. ,46 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE THE Mr. John Colburn. 3933- Mr. Serjeant Jackson ] Probably some also that have succeeded in right of apprenticeship to merchants < Perhaps so. 28 February 1838. 3034. Mr. Beamish.] Do you think there are ten that succeeded m right of apprenticeship to merchants?— I cannot form an opinion. 0- 35. l) o not you believe that the greater majority of them have no connexion withWcity of Cork, so as to have any local interest in it ?— I should suppose so if I was to form an opinion, but I cannot speak positively to it. 3936. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] You have already stated that some of them were gentlemen, inhabiting the county of Cork, of great respectability ?— A great number of them. . 3037. Has not that class of persons considerable intercourse with the city of Cork ?— I believe I stated so before. 3938. Is not the city of Cork a great mart for all the produce of the county, and the place where those country" gentlemen transact their banking and other business ?— I should think so. 3939. Mr. Beamish.] Does the circumstance of their merely going into Cork as the capital of the county necessarily give them any local interest in the affairs of the city ?— 1 cannot take upon me to say. 3940. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Must not they all, more or less, have an interest in the prosperity and well- being of the city of Cork ?— I should think so. 3941. Mr. Beamish.] Have not they more interest in the prosperity of their own properties immediately around them, rather than in the iocal interests of the citv of Cork ?— It is a natural inference to be drawn, I believe. 3942. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Every man has more interest in his own particular concerns than in the general concerns of the community ; but men may have a just sense of their own interest, and yet may have considerable feeling for the general prosperity of the community to which they belong ?— They may. Mr. Richard Gould, called in ; and Examined. , i'r. 3943- Chairman.] WHAT are you?— A merchant. RtC, ia'd Gou, d- 3944- Residing where?— At Cork. 3945. In what part of the town ?— On the South Terrace. 3946. How long have you been resident in Cork ?— Since I was born. 3947. Mr. Beamish.] Did you pay any attention to the register of voters in the year 1832 under the Reform ' Bill?— I did. 3948. Can you state whether there was the necessary examination gone through before the parties were admitted to register?— I certainly think there was. 3949. Do you conceive that the assistant- barristers, the gentlemen who were deputed upon that occasion, took the necessary steps to see that 110 man was placed upon the register without his value being perfectly ascertained ?— I really do; I was frequently there; I spent some time there almost every day, and I saw the strictest inquiry. 3950. Do you conceive, generally speaking, that any number of persons were admitted upon the register who had no right to be so by want of value of their premises?— There may have been a few, but, generally speaking, there was the strictest inquiry. 3951. Did you accompany Mr. Meagher, after the summonses were received by you both to attend this Committee, in valuing premises of parties who had voted at the last election?— I did; in the most vulnerable parts, as we conceived, of the city. 3952. Such cases as you thought might by possibility be questioned as to their value ?— Yes. 3953- Did you take every means in your power to ascertain, both from your own knowledge of the value of buildings and other sources of information, as would enable you to state to the Committee the value of the various tenements?— Certainly. 3954- Have you seen Mr, Lane's list ?— I have. .3955-_ Will you turn to the list No. 2, you will see, " No. 637, Joseph Ahem, fair- lane ;" did you visit his premises ?— Yes. 3956. Do you consider them to be of the value of 10/. ?— To the best of mv . mou edge, I satisfied myself that his place was worth 10/., and being so satisfied i made no other observation in the book than " Good value for 10/." 3957. Did you go into the house?— Certainly. 3958. And