The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-03 00:00:00

EIIIE LONDON.—S AW Y E R'S famous
LONDON DINNER, consisting of two soups, two
sh, two entrees, joints, two sweets, cheese, and salad, at a
fixed charge of 2s. 6d. (attendance, 3d.), is served from'Two
till Eight in the spacious Saloon.
In the Coffee-room, Dinners from the joint, with vegetables,
cheese, and salad, ls. 6d. (attendance 3d.), and soup, fish, en-
trées, &c., a la carte, are served from One till Nine o'clock.
Ladies' Private Rooms and Dining Saloons. Spacious and
well-ventilated Wine, Coffee, and Smoking Saloon.
An extensive and carefully selected stock of Rhenish, Mo-
selle, and other Wines, imported expressly for the London
Dinner. Open on Sundays from Four till Nine.
F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street.

THE QUEEN'S HOTEL, Queenstown.—Mr.
ROBERT WILSON respectfully apprises tourists and
families visiting this delightful watering-place, the air of
which is famed throughout Europe, that the splendid esta-
blishment so well known as the•" Queen's Hotel" has come
under his management. This hotel is one of the finest in the
United Kingdom; and besides being furnished with all the
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the advantages of a beautiful situation, commanding, charm-
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for families or single visitors, close contiguity to the steam-
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scale of prices so moderate as to enable its visitors to enjoy
all the advantages of a first-class hotel on the same terms
they would have to pay in a minor one. From its open and
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able for invalids.

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Two Grand performances daily, commencing at 3 and 8 p.m.
Doors open at half-past 2 and half-past 7.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
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visitors. Doors open at half-past 8 ; overture at 9 ; closing
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people of the other States; and have the same feel-
ings ; but, unlike the people of the other States,
the yokt of the Pilgrim Fathers has descended on
them, and nothing short of a revolutionary move-
ment—a protected ballot-box—will ever break it
down. The material interests of Massachusetts are
in fact quite antagonistic to the doctrines of the
party which has ever been in power ;,4nd so long
as that is the case the experience of Mr, Dana and
his friends may as well be kept At home.
The system of ballot voting comes scatheless,
therefore, out of its present seeming trouble. It is
an inevitable and easy sacrifice that the rich must
make to the poor and the strong to the weak. Nor
would England with the ballot be less contented
and prosperous than England at c the present time.
Where upon the American continent has the com-
patibility of civil freedom with prosperity and con-
tentment been more clearly demonstrated than in
the western States, where men outside the admini-
stration of the law labour sedulously, not only to
create a stock of useful products, but to preseive
the stock to those to whom it properly belongs and
to their heirs for ever ?

PAT BARRY,
Ex-Member of the New York and

Chicago Press.

Sir,—With the permission of the writer I send
the enclosed letter from Mr. Wilkinson, formerly
member for Lambeth, for publication in your paper.
In considering the remedies to be applied to the
defects in our present electoral system, the first
point to aim at is a perfect knowledge of the extent
of the evils to be dealt with, and to this end the
testimony of the late member for Lambeth, and the
candidate for Reigate, is important.
Whilst with my pen in hand, let me add a word
on the subject of the recent rejoicings of our op-
ponents over the letters addressed by Mr. Dana to
Lora Radstock on the ballot in America. They
would have us believe that the people of the United
States do not care for the proteciion of the secret
vote. My answer to this is—Find me a dozen sane
men in the free States of America who would ex-
change their mode of voting for ours.
It is true that, owing to the great independence
and general equality of the population of the agri-
cultural states, absolute secrecy is not much cared
for. In Massachusetts, however, where there is a
large proportion of the people employed in trade
and manufactures, a demand has been made for an
improved system of taking the ballot, which shall
afford perfect protection to the voter, and it has
already been partially successful.
My answer, once for all, to those who triumph
over the inefficiency of the system elsewhere is,
give me a trial of the ballot in one election for any
btrge borough in this country, and 1 will undertake
to devise a plan which shall afford complete pro-
tection to the voter. Will this really commend it
to the favour of those who are now parading the
want of secrecy in the United States ?
Buf I will go further. If after one such trial a
constituency voluntarily resolves to abandon the
orderly, peaceful, moral ballot, and return to our
present mode of taking the poll, I will engage to
accept their decision, and say no more upon the
subject during the rest of my political life.
I am, your obedient servant, R. COBDEN.
August 31, 1859.

LETTER FROM W. A. WILKINSON, ESQ. TO . ;
1
R. COBDEN, ESQ., M.P.
August 20, 1859. '
My dear Mr. Cobden,—l observe that in your!
speech the other day to the non-electors of Roch-
dale, you gave, as a reason for the absence ofl
bribery at elections in America, the largeness of:
constituencies, and stated your opinion of the im-
possibility of carrying an election by bribery atj
Manchester, or Leeds, or any other large town. 4,
Now this was once my own opinion, but experiencel
has convinced me that this opinion was erroneous.f
and as bribery is just as easy, or even more easy, in
a large constituency than in a small one—at all
events in the present state of our electoral law—
and it this reason :
In a small constituency bribery is chiefly practised
by the direct payment of money, which Is against
the law, and easy of detection ; whereas, in a large
constituency, bribery is accomplished by the hiring
of an army of canvassers, and a hundred or two of
public-houses, which is not against the law, and
may, therefore, be perpetrated with impunity. All
that is necessary in the latter case is a larger ex-
penditure of money.
If two candidates were to come before such a con-
stituency as that of Marylebone, or Finsbury, or
Lambeth—no matter what the difference of their
respective qualifications (except in some extreme
case of the appearance of a man of great notoriety,
like yourself)—and one of those candidates took the
course which I have described, and the other did
not, I believe you would find no two opinions in
the borough as to the result.
As I am not without experience of both sorts f
constituencies, I am sure you will 'excuse my o!.
truding my.notions upon you, the more especially
as your eminent position has deprived you, in la
great measure, of this experience ; and as you wi I,
Ino doubt, be called upon to take a considerable` pa t
in the framing of any new reform bill, when it will
be important to determine whether the largeness pf
a constituency has any influence, and what inflii-
ence, on its capacity for bribery.
I am, my dear Mr. Cobden, yours truly, I
W. A, NVILKINsoN.I
Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P.