V 3 0 0 M I N U T E S O F E V I D E N C E T A K E N B E F O R E T H E T. Courtenay, Esq. 13274. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Is the course of proceeding 111 the county of Longford, that the registering barrister calls upon the clerk of the peace to call 12 June 1838. overthe list of names from the notice ?— The names are called from a printed list such as this: I followed the clerk of the peace through his list. 13275. Is t} ie course of business in that county as it is in others, that the clerk of the peace calls over the names from that printed list of notices ?— Yes, it is ; it was called three times, as the Act of Parliament required. 13276. They are called in the order in which they appear in the printed list? — They are. 13277. That is an alphabetical arrangement?— It is. 13278. No person, then, whose name is not in the list can come forward to register ?— He cannot. 13279. And therefore you are enabled to say with certainty that no such person as is described here, of the name of Read, could have come forward to register out of 20 acres, who was rejected ?— Certainly; inasmuch as I do not find his name upon the list, and I have 110 recollection of anything of the sort occurring. 13280. If any person came forward whose name was not upon the list, the bar rister would be bound 10 reject him ?— Certainly he would, inasmuch as there was 110 notice to the public. 13281. Chairman.] Would the claims upon old titles of registry, upon certi- ficates, and so forth, appear upon the list ?— Every person claiming to register, old or new, must have appeared upon the list for that particular registry sessions ; they must come up in the order in which their names are called from the list. 13282. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Otherwise persons that might be interested in canvassing their right, or objecting to the registry, would not have an opportunity of doing it?— Certainly, they would have 110 notice of it. 13283. Did you attend the whole of the registration ?— I did. 13284. Did you observe any such proceeding as what is intimated by the answer to that question, nameiy, that one class of persons were admitted upon a small quali- fication, and others rejected possessing a larger qualification ?— 1 did not. 13285. Could such a thing have occurred at the sessions, and you not have observed it ?— Certainly not; I was not absent one day from first to last. 13286. Mr. Lefroy.] It appears from question 8553, that a question was made as to the credit given to a person of the name of Peter Daly, who was examined before the Committee that sat upon Mr. Fox's petition : you attended as agent upon that petition?— I did. 13287. Daly had been examined in support of a good many votes that were impeached?— He had. 13288. He ceased to be examined after some time ; he was no longer called as a witness after some time ?— The Committee intimated to Mr. Austin that he had better not produce him again ; I recollect Sir John Hobhouse stating distinctly to Mr. Austin that he had better not produce that witness again ; that it was the opinion of the Committee that he was not worthy of credit. 13289. Chairman.] Does that appear upon the minutes of the Committee ?— I think not. 13290. Was that signified as a resolution of the Committee by the Chairman ?— It was signified as the opinion of the Committee. 13291. By the Chairman?— At first by the Chairman; and Mr. Austin spoke a very long time afterwards in support of Daly, endeavouring to prop his testimony, and the Committee- room was again cleared, and Sir John Hobhouse intimated, as well as Mr. Rowland Alston, to Mr. Austin, that he had better not press this witness ; that they did not wish to hear him again. 13292. In your presence ?— In my presence. 13293. Mr. Lefroy. J Will you turn to question 10378. It is there stated that means were taken to prevent persons 011 the Liberal side coming up to register ; that " the gentlemen who had the ear of the court could get their friends on, while the people who had served notices to register were kept out in the street." You attended the whole of that register?— I did. 13294. Did anything of the sort occur during the whole of the registry ?— No, it did not; on the contrary, the Liberal party had more the advantage of us as to number; they could crush their way in where we could not. 13295. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.'] And they were not a bit more abstemious in their etlorts to get in?— The court was divided; they got one side and we got the other . but they very often did not confine themselves to their own side; I found it