The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-16 00:00:00

THE BALLOT.

Mr. LEATHAM then rose to call the attention of the
house to the expediency of taking votes by ballot at Par-
liamentary elections. tie said the necessity for the ballot
was now more apparent than ever, and Lo thought that
no set of gentlemen would sit on the Governtuent
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 being that it was
still objected to by Prussia, Turkey, and Eugland, and
the time had nosy come that it became actually urgent
that the ballot should be adopted in that 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 m 'tuber had boon retu rued by
the ballot. The right hon. gentleman then read the ex-
tract in question, and contended that ho could not under-
stand t e great ol,j .ction that was made to the ballot
That corruption existed was unfortunately too true, and
they were continually trying, up stairs, to wash their hands
clean, yet that they never succeeded in doing, 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 be-
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 the pre-
sent mode of conducting elections, to take into considera-
tion the various methods of taking votes by ballot, which
are at present in use in portions of the British empire, and
in other countries, together with any modification thereof
which might bo suggested, and to report upon the most
efficient and convenient system of balloting."

(LEFT SITTING.

LUNDON GAZETTE-THIS EVENING

WAR-OFFICE, PALL MALL, MARcil 16.
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards —General the Right
Hon. Hugh Lord Strathnairn to be Colonel.
IA Regiment of Dragoons—Major-General Charles Ain-
slie to be Colonel.
60th Regiment of Foot—Field Marshal his Royal High-
ness George William Frederick Charles, Duko of Cam-
bridge, K.G., G.C.8., K.P., G.C.M.G., to be Colonel-iu-
Chief.
3d Dragoon Guards—Cornet Arthur Coats, has been per-
mitted to retire from the service.
Ist Dragoons—Cornet Shireburn Weld 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 bo Lieutenant, Quartermaster-
Sergeant Geore Rumsey to be Cornet.
20th Hussars -Ensign William Irwin, from the 104th Foot
to be Cornet. ,

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant-Colonel Wm.
Hatch to be Colonel; Captain George Brown to beiLieu-
teuant-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 Lists 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 ba Second Cap-
tain ; Lieut. Richard Buckle to be Seconded on appoint-
ment as Assistant Survey or-General at Hong Kong.
The undermentioned Lieutenants employed in the
Public Works Department in India to be placed on the
Seconded List: George Robert Walker; 'William Robert
Purchas.
Grenadier Guards—Lieut. Henry Legh to be Adjutant.
Gth Foot—Captain Frederick Helyar to be Captain ; Lieut.
James Fitz Gerald to be Captain ; Ensign Richard Mere-
dith to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Andrew MacPherson to
be Ensign. A •
7th Foot—Lieut. Geoffry Barton to be Adjutant.
9th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Isaac Hoysted 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 Many
Bergh 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 bo Adjutant.
17th Foot—Ensign Lawrence Hussey to be Lieutenant,
Henry Morris to be Ensign, William Clarke to bo
Ensign.
20th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Webster tcohbareCaptain,
Ensign Robert Woolley to be Lieutenant, le
to be Ensign, Robert Dennis to beEnsign.
27th Foot—Ensign Philip Stainf ort ito be Lieutenant,
Ensign Bromley to be Ensign.
'34th Foot—Lieut. Edward Vanrenen to be Lieutenant,
Thurlow Dowling to be Ensign.
Ensign.
41st Foot—Ensign Foster Wadetobe
to bei
lieutenant ;
I 42d Foot—Ensign Nicholas, Brophy .
Andrew Stevenson to be g
Fenn nio be Captain ; Ensign
49th Foot -Lieut. Edwin 1..
Fe
Edward Thornton to be Lieutenant; Ensign Edward
Dickson to be Ensign.
52d Foot—Lieut. William Blakeney to be Captain ; En-
sign Gilbert l3iddulpli to be Lieutenant ; Walter Cun-
chub to be Ensign.
54th Foot—Ensign Harris Brown to be Lieutenant; James
Wedderburn to be Ensign.
59th Foot—Ensign Shirley Apthorp to be Ensign.
64th Foot—Ensign Gerald Paterson to be Lieutenant;
Alexander Morison to be Ensign.
75th Foot—Lieutenant Donald Macqueen to be Instructor

- of Musketry.
83d Foot—Ensign James Bell to be Ensign ;Ensign Chas.
Hinds to be Ensign.
94th Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick R. Mein to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.
let West India Regiment—Lieutenant Joseph Smith to be
Adjutant.