23 8 MINUTES OF EVIDENCE TAKEN BEFORE TIIE Mr. Benj. Deeble, you find to be upon the register, the initial letter of whose name is the letter C. ? I — Seven hundred and fifty- one up to the 31st of January 1838. 8 March 1838. ( To Mr. Deeble.) With respect to the letter M., how many do you find — About 768 up to the same period, the 2d of January 1837 5533. ( To Mr. Colburn.) What number do you find r— Eight hundred and twenty- eight up to the 1st of January 1838. rrL Can you furnish this Committee with a list of the numbers of names, the initial letter of which belongs to each letter of the alphabet ? I can. [ The Witness delivered in the same, which is as follows ;] A STATEMENT of the Number of the respective Initial Letters of the Names of Voters, of the County of the City of Cork, appearing on the Registry, up to and for the 31st of January 1838. 8 March 1838. ,5.535. ( To Mr. Deeble.) Have you examined the register with a view to ascer- tain how many persons there are whose names are the same ; for example, how many persons are there upon the registry of the name of Murphy ?— There are nearly 200, up to the 2d of January 1837. 5536. Have you examined how many there are of the name of Macarthy ?— Yes; nearly 100. 5537- There are likewise a great many other names of which there are a great many persons upon the register ?— There are. 5,538. Of course there being those numbers of certain names, there must be a great many of those persons who have the same christian name as well as the same surname?— There are. 5539. Does that tend very much to perplex those who are interested in check- ing and ascertaining the identity of the person presenting himself to vote, and his bond fide amount of qualification ?— I think it would ; it would embarrass them very much. > 5540. And would render the more necessary some of those arrangements that you alluded to in the latter part of your evidence yesterday ?— Exactly ; it was with a view to simplify it that I mentioned that the name of the ploughland or district should be attached to the name. 554}- Without some such circumstances to fix the identity of the individual, is not it almost impossible to check it ?— It is very difficult in a short space of time. 5542. Is there any difference between the description of population who inhabit out in the rural districts in the liberties, and those who are inhabitants within the suburbs and the city of Cork, properly so called ?— They follow different employments; those that are outside are mostly farmers, and those that are within are generally traders of one kind or another, and gentlemen and profes- sional men. .5543- Are those persons, generally speaking, who inhabit the country dis- tricts which are called the county of the city of Cork, that is outside the suburbs, and within the liberties, of the same description of persons for the most part as those who inhabit 111 the county of Cork at large?— They are very much the same; 1 may almost say, exactly the same. 5544- A great many of them who speak Irish only?— They speak Irish; but the generality of them can speak English ; there are not a great manv who cannot speak English. & 5545- Are