Among the discoveries of the week, is one of Sir
EDWARD SuG- DEN'S, that the plan of polling by districts, and of limiting elections to two or three days, will very much increase the expense of county elections. Sir EDWARD has been studying mechanics during his secession from Chancery, and has found out, by " dint of algebra," that what is gained in time is lost in power, and wisy- warsy, as Mr. LISTON says. The process of Sir EDWARD'S reason- ing is as follows. By dividing the counties, every voter will ex- pect to be polled ; at present not -above one half ever dream of it. When voters have only fifteen miles to go to poll, they will in- sist on being carried thither; it will be but a stage. As they must all be carried this stage in two days, there will be a mighty demand for carts and coaches, and, of course, an increase of charge. Ergo, &c. We don't know how to help all this. If the fifteen miles were reduced to five, the evil would only be augmented in a threefold ratio.
It is quite evident that Sir EDWARD, as well as Colonel Woon and many others of both sides of the House, have yet to get rid of a host of old prejudices in respect of the people of England. They must really cease to hope that matters are to be managed under the Bill as theyare managed now. The people, we assure-them, will look to the registries without a candidate's agent ; they will go to the poll without a candidate's coach ; they will give their vote without a candidate's counsel. In a word, the people of England will in future choose their representatives ; the representatives have chosen the people quite long enough.
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