§ Mr. Creeveyrose, pursuant to notice, to move that the order for a ballot on the petition respecting the election for the county of Stilling, on the 1st of March, should be discharged, and (hat it should be appointed for consideration on the 17th of April next. The grounds on which he made the motion the hon. member stated to be, that a point intimately connected with that election had been decided upon by the Court of Sessions in Scotland, against which decision an appeal was made to the House of Lords. This appeal was appointed to be heard in that House on the 17th of March next, and the hon. member, therefore, expressed a hope that no objection would be offered to the postponement he proposed, particularly as it was essential to the justice of the case.
§ The Speakerasked if there was any objection on the part of the sitting member?
§ Sir T Metcalfesaid, that he was authorised by the sitting member who was absent on military business, to give his assent to the proposition. The motion was accordingly agreed to.