HULL ELECTION.
The Hull Election Committee began on Friday to open out the cases of fraudulent personation and bribery which stand against the Tory petitioners; and some of the petitioners appear to be already indivi- dually implicated. It is observable that the petition.is not from the unsuccessful candidate, but from three burgesses, who declare them-
selves to have been aggrieved. If these individuals, therefore, are found not to have had clean bands, the tendency seems to be towards their petition being declared "frivolous and vexatious ;" for though the greatest indulgence may be claimed for the petition of a can- didate who demands examination into a small majority, none can be demanded for petitioners whose object should appear to be the securing their own corruption by entailing expense on their opponent. The de- claration of " frivolous and vexatious," is in fact the only bar opposed to the formation of an organized system of putting down every Member of Parliament who cannot go to a certain expense to support his seat. In the Hull case, it seems hardly conceivable why any party should have risked such discoveries, except on the calculation that their op- ponent would give up his seat without resistance, to escape the expense.
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