§ The House met at two o'clock; and after having been summoned to attend in the House of Lords, and previously to reading the Copy of the Lords Commissioners Speech, the Speaker acquainted the House, that he had issued warrants for new writs, for EYE, in the room of Sir Miles Nightingall, deceased: for SOUTHAMPTON, in the room of Wm. Chamberlayne, esq. deceased: LIMERICK COUNTY, in the room of Thomas Lloyd, esq. deceased.
§ The marq. of DOURO, for Aldeburgh: PHILIP CHARLES SIDNEY, esq. for Eye: DANIEL O'CONNELL,* esq. for Clare: GEORGE BANKES, esq. for Corfe Castle: Sir JAMES SCARLETT, for Peterborough: and Sir EDW. BURTEN-SHAW SUGDEN, for Weymouth: then took the oaths and their seats.
§ ROWLAND STEPHENSON.—The Speaker then acquainted the House, that he had received a letter from Mr. James Bourdillon, solicitor to the estate of Rowland Stephenson, esq., a bankrupt, inclosing a certificate of the commissioners under the Commission issued against the said Rowland Stephenson; and the said letter was read; and is as follows:—
§ Bread Street, 19th Jan. 1850.
§ Sir;—As solicitor to the estate of Mr. Rowland Stephenson, a bankrupt, I am directed by the commissioners under the commission issued against him, to transmit to you their certificate of the issuing of such commission; and that Mr. Rowland Stephenson has not paid his creditors, although twelve calendar months have elapsed since the issuing of the said commission, and that the same has not been superseded. I have the honour to be, &c. J. BOURDILLON.
§ To the Speaker of the House of Commons.
§ Then the certificate was read; and is as follows;
§ To the Right Hon. the Speaker, &c. &c.
§ At the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, in Basinghall Street, London, the 19th day of Jan. 1830.
§ We whose names are hereunto subscribed, being the major part of the commissioners named and authorised in and by a commission of bankrupt awarded and issued against WILLIAM REMINGTON, ROWLAND STEPHENSON, DAVID ROBT. REMINGTON, and JOSEPH PETTY TOULMIN, of Lombard Street, in the city of London, bankers and copartners, do hereby certify, that a commission of bankrupt under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, grounded upon statute made and now in force concerning bankrupts, bearing date at Westminster the thirty-first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, hath been awarded and issued against the said ROWLAND STEPHENSON, together with WILLIAM REMINGTON, DAVID ROBERT REMINGTON, and JOSEPH PETTY TOULMIN, directed to us, and also to John Beames and Henry John Shepherd, esqs., as commissioners, to execute the same; and that the said ROWLAND STEPHENSON, (together with the said WM.
§ *MR. O'CONNELL took the Oath (at the left side of the table), and then shook hands with the Speaker. He afterwards seated himself in Mr. Hume's place and shook hands, and entered into conversation with sir F. Burdett. Very few members were present at the time. The other members took the oaths and their seat, but they were sworn at the right side of the table, the usual Place,
57§ REMINGTON, DAVID ROBERT REMINGTON, and JOSEPH PETTY TOULMIN), was found and declared a bankrupt under the same:
§ And we further certify that, although twelve calendar months have expired since the issuing of the said commission, the same hath not been superseded, nor have the creditors of the said ROWLAND STEPHENSON, or of him and his said partners, who have proved their debts under the said commission been paid or satisfied to the full amount of their debts under the said commission, according to the provisions in that behalf of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the fifty-second year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An Act to suspend and finally vacate the seats of members of the House of Commons who shall become bankrupts, and who shall not pay their debts in full within a limited time."
§ Witness,
- H. HASKER, Clerk to Mr. Jas.
- Bourdillon, Solicitor, Bread Street, Cheapside.
- JOHN TURNER,
- J. B. MACAULAY
- G. F. HAMPSON,
§ Mr. PLANTA then moved, that the Act 52 Geo. 3, c. 144, to suspend and finally vacate the seats of members of the House of Commons who shall become bankrupts, and who shall not pay their debts in full within a limited time, might be read. The same having been read; it was ordered, that Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the clerk of the Crown, to make out a new Writ for the electing of a burgess to serve in this present parliament for the borough of Leominster, in the room of Rowland Stephenson, esq., whose seat has become vacant pursuant to the provisions of the said act.
§ New writs were ordered for WATERFORD COUNTY in the room of Henry Villiers Stuart, esq., Chiltern Hundreds: for Harwich, in the room of right hon. John Charles Henries, President of the Board of Trade: for WEST-LOOE, in the room of Charles Buller, esq., Chiltern Hundreds: for MEATH, in the room of Earl of Bective, now marquis of Headfort.
§ Mr. DAVENPORT gave notice that on the 16th inst. he should renew his motion relative to the state of the country, if forty members were present.