The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

EAST SURREY. -

revising barrister, Mr. 'l'. C. C. Fyshe,"held his
Court yestmlay, at the Workehome Committee-root a,
Ihrinondsey, tor the purpose of revising the lists of
vo;ers in that disttiet. _ _

Mr. Johnijnrlin claimed the right to vote in respect
to a piece of freehold lard. A similar claim was made
lest year, but rejected.
Mr. Curling said he was ready to depose to the fact
of his being in the receipt of 3/. ss. a year for the use
of the piece of land in question. It was used by a person
who kept his cart standiog on it, and who paid him that
amount.

The parish officers objected to the claim on the ground
that the land was not bond fide worth tOs. a year. It
was a very small piece of giound, in fact hardly large
enough to hold the cart, the shafts of which extended
beyond it.

The REVISING BARRISTER said he should like to see
the party who occupied the land, in order to bear under
what conditions he did so, and be adjourned his decision
for that purpose.
The Rev. W. Curling, ore of the chaplains of St.
Saviour's Church, claimed a right to vot3 in respect of
his once.
Mr. Stunny, the vestry clerk, opposed the claim,. On
the ground, that elthough the rev. gentleman cert.
•nly
held a freehold ()Mee, yet that he did not detiee Loch a
revenue from land as would entitle him to a vote, It
appeared that two chaplains were appoint-A urder a
local Act, and th were pa'Al by
liable by their goods
a rat:: upon the
inhabitants generally, wh were
and chattels, rnd also personelly in the evert (;4' their
tailing to pay. m
—r. Sunny reverted to the val.ous Acts
of Parliament beating upo.i the qeestion, and contended
o
that the mode in which the chaplains were p..id could
not be sanctioeed under freehold interest in land, which
was the qurlification under which the right to vote was
now sought to be substnntiaierl,
Mr. J. Curling, who wes insttucted to support the
claim, argeed the point at very considerable length,
and urg'i thet inasreuch as formerly it was perfectly
clear that the ircornes of chaplains were derived -.Aim
tithes, and that the mode of pay.rent was merely
changed by a recent Act of Parliament to one by
means of a rate, that they were urecisely in the same
position, and their incomes were c.earlv derivable fromthe property and the land in the paC-8.1 ;
that they had
a freehold interest in the land
The REVISING BARR7ITER rnd the:eforo were en-
tied to vote. ,
id the only point in the
c'ce was, whether the ch.'mant pos,
t?.3 ^d a .:eehold
in the land. There wel no doubt that he held a free-
hold office, but it appeared to him that the Act of Per-
liarnent, under which he received Lis "If' by giving
merely personal liability ; and that
a power of distraint upon the goc is, and o: impiison-
ment in the event of non-payment, contemplate
quentty, not such an ilt.lrest in lard as was required to
give the right to vote, and the must, therefore, be
•
Lisa lowed. there was, cosnse-
SW3en fresh claims, stmnorted by the free traded,
in respect to two ieeehti.o houses, worth about 46/
a-year, were all held to be good by the Revising Bar-
rister, and the names of the parties were placed on the
list of voters.

Dispatches Were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office from the Governors of South It
ritius, And the Gambia. tralia, the Mau-