The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-25 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIONS.

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LONDON.—Mr. ARNOLD proceeded yesterday with
the parishes in the ward of Aldgate and Billingsgate.
Benjamin Boyd was objected to by the Tories, on the ground
of non-residence. He had been abroad since 1811, but pre-
viously to his leaving the country he had resided with his
brother, in New Bank-buildings the house being in their
joint occupation. He still paid be share of the expenses,
and was expected home in a few months. Mr. Arnold, on
the authority of a decision of Lord Denman, some years ago,
that if a man went abroad, and left his house in the occupa-
tion of a portion of his family, be did net lose his qualifica-
tion, decided to retain the name.
John Dingwall, a Tory claimant, was examined in support
of his qualification. It appeared that the claim had been
duly served, and that a under of money had bees made by
one of the Tory agents for any rates that might be due. Ding-
wall said he did not believe any rates were due at the time ;
but if there had been anything to pay he should have
expected another application to be made to him. Mr.
Arnold said it was quite clear no authority to pay had been
given in this case ; the claim must be disallowed. Mr. Brown
said he did not believe that any intention really existed on
either side, to pay the various sums that had been tendered.
Mr. Arnold said, in that case be should think it right to in-
vestigate these claims more closely.
The next similar case was that of Joseph Bates, of St. Mar-
pre!, Lothbury, a Liberal claimant. Mr. Aime proved the
service of the claim on the overseer, to whom he made a
tender of any rates that might be due, and received the usual
answer that the overseer did not know whether anything
was due or not. In answer to questions from the barrister,
Mr. Aine said he deemed that, in making the tender, he
was fulfilling the requirements of a certain section of the
lteform Act, and doing what was sufficient for that purpose;
he had no instructions to de more than make the tender ; ho
got his instructions generally from Mr. Sidney Smith, who
merely observed that there was an obligation under the Re-
form Act to make a tender of the rates due when the claim
was served. Had the overseer told him the amount due, he
should probably have withdrawn the claim, but the case did
not arise. By exhibiting the money at the time, he thought
that a sufficient fulfilment of the law. Mr. Smith directed
him to make the tender in the way he had described. He
did not direct him to pay the money, further than might be
inferred from the fact of making the tender. Witness con-
sidered that he complied with his instructions by producing
the money. He had made a good many tenders in respect
to the present registration, some in every parish in the city ;
but he had never had occasion to make any payment. He
had occasionally withdrawn claims, sometimes on the ground
of the overseer stating the amount due, sometimes for other
reasons. He generally communicated what he had done in
this respect to Mr. Smith, who approved of the discretion he
had exercised, It was his own money that he tendered in

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case,—Mr.eech Wansey submitted that this was a sufficient
tender. It had never been called in question by the person
to whom the money was tendered.—Mr. Arnold said he was
clearly of opinion that this was not a tender. In the that
sees of this description which had arisen his attention had
been drawn to the remarkable manner in which the authority
was wo • rded• The 80th section of the Reform Act enabled
e party whose name was not on the rate to make a claim to
be Wed, but it annexed the condition that he should actually
pad or tender the full amount; of rates then due. It was
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the iutention of the legislature that an actual pay-
ment or' bone fide tender should be nude. The wording of
the authority was singular, for it did not adopt the words of
the 80th section, and authoriee Mr. Sidney Smith to " pay"
or "under" the amount of the rens,
On but merely gave an
authority for " tendering payment." the evidence given
by some of the claimants, that they understood this to be an
authority to pay the rates, he had given effect to that autho-
rity ; but what be had now heard made him extremely regret
having done so; and he was afraid he had admitted a great
many persons to the register who had no right to be there.
, It was obvious, from Mr. Aime's evidence, that it was in-
tended merely 'to make a tender, without any actual pay. •
ment. On a former occasion Mr. Smith had stated that, if !
?dr. Aime had paid any money, he would have been repaid
from some other fund, and that, although he considered '
himself retitled to call on the claimant for the repayment, ,
' he should probably not have done so, as a matter of feeling. ,
That, certainly, was a suspicious fact; and hulled now elicited ,
another—that Mr. Aims was instructed to make a tender, but ,
should probably have withdrawn the claim, had the overseer
stated the amount due. And on finding that he had actually '
done so on more than one occasion, he was bound to come to the ,
conclusisa that the tender was not made bed fide with a ,
view of paying the rates, if any had been found to be due, ,
but that it was altogether a fraudulent and fictitious tender.
116 was decidedly of opinion that the
assnBoh section of the Act
bad not been complied with, that it ot a tender made ,
by the party or any authorised agent on his behalf, and that
therefore the name must be omitted.—Mr. Wansey hoped •
the court would grant a case.—Mr. Arnold : Certainly uot ;
because if I did, 1 should state to the Court of Common
' Fleas that it was fictitious and fraudulent.—Mr. Wansey,
after some discussion, handed in a written notice of appeaho l,
and said he felt it his duty, on the part of the claimant, w ,
was dissatisfied with the decision, to give this notice.—Mr.
Arnold: I have already said I would not grant a case. I
cannot hear you agam.—Mr. Wansey : Unless the court
grants a case, 1 shall certainly make an affidavit of the facts,
and apply to the Court of Common Pleas fur an order. —Mr.
Arnold : Perhaps you had better apply to the Queen's Bench
for a mandamus ; but it is not for me to suggest what you
ought to do.--Mr. Wunsey : I consider no justice is to
be had in this court, if such decisions are to be
given.—Mr. Arnold: I trust I shall net hear an
observation of that kind again. Hitherto we have gone on
not only properly, but pleasantly. But if gentlemen so far
forget themselves as to make observations of that kind, I
shall decidedly make an order that they be not admitted
into this court. This court is a court of justice, and its pro-
ceedings must be conducted with some order and propriety.
Mr. Arnold then returned the notice to Mr. Wansey, ob-
sereing, e I have written an obsery %ion upon it."
No other case of interest occurred yesterday. Some
amusement was created, just before the using of the court,
by the circumstances in which Thomas Wright, a claimant
in St. Mary-at-Hill, 'presented himself. In his anxiety to
possess the franchise, he had signed two printed forms of
claim, one of those supplied to him by either party; and the
overseer stated that he had made a " verbal" claim in addi-
tion. The claim being allowed, the voter hoped
r the " worthy
barrister" would allow him " a something, as he had been
kept there all day, fortifying his application by the state-
ment that he " was very dry." The ward of Aldgate and
Billingsgate was concluded, and one parish in the ward of
Bassein's, was gone through. The result of the four days'
revision of the householders' lists is as follows: Liberal
objections, sustained, 42 ; failed or withdrawn, 83: Tory,
sustained, ;8; failed or withdrawn, 125: double, sustained,
33; failed or withdrawn, 13: Liberal claims, sustained, 32;
failed or withdrawn, 49.
PROVINCIAL. LEEDS. Yesterday, William
Gray, Esq., the barrister appointed to revise the lists of
voters for the borough of Leeds, and several other of the
West Riding boroughs, opened his court fur that purpose,
in the Court House at Leeds. Mr. Bertie Markland, solici-
tor, and Mr. Autey, their Registration agent, appeared for
the Conservative electors ; Mr. Chutes Naylor, and Mr. T.
Morgan, Registration agent on behalf of the Whigs and
Free Traders. The number of objections made was not
very considerable, and as several of them had been with-
drawn, the attendance of spectator,' was small; and up to
the hour when our express parcel was sent off, no point of
general interest had occurred.
STEPNEY ANTI-TITHE MEETING.
The parishioners of Stepney, in accordance with a
requisition put forth by the Stepney Anti-Church-rate and
Parochial Reform Association, hell a public meeting at the
Temperance Hall, Mile End-road, yesterday evening at
seven o'clock, to take into consideration the best means of
frustrating the proposal of the Tithe Commissioner, and the
representative of lirazenose College; to introduce a local act
for the exaction of garden pennies and Easter dues in the
parish of St. Dunstan's, Stepney. Mr. Thomas Hoary Fry
presided.
The Ceentmeet opened the proceedings by saying that be
would not go into details with regard to the measures adopted
by certain visitors, the Tithe Commissioner and the repre-
sentative of Bruenoze, who came into the parish to feel
their way, in order to discover the steps they should take
to compel them to pay towards the support of an
ecclesiastical establishment. This meeting would, however,
act on the broad principle of religious liberty, and show that
that they detested the compulsory support of any ecclesiasti-
cal establishment. The government and the legislature had
no power to interfere with their consciences or compel them
to pay for the support of any church. As far as he was con-
cerned he was a loyal subject, but when the government
came to infringe on his right of conscience, he would become
a staunch rebel. (Cheers.)
Mr. Put seer proposed the fleet resolution, and stated that
the rector of the parish of Stepney having failed twice in ex-
acting Easter dues, now attempted, by bringing forward Mr.
White, of Brasenose-college, to compel them to pay them by
a local act. He believed, however, that they could not be
compelled to do so by act of Parliament; he already called
for the production of such an existing act, which could not
be discovered. He called upon Mr. IVhite, and asked him
what he would do if the parishioners refused to come to a
, composition of their claims by a local act, and he was told
1 that litigation would be tried. That test they would have
tried before they paid a farthing. It was for them now to
decide whether they were to be frightened into acquiescence
by such extremes. The resolution he begged to propose was :
That this meeting cannot but express its surprise that an attempt
should be made in this parish to enforce those obsolete and objection-
able imposts, garden pennies and Easter dues, especially after the
defeat of two church-rates within the last fourteen months.
Mr. GLENVILLE seconded the resolution' stating that he
would ever oppose the system of any church being esta-
blished and supported by. act of Parliament. He warned
the people of Stepney against being a party to this local act;
let them take their stand on the defenuve, and try whether
there was an act in existence to compel them to pay these
unjust dues. If garden pennies or Easter dues could be
exacted by any existing act of Parliament, they would net
now try to force a compromise. He believed that if they
took their stand on the broad principle that re-
ligious liberty should be- left unfettered by the
state, and that each religion should be left to
tight for itself, the matter would be sooner settled than
they imagined. He called upon the meeting to send in their
adhesion to the Anti-State Church Society, or some other
similarly organised body. That church which cannot stand '
by the voluntary contribution of its congregation should fall,
and if the minietere of that church could rot live by his
faith, he should live by the sweat of his brow. (Cheers.)
Mr. Baooaxs said that this claim arose out of the failure
of an attempt to levy a church-rate in the parish. The Tithe
Commutation Commissioners came among them in a most
insidious manner, by entering into conversation with some
of the parishioners in a tavern in the parish, in order to
break the ice; he was never suspected until he brought with
him the Brasenose gentleman, and then they were both put
down as vagabonds. (Laughter.) He would tell them that
there was no existing act to compel them to pay garden
pennies. He wished to warn them against a•••ffing to this
commutation, for every inhabitant having a garden would
be obliged to pay this modus instead of the garden penny.
The commissioners stated that the next time he came
amongst them he would compel them, and they
ought u soon as possible to take steps to intimidete
him, and nothing short of an agitation from one end of the
parish to the other, and a combination of entire parishes,
would beat him on this question. (Cheers.) He cordially
supported the resolution, and he hoped that they would be
prepared to enter into subscriptions in can the question
might become one of litigation.
Mr. HAI:ORTON then entered into a detailed account of
his interviews with the resident tithe commissioners and the re-
presentative! of Brasenose College, who at one meeting stated
that the Easter dues amounted to 900!. per annum, but if
the parish would come to some arrangements, the college
would not press that amount. He, himself, was opposed to
ant arrangement. The resolution was agreed to.
Mr. Oreolt proposed the second resolution to the effect :
"That the e.aims .et up for Easter dues and garden pennies had
is origin in the voluntary offering of a dark age, and from absurd
custom, which ought never to have been attempted to be enforced by
law; sad in the present enlightened state of the country, ought nut
to be sanctioned or perpetuated."
Easter offerings were originally optional from their very
name, but those who refused to pay them were liable to be
deprived of a christian burial, and in every way to be
treated re a heretic, but in the present age, their payment
should net be made in any way compulsory. The sooner
they cut off those payments, the sooner would they be
bound together by one common bond of christian brother-
hood. (cheers.)
Mr. DI:NNE seconded the resolution. They should not
acquiesce in this local act; they should leave the legislature
responsible for such acts, if it thought proper to enforce
then. They should object to this mode of exacting dues.
They owed nothing to the monkish clergy who instituted
tae mor to their state-paid successors. It was then unani-
mously agreed to. -
Mr. flames proposed
a l'o'centtetthisto eting meet earnestly deprecates the attempt to inflict
tmardg it as enforce the payment of Easter dam and garden pennies,
a violation of the great principles of religious ,
"a, coilsleon every inhabitant of Stepney to aid in frustrating it."
thetta.as seconded by Mr. lize,and carried. After wich
meeting separated.

POST-OFFICE IMPROVEMENTS.—It is rumoured that,
inconsequence of the many earnest entreaties on the part of the
public for increased Post-office accommodation, in the course
f
kw days a series of improvements will be adopted.
Pude% ofletters and newspapers are to be more frequent,
and deliveries more numerous than they now are, both in
town and in the provinces, so that the letters to and from
'n north of England, and those to and from Ireland and

Ileallead, ere to be sandiestel Extra post-oftlese are
pdenidy appointed in many towns and villages. Fees of all
Mil are to be abolished eveassidly. and the subordinate
uses,, who have hitherto been the ddefreeipients of them,
M. paid asemadag to length a eireitade, according to
lams
mole emer Whet the Lords of Her Nsosety'lt Treasury, of
a most need end considerate eharaster. When the new
Money Order Moe in Aldermen:Hama is finished, the whole
of the business sithis importaat department will be trans.
famed thither, and the rooms now used be taken into the da-
trielpiatailles, which, in consequence of the increase of
business, much requires enlargement.
Sorts SEA HousE.—Yesterday a quarterly Gene-
ral Court of proprietors was held at the company's
house in Threadneedle-street. Charles Franks, Eoq., the
sub-governor, in the chair. The minutes of the last court
were read and confirmed. An amount of the company 'a
bond debt was read by the secretary. The committee of
bye-laws were re-elected, and there being no other business,
the court adjourned.
PUBLIC NUISANCES.—A vestry meeting was held
yesterday evening at the vestry-room of St. Paul's Church,
Shadwell, in pursuance of a numerously-signed requisition,
to consider the best means of abating several r uisances exist-
ing in the pariah, highly injurious to the health of the neigh-
bourhood. Mr. Taylor, the churchwarden, presided on the
occasion, and several parishioners and members of the vestry
addressed the meeting. The nuisance more immediately
complained of was that of a soap-boiling establishment,
earned on by a Mr. Cohen in New Gravel-lane, and where
putrid carcasses of cattle that died on the passage from
Holland or Germany, were boiled up, causing a dreadful
stench. The beasts were brought in this foul state in carts
openly through the streets to the premises. The medical
officer of the district had reported the nuisance with others
to the Board of Guardians, who had threatened Mr. Cohen
with proceedings, and Mr. Cohen had promised to abate the
cause of complaint. Mr. Browne, the promoter of the
meeting, said that his whole family as well as himself had
been made ill by the vicinity of this establishment, and be
had written to the Secretary of State to complain, who re-
ferred him to an act of parliament that would afford redress.
After considerable discussion, resolutions were agretd ta,
declaring the existence of the nuisance and the necessity of
adopting means to remove it, and the meeting separated.
THE LATE LORD VISCOUNT TEMPLETOWN.—This
nobleman, who died at his seat of Castle Upton, in the
county of Antrim, on the 21st inst., had nearly completed
his 75th year, having been born on the Bth of November,
1771. The family is origically from Devonshire, and the
first member of it who settled in Ireland was Henry Upton,
a captain in the Earl of Essex's army in 1698. He married
a sister of Viscount blassareene, settled in the county of
Antrim, and sat in the Irish Parliament for the town of
Carrickfergus. His son, Arthur, intermarried with the
Beresford family. Clotworthy Upton, the next head of the
family, joined the standard of William 111. at the siege of
Limerick, at the head of an independent company he had
raised, and in the assault was taken prisoner, after his fol-
low .rs had been nearly to a man cut to pieces. His first
wife (but by whom he had no issue) was the only daughter
of Roger Boyle, Earl of Orrery. Ilia brother, John, who
succeeded him, was distinguished at the storming of the citadel
of Liege, and at the battle of Almanza. In short, the family
belongs to a class tolerably numerous in the Irish peerage,
descended from right Protestant English soldiers, and esta-
blished by a succession of generations all sturdy fighters,
with a sharp eye to the main chance. Of the two or three
last generations there is little to record except that (len-
worthy Upton, Esq., was elevated to the Irish P erage in
1776, as Baron Templetown, for such services as were then
rewarded by such elevation; that his eon, the late lord,
transferred the baron's into a viscount's coronet by much
the same process. The late viscount is succeeded by his
eldest son, Henry Montague, now Lord Templetown, born
in 1799. Ile leaves three other sons, and a daughter married
John Eden Spalding, Esq., son of Lady Brougham by her
first husband.
COUNTERFEIT GOLD.—The public are cautioned
against counterfeit half sovereigns, with which the metropolis
is at this moment inundated. They are electrotyped, and so
admirably executed that it is very difficult to detect them.
WANTED A SF.XTON.—The vestry meeting of St.
Botolph, Aldgate, yesterday summoned amongst other things
to elect a sexton, was obliged to separate without completing
its purpose, there being no candidate for the office of sexton
resident in the parish.
CARRIAGES FOR THE SIIERIFFS-ELECT.—Our
attention has been called to two new state carriages, in-
tended for Mr. Alderman Challis and Mr. Kennard, sheriffs-
elect for the ensuing year. They have been built by Messrs.
Home and Co., and to be seen at their establishment. The
carriages are less gaudy, than others of their kind.
They are, respectively, bine and silver and green and geld,
and adorned with the City arms and those of the Skillings'
and Carpenters' Companies.
UNPLEASANT DISCOVERY.—On Tuesday afternoon a
man named Smith, one of the crew of the Emerald Graves-
end steamer, observed a brown paper parcel in the cabin;
and, as no one applied for or claimed it, he took it to the
booking-office immediately after the vessel reached Graves-
end. There being no name or address upon it, after a short
delay it was considered advisable to open it, when it was
found to contain the body of a newly-born female infant. It
was shortly removed in the custody of the police at the
Town-hall, and awaits an inquest.
THE METROPOLITAN TESTIMONIAL TO Mn. COB.
DEN, M.P.—The metropolitan contribution to the national
tribute to be presented to Mr. Cobdea now amounts to nearly
13,0001., making the grand total but little short of 80,000/.—
Globe.
DARING TAVERN ROBBERY.—Yesterday, informa-
tion was circulated throughout the Metropolitan and City
Police divisions of a daring robbery having on the previous
morning been committed at the Hand and Sceptre Tavern,
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, by two men who slept at the house
the night before, and who stole and carried off with them
the sum of 1501. in Bank of England, Lewes Old Bank, Tun-
bridge and Tunbridge Wells Banknotes of 51. and 101. each.
One of the men was about forty years of age, flae feet eight
or nine inches high, very full faced, slight whiskers under
his chin, stout made • dressed in a black drew-coat, satin
waistcoat, and black trousers, cloth half-boots, and half-
mourning neckerchief ; the other thirty-six or thirty-seven
years of age, and slight made, dressed in black, had a thick
brown Taglioni with velvet collar and cuffs, and lined with
plaid drugget, and a silk umbrella with ivory handle.
DARlNGBCRGLART.—Yeaterday,information was re-
ceived at Bow-street, that on the night of Sunday last, the
house of Mr. M. Kennedy, watch and clock-maker, Chester-
gate, Macclesfield, was broken and entered by thrcing the
gate at the back of the premises, and the following valuable
property stolen therefrom, viz., thirteen silver watches, a
number of watch movements, two secret link gold guard
chains, a breqnet ditto, a French curb ditto, two curb ditto,
a very fine curb ditto, eight silver watch guards, 40 pairs of
jet earrings mounted in gold, 16 ounces of coral beads, &c.
ACCIDENT.—DEATH FROM DROWNlNG.—Yeaterday
morning, about two o'clock, a fatal accident occurred to a
young man of the name of John Matthews, a printer, em-
ployed at Beaufort-house, Strand, who, along with a fellow-
workman named William Evans, had been spending the
evening with one of the men employed on the Bee steam-
boat, and with whom they were going to sleep on board the
vessel, on account of the wetness of the night. On passing
from the pier to the boat, Evans slipped and fell overboard ;
John Matthews instantly jumped into the river to save his
companion, but unfortunately struck his head against the
paddle-box, immediately sank, and was drowned. Ills body
was not found until nine o'clock yesterday morning. Evans,
more fortunate, clung to the chain of the pier, and was hauled
in by the engineer. The deceased has left a wife and four
children.
INQUESTS.—ALLEGED DEATH FROM POISON.—
The inquiry into the death of J. Brockwell, at Shadwell,
mentioned iu Wednesday's paper as involving a suspicion of
poison, was concluded yesterday. The post mortem exami-
nation proved that death was caused by a disease of the
heart of long standing. There was a little opium found in
the stomach, but not sufficient to cause death. Verdict,
" Natural death."—DEATH PROM FEVEIL—By Mr.
Carttar, at the Salutation Tavern, Woolwich, on two con-
victs. The first, B. Talboys, 76 years of age, had been sen-
tenced at the Gloucester assizes of October, ISO, to be trans-
ported for seven years. He was seized with fever and in-
flammation of the lungs on the 7th inst., and died from those
disorders. The medical man proved that every attention
was paid to him, and that a post trityrtem examination had es-
tablished the nature of his death. The jury observed some
diacolorations of the body, which the medical man explained
to be the results of violence. The second, William
Smith, 56 years of age, sentenced at the Gloucester
assizes to transportation for life, died of a similar
disease, but of • more severe character. Several cases
of this disorder have occurred at Woolwich. In both
cases the verdict was " Death from natural eauses."—
DEATH FROM SUFFOCATION.—At the Globe, Lower-road,
Deptford, before Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for West Kent,
on the body of Mr. Robert Wade, an extensive builder,
who was found dead in a water tank at the rear of his pre-
mises, Broom-fields, on Wednesday morning. Deceased
was seen that morning a little before six o'clock, by one of
the workmen, and at nine o'clock was found, after having
been missed for some time, drowned in a tank not more
than two feet square, and four feet nine inches deep, the
water in which at the time was only two feet two inches
deep. Deceased's head was in the water, and the body
doubled up. It was conjectured that he had committed
suicide. It is possible that he may have fallen into the tank,
having gone to examine it, and being subject to giddiness.
After some discussion, the jury returned a verdict, "Suffo-
cated in a tank, but how deceased came there, there was no
evidence to show."—DEATH BY THE SWELL OF A
STEAMER.—By C. Carttar, Esq., at the Fishing Smack,
Deptford, on the body of William Lake. Deceased, with
two other men, was on the river, in three wager boats, as
the 12th, and were returning up with the tide, and who
nearly opposite Limehouse the City of Aberdeen came put,
and the swell upset the three boats, and they were all im-
mersed in the water, and deceased was drowned. The jury '
were of opinion that no blame could be attributed to the
persons in charge of the steamer, and returned a verdict of
"Accidental death."—DEATH AFTER A WEDDING.—By
Mr. W. Baker, coroner, at the Clay Hall public-house, Old
Ford, on the body of Elizabeth Johns, aged twenty. The
deceased was married on Sunday last, at the parish church
of All Saints, Poplar. In the evening the bride complained
of severe pains in the chest, and returned to her father's
house, Old Ford. On Monday she appeared worse, and the
surgeon who prescribed for her at once said her case was
hopeless. She died on Tuesday morning. Verdict, " Died
from natural causes."—DEATH FROM REMO RUN OVER.—
By Mr.l'ayne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of
Abraham Polley, aged 71, of North-place, Gray's-inn-lane.
On the 12th of August deceased, while crossing Snow-hill,
ran against a woman walking from the opposite side, and,
before they could get to the foot-path, two vehicles, a gig
and a dray, came upon them. The woman escaped unhurt,
bat the deceased was run over by the dray,. Ile died on
Saturday last. Verdict, " Accidental death,'