Ireland.] E L E C T I O N . 7i Reports, i837- 8— continued. Perjury. The practice of swearing land to be worth a rent beyond anything that could be obtained from any species of tenant is got to an enormous pitch, ' Courtenay 6819 The present system of registration tends to an awful demoralization of the population, by accustoming them to the taking of false oaths, Courtenay 6823- 6837, Gardiner 8050, Battersby 14222- 14224.14233- 14238. 14279- 14302 Persons have been reproved for' not swearing to the full extent of the value requisite, and at a subsequent sessions have come forward, and sworn to the full amount and registered, Gardiner 8051- 8058. Instances in which the qualification oath has been taken by persons whose title has been lost by the lives in the leases having been dead ; they were prosecuted, but the pro- secutions were dropped, Gardiner 8079, 8080 There was more perjury going on respecting Mr. Grevill's tenants than any others, Fosbery 13194' Some of" the hardest swearing that occurred during the registry was on the part of his tenantry, Fosbery 13194. 13197"; The present system of registration encourages perjury, and brings the admi- nistration of justice into disrepute and contempt, Battersby 14222- 14224. 14233- 14238 Further evidence thereon, Battersby 14279- 14302. See also Croker, Mr. Indictments. Oaths. Sullivan, John. Tenantry. Personations. The present system of registration affords a great opening to personation, Besnard 64 Difficulty and expense of preventing personation and fraud at the polling- booths, by reason of the alphabetical arrangement of the names, Colburn 1291- 1303 Supposed number of personations at the last election, Meagher 2829, 2830 Difficulty of ascertaining the identity of parties registering from the present mode of conducting the registration, Deeble 5535- 5541. See also Sodan, John. Perrier, Anthony. Nature of the objection to his being admitted to the freedom of Cork in right of servitude, his father, to whom he was bound, having retired from business years previous to the commencement of his apprenticeship, Meagher 4902- 4926. Peter's, St., Parish of, Cork. Amount of rates remitted, as appears by the churchwardens' return, Casey 6231 Number of persons included in that return, Casey 6237 List of " waste " and " poor" in this parish, App. i. pp. 329, 330. Petridge, Christopher. A tenant on Lady Ross's property in Cashel; was dispossessed of his holding in 1833; amount of compensation given him, M'Gaver, 12414. Petridge, Michael. A tenant on Lady Ross's property in the parish of Cashel.; he was dis- possessed of his farm in 1833 ; compensation made him, M'Gaver 12414. Pickley, Michael. Rawbuck's- lane, Cork ; his house at the utmost is not worth more than 5 I.; it never could have been worth 10 I. ; it is a poor thatched house, Young 1495- 1497. 1501- 1509, Meagher 3081- 3086 He paid 12s. 6d. rates, not for his house, but for the stable annexed to it; they are good value for 10Z., Barry 5842- 5852 Registered in 1832, and voted in 1835 and 1837, Colburn 1498. 1506. 3065, Meagher 3086 Is valued at 3 I. in the valuation of 1828, Lane 1499, 1500. 3059, 3060. Plant. He is in the service of Lady Ross ; he was seriously beaten and injured in coming home from a market or fair about six or eight weeks ago, Courtenay 13489- 13491. Ploughlands{ Cork). There is great disparity in the valuation of ploughlands, Lane 514- 517- Police. Instance of an elector having his head fractured by a policeman while in the act of entering the registry court; no information laid against him, as the magistrates of Long- ford would promote a man rather than punish for committing such an act, Nicholls 10392- 10479, Ternan 11029- 11042 Case of a female being stabbed through the thigh by a' policeman; witness was tried on a charge made by the policeman of attempting a rescue, but was acquitted, Nicholls 10445- 10447 Instance in which an attorney refused to come forward and prosecute a policeman for cutting and maiming, and reason assigned by him for not prosecuting, Nicholls 10515- 10523. 10534- 10547. Conduct of the police Was very partial in Longford during the registry of 1832, and the election following, Ternan 11014- 11016- Complaint made by Mr. Curran that the police of Longford had insulted him, Courtenay 13621- 13630 the police did not act partially in the discharge of their duty in Longford, Fosbery 13003 They acted with impartiality during the registration; there was no arrangement made with the police or any other party to obstruct the Liberal party in their endeavours to register, Courtenay 13321- 13332- Pollard, John. Registered out of house at Parkamore; there is only one house on the land called Parkamore, Deeble 5430- 5432. Polls. Should be taken parochially; there are a number of advantages attending a district arrangement, Besnard 6309, 6310 The polling, both for counties and towns, should be limited to one clay, as in England, Besnard 6395- 6398 Time for polling at elections should be limited to two days, Lane 4606. " Poor." Names of persons returned " poor" in Cork by churchwardens of parishes' App. I p. 373. 6jo i 4 Population.