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LONDON, THURSDAY, OCT. 11.

Tus annual revision of the electoral lists
throughout the kingdom being at length completed,
public opinion demands universally the strong and
emphatic denunciation of the practices which have
long prevailed iu the Registration Courts, but
which now appear to have ripened into a degree of
maturity that renders their continuance intolerable.
We allude to the system of objecting by wholesale
to voters whose names have been placed by the
overseers in the annual list, and which is done
alike by both political parties in nearly all con-
tested towns and counties, upon the speculation
that not onabalf of the persons so challenged will
attend personally for the purpose of defend-
ing their franchises. It is impossible for
us to describe the enormity of the abuse
thus arising more forcibly than in the
words of the Revising Barrister for Middle-
sex at the close of the present sittings. It
appears that no fewer than 2, 125 notices of objec-
tion to persons were served on the one side this
year, while 2,533 were served by the other—in
all 401-113 ; or as nearly as may be, one third of
the whole constituency were publicly impeached
as usurpers of rights that did not lawfully belong
to them. Row this was accomplished we leave
Mr. tiaaowtu. to tall :

I cannot I ave this court without expressing my earnest
revelation of the rec'deas Damage in which a very his.
ounilwr of objections to the names of meters have been
Too Icgislatore intended that every voter who is
posw....ed of a substaotial qualification should be at libertv
to olqc..t to thaw whom he believes to be pommeled of
Done; an.l if such objections, aa.t such roily, were
made, rood might moult, sad little or no harm.
ILA.::.ion appears in praetioe. The objector is he-
quent:y 111.. uof straw, end he lends hi 3 name to a party
t he is for thu purpose of iadiscriruinate aunoy-
ance. 110 ..',jefts by wholeeale to the mines of personae
of whom h., knows nothing. who may have been on the re.
gister for years. and whose qualineation is generally tin-
doui,t,d, loping either to succeed by the non-attendance o
the vote, or at least to escape payment of coati by persuad-
ing it.: ~.net to m. t r sonic trilling ro.territion in the register.
The voter who wishes only to enjoy his own free-
chis, r.. annoy no one, must either lose his vote or leave
his place .4 Weems, sod wait for hours at an iacuovenieut
place, to &fetid himself against the attack of a nom of whom
he knows nothing, who boll no position in IFlCinty, and
whose only employment is the annoynoce of others. This
hen now become a monstrous evil.

We believe there are few Revising Barristers of
experience and character who will not cordially eon-,
cur in these animadversions. Middlesex is, indeed
on: of our most populous counties, and its eon-
stitueney one of the largest in the kingdom. The
example it affords is therefore striking, but it is
by no 101:001 exceptional or peculiar. The system
has gradually become inveterate, and all but
universe). Wherever it is introduced by election-
eering &pyrite ou one side, it is sure to be adopted
on the other. As a matter of party tactics, there
is in suet a case said to be no help for it. Thcre
is no answer to grape-shot hut 'rape : and so the
work of elimination goes on with reduplicated
power. The worst of all is, that the persona
struck of! the register are oftentimes precisely
those whom the public has most interest in
keeping there. We are not now speaking of
political opinioius, but of the moral, social, and
intellectual qualities that beet fit a man to be en-
trusted with the exercise ui a vote for members
of the Legislature. Out of a dozen individuals
factiously objected to, which are more likely to
waste a day OT half a day hanging about the
purlieus of a Revision Court—the half-dozen intel-
ligent, active, thoughtful, and busy men belonging
to prole .eons, trades, or letters, or the half-dozen
lazy, idle, or, it may be, venal fellows, a c:rtain
proportion of whom are likely to figure upon any
numerous lid f Yet the working of the system
as now with impunity abused, is to retain the
worse and to get rid of the better by dint of
wasting public time and money. For the expense
of as now conducted is not inconsider-
able ; and the parish authorities grumble loudly
at the yearly increasing items of useless
charge they are by law compelled to provide for.
What ere the facts regarding Middlesex f Out of
th.. 2,1%1 objections made by ono party at the
late re.. C.'.on, 1,311 were sustained ; while out of
t:ie 2,5:;". entered era the opposite aide, but 1,413.
T5...1:14,; l.uth to,;.:ther, we find that nearly two
eh.• •..z,..; notices of objection were served whit&
either failed of proof when inquired into, or were
at the la.. moramit withdrawn. It is hard to say
whet!ur I,3m:injustice was perpetrated under the
forma f law in tit, case of those that faded or
th• • . were s‘astainecl. Well might Mr.
complain that, as things now stand,
the tree -.tile in which he :s one of those appointed
to put s;do are made to admix ester actual injustice
in 5.,: name of lasi.

What r.inictly can be applied to so glaring an
• We think the common sense of the com-
munity will recognise readily the nature of the
cure wl.J.h ie required. It would be worse than
ini;;ltcry to try the old expedient of excessive
costa in —.az of failure in the inudaiunient of ob-
jectivism ; for .cats must always be at the discre-
tion of the Put-, and wham political feeling is
mix.xl up with the questinns at issue it is most
undesiml le to impose on him the invidious duty
of intictin penalties of ere kind. E.ivally objec-
tion-Ode, in our opinion, would it be to throw the
• r,primibihty of sifting and ratifying the
el.ictoial lists upon the local authorities,
• r municipal or parochial. Hem again
pasty world be sore to conic
in, or be suspected of coining in, which