The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-24 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDON REGISTRATION.

Yesterday morning Mr. M. Christie, the revising bar-
rister, proceeded with his revision of the list of voters
for the City, in the Court of Common Pleas, Guildhall.
After a few unimportant cases had been disposed of,
the arguments in the case of Sir James Duke, Bart.,
M.P., were resumed, and his Honour gave the following
judgment :—The question is for an important principle,
and should be generally known. A man must be for-
mally translated before he could become possessed of the
rights and privileges of a second company, and it was
not because a clerk had on any former occasions inserted
his name—which had been passed over unnoticed—that
it was correct. His present decision was that Sir James
Duke's name had bcen properly omitted.
Mr. Smith said that an act of Parliament had been
passed during the past year abolishing the stamp duty
for the admission of freemen, and any person who was
on the register as a voter for the City could now, by the
payment of 95., be admitted a freeman, and thereby en-
abled to vote in the municipal elections.
The Court then proceeded with the householders' list,
but nothing worth reporting took place.

THE BROAD GAUGE TO SALIBEURY.—A meeting e
the directors of the projected line of railway from
Salisbury to Southampton wag held on Monday last, at
which an intimation was received from the directors of
the South-Western that they would like to reoeive a de-
putation from the former body, to talk over matters
bearing upon the various interests involved in the pro-
posed undertaking. On Thursday the representatives
of both lines "net, in London, to the number of about a
clUZen, attended by their solicitors, and we understand
the result of their deliberations will be laid before a
meeting of the broad :;,..uga directors, to be held on
Monday next.—llampsh,'; e Independent.
Accounts from Christ;rnia give satisfactory particulars
of the progress of the Norwegian Railway, the shares of
which are chiefly held in England. rrt,-1
Eli ss receipts
of the past 12 moll& have been $144,061, against
$120,000 in the preceding year, and the passengers con-
veyed were 160,874, showing an increase of 82,827. In
the goods traffic the increase has been $18,563, while at
the maws time, there has been, a considerable reduction
in expenditure. These improved results are stated to
have arisen chiefly from the expansion of the internal I
resources of the districts around the Miosen Lake which
have been brought into connexion with Christiania by
the railway. Two new steamers have lately been placed
on the lake to meet the increasing requirements of the
traffic, and the town of Hammer on its shores, which
bad been for years gradually declining, is now becoming
an extensive depot for the produce of the surrounding
country.
k'FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Sunday night a man named
Richard Scott, an ornamental painter, aged 76, and for
the last 50 years an inhabitant of Exeter-street, Strand,
left the Savoy Palace Tavern about half-past 10 to re-
turn home, but in crossing the road towards the Lyceum
Theatre he was knocked down by a cab passing at a
rapid rate, the driver of which drove on. A person
engaged in some ale stores saw the accident, and with
the assistance of Police-constable 45 F the deceased was
raised, but the impression of the constable was that he
was only drunk, although he was bleeding from a wound
in the head. He was accordingly taken to the Bow-
street station, when the officer on duty sent for Mr.
Snitch, surgeon of Brydges.street, who advised his
being taken to King's College Hospital. He was taken
there but not admitted, and he was taken back anni
placed in a cell in the station. In the morning the offi-
cers found him in the same state, and Mr. Snitch wag
again sent for, who ordered his removal to the hospital
. at nine o'clock ; he was then received, put to bed, and
died 011 Monday alto:mom