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

cinr OF LONDOff REGISTRATIONS.

IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE 40TH SEC-
TION- OF THE REGISTRATION ACT.
On the meeting of the Court, the Barrister gave
a decision in a case of qualification arising out of
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 of
voters for the parish of St. Michael, Wood-street,
as occupying premises at 48, Gresham-street, was
objected to on the ground that No. 50 was the se'
curate description of the qualifying house, and not
No. 48, which appeared on the list ; and he wag
asked on behalf of the voter, and it was argued that
he had power under the 4th section of the Registra-
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 of
section 40. By that section it was enacted that
the revising barrister shall correct any ads'
take which shall be proved to him to have been made
in any list. This appeared to have been a mistake
of the compositor in setting up 48 instead of 50'
No. 48 in a street might well be a house whose ex-
ternal appearance was proof of its value being above
that which qualified, whilst No. 50 told a contrary
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 voter
who appeared on the list for 48, though he would
have lodged an objection against a person on the
list for No. 50. Then on the day of revision comes
the person on the list and asks the barrister to cor-
rect 48 to 50 as a clerical error, and the barrister, if
he complies, places a person on the list who has net
a sufficient qualification ; for no objection having
been lodged no proof of qualification is required'
Thus the object of the act is defeated if this is a nlis'
take which the barrister can cure, and therefore he
came to the conclusion that this was not such
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 NO'
48, and was still so known by the overseers wbe
made this list, and that it was rated as 48 ; that the
owner had recently opened new doors in the house
for the clerks of his business, opening up new doors
in it over one of .which he had placed No. 50. It
did not appear that any numbers were on the other
doors, but it appeared that there was no No. 48 io
the street, except it was one of these doors. flee
considered, therefore, that the house was a 12011%
with an alias, and known by both descriptions, and
that it was as well described by 48 as by 50. ll'
stranger seeking it could not be misled, as there wag
no 48 in the street. He, therefore, should disallow
the objection, and retain Mr. King's name on the
list, but in order more clearly and accurately to de-
fine the house, he should make the description run
thus—" 48, otherwise 50, Gresham-street."
The objection was accordingly disallowed, and
the name retained.
Nothing further of interest occurred during the
sitting.

THE NEW FASIIION.—The Empress at Biarrit°
wore the new style of costume—the latest invention of tile,
far-famed Worth. It was an open fourreau over a petticoe'
of a contrasting colour. The petticoat was fine pearl grelA
cashmere, and above it a blue silk tunic, scalloped rooo7l
the edge, opened over the front breadth ; the sleeves
link
the top of the bodice were of grey cashmere, the lower ,
of the bodice and the epaulettes were blue silk. The body°.
of this novel style of costume varies in form and colour
sometimes it is made entirely of the same colour and nista-
rial as the tunic, and at others the upper half and the sleeve°
match the petticoat, in fact, are cut from the same Piece.
A leader of fashion—a lady of the Court—wore likewise °llil
the same day this novel form of costume, made in 6ttc't
more original manner. The first or lower skirt was striPefi,
yellow and white silk—the yellow was satin, and so VI,
liant that it had all the effect of gold ; the tunic was blacksilk, cut out in squares round the edge, and corded
ito
yellow satin ; it described such an accentuated point et tm,
back that it reached as low as the striped skirt. Teel, a
tume was completed with a close fitting black silk pa,
cut out in squares round the edge, and piped cilia
yellow satin ; a wide waistband studded wiih ig
buttons, and large gold buttons to fasten the paletot. It
asserted on good authority that these short open fourreau'
made in velvet, satin, and rich silk, will be very
able during the winter. I have seen several already finis-,e,
at the leading dressmakers, and in every instance the PC":
coat was in reality the dress, for the bodice is joined to
the
and the fourreau opens over the chest so as to displel
bodice. The fourreau has Louis XVI. revers, and its f°ll.':
recalls to my recollection the redingotes, popular in if
on
Antoinette's time. In one of her finest portraits that auceof
is pourtrayed in a cerise velvet redingote opening °ll

a rich grey silk petticoat —The Queen. thio
ITHE LAMIRANDE CASE.—In an article upon -
subject the New York Times of the 28th ult. says :—"
from the criminality of this man as a defaulting cashia.o of
the Branch Bank at Poitiers in the sum of 480,0001 a
nearly $lOO,OOO, there is some romance in his flight fso
capture. But before we speak of this, we desire to orll'i3is
our stern disapprobation of the manner in which ©s
criminal was abducted from Canada by French detectiv.e_
and their aiders. We have given the details of it alreerlYe:
and need not now recount them. It was clearly an
Br itif,rish
tion of sovereign rights of the British Crown on II
soil. He was spirited away forcibly and clandestinelY,.J,
not only contrary to all law, local as well as internateli°,ll3o,
hut even in spite of the positive orders of the Lowar"ior
dian Court of Queen's Bench. If such a thing had
pened in this country, no matter how criminal the "-as
how evident the proof, or how great the presunWtner-
a matter of principle the executive would certainlY tot
fere to have him restored to the. jurisdiction of the vw
from which he was forcibly taken to foreign partri."