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THE PEESS, AUGUST 7, lB5B.

to be with the approbation of her Majesty, and the
appointments now made in India are to be continued to
be.made there. All appointments and admission to
service are to vest in her Majesty. All the real and per-
sonal property of the Company is to vest in her Majesty
fur the purposes of the government of India. The
cash and stock are to be transferred to the Secretary
of State in Council. The existing establishments
are to remain under the present condition. The
Board of Control is abolished. A person succeeding
to the office of Governor-General may exercise his
powers before he takes his seat in the Council. The
Secretary in Council may sue and be sued. The
members of the Council are not to be personally
liable. The Directors elected by the General Court
of the Company are alone to be the Directors of the
Company. It is is no longer obligatory or the
Directors to summon Quarterly Courts. There are
other general provisions to carry out the act, and,
after stating that it is to commence in thirty day.
from the passing, it declares by the concluding sect
Lion that the act shall be proclaimed in the severe
Presidencies as soon as conveniently may be after it
has been received by the Governor• General of India;
and until such proclamation be made all acts and
things done in the name of the Company or other-
wise in relation to the government of India shall be
valid and effectual.

VOTE BY BALLOT.

THE Executive Committee of the Society for Pro-
moting the adoption of Vote by Ballot have issued
the following address to the public :

The late divisicn on the ballot affords us an opportunity
of reviewing the progress of the question. When Mr. Grote
quitted Parliament the Brea' question of corn law repeal ab•
aorbeil public attention, and the ballot was not agitated in
Parliament or the country from 1811 to 1818. In the Parlia-
ment elected in 1847 the ballot was brought yearly before
the House of Commons by Mr. Henry Berkeley, the
numbers voting being as follows:

Ayes. Noes.
1848 B 6
1849
1850
1851
1852 144

On two occasions, it will be seen, Mr. Berkeley obtained
a majority, but in each case at too late a period of the year
to allow of further progress being made with the measure.
The effect of these reiterated discussions ‘s as to increase
the number of the supporters of the ballot in the Parlia-
ment elected in 1852. Shortly after the general election
of 18.52 this society was established. We have sedulously
attended to securing the presence, at the yearly divisions,
of members favourable to the measure ; and the result of
our labours is an increase in the number of Mr. Bet keley's
supporters, on each division in the last and present Parlia•
ments. The following are the numbers :

Ayes. Noes.
1853
1854 157
1855
1856 ( with pairs) .. 156 (with pairs) 196
This division was snapped in the absence of many
friends.
Ayes. Noes.
1837 (pairs included) 219 (pairs includ.) 287
1838 (do. do.) 222 (do. do.) 319

This state of things shows progress. It is the result of
the labours of the society, of the personal exertions gra-
tuitously given of members of the executive committee,
and of a systematic course of (I) parliamentary, (2) elec-
toral, and (8) educational agitation.

1. The views of every member are ascertained imme-
diately on his election. If opposed to the ballot, a con-
densed library of evidence and reasoning on the question is
placed in his hands. By circulars, and the labours of
members of thesociety, who are also members of Parliament,
the attendance of the pledged supporters of the ballot is
secured at divisions. The course taken by every member
on the question is brought before his constituents and the
public.
:I. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the representation the
constituency is visited, and the question of the ballot
agitated by deputations, lectures, and the distribution of
tracts. An extensive correspondence is kept up with
electors in all districts, informing them upon matters con-
fleeted with the progress of the cause, and engaging their
personal co operation in discussing the question with oppo-
nents, in distributing tracts, procuring petitions, and
soliciting the votes in Parliament of their local members.
3. The boroughs and counties are visited by deputations
of the society, and meetings held in favour of the ballot,
which the electors are specially invited to attend. Tracts
on the question are circulated among the electors and other
inhabitants ; in all 500,000 tracts have been distributed by
the society.
Oar aim is to leave no one destitute of the means of
perceiving how injurious open voting and its results are to
himself and the community. To the influence by which it
is supported we oppose the power of reason and the claims
of justice, and we meet by facts the sophisms by which
open voting is defended. Further and increasingly
strenuous exertions are necessary to set the seal of final
success upon the past. The ground we have gained
demands and inspirits to redoubled effort. The ballot is
not gained, but it has progressed. We are drily gaining
the co-operation of men of wealth, intelligence, and
influence, who are fast swelling our ranks. The ballot,

thanks to the Parliaments and people of our ,
colonies, is, with the assent of the Queen, on the
her Ministers, an established institution in the
dominions. The work must be carried on. There
more meetings, more tracts, more conferences, no
Lion. Every borough arid every county which has
yet must be visited. Every constituency whose
trtives have not hitherto supported Mr. Berkeley'
must be invited to memorialise its members to vot
ballot. We are approaching the sixth Year of our
We ask of you to replenish our pecuniary means
taining it—we appeal to you to create confidence
cause and dismay in its opponents, by enabling Le t
on our work with increased activity and spirit.
you, not only to subscribe yourselves, but to ins
friends and neighbours to join us. We are coufitleot
shall not ask in vain.

SIR HUGH RosE has been appointed to the
of the 45th Regiment.
THE QUEEN has been pleased to direct
patent to be passed under the Great Seal,
the dignity of a Baron of the United hi
Great Britain and I Pdand unto General

Campbell, G.C.8., Commander•in-Chief in
Indies, and the heirs male of his body
begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron
of Clydesdale, in that part of the sad United
dom called Scotland.

IT is rumoured that a peerage i 3 to be
upon Mr. Pemberton Leigh. _

-DESPATCHES were sent off yesterday eveni
the Colonial-office to the Governor-G:
Canada.

`'iabi an Voila.

LIBEL—EASTWOOD v. HOLMES
ANOTHER.
THIS case was tried at Guildford. The plaintiff
dealer in antiquities, and the defendants are'
prietors of the Athenceum newspaper, and
was brought to recover damages lor a libel ,
in that paper on the Bth of May last. TI
dants pleaded that the :tatemeut which was
to he a libel was true.

Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., and Mr. Moil
for the plaintiff; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C.,
Lush, Q.C., appeared for the defendants.
Mr. JAMES, in openicg the case, said
plaintiff had for more than twenty years cs
the business of a dealer in curiosities and
ties, and he brought the present action with
to vindicate his character from a very serious
tation that had been cast upon it by an article
appeared in the d,fendants' journal, and
charged him with defrauding the public
counterfeit antiquities. The learned counsel
stated that in the comse of last year a large
of ancient relics were discovered in an excar
Shadwell, and these relics, a great portion
turned out to be what were known among
ries as " pilgrims' signs," he should show r
doubt were perfectly genuine, and came
possession of the plaintiff as such, and be p.
them a considerable sum of money. The article
was the subject of the present action appeare,'
Atheneum of the Bth of May, in the present
and it purported to be a report of what took -
one of the meetings of the British Arent,.
Association, and it represented that the proceedings
concluded by Mr. Cumming reading a paper
subject of the " Recent Forgeries in Lead •
that paper he stated that certain leaden
which were represented to be pilgrims' sigttt
have been discovered in the course of an e:
upon the batiks of the Thames, for the pi
making a new dock, were forgeries, and
Cumming had himself examined 800 of tbt
Mr. Planche had also seen a great many,
the number of these forged articles in the .
was supposed to be upoo. The paper went
state that these articles were entirely court
and that the metal of which they were
appeared to have been rubbed with some stroll:
to give it the appearance of age, and that '
been smeared with river mud. The paper.
by expressing a regret that the law woe
punish parties who were guilty of such a di
fraud.
Mr. GEORGE EASTWOOD, the plaintiff,
examined.—He deposed that he had earned
business of a dealer in curiosities and ant
between twenty and twenty-five years,
believed be was one of the best judges
things in the United Kingdom. In June, 185
Edwards, whom he knew as a dealer in ant
called upon him, and showed him forty articles
of lead, which comprised different subjects,
known amocg antiquaries as pilgrims' sign
examined them, and made up his mind mime
that they were genuine articles of antiquity, a
purchased them, and afterwards he purchased
articles of the same kind of him, in number .
ing to 1,100. He was told that they had been