The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON REGISTRATION.

Mr. Wanting took his soot it 10 o'clock yester-
day mond, I, sad promodat to dam the tollowisp Jodi-
mat la a sass whisk woo reputed to tits &prom a tow
days ego. He said:

I saw rowed to Mimeos of the awe of Mr. Jahn Getting.
whirl was MI elaborately disereed before me a few days
ago. Immediately after the dieresOia I expressed the
opinion I thee formed el it; bat, is coesequesee of what
was subsequently said, and it terra( eat to be a este of
cessiderably greater impetrate than anything which had
bees staled is the fint larres bad isdicated, I sail, from
the respect dee to what had her urged before me, I should
farther consider it, aad look into the decided eases upon the
point. Tr 111:11111.4•111•4 are these : —Mr. John Getting
stands ea the list of persons eatitled to vote in the election of
membere far the City, is respect of property occupied by him
in the parish of St. Andrew liadenatatt. H. resides near the
White But, at N trweed, which is within 7 miles of the
Cil ; be bee resided then for •soillelent length of time, sad
he ocrepies a eeentiag-house at 46, Lime must, is respect
of which he claims a right to vote. Haviag bees duly ob-
jected to. be appeared personally to sutra the right he
wrench for. ii. stated that he essapies a coantiag-house
at 46, Lime-street ; that he has reepied it for the last 26
yore, and that he pays a real ef 264. a year for it, *web
formerly the rent wu math higher. He is properly rated
to all the rates, sad they lave Mr duly paid. Ile has re-
sided for • saltier time while the seven miles. To ar-
rive at his counties boom he nest eater from the ,trees at
• large covered gateway, which leas into a sort of quad-
nest., or open oranyerd, in which there are them houses.
Tame three hour are nor= hem each other, all having
separate and respective doors. These houses also vuy in
height, and have separate roofs. Mr. Getting's counting-
house is one cf those house+, the one whisk is situated on
no left band tide, entering from the street, of the quai.
tangle, or court-yezel, and the door through which ha
enters into his casting-hew from the wart yard
leads only into it. The largedqwwi ay is open daring
the day, but closed by fel wooden gates at
sight, which are locked or bolted de, and in ese el
which there is • wicket large suough for the Oros sad
egress of person., but not of earriere. There is aoto • lock
era key to that wicket. Mr. Getting may have a key of it
at say dr he pleases. A. occupier of another counting-
house, in the some court-yard. who has also boss objected
to, and who is precisely similarly situated to Mr. Getting,
Las • key of that wicket, and can enter to his counting.
g house at all hours, without requiring the permission or as-
- Woos a any ece. Mrs. Darsafrod is Mr. Gettinebi lora
43 lady, 0 whoa be rents his countiag.house, and she redden
to another boos is the same coart-yard or roamer,
gg which hors faces the late gateway, though situated in or
7 towards*, lefthand earner. Kr. °Malt has two keys to
2 the dyer of his counting-hoes*, or of which he retro the
12 of, and the other he allows Mrs. Duasford to
19 ETelisaat she, fur • consideration paid to bee by hies, may
is his tco
atesseecier his tore. Mrs. Deward bee upright
to enter at any time into his eratiarkeess eager far the
2 purpose of Weaning it, and as his servant; sad she use
only enter it by coming oat of the hoese in whisk dhe /*-
tides, crossing • part of the open court-yard, 9114 entering la
L at his separate and distinct countieg.hows door. Mrs. Dace-
- ford shuts the large wooden gates at night, and opens them
is the mornisg. There is a bell-pull at the tide of the large
getaway in Lime street, sad tee bell attached thereto,
which is in the court-yard, may be nog by any person, for
_ any purpose or for any party, indiscriminately, within the
courtyard, at any time, night or day. There is also a bell
at the doer of the Irons in which Mrs. Danford resides,
4 with her same urn it ; sad upon the door of that house
there is likewise a private knocker. For the convenience
1 of the occupier, of nutmeats in the said courtyard or
i quadrangle, there is a passe= or communication through
i do house in which Mrs. Donsfoed resides, into Biliter.
ern, and through which bar tenants may pus at any time
of the day, to any place in that 'detain, but which comae-
- ideation she ants up at night by • door. The right to vote
of Mr. Walter Logan, Mr. Alfred Piglet, Mr. Francis P. 6
ter, Mr. Matthew Janata People well, Mr. Oeorge D vy
1 Stibbard, and Mr. William Vincent, all having earths,-
' bosses; also at No. 46, Lime-street, depends upon the dea
_ Wen to be come to upon Mr. Letting's c teri. It is also midi
that that decision must govern the right to vote of a very
extensive and respectable class of persons in the City.
When I stated what I thought of Mr. Getting's case,
reording to the present decisions of the Court of C moon
3 Phu, and the coastruction that has boa put upon
g the Reform and Registration Aets, Mr. Ledger, with
1 considerable zeal, expressed apparent surprite, and re-
quested to know if I intended to abide by that .puws
- having, as he then stated, lest year pronounced a dsWaa
_ precisely the reveres in the use of Mr. Francis Pegter,
which was, as be said, an exactly similar case. That Ws
neither • candid nor correct representation on the pan of
Mr. Ledger. Mr. Peglei's case was neither discussed before
i me, nor decided by me lest vier •it came before me is ,1
_ September, 1847. It had not been cited, nor had I any ree
collection of it, when I expressed my view of Mr. O otirg's
right. When Mr. Polies ease wu brought bef.re me, bra
6 did sot attend himself, bat his clerk did, mad that clerk left
4 the case considerably short, in point of evidence, In favour of
3 the voter, ef what it now is. The newspaper report which
Mr. Ledger sarequently handed up to me star, that Mr.
- P piles's clerk deposed, that these term, houses wen situated
in • court ; that ' they did ant open one iota the other, but
4there was only or palilie ~usaea to them all, sod that
2 MIS th•JURh • gate at the wed of a passage." And upon
then refining to my own metes of weal then
- took place, I dad the clerk stated, that these three
houses were in a court ; that there was • gate at the end of
the pe sags which led into that court, which gate was shut
when it bwme dusk *very evening, and after dusk no
tenant or other pueoa could get admittance into that
wort without rioting a hill, sad having the gets opened
by • porter, who lived la Mn. Darned's house. That
wee the gist of the evidence which that clerk gave, as to
Ibis siteatissel these hoarse; and, although I certain.y am
Ciii
Ward to think that the Reform Act did toques-
=ler to give is such occupiers as these geatlemen
the tto vote, yet. as I read the law, and the ern which
bad tham bees decided by the C sun of Appeal, and by
base d,
I WU bound until they had been reversed,
ehrlibel. er relaxed, I felt unable to place Mr. Pegler's
memo the register, and with Mr. Smith's entire
es you shall presently find, who appeared in
seise= of the vote, I so decided. But besides Mr. Get.
thig's we having sow Wooed the circumetaness attending
Mee rights of these goalless before re is a more full
and favourable position, there have. since Mr. Prier's cam
was before me, been various eases takes upon appeal from
the reran barristers to the Court ei Common Pleas, which
have larded opportunities to that court which it had not
had before, of giving expositions of the law, and of the con-
struction f the Reform and RegistrationActe, which the
revising banisters bat not the advsstage of in 1847. At that
time, according to the cases while bed then been decided,
great stress was laid urn r whisks= set sow to be er-
:2w
geed tor a moment. Fr somenipt ether things, it
was am watended, that on ,to adds ha to vote,
mast have a key to his outer deer. Mr. Ira, Mauls heel
sow said, " I do not think it matters whether hero or has '
not a key of the outer door to let himoll is end eat when
be pleases.' It stood then decided that • rase most ban
an exclusive occupation, that "to entitle ea erapin to
vote as a tenant, he must show that he is not dereast
epos the goodwill or leave of another, for any cheerier,
wessary to the full, free, and exclusive 'soonest of his
hew. . . . That he must command the entracte to it,
and the exit from it;' and that if he cannot do that, " hie
occupation cannot be considered an exclusive occepatioa."
Now the Lord Chief Justice of the Cout of Craws Pleas
bat declared "it mart be ceateaded, that the twat is to
have an absolute right to eater at some times but not at
Were." Again, " iik• steers of an =shuns arra
over the outer door is not entegh to deprive a party of he
right to vote ;.: and. again, . the objectioa that he mat
have as exelonve control over the outer door seems tome to
have no form Tee fen that he had not such as exclusive
1•3•1101, may be &circumstance which tends to show that Is
Is sot a tenant, but it the Macey be establabed by other
evidesse, Ido not we what ohs that isolated fist ie. ' It
was there also rented that die character of occupien eader
the Registratrs Act meet be made out as strictly to stable
him to vote, as it would= neessesty to make out that dorsa-
ls.= order to establish • setdement, or to sustain an indict-
wit fee tombs:, ; whetesioncording to Me Latina's re ports
ihr that year, vol. 2, part 2, p. 9S, he Lad Chief Julio
al Ow Common Pleas my :—" This tout had repudiated on
Weer wares the iSfITOSSIS drawn from Dermot and
liershey asese, which have best cited for the pens sea of
thrown. some light epos the constreetion of the Reknit
Act, house the °bier of the law in thew cases are quite
different from those contemplated by the statute rder
consideration.' And Mr. Imam Cantu says:—"The
burglary mew are not like she present, became some re-
deemers wets =hared into that branch of the law,
whiskies ahead not think onnelves justified is applying to
the earnstiem ef the statute before the eon." Farther,
at the WO of the statement of Mr. Pesler's we, when it
was blare me in 1847, sal =tat all had been said upon it
whisk awald with any row have boa urged, Mr.
Sydney Smith, who =peered with Mr. Lager, in sup-
port a that gentleraa's vote, and Mr. Smith is sot •
gentleman to allow • veto to slip is any ewe which pro
sltiateseit/wfair ground to induce him to thinki itm
ray he
semeluded his address to that he
of ledger er n mrio
lad by gr had bar not
fii= is rniti: ; that the Court of Common Pleas had
M yet, otter rho best coniaderatien he had bon
:rreealsolow lira the eases which had at that time been
Wiled by it, to have smislaterpreted ths Reform and Re-
ar lotion Ars ; that this seen was helpless ; that probably
die better way would be to have the cases of gentleman
situated se Mr. Pegler we met by a short enactment by
parliament ; and that, sada these eirosstances, he would
not then continue to pros to have Mr. Pegler's same ea the
register. Now, these ars the circumstances, both wto the
facts and the law, whisk related to Mr. Pegler's ease, when
it wasbefere me in 1847, and whisk ewe Mr. Ledger brought
forward jest now is the way he did to show that, if 'should
decide at present in freer of Mr. Getting's right to vote, I
must be the author of condiang decisions. I shall have to
decide in Mr. Getting's favour ; and yet, strictly spear.,
upon taking all the einumstriess late wonsiderrion, I do sot
think I shall be fairly open to Mr. Ledger's charge ; but,
prate I felt I should. that would act for • moment
to deter me from mew ..td
es I theesat oce-
reedy sad jusly. If av disposed of *at part of W easel
I may remark, that Mr. Baia and Mr. Ledger appeared
far the cbjectioa in Mr. Getting's ease, but izteZport of
the votes of the other pallemen, who are site-
ata, sad hr. Brows swirled the validity of the eider
Woes tram to the names if the latter. On the or load,
it ww werada that thew three house, are all within one
certil•ge, that the large gateway is to be held to be the
street rof all the houses is the quadrangle, that the

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THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 25, 1849.

Ibis Hedy bee the emissive costensi of lapss and egrets
Elpts: "newsy 1 and fiat, en Me resides la me of dame
simples et 46, Unenromte did
self,bla she, by the ohmmeter she softens, redeem
se the sitrods• of kd with her. It
ems riltstheir to
net
of their shersimer, bemuse they might deep ia their
fognMin-honer if they pews; sad several veer wore
sled, Mr. Brows robieggerogb go "Pins v. Smedley," &-
died by the Court et Osearomf rms. Os the edam side,
It nes selmined that the landlady her ass the embasive
sentsel el tbe int these soft disroset mad separate
heroes, and that the 'aislemelense ef the landlady
es* of them is net seamiest to law, a '''slung
Z
le " Tense. Lockett," Latw., vol. 11., part 1., p. 19, end k
other lately-decided cases, to deprive the tenants of the
right to vets. There is no oesedso that them 'asthma
hold seder a solleleet demise mem the landlady to make
thus her taunts. There is no deign that then are sepa-
rate or distinct houses. Mrs. Doneked mean eater into
say one of them without quitting her owe hems sod en-
tering in at the separate and respective deers which lead
from the epee coart.yard into Mess emietiag-hews; ; and
them is as little dimbt that she is only permitted by the
occupiers to enter them at sack dean as may
suit their movesienes, is the elasreeter of their
servant, sad it that character alone. Under all the
elms they are them gentlemen only lodges',
herb gno tto vote, or am they tenants of counting-
hose's, whisk saddle them to yens ? The Reform Act
spatially nosegises a " connting-heem" as a tenement or
Ein reopen of which an oestapier Mall have a vote,
he be etherodes muddle& The ems of " Pitts o
," whisk hes hem neared to en an authority against
the right to rote here, dna no: appear to me to govern the
present we. Is that ems the owner of • heave end shop
occupied the shop and resided ea the first floOr. He
let the emend and third A tors to another person, who
had the exclaim metro' over the resets ea those doors,
and also a latch key of the street doer. Tee owner had
also a latch key of the street deer, and when the party
coropyins the upper rooms was aad knead the street
door fastened, he had to enter tie ores through the shop
of the mine,. It was held there that the party was a
mere lodger. end not entitled to vote. It was dear, as Lord
Chief Judos Tindal stated in giving judgment, that the
landlord of the house Mere ally gave a limited enjoyment
to the party who occupied the upstain teems. The street-
door had a lock, to which the potty had not • key, and his
right of nesse though it was net interfered with, was
merely permissive. Can it be sail that this is an analogous
ease to the present ? What " merely permissive," near
have these 'ratlines from Mrs. Dunsford, anises it can
be at the luxe gateway ? They all have, or all may have,
A key to the wicket, by which to secure to themselves free
eat full acmes to their crontieg-honer at all times. Bat
, Weiss it that they have sot the excludes control over that
pm se gateway, or access through it, yet I have shown you,
1 her the &Maims of the le trued judges of the Court of Com-
, elm Plea., that it is not 1110111111137 they should have that ex-
elusive control, and that the absence of it, ander certain lair.
madames, is of no coniegesboo, earners than that of not
possessiag a key of the outer-door. They have an absolute
right to enter la at the large gotewsy, and it is not to be said
that they have that Omelette right sometimes but
not at all times. Well, then, does the landlady 'a residence in
one of the homes destroy the eight which these gentle-
men would otherwise have to vote, for that really appears to
me to be the may question ? The nature sad extent of the
party's laterest : the enure, amount, sad quality of the oc-
cupation are to be considered. Now, it is beyond divots,
that Moe are separate or distinct hones, and that counting-
houe give the right to vote ; and spa this question what
could be more explicit than that which Ur. Justice Mauls
lass down in " Toms v. Lockett " : " I think the spirit of
the cases on the sarject is this, that when the owner of a
house is the person who lime in, and occupies the whole of
it, end takes in some ether parses to live with his is
the hoses, although that puma nay wimpy a room
therein, which nobody else occupies ; and although
he may have ingress and egress to and from that room
whenever be pleases, yet if the owner of the house retain,
his general shunter of master of the house which
he did before, then that the person so occupying is • lodger,
and not a tenant within the Reform Act. The question of
whether the party is • lodger or tenant, I think depends en
the clicamstance of there being a person living in the house
I. the quality and capacity of • muter of the house, and
having some degree of control over that part of the house
which the party occupies. Where that is the cess the party
is not a meant within the act, but • mere ledger, to whom
the statute does not give the elective franchise." Mrs. Bam-
ford does not live Ia Mr. Genial 's counting-house she
does net live in the house in whichthat cosatieg-houn is,
and she neither exercises any degree, nor has the power of
exercising any degree of control whatever over that counting-
boom, er over the boom of which it forms • port. Is the case of
" Wansey v. Perkins," in Barron and Arnold, vol. 1., part 111.,
p. 409, a party exclusively occupied the whole of the seemed
door of a home, and his landlord resided in the same house.
The outer door of the house was kept closed, and both the
landlord and the other party had a key thereto. In that
sera it wee held that the parry occupying the second door
wee a mere lodger; but Lnrd Chief Justice Tindal, in de-
livetiro judgment, mid—" If the premiens is the °mope-
ds* of the claimant were so completely divided from the
sestet the horse, that the landlord had given up the con-
trol IMF them, the case would have been different ;" that
is to say, if I uaderstand it, the claimant would have been
sodded to vo's. In the case before us are the aounting•
been sot as completely divided from Mrs. Danford's
Imam a it is almost possible to conceive they mold have
besa ? And again, I would ask, what earthly deg or 1
particle of control has she over them ? Then them tee
the
ems of Dewed:as tr. Lockett, Lutw., vol. 2, part 1, p. 33,
where the aperient conspied • counting-boom at No. 11,
kkelklane, an whiah the appellant's landlord and silt
ether persons likewise occupied counting-homes. Then
line was a wooden gate, and a door at the outer entrance,
whisk were opea all day, but shut and locked at eight by
the landlord's clerk, who, with his family, resided on the
premises 4, protect them, and to fasten and unfasten the
gets and door on the inside, night and morning. He alone
had keys of the gat* and door. That was held by the Court
of Appeal to be • perfectly clear case in favour of the voter,
sad the real lentil of the landlord's clerk was not meridered
to affect, in the slightest degree, the voter's Mr.
S usi.,
Janice Mule says—" This is • caes of a emu
held by the appellant, at a rest of 201 a year, epee
that there is a total aheme of clreuretenese sterMeg POI
it we not compied by him as tenet. There is nothigs
to restrain and every thing to forward sea on 'meridiem.
There is no keyhole outside the gate, to order le allifill
Marrs i bet • servant, living on the premises, is reedy to
admit the occupiers of the counting-houses whenever they
dish proper. It appears, therefore, to re, that the shrine
he a exclusive • control aver his emnting.hstre se it le
=se a sea to have." It it true, it easy he sail, that
se tie hadlord did not himself mile dam, that
that h set seer ding to the letter of It, t sear is
_plat, but
the ease is very inpatient en showing the spirit of mastroc,
ilea adopted try the Court of the &Mar which Pre the
Ihneshise • and, mowing to a drilla" of the Lord Chief
Jades, die words used in that statute ars to be wandreed la
ampler and liberal sense. When I Melt, throbs', at the
extent of the ieterest, the nature, areenill, end pea* Mar
occupation, I cannot discover one regal e. Mire 1 surd
to expunge the names of these gentlemen from lbe Bet of
voters, and, consequently, I must meriale the 'Be'ad's
which have been trot to them, bet, rider all tbe deem.

PARLIAMENTARY
AND FINANCIAL REFORM.

MEETING IN LAMBETH.
Last evening a public mottos took place, at the
Oscsgs-strist National fikhool-roses. Lanbetb-walk. ke the
purpose of Imagine as exposition of the priselpas sad
of Use National Parliensistary sad Famenal litefsenair
ciente. and of townies a district ssessiMiss is essassisa
With the parent society. The place of -~s dams to
the midst of a very densely peopled aoiptbssrhsod. sad
there was a wenerses end Wendy, audience.
Mr. F. DALTON presided ; and air F. Knowxus, Bart,
and T. lilintena, Esq., Mantled as a deputation from the
association. _ _

The CHAIRMAN, It meat the proceeding., briefly
neapitidata the objects of the sesoela as stand in its
printed report. expressed his emadent gage of the sac-
Gem of the tinily, seeing that it numbered seem its sup-
porters 1110 CUM of Cobdem, Home, and Wahmeley, and
waited in its favour the suffrages ad ailealle and working
dames, who had now Oxalis side their lancet..., and
combined in one grand sad inealademeeement. (Cheers.)
Sir F. KNOWLES, afteir raft tbe Mario &guested
by the Association, said that ammo *Ott think they
went too far, whilst MAIM lbswgthey an not go I.°l
enema. The object Dal bees to safes sea greatest umber
=
1.14 °(llnuntuale Maaantet el rim ; that ems ch-
asm was wades to prineat the advocates el wider
measalres tea gag feather. Mats. beeir.) Theeaascil,
in minting these tenets es be jest sad pease es he oh-
tank by no means premeneed as eras *nag of oases.
(Beer, bear.) No °seam dreemito psalmist peeliammit
ter 'storm ; the only thing to be done wester Smuts es the
eoutitusaans. In the eseatia thanks to las old essetitu-
Non of Enema, workbag as. might maim the ege fram-
eities, and they w wild soon Sim the 1108111 is
masted
of liberal
=. The borough females was to be en
the registration court+. To NOM these chine'
lands were neemary ; end. if the working Meese failed se
support this movement, they would putty what their
anemia said of these—that they wen unworthy the fur
aim. (Hear, hear.) On the lowest calculation mere
working man paid is unjust taxation a pound a yew Mee
than hs ought; and surely it was worth his while es pay a
[shallot a year so remedy this grievance. (Hear, bear.) Let
'trot v"ic.tsoceunwlli: wrested frgeearre‘..r". bases".
end
Mr. ROBERTSn moved: " That this metiag, highly ap-
proving of the principle. sad objects of the Natlonel Puha-
' meatary and Financial Reform Association, do form them-
delves into a district a rainy, to be celled s The Lambeth
liana Reform Alleviation? "
Ma. SOWARDS, in seconding the resolution, observed I
smote borough of Waal had 14,000 Gloaters, while there
mee BO members in the hover who did not in the aggregate
tso large a number. (Hear, hear.) Of the seven I
muss dada* in this country, only *nonillion had votes ;
and this injustice would cootinue till the people Ocoee to
themselves. The people were taxed without their
consent, as much as they were by the ship-money of Charles
I. Henn it was that we bad 200 admirals in time of
peace. (Haar, hurl
T. WENTBER, Esq., said that all his sympathies were
with the working men; bat with the existing power of pro-
perty and rank in this country, he thought it imposibie fee
the operative dames to obtain their rights without the aid
of those above them in the axial scale. He wu set one of
thus philosophers who would sacrifice to a thee:mad no-
tion of right the chance of ob.aining political heeds in
the present generation. (Hear, hear.) Could the aristo-
cracy but take a just view of their own interests, they would
at cue admit the people within the pale of the constitution ;
while for the middle classes to war against that clam Mu
which they had sprung wee absolute madam. (Chasm)
It we. on a recognition of this fact that the present amagia-
time was founded. They held that to benefit one his by the
injury of another was the most short-sighted pd icy imaginable.
Only in one way coal political rights be won : by union
and exertion on the part of the working men—not the
sluggards who dissipated their minims in alt-house., and
neglected their familie., but the hard-working, careful men,
tato knew their Tighe, and wen prepared to obtain them.
(Cheers.) In alluding to the course taken by the metropo-
litan press on this 'movement, he observed that the organ
which wielded the greatest lodging* was the most infamous,
and had damned the English Om:solar throughout the Con-
tinent, by perpetrating the foulest and most atrocious libels
onEnglish truth and humanity in reference to theHuogarisn
question. (Loud cheers.) Considering the press the artil-
lery of their cause, he cordially recommended to the support
of the people the Daily News and the Morning Adverts:es',
as the only morning journals which supported this move-
ment. (Hear, hear.) Let the people invest themselves
with the franchise, and this ',pantry would then become
happy and peaceable at home, and respected abroad, as the
supporter of popular liberty, and not the ally of despots.
(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put, and unanimously carried.
Mr. FRANKLIN moved the appointment of a committee
to carry out the foregoing resolution.
Mr. TOWNSEND seconded the resolution, which was
agreed to ; and the proceedings terminated with a vote of
thanks to the chairman.

steam, without costs.
Kr. LIDO= said that as the list wee not finally closed,
parkspe the court would allow him to call attention to the
ism* of George Crewed,-hick stood in the same position
as these in whisk the court had now decided. With respect
to the remarks of the mart relative to his former observations.
be begged to state that he spoke upon his recollection of a
newspaper report. He tvd since react the ease to which that
report referred, and although it mist net be considered the
same in all respects as the came now decided, be thought
there was •• great a similarity that the court would exonerate
him from all intentional unfainsen or dbcourtesy.
Kr. M'Casuartz mid he did not attribute any discourtesy
to Mr. Ledger, but be wee bound to set the matter right.
The name of George Crantoad was then retained on the
list on the ground 'mentioned above.
The following is the malt of the revision of the list for
Litigate and Billingsgate ward :
Liberia claims snowed 6
„ disallowed 9
Liberal objections sustained
Conservative
Doable objeetione sustained
Liberal do., failed or withdrawn lO
C4neervative

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Tau cos Maximo CLetus.—Thomas William Burr
elairaed a right to vote is repeat of premises Stated at No.
8, Damian-street, is the perish of St. Botolph's,
Ilishopegate. It appeared, hawever, that the elaiamot's
same wee not on the rate.bovk for the rate published on
Ire 31st July. lie had occupied the and had paid
all the previous rates for the year, had sent in his claim
to berated on the 26th August, subeeqesatly to the publics-
tism of the het rate.
8111111 contended that the est of parliament did net
pesseribe say particular tires for claiming to be rated. If
the claim was made at any time before the completion of
the register, it would be a sabstaatlal sandiance with the
27th and 30th mates. of the Reform Act. He therefore
submitted that if the qualificatioa wee sufficient in other
repeats, the claim ought to be allowed. There was no doubt
as to the occupation of the claimant, and the only question
wee whether the sea-payment of the last rate was to dis-
qualify him. In the &ease of any distinct provision as to
time ia the sot, he thought the court lased to construe the
statute in a manner favourable to the voter.
Baowiti submitted that iso claim Gould be allowed if
the party had not paid all rates previous to the 31st July.
The words of the at were in the pest teses—he " for which
that
the
daemon shall have been rated." Though admitted
the palest of the enema to beat was on the list
present hardships in plantar eases—such as the
instance, yet he feared that, if the court wore
to decide in favour of the view takes by Mr. Smith, it would
open the door to grent abuses.
Kr. 831111 t replied that the object of the art was to give
every facility.for.the udraashannent of perms peesening
prresimasceas—not to save trouble to oblecters.
Yr. il *Camas mid the point raised was ate of great
isepreasee, and "piked time for consideration. He should,
therefore, reserve his decides.
Judgment defared.
The following is the result of the revision for Bishopegate
Ward :
Liberal claims allowed
Liberal claims disallowed
Liberal objections sustained lB
Liberal objections failed 3
CeseanWve *Meadow sustained
Conservative objectless failed
Double objection austaised ........... • •
Ezainged by barrister
The court adjourned till this mania at 10 o'clock.