The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-09 00:00:00

LIMITATION OF POLLS BILL.

Mr. ELPHINSTONE, after shortly describing the bill, and de-
tailing the practicability of taking the poll at elections, both for
counties and boroughs, in one day, and the prevention of bribery
and corruption which would thereby result, moved the second
reading of the limitation of polls bill.
Mr. Ewalt; in seconding the motion, said the practicability
of the bill was shown clearly on the evidence given by the
town-clerk of the borough he represented, both before the cor-
poration commissioners and the committee of this house on the
subject of-election proceedings. The numberof electors in Li-
verpool exceeded 11,0(X), and the officer to whose testimony
he referred proved that the poll there could easily be taken in
one day.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL did not rise to oppose the second
reading, though he doubted the expediency at the present mo-
ment of proceeding with this single measure. It could not be
forgotten that the bon. member for Middlesex, the chairman of
the committee which had recommended this and other measures
of large importance for concluding the machinery of the reform
act, had given notice of a bill having a similar object to the
present. Besides this, nothing could be easier than to include
all the details and provisions of this bill in,theregistraticrn bill
-which had been introduced by hii noble friend the Secretary
for the Home department. His (the Attorney-General's) only
anxiety was to prevent the confusion which might arise from so
much legislation on the same subject. One general act might
comprise all these details, and aroving, as he did entirely, of
the principle of this bill, he should-notp oppose its second reading,
in the hope that the hon. member for Hastings would postpone
its-future progress until the other measures to which he had
adverted were fully before the house.

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Th 3 bill after a short discussion was read a second time and
ordered tobe committed.
The other orders were then proceeded with.
On Mr. Ewart's moving the second reading of the prisoners'
counsel bill,
Mr. SHAW expressed a hope that the hon. member for Salford
would be impartial in the exercise of his privilege. When the
hon. member sat on theopposition benches be regularly stopped
the house when it was proposing to commence new business ;
he hoped that now, when the hon. member was seated on the
ministerial benches, he would not abandon his former whole-
some practice. ( Hear, hear.)
Mr. Ewart (after some discussion which was terminated by
Mr. Brotherton's rising to propose the adjournment of the
house) agreed to withdraw his motion.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
On the motion of Mr. Brotherton, the house adjourned at
one o'clock.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
The Bishopof CHESTER presented petitions from Tenterden
and several other places, for the protection of the church.
Lord BuouGHA sr moved for a return of the number` of crimi-
nals tried at the central criminal court, Old Bailey, since its
establishment, distinguishing the cases tried before the judges of
the superior courts from those tried by the city judges.—Or-
dered. . . . _ _

Lord FfiVERSHAM presented petitions from the owners and
occupiers of land in Yorkshire, complaining of agricultural dis-
tress.

The Earl of RODEN presented a petition from the clergy and
magistrates of Ross (Ireland) against the appropriation of church
property to any but ecclesiastical purposes.—Adjourned.