The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-04 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIO3N.

CITY OF LONDON (THIS DAY).
The Revising Barrister, Alfred litueson, Req.,
resumed his duties at eleven o'clock this morning iu the
Court of Common Pleas, at Guildhall.
Mr. Sidney Smith and Mr. Geurgo Ledger again attended
on behalf of the Liberal Association, and Mr. Nokes (Noires
sad Carlisle) represented the Conservative Registration As.
sociatioo.

In the parish of St. Mary-kilos, the name of Richard
Hyde Benton was objected to by Mr. Nukes, and tieorgo
Holton, who signed the notice of objection, attended to
support it., and said that be had out kept a list of the
notices he had signed, although lie knew he had served •
hundred of them altogether.
His Honour said that unfortunately a practice bad arisen
which must be amended, sod he should in future require
strict proof respecting the signature nod services of the
notices of objection before he would consent to strikeout the
names of absent parties. It was very necessary that gee.
tlemen who signed objections in that way should take a
note of each Lose, so that he might be able to give
specific evidence respecting every objection which
he signed. Accordini, to the course which had
been adopted, one-half of the voters might be
disfranchised on insufficient objections, and the evil should
be remedied. He was convinced that the decision he had
given on this point on the first day was not correct, arid he
should in future require strict proof in each case. He
should nut disfranchise any person until be wan satisfied
that due notice of the objection was given to him.
Mr. Nokes submitted that the production of the duplicate
with the Poet•office stamp should be considered sufficient
evidence that the original was sent.
His Honour said that the postmaster was not in a jbosi.
Lion to ascertain that the signature to the notice wee
in the handwriting of the objector, and the production
of the stamped duplicate was merely evidence that the no-
tice had been sent to the object•e. The signature of the
objector,must be proved he would not say by himself, but by
some person who witnessed the signature.
Mr. Sidney Smith thought the adoption of such a rule
would give rise to practical evils, and he hoped the court
would pause before coining to sail a conclusion.
His Honour said he had come to the conclusion after
grave consideration. A perseverance is the vicious system
that had been introduced would 'seduce greater evils than
any that could arise from the adoption of the rule he now
laid down.

Mr. S. Smith observed that he had frequently represented
to the City members and to Lord John Russell that there
should be a public officer to receive the list of paeans
alleged to be properly qualified, and that lie should giro
decisions respecting them, leaving it to the Revising Bar-
rister to act u a court of appeal from such decisions. If
the detailed procedure shadowed out by the court were
to be followed in every care it would be impossilde to get
through the business.
His Honour did not think it would lio necessary to do
that. He thought it would be competent for him to take
the proof of service of a number of notion together.
Some lengthened discussion ensued, and
Mr. Holton was examined, and said he had signed all the
notices in blank.

His Honour said that be was bound to decide that when
Mr. Molten signed the document it was not a notice, but a
piece of paper.
Mr. Nelms must ask the court to grant him a case for an
e.
is Fleenor was ready to grant a ease, on being convinced
that there were grounds for doing so.
Mr. Molton further stated that, having signed
the notices, ho left them on them on the
desk in charge of a gentleman (Mr. Nokee cleric),
but did not authorise him to du anything with them. The
gentleman (Mr. Nokes' clerk) bad asked him to sign a few
objection papers, and said he would give him se. for doing
so. (laughter.) He signed a whole heap of them, and
having received the I* he went away. (Renewed laughter.)
He did not koow what was goicg to be dons with them,
nor did he give coy directions as to their disposal.
His Honour decided that there was no case for appeal,
and therefore refused it. Ho rejected the objection taken
by George Holton to Richard Hyde Benton, and also re-
jected all the objections which had been taken by Mr.
Molton against other voters.
This important decision appeared to cause great dismay
in the conservative camp.

The weather in London and in Paris has been
for the lad two or three days exceptionally fine. The sun
shinesout warmly, and the windows are kept open as in the
height of summer.

It appears that the shipments of cotton from
Liverpool to the United States amounted during the put
month to 3,703 bales, of which the whole were American
excapt 321 bales Fast huhu. The principal portion wee
conveyed in steamers.

The New York Heraid of the 21st ult., under
the head of "Cotton for Europe," has the following :
"The government is now organiaing, and has, perhaps,
partly despatched, several military and naval expeditions
again. the South, employing in the aaregate about 150,000
men and 3,000 ships of war and transport". With this
large force the Southern cotton crop will be seized at the
different depots, whoa it is ready for market, and the
government will have about 2,1100,000 bales by the let of
January next for export to EogLiail and France. There is
no necosaity, therefore, for European nations to quarrel
with us about the cotton supply. We shall be ready to
let them have all the cotton they want by the time they
require it."

It is auderstood that by the middle of November
the climate of Vera Crux and Tampico will be well suited
to the forthcoming intervention of the allied forces in the
Gulf of Mexico. From that time the healthy season begins.
and it commonly continues during some six months.
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THE ENGLIIIII IN PEAIBBI.I“—The lietlipetklauce
Beige says :—" Before his recent departure for Baden, the
King of Prussia received at the chateau of Bruhl a depute•
tion of Englishmen charged by their countrymen residing
in Dusseldorf and the neighbourhood to convey to his
Majesty their felicitations and thanks. The king, after
listening to a translation of their address, informed the
deputation that he quite shared the desire expressed by
them of seeing= intimate alliance prevail between England
and Prussia. He added that he wise happy to receive from
the lips of Englishmen residing in Prussia the sasurance
that the best understanding and mutual good will existed
in their relations with the authorities and inhabitants of his
states. This demonstration is an answer to the recrimina-
tions directed in England against Prussia, on occasion of
certain insignificant incidents which occurred at Bonn
a year ago. le this point of view it has produced the heat
effect in the Rhenish provinces. On the other band, the
English journals have made mention of it as a satisfactory
symptom of the relations entered on between their country
and Prussia. The deputation wee composed of Rears. Foul.
ditch, Anglican Minister, Ilulvany, Scott, Malleson, and
Parrott."

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W INTNINSTER RFA ; ISTRATION. —3lr. T. H. Terrell,
the bet inter appointed to revise the list of voters for the
city of Westminster, has given notice that he will corm
mime his labours in the LonbiiJustives'i 'ourt,Westminster-
hall, on Thursday the 10th Mat. The conservatives, who
have not interfered in any way with the registration nt
Westminster during the last 12 years, have now lodged MO
objections. The number of persons omitted from the lists
this year in consequence of the nonpayment of the home
tax ta 3,145.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF SUROEONS.—At a special
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 2nd inst., Mr.
Fredenck Henry Rose. of the Royal Naval Hospital,
Ascension, pealed his examination tar naval surgeon ; this
gentleman had previously been admitted • member of tho
college, his diploma buena.; date May 19, 1854. The
library and museum, which have been closed duriug the
past month for the necessary cleaning, reomened on
Tuesday last.
PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRITAIN...
The first two Jacob Bell Memorial Scholarships, value 304
• year each, with free laboratory instruction, have been
awarded by the council to Thomas W. H. Tolbert, pupil of
Mr. Froud, chemist, Dorchester and William A. Tilden.
pupil of Mr. Allchiu, chemist, Barndatry-road. Botanical
pnze medals for the two beat Herbaria to James Browne and
Joseph H. Richardson. Sessional prize medals to Thomas
J. Haaselby, for chemistry and pharmacy, and Frank H.
Leacher, for botany and matena metlica.
PETER/30E0MA! GREAT FAIR.—The groat fair
at Peterborough, called "Bridge Fair," was held on Wed-
nesday. The day being unusually fine, there was an enor.
moue number of visitors. The hone and cattle fairs were as
extensive as heretofore. Fat beasts were a ready sale, at
from Bs. to &Aid. per stone, and fresh short-horn stores
in good condition made from 181. to 211. There were • great
many Irish beasts of a much better kind than used to be
Iwasaki an this fair; OH though thrre is, great risk with
them, and prices were as high as the muorthorni, tl.l
were freely purchased for home grazing. The ram fair was
well supplied by the best breeders, and full prices were
made. ones also were au advance upon recent fairs, and,
taken generally, business appeared to have felt the inspirit,.
ing influence of the late harvest.
CORONERSHIP OF THE WEsTERN DIVISION OF
MIDDLERIFE.—Mr. Wakley, who has been unable front the
state of his health to attend to the duties of the western
division of the county for nearly two years, has been obliged
to leave England to spend the winter at Muleira, in the
hope of regaining strength. It is stated that he intends
shortly to resign the office of coroner, and that his eldest
sun, Mr. Thomas H. Wakley, one of the surgeons to the
Royal Free Hospital, I. already a candidate fur the office.
Wianaut.—The Eastern Counties directors last
week numbed a resolution to commence the construction of
the harbour line forthwith. There is a general feeling of
satisfaction in the town at the determination which hal
thus been arrived at, after a delay of fourteen years, which
have been suffered to elapse since the railway was brought
to the town. There can be no doubt that the absence of
the connecting link between the railway and the harbour
has been one cause of the deterioration of the port. The
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