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CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

In all Counties, or Divisions of Counties, a Central Com-
mittee should be formed, with which all District Committees
should act in unison.

The place of meeting of such Central Committee should be
the County Town (where there is one in the Division), or the
City or Town of the largest population.
Every Central Committee should have a Chairman, a De-
puty Chairman, a Secretary, and a Treasurer.
DUTIES OF CENTRAL COMMITTEE.

The duties of each Central Committee will be-
-Ist. Generally to superintend the entire registration of the
County or Division.

2nd: To insure the formation of a District Committee at
the most convenient place in each polling district.
3rd. To furnish each District Committee with all legal
forms for claims or objections in respect of votes.
4th. To circulate in each district, manuals and other infor-
mation useful to Electors.

sth. To make adequate preparation in the week imme-
diately following the first Sunday in September, for the ap-
proaching revision of votes by the Barristers throughout the
whole County or Division.
An Annual Meeting of the Central Committee and a De-
putation from each of the District Committees should take
place early in the month of June ; and such Annual Meeting
should be held in the most convenient locality. At such
Meetings the necessary arrangements for the Annual registra-
tion of the Counties may be considered, and planned.
A skeleton map of each County or Division should be printed
or lithographed by each Central Committee ; distinguishing
the names and divisions of the parishes ; affixing to each parish
a number corresponding with the schedule on the margin of
the map ; and leaving columns for the entry of their respec-
tive number of voters.
DISTRICT COMMITTEES.

In each polling district a District Committee should be
formed, which should have a Chairman, a Deputy Chairman,
a Secretary, and a Treasurer. Each District Committee should
form its own fund, restricted to its local objects.
DUTIES OF DISTRICT COMMITTEES.

The duties of the District Committees are-
-Ist. Generally to superintend the registration in their severa
polling districts.
2d. To ensure throughout the whole of their District the for-
mation of such Local Committees for one or more parishes,
as may be found convenient.
3d. To furnish to each Local Committee legal forms of claim

and objection.
4th. To circulate in each District useful manuals for electors.
sth. To promote and enforce, by every means in their power
Meetings of each Local Committee at the proper times,
and for the purposes hereinafter mentioned.
eth. To communicate to the Central Committee all the infor-
mation necessary to a careful revision of the Voters.
LOCAL COMMITTEES.

The Duties of the Local Committees are._
Ist. To investigate without delay the register of the past year,
so far as it applies to their own parish or parishes ; to
consider the qualifications of those already registered ; and
to collect the names, qualifications, and residences of qua-
lified persons not registered.
2nd. To meet in the first week of July, for the purpose of
giving notice to all qualified persons of the parish not
registered, of the period required by lacy far sending in
claims ; and for the purpose of ensuring that such claims
are sent in, on their behalf, before the 20th of July.
3rd. To meet in the first week of August, for the purpose of
carefully going through the new lists made by the Over-
seers, and of objecting to persons inserted therein, who
are not entitled to b voters ; also for the purpose of
ascertaining whether any persons who have made claims,
or who were in the last register, are omitted from the list.
. To take care that proper notices of objection arc pre-
pared and duly served, on or before the 25th day of August.
sth. To meet immediately after the first Sunday in Septem-
ber, for the purpose of ascertaining the means of defending the
votes of persons to whom objections have beer, taken ; and to
report to the District Committee upon all claims and objec-
tions which are to be heard before the Revising Barristers.
N. B.—Where Local Committees are not formed, the Dis-
trict Committees must perform the duties assigned to the
Local Committees.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.

In counties, or divisions of counties, containing two chief
towns, it may be desirable to have two Central Committees, one
for each surrounding- division.
Each Central Co:nmittee should procure a copy of the last

poll, and an interleaved copy of the register, in which all the
returns of the District Committees should be entered. Each
District and Local Committee should be furnished by the
Central Committee with two interleaved copies of their part of
the register, each voter's last poll being marked on the margin
of one copy. Each District Committee should also be sup-
plied with a map.:
Each Committee should enter, on the interleaved copies of
their district register, notes of all information as to the death
or disqualification of voters. And one of these copies should
be transmitted by each Local Committee to the District
Committee, in the first week in July ; together with a list of
all persons of reform principles qualified, but not registered,
so far as they have been able to ascertain them.
The printed lists of persons qualified to act as jurymen
will give great assistance in ascertaining who are qualified to
be on the list of voters. These lists may be generally had in
each parish.
FORMS WILL BE SUPPLIED TO THE CEN-
TRAL COMMITTEES, ON APPLICATION TO THE
REFORM ASSOCIATION, 3, CLEVELAND-ROW,
LONDON;
And large or small quantities may be purchased at a cheap
rate from Messrs. RIDGWAY, Piccadilly.

IMPERIAL, PARLIAMENT.

ROUSE OF LORDS, JULY 4.

The House was occupied up to five o'clock in hearing
evidence on the Stafford Disfranchisement Bill.
ROYAL COMMISSION.

His Majesty's Assent was given by Commission,
consisting of the Lord Chancellor, Lord Shaftesbury,
and Lord Duncannon, to the following Bills ; viz. the Sugar
Duties Bill, Revenue Securities Bill, Bankrupts' Estates
Bill, Dublin Police Bill, Waste Lands (Ireland) Bill,
British North American Bank Bill, Dublin Steam-packet
Company Bill, the Liverpool Fire Police Bill, Sheffield and
Rotherham Railway Bill, Hayle Railway Bill, Manchester
and Leeds Railway Bill, North of England Railway Bill,
London and Cambridge Railway Bill, London and Norwich
Railway Bill, Dundee and Newtyle Railway Bill, North
Midland Railway Bill, London Grand Junction Railway
Bill, Thames Haven Railway and Dock Bill, Galway Town
Improvement Bill, Herne Bay Pier Bill, Parrett Naviga-
tion Bill, Suir Navigation Bill, Aberavon Harbour Bill,
Sidmouth Harbour Bill, Rochester Canal Bill, Tralce
Harbour Bill, Bann Reservoirs Bills, Wessenden Rerser-
voirs Bills, Nene Outfall Bill, Southampton Waterworks
Bill, Tolcross Gas and Water Bill, Haverfordwest Bridge
Bill, Glasgow Bridge Bill, Shotts Road and Hamilton
Bridge Bill, Dewsbury and Ealand Road Bill, Shrewsbury
School Bill, Earl of Abergavenny's Estate Bill, Bradshaw's
Estate Bill, Thring's Estate Bill, Lockhart's Estate Bill,
Etwall Hospital Bill, Heneage's Estate Bill, Milliken Es•
tate Bill, Earl of Courtoun's Estate Bill, Baldon (Oxford)
Allotment Bill.
JEWISH DISABILITIES.

The Earl of MORLEY presented a petition from Ply
mouth, praying for the removal of the Civil Disabilities al
fecting the Jews.
SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES.

The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented a petition from
some place in Scotland against the Scotch Universities Bil)

BRIGHTON RAIL ROADS.

Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from Brigh-
ton, praying the House not to pass the London and Brigh-
ton Railway Bill (Stephenson's line). The adoption of any
one line at this moment would preclude the adoption of a
better line at a future period.
The Duke of RICHMOND had to present a petition
from the same place in favour of Stephenson's line. The
petitioners had affixed their residences to the petition. He
was also informed, but it -was the old story of these peti-
tions, that many of those who had signed the petition
presented by the Noble and Learned Lord had no
connection with the town of Brighton.
Lord LYNDHURST said that the petitioners had an-
ticipated the charge made by the Noble Duke, and he had
been directed to assure their Lordships that there was no
foundation for such a charge.

The Duke of RICHMOND would take that opportu-
nity of moving that the Bill be read a second time. There
need be no discussion, as all the parties might be heard
before the Committee.

Lord MONSON presented a petition in favour of the
Bill.

Lord L'INDHURST presented a petition, signed by
8,000 inhabitants of Brighton, which no doubt would be to
the taste of the Noble Duke, as the residence of each sub-
scriber was affixed to his name, praying that no line of
Railway might be adopted by their Lordships which had a
tunnel.

.....
On the motion of the Duke of RICHMOND the Lon-
don and Brighton Railway Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed on Monday next.

IRISH TITHES.

The Marquis of CLAN RICARDE presented petitions
from Meath, Armagh, and Westmeath, praying for the
abolition Of tithes.

BRITISH AUXILIARIES IN SPAIN.

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said he should
postpone the motion of which he had given notice relative
to the affairs of Spain.
' IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

In answer to a question from Lord LYNDHURST,

The LORD CHANCELLOR fixed the second rea'
ing of the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt Bill f
Friday next.
BRIGHTON AND LONDON RAILWAY.

The Duke of RICHMOND, in movinc, the sec
reading of the Brighton and London Railwa;Bill, said ti
he would fix the Committee for Wednesday.
Lord MONSON said that, as it was usual to allow
interval of two clear days between the various stages
these Bills, he should move that the Committee be fiat•
for Thursday next.

The House then divided, when the numbers were—
For the Original Motion l6
For the Amendment l5
Majority —l
TRANSFER OF PROPERTY BILL.
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Lord LYNDHURST, in moving the second reading of
this Bill, said that he believed no opposition would be
offered to it, as it was founded upon the Report of the
Real Property Commission, and had met with the univer-
sal approbation of the profession. The evil of the present
law was, that it applied an ancient institution to a new sys-
tem of things. The object of the present Bill was to les-
sen the prolixity and the intricacy of the questions relating
to the conveyance of property which now came before the
Courts of Law. He would give the House one or two in-
stances. A conveyence was usually made by lease and re-
lease. It was necessary to have the lease in the first in-
stance, in order to enable the party to take the release.
By the present Bill this would be effected by one deed in-
stead of two. In a conveyance of a party to himself and
his wife, it was first necessary to convey to a trustee, and
then to the original party, and to his wife. By the present
Bill one deed would be substituted for the two. The
House would have full opportunity to consider the details
in Committee, and he therefore hoped that no opposition
would be offered to the second reading.
The Lord CHANCELLOR said that he entirely agreed
in the principle of the measure.
The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be
committed on Thursday.
CHURCH DISCIPLINE BILL.

The Lord CHANCELLOR said that he hoped their
Lordships would suffer this Bill to pass through Committee
pro forma, and reserve their amendments for a future stage.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH objected to the clauses
respecting juries. He thought the Bill ought more dis-
tinctly to state the manner in which the juries would be
selected. He had prepared several clauses on this sub-
ject, which he hoped the House would not object to have
printed.
The Bishop of EXETER said that he had also prepared
some clauses to correct what he considered one of the
crying evils of the Church. He alluded to the difficulty of
proceeding against delinquent clergymen, in consequence of
the enormous costs. He should propose some plan of pre-
cognition, to have the effect of the finding of a grand jury,
and that means should be devised to do away with the diffi-
culty of proceeding with such charges.
Lord WYNFORD complained of the clause which
subjected prosecutors to costs in case the prosecution failed ;
but expressed himself generally favourable to the measure,
and anxious that, after it had been amended in a few par-
ticulars, it should be allowed to pass. He hoped, then,
that the Noble Lord on the Woolsack would consent
either to such a postponement as would afford him suffi-
cient time to prepare his amendments, or do that which he
considered the better course, viz., to send the Bill to a
Select Committee up stairs, not, however, he could assure
their Lordships, with any view on his part to the final re-
jection of the measure, which he trusted might be rendered
highly serviceable to the interests of the Church.
The Archbishop of CANTERBURY was obliged to
the Noble Lord for the assistance which he was ready to
afford in the amendment of this Bill ; but it appeared to him
that the Noble Lord, though be decidedly expressed his ap-
probation of the Bill, had, nevertheless, at the same time
objected to every part of it, and, in some respects, he thought
rather unfairly. The clause of which he had complained in
particular was no departure from the ancient law, but actually
in accordance with the present custom at Doctors' Commons.
For his own part, however, he was disposed to support that
proposition, because it was necessary that some security
should be afforded to Clergymen against malicious and un-
founded prosecutions. He was acquainted with several
instances in which the want of some remedy of the nature
now proposed had been attended with grievous and oppres-
sive effects upon parties who had been unjustly accused.
He had himself, when Bishop of London, been engaged in
a case respecting the patronage of a school, in which a ca-
veat had been entered ag'ainst hislicense, which he forbore
:o sign until it should be determined to whom the right be-
longed. The prosecutor who commenced this case was