The Sun.
London, England, 1848-03-22 00:00:00

SUPPLY.

Mr. BpLLEW brought up the report of the
Committee of Supply, which was agreed to.
The remaining orders of the day were then dis-
posed of, and the House adjourned a few minutes
before Six o'clock.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)
HORSHAM.

The Committee appointed to try the merits of the
petition presented against the return of Mr. John
Jervis for' Horsham met this morning; Lord Courtenay
in the chair.

Mr. M. I). Hill, Mr. Calvert, and Mr. Merewether,
appeared for the petitioners; and Mr. Sergeant Wrang-
ham, with whom was MrClarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and
Mr. Wordsworth, for the sitting Member.
The usual preliminaries having been gone through,
Mr. M. D. HILL rose to open the case for the peti-
tioners, but he was interrupted by
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM, who stated that the peti-
tioners prayed that the election might be declared void
on the ground that Mr. Jervis was not of age, and did
not possess a proper qualification, and that the Hon.
Gentleman obtained his election by corruptly treating
and brining the electors. Now he would admit at once,
on behalf of the sitting Member, that treating was
practised at the election, and of course the consequence
of that admission would be that the election must be
_declared void, and that Mr. Jervis would be precluded
from contesting the borough during the present Parlia-
ment. The object of the petitioners would, therefore,
parties,
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be gained without going into the case at all, and it would
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-Mr. M. D. HILL said the proposition of the Learned
Sergeant had taken him and his Learned Colleagues quite
by surprise, and he must, therefore, apply to the Com-
mittee for an adjournment till to-morrow, in order that
he and his Learned Friends might have time to consult
the petitioners on the matter.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the
Committee haring consulted together for a few minutes,
the parties were re-admitted, when
The CIIAIRMAN intimated that the Committee had
determined to accede to the application of the Learned
Counsel for the petitioners, and to adjourn till twelve
o'clock to-morrow. At the same time he was instructed
by the Committee to mention, that although the charge
of treating had been admitted they felt it would be
necessary that some formal evidence of the allegation
must be put in order that they might found their resolu-
tion upon it,
The Committee then adjourned.

DERBY.
The Derby Election Committee re-assembled this
morning; Mr. Childers in the chair; when the evidence
of bribery on the part of Mr. Strutt, the sitting member
and his agents was resumed.
At the close of the second witness's evidence,
Mr. Sergeant WRINCINAM said it would perhaps save
the time of the Committee and expense to the other side
if he admitted that the allegations of bribery had been
established against the agents of Mr. Strutt. lie denied
however that the honourable gentleman himself had
been personally concerned in the corrupt practices, and
he should be able to show by the testimony of unim-
peachable witnesses, that so far from Mr. Strutt having
taken part in or been cognizant of the cases of bribery
proved on the other side, that gentleman distinctly inti-
mated' to his friends and partizans that he would be no
party to anything in the shape of bribery and corruption.
Witnesses were called to prove that Mr. Strutt, both
publicly and privately declared that he would be no
party to any corrupt practice, and that on one occasion,
at a public meeting of the constituency of Derby, he
explained to them that since the past general election
the law of bribery and treating had been rendered more I
stringent and severe and he, therefore, hoped those '
who professed to be his friends would abstain from treat-
ing, or jn any shape or way bribing voters to induce
them to support his claims.
Mr. MEREWETHER then summed up, after which the
room was cleared. Strangers having been re-admitted,
Th e CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had
come to the following resolutions :
That Mr. Strutt and Mr. Gower were not duly elected
to serve as burgesses in the present Parliament for the
borough of Derby.
" That the last election for the borough of Derby was
a void election.

That it had been proved to the Committee that Mr.
Strutt and Mr. Gower were by their agents guilty of
bribery;
But that it war not proved to the Committee that such
bribery was administered with the consent of the said
Mr. Strutt or Mr. Gower.
That it was proved to the Committee, that at the last
election, as well as at previous elections for the borough '
of Derby, a prafztice prevailed of placing freemen on a