be expected from a _favorable election committee_. Stronger and stronger, blacker and blacker, closer and closer, came out the petitioner's case. The five opposition members paid profound attention to Mr. Berrington, and took notes; while, as for the ministerials, one was engaged with his betting book, another writing out franks, (in which he dealt,) a third conning over an attorney's letter, and two were quietly playing together at "_Tit-tat-to_." As was expected, the committee called peremptorily for proof of AGENCY; and I will say only, that if _Smirk Mudflint_, _Barnabas Bloodsuck_, and _Seth Centipede_, were not fixed as the "AGENTS" of the sitting member--then there is no such relation as that of principal and agent _in rerum naturâ_; there never was in this world an agent who had a principal, or a principal who had an agent.--Take only, for instance, the case of Mudflint. He was proved to have been from first to last an active member of Mr. Titmouse's committee; attending daily, hourly, and on hundreds of occasions, in the presence of Mr. Titmouse--canvassing with him--consulting him--making appointments with him for calling on voters, which appointments he invariably kept; letters in his handwriting relating to the election, signed some by Mr. Titmouse, some by Mr. Gammon; circulars similarly signed, and distributed by Mudflint, and the addresses in his handwriting; several election bills paid by him on account of Mr. Titmouse; directions given by him and observed, as to the bringing up voters to the poll; publicans' bills paid at the committee-room, in the presence of Mr. Titmouse--and, in short, many other such acts as these were established against all three of the above persons. Such a dreadful effect did all this have upon Mr. Bloodsuck and Mr. Centipede, that they were obliged to go out, in order to get a little gin and water; for they were indeed in a sort of death-sweat. As for Mudflint, he seemed to get sallower and sallower every minute; and felt almost disposed to utter an inward prayer, had he thought it would have been of the slightest use. Mr. Berrington's witnesses were fiercely cross-examined, but no material impression was produced upon them; and when Mr. Granville, on behalf of the sitting member, confident and voluble, rose to prove to the committee that his learned friend's case was one of the most trumpery that had ever come before a committee--a mere bottle of smoke;--that the three gentlemen in question had been no more the agents of the sitting member than was he--the counsel then on his legs--the agent of the Speaker of the House of Commons, and that every one of the petitioner's witnesses was unworthy of belief--in fact _perjured_--how suddenly awake to the importance of the investigation became the ministerialist members! They never removed their eyes from Mr. Granville, except to take notes of his pointed, cogent, unanswerable observations! _He called no witnesses._ At length he sat down; and