immediately pre ceding, in the books of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England or Ireland in his own sole name and for his own use any Parliamentary stocks or funds of the United Kingdom to the amount of not less than £5O ; or 3. Has during the 12 months immediately preceding the sth day of April in any year been charged with a sum of not less than 20s. in the whole by the year for assessed taxes and income tax, or either of such taxes, and has before July 20 in that year paid all such taxes due from him up to the preceding Jan. 5 ; provided, Ist, That every person entitled to vote in respect of any of the qualifications mentioned in the section shall on or before July 20 in each year claim to be re gistered as a voter ; 2dly, That no person shall be entitled to be registered as a voter or to vote in re spect of any of the qualifications mentioned in this section for more than one place. " 7. A person registered as a voter for a borough by reason of his having been charged with and paid the requisite amount of assessed taxes and income tax, or either of such taxes, shall not by reason of being so registered lose any right to which he may be entitled (if otherwise duly qualified) to be re gistered as a voter for the same borough in respect of any franchise involving occupation of premises and payment of rates, and when so registered in re spect of such double qualification he shall be entitled to give two votes for the member, or (if there be more than one) for each member to be returned to serve in Parliament for the said borough. " PART 11. " DISTRIBUTION OF SEATS. " 8. From and after the end of this present Parlia ment the boroughs of Totnes, Reigate, Great Yar mouth, and Lancaster shall respectively cease to re turn any member or members to serve in Parliament. " 9. From and after the end of this present Parlia ment each of the boroughs enumerated in Schedule (A) to this act annexed shall return one member and no more to serve in Parliament. " 10. Each of the places named in Schedule (B) to this act annexed shall be a borough, and shall each return one member to serve i❑ future Parliaments, and until otherwise directed by Parliament each borough shall comprise such places as are specified and described in connexion with the name of each such borough in the said schedule (13). "11. Registers of voters shall be formed in and after this year 1868, notwithstanding the continu ance of this present Parliament, fur or in respect of the'ioroughs constituted by this act, in like manner as if before the passing of this act they respectively had been boroughs returning members to serve in Parliament. " 12. From and after the end of the present Parliament the borough of the Tower Hamlets shall be divided into two divisions, and each division shall in future Parliaments be a 4eparate borough, returning two members to serve in Parliament. Each of said divisions, until otherwise directed by Parliament, shall comprise the places mentioned in connexion with each such division in Schedule (C), hitherto annexed, and shall be called by the name of the Northern and Southern Division of the Tower Hamlets respectively. " 13. Registers of _voters shall be formed in and after the year 18G8, notwithstanding the continuance of this present Parliament, in respect of the divisions of the said borough of the Tower Hamlets consti tuted under this act, in like manner as if such divisions had previonsly to the passing of this act been separate boroughs returning members to serve in Parliament. 14. From and after the end of the present Par- liament each county named in the first column of Schedule (D) to this act annexed shall be divided into the two divisions named in the second column of the said schedule, and each of such divisions shall consist of the hundreds, lathes, wapentakes, and places mentioned in the third column of the said schedule. In all future Parliaments there shall be two mem bers to serve for each of the divisions specified in the said second column, and such members shall be chosen in the same manner, and by the same description of voters, and in respect of the same rights of voting, as if each such division were a separate county. Allenactments relating to divisions of counties returning members toserve in Parliament shall be deemed to apply to the divisions constituted as aforesaid. Registers of voters shall be formed in and after the year 1868, notwithstanding the con tinuance of this present Parliament, for or in respect of the divisions of counties constituted by this act, in like manner as if before the passing of this act they had respectively been counties returning mem bers to serve in Parliament. " In all future Parliaments the University of Lon don shall return one member to serve in Parliament. " 16. Every person whose name is for the time being on the register of graduates constituting the convocation of the University of London shall, if of full age, and not subject to any legal incapacity, be entitled to vote in the election of a member to serve in any future Parliament for the said university. " PART 111. "SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS. " INCIDENTS OF FRANCHISE. " 17. Different premises occupied in succession by any person as owner or tenant shall have the same effect in qualifying such person to vote for a county or borough as a continued occupation of the same premises. . . . "18. In a county where premises are in the joint oc cupation of several persons as owners or tenants, and the aggregate rateable value of such premises is such as would—if divided amongst the several occupiers, so far as the value is concerned—confer on each of them a vote, then each of such joint occupiers shall, if otherwise qualified, and subject to the conditions of this act, be entitled to be registered as a voter, and when registered to vote at an election for the county. " REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. " 19. The following regulations shall be observed with respect to the registration of voters :-1. The overseers of every parish or township shall make out or cause to be made out a list of all persons on whom a right to vote in respect of the occupation of pre mises is conferred by this act, in the satne manner and subject to the same regulations, as nearly as circumstances admit, in and subject to which the overseers of parishes and townships in boroughs are required by th,3 registration acts to make out or cause to be made out a list of all persons entitled to vote for a member or members for a borough in re- spect of the occupation of premises of a clear yearly value of not less than 110. 2. The claim of any person desirous of being registered as a voter for any county or borough, and herein-before required to make a claim, shall be made in the form marked 1 in schedule (E) annexed hereto, or as near thereto as circumstances admit. 3. The claim of a person claiming to be registered in respect of a deposit in a savings bank shall not be received by the overseers unless it have annexed thereto a certificate in the form marked 2 in the said schedule, or as near thereto as circumstances will admit, and is signed, in the case of a post-office savings bank, by some officer authorised to sign the same by the Postmas ter-General, and in the case of any other savings bank by two of the trustees or managers of such savings bank, or by some officer authorised by thew. 4. The claim of any person claiming to be registered in respect of the holding of any Parliamentary stocks or funds of the United Kingdom to an amount of not less than £5O shall not be received by the over seers unless it have annexed thereto a certificate in the form marked 3 in the said schedule, or as near thereto as circumstances admit, and signed by an officer of the governor and company of the Bank of England, or, as the case may require, by an officer of the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland. 5. The claim of any person claiming to be regis tered in respect of the payment of assessed taxes and income tax, or either of such taxes, shall not be received unless it have annexed thereto a certificate in the form marked 4 in the said schedule, or as near thereto as circumstances admit, and signed by one of the commissioners or collectors acting in relation to the tax in respect of which such certificate is required. 6. The overseers of parishes and townships in coun ties and boroughs shall annually give notice direct- ing all persons who are required by this act b make their claim to send in their claims to them, such notice to be given in the same manner, so far as cir cumstances permit, in which overseers give notice in counties under the law in force at the time of the passing of this act to persons desirous of being placed on the list of county voters. Upon the re ceipt of a claim by any such person as aforesaid, having annexed thereto such certificates as aforesaid, the overseers may make all such objections to the claim so made as overseers in counties are empowered to make on receiving claims of voters, but subject thereto shall place the claimant on the list of voters for the parish or township iu which the residence of the voter is situate. " 20. If any person whose certificate is required under this act in support of the claim of a person to vote wilfully refuses to give such certificate, he shall on summary conviction be liable to a penalty not exceeding £5. " 21. If any person is guilty of any of the follow- ing offences, that is to say,-1. Wilfully gives any certificate required by this act falsely ; 2. Forges, counterfeits, or fraudulently alters any such certifi cate or any signature thereto ; 3. Knowingly makes use of, in support of a claim to be registered to vote, any false certificate, or any certificate forged, coun terfeited, or altered as aforesaid: such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and' on being con victed thereof shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding two years. " PLACES FOR ELECTION AND POLLING PLACES. "22. The court for the election of members for each of the divisions mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule (D) shall be holden at the places named for that purpose in the fourth column of the same schedule. " 23. In every county the justices of the peace having jurisdiction therein, assembled at some court of general or quarter sessions not later than the first holden after the dissolution of the present Parlia ment, shall appoint proper and convenient places for polling iu their county, so that there may be a polling place in every parish or township in which there are not less than 200 resident electors, and a polling place for every two or more adjoining parishes or townships in either of which separately there may be less than 200 resident electors, at some central or convenient point at which as nearly as possible 200 voters from such smaller parishes or townships may most conveniently attend to record their votes ; and the places so selected by the justices as the future polling places of the county shall forth with be duly advertised in such manner as the jus ' tices may think fit ; and the said justices may from time to time at any court of general or quarter ses sions alter such polling places as they may think ex pedient ; but it shall not be incumbent upon any re vising barrister to attend at any polling place at which less than 500 voters are appointed to poll. " 24. At every contested election for any county, unless some building or place belonging to the county is provided by the justices for that purpose, the sheriff shall, whenever it is practicable so to do, in stead of erecting a booth, hire a building or room for the purpose of taking the poll at the places so appointed by the justices as aforesaid; and the ex pense incurred by the said sheriff in the hire of rooms, or erecting booths for polling, shall be paid to him by the justices for such county out of the county rate. Where in any place there is any room, the expense of maintaining which is payable out of any rates levied in such place, such room may, THE SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY EvENING, MARCH 20 1867. with the consent of the person or corporation having the control over the same, be used for the purpose of taking the poll at such place. " ELECTION IN UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. " 25. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of London shall be the returning officer for such uni versity, and the writ for any election of a member to serve in Parliament for such university shall be directed to such vice-chancellor. " 26. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of London shall proceed to election in pursuance of any writ to be directed to him, as hereinbefore mentioned, within six days after the receipt of such writ, giving three clear days' notice of the day and place of elec tion, exclusive of the day of proclamation and the day of election, and the vice-chancellor shall, after such election, certify the same, together with such writ, according to the directions thereof. " 27. At every contested election of a member or members to serve in Parliament for the University of London the polling shall commence at eight o'clock in the morning of the day next following the day fixed for the election, and may continue for not more than three days, Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday being excluded, but no poll shall be kept open later than four o'clock in the afternoon. " 28. At every election of a member to serve in Parliament for the U niversity of London the Vice- Chancellor shall appoint the polling place, and also shall have power to appoint two or more pro-vice chancellors, any one of whom may receive the vote and decide upon all questions during the absence of such vice-chancellor ; and such vice-chancellor shall have power to appoint poll-clerks and other officers, by one or more of whom the votes may be entered iu the poll-book or number of poll-books as may be judged necessary by such vice-chancellor ; and suc h vice-chancellor shall, not later than two o'clock in the afternoon of the day next following the close of the poll, openly declare the state of the poll and make proclamation of the member chosen. " VOTING PAPERS. " 29. Any elector may give his vote by a voting paper in the same manner and subject to the same conditions in and subject to which an elector of any of the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin may give his vote, and all the provisions of the act of the session of the 24th and 25th years of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 53, shall, with the requisite variations, apply accordingly; and in construing the said act the returning officer' shall be substituted for the Vice-Chancellor of the Uni versity,' and the expression University' shall be taken to mean the county or borough for which the elector votes. " MISCELLANEOUS. " 30. In any borough named in Schedules (B) and (C) to this act annexed, which is or includes a municipal borough, the mayor of such municipal borough shall be tha returning officer, and in the other cases the returning officer shall be appointed n the same manner as if such places were included amongst the boroughs mentioned in Schedules (C and (D) of the act of the second year of his late Majesty William the Fourth, chapter 45, for which no persons are mentioned in such schedules as re turning officers. " 31. The following persons, that is to say, shall be appointed boundary commissioners for England and Wales, and they shall, immediately after the passing of this act, name special assistant commissioners, who shall examine the boundaries of the boroughs constituted by this act (including the divisions of the borough of the Tower Hamlets), and of every other borough in England and Wales. The assistant-commissioners, so appointed shall give notice, by public advertisement, of their intention to visit such boroughs, and shall appoint a time for receiving the statements of any persons who may be desirous of giving information as to the boun daries or other local circumstances of such boroughs, and shall, by personal inspection and such other means as they shall think necessary, possess themselves of such information as will enable them to make such report and recommendation as hereinafter mentioned. Upon the completion of such examination by the said assistant- commis sioners, the Inclosure Commissioners shall report to one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State whether any enlargement of the boundaries of such boroughs is necessary in order to include within the area thereof the population properly belonging to such boroughs respectively, and in such report shall propose such new boundaries (if any) as in their judgment would effect that object, but such report shall be of no validity until it has been confirmed by Parliament. " 32. Every person claiming to vote in respect of any franchise conferred by th.Fs Act, other than one involving occupation of premises and payment of rates, shall vote at the booth at which he would vote if he were registered as a voter in respect of the house in which he resides. " 33. There shall be repealed so much of the seventy-ninth section of the act of the reign of her present Majesty, chapter 18, as relates to the resi dence of voters at the time at which they give their votes. " 34. Where the owner is rated in respect of a dwelling house instead of the occupier, the occupier may claim to be rated for the purpose of acquiring the franchise in the same manner and subject to the same conditions in and subject to which an occupier may claim to be registered under the existing Acts of Parliament for the purpose of acquiring the fran chise in respect of the occupation of premises of a clear yearly value of not less than ten pounds, and all the provisions of the said acts shall apply ac cordingly; provided that the rates to be paid by such occupier in order to entitle him to the fran chise shall be rates calculated on the full rateable value of the premises. " 35. Where any occupier of a dwelling house in respect of which the owner is rated instead of the occupier at the time of the passing of this act would be entitled to be registered, in pur suance of this act, at ,•the first registration of parliamentary voters t o be made after the pass ing of this act, if he had paid rates for the re quired period, such occupier shall, notwithstand ing he may not have paid such rates, be en titled to be registered, subject to the follow ing conditions .-1. That he makes a claim to be rated in manner in which such claims are required by the existing law to be made, within one month after the passing of this act : 2. That he pays all rates due in respect of such house at the time of making his claim, and further pays all rates becoming due in respect of such house between the date of his claim being made and the date of his name being placed on the register of Parliamen tary voters, such last. mentioned rates to be cal culated on the full rateable value of the premises. u 36. Any candidate or other person, either directly or indirectly, corruptly paying any rate on behalf of any voter, or for the purpose of in ducing him to vote, shall be guilty of bribery, and be punishable accordingly ; and any person on whose behalf and with whose privity any such payment is made shall also be guilty of bribery, and punishable accordingly. " 37. Whereas by the act of the 6th year of the reign of Queen Anne, chap. 7, all persons ap pointed to offices of profit under the Crown, and thereafter duly elected as members of the House of Commons are required to vacate their seats upon their acceptance of any othdr office of profit under the Crown, and it is expedient to alter the laws in this respect : be it therefore enacted, that if any person appointed to any office of profit under the Crown, and thereafter duly returned as a member of the house of Commons, accepts, while he continues to be such member, any other office of profit under the Crown (except an office which by law incapacitates the holder thereof from being elected or from voting in Parliament), the acceptance of such other office shall not render the election of such person void, nor shall any writ thereupon k.sue for a new election. u 38. Where separate registers of voters have been directed to be made in any county or borough divided by this act, if a vacancy takes place in the representation of the said county or borough before the summoning of a future P ornament, and after the completion of such separate registers, such last ' mentioned registers shall, for the purpose of any election to fill up such vacancy, be deemed together to form the register for the county or borough. " 39. Nothing in this act contajned shall affect the rights of persons whose names are for the time being on the register of voter 3 for any county in which the boroughs constituted by this act are situate to vote in any election for such county in respect of any vacancy that may take place before the sum moning of a future Parliament, but after such summoning no person shall be entitled to be regis tered as a voter or to vote in any election for any such county who would not be entitled to be so re gistered, or to vote in case the boroughs constituted by this act were before the passing of this act boroughs returning members to Parliament. " 40. The franchises conferred by this act shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any existing franchises ; and, subject to the provisions of this act, all laws, customs, and enactments now in force conferring any right to vote or otherwise relating to the representation of the people in Eng land and Wales shall remain in full force, and shall apply, as nearly as circumstances admit, to any constituency hereby authorised to return a member or members to Parliament as if it had heretofore returned such members to Parliament. " 41. All writs to be issued for the election of members to serve in Parliament, and all mandates, precepts, instruments, proceedings, and notices con sequent upon such writs, shall be framed and ex pressed in such manner and form as may be neces sary for the carrying the provisions of this act into effect. " 42. This act, so far as is consistent with the tenour thereof, shall be construed as one with the enactments for the time being in force relating to the representation of the people. " 43. The following terms shall in this act have the meanings hereinafter assigned to them, unless there is something in the context repugnant to such construction ; that is to say—' month' shall mean calendar month ; member' shall include a knight of the shire; election' shall mean an elec tion of a member or members to serve in Parliament ; ' county' shall not include a county of a city or county of a town, but shall mean any county, riding parts or division of a county return ing a member or members to serve in Parliament ; borough' shall mean any borough, city, place, or combination of places, not being a county as here inbefore defined, returning a member or members to serve in Parliament ; The Registration Acts' shall mean the Act of the 6th year of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 18, and the Act of the 28th year of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 36, and any other Act or parts of Acts relating to the registration of persons entitled to vote at and pro ceedings in the election of members to serve in Par liament for England and Wales." SCHEDULES. SCHEDULE (A). Boroughs to return one member only iu future Parliaments Houiton, Thetford, Wells. Eveshatu, Marlborough, Har wich, Richmond, LyiningtOn, Knaxesborough, Andover, Leominster, Tewkesbury, Ludlow, Ripon, Huntingdon, Maldou, Cirencester, Bodmin, Great Marlow, Devizes, Hertford, Dorchester, and Lichfield. SCHEDULE (B). Places to be Boroughs to return Ono Member each. Torquay.—Parishes of Tor Mohun, St. Mary Church Cockington, Poiguton. Darlingtou.—Townships of Darlington, Haughton-lo- Skorne, Cockerton. Hartlepool. Municipal borough of Hartlepool, town ships of Throston, Stranton, Seaton Carew. dravesend.—Patishe sof Gravesend, Milton, Northfleet St. Helen's—Townships of Sutton and Pair, portions of townships of Eceleston and Windlo. Burnley.—Townships of Burnloy, Habergham Eaves. Staleybridge.—Municipal borough of Staleybridgo, re maining portion of township of Dukinfield, township 01 Staley, the district of the Local Board of Health of Iloss Wednesbury.—Parishos of Wednesbury West Brom wich, Tipton. Croydon.—Parish of Croydon Hamlet of Penge. Middlesborough.—Township of Linthorpo, and so much of the townships of Mid ilesborougb, Ormsby and Eston, as lie to the north of the road leading from Eston towards Yarm. Dowsbury.—The townships of Dewsbury, Batley Sool hill. Barnsley.—The townships of Barnsley, Worsborougli Dodworth, Barugh, Monk Bretton, Ardsley. SCHEDULE (C). Divisions of Borough or Tower Hamlets. Northern Division—The parish of hackney; the parish of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green ; the parish - of West Ham; the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch. Southern Division—The parish of St. George's-in-the- East; the hamlet of Mile-end Old Town; the union of parishes of Poplar; the union of parishes of Stepney ; the union of parishes of Whitochapol ; the Liberty of the Tower of London. with two members the population of which, by the census of 1861, was below 10,000 ; and that the seats thus taken, together with those obtained by the disfrancisement of any existing boroughs, should, after providing one seat apiece for the proposed 13 new constituencies, be allotted as third seats to the largest boroughs and counties now having two mem bers ; and that in these, and also in the eight con stituencies now represented by three members, every elector should be at liberty to distribute or accumu late his votes, at his own discretion." Mr. Pease will move, " That the municipal borough of Hartlepool, the township of Hart, the township of Throston, and the parish of Stranton shall constitute the borough of the Hartlepools. That one member be given to the borough of Stock ton, and that the said Parliamentary borough do consist of the municipal borough of Stockton-upon- Tees, the parish of Norton, and the parish of Thornaby." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The text of the Reform Bill of 1867 is at length before us. The Ministers of the Crown hesitated as long as possible to commit themselves to any particular plan of Reform, but the patience of the House of Commons has its limits, _ and the time had at last come when the honour of Parlia ment demanded the production of a definite scheme. A. bill has accordingly been presented to the house. Not, indeed, that this can be looked upon as final. If we were compelled to regard it as the ultimatum of the Ministry, we should despair of any solution of the Reform question in the present year. But the previous experience of the session, not to speak of the language of the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday afternoon, warns us not to be dis couraged. The bill which has been laid upon the table is a formal sketch of a complete measure, but as some of its leading features have been already repudiated by all sections of the house, it cannot be deemed anything more. The ques tion for the rest of the week is, _ therefore, not • whether the measure propounded can be ac cepted as a whole, but whether it is capable of such manipulation—by omitting provisions here, and in serting others elsewhere—so as to offer at last a sa tisfactory solution of a problem which the House of Commons itself must take in hand. The bill opens with a definition of the occupation franchise in boroughs. It is proposed that the occupier of any dwelling-house shall have a vote after an occupation of two years during which he has been rated to the poor and paid his rates. At first sight this appears to promise a considerable enfranchisement. Some exception may be taken to the length of residence required, but we do not regard this objection as substantial. The payment of rates is, in itself, no more than an evidence of that personal responsi bility which justifies the household franchise to the minds of persons so widely separated from each other as Mr. Henley and Mr. Bright. As a matter of fact, however, experience has proved that the personal responsibility of the lowest rank of house holders is unreal, and in order to secure the due payment of rates it has been found necessary in many cases to make them a charge upon the owner instead of the occupier. The occupier, of course, pays the rate in the form of increased rental, but the owner is primarily liable to the demands of the overseer. Before the Reform Act of 1E32 the bur- den of poor rates was in several boroughs thrown upon the owner by local acts, and it was accord ingly necessary in enfranchising the £lO house holders to provide that, where the owner had been made previously liable, the occupier should be at liberty to claim to be rated and to pay his rates, without prejudice, however, to the right of the over seers against the owner in case of the occupier's de fault. The Small Tenements Act of 1850 em powers the vestry in any borough to make the liability to pay rates in respect of houses rated at and under £6 a charge on the owner, and it follows that wherever this act is adopted the enfranchisement proposed by the first part of the present bill would cease at the £6 rating limit. Below that line personal payment of rates would cease, and, therefore, the privilege of the fran chise. It would, however, be plainly intolerable that the right of these householders to votes should depend upon the decision of a local body. The 34th clause of the bill therefore provides that any occupier may claim to be rated in order to acquire the franchise, following in this respect the analogous provision of the Reform Act of 1832. The result would be that just as all £lO occupiers paying their rates vote at present, and where a local Act throws the obligation of. rates on the owner, the occupier may claim to be substituted as the ratepayer in order to get his vote, so the bill of the Government would make all house holders, resident and paying their rates, voters, and where, under the operation o f th e Small Tenements Act, the owner was made the ratepayer, wzuld en able the occupier to claim to be substituted as the ratepayer, and thus again obtain his vote. At the first blush the bill of the Government would give a household suffrage as simply as the Act of 1832 gave a £lO rental suffrage. It is said that practi cally the householder rated at £6 and under would experience such difficulty in establishing his claim to be put on the Register that he would cease to prosecute it, and the result of the Ministerial pro posals would be a £6 rating franchise where the Small Tenements Act was adopted, and a household suffrage elsewhere. If this be true, the proper means of amending the bill would not be found in abolishing the necessity of the ratepaying quali fication. Personal responsibility should still be essential in the voter, and it might be secured by reducing the limit of the Small Tenements Act, and making its operations universal. It is certain that the personal payment of rates is a valuable se curity for the " steadiness" Mr. Henley looks upon as the best criterion of fitness for the franchise, and by making the limit of the franchise coincident with the limit of rating a vast interest would be en listed in maintaining unaltered the franchise quali fication. We have dwelt upon the occupation fran chise in boroughs, because upon it the fate of the Bill turns. The Government, if they are wise, will make only the faintest resistance, if any, to a re duction of the occupation franchise in counties ; and, on the other hand, the educational franchise will meet with no more serious obstacles than Mr. Beresford Hope's rambling criticism. The fran chise in respect of the possession of £5O in the sa vings banks or the public funds for two years is open to little objection, but it is evident after Mr. Gladstone's criticism on Monday evening that the taxpaying franchise must be reconsidered. We need not dwell upon the dual vote, which will cer tainly be abandoned. No doubt could exist upon this point after the debate on Monday, and Mr. Disraeli's reply to Mr. Bright last night was suffi ciently significant. The fact that the Government embodied dual voting in their bill must, however, always be remembered as an irreversible condemna tion of their political sagacity. They were warned against the proposal from every quarter, and when, i n s pite of reiterated ivarnings, they submitted it to the House of Commons, it was condemned from e very bench. The clauses of the bill relating to the distribution of seats are so palpably faulty and insufficient that we cannot believe Parliament will .accept them as any solution of what is, in fact, the very essence of the Reform question. The House of Commons will hesitate before it commits itself to the hypocrisy of disfranchising Great Yarmouth and Lancaster, and the proposal to restrict the further distribution of seats to the taking of a single member from twenty-three boroughs now returning two members each, and having a poisulatiou below 7,000, can only be meant as a pretext for deferring distribution to another season, and thus keeping the Reform question unsettled. It is incumbent upon Par liament, if for no other purpose than to vindicate its own sincerity, to force a bolder policy upon the Government. The proposal to multiply polling places so that there shall be one in every place where there are 200 resident electors, and to throw the ex pense of such polling places upon the county rates, is a step in the right direction which merits hearty support. The clause authorising the use of voting papers in all cases is, in principle, equally excellent, but it is not easy to see how the practical difficulties of securing the attestation of voting papers are to be overcome in the case of a large constituency, and some such security must clearly be necessary. The Enclosure Commissioners are to appoint assistant commissioners to examine the boundaries of the existing boroughs, and to determine the boundaries of the boroughs proposed to be created, and their reports will be subir itted to Parliament for confirma tion. The clause defining their powers is carefully drawn, so as to limit them to the question whether it is necessary to " enlarge" existing boundaries, but it is' at least open to doubt whether the limits of those boroughs which in fact comprise agricultural districts should not be contracted. It is characteristic of the hurry in which the bill has been framed that one important provision has never been mentioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in any of his speeches. It is suggested that a member holding an office of profit under the Crown should not vacate his seat on the acceptance of another office. We do not anticipate much objection to this proposal, but before making the alteration it is worth while to inquire whether the reason which requires a member to vacate his seat at all on accepting office is any longer valid. The question may, however, too probably, never come ou for discussion, in con sequence of the breaking up of the Ministry and abandonment of the Bill. We have before us, as we have said, nothing but the sketch of a measure, which must undergo great alterations to make it SCHEDULE (D). Names of counties to be divided—South Devon, West Kent, North Lancashire, South Lancashire, Lincoln, Mid dlesex, South Staffordshire, and East Surrey: South-East Devon.—The hundreds of Teignbridge, Haytor, Wonford (except such parts thereof as arc in cluded in the limits of the city of Exeter by the 2d and 3d William IV., cap. 64), Exminster, Cliston, East Budleigh, Axminster, Colston, Otters St. Mary, and also the Castle of Exeter.—Place for holding election, the Castle of Exeter. South-West Devon. —The hundreds of Lifton, Tavi stock, Roborough, Ply mton, Ermington, Stanboreugb, Coleridge.—Place for holding election, Plymouth. West Kent.—The Lathe of Sutton at Hone.—Place for holding election, Blackheath. Mid Bout—Remainder of the Division.—Plato for hold ing election, Maidstone. North Lancashire —The hundreds of Lonsdale, Amoun derness, Leyland.—Place for holding election, Lancaster. North-east Lancashiro.—The hundreds of Blackburn.— Place for holding election, Blackburn. South-east Lancashire.—Hundred of Salford.—Place for holding election, Manchester. South-west Lancashire.—Hundred of West Derby.— Place for holding election, Liverpool. North Lindsey.—Wapentakes of Manley, Yarborough, Bradley Haverstoo, Walshcroft, Corringham, Well, Aslacoo.—Placo for holding election, Glandford Brigg. South Lindsey.—The remaining parts of Lindsey.— Place for holding election, Lincoln. West Middlesex.—lfundreds of Gore, Elthorno, Isle worth, and Spelthorne, with so much of the Hundred of Ossulstou as lies to the west of the road loading from Edgware to Hyde-park, and of the north-eastern boun dary of Hyde-park, Green-park, and St. James's-park, and Great George-street to Westminster-bridge.—Plato for holding election, Hammersmith. East Middlesex.—Tha remainder of the county.—Placo for holding election, Tottenham. Bouth-west Staffordshiro. — Hundreds of Cuttlestone, Sieston.—Place for holding election, Wolverhampton. East Staffordshire.—Hundred of South Oftlow.—Place for holding election, Lichfield. East Surrey.—Hundred of Tandridge, and so much of the hundred of Wallington as includes and lies to the east of the parishes of Croydon and Sandorstead, and so much of the hundred of Brixton as includes and lies to the east of the parishes cf Streatham, Clapham, and Lambeth.— Placo for holding election, Croydon. Mid Surrey.—The remainder of tho prosont division Plato for holding election, Kingston-upon-Thames. SCIIEDULB E Gives tho forms in which the claim to vote on account of the savings bank and other now qualifications are to be made ; the certificate of deposit in savings bank by two of the trustees or managers, or officer appointed by them or by the Postmaster-General; the certificate of ownership of £5O in Government stock by an official of tho Bank of England and the form of certificate of oharge of tax. The latter form is as follows: " Fonm No. 4. "Form of Certificate of Charge of Tax. - - - " I, A. 8., of &c. [s e t forth — the Christian name and sur name and place of abode of the person certifying], being one of the commissioners of [specify the purpose for which he is a commissioner], or, [as the case may be] ono of the collectors of the duties of [specify the duties], assessed and charged on the assessment hereinafter mentioned, do hereby certify, that in and by the assessments of the duties of [describe the duties] made for the parish or place of [specify the parish or place and the county or city within which the same is situate, if the assessment be local], and which said assessments [or a duplicate of which said assessments] are now lawfully in my custody, C. D., of was during the year inunediately preceding the fifth day of April last charged with the said duties of [state the de scription of duties], in the said parish or place to the amount of twenty shillings [or to the amount of twenty shillings and upwards, as the case may be], in respect of [state the nature of the property, or profits, or other mat ter in respect of which the duties are charged] and has paid all the duties so charged to him which became duo prior to the fifth of January last. Given umler my hand, this day of 18 The officers by whom these certificates aro granted must insert a distinguishing number to each certificate. The certificate must be issued subsequently to the thir tieth of June, and must be delivered by the claimant to the overseer, with the claim, on or before the twentieth day of July. The second reading of the Government Reform Bill is fixed for Monday next. Notices of amendments have already been placed on the order book. Mr. Buxton leads off with an amendment, that "in any redistribution of seats the second scat should be taken from all boroughs acceptable either to Parliament or the nation, and where so much is open to debate we look forward with much anxiety to the result. THE WESTMINSTER GAZETTE ON " THE MILITARY REORGANISATION IN ENGLAMD AND IN FRANCE."- Since our last publication General Peel's propo sals for the Army reform have been laid before Parliament, and the scheme for the reorganiza 7 tion of the French Army has likewise been published. The two plans form a great contrast. Our own is limited to a moderate increase of the soldier's pay and to the recruiting of the Militia by voluntary enlistment to its full strength of 120,000 men, coupled with a proposition to make it partially available as an army reserve. The French Government, on the other hand, propose . to double their Army, adopting, with sonic - ma& cations, the Prussian system of a general conscrip tion. General Peel's plan, -as far as it goes, is a good and useful one ; but is not a bold orcompre- pensive scheme. Ile seems to have an inordin ate fear of increasing the estimates and to view the question in rather a narrow way. The same want of boldness or comprehensiveness struck . . us in his answer to Major Anson's motion on the Indian Army, and to Mr. O'Reilly's able and excellent speech on the employment of Sikh troops in certain of our Colonies. The general is considered a very able administrator, and no doubt knows well the feeling of the House as to army expenditure. But judging from the almost unanimous expression of opinion in the periodical press on this sub ject, the general public opinion seems strongly , in favour of a thorough reorganization of our mili tary system, and it seems to us a great pity this feeling is not taken advantage of to a greater ex tent. The e soldier's pay is to be raised twopence a day, and another penny - on re-enlisting after twelve years' service, making their pay is. 2d. and is. 3d. respectively. This will appear to the general public to be a fair rate of remuneration to un skilled labourers, who form the bulk of our re cruits. The increase will, no doubt, be a great help to our soldiers ; we must nevertheless not forget that their pay is subject to heavy stop pages. To take the old rate of pay, speaking of the line, the account would stand thus :--Pay 13d. a day, from which would be deducted for rations, viz., Vb. of meat and 11b. of bread, 4id. ; then 3d. for tea, &c., and id. for washing, making Bd. ; this will leave sd. But a further deduction is made of 2d. a day to supply the men with new under-cloth ing, and for repairs, &c., so that he has but 3d. a a day on an average—if so much—to find himself in beer and to meet his other requirements. The additional 2d. and 3d a day will alas be very wel come to our gallant soldiers, though in our opinion their pay is still inadequate. The better plan would be for the Government to supply; them with three good and substantial meals, finding them in all articles of dress and necessaries, with a fine for careless or wilful damages, and then to fix the p a y at 6d. a day, with an additional 2d., or, at all events, Id. every five years, in addition to any good-conduct pay they may earn. This would be a rate of pay which we believe would be an in ducement to young men of the labouring class to enter the Army in sufficient numbers, and we could then dispense with the system of giving bounties and rewards to enlisters. The pension is not to be altered, and remains at Bd. a day, or at most Is., if the men have earned all the good-conduct marks after twenty-one years' service. It ought not, in any case, be less than ls., and a permanent pension ought to be given to those men whose health has broken down from diseases contracted in the field or in unhealthy climates. What can be more dis graceful than to see soldiers who have served in the Crimea, or who saved our Indian Empire during the mutiny war, and whose constitutions are ruined by diseases—the direct consequences of the hardships they underwent—dismissed (if not totally disabled) with a pension of 6cl. a day for a couple of years, and then left to beg or eke out a miserable existence as best they may. Are not such men to be found in all our towns and vil lages ? And could we set up a better rival to the recruiting sergeant if we tried to do it? No other Army in the world is called upon to per form the duties ours has to do, to face unhealthy, and sometimes deadly climates for years, and often engaged in warfare with brave but savage tribes. The mortality is very great. On an average in the whole Ark - , out of 1,000 men it is reckoned that not more than 450 are in the ranks after ten years, the remainder being lost by death, or desertion, or discharge ; so that long service pay or pension is not enjoyed by many. Ours is, we must recollect, a professional Army. Our soldiers ought to be well paid, their comforts more attended to, and, above all, the decencies of life better maintained in our barracks. Of our soldiers it ought to be said, as well as in Wallen stein's Lager, " Dem Soldaten muss sein Solde werden, da'rnach heisst er." The sympathies of the writer of the present article are with profes sional soldiers, so long, at all events, as they are national men who have dedicated their lives - to the upholding of the national honour and follow the flag, as it is emblazoned on so many of our regimental standards, übique quo fas et gloria ducunt. Whatever shortcomings there may be in soldiers, at all events even the humblest is ready at a mo ment's notice to face death and lose his life in his country's quarrel. General Peel's propo sal to raise an additional 30,000 men for the Militia is a very good one, if he can succeed in raising the men. He seems* very confident of doing so, however. He further proposes to allow 30,000 Militia to volunteer to join the Army Re serve, and to give £6 bounty to induce them. They are to remain in the Militia, and are only liable to be drafted into the Line in case of war. If this plan succeeds it ought to be extended to the whole Militia, and for the future the Militia ought to be recruited on the condition of serving abroad either regimentally or in drafts to the ' Line, and it ought to be embodied two months annually ; it would then, however, be necessary to pay more attention to the drill. We shouldthushave a valuableßeserve of 120,000 men. But it would likewise be essential for home defence to reorgan ize the local Militia, which must be raised by the ballot and organized in the manner we recom mended in a former article, and not be less than 200,000 men. The privilege which the new scheme gives to men of the Line who have not completed their time of service to commute each remain ing year in the Line for two in the Reserve, with the option of reverting to active service, strikes us as likely to give satisfaction to many soldiers, but this privilege would not operate to any great extent, indeed the number of those who would have the option is not estimated higher than 2,000. A large reserve in this way could only be formed by making it com pulsory for men to serve in the Reserve after seven or eight years in the Line. It is very doubtful if we could raise recruits in sufficient numbers to carry out this plan, and on these con ditions we think it would be necessary to raise still higher the rate of pay if we do not offer our recruits a provision for life, or give them perman ent pay while they are in the Reserve, which would be very expensive. We think the plan we have recommended of the whole Militia being made the Reserve preferable in many respects. Some such reorganization of our military . system is, in our opinion, indispensable ; and, in view of the gigantic armies raised, or about to be raised, on the Continent, it is folly or madness not to do now what most certainly would have to be done at the breaking out of war—to put our land forces on a footing more in proportion to the armies of foreign States. The French Army is to be reorganized in this way. The annual contin gent is to be fixed at 160,000, which is the number of able-bodied men. Out of 325,000 males of 20 years of age, one-half of this number, or 80,000, are to serve for five years, instead of seven as hitherto, and are then sent to the reserve for four years. The other half of the contingent is to serve only in the reserve for four years, and to be embodied for three months, and then to join the national Garde Mobile for five years ; all persons who may now procure substitutes, or who have formerly done so, will have to serve in this Garde Mobile for five years; the duty for this latter force is to be easy, not more than a fortnight's drill is to be required, and they are destined for the defence of fortresses and the cus tody of the coasts. Old soldiers are allowed to re enlist on the present advantageous conditions. Indeed, this feature in the French service of so many conscripts who have served their time, re enlisting for a second or third engagement has been much favoured and developed by the pre sent Emperor—they form about 25 per cent., we believe, of a French regiment. - The result of the new organization, roughly stated, is, that France will have an active army of 400,000, and a re serve force of 430,000, making together 830,000 ; and, in addition, the Garde Mobile of 408,000 men, making a total of 1,238,000 men. The Army hitherto was fixed at 400,000, and the Reserve 220,000 men, making together 620,000 men. This is a great increase to the military power of France, and every Frenchman fit to bear arms of _the requisite age will have to serve in the way we have explained. It is certainly not so oner ous as the Prussian system ; and the service in the Line is reduced from seven to five years— this will be advantageous to the conscripts, although the universal obligation to serve will be more generally felt by the nation at large. The scheme does not seem to be popular in France, notwithstanding the jealousy of Prussia, which is very prevalent. It cannot surprise us that, as Prussia keeps up and develops her military system in the new Confederation, France should also bring up her Army to an equal extent. If, how ever, it is now to be a rivalry as to which nation is to put the largest number of men in the field-- a question of mere numbers—the more vigorous Teutonic race will carry the day. France would do well to rely more on the greater number of sea soned and veteran soldiers in her splendid Army, and on the great aptitude for war of her troops, though even in this respect she will find a worthy rival, if not her match, in the great military qua lities of the German nation. LIVERPOOL THEA7RES. PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE. Mr. Henderson is following up his good work with his enterprise and spirit. "Anthony and Cleo patra" has been withdrawn after a brilliant run of three weeks, in consequence of the engagement of Mr. Barry Sullivan, who made his bow on Monday night before an appreciative and enthusiastic audience in his great im personation of Hamlet. It would be a work of supererogation to attempt to speak of Mr. Sullivan's assumption of the Philosophic Prince. His Hamlet is already a " household word" with all who can appreciate a graceful, highly finished, and scholarly inter pretation of Shakspere's greatest creation. Miss Reinhardt's Ophelia is a natural and unaffected rendering of a pure and intellectual conception, and con firms the very high opinions formed of this lady's talents. Shakspere must have had Mr. Blakeley in his "mind's eye" when sketching the character of Polonius. The mounting of the piece is in every way worthy of Mr. Henderson's reputation. The scenery, specially painted by Messrs. Dawson and Grieve, is artistic in the highest degree, and has the additional merit of being historically correct. The dresses and appointments are truly magnificent, and all the details are carried out with a correctness and finish which will make the revival of " Hamlet" at the Prince of Wales Theatre a land-mark in the dramatic history of the day. The production of Brough's celebrated burlesque of "Medea," which concluded the programme each evening, afforded Mr. George Faucet Rowe another opportunity for the display of his versatile talents. His Medea, "the best of wives, with a brute of a husband" (a character ren dered famous by Robson), is an exceedingly clever piece of burlesque tragedy, and like all Mr. Rowe's "readings," has the merit of originality. Mr. Sullivan is announced to appear in several of his best characters during next week. THEATRE ROYAL. Miss Madge Robertson is still the attraction at this theatre, and to judge from the fashionable audience nightly assembled to witness her really beautiful and intelligent rendering of every character she assumes seems to be gaining a strong hold over the sympathies of the Liver pool playgoers. Burlesque also forms an important item in the bill of fare, and where George Honey, the prince of burlesque actors, reigns, crowds of ardent admirers are seen to throng. Mr. J. C. Cowper, an old Liverpool favourite, is underlined for Monday next. ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. " True to the Core" increases nightly in popularity, and has proved, as was anticipated, a great success. " The Long Strike" has been revived in all its original splendour, and has been added to the programme, the management being evidently determined to supply not only quality, but quantity. Several important engagements are announced. THE VARIETIES. "The Great Vance" is still the "order of the day," or rather night, and seems to have monopolised a large share of our ordinary conversation. Instead of the all-absorbing and truly British topic, the weather, the question now is not " How wretchedly cold it is ?" but " Have you seen Vance?" "No !" "Then lose no time—not to have seen him is not to have seen anything." There is no doubt but tha t Vance has proved a trump card for the management. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS-TUESDAY, Millers do not purchase wheat freely to-day, but the business doing may be quoted is per quarter higher than on Friday last on fine English qualities. Not much doing in spring corn, and prices remain without alteration from last week. LIVERPOOL-TUESDAY. -- • --- --- Wheat met with an active demand at our market to day, white being slightly dearer on the week. Flour 1 11 fair retail inquiry, • and we have no change to note i . n prices. Oats held for an advance of ld per bushel, which caused sales to be restricted. Oatmeal advanced 6d pfr load, but transactions were limited. Egyptian beans 10 slow request. Peas were steady. Indian corn realised s further improvement. LYNN-MONDAY. New wheat, —s to —s ; new red, —s to —s; old white, 62s to 70s ; old red, 58s to 62s per 36 stone. Barley for malting, 46s to 51s ; secondary, 37s to 38s. Oats, now, 24s to 28s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 44s to 48s. Peas, 36s to 40s per 28 stone. MARKET HARBOROUGII.—TuEsDAY. ----- Old white wheat, 60s to 73s ; new red, 50s to 68s por 36 stone. Barley, fine, 52s ; other kinds, 238 to 36s per 30 st. Oats, new, 22s to 23s ; old, 30s to 34s per qr. Beans, old, 508 to 55s ; new, 46s to 48s par qr. MELTON M 0 WBRAY.-T UESDAY. White wheat, 66s to 74s ; red, 50s to 66s per 36 stone• Barley for malting, 40s to 52s por qr; feed, 32s to 38s par 30 stone. Oats, old, 30s to 35s ; new, 22s to 29s per 24st , Beans, old, Ns to 545 . ; new, 46s to 50s per qr. SHEFFIELD—WEDNESDAY. The market was moderately supplied this morning with wheat, which must be quoted at the extreme prices of last week. Malting barley rather lower. Beans and oats were steady, and prices unchanged. Red wheat, per load of 3 imp. bushels....2lB Od to 268 01 White . do do ....Vs Od 278 Od New red do do ....'4OB Od 218 64 New white do do ....238 6d 258 6d. Beans do do —.los Od 228 0.1 Peas, per qr Grinding; bailey, per qr 339 Od 380 Od, Malting barley, ( o Oats, do 27s Od 3 28 °l ' F10ur....28 2d to 2s ad per 141 b, Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Mar. 2 2 . 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