PETERSFIELD.
The committee met for the first time at twelve o'clock yesterday, the Hon. C.C. Cavendish in the chair.
Mr. Austen and Mr. Colburn appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Thessiger and Mr. Wortley for the sitting Member.
Mr. Austin very briefly opened the case, stating that the numbers at the election were—for Sir W. Jolliffe, 124; and for his client, Mr. Hector, 123; and that the case of the petitioner rested on several voters having lost their qualification.
The investigation was then gone into, and two votes which had been rejected by the Revising Barrister having been added to the petitioner's poll, the sitting Member retired from the contest, and the committee declared Mr. Hector to be duly elected.