The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-30 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.

MERCHANT flaurrarc.
The silent sommaittee &waisted toylike Howe el
Commons to leweeggehe the mune eV the Elellow
of the aidgyMethsterest Met
itir v lib.
Herefell in the dear. Am this - fi the
esumunittes peewit • were Mr. hosnMe. Jiro
Taylor Mr. Da** Mr. Aldecema lis.lhowas,
'ma lit. LAW
Ceptais figeweitaid the toarthhut amyl" wee
sired stated that the vends in which he id milled=
with ea puts alltw,acitierselly.wilh We smightea. •
By than ell mimicemdeelert is the
Beate el Tel ticoluilsw. ehrlaglet Ohl V dilute*
were ehdlemitlegemerte howl for the
V' eihtbeg A it would he murk better tin. the
pram& wigs. woe of opinion that V tree most 'heir.
.tolablithasissarts's toad. The fund which femme*
led ben mimamiged, but he thought that V dm
eetele were milt - , set levied either se
plegthot erect W• awl-that if Ile en=
wan Wen tinge el *Abe hem& e
errewer caMMA assliss, s soda s• my mach to
mela ege of Ilm as..
ler. (Ismael Robert Greats, shipowner end merchant
of ZiterpooL said he was the owner or manager of about
yd
awl -01 INEPillit It" aliPiste guireggemlY
• thli tir el h lecdprootty. In the ' oinks
tends, the rse America sad Fmnoe, the
=beds, and Ts7i-istereia Ike Wauritina and
Us= anent tel 1.E41,001. el height ta
which the did not partietysto He thought
it desirable that the pvsnsmut Aural Fee both:e of their
intestine to coerder the propriety of putting the
reeigrocity siggemi kite i ]sits with respect to each
eauxtry, which did hot agloymotta with us. Thome 'Miss
=he said to pit pia the conditions on which they
*Dewed to Mb our trade. They knew what
they night be referiewl to de at any moment. No mari-
time nation could exist in a state of prosperity which a:-
dotted from ft the trade with &Wend, which amounted to
sae-half the trade of the wield ; and snit-interest would
'wawa induce them to Amnon their restrictions. He
did not think that the bringing into force of the reciprocity
deuces wadi he at all esewidered in the light of retaliation.
The memeittee them adjourned

CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS.
The committee reiumembled yesterday, Mr. Bou-
minis in the chair.
Mr. Drake, parliamentary agent, was examined as to the
defeetive provisioe of ' polling places at election*. and sub.
asieteraitally which the number and situations of the
• would be regulated by the spiriting banister.
Eh amistant-secrehry to the Yoorlaw Board,
wee Ewa sauteed at some length as to the mode of elect-
ing poar•law paudimm, and stated, in eddition, that the bill
laVdby himself, nod introduced into parliament in
Lord Shafteshuty, would, he believed, have effec-
tually removed the evils width now whited.
Mr. J. Clerk WIN of opinion that the aeocents should he
mat in to the election auditor within a fortnight of the
election, and that they might not to be sent to the agent,
wham they wen soused' tampered with. lis Ad net
the present ideation tribunal capable of much in-
t, and objected to preliminary inquiries on as-
reasTertleiz aYsose, and hiving been unsuccessful in the
74.1=ins
Bet of nine lasse°e°ll4reoLtillrimsait7that t:, ni innite:
that °add latindoced ba Limiting the oUrg:foerxpoeoPil.
of voila be tits snment einen,Uy paid to the stationing, limit-
ing the agentla skews far speaker's warrants, and choosing
enneattlees en Fridays and Mondays, so as to enable them
be maZ 14112 dais sad Thursdays, instead of on Thurs.
urs,
tau He attributed the diminution in the
ad suactelearetitioxlT stricter proof
peese oloffarticy
egiategamein =tee; treating at public houses. He
She =pews up to the nomination had to
111111 t lie egress of parties appended, the
aittesepire misty semis to the payments of current
awe as the charges for messengers, cabs, he., and
WY that they were made a cloak for illegal pr c.
liSa. Ate. the emMor Ina not compelled to be present
wine tits paymsads mere mede. He thought his atteedance
aegis to his Math tionipebory in borou, and that in
Erthe deputy returning Alcor at each polling Ore
also to attend and settle the accounts. In hie opinion
all ought to be sent in within a fortnight after the
election, and the auditor ought to have the power of
Thecommittee then adjourned.

=scrim commlrrszs.

HESWICK.UfON-TWSBA

The committeemet yesterday, Mr. F. Peel in
the chair.
At an early *hp of the proceedings, Sir P. Slade inti.
mated that Mr. Hods pm would withdraw train the contest,
sod leave Mr. liarieribenks in possesaion of the seat.
'rhe ream was then cleared, and the committee, after
ibiyireLewarn.letaltwo hours, agreed to the following
OesiMs Marjarribanks, has been
.clul7=eirtoTerne present parliament as a Lurgas for
the Sewn d Berwick-upoer'rweed ; that George Keen was
bribed ly the payment of 21. to hie daughter for voting for
Mr. Ilson ; that Alex. Melrose was bribed by the pro-
mise of a situation on the North British Railway for his eon
to vote for Mr. Hodgson ; that Robert Blaylock was bribed
by the 'resat of Si. to vote for Mr. Ho4Pen, 31. of which
warby Wm. MoGall ; thatiohnson HOwePatteson was
bribed by the payment of money by Milan to vote for
Mr. Hodgson ; that Alex. Limb offered IL to Adam Ro-
binson to vote for Mr. Marjoribanks ; that Robert Brown
pre N. to Michael Anderson to induce him to vote for Mr.
Marjoribanks ; that it was not proved that bribery waa wen-
mitted with the knowledge or consent of Mr. Marjoribeake
or Mr. Hodgson • that the committee have altered thzd
taken at the shako by striking off the names of
vetoer ; that the committee are of opiates that William
MoChill. in hie evident* before them, was guilty of wilful
and corrupt perjury ; and that the committee have reAson
to believe that bribery extensively prevailed at the LA
election for Berwick-upon•Tweed.