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811 ne time, give notice, that early next session he should and warping the judgment of Hon. Members opposite ti tern hundred men, thirty amongst them were guilty SPIRIT of the F ÜBLIC JOURNALS. 9 IGENERAL RAIL NV AY INFO RMAT ON.
neive for a Select Gem/ duce to inquire into all the cases He could speak, with the perfect mens conscia recti, that. of bribery, and they were told that they should FROM THE EVENING PA PEES OF YESTERDAY. . .
of bribery that had taken place at the last election for Ihe had never guided the decision of a Committee more suspend the rights of these 1,570 poor and honest men GLOBE.-The alterations made by the Lords ;n
Ipswich,--(Hear. hear.) . I strictly according to the merits of the case than he had because of 30 corrupt ones. He never heard such a fri- the Mines and Collieries Bill have been agreed to lit
• Cantain FITZROY believed that a more, monstrous I done in this instance, anJ no man in that House more volous reason for suspending the electoral rights of so .a- a,P'._- -.. -'4;-..7 _ "rii, •
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decision had never been come to than at the last Ipswich regretted that it had had the effect of dismissing from many honest men. To propose the forfeiture of a fran- , odteae„- -, e
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having been expressed by Lord Ashley at the damage S U IN 4,, , ..,..e ,-,41 .772:17N0•
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Committee. The agent for the parties found it was , the benches opposite so old a friend as Mr. Gladstone.- chise was no slight matter, and should be done cnly on 4e
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useless to bring the witnesses they had in town for- I (Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member for Stirling, full proof of corruption. He was required to disfran-
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ward, because they saw their case was prejudged. I who had appeared shocked at the statements he chise, by an Act of Parliament,. twenty individuals. It
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It heal been proposed, contrary to the usual practices of had; made, he hoped would never introduce a was evident that they could make no progress in it this 13°,lieYle , a.- - --
Election Committees, that two parties, as well as the 30s. bribe for a vote irao that county. The vote of session, and if they insisted on going into evidence tamed ; and by a continual exercise of the energy that ImN. A p .... , „. ~,ig.../
agents, shOuld be present at the proceedings ; and the gentlemen opposite on this occasion would be a lest in each particular ease the expense and delay Lord Ashley has shown in following up his benevolent ki '.-
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four opposition Members voted for the proposal, while of the sincerity of their declarations on this subject would he interminable. He did not mean to object we have little doubt that he will obtain, by 4. Inwpeur --rn '"'r- i: ,
the three remaining voted against it. Now, he had no since the commencement of this Parliament. If they defend these individuals ; the present members were degrees, all that he originally proposed. The loci- SHEWING THE 11,loco_.
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hesitation in saying that that division alone was sufficient merely suspended the writ it would be a proof of their honourable men, who went down determined that these dental discussion that arose upon the adoption of the ,-.
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to testify to any one that it was useless for the sitting earnestness ; to do so would be no punishment to things should not take place, and this - made him more amendments was enlivened by a few hits at the Minis-
i Members to incur any further expense in defending their Ipswich; since 1820 nine petitions had been sent up • strongly express his disgust at the abuses that had pre- ters on their want of understanding among themselves, RAILWAYS „,,,...1.,. -'t 711754 in, Aberdeen -.;?
return. ,It was his firm belief that the case of Amos against it, of which six were proved and three failed. veiled. Had the House demanded in the former cases, ee ste
which had led to the giving of a Government pledge --‘-'%i •. -•'- el
Goodchild had never been made out. Again, with re- Their decision on this might be a tenor to other bo- that a prosecution should have been commenced by the IN THE a Yon-tram ,r
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Gard to the case of William Blythe, he stood roughs and constituencies, but if the sent back the writ Attorney-General, he should have had no objectionl . ei4
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member of th Cabinet in the other. Sir J. Graham SITED KINGDO3.I. ::__, interary , \
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charged with bribery because he had received •it would encoarage the practitioners in their old work, to it, but as the Chairman of the Committee had not v" Perth •
hadpromised the cordial co-operation of the Minis- Stieaay, . ._ e:
30s. for his attendance in Ipswich during three days; and give the sanction of the House to bribery and treating. come forward to demand any disfranchisement of the X. _
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he should say that no bribery could be proved in Whether coming in a large or small shape the practice borough, he could not censent to the motion. He believed ters in promoting the Bill of Lord Ashley ; and
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that instance. The men had to give up his work was monstrous, and fraught with that venom which that the last election was more pure than preceding ones, yet, when the measure came to be deliberated on 1.*!.a,• ae . a ~- ~..' eas
and to pay for his expenses in the town ; and surely 30s, would tend to destroy the House itself. It would in- and could not think that after such repeated warnings by the Peers, it Was announced by Lord Wharn- k9---'. - -42.\ ' - el s'" • eish --
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was not ea unreasonable amount of compeniation to al- crease the tide of public opinion, which he feared was set- there would be found any men so reckless- as to continue cliffe that he considered himself quite free to take ei"--1.1 2
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low him under such circumstances. It should further ting against it; to stop which, and to reseere the respect such practices. They were much more likely to attain any course he chose-which was a virtual repudiation ea a
be rememberei, that Blythe had been discharged by his in winch it ought to be held, ought to be the united ef- their end by visiting them with stroller, censure, than to of the pledge given by the Secretary for the Home -•-• - :- •_
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Whig master for having voted for the Tory candidates.- fort of nil parties on both sides of the HouSe. disfranchise fifteen hundred electors, for the sake of Department in the name and on behalf of the Govern- .a.47 - -Kean • .e . •
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of bribery, (and he had studied the question) bribery laded to, he wished to state the grounds on which he After a few words from Mr. M. P. STEWART, in
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consisted in holding out to an elector some promise of gave his vote on the Committee. In the case of John explanation,
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Lioney, of place, or of some other advantage, sufficient Downie g, he believed that a corrupt contract had been Mr. TUFFNELL explained the state of the constitu-there were any. truth in the accusation,, it
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to influence his vote. But no such promise had been given entered into by Mr. Bristo ; with regard to treating, ency of Ipswich s there were a large number of honest_ -- V e
in the case of Blythe, who had received the 30s. after the evidence proved that the sitting Members did every- electors on both sides, but there was also a small body events, have been admitted that ' when they yielded , Athlont Ihn" : ''''''.. :. 1 a - anit.h CI 1"q1147-''
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the election had terminated, and wiehout any previoue thing in their power to prevent it, and he conceived they of exceedingly corrupt voters. In the election at which to such a pressure, they did so only to go forward in -- Iris iv
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engagement having been entered into with him. But were not concerned in the cases that had been mentioned. he was returned by a majority of two, the candidates the progress of improvement, while the present Go- Kialere 'a . ---1 R rS1:1 NA EA V" 4.
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even supposing the twenty alleged cases of bribery had With regard to the agency, on which the case entirely refused to sanction any means of obtaining votes, of' vernment allowed themselves to be coerced to abandon = 'We4- ‘ L. . vise e
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ground for disfranchising the borough ?If corruption and Arthur Bott Cook, but he acknowledged it, The House then divided, and the numbers were- that "he and his colleagues had commenced the e ' ot,- i--.-• - • ' i'± ~• J." . ' •' . ‘
had been carried on at Ipswich at the late election, to in the case of Mr. Steward, who, however, was an agent For the motion - rale •Tipporary , Ill,* / c „,13..57- 14p, • .u. z.a.th.,/,;,-;,-- „.! ;
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the same extent as on former occasions, he should himself for a special purpose, and having exceeded his instruc- For the amendment
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the whole length recommended by the majority of lions his principal was not bound by his acts. There Majority for issuing the writ
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Committee. But that had not been the case ; and he was great doubt whether some of the payments laid he- The writ was then ordered to be issued. . :dries;' e. oNatingharn \
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contended that the Report was not a fair one. No one fore the Committee were illegal payments or not ; and . COUNTY COURTS (SALARIES AND party which brought the Tories into place arc casting. • 'a '- a - ts• 3 4 Ce • 7!'. aRe, ~. e
could trust to Committees of that House after the course it was proved that, as to some of them, the sitting Mem- • EXPENSES) BILL. up accounts, and have declared the balance in favour I `-;:e.--.4re , e....-Le4 re col ----- ---,-
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taken by the Committee on the Ipswich election. For hers had objected to them, and reduced them from their • The Report on this Bill was agreed to. of Conservatism to be nothing by the accession of the \ •04•-::.'re. i 4,
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his part lie had always voted for taking the decision of first amount to what they thought fair and equitable. The Law of Evidence Bill was read a third time and present Government.
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eontroverted elections out of the hands of the House ; He regretted that so much personality had been mixed passed. .
and he should certainly do so on every future oppor- up in this discussion, as every one was entitled to form SLAVE TRADE. in the regret of Lord Ashley at the treatment received camerae..
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tunity. lie would say nothing on that occasion with re- his own opinion on the very conflicting evidence that Sir R. PEEL said, he hoped that in proposing to bring by his Lordship's Bill in the House of Lords. The t ~,e..„;zk_ ,
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ripest to the case of John Downing. who had been released had been adduced. ; he, . however, did
.not im- in a Bill, without having given any notice, he would not measure has been, indeed, cruelly mutilated in that Is% . . A o'o
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from a security, because he confessed he did not clearly pugn the decision to which the Committee had be met; by any objection, under the peculiar circum- It. \ c.a. q°
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assembly but still it lives ; and though a longer ,f› •
understand that transaction. But he would repeat his come. With regard to the list of persons to stances of the case. A Bill had been sent down, the term has ' been ce • e- _llaurszstisale ~,.. 4, ."I'. R,,„,zi 'try ..... -in
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conviction, that the majority of the cases of bribery had to be disfrancised, "-
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not been made out, that there was no evidence to show Finsbury, it included some who had been rather more her Majesty by an Order in Council to suspend, pending ' # r :
that these cruelties and immoralities will not 1. a.w.,. set,,, Ex efs A
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that Mr. Bristo or Mr. Cook had been employed as guilty than others at former elections than the present negotiations with Portugal on the subject, so much of ana \ -- dm.,,11, N ,rt -
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agents by the late Members, and that there was nothing one, and though he said he would not disfranchise the Act formerly passed, as empowered our ships to seize 0 / l'enicrner
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to justify the motion to disfranchise the borough. borough, yet he rather made out a case for doing so, Portuguese vessels carrying on the slave trade. a light thing that, for a year, or two years, or may 44, •',.. ,_.: .-----1 IA( •-. ---------- 4./ • t •:!t ' -------;-:,:,-''---- ./
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Mr. M. ij . O'CONNELL said, that he had seldom than one against these individually. He objected to the Those negotiations had been brought to a conclusion, be longer, women are to be exposed to indecencies and / 4',E•c •i,-,..5,-„il„ a 2 44
heard a speech with more regret- than that of the Hon. name of Mr. Steward appearing in that list, for though and the papers relative to them had now arrived ; children to slavery. Such abuses are not light things, r r
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ember who had just sat down. It was very well to as an agent he might have exceeded his instructions, he and the object of the Bill which he proposed was, in- though they were to endure but an hour; and heavy N.B. ln the following Taides lel signifies before Noon, and - TERN.
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talk of taking the trial of election petitions out of the had done nothing to warrant his name being. included in stead of empowering the Queen in Council to suspend indeed, is the responsibility of those who have, for lucre, E after it. OPEN TO TA UN"! o.e.
hands of that House ; but no tribunal could be pro. it. Bnt with regard to many of the others, he confessed the part of the Act referred to, to repeal it altogether. or the less justifiable motive of party policy, protracted --..--- STATIONS, with their 1 ti-tances from Paddirgton.
perly respected, if such language should be used if the whole of the race were svvept away it would be a He moved that leave be now given to bring in the Bill. PADDINGToN, Eal ng si. Hanwell 73, Southall '9. West
them so long as there is reason to fear the must
be continued. But still, between the temporaryY
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regarding it us the Honourable Member
,had em- public benefit. The Bill was then brought in, and read a first and Dra.ton 13, SLOUfal 18, MAIDENHEAD 221, Tw!.f rd 304,
the perpetual evil there is a wide difference, and READING 35;, Pangbourne 413. Got ing 44i ' Wallingford
ployed with respect to the Ipswich Committee. Mr. LEFROY observed that the division of the Com- second time, and ordered to be committed this day.
He was sure that the Hon. Members on the other side mittee was three to four, and that the casting vote was The Limitation of Actions (Ireland) Bill passed omN,S,DorroI'AN2ITIONS, with their Distance, from London.
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would join with those around him ill reprobating such that of the Chairman, who, however, he had no doubt through Committee. we repeat it, Lord Ashley has by his Bill, mangled L
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language. He felt persuaded that were the Hon. Gen- gave it conscientiously.
•He thought that charges had The Report was ordered to be brought up to-morrow as it has been, struck a death-blow to the impurity • iW d 69i Crick
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tleman himself to reflect on the subject in his cooler mo- been proved to a certain extent, but that it was their (this day). and slavery of the mine as well as to the impurity and Welton 75t, Recite (Midland Counties Junction) 83,
meats (if he had any such moments in election matters), duty carefully to look at the hands through which it Mr. ESTCOURT proposed the following Standing and slavery of the factory. In the road into which Brandon 89, COVENTRY 94, Hampton (Derby 1303, Banweli 1334, W
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he would regret the course he had pursued. He (Mr. went. With regard to the agency of Mr. Bristo, there Order, to be inserted after No. 18 :-" That in cases of the Noble Lord has, so much to his honour, led the BIRMINGHAM 1123. bridge 1404, BRIDGEWATER 1513, TAUNTON 1624.
M. J. O'Coonell7, had heard it said that whoever accused was no proof that he was anything more than a special intended application to Parliament for Bills relating to Legislature, there is no going back ; every step must
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all of culpable conduct succeeded in convicting one of agent, and could not bind his principal if he exceeded his Crown, Church, or Corporation property, or property be a step in advance; and whatever the noble coal- DOWN TRAINS. Departure
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such conduct ; and he would leave it to the House to instructions.He thoughtthatit wasrightthat some distinc- held in trust for public or charitable purposes, notice in London. Rugby. Birmingham Daily, except Sundays. Paddington Junction Distinction
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judge who that one was in this particular instance. The lion should be made between thepresent case and the former writing of such intention to be given to the owners or re- _
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Hon. Gentleman had said that the Committee had pre- ones. In former cases, thousands had been spent; in the puted owners of such property, and to the lessees or re-
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judged the case, because they had allowed two advisers, present instance the sum amounted only to a few puted lessees of such property, holding leases granted
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independently of the legal agents, to be present at the hundreds. He felt it his duty under these circumstan- for a life or lives, or Sir any term exceeding twenty-one
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proceedings.o the Committee ; but surely there was no- .ces, to oppose the motion of the Hon. Member opposite, years."-Agreed to. Also, a return of the value at which pocketed Mixed, to Rugby
thing in the course taken by the Committee on that sub- Mr. WILLIAMS said the conduct of the late Ipswich the property has been assessed to the Church-rate in each obstructive pros ceding. The course taken has been *AWL, First Class
jeer tto justify the charge. There had been pther, in- Committee was, in his opinion, fair and honourable. He parish, district parish, and extra-parochial place, within indeed a most unfortunate one for the House of Lords. Mixed,' to Birmingham ... 11 0 243 430 short Train to Slough 130
stances in which more than two advisers had been em- cared nothing who were the Members whose conduct was the two last years. ' It has deprived that House of much of the opinion of Ditto ditto
played, end any arrangement of that kind could •in any complained of, If they had been Members on his Lord EBRINGTON would postpone his motion sympathy with the labouring classes to which it is Ditto, to Aylesbury ------ 3 0 Short Train to Reading
case be of no importance as regarded the main question (Mr. Williams side of the House, and if the same facts for a Committee of the whole House, to consider the ex- in no small degree indebted for its safety during
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at issue. The Honourable Gentleman had stated had been proved, he would have come to the same con- pediency of enabling the Commissioners of her Majesty's•ADLAitto, ri.Wdolvertoa
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that in consequence of that decision the Counsel fur elusion as he had done in the case of Lord Desert and Customs to remit or repay the duties upon corn or flour
too favourable reception of the New Poor-law had
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Me. Cook as a witness; but he (Mr. M. J. O'Connell), The ArrORNEY-GENERAL said, the question maintenance of the poor, to this day. 1 Departure 1 Depar- Arrival Goods Train to Taunton
knowing us he did the ability of those Counsel, could now to be considered was not whether the persons re- Mr. J. O'BRIEN moved for-Copy of all applica- UP TRAINS. trom tore from 'at
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reason for adopting the course they had taken. The be disfranchised, for what had their disfranchisement to years 1840, 1841, and 1842, for an advance of money masses, their liberties, and their morals, are
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Hon. Gentleman had told them something that was ex- do with the issuing of the writ ?-(Hear, hear.) It was hy loan, to complete the Harbour of Limerick agree- all to be sacrificed to the augmentation of • '
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tremely new in the case of Downing, but the Hon. not right that the whole electors of the borough should ably to the original plan and specification, with the the wealth of the rich. Up to the late disastrousl 0 E 430 E
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Gentleman knew the law of bribery as it at present stood be disfranchised, because twenty-one persons had been respective replies of the Board of Works and Treasury proceeding in the House of Lords it was Ditto, from Aylesbury
too well not to be aware that a grosser case of bribery convicted of bribery. A writ ought never to be sus- to such applications.-Agreed to. hoped that the nobility of the land would oppose *Ditto,
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man was that agency had not been proved, whereas.the where the ultimate object was the disfranchisement of the House adjourned at Half-past One o Clock until Ditto ditto l2 Noon 123 E 6 0 AIAIL, to Taunton ... 8 55 11 35 255 M
of national ruin. It was hoped that, contented with
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agency. of Bristo was made out by the evidence of se- the whole of the electors. Against several of the par- Twelve o'Clock this day, having sat thirteen hours and Ditto ditto... ll5 E 235 630 -
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paid money on account of expenses. He would not oc. none so far as he could see against Fuller. It was
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. copy the time of the House further than to call on them v!ith great reluctance he entered upon such a discuS-
no:, to let these flagrant cases Vass unpunished, for, s•on as the present, and had he sufficient influence with ADMIRALTY TO WOOLWICH DOCKYARD. ters in extorting more wealth from Mixe,
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sa to time, give notice, that early next session he should
neive for a Select Committee to inquire into all the cases
of bribery that had taken place at the last election for
IpswichS--(Hear. hear.)
• Captain FITZROY believed that a more monstrous
decision had never been come to than at the last Ipswich
Committee. The agent for the parties found it was
useless to bring the witnesses they had in town for-
ward, because they saw their case was prejudged.
It hed been proposed, contrary to the usual practices of
Election Committees, that two parties, as well as the
agents, should be present at the proceedings ; and the
four opposition Members voted for the proposal, while
the three remaining voted against it. Now, he had no
hesitation in saying that that division alone was sufficient
to testify to any one that it was useless for the sitting
Members to incur any further expense in defending their
return. It was his firm belief that tbe case of Amos
Goodchild had never been made out. Again, with re-
gard to the case of William Blythe, he stood
charged with bribery because he had received
30s. for his attendance in Ipswich during three days;
he should say that no bribery could be proved in
that instance. The men had to give up his work
end to pay for his expenses in the town ; and surely 30s.
was not en unreasonable amount of compeniation to al-
low him under such circumstances. It should further
be reinemberei, that Blythe had been discharged by his
Whig master for having voted for the Tory candidates.—
(Hear, hear.) According to his (Mr. Fitzroy's) notion
of bribery, (and he had studied the question) bribery
sionsisteil in holding out to an elector some promise of
silents', of place, or of some other advantage, sufficient
to influence his vote. But no such promise had aeen given
in the case of Blythe, who had received the 30s. after
the election had terminated, and without any previous
engagement having been entered into with him. But
even supposing the twenty alleged cases of bribery had
Leen made out. he would ask if that would afford a sufficient
ground for disfranchising the borough ? If corruption
had been carried on at Ipswich at the late election, to
the same extent as on former occasions, he should himself
go the whole length recommended by the majority of
Committee. But that had not been the case ; and he
contended that the Report was not a fair one. No one
could trust to Committees of that House after the course
taken by the Committee on the Ipswich election. For
his part he had always voted for taking the decision of
eontroverted elections out of the hands of the House ;
and he should certainly do so on every future oppor-
tunity. He would say nothing on that occasion with re-
spect to the case of John Downing who had been released
from a security, because he confessed he did not clearly
understand that transaction. But he would repeat his
conviction, that the majority of the cases of bribery had
not been made out, that there was no evidence to show
that Mr. Bristo or Mr. Cook had been employed as
agents by the late Members, and that there was nothing
to justify the motion to disfranchise the borough.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL said, that he had seldom
heard a speech with more regret- than that of the lion.
Member who had just sat down. It was very well to
talk of taking the trial of election petitions out of the
hands of that House ; but no tribunal could be pro-
perly respected, if such language should be used
regarding it us the Honourable Member had em-
ployed with respect to the Ipswich Committee.
lie was sure that the Hon. Members on the other side
would join with those around him in reprobating such
language. He felt persuaded that were the Hon. Geo-
tleman himself to reflect on the subject in his cooler mo-
ments (if he had any such moments in election matters),
lie would regret the course he had pursued. He (Mr.
M. J. O'Connell; had heard it said that whoever accused
all of culpable conduct succeeded in convicting one of
such conduct ; and he would leave it to the House to
judge who that one was in this particular instance. The
Hon. Gentleman bad said that the Committee had pre-
judged the case, because they had allowed two advisers,
independently of the legal agents, to be present at the
proceedings of the Committee ; but surely there was no-
thing in the course taken by the Committee on that sub-
jeet to justify the charge. There had been pther, in-
stances in which more than two advisers had been em-
ployed, mid any arrangement of that kind could in any
ease bo of no importance as regarded the main question
The Honourable Gentleman had stated
that in consequence of that decision the Counsel fur
the sitting Members had determined on not calling
Mr. Cook as a witness; but he (Mr. M. J. O'Connell),
knowing us he did the ability of those Counsel, could
not help thinking that they must have had some better
reason for adopting the course they had taken. The
Hon. Gentleman had told them something that was ex-
tremely new in the case of Downing, but the Hon.
Gentleman knew the law of bribery as it at present stood
too well not to be aware that a grosser case of bribery
could not be. The great objection of the Hon. Gentle-
man was that agency had not been proved, whereas the
agency. of Bristo was made out by the evidence of se-
veral Witnesses, who swore to his and the others having
paid money on account of expenses. He would not oc-
cupy the time of the House further than to call on them
no.. to let these flagrant cases pass unpunished, for,
after their own decision on the subject of bribery, if once
they allowed bribery to come in ever so small a shape, it
avoid go on increasing until, at no distant time, it would
as *me its former vast dominion.
Mr. P. M. STEWART said, as Chairman of the Com-
mittee which had been so maligned by the Hon. and
Gallant Gentleman opposite, he would make a plain
ternent of the real facts of the case, to show that the
Committee could have come to no other decision. The
conclusion to which they had come was painful to him,
for the only one of the parties on either side with whom
he was acquainted with was Mr. Gladstone, his intimate
friend. But lie was bound by his duty, and by his oath
at that table, to decide justly, and he would not have
done otherwise if his own brother was concerned.—
(Hear, hear.) 'The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman bad
said that the conduct of the Committee was monstrous ;
now that was a word which it was easy to utter, but
very difficult to prove. The Committee were unani-
/nous in the opinion that the bribery and treating were
carried to an enormous amount. The whole discussion
was whether the agency had been proved, and when that
was completely established the Committee only differed
se to how far the candidates themselves were implicated.
The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman had asked him to
enlighten him as to the proofs of bribery. But he (Mr.
titewart) thought that after the opinion which the Hon.
end Gallant Gentleman had so uncourteously pronounced
respecting him, he could not expect much enlightenment
from him.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman, with
all his experience in elections and election Committees,
laid that he could not understand how bribery was
proved in the case of Downing. Why, that was .the
most flagrant and palpable of the whole. Mr. Cook
could enlighten the Hon. and Gallant Member on that
subject if he had been put into the box : and why was
he not ? He (Mr. Stewart) believed that he was kept
out Lecause they knew that if he were put into it
he would tell the whole truth.—(Cheers.) He (Mr.
• Stewart) had not come down this evening with the in-
tendon of taking. any part in the proceedings; Istit to
watch the discussion, and to be on the spot to reply if
the Committee should be assailed. Look to the case of
Graves: In that case it was proved that the voter applied
to Mr: Bristo for employment, and the latter said to
him, No, we must net employ you, as you are a voter,
but if you send your son, I shall employ him, and you
shall-have the 305.--(Hear.) He (Mr. Stewart) did not
knoW what might be the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman's
munificent ideas about bribery, for he (Captain Fitz-
' 'irOV) defined it to be whatever was sufficient in amount
• to induce a man to give his vote. It was set out, however
•diflicult, in the Act of Parliament, the 2d of Geo. 11., by
which the Committee were obliged to form their notions of
bribery. Did the Hon. Gentlemen think there was no
bribery in the Harwich case ?—(Hear, hear, and a
laugh.) He meant the case of the twenty voters who
were brought over from Harwich, and were paid 30s.
a •
piece
by Mr. Bristo for their expenses. One of these,
a Mr. Blythe, was asked how much his expenses came to?
He said they paid sixpence a piece from Harwich to
Ipswich, and sixpence back the same day. He was asked
how did he dispose of the remainder of his fiOs , when he
stopped only two hours at Ipswich ? He said all that he
client was ls. 6d. at a coffee-shop for refreshments, for
he was a teetotaller, and could not get rid of his money
as some of the others did. The next case was that
of Bowman. a person described by one of the agents as
not fit to be intrusted with the franchise. He received
30i. for playing in the band, or rather for not playing
at all.—(A laugh.) There was another man also who
received 30s. for playing in the band, and he did not
seem to be more active in his vocation than Mr. Bow-
man. The Hon. Gentleman ought to read the Act
under which the Committee acted, and then let him say
by what loop-hole they could creep out of a decision that
there were cases of bribery.—(Hear.) The Hon. and
Gallant Gentleman wished to be enlightened as to the
grounds upon which the Committee held Bristo to be
au agent. Why, no man was so mad as to give a
written commission of agency to be produced against
him in court ; but the proofs by which they came at it
indirectly were conclusive. This man took the rooms
and employed messengers, &c. What the Hon. Member
for Longford said was, that lie was a special agent, and
exceeded his instructions. He employed the clerks and
messengers. and the band, and he was active in can-
vassing and bringing the voters to the poll. He (Mr.
Stewart) denied that the Committee prejudged the case,
and he flung back the imputation whence it came.
They decided as the Act compelled them. Had the
Hon. Gentleman read the Act ?
Captain FITZROY-4 have.
\lr. STEWART—Then the lion. Gentleman's zeal
outstrips his memory. Why ; Bristo's securities were
shown in his face, and he was told "if you vote
for us you shall have them, but if you vote against us
they Judi be entbreed." ven the Counsel were fully
impressed with the conviction that bribery had been
ommitted;and on the part of the sitting Members only
ressed that their clients should not be punished tbr the
acts of partizans. Had the Hon. and Gallant Member
read the Act, and interpreted it according to common
sense, notwithstanding his bad opinion of him, he must
acknowledge that the Committee had been strictly
.guided by it. Next, as to the treating. It was proved
to have prevailed to an enormous extent ; twelve or four-
teen houses were opened, and tickets of refreshment were
signed and issued. Then there was a bill for a mysterious
horse and cart, and though the agent could account for
every item expended, be had forgotten all about that. For
breakfasts alone in one house 22/. was paid, and at each
or those houses before and duringthe election there were
ere 'yrs found in different states of inebriation. He had
int rely selected particular cases, but there wore forty or
flay others' before the Committee ; and though this
might be comparatively pure for Ipswich, yet it would be
mess impure for any other place. The Committee had
no alternative ; the whole case depended on the question
of agency or non-agency ; and Messrs. Arthur Batt
Creek, Bristo, eind Steward, were indisputably agents.
.othaaa std• e only small sums were given, had been
House, and it had been held to be
the case of Evesham, where Mr.
pie ,
convicted of bribery, only for
el:: *
•
a snuff-box.--(Loud laughter.)
s. acting in the Committee-room,
acting out of the Committee-min,
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The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the question
now to be considered was not whether the persons re-
ferred to in the motion of the Hon. Member ought to
be disfranchised, for what had their disfranchisement to
do with the issuing of the writ ?—(Hear, hear.) It was
not right that the whole electors of the borough should
be disfranchised, because twenty-one persons had been
convicted of bribery. A writ ought never to be sus-
pended beyond the ordinary period, except in cases
where the ultimate object was the disfranchisement of
the whole of the electors. Against several of the par-
ties, there was no case of bribery ; certainly there was
none so far as he could see against Fuller. It was
with great reluctance he entered upon such a discus-
s'on as the present, and had he sufficient influence with
the Hon. Member for Finsbury, he would, had that Hon.
Gentlemen consulted him, have warned him against making
his motion, the obvious tendency of which was to raise
such discussions. It appeared to him (the Attorney-
General) that the Committee had not made out a case
except against a very small number of persons—toe,
small to be of influence sufficient to warrant the with-
holding of the franchise from any portion of the electors
of the borough.
Mr. C. BULLER said that if the Hon. Member for
Renfrewshire and the Committee wanted any vindication
of their proceedings, it was supplied by the lion. and
Gallant Member for Lewes, who, lifter having advanced
the most violent charges against them, was unable to
substantiate them, and was completely thrown overboard
by every Member of the Committee who sat on that (tr.:e
Ministerial) side of the House, all of whom bore most
handsome testimony to the conduct of the Chairman and
the Members of the Committee. They had done great
service by throwing light upon the miserable pretexts
under which bribery was carried on. They showed that
the law was not to be violated with impunity, no matter
what the amount of the bribe might be. The amount
made no difference in the moral turpitude of him who
gave or received a bribe. He (Mr. Charles Buller)
was unwilling to vote in favour of motions
for suspending writs. They had no right to
suspend a writ unless they had some practical object
in view, for the ultimate effecting of which the suspen-
sion of the writ was necessary. But here there was a
practical object to be attained, namely, before going to
the election to disfranchise a certain portion of the con-
stituency proved to be unworthy of the franchise. If
ever there was a case in which it was of practical im-
portance to disfranchise persons who had been proved to
have received bribes, he thought that the borough of Ips-
wich presented such a case. It was a town in which it
was difficult to deal with a wholesale disfranchisement.
Ever since the Reform Bill there were more Members
unseated for the borough of Ipswich than for
any other borough.—(Hear, hear.) The corruptible
part of the constituency of that borough bad never
been stated to be large in proportion to the whole. The
largest number of the personsbribed of whom he had ever
heard was 70 ; but the result of that was thtit, the honest
parties being nearly balanced, those few corrupt
voters turned the scale, and they neutralised their votes.
He said now as he said before, that by sending the writ
down to Ipswich without taking further precautions, they
were inviting fresh corruption on both sides, and sub-
jecting the constituency of that town to a very bad influ-
ence, and subjecting the constituencies throughout Eng-
land to the bad effect of that example, and above all
subjecting that House to the imputation which the public
would cast upon it, that it expressed its indigna-
tion against bribery in general, but, when particular
instances came before it, only gave encouragement to it.
Mr. DARBY would not have said a word, but that the
Hon. Member for Lewes had been attacked in the place
of another Hon. Member. He thought that when a Com
mittee had decided; that decision ought not to come before
the House. When Committees were not competent to give
just decisions, it was time to consider whether some
other tribunal ought not to be appointed. He said that
the Hon. Member for Finsbury had compelled him to go
into the evidence and the investigations of that Commi-
tee. When he was asked to convict certain parties of
bribery, was be not to look at the evidence, to judge
whether those parties were guilty of bribery or not ?
He took the case of Mr. Blount, and, according to the
evidence, if he (Mr. Darby) was asked to vote that that
man was guilty of bribery, he would say no, he would
not ; and by the evidence taken before that Committee,
he should decline disfranchising those persons named in
the Bill of the lion. Member for Finsbury.
_ _

The Earl of Haddington,Vice-Admiral Sir W. H. Gage,
Rear-Admiral the Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and
Captain Brandreth, arrived on Saturday in the Queen
steam-vessel at Woolwich, and were received by Capt.
Sir A. Collier. Their Lordships on landing - proceeded
to the smithery, to witness the work in' progress at that
extensive department, and examined the whole of the
powerful machinery in operation for forging anchors,
welding iron, and making bolts for the use of the navy.
Their Lordships afterwards visited all the working de-
partments in the yard, and witnessed the testing of a
large anchor by llramah's powerful machine. An exa-
mination of the works at the new basin and the new dock
occupied a portion of their Lordships' time, and they
appeared greatly pleased with the beauty and substantial
manner in which the whole were executed. Attacned
to the new dry-dock in progress of construction by
Messrs. Grissell and Peto, a powerful steam-engine
has been erected for the purpose of withdrawing the
water within a very limited time when vessels are docked
to be examined. Some idea may be formed of the
magnitude and complete • arrangement of the new dock
when it is stated that it is sufficiently large to admit for
the purpose of being docked ships of equal dimensions
as the Trafalgar of 120 guns, and that the volume of
water requisite to float vessels of that size could by the
power of the steam-engine be completely withdrawn
into the basin at high water, or into the river at ebb
tide in about twenty minutes, and in the event of the
vessel examined being found sound and not in want of
any repairs, she might again enter the river ready for
service without losing the same tide. These are improve-
ments in celerity of movement which cannot fail to prove
of great importance to the country in the event of war
with any foreign power at a future period. The en-
gine conne:tted with the dry-dock has been erected
m a handsome and substantially-constructed building,
the roof of which is supported upon chaste iron pillars,
and on the top an iron tank has been placed, capable
of containing one hundred and ninety tons of water,
and which will always be kept full in case of acci-
dents from fire at the end of the yard in which it is
situate. The just proportions of the tank to the build-
ing on which it has been placed, gives the whole a pleas-
ing appearance, and reminds the spectator on the ground
of the flat-roofed houses in eastern countries. The time
occupied by their Lordships in examining the dock-yard
on this occasion was upwards of five hours, and was so
taken up with the works, that they were unable to visit
any of the offices. Amongst the inventions submitted
was a plan by which the approach to icebergs could be
detected, and other subjects important to navigation.
The invention is by a Monsieur Clement, and is said to
consist in the application of a clock, or kind of dial-
, plate, with moveable indicators connected with the com-
pass of the vessel. Their Lordships, with that spirit of
liberality which they have always shown towards all those
who have brought forward suggestions for the benefit of
the service, have placed the Black Eagle steam-vessel ut
the disposal of Monsieur Clement for a period not ex-
ceeding 15 days, to test the working of his invention, and
its application to actual service.

Mr. Goddard said that betwe. n the 13th of May and
the 16th of June, a Mr. Beaumont, of Maidstone, con-
trived to get from tradesmen of the city of London goods
to the amount of upWards of 800 L It appeared, how-
ever, that Mr. Beaumont could never be seen, but was
ably represented by the prisoner, who generally assumed
that name, and, according to circumstances, appeared as
the agent or buyer of that individual. As is usual on
occasions of fraud of the kind, a referee was employed,
who gave a most exalted character of Mr. Beaumont,
who was stated to be about to set up in busine,,s
at Maidstone, with every prospect of succ, ss, and
to have married a lady of fortune, through
whom he was likely to be able to deal most extol
sively. The referee was a Mr. Batcherland, of George-
street, Mansion-house-street, the Secretary to an As-
sociation called ". The Cork Stuffing Company"—
(Laughter)—and that gentleman exhausted the vocabu-
lary of eulogium in describing the qualities of Mr.
Beaumont. It was, at last, however, ascertained, that
Mr. Beaumont had been recently bankrupt at Brighton,
and that the prisoner had come forth front the genial
climate of Whitecross-street. after having inhaled the
wholesome breezes there for three years.
Some of the eases were examined at great length, end
at the end Sir P. LAURIE remanded the prisoner for a
week, refusing bail, and expressing a hope that he might
be prosecuted for a conspiracy.
CLERKENTVELL.

MIDLAND t OUNTIES.
STATIONS, with their Distances from Rugby.
Room', ILLErrnoarE 71, Broughton-Astley I, Wig.
stun 16i. LEICESTER 20, SYVON 241, Sileby 271, Barrow 3()
I.oucktaoaotion 32i, Kegwor;h (N,,tti,gbain Junction) 37i
Sawley 42i, Born" bsh Obi, DERBY 491.

SOUT:I W.Lsrfl RN.
STATIONS, with their Distunees from Nine Elms.

NINE Elm., Wandsworth 3, Wimbledon 6, Ktria.svoN 10.
Esher and Hampton Court 13, Walton 15i, We)bridge 17{1.
WOKING 23, Farnborough 3,11. Winitheld 38. I)Asizio-
sToxE 46, Andover Road 56, Wm:nits-ma 64, .Bich p.toke
(Gosport Junction) 72, SOUTHAMPTON 77, Bottled 77, Fare-
ham 82, Gosroivr 87.

Two young men, having the appearance of gentlemen,
named Cliarles Roberts and James Chambers, were
charged as follows :
From the evidence of police-constable, 100 E, it ap-
peared that at ten minutes to two o'clock this morning,
the constable being on duty in Caroline-street, Bedford-
square, saw the prisoners going up to several doors, and
turning up' the knockers. After some time they v, ent
into Great Russell-street. Roberts went up to Mr.
Reeves's hall vloor, No. 39, and twisted the knocker off.
Chambers went up to the next door, and acted in
like manner. They went up to many °diet' doors;
and twisted the knockers so as to render them useless.
They were finally secured. On their way to the station-
house Roberts ofiered the constable 101. to let him go, and
drew forth his watch and chain as guarantee for' the pay=
ment. The bribe was rejected. When their persons
were examined at the station.house several bell handles
were found on their persons, and three knockers were
found in the cell where they had been imprisoned.
Mr. Alexandre, f:reign bookseller, identified one of the
knockers as his property, and said his family were
greatly alarmed by the noise made in twisting it off.
Mr. Spall, 25, New Ormond-street, identified another
of the knockers.

RIOT AT B U ItSLEM.
(ram di CORRESPONDENT)

TUNSTALL, AUG. 7.—We have had a lamentable
affair during the night in Burslem, and I have collected
these particulars from parties on whom I can place im-
plicit reliance :
. . . . _

Mr. COMBE asked the prisoners what they were ?
The prisoners said they were assistant linen-drapers.
Roberts said he was employed in the house of Hard-
wicke and Ford, Holborn.
Mr. COMBE said he did not believe a word of that
statement—they seemed persons very different from
linen-drapers. Unless they brought respectable' persons
there to give them a character, tie would not impose a
fine of 51, which he supposed they would care very little
for, but send them to the House of Correction, without a
fine, fur a month.

- About six o'clock at night, three men, calling them-
selves colliers, with a box, were asking contributions
from persons in Burslem covered market, and thence
were taken to the lock-up, by Superintendent Ryles,
and Brown and Ball, two of the watchmen. No notice
seemed to be taken of the affair ; and the town was very
quiet until a few minutes past twelve o'clock, when sud-
denly the approach of a crowd from the Chapel-square
was observed, and at the time, within fifty yards of the
Town-hall, where are the lock-ups. A shout was given
as soon as the mob was opposite the hall ; then a second,
and instantly they knocked the leeks off the doors, libe-
rated the three men, and immediately commenced their
attack on the windows of the hall, which have been
riddled, and 90 squares broken ; several stones were
thrown through the illuminated dial of the cluck, and it
stopped thereby, at Live minutes past one. Another
party was then at work in like manner at the George lon,
kept by Mr. William Barlow, and 135 sash squares were
quickly demolished, and much internal mischief done to
his premises. Mr. Alcock's shop also was partially as-
sailed, and sixteen squares broken. Mr. Ryies's house
was beset by a party of sixty colliers, and eighty-four
squares broken, and the pannels of his doors and shutteis
beaten in. The furniture was much injured inside die
house, looking-glasses were split, tables broken, and in-
dentations in the walls over the children's beds, almost
deep enough to hold a pullet's egg. Partial damage was
also done to a small house occupied. by James Gracie, an
ex-policeman, who, being pot-valiant, rushed amongst
the mob, and was most rudely abused. llis next-door
neighbour's house also suffered from the missiles. Mr.
Acton's shop and parlour windows are destroyed ; but
strange to say, nut a square of the six upper-story
windows is broken. A. pistol was fired; and the party
obeyed the signal, and left the town by the Waterloo-
road, towards Hanley, leaving a number of bludgeons on
the ground. They had remained longer absent than was
expected by their fellows in the other parts ; fr, after
the firing of the pistol, when going to attack the George
Inn, and Mr. Ryles's, two sky-rockets were sent up in
the direction of Cobridge (beta een Burslem and Hanky)
and little doubt can be entertained that they were in-
formed of the military having been sent for. In conse-
quence of an express sent as soon as could with safety be
dune, to Newcastle, the Rifle company was brought, and
arrived about three o'clock, and here they remain.
The town is thronged with spectators of the disastrous
consequences Of this ill-judged affair.
On the afternoon of Saturday, a party of colliers from
Longton, &c. " turned out " those at Norton, three miles
from Burslem ; a stone severely injured Mr. Dean, one
of the proprietors, and two of his bailiffs were ducked,
first in a dirty puddle, and then in the engine water-pit.

Mr. WYSE said that he'never saw a more strict at-
tention paid to the general bearings of any case, than by
the Committee which sat upon the Ipswich Electior..
Sir R. PEEL said, it was not his intention to impugn
the decision of this Committee, inasmuch as the pre-
sumption was that the majority, acting on allegations
upon oath, delivered a correct and honest judgment ac-
cording to their belief ; and when he (Sir R. Peel) saw
the disposition was to question the adjudication of this
Committee, and to refer to some other decision, he felt
perfectly confident that the decision of the tribunal which
was vaguely hinted at, would undergo precisely the same
severe scrutiny, there would be the same reflections on im-
partiality to which the House of Commons was subject ;
and when the House of Commons admitted that it was so
influenced by political feelings that it could not trust
its own Members acting upon oath, then he would say
that the House of Commons would have consented to
strike a blow at its own existence.—(Hear.) He presumed
the House could not appoint a new tribunal, and consent
to abide by the dictum of that tribunal, without seeing
the evidence from which they had drawn their conclu-
sion, and when they saw the evidence, they would doubt;
and he ventured to say that there would be the same then
as now. Who did that Judge vote for at the last elec-
tion ? and such like.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.)
And where would they find' such angelic judges
free from all party feeling.—(Hear, hear.) Who was to
appoint them?—(Hear, hear.) Was it to be the Govern
ment ? Would they not be influenced by the Govern-
ment ? If the majority of that House was to appoint
them what would the minority say ?—(Hear, hear.)
They must look at all these, and many other points,
before they appointed a new judicial tribunal.—(Hear,
hear.) He, for one, should never cease to deplore
that day when the House should appoint some
other tribunal, and consent to part with that
authority which the House of Lords exercised. He could
conceive that the House of Lords should not object to
seeing them lose that authority--(Hear, hear)—hut that
the House of Commons should willingly part with it he
should very much regret. His presumption was
wouldas in favour
yaysoaur
of the judgment of the Committee; but h
more ; he would admit that the Committee, was right,
he would admit that there were twenty men convicted in
Ipswich of bribery. He would. give them all that, and
yet he would not consent to suspend the writ.—(Hear,
hear.) Three cases of bribery brought h
home to the
agents of a Member would justify the Committee in un-
seating that Member ; but the question of whether a
whole constituency should lose their electoral rights
because of three corrupt men, was a very different
thing. Suppose • the constituency coasted of 51Z•

The prisoners, who it was evident had concealed their
real names and occupations, exclaimed they would be
ruined if a fine were not imposed. _

They then sent a policeinan for a friend, and mean
time were consigned to the custody of the jailor.
UNION-HALL.

11%1) women, named Ryan and Barnes, were charged
with rubbing a fellow-prisoner, named Fielden, in the
station-h..use.

The complainant, a laundress, was taken to the sta-
tion-house tor being tipsy, and in the same cell two wo-
men were. locked up, who, taking advantage of her situa-
tion, robbed ht r of five half-crowns and some shillings.
Whet, the complainant came to her senses, she found that
she was robbed, and, on examination, her money Has
found in the possession of the prisoners, who had taken
it from her ‘shile she was lying down on the bench of
the cell.
The MAGISTRATE said that when persons were taken
to the station-houses drunk, care ought to be taken to see
that their money Was safe, and not allow them to be
thrust in along with a number of bad characters. He
should commit the prisoners for trial.

SIGHT AND 11EARING.—In consequence of the
ilivat inconvenience felt, attended with injurious effects, to per-
sons' eye-sight in the country, by their nut being enabled to be
properly suited with spectacles, &c., and which have come
under the notice (to some extent) of the Messrs. S. ar.d B.
S'l"Tunns, Opticians, &c., 39 Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, op-
posite the York Hotel, and 76 King William-street, Ciiy ; they
have contrived a plan icy which imiividunl. at the most remote
part of the globe can be suited with their Newly-invented Spec-
tacles, as correct as if the person were present; by those who
have never made use of spectacles, stating the number of inches
they can see moderate sized print from the eye, and those who
are making use of spectacles, by sending them, and making the
sama statement when in use. Immediately the Newly-invented
Spectacles are placed before imp,rfeet vision, that .mist and
dullness which appear before the eyes is at once removed;
every object becomes clear and distinct, so that the most aged,
imperfect sight, becomes bright and brilliant, and is brought to
its youthful, natural, and original state. Their Sound Magni-
fiers invisible Voice Conductors, will enable persons at an ad-
vanced age, and of forty and fifty years' standing of extreme
deafness to join in general conversation, and to catch the sound
of a distant, low speaker, at a public assembly. They are not
in the least perceptible, nor more uncomfortable than hiving a
small piece of fine wool in its place. The Sound Magnifiers,
Invisible Voice Conductors, and Spectacles, are sent daily (by
post) to various parts of the country. 39 Alhemarle-street,
Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76 King William..
street, City.—No connexion with persons of the same name.

The Rhine and Moselle Gazette gives an account
of a fire at Kornnenburg, a few leagues from 'Vienna.
The fire raged for three hours, during which it dt atroyed
55 houses and the cathedral.