§ COLONEL WILSON PATTENsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, When the Report of the Commission appointed to investigate the proceedings at the late Lancaster Election, which has been already circulated, will be presented to the House? He begged to add that extracts from the Report were at present having a very wide circulation, and were causing a good deal of uneasiness.
§ MR. WALPOLESir, that Report, as well as the Reports on Reigate, Yarmouth, and Totnes Elections were directed to be laid on the table this very day, and I believe they wore. When laid upon the table the officers of the House will see that they are printed and circulated among the Members, and the matter is out of my hands, as far as I have power over it. As to the circulation of the Lancaster Election Report, I have no notion how it was done. Certainly it has not been from any command given by the Home Office. It is very much to be regretted that portions of the Report should so have got into circulation.