The Express.
London, England, 1846-09-21 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIONS.

CITY OF LONIX)N. Commencing with the
Skinners' Company, on Saturday morning, the court pro-
ceeded through the whole of the remainder of the livery lists,
and c'osed the revision, so fur as the freemen are concerned,
at two o'clock in the afternoon.—The first case of any inte-
rest to report was • novel claim put in by W. Wiles, iu
respect of • floating residence. He is the master of a Large,
and was objected to by Mr, Wansey, on the ground that he
had no fixed residence, and therefore could not be held to
i reside within seven miles.—Mr. Brown said the man slept iu
his barge every night, and the place from which be plied was
Whitechapel Dock.—The Barrister said if it could be shown
that the barge ever went beyond the seven-mile circle, it
would be fatal, as the occupant bad clearly then no residence
within the limits. The party not appearing, his name was
erased.—The other case was that of T. Butler, vintner,
who was objected to as dead ; but he appeared, and claimed
costs. Evidence was given to show that the objection was
not vexatious, but that the agent of the objector, on inquiry
at the residence intimated, had been told that Mr. Butter
(referring to the father or uncle of the voter) was dead. In
this ease the Barrister awarded 10s. costs, on the ground that
the objection, though groundless, was clearly not frivolous sr
vessitious. Mr. Butler observed that he thought this a very
pa try sum ; he bad been detained in court upwards of three
boars. Thy B wrist( r said that this remark was extremely
improper, and ordered him to leave the court. Mr. Butler
received his costs, and departed.
The total results of the revision of the livery lists stand
thus:—Of Liberal objections, 78 were sustained, and 120
failed ; of Tory objections, 104 were made good, 383 failed ;
of objections by both parties, 76 were sustained, and 2G fell
to the ground ; of claims, 3 were allowed to liberals.
MARYLEttoSE.--Thc lista of objections and claims
for the parish of St. Marylebone were concluded on Saturday.
The result of the revision in the parish is as follows—Objec-
tions disallowed 49, sustained 571 ; claims sustained 23, re-
jected 37. In the morn of the day a claim was objected to
on the ground that the rates had not been paid. In answer to
this it was shown that a tender of the rates had been made at
the house of the overseer by the hands of a third party. The
revising barrister held that this was nut a good tender ; the
point having been already decideal by the Court of Common
Ileas on appeal, awl the claim was rejected. Two more
c wee were rejected on the same ground. No other noticeable
case occurred. The court sits this day at the Vestry-room,
Gordon- square, to revise the lists fur the parish of St. huscras.

NEw CITY oollision, it is believed, is
about to take place between the Court of Aldermen and the
Court of Common Council, upon the subject of the new
prison which government expects the city will speedily
erect, in which classification can be adequately carried out
It is well known that the great majority of the aldermen
are decidedly opposed to the proposition to build a new
prison out of the limits of the city, and that the leading men
in the Court of Common Council are most favourable. to it.
The former court hosing called upon the committee of the
Court of Common Council to pis e their reasons for objecting
to the erection of a new prison within the city, a paper
has been handed iu by Mr. Wire, the chairman.
It sets forth a great many reasons why none of the present
City prisons could be made applicable to the purpose, and
objects to building a new prison within the city ; that the
site would cost a large sum, and that it would he a bar to
future improvement. It then considers the objection to
building a prison beyond the jurisdiction of the City, and
recommends Whitecross-street prison for remanded prisoners.
It further states,
" The tenons wh'eh induce the committee to select a spot out of
the City are -first, that OA much space us may now or at any future
time be minim) ran he obtained to erect a prawn to accommodate
prisoner', with ample airing ground., vaeco for aorlodmps,
annexed, for ;rums not eyeerling 5,155 t., thereby etfis ling a susing to
the city of at least 130,0110(.; secondly, that main the space so to be
obtained s pr sun, with all modern improvements, both as regard, the
discipline and the reformation of the prisoners, might be erected,
which could not be so well accomplished within a uanow space ;
thirdly, because many of the aldermen arc magistrates of
Miild,rev, and have, therefore, al-ordinate jurisdiction in
that county with the jostle, thereof; and, lastly, because
the county utals the rite. and all ports of it while a prison
could bo built are more accessible and more within the daily walks
o( the city authorities than other counties. For thew ma: rani the
committee examined a plot of ground belonging to the corporation,
situate at Holloway, and came to the conclusion that it was desirable
to erect a new prisnn there; first, because of it. easy :errs from all
parts of the city and the metropolis ; secondly, because of the great
saying of expense In the purchase of a site ; thirdly, on the ground of
its salubrity, its roil being capitge of being wen draintbl, :and of the
ample spate which may be obtained for all the purposes which may be
The subject thus brought forward will be next week dis-
cussed in the Committee of Aldermen, who feel some appre-
hension that their privileges would be entlanfured if they
were to consent to the erection of a prison in the county.
ERRATUM.—In the remarks upon Mr. Lambert
Jones's testimonial in Saturday's paper, the name of the
gentleman alluded to as the inventor of the railway system
was erroneously printed " Thomas Clarke :" it ought to
have been Thomas Gray.
FAMINE IN IRELAND.—Yt sterday, in compliance
with the direction of Bishop Griffith,', vicar apostolic of the
London district, a prayer was °tiered up in all the Roman
Catholic places, of worlip in London, supplicating the
Almighty to be pleased in his mercy ti avert the horrors of
famine which appear to be impending over Ireland. The
very rev. Dr. Smyth, of Eatiker, in the county of Galway.
one of the most distressed districts of Ireland, has arrived
in London on a mission of chari•y throughout England, end
will deliver the first of a series of appeals to the humane and
merciful in the Catholic church, Caslogan-place, on next
Sunday.
THE SOCIETY OF VICE AND FALSE. I)ELICACY.
This society, which has its abitsea as well as its uses, has
petitioned the Itoyal Academy, to abolish studying from the
life. "Theirs," writes the Athentruni. from which we glean
the information, " is the philosophieal and trinseendLntal treat-
ment of the subject. The vice that walks in the sunshine and
stands right between the wind and their moral nobility may
be left to more commonscavengers, while they go in Mntas-
tic search of that which may hide in possible corners or lie
under fair pretences. A leas refined polies may deal with
facts—their business is with problems."
EDUCATION OF TILE POOR IN LAMBETIL—This
day two new schools will be opened for the gratuitous educa-
tion of the poor in Lambeth: one a school for boys in con-
nexion with St. Mary's District Chapel, Lambeth, which by
the operation of a recent act of Parliament has become a lxx-
petual curacy and incumbency; the other an evening school
for educating persons above 10 years of age.
ROBBERY AND SUICIDE.—Mr. Ledger, baker, of
Swan-lane, Rotherhithe, had on various occasions missed
money from his cash-box, and the abstraction of sovereign=
and half-sovereigns at last became so frequent, that he
marked his money and endeavoured to trace the thief, but
without success. Suspicion fell upon his own sons, and lie
was very unhappy. On Friday morning a seed-rake was
missing from the shop, and circumstances led to it belief that
the servant girl had stolen it. Upon opening one of her
boxes, the seed cake, and a variety of articles which he had
missed from time to time, were discovered. He imme-
diately accused her of stealing his money, and threatened to
give her into custody. She implored of him not, and con-
fessed her guilt. She said that she alone was the thief, and
had opened his cash-box by a false key, made for the pur-
pose, and delivered to him 201. in sovereigns and half-
sovereigns. Mr. Ledger had lost about 341. in all. She had
espentdthe remainder iu purchasing dresses and finery. Mr.
Ledger then sent for her mother; and the young woman ap-
peared greatly excited. On her mother's arrival she was
found in a water closet, suspended by the neck from a beam;
life was extinct. The deceased was only nineteen yearn
of ye.
THE DANGER OF CONGREVE LIGHTS.—On Satur-
day night, between eight and nine o'clock, a large pile of
boxes containing Congreve matches was discovered to be on
fire in the shop of Mr. Cocks, oil and tallow-chandler, 11,
Broadway, Westminster. From the highly inflammable
nature oh the stock great fears were elate:turned, when one of
the shopmen had sufficient presence of mind to throw a wet
cloth over the burning boxes, and was thus enabled to carry
them into the centre of the roadway, the only damage sus-
tained being their destruction.
THE LATE CASE OF MILITARY FLOGGING AT
Hot-xstow.—On the evening of Thursday last, an .order
from the Hone Guards was received by Lieut.-Cal. IN byte,