Lord GranvilleSomerset reported from the General Committee of Elections the names of the members of the select committee appointed to try and determine the matter of the petition complaining of an undue election and return for the borough of Cardigan. Names of the committee read, as follow:—Sir Charles Henry Coote, Bart., Mark Blake, Esq., Earl of Leicester, William Smith O'Brien, Esq., George Dodd, Esq., Edmund Turner, Esq.; Chairman, William Goodenough Hayter, Esq.
Whereupon the names of the said seven Members were called over; and Mark Blake, Esq., not appearing within one hour after the meeting of the House, Act (4 and 5 Vic, c. 58, s. 64) read;
Ordered, That Mark Blake, Esq., Member for the county of Mayo, having been appointed to serve as one of the members of the select committee to try and determine the matter of the petition complaining of the election and return for the borough of Cardigan, and not having attended in his place within one hour after the meeting of the House this day, being the day appointed for the swearing of the said committee, be taken into the custody of the sergeant-at-arms attending this House.
§ Mr. G. Bankeshaving made default in like manner on the Wakefield committee, of which he had been appointed a member, a similar order was made in his case.