The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-03 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, lB5l.

have been arranged for entering into contracts for the
making of this line, which is to be open fur traffic
in the summer of 1852. The portion of the line
which was in course of construction by Mr. Ed-
wards, extending for ten miles out of Killarney,
is to be completed by that contractor, and the thirty
miles between that and the Mallow station on the
Great Southern and western line will be contracted for
by Mr. Dargan. The original Act granted to this com-
pany empowered them to raise a capital of 375,0001., in
251. shares ; but the amended Act of last session, which
contains novel powers in railway legislation, decreases
the capital to 225,0001., in shares of 151. each. The
Act gives the company power to enter simultaneously
into the possession of all lands and premises necessary
for the making of the line.
CORK AND YouGuAL.—Proceedings have been
adopted under the provisions of the Cork and Water-
ford Railway Amendment Act of last session, which
it is expected will ensure the entering on the works
early in the ensuing spring.
WORCESTER AND HEREFORD.—At an influential
meeting of the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire
Canal Company, held last week at Gloucester, an
agreement, made by a committee, for the sale of the
canal for 60,0001. to the Worcester and Hereford
Railway Company, was ratified and confirmed. The
price, we understand, is to be taken out in shares.
As will be seen by a lengthened report in another
page, the inhabitants of Malvern held a meeting there
on Wednesday last, when the project was submitted
to their consideration and . warmly approved
—not by expression merely, but by action, a con-
siderable number of shares having been subscribed
for. The Mayor and his co-directors of this city
have been earnestly engaged in promoting the sub-
scription for shares here, and, considering the unpo-
pularity which has fallen upon railway investments
from various adverse causes, a tolerable measure of
success has attended their efforts.— Worcester Chro-
nicle.

LAZY INTELLIGENCE,
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 2.
(Before Mr. Corathissioner livANs.)
IN RE COLYER.

The binkrupt was described as Allen Colter, of
Snargate-street, Dover, watchmaker. This was an
exarninotion meeting. The following items appear
on the balance-sheet :—Property left in his possession
to pay composition on his debts of 103. in the pound,
1,5631.; creditors, 1,1841, ; cash recovered from a
robbery, 851.; profits, 4591.; payments to creditors
under composition arrangement, 1,4311.; good debts,
39/, ; property, 316/. ; housekeeping, rent, and taxes,
5501. ; interest and law, 630/. ; travelling and other
expenses, 1141.; losses, 4951. Examination ad-
journed three months.

IN RE FROGGETT AND VAN PUTTEN.

This was the last examination meeting in the bank-
ruptcy of Frederick Walter Froggett and James Tan
Putten, of Mark-lane, corn merchants. The balance-
sheet from December 31, 1849, to May, 1851, shows
the following :—Creditors, 15,292/. ; ditto holding
security, 19,0661. ; profit and loss, irrespective of
grain account, 1,0591.; capital, Van Putten, 1,1191.;
Froggett, 6851.; cash, 336/. ; debtors', good, 8681.;
doubtful, 1,8531.; grain held by creditors, 18,113/. ;
loss on grain, 13,023/. ; amount drawn out by part-
ners---Van Putten, 1,..46/ ; Froggett, 1,301/.

. .
We understood that this examination was ad-
journed.
The Learned Commissioner was too unwell to sit
in court to-day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HO USE.

William Moore, messenger to Mr. Osborne, news-
paper agent, was brought before Mr. Alderman Car-
den for final examination upon the charge of having
robbed his employer of 10 newspapers.
The prisoner—It was the first time I ever did any-
thing of the kind, and I shall never do so again.
Committed for trial.

William Brown was charged by a sergeant of the
Royal Marines with having deserted from that corps
between 15 and 16 years ago. The defendant most
positively denied that he had ever enlisted or seen the
sergeant before. The case, which excited a great
deal of interest, was postponed for the production of
witnesses.

whelmed with misfortunes, and in a bad state of
health. She had been recommended to his notice by
the Rev. Mr. Qu.ekott, incumbent of Christ Church,
Watney-street, and by the Rev. Mr. M'Caul, minister
of St. Mary's Church, Back-road, both in St.
George's parish, who had given her some relief. The
mother and daughter, both widows, were very willing
to emigrate to Australia, and the Rev. Mr. Quekett
had kindly promised to obtain a free passage for them
but they had no clothes except what they stood up-
right in, and no means of providing necessaries for
the voyage.
Mr. YARDLEY said, if a sovereign would be of any
service to the distressed applicant, who had met with
a series of calamities beyond the reach of human con-
trol, she might have one from the poor-box. He had
no doubt her story was true—too true ; but a sove-
reign was all he could give her. He hoped that if
this case should come under the notice of the benevo-
lent who had the means and the inclination to do
good, that she would obtain some further assistance.
The widow, whose sobs almost choked her utter-
ance and who with difficulty made herself understood,
expressed her thanks to the magistrate for his dona-
tion, and left the Court.

THE REGISTRATIONS.
MIDDLESEX.

Yesterday the revising barrister, Mr. Shadwell,
held his court at the Albion Hall, Hammersmith, for
the revision of the lists of voters in the polling dis-
tricts of Chiswick, Fulham, Hammersmith, St. Luke's
Chelsea, and St. Mary Abbott's, Kensington.
Mr. Alley Jones attended as agent for the Conser-
vatives ; and Mr. James for the Liberals.

Mr. JONES objected to the name of Mr. George
Thompson, M.P., being retained in the list, on the
ground of misdescription of qualification. He found
that the Hon. Member for the Tower Hamlets, who
was so deeply interested in the success of the freehold
land scheme, and who went so much through the
country instructing others how they could obtain the
elective franchise, had misdescribed his own qualifica-
tion. Mr. Thompson was described, "George Thomp-
son, place of abode, 128, Sloane-street, county of
Middlesex; nature of qualification, yearly tenant
above 50/." His (Mr. Jones's) objection was, that
a yearly tenant above 501. was not a qualification in
conformity to the provision of the statute.
Mr. G. E. Dennes, solicitor, who appeared profes.
sionally for Mr. Thompson, who was also in court,
said he could show the barrister that Mr. Thompson
occupied a house in Sloane-street, as a " yearly tenant
above 50/."

BARRISTER-Mr. Thompson is objected to as not
described accurately.
Mr. Dennes—By the 40th section of the Act, sir,
you have power to amend the description. Mr.
Thompson is present, and will prove that he occupies
the house 128, Sloane-street.
_

Mr. Jones—l submit that the barrister has no
power to amend. The 40th section of the Act 6th
Victoria, cap. 18, enacts " that the Revising Barrister
shall expunge the name of every person whose quali-
fication, as stated in any list, shall be insufficient in
law to entitle such person to vote." The Act also
provides that " the barrister shall not be at liberty to
change the description of the qualification, as it ap-
pears in the list."

BARRISTER—" Except," in the words of the Act,
"for the purpose of more clearly and accurately defi-
ning the same."

Mr. Jones—l submit, sir, that the qualification
here is bad on the face of it; and that being so, you
have no power to amend it. There is no mistake in
the list ; the overseers have not made a mistake ; the
mistake has been made by Mr. Thompson himself.
He has not given himself a qualification.
BARRISTER—Looking at the description, I find
the words " Yearly tenant above 501." That means
from year to year.
Mr. Jones—A. " yearly tenant," that does not give
him a qualification. He might be a yearly tenant of
twenty houses " above 501. a year," and yet not an
occupier, and, therefore, without a qualification.
Mr. Dennes said he would prove the notice, and
called upon Mr. Thompson, who said the signature to
the notice was in his handwriting.

Mr. Jones—When did you sign it, Mr. Thompson
Mr. Thompson—l cannot answer precisely.
Mr. Jones—Was it within a week ? Mr. Thomp•
son—No.

Mr. Jones—Was it within a month ? Mr. Thomp
son—No.

Mr. Jones—Was it within a year ? Mr. Thompson
—Yes can speak to a year.

Mr. Jones—bras it before you went to America,
or since your return? Mr. Thompson—l think before.
Mr. Dennes then elicited from Mr. Thompson that
he had for four years occupied the house 128, Sloane-
street, at a yearly rent of 1001., and that he was
bound by his lease not to let any part of it.
The BARRISTER—Mr. Thompson has an occupa-
tion, but he has not described it in the manner in
which the statute requires. I should like to secure
him his vote, but I regret I cannot.
Mr. Thompson then addressed the court, and sub-
mitted that he had complied with the Act of Parlia-
ment. He occupied a house at a rental of 1001. a
year. Might he ask the Barrister if the spirit of the
Reform Bill was not to give the qualification to
tenants of 50/. a year and upwards, and whether he
did not come within the provisions of the Act in that
respect.

The BARRISTER admitted that the spirit of the Act
was to give the franchise to voters of Mr. Thompson's
class ; but regretted that that gentleman had not de-
scribed his qualification properly. He must, there-
fore, expunge his name for the present year from the
list, and he had come to that decision not without
considerable regret.