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possibility charged against hitosek or Ids agk los.; *at
t ribery at the el 4:tio,i was carried or, wholly v‘itil.
out his knowledge and without his sailetion, t xpress or
implied ; and that his fear, on this subject, Was not !'or
himself, but for his frien ls, whom, after the election, he
discovered to have been implicated in the bribery carried
on by the friends of Mr. Mitchell.
In consequence of this agreement, Mr. Warburton
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and Mr. Cochrane was
elected without opposition ; as the opposition threatened
was averted by the interference of Mr. Warburton and
i is agents, and by means of a negotiation, tlik particu-
lars of which. will hereafter be explaiLed.
That the cost of Mr. Warbarton's election was 2,166!.

Part of this sum was expended in treating ; and to
one peculiar portion of the .subsequent expendititre your
Committee would solicit the attention of the House. A
custom, it appears, has long prevailed at Bridport. for
each successful candidate to give a dinner after t I.e eke-
don to such of the constituency as have voted in his fit-
your ; and in the case now before us, the inn expendo:l
by Mr. Warburton, in accordance with thi, etisttile.lvas
about TOOL and, the other successful candidate, Mr.
Mitchell, for the same purpose, expei.ded a like sum of
700/. It would be well if some meals could be devised
of putting an end to so mischievous a custom.
That the number of registered voters was 557.
That, after Mr. Warburton had undertaken to res..:lt.
a-petition was presented against the return of Mr. Mit-
chell, on the part of electors in the interest of Mr. Coch-
rane and that of this petition Mr. Cochrane h... 1 the
control and management. This petition c.tntain.-d
charges of bribery and corruption, alleged to have been
committed by Mr. Mitchell and his agents.
That a petition was presented against the return of
Mr. Cochrane by electors in the interest of Mr. Mitchell;
this petition contained charges of bribery and corruption
alleged to have been committed by Mr. Cochrane and his
agents, both at the general election, on which occasion
Mr. Cochrsne was defeated, and at the second election,
when he was elected ; this petition was under the control
and management of Mr. Mitchell.
Your Committee also found, that various actions were
brought for penalties in consequence of bribery, both on
the part of Mr. Mitchell's friends, against those of Mr.
Cochrane, and by friends of Mr. Cochrane against the
partisans of Mr. Mitchell. That mutual indictments
were also preferred, and that a rule on the same ground
of bribery, to show cause why a criminal information
should not be filed against
.Mr. Cochrane was also ob-
tained.

That in September, 1841, and before his election, and
in consequence of opposition threatened to his eleeti.n,
Mr. Cochrane agreed, with certain electors at Bridport,
to withdraw all actions against certain persons for
bribery, provided that the threatened opposition was
withdrawn.

That, at the same period, Mr. Cochrane further agreed,
that if the opposition were withdrawn. he could prose-
cute the petition against Mr. Mitchell's return on docu-
mentary evidence ; promising not to employ any oral
testimony, as that might implicate certain persons, the
friends of those with whom he was negotiating.
It should be remarked that, at this period, Mr. Coch-
rane's agent had in his possession documents proving the
bribery at Bridport, on the part of Mr. Mitchell's friends,
which documents came into his poslessi,in it, consequenct.
of a quarrel between Mr. Mitchell and his legal agent at
Bridport.
That, on this arrangement, the
,opposition 'as with-
drawn, and the actions withdrawn.
That in the month of March, 1842, before the time
appointed for the trial of the election petition against
the return of Mr. Mitchell, cettain actions were to be
tried at the Somerset Assizes, which had been brought
against the friends of Mr. Cochrane ; in this state of
circumstances, and before any of the trials came on, the
following arrangement was made between Mr. Mitchell
on the one part, and Mr. Cochrane on the other.
Mr. Mitchell agreed to, withdraw all the actions and
indictments, and all other criminal pros .0 iings agtinst
Mr. Cochrane and his friends, together with the petition,
which had been presented against the. return of Mr.
Cochrane.

Mr. Cochrane, on the other hand. agreed to withdraw
the petition against tie return 4* Mr. Mitchell.
The circumstance which led Mr. M:tch,ll to agree to
this arrangement, was.the fear of being un,eatt dun the
charge ok bribery by his'agents.
. .

On- the other liana. Mr. Cochrane was led to agree to
this arrangement from a tear of. the consequences of the
various investigations to himself and his friends.
Thus, in the various transaction, the following. com-
promises were entered into:—

I. That of Mr. Warburton and Mr. Cochrane.
2. That of Mr, Cochrane and certain eltctors, his op-
ponent..,.a t Bridport.
3. That of Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Cochrane.
4. That of Mr. Cochrane and Mr. Mitchell.

The ~uin expended by Mr. Mitchell in this el. ct;en
was 3,300/.

Of thi, sum a large portion was split. some in treat-
ing, some in direct bribery. ']'his bribery was com-
menced without the cognisance of Mr. Mitchell, but was
continued after it had become known to him, not being
interdicted by him. '1 his fact was learned from Mr.
Mitchell himself, and from one of his friends.

The Committee would have been glad, did their duty
end here ;. but they are obliged, by their respect for the
House, and from an anxious desire that no act of theirs
may compromise its dignity and power, to call the at-
tention of. the House to another circumstance attending
this inquiry, which it is proper the House should know,
though upon it your Committee will not offer any remark.
During the various investigations made by your Com-
mittee, as they have already had occasion to observe,
their endeavours have been much facilitated, and the
object whi :h the House had. in view, when they deter-
mined upon the present inquiry, greatly furthered, by
the willingness and candour with which most of the
witnesses have come torward to afford the int4niation
which the Committee needed, and which those witnesses
could for the most part alone afford. No material ob-
struction has been offered to your Committee, except in
the case of Bridport ; and the chief obstruction here has
arisen from a Member of your House. viz. Mr. Alex-
ander Cochrane.

(Some extracts here are given of the questions put to
Mr. Cochrane, who decidedly refused to state to the
Committee how the money ,had been expended.)
Mr. Tempi, r, the agent of Mr. Cochrane, claims d his
privilege as the attorney of Mr. Cochrane, and refused
his evidence because not 'released by his client from the`
necessity of claiming his privilege.
Your Committee have also to call the attention of the
House to the direct and positive refusal of Mr. Thomas
Flight to give. any evidence, of ,yhatsoever, desoiption
respecting the election at Briiiport. .
As regarded the inquiry itself, your Committ, e have
tote:nar, that the information refused by Mr. Thomas
Flight has been supplied by others; and as respects that
refused by Mr. Cochrane and his agent, viz., the specific
sums spell', and the mode in which they were expended,
it was not absolutely required for the piteposys of the
inquiry. Your Conniatee, therefore, did not pess the
questions, and did not think it neccessary 10 invoke the
undoultieJ powers of the House in fwd.. r to enforce an
an -wer. That bribery in the present rase did take plat,,
all the evidence platrly shows ; tool that it was extehsi e
and systematic, and tha it .11S erUCtit•ed bv t e parti
of Mr. Cochrane, as ktell as timse of Mr. Mitchell. your
Ccminittec cAnnot doubt.

• 18th Joy, 1842.
The Ciinonittee originally con.isted of
Mr. Braniston, Sir Wilburn Heatheote,
Air. kVillitun Miles, Mr. Strutt,'
Sir Wil. iatts Somerville, Liircl Wort:ley, ;114
Mr. Hawes, Mr. Roebuck ;
Mr. Sebright Lascelles,
But on the 21st of June Mt

Eliot. Yorke and Mr.
for M►. Jigs and tiir Wil-

ion p;liteli were substituted
Hum lle-atbeote.

ELECTION COMMI Ti::ES,
IPSWIC H.

The Committee met on Saturday morniz.g at eleven o'clock.
The cross-examination of the witness Beaumont was conti-
nued by r Austin. No new fact arose out of the cross-exa-
mination.

Hobert Pack was next examined, and stated hat Mr. Bristoe
called upon him on the slay of nomination, ant ask. d witness
to vote for Lord Desart •and Mr. Ghisioce While Mr.
Bristoe was thee, witness's scle asked him to give witness's
son a situation at the election as messenger. Mr. Flris-oe said
he would, and put witness's son's name down in a book. On
the c'ay of election witness saw Mr. Bristoe in the street, but
Mr. Gladstone and Lprd Desart were not with him. He told
witness that if he would go over to the rooms his son's pay
was going on. Witness went to the rooms in the Little Carl-
ton. Witness asked Blisioe if he could advance his son some
money for his pocket-money out at his pay. He told witness
to follow him into the King's Arms. He did so. and then Mr.
Bristoe wrote a note, and gave it to witness's son. They gave
it to Mr. Stewart at the Little Carlton. Mr. Stewart read it,
and give witness's son three half-crowns. There was no sti-
pulation as to the amount witness's son was to reeeive as mes-
senger.
It was here announced that the Speaker was at prayers, and
the Committee adjourned.

THE INDISPOSITION OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR.ch
—The Lord Chancellor, who has for the last few days
been seriously indisposed, is, we are glad to learn, mu
better, anti will, it is expected, resume his duties to-day.
THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE.—A certain Non-
Intrusion minister, not a hundred miles west c.f Dundee,
while exhorting his hearers one Sabbath lately, launched
out into the regions of the sublime as follows :—"'You
tell us you have not time to attend the church ; if an
Anti-Coro-law lecturer comes round you find plenty of
time to hear him ; .or if a Chartist lecturer come round
there is no want of time to hear him. And you roar
continually- for your 'rights.' What are your rights ?"
And with a powerful emphasis, while with his fist he
made the pulpit tremble, he exclaimed—" I will 'tell you
what are yoor rights—they are hell and damnation to
all eternity !"—Dundee Chronicle.
`Zr. Roebuck will have, it is said, very powerful rea-
sons to regret Lord Campbell's motion not to allow
Counsel, being Members of Parliament, to plead at the
bar of the House of .Lords on any pending Bill, should
it succeed. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman has been
retaired. according to report, by a fee of fifteen guineas
a night for every night he att, nds ; and us he was ex-
pected to attend ten nights. th, Hon and Learned Gen-
tleman may 1.3 e 150 guineas by the professional or ca.te
malice of the ex-Attorney General and ex-Lord Chan-
eeilor Ireland. Who -11 L, ret..,incd Mr. Roebuck we
no; ; we. har,, howev.-r, Eeltrd it asked. " Is it Sir
R,4,1 e! ? dr, treehttry to pay the expense ?"
INTEREtiTING TO LADlES.—Persons of delicate
.-onlnb)xi-n are ste.eeptible I the inthe nee of the :aunt's-
!•H : :t.t. this peculiar s,ns.at ; and Lad whether fre-
quenting the crowded saloon, the close assembly, the
rural ride or . drive, the summer promenade, or the
aquatic excursion, should invariably have recourse to
that invaluable diSefliwy. ROWLAND'S KALTDOR, which
is rOund to be the most gentle yet etlicaeiour, preparation
that seknee has (ii-coveredfh the preservation qf female
heauly Throughout grace. Thnghtiut season, time and climate,
this iaithrul auxiliary arrays the neck and arms it,
p;;L1.1 bridiancy, and pap,tuates. the vivid Munro of
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