The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-10 00:00:00

coritT OF COMMON PLEAS.

Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice
Boyill end Justices Byles, Keating, and Brett.)

cwontroze, areal-La:Jr r. JOHNSON;-11ZBPONDENT.
This was a consolidated appeal from a decision of the
Revising Barrister for Lnashire, and it was partly heard
yesterday. The facts were shortly these : Previous to the
Reform Act of 1867 there was only one list of county
voters, but now there were two, one containing the old
voters, and the other the 12/. occupiers. The question was
whether the notice of objection must name the list as to
which it was objected to the voter's name remaining
thereon, in accordance with the practice which had
always prevailed as to boroughs. The barrister held that
this was not n , and he struck out the names ob.
jected to. This was the decision appealed against.
Mr. Mellish, Q.C. (with him Mr. Willa) appeared for
the appellant; and Mr. Quoin, Q.C., for the respondent.
The—Lord Chief Justice said that throughout the acts of
parliament relating to the representation of the people
and the registration of voters, a marked difference had
always been drawn between voters for counties and voters
for boroughs, and in the forms in respect of each
clam. It was true that there were now two lists of voters
forcounties, but there was nothing in the Representation of
the I'eople's Act, 1867, which at all rendered it necessary
or right that the court should mix up the enactments or
the forms relating to boroughs with those relating to
counties ; and in his opinion, if they did so, they would
leave the matter in inextricable confasion. The decision
of the barrister would, therefore, be affirmed.
Appeal dismissed with costs.

COURT OF BANERTIPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
r. in =MAD ELZRIJI.
The bankrupt, • brickmaker, at Botherbithe, ascribed
his failure to misfortunes in business. His debts are
6,9031.; property held by creditors as securi!ty.,....e.o2t
3,9001. This was • sitting for examination and •
Mr. Reed was for the assignees, and Mr. Brou7gCri:
the banket.
It • g that there were some discrepancies between
the ba pt' • banking book and the accounts he had
filed, the matter wuu referred to the official saugnoe, and
an adjournment was ordered.

IN Ma COMILLNI)EII W. 81:AWLIID.
The bankrupt, a commander in the Royal Navy, applied
for his order of discharge from debts of 7281. This was a
third bankruptcy.
The order was granted on the condition of the bank-
rupt setting aside 51. per quarter out of his pension, which
he Lad agreed to do under a former bankruptcy.

POLICE COURTS.-(THIS DAY.)

MANSION-HOUSE.
THE NEW LORD MAYOII.

On taking his Neat on the bench this morning the Lord
Mayor said it was scarcely. necessary for him to state that
be hoped, during his year in office, that the justice-room
of the- Mansion-house would maintain the high reputa-
tion which it had always borne both for the manner in
which evidence was taken and for the mode in which the
depositions were taken down, which had commanded on
all occasions the commendations of her Majesty's
judges. He knew that he could rely upon Mr. Oke (the
chief clerk) and the other officers of the court in pointing
out the various bearings of the different acts of partiansent
when legal questions of difficulty arose upon matters of
great interest to the communist community. Of comma
in ordinary criminal cases what was chiefly. required
was the most careful discrimination and weighing of the
evidence on the part of the
.magistrate • and any magis-
trate who had had the az of eight or ten years in
the justice room of the ufldhall would be prepared to
exercise that care and diserinsimation in dealing with cases

at this court. He need scarcely remark upon-the manner
in which the we had always reported the proceedings
at this court. The accuracy of detail and the mode in
which the proccodings Tad been described generally re-
flected great honour and great credit upon the gentlemen
who attended there, and be bad no doubt that the same
accuracy of statement and detail would be observed in the
future.

LORD MAYOR'S DAY.
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