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which were not literally true, and implied censures, on
the merit of which the House had no means of forming
a judgment. For instance, till Hun. Gentleman set
down in his notice that Mr. Burns was prosecuting
his lawful commercial proceedings," whereas, in point
of fact, he was propoguting mischiefst the itcstence of
the society which was assisting the Hon. Gentleman
near him. It unfortunately happened when that gen-
tlem2o, Mr. Burns, fell into the' hands of these Bor-
neat pirates, and lost his ship and his head in conse-
quence, that he also last a portion of his journal,
which showed pretty clrarly the nature of the " corn,.
mercial proceedings" in which be had been engaged. He
bad not then slightest objection to enter'ou'tbis debate
whenever -his lion. Friend 'chose to bring it on, but
he did object to the repeated insinuations which these
repented notices of motion bore upon the face of them.
It certainly was surprising that the Hon. Gentleman,
who was esteemed ea a min of general benevolence and
kindness, slould 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 !rvanta that the country ever had.
Mr. HUMS denied that he hae any other object in
view than to -obtain legitiniste information, and he
asked the House whether there was'one word ofinsinua,
non or reflection upon the charaoteit of any man' in the
notice wnieb he had moved fir?

.PARLIAMENTARY •BUSINESS

-
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House .of' Commons.)
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
MEAD AY, 31ARCH 23.
The followingTillo were reported as n 94 having standing
orders .dispensed, with: -- •
Waterford Free Bridge.
Haw Bridge and Roads.
Dudley Waterworks.
Great LondodDrainage. •
The undernan3ed tilla-wero•repotted as bavit3g standing
Driers dispensed with:
Eastern Counties and Newmarket and Chesterford Railway

Cona pan les.
Eastern Unian Railway.
North and ,South-Western and. Brighton and Dover Junc-
tion nails,,ey (Wandsworth to Croydon).
Middlesbrough arid qui:bTough Railway.
That theConarnittees on thia and the three preceding Bills
do examine, in the first place, how far stich"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
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
' (CpftTrilitJEt. ON DIONDOCiND WgDNESDAYB.)
• Sir,—From what occiiired In the House of Commons
on Monday,. it is clear that- the Government have, as
some of the 'deny papera expressed it; "snubbed the
VOlunfeer Rifti Corps." Like Louis Napoleon, they do
not want. a National Gerard. I think therefore that
any natierwho agrees withtg heallant Member for West-
minster in believing that Volunteer 'Corps are a more
powerful defensive armament than a Militia, may law'
vote against a. Mllitie. altogether if his constituents
Wish it, so 1014,6t,least as circumstances do not point to
the to cessity of its bang called ',out in addition to the
Volenteers. • '
Viewing the que:stilitein a military light only, it can
hardly be denied;-that the Volenteer Rifle Corps are
things of alo.Ner growth, as depending on the gradual
Seceneelation of-the popular feeling, while the Militia
are 80.000 men semmonable 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 men, perforce, is to take from him the
value of what a man .can be laud for by money. And
further, the firstire likely to much exceed in number
tho others; while their,, ,propozel mode of arming is
beiter, Calculated. to. meet- the apprehended exigency.
-There is not a man.in England who better knows the
eazbpnlratire value,_ef ;rlNolunteer force and a Conscrip-
tier. . than t4e,Member for-Westminster.
,And this leaeletterinether criticism on what was,col-
, feetedqo bet the intention of the Government with re•
speatto such Rifle Corps as in consequence of previous
leave obtained, or other causes, are not to be "snubbed."
It was announced that a condition was to be. that they
wore to be armed with rifles of the Government's pat-
tern. This will only make a job fur the Government's
guif-makers. 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 flax 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 " fliwery" 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 seven shots; but it is shrewdly intimated, that these
six or seven sots might be traced in a cormpanding
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 model.
Some of them struck me as so diminutive, that it was
presumable the Llndwehr 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 lied composed or sung his song of " Fatherland,"
and made libation as ho .might to the fraulein beyond
the' 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 himseif conspicuous in Par•
liament by attacks on the Volunteer Corps and
their commanders, and particularly on an Alder-
man of London 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
rathei a rough manner. A few hours afterwards I
brought to him another fashion of negotiator,—one of
the Voluntaries Patrioticos de Buenos Aires,—in precisely
the jacket which those who saw the Eoglish Volunteers
will recollect, blue with red in the seam.,—but of the
rest I speak not, beyond a distinct notation that his nether
man was cased in corduroy and ho had a cast in his eye,
which last may possibly even
yet help to identify the
meritorious ciez-n in his peaceful 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 set-up member of a Volunteer Corps, did
our general surrender the Church of St. Domingo and
all of us that were therein. Is was a judgment 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
removal of the Hop duty. Nothing was said of the re-
moval of the duty on f }reign Hops; though this was
stated to be virtually prohibitory, except when there is
hops, and an extraordinary failure in the English crop. It may
be collected therefore, that the object
leave the duty on
ect is CO get rid of the
duty on home-grown Ps,
foreign. If there was the conviction at Bradford which
I wish there was, that you deal is foreign hops and
everything else that can be brought cheaper from abroad,
you would have considerable objections to make to this.
But I am afraid friends are not yet up to that mark.
For the present, the lion has been let in, and no doubt
will take good care of himself.
I am, Sir, yours very sincerely,
AN OLD REFORMER.
Blackheath, March 24, 1852.

The motirm was then agreed to.
Mr. HENLEY obtained leave and brougbt in a fill
to enable her Majesty to carry into effect arrangements
made with foreign powers for thoupprehension of-sea-
men who desert from their ships, which' was read a first

time.
On the motion of Mr. FR-EWEN, a Bill was brought
in and read a first time, to promote the building of
churches in benefices thlt 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 Educstien:—Mr. Milner Gibion, Mr.
William Miles, VisCoutitlgund, Mr. Monsell, Mr.
Bright, Marquis of Blandford, Lord John Ru3selt, Mr.
Gladstone. Mr. Heald, Mr, Cobden, Mr. Cardivell; Mr
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 the quesiion.of 'education,
and who ought to he'represented upcn it, were not re-
presented at all. He might briefly state that there were
i
tour great parties wholook- a deep interest n this ques-
tion, First, there were those who Conceived it to b‘t the
office of the Church to,edueatethcpeople„ Next, there
were those who relied 9s,tiriej." upon the
,yOltiatary,tge-
tem. -"The third-'were those An tali it to beAct,duty,
of the Statwto inculcate secular education; and, fourthly,
there were those who combined all instruction, and would
give a mixed secular and religious education to the
people. Ou 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, bear.) Ha would not further
detain the House than to express his dissent from the
appointment of the Committee as at present proposed,
and to give netica 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-
tleman who, he hope, 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 thee 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
on the Committee.

Mr. WALPOLE, who was but imperfectly heard, was
understood to represent that there was not a single
Member of the Government upon the Committee, and to
suggest that the nomination should, for the present, be
pos, pone&
Mr. HINDLEY concurred in recommending that the
appointm,-nt should be postpontd ; and this course was
ultimately adopted.
Oo the motion of the ATTORNEY GENERAL for
IRELAND, the following members were added to the
Sekct Committee on Outrages (Ireland) : Mr.
O'Flaherty, Mr. Scully, Mr. W. Goold, and the Solidi-
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 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 DISFRA.NCIIISEMENT BILL.

The Report on this Bill having been brought up,
Mr. BELL said be did not mean to oppose the recep-
tion of the report. He thought he had done as much
as could bi expected from him ucdor the circumstances.
Ho only wished to say that he 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 Ihjesty's
Slinisters would take advantage of the information
which they had received- through the St. Albans Com-
missicners, and would, before the dissolution of Par-
liament, brieg 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 Corrupt Prac-
tices at Elections Bill to-morrow (Wednesday), which
Bill was founded, almost word for word, upon the
Albans Disfranchisement Bill, and be begged to say
that it was the intention of the Government to support
the Bill, and endeavOur to pass it. ,Bear. hear.)
Mr. HUM E hoped the Government was sincere in
their declaration that they intended to support a measure
for the effectual suppression of bribery. Fur himself, he
did not believe that it could be altogether put an end to;
but he thought the best means that could be adopted for
that purpose was the introduction of the ballot—(Hear,
hear)—and ho 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 (8,000,000) Bill was read a
third time and pissed.
The B 11 to Consolidate and Enlarge the Acts relat-
ing to the Appointment and Pay of Parish Constables
was brought in and read a first time.
The House adjourned at Half-past Eight o'clock.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
COLERAINE.
Lord Naas was returned on Monday without opposi-
tion, as Mr. Wilson li.nnedy did not demand a poll.

CHDRCH STRETTON, THESDA.T.—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
ft,usehold, an election was held in consequence to-day
at Church Stretton, by the High sheriff, Robert Burton,
Esq.
Sr BALDWIN LEIGHTON, BART proposed the Right
lion. Viscount Newport.
JOHN ROCK, 11,q , seconded the nomination.
The thou SEIEttIFF declared that the
No otter-r candidate having appeared,
Right Hon.
Orlando George Charles Bridgman, commonly called
Viscount Newport, had been duly elected.—(Cheers.)?
Vis Count NEWPORT then addressed the electors, and
the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the
High Sheriff.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons
TUESDAY. MARCH 23.
SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE MINING DISTRICT

WATER COMPANY 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 mouths :" Question put, " That the word 'now' stand
part of the Question." The House divided :
lIHNORITY—AYEB, 75.
Anderson, Arthur Fordyce. A. D. Milligan, Robert
Anson, General Forster, M. Mundy, William
Armstrong, R. B. Fox, W. J. Ogle, S. C.
Baring, Henry B. French, F. Patten, J. W.
Darin-', Sir Francis Geach, Charles Pendarves, E. W.
Bass, M. T. Glyn, G. C. , Pilkingten, James
Bell, Jacob Greene, Thomas Scholefield, 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. T hicknesse, R. A.
Clay, James Jackson, William Thompson, Colonel
Cobden, Richard' Johnstone, James Thompson, George
Colebrooke, Sir T. Jolllffe, Sir W. G. Trelawny, J. S.
Copeland,§Alderman Kershaw, James Vivian, J. H.
Cowan, Charles Langston, J. H. Walmsley, Str T.
Davie, Sir IL Lemon, Sir C. Wawn, J. T.
Dawes, Edward Littleton, E. R. Willcox, Brodie
Drummond, Home Lockhart, A. E. Williams, John
atthew
Duncombe, T. Long, W. Wilson, M
, John Lushington, C. Wrightson, W. B.
Ellis
Elliot, J. E. Mackie, John Wyvill, Marmaduke
Evans, Sir De Lacy M'Cullagh, W. T. rktu.ese
WGregor, John Thornely, Thomas
Farrer, James
Matheson, Colonel Villiers, Charles
Foley, J. IL

DEARTH ON THE CONTINENT.
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-
derlatisi+z, &o. 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 Dantzie the failure of the potato crop has
induced several landowners to turn their attention to
the so-called Russian potato, which is at present very
little cultivated here; it is said to contain from 30 to
36 per cent. more saccharine matter than beet-root; if
true, this would be worth the attention of the company
about to manufacture beet-root sugar in Ireland.

MAJORITY—NOES, 89.
Adderley, C. B.
Arkwright, feeerga ‘r• unt Moles ,
Galway, t iseo • - J• R
Bailey, Joseph Mullinga. •R•
Gaskell, J. bI•
Nugent, Sir Percy
Baillie, H. J. .
Archdall, Captain
Baird James Gooch, E. S•
O'Connor, Feargu.s
Bankes, G. FFF rrueel elwes
ert un, nAt
C.
A.
Bli.. Colonel; 2,113
Milne,,
ailii u nen
se, sswe,pl :B. :
W.
Th 3
4.
spsir:
W.
Goulburn, Henry
Perfect, Robert
Barron, Sir 11. Gwyn, Rowel
Pigott, Francis
Barrow, W. H. Hall, Sir B.
P wlett Lord W.
Bateson, T. Hamilton, Lord C. - ° ti vid
BBrrarnidgs,to,isi,ir%7. Inlans;teies: AsirrehiE.bald Pugh, —a
Brisco, M. Henley, J. W.
Burghley, Lord _ Herbert, 11. A.
Carew, %V. 1.. Hihlyard, R. C.
Chaplin, W. J.
R. A. Hiudley Charles
1111dyard, T. B.
Charter's. Francis Hill, Lord E.
Christopher,
Clerk Sir G. Hope, Sir J. Spooner, Rickard
Clive, H. B. Howard, P. H.
Cocks, T. S. Hudson, G.
Codrington, Sir W. Inglis, Sir R. H•
..C,GoLleoio,neredrla
General
A.
Start, H. G.
Ricardo,ll
tssssl
Scott,
slitylht,
,itoetyo,hynuF},. , .
,JOGrCosaheainnopn Aldermanearti C.
ins in
Conolly, Thomas Keogh, William
. Knox,
ioxi
no'
Duckworth, Sir J.
buncombe, o.Sullivan,Staffor Michael
Duncuft, John
Mackenzie, W. F.
Dunne, Colonel
Du Pre, C. G. Mallon, Lord
Edwards, Henry Manners, Lord C.
Forbes, William Manners, Lord G.
Fox, S. W. L. Masternian, John Stanley,lvT.wyhe a
13osfly,nC,T.olinBh4. Edward
AldermansuBt lla

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wh[o foughtp vls R
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WEiviatßerslooT.3,cured
1, J. de Swart,publicly state that Holloway's Pills and
Ointment have cured me of several ulcerous sores, which had
their origin in imperfectly healed wounds received in the battle
of Waterloo. The pain was infinite, and I was confined
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 Holioway's Pills and Ointment, which
cured me in a very sho:t 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 BT A CLERGYMAN.—
A most extraordinary, novel, and exciting scene was wit-
nessed at the Flordon station, on Saturday evening. When
the five 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 canonicals. It was, however,
soon understood that he was waiting there to " curse " a
neighbouring magistrate, who was expected by the train ;
and who bad given him some presumed offence. When the
individual
alluded to was giving up his ticket to the station-
The following sig-nificant notice appears in tha master,
the reverend gentleman thus addressed him—" I
London Gazette of last evening. We trust that ,we may re- inflicta curse upon this man. I curse you; I curse your
gard it as an 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 children be fatherless and vagabonds, and beg their
the emissaries of Messt a. Wiseman, Swift, and Co. :—" Lord . bread," &c., &c. ; and thus he went on until the "cursed man"
Chamberlain.s• office, March 23.—Notice is hereby given, drove off. -vire understand that the matter has been laid
that the presentation to the Queen at the Levee,wa Tours- before the bishop; and that the reverend gentleman, in
day, the 26th of February last, of the Very Rev. Monsignors default of finding sureties to keep the peace, was committed
Searle, is cancelled, that title having been assumed Without 011 Saturday night to the Castle, by Edward Howe, Esq.—
the rewired authority.":—.Herald Norwich alqrcury.

MLEBi•
Best, John
Knight, F. W.