The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-10 00:00:00

RIBBLE NAVIGATION.

Opposed ; agreed by consent to postpone this case to Mon-
day, to the Sub-committee which will then sit.
Adjourned at a quarter to four o'clock.

LONGFORD ELECTION COMMIT-
TEE.-(YESTERDAY.)

The Longford Committee met yesterday at three o'clock.
Mr. E. S. CAYLEY in the Chair.

Mr. Sergeant Spankie and Mr. Gilmore appeared for the
petitioners ; Mr. Thessiger and Mr. Austin for the sitting
Members.

The Clerk having read the petition Pgainst the return, lists
were exchanged by the respective parties.
Mr. AUSTIN thought it would facilitate the proceedings to-
morrow if his Learned Friend would hand in the names with
which he intended to proceed. This was the usual practice.
Mr. SERGEANT SPANKIE said no doubt the course suggested
was a very convenient one; but he was not prepared at pre-
sent to state the precise course which he meant to adopt. He
never knew such a step taken at the preliminary sitting of the
Committee, which was merely for the exchange of lists.
A long conversation ensued, during which the Chairman
recommended the Learned Sergeant to consider the request
which bad been made.

The discussion was put an end to by a message announcing
that the Speaker was at prayers.
. .

The Committee then. adjourned until eleven o'clock to-
morrow morning.

ROXBURGH ELECTION COMMIT-
TEE.-(YESTERDAY.)

(Continued from our First Edition of yesterday.)
Oliver Harding, an elector, deposed to having seen Mr.
John Turnbull, who voted fer Mr. Elliott, return inside the
railings, while Walter Dudley, one of Mr. Scott's supporters,
was not allowed to do so. Witness was assaulted by the mob.
Andrew Stavard, an elector, deposed to his having been
assaulted and knocked down by the mob.
Mark Turnbull stated that he was in the polling booth be-
tween ten and eleven o'clock, on the morning of second
day of polling, when a note was brought from Walter Curdy,
an elector, to the Sheriff, who, on reading it, said that if ho
understood the Act of Parliament rightly, he was bound
to adjourn the polling in consequence of the interruption oc-
casioned by the rioting. Mr. Wilson, who appeared to be an
agent of Mr. Elliott, spoke to the Sheriff, and the polling was
resumed. _

David Gully deposed to his having been immersed in the
river by the mob. Appealed for protection to a constable
named Clark, who endeavoured to assist him, but was unable
to do so.

James Anderson deposed to his having been knocked down
and assaulted.

Richard Young, a blacksmith, stated that his windows had
been broken by the mob, and he himself stripped naked.
At twenty minutes to four Mr. Thossiger said that ha ha
no more witnesses in attendance.

Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Commit-
tee remained in deliberation until fcur o'clock, when it was
announced that the Speaker was at prayers, and they adjourned
to eleven o'clock to-morrow morning.

IPSWICH ELECTION COMMITTEE.

(Continued from our First Edition of yesterday.)
The Committee ultimately disallowed the vote.
The Liberals having also struck off the vote of T. Berriman,
Mr Tuffnell was in a majority of two.
The Tories, before the Committee adjourned, struck off two
of Mr. Tuffnell's votes, those of Messrs. Hare and Miller.
Messrs. Kelly and Tuffnell were then again on an equality.

Yesterday morning, between twelve and one o'clock,
great alarm was excited in Frith-street, Soho, by the sudden
and extraordinary rise of part of the carriage way. A space
about twenty feet in circumference, fronting the shop-window
of Messrs. Sewell and Cross, the extensive haberdashers, was
lifted upwards of two feet. At first it was supposed to be
caused by some accident to the gas-pipes, and the alarm be-
came so great that all the shopkeepers near it closed their
shop shutters, fearful of an explosion of gas. A number of
labourers were sent by the parish authorities of St. Anne to
remove the stones to ascertain the cause ; in doing which a
torrent of water issued forth, rising to a great height, inun-
dating the street, areas, and houses of the neighbours. A
dispatch was sent to the water-works, and the water as quickly
as possible stopped, and all further alarm subsided. The
accident was caused by the bursting of the main pipe by the
frost.