The Express.
London, England, 1865-04-11 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN ELECTIONS.

A special meeting of members of the Social
&WAS Aisociatioe was held last evening, at the Sesisty d
Arts. Adam-skeet, to diem' a piper by Mr. T. lien "Oa
such as organisation of the Metropolilea Eleotiose as would
call into siSfolli the greatest "mats of the knowledge sad
judgment of the oonstiiamaiss, end es fart poedble discour-
age" corrupt tad weirdos, isflosacea" The paper ap-
peared in substance is the Daily New of the 20th March.
is the form of • letter 'dammed to the editor. Lord
Br•xcsr took the chair, sad there was a very full attend.
we, of whom lady members farmed • portioa.

liithe cruse at dimension,
Mr. J. Livia= Ritz mid he comddered that the °bir-
ths. to the mimes bed "AM front an insuffideat ox•
4:13. amihation of its prism end prop:aim It was
the • peat merit(ll tie that it did not ocritem.
plate the elected reprise only the opinions and into.
mem of those who void for It would not hire the
Hie of Commas, the reprossatatives of only three shades
of oiiinion—whig, try, and radical—but the opinions of the
whole country would be rspresmited, and property es well
as numbers. The voter would no loom be compelled to
vote for any booby seat down by the dominant party.
Boobies would no longer be sent down as eandidatee—men
f merit would be seat down, or if they were not, the
constituencies would hod men of merit far themselves.
He referred to the injustice of the existiag system, in leaving
the minority. ray 19,000 out of 40,000—the election bang
serried by 21,000 proticelly unrepresented. This evil
would be remedied by the preposmd plan, which, is answer
to the objection that it was oomplex and impenelisahis, be
mid was much more simple then the multiplication %him
and might be eerily understood by anybody who took the
trouble to examine it fairly. Mr. Hare's plea, he knew, was
anximiely thought of by some of the leaden of the working
OLIN% end he ehouldpiti be surprised if, hire long, it
became part of their political programme. He claimed tat it
is lent of giving aeordaney to sore and *tire to all.
The metropolitan constituencies were peculiarly adapted for
the trial of the experiment fairly and well.
Mx. F. HILL observed that the plan war not new ; it had
been introduced by bin fiber in the election of the members
of a aortic literary society thirty years ago, and was found
to work well.

The CiiilBll LS thought it would be amides prematurely
to express aey decided opinion upon Mr. Hare's plan,which
was to most persons new, and involved wide considerations.
Yr. Hare's paper referred to the great expeeee Moaned
by candidates under the present system, but at present they
were hot compelled to incur that large expense, nor did
he see that under the proposed plan the inducement to W-
ear it would be diminished. He doubted also whether the
plan would not throw still greater power into the hoods of
the guest political olube, which now for the most part ruled
the eideiioll6. He thought much was to be said in favour of
allowing repreeeutation to universities in wine way.
Hr. HARE briefly replied, observing that, according to his
informatiou, the scheme had not been tried is South Ass-
tralia—what had been tried was the very reverse of hie eye-
tem. He further explaieed how his plan would mance the
expenses of elertMns, and defended the several details
which bad been called in question.
The usual vote of thanks to Mr. Hare and a similar com-
pliment to the chairman concluded the meeting.