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liIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF PEERS.

MONDAY. JAN. 3.

The further consideration of the Irish Appeal
Cause, Chainley v. Lord D.unsany, was adjourned
till Thursday.
The Controverted EleEtion Bill was read a third
time and passed. ..
A. few. Naturalization Bills, which lay on the ta-
ble, were respectively forwarded.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY, JAN. 5.

Near fifty Members took the Oaths and their seats:

THETFORD PETITION.

Mr. WHITBREAD-, in pursuance of his notice,
moved, That the Order for taking into consideration
the Petition complaining of an undue Return for the
borough of Thetford, on Tuesday the 27th inst.
Should be discharged, with a view to its being fixed
for some oo.ier day. He grounded his Motion on
the necessity that existed of applying. to the Court of
King's Bench, in the next Derm, for the means of
ascertAthiog, the legality of several of the Voters in
that 13c,•.nogh.
;:tIING/IY, after having entreated the can-
dohr and indulgence of the House, as he was unac-
tustorned to address them, proceeded
toi,eXpress his
•stollifilimeti.t at the Motion made. 4 The 'Hon. Gen -
tJetnau, of ..vinti:!, until yesferday, he knew no-
thing. The iir,ift sect objea of the delay ti as to, of :s
ford an opportunity. to tear the rights of the. Corpo-
ration-of Thetford to yiiects, r r it was diretted
.tc;Plinst a Member of that Corporation who had been
fire years created an Alderinan ; Who, in 1802, had
a6tually voted -for titL: Petitioner, and whose right
had never beet) questioned until the last Ele6tion..
There thkyl been suaictent time for an application to
The Co.ert of King's Bench during the last Term,
but the object was to keep him (Mr. Mingay) in hot

Mr. g7:11T8RE.1,9 disclaimed any such obje&.
The oestion was, Had such persons a right to vote
-if they, had, the Hon. Gentleman was entitled to a
teat in th,:t 140iiic 5. if they had not, he was not so
+entitled. It was true they [night have voted at
former Elettions, and if no flaw had been discovered
in their title, they :night not have been diifranchis4
Intbrmation h: id seen obtained too late to make an
appiicatioo to the Court during the last Term, and,
therefore, justice assuredly required that the Petition
Should be delayed until such an application could be
obtained.

Mr. BATHURST observed, that it was impossi-
ble for the House to decide on, that of which they
had no wails of judging but by the assertions of
contending parties. He believed that after such a
long exercise 4--.‘f right in a Corporate Body, a Court
of Law could not disfranchise it. He could see no
objeetion to the postponing the consideration of the
Petition for -a fortnight.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL remarked, that
there had been time, during the last Terru, to make
an application to the Court- of King's Bench for a
quo Warranty ; not having done so, he did not think
the Petitioner was entitled to the delay ; for all that
could be done in the next Term was to move for a
quo warrynto ; the Court could not Clistiancnise,
and the result: might be protmded until the end of
the Session,

After a few words from Mr. WHITBREAD and
Mr. ROSE, Lord Howl cx, !observing that business
of importance stood for this evening-, moved that
the Debatd be adjourned until to-morrow ; which
was agreed to.