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`lie country, travelled in their coaches-and-four, enjoying
-,osoects which the country displayed, and
the scenery anu 'ses, besides five guineas a day.
received their travelling exp,_--les to an inquest, he
But if the surgeon travelled twenty
was not allowed a farthing. It bad been said u.s.- Coroner
generally called in Ids cousin, who was a surgeon. The t.:o-
roner had not the power to do so; for the medical man whb
was known to possess the most skill in the district In whieh
the occurrence which gave rise to the Inquest took place,
was generally called in. If the House bestowed the slightest
calm Consideration on the subject, they could not, he thought,
refuse to give to the Medical man, who had so onerous and
painful a duty to fulfil, a fair and just compensation.—( Hear.)
Captain PE CHE LL wished to know what was to be done
in the event of such a case occurring again as that which he
understood to have once taken place. It was this :—An in-
quest was held on a man supposed to be drowned—a verdict
was returned of " Found Drowned"—and this man was re-
covered by the Humane Society, and lived for 24 hours.
Dr. B 0 WRING—No post mortem examination could take
place until after death.
Mr. WA KLE Y-01), yes, there can; I know an instance
in which there were three inquests held on the body of a wo-
man in the London Hospital. - The coroner was an attorney ;
and I am informed that, after holding the first inquest, oil
proceeding to hold the second, the woman was discovered
eating oysters.—(Laughter.)
Mr. O'CONNE L L—Talk of Irish jobbing after that.—
( Laughter.) At this side of the Channel it appeared that a
person might die three times.—(Laughter.) With respect
to the douse he would only add, that he was most anxious
that the jobbing practised under the Act referred to by his
Hon. Friend should not be transferred to his country.
After a few words from Mr. FRENCH and Mr. CRIPPS,
Mr. ESTCOURT was of opinion that 31. was the smallest
amount of remuneration which the surgeon ought to receive.
A remuneration of even 3/. was not sufficient for a respectable

surgeon.
Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSON thought that 31. might
sometimes be too much, and sometimes too little. In his
opinion the remuneration ought not to be less than IL, nor
more than 3/.
After some further discussion, we understood that the blank
in the clause was filled up with the words "two pounds."
On the proposition whether the expense should be paid out
of the county rate or by the parish, a division took place,
For the payment out of the county rate 117
For the payment by the parish .
Majority ---94
Mr. WARBURTON moved, as an amendment to the mode
of electing the Coroner prescribed by the Bill, that the elec-
tion should be conducted by the churchwardens, and that the
polling should take place for eight hours in the vestry.
After a long discussion, in which a variety of conflicting
propositions were offered to the Committee,
Mr. WAKLEY earnestly entreated the Hon. Member
(Mr. Cripps) to withdraw the Bill for the "present session.
Mr. WARBURTON, with the view of relieving the Hon.
Gentleman from the difficulty of his situation, was willing to
alter his amendment, and to move that the Chairman do now
leave the Chair.
Mr. PEA SE thought, es the Hon. Member had now for
five years brought forward the same measure without success,
it would be better that he should now withdraw it altogether.
It was evident the House would never consent to it in the
state in which it was introduced.
After a short discussion, Mr. CRIPPS consented to with-
draw the Bill for the present.
The CHAIRMAN then left the Chair, and the House re-
sumed.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that as his Hon. and Learned
Friend, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, had been deprived
of the opportunity of bringing forward the Irish Municipal
Bill that evening, he begged to giye notice that it would be
introduced on Friday next.
Mr. S HEIL begged to inquire whether it was the Noble
Lord's intention that the House should sit on Saturdays ? He
would remind the Noble Lord that Irish Members had not the
same opportunity as English Members for leaving town on
intermediate occasions, and that it was therefore a matter of
greater importance to them that no time should be lost in
getting through the remaining business of the Session. Under
these circumstances he intreated the Noble Lord to allow the
House to sit on Saturdays.—( Oh, oh !)
Mr. FINCH suggested to the Noble Lord whether, con-
sidering the advanced period of the Session, it would not be
better to put off the Irish Municipal Bill till another year.—
(Oh, oh !)
Mr. SHE IL thought that the suggestion of the Hon. Gen-
tleman who had last spoken must be sufficient to open the eyes
of the Noble Lord as to the tactics intended to be pursued by
the opposite side. He trusted that, in spite of such sugges-
tions, the Noble Lord would have energy enough to proceed.
Dr. BALDWIN—If we sit here till the Ist of January, we
will see the Irish Municipal Bill through the House. We are
not of a disposition to be baffled by the vexatious proceedings
of the opposite side.--( Hear.)
Colonel SIBTHORP could not assent to the proposition
for sitting on Saturdays; and unless the Hon. Member for Sal-
ford exercised his usual prerogative of moving the adjourn-
ment, he (Colonel Sibthorp) should feel himself called upon
to do so.
Mr. BROTHERTON was certainly of opinion that the
time had arrived, at which the House ought to adjourn. At
the same time he must say that he should not be opposed to
the House sitting for a reasonable and convenient period on
Saturdays, if it were thought by such an arrangement the du-
ration of the session could in any way be reduced.
Mr. WAKLEY thought that if an additional opportunity of
debate were required, it would be better to fix it for any other
day than Saturday.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that there was one
Bill standing on the orders of the day which it was very ne-
cessary to have read a second time without any further delay.--
he meant the Sheriffs of London. Declaration Bill. He un-
derstood that the Hon. Members for the city of London had
withdrawn all objections to it; and he therefore hoped he
should be allowed to proceed with it that evening.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER suggested
that it would be better to take the Registration of Counties
Bill, with respect to which he understood there were only a
few objections on mere points of detail.
Colonel SIBTHORP persisted in his motion that the
House do now adjourn.
The House divided—
For the motion
Against it
Majority —Bs
POLLS AT ELECTIONS BILL.
On our return to the gallery, we found the House in Com-
mittee on the Polls at Elections Bill, and we understood that
the first four clauses were postponed.
On the sth clause being proposed.
Col. SIBTHORP strongly objected against proceeding
with the Bill. He said it was a decidedly Radical Bill—most
unconstitutional, and destructive of all order.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave his
decided support to the Bill, because it, in his opinion, was
most constitutional in principle, was calculated to preserve
order instead of destroying it, and would correct abuses at
elections, more particularly the great and crying abuse—cor-

ruption.
The Earl of LINCOLN was opposed to the Bill, and for
this reason, among others, that it contained no provision
against intimidation, which was as great an abuse as corrup-
tion. The Bill which the Hon. Member for Middlesex for-
merly introduced provided for the adjournment of the poll in
the case of a riot. If, therefore, this Bill should be passed he
wished a similar provision to be introduced.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUMR agreed
with the Noble Lord, that intimidation ought by all means
to be provided against; but he believed that by the present
law there existed a power to adjourn the poll in the case of
a riot.

Colonel SIBTHORP—TaIk of bribery and corruption
at elections ! For my part I never yet could find out what was
bribery or corruption.—( Hear.)
The Earl of LINCOLN was anxious, as there was some
doubt as to the present state of the law, to propose the clause
now, to which he had referred, instead of waiting till the Re-
port was brought up.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER begged
the Noble Lord to defer doing so until the Bill had gone
through Committee, and he would then adopt the Noble Lord's
proposition, as he conceived the clause was very carefully
framed for the purpose for which it was intended.
Clause 5 was then agreed to.
On clause 6 being proposed,
Colonel SIBTEFO RP proposed by way of amendment,
that in no case of a contested election, should polling-places
be within the distance of 400 yards of each other, or in the
same street, lane, or place.
The amendment was put, and negatived without a division.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER proposed
the insertion of a proviso at the end of the third clause, to the
effect, that in the event of an election being disturbed by riot
or other disturbance, the sheriff or returning-officer should
adjourn the poll until next day, or to such other period as he
might think proper; and that the day on which such adjourn-
ment took place should not be considered a day of polling
under the Act.

The proviso was put and carried, and the other clauses were
severally put and agreed to. On the question, " That this be
the preamble of the Bill,"

Mr. Alderman WOOD proposed a clause, compelling the
liverymen of the City of London, resident within the walls, to
poll at the booths in their respective parishes or districts,
either as householders or as liverymen, as the sheriff or return-
officer might direct. His object was to prevent the confusion
which must arise if the whole of the liverymen (who were by
the Reform Act compelled to poll in the Guildhall of the City
of London) were to be obliged to poll in one building in the
course of a single day, that being the period to which the pre-
sent Bill limited the duration of the elections.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER deprecated
the introduction of special clauses without due notice ; and
suggested the postponement of the motion until the third read-
ing of the Bill.
A short conversation ensued ; but as it appeared that the
motion could not be formally made on the question before the
Committee, it was not put.
The House resumed: The Chairman reported the Bill with
the amendments to the House, and the Report was ordered to
be received this day.
NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

On the motion of Mr. HA WE 5,
The following Select Committee was appointed to consider
Of the best means of warming and ventilating the new Houses
of Parliament, and rendering them favourable to the trans-
mission of sound.
Hawes' B.
Clerk, Sir G.
Compton, H. C.
Hall, B.
Howne, P. H.

Howick, Lord
Hughis, H. '
Sandon, Lord
Smith, B.

Someriet, Lord G.
Strutt, Edward
Tracey, C. H,
Warburton, H.