The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-12 00:00:00

W OR SHIP- S TREE T.

Yesterday, Mary Budget, an elderly woman, was
charged with committing the following brutal assault
upon a young woman, named Sarah Serle.

Some months ago, the husband of the prisoner,
who is a costermonger, and who lives in Warwick-
place, Whitecross•street, was robbed of 37 cauli-
flowers, which he had placed in a kind of shed un-
derneath his window, and during his absence they
were taken away by a woman living in the same
court, who has been :since tried for the offence and
convicted : since that the court has been nothing
else but a scene of uproar and bloodshed, arising
from violent and revengeful feelings existing in the
minds of the friends of the woman convicted towards
the prisoner and her husband.
Two police constables, of the G division, said
that, in consequence of iaformation received at the
station-house, that murder was being committed in
the court, they proceeded, about ten o'clock the
night before, to the spot, and there met a crowd of
persons, who said that the prosecutrix, Sarah Serle,
had been murdered. On rushing through the
crowd, they saw a sharp-pointed poker sticking in
the front of her head ! which no one had the presence
of mind at the moment to extract, until a young
man ran to her assistance, and pulled it out, upon
which she fainted away, bleeding, in his arms. They
immediately took her to a surgeon, who pronounced
the wound not to be of a dangerous nature.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Most extraordinary ! Is it
possible that a poker entering so deep should not
produce danger ?
Sarah Serle, the prosecutrix, who appeared in a
very weak state, with her head bound up, stated
that she was passing through the court about ten
o'clock, and hearing a disturbance in the prisoner's
house she looked in at the window, when the pri-
soner, seizing hold of the " half-poker," threw it at
her head, exclaiming, " There, take that, you -
-!" Scarcely were the words uttered, when
the point of it entered her forehead, where it re-
mained until extracted by a young man named Wat-
son. She asked one of the policemen to do it, but
he was afraid.

The prisoner, in her defence, denied having used
the poker at all. She said that ever since the trial
she and her husband had been grossly ill-used by all
the neighbours, including the prosecutrix, and that
their lives were in constant danger.
Van, the officer—Your Worship, I have told her
and her husband, " over and over again," to leave
theco
itucrot,momrifte not,d. I am convinced there will be
murder

Mr. BROUGHTON having consulted with his col-
league, told the prisoner that it was their intention
to have visited her with a very severe fine, but after
what they had heard, and considering that her mind
had been worked up to a state of excitement, they
should merely call upon her husdand to enter into
his recognizance for her appearance at the sessions,
where the prosecutrix might indict her if she chose.
The prisoner's husband having done the needful,
the parties left the office.

AN IRISH BUCK OF THE LAST CENTURY
....KIT was dressed out in the pink of the fashion of tha
time (1789). He was then what they called, 1 believe,
macaroni, and was the same sort of animal that is now
termed a dandy. He had a little hat, that would not go
on a good ploughman's fist; his hair was streeling down
his back and over his shoulders; the buttons on his coat
were the size of saucepans, and the skirts of his coat hung
down behind to the small of his leg ; he had two watches,
one on each side of his stomach ; a waistcoat that did not
c.iver his breast, and light leather smallclothes that came
down below the calf, and were fastened there with bunches
of ribands, that were as big as cauliflowers.—Taies Ma-
gazine.

It is of the greatest importance that the provisions
of this measure, which is now a part of the law of
the land, and which will speedily be brought into
operation, should be clearly understood, as well by
the constituency as by the overseers and others on
whom the duties incident to registration, &c. are im-
posed. In order to facilitate the acquirement of this
knowledge, we extract to-day from an edition of
the Act which has been published by Mr. Cockburn,
a classification of the persons entitled to vote at
elections for counties, and an enumeration of the
duties which devolve on overseers in making up the
lists of voters for counties preparatory to registra-
tion. In the mean time, we recommend to all
mhose business it is to become acquainted with the
Reform Act, this publication, which, besides con-
taining very useful notes, is by far the most conve-
nient and the cheapest edition of the Act that has
yet been published. The following summary is taken
from the notes of Mr. Cockburn :

The different persons entitled to vote at elections
for counties may be thus classed-1. Freeholders.
2. Copyholders. 3. Leaseholders.

I. All freeholders seised of estates of inheritance of
the clear yearly value of 40s
Freeholders having estates for life, if in the actual
and bona.fide occupation of the same, or if the same
shall have come to them by marriage, marriage set-
tlement, devise, or promotion to any benefice or
office, or if seised of their estates before the .7th of
June, 1832, are entitled to vote, provided their
estates are of the clear yearly value of 40s.

In all other cases freeholders for life must have
estates of the clear yearly value of 101.

Freehold estates are-
1. Estates of Inheritance ; which are,
In fee simple, which is an estate given without
qualification to a man and his heirs for ever.
In fee -tail, which may be described as an estate
of inheritance to a man and certain inheritors de-
signated in the legal instrument by which the estate
is conveyed and limited.
2. Estates not of Inheritance; in which the
tenant has only an interest for life; which are,
Estates for the life of the tenant or any other
person.
Tenancy in tail after possibility of issue extinct'
as where a man has an estate to him and his heirs
on the body of his present wife begotten, and the
wife dies without issue, the husband has an estate
tail, which cannot descend to any one.
Tenancy by the curtesy ; which is, where a man
marries a woman seised of an estate of inheritance,
and has issue by her capable of inheriting. In this
case the husband holds the estate for his life.

Tenancy in dower. Where the husband of a
woman is seised of an estate of inheritance and dies,
the woman (if not barred by settlement or other-
wise) is entitled to a third of the estate. If the
widow marries a second husband, he becomes en-
titled to vote in respect of such estate.
Incorporeal Freeholds. An estate to be freehold
need not necessarily consist in lands. It is sufficient
if it be an interest existing in and arising out of
land. Such an estate is called incorporeal, and if in
other respects qualified, is sufficient to give a right
of voting. Such are,

Rent;; as fee-farm rents, and other perpetual
rents charged upon lands.
Annuities issuing out of lands. These, however,
must be registered according to provisions of 3 Geo.
111., c. 24.
Tithe., which constitute .freehold cnt.tc, whether
they issue out of freehold or copyhold lands.
Blackst. 116.

Shares in rivers or canals, where the shareholders
have an interest arising in and out of the soil.
2 Peck. 105.

Tolls of markets and fairs held apart from the
land; offices in respect of which the holder is pos-
sessed of a freehold interest in land, or profits issuing
out of or charged on lands. Thus parish clerks and
schoolmasters not liable to removal, having salaries
paid out of lands settled to such uses, are entitled
to vote. Heyw. 126.
Purchasers of land tax are to be taken to have a
fee-farm rent to the amount of the land tax pur-
chased. And if the amount be sufficient, the tax so
redeemed gives a right to vote. Hey w. 63.
Persons having an interest in lands as members
of a corporation aggregate, are not entitled to vote
in respect of such lands. But corporations sole, as
parsons, may vote for lands holden in their corporate
capacity. Heyw. 119, 123.
Joint tenants and tenants in common are entitled to
vote separately. Heyw. 113.
11. Copyholders. Persons seised of estates of copy-
hold or any other tenure than freehold, whether of
inheritance or for life, are entitled to vote, provided
such estates are of the clear yearly value of
10/. S. 19.

111. Leaseholders. Lessees or assignees of es-
tates, whatsoever may be the tenure thereof, for any
unexpired residue of a term originally of 60 years,
are entitled to vote, provided the clear yearly value
of the estate be 10/.; tenants of any term originally
not less than 20 years, provided the estates be of the
yearly value of 501. And lastly, any tenant occu-
pying lands or tenements for which he is bona fide
liable to a yearly rent of not less than 501. is enti-
tled to vote.

Sub-lessees, however, and assignees of any under-
lease, are not qualified. S. 20. _ _.

The duties of overseers in respect of making up
lists of voters for counties may be enumerated as
follows :

They are, on the 20th of June in each year, to fix
upon all the church and chapel doors in their parish,
or if there be no church or chapel in their parish,
then in some public conspicuous place, a notice (ac-
cording to form 1, schedule 11.) to all persons
claiming to vote for the county or division it► respect
of lands or tenements situate wholly or in part
within their parish or township, to send, on or before
July 20, to them, the overseers, a notice (according
to form 2, schedule H.) of their claim as such voters.
To make out, on or before the 31st July, 1832,
an alphabetical list (according to form 3, schedule
H) of all persons claiming to vote for the members
or member of the county, riding, or division in which
their parish or township lies, in respect of lands or
tenements situate within such parish or township.
(The claim to vote must be sent in to the over-
seers on or before the 20th of July, 1832, and in
each succeeding year, in order to entitle voters to be
inscribed on the list for such year. It must be ac-
companied with payment of ls. to the overseers.
To make out, on or before the 31st of July in
every succeeding year a fresh list, containing the
names of all the voters previously inscribed on the
register, and also the names of all persons sending
in their claim to be inscribed on the fresh list.

Voters having once sent in their claim to tile
overseers, and being inscribed on the register, are
not required to send in such notice of their claim in
any ensuing year, provided they retain the same
qualification, and continue in the same place of
abode described in the former register.
They are to write at full length, in every such
list, the christian and surnames of every person, his
place of abode, the nature of his qualification, and
the local and other description of his lands and tene-
ments, as the same are respectively set forth in his
claim to vote.

If they have reasonable cause to believe that any
person claiming to vote, or whose name is already
on the register, is not entitled to vote, they may add

And the overseers, therefore, of such adjoining
parish or township are to do, in respect of making
op the list of voters of such extra-parochial places,
all acts which, according to this statute, they are
called on to de in their own parishes.
Every person having sent in his claim to vote for
the county, riding, &c., may object to any person, al
riot having been entitled on the last day of July to
'lave his name retained on the list of voters for such
.:ounty, riding, &c.
In order to give effect to such objection, every
Jerson so objecting (overseers excepted) must, on
pr before the 25th of August in each year, give a
notice in writing (according to form 4, schedule H.)
to the overseers who shall have made out such list.

Every person so objecting must also, on or before
the 25th of August in each year, give to the person
lbjected to, or leave at the place described as his
residence in the overseer's list, or send by post, di.'
ceded to him at such residence, a notice in writing
(according to form 5, schedule H.)
Overseers are to include the names of all suet*
persons so objected to in a list (according to forft) 6,
sched. H.), and cause copies of the same to be fixed
on the church and chapel doors, or, if there be no
church or chapel, in some public and conspicuous
place in their parish or township, on the two Sun-
lays next preceding the 15th of September in each
year.

They are to keep a copy of the names of all per-
ions so objected to, to be looked at and inspected
by any person without payment of fee, at all reason-
Able hours during the 10 days next preceding the
lsth of September in each year.
Overseeers are to deliver, on the 29th of August
in each year, to the high constable of the hundred,
or other like district, in, which their parish or town-
diip is, their list of county voters, and with it a
written statement of the number of persons objected
to by the overseers and other persons ; which lists
And statements the high constable is immediately to
deliver to the clerk of the peace.

Overseers who have made out lists of voters are
to attend the barrister's court, and to deliver to the
barrister a copy of their list of the persons objected
to; and they are to answer upon oath all questions
put to them by the barrister touching any matter
necessary for revising the lists of voters.