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ELECTION COMMITTEE.
LYME REGIS.
The Committee, on assemblingyesterday morning, pro-
ceeded with the scrutiny into the vote of Agland, which
had occupied them the whole of the preceding day. The
voter was one of a number of individuals who
had received certain loans from the agent of
the sitting Members, and thereby come within the
provisions of the Bribery Act, which expressly provides
for this sort of corrupt influence.

After hearing the arguments in support of the vote,
Mr. COCKBURN replied, contending for the validity of
the objection. lle took his stand on the statute, and
severely denounced the system that had been pur-
sued in the borough, by which a large portion of the
constituency was placed completely at the mercy of the
agent of the party, and disabled from making a free
choice, except at the risk of ruin to themselves and

After nearly an hour's deliberation, the CHAIRMAN in-
timated that the Committee had agreed that the vote
was a bad one. It having been announced that the Speaker
was at prayers, no formal decision could be given, but it
will be made this day.

This decision makes the parties equal on the poll, and
it will probably decide the fate of several other votes
objected to on the same ground.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—If Sir Robert Peel is not simply to be re-
garded as a great humbug, which it would be painful to
think, and disrespectful to predicate of a Prime Minis-
ter, he must intend (after tripping up the Whigs for
proposing too much) to do more than he dares as yet
,sistinctly to announce, with his present party behind
him. It has even penetrated the obtuseness of the
Horned Cattle Interest at his back, that the principles
which Sir Robert Peel propounds take a wider range
than the measures which at present he professes to found
upon those principles. If, therefore, he is not simply
parroting " wise-saws" which are no novelties, as they
are familiar to every one who has read the books, and
heard the speeches, of the last twenty years, he is laying
ground for ulterior action, and driving piles for a future
superstructure in a soil which (like that of the Houses
of Parliament) would not otherwise bear its weight.
This may be so, and we hope it is so. Sir Robert may
mean, and we hope he does mean, to bid high for
independent support, and to place himself (no
matter for how long or short a period—till he
has done his work at least) at the head of a sort
of Third Party in the State, careless of the immediate
ascendancy of either one or. the other of the ordinary
rivals for power. Or Sir Robert Peel, in his general
professions of an enlarged policy, may be merely ex-
citing expectations, and angling for applause, without
any farther object than the Machiavelism of the moment
—the sowing division in the opposite ranks—the
advantage
theory to the
con-
ciliation of those who " go farther". than the propositions
:hvei t
ea
NI
.ipl odianyt,
whicht,li ile
of the late Ministry, and the obtaining a cheap
in debate, by contrasting skilfully the doctrines of ab-
solute freedom with the limited practical measures of
s thus
leading his hearers to forget for the moment that, with
the
unrestricted Whigs,
baydogpitlioiiiiig
otfhefreperepferrienne?ireleisn,
and
b_,
all his promising dispositions for unlimited. liberality, he
scotinhee Ihird,,.' ' Your Majesty
on . his C, oin-law.
seeming to outbid Whig doctrine.. Is.ow this, we have
falls short of Whig practice
said, is either a sham, and then its success will be very
John
WilkesS' hirolIl?-olibveerdttof;lodorsreGae seseolirVigioelul
knows I was never a Wilhite ;" and Sir Robert Peel may
intend proclaiming, so soon as need be, that he.was never a
Peelite, in the sense in which his su.pposed opinions
provision°n for the
raised him originally to power. On neitherof the above
suppositions is the course of the present Prune Minister
a straight one. On the first, he would he playing at
once a paltry and dangerous game. On the second, his
tactics must certainly be deemed more sagacious, and
more far-sighted. How they harmonise with his past
course, and party connections, we care not to answer.
STANDARD.—Two very important subjects engaged
the attention of the House of Commons last night—
election bribery, and Mr. Miles's proposition for modi-
fying the clauses of the tariff affecting the introduction
of live cattle. The most importantincident in the
discussion of the first of these subjects was the decla-
ration of Sir Robert Peel, of his "readiness to lend
himself, to the utmost of his power, to discounte-
nance a practice which was undermining the iqfistence
of the louse of Commons." This declaration is in
perfect agreement with the practice of the Right
Honourable Baronet, since the day when he pledged
himself to support the Parliamentary constitution estab-
lished by the Reform Bill. There is no man in Parlia-
ment, or out of it, who has done so much as Sir Robert
Peel to ensure purity of election. His Bill for the trial
of disputed returns has exposed the extent of bribery
in all its foulness, and almost achieved the miracle of
making the House of Commons sensible of its danger
from the corrupt practices of too many of its Members.
That danger is imminent :' as fl' Robert said the
practice of bribery is " undermining the influence

of the House of Commons ;" in truth, it has already so
far undermined it, that a ntw Reform Bill threatens,
and a new Reform Bill will be nothing less than a Rate'
cal revolution. It is right that >all who feel an in
in the existing order of society sbould know this, ant
that they should feel the extent of their obligation to
the Minister, who, at no small cost to himself, labours
to avert it. That Sir Robert Peel has to contend
against some opposition in the party of which he
is the honoured leader, is too obvious for conceal-
ment. If the foundations of_ this opposition were
analysed, it would be found that the most active
and acrimonious of those who disturb the har-
mony of the Conservatire party, are persons who
quarrel with him chiefly on this ground, that.he is the
area
to
respectsect:on fcron-
ol-
tetnp enemyloef
n electionnotn b e
rbsi:iberdy. Theyl entitled npersonal importance ; but they can rail at clubs, and
write spiteful paragraphs in newspapers, and thus create
and
an appearance of irreconcileable division, greatly inju-
rious to the general interests of the great party of the
country. On the other side, the much greater number
of corruption-loving Whig-Radicals engage in the attack
upon the Conservative leader, and the great opponent of
bribery, as in a " labour of love," and they of course
magnify the division, of which their allies in the Conser-
vative ranks get up the semblance.

LAW INTELLIGENCE:
HOUSE OF LORDS. May 24.
The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present,
were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord
CampbelL , -

GARRICK V. BUCHANAN.
Their Lordships were occupied the whole day with this case,
the facts of which are of no interest, and the only point involv-
ing a question of Scotch entail.

ROLLS' COURT, May 24.
Lord LANGDALE disposed of a few consent petitions this
morning, and rose at an early hour.

VICE- C FIANCE LL O'R S' CO UR T, May 24.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND sat in Lincoln's Inn
to-day and took motions.
(Before Vice. Chancellor BRUCE. )
GARRATT V. COCKERELL.
His HONOUR gave judgment in this case, the question being
whether the will of Mr. Burgess, the testator in the cause, con-
tained a valid limitation in favour of one thy plaintiffs, the wife
of the other plaintiff, which had taken effect. The will was
dated the 14th of September, 1809. The testator gave his pro-
perty in four equal shares :—one share to his wife for her
natural life, then to devolve to his children, and to the longest
liver in equal shares ; the remaining three shares to be divided
equally between his three children, and the longest liver of
their heirs ; and the will contained the following words :
" Should all my children die without heirs my property in that
case to be divided equally between the children of my brothers
and sisters alive at the death of Tay last surviving child." Upon
these last words the dispute in the cause turned. It was ad-
mitted that the children of the testator were all dead, and that
neither of them had left issue. At the death of the survivor of
the testator's children there were children living of some of the
testator's brothers and sisters, and it was in right of KIM
Garratt, as one of these children, that the present suit was
stituted. It was contended for her that the word "heirs," as
used in the will, meant either children or issue ; that the limi-
tation in favour of the children of the testator s brothers and
sisters was intended to take effect only in the event of
the testator's children respectively, either never having a
child, or not leaving a child living at their respective deaths;
that the limitation was therefore valid, and that if valid it had,
upon the admitted facts, taken effect. His Honour said he
should hold that the word " heirs" meant either children, or
issue. With respect to the question, whether the testator
meant the limitation in favour of the children of his brothers
and sisters to take effect only in the event of the issue not
being born to either of his children, his impression was, that
the language did not authorise such an interpretation. He
could not hold that by dying without heirs the testator meant
dying without leaving a child. Then came the question, what
would be the effect upon the construction of the words "My
last surviving child," whether they would support a restrictive
construction of the words " die without heirs." His Honour
then referred to several cases bearing upon the construction of
the words, and after stating that the will had already been before
the Master of the Rolls in 1837,•said he should defer to the
authority of that Learned Judge by dismissing the Bill. He
had collected from the Bar, however, that the case would in any
Court be carried before the Lord Chancellor, and he thought
such a course would have been very reasonable whichever way
he had decided.

COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, May 24.
The Court at its sitting this morning proceeded to hear ar-
guments in cases of motions for new trials. The greater part
of the time was occupied in hearing the case of 'Want and
Collins, which was an action brought to determine a disputed
right to a pew in a chapel. The case was a most uninterest-
ing one.