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intments were made

vea veto to ti:

Le crown on

►ls, a power which, of

nit some substantial rea-
baronet had made his ap-
t having been the slight-

ministration of justice in

at in Hull the interests of jus-
course pursued by the late go.

om Mr
Capt. Mangles, and various
effect produced on their re-
ntments both of the late go-

Berkeley, Arr,

course pursued, and said that
ad taken great pains to ascer-
ie appointed, he yet took no
,f justice should be above sus-
tance, he had appointed four
e silk-throwsters or cotton-
oinistration of justice be un-
o payment of wages came_ be-

who had a- manifest interest in deei-

the conduct of Sir James Graham

I of by viewing these appointments

IT, and Captain FITZROY
,er which.

the inference to be drawn

Graham was that partisanship

Age of the fitness of par-

before the house totally
ery small motion, but a

for it was a complaint
wit, and yet the house

for
.the paper moved

refused. He was not satis-
James Graham to the charge
" I admit I have not acted
nment did infinitely worse."

Len the radicals should come

F of triuraph would surely corne—
a set them, and what a number of
t appoint in or der to swamp the ap-
es, whigs and conservatives. lie
cation of the term whig-radical to
ng used at all in cases like this. It
laigs and tories, and the radicals had

llness of the mo-

tleman (Mr,

iient to have frirned

m to make his

nd (Sir J. Graham), and
lus to the noble lord near
i for him the support of

It .v;as im-

is, with free institutions, to es-
isanship ; and while he admitted
possible, avoided, he must say
Bent was quite consistent with
t rest the defence of the govern-
gument. The fact was this. The
•eponderance of the magistracy of
the sake of the administration of
y to correct the evil. This was a
ying, as was imputed to his right
We know we have done wrong,
vorse." In Manchester, Leeds,
1, there were 118 magistrates, of
s and 98 liberals. Was it right
the administration of justice this
flitted to remain, or because they
to remedy the evil, they were to

ed all conservatives, and with
y resorting to the to quoque
lic,htest degree apprehensive
would form of the course
appointments ; and with
it was admitted on all hands
per persons for the office.

n their

I that Mr. Hutt was pursuing pre-
mrsued by Sir R. Peel himself in
ring fora specific opinion of the
which could not be refused. It
explanation, when they found on
:hat 400 magisterial appointments
=her in existence was fully suffi-
of justice. The principle upon
s somewhat dangerous. If it was
of be safely administered when
Li of one way of thinking in po-
the state of the country when
er and found the great mass of
;pout the kingdom, tories—the
han that upon which Sir James
nice ? The fact was, that the
ich as would do justice to every
her whig, tory, or radical,
nions they held themselves.
vas good for anything they
ch and appoint some tories
sin the Common Pleas, and
pointments which he

In the a,

roceeded on the recommendation
a total exclusion of the conser-

calculated to give rise to

; the balance he had in seve-
ect theexclusiveness of town-
ad been said that his political
very different to what they

is he was not conscious, for
tich he could accuse him-
is was in former years when

3 commonly brought

use favour he had

n, in which Mr. Williams, Mr
er hon. members took part,
motion was agreed to.

.d until Tuesday his motion for
e amendment of the laws relating

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OUSE OF I,OIIOS.—PRIDAY.
ons were presentedse by the Bishop of Noßwic!l,
some cupon the employment of el:111-
nd other mines.

rose to redeem a pledge he had
,f Parliament, by introducing a
he cerrupt, illegal, and uncon-
d to in the election of members
se of paqiarnent. He Would lay
paratory to
.the appointment of a
second reading of the bill he Would
,ularly. Its main provisions, hove-
ommittee of either house of par-
, by giving effectual protection to
them, and also to pTrsona who,
ght have evidence given against
be unqualified, but the corn-
the discretion of extending that

end to t

is were presented, after

-FRIDAY

ierable excitement, in

loebuck gave on

uestions of several

lection com

;id said that

o a close by a secret compro-
)n to ask Lord Chelsea if he

11 Hundreds, in order to

the question

atisfied with the answer, and
question to Mr. C. Russell.
right of the hon. membei to

If he had not agreed that he I
it, or thereabouts, accept of

I put a

Dp to the pro•

ui of that ar.

aae, and he was by no means
[Anent part of the evening the

tics
has
the
We

' gallant officer said that he had never given one farthing in
the shape of a bribe, either directly or indirectly, and that he
never would. His election, as far as he was concerned, was
as pure as that of the hon. member for Bath.
Mr. ROEBUCK thanked him for his candid answer, and
then asked Sir John Hobhouse whether it was not arranged,
respecting the Nottingham election, that a sum of money
should be paid down to stop the inquiry, and whether a fur-
ther sum of money was not to be paid in order to let a certain
gentleman walk over the course.
Sir J. HOBHOUSE declined to answer the question.
Mr. ROEBUCK then put a similar question to Mr. Elphin-
stone, who said, in reply, that there had been a compromise,
but he was no party to it.
Mr. ROEBUCK next applied to Major Beresford, who said
he declined to answer the question of the learned inquisitor.
Mr. ROEBUCK then asked the Speaker if it was competent
for him to move for a committee of privilege before the house
proceeded to the business of the evening, and was replied to
in the affirmative.

Sir R. PEEL was anxious to proceed with the income tax
committee, and hoped the hon. member would postpone his
motion until Monday. It appearing, however, to be the wish
of the house that

Mr. ROEBUCK should proceed, he entered upon the sub-
ject accordingly. He said he was induced to bring forward
the present motion, which he knew was somewhat extraordi-
nary, because he had grave reasons for suspecting that the
hon. members for Harwich, Nottingham, Penrhyn and Fal-
mouth, Reading, and Lewes, were open to accusations of
bribery and corruption. The hon. member referred to the
details of some of those cases ; but when he came to Not-
tingham, he said he understood that the entire constituency
had been bought and sold ; bought by Sir J. Hobhouse and
Sir G. de H. Larpent, and sold to Mr. Walter, who was to
be allowed, for a specified sum agreed upon, to obtain the
seat to be vacated by one of the sitting members. The hon.
and learned gentleman concluded by moving for a committee
of privilege, and called upon Sir J. C. Hobhouse to second
the motion.

Mr. FITZROY seconded the motion, and repudiated the
charge of bribery and corruption, as applied to him, as a foul
calumny. He was fearless of the result of the investigation
of the committee.

Mr. C. W. WYNN said the question was one deeply in-
volving the honour of the house. It was of the greatest im-
portance that it should be well considered, and he therefore
moved the adjournment of the debate until Monday next.
After some further observations the adjournment was
agreed to.
The house then resolved itself into committee on the In-
come Tax Bill.
On clause 96 being proposed,
Mr. HUME moved that the profits of persons in trade, on
which the income tax should be levied, should be estimated
by those of the preceding year, and not by the average of the
three years preceding. On a division the amendment of Mr.
Hume was negatived by a majority of 76 to 27.
On the 188th clause being proposed, to the effect that the
tax remain in force until the sth of April, 1845,
Mr. Hra.sE moved that it should continue in operation for
one year only, instead of three years.
On a division, Mr. Hume's motion was negatived by a
majority of 174 to 52.

kr. ft. YORKE moved a clause to the effect that attorneys
should be exempted from the payment of their certificate du-
ties during the period they were subjected to the income tax.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the mo-
tion on the ground that if all persons were allowed to deduct
the amount of their other taxes from the income tax they
were called upon to pay, the latter tax would be very unpro-
ductive.
After some conversation the committee divided, and Mr.
Yorke's motion was negatived by a majority of 183 to 18.
Mr. DUNCOMBE moved a clause to the effect that the non-
payment of the income tax should not disqualify the voters
in boroughs from being placed on the registry, or voting at
elections for members of parliament.
Sir R. PEEL said he was not desirous of imposing any
new restrictions upon the exercise of the elective franchise,
and would, therefore, inquire if the non-payment would dis-
qualify the elector, and if so, he would take care that a clause
should be introduced to guard against such an occurrence.
The whole of the clauses having been disposed of, the
house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on
Monday.

The Other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION COMMITTEE

CLOSE OF THE PROCEEDINGS

The committee re-assembled on Friday at the usual hour.

Mr. Austin said, that after the committee yesterday came
to their resolutions, he and his learned friends held a consul-
tation, and the result was, they had advised their clients not
to proceed with the other petition.
Mr. Cockburn then applied to the committee to declare the
last election void.

The room was cleared, and on strangers being re-admitted,
the chairman announced that the committee bad resolved,—
" That the last election of burgesses to serve in parlia-
ment for the borough of Southampton was a void election.
" That the committee had determined to report specially to
the house.

That Charles Coombes Callen was bribed with the sum of
£lO paid to his wife for him.

" That Joseph Whitmarsh was promised a bribe of ;£lO,
the whole or some part of which was afterwards paid.
" That Joseph Redwards was bribed with the sum of £5.
" That William Andrews was bribed with the sum of £3.
" That Giles Pasquin was bribed with the sum of £3.
. _

" Each of them to vote for Lord Bruce and Mr. Charles
Cecil Martyn.
" That the evidence given before this committee relative to
an extensive system of treating carried on through the means
of local associations ; the payment of large sums to chairmen
and colourrnen, many of whom were voters ; and the expen-
diture of a sum of money for the purposes of the election,
amounting to nearly £5OOO, and therefore far exceeding the
ordinary and regular legal expenses, is deserving of the serious
attention of the house.

" That the committee feel that they have been prevented
ascertaining the exact mode in which this mouey was ex-
pended, by the loss and destruction of vouchers and other
documents connected with those payments, particularly in
the case of William Rouse Mabson, who, after having been
served with the speaker's warrant, disposed of those in his
possession."
The committee then separated.

THE BRIGHTON ELECTION

RETURN OF THE CONSERVATIVE CANDID ATE

BRIGHTON, MAY 6.—Between five and six o'clock this
morning the conservatives sent their bands round to arouse
the electors and prepare them for the victory which awaited
them. Lord Alfred Hervey took the lead the first half hour
of polling, and swelled his majority every quarter of an hour
to such an extraordinary extent that the most sanguine of his
supporters were perfectly astonished.
At five o'clock this afternoon the returning officer declared
the state of the poll as follows :
Lord A. Hervey (Conservative) 1,277 (Loud cheers).
Harford (Whig) 640 (Groans).
Brooker (Chartist) l6 (Laughter).
Lord A. Hervey, the declaration having been made, said
this was a proud day for him, and for the Conservative party,
who brought him forward, and to the latest period of his
existence he should never forget the kindness and the courtesy
by which he had been received by gentlemen of all political
opinions, and the warm and zealous support which he had
obtained from the kind friends who had placed him in his
present triumphant position. (Cheers.) He considered this
not as a personal triumph only, but a triumph also of politi-
cal opinion. He had told them in his canvass that while he
should be most anxious to remove every practical grievance,
and to reform all real abuses, he should feel it to be his duty
to oppose all measures calculated to destroy and not to im-
prove the British constitution. His lordship then repeated
his determination to support the present Government, and
to promote all their local interests, and having again re-
turned thanks bowed himself from the hustings.
Mr. Harford and Mr. Brooker also addressed the electors,
who then quietly dispersed.
A most extraordinary change has taken place in the poli-
of this borough. From rampant radicalism the borough
become conservative, as will be seen by a comparison of
numbers at the last general election and the present one
subjoin the numbers of the last election :
Pechell (Radical)
Wigney (Radical) ....
Dalrymple (Conservative)

1,443
1,235
872

THE STATUES OF THE MARTYRS, CRANMER,
RIDLEY, AND LATIMER.

We briefly noticed in our last the safe arrival of these
statues from the studio of the late Sir Frances Chantrey.
They were executed from the designs as well as models of
Henry Weekes, Esq., to whose powers of thought, classical
taste, and admirable workmanship that great sculptor, by his
last will, entrusted the completion of his professional engage-
ments. It might have been feared, from Sir Francis's ina-
bility to give to the work the benefit of his genius, that we
should have had to regret the loss. But of the scholars'
knowledge and feeling, and his adoption of the feelings and
purposes of the Committee, have given to the statues of
these holy men aspects and attitudes most characteristic,
not only of their mental and moral endowments, but of their
peculiar acts and offices in the work of the Reformation.
The venerable Cranmer bears on his left fore-arm that
sacred volume which, in his preface, he calls " light in dark-
ness, food in hunger, and in coldness, fire." The edition is
noted by a deep cutting in its cover, " Maye, 1541." It
was the year which witnessed the first positive and peremp-
tory circulation of the Bible through the parishes of England,
under a notification of the royal authority on its title-page.
It may be recollected that the foundation stone of the Mo-
nument was laid in May, 1841—three hundred years after-
wards. This donum regium was obtained at the earnest
intercession of the Archbishop. It was therefore due to his
piety and patriotism to exhibit in the most expressive way
his special claims upon the gratitude and veneration of our
Church and country.
It is known that it was one of the misfortunes which
clouded the early rising of the light of the Reformation that
there were differences of opinion upon matters which have
long ceased to disturb and distract men's minds—the law-
fulness of official vestments. Bishop Hooper was with diffi-
culty prevailed upon to conform and wear " the rochette,
surples, cope," at his consecration, according to the ritual of
1549. But the mind of Bishop Ridley, entirely occupied
upon his perilous conflict with the enemies of the Gospel,
did all he could to prevent these vestiary questions from
creating differences among those who were ready not only to
be bound, but to die for the name of Christ. The robing of
Ridley's statue indicates his constancy in this matter; it
points out his undisturbed conformity with what bad become
the law of the land in respect to episcopal apparel, whilst his
bands, firmly locked together, his erect countenance, and
well-balanced stability of body, aptly represent the firmness
of his faith and the integrity of his confession. They suit
the Confessor as well as Martyr, who said' " I believe the
Holy Catholic or universal Church, which is the communion
of Saints, the house of God, the City of God, the spouse of
Christ, the pillar and stay of the Truth. I believe in the
pious
Rule of this Church, which is the Word of God."
Corn
third statue is that of Bishop Latimer : it faces the
to the will oefY
ri Market, and is the very image and representation of
crossed over the"
hulnilitY, or rather of old age, stooping under the burthen
But there is also
of four-scor ars, but mainly indicative of submissiveness
the aged Latimer t
, and of holy resolution to do it ; the arms
you to be good tr
ooeassatygreatly aid the expression of humility.
the look of that self-possession which enabled
good memory, and to his disputatious Judge, " I pray
an
the better, I moist, for this
old man. Disputation requireth a
marvellously weakened, and never
erred,
g l3 u and
sp Bothtu err.
lyl,l.eheePitriso:. The Popish Church bath
orex_iso:o mention made of any eat- ,
i.sh Church begat the error '
of transubstantiation.:-1-1-
J a Herald. 1

------Itephen, and Robert
The Earl of Devon, Hen
Metford have been appointed illnjm°l?l2
an inquiry into the late forgery of exchequer
IMPORTANT TO OVERSEERS.-111 boroughbills.
1 commissioners under the act for
of Lich-
sivagbulthteo2..eisxthoi!
field, two overseers neglected to make out aud
e
y, and each g t against
municipal burgesses, and of course they were
bit the list when demanded. Actions were brought
each by a person named Gregory, defendant paid the
fine of .E5O, for his neglect in not making out the list. Gre-
gory then brought other actions to recover the like penalties
for not exhibiting the list when an inspection was demanded,
but the Court of Exchequer, on Monday last, decided that
the actions for the second penalties could not be sustained,
and gave judgment for the defendants.