The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-28 00:00:00

REGISTRATION.

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COUNTY OF THE ISLE WIGHT.
(Before JOHN HALCOMB and GEORGE POULDEN, Esqs.)
The Barristers for revising the list of voters for the
county of the Isle of Wight, opened their Court in the
T4vn Hall, West Cowes, on Tuesday at 12 o'clock, and
continued sitting during Wednesday, when the follow n 3
persons were struck off the list :—Reformers or persons
suspected to be so by the Tories—Thomas Bevis, sold his
property and left the Island ; William Cubit, Northset.
pilot, in Holland, no one instructed to appear for him ;
Joseph Rathborne, Roman Catholic priest, ill, no person
appeared for him ; Thomas Harling claimed, whose rent
wag 1001. per annum, as a 50/. renter ; but it was proved
that he had let a considerable part of the premises ready
furnished t;;.r a short period ; Mr. Halcomb, therefore, de-
cided he could not remain on the list, as he had not been
in actual occupati,pn of the property for which he chimed
the whole of the ivvvemonth as required by the Act.
By this decision it appear: you must occupy to the amount
of 501. the whole of the time
.; if you let but one room for
one day, you lose your voter a: you reduce your rent
under 50/. William Drover claim; as a freeholder, but
as his mother and elder brother vvho were the trustees
appeared to have a right reserved to then: in the claimant's
father's will to sell the property for the zeneral benefit
without consulting him, the Barristers decided it was not
a freehold. James Drover's vote was - retained, .he being
a trustee in possession.
The following Tories were struck off :---John Dove,
dead ; John Hart, dead ; James Civill, Abraham Doudne3',
George Hansen, Henry Halliday, James Lyons, James
Phillips, John Spencer, the Rev. Maximilian Geneste
(whose case was similar to Mr. Harling's), and Henry
Burnet Jacob, who claimed fora share in sixteen freehold
houses, gave his residence as West Cowes, but had resided
some years in Ireland—the notice was served on only ono
of the tenants, but as no names of tenants were given, vor
the numbers of the houses, after a long and learned dis-
cussion on both sides, the service was held not to be a good
one, and the vote was struck off. The following Tories'
fates are not decided :—James Denham, John Drinkwater,
Wm. Stuart Day, William Horwood, George Marvin—
part of their premises being in the borough of Newport,
and Mr. Hearn, Town Clerk of the borough of Newport,
not being present to say how much, the parties not being
able to describe how high the tide flowed 200 or 300 years
ago, before the present erections were made, or what would
be the line of high water if the present quays, &c., were
removed. Joseph Jolliffe, claiming for a freehold, said to be
in the hands of his assignee ; David Lyons and Charles
Shirley, claiming, with James Lyons, for one-third in a
house in Carvel-lane, which it appeared by the evidence
they never possessed ; the notice had been taken from
house to house, but not one in the lane would acknowledge
them as landlords, and at last left at a beer shop belonging
to Mr. J. Hart, formerly the Tory solicitor, which at the
last Court it was said they claimed for. It was not now
even pretended that they had a house, only that the notice
was bad, not having been served on the tenant. Mr.
Poulden—" Why, if there was no tenant how could they
serve the notice on him ; it is clear they have made every
possible inquiry, but I will consult Mr. Halcomb." William
Cushen Maynard claimed for a freehold house, having only
a share ; on this ground several of the Reformers lost
their votes last year—thus eleven Tories were struck off and
nine adjourned, while only two, or at most three, Refor-
mers and two uncertain were struck, off and four adjourned ;
one of which is a borough case, one joint-occupancy, and
one trustee of the Methodist Chapel, house and stores,
rental 1001. per annum—the last took up a great deal of
time, and was most ably argued ; it is to come on again
at Newport. In the Whippingham list one Reformer was
struck off, and two Tories, and two Tories' cases adjourned ;
(Lord G. Seymour claiming for Norris Castle, Sir G.
Seymour for Truckles, each claiming for the whole, but
had only a share). The Reformers have already a majority
of 7 on the cases decided, which we have no doubt will be
doubled when the adjourned cases are decided. This is
a very different position to what they were placed in last
year or expected to be in this, as the Tories by their tech-
nical objections, and Mr. Warren's special pleading, made
sad havock in the Reformers' ranks ; they were led to ex-
pect a second edition of it this year by the Tories
re-registering between 70 and 80 of their men, merely
adding to their place of abode, West Cowes, "in this
parish 7" The Reformers in self-defence took objections to
all they had not altered : one case was selected for the
Barristers' decision, when all the rest were withdrawn.
The Barristers gave great satisfaction by their liberal de-
cisions though it told against the Reformers, whose errors
had been visited severely last year, and made them more
careful this, the nature of which may be seen by the fol-
lowing cases of objections made by the Reformers, but
overruled by the Barristers :—Richard Dear, place of abode
"parish of Mitcheldever," no town or county given, altered
to " near Winchester, Hants ;" Arthur Webb, " Werrar,"
no town or parish given, only the name of the farm ; James
Flux, Gunville, ditto ; John Pain, North Houghton, for a
house called " Smithards," but on examining the notice of
claim given in in 1832, it showed what blunders overseers
can make, or at least were made, by Messrs. James Hollis
and Claxton ; for in the original it stood" North Houghton,
near Stockbridge, Hants," and the cottage was called
" Hawthorn Cottage ;" the claimant had never heard of
such a name as " Smithards," and by their alternations was
brought forty miles to prove his right ; he had kept a copy
of the claim, fearing the original might not be found, and
by it saw the error. Could not these men be compelled to
ply this gentleman's expenses ?

The subscriptions received for erecting a monument
to the late M. Carrel, of the Parisian Republican Paper
the National, now amount to 560/.

The revision of voters of the City of Westminster
commences to-morrow, where the last registration has
been very favourable to the liberal cause.
THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA.—There is a plea-
sant story told of a Spanish grandee in want of a bed at an
inn, late one night, when being asked for his name, he enu-
merated the whole of his titles, which effectually closed the
door against his admission. According to the Journal de
Vienne the Emperor of Austria appears to rival tbe illus-
trious Spaniard ; whether this magnificence of style will be
any obstruction to him hereafter is a curious question. The
following are the titles which have been fixed upon for him
by the present Administration :—We, Ferdinand the First,
by the Grace of God, Emperor of Austria, King of Hun-
gary and Bohemia, fifth of the name, King of Lombardy
and Venice, of Dalmatia, Croatia, Sclavonia, Galicia, Lo-
donatia and Elyria ; King of Jerusalem, &c. ; Archduke
of Austria, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Duke of Lorraine,
Salzburg, Syria, Carinthia, and of the Ukraine ; Grand
Prince of Transylvania ; Margrave of Moravia ; Duke of
Upper and Lower Silesia, of Modena, Parma, Placentia,
and Guastalla, of Auschwitz and Zator, of Steschein,
Frioul, Ragusa, and Zara ; Sovereign Count of Hapsburg
and the Tyra], of Kihurg, Gortz, and Gradiska ; Prince of
Trent and Brienne ; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lu-
satia and of Istria ; Count of Hohnements, Feldkirch,
Bregentz, Sonnenberg, &c. ; Lord of Trieste, of Cattaro,
and of the March of Wracks.
THE LONDON FIRE ESTABLISHMENT.—It is
important that the residents of the great towns and villages
within twelve miles around London should know that in
any emergency from fire the London Fire Establishment,
as now constituted, is not only ready, but even anxious, to
afford the assistance of its large engines and firemen to any
extent, which the nature of the danger may require. Nay,
further, a messenger arriving at the stations with informa-
tion of the outbreak of an alarming fire within the above
distance around London, would be liberally paid on the
following day, provided he gave the alarm in sufficient time
to enable the engines to arrive so as to be of real service in
checking the spread of the conflagration.
The following atrocities, instances of which are of
more rare occurrence among our neighbours than with us,
happened at Dieppe within the last few days. On Sunday
evening the 16th instant, while the Cure of St. Martin, a
village between Dieppe and Eu, was at supper with his
niece and servant, about eight r.m., some persons knocked..
at the door, rushed in, stabbed the servant with a knife,
and murdered the priest and his niece. He was much re-
spected, and had nearly attained the advanced age of eighty
years. On Tuesday, a man named Vincent Degre, went
into a public-house at Oaville, with a friend, whom he in-
vited to take a glass or two with him, but on the recke,iiing
being called he found that he had no money, and his frond
paid the score. After this the friend in joke cut off the
the rim of his hat, at which Degre only laughed, and,
and both parties left the house. Degre, however, being
met by some acquaintance, they so joked him about the
damage of his hat, saying the landlord had played him a pretty
trick, and that he ought not to put up with it, &c., that
the weak infuriated man returned to the house, where first
meeting the landlord's wife he felled her to the ground with
a stick, and then attacking the landlord beat him in so
dreadful a manner that the poor man only survived a few
hours. The assassin was immediately taken into custody.
Poor Jack, the ourang-outang, at the Garden of
Plants, Paris, has been so severely indisposed since the
weather has been so damp and cold, that the faculty enter-
tain apprehensions of his not going through the winter.
His affection is an acute pleurisy. He is visited every day
by four or five eminent physicians, who hold frequent
consultations on his case. Several distinguished profes-
sors of the Garden of Plants also call on him, but he re-
ceives all his visiters ill, except the negro servant of the
giraffe, in whom he expresses great confidence. To bleed-
ing, leeching, cupping, and other remedies prescribed, he
manifests the utmost aversion, and, instead of the patience
and resignation so desirable in his situation, betrays mo-
roseness, depression, and irritability. . The remedies applied
have hitherto produced little effect ; his movements are slow,
his skin cold, his eyes dim, and a fatal result is apprehended.

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