Mr. Bright has recommended. ,the Reform League to keep in
existence, in order to help new electors to register, and to com- mence an agitation for the ballot as a protection for electors against bribery and intimidation. It would be no protection against either, as Americans very well know, though it might diminish rioting at elections ; but supposing the remedy to be as per- fect as its advocates believe, it would surely be polite, not to say dis- creet, to wait and see whether the new Parliament is utterly blind to'its perfection. We doubt if that body will be greatlyconeiliated either by advice or threats from an outside House of Commons, not supported by " the masses." They, for the future, elect the members, and are very likely, therefore, to support them, a fact Beales appears disposed to forget.
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