The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-12 00:00:00

GREAT 111ARLOW.

The Committee met yesterday morning at the usual hour.
The room was immediately cleared, and remained closed for
some time ; but the subject of the deliberations of the Com-
mittee did not transpire.
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM, addressing the Committee,
said that the Counsel on both sides had had an opportunity
since Saturday of looking over the lists, and having determined
that Mr. Renn Hampden should be put in a majority, they
had found an easy means of effecting that object without
troubling the Committee with a re-consideration of the vote of
Charles Gibbons. He should, therefore, withdraw his appli-
cation upon that subject, and ho would propose that the vote
of William Plumridge should be struck off the roll, on the
ground that he had received relief from the parish, and was not,
therefore, entitled to vote at the late election.

Mr. litscr.ax a, on the part of the sitting Member, admitted
that the family of the voter Plumridge had, under peculiar cir-
cumstances, received relief from the parish, and he would
not, therefore, support the vote. The Learned Counsel then
proceeded to say, that as Mr. Hampden had again been placed
in a majority, the sitting Member wished to retire from the
contest. He might be permitted to say, without meaning any
disrespect to the Committee, that some of their decisions on
the registration question had taken Counsel on both sides by
surprise. The Counsel for the sitting Member had been in-
duced to advise him not to prosecute the inquiry any further
in consequence of the great length to which the proceedings
had already been protracted, and from a conviction that by
persevering in defending the seat, the result would be doubtful,
and most, in any ease, lead to great additional expense.
Mr. Sergeant WRANOHAM then intimated that he only
wished the usual resolutions to be passed.
The room was then cleared, and the Committee came to the
usual decision in such cases, declaring that Sir William Clayton
had been unduly elected to serve as a burgess for the borough
of Great Marlow in the present Parliament; and that Air.
Renn Hatnpden ought to have been returned as Member for
the borough.
The Chairman, Sir J. Y. BULLER, intimated that the Com-
mittee were ready to hear any statement which might be made
to them relative to their former proceedings.
Mr. Joseph Parkes, the agent for Sir William Clayton, then
stated to the Committee, Oil behalf of Richard Gibbons, whom
the Committee decided to have been guilty of perjury, in the
evidence he had given on a former day, that the witness, pre-
vious to his appearing before the Committee, had been ex-
amined in a very hurried manner by the agents of Sir William
Clayton ; that the evidence so taken had been briefed, and that
the voter had been examined upon it before the Committee.
Gibbons had since stated that he had been thus led into con-
fusion by the questions put to him ; that he had confounded the
names of Pusey and Povey, and that everything he had said of
the one was perfectly true of the other.
Mr. Cooper confirmed the statement of Mr. Parkes relative
to the rapidity with which the evidence of Gibbons had been
taken in the first instance.

The room was then cleared, but the Committee came to no
decision. It was understood that they had agreed that the
subject should be left to the discretion of the House.