28 NOVEMBER 1885, Page 12

THE NON-RESIDENT FREEHOLDER VOTE.

[To TER EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.1

Stit,—If, on our county polling-day next week, I should offer, as I shall not, to provide my friends, the labourers, who have a long way to walk, with bread and cheese and beer, I suppose that the Corrupt Practices Act would have something to say to me about treating. But if I, and one or two of my college friends, who are non-resident voters for another county, accept a " dine-and-sleep " invitation to the house of a man of our old set and present party for the express purpose of polling, that, I understand, is a proceeding of unquestionable correctness.

I do not quite see how to explain the distinction to the new voters. Perhaps some of your readers more learned in casuistry