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On Tuesday, Mr. Courtney expounded his views to the Man-

chester Reform Club, and though he found it easy enough to show how a voter should vote, he found some difficulty in ex- pounding to his audience how the Returning Officers should count the votes, and was unable to satisfy one of his audience on that subject except by asserting blankly the accuracy of his own statement. And accurate, no doubt, it was, but not plain and patent to the common apprehension, as the rationale of so important a matter as the principle of the Returning Officer's duties certainly ought to be. After the meeting, what is called a test-vote was taken on the Hare method,—but a test- vote which could not test any of the dangers to which, in our opinion, it is exposed.

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