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3. That, in the ease of the Darwen Waterworks petition for add

tional provision, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with.
4. That, in the case of the Norfolk Railway Extension (Thetford
to Reedha-At Branches—No. '2) petition for leave to present a petition
for a Bill, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with.
Second resolution agreed to.—Report to lie on the table.

PAItLIAME?4 TARP DIV ISI ONS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.,

TUESDAY, ;LAY 19.
BRIDPORT ELECTION.

Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the petition of
William Rockett he referred to a Select Committee, which shall be
appointed, to inquire into all the circumstances under which Joseph
Welch gave evidence before the Select Committee on the Bridport
Election petition that William Rockett voted for Mr. Romilly, and
whether any compromise or arrangement was entered into by the
parties to the petition, their counsel, or agents, to prevent the dis-
closure of bribery or treating ; and also whether, and to what ex-
tent, bribery and treating were practised at the last election for the
borough of Bridport ;"—Amendment proposed, to leave out from the
word " Romilly" to the end of the Question:—Question put, " That
the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The
Rouse divided :—Ayes, 47 ; Noes, 47 : —And the numbers being
equal, Mr. Speaker said, That as the House had no better means of
forming a judgment upon the question than the Election Committee,
who had already declined to entertain it, and as it would still he open
to any elector of the borough, under the provisions of the Act 5 and
6 Vic. c. 2, to present a petition to the House, praying that a Com-
mittee, having power to examine upon oath, might he appointed to
investigate the subject of bribery and compromise, he therefore de-
clared himself with the Noes.

AYES.
Bankes, George Escott, Bickham Rich, Henry
Barnard, Edward G. Giaborne, Thomas Scott, F.
Bennet, P. Honley, J. W. Spooner, Richard
Bentinck, Lord G. Hume, Joseph Stuart, Lord .T.
Bentinck, Lord H. Inglis, Sir R. Tattered, II.;W.
liercsforti, Major lambton, 11. Thornely, T.
Blackstone,: W. S. Law, C. E. Tollemache, J.
Borthwick, Peter Lawson, A. Trelawny, J. S.
Bowring, Dr. Lowther, lion. Col. Tyrrell, Sir J. T.
Bretherton. J. INl`Carthy, Alex. Wakley, T.
Burrell, Sir C. Marsland, Henry Wawn, JT.
Christopher, R. A. Morris, David Williams, W.
Collett, John Napier, Sir C. Wodehouse, E.
Cartels, H. B. Neeld, Joseph
DIV:e, Sir James Powell, Caleb
Buncombe, A. Protheroe, B.
Elphinstone, H. Rashleigh, W.

TELLERS.
Aglionby, H. A.
Christie, W. D.

NOES.
A'Court, Captain Fitzroy, Henry Mahon, Viscount
Antrobus, Edmund Gladstone, J. N. O'Conor, Don
Barkly, Henry Goulburn, Henry Palmerston, Vis.
Baring, W. B. Graham, Sir J. Peel, Sir Robert
lllackburne, J. I. Greene, 'Phoning Peel, Jonathan
Bowles, Admiral Griinsditch, Thomas Russell, Lord J.
Boyd, John Hamilton, Lord C. Somerset, Lord G,
Bruce, Lord E. Harcourt, G. Stanton, W. H.
Cardwell, Edward Hay, Sir A. Stuart, henry
Carnegie, Captain llerbert, Sidney Thesiger, Sir F.
Chichester, Lord J. Hinds, J. H. Trench, Sir F.
Clay; Sir W. Hope, G. W. Vivian, J. E.
Clerk Sir G. Hudson, George Wood, Charles
Cockburn, Sir G. Hutt, William
Corry, Henry Kelly, Sir Fitzroy TELLERS.
Coartenay, Viscount Labouchere, Henry Young, John
Douglas, Sir C. Lygon, General Cripps, W.