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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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A SPECIAL EDITION of the " EXPRESS,"
seataieing the revalM of the day's Races, le pub-
lished every seeming during the Sporting SINI•011, at
II 1 era o'clock.
Ws have often had oomaion to remark upon the
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bellows'ss and worthlessness of the aneenaloas pre-
visions of what is untruly named the Corrupt Pres-
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tics Prevention Act. From the day on which it
t was originally paned we have never ceased to doubt
i the asperity of its design, and to denounce the is
eessiexacy and injustice of its enactments. We
bad hardly expected, however, to me oar sespieleas
11 melded, and all disguise as to the real Ferret of
this most miseldevoas and demoralising measure
openly thieves 'aide, upon the =OW= of its as-
Simians* in operation for another limited pried.
The necessity, or at least the decency, of dealing
with the whole subject of electoral abases whenever
I the basis of electoral right should be en-
. larged naturally favoured the supposition that,
except in the form of a Geatiamatie Bill, we
should hear nothing on the matter this year.
When there is a will, however, there is generally
found a way to open the door to public as to private
tisbushery i sad accordingly we find that a majo-
-1 sity a the present House of Commons, led by her
- Massifs Ministers, have been ready to avail them-
selves of the first pretext that has been recently
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i I abided them for reversing the whole policy of
minstitetional law on one most important branch of
election expenditure, and boldly breaking down the
guards and tenon that have hmetofore restrained
. the practice of wholesale treating. Up to the pre-
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sent time it has always been °wondered contrary to
the spirit, if not to the letter, of the law to make pay-
ments under the name of travelling expenses to miters
at elections. The abuses which have notoriously
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' arisen in this way have always rendered the practice
full of danger, and every species of evasion has been
resorted to in order to cloak and to check it.
The pecuniary self-interest of candidate* hes son-
stantly led them to avail themselves of a variety of
excuses for avoiding a system of indiacriinimme
. larger*. They have always instinctively dreaded the
• mention of the pauper-epirited right of every Wester
, • to be carried to the poll. They have indeed waived the
point continually, and, through a diversity or sew
and agencies, been willing to pay the oast of teen& of
Owes who from age, infirmity, or remoteness of
11,1 I magma could hardly be expected to exercise their
formalises otherwise. It has been a matter of pride,
'moreover, with large proprietors in counties, sad
I sometimes with large employers in boroughs, to pro-
vide the means of going to the poll for those who
use mere or less dependent on them ; and party bd.
bg has generally been ready to facilitate waveren
• sr ball-hearted adherents in the performance of their
miaseast promises to vote, by the severance that
ark going and returning should cost them nothing.
But all this has gone on with a certain oonecioumess
on the part of all coneensed that the practice, when-
ever it could, had better be avoided; and that bore
1 I was something unworthy and emceed in one teen
undertaking to pay another fee the performing:is of a
public duty. Although the small farmer or trades-
man might vote at the instance of a particular 41111.•
didate, who might thereby feel himself obliged
to him, nobody with a spark of pubis
spirit or independent feeling could seriously probed
to argue that the franchise had been coaferred apes
the voter to be used as a means of showing privets
good will or of creating personal obligation. The
whole theory and fabric of popular represented=
crumbles to the ground if it be owe publicly ad-
mitted that men are to vote en any other principle
II than their conviction of what is best for the general
good. Individual predilections, fondly ties, mad
private obligatioss of all meets, will at the hest have
bat too "'soh weight in modifying the sedan of
II panics *mica. The beet constitetional vehicle we
can build, set upon the best road that can be devised,
will be subject is many a jolt, and its wheels will be
I spattered by enough of mud, drive as carefully as
we will ; but this is no reason why we should de-
liberately break up the causeway and plunge up to the
axles into a quagmire of filth and corruption. This
It is, however, which the Home of Commons, led by
Mr. WALPOLS, end sided, we ars sorry 10 raft by
some who ought to have known better, now sees
resolved to do.
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After ocosiderable debate it has actually hem
1. '... determined that henceforth nobody shall be ex-
posited to vote miens he is paid far going to the
pall. A rag of censeimiee seems to have clung is
those who perpetrated this scandalous deed, and they
shrink from enacting that the debasing payment
.should be pad in gold or silver by the candidate to
the voters. But ender the flimsy and trimmest
disguise of paper orders, perm, or vouchers, whisk
i the clumsiest election agent will fed a wily of ma-
oaring convertible into cash, the mesas of seamy-
*ace are to be henceforth provided at the persona
charge of the candidate for every electric, and ehe
ems is declared to be lawfuL Were it ones wile
lawful it is perfectly clear that public sentinels;
which now inspires thousands and tens of thousands
of all rank, and degrees to go and do their duty as
independent men at an *Leticia, would be speedily
4 extinguished. The demoralising and debauching
statute would tell every man that he was a block-
head to do hie duty unless sane gentleman paid him
se Much money for doing so. lie would be timed
by Are of Parliament that he was a political pauper,
art if he hesitated about taking the electoral same-
ness he woad soon be laughed at by his neighbours
as a feel.
The breedeas it Is proposed to sow the seeds
of political Wiesner and corruption. Arid what
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