The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-14 00:00:00

GA - ZETTE WIIZTEHALL. MAx 11, 1542. llpThe Queen has bee n p l ease d to nom i ntte; constitute, 2 andoseted.John RuFeell, Esq., to be one cd the Ordinary Clerks "ceased. in sbioti in Scotland the room of James Fergusson, 1-1 WAR-OFFICE, Mar 13. ,risen f_llerern gireent of Drag oon G uar d s —Q uartermas t er J. H e y- Morin,, w the 9th Lig D ht ragoons, to be Quartermaster, vice thewho retires on half-pay, May 13. ,xlßegiment of Light D ragoons— Li ent. E . A r k r i g h t, f rom •::1111 Light. Dragoon s , t o b e Li eutenant, v i ce K emp , w h o 9t o geA, Alay to h R - • egiment of Light D ragoons— Li eut. F . P. Will oug hby Le : Cspain, by purchase, vice Cooke, who retires, May 13; emP. from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieute 4nt, vi e Awright, who exchanges, May t uwe r , frona the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, with tt44 PUri a'e Cornet W /I Alagan to be Lieutenant, by reliale, vice Willougt.by . ; rporal A. Allan, from the Royal a :_g o i nleot of Horse Guards, to be Quartermaster, vice Heyiion, pp..mted to 3d Dragoon Guards, May 13. fro ''th Regiment of Light Dragoons.....-Lieutenant E. Norton, chaff..' 9 6th loot, to be Lieutenant, vice Sinclair, who ex g, may RoCuldstream Regiment ,of Foot Guards—Brevet Col. the Captain R. Abercromby, from hall-pay Unattached, to be chiß. L ieutenant -Colonel, vice J. D. Rawdon, who ex t . Col4,, e i s ; J. 11. Pringle to be Captain and Lieutenan the I C , by purchase, vice Abereromby, who retires ; Lieut. I:4:aoth, lion. • E. P. Graves to be Lieutenant and Captain,. y F echoes vice Pringle ; Ensign F. W. Newdigate,• from 66th 1 Y 13. Ensigh and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Graves, pa id Regiment of Foot—Brevet Col. H. G. Smith, from half. Imattached to be Lieutenant-Colonel,' vice M. Beresford, • 0 em it ' lth nges, May 13. vice eot--Ensign.J.• Johnston, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, v, who retires .A. I Garnett, to be Ensign, by purchase, lee John. t ' I. 121, on, Alay 13. thane, lout—Lieut. H. D. Fanshawe to be Captain, by pur- . Fitz Gerald, who retires; Ensign G. C. Bisshopp, l i ta '" toe 3Sth Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fan- I 've, May 1 3. A l, l 4 ) thl'eK4-- Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class, W. Wallace, 1 ..; 1 ! to he Stu geon, vice Dowse, who, exchanges, May 13. 1 0 , 1 4 "" F° °t — To be Lieutenant, by purchase—Ensign L. C. ria , t re, Vice de Tessiet, promoted in the 3d West India Rep 'hi,E,n4go 13. Croxon vice Fane, promoted, May 13. ° by purchase-. ' Gentleman Cadet W. Beltield, ti " 1 the Royal Military College, vice Moore, May 13 ; t'adet A. iNPueachy Alleyne, from the Royal Military o ' tjiee Croxon, May 14. t us' ' °° t--tnsign W. Johnson, from the 82d Foot, to be vice Slater who exchanges, May 13. eliss hl : °°t- -Eri-in R. H. Carew to be Lieutenant, by pur to I ) :'i' e e Curteis, who retires ; J. T. Bettesworth, Gent., 3. 31 1. a t h i n n,t;g ic o : by purchase, vice Carew, May 13. t. T. Cassan, from the 99th Foot, to be Ser l v ) antes, who exchanges, May 13. elia:eth centE. T. Gloster, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur -64,in Bisshopp promoted in the 12th Foot, May 13. DU ' w -- -Ensign ' F. S. Daubeney to be Lieutenant, by goor,-Lle, vi ce:Wedderburn, appointed to the. 9th Light' Dra- Au.'; Ass istant-Surueon W. Arden, front the Staff, VI be tt t t Surgeon, vice Sinclair,. promoted to be Staff-Surgeon 66 ,0,,c0nd Class, May 13. . 15 ag ""t— Lieutenant C. A. Sinclair, from the 15th Light 1 11 ''"'oe, to be Lie u tenan t ,vice Norton, who exchanges ; ay • t o ~.,..out — Captain B. E. 13arry, from half-pay Unattached, Ca 63dp pt e .67Ptein vice Irwin irometed ; I.ieut. A. F. Codd to be Do - lu e l Purchase vic le Ba to be Lieutenant,rry, wile retires; Lieut. C. C. tleh — •' , from the .8.5111 Foot, vice Day, who th as ,74 ; "; Ensign F. Annesley to be Lieutenant,, b y h ) .4 l ' tl Codd • G A. Bannatyne, Gent, to be Ensign, by r e , 7 it cp vice Annesley,.l\laY 13. chas e • , s ( *t—En s i gn L. C. L. Peel to be Lieutenant, by pur n• L. N ewman, Gent., to b e E ns i gn, b y purchase , 75th cl, May 13. 41.1) oo t --. Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class J. Sidey, 82 ,. to be. Surgeon, vice Forrest, who exchanges, May 13. S. Slater, from 20th Foot, to be En btist.lice Johnson, who exchanges, May 13. Lieut„,., Fu°t Lieutetp.nt It. L. Day, from the 63d Foot, to be 53,pant Lieutenant Doraville, who exchanges, May 13. Ca m 'l:lL—Captain G. Hogg, from half-pay 90th Foot, to be te rll a t " l ,?, vice 13 revet-Major G. Duff, who exchanges ; ~buß. Gordon, to be Captain, by purchase, vice vice ; Ensign G. Seton to be Lieutenant, by, purchase, chase, ;J. H. Wemyss, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur ee 99liet-11 ,'„ee Seeton, - May 13. . " < 'L . -Ciptain W. T. Servantes, from the 37th Foot, 11, ea Ptain. vice Cassan, who exchange; May 13. • Pool-ATTaciten.—Brevet Major F. C. Irwin, tram the 63d the ~be Major, bypurchase ; Lieutenant R. Phelan, from I.,ij'Y'"o Rifle Regiment, to be Captain, without purchase; 0 , tenant T. Byrne, from the 32d Foot, to be Captain, with `„Porchaqe, May 13. p_II"PITAL STAFF. SUrgeoll R. Dowse, from the 14th w n, to be Staff -Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Wallace, I,r exchanges ; Surgeon J. Farrest, M.D., from the 75th (t, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Svcond Class, vice Sidey, exchan ges. M ay 13. I'Ji'oYAL M I LIT A sv C OLLEG E. REvEr.—Brevet Lieute lt-olonel G. W. Rosser, half-pay Unatta c hed, to be lajor and 'los, Ma S 13 uperintend en t o f St u di es , vice P roctor, w h o re iny . ; the Ev ET Captain B. E. B arry, o f t h e 6 3 d F oot, to b e M a j or eAtrny June 21. lrv. to RA m.—The names of the Lieutenant of the Royal gialellt of H orse Guards, whose commission is dated Ist h "uli T e 1 838, are Th omas Willi am Brograve Beauchamp Proctor. sst b e Lie promotien on of Ensign C. W. Ntr, of the 48th F, utant in the 86th Foot, as stated in the Gazette oot of t he 29th ultimo, has been cancelled.The name of the Ensign, a ppointed to the Bth Regiment of Foot, on the 6th instant, is trobeek, not Roeheck, as stated.—The Christian names of BEnsign Stokes, of the 53d Regiment of Foot, are Anthony owen Owen. ODFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAY 12. F. S. Ha Poy L ieutenant al Regiment of Artillery-First _ kilton to be Second Captai n , v i ce Sm i t h, retie d on hal f-pay, April 27 ; Second Lieutenant M. Ad ye to be First L i eutenant , vire Hamilton, 8. ~ 11E ioea N April 2 I.T 31. -Te date of the promoion of ..I % s De Plathas been h altere d to April 27, 1 1842. Lieutenant . tThe following p laces have been duly registered for soleminz % in arriaetherein, pursuant to the Act 6th and 7th Wa- Nlk Iv., chap. 85 :- Independent Meeting-house, Kingswood, Wiltshire. Bethel Chapel, Maidstone, Kent. ~ BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. builders 'IMOR SPOOR,and AMOR SPOOR, jun. , Neeilastle-upon-Tyne. BANKRUPTS. .„rRICHARD EGAN LEE, printer, Craven-buildings. je:ouury-latie, to surrender May 24, and June 24, at one, at toe l aall rt t of iiank 'uNtey. Whitmore, o ffi cial assignee, Basing Ar s 7V C ro,s, Surrey -street, Strand. D u la: l e :v ia 11 STANSBURY, bookseller, St. Matthew's 46'4'Y -road, May 24, at half-past one, and June 24. si- !we:l?' net'-road, he Court of ' Bankruptcy . Graham, official a'' gmrAcbasil‘lgliall.street ; Ashley, Shureditch.. .. an ,I • B LAD a - n 1 June 24, at one L AND. tailor, Louth, Lincolnshire, May 2, at the Public-building, Louth. Lightfoot arnshaw, Hu ll ' . W K . 'title and Parkin, Chan terY4ane, London. almsleY' eib Y' ' I IV.II. "SON, leather -dealer, Shrewsbury, May 27 and aa ue2.4, ate leven, at the Guildhall, Shrewsbury. Litchfield loovien Chancery -lane, London • Bloxham, Shrewsbury. t B N, YOUNG, victualler, Lambeth, ' May Belcher' J une 24, at twelve at the Court of Bankruptcy. 20, at half-pas tlrtoryei.al assianee; Dru ' ce and Sous : Billiter-square. two ' , June BRIDGER, mealtnan, Middlesex, Nay 20, at i iell , ~,nu 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pen- Wit fitialas ' i gc'n ; Heath, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house. 24, LIANI COX BUCHANAN, money scrivener. May p o ' al l‘l Julie 2, at tw 1 at the Old Bell Inn, Dursley. JP4 kNlE ra)?'s Inn- Nue; e e ; , v l e lishop and Wells, Dursley. i 8 ROD GK IN S ALL EN timber merchant, Porth na'..,Glarnorganshire,Yune 1 and ' 24, at eleven, at the Bush th.,;Bltansea. - Holtne's, Loftus, and Young, New Inn, Lon ,..lp.thbertson, Neath. Ahd re T , LN ROBSON SMITH, ship owner, Monk Wearmouth a .I.i oti i '-'orharn, May 25 and June 24, at eleven, at the Golde 1...4,,'11c, Sunderland. ' Nicholls, Cook's-coact, Lincoln's Inn, will •• 'Thomw"pson, Duihant. gr eet ',AHD CHARLES TAYLOR, fishmonger. Albany; el e , e ' Regent's -park, May IX), at twelve, and June . 24, a . t i, te n t at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official as eL ", Colem an - street-buildings ; Dimes, Bred-stree t , It le ' t i'eet sAIAS OUCHTERLONY, merchant, Threadneedle a - t the C " l aY 2 0, at hall-past eleven, and June 24, at eleeee, Lae_ ?art of Bankruptcy. Gibson, official assigin Basing ,r(.7et ; Turner and Hensman, Basina-lane. . am %tire II IAS JOHN WINTER, bill-broker, 'T'o'tten ham 0 _ li, tek,` ) ad, May 211 and June 24, at twelve, at thecCourt f 'titisor,'4,t,cY- Gree n , official assignee, Aldertnanhury e Hodg t, 1eat.,"14, rten-cresc'ent. ",11r-,-.7"„LtI RUSSELL, upholsterer, Kingston-upon-Thrinies, tril,, , '" al ay 26, at one, and June 24, at eleven, at tie C?ur . t ' ril e, ii:, u ,Pt"Y• Groom ' , official assignee. Birchin-lane, 'City -"un-garden, London. DIVIDENDS. e , I t e' t the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. zltc)...iivllee_r,:allow chandler, Watling-street, June 6, at two riat, in laceman. Fleet-street, June 6, at one-J. J. alltia„:l.ti. k+ mercha nt Wandsworth,Alestreet, City, June 3, at twelve-. 1. June 4, at two-F. Sher ---I,q, \ivic'e faelgT or °t l e l r a ' rge-yard, Bucklersbury, June 4, at eleven ti"„ oh . ighttuan,b ',seller , Paternoster-row, June 1, at two tett,4ts,taor:pai,itneo,onned_ra 'er, Brighton-place, Hackney-road, .. ockto n .,, n _ h June 4, at twelve. patent sail-cloth manufac- Tees, j D p. a A r li a li m er,' Je„' res ol , In the Ceuntry. brewers, Leeds, rood, 3 "'ler and 1 Butterworth, black beer b en, at the Comm - . at el , ' ' i.sioners'-rooms, Leeds-N. P . Iwea;_:•olter, Bo n a em , Staffordshire, , June 6, at eleven, at the p-,,jotlers'-roomi, Manchester-E. Paine drysalter, Li e._ tt tl . , v . 4 , wo, at N 44 e at t at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool li' Oei. ictualler Honiton, Devonshire, June 7, at one, ' l ll ("treiti Inn , Ex eter-J. Stainthorpe, common brewer, '4\e,111144141.,101-:•terthunsileiand, June 3. at two, at the Bankrupt ' Inn, Bee f,' 'Nell, e r° "to, .Newcastle-upon-Tyne-E. Hill, miller, I : 1 , eyfroi orfolk, May 27, at twelve, at the King 's June li a ,?,,' at . k ,, -- e• Hepper, hotel keeper, Liverpool, . 4, at. Jsz''Ler, T'",e Clarendon -rooms, Liverpool- W. Langmead '''''l,, o fintnouth, Devonshire, June 4, at eleven, at the Mon len, Exeter. I' V CERTIFICATES-Juive 3. • . . i l k a llvrl i te i t tanner, Tiverton, Devonshire-S. Partridge, vie- C:(1,-...iirk,'nehant-W. Walker and J. Gray, woolstaplers, !"I , tie,„' ''„,• Canning, Scotch warehouseman, Wood-street, 1 ~ - .7 .- '``,.Jennis, tailor, Gloucester. altues.„' eA RTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. nd V 44 „,4 L. Vi r estun, patent size manufacturers, Dovor . - \V Vir, e i ,' - n• Alter , chemists Kensington-A. Maddock, h' E, ardle h 11' Priestfields , Staffordshire-J. and 17 41 kes 841 dall, 'f us a t i ters ' I N i. r a n d T. an ma . manufa cturers, Manchester-F. W. I 'es Nl A Ric h ar d son, wine . dealers, . Manchester-E. IN lee w and T. Turtill, tailors, Liverpo ol-T. Pratt end etAttbista water manutacturers, Exeter- . J. and W. Gard rail w 'let', tna utifacturers, Coventry-T. Scit'll, sen. el 4 q t '' Itrocers C •tr •-G Thomson and D. Turner, b (' ' it ' N t , ' " "in ) . k -om re,vttettsactort, Liverpool -C. Fran c and A. Mowat, -- -S. ,%}„' Ileth-R. Woodhead and E. Holland, common 11. wl,ild ,%}„ ' R. Knapp and E. Pearce, printers, A. coiliets, JAlitchell, Newberrie's Farm, Essex - Coventry White, O. L r Y , D 14 - Ogden, J. Robson, and W. Kir k, Tarn Tar n d ... " and ,e'4'jr, t warehousemen, Addle-street, City . -E. New Ch nitres. cut nail manufacturers, Birmingham. er., J Alt/Es CO''C/1 SEQUESTRATIONS. ``AIG, .. , R, HENRY JOHNSTON, GEORGE jtlr 'e 7, : It 'd JOHN BISSETT, bankers, Leith, May 17 and ‘ dune4,A , , , t , at the Royal Hotel, Edinburgh. 14tireti).‘1.1a.V11 8 L vA-Y, Wright, Oehiltree, Ayrshire, May 16 and M t Ne.,, , at iwelve, at the Black Bull Inn Cumnock. FRASER and HUGH ' M'RAE, merchants, 4"/ li Otel,l.' u aY 20 and June 11, at one, at the Caledonian '''lte. , .TAe l e,Rw all. neel.6, at S WEBSTER , merchant Dundee May 20 and June *ltf:. 4 e, at th • Chambers ' • ' ' t. of D. ..mith Dundee. . 0 , (1 ~,,. Average ---_____ . , •ri Th e • PricePßolfellErow°nForSlNUluGscAoßva'do Sugar, computed Zatc2tlide. Returns made in the Week ending May 10, 1842, is xecil,tii,spivnertoatfituhnetDheruteoiest olCouGstroematsppraitiadiaof i'alable tit' Cwt.' con on th' ToitEAYl‘lAy I.thn t,nd Quebec. Arrd. off Al. c yon, Robeso , n. 1 2 dr. And f he ~_. .tiog• 40,/ tP 4 54 , 3}g ~ v J!lMtton THE FUNDS—(CLO*ING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1671 India Stock 3 per Cent Red. 9ll Ditto Bonds 2l pse 3 per Cent Cens 921 'Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent Red . 94 Ditto New Annuities:,. -:... New 31 per Cent - 1,0001....24d, 39 pia , . New 5 par Cent. Long Annuities ~o expire j Ditto SMall .. 41 pm Jan. 1860 .. Jo/ Bank Stock for Acct ... Oct. 1859. .. .... 121 'lndia Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860...,.:.... , Consols for Aect 921 , FOREIGN FUNDS: Austrian, 5 pi - cent.... Portuguese, 5 - per cent. 631 Belgian, 5 pet cent._ ' Ditto, New Ditto - 371 Brazilian Bonds. — Prussian, 5 per cent. ... " Buenos Ayres 6 percent Russian, 5 per rent .... . Chiltan, 6 per cent... ~ 80 'Ditto, Metallic . .... -- Colomblan, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 6 per cent..,., 23* Ditto, 1z , 24.. ....... ..... 251 Ditto, Deferred . Dani,h, 3 per cent — !French, 5 per cent. --.. —c. Greek, 18:46, 5 per cent — 'Exchange —l ...c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 37 .French, 3 percent —". —c. Ditto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 21 per cent. . 52a Peruvian, 1825, ti per et. 191 Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ". 101 SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 481 Cheltenham and Great Western (721 paid) 191 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... Ditto New Shares ( paid) ...... Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .. : ... ... 551 Great Vs estern Railway (65 paid) 921 Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 64 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) , fllii- London and Blackwall (25 paid) ...... lid London and South Western Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 4/ Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ...... . 29/ Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... Ditto New Shares (15 paid) ..... ..... 33 IVIORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. The following are the results of A Table of Mortality in the Metrop:dis, shoxing the Number of Deaths from all Causes Itegisteredin the week ending May 7, 1842." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General : Weekly Average 1838-9 .40-1 CAtistE OF DEATH. Total. Four I Four Springs Year; Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 108 183 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 152 147 149 Diseases of the Lungs, and other. Organs of Respiration diseases of the Hea7t and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion .. Diseases of the Kidn,ls, &c. 9 5 4 Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus ' ,Sc c l3 9 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 6 6 Diseases of the Skin, &c Diseases of Uncertain Seat WO .99 104 o'.d Age, or Natural Decay 56 63 69 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intern- per ance Causes not specified 2 . 6 7 Deaths from all causes - -2-- Average Weekly Deaths B7l 912 Population Average Death enu- Weekly in • DISTRICTS. =crated • Deaths the 1541. eek, West—Kensington, St. Geol-ge . ( Hanover-square ), Westm in- Four I Four ster, St. Martin in the Fields, Ye rt.. Springs. St. James North— St. Mary-le-bone, St. Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 156 116 Central—Saint Giles and Saint George, Strand, Clerkenwell, Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon don, West London, City of London ...... ........ ...373,806 188 179 147 East—Shorediteh,Whiteehapel, Bethnal Green, St. George in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392;49; 206 190 185 South—St Saviour, SI. Olave, St. George( Southwark ), Her mond:ey, Newington. Lam beth, Camberwell, Router billow, Greenwich .............438,060 221 210 185 Total 1,870,727 912 147 1 756 It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the bills of Alortality— and the parishes of St. Maryiebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad dington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890, and in June 1841, was 1,870,727. The weekly averrge tor 1838, 1839, 1840, and 1841, was obtained by dividing the deaths it the four years by 208, and the deaths in the four winters by L 2. TEMPERATUUE IN THE WEEKS ENDING April 30. May 7. Highest Lowest 45 42 Daily Mean ................50 56 General Register (Mee, May 12. ltsl2. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. G-LOBE.—The petition of Mr. It Warburton, the late Member for Bridport, presented to the House of • Commons last night by Mr. C. Buller, will strengthen the demands which the country is at length roused to make upon the Legislature, and with which that body seems at length disposed to comply, that some effectual check shall be provided against the progress of the political and moral plague which threatens the destruction of the electoral system, by degrading the franchise to a marketable com modity, and, familiarising the electors with fraud, perjury, and the companion vices which constitute the machinery ,of the system, expose the social system to disruption, by weakening the . ties which unite - society. Mr. Warburton's petition con tains what tray be properly called .a history of elec toral corruption in the mildest forms which it assumes. It originated in an alluSion made to the case of Brid port, in the debate On Mr. Roebuck's motion on Monday last, by the way of oblique reflection, that the "compromise and bribery at Bridport " were not proposed to be comprehended in the list of com promises to be subjected to the ordeal of the Spe cial Committee. Mr. Warburton, . from the hour that he surrendered his seat, is known to have been most anxious to, bring the whole of the cir cumstances` which imposed that necessity upon him before the public—not less from a desire to vindi cate his own character from the imputations with which the malignity of party has industriously as sailed him, than from a sense of what was due to that public, whose cause was injured by the suspicions thus cast upon his integrity. Mr. C. Buller gave notice that on Friday next he would move that Mr. War burton's petition be referred to the Select Com mittee, appointed to investigate and report to the House the evidence relating to the recent com promises of Election Petitions. We cannot ima gine on what grounds the motion can be resisted. If the object for which the Committee is ap pointed be .to discover the sources of corrupt prac tices, which the apprehensions of having exposed, led;to compromises that defeated the ends of justice and infringed the privileges of Parliament, there is in Mr. Warburton's petition a case stated, and sup ported by a series of facts, of the very description best calculated to accomplish the proposed object. It is too late for the House of Commons to shrink back Tom its declared purpose . . There must be no exclu sion of evidence, if that evidence be pertinent to the inquiry. The character of the House is bound up with the result. It will stand or fall in public esti mation, according as faith is kept with the country respecting the expressed determination to deal honestly with it in the matters now forced upon its attention ; nor can that House aftbrd to inqur the consequences of refusing to fulfil the pledge. • STANDARD.—Mr. Warburton, the most emi nent of all political purists, and the founder and con stant master of the sect of the philosophical Radicals —the compounders of the wisdom, benevolence, and piety of Malthus and Torn Paine—Mr. Warburton, the very model of patriot Reformers, appeared last night in the shape of a long petition, confessing a sixteen years' career of political iniquity, and pray ing that he might be put on his trial before Mr. Roebuck's Committee. We do not remember any similar case of self-devotion to justice, except that of the Pope who solemnly condemned himself to be burned for his sins, and he was burned accord ingly, if that story is not indeed apocryphal. How ever, it may lessen the shock of such an astonishing act of virtue as Mr. Warburton's to recollect that there had been reason to suspect a purpose of bringing the affairs of Bridport to light before the mea culpa cry of the lately appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds could be heard or anticipated. Mr. War burton's petition developer some • pleasant pas sages between him and the surviving Liberal Member, Mr. - .Mitchell, but, curiously enough, it does not touch . the .Conservative Member. The compromise appears to have been some thing different from any of those hitherto ex posed—a compromise, not between a candidate and a sitting Member, but a compromise between the two sitting Members, both conscious of very foul cor ruption, and therefore compelled to determine be tween them which should go to the wall. Mr. Warburton seems to think that he was jockied in the affair ; hence his perfect virtue is dashed with a slight shade of earthly feeling—he seems to be very angry with his Liberal friend Mr. Mitchell. If the veteran corruptor of Bridport may be said to re present the .wisdom of Liberalism, Mr. Thomas Slingsby Duncoinbe, of Finsbury, ought; we are sure, to be accepted as a type of its chi valry ; and Mr. Duncombe made last night some dis closures of his private practice, as startling as the revelations of Mr. Warburton. Mr. DuncoMbe prefaced his absurd and mischievous proposition of a declaration, by an acknowledgment that at five elec tions he had expended no less a sum than- thirty-four thousand pounds ! in blibes—in bribes, not to coun teract corruption, but to counteract influence, in four at least of these elections. This is the con- rim SUN. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 14,_1842. fessioc of a Liberal- of —the, -I;LJ - , watcx--,Gf the The fldi;eivimme is elle petiti(-m introducer of the Chartist petition. It is not for "TO T ll2 irbNortnAum TEETCOMMONS O TILE UNITED. any but Mr. Duncombe's creditors (if he k-s any RINGDWI or GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN - PAR ., such(, to inquire where got- the 34,0001., thus LIAIIENT AsSBZ,TEIXD : "'The huinble petition of Heury Warburton of Chelsea, expended, according - to his own account, in sutorning in the county of Ilidd fraud and perjury—in a - war against legitim R ate in- 'ie , " Respectfully showeth 2 -Tha ' t your 'se i petitioner was re fluence ; but looking at the mass of the House of turned a :Memb e r sera. I'llrfia)nent for the borough Commons, we eininet.. suspect that . each. /siendit of of Bridport at thelate esenerel s•leltion in_.lunc last, xncl puncombe's standing has been able, either from resigned his seat, by accepting the Chiltern Ilundrells in his own resources, 'or upon credit, to squander such a t the following September. ~ '• 'stn as ' , 34,0001., :and less, we suppose, would not " That the conduct of your-petitioner, in resigning his secure' a seat in Parliament, or Mr. Duneombe would seat,. lees shortly afterwardeobininented .- on at a public not have been silly enough to expend so much. • Mr. meeting by one of. hoe Mayeety's principal Secretaries of Duncothite'S oWn' experience, therefore, ''would state, and has since been alluded to in public by other . to be decisive against his monstrous assumption, that perms in other places. " That your petitioner ppreeives, from the Votes of Ofthe . whole. IlouSe 600 Members obtained admission Your Honourable M)tteo, that your Henourable House corruption. hes resolied to appoint e Select Committee to inquire lehether corrupt compromises have been entered into in the cases of election pethions presented from H an% ich, Nottingham, Lewes, Penryn and Falmouth, and Read ing, for the purpose of avoiding investigation into gross bribery, alleged to have been practised at the election for the aforesaid towns, and whether such bribery has really taken place. 'That your petitioner ' has been informed that a motion may not improbably he made in your Hon. oureble hionse to extend the propoSed inquiry to the borough of Bridport ; and. believing, as he does, that the circumstances leeding to,. and attending, and consequent upon the resignation of his seat would properly come within the scope of the inquiries of the Select 'Committee to be appointed, he earnestly prays your Honourable House to give that extension to its inquiries, S since he neither-wishes to avoid incurring any blame which your Honourable House may think he de e serves, nor, by reason of mystery and concealment, to be subjected to unjust reflections .on his public character and conduct. - " That your petitioner conceives that 'it is necessary to state some grounds to your Honourable House_ for the prayer of this his petition, that the proposed inquiry should be extended to the borough of Bridport ; and he therefore begs to inform your Honourable House of the following circumstances. " That your petitioner was returned a Member for the said borough, for the first time, at the general election in 1826, and afterwards at the six following successive general elections, the time between the first and • last of 1 such elections being sixteen years. " That the Bridport elections of the years 1826, 1830, and 1831, were uncontested, each political party in the borough returning one Member ; that the elections of 1832, 1834, 1837, and 1841 were all contested, two Mem bers professing the same political opinions with your petitioner, being returned,at each of those elections, ex cepting that of 1834, when one Member of opposite opi nions was returned. " That in 1826, when your petitioner first became connected with the said borough, he found it to be the established custom and practice in that, as it then was in many other ` open boroughs,-' for each successful can didate, a twelvemonth after his return, to pay to every elector who had voted for him, and chose to claim it, head-money,' which, in the ease of the said borough, Nt as 101. for every vote ; and that, though no previous promises to pay were ever required or given, yet pay ment of such sum of 101. was expected ; and the major part of the electors usually claimed payment. And your petitioner begs to state that a twelvemonth after his re turn, he paid into his agent'e hands the sum of 2,000/., which, he has no doubt, was applied in payment of the said head-money. " That in 1830, your petitioner was re-elected -under the expectation that, at the usual time, he would comply with the ancient usage ; but that shortly afterwards, on the introduction into Parliament of a Bill for reforming your Honourable House, the principal political suppor ters of your petitioner in the borough assembled and de termined that the custom of paying ` head-money! should be abolished, a.nd respired your petitioner, on pain of losing their support, • to abstain from paying, the ` head-money' for the previous and any future election ; aed that'your petitioner obeyed their direetion, but de voted a much larger sum than the ` head-money' for his then last election would have amounted to, in the erec tion of a public building for the advantage of the 'town and your petitioner begs to add that, to the credit of the poorer electors at that period, not more than two indivi duals complained that your petitioner had disappointed them ; and that, from and after the period referred to, the practice in the borough of paying heael-money en tirely ceased. "That, at all the above contested elections, your peti tioner was always returned at the head of the poll and by a considerable majority ; and that the return of your petitioner at such elections was always an event, as - nearly as such events can be, morally certain, the con test lying entirely between the two candidates ; and that the body of the electors who, at every election from Is3l to 1841, supported your petitioner, did so from disin terested motives and from approval of his political .prib eiples and conduct; and your petitioner trusts that, if the inquiry he prays for should be granted by your Honour able House, and it should appear, on investigation, that some of the poorer electors have occasionally yielded to the temptation of bribery, your Honourable House will not jndge them severely ; for your petitioner begs to de clare to your Honourabl House that, so far as regards time general conduct towards bins of those erectors who have been his supporters, it has been the revs rse of any thing mercenary or corrupt. "That it has been the ivariable practice of your peti tioner, at all his elections, not.to have any committee to assist in 'promoting his return, nor to interfere himself in any way in the conduct and management of the election ; but to employ one agent for that purpose ; that, with re gard to any second Liberal candidate for the borough, whenever there has been One, the practice of such second candidate has in all cases been; to employ a separate and distinct agent, and also tO have a committee to assist in' promoting his separate return. "'That your petitioner's knowledge of the occurrences at the difibrent elections 'at which he has been returned, is derived almost entirely from the statements made to him by his sole agent ; but so far as your petitioner knows, and, as he believes, no money inducement for a vote in favour of your petitioner,. at either of his said four last elections, was offered, or paid, or promised to any voter, by authority of your petitioners said sole agent ; and he avers that, if ever any such inducement was held out, it was utterly without his knowledge, and would have been disapproved of and strongly reprobated by him. "'That the usual expense of your petitioner's election was from 1,5001. to 1,700/„.of Which sum your petitioner believes that from 700/. to 80e/. was the cost of dinners given after the election ; that from 2001. to 3001. or 400/. was incurred in processions, one ut the entry of the can didate into the borough, .and the other at his chairing, and the remainder in agency costs and in public house expenses preceding the test of the writ. And your pe titioner begs to state that, on the Bth of June, your pe titioner, being then in London, received a letter from his sole agent, stating that your petitioner's expenses at the ensuing election would not exceed the usual average. " That the actual amount which your petitioner's agent stated to your petitioner. that lie had incurred on .your petitioner's account s and which your petitioner paid. as stein as demanded, was 2,1661 175. Id., and that the extra cost between the usual average arose, as Your petitioner is assured and believes (and is ac c ounted your in the bills), from breakfasts which were given to the electors on the morning of the polling. That your petitioner was apprehensive that this electors' breakfast would come within the laW of treating that he was not consulted before-hand respecting it ; • that ho did not know of such breakfast at the time ; that he believes, and has been advised, that if he had been petitioned against, -and sech-breakfast had been brought home to him, he might have been unseated in consequence, by -being legally guilty of treating through his agent. That the candidates to represent the borough, be sides your petitioner, at the late general election, were Thomas Alexander Mitchell, Esq., and Alexander Dundas Baillie Cochrane, Esq., neither of whom had ever before appeared as a candidate at the election for the borough ; that the former candidate professed the same political opinions with your petitioner, and the latter candidate opposite opinions. " That the former of these gentlemen, as your peti tioner hits reason to know, determined to become a can didate for the borough at the next vacancy, so long ago as in May, 1839 ; and was induced to do so, not in con sequence of any communication made to him by your petitioner (with whom he had no acquaintance) but of his own accord, in consequence of a commercial con- IleN ion of long standing he had with some manufacturers in the borough. " That, from a correspondence which (with the ex ception of one letter) your petitioner had, for the first tittle, the opportunity of reading in February last, your petitioner believes, that' there existed, on the part of a person in London, hereinafter named, at that time in direct communication with Mr. Mitchell, a deliberate intention of carrying Mr. _Mitchell's electi on by force of money. That your petitioner is confident that if the Select Committee of Inquiry be granted, such fact will be proved. • "That on the 14th of May in la,st year, when a speedy dissolution of Parliament app eared probable, your votes, he • r t maority for any second- peti his agent at Brid tilivaatsthineformei success c, of a second Liberal candidate could by letter from , Making allowance days subsequently j to su c h l etter, name l y, for Liberal could not exceed foil y t : Brid port, tt)i-jooltt',lttr l : ie confidently expected t ; fohat all" That t 11 e t h d r o e u e b d t f a u y l an Monday the 17th of May, a letter from your peti tioner's agent was delivered to your petitioner, in the lobby of your Hon. House, by two gentlemen, agents of Mr. 'Mitchell, stating that- a difference had arisen between Mr. Mitchell and those a gents, and requesting your pe titioner to endeavour to mediate between Mr. Mitchell and them ; and that, in c onsequence of such application, your petitioner on the following day saw Mr. Mitchell, for the first time since your petitioner knew of his being a candidate ; and, i n the course of that interview - , your petitioner informed Mr. Mitchell of his estimated very narrow majority, and warned him, in case he should continue to be a candidate, carefully to avoid having any difference with his agents, and advised him to weigh well the discretion of continuing, a candidate under those cir • cumstances. "'That AB-. Mitchell had no further consultation with your petitioner on the subject of their previous confe rence ; but, on the 19th of in an address to the Bridport electors, an nounced his intenti on o f b ecom i n g a candidate, and on the 218 t per ! scnOlY visited the borough. That, on the same day, an active canvass began in favour of Mr. Cochrane, fuel, on this- following day, • a similar canvass for Mr. Mitchell. • " That Mr. Mitchell's first canvass was completed on the evening of the 26th of Mae' ; when, it appearing to •Mr. Mitchell's agents that the suecess•of such canvass was not sufficiently decisive 'to justify them in calcu lating upon a certain majority, they came to the deter mination of buying votes, and acted on that determina eon froii:ethe 27th to die 30th of May inclusiVe, Mr. Mitchell and his agent,. Mr. Matthew ilutchinson, jun., )eing at that time m the borough. ELECI 10N COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) CORK. The Committee chosen to try -the merits of the peti tion against the return f . or the county of Cork met this day at half-past one o'clock,' in the Committee-room, No. 1, G: Hayter, Esq., in the Chair. - Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and Mr. Montague Smith appeared as Counsel for the petitioners ; Mr. Austin and Mr. A. Stephens for the sitting Members. Mr. Sergeant Wriminitam opened the case for the pe 7 titioners, Mr. Leader and Mr. Longfield. •At the last election for the county of Cork, there were. • four candidates •in the field,. Mr. Leader and Mr. Long field, the petitioners, and Mr. E. B. Roche and Mr. Barry ; but shortly before the day of no mination Mr. Barry withdrew, and Mr. O'Connell took his place. The election took place on the 12th of July, 1841. and was to continue for five days. The polling commenced on the 13th of July, and the result of the first day's poll was .for the sitting Members 399, and for the petitioners 387. He gave these numbers, be cause they might be of importance in the consideration of the question the Committee had to determine. During the day of polling, and for days previous, the petitioners with drew, in consequence of what came to their knowledge; the polling on the part of the sitting Members, however, proceeded, and at the close of the poll the numbers were —for the sitting Members, 1,274 ; and in favour of the petitioner, Mr. Leader, 406, a few stray voters having . recorded their votes in his favour.. After the first day's polling .the sitting Members were accordingly returned,. and it was that return he now sought to set aside. The grounds of the petition were, that an organised system of agitation, menace, violence, - and outrage was acted upon .during the election for Cork, and that several electors were deterred from voting in consequence of such a system, so that the freedom of election was entirely destroyed. The Learned Gentleman went on to say . that a very old . statute, almost coeval with the. existence of Parliament, was passed to preserve the freedom of election. That was the statute of 3d of Edward First,—chap. 5, which enacted - that no force of arms or menace should be allowed at elections. . The Learned Gentleman then went on to detail particular cases of • violence, and said that sufficient voters having remained unpolled they must be presumed. to vote for the petitioners till the con trary was shown. The poll-books were produced by Mr. Ware, the Clerk of the Peace for the county Cork.. Mr. Barry; • the High Sheriff for Cork at the late election, was called to prove the protests that were en tered by the petitioners at the election. . Mr. AUSTIN was proceeding to cross-examine - the -witness, but my,. Sergeant Wrangham objected.-- The room was then cleared, and the Committee de cided that the cross-examination Might be proceeded with. The Committee then adjourned. till eleven o'clock un Monday. FLINT (BOROUGH). . • The proceedings on the petition against the return of Sir R. W. B. Butkeley were very speedily terminated. The Committee met at eleven (this day), and proceeded to the investigation of the allegations of the petition. These were very well supported byeanclusive proof, and 87 votes being proved to be disqualified, the sitting Meinber was declared :o have been unduly elected. 't Tirat the•:,aid liutettinzon, jutlior, quitted tbc , borough on _Monday, dune the 7th, and returned to the borough — on — SM - idaY; - June the 13th - and that on Monday, the 14th, the buying of votes, by order of Mr. Mitchell's agents, was resumv.l, and was continued during the remainder of that "That Mr. Mitchell .continued at .Bridport until the 2d of June, when be quitted it,. scat rub% to the borough on the)444, and remaining , there- until the Ist of July, two days after the election. " That your. petitioner _remained in . London until Monday, the 21st of ;runes on the-.evening or. ,i , hiCh. day your petitioner entered the borciugh. " That, from the . 2:ld to the 28th of June. inclusive, the titne.iif your petitioner was busily occupied in can vassing the elettors in the, company of his agent, and another elector acting as an. assistant canvasser. "That in the course of this canvass, your petitioner's agent having incidentally observed in conversation, that be had consented to .allow such assistant canvasser to aid Mr. Mitchell in his canvass, and also that during Mr. Mitchell's absence from the. borough, he (your pe titioner's agent.) had lent the sum of 1501. to an agent of Mr. Mitchell, your petitioner became, for the first time, aware that he might be thus implicated in the proceedings of Mr. Mitchell ; and as the rumour was _current in the town that Mr. Mitchell's agents were having recourse to bribery, your petitioner expressed to his own said agent his regret that a common can vasser l.ad been so lent in aid of Mr. Mitchell, and that money had been lent to _Mr. Mitchell's agent ; and also your petitioner's fear that such connexion between him self and Mr. Mitchell might endanger the return of your petitioner. " That, at the said election, your petitioner was re terned by a majority of 60, and Mr. Mitchell by a ma jority of 38, your petitioner receiving 304 votes, Mr. Mitchell 282, and Mr. Cochrane 244,555 electors having voted out of 594 on the Register, and 272 electors having split their vutes between your petitioner and Mr. Mitchell. . . " That, in the month of July, disputes having arisen between Mr. Mitchell and his (Mr. Mitchell's) agents, respecting the settlement, of election accounts, your peti tioner was requested by one of such agents to intercede with Mr. Mitchell for theitadjustment and payment, which your petitioner consented to do, and subsequently did. That in the course of such agent's conversation with your petitioner, that agent intimated that the ques tioning of Mr. Mitchell's return might. involve also the return of your petitioner. " That your petitioner, on the occasion of such his communication with Mr. Mitchell, repeated his warn ings to Mr. Mitchell of the peril he incurred by giving offence to his agents ; and he informed Mr. Mitchell of the hints thrown out by one of them that the entire re turn might be questioned. " That part of the balance of account descended of Mr. Mitchell by his agent, was paid to that agent in a manner offensive. to him; and a promise was given to your petitioner's agent by Mr. Matthew Hutchinson, jun. (an agent of Mr. Mitchell), that the remainder should be paid before the meeting of Parliament in August ; but w hich promise was not kept.. " That, on Monday, the 24th of, August, your peti tioner's agent arrived in London with information, that. the agents of Mr. Mitchell had placed in the hands of Mr. Cochrane's agent documentary and other proofs, es tablishing in a conclusive.manner the fact of an exten- . sive system of bribery having been practised to return Mr. Mitchell as Member for the borough. " That your petitioner thereupon.. instructed his agent to ascertain, in the best way he could, what would be the. effect of these disclosures on the legality of your peti tioner's return ; .when your petitioner's agent returned with the intelligence that there were proofs in the pos session of Mr. Cochrane's agent of your petitioner's agent having lent the use of a person in his employ as a can vasser to Mr. Mitchell, and also evidence of that person, while acting for Mr. Mitchell, bribing certain electors to vote for Mr. Mitchell with - money borrowed of your peti tioner's agent by Mr.' Mitchell's agent. . "That, coupling these facts with the further fact that most of the voters so bribed for Mr. Mitchell had split their votes between your 'petitioner and Mr. Mitchell, your petitioner could not but be apprehensive that though himself guiltless of the bribery committed by the agent of another candidate, nevertheleSs he might, in a legal sense, by the law of Parliament, he implicated in Mr. Mitchell's proceedings, so far as concerned 'the validity of your petitioner's return. " That your petitioner further ascertained that Mr. Cochrane was principally minded to unseat Mr. Mitchell, and was desirous of not unnecessarily questioning the re turn of your petitioner, or subjecting your petitioner to useless annoyance and expense ; and that., if Mr. Mit chell would resign his seat, and the political supporters of your petitioner and Mr. Mitchell would consent to re turn Mr. Cochrane, no petition would be presented against either of the then sitting Members. "That your petitioner's agent at once communicated these fi a -.to Mr. Mitchell, suggesting to Mr. Mitchell s p that, ass and his agents had both conceived the execu tion of t_isi bribery and directed it, and as they were his agents and not your petitioner's, who had disclosed the secrets of their employer, and as it was his refusal to pay MS election accounts, and his neglect of the warnings given him by your petitioner, that had led to that dis closure, it was Just that Mr. Mitchell should resign his seat, and not your petitioner ; and other reasons were urged upon Mr. Mitchell, arising out of the conditions on which he was supported by your petitioner's friends in the borough, viz., that your petitioner's seat was to be the first secured. . , ... • . : "That various representations to the same effect were' made by your petitioner's agents to Mr. Mitchell and his • agents without effect ; and various personal communica tions took place, the particulars of which your petitioner is ready and anxious to Make known to your Honourable House. • " That, after two or three days thus spent in negotia tion with Mr. Mitchell and his; agents, your petitioner, fearing that many of his .old' friends and supporters in the borough were compromised more deeply in Mr. Mit chell's transactions than your . petitioner was aware of, your petitioner suggested to his own agent that he, yeur petitioner, should resign his seat for the purpose of saving those friends from danger, and he directed his agent with that view, to see the agent of Mr. Cochrane, and report to him, your petitioner, the result ; which overtures ended in two meetings, which your petitioner and his agent had with Mr. Cochrane and his agent, on the 26th and 27th of August, for the. purpose of arrang ing the terms and conditions on which your petitioner should resign his seat ; but before the conclusion of any such arrangement., information was given by your peti tioner's agent to Mr. Mitchell, that your petitioner was then negotiating on his own. behalf, and your petitioner's agent distinctly and repeatedly informed Mr. Mitchell's agent, that one seat must be abandoned to secure their common partisans from danger. That the conditions which your petitioner enteredinto and stipulated to perform towards Mr. Cochrasc were the following :—That at the end of the fourteen days allowed for presenting election petitions, he, your pe titioner, would accept the Chiltern Hundreds, unless Mr. Mitchell, within that time, should agree to do so ; and further, in case of the vacancy to be created by your petitioner, or Mr. Mitchell's resignation, neither your petitioner, nor his agent, nor their mutual friends in the borough, should oppose Mr. Cochrane's return, and that so far as regards that part of the understanding, your petitioner begs to say, that his and his agent's under standing has been carried into effect, for that he resigned his seat on the Bth of September, and that Mr. Coch rane was elected and returned on the 15th of that month, and that on the 27th of September your petitioner re, ceived from Mr. Cochrane's agent a letter, containing the following voluntary acknowledgment : ' " ' Allow me to take this opportunity of expressing, on behalf of Mr. Cochrane and myself, the deep sense we entertain of the honourable and straightforward con duct which has marked the whole of the proceedings of yourself and Mr. Nicholetts in this matter.' _And to your petitioner's agent, on the same day, a letter was addressed by Mr. Cochrane's agent, froin which the fol lowing is an extract :--' AlloWS me to take this oppor tunity of expressing to you how deeply both Mr. Coch rane and I feel ourselves indebted to. you and Mr. War burton for the honourable, straightforward, and ener getic manner in which you have carried out our London arrangements.' " That it being stated at the meeting of the 26th of August, that no stipulation could legally or, safely be entered into that would affect Mr. Mitchell's seat, your petitioner .requested Mr. Cochrane to take no further proceedings on the petition, against that gentleman's re turn ; to which Mr. Cochrane replied, that it was his fixed determination to unseat Mr. Mitchell, and that he could not entertain the request made to him by your petitioner. " That the conditions which Mr. Cochrane entered into and stipulated, with regard to your petitioner, were, that no petition should be presented against his (your petitioner's) return ; that his letter of application for the Chiltern Hundreds should not be made known or used before the expiration of the fourteen days allowed for presenting election petitions, and should be returned to him in case Mr. Mitchell shOuld, within that time, agree to vacate his seat, by making a similar application ; that the petition against Mr. Mitchell's return, which Mr. Cochrane declared he would not abandon, should be pro secuted in such a way as to save the legal liabilities and reputation of your petitioner's friends ; that on this matter your petitioner was informed by Mr. Cochrane and his agent that reliance must be placed on their honour. "That on the 7th of September, the day before your petitioner resigned his seat, on his expressing his doubts to Mr. Zochrane and his agent, whether they would be able to comply with the last stated condition ; Mr. Cochrane's agent stated, that of evidence to prove Mr. Mitchell's bribery he h'sd such an ' embureas de riehesses; that he would have no difficulty in proving the bribery, and at the same time saving the reputation of your petitioner's friends. That in further elucidation of the nature of the per formance intended by Mr. Cochrane and his agent, in part of the above compromise, your petitioner begs to give an extract from a letter, dated the 27th of Septem ber, addressed by Mr. Cochrane's agent to your peti tioner's agent : " ' I need not assure you that, except to carry out the arrangement for the benefit of Mr. Warburton, and your friends as well as his, and in strict conformity with the honourable understanding, between us, Mr. Cochrane and I have no wish to take any steps whittever ; and that, therefore, we feel ourselves 'entirely in. your and Mr. Warburton's hands, to act as you may direct, as to the actions and petition for Mr. Warburton's benefit. You will see Mr. Warburton's' very correct and honourable feelings towards us in this matter, and all I beg of you, for his sake, is, not . hastily to'decide on steps as to Hut chinsen's actions, &c., which may have the effect at last to leave Mr. 'Wt rburtOn the only sufferer.' " That, at the instigation of the above-mentioned Mr. Matthew Hutchinson, ,jun., 'aspetition had been got up in the borough against the return of Mr. Cochrane, on an allegation of bribety Committed by Mr. Cochrane, when a candidate at the electiOn in June ; which peti tion was to. bepresented to the Hotlse - on the 28th of LYME REGIS. The Committee continued the scrutiny this day into the votes to which the objections were made on the ground of removal. The vote of a man named John Lakey occupied nearly the whole day. Mr. Talbot argued in support of the\ vote, and Mr. Cockburn for the objection. The room was cleared, and the Com• mittce decided that the vote should be struck off. This leaves the numbers equal on each side. The Committee immediately adjourned till eleven o'clock on Monday. BRISTOL SUG AR MARKET, MAY 13.—We have had a fair show of sugar of all descriptions, and a good amount of business has been transacted ; but the London market having continued to decline, there was less disposition to purchase at the close of the week. Prices are still too high for the court try buyers to have confidence in them. The arrivals since our last are—Feliza, 6,914 mats; William Thompson, 300 hhds. ; Fanny, 460 hhds.; Hornby, 419 hhds. ; Triumph, 200 hhds. ; Ajax, 500 hhds. ; George, 580 hhds.--Brtstol Mercury. Sir Robert Peel and Lady Peel left town this morning by the Birmingham 11 o'clock Railway train for their seat, Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. The Right Ron. Baronet returns to London on Wednesday next. RAILWAY RETURNS. We extract from the Railway 2vt!gazine the sums re ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britain tor the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each. The return includes the money received for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer chandize : Week Miles Total. Name of Railway. ended Opened: E. s. d. Slay 7 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 1,214 711 6 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,662 4 1 Apr.3o Brandling Junction 25 896 0 2 May 6 Chester and Birkenhead .. 7 Dundee and Arbroath ..,. 164 208 12 6 8 Eastern Counties 174 930 18 3 . 7 Edinburgh and Glasgow 7 Glasgow and Ayr . ... 7 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 224 762 10 3 7 Grand Junct., Chestei& Crewe 113 9,335 0 7 7 Great North of England 45 1,3'21 15 8 8 Great Western 9 Hayle 7 11011 and Selby ?S'' 3 1 861 19 8 7 Lancaster & Preston Junction 204 472 10 2 6 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,451 17 11 7 London and 8irmingham.......1125 • 17,111 9 11 12 London and Blackwall 7 - London and Brighton . 404 2,550 5 3 7 Ditto Shoreham- Branch 54 285 5 10. 10 London and Croydon 12 L , ndon and Greenwich 3 739 , 0 6 8 London and South Western 5 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 548 12 115 9 Manchester & Birmingham 7 Alanchester and Leeds 7 Midland Counties 575 2,650 7 0 7 Newcastle and Carlisle 604 1,378 7 8 5 Newcastle and North Shields 7 348 8 6 8 Northern and Eastern .. 304 1,226 6 7 7 North Midland 6 North Union ... 7 Preston and Wyre 194 176 11 1 9 Sheffield and Manchester— 7 251 9 0 8 Ulster 7 York and North Midland 2B 1,534 13 5 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF C OMJV O.A . S., May 13. Mal/PORT ELECTION. Mr. C. BULLER said, he rose according to notice, to present the petition of -Mr. Warburton, detailing the circumstances of the late election for the borough of Bridport, together with the resignation of his (Mr. Warburton's , seat. He (Mr. Buller) had given notice to the two sitting Members, on Wednesday, that he in tended to present the petition yesterday, and that on this day he should discuss that, petition, and that he should then request the Honourable Member for Bath to include- Bridport in.. his Committee .of Inquiry.—(Hear, hear.) . There being no House yesterday it was impossible for him to present the peti tion, and he could therefore now only preseut the peti tion without taking a vote upon it, as it -was impossible to take a vote upon a petition of which the house had no knowledge, but he should do so the first opportunity after Whitsuntide. llc would, however, state the outline of the petition. The petitioner stated that his resigning his seat had been subject to considerable comment, and had been more particularly commented upon by one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State -at• it public. dinner ,in Bridport. It stated that, in 1826, when he became a candidate, it was the custom in the borough :.f Bridport to pay after the election 10/. to each voter, under the denomination of head money, but that no, previous promises had been made • that every gentleman o f honour felt himself' bound ' to pay this money ; that 2,0001. were paid at his first election ; that in 1830 ; money ..was paid on the same understanding ; that after ,the Reform Bill it was hoped a better system would be introduced ; the petitioner begged that from consideration _for tht poorer voters,. the House would not go toe severely into •a general scrutiny Of their conduct in this respect. He stated that•the usual expenses of the election wereifrotn 1,5001. to 1,7001., of which 100/. consisted of the cost of dinners after the election, and 4001. for the expenses of the processions.; that he was assured by his agents, that the expenses paid were only the usual expenses, and that large sums were paid for breakfasts at the election ; that Mr. Mitchell became a candidate in 1839, and that from some correspondence which he saw, he understood the friends of Mr. Mitchell expressed their determination to carry that election by bribery, and that such facts could be proved, and that Mr. Mitchell stood and was returned. The Hon. and Learned Member then proceeded to read part of the petition, but in so low a tone as to render it almost impossible to catch a single word in the gallery ; we, however, understood him to say that the petition stated that as Mr. Mitchell had conducted the bribery, it was only just that -he. should resign his seat ; that the seat . was resigned on . the. Bth of September, and Mr. Cochrane was declared to be duly returned ; that he understood that it was Mr. Cochrane's intention to attempt to unseat Mr. Mitchell, but that - Mr. Coch rane's agent at the same time stated that cure should be taken not to compromise the petitioner in any ruanner. 'The petitioner then went into a minute history of the transactions respecting the election, and subsequently stated that Mr. Warburton's expenses at the last election had amounted to 2,150/., Mr. Mitchell's to 3,200/, and Mr. Cochrane's to a considerable sum, the exact amoun: ~f which was unknown to the petitioner. The petitioneii concluded by praying that his petition might be referred to the Select Committee, to be appointed i nvest i g ate the compromiseS which had taken place, be f'Ure which Committee the petitioner would be willing tc attend to give every information in. his pOwenWlear.) September, the day following the date of the letter last referred to. - , .!.T.1aat,.0A, the morniag of the 26th of September, Mr. Cochrane and 1 - lg - agent - ea - Ned `on - your -- pt titionep r ata asked him to be a eonsenting party to the withdrawal of the petition against Mr. Mitchell, as, in that caae, the petition against Mr.•Coehrane would not . be presented t which proposition your petitioner said ba should refer to the consideration of his friends. "That, on the 29th of September, your petitioner ad dressed a letter to Mr. Cochrane's agent, stating that your petitioner'had referred the - proposal of the termer day to his I.Ondon agent, to - whom he .(your petitioner) had stated the view he took of that proposal, in the lel lowing terms That, in my judgment, I stand in that. position,' that no appeal made to me, as to what Mr. Cochrane shall or ought to do, can with propriety be answered by me, If I advise one - course, my friends will consider me as abandoning them, and as sanctioning the most monstrous injustice ; if I advise another course, it may be imputed to me that I have conspired to turn Mr. Mitchell out of his seat ; that to Mr. Cochrane and his • advisers, therefore, I must leave the undivided responsi bility of determining on their course of action.' " That, on the Ist of October, Mr. Cochrane 's agent called on your petitioner, to state that he had received from the agent of Mr. Mitchell, a proposal that his client should resign his seat at the end of two years ; and Mr. Cochranes agent begged to know whether your peti tioner would consent to that 'proposal ; to which your petitioner answered that he would not. " That, on the 4th of October, Mr. Cochrane and his agent again proposed to your petitioner that he should consent to the abandonment of the petition against Mr. Mitchell's return; and if he would not consent to that proposition, that he should avow himself the prosecutor of the petition, and pay the costs of prosecuting it ; both of which proposals your petitioner declined. " That on or about the 24th of January it was signi- fled to your petitioner's agent, by Mr. CoChrane's agent, that Mr. Mitchell's agent had intimated the willing. ness of Mr. Mitchell 1 7 0 refer all matters in dispute to arbitration ; and to that proposal Mr. Cochrane's agent begged to know whether your petitioner would consent ; to which your petitioner replied that he would, if the. arbitrator were to be empowered to examine him and Mr. Mitchell, and were to regulate his decision by the rule of hOnour as between gentlemen ; and your peti tioner is informed that, on your petitioner's answer being communicated to Mr. Mitchell, he, Mr. Mitchell, disavowed having ever authorised such a proposal to be made. _ _ . "'That various actions for penalties, and indictments, and a criminal information for bribery have been brought, in the course of these proceedings. as your petitioner is informed, in the one part, by Mr. Mitchell or his agents, to induce Mr. Cochrane to abandon the petition against Mr. Mitchell's return ; and on the other, by Mr. Coe.ll- rtme or his agents, to induce Mr. Mitchell to resign his seat ; but that all these proceedings against Mr. Mitchell, and . his friends and agents, were put an end to by Mr. Mitchell's pecuniary compromise of the dispute between himself and the agents who had disclosed his secrets. "That, from the beginning of February in the pre sent year, to the middle of March, various applications were made by Mr. Cochrane's agent to your petioner's agent to furnish evidence in support of the petition against Mr. Mitchell, on the allegation that the evidence of bribers', in the possession of Mr. Cochrane's agent, was insuilicient fl , r the purpose of rendering the oppo sition to that petition frivolous and vexatious ; end ulti mately a letter was received from Mr. Cochrane's agent by your .petitioner's agent, stating that if the evidence minima was not supplied by a given day, Mr. Cochrane would abandon the petition. That your petitioner's agent, doubting the intention of Mr. Cochrane's agent to prosecute the petition, but not choosing that he should have' he plea of abandoning it for want of evidence. promised to furnish the proofs required, and did furnish them by the appointed day : but the day before that appointed for delivering the proof:. which latter was the 21st of March, .your petitioner was informed, by a letter from Mr. Cochrane, that he had abandoned tin' petition. and on the same day, viz., the said :list of March, the petition against Mr. Mitchell's return, and the petition against Mr. Cochrane's return. were both withdrawn, and the proofs furnished by. your petitioner's agent were returned unopened. • " That in the course of obtaining the said proofs, your petitioner's London agent discovered circumstances which were not communicated to your petitioner until the 2.)tit of March ; and which, if your petitioner • had knout n at the time of his said compromise with Mr. Cochrane, would have induced your petitioner not to enter into such compromise. " That your petitioner's London agent discovered that, in about nine cases, the canvasser whom Mr. Mitchell !gad borrowed of your petitioner's Bridport agent, had been directed by Mr. Mitchell's agents to offer bribes for votes to be given to your petitioner as Well as Mr. Mitchell ; and that, in nine other Mies, or thereabouts, the said canvasser had been employed to offer bribes for votes to be given to Mr. Mitchell alone. " And it further appeared that the said Matthew Hutchinson, jtm., the agent of Mr. Mitchell, not liking to deposit moneys in the hands of Mr. Mitchell's Brid port agent, had made your petitioner's agent the depo sitor atile moneys the said - Matthew Hutchinson, jun., might have occasion for during the election ; and that orders for the payment of various sums of money were given and paid by your petitioner's agent, which sums were caused to be applied by the said Matthew Hutch inson, jun., in bribery. " That your petitioner believes that the gross cost of the said last contest for the borough of Bridport, in June, 1841, exceeded that of all former ele?tion contests since the Reform Act ; that the said Thomas Alexander Mitchell expended 3,200/.., or thmabout, besides other sums laid out on his behalf by his agent, Matthew Hutchinson, jun. ; and that the said Alexander Dundas Bailey Cochrane also expended a considerable sum, in amount unknown to Your petitioner ; and that further considerable turns of money have been paid for legal proceedings, and for cemproinise of actions end indict ments by the said Messrs. Cochrane and Mitchell. • " That your petitioner, on coming to the knowledge of these latter circumstances, which it appeared to him re quired investigation, saw the more reason to regret that the petition against Mr. Mitchell's return had been with drawn, since under an Act of the last Parliament (4th and sth Victoria, cap. 57), his, your petitioner's personal conduct, as a candidate, might, before the Committee ap pointed to try that return, have been submitted to strict investigation, and might. have been reported on by that Committee to your Honourable House. "That your petitioner humbly trusts that in the fore going recital of facts he has slated sufficient grounds to justify him in praying your Honourable House, to refer the same to the Select Committee to be appointed to in quire into similar compromises, bribery, nod erection corruption, " That your petitioner and his Bridport agent, Edwin Nicholetts, and your petitioner's London agent, Joseph Parkes, will prove to your Hon. House the above facts, and unreservedly communicate to your Hon. House all I documents and correspondence relating thereto. "And your petitioner will ever pray, Sze.' The Hon. and Learned Meniber concluded by expressing his intention to move that the petition be printed and circulated with the Votes. Mr. COCHRANE would not then enter into the parti culars of what had occurred at thelast Bridport election. He had yesterday received front the llon. Member for Liskeard a note, stating that it was his intention to pre sent the petition that evening ; but he had not antici pated that the Honourable Member would have taken that. opportunity of making such statements as he had done, without concluding with a motion. He (Mr. Cochrane) would not then enter into any expla nation with reference to what had passed at Bridport at the last election; but he felt great satisfaction, that , as regarded the questions between himself and Mr. War burton, he should have an opportunity next week of lay ing' a statement fully before the House. After that statement should have been made, he (Mr. Cochrane) felt satisfied that no imputation could rest on him, and that not even the breath of slander could tarnish his character. If be (Mr. Coch rane) had acted at all erroneously, his error had arisen front over-sensitiveness and over-regard for the interests of Mr. Warburton.—(Cheers.) If be had acted as many others would have acted under similar circumstances, he would nut have been subjected to the harassment front which he had suffered since lie had become the representative of that borough. He should avail himself a another opportunity of laying before that House a full and entire answer to the peti tion which had just been presented ; and, at the same time, tie would express his conviction that that answer would add to his own character as a gentleman anti mutt of hOilUilr. Ile felt assured that it would reflect no cre dit upon the Hon. Gentleman who had signed the peti tien.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. MUCIIELL said that he had not been aware that it was the intention of the lion. Member for Lis keard to read any portion of the petition. and he had not m that 'account taken care to be, present during its presentation. He had only heard a portion of its con tents ; and he could not, therefore, undertake to an swer its various allegations on tl occasion. lie would, however, take that . opportunity of giving his di rect and positive denial of the few Words which he had heard, at the end of the extracts read by the lion. Member for Liskeard, to the effect that a gentleman, of the name of 'Hutchinson, had acted as his (Mr. Mit chell's) agent in spending his money at the elec tion. To this assertion he gave an explicit denial. and he could not help expressing his surprise that it had been made by Mr. Warburton.---(Hear, hear.) He would, on a future occasion, answer more fully the alle gations contained in the petition, and he would not, therefore, allude to the matter any farther on that oc casion. Mr. C. BULLER was proceeding to Say that the Hon. Gentlemen could not complain of the course he had taken on that occasion, when the I lon.G entleman was interrupted hy cr i es of " Order, order." Ile then moved that the petition should be printed and circulated with the Votes, for the use of Members of the House ; and gave notice that on that day week he should call the attention of the House to the subject of the petition. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. YORKE gave notice, that on the House going into Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Act. he would move that the Commissioners be not empowered to enforce any separation between man and wife. ELECTION PETITIONS. Sir J. WALSH gave notice that on Friday next he would move that, in the order made by the House, for the appointment of a Select Committee, to inquire respecting certain alleged compromises of elec tion petitions, the words " and whether such bribery has taken place in the aforesaid terms," he struck out, and the inquiry be confined to the object s indicated by the previous notice of the . Hon. Member for Bath, aid embraced by the motion which be first submitted to the House. Mr, SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice, that on the motion that the Poor-law Commission Bill be read a second time, he would move as an amendment, that it be read that dad' six mouths, The Hon. Member further gave notice, ,that on the motion for the third read*: of the Income-tax Bill, he would move an amendment to the following ffect :—" That as by the existing laws a large:dos 'of the - -poptilation of this country are pre cluded fruit votitief,ifltembers of-Parliament, and COT. rapt practities had been` proved to an unprecedented ex prooktring thq• -return o.l' MK-Liber,i to thr- !km, k , t . Commons, anti as front both these cause 6 that liotic t- , mld not he considered a fair rtprk.sentativt7 ,:f Atc people, it was therefore unjust and a violation the principlcs of the Constitution, that wiz system of tax:- allot) Atould be imposrd by a 1/onse ei botualsorts,,o stitutod." Mr. RICARDO gave notice, that on the tnrcting of 'the House, he would put a question to -her Majesty's Government, relative to their intentions with regard to the renewal of the Bank Charter, Mr. FERNAND gave notice, that eu the 23th instans he would move for a copy of all the eerrespondent which had passed•between t he Poor-law Commissioners and the Guardians of a Union in Yorkshire relative to the granting of out-door relief. PAYMENT OF W..NOES COMMITTEE, Mr. FERRAN D moved that Mr. U. W'. Wood be di, charged from attending on the Payment of Wages Com mittoe. Mr. GREENE said, that if he were not mistaken, House negatived the motion for putting Mr. Wood tept - gl the Committee.. Air: WOOD said that he believed. his ran F;.} t on the list --(Hear, and a laugh.) Mr. FERRAND moved that the aame of Sir Ben. Jambi Hall be added to the list of the same Committee. Sir GEORGE GREY objected to a departure from the rule, that no more than fifteen Members should be appointed to any Committee, without good reason being; unsigned.—(hear, hear.) Mr. HUME also protested against the proposed de. porture from the rule ; anti the motion was withdraun. POOR-LAWS. Colonel SIBTLIORP gave notice that on the third reading of the Poor-law Bill he would move an amend meat to the effect, that from and after the passing of the Bill, the Board of Commissioners and the Assistant- Commissioners he discontinued, and that the Guardians of the Poor have the sole management of the poor in their respective unions. SYRIA. Lord PALMERSTON . said he wished to put a. qv, i tion to the Right Hon. Baronet opposite relative to a. pe culiar circumstance which had 'occurred in - ava nection with Syria. He had been informed _ that within the last ten days accounts had been received which stated that Omar wbo had been the subject of observation in that House a few nights before, bad kidnapped and sent to Con stantinople five or seven Chit4fs of the. Druseq., lie • wished to know if her Majesty's Gorent inent had received accounts of such trtuisaTtieert. He would wish to ask another question, hut he NViZA save the Right Hon. Baronet would not answer it ;hut stilt he might expres.s a hope that if this circuruliance had happened, that the Government would tiud, in the uatnre of the case, sufficient grounds for assisting anti affording their'good offices in favour of the perons who had been apprehended in a treacherous manner, and removed iron; their country. Ile did not what the intentions or the Goi-erument were; be simply wished to-know whether the Government had any official information of the ei reit mstauce. . Sir RoßEwr PEEL sjdd, that depatchels had been br)light from Sviiis, which t!,.Aitaiiied the intelligeneo Oat live of the i)ruses bad been apprehended by Omar Paclia, under these eireumstanee:s ; they were 'invited to slinr with Omar Paella, and they accepted the invita6on,, under the natural impression that the Piteha . klispo4itiou was friendly. When they rove apprdiended they were not sent toVonstuntiuple, but to niyrunt. Thoir de,s putcheA proved that the report l iwas not w lGlitliit 2 Ile bxel better nut refer to the proceedings or Orear Paella, ups ill. whose appointment lie lusei oh ger v ed the other night. further than to say, that these i>arties•had ht• e n invited t o dine in a friendly manner, and were then .api,rehended. Re certainly might say' that her 'Majesty's Government were neee,:sarily limited' in their information respecting their eir...untstauer , .s, and lip would stale that every rspre,i,enta Lion in favotix e the:it, r. Tuts wt add be glade by th e G ov erinnent. Dr. DMIZING said, le, had understood the lion. Baronet to say ltioe other night, that an engaf.;.e , ;nen% existed between this ;overtime:a_ and the Port- , !, -for removal of Uttar PEEL slid not say that ;my engagement es-- isteil, but that a communication had been had with thu Porte, in respect to the propriety of re moving the Paella. That communication had hid the Government to hope that such would be the catc. They had not heard anything further respecting it, butt this latter circumstance had confirmed them In their opinion, that the appointment of the Pitch& Was not judicious,. NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYXI F. , . flox. Nlw.tritat moved that-the Speaker do issue It writ for the election of a Burgess to serre in Parliament for the borough of Neweaqle-under-Lyme. Lord .1. RUSSELL said that 'it was better that tho writ should be suspended until the evidence addueed be fore the Committee was laid upon the tablo. The HON. MEMBER then withdrew his motion, and moved that the evidence . be accordingly laid before the Route.—Agreed to. 11r. F. PRENCII wished to ask the Right lion. Gentleman the . Chancellor of the Exchequer whether any arrangements were made with regard to the pay ment, of small sums of money title for four months in (p a r- Lain parishes in Ireland, The CIINNCELLOII of the EXCREgrER was lAn derstood to say that the matter did .not rest with tint Government lint with the Castle of Dublin. DIsTRESS IN THE Col:Nprzy. Mr. IL YORKE begged leave to ask a ques tio n which he had given notice. of the Right lion. Baronet the head of her - .Nlajcsty's Government. The eincf.ticut he desired to ask Iyas, whether the Government irmie tuted or intended to institute—sanction, or intemied to shuctiou--any public subscription for the relief - of the destitute districts of the country Sir ROBERT PEEL said that her Majesty's Go vernment haring become acquainted with , thtt,• distresses which prevailed in the country, did. intend to it - >titut” a public subscription.—(Hear, hear.) Speaking generally, the patience of the people wa% sor exemplary, that her Najesty's Goyerrunent (lid intend ics raise subscriptions by the Queen's letter, and he iru%ted that the appeal would be generally attended to. —(Hear.) I'l)Olt-LAWS, 31r. MANGLES wished to know whether the Right Hon. Baronet, the ',low Secretary, had any objection to lay on the table of the flotuf.c, what pre poriions of the persons he had alluded to, the other night, as receiving. relief in. and out of the different workhouse:, belonged to the agricultural and what to the manufacturinc cla,sses. _ Sir JANIES GUAH Ali had no returns sho , ,ving tli fe proportions required by the Hon. 3lernber. The dropped Orders of yvstk , rl.l4.y were dim r?-4 4) .. poi n tett FINES AM RECOVERIES, rhe Fines and Recoveriev 13111 wa read a tbk.d ;6:l(ibliN3fENT OF HOUSE-. Sir E. PEEL moved that the House, on its ri , ing, de adjourn till Friday, the 2tith of liar.---(L w . - a cries „ r ..Nionday. Monday," and " ) The SPE.kliEll, having put the question, deelar, , ,l that the Ayesliad it. The House Only:fore st.uoda journed till Friday. ELECTION COMPIu MI i V 0 ArmiTTEE. Mr. ROEBUC' moved the apNi.nttnent"--oithei-Yona ompromi;res. It was Ms mittee for inquiring into election e . wished to take every pains wisdi the subject, but he had felt that it would be, difficult to nominate such a Committee as woula comman d at once the attention of the }Town; and the confidence of the country. The names of.. the •Ct;mmittee had been altered as they stood ou his paper, and he thought he. need only read them witlmut further preface, to show that all parties had been considered. The lion. Member then read the following names as the Members of the Committee :—Mr. Ilramston, Mr, Miles, Sir W. Heath coat, lieu. W. Laseelles, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Strutt, Sir W.• Somerville, Lord Worsele.v, Mr. Roebuck. Sir \V. SOMERVILKE excusod himself, on the ground that he was one of MI important Irish Com e, an 4 ;Also rt Member of the General Committee of Elect ion s . BOELIIICK thought that Is: might count on thft, lku. Baronet's consenting to act .on the Committee. Sir W. SO.MERVILLE said that if it was :rm. lately necessary, be wutati %valve his objection to at•Rild .1. tip- Committee. Mr. MON('ETON MILNES thought that al,W: r th e n o tice of mot ien given by the Hon. Member for dnor, and alter the expressions of the Hon,. and L„earned Gentleman oppositc,:no private slops, sitch ap• peared now to be the cue, • should. by z taken on the present occasion. He bOleved that the /' moult of the reflection of the last few day:4, induced Her,. 7:tlernbers to etitne to the conviction that the House hal l done wrong ilk granting the. Committee ut all. It /was. his opinion that in granting the Ceantnittee thg' s ilouse, exhibited a want of moral courage. He did not acense the-Eight Hon. Baronet at the head of her 31ajes.ty's Goren anent of a want of moral courage, for he knew that Right Honourable Baronet had expressed himself with w hat he ccnsideredexaggeratedseutiments.on the subject ; but he accused :many lion. Members of) a want of that moral courage which should induce t"aem, to repel the feelings that made them assent to the metieli L However, justly and rightly the lion. and Leave ed /Gentleman had. acted in bringiter the subject before Lime House ; yet, in granting the Committee, they had.' entered upon a course of which it was difficult , foresee. the Why should they appoint a Coaart , )%tee to investigate matter which on all • sides watt elk, we if and permitted ? Why should they make viethns .of certain unfortunate fordoi ng that which ev,,i.ry Member of the House . might have dune himself tout er ce rtain eircumstancr=t ? If they legislated in that ma fin er, they would Ike ]eglA. biting in, anything but i sincere spirit. If they spoke of bribery in that, House in different tone from what they snoke, of it in their private. con versations—if they/pret,ended to repudiate bribery in thus noise - , while they 'Aughed at: it among themselves, and %lid, the loudner ts. of the laughter was ha proportion to. '.he grossness of -the ease—{llear)—how could they eS.,• e et t++' get credit, for sincerity ? . lie did net admit th e great Ueeessity. - which sonic :Honourable . Gentleme - A pretended existed for legislation on this subject. Ile - would 'not adn tit- that bribery existed to SUeri an extent us Hon. (ten tlemen pretended, because if he did o he could not resin tt the conclusion, that the . i: eople of this Couutr.- wee e n ot fit for represents tuna ; that every exten s i on o f: th e suffrage was a detri ment, and not a good ;undu e tha t the proposal . lion. Member for Rochdale- fr o extembng the suffrege wasA . .AlelwAon and an abs,oraitx,of the t laat the people, instead. uc 1 ,_" 3 4%, had abu se d ev'ery pop rel. which hail b ee n givon to tnem," . and that they. Ntv re r ,Tossly corrupted, simply heeltuSe they were easily corm Ptible. Lie attributed the increase of bribery to' the in' -• ", üblic vigil ance " :tease p on pc). to the increased value whit' ti every wan set "P 1 3 !ed. 1 3 4 al • 1 2 3 dr. qt; n 2 id; I 0 1 ur; -:.-; ..