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

MIDDLESEX.

The revision for the list of voters for the county of
Middlesex was commenced yesterday at White Conduit-
house, by Mr. Shadwell, the barrister appointed fur that
purpose.
The Liberty of the Rolls, and the parishes of St.
' George the Martyr and St. Andrew, were gone through.
The claim of the Rev. W. Rogers was opposed by the
Liberals, on the ground of an insufficient description of
his qualification.
Mr. JAMES, for the objectors, submitted that the de-
scription of " incumbent of the district church of St.
Thomas, Charter-house," was not a sufficient description.
The law could not recognise such a qualification, and, in
Brighton the barrister had struck off five clergymen out
of six on the same ground.
Mr. Payne, the Conservative agent, said that he was
aware that the Revising Barrister had expunged the
name last year upon the same ground, and if he now
retained his opinion, all he (Mr. Payne) would ask was,
.that a case might be granted.
The Learned BARRISTER said he had no objection
to do so.
Claim disallowed.

The claim of the Rev. Edward Piny, perpetual curate
of St. Peter's district church, Saffron-hill, was also dis-
allowed under similar circumstances, the Barrister oh
serving that unquestionably the Rev. Gentleman was
entitled to be on the register if the qualification had been
properly described as freehold pewrents."
An appeal, in which all cases of a similar nature
would be consolidated, was then granted by the Bar-
rister.

The lists of Gray's Inn, St. Giles-in-the-Fields, St.
George's, Bloomsbury; Islington, Clerken well, and St.
Buto!ph without Alders; ate, were gone through without
any point meriting notice having arisen.
The overseer of the latter parish presented his bill of
expenses ; but the Barrister refused to alliw any, as the
list or objections and claims had not been properly made
out, the claimants being inserted in the general list, and
the objections mixed up with those relating to the City.
Mr. SIIADWELL said be hoped it would make the
overseers more careful in future.
In the list of St. Luke's the name of a Mr. D'Effangor
was objected to by Mr. Payne. The claimant's qualifica-
tion was for a rent-charge of 403. per annum. According
to the deed of grant the first half-yearly payment became
due on July 2, but a receipt dated January 10 was pro-
duced for 1/.

Arr. James and Mr. R. Fitch supported the vote, con-
tending that the payment on January 10 was a sufficient
enjoyment of the rent-charge for six months prior to
July 31, to satisfy the Reform Act.

Mr. Payne, on the contrary, urged that the voluntary
payment in January was made for the purpose of obtain-
inn a vote, and that the enjoyment of the rent-charge
could only be said to have commenced on July 2.
The Learned .13.kitatsTEs, however, decided that the
payment of the amount in January was a sufficient
seisin in compliance with the statute, and allowed the

Vote.

The lists of Islington, St. Atirylehone, and Stoke
Newington were diposed of without the occurrence of
aught deserving notice.
The recirtining parishes of St. Pancras, Saffron-hill,
and St. Sepulchre, were also gone through without elicit-
ing any feature of importance, and the Court adjourned
shortly before 6 o'clock.

EAST SURREY.
The revising barrister, Mr. T. C. C. Fyshe, held his
Court yesterday, at the ‘Vorkehouse Cominittee-ror,m,
Bermondsey, fir the purpose of revising the lists o!
voters in that district.
Mr. John Curling claimed the right to vote in respect
to a piece of freehold land. A similar claim was made
last year, but rejected.
Mr. Curling said he was ready to depose to the fact
of his being in the receipt of 31. si. a year for the use
of the piece of land in question. It was used by a person
who kept his cart standing on it, and who paid him that
turrnint.
The parish officers objected to the claim on the ground
that the land was not &mil fide worth 403. a year. It
was a very small piece of ground, 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 hear under
swablaitouc:lstdchitiounri
conditions
did so, and he adjourned his decision
for that purpose.
The ltev. W. Curling, one of the chaplains of St.
his office.
Mr. Stunny, the evleasittirt‘y clerk,right:da opptoosveodtethine respect of
the ground, that although the rev. gentleman certainly
lhoechladl
Act cfrt:ehold office, yet that he did not derive such a
anteeilly were paid by a rate levied upon the
revenue from land as would entitle him to a vote, It
appeared that two chaplains were appointed under a
who were liable by their goods
and chattels, and also personally in the event of their
failing to pay. Mr.Stunny reverted to the various Acts
inabitants generally, they
of Parliament bearing upon the question, and contended
that the mode in which the chaplains were paid could
no:Ebre.
jsanctioned tinder freehold interest in land, which
claim, argued tgh'e
was the qualification under which the right to vote was
now sought to be substantiated.
and urged that inasmuch as formerly it was perfectly
means of a rate, that they were
whopoi n
tw east instructed u cted
considerablesu p ol re
length,
gtthbe,
clear that the incomes of chaplains were derived from
tithes, and that the mode of payment was merely
changed by a recent Act of Parliament to one by
position, and their incomes were clearlyderivable iir
the property and the land in the parish ; that they had
i the samefrom
a freehold interest in the laud,
and therefore were en•
tled to vote.
The REVISING BARRISTER said the only point in the
case was, whether the claimant possessed a freehold
in the land. There was no doubt that he held a free-
hold office, but it appeared to him that the Act of Par-
liament, under which he received his salary, by giving
a power of distraint upon the goods, and of imprison-
ment in the event of non-payment, contemplated a
merely personal liability ; and that there was, conse-
quently, not such an interest in land as was required to
give eke right to vote, and the claim must, therefore, be
disallowed.
Sixteen fresh claims, supported by the free traders,
in respect to two freehold houses, worth about 46L
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 Australia, the Mau-
ritius, and the Gambia.