The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-25 00:00:00

BARNES.

Mr. M. Short was objected t 3 by the reformers on the
ground that he claimed to vote as occupier nut of the
house of which he is the freeholder, and the objection
was allowed.

The overseers made six objections, and sustained the
whole of them, and six new claims wereallowed.

PATTERS A.
The reformers made four objections, and sustained the
whole of them.

The overseers objected to the names of sixty-four elec-
tors, most of whom were registered out of freehold
houses and land in the late Battdsea-fields, and which
-are now called Battersea-pack. The Government having
taken possession of the property,, but 13 re-claims and
12 original claims were allowed.,
Two gentle Men from the bffibe of Mr. Capel, of Gray's-
inn, attended to support tke claim made by Capt. W. R.
Sands, which was objected to by the reformers, on the
ground that the property was not within the electoral
parish of Battersea, but in the hamlet of Penge, which
makes a list of its own, and in which the gallant captain
has made a eitni!ar claim out of the same t-r.perty,
namely, a rent-charge, and the objection was sustained.

KELTON.
The overseers inacie snswtined four objections.
MthITLAKF'..

The overseers made and :Kbitained eight objections,
and nine claims were allowed.

A gentleman attended from the office of the Clerk of
the Peace, in consequence of a list of 17 voters whose
claims had been allowed by the C .urt of Common Pleas
in an appeal of Aetbury v. Henderson, reported in our
paper of Nov. 24, having been omitted from the copy of
the register furnished by the Clerk of the Peace to the
overseers, and consequently the names of those parties
had not been published on the church door.
It appeared by the Registration Act of the 6th Vic-
toria c. 18, s. 67, whenever any decision of any revising
barrister shall be revered or altered, so as to require any
alteration or correction of the register of voter 3, notice
should be forth with given by one of the masters of the
court to the sheriff, who shall alter or correct the regis-
ter accordingly, which has been done ; but the act makes
no provision for any notice of such alteration being given
to the Clerk of the PeaCe, who therefore had received no
notice of the decision.
The Revising Barrister observed that this seemed a
cams omissus in the Act of Parliament, and although
the question was one for the exercise of his own discre-
tion he would be happy to hear any observations on the
point.
Mr. Corner said the point came upon him by surprise.
He had supposed that all the parties whose votes had
been in question before the Court of Common Pleas bad
been on the register except Mr. Aetbury, the appellant,
the omission of whose name certainly appeared to be
inexplicable, unless he had parted with his qualification,
as some others had done. In fact he believed many of
them did not now possess the same qualification, and
their names not having appeared in the published list
no opportunity had been afforded to object to them. If
the Revising Barrister should now insert these 17 names
he might insert two-thirds of them without any qualifi-
cation, or any claim or application by themselves. All
these parties had hai the same notice of the omission of
their names as any one else, viz., the copy of the regis-
ter on the church door, and it was their dut.y to come
here and object to such emission in the proper manner ;
but it appeared most singular, that of 17 persons said
to have been improperly omitted, not one appeared to
complain, and it was only on application to the Clerk
of the Peace to correct what was certainly no error
of his or of the overseers, that their names was pro-
posed to be inserted without any notice to the public,
or any opportunity of objecting. Mr. Coiner submitted
to the Revising Barrister that if these names could be
considered as baying been accideetally omitted from the
list, whether by the fault of the overseers or the clerk of
the peace, the parties should come, as in other cases of
omission ; and having proved their right to the qualifica-
tion, their names might be inserted in the register ac-
cording to sec. 37 of the Regi-trati in Act.
The Revising Barrister said his attention having been
previously called to the circumstances, he had fully con-
sidered the case, and the law applicable t i it, and he
was of opinion that no blame attached either to the
sheriff, the clerk of the peace, or the overseers, but he
should consider the names as upon the register, as tin.'
deubtedly they ought to be, having been accidentally
omitted from the register, as if a street was lost, and he
should insert the name, accordingly, as in his opinion
sec. 37 applied to persons claiming, and not to persons
on the register.

TOOTING.

Mr. Jeans proved notices of objection to five electors
and subtained the whole of them.,

WANDSWORTH.

The overseers made and sustained objections to twenty-
two electors, and to two claimants. Seven re claims and
eleven new claims were allowed.

WIMBLEDON.

The overseers objected to eleven electors, and sust tined
the whole of them. One re-claim and sixty-three original
claims were allowed without objection, and more than
fifty of them were out of plots of freehold land, purchased
of the Church of England Land Society. And on the
application of Mr. Corner to the court, fourteen of those
electors elect were allowed to poll at Lambeth.
The court adjourned to the court-house, Croydon, at
eleven o'clock this morning, to revise the lists for the
polling district of Croydon.

The revising barrister's clurt for the Hemel Hemp-
stead District was held on Saturday.
Mr. Bontems appeared for the Liberals, and Mr.
Grover for the Tories.
The following is the result of the day's revision :
Tory claims allowed 32
Liberals struck off
Liberal claims allowed
Tories struck off
Tory majority
Liberal majority brought forward 8

Tory majority carried forward 3

AiTSTRALIA.

The Melbourne Argus of Jime 23 says :
. During the fire,.days that bare transpired since
our last weekly sumtnary of the markets there has
been but little 'doing. The low rates of cartage to
the diggings, however, etilliciontinue, and a con-
tinuous, although not -a large, trade is kept up in
consequence with the interior.
Breadstriffs--The flour market has been alto-
gether unsettled, and prices have risen consider-
ably.. One holder has sprung up 71, per ton in his
demands for Chilian, and 3/..per ton on all descrip-
tions. - Wheat has also changed hands for seed at
the enormous price of 245. per bushel. It is-be-
lieved that the effect of this rise will be to induce
the neighbouring colonies to realise on their stocks,
and to abide with us the supplies which are ex-
pected.
Coffee—There has been a demand for good Ceylon
plantation, and a rise of ld. , per lb. has taken
place, at which sales have been.effected.
Sugars—Are saleable, and large transactions
have taken place at our quotations. There is no
Java in the market.
TobacCo —The market is firm for Negrohead and
Barratt's. Ilavennah cigars are 'in better demand.
The Melbourne ,trgus' of June 20, reports the
gold market dull, • and the buying price of the
metal, 3/. 17s. per oz. ; but the name paper states
the yield is steady. •
M'Connell's Gold Circular,
of June 8, says :
" There is no alteration. in the• price- of gold dust
this week. The market bes been very dull,
scarcely any having been offered forsale."
• The Ballarat correspondent of the Melbourne
Herald, writing on the 14th, says :—" From in-
formation which has just come to hand I fear that
we are on the eve of serious disturbances in this
district. lam not in possession of the facts of the
case further than that considerable ill-feeling has
manifested itself between the Irish and other
miners on the Amherst and Daisy-hill gold field,
and that by latest accounts the Irish portion of
the community there had had notice given to them'
to leave that neighbourhood within 24 hours, or
he driven off. Some disputes as to claims appear
to be at the bottom of the affair. Be that as it
may, several expresses have arrived here from
Daisy-hill, giving accounts which have excited the
Irish population here as well. The Austra-
lian Know-Nothingism is among the other
signs of the times, and may yet command more
attention than is supposed. lam sorry to say
that the Chinese are still persecuted here.
During the coming in of a large number of
these people a few days ago the dogs were set on
them, and in one case a savage bulldog tore the
clothes from off a Chinaman's back, and, as may be
supposed, frightened the man considerably. Mr.
Commissioner Mackenzie, when informed of the
occurrence, very properly interfered, but too late
to save the man from being ill-used iu the first
place."

- The Melbourne Age of Jun* 23 says :—" On the
whole, however, notwithstanding the alarming ac-
counts we have received, we are not disposed to
entertain serious apprehensions from the move-
ments at Maryborough. We have sufficient confi-
dence iu the diggers that their good sense—that is
to say, their c ,mmon sense—will not allow the
quarrel to be carried the length of actual bloodshed.
Our correspondent concludes his letter yesterday
by stating that all was quiet when he wrote, and
we trust things will continue so. Ever so little
reflection would suffice to show the intelligent men
of Maryborough the madness of permitting this
absurd business to go any further. The mutual
protection societies had undertaken to mediate be-
tween the contending parties, and we should hope
they would be successful. The means of quelling
the disturbance, namely, by observing strict neu-
trality and treating factious differences with quiet
scorn, are very easily applied, and could hardly fail
of success. We shall see : but if the case turn out
otherwise—if these disturbances swell up into a
civil war—it will be the worst thing for the entire
diggings community that could possibly have hap-
pened."