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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE VT.

THE opponents of the Ballot in Parliament
complain that Mr. BERKELEY should annually
bring forward • motion which he knows they are
strong enough to defeat. The friends of that
reform, however, will think good service is done if
be only compels its adversaries to parade year by
year the hollowness of the only objections they can
raise against it. Lord PALMERSTON is turned
to very good account in this way, and
his speech last night is only inferior to
his immortal oration in praise of " stucco."
The noble lord treated the House to two argu-
ments and a story. His first argument was that
Toting is a public duty, and should be performed
under a sense of public responsibility ; a most
indubitable and important premise, from which he
drew the odd conclusion that in the performance of
this duty the voter ought to be at the mercy of
disturbing private influences, the tenant-farmer
being exposed to the displeasure of his landlord,
the workman to that of his master, the tradesman
to that of his customer, and so forth. This is
Lord PALMERSTON'S notion of responsibility. With-
out contesting his assertion that the protection of
the ballot is un-English, we may admit for his
lordship's satisfaction that, as far as practice goes,
the system he defends is intensely English. His
second argument is, that vote by ballot would not
protect the voter who did not conceal his opinions
from his fellows. This is the idlest of all
objections. Partisans form but a small portion of
every constituency, and mixed considerations enter
into the determination of most voters. Open
voting is the practice of the Legislature, yet it is
the common complaint of those who have to do
with members of Parliament that to the last
moment before a division you can never be sure on
which aide they will vote. Lord PALMERSTON talked
of advocates of vote by ballot as " crushing out
" the feelings of Englishmen," but he could only be
jolirtz, or he would have asked himself where
those feelings are when intelligent and useful
members of society, capable of understanding the
interests of their country, are driven to the poll to
serve the prejudices tsrd rancours of powerful
neighbours. The story with which the PREMIER
clinched his speech was that the Ballot
bad been repudiated and abolished at the
headquarters of advanced liberal opinion—
at the Reform Club. Advanced liberals will be

surprised to find that the Reform Club is one of
their strongholds. What its members did last
week, however, was this : they found the prac-
tice of allowing one member's opposition to
neutralise the effect of nine members' support of a

candidate proposed for membership to be so in-
jurious to the interests of the general body that
they have abolished it, and for a strictly limited
time and for a specific purpose they have placed
the power of election in a council nominated by
the general body. Such is the best opposition
which Lord Psotautrrow can offer to the Ballot.

The Vivid, tender to the flagship Fisgard, at
Woolwich, got up steam yesterday morning at an early
hour, and sailed from Woolwich at daybreak for Ostend, to
embark the Queen of Prams for England on a visit to her
Majesty.
The Channel fleet at Portland is under orders on
Monday evening to proceed on a few days' cruise in the
Channel, and to exercise the crews in gunnery. The iron.
cased frigate Royal Oak, Captain F. A. Campbell, will sail
from Spithead to join the fleet on the ooncluaion of her
trials.

Some English capitalists have projected a bank

Santiago with ► apit►l of five million dollar.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 13.—The Queen has been
rtato approve of Mr. B. R. Hebeler as eossuLgenmal in
ltited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for his
Royal Highness the Duke of Nairn ; the Queen has also
been pleased to approve of Mr. Walter Graham an consul
at Cape Town for the United States of America.—Oantte.
BOARD Or TRADE, WHITEHALL, JUNE 15.—The
Right Hoe. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
for Trade have received from the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs a copy of a dispatch from her Majesty's
charge d'affaires at Madrid, stating that the Spanish go-
vernment have gives orders that for the future no duty
shall be levied on article* such as wager, tea, coffee, topper
nails and plates, carried on board ships ea stores, when they
are net in large quantities, as stated in the tb,rd paragraph
of the 28th article of the customs regniations.—Gazette.
WAR-OrrICE, JUNE 16.—The Queen has been
graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of
Rear-Admiral she Hon. Edward Alfred John Harris, her
Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Swiss Coefedera-
tion. and Horatio Nelson Lay. Eaq., employed with the
special mission of the Earl of Elva to China, in the years
181 W and 1858, to be ordinary members of the civil division of
the third class, or companions of the moat hon. Order of the
Bath.—Gazelle.

ACCIDENT TO SIR CH•RLFA LOCOCK. —Yesterday
mornieg an accident occurred to Sir Charles Locock. He
had been riding in Haien-row during the morning, and on
his return to his residence at the corner of Hertfordstreet,
Park.koe, his horse suddenly stumbled, threw him with
some violence, and then rolled upon him. Sir Charles was
at once taken home and a medical examination showed that
his injuries consisted of a severe fracture of the right arm
just above the elbow, sod much straining of the muscles of
one of his legs. We are happy to say that the reply to
inquiries at the house last evening was that Sir Charles was
in no danger, and was progressing favourably.