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1854.

[PRICE SD.

REDUCTION OF POSTAGE TO NEW
SOUTH WALES, VICTORIA, AND.
SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

claims, all of which were admitted, and 60 objections,
of which-3 were withdrawn, and 57 were sustained. The
name of Lodge Raymond de Montmoreney.a.ordFrank-
fort): 14, Buckingham-street, was struck'out, as also the
names of Andrew Mortimer DrcinmOnd, Andrew RobC
Drummond, Charles Drummond, Robert, Drummond,
Harvey Diumniontl Edward Atbelin Drunimond, and
William .Frank's Drununckild, all of whom Were, returned
for 49, Chlring-cross.
To the list of St. Paul's, Cqi-ent-garden, there were
14 objectioni, of which .13 were allowed, and 1 was with-
drawn.

General Post-office, Sept., 1854.

On and after the Ist October next, the postage• upon
letters_conveyetl, whether by packet ,or private ship, be-
tween the United Kingdom and the kfollowing British
oolonies, Viz.:—
New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia will
be reduced to a combined British and thcilonial rate of-
- For' a letter not exceeding.
.. Half an ounce in weight ............. .... Os.
.6d.
Half an ounce and not exceeding one 'ounce Is. Od.
One ounce and not exceeding two ounces... 28. ,Od.
and so on, increasing one shilling for every ounce or frac-
tion of an ounce.
The postags of these letters may be paid in advance,
or:they may be forwarded unpaid at the option of the

Tne Court will sit this morning at 11 o'clock, when
.the lists of the parishes of St. -.ll.fargaret, St. John, St.
James, and St. Clement, will be submitted to revision.

sender.
The foregoing reduction of postage will extend to all
letters directed to Van Diemen's Land which are sent
by the Anstralian mail packets, whether those which
go elirect to'-Australia, or those which•take the route to
Singapore, as well as to all letters for New Zealand
specially addressed "via Melbourne" or " via Sydney,".
Upon such letters, both those for New Zealand,.
and those for Van Diemen's Land, the postage must be
paid in advance'. or the letters cannot be forwarded.
To the reduced rate of 60. a French transit rate of
sd. per quarter ounce must be added in the case of al
`letters for the above-mentioned colonies, which may be
specially addresied to be sent via Marseilles, making
the total charge upon such letters—
When under a quarter of en ounce in weight Os. lid.
When weighing.l quarter of an ounce and under
half an ounce
When weighing half an ounce and under three
quarters of an ounce
and so on.
The correspondence of Western Australia is forwarded
as a rule by private ship. Letters for that colony spe-
cially addressed.to be transmitted "via Singapore," will
continuo liable to the existing rate of ls. the half ounce,
or, if also'directed to be sent "via Marseilles," to the
existing rate of is. 10d. the quarter ounce ; but letters
for Western Australia, addressed to go by the direct
Australian packet, will be sent in the mail for Mel-
bourne, and will be liable only to the reduced rate of 6d.
In all cases the postage must be prepaid.
It must be understood that the foregoing reduction of
postage applies only to letters put into the post on or
after the bit'of next month, and that all letters which
are put into the post before that date will be charged
with the existing rate of postage. •
PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.—On and from the
same date, the rates of postage now chargeable upon
packets containing printed votes and proceedings of the
Imperial Parliament, sent through the post to New
South Wales, will be repealed, and all such packets will
be forwarded only by the direct packets, and will be
subject to the rates of postage which are levied on printed
books sent to that colony, viz. ---
For a Packet of Parliamentary Proceedings, not
exceeding—
Half a pound in weight Os. 6d.
Half a pound and not exceeding one pound ls. Od.
One pound and not exceeding two pounds 2s. Od.
Two pounds and not exceeding three pounds 3s. Od.,
beyond which weight no packet can be sent at a reduced
rate of postage.
The following conditions, however, must be observed :
Ist. Every such packet must be sent without a cover, •
or in a cover open at the ends or sides.
2d. It must contain a single publication only, the seve-
ral sheets-or parts thereof, where there are more than
one, being bound or sewed together.
3d. It must not exceed two feet in length, breadth,.
width, or depth.
4th. It must have have no writing or marks upon
the cover, er its contents, except the name and address
of the person to whom it may be sent.
sth. The postage must be paid in full, by affixing out-
side the packet, or its cover, the proper number of
stamps. •
If any of the above conditions be violated, the packet
must be charged as a letter, and treated as such in all
respects.
To prevent any obstacles to the regular transmission
of letters, any officer of the Post-office may delay the
transmission of any such packet of printed votes and
proceedings for a time not exceeding 24 hours, from the
time at which the same would otherwise have been for-
warded by him.

THE REGISTRATIONS.

CITY OF LONDON.

Mr. Thomas Young M‘Christie, the barrister, yes-
terday resumed the revision of the lists of voters for
the city of London, in the Court of Queen's Bench,
,Guildhall. '
In the list for Lasirence Pountney-lane, there were
three notices of claims and five objections sent in to the
overseers, but it appeared that only one of the claims,
and none of the objections had been published.
Upon the list being revised, the published claim was
gone into and allowed, but upon the application of Mr.
Sidney Smith and Mr. Ledger, to substantiate the two
remaining claims and objections,
The Revising Barrister expressed a doubt whether he
could entertain them, in consequence of their non-pub-
lication by the overseers.
Mr. Sidney Smith and Mr. Ledger contended that
this non-publication could not deprive parties of those
rights conferred upon them by act of Parliament.
Wherever a list of voters was not published, a remedy was
provided by the 27th section of the Reform Act, of
making the existing register the list, thereby saving the
rights of the electors. The 26th section also provided
against imperfect publication, by enabling the revising
barrister to revise and adjudicate a list published for any
portion of the time required, whilst the 38th section, as
applicable to claimants, required the barrister to call
upon the parties to prove their qualification by proof of
the due service of the notice required to be given. If
the reverse of that were the law, the overseers might re-
strict the rights of claimants or objectors as the case
might be.
The Revising Barrister took the same view of the
question, and allowed the remaining claims arid ob-
jections.
In the list for the parish of St. Peter-le-Poor, in the
ward of Broid-street, Mr. John Sim, of Coombe-hill,
claimed to have his name inserted as owner and occupier
of a house, No. 39, Old Broad-street, which had been
omitted by the overseers.
Mr. Sidney Smith, in support of the claim, said that
the Messrs. Sim were the owners and occupiers of the
premises in question—that the premises were not onlyfit
for business, but for a dwelling-house and fit for the
reception of a family—that the servants employed were
not ;merely housekeepers for the place of business, but
were domestic servants, and administered to the wants
of the partners, who had separate beds in the house, and
that it was a proper occupation. He should quote the
opinions of two gentlemen who were considered as autho-
rities upon this point, which he thought would esta-
blish his claim. Mr. Smith then read extracts from
" Elliott and Rogers on Registration Cases," which
' stated that it was not necessary for a person to sleep
continuously on the premises, so that there was an un-
broken right of doing so. In this case the claimant had
a bed assigned exclusively to himself, in his own house,
to which he , went every day for the purpose of trans-
acting his business, and having a room assigned to him
where he could sleep, he (Mr. Smith) contended that
it was as complete a residence as could be set up, but
it was not necessary that he should sleep there every
night. It was like the case of officers in the army, who
were frequently travelling abroad for a long period, but
they did not lose their qualification. The law did not
so much require a man to sleep at a particular place,
but the power of doing so to the exclusion of any-
body else. What was there in this case but an animus
i•everdendi ? Where a man has a residence,, and a bed
there, ho occupied it when he pleased. He had not
occupied jt for six months, certainly, but still he had a
continuous occupation. .
A clerk from the establishment was called, who stated
that the partners in the firm had beds in the house, in
which they occasionally slept, but that the claimant,
although he had a bed there, had not slept in it for the
last sixteen months.
The Revising Barrister considered that this was not a
residence within the meaning of the act ; but if Mr.
Smith wished to have a case upon it for the court above,
he would grant it.
Mr. Sidney Smith said most undoubtedly ho should,
as there was but one case in the books bearing upon the
point.
Mr. Burton, the governor of Whitecross-street Pri-
son, claimed in respect of his occupation in the parish
of St, Giles, Cripplegate.
The Revising Barrister considered that Mr. Burton's
residence was compulsory, and disallowed the claim.