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London, England, 1832-07-09 00:00:00

the Germans in favour of their own great work.
We do not impute trachery to the King of Hol-
-1 land
1 li in this new attempt to disappoint the fair
adjustment of a question, by which the peace
and happiness of Europe have been so immi.
nently endangered and disturbed. But on the
p trt of France, were she to catch at such a
scheme, as on that of Russia and Prussia, were
they to connive at it, there would be the grossest
and most monstrous perfidy.—Times.
We are highly gratified to observe the imme-
(Fate and spirited exertions made by the old and
the new liberal constituency throughout the
United Kingdom to secure honest and able re-
presentatives. There appears no want, save
that of fitting candidates, willing to incur the
labour and responsibility of the Reformed Re-
presentation. With infinite pleasure also we
hear, from all quarters, the determination of the
electors to abolish unnecessary expenditure, and
to terminate the old corrupt arts and despicable
electioneering devices of the late boroughmongers.
On no other terms, indeed, will the electors find
I men willing to serve them. The new constituency,
especially, ought to adopt a rigid determination
to support no candidate who dares, to approach
them with the profound qualification of money
expenditure. The electors should oppose any
man, whatever his declared principles, who
resorts to his purse as the means of obtaining his
return. The ultimate benefits of the great mea-
sure of Reform can be achieved on no other
principle. The Tories make a great parade
of their Conservative Treasury,—of their
" bags of money,"—their voluntary sub-
criptions for their electioneering tools—and
their determination to make a " bullion" contest
of the ensuing election. We do not credit a
word of this braggadocio ; and, if true, it is
manifest that this system will soon bring its own
cure. Lord Eldon and Company were never
so remarkable in spending pro Bono publico as
for hoarding to their own private advantage.)
We know that the Dorsetshire election gave
them a surfeit, and strong symptoms of cramp.
The spirited exertions of no town affords us
more pleasure than those of the independent
electors of Stamford. 'We insert a report of
their proceedings, partially abridged from the
Stanford News. The address of Mr. Gre-
gory, a tried Warwickshire Reformer, is one of
the most specific and concise statements of poli-
tical opinions yet put forth by new candidates.
The attention of the whole country will be di-
rected to the result of the Stamford contest. But
we cannot imagine that the Marquess of Exeter
will continue his expensive and hopeless attempts
to swamp the representation of his native town.
We are at a loss to account for the perverse
view entertained by the aristocracy of their real
interests. Will they never, in any country, open
their eyes ? Will they blindly rush on self-
destruction ? And are they determined to
hasten that ultimate collision with the people
and the House of Commons, which all far-sighted
men discern in no distant perspective, from the
inevitable and destructive consequences to the
Constitution which a blind aristocracy must oc-
casion ? Stamford and Warwick will be the
great test of the early necessity of the ballot, and
the Peers most inimical to the ballot seem ob-

stinately bent on its immediate obtainment.
The extent to which the inhabitant house-
holders entitled from their rent to vote, will be
disfranchised, through the corrupt jobbing of
parochial functionaries, is known, we believe, to
few of our readers. The evil is crying, and some
attention ought to be paid to the suject before
it be too late. We shall illustrate this by a
reference to the parish of Greenwich, which is
not perhaps in a worse state than other metro-
politan parishes, but in which the corrupt doings
of the parochial functionaries have just been
traced, with singular diligence and acuteness, by
a very able individual in that parish, Mr. Badger,
a surveyor, in Blackheath-road, to rvhom his
fellow-parishioners are very greatly indebted.
By the Reform Act, no person occupying pre-
mises in a city or borough of the yearly value of
10/. shall be entitled to vote in the election of a
Member for such city or borough, unless such
person shall have been rated for such premises

to all poor-rates, nor unless the poor-rates and
assessed taxes due on or before the 6th of April,
shall have been paid on or before the 20th of
July. Greenwich, like most parishes, is, with
with respect to its poor, &c., under a Local
Act. Under this Act, the Vestry are empowered
to farm houses, rented under 101., at a rate cor-
responding to one-half of the rent; and houses
rented from 101. to 151. at a rate corresponding
to two-thirds of the rent. The object of this
power was to facilitate the collection of the rates
on low-rented houses, by giving the landlord a
fair consideration for his taking the risk and
trouble on himself. This was, of course, well
it:tended ; but Englishmen, from the highest to
the lowest, are too familiar with jobbing, not to
avail themselves of every opening through which
advantage can be gained. The Senior Church-
warden and other influential men in the Vestry
soon turned the liberty to farm to a very dif7

rercnt account from that which was contemplated
)3, the framers of the Act. They discovered in

it the means of exempting their own properties
from rates, by which an increased burden was
thrown on the properties of others. By becoming
extensive farmers of rates, an immense number of

houses of the value of 101. and upwards, are not
rated to the occupants, who are thereby disfran-
chised. According to the returns to the Parlia-
mentary Commissioners, there are in the parish
of Greenwich,
1,366 houses at 10/. and upwards rated ;
944 rated at less than 101., but of the value of 10/.

2,310 houses giving the elective franchise.
But of the above 944 houses of the value of
101., no fewer than 550 are farmed, and, conse-
quently, the occupants not being rated, can have
no vote. By way of showing the use that may
be made of farming by those who wish to re-
duce the electors to a manageable nwmber, we
shall
notice what has been done in Greenwich
already.
The whole number of houses charged in the

rate books ie 3,880
Of the above there are farmed 1,901

Being nearly a moiety 1,979
This operation of ffirming will be extended
of course, if not checked, when the motive of
Parliamentary management is added to the
natural desire which has hitherto been so power-
:ul, to cheat the parish. We may observe that
:he expos" of Mr. Badger on Friday last, at a
meeting of the rate :payers, will probably check
the career of the parish governors for the present.
1 committee of fifteen, with the Rev. Mr. Mat-

thews, the vicar, at the head, were appointed to
irquire into and report, within a fortnight, the
,tale of things in the parish. But other parishes,
we doubt not, are in the same situation. Ves-
ries and other parochial bodies must be deprived
it' all discretionary power of the nature of that
which we have alluded. We cannot
use these remarks without adding a few
taiticulars, illustrative of the motives of the