The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-10 00:00:00

ELECTION COMMITTEES. 'LAMENTABLE OCCURRENCE NEAR
(THIS DAY.) CRANBROOK.

TRALEE.

The Committee assemb'ed at the usual hour, and Mr. IlAttnisox (on
the part of the petitioner, Mr. Bateman) stated that by the decision of
the Committee yesterday, establishing the validity of the e:rtificates
of registry, Mr. Bateman's majority cf I I had been turned into a mino.
rity of 2.1 ; the petitioners had therefore resolved to abandon their op-
position to the return of Mr. M. O'Connell, who is now of course the
sitting Member.

CARLOW (TOWN).
The Committee met today at one o'clock. Colonel WOOD in the
Chair.

Mr. KEATING proceeded to open the case for the petitioner. After
detailing the provisions of the Irish Reform Act with respect to
the Regi,try, he said the election took place in August, and the
numbers on the poll, as returned by the proper Officer, were
fur Mr. Maule ISO, and for Mr. Bruen 158, leaving a majority
for the sitting Member of 22. The case set up by the yeti.
boner was that in that majority there were a great number
of persons who voted without being possessed of any sufficient
qualification, and in many cases without havitv any qualification
at all. It would be his duty to make some strong animadversions upon
the conduct of Mr. W. E. Hudson, the last appointed assistant.
barrister for Carlow. It was a fact, that before the Reform Act
there; was scarcely ever known a change of an assistant barrister
from one county to another, but since that time in Carlow there had
been no fewer than four. Mr. Hudson had put upon the registry the
names of parties who had been rejected by Isis three predecessor s, and even
after a Jury had found they did not possess a sufficient qualification.
'There were other complaints against him, but they would be more in
order when he proposed to open the Register. '1 here was a co:nplaint
in the petition of the conduct of the Catholic clergymen at the election,
and there was also a charge of bribery, but he trusted he would not be
forced to do more than merely allude to them, as he trusted the Com-
mittee would see enough to wartant them in seating Mr. Bruen, with-
out entering into such topic.

The Clerk of the Peace was then called to produce the poll books, and
was under examination, when our reporter left.

READING.

At the sitting of the Committee this morning the Chairman an-
nounced that the ♦ote of James Holton, which was gone into yesterday,
was a good vote.

James Silver, cabinet-maker, Broad-street, was objected to by the
petitioner on the ground of removal. The Committee struck off
the vote.

The vote of John Taylor, St. Mary's Butts, was struck off on the
same ground, as was that of Thomas Cooper, Bedford-street.
Thomas Balding, registered for a house in Broad.street, was objected
to on the ground of removal. It appeared that ha was the owner of the
houses 96 and 97, and removed from the former to the latter at Christ-
mas, 1836, the occupier of 97 having removed to 95, to make room
for him.

Mr. HILL submitted that this was a good vote, inasmuch as on the
register no number was given to the house, for which Mr. Badling was
registered as owner, and he might have registered for either.
The room was cleared, and the Committee, after deliberating a consi-
derable time, declared Mr. Balding's to be a good vote.
The vote of James Hayes, of Yieldhall, was then struck off, on the
ground of removal. This placed the petitioner in a majority of one, and
the sitting Member then proposed to strike oil the vote of George Hat
ton, chinaman, of Broad.street, on the ground of removal. The Com-
mittee decided the vote to be bad. _ . .

The vote of John Wakefield was then struck off, leaving the sitting
Member in a majority.