LORD DENMANgave Notice that he would early next Session call the attention of their Lordships to the delays which necessarily occurred in making the declaration of the numbers of voters at elections under the Ballot Act. When the Act was passing through Parliament, it was proposed to keep the polls open until 8 o'clock; but that would have made matters worse, for it would have been impossible to observe one of the best provisions of the great Reform Act of 1832—that the elections should be concluded in one clay. The recent election at Greenwich—through the intervention of Sunday between the unfinished counting of the votes and the declaration of the poll—showed the incon- 1515 venience that might arise from suspense, and it was to prevent the aggravation of this evil at a General Election that he would call the attention of their Lordships to the subject.