§ The House ballotted for a Committee on the Wexford (town) Election Petition. The following Members were elected and sworn;—Lord John Hay, Mr. Panton Corbett, Mr. Edward Webb, Mr. R. Howard, Mr. Philip Charles Sidney, Mr. Robert V. Smith, Mr. John East- 1146 hope, Sir H. F. Cooke, Mr. J. W. Maxwell, Mr. H. Clive, Mr. F. Baring.—Mr. Calvert was ordered to be discharged from the custody of the Serjeant at Arms, on payment of his fees—Returns of the contract prices of Meat per lb., and Bread per quartern loaf, in the military districts, from 1793 to the present time; and of the prices of Timber per load, and of Oak-bark per ton at the Royal Forest, from 1819 to the present time, were ordered.
Lord John Russellsaid, that a petition had been put into his hands, some time since, complaining of the manner of voting in the town of Wexford. He had not thought it right to present it, fearing it might be mistaken for the Wexford Election Petition. If, after the Committee appointed to consider that election had formed their decision, he should bring forward the petition intrusted to his care, he hoped it would not be said that the petitioners had endeavoured, first to obtain their remedy by means of the Committee, and afterwards by another means; he had purposely withheld the petition.