The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-19 00:00:00

ELECTION •CT AMENDMENT ACT.

Mr. Deputy HARRISON (the chairman of the freedom
committee) brought up a hport, of which the following
paINLICI are extracts:—
" That we have agreed to recommend to your honourable
court the following amendments of the Election Act
Amendment Art of 1849. That every person who shall oc-
cupy premises iu the City of London fur a period of a year
and a day, and shall pay scut and hear lot, shall be a free-
man and citizen, and shall be entitled to all the benefits
sad privileges, and be subject to all the duties thereof,
provided every person so occupying shall within 21 days
days next after the operation of such period of a year and a
day, pay into the chamber of Loudon the amount of stamp
duty theu chargeable by law upon the admission of
freemen, together with the further sum of two pounds six
shillings and eightpenee, to ho applied to the funds of the
City of London Freeman's Orphan School, recently esta-
blished. That every freeman and citizen must be rated to
some municipal, parliamentary, or parochial rate, to an'
amount of ten pound... That all reference to the register
of voters for members of parliament be repealed. That the
roll of freemen and citizens should be made out in the first
week of October, to be revised by the aldermen and common
council in wardmotc, in. the first week of November fol-
lowing, with a provision that due notice should be given in
each ward of times when, and places where such revision
shall be appointed to take place. That in the absence of
the alderman, the Lord Mayor should act in his
stead. That the qualifications fur candidates for the
common council be the same as those of the electors,
and that provision be made to prevent any person being •
candidate for the offices of alderman or common-councilman

I who may not have paid his debts in full in the event of his
having been bankrupt, insolvent, or haring compounded
with his creditors. That the qualifications for aldermen be
these of the freemen and citizens as idoresaid. And we
also recommend that the act of 11 Geo. 1., c. 18, should be
farther amended as follows: ' That freemen occupiers
should be entitled to vote in all elections in common ball, in
addition to the liverymen; that the poll at elections in
common hall be limited to one day ; that no person be eli-
gible to be a candidate at elective. :n common hall for the
utßees of chamberlain and bridgemaster without seven days'
notice of his being a candidate ; that all enactments of the
present election acts inconsistent with the foregoing pro
cations should be repealed.' We therefore recommend this
honourable court to give the necessary notices accordingly."

Tnz FAILURE OF Mka.ilts. itl:FrOlte3 BANK.—A
meeting of the creditors of the Messrs. Buford and Co.,
bankers, was held at Stoarbridge on Tuesday, and, in coo-
-1 sequence of its being quarter-day in that town, it created
considerable interest. About 120 creditors were present.
The object of the meeting was to consider the propriety of
appointing fit persons for the office of trade assignees, but
differences of opinion existed as to the proper time fur
making these appointments, and ultimately the object fell
to the ground. The liabilities of these banks were said to
be—th,,,,, of stevebridge 350,0001., and those of Brorasgrove
200,0004 With regard to the assets it was found impos-
sible to obtain any information apinoisching to accuracy.
Messrs. Glyn and Co,, of London, are creditors to the
amount of 90,0001., but these claims are covered by the
most valuable of the securities belonging to the firm, in-
cluding a large amount of the landed property of
Mr. P. Ruffurd, and 4,000 shares of the British Alkali Com-
pany, of which 600 belonged to Mr. Wragge, and the re-
mainder to Mr. F. Ruffurd. The cash found in both banks
did not amount to 1,0001. The good debts due to the
Stourbridge bank are estimated by Mr. Percival, the ac-
countont, at 2.5,000/. This is exclusive of 90,0001. doe from
the Bromsgrove bank. The whole of the latter sum had
been lent within the last two or three years. Mr. Rut.
ford's connexion with the Patent Disc Stoma Engine works
on the banks of the Thames was inquired into, but nothing ,
appeared to be known with regard to his cease:kw with
that caseera.—CAeltaiAaes Examiner.

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