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mittee, but he did say that the Hon. and Learned Member
had every possible advantage on his side. He not only had
his friends appointed on the Committee, but he also had a
Member upon it objecting to every Member (to thsp(the €sp.
position) side who was suppo;ed td lied a Okttii6 df aCquaint-
ance with the law of, !.N i as even an attendance at
quarter itetrikon. W4d give them ; and law, be it remembered,
‘,Vriti. IAI-liikAnt feature in the discussion before the Committee.
4'no main objection to the present inquiry was that it was, in
point of fact, a trial of the Committee. This he denied, as he
had before denied it. The Committee bad found that the
Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, was acquitted of any
pecuniary private Cntrilpt thdlive, or of any desire to put any
of the money into his own pocket. It was clear that the Com-
mittee, tiinsidered the question a pecuniary one, and that their
ddcision went upon that ground.—( Hear.) He could assure
the Noble Lord; the foster-father of the Reform Act, that,
while he had extended the representation, he had also widened
the field of Corruption. It was, indeed, on the example, and
in Pursuance of the maxims, of the Noble Lord himself,
that he (Mr. Hardy) brought this question first before
the House. He had an extract from a speech of the Noble
Lord, delivered in answer to Sir E. Sugden, in which the
Noble Lord said It is my opinion that as long as lam
a Member of this House, I ought to do my utmost in causing
the laws to be properly supported. One of them is, that the
sale of scats in the House, either directly or indirectly, shall
not be allowed."—(00 Hear, hear," from the Opposition.) The
Hon. and Learned Gentleman calls on me to see the principle
carried into execution—a duty lam engaged in doing to the
utmost of my ability. How was the Noble Lord engaged
now ? Was he engaged in preventing the sale of scats at
Carlow, or was he not rather holding out an intimation that
hereafter Members might sell seats with impunity? Perhaps
he ought to add, provided they were under the wing of the
Hon. and Learned Member.—( Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord
had characterised his (Mr. Hardy's) allusion to the offer of
the baronetcy as a trumpery attack ; but be had also alluded
to it for the purpose of showing that the Hon. and Learned
Member had been unable to procure a baronetcy for the She-
riff of London. But why did not the Sheriff have the baro-
netcy ? Because he -.would not have it.—(oh, oh !) His an-
swer was, that he preferred the chance of a seat in the House
of Commons to a baronetcy. But what was the real secret of
the transaction? Why, on the day when Mr. O'Connell of-
fered Mr. Raphael the baronetcy, he had 1,0001. of Mr.
Raphael's money in his hands, which would have been forfeited
to the Carlow Club, had Mr. Raphael accepted the baronetcy ;
besides that, it would have saved the 600 votes which were
struck off. He thought that this was the most reasonable ex-
planation that could be offered on the subject of the baronetcy,
and the hoped the Noble Lord would thank him for it.—
(Hear.) He now left the case in the hands of the, House.
After a few words from Lord MA HON,
The House divided, when the numbers were—
For the original motion
For the amendment 2,43

Majority
On our return to the Gallery, we found
Lord STANLEY moving the following resolution:--
" That there appears to have been between the contracting
parties a distinct understandinif that, after prcviding for the
legal expenses of Mr. Raphael's election, any surplus that re-
mained should go towards defraying the expense of the peti-
tion of the previous election ; and should next, after that be
appropriated to the funds of the Carlow Club. That such an
understanding calls for the notice of the House, as being liable
to serious abuse, as establishing a dangerous precedent, and as
being calculated to subvert the freedom and purity of election."
He offered the resolution to the House to affirm or negative
it as they thought fit, but he would not feel that he had dis-
charged his duty if he had not done so.—(Cheers.)
After a few words from Mr. WARBURTON,
Lord J. RUSSELL said that the ground on which he had
acted all through was, that he was willing to abide by the
decision of the Committee. Having rested on the decision of
that Committee he was not prepared to support any resolution
that went beyond it, and should therefore move that the other
Orders of the Day be now proceeded with.—( Cheers.)
The SPEAKER then put the question, and the gallery was
cleared for a division.

For Lord Stanley's resolution
For the amendment
Majority for the amendment ... —72

166
238

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
louse adjourned at Three o'Clock.

DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE.

The Committee reassembled yesterday at eleven o'clock,
and remained in deliberation for half an hour on the point re-
lating to certain voters who were proved to be employed in the
police establishment of the city of Dublin at the time of the
election.
The resolution come to was as follows :

" That the Committee, being satisfied that Bernard Calla-
ghan held a situation as watchman in the police establishment
at the time of the election, are of opinion that his vote cannot
be allowed."

James Barnaby was next objected to on the same ground,
and struck off the petitioners' poll.
This gave,Mr. O'Connell a majority.
The vote of Samuel Wall, for arrears of Wide-street tax,
was struck off by consent of the sitting Member.

The next vote objected to was that of Sylvester Dunne, oft
the same ground.
Mr. AUSTEN contended, as in the case of a voter named
Quigley, decided a few days ago, that there was not sufficient
evidence to connect the voter with the premises proved to be
in arrear, and the Committee after deliberation, concurred in
that opinion. The vote was therefore allowed to remain on
the poll.
Mr. THESSIGER said this decision placed him in a delicate
position, and was about making further observations, when
Mr. G. F. YOUNG said it would be better to take each vote
on its individual merits.

Mr. THESSIGER then proposed to strike the vote of John
Clarke off the poll of the sitting Member.
After argument between counsel as to the effect of the evi-
dence given in this case, the vote was struck off.
The votes of Thomas Payne and John Vosser, included in
the police class, were struck off the poll of the petitioners by
consent.

The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow (this day).

IRELAND.

HORRIBLE OUTRAGE.—We have to record one of the most
revolting outrages which ever came within our knowledge.
On the night of Thursday last, the vaults under the church of
St. Andrew's, in this city were broken open. The strong
iron bars were forced, and the sacrilegious ruffians made their
way to the coffins. They forced them open, and dragged the
teeth out of the corpses which were interred therein. An iron
bar was left in the churchyard by the perpetrators of the dia-
bolical deed. The body of a gentleman recently interred was
dragged partly out of the coffin. On the same night a similar
outrage was committed in the vaults at St. Mark's Church.—
Freeman.

MILITARY TITHE COLLECTORS.—A Correspondent of the
Southern Reporter thus describes a day's march, which was
performed on the 12th inst., in the neighbourhood of Bandon :
—A detachment of infantry, amounting to a hundred men,
proceeded from the Cork station to Kinsale, there to be rein-
forced by auxiliaries, equal to the successful enterprise of
serving a tithe notice on Mr. Cornelius Murphy, of Bridefort,
a distance of eight Irish miles, due north of Bandon, at the
suit of the Rev. Rogerson Cotter, incumbent of Templetrine,
in whose parish the recusant, Mr. Murphy, rents a farm. A
regiment of foot—a troop of horse—a posse of police, with
two or three Magistrates—bailiffs and officers—a doctor to as-
sist the wounded or dying in the expected battle field—corn-
posed this imposing and formidable expedition.
On their march the country exhibited an extraordinary spec-
tacle, the poor people in view of them took flight from the
fields in all directions, as if for their lives—cattle of every
description were swept away. This scene of confusion and
trepedation spread itself with the rapidity of lightning in a
few hours from Bandon to Macroom, and from that towards

the west to Inehageela a distance of 30 miles, until the ap-
proach of evening suggested a truce for the night. At three
o'clock the Military arrived at Bridefort—the destined point of
attack—the house and premises were soon surrounded by a
circle of soldiers, but Mr. Murphy being from home, the place
closed up, and no living Wight visible to provoke battle, they
laid siege to the kitchen door, and succeeded in nailing thereto-
an Exchequer notice. After this achievment they retreated
in good order—
The King of France and all his merry men
Went up the bill and then came down again.
Wno BLEW UP THE STATUE 2—We have the authority o

the Evening Packet of last night in saying, " 'Twas the
Orangemen did it." But why have not the particular indivi-
duals been discovered? We have heard it shrewdly observed,
and we believe the observation, that the miscreants who were

the coucoctors and agents in the scheme are men of fortune,
on whom a reward would not be likely to operate as a bribe
to the discovery. Believing this, we must acquit the hungry
corporators of any knowledge or participation in the act—as,
had they been cognizant of it, they would long since have
jumped at the golden bait. Cobbett said there never would
be peace in Dublin until that ridiculous statue had been razed
to the ground. We have, by the assistance of our political
enemies, advanced at least one step towards that consumma-
tion so devoutly to be wished.—Freeman's Journal.

THE WHITE MAN'S GRAVE.—" A VISIT TO
SIERRA LEONE." BY FRANCIS HARRISON RANKIN, F.,'SQ.
" Mr. Rankin is a lively and amusingwriter, gifted with much
industry of research, acuteness of nervation, an eye for the
picturesque, and a merry heart,-inclined to extract a joke from
even a dull incident. Th,ese'qualities render his book very
pleasing. reading, in addition to which he has brought toge-
ther a considerable fund of solid information respecting Sierra
Leone, which must be looked for in vain in any other work on
the subject. He has demonstrated, and we think successfully,
the fallacy of considering the climate of this African settle-
ment as pestilential and deadly, and on this account alone, if
on no other, the present work deserves to be perused with
earnest and grave attention."—Naval and Military Gazette.
The treatment of Mr. Brewster in Dr. Burn's cru-
sade, has been, from the first, subversive of proper discipline
—but the last step has transcended its forerunner ; and we
hesitate not to characterise as the most unchristian and invete-
rate act of persecution which modern times have exhibited,
and seems more akin to an Orange-Irish emancipation of
spleen, than anything with which Scotland has been as yet
happily acquainted, but from the recurrence of which we trust
our Church Courts may be hereafter for ever preserved.—
Perthshire Advertiser.
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In consequence of the immense number of salmon
conveyed to Liverpool, &c., by the steam vessels in the Sol-
way, a piece of new salmon cannot now be had in Carlisle
market for less than 2s. per pound.