The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-26 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIONk-r-
MIDDLESEX.
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Mr. Shadwell, on Saturday, was engaged at the Sussex
Hotel, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street, in revising the lists
of persons qualifying for property situate in the various
parishes of the city of London.
Mr. Payne attended for the Conservatives, and Mr.
W. H. James for the Liberals.
The Rev. J. A. Roberts, rector of St. Alban's, Wood-
street, was objected to by the Liberals.
Mr. Roberts said that he was possessed.of a free/foil
church and churchyard in right of his position as recto?
Mr. James asked Mr. Roberts whether he received any •
tithes?
The Rev. Gentleman said he did not, but was entitled
to a certain fixed sum to be raised among the pa-
rishioners, which hal been exacted by statute since the
ire of London.
Mr. James submitted that this stipend was a personalty,

and not a reality. By the Act of Parliament (44th of
George 111., c. 89) in the seventh section► there was no
power conferred upon the minister to distrain, but only
those persons who make the rate; and if .no rate should
be made, what power had the minister to get it? He
(Mr. James) hoped that if the Barrister decided in favour
of the vote, he would grant a case for appeal.
The Learned BARRISTER referred to the Act, and said
the assessment was not made upon the persons, but on
" the several houses, buildings, and all such other here-
ditaments within the parish." Thus the minister re-
ceived the assessment out of the herfclitaments of the
parish, and that could not be called a personalty. By
th• 11th section, if any parson shall neglect to pay his
assessment, the Lord Mayor or any other magistrate of
the city of London, on oath made of the default, may
grant to the officer appointed to receive the rate a war-
rant of distress on the goods and chattels not only of the
person liable, but also on those of the occupier of the
tenement. This was certainly a charge on land.
M. James said the question was still whether the
stipend was real or personal. He had consulted legal
gentlemen, who advised that it was a personalty. If Mr.
ltoberts had claimed in right of his glebe, he might have
had a good qualification. He hoped the Barrister would
grant a case, as many votes were affected in a similar
manner.

The BARRISTER said he hardly saw any ground for a
case.

- Mr. James said, with the Barrister's permission, he
would mention the matter again in the course of the day.
In Allhallows-the-Less Mr. G. Hudson, the Railway
King, claimed for a share in a freehold house in Angell-
place. He was objected to by the Liberals, but a decla-
ration from him was put in, which Was accepted as suffi-
cient to sustain the vote.

In St. Andrew's, Holborn, five rent-charges -upon a
house in Plough court, supported by the League agents,
wore admitted.

In the parish of St. Anne, Blackfriars, several new
claims were objected to by the overseers solely on the
ground of their being such.
Mr. Payne and Mr. James both complained of the
conduct of the overseers in putting the parties to the
trouble of appearing to defend their votes, and suggested
that it was•a fit case to disallow the overseer's expenses.
The BARRISTER said he would consider of it.
The Rev. T. Hartwell Horne, rector of St. Edmund-
the-King, Lombard street, was objected to by the
Liberals upon the same grounds as the preceding case
of Mr. Roberts.
Mr. Fitch (who assisted Mr. James) contended that
the assessment under the Act was not such a quali-
fication as to entitle the rector to be on the register, as

it differed materially from a rent-charge granted in lieu
of tithes under the Commutation Act.

Tbe BARRISTER. observed, the Rev. Gentleman claimed
for a " freehold benefice."
Mr. Fitch replied, still it must come to the same ques-
tion. In the 11th section the rate was charged upon the
occupiers of laud, and if any person should neglect to pay,
the Act pointed out a certain course to be adopted, viz., by
a distress upon the goods and chattels of the occupier,
and not, as- under the Commutation Act, by seizing the
goods of the tenant, who must charge the amount again
to his landlord. He (Mr. Fitch) contended that if any
occupier left certain premises in arrear for this rate, his
successor in the occupation would not be liable to a dis-
traint for the amount.
The collector here observed that ho had often done so.
Mr. Fitch—Then you have dune quite wrong. The
rate is charged upon the occupier, and not on the land.
The BARRISTER—Supposing a man takes a house,
there being 1001. owing in respect to this rate from the
former occupier, is not he liable to lose his goods for the
arrear ?

Mr. Fitch submitted that he would not, and he thought
that those persons whom the collector had so served
should have brought an action for trespass. The words
of the 11th section, " the occupier for the time being,"
meant the occupier during the time of the accruing of
the rate. The mode of recovery also differed from that
of all other rates. The collector could not, as in the case
of a rent•charge in lieu of tithes, go in immediately upon
default, but must go before a magistrate of the city, make
oath of the debt, and then obtain a warrant to enable
him to distrain.

The BARRISTER said the only thing was, did Mr.
James wish for a case, as he was quite of opinion the
qualification was sufficient.
-Mr. James said he certainly did.
The BARRISTER then asked whether Mr. Home pos-
sessed any other qualification which might render a de-
cision upon this particular point unnecessary.
The overseer said Mr. Rome was entitled to a yearly
sum of 1001. derived from houses in Birchin•lane, under
lur. x iLuLMlLianmen tine aecree, and said the 100 L was
left by a Mr. Long to the rector conditionally upon his
performing divine service every Sunday evening. This,
he contended, could not be considered as any part of the
" freehold benefice" for which Mr. Horne claimed.
The BARRISTER, however, thought otherwise, and re-
tained the name upon that ground.
It was ultimately agreed that a case for the Court of
Common Pleas should be drawn up on the facts of the
Rev. Mr. Roberts's claim.

The Court rose shortly after five o'clock, having dis-
posed of all parishes up to the letter K inclusive.

MILITARY EXPEDITION
AGAINST ECUADOR.
peditapp?wing letter on the subject of the military ex-
of the Soutihnat Ecuador: has been sent by the committee
Foreign-office : and Mexican Association to the

" My Lord,—The comma,,_ " Austinfriars' Oct. 21.
and Mexican Association take` the South American
your Lordship in consequence of thd:tterty to address
actively going forward for the purpose Dedings now
military expedition from Spain against the rep-ding a
the Equator.
" This armament is got up for the avowed purpose
of restoring the political administration of the country
into the hands of an eminent individual who, for several
years, exercised the office of President of that republic,
but who has for some time past ceased to do so.
" The committee do not presume to offer any remark
on the merits or position of the respective political parties
in the republic in question, with which, as British sub-
jects, they have nothing to do ; but this proceeding pre-
sents for the first time since the republics of Spanish
America have established their independence the spec-
tacle of a foreign force being brought into the country in
aid and support of one of the political parties struggling
therein. And in this point of view it engages the seri-
ous attention of parties carrying on commercial pursuits
in that quarter of the world.
"It is obvious that, if one political section in any of
these -states can succeed in attracting foreign interfer-
ence to its aid, another may do the same, and that a
course of civil warfare and anarchy may be opened de-
structive of the prosperity of all commercial pursuits.
" The committee do not venture to suggest that her
Majesty's Government has any power to control pro-
ceedings which may be taking place in a foreign state;
but it appears that means are being used within the
British empire for taking part in this military expedi-
tion, the effect of which it is much to be apprehended
will be to convey to the people of Spanish America the
impression tnat the British nation both encourages and
sanctions this hostile movement. It is notorious that
funds have been placed in this country from Spain for
the purpose of purchasing military equipments and ship-
ping, and that the enlisting of men under the pretence
of emigration is going on in Ireland also for the purpose
of this expedition. The manner in which this latter
proceeding is going forward in Ireland, namely, the
holding out to parties engaged the promise of land on
their arrival, and yet at the same time forbidding them
to take their families for the present, has so far attracted
the notice of the magistrates of Limerick as to cause
them to issue a public warning against the offers which
have been thus made.

" The committee humbly suggest that, in order to
remove all doubt as to the conduct of the British nation

in this matter, it would be expedient for her Majesty's
Government, eithEr by proclamation, or in such other
way as it may think fit, to call public attention to the
provisions of the Foreign Enlistment Bill, and to give
instructions for the rigid enforcement of its provisions.
"I have the honour to be, my Lord,
"Your most faithful servant,
"J. D. POWLES,
"Chairman of the South American and Mexican
Association.
" The R;ght lion. Viscount Palinerston,rvf,P.,ton”e of
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her Majesty's Principal Secretaries f Stae •

EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWlCll.—Accidents and loss
of limbs, and even lives, having sometimes occurred
in
owing to the pieces of serge at present use for con-
taining the charges of powder for field pieces, ship, and
garrison guns remaining on fire in the pieces after the
discharges bad taken place, the attention of inventors
has been drawn to find a substitute or serge which
would not ignite under any circumstances, when the
large guns are fired. A Mr. Hodgson submitted to
the select committee at Woolwich, during the present
week, a description of serge, which, by a chemical
process, is rendered fireproof, and cannot be ignited on
the discharge of the guns with which it has been tried.
Several rounds were fired at the butt in the royal arsenal,

from 9-pounder and 6 pounder guns, and in every in:
stance the experiments were successful in accomplishing
the object in view, the impossibility of fire remaining in
the pieces after their being discharged. The greatest
danger to which naval and military gunners are liable,
in the performance of the duty of reloading, will, by the
invention, be completely removed.
LOUGHBOROUGH AGRICULTURAL SHOW. The
annual exhibition of the Loughborough Agricultural
Association took place on Friday last, and as the weatba
proved favourable an unusual degree of interest pre-
vailed throughout the whole of the proceedings. The
ploughing matches were well contested, and the show of
stock was, according to general opinion, larger and far
superior to any in preceding years. The dinner, at
which nearly one hundred members and friends of the
society were present, wt ‘s held in the evening.

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