The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-22 00:00:00

THE I:EGMTII4TION3.

IIIDDLEBEL

Yesterday, Mr. Maine and Mr. Bealea, two of
the barristers appointed to revise the electoral Hate of
the county of Middlesex, sst by adjournment at the Wind-
sor Castle, Hammersmith, for the revision of the lists for
the extensive parish of Chelsea (St. Luke), in which the
overseers had taken 17 objections, and the political parties
no lees than 343.

Mr. W. Albert James, of Parliament•street,Westminster,
appeared as agent of the Reform Registration Society ; Mr.
T. Alley Jones. of Clifford's-inn, for the Conservative Re-
gistration Society ; Mr. H. Smith, of Norfolk etreet, on be-
half of the Conservative Registration Association.

Willem Cleveland, of 10, Leader-street, on the list for
"lease of house in my occupation," was objected to Iry the
conservatives. He produced his deed, an original lease,
which, as remarked by Mr. Smith, was granted for the
on-
usual term of "96 years and a half, wanting 21 days," to
his father, wbo left him the house by will.
In his examination by Mr. Smith, Cleveland admitted
that he had never sent in a claim, which Mr. Smith urged
was fatal to his right to be on the register. " But what
claim could I send me. asked Cleveland ; " my name was
the same as my father's, and when he died the Property
was mine. If I had claimed, it would have beau for ex-
actly what was already on the register. Besides, I was here
twice before ; and my TOW was allowed. 'But," mid
Mr. Smith, "do you live in the house? M' instructions
are that you couldn't be found." " Couldn't be found:"
exclaimed this rotor ; " why, I was born in the house, and
never lived out of A.".

—The barrister., that this was a case for costs, and
"warded Be., with which Cleveland was anything Lut
He had been objected to three years. Last year
Eleatt two days in coming to the Registration Court ; and
to-day he would lose a day, so that he was sixpence out of
pocket.
The county franchise at Chelsea is of a peculiar nature.
Generally, the county qualification is possession of free-
bold; here the freehold is the exception. As an illustra-
tion, 289 new claims hwl been sent by persons desirous of
appearing in the rear's register, and of these only 21 were
for freehold*. Tile house property in Chateau is erected
under building leases ; and the county franchise is almost
confined to that given by the 20th section of the Reform
Act, namely, to the lessee or ssaiguee of property of 10/.
value, hold originally for • term of 60 years, or for • term of
20 yawed of sw. annual value, with the additional require-
ment of occupation in the case of suli-leseees, and the
noted Chaodos addition, giving the vote also to 501. occu-
pants. The revision involved no legal questions ; but only
the practical application of the circumstances of each case
to these different franchises.

One of the freehold claimants was the Rev. Deawent Cole-
ridge, of St. Mark's Coller, for "freehold interest for life
in and occupation as principal of college, being freehold pro-
perty belonging to the Incorporated National Society,"
King's-road, Chelsea. He did not appear, and he bad sent
a letter to Mr. Smith. commencing with an admission that
b• could not say his appointment was absolutely for life.
An attempt was made to show that this arose from mis-
apprehension, but the barrister reluctantly held that the
claim, in the absence of the claimant, could not be sub-
stantiated.

The barristers sit today at the Vestry•hall. Kensiegton,
for the revision of the list for the perish of Kensington.

Duzsigam PAUL —Dunham Park, one of the
elate of the Earl of Stamford and Warrington, about twelve
miles from Manchester, and a great resort for all classes of
its people in the summer months, is, it is reported, about to
he partially closed spinet the public. There is a very
ancient right of road for pedestrians through the park, so
that it cannot be wholly enclosed, but it is said to be in con-
templation to place lofty wire fencing on each side the
paths to which the public hare a right, and to shut them
out from many of the pleasant glades and
which they bare for many years past been allowed to
wander with more or loss freedom. Things hare been tend-
ing ir this direction for some tune 'past, keepers having
been placed in the park to turn visitors hack whet) they
have ventured from the more beaten paths, and the seats
placed in the avenue, by the late earl fur the accommoda-
tion of fatigued pedestrians having now been all removed.
Should the course threatened be adopted, and the wire
fencing be erected, it will bo a source of great annoyance,
and in that caw it is maid to be intended to make au effort
to reclaim an old footpath leading behind the hall, which
has been closed for four or five years past, and which the
public have traversed almost " time out of mind."
CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DlSEasta OF THE
CHEST, Vicroit&•Paax.—A sermon, on behalf of the objects
of this valuable institution, was preached on Sunday morn-
ing last, at South Hackney Church, by the its,. Canon
Dale, M.A. In the course of an eloquent and impressive
appeal in support of the hospital (founded on the 19th
verse of tith chapter of St. Luke), the rev. gentleman teal-
lied, from his own experience of forty years' pastoral labour,
to the great prevalence of consumption, in allusion to the
fact that a large proportion of the oases of sickness which he
had visited during that period was that of persons suffering
from affections of the chest. Having visited the hospital,
be spoke in highly commendatory terms of the comfort'
provided for the patients, and the sere end skill bestowed in
the treatment of their cams. The nutritious diet, and
necessarily expensive medicines, rendered the cost of main.
Lining an establishment of this special nature much greater
than that of an ordinary hospital; and the preacher urged the
necessity that existed for obtaining a larger amount of
anima subscriptions. The collection amounted to about ?AL,
end there was also an accession of new annual subscriber to
the charity.