The decision of the Harwich Election Committee is that Mr.
Wad- dington is duly elected, but that Mr. Peacocke is not duly elected ; and further, that, in the event of his being returned, Mr. Peaeocke had agreed to pay Mr. Attwood a certain sum of money.
At the sitting of the Dockyard Committee, yesterday, Mr. Truscott, storekeeper at Stonehouse, was examined. It was shown that during the last election he had been in frequent communication with Major Beresford, Mr. Forbes Mackenzie, and Colonel Forester, "about the elections," and that hopes were held out to him that he should be made Governor of Ber- muda. It was also shown that the charge for the political dinner given by Mr. Stafford at Devonport in June 1852 was down in the Admiralty accounts under the head of " Contingencies " ; and that, including the dinner, Mr. Stafford's hotel expenses at Devonport, for two days, were charged to the Government at 48/. 15.1. 6d. Mr. Hay, the chief clerk of the Admiralty, said he had never known a similar bill sent in by a Se- cretary of the Admiralty.
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