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In Marylebone Registration Court, on Wednesday, Mr. Alfred Austin confirmed an objection against the Duke of Dorset's right to vote. The House of Commons, he said, had decided against the right of Peers to vote in the election of Members of the House of Commons, in 1699; and the House is the only appellate tribunal over the Registration Courts, so that its decisions must rule theirs.
On the same ground, Mr. Austin allowed objections to the names of Lord Radstock, an Irish Peer, and the Earl of Dundonald, a Scotch Peer ; as, not having seats in the House of Commons, they were entitled to the same privileges as British Peers except that of sitting in the House of Lords or at the trials of Peers.
The Morning Chronicle lately stated that the Brentford District Reform Society bad undertaken to support the Liberal interest of the county at large in the Registration Courts ; but that they had failed to do so. In a letter to the editor, the late Secretary of the Society says, that "they did not obtain from the whole county, (exclusive of the Brentford district,) the paltry sum of twenty pounds"; and therefore they could not interfere further.
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