After along discussion before Mr. Coventry, on Monday, the names
of the forty-two Vestrymen of Marylebone were expunged from the list of Middlesex voters, on the grouud of their having been inserted too late ; but permission was reserved to them to prove that they applied in time, previously to the closing of the list. Mr. Coventry decided on Tuesday, that the shares in the New River Company were personal property, and did not confer the county fran- chise. Mr. Martin and Mr. Coventry being still at variance on the question of allowing trustees to vote in virtue of the trust property, it was decided that all trustees who claimed in Mr. Coventry's Court should be admitted, and all whose claims came under Mr. Martin's ju- risdiction should be disfranchised.
The name of Mr. Joseph Davies, the grand objector of the Re- formers, was struck off the list—no attempt being made to defend his claim to the suffrage. It was then attempted by the Tories to invali- date all the notices signed by him ; but this was not conceded by the Barrister.
At Hammersmith, the Tories made 40 objections, and only sits- tamed 9; but geneially they made and sustained more objections than the Reformers.
The revision of the County of Middlesex voters was closed on Thursday. The agents of both the Reform and Tory parties ex- pressed their strong sense of the patience, ability, and perfect integrity of Messrs. Coventry and Martin during the whole of the investiga- tion. The numbers of objections against claimants residing in the City were—by the Tories 178, of which they sustained 104; by the Re- formers 158, of which they sustained 78. The Liberal objector against 46 claimants, principally lawyers, in the parish of St. Dun- stan's in the West, did not appear to prove the service of his notices. It was said that the Tory agents were informed that he would not ap- spear several days ago, but that his own party were taken by surprise. There were, says the reporter, "some curious expressions of opinion on the subject." The name of the objector was Edward Wilding Williams.
We are authorized to state, that Mr. Bulwer knew nothing what- ever of his name having been sent as a claimant for Middlesex, until he saw it in the newspapers with the decision rejecting the claim. No doubt, the claim was sent in by some tricking Tory, for the express purpose of endeavenning to place Mr. Bulwer in a false position.— Lincoln Gazette.
The Greenwich and Deptford registration commenced yesterday. The only questions of interest related to the right of officers of the Hospital, the Dockyards, and other public establishments, to vote. The Barrister decided that where they occupied houses unquestion- ably belonging to the public, and not merely as tenants, their names must be struck out. On the whole, the Reformers sustained 24 claims out of 29, and 23 objections out of 35. The Tories sustained two claims out of 12, and seven objections out of 22.
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