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TIT 3 LAW OP ELECTIciI• fte44,e,
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_On the eve of the general election, Net i ' -.-- t ro -e.-
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bout to take place, it may not beamsn to , Atit -7,';' -di. .1
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'Sr ,-,-,...,„ our 'ea.:lees. to have a summary plec..3d befo ,VI II
Parliameat,
of the law, as it has been altertd by recent aotief a S
affecting the election of members of
Parliament. It is well known that on many occa-
sions, and in ninny
unyudt inccs,flauegorceeat
beingo exercised,utcryw
afre
quenily raised
itetlreevt,i"scaTind
in a pecuniary point of v.
tattlileeriobtory,,
shoavd b
ereigeri P
ir Lew, or, in other words,
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and
other the
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placesrn e mo-f
the same kind, is yet -fresh in the memory of many
of our readers. In order, then efore, to remedy this
steite of things, the Legislature passed a bill, entitled
" The Corrupt Pi act:ces Preveutioa Act," of which
it has been said that, "as far aslegal restraints and
penalties are concerned, it would scarcely be pose
sible to make them more stringent than those con-
tained iu this act." If this be strictly true (?) we
may expect to have a Parliament composed of men
who have earned the honour of a seat, nut by their
money, but by their talt'nts and abilities. Tne fol-
lowing is au abstract of the main provisions of the act
just referred to :—" Every person who shall directly
or indirectly give, lend, promise, or endeavour to
procure, any money, or valuable consideration, to or
for any person on behalf of any voter or to refrain
from voting, or shall corruptly do any such act on •
account of such voter having voted, or refrained from
voting, at any election ; every person who shall, di-
rectly
or indirectly, give, procure, offer, promise, or
endeavour to procure, any office or employment to or
for any voter, or any other person on behalf of any
voter, or any other person, in order to induce such
Toter to vote, or refrain from voting, or shall cor-
ruptly do any such act, on account of any voter
having voted, or refrained from voting, at any elec-
tion ; every person who shall make any such gift, • .
loan, offer, premise,, procurement, or agreement,
to or for any person, in order to induce such per-
son
to procure the maim of any person to serve in
Parliament, or the vote of any voter at any election;
and every p-eTsarrichro strati;-npon such loan, offer;-- -.-- - . 7.'aidr.
promise, procurement, or agreement, procure, or
engage to procure, the return of any person to serve
in Parliament ; or any person who shall advance
or pay any money to the use of any other person
with the intent that such money shall be expendel
in bribery at any election, or who shall knowingly
pay any money to any person in discharge of any
money wholly or in part expended in bribery at
any election ; every person thus offending shall be
guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall also be liable
to a penalty of 1001."
The penalty attaching to any one who shall re-
ceive any bribe for giving or withholding his vote,
either before or after an election, is 101.
The penalty against treating is equally stringent.
A forfeiture of the sum of 501. is the consequence
to a candidate, if on the day of nomination or elec-
tion there should be treating either in the way of
" moat, drink,' or entertainme,nt, by way of refresh-
ment, or money, or ticket, to obtain refreshment
by' any person on the candidate's behalf, to influence
a voter." Agents or indifferent persons are to be
tined 21. for every offence of this nature.
With respect to undue influence the provisions in
the act are most stringent, and impose a fine of 501.
en any candidate whip shalt, in any way, compel a
voter to vote in favour of a particular candidate.
An " election auditor" is also appointed, and all
accounts are to be submitted to him. He is to re-
ceive 101. from each. candidat ~ and two per cent.
oa every payment which passes through his hands.
If this office be faithfully fulfilled, the functions of
an election otlic,T are so stringent as to afford in
themselves a check upon elec.ioneering, abu-es. The
time for proceeding with elections is also fixed by
the act. In counties, elections are to take place
between the 6th and 12th day after the sheriff's
proclamation is made, neither sooner nor later ;
the .sberiff's proclamation for holding the election
is to be made within two days after the rec:ipt of
the writ.

handicap attar the publication of the vecights s!b ex.
Oae mile.
Mr: Niel :Wes Huntington, 3 yrs, 64 121 b (Fordham) 1
Mr. Card Jack the Giant-killer, agcd, Tat Blb

(Snowden) 2
Mr. J. Oiborne's Walhalla,. 3 yrs, 54 '8? b (Challmer) 3
Bl•ght, Jestie, and 0 )al B ack Poe atso ran.
Bettink,r-2 to 1 agoit Huntington, 5. to 2 nest Wal-
halla., 4 to-1 asst Jessie, sto 1 agst
Won easily by three lengths, four lengths between the
second dn3 thin/. Coal Black Hose bated soon after
FtartiPg. _
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Pytribl.;y Stakes of 5 Revs each, ?Pith 40 added, for 2-yr-
olli and upwards. Optional selling vreights, &c. The
New Spencer Plate course, 5 furlongs. 11 subs.
Mr. Baker's Spinet by .Orlando, 3 yrs (601), 6st 3113
(Griramer) 1
Mr. Swan's Hard ;rick, 3 yrs (601.), 64 61b (J. Rogers) 2
Mr. 11..a.nk's c.dt by Malcolm—Cocktail's dam, 2 yrs
(601.), 4.t 101 b (A. Edwards) 3

Tae f flowing alio ran :—Woodmite, Mr. Verdant
Green, Augusta, Surrender, QaeAionable, Fiction, and
Comm, dory Charley.
Bi'tting-6 to 4 agst Spinet, 5 to 1 each agst Fiction
and Cocktail's dam colt.
Won by a length, same distance between the second
and third, two lengths between the third and fourth.
The winner was sold for 105 RO vs.
The Nene Stakes,. a free handicap of 5 says each, with
25 added, Once. round. 7 subs.
Mr. Riwland's Laudamia, by Pyrrhus the First, 3 yrs,
Gat 12lb
• (Snowden) 1
Mr. Mel!ish's Tame Deer, 4 yrs, 84 7!b (Wells) 2
Mr. Cliff's Obscurity, 4 yrs:, 7st 1111. (Monday) 3
• The following aiso ran :--larecs, Redemption, Blue
Rock, and Hercules.

• Betting-5 to 4 agst Lane Deer, ato 1 aget lareea.
Won by two lengths, bad third. Htreules and Blue
Rock, were beaten el, and did not pass the post.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CHESTER CUP.
13 to. 1. age:: St. Gile4 (taken)
1000 to 30 apt Dulcamara (taken) ,
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
7 to • 2 agst Vedette (taken)
DERBY.

25 to 1 agst Skirmisher (taken freely)

Nava and Military Intel_►igence.

The 66th Regiment, under the command of Col.
Law, left Plymouth Citadel on Tuesday:in two
divisions. Four companies, under Major, Maxwell,
were billeted at Bath, and' the head-quarters at
Bristol. The entire regiment was app Muted ti
reach Farnborough, yesterday afternoon, to march
io Aldershot, where they will be under the orders
of the Lieut.-General commanding the division.
Tito 23d company of Royal Engineers and the

detachment of 1200 w orderlies of the Medical Stiff
Corp,, at Chatham, are to be held in readiness for
immediate embirkation for service in China. The
whole of the non-commissioned officers and men
have hen inspected, and they are in readiness for
embarkation at instant notice.
The reduction in the number of men employed
in Cna hate dockyard is now completed, ther last
&suliarz.e of men having been made on Saturday
list, when upwards of 31 hired labourers who were

taken on at that establishment during the war re-,
ceived their discharge, their places being supplied
by several hundred convicts, who lira now stationed
at Chatham since • the abolition of the hulks at

Woolwich. A great deal of activity prevails in the
dockyard in bringing forward those ships which aro
intended to be hunched during t!,e present
.year,
and the labourers on the eeta(diQhmen,, employed
on general service, will be retuned.
In consequence of the election at Chatham tak-
ing piaci on Saturday next, on which day it was
iutetided to launch the large screw steamer Re-
Lown, 91, an application has been made by Ovt.
G. Go!dsmith to the Admiralty to allow the launch

to be postponed to a future dai, it being customary
for the men employed in Her Majesty's dockvarjs
to be allowed a day's holyday at an eleo ion.
Dr: B'ecTra, 14, sloop, Commander W. Morfs,
is being stripped and dismast.:d at Chatham, and is
ordtred to b. paid. off into. ordiwiry ou the Ist of
41.1 She has been in commission four years,
during which time she has Leen employed, on the
Aral'al statlqi,

The Duke of 1' 4'ellington,,l3l;CaPtain Caldwell,
C. 8., wilt, if poisibie,go into Pcntsmouth harbour

ths dAy to prepare for tieing paid off. Most of
her store 3 ?lava been taken out t) lighten her.
The Melville, 72, fitted up by Me.srs. White,' of
Cowes, as 'an hoPpital ship for the Chin; station,
will be taken out of dock to-morrow at Cowes and
tlwed to Pottstnouth to ba commissioned.

The Prussian frigate Theti., 40, Captain Sunde•
wall, lefi; Spithead yesterday fur Dantzic. She sa-
luJed the naval and military authorities, which
comaliment was duly acknowledged by the flagship'
and the garrison battery.
The expedition to China is to have attached to it
tin:floating steam factory Volcano, which has been
commisslotied at Portsmouth by Master Comman-
der John M. Ilt:cicley.
The Nimrod, 6, steam despatch gun-vessel, Com-
mander Dew, was taken out of dock yesterday at
-Portsmouth after repairing a few defects, a :Id is
nearly' ready for proceedint, to China.
The Funoug, 16, paddle steamfrigate, Captain
08137rne, is nearly complete in herrigging at Port?.-
mouth, and will leave the steam basin in a fewdays.
The Albion, 3, Lieutenant de Blaquiere, left
Portsmouth yesterday afternoon, with supernume-
rarif,s f, .r Plymouth and men paid off from the
Bulldog steam sloop.
The Arrogant, 47, screw frigate, has been taken
into the sham basin at Portsmouth to repair de-
frets.

An 'order has just been received from the Ad-
miralty at t' .e various dockyards to stop all fresh
entries and re-entrie3 of men and boys from the

In borough?, the returning officer must proceed,
to the election within six days atter the receipt of
the even*,' and must "give three clear days n( tire,
at least, of the day of election, exclusive of the day
of proclamation and the day of election," making
in all five days.
Tice polling for counties in England and Wales
is limited to one day •(formerly two days were al-
lowed for the purpose), the poll to be kept open
om 8 a in. to 5 p.m. At the universities, Oxford
and Cambridge, the polling is fixed, by sac. 4 of
the act, to continue five dayS only.
By the 15 and 16 Vie., c. 23 (passed 17th June,
1852), it WAS enacted that, after a dis,iolution' Par-
liament may meet within 35 days after the da'e of
the royal proclamation.
It will be seen, from the above succinct outline
of the new act, that a mat- many electioneering
nuisances and abuses wuich formerly existed ara
abolished ; and that a more honourable course of
conduct, at any rate, is provided for. It is only
to be hoped that the salutary and beneficial provi-
sions of thisimportant act ofParliameot will be ob-
served and strictly adhered to in the forthcoming
election ; and that every man who id, appointed to
any office, no mater how trivial, will strive to the
utin,..st* to do his &Ivy. However great momen-
tarily may be the advantage to a poor
_voter, of
getting a quid pro quo iu s . me shape of his vote and
interest, it is unnecessary, at this time, to say one
word on the demoralising tendency of such prac-
tices, nor the fatal blow theystrike at all real liberty
in the voter, and all feelint,-of purity, honour, and
patriotism in the so-elected "representative."—
Boston Advertiser.

An ord-r bas been receivo by the Southampton
Duck Company to prepare the large graving dock
for the reception of her Majesty's steam troop-ship
Himalaya, which vessel has been ordered to pro-
ceed from Plymouth to Southampton, on the 25th
inst.,* in order to be docked, prior to proceeding to
China with troop.. She is expected at South-.
aulpton early on the morning of the 27th inst.
The freight ship Violet, from the London Docks,
was yesterday moored at Woolwi6h Arsenal for the
purpose of shipping a cargo of war stores for
Giina. A portion of the freight will consist of
three complete three-pounder batteries, which are
in course of beina fitted out in the Royal Carriage
department of the arsenal, for use in China. These
small batteries are intended for mountain service,
,and torbe removed as may be necessary by the na-
tive ponies. The ammunition waggons, which are
covered with tarpaulin, are about the s;zo of an
ordinary handbarrow.
A number of medals awarded to the officers and
priVates of the Royal Marine Corps who were in
active service during the late Baltic campaign have
been received at Woolwich, 190 of which were dis-
tributxl on Tuesday by Lieutenant and Adjutant
Fraser, and yesterday morning the remaining 100
were disposed of. This completes the list of the
recipients in the Woolwich divisions entitled.to the
Baltic medal.

Major Barstow's company of Royal Artillery
were yesicriay morning marched down to the
Long Range, in the Plunastead. Marsh, Woolwich,
where they underwent a course of rifle practice,
preparatory to their departure for China. Captain
Knox.'s company assembled on Woolwich Common,
and went through a series of mortar practice, firing
several rounds of cohorn mortars, loaded with
shell, and directed towards a flag-staff erected at a
distance of 200 yards from the battery. Captain
Middleton and Captain Longdeu's companies were
engaged during the morning firing, 8, 10, and
13-inch shella, in the mortar battery near the Royal
Repository, over a range varying from 600 to 800
yards. These exercises are ordered to be continued
daily until the embarkation of the companies. They
were conducted by Lieut.-Col. John Henry Franck-
lyn, R. A.; field-officer of the week.
The following changes are to take place from the
Curragh :-51st Regiment, 800 men and 20 officers
to Dublin ; 94th Regiment, 200 men and 4 officers
to Waterford ; 94th Regiment, 160 men and 4
officers to Goold's-cross, county of Tipperary ; 94th
Regiment, 400 men and 10 officers to Clonmel.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :

Lieut. John Patton tethe Surprise ; Lieutenant
Edward Kelly, to the Cormorant ; Edward M.
Morgan, Acting-Assistant Surgeon, to the Mel-
ville ; W. H. Hyde, Cleric to the Nimrod.

[ADvEttTisxmENT.]—Jane Hallett, of Whitty Ilea°,
near Netberhury, Dorset, suffered for many years from
a bad leg. From the knee to the ancle it had several
wounds, so that she was unable to stand or move about
the house. She tried a variety of means and, Mg of
tions, but without obtainirg a cure. By the 10
God and using only three pots of Poor
Dun's
cured.
and taking three boxes of pills, she
was perfectly
and env-
Dr. Roberts's Poor Man's Friend, for
v")tsunls. lid. and
eFriend,
tions of every description, is sold ID Pool; for all ha.
2s. 9d. each. His Pilule!) Antiscropo
in 1 'medicine vendors
4s. 6d., 11s., and 225.
each'
- all
Colonies.
purities of the blood, is sold in boxes, Is. lid., 2s. 9d.,
i throughout the United }Kingdom a