The Sun.
London, England, 1839-03-16 00:00:00

The House divided, when the numbers were—
For the Adjournment 6l
Against it ....
Majority
On our re-admission to the Gallery we found
Lord J. RUSSELL on his legs. The Noble Lord said that he
certainly should wish the House to come to a decision upon the
question that night.—(Loud evies of " Go on.")
Mr. T. ATTWOOD having been particularly charged by the
Honourable Member for Kilkenny, with being an advocate for a
breach of the public faith, had no hesitation in charging him with
being an advocate of public plunder.—(Roars of laughter and
cheering.)
Mr. HARVEY could not permit it to be understood that
he interposed his individual wishes against the obvious sense
of the House.—(Loud cheers.) So far as he was personally
concerned, he had no desire to prosecute the division further, but
would rather be pleased to see it withdrawn; and he was the more
ready to do so, because there was a motion of his Hon. Friend the
Member for Finsbury, which stood upon the books for Thursday
next, materially bearing upon the present question, when those who
were desirous to deliver their opinions might have an opportunity
of doing so. At the same time, if the Hon. Member for Wigan
thought fit to persevere, he (Mr. Harvey) should vote in favour of
this motion, and he would do so because he was more anxious to
hear others than to speak himself. But he was a little surprised
when he called to mind the length of time they had been debating
the question, to find that not more than fifteen Members had
spoken at an average of an hour and a half to two hours each.—
(Laughter.) When he called to mind the painful infliction some of
Vaese:speeches imposed on him—(Laughter and cheers)—he was not a
little surprised to find the extreme advocates of free trade and free
opinion, among the monopolists who wished to keep all the speaking
to themselves.—(Rears of laughter, and cries of " Go on," " Ad-
journ, adjourn.")
Mr. EWA RT rose and was received with loud cries of " Go on."
He said that he was convinced, that even were he to go on then, in
the first place, he would net obtain a proper hearing. He thought,
therefore, the wisest course was to submit, and in conformity with
these views he felt it necessary to move an adjournment of the de-
bate till Tuesday.
Strangers were then again ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, when there appeared—
For the adjournment
Against it
Majority against the adjournment 320
On our entering the gallery we found
Mr. FIELDEN on his legs, stating that as neither Monday nor
Tuesday seemed to be approved of for the adjournment of the
Debate, he would move that it should be adjourned to Wednesday,
Lord J. RUSSELL had no objection to the adjournment to any
other day than Monday.
An Hos. Minter= objected to the adjournment of the debate;
he should therefore move that the House should not adjourn—
(Laughter)—and take the sense of the House upon it.—(lncreased
laughter).
An lIoN. MEMBER moved that the debate be adjourned for

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six months.
(The scene now became absolutely indescribable. The body of
the House prrserited a crowd of Members standing—several some-
times spe&king at once—the calls to " Order" of the Speaker un-
heard,* amidst the loud and reiterated cries of " Monday," " Wed-
nesday six months!"—" Divide," " Chair,"" Question.")
After something like order had been restored, a conversation took
place, which ended in the debate being adjourned till Monday, on
the understanding that the Army Estimates should be first taken
merely as a matter of form.
The House adjourned at Three o'clock.
Previous to the adjournment a call of the House was orde red for
Monday.