sry great extension of the suffrage, and on the proportional
in- --es., ewe in the number and weight of those considerations which suire secrecy. A small body exercisins very responsible duties
(4 n behalf of others, must vote in public , ury large, and not ery independent body, so large that it may fairly regard itself \L's .s identical with the body politic, may vote with a truer repre- 5---sentative accuracy if it votes in secret. He reiterated that the tendency of the Reform of 1867 was to further reforms in the same direction which would render the Ballot still more effec- tual, but disclaimed all Ministerial intention of initiating these reforms. He still held to the opinion that public voting was the highest mode of discharging the electoral duty, but main- tained that in the balance of evils, Secrecy was the least.
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