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WEDNESDAY

which were not literally true, and implied censures, on
the merit of which the House had no means of forming
a judgment. For instance, the Hon. Gentleman set
down to his notice that Mr. Burns was " prosecuting
his lawful commercial proceedings," whereas, in point
of fact, he was propo4ating mischief et the instance of
the society which was 'assisting the Hon. Gentleman
near him. It unfortunately happened when that gen-
tleman, Mr. Burns, foil into the hands of these 13cr-
❑eari pirates, and lest Ida ship and his head in conse•
quence, that he also last d portion of his journal,
which showed pretty clearly the nature of the " com-
mercial proc;•edings" in which he had been engaged. He
had not the slightest objection to enter on this debate
whenever his Hon. Friend chose to bring it on, but
he did object to the repeated insinuations which these
repeated notices of motion bore upon the face of them.
It certainly was surprising that the Hon. Gentleman,
who was esteemed as a man of general benevolence and
kindness, should be possessed of this monomania, that
there was nothing so delightful as blackening the cha-
racter in that House of one of the most deserving public
a -milts that the country ever had.
Mr. HUME denied that he laud any other object in
view than to obtain legitimate information, and he
asked the House whether there was one word of insinua-
tion or rcflaetion upon the character of any man in the
notice which he had moved for?
The motion was then agreed to.
Mr. HENLEY obtained leave and brought in a Bill

to enable her Majesty to carry into effect arrangements
made with foreign powers for the apprehension of sea-
men who desert from their ships, which was read a first
time.

On the motion of Mr. FREWEN, a Bill was brnugh

in and read a first time, to promote the buildindo
churches in benefices that have no church, and to pre.
vent the union of benefices above a certain value.

MANCHESTER AND SALFORD EDUCATION
SCHEME.

Mr. M. GIBSON moved that the following Gentle-
men' be nominated a Select Committee on Manchester
and Salford Education:—Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr.
William Miles, Viscount Melgund, Mr. Monsell, Mr.
Bright, Marquis of Blandford, Lord John Russell, Mr.
Gladstone, Mr. lieald, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Cardwell,. MK
Fox, Mr. Ker Seymer, Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. Child.
Mr. PETO objected to the composition of the Com-
mittee as proposed, upon the ground that certain parties
who took a great interest in tee question of education,
and who ought to be represented upon •it, were not re-
presented at all. He might briefly state that there were
four groat parties who took a deep interest in this gm-
tier. First, there- were those who conceived it to be the
office of the Church to educate the people. Next, there
were those who relied entirely upon the voluntary sys-
teni. The third were those who took it to be the duty
of the State to inculcate secular education; and:fourthly,
there were those who combined all instruction, and would
give a mixed secular and religious edtication to the
people. On the part of those who advocated the volun-
tary principle he begged to assure the House that that
party had been in earnest—that they had done the work
committed to them to the best of their ability, and that
the country was greatly indebted to them for what they
had accomplished.—(Hear, hear.) He would not further
detain the House than to express his dissent from the,
appointment of the Committee as at present prOposed,
and to give notice of his intention on a future occasion
to move the addition of new names.

Mr. M. GIBSON admitted the justice of the claim
that those to whom his Hon. Friend referred should
be fairly represented upon the Committee. Perhaps,
however his Hon. Friend was not acquainted with the
views of some of the members of the Committee. He
had submitted to the Government the name of one gen-
tlen3an who, ho hoped, would have been acceptable to
those who were in favour of a voluntary system of
education ; but that name bad been obj,cted to,
end the name of Mr. Heald had been substituted for it.
He should not object to the appointment of his Hon.
Friend in the place of Mr. Heald, or, if the Committee
should be increased in number to beyond fifteen, he
should not object to the addition of one or two gentle-
men holding the views which his Hon. Friend had in-
dicated. He suggested that the Committee should be
allowed to pass now, and that his Hon. Friend should
give notice of his intention to move some additional
names.

Mr. HEYWORTH thought it very desirable that the
friends of the voluntary system should be represented
OD the Committee.

Mr. WALPOLE, who was but imperfectly heard, was
understood to represent that there was not a single
Uember of the Government upon the Committee, and to
suggest that the nomination should, for the present, be
postponed. _ _

31r. HINDLEY concurred in recommending that the
appointment should be postponed ; and this coarse las
ultimately adopted.

On the motion of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL for
IRELAND, the following members were added to the
Select Committee on Outrages (Ireland) : Mr.
O'Flaberty, Mr. Scully, Mr. W. Gould, and the Solici-
tor-General for Ireland.

On the motion of Mr. G. A. HAMILTON, on the
part of Lord R. Grosvenor, the following Members were
added to the Select Committee on Ventilation and Light-
ing the House :—Mr. Stephenson, Mr. Locke, and Mr.
Henry Fitzroy.
The Report on Supply was then brought up and re-
ceived.

The Indemnity Bill, as amended, was considered, and
ordered to be read a third time on Thursday.
The Copyright Amendment Bill was ordered to be
recommitted on Friday next.
ST. ALBANS DISFRANCHISEMENT BILL.
Tho Report on this Bill having been brought up,
Mr. BELL said he did not mean to oppose the recep-
tion of the report. He thought he had done as much
as could be expected from him under the circumstances.
He only wished to say that ho hoped the crusade against
St. Albans would not terminate with the disfranchise-
ment of that borough, because, if it did, instead of
being of service, the measure would only excite dissatis-
faction in the minds of the public. But if her Majesty's
Ministers would take advantage of the information
which they bad received through the St. Albans Com-
missioners, and would, before the dissolution of Par-
liament, Ijiit.g in a Bill which should more effectually
check corruption than any Act that had hitherto been
passed, he felt certain that it would give great satis-
faction to the public, and would deserve the_ respect and
support of every honest man in the kingdom.—(Hear)
hear.)

Mr. WALPOLE said that the Noble Lord who was
lately at the head of the Government was, in point of
fact, to move the second reading of his Qorrupt Prac-
tices at Elections Bill tomorrow (Wednesday), which
Bill was founded, almost word for word, upon the St.
Albans Disfranchisement Bill, and .he begged to say
that it was the intention of the Government to support
the Bill, and endeavour to pass it. <Hear. hear.l
Mr. HUME hoped the Government was sincere in
their declaration that they intended to support a measure
for the effectual suppression of bribery. For himself, he
did not believe that it could be altogether put an end to;
but he thought the best means that could be adopted JO
that purpose was the introduction of the ballot—(Hear,
hear)—and he intended, therefore, to test the sincerity
of Hon. Members on the subject by proposing a motion
to that effect.

The report on the St. Albans Disfranchisement Bill
was then received.
The Consolidated Fund (8,000,0001) Bill was read a
third time and passed.
The all to Consolidate and Enlarge the Acts relat-
ing to the Appointment and Pay of Parish Constables
wvs brought in and read a first time.
The House adjourned at Half-past Eight, o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.)
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
TUESDAY, 'MARCH 23.
The following Bills were reported as not having standing
orders dispensed with :
Waterford Free Bridge.
Haw Bridge and Roads.
Dudley Waterworks.
Great London Drainage.
The undernamed Bills were reported as having standing
orders dispensed with:
Eastern Counties and Newmarket and Chesterford Railway

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

.From the Votes and Proceedtium of the House of CommoitS)

TUESDAY. MARCH 23. • -
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE MINING DISTRICT

Companies,
Eastern Union Railway.
North and South-Western and Brighton and Dover Junc-
tion .
Rmlwey ( Wandsworth to Croydon).
Middlesbrough and Guisbrough Railway.
That the Committees on this and the three preceding Bills
do examine, in the first place, how far such orders have been
complied with, and do report the same to the House on the
report of the Bill.
Dumfries and Maxwelltown Waterworks.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD

WATER 00-aPANY BILL

Order for Second Reading read; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :”-
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and
at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day
six months :" - Question put, " That the word 'now' stand
part of the Question." The House divided:—
,
BinTORITY—AYEB, 75.
Anderson, Arthur For'dyee. A. p„ . 31illigan. Robert •
Anson, General -' ` Forstei, A.l.'•' ' ,` Mundy, William
Armstrong, R. B. Fox, W. J. ,; •Ogle, S. C.
Baring, Henry B. French, F. 'Patten, J. W.
Baring, Sir Francis Geach, Charles Pendarves, E. W.
Bass, M. T. Glyn, G. C. Pilkington, James
Bell, Jacob Greene, Thomas Seholetield, William
Berkeley, C. L. G. Harris, Richard Seymour, Lord
Bright, John Henry, Alexander Smith, John B.
Brotherton, J. Heywood, James Strutt, E.
Brown, W. Hume, Joseph Tennent, R. J.
Childers, J. W. Hutchins, E. J. Thicknesse, R. A.
Clay, James Jackson, William Thompson, Colonel
Cobden, Richard' Johnstone, James Thompson, George
Colehrooke, Sir T. • Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Trelawny, J. S.
Copehand,itilderman Kershaw, James Vivian, J. H.
Cowan, Charles Langston, J. IL Walmsiey, Sir I.
Davie, Sir IL Lemon, Sir C. Wawn, J. T.
Dawes, Edward Littleton, E. R. Willcox, Brodie.
Drummond, Home Lockhart, A. E. 'Williams, John
Duncombe, T. Long, W. Wilson, Matthew
Ellis, John Lushington, C. Wrightson, W. B.
Elliot, J. E. Mackie, John Wyvill, Marmaduke
TELL EA.II
Thontely, T homas
Matheson, Colonel Yilliers,Charles
Foley:J. IL
Sir
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James
Lacy
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REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.)
Sir —From what occurred in the House of Commons
on Monday, it is clear. that the Government have, as
5r,030 of the daily papers expressed it, snubbed the
Volunteer Rifle Corps." Like Louis Napoleon, they do
not want a National Guard. I think therefore that
any man who agrees with the gallant Member for West-
minster in believing that Volunteer Corps are a more
powerTui defensive armament than a Militia, may law-
fully vote against a Militia altogether if his constituents
wish it, so long at lea's!, as circumstances do not point to
the necessity of its being called out in addition to the
Volunteers.

ISIAJORITY—NOES, 89.
Adderley, 0.13•
Freestun, Colonel; MAtMsell, T. P.
' C 11 Milos, P. W. S.
31ilnes, R. M.
Arkwright, Gorge
Viscount Moleswor th,Sir W.
Galway, i
Mngs.
Bailey, Joseph
Gaskell, J. AI,
Baillie, H. J. Nugent, Sir Percy
Gooch, E. S.
O'Connor, FearguS
Baird James
Archdall, Captain Frnilelweern,
A,
..8..
Goulburn, Henry
Bankes, G. Perfect, Robert
BBaratems=nT,'T. W. Barron, Sir H. Gwyn, Howel
Pigott, Francis
Barrow, W. 11. Hall, Sir B.
Powlett, Lord W.
Pugh, David
John C
Renton, C.
Bridges, Sir B.
Burghley, Lord Hayes, Sir E.
Ricardo, Osman
Henley, J. W.
Scott, Captain
Herbert, 11. A.
Chaplin, Carew,
WWI.3J. J. Wild 33a ra
r(cli 9,
ITI T. BC ..
CceChristopher,llheia,r,rtek Qsrliilrs:GnF. .r lt.an cAI 1.
, .Scott, F.
illiasamitielt,oAn,reLlioirbdalCd.
ulinnijoolipw!di,eaL,
eroysdri,
Charles
P.
. E.
S.
. Scully, Francis
Sidney, Alderman
Smythe, George
Spooner, itichard
Stafford, Augustus
Cocks, T. S. ' ' Hudson, G. Stanley, Edward
Codrington, Sir W. ' Inglis, Sir R. H. Start, 11. G.
Conolly, Thomas Keogh, William Sullivan, Michael
Duckworth, Sir J. Knox, Colonel Thompson, Alderman
Duncombe, 0. Lennox, Lord A. VeseY, Thomas
Duncuft, John Lygon, General Wall, C. B.
Dunne, Colonel Mackenzie, W. F. Wynn, H. W.
Du Pre, C. G. Mahon, Lord
Edwards, Henry Manners, Lord C. TELLERS.
Forbes, William Manners, Lord G. Best, John
Fox, S. W. L. Masterman, John Knight, F. W.
The fol

. .
Viewing the question in a military light only, it can
hardly be denied, that the Volunteer Rifle Corps are
things of slower growth, as depending on the gradual
accumulation of the popular feeling, while the Militia
are 80,000 Men summonable to arms by an Act of Par-
liament. In addition to which, the first are to find
themselves, while the other must be paid for at the
price of regular troops; for it is a doctrine with me,
that to take a man perforce, is to take from him the
value of what a man can be had for by money. And
further, the first are likely to much exceed in number
the others; while their proposed mode of arming is
better calculated to meet the apprehended exigency.
There is, not, a man in England who better knows the
comparative value_of a Volunteer force and a Conscrip-
tion than the Member for Westminster.
1 And this leads to another criticism on what was col-
lected to be the intention of the Government with re.
spect to such Rifle Corps as in consequence of previous
leave obtained, or.other causes, are not to be " snubbed."
It was announced that &condition was to be, that they
were to be armed with rifles of the Government'. Fate.
tern. This will only make a job for the Government's
gun-niskers. and cut down the zeal of the Volunteers.
The Government might as well intimate that gentlemen
going partridge-shooting. must be armed with a Govern-
ment model. Half the enjoyment of the thing, is in the
trying of one maker's plan against another's. The
whole theory and practice of small arms are at this mo-
ment in a state of flux and uncertainty, out of which it
is probable something as yet comparatively unknown is
speedily to come. Nobody but the Chinese, at such a
moment, would nail down the Volunteers to the use of
an " approved model of the Flowery Empire."
You will not suppose me insensible to the weight of
the reason urged for the proposed regulation,—the ad-
vantage-of having balls of the same calibre. But there
is no reason that may not be outweighed by a stronger.
It is of incomparably more importance that a Volunteer
rifleman should hit with two out of three of the twenty
balls he might expend in a campaign, and that there
should be two Volunteer riflemen where there would
otherwise be only one, than that they should be furnished
with balls of the " flowery" model. It is among the
records of the German corps of riflemen sent to America
in the Revolutionary War, that some of the men re-
turned their ammunition at the end of the war minus six
or oven shots; but it is shrewdly intimated, that these
six or seven shots might be traced in a corresponding
diminution of the American executive. It was my
chance to see specimens of the Landwehr in Paris in
1814; and it is not impressed on my recollection that
their rifles were of anything like a Government tnodel.
Some of them struck me as so diminutive, that it was
presumable the Landwehr acted in the spirit of the in-
struction of the Spartan mother, who said " Take a
step nearer." How the Landwehr youth kept himself
provided with ammunition, there was not opportunity
rigidly to inquire ; but I presume that when
he had composed or sung his song of "Fatherland,"
and' made libation as ho might to the fraulein beyond
tho Rhine, he employed his leisure hours in casting from
time to time a score of bullets by the help of a mould
he 'carried in the butt of his rifle, using such lead and
powder as was to be obtained from every ammunition
waggon that distributed cartridges to the army.
Something was said in the House, of the slights thrown
by some of the regular generals upon the Volunteers of
1801. Your regular general is not always what Jeremy
Bentham would call " all-wise." If letter of mine to you
should come to the eyes of any of the Volunteer Corps, I
can tell a story upon that subject. There was a regular
general who made himself conspicuous in Par-
liament by attacks on the Volunteer Corps and
their commanders, and particularly on an Alder-
man of Loudon whose civic occupation happened to
have been the chemistry of pastry. And now
see what a judgment fell upon him-- It was my fortune,
in obedience to the direction of a superior, to bring to
that general an officer of regular troops in full uniform,
summoning him to surrender, and whom he sent away in
rather a rough manner. A few hours afterwards I
brought to him another fashion of negotiator,—one of
the Voluntarios Patrioticos de Buenos Aires,—in precisely
the jacket which those who saw the English Volunteers
will recollect, blue with red in the seams,—bat of the
rest I speak not; beyond a distinct notation that his nether
man was cased in corduroy and he had a cast in his eye,
which lest may possibly even yet help to identify the
meritorious citizen in his peacetul retreat. You will not
disbelieve me when I say, that at the sight of him, all
Colonel Birch rose before my eyes. And to this not
very perfectly sot-up member of a Volunteer Corps, did
our general surrender the Church of St. Domingo and
eretn. It was a judgment all of us that were th if there
ever was one. And so shall it be with more regular
generals, that laugh at Volunteers.
On Tuesday the
principal subject was a motion on the
it
removal of the Hop
Nothing was said of the re-
moval of the duty on foreign Hops; though this was
stated to be-virtually prohibitory, except when there is
an extraordinary failure in the English crop. It may
be collected therefore, that the object is to get rid of the
duty on home-grown hops, and leave the duty on
foreign. If there was the conviction at Bradford which
.I wish . there was, that ypu deal in foreign hops and
everything else that can be brought.
cheaper from abroad,
will
lcktir:re Marsh
f ,llienBsesl2f.
you would have considerable objections to make to this.
But am afraid friends are not yet up to that mark.
For the present, the lion has been let in, and no
take good doubt
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
Baheah,
m ca
AN OLD REFORMER.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
COLERAINE.
Lord,Naas was returned on Monday without opposi-
tion, c!.B Mr. Wilson K-nnedy did not demand a poll.

CHURCH STRETTOZT, TIJEBDAT.—A vacancy having
taken place in the representation of the southern division
of Shropshire by the appointment of Viscount Newport
to the situation of Vice- Chamberlain in her Majesty's
Household, an election was held in consequence to-day
at Church Stretton, by the High Sheriff, Robert Burton,
Esq. _

Sir BALDWIN LEIGHTON, BART., proposed the Right
Hoe. Viscount NeWport.
having JOHN Rt cg, Esq., seconded the nomination.
No other candic6te appeared,
The HIGH SHERIFF declared that the Right Hon.
Orlando George Charles Bridgman, commonly called
Viscount Newport, had been duly elected.--(Cheers.)!
NEWPORT then addressed the electors, and
the proceediogi terminated With a vote of thanks to the
High Sheriff. .

DEARTH ON TRCONTINENT.
Accounts come in from all parts of the sufferings of
the poor in consequence of dearth of grain and potatoes,
from Posen' Westphalia, Greis, the Tyrol, Cassel, Nie-
derlausitz &e. In Posen there are regular bands of
robbers, driven on by hunger, so that cavalry are obliged
to patrol the roads to protect travellers from attack. In
Westphalia, beans boiled with roots have superseded
bread and potatoes with the poor. In Wermeland and
Oestland (Sweden) recourse has already been had to
straw and the bark of trees for food. In Naumberg, a
mother has drowned her two daughters and then herself,
in despair at the approach of starvation. In the neigh-
bourhood of Dantzic the failure of the potato crop has
induced several landowners to turn their attention to
which is at present very
'said to contain from 30 to
36 per cent. more saccharine matter than beet-root; if
sltivateßdushssiarne;piottais to
the
etle so-called
true, this would be worth the attention of the company
about to manufacture,beet-root sugar in Ireland. ,

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hanadd
their origin in imperfectly healed wounds received in the battle
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to my bed always during the harvest months. I have
now for two years been enjoying the best of health, solely in
consequence of using Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which
cured me in a very short time ; in gratitude for which I pub-
lish this testimony. (Signed) J. de Swart, of Lent, on the
Vossepels,,near Nymegen, Holland, Oct. 4th, 1849." Sold
by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment,
444, Strand, London.
" CURSING" A MAGISTRATE it
Y. A CLERGYMAN.--
A most extraordinary, novel, and exciting scene was wit-
nessed at the Flordon station, on Saturday evening. When
the Ave o'clock train from Norwich arrived there, the pas-
sengers were much surprised at seeing the Rev. Mr. Moore,
the curate of the parish, standing in the passage of the
station-house, dressed in his canonical,.
It was, however,
soon understood that he was waiting there to " curse " a
neighbouring magistrate, who was expected by the train ;
and who had given him some presumed offence. When'the
aci tollowing significant notice appears in the individual alluded to WAS giving up his ticket to the station-
master, the reverend gentleman thus addressed him—" I
London Gazette of last evening. We trust that we may re- inflict a curse upon this man. I curse you; I curse your
gard it as au earnest of a future and continual vigilance wife • I curse your children; I curse all you have—may
checking the advances, or attempts to advance, made by, ! your 9 children be fatherless and vagabonds, and beg their
the emissaries of Messrs. Wiseman, Swift, and Co.: - " Lord bread," &c ~&c. ; and thuste went on until the " cursed man"
Chamberlain's office; Mardi 23.—Notice is hereb.y given, drove off. . We understand that the matter has been laid
that the presentation to the Queen at the Levee, o n Tuurs- before the
.bishop; andthat the reverend gentleman, in
day, the 26th of February last, of the Very Hey. Mre•nsignore default'of flnding sureties to keep the peace, was committed
Seale, is cancelied, that title having been mg:laq WitheUt , on Saturday night to the Castle, by EdWard Howe; Egit—
the required autlaority:!..-,Fiera/d, - - •' " ' i Norwich ltierourY•