At four o'clock the house proceeded to ballot for a committee to take into consideration the petition complaining of an undue return for Rochester. Soon after, Mr. White appeared at the bar with the reduced list, which was as follows; F. C. Cooper, esq. R. Dawson, esq. H. Shelley, esq. sir R. Barclay, bart. S. Stevens, esq. C. Cockrell, esq. E. Bastard, esq. J. Blackburn, esq. J. Brogden, esq. C. Moore. esq. H. Bankes, esq. J. Asdell, esq. C. O'Hara, esq. Nominees, Hon. J. W. Ward, M. A. Taylor, esq.—In consequence of the absence of a professional person, the house could not proceed to a ballot for a committee on the Down Patrick petition; it therefore necessarily stood over until to-morrow, when it was ordered, on the motion of lord Howick, that the house should be called over.—A new writ was ordered for the 863 Borough of Derby, in. the room of Edward Coke, esq. who, since his election, has accepted of the Chiltern hundreds.—Sir Ralph Milbanke, from the select committee appointed to try and determine the merits of the Petition of the hon. Richard Neville and William Henry Fremantle, esq.; and also of the Petition of Nicholas Vincent, esq. John Scott, esq. the Rev. Rob. Hughes, clerk, Edward Herring, John Smith, and Edmund Nepean, gentlemen, severally complaining of an undue election and return for the borough of Saltash, in the county of Cornwall, informed the house, That it appeared to the said Committee, That the merits of the petitions did depend upon the right of election; and that therefore the said committee required the counsel for the several parties to deliver, to the clerk of the said committee, statements, in writing, of the right of election for which they respectively contended; that in consequence thereof, the counsel for the petitioners delivered in a statement as follows: 'That the right of voting for members to serve in parliament for the borough of Saltash is in the mayor and free burgesses of the borough of Saltash, being members of the corporation within the same:' That the counsel for the sitting members, Matthew Russell and Arthur Champernowne, esq. delivered in a statement as follows: 'That the right of election of members to serve in parliament for the borough of Saltash, in the county of Cornwall, is in every person seised of an estate for life, or some greater estate, in an entire ancient burgage tenement, situate within the borough aforesaid, whereon an ancient dwelling house now stands or formerly stood, and in no other persons.' That, upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the sitting members, the said committee have determined, That the right of election, as set forth in the said statement, is not the right of election for the said borough of Saltash; that upon the statement delivered in by the counsel for the said several petitioners, the said committee have determined, that the right of election, as set forth in the said statement, is the right of election for the said borough of Saltash, so far as the said right is therein described: that the said Committee, having duly considered the said statements, and the evidence adduced before them, touching the right of election for the said borough of Saltash, have determined, that the right of voting for mem- 864 bers to serve in parliament for the borough of Saltash is in the mayor and free burgesses of the borough of Saltash, being members of the corporation within the same, and in no other persons.—That the said committee have also determined, that Matthew Russell and Arthur Champernowne, esqrs are not duly elected; that the hon. Richard Neville, the petitioner, ought to have been returned a burgess to serve in this present parliament for the said borough; that the said hon. Richard Neville, is duly elected a burgess to serve in this present parliament for the said borough; that the said committee have determined, that W. H. Fremantle, esq. the petitioner, ought to have been returned a burgess to serve in this present parliament for the said borough; that the said W.H. Fremantle esq. is duly elected a burgess to serve in this present parliament for the said borough: and that the opposition of the said. M. Russell and A. Champernowne, esqrs, to the said several petitions, did not appear to the said committee to be frivolous or vexatious. Ordered, That the deputy clerk of the crown do attend this house, to-morrow, with the last return for the borough of Saltash, and amend the same, by rasing out the names of M. Russell, esq. and A. Champernowne, esq. and inserting the names of the hon. It. Neville, and W. H. Fremantle, esq. instead thereof.—Mr. Praed, from the select committee appointed to try and determine the merits of the petition of T. Berney, J. Howard, J. Peichell, jun. E. Smith, M. Smith, and J. Howard, freeholders of the county of Norfolk, complaining of an undue election and return for the said county, informed the house that the said committee have determined, that the right hon. William Windham, and Thomas William Coke, esq. are not duly elected knights of the shire to serve in this present parliament for the said county: and that the opposition of the said right hon. W. Windham and T. W. Coke, esq. to the said petition, did not appear to the said committee to be frivolous or vexatious. And the said determinations were ordered to be entered in the Journals of this house.—Ordered, that Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the clerk of the crown, to make out a new writ for the electing of two knights of the shire to serve in this present parliament for the county of Norfolk, in the room of the right hon. W. Windham and T. W. Coke, esq. who have been declared to be not duly elected.