The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-24 00:00:00

gbe Court.

BALMORAL, BeNDAT, San. 21.
her Majesty and I'rinee Albert attended divine
tervice thi. morning in the pariah church of entitle. The
service was performed by the Her. Dr. Wm. Muir, one of
her Majesty's chaplains in Scotland.
The Marchioness of Douro, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, and
the gentlemen of the household, were in attendance.

P./patches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
how the Governors of Hong song and Ceylon, the Gover-
nors of South Australia, Western Australia, and the Mauri-
tius ; from the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Islands, and from the Governor of /delta.

TIIE REGISTRATIONS.
CITY OF LONDON.
Yesterday Mr. .ll.Chriatie, the revising barrister,
Sat at the Guildhall, and having completed the revision of
she lists of the livery of the several companies, commenced
the revision of the lists of householders, and disposed of the
several lists for the several parishes contained in the wards
of Aldersgate Within and Without, Aldgate, Bassishaw,
and

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Fisher Jackson, of "3, Crowneourt," in the parish of
Et. Betelph, Aldersgste, was objected to by Mr. Brown.
; Mr. Ledger said the question would arise in this case
whether the notice could by possibility, in due course of
post, have been served within the prescribed time, namely,
en the 25th of August, The notice was simply addressed
"Mr. Fisher Jackson, 3, Crown-court." There happened
to be fifty-two " Crown-court" in London, and seventeen
in the City of London. In consequence of this ambiguity
in the add .rm, the notice had been to four Crown-courts
before it got to the party himself. Proof most therefore be
given that it reached the Cuter on the 2.lth; and that could
not be done, for it was not delivered till the 20th. It bore
the post mark of " Aug. 25th, 2 p.m.," being the hour at
which it was first sent out from the post-office. It was
taken to Crown-court, l'hilpot-lane, and then taken beck
to the post-office, with an endorsement by the postman. It
was next taken to Crown-court, Cornhill, and again sent back.
It then visited Crown-court, Threadneedle-street, and was
again returned. It was ultimately sent to Mr. Jackson, in
Crown-court, in the parish of St. Ilotolph. In "Birch r.
Edwards," the Lord Chief Justice had held that the post-
man, iu delivering nutiets of objection, was bound only to
look at the exterior, and not at the substance of the notice.
It was evident that this notice had not upon it sufficient to
indicate clearly where it was to be delivered, so as to ensure
itsreaching the voter on the 25th in due course of post.
Mr. Brown relied on the fact that the address on the
notice was a copy of the description of the voter's place of
abode, as stated in the list; and this was all that was neces-
sary under the 17th section of the act and the accompany-
ing schedule. The notice of objection must of necessity
comply with the description in the list, which in this case
was "Fisher Jackson, 3, Crown court." fled the objector
made asy addition to this, his notice would have been held
to I* had, as not complying with the prescribed form.
The Barrister called Mr. Brown's attention to the case of
" Alien T. tireensill " (4 C.B , part 1, p. 100), where no-
tice of objection to A., described as of his place of abode at
L., was left there: it turned out that he had no residence
there; and it was held that the notice had not been ghee'
or left at Ins place of abode ; and the judges said, " If an
objector chooses to select the place of abode as described ill
the list to be the voter's place of abode, ho must take the
riA of its turning out not to be the place of abode." It
was clear the notice must be correctly addressed. If the
objector took the place of abode as described in the list, he
must do so at his own risk.
Mr. Brown contended that that cam only referred to per-
sonal service or delivery of the notice at the place of abode.
This was evident from the additional words of the jtidg,
" The objector can always guard himself by sending the
notice by post." If this meant anything, it meant that it
was only necessary to copy on the address of the notice the
place of abode, as stated in the list. How could the objector
guard himself, if it were to be held that there were 52
Crown courts, and dl of them were wrung ones? The 100th
section of the ikaistratbm Act distinctly provided that no-
tices seat by post were to be sent to the party "at his
place of abode as de ,e,ibtil in the said list of voters." In
tins case the words "St. Butolph" were not in the list; it
was "Crown-court' ;only ; hence the objection was correctly
taken.

The Rarriater add he wee inclined to think that the C 11.40

be had referrs it to only related to persorwl service. The
both ,ectiou &reeled that the notice should be given at
*t' place of ub ale n. described in the said list of voters,"
and it slid not iro [unlit r. Here the notice had been posted
is -tinniest time to base reached the voter on the 2.5 th of
August, hail it been taken in due course of post ; but, either
by mistaks or arcident, it had gone round to three or four
places, which uccupi.d time, and rendered it impossible
that the w:•aiee should have reached Mr. Jackson on the
24;.h. It had been decided over and over again that that
was not to invalidate the notice, provided it hail been posted
in s:ue time; h^ must therefore bold the notice to be goad.
The vote can then expunged.
Nl.t ItYLEIR)SE.

Yesterday, John Fraser Macqueen, Esq., the bar- ,
Aster appointed to revise the lists of voters for the borough ,
of MaryLebow:, named his sittitrept the Marylebone Court-
house.
lIAT DATE N ECUS MT TOR A QUALIFYING CLAIM TO
HE HATED.
George Shaw, of 33, John-street, Edgware-road, claimed
to be on the regsdia fora shop mid parlour he hail occupied
for ten or eleven years of a Mr. NS right, landlord of the
above house, tor which he paid lls. per week. The claim
was made on the flub of July last, and at the same time a
claim was also made in gvueral terms to be rated to the poor,
with an oiler to pay any rates that might be due.—
The learned Barrister was about at once to admit
the claim, when one of the poor-rite collectors said
it was very important to have the learned bey
sister's opinion explicitly ou this point, in order
to save great incoavenience for the future and disappoint-
• nt to the claimant, The practice had been in that pa-
rish, relying OH the word. of the 27th section of the Re-
form Act, which enacts it that no person should be entitled
to be on the register who had not been rated 12 months to
the relief of tke poor. Now in this instance the claimant
hail not boon rated to the poor at all, although his occu-
pancy of the shop and parlour more than 1S months was
admitted.
Mr. M' Dowell and Mr. Duflleld,who supported the claim,
Paid they relied on the wording of the 30th section of the
lkform Act, which held that ou a lodger making a claim to
Is rated, he shall be chimed to be rated from the period
at which the last rate should have been made. It was
stated that the mode of making the rates in Maryle-
boi.e was prospective as well as retrospective.
In answer to a question, the collectors stated that the
las rate made, which was not the qualifying rate, was on
the 2hth of ILI LI,: last, the claim being made
about three weeks after. The injustice to house-
holders, if they were compelled to be on the rate-book,
Li months before being entitled to be on the register,
whilst a lodger only claiming on the 19th of July could be
ou the register for a rite only made on the 28th of June,
was submitted fur consideration of the court.
The learned Barrister said the claim to be rated was in
'funeral terms, and taking into consideration the wording of
the 30th section, " shall deem him to be rated from tho
period at which the last rate shall have been made," the
question was, whether the claim wee to bo held to be a
claim to be rated in Arum or retrospectively. If the
claim only applied to the rate last made, namely, on the
2Sth June, then it was clear he could not be rated long
enough to be ou the register if the wording of the 27th sec-
tion was to be relied upon. Ile understood that he was
called upon to give an opinion on the construction to be
put upon the 27th and 30th sections of the Reform Act, and
as the point was a vary important one, and he believed
entirely new, he would take time to consider it.
Judgment deferred.
Vourteca of the claims were disallowed, and after a dis-
cussion on the propriety of giving notice to claimants to
attend the court, the proceedings were adjourned till
Thursday.

HERTFORDSIIIRE.—The Revising Barrister's Court I,
was held at Bishop's Stort!ord on Monday. In the parish
of Ili.hop's Stortford the name of Charles Hawke was
rraek out by the liberals, his property being in the adj
to oin-
g parish of Thorley, to which the claim ought to have
beta sent. In the parish of Sawbridgi worth the name of
Thomas Patti was struck out, he having become the
owner of the property for which he stood on the register as
occupier. The following is the result of the day's revision:
Liberal gain:: Manias, 23 ; objections, 20; total, 43. Tory
gain: Claims, 1S; objections, 13; total, 31. Liberal gain
to this time, 300; tory ditto, 236.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(Irmo the Mehl lepert.)
The health of London was list week rather below
the average. The deaths of 1,097 persons were registered,
of whom only 208 had attained the age of 00, 496 were
children under 15 years of age, and 394 were in the 'middle
period of life. The age of one person was nee deer& The
deaths of males (360) moreeded the deaths el hawks
(52.1) by 41. The births of 1.697 children were eri.eseed,
tad the girls c 8.5) exceeded the 90P (742)
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Cholera is decreasing ; it wee only to 7 posens, 6
children and 2 adults, in the week; whereas in the fire pre-
m.:ll9r weeks the deaths from this &seam were 28, 19, 28,
17, 14. Diarrhoea is returned es the cause of 97 deaths;
87 in children, 30 in adults. Besel4pea wee Aral in 23
eases, measles in 13, hoo • in 19. ficerlatina is
ty 27ineresa phusing
sad ; it
41 dea was inths. the Ise weeks the nue et 18, 20,
29, , TM hos has
fradeally tattooed ; cheat IS pvontalityoem died of the kw
weal', la kraal the beglealopeflelp. The dollhouse to
19 weakly la A. is the poem* mask the Ibsen
has 9701111 eft wan fat 4 sad lest weak is desaaped the
LOOS of 61 pIOONIO-24 cUben,3 ebil people, ad r S
sons in the palms etlik. Aka imams et this in
wii=
enidunio if to be appreheniluL 13 Toms died eldld•
birth, 4 of dm et mettle sr &Mike Amt; f AMU
were referred ee horns and =WSW laegbag, 9 to drew's-
lae. 11 to helium 1 to wands.
ISB ofthedeethslu Loadsaaoseaseila peak institutions;
121 in waahhetwei, fin ofillsep mai asval whom, 42 is
k4‘piuds, Bla hurtle esplamo, la adliteny awl salel hos-
pitals, sad 4 ia palaces.

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GLASGOW A:11) SOUTH WILITILILN RAILWAT.—Ted-
fie for the week ending 2041 tieptainber, 4,1771. 134. Id. ;
corresponding week in last year, 3,2361. 144. Id.