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qu.ss of Downshire.
A witness was examined in. Taaffe's Divorce
Bill.—Further consideration on Thursday se'n-
*tight.
Mr. Bullock, from the Treasury, presented an
Account of the Net Produce of Permanent Dit-
ties, which was ordered to he printed ; and Mr.
Spicer, from Chelsea Hos,pital, an Account of
Unclaimed Prize Money.
Petitions were presented by Lord \Vodehouse,
from Falmouth, praying a revisor of the Penal
Code; by Lord Kenyon, from St. Mary-le-hone,
against the Renewal of the Insolvent Debtors'
Act ; and from St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, and St.
George, Bloomsbury, against the Act for putting
out Parish Apprentices ; by the Earl of Mulgrave,
from Whitby, against (as was understood) any al-
teration in the Duty on Coals ; by the Earl of
Aylesbury, front Marlborough, and the Earl of
Dartmouth, from Staffordshire, against any alte-
ration in the Duty on Coals ; and by the Mar-
guess of Downshire, from Dublin, Belfast, and
Londonderry, against the Window Tax. His
Lordship, on presenting the first Petition, testi-
fied to the respectability of the signatures,—men-
tioned the evils that arose from the tax, in conse-
quence of the owners of houses crowding a num-
ber of persons into one house (to avoid paying
ditty on houses with only one or two families),
by which the liability to typhus fever was greatly
increased for want of sufficient ventilation,—and
stated, that he did not seek the total repeal at the
present moment, but only a reduction every year,
Which would no doubt produce very beneficial
effects, and be duly appreciated by the people of
Ireland.—All the Petitions were ordered to lie
upon the table.
The•Slntigglers' Apprehension Rewards Bill,
and the Stearn Vessels"l'onnage Bill, were read
a second time, and committed for to-morrow.

The Plate Glass Company's Bill was read a se-
cond time, and committed for Thursday.

Adjourned till To-morrow {this dliyi.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

TA NI WORTH ELECTION.

The House was closed till five o'clock, during
the ballots for the Committees on the Tamtvot tit
and Nottingham Election Petitions.

Mr. LEY appeared at the bar with the rednced list of the
•Committte chosen by ballot, to try the merits of theTamworth
Election. The names were read as follows :

M. Russell, Esq., Sir E. O'Brien, Bart., R. Magenis, Esq.,
lion. J. S. Cox, John Bent, Esq, Lord H. Howard, R. Shaw,
.F.sq., J. Douglas, Esq., Lord Graves, R. 'W indh am, Esq., E.
Denny, Esq., R. Elli4on, Esq., R. Price, Esq., Hon. T. Brand,
Bight Hon. W. Husiiissou.

The Committee was sworn in the usual form.
BARNSTAPLE ELEcTiON.
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Lord CLIVE, from the Committee on the Petition against
the Return for the B,rough of Barnstaple, reported that the
Committee had declared, that Sir Massey Manasseh Lopez,
Brim, was not duly elected to serve in Parliament for the said
Bormigh ; and that F. M. Ommaney, Esq. was duly elected ;
and that the last Election, so far as related to the return
of the sald Sir Massey Manasseh Lopez, was void ; that
the Petitffin was not frivolous or vexatious, and that the op-
position to the said Petition was not frivolous or vexatious.
',old CLIVE said, be was instructed to deliver a special
Report, which he read at the Bar to the following effect :
That it was the opinion of the Committee, that. Sim M. M.
Lopez, Bart. has been guilty of hi ibety and treating, by his
agents, at the Election for the Boroogh of Barnstaple, and
that he was thereby iocapable of serving in Parlianment for
sue' Election. Resolved also, That such a general system of
bribery and corruption, prevailed at the last Election fur the
said Borough, as to make it incumbent on the Committee to
it to the serious consideration of the House to take
such proceedim:s thereoo as in its wisdom it may think fit.—
(Hear, hear, hear!)
Lord CLIVE also stated, that he was directed by the Com-
mittee to live that the Minnt.es of Evidence taken before
such Committee he presented to the House.
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The motion having beets agreed to,
Lord CLIVE presented the Minutes, which were ordered
to be printed.
Lord CLIVE then moved, that the Speaker do not issue
his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown for a new Writ. for a
Borgess to serve in Pailiament for the Borough of Barn-
staple till this thiy seunil.7lo, that time may he given to tape
such steps as the Himse, oo consideration of the case, may
think proper.—Agreed to.
Mr. LUSIIINGTON moved for new Writs for the Borough
of Yarmouth (Isle of Wieht), in time room of Williaum Mount.
and 1. Taylor, Esqrs. who had each accepted the Chiltern
Hundreds.

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