In the House of Commons, last night, a new writ
was moved for Kilkenny city, in the room of Mr. SULLIVAN, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. We presume that this step was taken to make room for Mr. O'CoNNELL, in anticipation of the adverse decision of the Dublin Election Committee. We agree with the Illiwning Chronicle, that, after what we have seen, no decision of that Committee ought to surprise anybody. As a specimen of what passes in the Committee- room, we give the following extract from the Chronicle's account of yes- terday's proceedings. It should be premised, that the Committee, about a month since decided not to receive poll-books in evidence, un- less they had been handed into the Commissioners in Dublin in con- nexion with the disputed vote ; but, yesterday, they agreed to receive them, in order to bolster up a vote for WEST and Hasiii.ToN objected to by the agents for the sitting Member ! Mr. JOY spoke against this decision.
Mi. G. F. Young—" I cannot consent to hear the resolution of the Com- mittee impugned by counsel. We have decided that we will receive the poll.. book in evidence."
Mr. Joy—" It furnishes no evidence at all upon which the Committee can with justice act."
Mr. Thessiger (having discovered an entry in the poll-book) exclaimed,
" Here it is ! 0. B.' is the bribery oath ; and 0.' stands for the householder's oath."
Mr.Joy—" By what logic do you make 0' stand for householder ?" (Much laughter in court.) Mr. Woodlock (for the sitting Member) here pointed out by a reference to other entries in the poll-book, that the letters " Ob." merely signified that an " objection " was taken to M'Cabe's vote, without distinguishing whether it was the householder's or the bribery oath. While Mr. Woodlock was making the foregoing observations, the Chairman abruptly exclaimed " The decision of the Committee is that the vote of 31‘Cabe shall remain on the poll." This announcement excited a considerable sensation in court ; in the midst of which Mr. Joy exclaimed—" Good God ! Sir I am surprised beyond mea- sure at this decision. The entry in the poll-book is still under discussion ; and is not the admissibility of the poll-book in evidence the question which you have been discussing in our absence for an hour past ? I don't know what the Committee can have been about during that hour, if—" Mr. Young (in a tone of excitement)—" Well, we must adjourn the Court, Mr. Chairman, till to-morrow morning."
We are glad to see that Mr. GROTE last night renewed his motion on the Ballot, for the 235 of June. So that the defaulters have only obtained a reprieve.
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