The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON REGISTRATION.

Ye seerday Meriting the court sat at the Usual hour,
and the revision of the lists for the wards of Bridge, Candle•
wick, and Wallbrock was concluded. The followirg is the
result :
Liberal claims allowed
~ disallowed
Liberal objections sustained
Ditto failed or withdrawn
Conservative claims disallowed
Ditto objections sustained
Ditto fact or withdrawn
Double objections sustained
BEOAD.STZEZT W•RD.—RISDESCRIPTION OP RESIDENCE.
Hubert Barnes Rye was objected toby. Mr. Brown, on
the ground of misieseription of the premises in respect of
which the qualification was sought to be established.
It appeased that the claimant had occupied premises at
No. 80, Old Broad-street, in the pariah of Bt. Benet Fink,
up to Michaelmas last, whet he removed to No. 77 in the
same street, bat still continued to be rated for No. 80.
Mr. Barra said the ease was analogous to that of " Cook
r. Lucke ,tt " where the Court of Common Fleas held the
claim to be
_good, although it appeered that the party wee
rated for No. 4, (laden lane, and that the premises he
occupied were at No. 3. He contended that the mistake in
the present sue was precisely similar, and might be rectified
under the authority of the 75th section of the Reform Act.
Mr. M'Chauiren said there weea distinction between the
two cases. la the present case there was no mistake, but
an omission through negligence. The claimant had occupied
the brim No. 80, and snowed his name to be entered for
three seettssiee rates in respect of that occupation, after
removing to Nc. 77. The name must therefore be ek
punted.
Objection sustained.
INSDEFICIENCT Or OCCCELTION.
Charles Ashdown claims din
in respect of a shop at 17.
Finch-lane. It appeared that the premises (a shop and par-
lour) occupied by the claimant were situated on the ground
floor ; the entrance to those premises was by a trent door,
communicating with the shop, and there was also a side door
opening into a common passage, which wee under the con-
trol of the landlady, who lived in the home. When the
claimant left the premises at night ha fastened the
shop door by a bolt across the inside, and passed
out .by the side door into the passage, end
thence by the common door into the el rest.
Upon these facts Mr. Brown contended that the claimant
did not possess a legal qualification. The fact of his cicsiog
the shop-door by a bolt inside did not prove that he had such
a control over the premises as would be sufficient to give him
a right to vote. The premises mold not be said to he in his
exclusive occupation, considering that the common door was
under the control of the landlady.
Mr. SMITH, en the other band, submitted that the claim-
ant, by clotting his ehop-door from the inside for his own con-
venience, did not in any way give up his right of entrance,
and that, therefore, the shop in respect of which he claimed
was such an occupation as the law contemplated.
Mr. M`Cnaurrin said there wee no ground for the objec-
tion. The same point had already been decided during the
present registration, and he regretted that the time of the
court should have been so unnecessarily occupied.
Mr. Ashdown said he had given the fullest explanation
of the facts to the objecting party, and he had been brrught
here at great inconvenience to himself, and detriment to
his business, which he was obliged to leave under the con-
trol of others. He therefore begged that the court would
allow hi:amts.
Mr. /Mumma awarded him 20s.
The revision of the list for Broad street Ward wee not con-
cluded when the court rose.

STRANGE DISCOVERY IN THE LONDON DOCKS.—
Os Wodneeday a remarkable discovery was made in the
London Docks, whereby the body of a man was found in a
cask which had been in one of the warshouees about flys
years. It appears that for several days put a number of
I man have hoes engaged in removing • quantity of spirit
casks in the Szabo department of the London Darks, and
whilst one of the labourers was rolling t cask along the
stone., ha had hit attention drawn to a rattling noise inside.
Hs mentioned the cianunstanco to one of his companion.,
and they determined on opening the oak to ascertain the
canoe ed the mysterious sound. The head of the cask was
accordingly removed, and, to their groat astonishment, they
discovered the skeleton of • human being, in a good state cf
preservation, and from the condition of the bones the do.
ouaed must have use* in the cask many years. A medical
be
was veto sae the remains, which were found
to be those of rs about 35 years of age. The
general supposition is that the cask in question must have
been unshipped from some foreign vessel. It was a ram
cask, and had been empty a considerable period. The de-
mama is supposed to hays been a foreign sailor. It is a sin-
gular fad, that the whole of the teeth are entirely gams, and
no vestige of clothing could be found.
Box, ESE CRICKETER, died on Monday morning at
/3:ightos.