§ Mr. SPEAKER informed the House, that he had received from Mr. Baron Pollock and Mr. Justice Hawkins, two of the Judges selected, in pursuance of The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, for the Trial of Election Petitions, a Certificate and Report relating to the Election for the City of New Sarum; and from Mr. Justice Lush and Mr. Justice Manisty, two of the Judges selected, in pursuance of the same Act, a Certificate and Report relating to the Election for the Borough of Plymouth.
§ NEW SARUM ELECTION.
§ Westminster Hall,
§ June 28th, 1880.
§ We, Sir Charles Edward Pollock, knight, one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, and Sir Henry Hawkins, knight, one of the Justices of the High Court of Justice, two of the Judges for the time being for the trial of Election Petitions in England, do hereby, in pursuance of The Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, and The Parliamentary Elections and Corrupt Practices Act, 1880, certify that upon the 21st day of June instant (1880), and the three following days, we duly held a Court at Salisbury, in the County of Wiltshire, for the trial of, and did try, the Election Petition for the City of New Sarum, in the said county of Wiltshire, between Henry Rigden, John Rumbold, Joel William Newton, Augustine Dyer, and Samuel Garland, Petitioners; and John Passmore Edwards and William Henry Grenfell, Respondents.
§ And, in further pursuance of the said Acts, We certify that at the conclusion of the said trial we determined that the said John Passmore Edwards and William Henry Grenfell, being the Members whose Election and Return were complained of in the said Petition, were duly 953 elected and returned, and we do hereby certify-in writing such our determination to you.
§ And whereas charges were made in the said Petition of corrupt practices having been committed at the said Election, we, in further pursuance of the said Act, report as follows:—
§ That no corrupt practice was proved to have been committed at the said Election.
§ And, in further pursuance of the said Acts, we report that there is no reason to believe that corrupt practices have extensively prevailed at the Election to which the Petition relates.
§ C. E. POLLOCK.
§ H. HAWKINS.
§ To the Eight Honble.
§ The Speaker of the House of Commons.