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Emperial Partianunt.

lIOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY,

Viscount MELBOURNE was absent from indisposition.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE asked Lord Lyndhurst, as that noble
lord had the best title of property in the measure, whether it was his
intention to go on with the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill
through its future stages.
Lord LYNDHURST replied—if the noble Marquis meant to recom-
mit the bill he should then move certain amendments.
The house having gone into committee and agreed to the report, the
Marquis of LANSDOWNE stated that he should move the third reading
of the bill with the view of letting the House of Commons see the
alterations which had been made in it.
Some other bills were forwarded a stage.—Adjourned.

HOUSE OF CONIMONS.—MONDAY.
Mr. ROBERT DILLON BRowNE took his seat for the county of Mayo

DUBLIN ELECTION.
Mr. M. MAXWELL (the Chairman) appeared at the bar with the re-
port of the Dublin Election Committee, which he read. It stated that
the committee had duly considered the petition of Messrs. King and
others, and had agreed to the following report :
" That Daniel O'Connell, Esq., is not duly elected a Citizen to serve
in this present Parliament for the city of Dublin.
" That Edward Southwell Ruthven, Esq., was not duly elected a
Citizen to serve in this present Parliament for the city of Dublin.
" That George Alexander Hamilton, Esq., is duly elected, and ought
to have been returned a Citizen to serve in this present Parliament for
the said city of Dublin.
" That John Beatty West, Esq., is duly elected, and ought to have
been returned, Sze.
" That the petition of Robert King, John Mallet, and others, does
not appear to the Committee to be frivolous or vexatious.
" That the opposition to the said petition does not appear to the said
Committee to be frivolous or vexatious.
" That these resolutions be forthwith reported to the House."
The hon. member said that the committee had also agreed to the
following resolutions :

The SI7BAKER, interrupting the reading of the resolutions, desired
the hon. member to bring up the report.
The clerk at the table then read the resolutions; they were as
follow :-
1. " That the committee feel it to be their duty specially to report
to the house that eight persons—namely, Matthew M4tdden, George
Osborne, Patrick Funicane, Oliver Richards, John Forsyth, Charles
Dempsey. James Baldwin, and Andrew Hutchinson, were struck off
the poll as having subsequently received money; but the committee
is unanimously of opinion that there is no evidence that Messre. West
and Hamilton, for whom they voted, were either directly or indirectly
implicated in such corrupt practices.
2. " The committee further consider it their duty to make known
to the house that they have found a very general irregularity to pre-
vail in the assessment and collection ot municipal taxes in Dublin,
and that from the absence of all public notice of their imposition, the
uncertainty attending their collection, and the liability to payment
attaching in many instances to various occupiers of the same premises,
the exercise of the franchise is frequently subject to impediments and
difficulties which the committee cannot believe were contemplated by
the legislature."
Th., clerk of the Crown-office then appeared at the table, and
amended the return by erasing the names of Messrs. O'Connell and
Ruthven, and substituting those of G. A. Hamilton, Esq. and G. B,
West, Esq. as members for the city of Dublin.

RAILWAYS.
On the motion of Lord GEORGE LENNox, leave was given to the
Brighton railway hill committee to extend the time of making their
report to the 6th July.
111 r. HODGES presented the report of the London and Dover (South-
eastern) railway bill.