The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-12 00:00:00

CITY OF LONDOA REGISTRATIONS.

IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE 40m. SO-
TION OF THE REGISTRATION ACT.
On the meeting of the Court, the Barrister gaol
a decision in a case of qualification arising 00 (/'
the 40th section of the Registration Act, which
arose on Tuesday last. The learned gentleman said
the name of George King, who was on the list °
voters for the parish of St. Michael, Wood-street,
as occupying premises at 48, Gresham-street, 0°
objected to on the ground that No. 50 was the se;
curate description of the qualifying house, and 'pe
No. 48, which appeared on the list ; and he Wft:
asked on behalf of the voter, and it was argued fat
he had power under the 4th section of the Registriv,
tion Act, to correct No. 48, which had been inserted
by mistake, to No. 50, as being its accurate de-
scription. It was admitted that the question
must be decided on the proper construction et
section 40. By that section it was enacted that
the revising barrister shall correct any 113i51;
take which shall be proved to him to have been rctau,
in any list. This appeared to have been a mist3l'e
of the compositor in setting up 48 instead of .5'
No. 46 in a street might well be a house whose e2:-
teraal appeara.nee was proof of its value being aboYe
that which qualified, whilst No. 50 told a contrail
tale ; and a person interested in the purity of the
list might thus be satisfied without making further
inquiry as to the right of the person to be a v°tel'
i
who appeared on the list for 48, though be wuta
t
have lodged an objection against a person on the
list for No. 50. Then on the day of revision come°
the person on the list aid asks the barrister to eQr:,
rect 48 to 50 as a clerical error, and the barrister, 1;
he complies, places a person on the list who has
a sufficient qualification ; for no objection havi7,
been lodged no proof of qualification is require".
Thus the object of the act is defeated if this is a 11115•
take which the barrister can cure, and therefore he
came to the conclusion that this was not such 3
mistake as the barrister could correct. But ill
reference to the case before him, he found from the
evidence that this house was formerly known as
48, and was still so known by the overseers wh'
made this list, and that it was rated as 48 ; that the
owner had recently opened new doors in the hues°
for the clerks of his business, opening up new dol
in it over one of which he had placed No. 50.
did not appear that any numbers were on the °al!'
doors, but it appeared that there was no No. 48.0.13
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the street, except it was one of these doors. -"-e
considered, therefore, that the house was a loes
with an alias, and known by both descriptions, 311 d
that it was as well described by 48 as by 50. .li,
stranger seeking it could not be misled, as there W 3
no 48 in the street. He, therefore, should disall°or
the objection, and retain Mr. King's name on the
list, but in order more clearly and accurately to der
fine the house, he should make the description ru
thus—" 48, otherwise 50, Gresham-street."
The objection was accordingly disallowed, an
the name retained.
Nothing further of interest occurred .during the
sitting.

THE NEW FASHION.—The Empress at Biarr t,
wore the new style of costume—the latest invention of ~
far-famed Worth. It was an open fourreau over a pettico
of a contrasting colour. The petticoat was fine pearl Sri
cashmere, and above it a blue silk tunic, scalloped r°
°d
the edge, opened over the front breadth ; the sleeves nijii
the top of the bodice were of grey cashmere, the lower
bR
of the bodice and the epaulettes were blue silk. The bodice
of this novel style of costume varies in form and colour,
sometimes it is made entirely of the same colour and 10°'rs
rial as the tunic, and at others the upper half and the sloe'
match the petticoat, in fact, are cut from the same Piel;
A leader of fashion—a lady of the Court—wore likewise °II
the same day this novel form of costume, made in a stid
more original manner. The first or lower skirt was 6013
yellow and white silk—the yellow was satin, and so brlc
liant that it had all the effect of gold ; the tunic was I)l3e.fil
silk, cut out in squares round the edge, and corded Wt,o
yellow satin ; it described such an accentuated point at
back that it reached as low as the striped skirt. VI a°
t,
tumo was completed with a close fitting black silk I)sli.tii
cut out in squares round the edge, and piped W•la
yellow satin ; a wide waistband studded 5,0 .0
buttons, and large gold buttons to fasten the paletot. -""xit
asserted on good authority that these short open fourrean
made in velvet, satin, and rich silk, will be very fas!1:11-
able during the winter. I have seen several already flil's7.le,
at the leading dressmakers, and in every instance the Pe-31,
coat was in reality the dress, for the bodice is joined t°,11,0
and the fourreau opens over the chest so as to displaY
bodice. The fourreau has Louis XVI. revers, and iisirif'e
recalls to my recollection the redingotes, popular in
Antoinette's time. In one of her finest portraits that anw-er
is pourtrayed in a cerise velvet redingote opening °lt

a rich grey silk petticoat.—The Queen. this
LTHE LAMIRANDE CASE.—In an article 4P°ll::de
subject the New York Times of the 28th ult. says :---":fof
from the criminality of this man as a defaulting cas'-I.ol'
the Branch Bank at Poitiers in the sum of 480,000 f., a
nearly $lOO,OOO, there is some romance in his flight:L:o
capture. But before we speak of this, we desire to
our stern disapprobation of the manner in which .Ives
criminal was abducted from Canada by French detect'
and their aiders. We have given the details of it alreac)c_
and need not now recount them. It was clearly au British
tion of sovereign rights of the British Crown OR 13 and
soil. He was spirited away forcibly and clandestinel9.,,,
not only contrary to all law, local as well as internatc,iy
but even in spite of the positive orders of the LowstAlap-
dian Court of Queen's Bench. If such a thing lia"
lliass
pened in this country, no matter how criminal the
how evident the proof, or how great the presuniPti°„nier-
a matter of principle the executive would certainly
fern to have him restored to the jurisdiction a the court
from whichhe wao forcibly taken to foreign parts'"