The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-30
The Franchise observation-disclosures Claims
for the Right of Voting.

The Franchise Registrations-Peerage Claims
for the Right of Voting.
The latest mail summary from England supplies
the following news items:-
The female suffrage question stu occupies the AZ
tention OF the registration courts. In London the
decisions have been uniformly against the admission
OF women to the franchise, while one or two
which the revising barriser, in the absence OF any
objection, has allowed the names OF female house.
holders to remain OF the lists prepared by the over
seers In the Lambeth Court yesterday, lady
claimed as o odger, when her advocate was senced
by the barrster declaring that ''every woman by
the common law OF England Is disqualified from
voting.n On this ground he dismissed the clans OF
two other ladies. AT Maryleb0ne q similar course
was taken, the revising barrster holding that II the
legislature had intended to confer the right to vote
on women there would have been an express enact
ment TO that effect.
Another point OF interest which has come before
the registration courts is the right OF peer to have
his name the register. on this, as well as on the
female suffrage question, decisions have dlnereu.
Thus at the Maryleb0ne court the Overseers had re-
moved the names OF all peers from the lists before
the register published, and on this having been
objected to by the conservative political agent tne
revising barrster maintained that the peers 80
struck out should have examined the list ana
claimed on finding their names omitted. At west
minister the court allowed the names of peers TO re.
main on the register. The barrister IN West Kent
rejected the claims Of the Ears OF Dartmouth ana S
Germans, on the ground that no peer OF the realm
had right to interfere in the election OF the repre-
sentatives Of the people.
The Bank of England-Its Condition and
Management-Recent Money Panics.
The half yearly court of the Governor and pro-
prletOrs in the Bank Of England was held September
II In the bank paror. Mr. Thomas Newman Hunt,
Governor Of the Bank, occupied the chair
The Governor said that the directors had carefully
gone through the accounts and he had TO report that
the profit for the year ending August 80 amounted
to 1854 $3.50 So. 3D., making the amount OF rest or
undivided profits on that day f3,6lO,596 IT'S. Id.
After providing for dividend OF four per cent for
the half year, the rest would amount TO f3,O2S,476
lis. Id. The Court OF Governors therefore, proposed
that half years dividend be maze OF iour per cent
beng at the rate of eight per cent per annum, ana
that the dividend be payable ON the 10th OF October
next.
The Governor. In replying to various questions
put by Mr. Jones and other propretOrs said that the
capital of the bank upon which dividend had to be
paid was fl4553,000. All the rest or the property
belonging to the bank the profits arising out OF
the banks operations, and 1t was commonly called
'rest." The rest was the undivided profits winch
the court OF prOprietors long since decided should
be allowed TO fal below $4,000 OO0 The build
ing in which they were assembled occupied rather
over three acres OF ground and It's value was not IN
Guided In the capital but the branch establishments
were. With regard to the rate OF discount being
different on long and short loans gentlemen of expe
rienCe must know that discount was short trans
action for short time and loan might extend over
series OF years. and the rate must be different. In
SS e nv @ ~ n se
were at 8. There were deposits OF permanent cha
racter, which the board knew how to deal with, and
there were also short deposits, wnich they might be
called upon to pay and must be prepared to pay at
any moment. AS to the bank not having deposits,
he believed the deposits had never been large
not, perhaps, at that moment OF speaking-but over
an average OF the last SIX months. (CheerS.) No
doubt the country would be benefited by money
being lent to farmers, but 1t was not the province
of this bank 10 lend 1t TO tbem IL could only safely
be done by the local bankers, and even to them
It was question fr f with ny ,,s grave an,
explanation was simple. Every one remembered that
five or six years ago. that was period ante to the
crisis OF 1860, there very great extension Of
those