The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-30 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATION.
MIDDLESEX.

IMPORTANT DECISION.-RIGHT OF SHAREHOLDERS OF A

BUILDING SOCIETY TO VOTIL

Y-2sterday Lancelot Shadwell, Bsq., held his court at
the Green Man, Bethnal-green, to revise the parish lists
of the district. Mr. James and Mr. Fetch attended as
a,r,ts for the Liberal party, and Mr. Payne for the
Tories.

Richard Henry Ashford claimed for share in eight
f eebold houses, which share is of the annual value of
403. and upwards. Nos. 1,2, 3, and 4, Cooper's-gardens,
and 5,6, and 7, Littla Manchester -street. The claim
was obj, cted to by the Tories.
Mr. James stated the facts of the case, and supported
thorn by putting in a deed of settlement, and the con-
veyances of the several properties. He said that
t.venty-one per.ons entered into a deed of settlement or
agreement to pay into the treasurer's hands two shillings
and sixpence per week, to a society to be called " The
House Property Association," the object of the association
to be, to purchase or take freehold hereditaments for the
p:.rpose of repairing and letting the same for the equal
benefit of the membors, and the proceeds arising from
the joint stock to be collected and received and added to
the capital in accumulation for the benefit of the share-
-1:01,,er,i, or divided, as they might agree. It appears that
in the year 1835 the fund had enabled them to purchase
a freehold estate, again in 1842, and, on another date, a
third freehold estate, which was purchased with the
moneys of the society, and conveyed to five trustees, in
accordance with the deed of settlement, the purchased
property now yielding to each shareholder eighty shil-
lings and upwards per annum. And Mr. James con-
tended that, although it was conveyed to trustees it was
purchased with the moneys of the claimants, and they
Ltd an equitable interest in the estate, sufficient to entitle
them, under the statute of 8 Henry VI., cap. 7, to the right
to vote; and in support of his argument quoted the de-
cision of the Common Pleas, in the case of Baxter, ap-
pellant, and Newman, respondent, decided last May.
Mr. PAYNE contended that they were not in the abso-
lute receipt of the rents, and therefore the names could
not be retained.

Mr. Ashford was examined, and proved that if the
shareholders wished it they might receive the rents, in-
s:a ,d of allowing them to accumulate.

The COURT said it was clear the claimants had an
estate in equity, and that sufficient value had been shown
to entit'e each to vote. Nineteen had been shareholders
more than twelve months. He should, therefore, decide

their claims to be good. It was clear these persona joined
their tt.)ck together to reap an advantage from the rise
in the value of the property they might purchase, and he
k-aw no objection to it. The other two names were
strzick off. This decision will induce shareholders of
building societies to claim to vote, and will place it it,
the rower of the working classes to obtain the franchise
with their sa►ings._ _ _ _ _ _ _

The result of the clay's revision was a majority in
favour of the Liberal party of 143, making a total ma-
jority up to this time of 832.

POTATO ROT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sxn,—The anfiety caused by the above-named epi-
t-li rnie cannot; fail to draw the attention of every friend
of I, t.nanity. I, therefore, need offer no apology for
oft ring a suggestion, which may probably be of the
utulost importance to millions of our fellow creatures.
Upon examination by the microscope, the disease in
the potato appears to me to be caused by an insect re-
sembling the scams tribe, which first burrows under
the thin, and then extends its ravages to the heart of
this most useful tuber. From this view of the subject.
I am induced to suggest to your agricultural readers th•
necessity of getting their crops out of the ground a
quickly as possible—to give the potatoes a good washinl
itt lime-water mixed with sulphur—a thorough cleansie;.
with cold spring water being premised, in order to fre
them from all remains of soil, and allow the former at
plication to get at and destroy these destructives. 1
these simple means I am led to hope that the forth.
progress of the disease may be arrested, which otho
vviso will no doubt continue to progress after the potato
are housed and pitted.—l am your obedient servant.
E. W. HOWEY.
Bromyard, Sept. 29, 1845.

Tug IRON TRADE.—The usual preliminary rnec
ing of the ironmasters of South Staffordshire, preparatti
to thg_general quarterly meetings, was held at Dudley
ThiWsZiay last, and was very numerously attended. 'ti
proceedings of these preliminary meetings are consider-
ptiletly private ; but we may state generally that the act,
',witless resolved itself into a confirmation of the late a,
vaneA of 20a. per ton upon bar and other sorts of manufa .-
tured iron. it was, however, apparent, from what tra-. -
pired, that, though prices were thus fixed, there was a ye y
strong feeling that another advance would shortly take
ov.-ing to the immense demand forrailway iron ; and some of
the largest ironmasters present expressed their determination
to limit sales at the existing rates. It remains to be seen
whether any further rise will be declared at the quarterly
meetings next month. Most of the ironmasters, we under-
stand, complain of being too full of orders.—Birmingham

Jou
ACCIDENT BY GUNPOWDER.—Yesterday evening,
between five and six o'clock, an accident occurred to a youth
ten years cf age, named Searle, residing at Hop-garden', St.
Martin's-lane, by an explosion of gunpowder. The boy, in
company with several companions, had purchased a quantity
of gunpowder, and rolled some of it up in brown paper, yen
tigift, for the purpose of making a loud report. The boy
procured a light, and holding it to the paper, it immediately
exploded, and shattered his right arm nearly to the shoulder.
The report and screams of the unfortunate sufferer brought
immediate assistance, and he was removed to Charing=cross
llopital, where, on his admission, amputation of the arm
-was obliged to be performed.
SHEERNESS, SEPT. 27.—An accident, which had
well nigh terminated in the destruction of all concerned, oc-
curred in the dockyard yesterday afternoon. A party of
abipw'rights and labourers, to the number of from twenty to
twenfy-five, employed on the Fury steam-frigate now build-
ing by task and job work, were about laying down a " shelf-
piece,' a large plank of English oak of nearly a ton in weight,
',thick they had conveyed to a stage erected for planking the
topsides of the vessel, when one of the wooden supporters of
the stage gave way, and the planks of which it was composed
snapped like a reed and precipitated eight or ten of the fore-
most men, very fortunately not to the bottom of the slip, but
to a stage about fifteen feet below, on which another party
were employed planking the vessel. Had they fallen to the
bottom of the slip, all must have been killed. Another for-
tunate incident in the catastrophe was, that the stage which
gave way was above the wall shores which support the vessel
on her keel, and thus the immense shelf-piece and the greater
number of the planks which gave way slid harmlessly away
from those employed under. As it happened, however, it was
serious enough ; for, although there have been no broken
bones, ten men have received several severe wounds and
bruises, which it is feared will incapacitate them from work
fur some time. Of the men employed under, only one re-
ceived any considerable injury, the rest having escaped by
running away when hearing the supporter giving way.
VARIS ACADEMY Ow SCIENCES, SEPT. 22.—An
immense number of communications on the disease of the
potato were announced at this sitting. Amongst them was
one in which the name of M. Clerget, the inventor of a new
proce:s for making potato flour, was particularly mentioned.
Nearly all the papers concur in declaring that the disease
with which the potato is affected is not poisonous. M. Cler-
get has at this moment before the Academy some specimens
of his production, and we think we shall render a service to
the public in stating the object of his invention; for if the
potato crop has been a failure this year in some parts of
Europe, there are others in which it is rich both in qUality
and quantity, and it is desirable to show to what important
uses this vegetable may be applied. Everybody knows that
large quantities of starch flour are made in France from the
Notate., and that it is much used in domestic economy; but
this flour is unfit for panification, and by the peculiar pro-
ces3 that it undergoes, the taste is far from agreeable. The
flenr made by 31. Clerget contains not merely the starch, but
also the fibre of the potato, with its bran ; it is free from un-
pleasant taste; it will keep for several years where the best
wheaten flour would decay or matenally deteriorate, and
made into bread or biscuit it is light of digestion, and exceed-
ingly nutritious; mixed in the proportion of one part potato
flour to one part of wheaten flour, the bread is better than if
made from the flour of wheat exclusively, and is about 30
per cent. cheaper. The flour obtained by M. Clerget from-
the potato is equal to nearly one-third of the entire mass,
namely, 20 per cent. of the starch principle, Arid 10 per cent.
of the bran and fibre. His process is a scientific application
of the old woman's process of mixing potatoes in the making
of bread. This is well known. The potatoes are first boiled,
then dried before a fire, and rubbed up with the wheat flour.
M. Oerget produces the same result in the form of flour,
omitting ell the extraneous and useless portions of the vege-
table, and prOdding for commerce on a large and improved
scale a means of subsistence as cheap as it is wholesome.—
M. Biot made another communication on the polarisation of
light, but it adds nothing reaterial to what has already been
stated on this subject.—M. Geoffroy read to the Academy
the instructions prepared by a Committee for the scientific
voyage to Bresil and Mexico of M. Felix d'Arcet. They are
very comprehensive, for they comprise all the various ques-
tions of geology, zoology, medicine, agriculture, and che-
mistry.
A I'IGHT AT A CHAPEL.—A. regular row occurred
on Sunday morning last at the Primitive Methodist Chapel,
Dawgreen, Dewsbury, in consequenbe of one of the mort-
gagees (who is also one of the trustees) having sold his mort-
gage to another sect (it is said the Baptists), and engaged
to give possession to their preacher on Sunday morning last.
This having got to the ears of the other trustees and Sun-
day-school teachers, they
.secured the keys of the chapel, and
on the arrival of the minister and some friends an attempt
was made to obtain them by force, which was the cause of a
general row. It is said as many as seven battles were going
on at once out of doors, besides the tumbling over forms, &c.
in the school, the children running screaming home, and the
teachers eventually ejecting the intruders. The chapel was
not opened for service until the afternoon, when all went
quietly on as usual, and the concern is now put into the
..hands of the lawyers.—Halifax Guardian.
NOVEL EXPERIMENT WITH MONSTER FIRE BAL-
LooNs.—Three monster fire-balloons were let off from dif-
ferent parts of the metropolis by Henry Wells, Esq., editor of
the .zErostatic Magazine. By means of an ingenious con-
trivance three thousand bills were distributed from them in
various lots, which passed through the atmosphere in a most
amusing and extraordinary manner, resembling as closely as
passible the descent of an immense flock
Wells tested successfully an invention of his for te purpose
of extinguishing the fire when the balloon is in the air, so as
to prevent dangerous consequences at the descent. The bal-
izooixntewt
ienreeicreounmstcetned of ornamented silver paper thirty '
THE MOORS. e.ouse-shooting continues good.
Sir H. Ateux, Mr. Arabia, Mr. Pole, Mr. Broadhurst, and Mr. ZTarjoribanks, have tdinfirr-rante sport at Dundriggan,
- .
having nagged 1,100 brace, c g black game and pt ar-
inigan, besicke six red
Vaughan, Esq., at Corrimdoene,
at.icnadyCembYakgeg'adEuscipw" aarnddiNo/60E0.
brace of grouse, four roe two..
Esq'., and two friends at ,Dabnigavirr,nushaeve ter
season, having killed 800 brace of
sgtaunasg,stianwtLaeAt4i.ekPcdhoanSpaihigrdaoaSmoill
George Gore, Bait., bagged to his ow
roch, 317 head, including grouse, Man= game, hare, and
snipe.—lnverness Courier.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, SEPT. 26.—The August
ships are arriving together in London, and as the cargoes
they Wag are large, the trade there are holding off, expect •
ing some reaction in prices when these are ready for the
market ; this cause has also made us quiet here this week,
and the transacti•rns have not exceeded 500 hhds., but at
fully former prices ; we have very little more direct supply
to expect here this season, and consequently importers show
much firmness. Refined goods are rather dull, and pur-
chases could possibly be made on easier terms than was
practicable last week—Bristol Ilfercuty.