DINTS FOR REGISTILVI ION SOCIETIES.
IN all parts of the comma., Echo to A.-sociatioos have been or are ah,,u; to be ft med. The given by the establishment of the Coitral illetropelitan Association has been mighty. The Tories are alarmed at the rapidity and success with which their own example has been followed. The Standard admits that ilie Conservative Clubs me no rustcll for the Political Unants which the Reformeis are engag,,d ; and in:-a15 upon • the attempt made to rein4tous logotty on the Tory side, by tlw fin motion of Prote8iunt Uuionc. 11e had thought that the SO/so/art, with its doegiity ;thy Sir Fassicis
had prostroted the " Pro-Papist Aoateiation; but
I.0111 STANLEY a■SLIT'S the North Torie::, that, so fir from this being the vise, there is imminent danger of the whole countiy being oreailiztol in such a manner as that t very man in it will he a partisan: and he intimates in intelligible letionage, that when the strength of both parties is drawn out fully, the vic- tory will mil be to the 'furies. The .11wwir,g- Post is exceedingly wroth with load STANLEY for pointing out the danger whieh roust arise to the Consery atives from a perseverance in the getting- up of Political Uniens; and the Time8 protests that combination is necessary for safety against the Radicals, and that the club- system must not lie abandoned. Indeed we must lie plain with Lord STANLEY, as well as the Tory organs : both be assured, that whether the Conservaitve Clubs are disbanded or maintained, the Liberals have entered upon a course of conibieation which they mean to follow up. The ser- mon of the noble leader of the little Juste Milieu section has been preached too late. The RefOrniers are resolved to ascertain winch party is the stronger in the nation. The trial canuot he fairly made unless both Tories and Liberals bring their entire ;loco into the field. 1Ve therefore di ft the 'folks to do their worst, and wish them to mnlerstand that there will be no lack of (Nigel:ea and exertion on the part of Lilaoal leaders to counteract their efforts.
The Reform Association has not been idle. Its first attention Las been directed to the imp• aunt subject of Registration. All notices of claims to be entered on the registers must be delivered on or before the 20111 or July next : so there is no time to be lost. With the view of scemiog a Nil registration of Liberal votes, the Association have repo; ed and published "SUGGESTIONS,' which, if followed, seem well calculated to effect the desired object. It is proposed that in all Counties or Divisions of Counties, Central Cummittees shall he formed, with Chairmen, Deputy- Chairmen, Secretaries, and Treasurers. The chief duties of the Central Committees will he to iusure the formation of District Committees in every polling dish lei ; to supply them with legal forms fur claims or objections in respect of votes ; to circulate useful itarmation among the electors ; and to make ad quite preparation, iii the week following the first Sunday in September, for the revision of votes by the Barristers. An annual meet- ing of the Central Censoittee awl delegates from the District Committees is to be held in Mar; when necessary preparations will be made for the eusniog legistration. The Central Com- mittees will distribute lithographed maps of each county or division, distinguishing the names and divisions of parishes; affixing to each parish a number correspoudiug with the schedule on the margin of the map ; ai,.l leaving columns for the entry of their respective number of vote s. The District Committees should have their own funds restricted to the purposes of the disir:ets. The duties of the members will be to watch over the registiat ion of voters ; to promote the forma- tion of local or parochial Committees ; to furnish each of these Committees with legal forms of claim and objections : and to en- courage and enforce peoiudical meetings of Local Committees. The duties of the Local Committees are very impoitant : they
comprise the investigation of the registers, as regards the qualifi- cations of those already registered, and the collection of the names and qualifications of gnat fled persons not registered. To the latter It will be their duty to send notices of the period at which claims to be registered should be handed in. III the first week in August, the Local Committee should assemble and scrutinize the Overseers' lists, with the view of causing objections to be m'de to unqualified persons, and ascertaining whether the good men and true, claiming to be registered, arc duly entered on the lists. Notices of objections should be prepared and served before the 23th of August; and after the first Sunday in September, the Committees should again meet to concert the mode of proceeding before the Revising Barristers, upon all claims and objections.
Where there are no Local Committees, the District Committees must perform the above duties.
Fr. in this abstract of the suggestions of the Association in re- paid to Managing the registration of voters in Counties, our retelers will lie able to judge how the they are likely, if adopted, to scenic the end proposed—the registration of every Liberal elector, duly qualified, and the removal from the list of voters of every un- qualified perrion. They appear to its to be very comprehensive, and inecticable. Similar rules are laid down, with variatious, of course, fOr the registration of Borough and City voters.
For the i ftiiiontion of the constituencies, the Association has too:
prepared " E Tons' 11. al .s,- %S,- whidl, ill a ter) poi table form, and at a cheap rate, funds!' all necessary instructions for the iiontial registration of voters. These little books will be eaten- sively eiicidated ; and it will he his own fault if every elector does not s. oa maim stawl that portion of ft., R,fortn Act Which it more especially behoves him to knew. Feeliog thormighly convinced that the vast majoi it v of persons qualified to vose are opposed toTory misrule, and um% to trust Tories with the care of their iatefeNiti in Parliament, we have no doubt that ;my ineass which shall insure a complete reeistration of qualified persons, Nt ill give the Liberals a triumph:int unijoroy to the House of Commons. Therefore we trust that theee will be no backwardness anueigant class of Librral electors in giving eift:ut to Ole plan 1a:4 flow a by iho is ieSw A,.sociaiiim. That ;lin will be gouil for little indeed, unless it is viaorousl v and per- severingly prosecuted by men of zeal and industry. Much, very much, Will depend upon the persons w ho comp sit the various Committees. In every district there are men I!I Iih.e:al politics well qualified to serve on them. We have a light to expect their care est exertions; and if throe exertions are given, as we antici- pate that they will be, then, in de.-pite of their clubs mid money, their bigary and cunning, %se may toddy calculate on the not distant overthrew of the 'rely faction.
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