The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-14 00:00:00

_CITY Or LONDON.

Yesterday morning Mr. Alfred Hanson, the barrister, sat
far the tenth time in the Court of Common Pleas at
Guildhall, for the purpose of resitting the lists of voters for
the City. There were only two districts remaining to be
revised, viz., Portsoken and Tower wards, and in the cases
which came forward there was nothing of interest with one
exception.

Sidney Smith said, that u the revision was now con-
eluded. he would briefly state to the court the result of
its labours as compared to List year. In the previous year
the conservatives took 1,153 objections; they sustained 273,
and were unsuccessful in 850. The liberals took 624 objec.
tione, sustained 549, and failed in or withdrew 75. There
were 169 double objections sustained and withdrawn, and
16 llama were expunged by the court itself. In the last
revision just concluded, the conservatives took 495 objec•
Cons, and the liberals 533. The claims made by the
liberals before the publication of the lists in which they
were successful, were 313, and after the lista were
published, tiO. He was not to a position to
state bow his friends on the other aide stood'
with regard to their claims. Of the 533 objections
they (the liberalsl bail taken he found that they had sus-
tained 462, and O. had failed or were withdrawn. Of the
493 objections taken by the conservatives, 341 had been sus-
tained. and 143 had been withdrawn or failed in. He found
that there bad been 159 double objections, and Daly one
I had been withdrawn. On this recision 12 names had been
expunged by the barrister. That was the result of the re-
vision, and he thought that it must be satisfactory to ob-
i serve the improvement which hail taken place in the mode
of taking the objections. That improvement we. shown
by the fact that while in the previous year the conservative.
had failed in or withdrawn 850 objections and sustained
only 273, this year they (the conservatives) had sustained
341 out of the 495 they had taken. He thought they had
also to congratulate the public upon the manner
in which the lists hail generally speaking been
made out. Whilst he felt they were indebted to
the assistance and information rendered by his friends on
the other side, he was sure they would all agree with him
in expressing their best thanks to the learned barrister for
the great ability with which he had discharged his duties
on this occasion, and the manner in which he had endea-
voured to support and extend the franchise in accordance
with the act.

WESTMiNSTZR RFAISTRATION.—We are informed
by Mr. Haggett, the secretary to the Liberal Reform Re-
gistration, that in consequence of the unusual number of
objections made this year in the City of Westminster, the
revising barrister has arranged to revise the lista in the fol-
lowing order, which may extend to three days :—This day,
14th : St. Anne. St. Clement, St. Mary, the Savoy, and Sc.
George. Tomorrow, 15th : St. James, St. John, St, Mar.
wet, St. Martin, St. Paul, and St. Peter.

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THE DOVER REGIRTRATION.—Mach
thin has been mused by the decision. arrived at in some
cases by the revising terrister in the court lately held for
that purpose. In the Bret place, in &fleece of the law,
which prescribes that all applicants for insertion on the
lists shall prove that they have been entitled the July pre-
ceding to claim their elective franchise by being in poems-
Mau of the requisite qualification' Mr. Chambers hes de.
tided that rate•paying constitutes a prima facie claim, to
be rebutted by the objector. This plan, though extremely
agreeable to a barrister wishing to emulate Lord Chancellor
Brougham by his celerity of despatch. is in no wise so cos-
venient to agents on either side, who wish to elicit from
the mouth of the claimant, when be is Seated in the wit-
ness-brit, the exact nature of his tenure, and its freedom
from disqualifying encumbrances.—Dover Chronicle.

A malignant fever has broken out in Philadel-
phia. It is supposed to hare been occasioned by PUN bop
et trait from the West ladies.

In the Chamber of Deputies to-day, the ministers
being absent, the President of the Chamber opened
the sitting. He regretted being obliged to commu-
nicate the vote of the Upper House, which be
declared was unconstitutional.
The President then moved that the Chamber
adjourn for an hour, when the committee on tho
budget should report upon the resolutions proposed
by Dr. Suwon and Herr Reichensperger, declaring
void the vote of the Upper House, and stating their
reasons for that conclusion.
He also moved that the committee should fur,-
ther report upon the resolutions proposed by Dr.
Gneist and his party, viz., that the vote of the
Upper House was unconstitutional, and therefore
null and void ; that the government is not entitled
to base any rights upon that vote ; that the govern-
ment is in duty bound to settle the expenditure for
1862 in accordance with the constitution ; and that
it was not justified in making outlays which the
Chamber had refused to grant.
The proposal of the President was almost unani-
mously agreed to.
The Committee on the Budget unanimously
passed a resolution, declaring the vote of the Upper
House regarding the acceptance of the budget
brought forward by the government as opposed to
the plain sense and words of the constitution, and
upon that account null and void. The government
would therefore not be justified in basing any rights
whatever upon the vote.
The Chamber then resolved upon instant dis-
cussion of the subject.
Herr] von Bonin.Stolp protested against this re-
solution, and quitted the Chamber with five mem-
bers of his party.
No debate, however, took place upon the reso-
lution of the committee on the budget, which was
unanimously adopted by the 237 members
present.
The President of the Council, Count von His-
mark-Schonhausen, then read a royal message,
ordering that the close of the parliamentary session
should take place in the Royal Castle at three
o'clock this afternoon.

BERLIN, Oct. 13, Evaimo.
The Prussian Chambers were closed this afternoon.
The President of the Ministry read the speech
from the throne.

In this speech the King makes mention of the
treaty of commerce with France, and states that
the principles of national economy on which that
treaty is founded will henceforward form the basis
of the commercial policy of Prussia.
The speech laments that the discussions on the
budget for 1862 have not led to a legal settlement,
and continues :—" That budget, as amended by the
Lower House, having been rejected by the Upper
House, the government finds itself compelled to
carry out the budget as it was originally laid before
the Lower House, without taking cognisance of the
conditions imposed by the constitution. The go-
vernment, although conscious of the responsibility
arising out of this deplorable state of things, is also
mindful of its duties to the oouatry, and therein
finds authorisation for defraying, until the legal
settlement of the budget takes place, the expendi-
ture necessary for the conservation of existing in-
stitutions and the development of the welfare of
the country. It feels convinced that this course will
hereafter receive the sanction of the Chambers."