The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-01 00:00:00

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CANTERBURY ELECTION COM-

MITTE E.

The Committee appointed to try the merits of the petition
complaining of the undue return of the Hon. P. S. Smythe
for the cityof Cauterbury at the last election, met yesterday
c
at eleven o'clock. The Hon. R. Clive in thehair.

Immediately on the Chairman's taking the chair strangers
were ordered to be excluded. _ _ .

Shortly afterwards the doors of the Committee-room were
again opened, and the Chairman announced that in conformity
with the Act of the second Victoria the Committee had come
to the usual resolutions with respect to costs, and with respect
to oi,ening statement of Counsel, in which, if cases of bribery
-weec operse,l,-is watekl iie-istsvoloNO-soisCottussel-tost ex-tlre •
names of the parties bribed, 'ant: sisose offering such bribes.
Mr. AUSTIN ( who with Mr. Cockburn appeared for the
petitioners) said that he had anticipated such resolutions on
the part of the Committee, as they were entirely in conformity
with the resolutions come to by the Committees in the cases of
Ludlow and Cambridge, and by the St. Alban's Committee,
which was then sitting. Instead of opening the case, however,
he-had to inform the Committee, that having looked with great
care at the charges contained in the petition, and having con-
sidered with great attention the evidence in support of
those charges which appeared in his brief, and acting
as he conceived in conformity with the interests of his
client, he thought he was exercising a sound discretion
in advising his client not to proceed with the petition. Having
spok:n to his Learned Friend on the other side, that Learned
Gentleman had agreed with him that the course he had pursued
was the one most consistent with the interests of his client.
He had, therefore, now only to give them the agreeable infor-
mation that he should not be obliged to detain them any longer,
as it was not his intention to proceed with the petition.—(This
announcement of the Learned Gentleman was received with a
smile throughout the room. )
Mr. Sergeant WRANCHAM (who with Mr. Talbot, appeared
for the sitting Member) said that having been consulted by
his Learned Friend, he must admit that he had exercised a
sound'discretion in pursuing tlia course which he had done.
On the part of Mr. Smythe, the sitting Member, he had to
express that gentleman's acknowledgments to his Learned
Friend, for the very candid and honourable course which he
hail pursmcl on the present occasion, and his hope that the
Committee would come to the usual resolutions. For his own
part he should be exceedingly sorry if she Committee were to
come to any other than the usual resolutions on the present
occasion.

The Committee•room was then cleared, and on the readmis-
sion of strangers, •
The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had come
to the following Resolutions

" That the Ron. G. P.S. Smythe is duly elected to serve in
Parl ament, as a burgess for the of Canterbury."
" That the petition against the return of the said Hon.
G. P. S. Smythe is not frivolous nor vexatious, and that the
opposition to the said petition is not frivolous nor vexatious."
This sudden termination of the proceedings appeared to ex-
cite considerable surprise among all present.

ST. ALBAN'S ELECTION COM.

MIFTEE.

The Committee met yesterday at eleven, and immediately pro-
ceeded to consider the objection of Counsel as to the admissi-
bility in Mr. Mackenzie's evidence of any statement of what
passed in conversation between Lord Grimston and Dr.
Webster.

After a consultation of an hour and three quarters, Counsel
were' called in, when
The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee decided that the
evidence as to what passed between Lord Grimston and Dr.
NVebster might be received, but that it should be given by Lord
Grimston. .

Mr. HILLYARD said since last he had the honour of ap-
pearing before the Committee, he thought it his duty seriously
to consider, with his Learned Friend (Mr. Talbot), whether,
after the intimation which the Committee had made of the
view they had taken of the evidence, and the course of pro-
ceeding-that had taken place before it, they (Counsel) ought
to proceed with this investigation, and, as well as they (Coun -
5,.1) could collect from the past decisions of the Committee,
they considered it most probable that they would not, by pro-
tracting the investigation, establish the charges contained in
their petition. They had, therefore, as the Committee had
so entirely dissented from the views taken by them, deter-
mined that they were not justified, either as regarded their
clients, or their duty to the Committee, lo proceed further.
Mr. AUSTIN said, that being the case, be woull lay down his
arms. 1/e was glad his Learned Friends had come to that de-
termination ; it was then for the Committee merely to come to
tho. usual reso'utions.
The room was then cleared, and after an absence of about
ten minutes strangers were admitted, when
The CHAIRMAN declared that the Committee adjourned to
one o'clock to-morrow.

FATAL CAB ACCIDENT.---Yesterday morning at
which a cab was proceeding, and in a
tarde he observed the driver tall from his
a quarter to two o'clock, as police-constable Bowyer, 201,
at as on duty in Se Martin's-le-grand, be was alarmed a•
tmt,earr aopnitd iatfy:carywih
olda n'fiell3o nw. r' ''lisi'Me him
police constable, how-
up, he exclaimed,
seat with great aielence to the ground. He instantly ran
t:?lth'sl isaaissr
ever, findiyg th,t be was intoxicated, and unable to take
care of himself, procured assistance, and conveyed him to
the station-house, where he was placed in the usual recep-
,isgthazae,
recep-
tacle for persons charged with drunkenness, and as h cus-
tomary on such occasions, he was visited by the station-
eltrk, White, every ten minutes. About three o'clock,
however, on entering the cell, White discovered that the
man was evidently ill, and reported the same to his In-
speetor (Martin), who directed his immedia'e removal to
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where, on the attendance of
the house surgeon, be was proneur,ccd to be quite dead.
The body awaits a coroner 'b inquest. The cab, 1,520,
was conveyed to the Green-yard. .
THE CARNIVAL AT NAPLES.—As it had been
raining sally during the carnival, the • king was very much
afte,id of this brilliant spectacle being frustratel by the
weather; therefore he bad five hundred masses said, for
obtaining fine weather for that one day. It did not rain,
and he has been going about telling every body how he
prevented it. '1 he masked balls here are extremely
splendid this year ; I was at one last night with Sir
Thomas, who was disguised en femme de chambre, to the
great diversion of the king, who took biro under his arm,
ai.d paraded him about the igalleries, ready to die with
laughing. —Steiriburne's antis of Europe.
We are assured that the report which appears
in some of the Irish Tory Journals, that Lord Eb.
iinoon is to Le recaled from 'viand, to take the place of
Lord Normenhy, as Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment, who is, it is also said; to proceed to India as
Governor-General. in the place of Lord Auckland, is in
all parts a mere fabrication, .