MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE Jacisonl YOU would think. £ » « * f: d| Xt"' UidedIy; some district arra, 239. Mr. Lefroy.} Might not you j alphabetical. Etr* to " ooth? at electio, i5 as weU a< presmt'as the lawstaiids> thC'f iStStSonvenienee you spoke of with respect t„ the lettra M ?— It made it necessary that the whole letter should be confined to one Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] If you had alphabetical district lists. it wonld be possible to divide the letters ?- 0f course; every letter would be divided, because tlipvp would be every name in one district. ol By adopting the combined district, and alphabetical arrangement, that would give an opportunity of dividing every letter, which cannot be done now without great confusion ?— Certainly. OAK Mr O'Connell.] Then you cannot have any doubt that the English method of voting is infinitely preferable to the Irish ?- No doubt in the world. 246. Mr. Serjeant Jackson) The English mode of registering ?— The English mode of registering. . 247. You said that your remedy for the evils would be an assimilation ol the Irish election law to the English ?— iSo far as relates to the registration and election. . 248. Do you mean to extend that not only to the particulars just adverted to, but likewise to an annual revision, for the purpose of purging the list of names of dead men, and so on ?— It may be presumptuous of me to give an opinion on such a subject, but I think it would be severe when a person has gone through the ordeal of examination, and established his right to register, that he should be exposed to undergo the same process the next year. 249. Mr. Serjeant Ball.] Then the only revision you would approve of, would be a revision in respect of events occurring since the registry?— Yes, I think so. 250. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] For such cases as the loss of the qualification by parting with it, or the party being dead, you would, at all events, have an annual adjustment of the list ?— Yes; I think that would be quite essential; otherwise the list is encumbered with such a number of persons that the real votes are lost in the mass. 251. Mr. O'Connell.] And there is a possibility of a man being dead in reality and alive at the election ?— Yes. 252. Mr. SerjeSant Jackson.] Would you likewise assimilate the law in Ire- land to that in England in regard to giving an appeal both ways, against improper admissions as well as improper rejections ?— I think it would be very judicious to do so; at present there is no appeal against an admission, except to the House of Commons, and that is very expensive. 253. Mr. M. J. O'Connell.] Are you acquainted with the English law in regard to the power of appeal from the decision of the registering barrister There is no appeal that I know of; but 1 will state what there is in England, which we have not m Ireland: in England the claimant's name is furnished by a public officer m cities; my attention has been chiefly to cities. The public to h7 ™ ZT Vs rie-: ! f he J? ? biected t0' a written objection must be made to him , that objection is brought before the registering barrister formallv and Xs" a id no T r- 7 m ma-" gives ™ his » ame - he " J * ?" notice ° f fa required, and no statement of stances ^ tt'fcl^? * ' a ** ttoe are a » y - I know of none. ^ " deV'ation from the English law? 255- Or