The Sun.
London, England, 1852-03-24 00:00:00

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PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS

From the Votes IG'rooleteftssofcZll:llrse of Commons.

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

Companies.
Eastern Union Railway.
North and South
_Western and Brighton and Dover Junc-

tion Railwey ( 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
REFORM ASSOCIATION.
(CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.)
Sir,—.From what occurred in the [louse of Cemnious
on onday, it is clear that the Government have, as
some of the daily pipers 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
powerful defensive armament than a Militia, may is„-
Cully vote against a Militia alttigteher if his constituents
wish it, so.long at least as circumstances do not point to
the necessity of its being called out in addition to the
Volunteers.
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 suremonable 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.
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 a condition was to be, that they
were to be armed with rifles of the Government's pat-
tern. This will onlyanake a job for the Government's
gun-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
againstanother's.
the t thing, is in t
Thehe
trying of one maker's plan
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 seven 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 model.
Some of them struck me as so diminutive, that it was
presumable
of
blethtehL:snpdavvretheer acted is thwehosp raiitdo,f,
Tthe
ei na-
sstep 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 he might to the fraulein beyond
the Rhine, be 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 Leased 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 lull uniform,
summoning him to surrender, and whom he sent away iu
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 thost, who saw the English Volunteers
will recollect, blue with red in the seams,—but of the
rest I speak not, beyond a distinct notation that his nether
u I
m say, e that at the sight of him, all
man was cased in corduroy and he had a cast in his eye,
which last may possibly even yet help to identify the
meritorious citizen in his peaceful retreat. You will not
•derbyelpieervfeecmtley
when
setup m
Colonel Birch rose before my eyes. And to this not
member
rof
our general surrender the Church of St. Domingo and
all of us that were therein. It 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 s motion on the
removal of the Hop duty. Nothing was
said of the re-
moval of the duty
on
foreign Hops; though this was
stated to he 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 you deal' in foreign hops and
everything else that can be brought cheaper from abroad,
von would have considerable Ws • to make to this.
are
But I am afraid friends objections
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,
A.N OLD REFORMER.
Blackheath, March 24, 18 52.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.
Lord Naas was returned on Monday
COLERAINE.
without oppos
Lion, as Mr. Wilson Kennedy did not dernsuid a poll.

CHURCH STRETTON, TUESDAY.--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, Hobert Burton,
Esq.
Sir BALDWIN LEIGHTON, BART., proposed the Right
Hon. Viscount Newport.
JOHN Itt,CK. Eiq., seconded the nomination.
No ottp.r candidate having appeared,
The HIGH SHERIFF dech,red that the Right Hon.
Orlando George Charles Bridgman,
Viscount Newport, had been duly elected.—(Cheers.)'
Viscount NEWPORT then addressed the electors, and
the proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the
High Sheriff. commonly called

DEARTH ON TFIE 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-
derlausitz, &o. In Posen there are regular bands of
robbers, driven on by hunger, so that cavalry are obliged
to patrol the roads to prot, ot 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 Dantztc 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; itissaid 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.

[ADVERTISEMENT.] —Declaration of aDutch soldier
who fought at Waterloo, cured by Holloway's
Ointment have cured me of several ulcerous sores,Ointmentway ePills
which and
hana
dd
yins Pgrilalstitauadde
Pills "4, J. de Swart, publicly state that Iloilo
their origin in imperfectly healed wounds received in the battle
of Waterloo. The pain was infinite, and
now for two years been enjoying the best ofinheoanwliss; evi dnhe
to my bed always during the harvest
Ointment, which ccounresedgmueenicne
aovf
eirlysinsghortotlilmowe a;
pub-
lish this testimony. ( Signed) J. de Swart,
of Lent, on the
Vossepels, near NymeAen, Holland, Oct. 4th, 1849." Sold
by all Druggists, and, at Professor Holloway's Establishment,
444, Strand, London.
" CURSING" A MAGSTEATE 1111 r 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 had given him some presumed offence. When the
individual alluded to was giving up his ticket to the station-
master, the reverend gentleman thus addressed him—" I
inflict a curse upon this man. I curse you ; I curse your
wife ; I curse your children ; I curse all you have—may
your children be fatherless and vagabonds, and beg their
bread," &e.,,&c. ;and thus he went on until the "cursed man"
drove ofi. We underF.trand that the matter has been laid
before the bishop; and that the reverend gentleman, in
default of, finding sureties to keep the peace,
was committed
on Saturday night to the Castle, by Edward Howe, Esq.—
Norwich Mercury. for
which
scolllnelfihyna.