The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-04 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIONS.

CITY OP LONDON.—At the sitting, on Saturday, Mr.
Henry Willis was objected to by Mr. Croucher. An inty•
resting point emu out of the objection. It appeared that
the name of the party objecting had, in the course of the re-
vision, been struck off the register, and Mr. Brown appealed
to the court whether, under these circumstances, the objec-
tion could be heard.—Mr. Smith contended that, according
to the act, all that was necessary was that, at the time when
he objected, Mr. Croucher's name should have been on the
list, and that he should have complied with the prescribed
formalities.—The Revising Barrister took the same view, but
offered to give Mr. Brown a case for the Court of Common
Pleas.—Mr. Brown said he would consider the matter.—The
case was then heard, and the name was expunged on the
merits.
Henry Harris Browning was objected to on the ground
that his name wan not inserted in the list in full ; the inser-
tion being " Henry H. Browning."—Mr. Smith contended
that the deficiency ought to be supplied.—Aßer some conver-
sation, the name was expunged.
The court will orooeed this day with the wards of Castle
Baynard and Corolla

MIDDLESEX.—Mr. Shadwell commenced the reci-
sion of the lists for the county on Saturday, at the King's
Head inn, Enfield. Mr. W. James attended as the agent for
the liberal party, and Mr. Payne on the part of the comer-
vatives.—The perishes taken were Edmonton, Enfield, Tot-
tenham, South Mimme, Monken Hadley, and Priem
Barnet. The objections and claims advanced by the two
parties respectively are much less numerous than in previous
'emit, and the questions to be raised upon them involve but
comparatively slight interest. The revision of Saturday con-
sisted of little beyond the removal from the lists of the names
of deceased persons, or of such as since the but revision bad
parted with their qualifications, and the admission of some
unopposed claims. In the Tottenham list, a Mr. Hive,
who had been objected to last year, and proved kis qua-
lification, but whose name bad keen omitted by mistake,
In the printed copy of the revised list, and whose vote had in
consequence been refused at the last election, applied to have
the error corrected. The barrister, however, decided that as
the name did not appear on the list, and as the applicant had
not sent in a claim to have it inserted as a new dam, he had
no jurisdiction in the matter. The only course was to sand
in a claim next year. —A name on the list (J. Nelson Gouty),
against which no objection had been servo] Mr. Payne con-
tended should be struck out, on the around that the descrip-
tion' of residence, viz , " Brighton," without naming any
street or place, was insufficient. The property qualification
was not disputed.—Mr. James anted that it was not com-
petent for the agent, or any other party, to. go through the
list at the revision for the poem* of strik.ing off names
to which no objection had been served : qualified
voters might be deprived of the konthist without notice, end
consequently, without any opportunity of defending their
right, while the objector, not laving served the objection,
wield be secure against the porky imposed by the act for
ohfss erhistrat reamembio ormee. In the present
i case, he
knew fat the voter waifs egmelmaater roe Wesion-
street, Brighton, bat he doelinedto hare such 'den to the
address made on Ids authority, preferring to rest the defence
on the general pridde.—The observed that ^ tra-
velling abroad" been held by the superior court to be a
sufficient description of residence.—Mr. Payne : That would
no doubt be sufficient if it was all that the voter could give.
—The barrister agreed with Mr. James that, without an
objection served, the question could not properly be raise,
and retained the name without altering the
It was complained both by the agents and the revising bar-
rister that in several instances the overseers had objected to
raters merely because of change of residence, the property
qualification remaining the same, and in others that they
had neglected their duty in not providing and publishing
the lists as required by the net. The expenses of the Enfield
overseers were altogether disallowed on these grounds.
This day the court will be held at the New Glebe Tavern,
Mile-end-road, at 10 A.M.. when the lists for the following
parishes will be taken :—Bromley, Poplar, Limehouse, Rat-
cliff, Shadwell, St. George, Whitechapel, Wapping, Mile-
end Old-town, Mile-end hew-town, Tower Without, Tower
of London, Trinity Minorite, St. Botolpb without Aidgate,
St. Peter ad Vincula, Stratford, Bow.

Loss or Two LIVES ON TUE RlTER.—Yesterday
afternoon, between two and three o'clock, an accident result-
ing in the loss of two lives, occurred on the Thames a short
distanoe below Woolwich halfway reach. A party of five,
youths had engaged a boat for a pleasure excursion down the
river, and they had proceeded in safety to the above-men-
tioned
spot, when, owing to the rough state of the water, and
the boat being somewhat overloaded, their passage became!
I exceedingly difficult and dangerous, and the water was re-
peatedly dashed into the boat, to the alarm and consternation
lof its occupenta. Two of the party were rowing, while a
third (who perished by the accident) was endeavouring to
bale out the water, when, by a sudden swell of the stream,
the boat was overturned, and the whole were immersed in
the river. By great exertions, three young men were
rescued, but the remaining two, notwithstanding every effort
awls in their behalf, were drowned, and the bodies floated
away with the tide. One of the unfortunate persons who
perished was wholly unknown to his companions, but the
other sufferer was stated to be the son of a respectable trades-
man of the nerve of Tomlinson, residing at Shoreditch.