SELECT COMMITTEE ON FICTITIOUS VOTES, IRELAND. 2 Ml J. C. Bernard. 13 March ^ 38. Ireland ?— I^ hink^ it would!^ * ^ **** t0 ^ ^ 6ifv; Do * iot y° U lrink the shortening the duration of polls to that extent would have the effect of preventing persons enjoying property in different coun ties giving their votes ?- I am not so conversant with counties as l am ^ h cities ; but I speak of cities, and my own idea is that it could be managed in counties also. ^. i^ cu. 6399 Do not you think the tendency of having the polling all in one day might be to create very violent mobs and tumults?— I rather think it would be otherwise, for I have invariably observed that it is not till the second or third day that the extreme intemperance is got up. 6400. Do not you think that arises from the decision of the election being nearer at hand, and therefore the excitement being greater ?— I rather think that it would not be practicable to work up the extreme of passion in one day. . 6401. You think that one day's polling would not produce the excessive ex- citement which is the general cause of tumult ?— That is my opinion. 6402. And at all events the circumstance of the poll not being protracted would be some stop to a system of bribery, if any exists ?— That I have 110 doubt of. 6403. Mr. Serjeant Jackson.] Do not you think the possibility of a Sunday intervening in the course of an election tends to demoralize the people, and to afford opportunities for creating excitement and disturbance ?— I think it would be very desirable to prevent a Sunday from intervening. 6404. Chairman.'] You would never have the nomination upon a Saturday ?— No, the people are idle on that day, and that is another reason. Mr. John Colburn, called in; and further Examined. 6405. Chairman.] HAVE you seen the list produced by Mr. Casey yesterday, Mr. John Colburn. of the poor allowed by the grandjury in 1837, and who voted at the last election?— I have. 6406. Have you compared that with the poll- books, and do you find that all the persons in that list voted at the last election ?— I do. 6407. How many do they amount to ?— Twenty- nine. [ The List was delivered in. Vide Appendix.] Mortis, 274 die Martii, 1838. LORD GRANVILLE SOMERSET, in the CHAIR. Mr. Curry, a Member of the Committee, having, with the assent of the other Members, communicated to Mr. Moody and Mr. Wills, two of the barristers who presided at the registry of voters for the city of Cork at the first sessions held under the Reform Act, the evidence given by Mr. Barber, one of the witnesses examined by the Committee as to the conduct of those gentlemen, and the opinions expressed by them on that occasion; and letters in reply having been received by Mr. Curry from those gentlemen, the following extracts from the same were read, and directed by the Committee to be placed upon the Minutes: EXTRACT of LETTER from Mr. Moody; dated " Mountjoy- square, Wednesday, 21 March 1838. " I DEFERRED ray reply to your communication respecting Mr. Barber's evi- dence that I might have a conversation with Wills, though I felt my own recol- lec ion was sufficiently correct. Mr. B is altogether wrong when lie says I reiectedThe evidence of the paid valuators. The following occurrence took place the first day of our registering the claimants; of his house, and one or two neighbours confirmed his vab^ the( W tive side called upon a Captain Allen; it was stated, and I believe truly, that the 0.4b. Q Q 27 March 1838.