The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-03 00:00:00

popular sympathy, spirit, and feeling, and calculated
only to facilitate the impmilion of oligarchic hats,.
upon the mind and conduct of the humble man.

We lave neither room nor inclination to eater
at present into the limitless opening to abuse
and fraud which the project refined to would
create. By the proviaions of the Bill every elector
who is afraid 'to go up to the poll may apply for a
voting pap. to the proper officer, and when he has
sabseribed it, and obtained the attestation of two
vitals,* he is to forward it by post to the return-
Leff Officer. Upon its receipt and perusal, in the
'essence of the agents of the candidata, the vote is
to be recorded. Nothing looks at fist blush more
simple, safe, or convenient; yet nothing is more cer-
tainly liable to evasion, perversion, and deception, in
envy stage of the proceeding. The elector may be
sick, absent from home, or recently dead; in each
ease then is nothing to prevent a voting paper
being asked for in his name, filled up and
forwarded, received and counted in favour
of a particular candidate. Check clerks in polling-
booth, cannot be omniscient, and they would re-
quire to be so to guard against such impositions.
The elector, however, may neither be dead, absent,
nor invalided ; he may simply abstain from availing
himself of this skulking privilege, and yet some
efficient electioneering agent may do the seedful for
him. Again, there is the obvious ewe (of everyday
occurrence in Poor-law lantana), where, after Meg
up the voting paper and oommiting it, es required
by the intimidator, to his hands, in order that it may
be forwarded, the document is tampered with on the
way, sad then transmitted to its destin►tion.
What is a candidate or his agent, however
watshhl, to do when a sheaf of stopioiour
laicise papers is produced by the returning
officer ? Is he to denier to their validity,
demand examination,aad pressed to oall widow to
establish a praisfiicie case of the invalidity of each
of them? How loog do oar radars suppose it
would take to pursue such investigations with any
semblance of judicial fairness, Adman, a freedom?
At Leeds such an inquiry not long ago respecting
the election of Guardians eampied many weeks.
Would the litigation be lass inveterate sr prolonged
when a seat in Parliament wee the aims extended
for? Hu anybody counted the cost of such litiga-
tion ? Or have the framers of the Bill designedly
emitted to maks any provision as to whether such
scrutiny ought to take place before the result of
the poll is declared, or after the member is, perhaps,
unduly returned?

IT will be seen that Mr. Couren's Bill to pro-
hibit the payment by candidates of the travelling es-
pouse of voters at Parliamentary elections obtained
yesterday, on the woad reading, a majority of 19 in
• tolerably full Ho•ss. An attempt was made by
one of the Tory members for North Northamptonshire
to shelve it on the plea that the Bill wee rendered
enneeessery by the Reform Bill of the Govern-
ment ; bet no consideration was vouchsafed to
this preposterous suggestion. Mr. Hastitsw
pointed oat that voting papers, by whisk
the Government proposed to meet the evil, were
liable to great abuse. He was about to show that
this mode of voting, in conjunction with the new
freehold borough franchise, rendered it easy far a
man of property to gain the right to vote in several
boroughs, and that societies might be formed for in-
fluencing town elections on a large scale, when he
was stopped by the SPLA k sa ; an interruption which
we an ate km to understand, seeing that the qua.
lion before the House was a motion for adjournment,
promoted on the ground of the goodness of the Go-
vernment Bill.

We publish the resolutions agreed to by the
Parliamentary Reform Committee, and also by the
Westminster Reform Society, respecting the Govern-
ment Reform Bill. We are informed that the
Westminster public meeting will be held next
Wednesday, at St. Martin's Hall.

ZNDOWXD SCHOOLS.

The following I. a copy of the bill prepared and
brought into the Hew of Commons by Mr. D iiiwyn, Sir R.
Bethel], wed Mr.ltraery for the bet,er regulat oa of endowed
abode:

" Whereas It is expeliest that some rostrictlesa of present
impaled by low wpm the govessment ad Webb( ef temay
endowed 'awls sad einestiossl charities ebesid be re-
moved, and that tbs eras demi& oiler otherwise expressly
declared by tlr fownime dimeof, be open to ell webros of
the realm, withost say distreties whenever : De It enacted
by the thates'e meet wettest Majesty, by and silk the
eddies and consent of the Lords ny'ritsal sad Temporal, and
Commoss, In this present perllassout searsibled, and by the
astbortty of tits ISM, as follows :
"l. No Mimed weed a olantioool charity oholl to
domed to bete be.. fooodol hr the perpsee of sandier re-
*lees issersedon moor/ft Is tM iseirlses of the ober& of
England rachriedy, ow shah way prom be deemed te-
eetepteutt by mesas of bb areal from the deetriedee or gip
*Mee of the 'did chunk ee be s belles et threw of the sr
Wee se peresesky of such lobelia et amity, ea be hell is,
slier Is be leveremeat et tee**, or te reeds, lie whew
the awl yerthipele r the fill berate of the &why, mhos
Y shell meat co the hoe of the will, deed, or other
hottuneet by which such eadowneet Y oreeted, sr by is
homes thereto So sow doessoot, tbst snob was tits will
W Weed= ef tbe lettaiet threat

. 2. TIM ad atoll sot be cooottsoi so tortamilag to the
ralrertities at Oeford, Cambridge, or Durlumorr to soy
eallrgs or ball withis the same, or to tbr schools of West-
Bremer, Etre, iterrer, Wtnabeeter, Rugby, or Charter-
bow e.

"3. The act say be did aa 'TM En4owad School'
Regulation itc., 1169.' "

TO-IBMTOW even leg Mr. Kis ward will ask the
Met Ceseedseb um of Works, " Whetbar le is mem/
le sessemme mod man set tbe midair et die pump
bean hem Salstaisaas sall Ceipe.vnst into ik.
Jemeeryesb, so se to slew weasys sad poems Imes-
bask le seam mid hew tbe perk by this mei, the bisime-
polkas Dodd et Worts lode' mammal their Isesike a
iseardleeily isidhateg so moot of Um mid pump se traits
Baba, Seem"

Os ea " early day " Mr. Coningkam is to call the
equaticee of the House of Coentoove tl the " etas of the
evaspleure of the how, sad to t►e lejorioua effect of Lee

L the event of the seeped reading of the
meter Reproeist Woe of die People Bill belag amid to
ler Feuds Barley grid move to molt la e ,mmitie• awe
tg elefnuichleag pereoms employed m snoods, eseirrerde
and goveraseesit redo..

TM division ia the Hesse of Commons yesterday
is oho Ceseelesee of VOW' Dill nee virtual, s Moot et
Ib govermset, the alaceits laded ns the emelees dr
esiletst who love ..M hi the bow.

COMAS THOMPSON AND Tate NoeTNitaX
roue UNION Prtmoste.—Oerwel Tboatr..‘,l4.l. , Inters
as lobes* to the Neither. Behan Un..e Hone of
Feb. 21. 1411. Hy deer 80,-1 hen don the
bah I with the prittkes. 00 o.lolmPatkei of Meade
hi the hews it we voted bitter t's prom at them is the anal
way then le Mt inks to puma* thew when the twice
one ea. The tern bong the there le always Anger of
twin throve yet, sad derkeed be btu The OWN Paw
bar reentedl lei h sineteree WO& Ton haw
that ”en this( le don to peens ensides ea plains, sad
le aely with rent ailkalty that eustistag of the lOW era
be leas. I eareseled fur the ftht et speaking r law as I
vie able; bat rem I Meer to /warmest la left I
Lead the ewer 'MIA Weer MIL Wirt I anesedsd la
swing telstOt wee bred, this (I believe verbelly)-96.
Speehn, ha honked yards of petition from the Nee*
Quaint," pale( iht washed eufbase red blast. The
Ira of lbw is
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,e• tem' ; but It .lil be row at raw tine--Terse
Indy, T. Peneeei Tbostroa.—)a. Cowes, lea, ise.".--
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