The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-26 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIONS.

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LONDON.—The lists of St. Michael llassishaw, St.
Olave Jewry, and St. Stephen Coleman-street, occupied'
the court yesterday. On the claim of James Waters, of St.
Michael bassishaw, being investigated, the question of
tender man arose, and Mr. Ainie was further examined as
to what he should have done had the overseer taken the
money tendered ; but Mr. Arnold adhered to his decision of
the previous day, that " an intention to pay " was a neces-
sary ingredient in a legal tender. The claim was disallowed,
but Mr. Arnold expressed his readiness to grant a case on some
other claim which might raise the point of law in a clear
form. After some conversation, Mr. Wansey said he should
protest against the whole of these decisions, and ultimately
he gave notice of appeal in the case of Mr. Henry Haste,
of Basinghall-street. A long discussion ensued as to the
precise point to be raised ; and ultimately Mr. Wansey un-
dertook to draw up a case, and submit it for the approval of
the barrister. In several similar cases the claims were dis-
alio, ed. subject to the appeal. Three out of the nineteen
wards have now been disposed of. To-day, the ward of
Lishopsgate Within and Without will be proceeded with.
At the rising of the court, the result, as fur as the house-
holders' lists are concerned, stood thus :
Liberal objections, 49 sustained; failed or withdrawn.
Tory do. 143 157
Double do. 30 13
1 Abend claims, 33 . . 59
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Tory do.
Wearstuesten.—M:. C. 1). Moylan, the revising banister
for the city of Westminster, commenced his sittings yester-
dry, in the Vice-Chancellor of England's Court, Westmin-
ster-hall. The number of claims and objettion. for the
entire district is as follows:—Liberal chum., 262; Tory
claims, 24. Liberal objections, 263 ; Tory objections, none.
Mr. G. Iluggett and Mr. Trott attended as agents for the
Liberal party; Mr. Score for the opposite one. The parish first
taken was that of St. Anne, in which there was a single ob-
jection, viz., to Thomas l'ickford, 395, Oxford-street. The
only question raised in this cape wee, whether the notice of
objection was good in point of form, the objector not having
stated whether he was himself registered in the scot and lot
list or in the house list, but merely that he was " On the list
of voters." In a similar case, at Bristol, a notice so named
was held to be invalid, beeause there was an evident inten-
tio% to mislead; but no such intention or tendency appearina•
in the case under consideration, the notice was held to be
valid. and the ground of objection being also good, the vote
was disallowed.
W. H. Barry claimed to be placed on the list of voters.
The accessed taxes for the house in respect of which the
claim was made were not paid ; and the question, the deci-
sion of which turns on the construction of the 27th and 30th
sections of the Reform Act, was whether the claimant was
not entitled to be placed en the list, inasmuch as he had not
been returned in the list of defaulters but, instead, a person
named Knott, who is the superior landlord. For the claim-
ant, it was contended that the payment of the poor-rate is
sufficient. In opposition to the claim, it ISM urged that the
areseased taxes must all be paid to secure the vote. The de-
cision was postponed.
Having gone through the claims and objections in St.
Anne's, the revising barrister then proceeded with the pa-
rishes of St. Paul, Covent-garden, St. Clement Danes, St.
Mary-le-Strand, St. Martin, and the Precinct of the Savoy-.
Most of the of were sustained ; a few cases were
postponed.
PROVINCIAL.— Nosed DURHAM (COUNTY).—
A caution was given by the revising-banister in this court,
which may be useful to a certain class of claimants. A '
glaringly untenable claim having been made, the learned
barrister remarked that parties who make frivolous claims
are equally liable to costs as persons who prefer frivolous ob-
jections. The object of the legislature was to keep the
registers pure, and if any individual were proved before him
to have claimed a vote well knowing that he had no title to
one, he should impose heavy costs. It was further important
that it be known that persons who combine to Mist fictitious
Totes on the register are liable to be indicted atthe assize/4 for
a misdemeanour under the Registration Act. In the course
of the sittings, the united Liberal and Fret-trade party have
put iu one hundred and fifty new claims, and established
every one of them. The same party made twenty-three ob-
jections, of which they sustained twenty. The Tory party
made eighty-six objections, every one of which failed.
The Tories made fifty new claims, and sustained about forty
of them.
WE-T RIDING Or YORKSHIRE. On Tuesday last,
William Blanshard, Benjamin Boothby, and ',nitric 'temple,
Esqrs., the barristers-at-law appointed to revise the list of
voters in the election of the shire for the West Riding of
Yorkshire, held their court for this district at the Town-
hall, in this town. The Tories being unrepresented, the re-
sult of the revision was greatly in favour of the Liberal party,
who had a gain upon the objections sustained and new claims
made of upwards of 100. At Sheffield, the court for which
was held on Monday, the revision was as equally gratifying
as at Doncaster. The following is given as the state ot the
register as regards this district :—New claims, Conservatives,
6; Liberals, 125; doubtful, 12. Objections, struck off, Con-
servatives, 47; Liberals, 0 ; doubtful, 0. Liberal gain, 166.
WAKEFIELD.—In this borough the Tories have
gained ten votes.
COUNTY of EDINBURGII.—The registration court
for this county has concluded its sittings, and the results are
stated as follows : The total number of claims lodged was
sixty-three, of which thirty-four Couservatires and twenty-
one Liberals were admitted, the remaining eight having been
?elected, Of the votes objected, twenty-five belonged to the
Liberal, and six to the Conservative party.
LEITH.—The registration for the Leith burghs was
concluded in favour of the Liberals who have gained twenty
rotes.

ORKNEY AND SIIETLAND.—Eighty-one new claims
have been established here, of which all' belong to Liberals
except eight.

ALDERMAN WOOD AND THE CIVIC CHAIR.—The
friends of Alderman Wood met yesterday at the Crown
Tavern, Bow-lane, for the purpose of considering the means
best calculated to ensure his success at the coming election.
Atter a speech from the alderman, in which he stated that
the Irish Court of Queen's Bench had relieved him from the
charges of fraud which had been laid to him in an English
toilet, the following resolution was passed :
.• That the unabated confidence of this meeting in Alderman Wood
vantiot be inure forcibly expressed than be the earnest assurance that
• ewli and every individual composing it willow his utmast endeavours
to secure the election of the worthy alderman to the civic chair."
The meeting having given three cheers for the alderman,
separated.
THE OLD RED-BRICK RECTORY ILOUSE OF ST.
Jxfaes's, WESTMINSTER, was gutted this week, and in the
course of a couple of days will be level with the ground. It
stood in Piccadilly, at the sorrier of Church-place. In this
Los r (one of Sir Christopher Wren's) Dr. Samuel Clarke,
when rector of St. James's, wrote his " Attributes of the
Deity." Clarke, though fond of staying at home, was fond
of violent exercise ; he therefore amused himself with leap-
ing over chairs and tables. Perhaps this kind of amuse-
ment had something to do with the necessity for rebuilding
the house.
EXTRAORDINARY METEOR.—Last night, about 10
o'cick, a magnificent meteor was observed in the metropolis
to shoot with great velocity in a north-westerly direction
across the heavens. its light was so powerful, that for the
space of 30 seconds the atmosphere seemed to undergo a
transition from darkness to daylight. The attention of a
Peat number of persons was rivetted to it, and perhaps no
one amongst them ever witnessed a similar beautiful sight.
VAUXHALL GARDENS.—CLOSE OF TILE 114TH
SE "95.—Yesterdav evening the Vauxhall Gardens closed
aft( r a season of unexampled prosperity, mainly attributable
to the fineness of the weather and the attractive character of
the entertainments. The season has extended over eighty
h%e nights, the longest on record, out of which there has
at iris been five wet evenings. In the course of the evening
„,,ar
J. W. Sharp, the comic vocalist, delivered the following
valedictory address
Gentlemen, —I am deputed by the management to say
words at paring on this the last night of the season, which has
?ten one of the mod favoured us regard." the weather that bas ever
loom by the oldest member of the establishment. It Is a pleas-
., tatk at all Times to meet our friends, but it is the reverse at parting
with them. We have • . t our eighty-fifth night, and lam
irotrueted b I now
arrived
t management to bid you farewell, and to convey their
Muni, hp .
.you tor the extensive patronage they have received, also tol
the..t thanks of the ladies and gentlemen of the vocal department,
I.hestra, the member; of M. Tourniairr's troupe, the illumina-
:!_e"ral pyrotechnic "wastes, and every member of the establishment,
't';i.,l2!....arouragement and support they have received throughout
Vest season that has ever been attempted. It now only
sri' UM to say most respectfully—k'arewelL"