The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-02 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the
Bank of England, from the 4th day of January, to the 29th day
of March, 1842, both inclusive, published pursuant to the
Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap. 99.

Circulation £16,952,000 I Securities ..... £22,586,000
Deposits ...... 8,657.000 Bullion 6,125,000

ASSETS.

£•25,609,000
Downing-street, March 31,

£28,711,000

'1842.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.

(Cuntinued from our_Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

GREAT MARLOW.
Thomas Corby, jun., was then objected to by the
counsel for the sitting Member, and struck off the list of

-voters.
Objection was then taken on bAalf_ of the sitting
rnetray.?rs to the vote of George Brown.
Tat-, objection was nut disposed of when the Commit-
t. e rose.

WEYMOUTH AND MELCO3IBE REGIS.

On the conclusion of the lengthy arguments, tho room
was cleared, and the Committee decided that the vote of
James Maine was a bad one.
The next vote proceeded with was that of James
Kerridze, which wa: objected to by Mr. Cockburn, on the
part of the petitioLers, on the ground that he had bribed
anotlwr p,
J. Lovell, an ostler, at the king's Head, Weymotitli,
was called as a witness, and he dep ised, that a voter.
tried Strickland, was offered money by KerrAze if he
4.iuld poll ; that he was subsequently offered a sovereign
if he would poll again in the name of another than, John
Bartlett, but that Strickland refused, urging, that he
" hattdone one good deed already."
The voter, Strickland. was also called, and stated ex-
prei.sly, that he was offered mon.y to vote the second
time, but he could not recollect the amount ;' he did not
'Monk- that any particular am :unt was offered. He
denied that any money was ofrerA for going to the poll
the tirst time'. lle did not voc the second time, having
• refused, tremor° "it would not do."

George Bailey, a messenger, engaged at the pollin:r
booth,. state ', that he did not see Strickland poll. It
aprx_stPed that he was sent out of the way by a nick,
v bile the vote was polled.
CocKutTaN contended, that the law was clear that
a,-person bribing another lost his own vote, and adduced
vAr:otts legal authorities defining the offence ofcorrupting
and bribing, showing :hat it was immaterial whether the
party bribed voted or not. This question did not now
arise for the first time, but twos.? before one of the most
memorable committees that ever sat, the first Ipswich
Committee, on the vote of Arthur Bott Cook, which was
struck off on .the same objection as the present. He con-
tende 1 that the present vote came strictly within the de-
cision,given on this point, and recapitulated the facts us
stated by the witnesses, in order to support his objec-
tion. He pointed out that no statute on the subject'of
bribery made it necessary that any specific sum should
be offered ; the mere offer of any reward, however
vague,' was quite sufficient to constitute the offence. If
the evidence-of the first witness was credited, the fact of
!;ribery by Kerridge was fully established, as it -was of
sa, importance whether the over of reward was made to
tt bona fide or not.

Mr. TALBOT said a more miserable case was
never brought before r,
Committee ; the question
was never raised in the present form before the
Ingwich Committee ; the decision of that
thitteA-had, not been followed up, and there" liadCheervirehen-
lwen a decision against it. The offer of
a
by a voter was a high misdemeanour, but had not been
hold to disqualify the party offering it from voting. lie
went over the depositions of the witnesses, pointing out
some discrepancies between them. The case, at most,
amounted only to an offer of money, not by any means
pliaved; by a voter to another man not a voter, to person_
toe a third person. He contended that there was no
decision taking away the franchise from the voter,
making such an offer.
Mr. C,ICE.BURN replied, arguing that, from all the au-
thorities on the subject, it lutist be inferred, that a person
directly or indirectly influencing a voter, not only those
votes became illegal, but the party influencing was disqua-
lified from exercising his franchise.
The Committee decided that the vote of Kerridge was
a bad vote.
The'vote of George Mace was objected to on the same
ground; having
accompanied Kerridge during the trans-
actim With
Strickland. The objection was supported

by the evidence of the same witness, Lovell ; the others
were not called.

The arguments of Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Talbot on
the evidence of this witness were to the same effect as
in the preceding case. Mr. Talbot contended that no
evidence had been given as to the time when Mace gave
his vote, and he might have polled before he made the
criminal offer, and therefore that the validity of his vote
would not be affected by an act done subsequently to its
being given.
The Committee decided that the vote of George Mace
was a bad one.
'The result of the day's proceedings leaves the sitting
Members in a minority of three, all three of the Objec-
tions by the petitioners having been sustained.

WIGAN.
The arguments of Counsel for and against the vote of
Edward Ackroyd engaged the Committee to the time of
its rising, shortly after five o'clock. The objection was
not then disposed of.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 31, 1842.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Colonel Sir
H. G. Macleod, Ku t., at present the Lieutenant-Governor
of the island of Trinidad, to be Governor and Com-
mander-in-Chief of that island.
WHITEHALL, APRIL 1.
The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint
Major-General William Francis Patrick Napier to be
Lieutenant-Governor of the Island of Guernsey, in the
room of Lieutenant-General Sir James Douglas.
WHITEHALL, Maneit 30.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev.
Charles Stewart to the church of Innerwick in Glen-
lyon, in the presbytery of Weem and shire of Perth,
vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Duncan Camp-
bell to the church and parish of Kiltearn, in the presby-
tery of Dingwall.

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 1.
7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign F. Mills, from the 84th
Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Talbot, pro-
moted, April 1.
10th Foot—Ensign S. Hobson, to be Lieute•-
nant, by purchase, vice Horsburgh, who retires,
April 1 ; Ensign M. G. Mansel to be Lieu-
tenant by purchase, vice Harford, who retires ; W. M.
Archer, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Hobson, April 1 ; W. IL Emerson, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Manse], April 2 ; Staff-Surgeon of the
Second Class R. J. G. Grant to be Surgeon, vice J. Re-
gan, who retires upon half-pay, April 1.
11 th Foot,--Assistant-Surgeon T. Guy, M.D., from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice S. Ingram, who
retires upon half-pay, April 1.
18th Foot—Ensign C. Woodwright to be Lieutenant_
without purchase, vice Swinburne, deceased, Sept. 12 ;
Ensign J. C. Bloomfield, from the 12th Foot, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Woodwright, whose promotion,
by purchase, has been cancelled, April 1.
24th Foot—Lieut. T. Hodgetts, from half-pay Un-
attached, to be Lieutenant (repaying the difference), vice
Ferrier, appointed Paymaster ; Lieut. T. Hodgetts to be
Adjutant, vice Spring, who resigns the Adjutantcy only,
April 1.
44th Foot—Lieut. C. H. M. Smith, from the 22d Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Skipton, cashiered by the sentence
of a General Court Martial, April 1.
54th Foot—Ensign G. C. Miller to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Morris, who retires ; W. P. Brett, Gent.
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Miller, April 1.
55th Foot—T. B. Hickson, Gent., to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Duell, killed in action, April 1.
86th Foot—Lieut. C.' L. Bennett to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Brown, who retires ; Ensign W. W. R.
Peacocke, to be Lieut by purchase, vice Mahon, who
retires, April 1 ; Ensign A. Lecky to be Lieut. by pur-
chase, vice Bennett, April 1; J. A. Oldham, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Peacocke, April 1 ; IL B.
Archer, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Lecky,
April 2.
98th Foot—G. Dunbar, Gent. to be Ensign, without
purchase, vice Adams, who resigns, April 1.
St. Helena Regiment—J. Stainforth, Gent. to be En-
sign, without purchase, vice Thompson, whose appoint-
ment has been cancelled, April 1.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant Surgeon P. 13aird, M.D.
from the 45th Foot, to be Staff-Surgeon of the Second
Class, vice Grant, appointed to the 10th Foot, April 1.
WHITEHALL, MAncu 26.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Frederic "Willis,
of Leighton Buzzard, in the county of Bedford, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of
Chancery.