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whole subject, and be was convinccd they would come to
•.ho same deci@ion that was arrived at in the case of St.
Albans.

Mr. C. BERKELEY was also's member of thn Com-
mv:!,:e, and he could confirm all that the last srakor had

Su. R. H. INGLIS contended that it was unjust to
disfranchise the borough when such a course was not
recommended by the Committee. This opposition was
intended to harass the present Government.
Mr. HUME was surprised to hear the Hon. Baronet
defending bribery and corruption. He denied that the
opposition to this writ was of a party character, for it
had long since been contemplated, and it was high time
that an end was put to the corruptions practised in the
borough. There was no Minister in the House now,
and he really did hope the original motion would be
withdrawn for the present.
Mr. AGLIONBY concurred with the Hon. Member
for the University of Oxford, that it was unjust to
delay the issue of the writ, siece the Committee did not
recommend that course.
Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY, another member of the
Committee, said there was no evidence of systematic
corruption laid before the Committee. Its attention was
exclusively confined to a technical point connected with
the proceedings of the election.
Mr. ANSTEY supported the amendment, though he
thought it an unconstitutional course to go on suspending
writs. The boroughs themselves ought rather to be
disfranchised at once, and he was glad that a proposal
had been made to deal with Harwich as the House had
disposed of St. Albans.
Mr. K.l SEYMER thought if the amendment was
carried those who proposed it ought to follow the motion
up with another for a Commission; but if ho did that,
he begged to give notice that he should take the same
course with regard to Leicester, which a Committee had
all but recommended should be disfranchised.
Sir GEORGE GREY suggested that the debate
should be adjourned for a few days.
Sir DE LACY EVANS said it was his intention to
move for a Commission if this amendment was carried.
Mr. BRAMSTON was as willing as; anybody that
where bribery and corruption was proved against a
borough it should bo prosecuted as it deserved ; but no
corruption was proved in this last case from Harwich.
Ho did not intend to persevere with the original motion.
Mr. JOHN ELLIS denied that there was any
bribery or corruption practised at the last election for
Leicester.
The motion and the amendment were then withdrawn.
PRIVATE BILLS.
The following Bills were read a second time and
ordered to be committed.
British Electric Telegraph Company.
City of London Gas Light and Coke Company and
Great Central Gas Consumers' Company Amalgama-
tion, and Amendment of Acts.
Claussen's Patent Flax Company.
Deptford Gas.
Eastern Counties and Newmarket and Cheaterford Rail-
way Companies.
Great Western Railway (No. 2)
Humber Conservancy.
Kettering and Northampton Road.
Kingston upon Hull Docks.
Lancashire and Yorkshire and York and North Midland
Railways.
Leeds Waterworks (No. 2).
Londonderry Bridge.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction
Railway.
Newmarket Railway.
North British Flax Company (Claussen's Patent).
Eastern Counties Railway (Branch totbe river Nene, &c.)
Eastern Counties Railway (Junction with the East end
West India Docks, &c.)
Eastern Counties Railway (Power to use the East Arig-
Ilan Railways, &e.)
Great Western, Shrewsbury and Birmingham, and
Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Companies Amal-
gamation.
Stockton and Hartlepool and Clarence Railway, and
Hartlepool West Harbour and Dock Companies.
Wirksworth Mining Customs and Mineral Courts.
York and North Midland Railway.
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