The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

WILLS.

Mr. HADFIELD brought Inabill to prevent the necessity
of obtaining several probates of the same will, and several
grants of administration in respect of the estate and
effects of any deceased person ; and to make certain
amendments in the law of evidence in respect to the proof
of wills, and of probates and grants of administration.

INSURANCE COMPANIES

Mr. WILSON moved for a select committee on the sub-
ject of Assurance Associations, and after some discussion
the motion was agreed to.

THE HOLIDAYS

Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he should on Friday,
the 18th, propose the adjournment of the house, for the
Easter holidays, from that day until Monday, the 4th of
April.

The Designs Act Extension Bill was read a third time

and passed

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9

The motion for the second reading of the Great London
Drainage Bill was carried by 113 to 18, and it was referred
to a select committee.

Mr. W. Forbes Mackenzie presented a petition from
Liverpool against the opening of the Crystal Palace on
Sundays.

The second reading of the Cruelty to Animals' Bill was
negatived by 93 to 19.

The Land Improvement (Ireland) Bill passed through
Committee. THE DERBY ELECTION.

Mr. INGHAM brought up the report of the Derby Elec-
tion Committee, which was as follows :—" That Michael
Thomas Bass, Esq., is duly elected a burgess to serve in
this present Parliament for the borough of Derby. That
Thomas Berry Horsfall is not duly elected a burgess to
serve in this present Parliament for the said borough.
That Lawrence Heyworth was duly elected, and ought to
have been returned a burgess to serve in the present
Parliament for the said borough. That the committee
have altered the poll at the last election by striking there-
from, for receiving bribes, the names of William Harris,
William Morley,.Thomas Blake. Richard Walcop, Francis
Radford, John Taylor, Henry Needham, John Swan,
Francis Staley, Charles Cockaigne, Edgard Cockaigne,
William Oliver, and Henry Sharrack. That Thomas
Berry Horefall was by his agents guilty of bribery at the
last election, but it has been proved to the satisfaction of
the committee that the bribery was without the concur-
rence or privity of the said Thomas B. Horsfall. That
William Harris was bribed by £2, and William Morley
was bribed by £2, and by a supplementary payment of
£l, in October last, subsequent to the election ; Thomas
Blake, Richard Walcop, Francis Radford, Joh Taylor,
Henry Needham, Francis Staley, Charles Cockaigne,
and Edward Cockaigne, by £2 each ; William Oliver by
£1; John Swan and Henry Sharrack by the payment of
£2 each. That Thomas Morgan seems to have been the
person principally engaged in the abovementioned acts of
bribery, and that the funds for this purpose appear to
have been furnished to Thomas Morgan through the in-
tervention of a person named Thomas Lund. That
George Clayton, John Ford, and Alfred Ackerman, were
also engaged in various acts of bribery and corruption.
That it has been proved as to several of the other parties
that at former elections they had received money for
their votes ; and the committee have reason to believe
that such corrupt practices have been prevalent in the
said borough, and they desire to state their opinion that
parties who are reported to the House as guilty of bribery
should be disqualified for the future from the exercise of
any Parliamentary franchise. That it appears to the
committee that the petition of William Poole, so far as
regards the return of Michael Thomas Bass, Esq., is
frivolous and vexatious."