The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-27 00:00:00

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EVERY EVENING, at Eight.
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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1864.

Mr BERKELEY has long been the acknowledged
champion of one of the most important of political
reforms, and to judge from his brief letter to a con-
temporary the other morning, he has no intention
of abandoning his position. If he is again among
the members of the Legislature, " it is his intention
to again unfurl the old banner, and do his nest to
rally our 200 ballot members to the old war cry—
abella vindex tacitce libertatis." The next election
will, no doubt, give him plenty of illustrations of
the evils of the present system, for Exeter, he de-
clares, is but a type of what will occur in every
contest, and certainly we have all seen enough of
the usual effects of a general election to
be able very readily to fill in the outlines.
There is not much hope that the opponents
of the Ballot will be convinced by anything they
may hear or see, by any amount of bribery, corrup-
tion, and intimidation. There have been revelations
startling enough to shake the most resolute convic-
tion, spectacles sufficiently humiliating and painful
to oveithrow the most obstinate prejudice. But the
poet tells na that

• A man convinced against his will,
Is of the sane opinion still;
and we have not yet got to the length of obtaining
even apparent assent. Our opponents still prefer
to regard these various election mal-practices as
especially " English," and therefore to be cherished
by every national well-wisher. There is no line
of argument more convenient and more inez,
hanstible than an intangible one. It is so easy to
affix an epithet or to declaim in general phrases, and
so difficult to fight against an " idea." The vision-
ary opponent is not to be beffio.d. You may attack
him with argument, illustration, and remonstrance;
you may exhaust all the powers of logic and rhe-
toric to prove him in the wrong, and he starts
up again, answering you with the old cry 1: It
is un-English." It is quite impossible to answer
this accusation, seeing that nobody has hitherto
defined exactly what it means, and therefore its
advocates can easily shift their ground when ne-
cessary. If it means that Englishmen are not
ashamed of their conduct at elections, we can only
reply that they ought to be, and it would be more
to their credit if they were. If it means that all
that is now done in election times is perfectly
fair and open, that is so perfectly well known to be
contrary to actual facts, that it is no wonder sensi-
ble men are glad to disguise such meaning in vague ,
terms. If it means that the lower classes would be
affronted by the Suspicion of beirg afraid to vote
openly, that is a stigma that a large portion of them
are bearing now, and it is no disgrace to them to
a protection which does not compel
grant them
them to hold their tongues.
They may speak of
their votes as they will, and
canvassing will not
to. In the clubs, which are
altogether be put a stop
fashion, votes
condneed on this very "un-English"
and interest are frequently solicited sad pro.
prised, but a member is not obliged to affront
his friend by openly putting in the black ball
against his candidate. Lord PALMERSTON, indeed,
thinks so highly of the honour of the man who
takes a ten pound note for his vote that he thinks
the system of bribery will still be carried on, as
agents can bribe the voters beforehand, and of
course they will keep to their word The same
obligati6n, he thinks, applies to the relief from