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sealed M. These were the facts generally, and he truate.dr_igul49l.
that he had had a sufficient foundation for his raotioii, \ r. 1.•
that this petition be printed. If the Hon. Member whosii
name was alluded to in the petition, wished to have it post- •
poned to a future day, he should willingly accede to that pro-
position.
The petition was laid on the table, and ordered to be printed
with the votes of the I-louse.

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The HON. MEMBER then gave notice, that to-morrow he
should call the attention of the House to the petition, with a
view to having it referred to a Select Committee.
Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY presented a petition
from the burgesses and freemen of Newcastle, expressing
their gratification at the measure of Municipal Reform,
lately introduced into that House.—(Cries of Hear.")
They prayed that the right of voting, the only point to which
they objected, would be preserved to the freemen. The Hon.
Member also presented petitions from the companies of smiths,
coopers, and others of the town of Newcastle, praying that
property bequeathed to them far private purposes may be pre-
served to them.
Mr. TULKE presented a petition from Frome in favour of
the Municipal Corporation Bill.
Sir R. VYVYAN presented a petition from the free Bur-
gesses of Bristol, praying for the retention of their existing
rights in the Municipal Corporation Reform Bill. The Hon.
Baronet gave notice that on the bringing up of the Report, he
should move for the insertion of a clause to protect the rights
of the sons of the freemen of Bristol.
CASE OF MR. O'MALLEY.
Mr. Sergeant JACKSON moved that Mr. Bransby Cooper
be called in.
Mr. Cooper having been introduced, the House proceeded
to examine him as to the state of Mr. O'Malley's health.
The SPEAKER—Are you a surgeon, Mr. Cooper?
Witness—l am, Sir.
The SPEAKER—Have you attended Mr. O'Malley in
Newgate ?
Witness—Never, till yesterday.
The SPEAKER—Have you seen him to-day ?
Witness—l have not.
The SPEAKER—Have you only seen him once?
Witness—Never more than once, professionally.
The SPEAKER—In what state did you find him yesterday?
Witness—Very ill.
The SPEAKER—Did he labour under any particular com-
plaint ?
Witness—A state of general debility, which, from living
near him, I have known him to be suffering under. He was
worse yesterday, which I attribute to his confinement.
The SPEAKER—Was he labouring under general debi-
lity, or any local complaint ?
Witness—General debility.
The SPEAKER—You have not seen him to day ?
Witness—No.
The SPE AKER—At what time did you see him yesterday
Witness—At five o'clock in the afternoon.
The SPEAKER— Has he been attended by any other me-
dical person, before you saw him ?
Witness—Sir Astley Cooper and Dr. Farr.
The SPEAKER—Recently?
Witness—Up to the period to which I allude.
An HoN. MEMBER—Did you prescribe for him?
Witness—No, I did not.
An HoN. MEMBER—I suppose you thought him in that state
that physic would do him no good ?—( Laughter.)
Witness—l cannot say—his mind and b,,,dy are in that state
that air and exercise only can benefit kirn.

Sergeant JACKSON—In your opinion would his constitu-
tion be injured by the contininlnce of confinement ?
Witness—lt would,
By Mr. GI SBORNE—I was never consulted before by
him ; but I was a near neighbour, and had frequent opportu-
nities of seeing him.
Mr. WAKLEY—When did you see him for the first time?
Witness—Last night.
Mr. WA KLE Y—By whom were you required to see him?
Witness--By Mr. Kelly.
Mr. WAKLEY—When you saw him did he speak with
regard to any particular complaint?
Witness—He did.
Mr. WA KLE Y— Are you aware of his complaint ? What
is it called ?
Witness--There is no particular name—it is something of
the nature of tetanus.
Mr. WA KLE Y—What did you prescribe for it ?
Witness—Liberty.
Mr. WAKLE Y—Did you send your prescription to a
chemist, or to this House?
Witness—To this House,--(Laughter.)
Mr. HUME said it was not usual for the House to act upon
the evidence of a medical man that had only seen the person
once. He thought the House, after the evidence that had
been given, would require a certificate from some other medi-
cal man, as to the state of the health of Mr. O'Malley.
Mr. O'CONNELL thought it was a complete mockery to
bring a Gentleman forward to give evidence as to the health
of a person who had only seen him once.
Mr. SHAW defended the course that had been pursued.
The gentleman brought to the bar was a person of talent and re-
spectability, and capable of judging of the health of Mr.
0' Malley.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought
the evidence of the gentleman that bad been examined was of
the most slight description. It was evidence apart from
the statements of Mr. O'Malley, that ought not to be
attended to at all. Comparing the certificate brought for-
ward yesterday, and the statement now made, the House would
find a great difference. If the House received the evidence that
had been given in the case it would be bound to receive it and
every other, and if they did so the powers of the House
would become a mere matter of course, and the man who.
regulated the privileges of the House was the person who
could produce the best concocted evidence. The Right Ho-
nourable Gentleman thought the best course to adopt would
be to produce those persons at the bar who were best
capable of speaking to the real state of Mr. O'Malley's health;
as with the production of that evidence, the House would be
enabled to act with justice and humanity.
After a few words from Mr. Sergeant JACKSON, Mr. Hawn,
and tlr CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, it was agreed that
no order should be made upon the subject, but that the ques-
tion should be postponed in order to give Mr. O'Malley an
opportunity of bringing forward better evidence to show that
longer confinement would be permanently injurious to his.
health.

The parties, Bond, Clamp, and Cooke, were then called
in, when

The SPEAKER proceeded to reprimand them, but in a
tone of voice which was scarcely audible in the gallery. He
said that the House had resolved that they had been guilty of
a breach of its privileges, in absconding to avoid the service of
a summons requiring them to give testimony before the Com-
mittee to whom the petition, complaining of an undue return
for the borough of Ipswich, had been referred. That was a
very grave offence, no doubt, for there was no obligation
more binding upon all persons of all ranks and conditions
of society, than that of giving all the assistance in their
power to the tribunals appointed by that House for fur-
thering the cause of justice ; yet they having anticipated
that an inquiry was likely to be instituted by the House,
acting for and in behalf of the people, with the view to
maintain the purity and independence of election, and the
rights and liberties of their fellow-subjects, knowing well the
consequences to which they exposed themselves, had absconded.
The House, however, in its clemency and mercy had taken
their petitions into consideration, and finding that they had ex-
pressed their sorrow for the offence which they had committed,
were disposed to administer justice mildly, in the hope that
what was then sa'd would operate as a warning, and would pro-
duce a salutary and permanent influence on their future con-
duct ; and that they would always bear in mind that the best
atonement which they could make for the offence of which
they had been guilty, and for which they were suffering, was
the being ready in all future times to afford that assistance
which had been required on the present occasion for further-
ing the ends of justice. He had only further to inform o:ern
that they were discharged on payment of their fees,
On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, it was ordered that
the reprimand be entered in the journals.
Mr. G I SBORNE then rose to make the motion of which
he had given notice on the previous
apprehended no objection to it, and said that as he
sl):Juld not say a single word
upon the subject, but content h
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;:naself with moving " that the be instrejoted
prosecute all parties who
appear, from the evi
Committee, to 4'..e.nce taken before the Ipswich Election
}..ave been guilty of bribery."
The 117:,.i0n was agreed to, almost without objection—there
bein--6,
we believe, one dissentient voice.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS BILL.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL then moved the Order of the Day
for the Committee on this Bill.

Mr. HUME, in a low tone of voice, then alluded to the
motion of which he had given notice, to the effect that all
offices hereafter accepted should be held subject to all such
limitations and regulations as Parliament should make. He
said that as such large sums had been already paid by way of
compensation,_ he trusted that those who accepted offices ander
the present Government, took them with a full understanding
that the appointments were always held subject to such changes
as Parliament might make.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that with respect to any
offices accepted under the present Government, the rules
which had been laid down by Lord Althorp would be con-
sidered fully applicable ; but the motion of the Hen. Gentle-
man went much further. The Noble Lord was then pro-
ceeding with some further observations, when
Mr. HUTT rose to order, saying that he himself bad a
motion on the paper, standing before that of the Hon. Member
for Middlesex.
Mr. HUME was not aware that his Hon. Friend had been
in the House. The Hon. Member then postponed his motion,
as several other Gentlemen postponed their motions, in order
to enable the Municipal Corporations Bill to be brought for-
ward.
Sir ROBERT PEEL said, that there was an impression
entertained, either real or feigned—not so much, he believed,
in that House as out of it, that there existed on the part of
himself, and those with whom he acted, a desire to throw some
obstruction in the way of the Noble Lord's proceedings with
reference to the Bill which the House was now about to con-
sider. He begged to say, for himself, that he did not enter-
tain any such reeling ; that, on the contrary, he was most
anxious to give every aid in his power to the Noble Lord, on
every occasion. He Iv islied, indeed, that some arrangement
could be adopted, by which a steady perseverance with the
Bill might be insured. The plan of devoting an hour and a
half one night, and two hours another night, was not one
which admitted of their paying proper attention to the mca-
sure, and it insurcd the certain result of a succession of
a;nendreents beinf!- brought forward on the Report, which
ought to have been made in the committee. He knew vvell