27 APRIL 1872, Page 2

The Ballot is getting on. On Monday the House agreed

by 199 to 91 that the voter should not be compelled to disclose his vote in any legal proceedings, and on Thursday that personation should be a felony punishable with two years' imprisonment. It also agreed to strike off a vote for every bribed voter, and for every agent or paid messenger who votes ; but it refused, by 261 to 169, to throw the expenses of elections on the rates. Mr.

Forster warned the House that this rule would one day be estab- lished, but the breach in the monopoly of the rich was too wide,. and the House, shrieking angrily for a division, maintained the worst conceivable form of property qualification.