The Express.
London, England, 1849-10-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, 1849.

The Bay. Mr. MURRAY, in morading the reselatims.
took oceeslon to allude to the magnificent meeting that bad
taken place la the Hall on Cowmen), • meetng at which
sentiments were expressed worthy the' Weston temple of
chriatianity. (Cheers.) lie had recently received • copy of
a Barbadian paper, in which complaint was made of the
leaking up of the Island mails on Sunday, end a comparison
draws between that system and the holy calm with 'aids
Sunday was observed in London. (Hear) He trusted
that London was net to lose the diatinguielted place here
awarded to her, bet that, on the contrary, the stand they
were making in this matter would secure an ..broken sat-
bath kr Landon. for the country, and for the colonies.
(Iletr hoer) The resolution was put, and naanimously
agreed to. _ .

The Rev. XL ROX BY moved the second resolution:
"'flat we are fully convinced that, however openly the
Lotcreday be desecrated in some localities and by some
classes in society, such desecration is not is accordance with
the real feelings of the people of this country, bat that it is
regarded by the great majority of our fellow Christians as an
end which is a matter of shame and regret."
His impression was. norfieend by the testimony of many
commercial men, _ that Sunday Postsoffice labour might be
dispensed with all over the country, the more espeoally as
the electric telegraph was now in such mend operation.
The Rev. Mr. POVAII seconded the resolution. If any
argument were wanting to prove the raise of a strict ob-
servance of the Sabbath, it would be found in the reports of
the gaol chaplains, who invariably stated that violin]. at-
tributed their fall from virtue invariably to a neglect of the
Lora's Day. It was too bid that they should be proposing a
desecration of the Sabbath et a moment when the rulers of
France were endeavouring to enforce its more strict °bare.
ace in that country. (Hear, hear.)
The resolution was agreed to.
The Rev. Mr. GIBBS moved the third resolution:
" That it is the duty of a Christian government to secure
to all its subjects rest from labour, and op; °nullity of wor-
shipping God on the Lord's day_ ; and therefore we humbly
bat most earnestly entreat her Majesty's government not to
csrry into effect the proposed order for the employment of
clerks in tranamiting letters on the Lord's day, but to cake
measures for the total cessation of the labours of the Pcist-
offi.e throughout the kingdom on that day, it being the opi-
nion of many well informed persons that such • scheme is
new practicable, and that by additional deliveries of letters
io the country on Saturday evening, and by earlier trans-
missions of letters on Mouthy morcing, the fullest coopera-
tion would be made to the inhabiter"' of the kingdom for
any inconvenience which might follow from ti a stoppage of
Sunday morning deliveries.'
He could suite from inquiries he bad made in his own parish
that there would be no difficulty in perfecting a plan which
would do away with the notessityo' Bunday,labour. lodeed,the
clerks of the inland office had already submitted a scheme.
He was happy to know that the whole of that department
had refused the bribe offered to them for Sabbath desecra-
tion, except one person, and he was one who was node:
suspensor, and was of coon, 1111XiJUS to get restored to
tavern.
- - • •

•-•--•
The Rte. Mr. DEAR Ronda the resolution, which was
carded tanardmously.
The Rev. Mr. SANDYS moved the fourth resolution :
"That we have such coufidencs in the existence of a
deeply seated r.verence for the L ga's day on the part of
the people of thisecuotry, as Justifies as in believing that the
merchants and traders, as well as the gentry of the kingdom,
would be thank:ul to h►ve the Sabbath morning uninter-
rupted by the arrival of letters, and that three who are en-
gaged in commerce would be glad to posers, one day in P*lrCll,
that freedom from the trammels of business and the anxieties
of the counting house, which the inhabitants of London have
hitherto enjoyed, and which they have not ceased to regard
as a sound and invaluable privilege, the lots of which would
be 'lune calamity."
The EAT. Mr. EVANS seconded the resolution, which,
like the others, was carried without a dismatient.
It was submonently arranged that the above resolutions
should be sent round to the clergy of the arehdeaconry for
signature, and that when signed they should he inserted in
the daily papers, and ales forwarded as the heads or the
peernment.
Thanks were voted to the chairman, and the proceedings
terminated.

THE REGISTRATIONS.

MIDDLESEX..
The revision cf the register of voters for the county
of Middle's,: was concluded yesterday at the White Hone,
Uxbridge, where the lists fur the parishes of Uxbridge,
Hillingdon, lekenhaes. Cowley, Hayes, Reislip, West
Drayton, Brasfield, and Norwood, wire corrected.
In the Hillingdon list,
Mr. hues proved service of notices of objection against
the claims of J. Willis and others, who sought to be put on
the register for a quiliticaticn arising out of freehold ground,
and stated that the./ claims arms out of a piece el garden
ground which had been cut and carved cut into allotments
for the purpose of conferring the frauds". In neither of
these wee, he believed, had " forty shallop by the year "
been derived from the land by the ciainants, and therefore
the franchise could not be maintained.
Mr. Witads, who wit present, admitted, on examination,
that he and the ether claimants had only been in pommel=
of the property four months, and
The Bansuarge, therefore, disallowed the claims, on the
I ground of in term of occup lion, without going
into the wadi:co( vale*.
In the Uxbridge list,
Mr. PAINS objected to leveret claims made on behalf of
Messrs. Fowler, Greenhide, Gardner, and others, on the
ground that they were d ited in Apr), 1849, whereas the act
required they should be made between the 20th of June and
the 20th of July.
The BailuSTEß—When were they rent Pete the overseer ?
Mr. PAYNE contended that it mattered not when the
claims were sent in, the question was as to the date. The
act r. golfed that the chins should be made between a certain
day in June and a cernio day in July ; but in the cases now
under consideration the claims bore the date of April,
which, submitted, was not a compliance with the act of
parliament.
Mr. Jamas—The act says that the claim shall be seat in
on or before the 20th of July, and it appears here that
the parties claimed before that time ; I therefore apprehend
that they were in time.
The Banusrxe.—Thequestion, I think, for me to c ,nsider
is, whether the claims were sent in in proper time.
Mr. Bennis proved that he had delivered the claims in
etch of the cases in rotation to the overseen on the 11th or
12th of July.
Mr. PATNI contended that claims dated in April could
I not be taken as complying with the act, which required they
should be made in July.
The Bailsman thought if the claim had not been sent
In before the 20th of June, or bad been delivered after the
10th of July, the objection would be gond, hut having been
sent in within the period required by the act, though et was
dated in April, it was sufficient
Kr. Jamas could conceive that a question might arise if
the present overseers had not been in office when the cl.iets
wive dated, bat not otherwise. Due notice was given, and
though the &dm was dated at en earlier t erioi of the year
than was necessary under the act of parliament, that was no
ground for keeping the parties off the register.
Mr. PAINS held. that the act required the notice to be
given in the months of June and July between certain days
midfield, and the proof of the nein being so given was the
date which it hoe.
The Balillirrla observed that had the claim been sent in
before June or after July the oven:ere might have dis-
regarded it ; bat it having been sent in within the required
period, and admitted by the overseers, he saw no reason for
refusing to place the name on the register, supposing the
qualification to be sufficient.
The claims were accordingly allowed.
Mr. :AWES malted the barrister's attanti in to the ease eof
Mr. Remington Mills, whose name had been struck out on
the revision of the Mile-end lit, upon an overseer's °bio-
tin, made beeauss Mr. Kills had claimed to TUTS at another
pothers-pine. Mr. Mills was now present, and prepared M
prove his qualificaticm.
The Baßalirrilli said he recollected the nes NI OM Is
which he had been compelled to strike oat the name is
onsequence of an overseer's objection having been made, I
sad the party not being present to prove his
qualification. He would most willingly restore the name Uhe
weld be satisfied that the qualification was sufficient.
Mr. KIMINGTON MILLS proved that he was the owner is
fee of a large sugar warehouse in Miie-end Old Town worth
ensiderably more than 40s. a year, and that he had been in
the receipt of the rent arising from it upwards of two years.
The name was restored In the list.
A claim for expenses was made by the offieer from the
Clerk of the Pesee's office, which wee discharged by Kr.
James on behalf of Mr. Mills.
The same of the Rev. Mr. Collins, and that of another
clergymen. who hod claimed in London • share In two
hens dissinil at Nos. Nand 31, St. PartinM's.le-Greed, the
et oho Bishop of London, which were expunged at
ilion":2ecteeet. the banister being then of opinion that the
qualification described woo insufficient, were now restored to
Ike lie. The name aim of Mr. Fitch, of Ludgate-hill, and
sewhor who had claimed in London upon a
Wig eat of land tax redeemed, which had
I Milk ent em the revision of the city lists, were also re-
pissed wpm the Hi, the barrister being of opinion that a
qualification might arise out of the description given, and
that the 'gentled inaccuracy might be amended.
This revision, upon the whole, his been favourable to the
eonaervatives, who have gained upon it about 100 votes.
The expenses allowed to overseen for printing and pub-
lishing the lista, and for attending this revision, as far as any
returns have been made, are as follows:
s. d.
Brantford
Bedfont
Hammenmith
Mile Bud ll9 0 6
n Bethnal Gin
Ring's Cross
City of London 197 ii 10
City of Westminster ll7
az 14 0
BefiW
Hammen
Hamb4e.ed l6 4 4
• ll6 6 6

£B6O 5 5
This is exclusive c 4 44 parishes, from which accounts hays
not been sent in.

GREENWICH.
.1
818 WALTER BUCHANAN RIDDELL, Bart., one of
the barristers appointed for the purpose, held a court yester-
day at the Greyhound Inn, Grearffieh, to wise the Ildi of

the several parishes included in the parliamentary borough
of Greenwich.
lir. Wm. Joins, solicitor, attended as behalf of the
Minh ; the tories were not represented Os the °madam.
The objections were few and unstated chiefly adieu
ends by the overseen. Tune objections in the Piumatead
list wen withdrawn.
On the list for St. Nicholas, Deptford, being entered on,
Mr. Wane, one of the overseen, took a mauler course,
and said that ha should object to the whole list, because it
tad not been published in time. It appeared that some
difference existed amongst the; °veneers, and keno. this
objection.
Mr. loom said that, if the °Dietitian were well founded,
there was a dense of the au which expressly provided fur
the cue of such as ondesion.
The BEMUSESi observed, that if the list had not been
published in time, Mr. Webb was as much to blame as any
body. However, the objection bad no weight.
Tin lists were then proceeded with, but no other point of
interest um.
Mr. Jonas supported the whole of the claims, without
Weren't to political party, ou the broad ground et giving
the Mock's* to all who were *acidt dto it. There wen be-
, tween 40 end 60 claims In the two Deptford parishes ; 22 in
Greenwich; and Bla Woolwich. Most of Ott es were
allowed ; in cues when the claimants did not appear, the
' overseers' evidence being taken sa to the occupation, rating,
and other necessary ingredients of the qualification.

AYLESBURY.
On Thursday last Michael Prendergast, Eng., tho
barrister appointed to revise the lists for the borough sod
county, held his court at the Cainty Hell, Aylesbury, when
the whole of the lists for the different parishes within the
three hundreds of Aylesbury, as also the lists of the county
voters in thou parishes, were revised. Not • single objec-
tion wee made by either party, and there were only eleven
claims (one of which was to prevent an objection being
taken). Of these seven were made by liberals, the whole
of which were &rowed, and four by conservatives, three of
which were allowed and one disallowed. The names of
seven electors were espoused in consequence of the deaths
of the parties. The number of names which wi'l re-
man on the register of electors for the ensuing year, in
respect of rights sequir.„el previous to the poring of the
Beton& Bill, and which were reserved by that eat, are, we
believe, as follows :—Householden of the borough of Ayles
bur, 159. 41 of whom are likewise registered, in addition,
ea freeholders in this parish, being a decrease of 2 of the
fanner and 3 of the latter sines last year ; freeholders, elan.
sive of tnose above mentioned, 263, being a decrease of 15
within the same period, bet as 21 of the above arc recistered
for 43 qoalifications, a deduction of 22 must be nine, from
the number of individuals who are still in possession of the
original esti% of voting for this borough, leaving the num-
ber 'Rielly 401. Sixteen years ago there were registered
(including thole who remised two or more vilifications),
householders, 359 (of who', 67 were reentered, in addition,
as freeholders), and freeholders (exclusive of the 57 shove
mentioned j, 714, making an aggregate of 1,(137.—8ik*
Adoortiser.