The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-09 00:00:00

ELECTION COMMITTEES.

(Continued from our First Edition of yesterday.)
READING.
The Committee, after the arguments of Counsel had been
concluded, decided on receiving the document which had been
th subject of dispute.
f homas Fife was then objected to by tho petitioner, on the
gr .und of change of qualification.
The Committee decided the vote to be geed.

NEWCASTLE-UNDER-LYNIE.
The examination of witnesses on the pitl of the sitting
Member, to disprove the allegations of bribery and treating,
was resumed this morning. w
The witnesses were called to refute the statement made by
a publican, that he had been promised payment of an old elec-
tion account, provided he would vote for Mr. Miller ; but,
after a very lengthened examination, they could Only state that
they had not heard it.
Mrs. Mason was next examined—She stated positively that
her husband, Wm. Mason, at the time it had been stated by
three witnesses on the other side, that he was in a bed room
with Mr. Miller at the hotel, when he had demanded 7001. to
purchase seven more voters, was taking tea with her, and that
he did not leave the house till long atter the hour stated by
the witnesses.
William Mason was then called. He admitted that the
witnesses above alluded to had on one occasion forced their
way into a room in which he was with Mr. Miller.
He had never given them any money. He denied that he had
acted as Mr. Miller's agent, although he was actively en-
gaged in his behalf, and had paid some of the expenses of the
election. On being questioned as to the part he had taken
on former elections, he threw himself upon the protection of
the Committee, as the answer might be calculated to crimi.
nate himself. He admitted that it had been the custom at
Newcastle for a great number of years, to
give money to the
voters ; but he knew nothing* of the 100 or 170 sovereigns, to
which the witness Bailley had alluded.
It is, we believe, understood that Counsel will sum up the
evidence to-morrow, when Mr. Austin will be heard in reply.

YOUGHALL.
The Committee decided upon opening the registry, which
is in point of fact revising the revision of the Barristers. The
question has been differently decided by different Committee.,
some having been of opinion that the Reform Act gave to the
Barristers the final and sole revision of the registry ; others
that the Committees of the House of Commons have the
power which this Committee have assumed of re-revising the
egistry.
The vote of Edmund Bowler was then objected to on the
ground that the premises for which he was registered was not
of sufficient value for the qualification. This case was post-
poned till to-morrow, and the Committee adjourned.

TRALEE.
The Committee met at 2 o'clock this day, Mr. DIVETT in
the Chair.
Mr. HARRISSON and Mr. WRANGIIAM appeared for the pe-
titioners. Mr. MESSMER for the Sitting Member.
The only point on which the petitioners rested, and which
will decide upwards of 60 votes, is whether the certificates of
registry describing the voters, as of " Tralee"
simply, without
any other local direction, were valid.
The case had been opened, and the Poll-books produced,
when it was announced that ,the Speaker was at prayers.

The IVestern Times states that considerable satis-
faction is felt at the appointment of the present Sheriff, Sir
John Rogers. The Worthy Baronet has been constantly on
the list for the last 30 years ; but he has hitherto continued to
escapes the onerous duties of this office.
Died on Sunday last, in Somers Town, John Gale
Jones, surgeon, in the 68th year of his age ; his death is
deeply regretted, and his memory highly revered by a nume-
rous body of friends. He was an able, consistent, and un-
flinching supporter of public liberty, and a distinguished
Member of the celebrated " London Corresponding So-
ciety," instituted for the promotion of a full, fair, and free
representation of the whole people in Parliament. He was
a man possessing sound and liberal political principles, of
splendid talents, and of great oratorical powers; he spent a
long public life, a great portion of which was in difficult and
dangerous
ssevrae ats times, with unceasing activity, with steady per-
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The Sheffield Mercury, of Saturday, says—
,. We have now had snow on the ground, and mostly of
considerable depth, for eight weeks; and there are few per-
sons, it may be supposed, even among those who are most
thoroughly impressed with the folly, if nothing worse, of re-
pining about the weather, who would not be exceeding glad to
see the streets clear of ice, and the fields free from snow.
The latter wish may, perhaps, be realized in a day or two, if
the thaw which has now prevailed since Monday continues ;
but a whole week, at the present temperature, will not suffice
to melt the ice off the streets.

HORNE TooKE.—The conduct of Horne Tooke
affords a striking example to the efficacy of bold measures, and
a palliation of O'Contijil's conduct at the Crown and Anchor.
A private Enclosure Bill was passing through the House of
Commons, which greatly annoyed a gentleman of the name of
Tooke, who resided upon his own estate in the county of Nor-
folk. The promoters of the Bill were powerful, and every
effort to mitigate its clauses had proved unavailing. In this
dilemma Mr. Tooke was introduced to Parson Horne, who at
that time wrote for the Public Ledger, to whom he opened his
feelings, and represented the obligations he should be under if
the Bill could be arrested in its progress, until protection
had been given to his property. Horne entered readily into
his views, and undertook to write an article in the Public
Ledger, which should so pointedly reflect upon the character
of the House of Commons, as to arrest its attention And call
the printer to its bar. The article was written by the masterly
pen of the parson, and it had the anticipated effect. Notice
was taken of it, as a scandalous aspersion upon the honour and
integrity of Parliament, and the printer was ordered to attend,
when Mr. Parson Horne, who had placed himself in the gal-
lery, watching with intense anxiety the working of his
scheme, exclaimed "he was the author of the article in
question." This bold avowal brought him to the bar, when
an opportunity was afforded, of which he availed him-
self with great skill, to expose the injustice of the Bill,
the conduct of its promoters, and his motive in writing the
article. The effect was complete. Parson Horne retired
without censure, and the Bill was withdrawn at the same time.
This circumstance led to a close intimacy between the country
squire and the Brentford curate, and ended in the latter taking
the name and estates of his friend Tooke.—Weekly True Sun.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Manes 8

In consequence of the Ballots for the Election Committees
to try the merits of the petitions presented against the Bo-
roughs of Evesham and Carlow, the Gallery was not open till
half-past Four o'Clock.

BELFAST ELECTION.
Mr. HALFORD, Chairman of the Belfast Election Com-
mittee, reported to the House that the Committee had come
to the resolution that James Gibson and George Hamilton
Chichester, commonly called the Earl of Belfast, were not
duly elected to serve as burgesses for the borough of Belfast;
that James Emerson Tennent, and George Dunbar, were
duly elected, and ought to have been returned as Bur-
gesies for the Borough of Belfast; that the • petition
of Robert Francis Gordon and others was not frivolous and
vexatious, nor sees the opposition thereto. The Committee
further reported that they had altered the poll books at the
last election by striking off the names of c,rtain voters who
had no right to vote, and ought not to have been placed on
the registry of voters.
Mr. GRATTAN moved that the Minutes of Evidence
taken before the Belfast Election Committee be printed.—
Nlinistetial cheers.) The motion was seconded by an lion.
Member on the other side of the House, which occasioned
counter cheering.
On the motion of Mr. W. PATTV,N, the Manchester,
Bolton, and Bury Cinal and Railway Bill was read a second
time, and ordered to be committed.
Mr. G. W. WOOD brought up the 13th Report of the
Committee on Public Petitions.
The Clerk appeared at the bar, with the reduced list of the
Committee on the Evesham Election Pttition.
The following gentlemen were then sworn at the table:—
Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Sir H. Campbell, Mr. Plumptre,
Mr. Collier, Mr. Parrott, Mr. Scarlett, Mr. Childers, Lord
Ashley, Captain Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Mr. Baillie, and Mr.
Harland.
Mr. LOCH presented a petition from Bradford, praying
for an alteration in the new Poor-law Bill.
Mr. C. LUSHINGTON presented two petitions from
Devonshire, desiring tho unqualified and unconditioned free-
dom of the negroes.
CHANNEL ISLANDS FISHERIES.

Mr. E. RICE gave notice that, on the 10th of March, he
would bring' before the House the subject of the Channel
Island Fisheries.
NEGRO APPRENTICESHIP.

Mr. BAINES presented three petitions for the abolition of
Negro Apprenticeship, from Maldon, from Bishops Stortford,
and from a place in Cambridgeshire.
POST HORSE DUTY.

Mr. PRYME presented nine petitions for the repeal of the
Post Horse Duty.
POOR LAWS.

Lord INGE STRIE presented several petitions from places
in Staffordshire, for the amendment of the new Poor-law Act.

TRADES' UNIONS.

Lord WILLIAM BR NTINCK presented a petition from
the Corporation of Bakers (u we understood) of Glasgow,
ooruplainin: of the injuries which they sustained by the tyran-
nical conduct of the Trades' Unions.

SOAP DUTY.
The Noble LORD presented another petition from Glasgow,
for the repeal of the duty on Soap.
IRISH CHURCH.—GLEBE HOUSES.

Mr. Sergeant JACKSON presented a petition from the
clergy of the diocese of Ardagh, stating that they would feel
♦ery severely the pressure of the instalments on the loan for
the erection of glebe-houses, and praying that they might be
absolved from the payment of those instalments, as they had
been from the payment of the million loan for the erection of
Churches.
CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE.

The Clerk of Committees appeared at the Bar with the
reduced list of this Committee, the Members of which accor-
dingly came to the table and were sworn :—Frederick Dun-
das, John Rundle, John Henry Lowther, Lord Eliot, Hon.
G. H. Cavendish, Philip Henry Howard, Thomas Hould-
worth, Francis Bernard Beamish, Edward Turner, Montague
Edmund Newcombe Parker, Thomas Wood of Brecon.
Mr. J. T. HOPE presented a petition from one of the
Coroners of Gloucester, complaining of the inadequacy of the
remuneration attaching to the office of Coroner.
Mr. ELLIOTT presented a number of petitions from
Roxburgh, against additional endowments to the Church of
Scotland.
Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition from Wolver-
hampton, praying for a repeal of the duty on soap.
Mr. GILL ON presented several petitions from Lanark,
praying for the immediate abolition of Negro Slavery.
Mr. WOD E HO LIS E presented petitions to the same effect.
Mr. HAWKES presented a petition complaining of the
dietary system in the workhouses.
Mr. LITTON brought up a Bill relating to the Court of
Chancery in Ireland, which was read a first time.
Mr. WAK LE Y gave notice of his intention to more for
certain returns relating to the number of deaths and burials,
and the amount of medicine used in workhouses.
Sir R. PEEL inquired if the Noble Lord opposite had
any objection to lay on the table the dispatch from Lord
Aberdeen to Lord Amherst?
Lord JOIIN RUSSELL said ho had not the slightest
objection.