House Of Commons.

Thursday , ifi . This day being appointed to ballot for a Committee to try the merits of a petition complaing of an undue Election for Downfon , there not being an hundred Members present at four o ' clock , the Speaker adjourned the House . Anew writ was ordered for the Borough of Midh " . si , in the room of the Right on . Sylvester Douglas , who had accepted the offi .-e of one of the Lords of his . Majesty ' s Treasury . Mr . Mainwaring prs « e ' nted petitions against the Bill for the Relief of the Poor , from the parishes of St . Margaret , St . Clement , St . George , Ha . iover-square ,

St . Paul , Covent-Garden ,. & c . s ' atingthat it would , if passed into a law , prove injurious to the rights andjproperty of the inhabitants . petitions are pouring in from all parts of the country against this Bill . They " are , indeed , so universal , that it will not be necessary hereafter to particularise any place . 1 . Mr . Anstruther presented the Bill for increasing the capital stock of the East ' India Company . It was read a first time . Adjourned to Monday , Monday 20 . Mr . Canning brought up the subsidiary treaty concluded

be-, tween his Britannic Majesry and the Landgrave of Hesse Darmstadt , which was ordered to lie on the table . Mr . H . Thornton saidhe had a petition to present from 1 , 150 electors of Southwark , complaining of their having been deprived of the opportunity of voting , as they had no notice that Mr . Thcllusscn was ineligible . —They could not expect that the House ivould reverse their late determination ; but thev trusted that in future some alteration would be made in the existing law , and that the abuses , would be corrected .

The petition was brought up , and ordered to lie on thc table . Mr . Ticrney hoped the Hon . Memberwouid follow up the petition by a specific motion , to take it into consideration . His situation was very unpleasant , as that petition ' charged him with having assumed the character of a Representative . The Hen . Member said the petition spoke the sense of the majority of tbe electors ; in that he differed from him ; he believed the majority would disclaim that petition , which had been obtained by circular letters sent to those who were inimical to himwhile his friends were ignorant that such a petition was proposed .

, However general the prayer of thc pe'ition might be , if was usual for the Member presenting it to make some specific motion . He was certain the House would attend to any that the Hon . Gentleman should make , and he anxiously waited until such motion should ascertain his situation in that House . Mr . H . Thornton said , he had done what he thought his duty , in opening the general heads of the petition .

Tuesday , 21 . This day was occupied in ballotting for Committees to try the merits of the Canterbury and Tewkesbury Election Petitions , and in receiving various Petitions against Inclosures and Inland Navigations . Wednesday , 22 . Colonel Porter , after stating tha : he had re ; id with considerable attention the petition presented , on Monday , from certain electors of the Borough of Southivark , said , that he found in it so much insult towards a Committee , of which he had the honour to have been a Member , as to render it necessary for him to make amotion upon the subject of it on some future day . He gave notice

, therefore , that he would shortly make such a motion . Thursday , 23 . A Committee was ballctted for to try the merits of the Carlisle Election Petition . Several Petitions were presented against the Poor Bill , and . one in favour of the Merchants' Wet Dock plan . Friday , 24 . A motion was made , and agreed to , ' That the Rev . Dr . Powis be requested to preach before the House on the ensuing Fast Day . ' Air . Lushington rose to suggest the propriety of ati indemnification to the

merchants who suffered last year by imparting foreign corn . After disclaiming any personal concern , he stated that when Government , by its utmost exertions , could onlv obtain 250 , 000 quarters , and when a Committee of that House thought a sufficient supply could not by any means be procured , these merchants sent bolt ! and 1111 iniitfd orders to every part of the world , which produced an importation of 100 , 000 quarters . But their success was highly prejudicial to . themselves , as it