§ MR. SPEAKERcalled the attention of the House to the Return to a Writ for the Election of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for the Eastern Division of the County of Worcester, in the room of Lieutenant Colonel Rushout, now Lord Northwick, called up to the House of Lords, by which it appeared that the Hon. Frederick Henry William Gough Calthorpe had been returned Member for the county of Worcester, instead of "the Eastern Division of the said county."
§ MR. HENRY JOHN WENTWORTH HODGETTS FOLEY, Member for the 856 Southern Division of the county of Stafford, said, that he is an Elector for the Eastern Division of the county of Worcester, and that he was able to state, of his own personal knowledge, that the recent Election, at which the Hon. Frederick Henry William Gough Calthorpe had been returned, had been for the Eastern Division of the county of Worcester, and not for the whole county of Worcester, as erroneously stated in the Return.
§ MR. SPEAKERinformed the House that there appeared upon the Journals of the House an exactly similar case with respect to the Election for the Southern Division of the county of Northampton in February, 1846, and that upon that occasion, upon a statement being made precisely to the same effect as that which had been now made by the Hon. Member for South Staffordshire, the Clerk of the Crown had been called in, and directed by the House to amend the Return at the table.
Motion made, and Question put "That the Clerk of the Crown be called in and directed to amend the Return;" and the same was agreed to.
The Clerk of the Crown attended, and amended the said Return accordingly.
The Hon. Mr. Calthorpe was then sworn in as Member for the Eastern Division of Worcestershire.