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We continue our account of the progress of the registration in the country ; again premising, that the data for arriving at the comparative strength of parties, furnished by the provincial journals, are very meagre, although full accounts are given of the numbers of the ob- jections sustained or disallowed on each side.
In East Surry, Mr. Knox has decided that property in bridge-tolls is personal property, and does not confer a county vote. Fifteen gentlemen were maintained on the register by Mr. Knox as trustees of the Reform Almshouses in Brixton. It will be remembered that the Tories derided the claims of these persons, and termed them fraudu- lent ; but it seems that they are as good as any.
. Five Tories, who claimed as trustees of Pedlar's Acre were disfran- chised, as it appeared that they had no power of themselves to dispose of a farthing of the income derived from the property. The Trustees of a meeting-house in Croydon were kept on the list by Mr. Knox. On no point is there a greater uncertainty than on the right of trustees to vote/ In Kent, the proceedings have been of an ordinary nature, with the exception, that on almost all disputed points, such as the necessity of placing "leasehold" or " freehold " in the description of the premises, stated to give the right of voting, the Barristers in the two divisions of the county have decided differently. The Maidstone Gazette pledges itself to prove that the result of the registration has been highly favour- able to the Liberals.
In the Eastern division of Sussex there are 1,350 fresh claims—up- wards of three-fifths of which are those of decided Liberals. Between 200 and 300 names were taken out by the Revising Barrister, on objec- tions made by the Overseers, &e. leaving an actual increase of 1,100 on the whole constituency. The Duke of Richmond sustained his claim to the franchise, notwithstanding his Peerage.
The registration for Huntingdonshire this week has been much in favour of the Reformers. At Stilton, on Monday last, the attempts to introduce on the list of voters a number of pretended annuitants in the Tory interest were successfully exposed.—Lincoln Mercury.
The result of the West Kent registration is as follows—Reform objections 129, sustained 98; Tory objections 89, sustained only 28.
Mr. Bonham Carter, the Member for Portsmouth, and till lately a practising barrister, has accompanied the Revising Barristers for South Hants on the whole of their circuit as professional agent on the Reform interest.
In the Western division of Gloucester, up to Saturday, when the Revising Barristers closed their labours at Berkeley, 171 claims had been struck off the lists by the Tories, and 240 by the Reformers.
At Coleshill, in North Warwickshire, 158 Tories and 28 Reformers were rejected from the lists • and the Banisters, after concluding there, proceeded to Nuneaton.—Binninyham Journal.
There has been very little interest in the proceedings of the Berk- shire Revising Barristers during the week. At Wantage there were no objections; at Abingdon very few ; and, on the whole, the results will not materially affect the state of parties, so far as the county is concerned.—Berkshire Chronicle.
So eager have the Tories of Eceleshill, near Bradford, been in serv- ing objections, that some of the notices have actually not been signed !
The Reform party in Herefordshire has this year entered on the lists, for the Ledbury districts alone, upwards of 120 new claims, and the Conservatives not one quarter of that number.
The county registration for South Lancashire, stands much the same as it did before the revisal of the Barristers. The sustained objections, on the part respectively of the Tories and the Reformers, are nearly equally balanced ; but the new claimants unobjected to are in the pro- portion of five Reformers to three Tories; and there is on the whole so decided a preponderance of Liberal voters as to give the assurance of victory to two really good candidates.—Manchester Times.
Four courts were held at Newton. The result in this district, the stronghold of Toryism, is considered-by the Reformers to be highly satisfactory. In one instance the Tory notices of objection for an entire district fell through, owing to the objector not having stated his correct place of abode. In the Warrington division, the Reformers have gained greatly in numbers on the revision.
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