Commons Sitting of 18 December 1830

MINUTES.
Mr. Alderman THOMPSON presented the Report of the Rye Election Appeal Committee, finding that the right of election was in the Mayor, Jurats, and Freemen, paying scot and lot, inhabiting the town.
Returns ordered. On the Motion of Mr. HUME, the number of Officers who had been added to the Half-pay List of the Army since the accession of his present Majesty, of the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and Major, stating whether they have been added with or without purchase.
Petitions presented. By Mr. C. FERGUSON, from Castle Douglas, in favour of Parliamentary Reform; and from Trenneck, for the abolition of Slavery. By Mr. BYNG, from St. Mary, Stratford le-Bow, and from the Liberty of Saffron Hill, against the New Police; from the Overseers of the Liberty of Saffron Hill, and from the Parish of St. Luke, against the Assessed Taxes. Against Colonial Slavery, by Mr. TRAILL, from the Synod of Orkney, and the associated Congregations of Holme and Kirkwall:— By Mr. EVANS, from Harborough:—By Mr. PRYSE PRYSI;, six from Cardiganshire:—By Mr. DENISON, three from places in Surrey:—By Mr. G. BANKES, from Dissenters at Corfe Castle:—By Mr. R. GRANT, from Norwich, and St. Martin's-in-the-fields. By the Marquis of CHANDOS, from Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Murray, complaining of the seizure of a vessel; and from Galway, relating to the Elective Franchise. By Mr. Alderman THOMPSON, from Corn-millers and others in the neighbour hood of London, against the Taxes affecting the trade in Corn. By Mr. HUME, from the Artisans of Arbroath; from Renfrew; from the incorporated Tailors of Edinburgh; from the Borough of Nairne; from the Borough and Town Council of Howick, Roxburghshire; from: Cupar; and from the incorporated Trades of Aberdeen, all praying for Reform:—By Mr. PENDARVIS, three from; places in Cornwall:—By Mr. J. JOHNSTONE, from Stirling. By Mr. DENISON, from Bermondsey, against the Assessed Taxes. By Mr. WYSE, from Rossmore, for the repeal of the Union; from Galway, for a more equal distribution of the Grants for Education in Ireland; from Stockport, for reduction of Taxation, and especially for the removal of the Tax upon Newspapers.

LIVERPOOL ELECTION.
The Marquis of Blandfordsaid, he understood a petition had been presented from Liverpool, praying- the House to inquire into the acts of bribery alleged to have taken place at the late election there; and he took that opportunity to give notice, that after the holidays, should that petition not be taken into consideration, as he understood it was to be, he should submit a motion to the House, which would afford the hon. candidates, and still more hon. electors, an opportunity of clearing their characters from the imputations which had been extensively circulated with respect to them. On the other hand, should those charges prove well-founded, the House would have
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an opportunity thus afforded it, of considering whether or not it would be desirable to punish the offending parties, by disfranchising a borough in which such flagrant acts of bribery and corruption had been committed.