The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-24 00:00:00

ELECTI

At the sitting of the Conimittee yesterday morning,
Mr. JAMEX announced that it was not the intention of the
parties to proceed with the petition presented against the
return of Mr. Grogan, and he was therefore happy, td con-
gratulate the Committee upon the .termination of their
labours.
The room was then cleared, and the Committee, after a
short consultation, agreed to the following string of resolu-

tion
" That John Reynolds, Esq., was duly elected at the last
election to serve as a burgess in the present Parliament for
the city and borough of Dublin.
" That Edward Grogan, Esq., was duly elected at the last
election to serve in the present Parliament for the city and
borough of Dublin.
" That the Committee have amended the poll by striking
off the names of 200 electors who were not entitled to vote
at such election."
The Committee further came to the following special
report :
"The Committee find that the former Dublin Election. Co-
mmittee, which sat in 1835-6, made a special report, to the effect
-.0 That the state of the municipal law of Dublin is so defec-
tive and unjust, that it precluded many electors from exer-
cising the franchise; and the Committee, therefore, recom-
mended the House to take this defect into its consideration,
with the view to its amendment.'

" This Committee entirely concur in that opinion ; and they
cannot refrain from expressing their regret that the House
has allowed that report to remain unnoticed, since the result
has been that on the present occasion several parties in-
terested in the representation of the city and borough of
Dublin have been put to most serious expense in prosecuting
tile inquiry which the defective state of the law has rendered
necessary; and the Committee beg to press upon the House
the
e,ueceitY that exists for their taking this subject into
serious consideration at the earliest possible period, in ,

order to prevent a recurrence of these complaints and annoy-
ances."
The Committee then broke up after a sitting of no less than
73 days.

CHELTENHAM.
The rebutting evidence on behalf of the sitting Member
having closed, Mr. JAMES summed up, after which Mr.
GURNEY replied on the whole case.
The room was then cleared, and the Committee, after a
short consultation, came to the following resolutions:—
"That Craven Eitzhardinge Berkeley, Esq., was not duly
elected at the last election to serve as a burgess in the pre-
sent Parliament for the borough of Cheltenham.
"That the said Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Esq., being
a candidate for the said seat at the election held on the 30th
of July, 1847, was, through his agents, guilty of treating;
and the said Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley was, in conse-
quence thereof, disqualified from offering himself as a candi-
date at the election held in June, 1848."
The CHAIRMAN wished to know what course the parties
intended to pursue now?
Mr. GURNEY said the petitioners claimed the seat for Mr.
Gardner; and he proposed now to put in evidence to prove
that notice of Mr. Berkeley's disqualification was given to
11 the electors previous to the last election, which, he con-
tended, would be sufficient to justify the Committee in seat-
ing Mr. Gardner.
Mr. JAMES said he was not prepared to meet that question
then, and he had therefore to pray for an adjournment, as the
matter involved a point not only of local, but constitutional
interest.

The Committee acceded to this request, and adjourned till
to-morrow, at eleven o'clock.

HORSHA 51.
The Committee was occupied the whole day with the evi-
dence of Mr. Padwick, the alleged agent of the sitting Mem-
ber, who was called to prove that he did not act as Mr. Fitz-
gerald's agent, but only as his friend. All he did at the elec-
tion was in his capacity of a partizan and not as an agent;
but he positively denied having bribed, or attempted to bribe,
any of the electors. No doubt treating was resorted to, but
it was not, he contended, to influence the votes of the elee-
- tors; but the refreshments were given to them by himself
and others as friends, and without the knowledge or consent
of Mr. Fitzgerald, the sitting Member.
Price

FRANCE.

Le Siecle states that Colonel ',EFL° had arrived at St.
Petersburgh as Envoy Extraordinary of the French Re-
public, and that the Emperor NICHOLAS had recognized
% the new Government of France, and was about to appoint
a Minister to represent him in Paris. By order of
' General CAVAIGNAC, DZ. DIIBODAN, Representative of
the People, General CHARON, Director of the Algerian
Department in the Ministry of War, and M. FELLMAN,
Under Director in the same Ministry, have been ap-
pointed members of the Committee charged with divining
the means of transportation of the insurgents of June.
A Communist procession took place at Avignon on
the 14th inst. The Communists were loud in their
threats against the rich, and several citizens who were
in the streets at the time the procession passed were in-
sulted and beaten.
es. M. Tomessco arrived in Paris on Monday on a special
mission from the Republic of Venice to the French Re-
public.

1 - M. LUCIEN Militia has returned from Italy.

SAVOY.
The military commander of the Syndics of Savoy has
issued the following circular:—

" Chaber, August 15.
" His Excellency the Governor announced to me that,
if the intervention of France ever became necessary, it
would be only on a formal request of our Government,
and after the expiration of the armistice of six weeks,
concluded on the 9th instant, between Italy and Austria,
to negotiate the conditions of peace. Now that period
must be employed in re-organizing the army by every
means already ordered and in progress of execution, for
rea the purpose of making sure of an advantageous peace, and
it is with that view that the Extraordinary Commissary
of the Government has, by his proclamation, called all
. the Savoisians under arms, and decreed the mobilization
of the district militia; because a people, who wishes to
obtain peace on honourable conditions, must above all be
.% prepared for war."

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