The Sun.
London, England, 1830-11-30 00:00:00

ELECTION COMMITTEES.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Nov. 29.
MAILLHOROUGII ELECTION.
The Committee met this morning at ten o'clock, when
Mr. Anast addressed them on behalf of the sitting Mom-
bees; alter some preliminary observations, he said that the
fume question which they hurt now to decide upon was be-
fore a Committee of the House in 1827, when it was de-
termined, without hearing any evidence, hut merely from
what Appeared on the face of the Journals, that the deci-
sion of 1717 was conclusive on the subject, and that none
but those who haul been duly admitted burgesses were en-
titled to vote at elections. There wpb, no evidence to show
that the right of election had ever been exercised by the
inhabitants at large ; and he would satisfy the Committee
that that privilege had been exercised by those only who
hart been admitted into the Corporation from the 39th of
Elizabeth down to the present period. It was denied on
the other side that there was a Corporation, as no charter,
showing that they were a corporate body, could he pro-
duced. But he contendedrthat the fact of their using a
common seal, was a strong, though not a cogent, proof of
their being a Corporation. Notwithstanding what bad
been advanced on the other side, be (Mr. Adam) would
show the Committee that this Corporation had a charter,
granted by King John ; but, even if they had no such
charter, he maintained that the Conouittee should presume
that they were a Corporation' by prescription, from the fact
of their having acted in a corporate capacity for two (sun-
turies. This Learned Counsel was proceeding to cite au.
thorities to show that a charter might be presumed from
long and uninterrupted usage, though it might not be
forthc.nning, when he was interrupted by
r Joum Waorreserr, who► observed, that, if they
could produce a charter granted by King John, it would
be useless to waste the time of the Committee in arguing
about a prescriptive right. If you have it charter, ob-
served the Hon. Baronet, my illegal head can't see why
you should labour to found your right on usage.
Mr. Anam—But your illegal heed may not see that
what I shall produce is a charter, and lest you might
err by thinking that it is not a charter, I will endeavour
to convimee you that a charter is not necessary in order to
establish the right for which I contend. The Learned
Counsel, after some further observations in support of a
right by prescription, read extracts from the Charter of
John, among which were these words—. We grant unto
the borough of Marlborough, and all burgesses and men
of said borough, exemption from toll." It bad been con-
tended on the other tide that the word " men" implied alt
the inhahitsnte, but the same word was used in the
Charters of Portsmouth, London, and Liverpool ; and
the Court of King's Bench had decided respecting each of
those places severally, that none but freemen who paid
scot and lot were entitled to an exemption fro► toll.
Sir J. WILOTTICSLEY wished to know how Mr. Adam
could reconcile this? According to the laws of the Cor-
poration there should always be a Mayor, two Justices,
and five Aldermen. Yet it appeared that at some periods
the entire number of the Corporation did not exceed six.
Mr. Arum could not account for it.
The Learned Counsel having concluded an address
which occupied three hours, several ancient documents
and extracts from the Corporation books were put in in
support of his position.
The Chamberlain of the borough was thetieexamined,
who deposed that the Corporation had eighty acres of land
which they let out to tenants, from whom they received
the rent, and that there were about eighty acres more of
common lands, on which every householder had a right to
send two cows to grate,
The further consideration of the 'subject was adjourned
at four o'clock until to-morrow (this day).

Some disturbances, took place at Mevagissey
isat week, Where a 'shipment of grain was about to take
place. This was opposed, some of the sacks were cut,
and one tnan was seriously injured in the ecuffle. These
turhnlent proceedings are the snore to be condemned, hi-
Mee we conscientiously believe that the inhabitants of
Cornwall have less to apprehend from scarcity or distrese,
at this time, than those of any other county in the king-
dom.—Devoisport Telegraph.
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 27.—An experiment
took place in his Majesty's Dock-yard on Thursday, under
the direction of Captain liattate, M.P. of the strength
of Zealand flax when manufactured into cahle-laid cordage
saturated with a solution of the eaoutchouc, or Indian
rubber, against that made with Russian hemp and tar.
The result has proved the superiority in strength of the
former, but its durability in comparison with the latter
has not yet been proved..—Hante Adrertist.r.
MAXWELL.--" One of the principal churn-
. tern in this fatuous novel, is nick-named Mousetrap. He
is a modern Cadwallader Crabtree. - That this eether has
been very successful in his creation is proved hy this fact
running accompaniment of snuff box,
that his strange remerks and perpetual grumble, with a
drinking-O m, grunt,
and wink, keep the refuter on the broad grin. Monsctrap
is to our taste delicious ; byis one of the real improhabi-
lithe of modern 'society. Mr. Apperton, the ptock-
broker, is another of the author's staring likenesses—one
of those 'aloofly who dine every day at good tables in re-
spectsble middling life-.-a man of limited intellecti..-ignm.
rant of all things but omniutn—upright, OA; and se-
spected, till he turns out all at a sudden, like so many
others, tas have been a chew, and a *Windier *soon acting
genie of differences ttirne against him. Such periou
could only be muting under the menagement of our
author. "..-Speetaton