The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-17 00:00:00

THE BALLOT.

Mr. LEA.TIIAIki then rcs3 to call the attention of the
house to the expediency of taking votes by ballot at Par-
liameutary elections. He said the necessby for the ballot
was now more apparent than ever, and o thought that
no set of gentlemen would sit on the Government
benches for the next twelvemonths that did not adopt
the ballot as a Government question. The ballot was
neither an experiment nor innovation, and it had been
adopted by all free nations, the exception bAng that it was
still objected to by Russia, Turkey, and England, and
the time had now come that it b: came actually urg nt
that the ballot should be adopted in this country. He
should be met, doubtless, with the objection that the
ballot was un-English, but he had turned up a case in
which in times gone by a member hail) Jett returned by
the ballot. The right hon. gentleman then read the ex-
tract iu question, and contended that he could not under-
stand t e great objection that was mad to the ballot.
That corruption existed was unfortunately too true, and
they wore continually trying, up stairs, to wash their hands
clean, yet that they never succeeded in cluing, and never
would as long as they set their faces against the
adopt-on of the ballot. In one of the committees that had

sat, one of the witnesses, a most important one, said that
in places where the ballot was ad pted elections had
come as quiet as funerals. (Laughter.) The hon. gentle-
man concluded by moving, "That it be an instruction
to the select committee appointed to inquire into thc pre-
seLt mode of conducting elections, to take into considera-
tion the various methods of taking votes by I.tt:lot, which
are at present in use in portions of the Briti:ll e.topire, and
in cy her countries, together with any modttleation thereof
which might be suggested, and to report upon the most
efficient and convenient system of balloting."
After criticisms from Sir 11. Bulwer, Mr. Scourfield, Mr.
C. Weguelin, Lord F. Cavendish, Mr. Chadwick, Sir F.
CressleY, and Mr. Gladstom-, the motion was withdrawn.
Leave was given to Mr. GotenEN to introduce a bill to
amend the Metropolitan Poor 1867.
On the motion of Mr. Secretary BRUCE, the Committee
on Parliamentary and Municipal Elections was nominated.
The Party Pi ocessions Bill, which stood for second read-
ing, was briefly discussed, and adjoirned until Wednes-
day (to-day), on division, by 113 to 70 votes.
The house then adjourned.

LuNDON GAZLUTE-LAST EVENING

WAR-OFFICE, PALL IIALL, MARCH 16.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—General the Right

Eon. Hugh Lord Stratbnairn to be Colonel.
Ist Regiment of Diagoous—Major-Genoral Charles Ain-
..

slie to he Colonel.
60th Regitneet of Foot--:Tield Marshal his Royal High-
ness George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cam-
bridge, K.G., G.C.8., K.P., G.C.M.G., to be Colonel-in-
Chief.
3d Dragoon Guards—Cornet Arthur Coat 4, has been per-
mitted to retire from the service. •
Ist Dragoons—Cornet Shireburn %Veld has been permitted
to retire from the service.
Bth Hussars—Captain Thomas Bowen, from the 6th Foot,
to be Captain.
18th Hussars—Lieutenant Henry Howard to be Captain,
Cornet Edward Nolan to be Lieutenant, Quartermaster-
Sergeant Geore Rumsey to be Cornet.
20th Hussars—Ensign William Irwin, from the 104th Foot,
to be Cornet.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieuteuant-Cllonel Wm.
Hatch to be Colonel ; Captain George Brown to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel; Second Captain William Cumberland
to be Captain ; Lieutenant Ross Lewis to be Second
Captain ;. Lieutenant John Alexander to be Second
Captain.
Royal Engineers—Lieut-Colonel Henry Freeling, Super-
numerary List, to be Lieut.-Colonel; Captain John
Wilson to be Lieut.-Colonel; Captain Joshua Smith to
be Lieut.-Colonel, Second Captain Walter Campbell to
be Captain ; Lieut. George Collings-to •be Second Cap-
tain ; Lieut. Richard Buckle to be Seconded on appoint-
ment as Assistant Surveyor-General at Hong Kong.
The undermentioned Lieutenants omployed in the
Public Works Department in India to be placed on the
Seconded List: George Robert Walker, William Robert
Purellas.
Grenadier Guards—Lieut. Henry Legh to be Adjutant.
6th Foot—Captain Frederick Helyar to be Captain ; Lieut.
James Fitzgerald to be Captain : Ensign itietutrd Mere-
dith to be Lieutenant; Ensign Andrew Macpherson to
be Ensign.
7th Foot—Lieut. Geoffry Barton to be Adjutant.
9th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Isaac lloysted to be Assis-
tant-Surgeon.
11th Foot—Major Thomas Peebles to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, Captain Richard Maunsell to be Major, Lieu-
tenant John Trotter to be Captain, Ensign Charles Man-
sergh to be Lieutenant, Ensign Thomas Lewis to be
Lieutenant, Charles Frederick Morgan to be Ensign,
Lieutenant Edward Baskerville to be Instructor
of
Musketry.
14th Foot—Lieutenant Herbert Woodland to be Adjutant
17th Foot— Ensign Lawrence Hussey to be Lieutenant,
Henry Morris to be Ensign, William Clarke to be
Ensign.
20th Foot—Lieutentint Charles Webster to bo Captain,
Ensign Robert Woolley to be Lieutenant, Charles Ilinde
Lieutenant,
27th Foot—Ens
to be Ensign,ißgnoberrt DhiliepnusitsaituofobretiEi Ensign.
`27th
be
Ensign Bromley to be Ensign.
34th Foot—Lieut.. Edward Vanrenen to be Lieutenant,
Thurlow Dowling to be Ensign.
41st Foot—Ensign Foster Wade to be
Ensign.
42d Foot—Ensign Nicholas Brophy to be Lieutenant ;
Andrew Stevenson to be Ensign,
Ensign Edward
Edward Thornton to be Lieutenant;
49th Foot Lieut. Edwin Fenu to be Captain ; Ensign
Dickson to be Ensign.
Welter Can-
Gilb-rt Bidduiph to be Lieutenant ;
52.1 Poet—Lieut. William Blakeney to be Captain ; En-
signel:ffe to be Ensign.
4'
54th Foot - Ensign Harris Drown to Le Lieutenant; James
Wedderburn to be Ensi n.
59th Foot—Ensign
Foot—Ensign Gerald Paterson to be Lieutenant;
Shirley Apthorp to be Ensign.
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Alexander Morison to he Ensign.
75th Foot -Lieutenant Donald Mucqueen to be Instructor
of Musketry.
831 Fo,,t —Ensign James Bell to be Ensign ; Ensign Chas.
Hind° to be Ensign.
94th Font =Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick R. Mein to be
Li.,u•enant-Colonel.
Ist Neat India Regiment—Lieutenant Joseph Smith to be
Adjuu.nt.

ADMIRALTY, MARCII 12.
The undermentioned officers have this day been pro-
moted to the rank of Engineer in. her Majesty's Fleet,
with seniority of 6th March, 1869:—Mr. John William
Owen, and Mr. Thomas Hunter.
John Ellis Knight, Esq., has been promoted to the rank
of Staff Commander in her Majl.stes Fleet.