The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-03 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATION&

CITY OF LONDON.-(THIS DAY.)

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This morning, at 11 o'clock, Spencer Peroeval,
Tag., the newly-appointed barrister to revise the lists
of voters for members of parliament for the City
of London, held his first sitting in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas at Guildhall!, and proceeded with the revision.
Mr. Sidney Smith and Mr. George Ledger appeared for
the Liberal Registration Association ; and Mr. Cr. Carlisle
(film of Nokes, Carlisle, and Francis, of Finch-lane), repre-
sented the conservative interest.
The number of claims taken are very few, and only by
the liberals ; and the oections made are—liberal, ;
carervative, •238, and 58 are double.
The proceedings commenced in the neural manner by
Mr. Secondary Putter Landing iu the livery lists and the
overseers deliveriu; the lista of voters in the parishes
comprising the various wards.
The learned barrister then proceeded with the revision
of the livery lista.
In the apothecaries' list, the learned barrister inquired
the ground of an objection.
Mr. Ledger said that the voter was also en ironmonger,
and according to custom no voter was allowed to be on the
lists. The vote, however, would not be lost.
In the list of bakers, William Hammond was objected to
on the ground that he could not be found.
The Clerk of toe Company—l know this that if he is
living he is always to be found at Barclay and Perkins'
Brewery. (Laughter.)
Mr. Sugden—We have had letters returned from his
residence.
Mr. Carlisle (to the clerk)—Do you know what are his
polities? (Langhter.)
The clerk—No. I do not. _ .

Mr. Carlisle—Then I shall support him, as, no doubt be
is s respectable conservative. (Loughter)
The revising banister—l must expunge his name, as his
letters have been sent back.
Name expunged.
Elijah Kendal was objected to by the liberals on the
tame list, on the ground that he was not a freeman.
lir. Carlisle—l have it returned to me as being
" e Sarber, and not free."
Mr. Sidney Smith—That is a very close shave. (Loud
In the barbers' list the name of Henry English Win ob-
jected to by the liberals as he could not be round.
The Clerk to the Company—l only know that when we
invite him to dinner he always attends. (Laughter.)
Mr. Ledger—Then yon had better invite him to dinner
again and then you will see whether he is to he found.
The name was expunged.

SERIOUS FIRE AT THE HATCLIAX WAX AND
I'lll.ol'lN 11.01.—Yesterday evening, about 7 o'clock,
a most destructive fire broke out at tho Mitcham Wax
and Paraffin Works, the property of Messrs. Leech and
pathway, situate at the bottom of James-street, Old
Sent-road, and alongside of the Surrey Canal. Shortly
after the fire was discovered a column of flame,
nearly 200 feet in height, shot forth and lasted
nearly an hour, only being occasionally broken by
an explosion from the fresh ignition of another quantity of
paraffin, there being an extrusive stock, both of paraffin
and wax on the premises at the time. One of the explosions
was of a must frightful kind, the flames spreading to such
as extent that the crowd of persons assembled in James-
street ran in a frenzied manner a considerable distance
before they dared to stop, and several persons—there being
o large number collected on the bank of the canal—jumped
iatothe water, fearing the fiarnes would reach them, but
they all get out in safety. About half an hour
after the outbreak a small engine arrived, and after the
Inwe of another half hour some of the land steam engines
arrived, and having got to work in a most energetic
manner. succeeded in about three-quarters of an hour in
eatinguishir.g the firo. At ono time there was great fear
that a high shaft would fall, but fortunately it did not.
err little of the property was saved, and the loss to the
Proprietors of the place must be extensive. Considerable
damage was done to adjoining property.
GARIBALDI.-13ut it is nut as a great conqueror
that Garibaldi claims our admiration. It is not by the
sift. of the mind• but by the mere instincts of his heart,
Lathe commands our sympathy. What wins the world
over to bin is the beauty, the harmony, the completeness
of his character. It is not too much to say that
Garibaldi pease sea all the qualities which are
fabulously attributed to the lion. His courage and
magnanimity count as nothing by the aide of that
angle-mindrdne.s so manifest in all his words and '
des L. We vu. riled to find in this ago of ours so true
o type of some of those personages of antiquity, sublime
la their simplicity, the picture of whose virtues so
captivates our youth, but as to whose reality so much
doubt besets our minds in mature age. It is not
merely self-denial that charms us in Garibaldi ;
h is his perfect absence of self-consciousness.
Thoroughly disinterested men, indifferent to honours and
emoluments. and deeming their country's gratitude a suffi-
cient reward for their services, are, it may be truly said,
anything but rare in Garibaldi's country. The cases of
men who, after a long management of public affairs, retire '
of
power poorer than they were before have been
of late sufficiently common in Italy ; but Gan.
halh is not aware of any self-sacrilice. He shrinks
horn shouts and plaudits ; he abhors adulation and
*nay. All he claims for himself is independence.
L a sailor or as a mechanic and tradesman in his roving
?Oath, or as a gardener and husbandman in the present
ftwre of his rocky farm at Caprera, all he ever struggled
'oe, all he aspires to, is to be hie own master. At a king's
164 rt, at the head of an army, in a peasant's hut, in a
nobleman's house, he has always found his defensive
sromur in that easy simplicity which the world can neither
Wen, tand nor overcome, Garibaldi, as people have
"ktd out, is too true a lion to be lionised.—?times.