The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-22 00:00:00

BELFAST.

The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock.
Mr. Wtt ITESIDB objected to the vote of Michael Leghran,houseliolder,
registered in January 1837.

William Smith examined the premises, which are situated in 1.1111-
street ; they consist of a small three-story house, with part of a yard.
The voter told witness that the rent be paid was 8/. 108., which witness
thought to be its full value.

William Taylor litated that the outside value of the premises Wag
about 81. 10s.

William Williams valued them at 81. 10s.
Mr. Gilmore stated that the public valuation for Loghran's house in
1835, was 61., in 1836, 81., and in 1837, 71.

This closed the case against the vote.
Mr. ANDREWS was addressing the Committee upon the reception of
the police-books, by which 7 voters of the borough of Belfast had al-
ready been disfranchised, when he was interrupted by the Chairman who
assured him that the Committee had not decided upon these books alone•
The division of the Committee would have been the same even if they
had not been produced.
Mr. ANDREWS then proceeded to remanrk upon the evidence which
lie contended was contradictory, and called on the Committee to decide
in favour of the vote.

The Committee then withdrew, and on their return the Chalrrnan
announced that they had decided that the ♦ote should be allowed.

SLIGO.

The Committee eat this morning at Eleven o'clock.
Mr. Mattison' stated that he found upon inquiry that he
should not be able to connect the petition with the public
subscription, to which he had hoped to trace it. He should there-
fore proceed no further with the examination of witnesses, but would
leave his ease in the hands of the Committee, feeling eontident that thei
would pronounce the petition frivolous and ♦exatious, at least In re-
gard to the thirteen allegations which were abandoned, after the sitting
Member had been put to all the expense of defending them.
Mr. SMITH, in reply, contended that if the petition were frivolous and
vexatious: in the allegations which were abandoned, the opposition of
his Learned Friend, during the last two days, was also frivolous and
vexatious, as it was now abandoned.—(Hear, and a laugh.)
The room was then cleared; and the Committee having deliberated
for about an hour, recalled the Counsel and agents, when the Chair-
man said, " The Committee have some to the following resolution—that
John Patrick Somers, Esq., is duly elected to sit in Parliament for the
Borough of Sligo, and that the petition of John Wood and others, doee
not appear to this Committee to be frivolous or vexatious ; and that
the opposition thereto does not appear to the Committee to be frivolous
or vexatious."

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY•)

DRAT., Fan. ?A.—Wind E.S.E. fresh breeze.—Came down from th.
ltiver, and proceeded, the Terra Nova, Barclay, for St. John's, Erne
raid, Hill, for Antigua ; Aurora, Cooper, for Halifax ; Eden, Crook •
for South Australia; Africa, Skelton, for Ceylon ; Protector, Glasirif'
for St. Vincent's ; Troughton, Shimels, for New York ; Rambler.
Hutchinson, for Berbice; Malay, Welsh, for Barbadoes ;
Lisbon ; Hotspur, for Malta ; Emma, Newport ; and Nereid, for
Alexandria. Mary, for

PORTSMOIIIII, Fcti. Sl.—Wind E.S.E., light airs, hazy, and with run'
—Arrived the Achille, Beliard, from Buenos Ayres for Rotterdam, ""
is come into harbour; Sportsman, William, from Cork. Sailed, the
White and Aboyne, for Sunderland. The Holland, Stoaben, from 131:
tavia, is come into harbour. The Brighton, Sedman, for Llanelly cud
Bombay, is gone out of harbour to Spithead.
Mitroan, FED. 20.—Arrived the William, Adams, from St. Aft-
chael's, with loss of spare, sails, &c.
STANGATC CittiCK, FILL 31.—Arrived the Charles, Hutchins, Leghorn;
MARGATr,:F 88. 21,—Arrived off port the Frederick, Dales, from
Odessa; and Matilda, Perkins, from Bordeaux.
Raissoave, FEL 21.—Arrived the Daniel Webster, Manson, n°l3l
Charleston.

KING RoAD, FEB. 20.—Arrived the Hebe, Partridge, from Cadig•
Cowes, Fso. 2l.—Arrived the William, from Chrome.
HARVricir, Fa& 21.—Arrived the Plumstead, Evans, from Trieste'
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 21.—Wind S.E., moderate.— Arrived the Fame'
Whitney, and Paragon, Smith, from Buenos Ayres ; Thracian, au,„
Jowell, from Savannah ; Amity, from Laguna ; North Star, 11-010 Ne
Orleans; and Mary Ann, from Valparaiso. Arrived off
ley, from Calcutta; Midas, from Pernambuco; Europe, Huron, i„g.
Roy, Inez, Manchester, and Potomac, from New Orleans; and n'rm
ham, from Mobile. Sailed the Gazelle, for Rio Janeiro; Scotland, for
New York; and Marathon, for Boston. port the 1;,1.011-3