The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-05-15 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER ELECTION

THE ERLENII3 of the Right Hun. H. B.
SHUUDAN, are earnestly requested us attend
MUTING. THIS MORNING (Friday, Minh lath,,
at Twelve &Clock peeeaelv, at ilia Lyceum, in tits Strand.
le dill purpose of making farther attangenbauts w settle
that Gentleman's return.

The Committee for conducting the Election re Mr. Sh...
thian. are determined to iierotrere, them being yet mare than
12,000 Voter, unpolled, and a great majority of them u..•

WESTMINSTER ELEC'EION.
Huoxow's Hiatt. Mar s, 1907.
THE PAROCHIAL COMMI I'TKES, in the
anterest of tht Right Horn. R B SHERID are ap.
pervert at the following placer, where ever* conienu.sicatitin to
forward that Elation, will be tlerikfully received :
Sr Marzeret and St. John, Ring Henry Bth, Downing
street.
St. Martin's,
St. Paul's, Dwent-Oarden, kt the Lyceum, in the
it Clernant-Denee, and St. Strand.
Mary-le Strand,
•q_ St Janne% at tha One Ton, St. James's Market.
R. Anne's, at the Porcupine, corner of Neeport•street.
lft. George% Lightup's Coffee house.
A Public Suletription, to defray the fair and legal expenses
stebttaltetion $ opened at the earnest desire of a nunib,:ro.
the indeuendiret Electors, which will be received at ales x
vivwe sad CO. NI-Mall, and by Major Downes, at Hod-
Awes Hard.'


weer of the they intended disealutios. some of the
Members assembled as early as ten o'clock, and
berried op a Report, is order to make, for it could
be with no othecinteetion, the cry strong, though '
false, agaiiist the present ainainistration.'s
We certainly do not believe that Mr. Sruscias
Bowan* made any such erroneous staterneot of the
proceedings of a Committee, of which, although
be had been named a Member, be had not attend
ed a single met-tang in the course of the six pre-
ceding weeks, during which the investigation into
the abuses of the Pay Office, as we I as into those
of other public departments, had been the objeft
of their daily labour and attention.
Had Mr. STIAGIS Bouama atte Jed :he Corn.
mittee during the progress of the inquiry, he not
only would leave abstained from making the de-
claration now imputed to him, bat he would have
been enabled to state, and dou'atless would have
stated, when called upon by the Freeholders of
Hampshire, that the Retolutios upon which the
Report was founded, namely, that it Was expedient
that an immediate and special communication
should he made to the House, of the flagrant abuse
and mi•application of the public monies discovered
in the Pay Office, together with such remedies as,
in the opinion of the Committee, might prevent the
occurrence of similar abuses, was unanimously
adopted by :he Cornm'ttee, ten days before the dis-
solution, and prior to any knowledge or suspicion
of that event taking place; that the Chairman had
in consequence been insttu Red immediately to pre.
pare a Report upon that subjelft, and had aanally
arranged the material; fur that purpose ; when,
b" the rumour et a dissolution, he was induced to
quit London; and that the Report which Mr.
Gnu, who, in the absence of Mr. Balm's, bad
been called to the Chair, was intended to present,
was framed out of those ntaterials,and agreed upon,
without a dissentient voice, by the Committee,
which suet at its utual hour for that purpose, was
regularly summoned, and numerou►ly attended.
Had these fags been known t i the Freeholders of
Hampshire, they would have had au opportunity of
judging, whether the Report of the Committee of
Finance, or the Dissolution, by which alone that
Report conld have been suppressed. was 14 horrid
sap" for the occasion ? and whether the country
have mess reason to applaud the seal and diligence
with which persons appointed by the House of
Commons to inquire into public abuses, have exe-
cuted the trust reposed in them, or the care and
contrivance with which the Knight authority, and
the intervention of the Kisses Officers, have been
employed, dexterously to defeat the °Nee, and
withheld the result of the inquiry from the Public