THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.
SIR—Mr. W. News. st., in his letter from Edinburgh last week, does not inform your readers where his printed thoughts can be purchased in London; and I fear his detail would he almost as troublesome as the present very unsa- tisfactory mode of registration. Hundreds, I may say thousands of houses, let at more than ten pounds yearly in the neighbourhood of London, do not contain " four hundred square feet in area," including even the yards. I am more than friendly to the Ballot ; for I am convinced we shall never have purity of election until the Ballot is introduced.
I think, if every man claiming to vote was compelled to subscribe twenty shillings to the State, it would be a good plan, and enable the Government to remove the Taxes on Paper, on Newspapers, and on Advertisements. S. P.
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