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London, England, 1830-12-01 00:00:00

nitinceA in several election petitions had not been
perfected according to the Act. The first was
the petition of Hylton JoWife, Esq., complaining of
an undue election fur Surrey ; he therefore submitted
to the House th.►t it slibuld be discharged. The nex
petitioner was Ada►Ns Coles, who complained of
an undue election for the city of Londonderry. He
having failed to enter into the necessary recognizances
this petition was discharged. The petition of Samuel
Wells, Esquire, comphining of an undue election for Mut-
ingdonsliire, was also discharged.
GALWAY PETITION.

The Right Hon. G. DAWSON presented a petition,
praying that an extension of ten days might be allowed
E' r 7 IN, the recognizance' required by law.
said, the Act was peremptory on the

..vortle from Mr. CROX ER, the motion
EE.Ni3OROUG El ELECTION.

- The following are the names of the Members appointi•d
to try the merits of the petition presented against the Sit-
ting Members:--btr. Hugh Arbuthnott, Mr. Patten, Air.
joaiaa Du Pre Alexander, Sir John Shelley, Mr. Legh,
Mr. o'l3rier 4rd Eliot, Mr. Ross, Mr. Ceeko, Mr.
Franeit, (:7 IZlancy.

allowo

P.,'.IITON ELECTION.
• presented in this case ten days were

,t:OUGH ELECTION.

Sir R. aught up the Repert of the Committee
on this election declaring the sitting 111 embers duly elected,
but that the petition against their return was neither fri-
volous nor vexatious.

The SPEAKER next called the attention of the Home
to the petition of the electors of Stamford, respecting the
late election for that borough.
Mr. TENNYSON presented a petition from those elec-
tore, praying for an extension of time for entering into re-
cognizitneel.

*Mr. MABERLY opposed the petition. He said that
his Hon. Friend (Mr. 'Tennyson), who was interested in
the petition, being himself a lawyer, and a Member of that
House, could not plead ignorance of the law or of the
forms of Parliament in excuse for the irregularity of his
petition.—(Laughter.) Besides, the House hatl'Oecided
in the negative upon a similar petition, respecting the elee7
lion fur Mallow, in the year 1816.
Sir C. WETHERELL said, that a special Act of Par-
liament had been passed to regulate the proceedings on.
those election petitions. The persons then applying to the
House for further indulgence had neglected the provisions
of that Act, and he thought the House ought not to allow
there. the extension of time which they required.
TENNYSON, in moving that the petition be laid
.upon the table, observed that the House had interfered in
six similar cases before--4hat •it had power to do so, and
that it ought to . enlarge the time for entering into those
recognizances, as prayed by. the petitioners. The borough,
he contended, was not a rotten borough, and if the peti-
tion went before a Committee, he had not the slightest
doubt that such Committee would stigmatize, not the dee•
tor('of the borough, but other parties who had endea-
voured to stigmatize those electors. He thought it would
be more becoming in the House to be governed by the
spirit and general tenor of the Act, and not by a trumpery
clause of three lines.—(A laugh.)—He wished before he
sat down to learn the opinion of the Chair on the clause
tinder which the enlargement of time was sought.
The SPEAKER disclaimed any intention of Mum!,
ing ;Incision of the House on that or any other quit •
tion. Time clause which they hod then to consider was
the 6th, not the bth. it required, that on the day on
which time petition' vu presented, or the next day the pe-
titinoers should deliver in the names with the additions
and places or residence of the persons whom they proposed
as sureties, and that the anion be entered in a hook kept
open in the office appointed 04 that purpose. When the
subject of the present petition came before hint, he in-
quired if that preliminary proceeding had been complied
with, and being answered in the negative, be replied that
unless better iustruated by the., House, he should not feel
himself at liberty to enlerge the tints'; et Nast such was his
construction of the Statute.

Nr, TENNYSON, said, that the point on which he
wished to kap the opinion of, the Speaker was, whether
or not the House had power to interfere. If the facts were
verified on oath, could the }lenge di:pense with the pre-
scribed regteation

Thp SVEAKER said, the conduct he bad pursued in
the mattof rush,// indicated his opinion.
Mr. TENNYI4OI4 would still maintain that the House
was not excluded from entertaining that question.
Mr. MABERLY observed, that the House uould have
no power to violate an Act of Parliament.
Sir EDWATIP SUGOEN considered the Act to be
imperative upon the Howe.
. Sir JOHN MAME (us we understood) observed that
the statements of the petition ought to be verified by
afWavit.

The iiiTAKER said there could not well be any affi-
davits put in re panting the construction of an Act of
Parliament.

Mr. RICE thought that his Hon. hind would be better
ejyised in not making any motion to enlarge the time,
eapeuiaily after what had fallen from the Chair.
The motion watt then withdrawn.

Mr. KENNEDY toloented a petition from John
Richardson, of Fluyder.stieet, Westminster, on behalf of
John Campbell Collinholm, and other electors of the
countyof Dumbarton, who had petitioned against the re-
turn made on the election for that county. The present
petition prayed foe to dAys enlargement of the time for
entering into recognizances.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought it would be unfair to
depiive the petitioners of the right of trying their eleotion,
Sir IL pp a, s tid, great inconvenience would ensue if
parties were not. called on to wait upon the examiner, and
appoint it time with him. There bad been fifty-seven
petitions, and out of that numbee the parties to fifty-six
thought it their duty to wait upon the examiner.—
Time geloted.
Five Bills, funded on the report ef the Commissionere
for the Improvement oi tie Common Law, which had been
brought into the other House by Lord Tenterdu, were
then InTitsght down from the Lords, read a first time, and
ordered to lea read a second time on Monday oe,nnight.
Mr. WICK, in moving for certain returns of which
he had given notice respecting the Metropolitan Polite!
pew";
,aleeesad to the willingness expressed by a Right
Hon. Bsroitot below him to agree to the appointmeet of a
• Committee to invire into the character and organization
of that force, a proceeiling which, he bad no 'think
would be attended with reoulte highly creditable to
that body I for he thought thew in many respects
well calculated to plower the porpose for which
they had been formed, though admitt-ing of '
considerable improvement. l'he chief and beat
fouttda4 objection to them was the ex penes. This ex,
pence amountNl in many parishes to an increase of 1141
per cent. on the obi rate, in others to 300 per cent., and
in some, even to much mead!. lie thought this was a
suitiact which required some investitotion, and in order to
pave the stizy towards a thorough knowledge (4 the com-
parative cost of 4.b it two systems, he begged leave to nova
for a return of the amount paid in each parish for the
equipment anti support of the New Police, and the
mount of rental on which that amount is raised, together
with a return of the some paid by each parfait in the year
before the organization of the New Police, stating tho
number of watchmen and pojigis constables employed,
and the amount of rental on which wok sum was raised.
Me. tIEORCIE LAMB repeated the ateleatent glade
by Sir R. Peal, an a former evening, that the regions ea-
nected with the payments on account of the New Police
were, according to the provieios of the Act of Parliament,
to be laid before the House aftea tle. Christmas recess.
Fur tleateetteon he did not think the Hon. ileober should
press the first part of his motion ; but be had no objection
to the second part, Itecauao ,kip was anxious, in common
with all others, that the new -sytatenp-pf Police should be
folly Inquired into, and its merits fully recog4enl,
Lir jr!,,. PEEL was also desirous that the eternity
the New Polip should be fully ascertained ; and be hoped
that the return romee.d for by the lion, Member would be
merle as comprehensive as' 11.-s!oible, in order to afford a
Mar comparison between the cost and efficiency of the new
day anti e;,,lttpelice and the old system a paro‘hial word,.
Ike believed it was etuite true that some of the pariellea
paid as munch above what they, formerly paid as the Ilion.
Gentletnan stated, but it was bec4net they did not pay a
shilling before, anti trusted solely to the with provided by
their neighbonre.
Mr. HUME app:oyed of the system of police, but tit
that the expense required aediiction. In one parish the
twin paid for watching was raised pool ,pot to 5,5004
'a year. The motion was then agreed to.
- Several other 411„,noltent who had motions to make,
and petitiona to present, were; th,en called an, but in eon-
uenee of its honk nuderstood that the gpeelfer laboured
under teyere indisposition, they declined availing them--
selVes of tits 40•4310 n.
There was at this moment a very general call for an im-
mediate adjournment of tint /loose, but
latr.- nice said there were or f.wet Bills to be for-
warded a stage, and it would be a matter of e,;operpience
to the Government if ti ins was allowed for that purptCle.
The Consolidated Fund Dill was then read a second time.
tie the motion that the Bill be committed,
Mr. HUME netted if it • wet the ititePthW ttf °own-