A ballot took place for a committee to try and determine the merits of the Penrhyn Election petition. The following gentlemen were appointed on the committee:—T. B. Lethbridge, lord Maitland, C. Chaplain, D. Williams, D. Davenport, hon. W. Herbert, sir H. Neale, R. Benyon, W. Orde, G. A. Lee Reck, lord Ebrington, J. A. Wright, J. Lowther; Nominees, H. Leycester, R. Hurst.—Mr. Howard reported from the Tregony election committee, that the sitting members had been duly elected and returned; and also that the petitions of Messrs. Nicholls and Miles were not frivolous nor vexatious.—A new writ was ordered for the borough of Plympton, in the room of sir Stephen Lushington, deceased.—On the motion of Mr. Bathurst, the order appointing a committee to search for precedents of cases of members who had been expelled and re-elected, was rescinded, and a new order made, re-appointing the same committee to search for precedents of cases, touching the expulsion of members, and also of members who, having been expelled, had been re-elected; and to report thereon to the house.