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LONDON. SATURDAY, NOV. 20.

Own valued New York correspondent informed
se, in a resently published letter, that Presi-
dent BiNSON, of Liberia, has been vindicating
himself ia America am well as in England from the
charges made against him in connexion with the
'Wino QSII affair; and our correspondent adds,
" It moms now to resolve itself into a question
" of veracity between him and the French officials.'
This Liberian ease most still be looked to. The
Am Bens aewspapen call on the Colonisation
Beeisty to explain past intimations aids the French
Inreaoa'' agents ; the Colonieetion Society calls
oe the Liberian authorities to explain, in like man-
ner; and the Liberian authorities give the lie direct
to the Enration's agents and officers, through whom
the partievlare have been mainly furnished. Thee
stands the matter in regard to past events, when
the news is given oat in Paris that all is
to go 'smoothly in Liberia henceforth, in rested
to the immigration scheme : that there is to be •
&veering President, who will give active easistabee
were the present one has afforded obstruction: and
that this new President, whoever he is, will be Bo-
Wailed with by Kings and Chiefs of many districts
17 Kinge,9 Chieftains, 38 towns, and the Sovereigns
of Dahomey and Benin. Such is the apparatus for
eupplynag victims to the slave ships and the French
*Amine ; and if this account is tree, it will not do
to leave Liberia and Cape Mount unwatoked because
the Emperor of the Fax:ectt is going to give up
his bargain. It must be first ascertained whether
or sot this announcement is one of those enormous

astraths--one of thaw items of " false news" which
the Rantshon's system of repression of simple news
Is always creating. But if it should turn out to be
tunny degree true, the patrons and allies sr raw*
Amerman end Veropean, must Keep an eye on the
little Republic, knowing that there will never be a
Lek of ►uyers of as many soirees as their Kings
and Chiefs are tempted to selL

Some of the circumstances look us if the story was
false. " ROBKATS " is spoken of as the President
who is not re-elected, on account of his opposition to
the French scheme; whereas President BENSON is
the man. lie baa been Preeideat for two years ;
he now charges the French agents with gross false-
hood, and declarer that he opposed the exportation
of negroes ; and ROBIRTS was never accused, as
far u is known here, of any unwillingness to second
the French Furtaoa's purposes. Here is, then, a
mistake to begin with. Bat this mistake rather
goes to confirm the truth of the rest. When
we Ent heard of the case of the Repass
Clefi, the President was represented se in entire
accord with the French officials ; as having sane-
timed and encouraged their scheme, aided them to
procure the negroes, taken their mousy, and even
petitioned that they would draw their supply of
labourers from his territory. All these allegations
have been denied in the most emphatic way, as our
naders have seen, by President BENSON, in a letter
which appeared in oar columns on the 92nd ult. It
is the misfortune of Mr. Betc4ov, ea it will long be
of every ruler of Liberia, that the world is, and
must for some time continue to be, distrustful of ell
professions against slavery and the Slave-Trade
which come from that quarter. The origin of the
settlement and the history of its early years are tee
well known to admit of an unsuspicious state of
mind in the hearers of such professions; bat
it must strike everyone that the recent
French newe, that the Liberian President has
been ousted on account of his opposition to the
Im-
migration scheme is in direct contradiction to the
French narrative of the case of the Regina Cali
Ilir. Basso% is entitled to the benefit of this evident).
and till his statement& are answered it stands ea-
serted that he refused, in letters which are pro-
ducible, to permit the French to establish depots for
their labourers, because such depots would be too
like slave barracoons to be legal ; that be repeatedly
warned his visitors of the consequences of carrying
away any emigrants but those who freely offend
themselves ; and that he cautioned the French
odious against remaining mars than four days at
any see point of the num, as persons brought from
the interior would certainly not be voluntary emi-
grants. President Hanson's statemente have been
abundantly published ; they present a damning
ease against the French ofileiab ; and they have
not, as far as we know, been replied to. Thee, we
have the original French narrative first: next. the
President's story, in direct opposition to almost
every point of it : and new, finally, the Preach news
that the President I. ousted, on aooount of hie
hapenstisability in regard to the French scheme.
Unison new facto arise, the world will believe
President Bassos.

Thaw in another view disclosed by the same story,
whisk will be more interesting to everybody—sa-
lsa it is Pread. nr Harrene. If he is ousted for this
muss itesigned, it is clear that the pablio—or the
baslese of the electoral ►ody'—ia Liberian's strongly
la favour of the French atriums. This is the broad
Mat to the European Powers to watch the
Republic and its onsets. The readiness of the citizen•
to sell some of their innumerable and hopeless
vagrants is an old story; and eertainly the tempts•
tion is very strong. It appears that there has II Mir
ya, for any permanency, been food enough in the
territory to feed the people upon it ; sz,d yet the

United States keep sending

beings, without property or
misery. At one time the
green plume; at another time
palm', to eat the cabbage at

ea South Sea islanders, who

forethought. It is the very place
quarters of the Messrs. REGIS of Europe and Ame-
rica and the coast must be watched, whatever the
icsmon's decision may be.
Another consideration is that the Slave Trade may
be carried on otherwise than from the nearest shore.
Nile travellers know that very well; and so do
the explorers of Algeria. Patriotic' Frenchmen
boast of the prospect of Algeria being the
highway by which African product' of every kind
will reach the other continents. Of all African pro-
ducts slaves are popularly reckoned the most lucre-
aye article; and the transit of that commodity
through Algeria will have to be watched. For this
last consideration we have time before us. As to the
other, not a day's melanoma's can be permitted. The
American Government has just sent to Liberia a
cargo of recaptured negroes, who are no more at
home there than in South Carolina, and who might
just as easily have been sent to their homes, near
Labenda. While such helpless beings are sent to a
colony which is underfed and bare of work, and for
ever overflowed by a new deluge of hungry paupers,
while slavetreders and Imperial agents are hovering
round, to pick up a cargo of colonial immigrants at
so mach a had, to serve without wages and without
hope of return, it is the duty of England and her
true allies to see that there is no foul play that they
can prevent.

Ir is some comfort to think that we are quietly
getting through great part of the debate on the first
reading of the forthcoming Reform Bill, before the
meeting of Parliament. In the face of the eventualities,
as the French would say, that impend over the fate of
that measure, we had always made up our minds to
the painful necessity of hearing every Member of
Parliament deliver himself on the general features of
the (motion. The sad experience of many long dis-
cussions of aniverselly interesting subjects led us
early to foresee that the worst and most waste
portion of the talk-flood would seek vent for its
diffusive gush 1./ore, and not after, the details of
the measure Mies to be closely discussed, or the
practical sum ef the emstieting tendencies of the
plan could be emierately calculated or known.
After what we have witnessed on Budget nights,
, when the CIWICILLOR 111 the EXCHEQUER was down,
and sensible men were gone home, to ruminate
slowly the massthey had been forced to swallow whole,
we were prepared for any 'moult of slip-slop profes-
sions of fairness, platitudes about are for the in-
terests of all classes, and of circumspection and wish to
preserve the spirit of oar ancient institutions, upon
the introduction of the new Reform Bill. We
weld fain hope that the mild, and for the most part
=mowing commonplaces which we have been an-
esersing for the last three months may be permitted
to serve instead of a tire nights' desultory and in-
' eimempential debate on the ministerial motion for
leave to lay the long-looked-for project before the
House. We shall thus save time ; and on the seen
of humanity we ought really to be scared the in-
diction of such speeches as that of Mr. MURRAY
Donwe at Greenock the other day.
Ms too many others of the political melon to
which he belongs, the Member for Greenock seems
to be thinking only of the various objections that
may be urged to the Government scheme, whatever
that scheme may be. The timid and half-hearted
are told that Ministers may, in their wish to gain'
popularity, go farther in the way of franchise exten-
ass than was at first supposed. How far that may
be Mr. DUNLOP does not pretend to say; only he
begs all elderly gentlewomen to remember that he
told them beforehand it would be too far; and " too
far," of coarse, he is ready to vote it. But in a busy,
ambitious hive like Greenock there must of course
be a " good few" of a different political age and
sex, whose permission It is desirable for their mem-
ber to gain when he meditates doing a little faction.
Bo we have another ground of objection ready made,
namely, that no expansion of the household principle
would provide for the case of " clerks not settled
" down in life , and rising mechanics who might
" perhaps, be the very elite of their clams." How
very considerate and candid!

No plan that does not comprehend everybody who
ought to be comprehended, and which does not ex-
clude all who ought to be kept ont,will Mr. MURRAY
DUNLOP willingly vote for. How can he tall the
an occupation franchise fixed at U., or at any other
figure, would not leave out some individuals who
might perhaps be the very cream of their clam? and,
therefore, because this sensible man is not sure of hie
mouthful of crtam, he is ready to knock over the
pail that may hold some gallons of milk. There are
consistent and honest men who say, better have no
particular poundage named as a test, but let every
householder rated or liable to rates have the suf-
frage. If the liberal electors of the three kingdoms
were polled to-morrow, there is not a doubt that a
vast majority of them would dealer* in favour of
that which is called the municipal franchise, be-
cause with some reservations the present suffrage
in municipalities amounts pretty nearly to this. Let
nobody, however, suppose that the Scotch Palmeri-
touian who had just quitted the company of the
Duke of ARGYLL to meet his assembled constituents,
is by any means prepared to go in for the municipal
franchise in preferenoe to any other. Not at all:
he has heard daring his sojourn in England of ear-
-1 tain "soot and lot" voters (he forgets to say where)
who are very corrupt; and most liberally and logi-
eally he thence insinuates that a municipal franchise
would flood all innocent Scotland with the evils of
venality. Has the honourable gentleman never
heard of anything of the kind among the existing
class of Parliamentary electors north of the Tweed?
I
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Or m Jost or rational to argue from the fact, that
became in some dozen decayed and dingy boroughs
a few scare hangers-on of the old rotten system have
taken messy as voters by right of scot and lot, the
vast oemmunity resident in towns throughout the
United ffiagdoat who pay local and general taxes
are liable to the general suspicion of electoral ear.
raption ? As for the Ballot, that is of course des-
patch/4 in the usual hoity-toity style, and shrewd
IGreenock is asked to gulp the worn-out nonsense
about destroying the manly independence of Britons,
by allowing the poorer sort of them to vote for the
gut time in their lives as they please. Well, as we
WWII to have seek a speech against any and every
Reform Bill that is likely to be brought in next
session, we an glad to have it over; and we have
sly to beg that Mr. MURRAY Dustor may net
think it necessary some evening in February next to
go through the same performance from one of the
Opposition benches of the House of Commons.
We mast not omit to notice, however, symptoms
of an opposite kind which appear in other directions.
At Colchester last week Mr. OUILDON ARROW did
his best to set hisseelf right with his constituents on
affairs in general j sot knowing, of course, what ao-
admits might lie in the lap of the inscrutable future.
There is no mistake about the likings or leanings of
!be Member far Colchester. A fairer sample need
alt be leolted for of the thorough-going Whig per..

keep in his aseve a fur-
tive excuse for not keoping his word, that
he was satisfied the municipal franchise would be
the right thing, and that he meant to go for that.
Of coarse the people of Colchester liked him all the
better for not trying to shirk the question till Par-
liament should meet, in order that he might leave
himself free to be hustled into some party division,
el some topographical crotchet about redistribution
seat or the like. It is vain to conceal from our
that a deep-laid and deliberate plot is hatching
ill prevent any Reform Bill being oarried next year.
We shall have a great deal more to say upon this
subject ere long.

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and like

WU court.

WINDSOR, Nov. 19.

The Dachau of Kent (attended by Lady Anna
Marla Dawson and Sir Gawp Cowper) sad the Masts of
Leiningen, dined with her Majesty yeaterdsy. The Dena of
Windsor and the Has. Mr.. Wellesley bed the Laser of
being invited.

The Bond of the 2nd Life Guards woo In attendance In
the Cast* sad performed the

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The Queen, with Prinos Arthur end Prime Leopold,
walked In the grounds adistaing the Castle this morning.
The Prince Consort, .Graded by Colossi the Hon. Sir
Charles Phipps and Colonel the Hon. A. Hsrdingit, wont to-
day to Shoebusyness to wham MOON gun prootioe.

A Cabinet Connell was held yesterday at the official
residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in
Downing -street. The Ministers present were :—The
Earl of Derby, the Right Hon. B. Dimeli,the Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of
Hardwicke, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earle( Mal-
mesbary, Sir E. Balvrer Lytton, General Peel, Lord
Stanley, Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J.
W. Henley, and Lord John Manners.

Bir Anthony Rothschild had aa Ingerview with the Chan-
cellor of the Eschatpter. Praises, ALlezenel= the Astertows
Coatatissioner, had also en Lakeview with flee tight hoe. gen-
/ham yesterday, at his rellaW mama in Downing-skeet.
Despatches were received at the Colanisl-odioe yeitarday
from the Governors of the North Armin= Proving= and
the Governor of Yalta. Desgsgebes were sent to the
Governor of Hong-Hoag, Ceylon, snd the Mauritius.

(mom wan, Insay's oAzarrs.)

Arin-oinCn. Nov. 18.—ne Queen bee been gra-
-4°1•17= to live orders for the appoiatment oi Dr.
He
to be en Resorery Mambos of the Civil DM-
A= of the
Ater Third Clem, or Companions, of the Nun Honour-
AM of the Be&

FoasioN-orrica, Nov. 19.—The Quesa bas beea
=lto approve at liana Milroy litothatti* as Omag-
h' Leaaaa kr hit Majesty tie ito of Arias
at Mr. Hasty Mr. B. Brows to b. Coma at HAM. be all; Usage awes el anodes ; a.d of Kr. Bawd Rasta* as
Vito-Comal at Itaittatme tar Oa Sobs Osalldalatiaa.

ST. JAN is's PALACE, Noy. 16.—Tbo Qom has
been plowed, ca the neeetnetios of the Eight Hon. the Bari of
finsewebtury sad Whet, to appehet Frohnie Stooks Bendsy,
Esq., one of bee llejsetre Hanaggebie Cogs of Gentlemen-
et-trms, vies Charles Lockhart Itebetteen, , resigned.

Caows-orrics, Nov. 19.—Msueber returned to
eons in the present parliament : City of Maocheeter—
Theism Henley, . Seq., in the room of Bir John Potter,
Knight, deceased

The Prince Consort is sitting to Mr. Theed for a
color/4 boot, to be placed in the Wellington College.
Mr. Bally has been commissioned to execute a
marble bast a the Coteasender-in-Cblef.

The Record calla attention to the probability and
usdetirablenese of the Prince of Wales spending part of the
epprosehing tinter In Roan.

His Hilltuns' Totursoon Pacha, son of the
Wang of Rapt, accompanied by Su. Moms and Led,
Woratsgure, arrived at Dome oa Thursday evening. After
reamiting the night at the Royal Ship Rotel, the young prince
huh ea afictionata leave of Sir Moss and Lady
sod esabuted yesterday morning In the South Eastern
Balmy Geopeay's stsam•psckat the Queen of the Preach,
Ceplala Yardman, for Calais.

The Duke of Bedford is receiving a succession of
Meals at Woburn Abbey, Beds.

Lord and Lady Carrington and the Hon. Min
Carrington left Whitehall yesterday on a visit to the Dake of
Belford at Woburn Abbey.

. -
Sir Thomas and lady Fremantle entertained the
Right Hon. Sir John sad Lady Pakington and a Want
circle at dinner last evening, at the =union in Upper

Sir Joseph slid Lady H►wley have left the St.
Osorge's Hotel.

Mr. Gladstone, M.P., has passed through Berlin
on his Ws7 to the lonian Weeds.

We are glad to state that the Ladies Lacy and
Harriet Bridgernan are programing ea favourably es the
severe nature of thek Injuries admits of, and strong hopes
are entertained of the recovery of both the saffsrers. The
Berl of Bradford and Lord Newport are slightly Injured In
the hands, but well In health. Lady Newport is uninjured.
We (Maidstone Journal) regret to hare to an-
nounce the death. at the age of ten, of the youngest son of
Charles Wykshan Martin, Eq., M.P., w►ile pursuing hie
stadium at Eton. Hs was suffering from • Revere attack of
dipthsria, width, after • brief illness, resulte4 in death. The
sad *vest lee played his ferody into profound grief, ren-
dered mere pedgirst by the ocasideretion el the pronakdag
period of life at wide\ he had be.. all adt

_
Mr. Buckstone re-appears on Monday evening, at
kis 01.11 theatre, dew hie shout Mania( visit to Liverpool.
ilir W. Don and Lady Den saw endepti ger a limited number
of Witte, and will make their dust apparent* an the Hay-
market beard' on Howdy week.
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Mr. Aldridge has finished as engagement at Riga
amidst datecastratioaa of delight seek as ono* rewarded
Hailer or Togliatti, mune! by the plienliallOS of a silver
nugget front the Ural mountains by Pilaw llama. He
Is new on his trey to ISt. Petersburg, engaged to lodge at
the Czar's expense, to rids in the Caor's coach, end sppear
twelve time. at the 'export.' Theatre, at OM a night.
The effects of the late Mr. Harley, the favourite
cessielen, are announced for sale on Tateday and Wednes-
day nett. The collection of theatrical miscellanea is
latiosettag.

Mr. }faille's " SatansHa" is said to be reserved for
this opals( of th Coyest Gerdes season of English opera.
It is said that open in English it not to owe at
Drury-Yoe biomass Mies 1.. Prase sampaar Is about to
leave the theatre.

The preparations for the greet Handel Festival,
which is to be held at ftyclialtam la lane next, lave already
berm ; the atawereest, as last year, lying i• tba Sunda of
the flamed Harteoeic Society.

The New Musical Society is about to give grand
isaarta during the wawa, coadacted by Mr. Mellott, is boa-
Jomies with a chars' mined by Mr. Stuart.
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M. Meyerbeer's new work, without a chortle,
provisiosellp railed Ditiorah," has been put late study
at the Opera Coatique, Paris. M. Berlioz is said to have
Bawd nee greed opera en the Siege of Troy, for which he
►feesif ►as written the Libretto. M. David's Lett Does of
Hervideneepos Is in rammed se the Greed Opera.
Mr. Albert Smith arrived in London en ilanday
lama& alter an abeam of lora Yee beer maths, denser
whiekh perked he hr bees to Canine eon hack. lie is fa en-
Where Wink and spirits. Bekee in ileng-Itmg be
pme a ealcodoa fen hie Moat Diem imisnaiamme, ihr the
bank of the amiss par, Ned snigiatd for Yee upwards of
Mei. The resale sr that he was wird open ►y the
Mom, and bores la irimeirel preemie mon Ito eh,.

43ClikESS FROM PAXIS.
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PARIS, Famit
„Wpm
m The' eetbillitnent of a new bank pub*
works is thought to be a preliminary to the treat
lotion of M. Hauasmann, from the Prefecture of thel
&ins to the Ministry—an appointment which has
been long talked of. M. Heinemann enjoys the
especial confidence of the Emperor in regard to the
management of financial matters. The moat im-
portant clause in the decree of to-day is Article 7,
which empowers the new bank to issue paper,
" limited, however, by a resolution of the munici-
pality sanctioned by the Emperor." It must be
borne in mind that the municipality of Paris is
nominated by the Emperor.
Madame Magnan (the wife of the marshal), who
has been ill for the last two months, died this
morning from the 000sequenem of a typhoid fever.
Count Welewski, who had quitted Compiegne
for Paris, was bent for by a telegram from the Em-
peror, last night, in obedience to which he left the
Foreign-oMce this morning.
M. de Pair% the Portuguese ambassador, who
has been represented by a portion of the European
press as having arrived in Paris, is, I am told, indis-
posed in London, where he arrived from Lebon se
route for his post.
M. de Thoavenel, who arrived at Marseilles yes-
terday from Constantinople, proceeded to Mont-
pelier, where he will stay for a few days. He is
not expected in Paris till Nov. 26.

A letter from St. Omer mentions a rumour that
a camp of from 3,000 to 4,000 men will be formed
at Helfaut this winter.

The Bourse hag been in a fluctuating state. The
Rents closed with a rise of 10c. for cash, and a fall
of sc. for account at 74fr. 700. and 74fr. 800. Mo-
bilier fell 2fr. 50c. Railways were a shade lower,
but there was very little change.
Another sudden change of the weather has taken
place in Paris. The soft rain and mild temperature
of the last three days have given place to a sharp
frost, with a keen north-seat wind. These atm*.
spheric variations have oonsiderably affected the
public health, which bat the other day was so ex-
tremely good as to call for special remark, anti
there are now many cases of fever in the hospital.

THE ANGLO-SAXON.

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LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

The steamer Anglo-Sarno, from Quebec, Bth
instant, pawed Donaghadee at six o'olook this
morning. She is due to night.

THE UNITED STATES.

(TllOll Otll OFICIAL 00111SPONDINT.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.
To-day business is partially suspended; the courts
do not sit, and in every ward long rows of expectant
voters may be seen ranged along the side walk,
waiting their turn to deposit their ballots. Since
the police reform last year the elections have been
very peaceably conducted, though the two which
have occurred in the interval have been more than
usually exciting. A few years ago, even three
years ago, it was dangerous for any but a well-known
Democrat to approacn the polls. The police was in
the hands of the Mayor and the City Judge,both poli-
tical adventurers of the worst kind, and they inva-
riably refused to interfere in election disturbances.
The consequence was that the candidates on both
sides hired pugilists or fighting men of various
"arms," to protect their own supporters, but as the
gentlemen of the fist mostly belonged of late to the
Democratic party, the whip and their successors, the
Republicans, have generally had the worst of it.
The mode of proceeding adopted by "the physical
force " party was, early in the morning, to overturn
and smash all the booths erected by their opponents
for the distribution of the ballots containing the
names of their candidates; then to station a party
of men near each polling place, who threatened and
cuffed everybody who approached who was sus-
pected of belonging to the opposite side, besides
keeping up a series of sham battles amongst them-
selves all day, accompanied with prodigious bowl-
ing, to frighten away the timid and the decent.
The coup do grace was, however, reserved for the
evening. Every polling place which was suspected
of containing a majority for the other aide wee then
deliberately taken by assault, gutted, and the bal-
lots destroyed, or a large supply of the "right
ticket" introduced by main force. Even to those fami-
liar with the reminiscences which have oome down
to us of Irish elections in the good old days of the
40s. freeholders, this may seem an exaggeration;
but such is not the case.

What I have been relating occurred in the large
cities, and particularly in New York, as regularly as
the elections themselves. In fact, intimidation and
ballot-box smashing was organised at one time, not
very long ago, into • re system, under the
auspices of "Captain" Rynders, now United States
Marshal for the Southern District of New York,
under the Buchanan administration. This gentle-
man was president of a club of pugilists, gamblers,
and rowdies—ruffians of various kinds, who im-
plicitly obeyed his orders, and were present on all
public occasions. Before each election the various
candidates made offers for their services, and they
let themselves out to the highest bidder, very much
like the Free Companies in the Middle Ages. They
were about 600 or 700 in number, were known as
the "Empire Club," had their own watchwords,
were very thoroughly. drilled in their work,
and very well disciplined. Under the cap-
tain's directions they accordingly attended
the various polls, protected the voters of their em-
ployer, broke the heads of his opponents, smashed
ballot-boxes which they thought likely to tell against
him, and in fact left nothing undone, whether legal I
or illegal, to secure his return. This useful body
had for some time a very suoosssful career. The law
did not interfere, as most of its officers owed their
places to Rynder's instrumentality; but at lest the
public indignation became thoroughly roused.
Counter organisations were formed by the better'
class of American mechanics, who armed them-
selves, and threatened to exterminate the " Empire
Club." The latter thereupon vani.hed in thin air,
and its work has never ono, been attempted on so
great a scale. Greater efforts to preserve order, sad
make some approach to purity, have been made every
year, seder the pressure of the Slavery agitation, by
the better class of citizens. As long as the leading
political issues were not more exciting than the tariff,
or " federaliste," " respectable" people, and religious
people left polities and electioneering to the ruffians
and grog shopkeepers; but of late years the Anti-
Slavery crusade has elevated voting into the rank of
a religious duty. It is preached from the inoet,l
popular pulpits, and in the columns of the best jour-
nals, as ous of the first amongst the obligations of
the Christian. The feeling thus created has of
course been strengthened and intensified by the
border ruffianism in %Lune, and the abandoned pro-
fligacy of the present administration. The only
political questions of the day are also moral ques-
tions of the deepest interest, and a large number of
the clergy now exhort their people to go to the poll
as they do to attend the sacrament. The effect
is not only very great, but really very solemn.
I heard Henry Ward Beecher, on the Sunday night
before the I'M presidential election, addless an im-
mense audience upon their duties in the crisis
then pending, and can answer for ft that it would
be impossible for an audience even half as excitable
as an American one to have listened unmoved, when
he solemnly called upon the songregation. "as they
would answer for it at the lest day, to interpose
their ballots between the poor and the rich, between
the oppressor and the oppressed, between the strong

tuninntlie weak, ' uNke powerful and the helpless,
ber ' la not ie their prayers only,
bl 4 with their tf
The result et this been, that the "genteel"
cs have descend the arena, and have in-
s'' on protectiaa order at the polls. Since the
new police limits come into operation, the old ruf-
fianism has to a great extent disappeared ; voting is
'late and easy ; rows are rue, and immediately sup-
pressed ; and, altogether, I think a contested elec-
tion rarely occurs in any of your towns
now-a-days which can compare with those
of New York for quiet and order. To be rare! em
writing before this one is ever, and the next mail
may bring you news of a disturbance of some sort
before sunset; but I think I may prophecy that it
will be speedily suppressed. So far all has been
peaceable, and all the indications are strongly in
favour of signal victory for the Republicans. The
Democrats are divided up to the last moment into
innumerable coteries, and adhere with unshaken
fidelity to the President's Lecompton policy. I had
hoped to give you some of the results, but the Berton
mail closes two hours' earlier than hitherto, and the
steamer sails from there.

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