ELECTORAL REGISTRATION.
TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE SEECTATOR.
Dover, 9.1th December IS35.
SIR—As there is no doubt that in the ensuing .Session of Parliament, some amendment will be made in that portion of the Reform Act which relates to the Registration of Voters, I beg leave, through the medium of your widely-circu- lated Paper, to suggest a couple of important points for the consideration of those persons to whom the matter may he intrustml.
First—The Judges, we are told, dislike the office of appointing the Revising Barristers; accordingly, they take no pains about it, and name any person 'who will be pleased to undertake the duty. Such lazy conduct leads to the nomination of the same Barristers again, as being the easiest way of despatching the business. Now, if the same Barristers go the same rounds for three or four successive years, there will be established what is called " Local Law." Last year only it was laid down by one set of Barristers, that the New River Shares gave votes io Middlesex ; while another set rejected the votes in Hertfordshire. Now, let these same Barristers go the same Circuits again for two more years, and those contrary decisions will be established. To guard against evils of this kind, I would suggest, that no Barrister should visit the same places oftener than once in three or four years at the least.
The second matter which needs attention is the very lax mode in which the notices of objection are worded. To tell a man nothing more than that you mean to object to his vote, is to tell him nothing : for until he knows the nature of the objection to be made, how can he come prepared to meet it ? The nature of the objection should be stated in the notice; which would be attended with a double advantage,—first, the voter would attend with his evidence all .ready to rebut the objection; and secondly, that host of random objectious, now segued for vexatious purposes only, would speedily cease to be employed.
I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant, BRITANNIC:ES.
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