or constituencies to which he presents himself,—the next step is to bring the names of all the candidates in one view before the electors. It is thus that the nation, in the greatest of all national actions, will adopt means analogous to those which have powerfully contributed to the progress of education, of art, and of science, by concentrating their productions, and submitting them all to the test of the widest comparison.
The promulgation of the names of the candidates may be regulated by the two following clauses; in which, as in prescribing all the other functions of the Registrars, their duties may be so clearly defined, that nothing be left to their discretion. Every step would be governed by the rigid impartiality of anterior and positive law.
VIII. The Registrars for England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively, shall, on every week-day, commencing the first day after a dissolution of Parliament, on which any candidate delivers such declaration, and makes such payment as aforesaid, and continuing until the day appointed for the general election,—prepare a list of the names of all who shall have declared themselves candidates to represent any constituency or constituencies in Parliament, and shall have made the said payment, stating in such list the respective constituencies for which they are respectively candidates; and the Registrar in London shall cause such list as aforesaid of the candidates for English constituencies to be published in the London Gazette or a supplement thereto; and the Registrar in Edinburgh shall cause such list of candidates for Scotch constituencies to be published in the Edinburgh Gazette or a supplement thereto; and the Registrar in Dublin shall cause such list of candidates for Irish constituencies to be published in the Dublin Gazette, or a supplement thereto; and the said Registrars respectively shall transmit copies of the said lists daily to the returning officers of the said constituencies respectively, who shall cause copies thereof to be printed and published, for the use of the electors of their respective constituencies, and sold at a price not exceeding one penny for every complete list.
IX. The names of all the said candidates shall be inserted in the said gazetted list in the following order: viz., as to all persons who have theretofore had seats in Parliament, in the order of the respective length of the periods for which they have been members thereof, beginning with the candidate who shall have sat the longest, and ending with the candidate who shall have sat the shortest, period of time in Parliament; and as to new candidates, according to their age, as the same shall be stated in the declaration delivered to the Begistrars as aforesaid, beginning with the
