188 MlNX JTES OF E V I D E N C E T A K E N B E F O R E T HE Mr. E. Rooney. could have been one upon our side; there might have been during those two days that there were no agents upon our side there. - 83 May 1838. 11182. You say that, during two days, the agents did not attend upon the part of the Liberal side; what was the reason of that ?— Mr. Colquhoun, the lawyer upon our side, seemed to be displeased with the decisions given by Mr. Fosberry; he threw up his brief; he said it was unnecessary his being there, as he could not receive from Mr. Fosberry that description of decision which he thought was just, and he threw up his brief and left the court. 11183. Did he return again?— We induced him to return after two days and make the best hand he could of it. 11184. During the absence of counsel did agents attend on your behalf?— Not one; the agents also left the court. 11185. At subsequent registries after the registry of 1832, and when Mr. French acted as the registering barrister, was he particular or not as to the admission of persdns who came up to be registered ?— Yes, I conceived him to be very particular; I was present at almost every registry afterwards. 11186. The impression upon your mind was that he was very particular as to the examination of persons that came up claiming to be registered ?— Yes. m 87. Do you know a person of the name of William Fitzsimons :— Yes. 11188. Do you remember his coming up to be registered before Mr. French ? — I do. 11189. About what year was it ?— It was in January 1837. 11190. Was he admitted or rejected ?— He was rejected. 11191. On what ground ?— For want of value. 11192. What was the deficiency, in point of value, on account of which he was rejected ?— The deficiency was 5 s. 8 d. less than 10 I. a year. 11193. Mr. French rejected him because he was 5 s. 8 d. less than the value of 10/. ?— Yes, although he paid 1 I. a year for cess, which would have given him 14 s. 4d. over the 10 I. 11194. Chairman.'] Fitzsimons being on the Liberal interest ?— Yes. 11195. Mr. Curry.] You stated that you commenced taking notes in October 1836, are you enabled to state from the notes you have taken of what occurred in your presence since October 1836, whether the persons who have been registered as leaseholders or freeholders in the county of Longford, upon the Liberal side, are persons that are duly qualified in point of property to register ?— I think so ; that is my judgment. 11196. From the time that you began to take notes, can you state from your own knowledge whether Mr. French registered any persons who had been struck off by any Election Committees of The House of Commons ?— I have notes of several that he refused to entertain, that had been struck off for want of value; but he did re- register some that were struck off, not having proper qualification, the tenants of Mr. Tuite. 11197. You have notes of several that he refused to re- register, those persons having been previously struck off the registry by one of the Longford Election Committees, upon the ground of want of value ?— I have. 11198. But he did re register some that had been struck off on account of a legal objection to their qualification, those persons being tenants of Mr. Tuite ? — Yes. 11199. Do you know what the legal objection was ?— I understood the objec- tion to have been in consequence of Mr. Tuite not having a sufficient interest to enable him to grant freehold leases. 11199*. Mr- French took a different view from the Committee, and he re- registered those persons ?— There were two notices given, a freehold notice and a leasehold notice ; the instructions we had were, that if he refused to register them as freeholders they were to be registered as leaseholders ; but upon the argument between the lawyers, they were re- registered as freeholders. ^ 11200. Do you remember the names of any of those persons, tenants of Mr. Tuite ?— Here is one James Donlan, of Lisanure, who claimed to be registered in January 1837. 11201. There were some others, were there ?— There were others ; he was objected to by Mr. Courtney as having been taken off the poll by a Committee of The House of Commons, he being one of Mr. Tuite's tenants; but I have him afterwards admitted by the court. 11202. Chairman.] Then the case is this, that, with reference to these tenants of