Under the Ballot the Liberals were horribly beaten in Liver-
pool, and there was, too, a very great deficiency in the number of voters, though apparently a larger vote than in 1868. In 1868 the numbers were as follows :--
Mr. Graves 16,766 Viscount Bandon 16,222
Mr. Rathbone 15,337 —and Mr. Massey, who was rejected, had 15,017 otee. But the registered electors were then not quite 40,000, while this year they were 52,000, an increase of 12,000 Voters, and yet the return Was—
Mr. Torr (Orange and Licensed Victuallers' Conservative)...... 18,702'
Mr. Caine (Permissive Bill Liberal) 16,790
majority for the Orangemen's and Licensed Victuallers' candidate,. 1,912./slow, the total vote of 35,000 'was very much smaller in proportion to the number of registered electors (52,000), than the vote of 32,000 in 1868 was in proportion to a constituency of 40,000, so that the ballot has probably somewhat diminished the total voting, and besides that has increased the Conservative ma- jority, which was not it 900 majority for Viscount Sandon in 1868, and was more than double that number for Mr. Tory yesterday week. We fear that Liverpool at least will be more Conservative, and even a little less energetic, under the Ballot than under open voting.
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