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ELECTION PETITIONS.

The SPEAKER informed the House, that, on lotikiwe over
the Election Petitions which had been presented on 'Flinn:-
day feat, and were now printed, he discovered that one,
'abater to the return fur the Borough of Drogheda, was
meanies the Candidate, and nut against the Silting Nember.
It was not, therefore, an Election Petition the Are.
The proper course to pursue would Iw, fis muve that the
Older for taking it into cow•ideratian should be discharged,
after which the Petition could lw withdrawn.
This suggiation was intmrdiaerlycoinplitil with
The Spe•new next OffillAlliti 110111..., 11121 John
Stewart, Esq. and others, who had, on Thursday last, Peti-
tioned agaival the return of a Member for the Iniri;ugh of
Cannelton', hail lint eliiVerit into p.(0;4017:01011, iu Etellfoe-
mity Wills the 2Sili of George 111. c. '22, and the :.3d of
Geo. 111. c. 71. Th• House were att are, that, if those re.
cogoizances were not entered into, %titbin a certain tune, the
Speaker was to slate the otnissi ttttt after attic!' the order
fur taking the I'. tition into cutisoleration was discharged.
On 'maims, the order was accordingly discharged.
The SIPEAKI'It +aid, he had further to rerirt to the
uu the subject of eertaiii Irish Petitions. 'Mute he
made his report, it would perhaps be better to state the
precise adoption in which lhose Petitions stood. By the
24th of the King, Petitioners were directed to enter into re.
coguis ince, if they meant to prosecute their Petit , with-
in 14 Jays after such Petinons were presented—aud, at the
capitatiou of those 14 days, if the Speaker reported that lie
had not received any recogniz nice, then the Petition was to
lie discharged. By a sulisetwent Act of the 47th of the
King, a provision was made, that in case those rerugniaances
liappi twit to be arranged in Ireland, for which only 14 days
were allowed, some fin ther time slionld be given, in order to
enable the Speaker to imptire whether they had been duly en-
tered into ur not, and 14 additional days were allowed for that
purpose, making a total of 28 days—namely, 14 days, dining
which the recognizance was to be entered into, and 14 more,
sous the purpose of inquiry. A third Act, that of the 53d of
the King, which imposed new recognizances, to secure the
payment of Cuunael, fees, &c had been subsequently passed.
That Act followed, very closely, the 28th of the King, by
which the Speaker was called on to state, at the end of 14
days, *helper recognizance* wire ur were not entered into
—bet, by some oversight of thu Legislature, the 47th of the
King, by which 14 days were granted for the purpose of
acquiring information, with respect to Irish ri cogniznires,
was lint al all mentioned. It was evidently 1111 ovennzlit
and omission, and, when explained to the House, he es.ll-
- there could be little difficulty, in moving, with re-
ference to cads of these Irish Petitions, that the time should
be enlarged fur 14 i ays more, two fur the purpose •f eider-
ing into recogniztiices, but to give an opportunity of iuquir-
ing whetlwr they had really keen entered into or Dui.
It was then fixed that the return all to ref 'montane's being
entered into fur preseuting the Petitions agniseal Ilic dectloll
for the city and county of Cork, for the city of Leitrim, and
town of Drogheda, should be made on the 19th of FelelWll

UNFUNDED DEBT.
The eIIaNCVLLOR of the Etettetanin mimed for an o.
ennui of Ihr amount of Unfunded lleht and Eachetpice
tut the 144 i of Erbtuary,lBl9.
The motion was agreed to, mad 111 r. IXSIIINGTON
imme-
diately afterwards presented the account, whits vas 1414 J on
the table.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS
The AlrfORN -GP N VAAL moved, that the urrlrr for the
production Of Vell.llll ILlpra a relative to Ihr Ink& eni Dr-Inure
CUM I, o3uttly, an Arruusii of the amount 44f debt 144 r v loch
pelican bad been aoret.ted—uf the dividends 'mitt to their

err ait..te—anti of.dl debtors remanded nudes* Ilse Act, or to
the I tor FibsFrhnis y, MlS—should be discharged. lie .'id
this for th.y purpose of moving fur papers of a more compre-
hensive description.
Ablermini W4trustw stated, that lie fell nn objection to
She order bents discharged, since the minion of Ilse Learned
Gentleinsii ...old procure a full detail of the operation of tlie
insolvent Delon& Art, which was all he looked for.
The older was discharged.
The Arrottseg.Giods/ RAL then moved for s return of all
permit's ordered to be &Amgen out of custody, under the
Insolvent Debtors' Art, fr the last return, in 11115, to the
Ist of February, 1619—the debts dor by them—the
deride paid—the number of those remanded and t•ulmegnrittly
discharged—and the number filially rrinissidt el, anti, the
ground of such proceeding —oOrri
Also an 'moot of the grass Amount of ninnies paid intn
the lauds of assigerrs or oilier., on account of Ow *stare of
Insolvent Debtors, iip to the :lb' of January last—and an
account of the find in the hands of assignees, at the same
period,—Ordered.

NEiv tSKITS
New writs were nr.lm•d to he I,rnril for the eleelion of
lklenthers to serve in Parliament for the following places
The thironith of Dr.dtu it h, iu the mom of the Boa.
Andrew Foley, deceased.
The Itinnucti of Poria.lingtun, in the room of R. Sharp,
wh.. has art pied the Chiltern Ilundreils.
The Borough of Newry, in the coins 4)(6tonsal Needham.
CUTLERY TRADF. HILL.
tin the motion of Mr. S. WoRTLEV, the above Bill went
through a Consmittee.—Reinirt hi-morrow.

SC( rrrisii Buntais.
Lord A. H.ttuu.•roN twirl. hr rose to present a
Petition from certain Burgesses of the Borough of
finkcasilwight, complus 1111 l of circumstances that
had takris place it, the election of Magistrates in
Scotland. whirls had been much adverted to in the
.lost Parliament. They referred to the decisions in
the Courts of Law, in that country, by winch they
cuncesved that smite of thosteelectitne. were vitiated.
They ako called the attention of the House to the
hatikruptey of several Boroughs, particularly that
of Aberdeen. Ile slid not mean to take up much
of the time of the (loose. on the present occasion,
but lie hoped the facts stated in the Petition,
which sfie, ted a very large • body of individuals,
would be deemed worthy of serious consideration.
Ile was conviticed that this Petition spoke the sea•
timers's of almost all the Scottish burghs, and was
the lures limier of a great many more on the Willie
It would be recollected that the Learned
Lord (the Lord Advocate of Scotland) had, in the
MOM' of the last year, introduced a Bill for the
purpose of remedying a part, and only a part, of
thosegnevances of which this Petition complained.
That Bill was withdrawn. in a very extraordinary
rwouner—aid be now begged leave to ask the
Learned Lord, whether it was his intention to in-
troduce another Bill. of the same kind, in the pre.
sent Session ? _

The Petition wee then brought tin and reed.
Ou the motion that the Petition be laid on the

The LORD A DeoCATI of SCOTLAND NW, he
was surprised at the statement of the Nobly Lord,
when he observed that the Bill brought in by him,
in the last ParliametA, was withdrawn in a inaiiiicr
rather extraordinary. When lie said Me, the Norile
Lord must hove la:gotten that tile Bill was with-
drawn, because a immlier of petitions were pre-
sented Holing its pas•in;(, until al:er the assem-
bling of the Ituyil Burghs at Eiliiiblitgli, in the
mouth of June. With aspect to the Nolue Lord's
question, he took that opportunity of itifiontiog
long, that he certainly purposed to introduce a Bill
oil the subject, in the present Session.
Lord A. HAMILTON said, it gave him great sa-
tisfaction to hear that the Lr.troed Lord intended
shortly to introduce a Bill —awl lie woe also grati-
fied to lean* that the voice of the people, expressed
by petition, was so much attended to as to cause
tae withdrawal of the h.-crier Bill.
BURGH OF A BEE. DEEN.

that Ise had by this morning's post rereiveri a Wirt,
in answer to that which he arnt to ,klie t.l tk a the
Crown and Ilstisper in Ireland, net, therefore, no
longer delay was necessary in moving for new wits,