The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-15 00:00:00

CHELSEA.

The following is the result of rust day's revision :
Lodger claims—oonservatives, sustained, 33 ; struck off, 1 ;
objected to and struck off, 6 ; cases for appeal, 10 ;
liberal claims sustained, 15 ; struck off, 6 ; Celle ttor ap-
peal, 1.
The revision will be resumed this morning.

MANCHESTER.
Mr. Home*, the revising barrister, opened his
court at the Manchester Town-hall, yesterday morning, at
10 o'clock.

mr.4.13. B. Cobbett, solicitor, said he appeared on
behalf of 6,760 women who appeared as claimants, being
resident householders. to be placed upon the register as
voters. In • speech of nearly two hours' duration, the
harped counsel contended that there wai no personal in-
capacity on the part of women to be voters. He was
not able to show that from the time of Henry VI. to the
passing of the Reform Act of le:ft women had voted
for the election of members of parliament, but he quoted
a great number of cues where the queiti m had been
raved ea to the office of overseer and sexton, in which
great doubt had been
_expressed by the judges in the
Bench as to whether women were useapseitated,
and in some of which eau' the judges had reserved
their opinion. Leaving that part of the cue, Mr.
Cobbeft proceeded to argue as to the inter-
pretation of the word , • man" in the late Reform
Act. There was the word man need in the Reform Act,
What did ft mean Y It mast have one of two meanings:
it was either used in the emu of "a man," in the most
common sense aoceptation as distinguished from woman,
or in the sense of mankind. If it was used in the sense
of man as distinguished from woman, surely it imported
the masculine gender, and if It imported the masculine
ILadethan Lard Remilly's Aet of 1860 distinct'', said,
rlieing • teensimporting the masculine gander, ft shall
be held to inspect the famiaiite also. dive it the other man.
Let it mankind. If it meant mankind it Ramat
both man and woman. It meant precisely the same thing
se every man and every woman • and therefore every man
and every woman having • certain qualification might
have •a vote. He eatositted, therefore, that there was no
escape fruit the °coalition that under the act of 1867 the
franchise was ma/erred on wawa.
Hr. Robineen, attorney, on behalf of the Conservative
Registration 80eiel", argued that man meant the same
thing as puma la Om art of 1882, which had beat War.
pitted to Issas male person.
The Revising Barrbter said be would reserve his deist=
till tan o'clock to-marrow morning.
There was • numerous attendance at the onset, and
amongst the gentleasam, Mr. Jacob Brlghtt_ll.P. •
nunhar of ladies web, alio present, including Him Lydia
Beaker and Mrs. Poehla.
There are • great many claims independent of them for
woman, but it Ina been found that many of them are by
persons already on the reglater, and who had not had the
means of consulting it before sanding in their claims.
The objections are meetly by the overseers, and not of a
party . It is expected that the revision wW only
occupy two days more.

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