The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-12 00:00:00

FREEROLD LAND SOCIETIES AND TEE

IRANCHISE.

On Monday the revising barrister for Middlesex resumed
his court at the Belvedere Tavern, Penton-street, Isling-
ton, in order to proceed with the lists of the parishes
and places within the district assigned to the poll at
King's-cross.

In the parish of St. Mary, Islington, there was a large
number of claims arising out of freehold land which had
become the property of the claimants through the agency
of the St. Pancras, Marylebone, and Paddington Free-
hold Land Society. It will be remembered that upon
the occasion of the last revision there were very nume-
rous claims of the same description ; but as these were
for the most part 251. shares, and as a large number of
them (the holders having been successful in the ballot)
were still under a mortgage to the society, the barrister
held that the amount of qualification was not sufficient ' •
first, because he doubted whether a freehold purchased
for 251. was of adequate value to yield an income of 40s,
clear of all rates and charges ; and secondly, in the ease
of the mortgage still being unredeemed that there was a
further diminution in the value of the freehold. The
effect of this decision was last year to disallow some
hundreds of claims.

In the interval which has elapsed since that period
and the present revision very many of the old claimants
have amended their qualifications by becoming possessed
of another share, at the same time that they have re-
deemed any mortgage which the society might have upon
the property. In all such cases the claims were yester-
day allowed. One instance will illustrate the decision.
Elisha Archer yesterday claimed in respect of a freehold
of the annual value of 40s. Mr. J. Wells, the secretary
to the society, proved that the claimant had paid 521. 12s.
for the freehold, that he had been possessed of it the re-
quisite time, and that there was no mortgage. Mr.
Jones, the Conservative agent, said that he had opposed
these claims on the ground that the value of the qualifi-
cation was insufficient, and that much of the property
was still held under mortgage. Mr. Wells pledged him-
self that in every one of the present claims, the value
was sufficient to comply with the decision laid down by
the barrister last year, and that in none of them was
there any mortgage to the society. Under these cir-
cumstances the claims, which were regarded with much
interest, were established.

THE LATE MURDER IN THE MINORIES.—The wretched
marl Mobbs, who stands charged upon the coroner's in-
quisition with the murder of his wife, and whose trial
was postponed at the last session of the Central Criminal
Court until the session commencing on the 24th inst.,
still remains an inmate of the London ilospital, under
the custody night and day of one of the City police ; the
reason for his not being removed to the infirmary at
Newgate is, that he will receive better attention in the
hospital, and be in .a more fit state to undergo the fatigue
of his trial. The wretched man, it is stated, has entirely
recovered from the injuries he inflicted upon himself
after the brutal murder ; but he appears in a very low
and desponding state, and at times observes to those in
attendance upon him that he is only being cured that he
may be hanged at the Old Bailey, Inspector Marchant,
of the City police, holds the warrant, but the prisoner's
removal will not take place until the eve of the session.

THE POPE AND THE _BILLIARD CUE.—A letter from
Rome, in the Augsburg Gazette, says :—" In the palace
of the Vatican a number of workmen are at present oc-
cupied in arranging the floors of the pontiffcal apart-
ments, and putting down marble or mossaic in place of
the brick which has in general constituted, up to the
present time, the flooring of these rooms. The regimen
of walVing exercise in the open air, recommended by the
medical advisers of the Pope, does not appear a suffi-
cient remedy to keep down his increasing corpulence,
and he has been lately ordered, in addition, to play an
hour every day at billiards. This his Holiness does from
five to six in the evening, generally with Mgr. Stella.