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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING‘ DECEMBER 6) 1856.

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INTERESTING CHRISTMAS PRESENT.
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TIIIE LIFE and CORRESPONDENCE of
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•
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;and
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CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West
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Lion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor
afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167,
Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted
at the Brompton Establishment, for one month, and for a longer
period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per-
sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for
the last three years about 400 cases each year. Since the foundation
of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every
form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this
Charity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa-
tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application
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BY order.

W. J. COCKERILL, Secretary.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Patron—The Q LIE EN.—Pounded 1828.
on
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their
o ownorer appli for admission
cation alone is here required. The sick poor are admitted
During the past month the following number received the benefits
of this Charity, either as out or in-door patients, on their personal
ipplication :
Week ending 7th October.• ...... 2,188
Ditto 14th 0ct0ber........
2,162
Ditto 21st October .....• • • 2,075
Ditto 28th 0ct0ber....,. • • 2,241 29th, 30th, and 31st October . . 1,014

the remainder (still under treat-
--___
Total in October
.. 9680
mefewnth)tcbhav3h,
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sive relief. The Committee, therefore, earnestly entreat the aid of
the public. i3gob3eweneraedmnietwtedcapsre:v'iously.
The management of the Hospital is in the hands of 30 Governors,
yearly elected from the general list of subscribers, at the annual
~,, dependent on volun-
General Meeting in January. A Board is held every Thursda,
4 o'clock (Rev. J. B. Owen, Chairman), to conduct the •
givir- _
ward being s'
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suggestions
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The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholl-- _
K explanation. at
tarp contributions and legacies, which at',
John Masterman, Esq., M.P., Nichol eceived by the Treasurer,
and Co. ; Drummond and Co.; .45-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts
Prescott, Grote, and Co. : - sterries and Co.; Ransom and Co ;
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,41Jrg (Or the destitute patients will be thanktblly received.
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THE BALLOT IN HOLLAND AND

SARDINIA.

We have been requested by the Vice-Chairman
of the Vote by Ballot Society—E. C. Whitehurst,
Esq.—to giro publicity to the following communi-
cations, received by them in answer to the queries
contained in them. We may add that the two
gentlemen whose names appear below are influen-
tial members of the Chambers of the Legislatures
of their respective Companies :

SIR, —I have great pleasure ilizfrieTpElyßiDnAgmt'o Nyoouvr"leltBtso6; of
18th October. containing the que3tions that the ballot
society wished you to propose to me, viz.:—
let. If the ballot was adopted in Holland with the ob-
ject of securing secresy and independence of voting, to
tenants, shopkeepers, debtors, and to any class that might
be placed in a dependent position.
2d. If the plan adopted has bean found effectual to secure
to the elector the liberty and independence required.
And, lastly, Any further information that I might be
able to give you.
As regards the desires and motives which guided our
Legislature in the establishment of our electoral law, and
their real existence, I have not the leastdoubt. In order to
convince myself I have reviewed everything that took place
regarding the electoral law, as well among the Government
as in committees and public discussions of the " States
General."
To strengthen my opinion I propose quoting several
facts, extracted fresh official documents, which prove, in
the most evident manner, that the wish
of our whole Le-
gislature was to render voting as free as possible, and to
afford the elector the means of sheltering himself from all
extraneous influent°, and to keep himself independent.
The "Royal Commission," established 17th March,
1848, "to consider and point out any improvements pos-
sible in our political institutions," reporte as follows :
" We are convinced that, in order to preserve the Nether- '
lands with its constitutions!. Monarchy, our institutions
require from our citizens, before and above all things, a co-
operation widely differing, and infinitely More comprehen-
sive than it has yet received. No Constitution can create
the necessary political spirit and will, bat it can crush
theta, or, on the other band, excite and nourish them.
The fundamentAl law created the, popular strength, now it
must apply itself to the tacit of causing it to circulate
through every vein of the State." .And, again—" The
people were not aware till now that they might partici-
pate in the government. Yet without this knowledge the
State does not rest upon the national strength, and with-
out a rational strength strongly developed from this day
no Government can be preserved. This knowledge is given
to the people by a true and simple representation in .tbe
affairs of the Communes, the Provinces, and the State."
Mr. Thorbecko, )Minister of the Interior, on the "Elec-
toral Laws" in the Second Camber, said—.." The end of
the law is, to render as far sin its power every vote in-
dependent, and only governed by the feelings of the elec-
tor with regard to public affairs. ,
A Member of the Legislative Government, Mr. Costerns,
proposed Its an amendment, " to declare null and void the
votes of electors who had signed their voting papers," and
although the Government was of opinion that it was un-
just to punish the elector by depriving him of his vote,
because he had had the openness, by signing the voting
paper, to declare for whom he had voted, yet the amend-
ment was carried by 36 to 30. As it is important to show
that this triumph was not only due to the principle which
influenced the whole law, that is to say, that it was above
all things necessary to maintain the independence of the
elector by protecting him from every possible influence, I
will quote the principal arguments adduced duringe
debate. Mr. Costerus says :—" The late Godernment de-
clared, and many members have repeated, that ' the prin-
ciple of the law is secret voting, that sect et voting is the
safeguard of direct election ; ' and, after having set forth
at great length abuses which may occur, and which are
known to every one, finished by saying—" But is it not
possible that we may have seasons of political schisms and
parties, in which a self-constituted public opinion may
proclaim as saviours of the country certain individuals, and
that all who do not join in this popular chorus may be .
branded as infamous—seasons in which the pressure of
terror may destroy all energy—where then remains the
real free will of the people ?"
Another member, Mr. Van Ysett, lays :—" In times
of popular excitement, the signing Of the voting papers
might produce abuses, because an influential person
might, by compelling the voter to sign in his presence, di-
rect the vote, the voter not daring to alter the signature
for fear of detection at the opening of the ballot box
(l'Urne Electorale).
Au amendment of Mr. Lotsy, to the effect that " any
elector who might be prevented personally inserting his
vote in the box should be allowed to vote by sending his
voting paper, and a statement that it enclosed his vote,
signed by a notary before two witnesses, was rejected by
53 to 7, for the following reasons—
let. That the possession of wealth allowing personsto
absent themselves from the ballot box, an inequality would
arise between citizens called on to fulfil a civic duty.
2d. That the fact of the possession of wealth freeing its
owner from the trouble of going to vote would produce a
class of pretenders who, while keeping their money in their
pockets, would avoid voting to giye themselves the appear-
ance-of wealth, and "deprive' the box of their vote to appear
remarkable.
3d. That by enclosing the voting paper in the signed
statement, the opportunity of introducing several papers
would be given, and the scrutineers deprived of the power
of knowing that each elector only inserts one paper in the
box.

4th. That this amendment would only benefit those who
were able and willing to pay the expense of the witnessed
envelope, and would afford no remedy to those who, though
prevented attending personally by equally powerful rea-
sons, were unable or unwilling to incur the expense.
sth. The minister said—" That no man, however rich,
should be ashamed of appearing at the place where his duty
as a citizen requires him to deposit his vote. All this proves
that every class of our Legislature has been influenced by
the desire and wish of givin gto every elector the greatest
possible independence in voting, and to shelter him as far
as the law allows from all extraneous influence.
As regards the question, if such regulations have been
found to guarantee the required " liberty and indepen-
dence," let us consult the experience of six years. To com-
mence. The law has secured to every elector, however de-
pendent he may be in the relations of life, the means of
rendering himself entirely free from the influence of any
one in the exercise of his right of voting ; and this is
proved by the fact of the law allowing him the means of
procuring a fresh voting paper ally time that any influence
whatever may have compelled him to fill one up against his
free will, so that an elector is enabled to satisfy the wishes
of the influencing agent by showing him a paper filled up
in the name he requires, while it is in his power to depo-
sit in the box another signed after his own wish, without
the possibility of the exchange being known by the agent.
This precaution of the law is also a powerful remedy
against corruption, because, presuming that either party
is desirous of bribing, there can be no security that the
elector who has sold his vote to one person will not sell it
again, perhaps, to several others, and finish by voting his
own way, as being compelled personally to attend to de-
posit his vote he can always find means of exchanging the
papers. Thus, by rendering the success of bribery doubt-
ful, the corruptor is reduced to the influence of colloquial
persuasion only, which, as it way be exercised for good as
well as evil, is a lawful weapon. But although the law
has duly provided means for the elector to free himself
from extraneous influence, it is no less true that influences
are still applied, and sometimes with effect; but this is
not the fault of the Legislature, but of the citizen who
yields himself up to them. It is a human failing which
the development of national feeling, and the knowledge of
his rights as a citizen, ought to remedy. The education
of the ?Wawa is a distinct question—it is enough that the
law points out the way of doing right, and as far as pos-
sible prevents the possibility of doing wrong. Besides,
the good sense of the people remedies these abuses, if cir-
cumstances should produce them. We have a recent in-
stance of this in the Low Countries. When in 1853, after
the dissolution of the Second Chamber, the clergy had
succeeded in producing a panic among the voting classes
on the question "Of the Erection of Catholic Bishoprics,"
a sufficient number of "anti-bishops" were returned to give
the new Ministry a majority in the Chambers ; but at the
re-election of the half of the " Second Chamber," in July
last, the good sense of the nation being convinced that
behind the cry of " Epise,ophobia" some political end was
concealed, and that the " Reactionary Party" had only
made use of " religion" as a shield for their political
views, all the rejected Liberals were again elected; and,
on the other hand, five of the " Reactionists." were thrown

Another significant fact is, that Ate. Thorbecke, our
Premier in 1853, whom the " Reactionary Party" were
enabled to defeat, was re-elected in two districts, one of
which Maestriclit,r(for which ho had sat before), was Catho-
lic, and the other, " Derenter," Protestant.
We find, I think, a further proof that the elections are
influenced by the state of the education of the electors, in
the fact that, in the districts where they return usually
Liberal members, the national feeling is generally much
further advanced in " Liberalism." in its widest accepta-
tion, political, religious, or commercial, than in those
where they return " Reactionists," or at least " Sta-
tionists,," who do not agree with the motto of our Libe-
rals, " Progress by means of free Development,"
Another drawback, which must also be attributed to the
passions of man, and not to the spirit of the electoral law,
is occasioned by the " periodical press." The influence of
the press has frequently, and with great justice, been de•
nounced as injurious to the system of " free voting," be-
cause the elector is not always enabled to estimate at their
groat value the plots and arguments of journals, who gene-
rally admit in their columns only opinions analogous to the
politics of their own party. This ispeculiarly the C 330 in our
country, because in none of our large towns are there more
than one or two journals, and these seldom publish an honest
and enlightened controversy, but generally blindly and ob-
stinately maintain their individual theories, instead of ho-
nestly endeavouring to, assist the public mind to establish
the principle of common sense by just and logical conclu-
sions. With you, from the advanced state of your press,
the same inconvenience cannot exist.
The schemes of party and the abuse of the press have in- '
duced the honest opponents of our electoral systas-
hive that by the new system of election not,- -se to be-
except,patty who assume
tohfa tbetihnegneahtoiosentli Si, put s -`aeg is gained
greater eipettd,
known as "the aristocr- well•being of Society, and
and that tpeirnhsatepasd,
to be most interested in the
forward and sic party, we are now brought
other by peer."
~,t by parties es-effort against each
chance, P. _filar and selfish motives, to either of which
of f^• salter by lucky circumstances, or the result
4 .tunate combinations, may give the victory. Rut
so this I have only to reply, that though the practical
result may be the same, yet the original difference is
palpable---in the first case, if evil arises, it is produced
systematically by one party always interested in the
business; while in the other case, it originates in instru-
ments, divided by interests which compel them to act,
and only possessing accidental, and not permanentjhorests
to influence the body of electors.
This difference is the more striking, as in one supposi-
,tion it remains fixed, permanent, and exposed to the sel-
fishness of a party; while in the other it fluctuates amidst
a thousand various interests, and only requires to be ex.
plairied and recoguieed to be Appreciated by good sew..

It is, moreover, an advantage that, accidental, though it
may be, it yet only requires the education of the citizens
to become firni and lasting, by elevating the elector above
the plots had passiond of Meth to the position which the law
has given him.
But if the Press sometimes abuses its power, it is only
fair to say that it almost invariably points out secret de-
signs (Menet:o which from that moment are counteracted
by public opinion, and very often prevented by the officers
of justice, who dare not put themselves above the public
voice, whatever may be their personal opinions.
In sunihning up, then, the abuses which experience
shows us to exist in our elections, we find it existing with-
out and in spite of the law, which affords the means of free-
dom, and leaves to the education and good sense of the
citizen the charge of raising him to the elevation of his civic
duty, and to preserve him from any influence hostile to
his conscience.
By the opportunity afforded of changing the voting paper
at pleasure, by the clause in the law which enacts that
every elector must himself place his paper in the box, as
well as by the means which the scrutineers publicly use to
satisfy themselves that no one can insert more than one
paper at a time, or vote more than once (the name of each
voter being recisbred as soon as ho has voted), the law has
endeavoured Co satisfy all the requirements necessary to
assure independence to electors, and to insure a secrecy in
voting which can only be violated at the will of him who
places the voting paper in the box.
With thess remarks I hope I have replied to your ques-
tions, at least I have done so to the best of my ability • if
there are other points under discussion, if you will
refer
them to me I shall be equally happy to reply. If it is more
convenient to you to write in English, pray do so, as I
understand it perfectly ; only I must beg to be allowed to
reply in French, as that language is more familiar to ale.
J. M. JANCLAIS.

Miles
opened.
1856.

26%
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203%
388
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286%

637
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28
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