The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-03 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.

AYLESBURY ELECTION COMMITTEE.
Yesterday at eleven o'clock this committee, con-
siding of Mr: O. A. Hamilton (chairman), lion. J. W. For-
teseue' Sir E. Hayes, Mr. Miles, and Mr. J. B. Smith, re-
sumed their inquiry.
Mr. Bodwell summed up on bAalf of the petitioners,
analysing the evidence at length, and contending that it
showed not only wholesale and systematic bribery and
treating, hut that the paternity of both the bribery and the
treating was to be fixed not only on the unknown individlial
called "The Man in the Moon," but upon Meesrs. Ward,
Wheeler, and other agents of the sitting memlier, whose
counsel he challenged to primitive w itne,:es to contradict
this, or that Mr. Calvert was responsible fur the illegal acts

of Ids agents.
Mr. Serjeant Kinglake, Q.C., then in a lengthy speech
addres,ed the nnuuottee on behalf of Me. rt, the sit-
ting member' insisting that eounbel for the petitioners had
totally failed from the evidt nee, which for the mug part had
I been purely hypothetical, in establishing anything like a case
of bribery and treating, which at starting was asserted
would be brought home to the agents of the bitting member.
The statements that hail b:cri made on the other side us
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contrasted with the evidence. adduced, were vague, empty,
and uncertain; eharges had 'wen made a hich Iwd
not been substantiated, and the extraordinary course
foul been adopted of putting in before the commit-
tee a lift of parties alleged to have been bribed when
there was not a ftagment of evidence of the fitet.
The question of law for the committee to consider was
whether the sitting member WI% to be held responsible for
the acts of subordinate parties, %hum the petitioners
chose to call agents, there Iwbg a wide distinetiokto be
established as between general and special agent.. After
siting various reports and decisions on this subject, the
learned counsel submitted that the main question lhr the
committe e 'II%IS whether they would be imbued to give any
weight to the fact of an agent in the loositiou of Ward, who
was appointed for a speeiae purpose, having dune acts lb-
reign to the duty delegated to him, and w hither the sitting
member was to be answerable for any extravagant or un-
authorised acts that such nu agent might commit. Were
parliament to act on such a principle there would not be a
seat of one of its inembera that would not he in peril, and
should the committee act on such a precedent, lie
thought that hereafter the expediency might be doubted
as to any genthanan becoming a candidate at
all. No one could deny there had been treating,
hut the other question raised that what was done by
Ward NA agent Sir the sitting member was, he route:ldeal,
wholly uusustained, and he should now Call Mr. Acton
Tindal, and the other agent( ut the sitting member, to re-
fute the assertions of the other side.
Mr. Acton Tindal, Lord of the Manor of Aylesbury, ex-
amined by Mr. Merewether—Was clerk of toe peace fur
the county of 11 ickingham. Had been engaged in the
election for Aylesbury, Wet hail received no professional
remuneration. It was arranged between himself and Mr.
Calvert that all the arrangements of the tbs.:ion should he
eontioled to witness. A built of money was placed in his
hand( by Mr. Calvert, fur the purposes of the election.
ChM Mr. Calvert an approximate estimate, governed by
what previous elections had been, of the probable co-t of the
election. Previous elections had cost as much as t,'N•ol.
Told Mr. Calvert that 1,500/. would be sufileient, but about
1,809.1. came into his hands, and of that aunt about fitinS
had been expended. Witness engaged certain professional
agents, who were solicitors, who had assigned tenon specific
duties, witness retaining to himself (iit 51r. Calvert's re-
quest) the entire general control. Mr. Calvert gave orders
to witness with reference to the manage:nem of the elm-
. tiuu. TOM, him as an indispensable condition of his atanol-
ling that there was to be no brbery eor treating of any de-
scription. He said, as her us he could recollect, that he
would gain his Neat by the corruption of no man, and that
he would make no man drunk. (Laughter.) So/011 after
this Mr. Calvert arrived in Aylesbury and met a number 1
of the comftitueuts, stating his political views, and repeat-
Log the instructions he had given to witness, and stating
that nobody but witness woo to have the power of ordering
or paying. At this period the address of Mr. Serjeant
llyles was not out, but a sort of " itylea-forsever-iwn"
had sprung on. (Laughter.) A few days after Calvert'
canto Houghton retired, and subsNjueutly Bytes. After
this w ituess heard that sonic of (lateen's friends
met out the sth of lhaember at the Dell, kept by Wouttoon,l
upon which witness went with Mr. Watson, who was vu-
gaged as an agent of Mr. Calvert there, and took down
Crum the wall a placard with the words "Culvert's Com- •
mime" upon it, telling the landlord that there was no
committee, and that there should be no committee, and
that if any persona were assembled there for convivial
purposes they would be called upon to pay for themselves..
The laudlorti was eaWnded with him, sumach so that he was
afraid that after having given his support to Calvert he
would withdraw it. 'flue 000/. expended was chiefly fur
agency, carriage hire, statesmen, and general expenses.
By the Committee—Thought cleat between 500/. and
6001. would (outlive to cover the outstanding expenses.
Cross-examined by Mr. Jaws, 1.1. C.-lad generally
been employed in these elections on the contrary side of
politics until the nefarious intrigues of the last eleethm, by
which Mr. Clayton was ousted. Admitted that he teas peti-
t/utter against the return of Mr. Deering at a previous elec-
tion, but did not know that Mr. Deering was turned tout for
treating chiefly on the evidence of the toy publie-housee
where the treating seem on, on the last °evasion. The gate-
swat of Bradford, that he was employed by witness, was
untrue, and wanes. had never paid hint for his services.
William Ward. who was a builder, had taken an active
part in Mr. Clayton's eleetiun, and tilllVA•stli with witness
and Calvert iu the neighbourhood of Stone, three utiles ,
from Aylesbury, where he went with them in a carriage,
riding on the box. Ward knew Stone well ; and it was,
therefore, thought he would be no acquisition. Took with
them also thanes Wheeler, the baker, thinking there was
no harm in taking a baker with them in election time.
(Laughter.) Ward also met thew at a place culled
Aston Ciiutun, a district where the Duke of Buck-
ingham formerly bad interest, and latterly Baron Berths
child. Witiesr polled early on the election day, and was
in the habit of going every day to the committee at the White
Hart. Was hinissli the committee; and consequently, part-
. (Laical as it may appear, when he went to the committee
he might be said to visit himself. (Laughter.) Witness
was the committee, and of course wherever he went the
committee went. The people who came in the carriage%
were paid their expenses, but did not know whether those
who Caine in their own carts were allowed 'lns. each.
When witness left Aylesbury on the polling day, the
committee was virtually absent for the day.
By the Couunittee—Asked Ward, when he brought the
bills, whether they were confined to statesmen alone, and net
to voters; as, if they were not, be would nut pay them.
Was not aware that statesmen were chiefly the WWI of
town, and, including refivahments 1371. altogether was
paid to the stavestu n. Did nut take any steps in conse-
quence of the arrival of " the Man in the Moan" at Ayles-
bury, and did not hear what class of voters " the Man in the
Moon" fixed his affections on fur Wasting. (Laughter.)
Did not, iu consequence of the application of " the Man In
the Moue," glee any caution to Calvert's agents. Heard
that refreshments were being given away, and told every-
one nut to gu near the place whore " the Man in the Moon"
was. Ilad reason to believe that Calvert's smuts curumunis
rated this caution to the agents generally and to the voters.
Had not, cit laq directly or indirectly, any knowledge of
refreshments having been given through the instrumentality
of " the Mall in the Moon."
Mr. Henry Watson, solicitor, of Aylesbury, deposed to
haling aewd as one of the legal agents of Mr. Calvert, and
to having cautioned the publicans at Aylesbury and Mimeo-
den not to give any treating, and that whatever they sup-
pied the parties would have to pay for themselves. Was
(originally contented fur Iloughton, but on his retirement
was retained fur Calvert.
By the Committee—The first time he heard anything
about "the Mall iu the Moon" was from a joke amongst the
Aylesbury people " Where's the Man iu the Moon?" and
the Man in the Moon's in the town."
Mr. Heury Philbrick, partner in the firm of Benson and
Maria, solicitors, of Aylesbury, and agent for the sitting
member at Missenden, deposed, from entries in his diary,
that he only reaistinad at the George lea on Monday and
Tuesday, the 9th and 10th December last, and nut, as had
been deposed by the witness Philbee, that he had slept there
a whole week before the election. Administered the caution
alluded to against treating.
This bring the case for the sitting member,
Mr. Merewetber dwelt upon the general es idence at great
length, contending that the case was only one of treating ;
that the only turning point on which a question arose, was
with reference to the agency of Ward, and that this new
Eadymiun-like edition of the descent of the individual,
called the "Man in the Moon," from his lunar abode was
literally nothing but moonshine, and intended only to give
a fictitious colouring to the case.
The proceedings at 5 o'clock were then adjourned. Mr.
James IS to reply upon the eau made out for the sitting
member,

P A.7IT.IAMENTARY DIVISION.
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COUNTY FRANCHISE BILL.
"Thatmend rending read, mothm Theailnd ilue-11011 Pm'.
be Nil be now reads second time." htuee divided—
Ayes, Si; Not., 399.
AYES.
Aglionhy, Henry A. Hattie, Alocsniter O'Connell, Morgan J.
Aleork, Thomas Ifeaillam. Thoma, E. O'Connor, Feargun
Ansley, Thema C. henry, Alexander O'llaberty, Anthony
Barron, Sir Henry W. Heywood, Jane. Weisel], Mr G It.
Bus, Michael T. Ileyworth. Lawrence Pilkington, James
Blake. Maybe J. Hienrine, George G.O. Power, DU.
erighl, Jehn ILobtiouse, Thom. B. Reynolds, J.
prawn. Humphrey Hodges, Thomas L. Sulleir, John
Chsplin, William J. Hodges, T. T. Pale. y, Col-nel
Co; James Hmanian, Edward Serous, Grew I'.
Cliff td, Henry M. Howard, Plolip 11. Scull, Fr meet
Catele, Itiehind Kcogh, William Shaft°, Robeit D.
Copeland, M. Ales. liersoaw, Jones Sidney, Mr. Aid.
C.O. illy, NI. E. Lawton, lion. C. Somer., John P.
Cowan, Charlie Lenniell, Thomas B. Stiuntion, Sir litiO. T.
Crawford, W. H. litteullaya, W. T. Strati:and, Sir Get.
Dercieua, John T. Hagan, n idiom H. Sullivan, Michael
Divett, Edward Maher, Nkhoics V. T. M. 0., Falwar: K.
Dube. Sir James Meagher, Thoman Tr. lamiry, Jinn 8.
Duncan. Viscount Milner, W. M. E. Walden Monis
Duniombe, Thomas Moffat, Gc-irge. Wan, Co ,1 les B.
Evan., Sir 1/e Lacy Moiesw, r 5, Sir W. Wein-lee, sir J.
Fox. Waltam J. Morris, David Wairn, Joint T.
Gibson, Rt. Lin. T. M. Momitt Fronde Williams, Jahn
tiranise, Minna, C. Hunt', George F. Williams, William
Greene, John biogent, Sir Percy
Crennill, C. Pantos O'Brien, J. Trl.l E.
Hall. Sir Itcniamin O'Brien, Sir Timothy King. L. he
Iliirdeastle, Just pit A. O'Coinc.l, John !!aloe, Joaeph
NOES.
Arland, Sir Thos. D. Egerton. W. Talton Moody, Charles A.
Adair, Hugh E. Ellice, Iti. lion. E. Morgan, 0-'aria*
Adair, R. A. S. Ellice, Edward Morison, Sir W till=
Adderley, Clvales B. Emlyn, Viscount Mutt:rave, Lori of
Anwn, lien. Colonel Panic Janes Mulling+, J, is ph R.
• Anson, VI-count Felloweis Ed card Manly, Ii itlivin
Artiuthnott, 11. m. U. Virgin, John Mure, . iii•inel
Arkwright,Gsegs Ferguson, Col.mel Neu, to d
Armstrong. St. A. reign...is Sir iton.A. hiaairr, Joseph
1 Mhler, tonal Flop :into, lit 110. J. NeSilciecte I. N.
Raw, Williala Fit/toy, 11.1.. henry Newport Vseoui t
Dag., ll.m. William rrawitiam,On O.W. Nis., Hon. Gerard J.
lice.losw, John Yolks., William Norrcy., Li•nl
ltd ey, Josephl Findyee, Al a. D. O'Brien, sir Lucius
Winne, 11. J. Po eiter, Hon. G. C. (kW, S.l'. 11.
Ileinea,Rt. Him. M. Fouti r. Matthew Ord, Wit:Lira
!laird, James For eseue, Ctn.:heater outitto i, lord
It .alo. It, t dward It Frerioun, Colonel Ow, it, -ir John
11 diwiti, Ca trh • Li. French, Fitcsiesli a l'acke,Charlo. W.
liankta, i nitre Erceen, Churl,. 11. l'aset, laird A.
Baring, Rt. Hon. P. Euler, Augustus E. Paget, lees C.
amino.. Thmnas "id:wil'i Sir V. P. Timmer, lin' ert
I Alford, td i and G. Gaged, Jamul M. Palmerst ii, tUeL
Bcrrinirton, Viscitint Gloom' Itiehard T. Piul.r, Jelin
li.rrow, WI ham 11. (inn. George C. lawn, Jrmn W.
Sell. Jac.b Gormarti Ambrose L. Pigott, eran ran
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.iiw.itil S. 'lump rt., J. tin P.
1.1. net, Poi ip Guild, Wyndham Ponwohy. llo.a. C. F.
,tonord, William Gore. W. tt. 0. Penal lieoville
It... Viler, Admiral Goulborn, .t. lin. IL Price, sir Robert
Kentish'', Ifuot. 11. F. (Treenail, Gilhet Pugh David
Berkley, C. 1,. U. Greene, lbottiat Bea Pugh,
t. of nil
Berlianl, Vioeutint /aren't 11, Choi lie W. lieptt 1.0. W. J.
Ile. t. John Grey, Rt. lin. Sir C. Liecrdo, Osman
Birch, Sir T. P. Grey, Ralph W. Ries. telivard R.
Blair, Sephca Lirescin.d, L. ni It. Inch, Henry
Fit:lndio-a, Marv:deo( Guernsey, Lord Ricked, Richard
Rotsieno, Henry G. Gm, n, Hawed Rom lit. C.&
l'o'th, Sir Bob rt G. Hall, CoL ltitniiiiitl, Charles E.
Boats. Admir d Halls bUrton, Li I.F. Bud. to , rcpt.
Boy e, Hon. Col. Illaiwy, 'I homing I'. Biusell, Lard John
liramston, ThoonasW. Ilarniton, Lori CLAW liti.uill, lin. Filar. S.
tiroort.l4e, lit hard Hann, Richard Ituiell, F. C. 11.
Brisco, Mu.ir nee lia-chell, IC. lion. J. Similar., (Jingo
Ilroadlry, Henry Mawr., [lenient.. $a.11111.11.0' J0..14
hrrinhr, Kr Arthur IL Henley, Joseph W. *tot, lion. nuncio
Itown, %Vial:nu Herbert, Itt. Hen. S. Seynt nir, lien, yD.
Bruce, C. L. C. Hem I% Rt. lion. J.C. soy niour, lord
Bran, Colonel Hervey, Duo Allred Slam., Bober A.
Bunk, Len W, Ilil hard, Robert C. Smyth, John 0.
Bulkeley, Sir it. B.W. Hatail•y. Charles tiiiiiilleit, A exansles
nailer, str John V. Hula-on. William N. e.ou. real, ~ our W. M.
Sunbury, Edward 11. !ope. +lc Clnder Solorrint, Teo, 11. S.
!hooky, Lord Ilinecid, HOP. E. G. PIK' II MA. : 'CM yJ.
Burke, sir Thomas J. II il'ioon, George Stormer. I:ii tiara
Thaler, Piens, S. Inglis, Sir IL H. titalford,'Auatistus
Bolton. Sir talmt M. Jermyn, tun moniorol, Joni F.
Campbell. lion. W. F. Jocelyn. Vocount Stanley, Edward
Carew, WI Liam H. P. Jobn.stonii, Mr John Manly, Hoot. E. TT.
Cavi n iith, lion. C. it. Jirlitie, Sir W. 0. 11. Stook-y, Wm, W. O.
Cavendish, lion. GIL Jones, Cupt. titantoo, Wition 11.
Cavendish, W. G. litightlet' Sir Chas, Slu irt, Lord Jaws!S
I' ,miry, ',shear tH. Knox, Oil. Stuart, Henry
Cliarteris, Mot. F. Knox, Hun. W. S. Mu di. John
Cus.lerton, Colon I Lebow:here, llon. U. Stint, unity O.
Chiebeeter, land J. L. Lacy, tie my it. Taylig, I Lomas F..
aguiggs, ,i ' W. Langone, Aim.. IL lhompron, l'i lonel
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Clerk, lit. Lion. SD°. Lalrii, George C. lotern.iehe, John
Clive, lion. It. 11. Lemon, Sir Ch... Townisiey, John
Clive, Remy B. Lena, a, Lord.(. 0. Townie y, Inv aid G.
cog;,', a boms. S. lannoi, Lord 11. 0. Tow. shend, t; Twin
C k', Hon. Edwd. K. Lewis, Rt. Iln Sir T. Traill, Georc
Cole., Henry It. Lewis, (Borne C. Trevor, Iltn. Tioomai
Compitat Henry C. Lewisham., Vititiotint Tali:tell, lit Hon. 11.
Cowper, I len. W. E. Lindsay, Hon. Co'. Tyler, Sir George
Craig, sir William (I. Littleton, lion. EA. Vane, Lor . Ilatry
''Mgt. Winton Lockhart, Waiant Venter, Sir Wit lam
Dalrymple, 1 meain Long, Water Vino... A iwidtit
Rimer, Hun. Colonel I.oreg. Sir Ralph Vise, Richard
Davits, Ditrid A. S. Loy-cies, Pry,io Wan...moon, 11. S.
U:-osiers Wiliam Lowther, Henry Walpole. Siemer 11.
Ornisoe, Einnulid Lyoun, Hon Gen. Wegig-Pr est?, r. 1....
Denison, Jehn E. gt,ck.nrie, W. Y. Welie.ley, L. rd C.
lack, llttlidin Mackinnon, hlm. A. Weadirad, J. P. H.
I.i.ratili, Benjamin Mansaught.n, air E. Willem., B. WiGnie
I/ 11„ J. km W. M. 'sill, Duman Williiinuem, Sir IL
Do Id, George Mahon, The tYll. Wilson, James
Drummond, Hear; Mob n, Vise unt Wiiror, Mathew
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[Moe to,hi. lion. O. Niue-on, Fir Jane, W.V. rue, Morlilli.l4
IN.-cult, aim Matheson, 4Jarrnel Wrightson, W. B.
lirmlias, Ail oiral Manic, It . llon. !tit W lin, Ili then W.W.
Dundas, rioorge Magna 11, Thiint, C. Wynn, rirW. W.
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Dunne, felons! Melgund, Viwount Yorke, Hun. E. T.
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Elirington, Voicount /filar, Hi bud IL Under. It,. lin.W.G.
Etwarli. Henry litebell. Thomas A. Ilill, Lord Marcus

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