The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

THE BEGISTR .17110.1 M.

COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.
Yesterday, Mr. Launcelot Sliadwell, the bar-
rister appointed to revise the list of voters for
the metropolitan county, opened his court at the
White Horse, Uxbridge.
Mr. Harper. from the office of the clerk of the
peace, attended, and handed in the lists from the
numerous places included in the county.
The liberal interests on this oecasi ,11 wore re-
presented by Mr. Humphreys , (of the firm of
Humphreys and Knight), of Spizal-square and
Pall-mall, who appeared for the Middlesex Re
form Association ; Mr. T, os. Alloy Jones, of
Clifford's-inn, appearing for the Conservatives.
The day's revision comprised the districts of
Cowley, Harefield, Hayes, Hillingdon, Ickenhatn,
Norwood, Ruislip, Uxbridge, and West Drayton.
In neither of these places was there one objec-
tion taken by either conservative or liberals, and
the objections made by overseers were simply in
cases of deaths or removals.
On the Ickenham overseers being called upon
to produce their new list, it was stated that there
was only one new claimant, whereupon Mr.
Jones observed that he held in Lis hand a very
long list purporting to contain the names o,
new claimants.

Mr. Humphreys, after examining the . docu-
ment, said that he presumed that the overseers smell. At last the haberdashers diseovered the se
a the quiet district of Ickenham must be partial, eret ; the scent was owing to patchouli, and the
and have much time to devote to the ealigraphic plant, which was then first imported to aid the de-
art, as the list produced was an extact copy of ceptions of trade, soon became a fashionable per-
the register, with the. heading "New Claimants." fume. We may be said to be iudebted to all parts
Mr. Jones—With one exception ; and I submit of the globe for our per
south fumer
of y
Ebro : but t
the real garden
that this one claimant should not lose his .vote of the perfumer is the pGrasse a
through the bungling of the overseer. Nice, ow osition,. are the principal
ing to their polet blooms most happily
The Revising Barrister said that he would be seats of the art. The vi
most unwilling to deprive any freeholder of his I beneath the cold shelter of the Alps ; while the
vote, but he could not admit the list before him ; more tender plants as mignonette and orange trees,
it was most irregular. Could the overseer pro- are cherished by the soft breezes of the southern
duce the original claim ? coast. It would be useless to enumerate th® long
Overseer—Yes, your Honour ; here it is. (Pro- list of plants whose sweetness is introduced into our
doting a document.) scent-bottles and pomades. It is an easier task to
Mr. Jones contended that the claim having been mention a few of those that we only enjoy in their
placed on the church doors, in accordance with shepink, and wall-flower, are
native freshness: honeysuckle, sweet-pea, msg_
provisions of the
.Act of Parliament, all that the nolia, sweetbrier, clove
barrieter had to do was to strike out all the names The essences offered for sale
other flowers ;for so closely allied are
already on the register, erroneously copied by the .the most
under their 11311:W3 are imitation, prepared by the
overseer, and retain only the name of the one new mixture
it is easy, therefore, to con-
the odoursf ofo flowers, that one atom of water may
claimant.
The Revising Barrister—By adopting such a Pr°2UCO the difference ;
1 s ceive how a mixture can be made from
course a very bad example would be shown • besi, e.. several
' odours that shall
the registration would occupy double the ordinary . resemble theperfume of
a par-
ticular flower. The jasmine
time. alone cannot be imi-
Mr. Hunaphreys--In addition to the cogent rea- fated. Odours resemble the notes of a musical in-
sons given hy 'the Court, I am 'prepared to show strument, and blend together in different Immo-
that the document purporting to bo the original p_ious combinations. Heliotrope, vanilla, orange-.
claim is signed by the overse:r, and not by the blossom, and almond, form what has been called
claimant at all: one octave of odours ; patchouli, vitivert, and sau-
The Revising Barrister—That being the case, dal-wood form another. The perfumer's skill is ex.
which is not denied by the overseer, ' aud the ercised in the judicious mixture of odours of the
claimant not being present to substantiate his right same octave. Upon this principle can de cologne,
to vote, the claim must be disallowed. ess bouquet, and all popular mi.xed perfumes, are
Claim disallowed.. prepared. The effect of min
• alina odours of diffe-
The Barrister, in ordor to mark his disapproba. rent octavos is a faint and sickly smell.