The editor of the La ds Intelliyencer says that be is
not at all respoe- slide for the correctness of the Leeds poll-book, in which many errors. have loins detected : it was merely published at the InteUiyene,r office as a matter of bueiness, and be bad no more to do in other respect. with the compilation than Mr. Baines himself. According to the Leeds Mercury, the revision of the West Riding, as regards Leeds, shows Liberal objections sustained 195, Tory 207 ; Liberal claims 18ff, Tory 192. The Mercury gives no account of the result of the Lee* • False : see the article alluded to, Spectator, 21 September H37. page 830. f Value again: see the above snide. borough revision; but we are soriyjto see by the following statement in the Intelligcncer that the Tories have gained materially. borough revision; but we are soriyjto see by the following statement in the Intelligcncer that the Tories have gained materially.
" The Conservatives objected to 2'264 names, and they succeeded in striking off 1011, or about 43 per cent. ; the Whig-Radicals objected to 1318, and suc- ceeded in 512, or about 39 per cent. ; or, to state the result another way, the Yellows made good very little more than one-third, whilst the Blues realized one•half of theirs within a fraction. With respect to new claims also, the Con- servatives were much more successful than their opponents; the Blues having established 133, and the Yellows only N. From these data it follows, that the Conservatives have succeeded to an extent more than double that of their oppo• seats ; and that they stand better upou the register by 575 names, or about 500 votes, than they did before the revision commenced. The number of names struck off by the Blues, as we have already said, is 1011 ; number of new claim. ants put on, 133; making a total of 1144. The Yellows have struck off 512; sew claimants added, 37 ; making a total 01569. Balance in favour of the Conser- vatives, 575. '1 he Yellow agents, though loth to admit, are scarcely hardy enough to deny, that they have been soundly beaten in the Revision Court ; but they are trying to bamboozle their party by asserting that they have still a larger majority on the register than they had at the late election. We arc pro- mised a large array of figures to denunistrae this, in to-day's Mercury, and therefore we may have occasion to revert to the subject again : meantime, we beg our readers to receive with caution the statements of a pm ty who at the close of the last revision claimed a majority of 803, but could only realize 121 on the poll."
The array of figures did not appear. The Mercury declined entering into particulars, but said- " We bad hoped, this week, to present our readers with a tabular statement .1 the result; but our publication following so closely on the termination of the revision, we find, with a due regard to accuracy, that this object cannot be accomplished till our next. We shall then lay before the public the position of the two parties as they now stand, by which an estimate may be formed of the result of an election, come when it may. Without entering inure largely into the question at present, we may say that the Liberal party are in possession of the representation ; and this fact we shall clearly show in the manner we have Before stated."
This is in effect an admission that the Tories have gained on the pre- sent registration.
At the Registration Court, Town-hall, Stamford, on Tuesday week, Mr. Charles Harwood, the Revising Barrister, declared that it had been decided that the whole of the appointments of Municipal Charity Trustees made by the Lord Chancellor were null and void, and that the matter would be argued before the House of Lords immediately after its sittings commenced.—LinceInshire Chronicle.
In the Revising Barristers' Courts, decisions are given one year in direct opposition to the decisions of the year preceding; and thus a continual uncertainty prevails as to the right of voting : the enfran- ehisemt nt or disfranchisement of a large body is, in fact, often made to depend, not on any clear or definite right, but on the war ying opinions of the Revising Barristers. At Nlaldon, for instance, it was on Saturday decided that the seven miles from the Town-hall, to which the Reform Act limits the residence of freemen, shall he measured in a straight line, over hedge and ditch,—a decision which will bring fifty or sixty more voters upon the list ; while last year, though the Barristers were (as indeed they were in the present instauce) divided in
opinion on the subject, a contrary judgment was given._Es-,ss Retold. The Tories in misty parts of the county complain of harassing and frivolous objections mode to the claims of that party by tile Liberals. We hear from one of the gentlemen aacoding the pre.enE Revision
Courts, that in one parish in the Western division tic Tories in 163.S objected to a number of claims which were substantiated ; the same objections were raised in against the Bos,oc I :oaks, ze.ain allowed
to be good; and now, in the prem.! year tho part:, , are again
objected to, and obliged, at considerable loss of time, r spouse, &e. fur
a third time to go through the ordeal of the Court of lievision.- C•loroa stet. Jorriand. fiaat is this? If the Liberals, e, ho had
certainly last session, and who say they have now a majority in the House of ('ominous, trill not demand an amendment of tIss law, but support Ministers who refine to amend it, tiny must expect to be annoyed by the Tories, who merely take an advantage which a Whig enartment gives them.; A ease having been submitted to the A ttorney. General, from Barn- staple, us to the legality of the registration-shilling being demanded from freemen, the learned gentleman has given his opinion that the de- mand is not legal ; in consequence of which, a recommendation has emanated iron the Magistrates to the Overseers, for thsm to return such shillings as have been collected with the poor's rate.—Nurth Devon Advertiser.
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