The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-01 00:00:00

is no Usher to cry " ice even an
attorney's clerk far him to bully. " Batsman
sad Adolphe.* are getting thickly armed with
vacation dust, and the very mice gambol on the floor
of the Queen's Bench where ia term time the matte
swims stand to receive judgmeet
one of the courts of the City, however, there is a
tribunal biddies at the present ties its sittings, net
to decide ea the liberties, but certainly to adjudicate
ea the privileges et the subject We refer to the,
Rtegaytratioa It is not a tribunal cal men
a
. The prodding judge is neither ea oohed
nor a beg-wigged peer. He is simply eft of
that numerous clam comprehended in the phrees
" a barrister of seven years' standing." The
gentlemen who plead before him are still km
prdeesiseally meowed. Neither " her Msjeetfi
Atterney-Oseeval," nor the " Jr-AstrieW
nor " Mr. Edisitor." are rep bless The
arguments with which the court resound are quite
long, as dull, and as complicated, as if they were—s
proof that the gratification arising from hearing saw
self talk is not a vanity peculiar to the bon Bet the
pleaders in these cants are no profeesiMul advocates:
they are dimple, " Mr. &Hilt and Mr. Blowte "
gentlemen of the long-tailed coat, not of " the keg
robe"--amateur performers upon the wording and
interpretation of istricate acts of parliament—by no
means regular professional weavers of the web.
The points which " Mr. Stars and Mr. BROWN"
are in the habit of raising " he the consideration of
the learned judge," are not, perhaps, of paramount
legal inspertance, but, as we observed before, they
diem very materially one of the most important pri-
vileges orals subject The right to vote is not, or
rather It ought not to be, a matter to be
Idled with. "Enfranchising eats," may the lawyers,
• always ought to be liberally oonstrued." Registered
Asesaad claimants ought ea no smut to be ob-
belel to without very ample and sufficient mow
Bet there is too mesh reason to kar that under the
raiof which " Mr. Seems and Mr. BROW* " are
elsas, a vast deal of unnecessary trouble and
=7is given to the qualified elector. Tske a
: the lists for the wards of Queembithe.
]seed-street, and Vintry, were " revised" in this court
bet Teeeday ; and what do we find ? Why, that in
di very limited district of the City there were no
bee than 43 objeetioes made by the " rinservatives"
while were reported " unsustaised ! " Nor is his an
iodated instance. In Bishopegate Ward there were
17 mere ; in Aldgate, no less than 48!
The character of these "conservative objections"
may be judged of by a few facts. Two brothers
were members of one firm : " GEORGE and JOSEPH
lialour." They sent in a claim to be registered,
KNIOUT, for KNIGHT and KNIGHT."
tra"leveed Brown" "quoted the 30th section
el tfis Reform Act, and maintained that it was
clearly laid down that the act of one man
weld not be entertained as the act of an-
other." And thereupon "the learned Brown" made
a skisech of twenty minutes at the clone of which" the
Barrister said the claim was a claim by one of a firm
for all its members : it was a good claim and must
be allowed." Justice was dote by the Barrister :no
doubt of it. But are we not entitled to complain of
the system ander which oar most respectable mer-
chants and warehousemen are perhaps brought hun-
dreds of miles oat of the country at this season of the
year to meet frivolous and vexatious objections,which.
if cot replied to, will probably mcrifice their privilege
to vote at an election tor the City ?
This system of annoying persons who are entitled
to, or who claim to vote, is called "attending to the
registration.' It originated with the conservatives of
1835, and with the famous speech in which they were
warned to "register, register." But the system is
now carried to an extent which makes it quite a nui-
sance. The intention of the authors of the Reform
Act was that revising lit:listen should cor-
rect lists at the indent* of parish officers
and other competent authorities, who certified
from their books to the death or removal of the
parties, or to the incoming of new claimants, who
desired to establish their legal right to vote. It never
was contemplate! that Mr. Tom BASING or
Tom Any-body-else, should establish Theis, BROWN,
or ROBINSON, as an electioneering agent to take frivo-
lous objections to hundreds of duly qadifiedvoter• The
public are annoyed the proper duties of the revising
barrister are rendered of mere secondary im-
portance by this system of hearing "objec-
tions" from the raid " agents" employed by one
or other of the political pieties. And, besides all
this, the prerogative of the duly qualified elector is
really very_ often jeopardised by the working of this
!Teem. Take • ease that occurred the other day.
In one district a number of claims had been sent in,
not to the acting overseer, but to the churebvwdene
of the palish. The churchwardens of every parish
are, under the act of Elizabeth, es Irwin overseers
of the poor; but the amateur " Councillor Bitows "
took objection that "the Reform Act did not apply
to persons merely performing the duties of overseer.
Here were many dozen claims in jeopardy. Fortu-
nately for the claimants the revising barrister deesdid
that ex officio overseers" were within the meaning
of the act, and the right to vote was accordingly pre-
served.
There is a simple remedy for all this. Extend the
Franchise. Let every MOO TOGO who resides in
a parish and contributes, or claims to con-
tribute, to its rates. In that case the rate-book
alone would suffice for the register. No " Registration
Court," with its " SMITHS and Baowes," is coed-
dered necessary to secure the rights of those who are
entitled to vote at parochial elections. Under the
present electoral system, these revision courts may be
needed. But, even under that system, they ought to
be so conducted as to prevent " unsostaiwd cocottes-
tire objections" from being made by the gross merely
by way of "sedation on the absence or the incapa-
city of these wheel they cincern.

EXTENSION Cr THS MONIT ORDER SYSTEM.
Hitherto wpm aim mold say be 'routed and paid st
post tens. Tlke Postumsloweessral km sew decided on
extoosiiii the brneite et the messy arise egoism to villages.
Os owl ken Ws day, Oelebee 1, resew oriels will be draws
andrid al ti e dellowne discs : Birk, Mordimmberland ;
B y, Yeeliddris ; Brengel, Sedhodshin ; Bed.
140 , Devonshire; Be Isosenetaldre ;
Chun* Stsolsea. Mteo ; Castle , Leicester-
shire ; CebeNeeeNE, tseolsAlere; C , Somerset.
shire ; Fiehrord, Pembeeksebtre ; Fremliagiums Suffolk ;
Nalesowee, Shropshire; lieLmArth, ITaekddre; Sydney,
Olossestenntre ; Melbourne, Derbyshire; Newsom's
Malys, Cassarthenahire ; Needham Market, Suff,dk ;
Olssy, Strati hemline ; Oid Swan, Laserehire ; Port-
Mud, De ; Rothbury, Nsethemberleed ; &Mem,
Csabrligeebire ; Sitelfard, laddakirs ; Berosage, Dar-
setskire ; Weeler, Northumberland ; Winclicemb, Glouces-
tershire.

LORD DIDINAN.—A few days 'icon this noble sad
learned lord wee takinjuscru4airiag in Brum Dale, in a mall
hood carriage, which It an aecidast captive!, sad his
lordship sootainod arms al bt injury by a &reunion of the
head, which bled profusely. It is consolatory, however, to
state that his lordship is improving in gerund kralth.—Dor-
byadire Cowl r.

CLUBHOUSES TOR TIM WORKING CLAM ES.—A
wet leareetant stormed ie now being made amongst the
working dames of the metropolis Sir the metier and seta-
blishmeat of house% which shall combine the adtheages
of a Imiglag-kossi ad clubhouse, and shall she be
adapted by ladividuals ter the purposes of their respective
tri&s, wham preethabie. A virmuumeroue nesting of master
sod joerseymes bakers was Mid on lest Moe clay night, at
the Argyle-rsssr Li verpethelreset, Kirg's-erces, for the
=1 this shies, when v. was proposed to
in the sesghbourbeed el Yierre-ercee, a distinct
elates= Sse the trade. The pith beta( usaaimously sp.
thoterseatittee wee =il te wry it into effect.
Weveiperresel wee, to have • desthetent dimersions
to coa- tele arty or sixty bedrooms. fir fedi el which a chirp
was to be made of 2s. a week. There were to be warm
and said bathe, the chirp for the former to be ore
patsy, ad foe the letter one halfperay. All the daily
a, yammers sad a 'elect library was to Its provided,
mod there was to be a reading and eoffee-row.
The eithwee were estimated at about 3001., and the in-
ewe at about 366 L per wee, leaving a balsam in
favour of the speedster. d ISL It was stated that there
was so doubt that the Aseeeiation for Improving the Deed.
thsc-bosses et the Isdestriere Cheese would advance the
ware to coedit* the wiertaking. Dr. 04y, who has
takes an wire part la the establishment of model lodging.
harem, is amine la remade( the wawa plan he
winded at at the casaba(, sad, speaking is support of it, is.
ken d to the greet issellts that bad bees deri red in a wi-
re Joint of view from model Wrier-both ts. He is-
, that is IWO reed, fit. Perces*, there were
300, este of bed-rase empire' by 1,500 persons, who
ersreely ever required mead emi•tanon, aid s &tail that
there had set bees • stogie mee et cholera tb-re during the
Whitlow of the epidemie. The amount of deaths, !lOC el.'
ally among Wants, lad she been mach h‘lou th” *versa,.
We eciacide astir* with Dr. Guy's observation, that when
dab-hers for the working dames shall ba generally eon.
strneteel, cosbiaing tha sinew.. of literary ',tab', hwnts
with the thememodatios d beW sad a, a via'
moral and latellectaal irspeoveniv ,t will talc • p a .amount
the working-elesmi, who will then haw a etrtnq v t.iv.•• to
el true themselves in the rule of eoli-ty.—s4wl sv re net .