The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

THE REGISTRAIION COURTS.

MARYLEBONE.
Mr. J. N. Goren has now cou3pleted the laborious
revision of the list for this borough, the parish of
Marylebone proper being the last cleared from the
list. At the closing sitting at the Court-house,
Marylebone-lane, au interesting question was
brought forward.

Alfred John Christie, schoolmaster, claimed for
four rooms at 141, Cleveland-street. Iu answer to
the barrister, the applicant said the house in which
he lived was close to the school, and was joined to
it by a passage. Ile occupied the rooms from the
committee of the school, and they were considered
as part of his salary. Although he could not leave
those rooms without applying to the committee, he
believed there would be no objection to his living in

the next street, if he wished to do so, and he could
perform his duties at the school just as well if he
lived 20 miles away.

The barrister thought there was a serious ques-
tion as to whether the applicant did not occupy
.he rooms as a servant, and at the will of the

committee.

Mr. Parson, who supported the claim, urged
that the claim was a goof one prima facie, and
according to tha rule adopted by the Court the
claim could not in the absence of an objection be
struck out.

The barrister said he should have liked to exa-
mine some representative of the committee of the
school, but as the applicant said he might reside
apart from the premises, and it was no part of his
duty to reside on the premises, that was the only
evidence that could then be acted on and the claim
would be allowed, but ho did not by: any means
admit it as a precedent.

Ou the business of the :registration being con-
cluded, ➢lr. Parson said that on behalf of himself
and the other Conservative agents he begged to
tender his best thanks to the revising barrister for
the kind and considerate manner in which he had
performed his arduous duties. The lodger fran-
chise had imposed an immense amount of labour on
the revising barrister, but Mr. Goren had devoted
himself to the task with the evident desire to do his
duty to all claimants alike, and he hoped that an-
other year might be fortunate enough to have his
services.

Mr. Bontems entirely concurred in what had
fallen from Mr. Parson. He had attended many
registration Courts, but had never met a more im-
partial revising barrister, orimore courteous gentle-
man.

Mr. Spencer, on behalf of the working classes,
sincerely thanked the revising barrister for the
trouble he had taken to enable them to put their
claims upon the register, and hoped that on a future
occasion, when they were better acquainted with
the Act of Parliament, they would not give so much
trouble.

Mr. Goren was pleased to hear he had given sa-
tisfaction. It had been his desire to his duty, and
from the kind expressions that had been used to-
wards him he believed he had succeeded. He should
be very pleased another year to meet the same
agents again.

We may add. that Mr. Goren is fully entitled to
the compliments paid him, for not only have his
judgments been so frac from political bias on all
occasions, as to render it impossible to say what his
political opinions really are, but he has often gone
beyond his duty, in order to give the public au op-
portunity of scrutinising his decisions.
The representatives of the Working Men's Asso-
ciation state the following to be the result of the
regi.tratiom, as far as they are concerned :—Pad-
dingtou—Claiws, 428 ; sustainci, 281 ; lost, 147.
Marylebone—Claims, 1,527; sustained, 1,116; lost,
411. St. Pancras—Claims, 1,483 ; sustained, 912 ;
lost, 671. Total for the borough—Claims, 3,438 ;
sustained, 2,309 lost, 1,129.