§ Mr. SPEAKER informed the House, that he had received from Lord Chief Justice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Grove, two of the Judges selected, in pursuance of the Parliamentary Elections Act, 1868, for the trial of Election Petitions, a Report relating to the Election for the Borough of Stroud.
§ Court of Common Pleas, Westminster, 21st June 1880.
§ Sir,
§ We have the honour to report to you that the Petition against the Return for the Borough of Stroud has been withdrawn by leave of the Court. We have the honour further to report that the withdrawal of the Petition was not in 416 our opinion the result of any corrupt arrangement or in consideration of the withdrawal of any other Petition.
§ We have the honour to be,
§ Sir,
§ Your obedient humble servants,
§ COLERIDGE,
§ Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
§ W. R. GROVE,
§ Judge of the Common Pleas.
§ The Right Honble.
§ The Speaker, House of Commons, M.P.
§ And the said Report was ordered to be entered in the Journals of this House.