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London, England, 1839-08-17 00:00:00

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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
MAJORITY OF THIRTY-NINE
Who Voted in Favour of the Second Reading of the Slave-
Trade Suppression Bill
vISCOUNTS.

DUTCEE.
Richmond
Argyll

LORD!,

'Amore:
Duncan non
Falkland
BISHOPS.

Dinorben
Li I ford

MARQUISES.
Lansdowne
Normanbv
Westminster
EARLS

Gardner
Montfort
Cottenharn
Langdale
Sudely

London
Peterborough
LORDS.
Holland
Denman
Brougham and Vaux
Seaford
Foley

Minto
Ilehester
Leitrim
Gosford
Uxbridge
Gallo. ay
iit:cotTsTs.
Melbourne

Methilen
Colville

Cal t h orpe

Bexley

Sondes

De Prey ne
Stanley
Barham

Gage
Rayleigh

PAIRS.

FOR.
Heatifort
Carlisle
Stafford
Hill

A (3 A INST.
( ow ley
llertford
Prudhoe
Strathallan

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(From the Poles and Proceedings of Ilse House of Commons.)
BANK OF IRELAND BILL.
Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Order of the
Day for the Committee on the Bank of Ireland Bill be now
read ;"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the words
" Committee on the Bank of Ireland," in order to insert the
words " Second Reading of the Poddle River (Dublin),"
instead thereof :—Question put, " That the words proposed
to be left out stand part of the Question :" The House di-
vided :

MAJORITY—AYES, 55.
Jermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk
Kemble, H.—West surrey
Lincoln, Earl of—South Notts
Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshire
Lashington, Rt. Hen. S—Tower
Hamlets
Mildmay, P. St. John —Winches-
ter
Polt ill, Frederick—Bedford
Price, Sir R.—Herefordshire
Pryme, George—Cambridge
Reid, Sir J. Rae—Dover
Rice, T S.—Cambridge
Rich, H. Knaresborough
itolfe, sir R. M.—Penryn
Shaw, Rt. Hon. F.—Dublin Univ.
Somerset, Lord G.—Monmatithsh.
Stanley, E. John—North Cheshire
Steuart, Robert—Haddington,
Stewart, Janes—Honiton
Surrey, Earl of—West Sussex
Thomson, Rt. Hon. C. P. —Man-
chester
Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland
Townky, R. B —Cambridgeshire
Troubridge, Sir E. T.—Sandwich
Vere, Sir C. I.l.—East Suffolk
Wood, Charles—Halifax
TELLERS.
O'Ferrall, Richard M.—Kildare
Parker, It. T.—Preston

.'Court, Captain—Tamworth
Baring, F. T.
Bernal, Ralph—Rochester
Boldero, Hem y G.—Chippenham
Broadley, ll.—Vorkshire
Broatlwood, Henry—Bridgewater
livotherton, J.—Si!ford
Brownrigg, J. S.—Boston
Calcraft, John Hales—Wareham
Clay, W.—Tower Hamlets
Cochrane, Sir T. J.—lpswich
Cooper, E J.- Sligo Co.
Cowper, Hon. W. F.—Hertford
Currie, Raikes—Northampton
Darby, George—East Sussex
Dick, Quintin—Maldon
Douglas, Sir C. E.—Warwick
Forester, Hon. G.—Wenlock
Fremantle, Slr Thomas—Bucks
Freihtield, James Wm.—Penryn
Gordon, Robert—Windsor
Grey, Sir George—Devonport
Grimsditch, T.—Macclesfield
Hawes, Benjamin—Lambeth
Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham
Hinde, J. Hodgson—Newcastle.
upon-Tyne
Holmes, W.—Berwick-on'Fweed
Hoskins, K.—Herefdrilshire
Howick,Visc.—Northumberland
Irving, John—Antrim Co.

"MINORITY

—NOES, 17.
Oswald, James— Glasgow
Redington, T. N.—Dundalk
Salwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow
Simerville, Sir Wm.—Drogheda
Vigors, N. A.—Carlow Co.
Wakley, Thomas—Finsbury
Yates, J. Ashton :Carlow

Attwood, Thomas_
Itrawne, It. D.—Mayo
Bryan, Maj. Geo.—Kilkenny Co.
Easthope, J.—Leicester
Ellis, Jno.—Newry
Ewart, William—Wigan
Finch, Y.—Walsall
Gistinme, Thomas—Carlow
Hindley, Charles
O'Connall, John—Athlone

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TELLERS.
O'Connell, Daniel- Dublin
Flume, Joseph—Kilkenny

COURT CIRCULAR.

Her Majesty rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon,
:Mended by the Hon. MN. Brand, Baroness Lehzen,
Miss Quentin, Marquis of Headfort, Colonel Buckley,
Lord Gardner, Sir William Lumley, and Mr. Rich.
Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the
Qucen.
The Royal dinner party at the Palace last evening
included the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke of Argyll,
the Earl of Surrey, Viscountess Falkland, Lord and Lady
'Methuen, Lord Gardner, Lord Lilf:,rd, Hon. Captain
Edward •Howard, Colonel Armstrong, and Mr. Rich.
The Band of the First Life Guards attended at the Palace
during the evening.
The Duchess of Kent rode out on horseback yesterday
morning, attended by Lady Charlotte Dundas, and Colo-
nel. Buckley.
M. Dedel, the Netherlands Minister, paid his respects to
her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Wednesday last at
Bushy lark, and had the honour of dining with her Majesty.
Lord Hill and Mr. Scholefield, M. P., had interviews
vvitif Viscount Melbourne yesterday in Downing-street.
The Commander of the Forces had an interview with
the of Normanby yesterday at the Colonial Office.
Despat,:hes from Colonel Reid, Governor of Bermuda,
were receiv!cl yesterday at the Colonial Office.

Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P., has arrived at
Longshaw Lodge, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland for
a few days, for grouse shooting. Lady Peel, with the
whole of the tamily, are staying at Drayton Manor,
Staffordshire.

HARVEST.—We learn that the wheat harvest
has now become almost general throughout England, and
seconding to account the crop is not bad. In Ireland they
have not yet began to cut down, and we fear the wet wea-
ther whit t, has again visited the Sister Isle will do much
s
mischief. The Dublin Evening Mail of Wednesday last
says :—" We regret to state that a very unfavourable
change has takt'a place within the last four-and-twenty
hours. In the aftlsnoon of yesterday the rain commenced
falling in torrents, continued without intermission the
whole of the night, and' bad not ceased, except for trifling
intervals, down to the hots! when we were going to press.
There is every reason to be;',;eve that this rain is partial ;
as we have ascertained from so.stle persons who travelled
towards the metropolis last night that there was no ap-
pearance of rain within twenty miles Of Dublin. In fact,
we have made so many apologies for the weather, that,
quite run dry, we must now let it speak for itself ; and if
its English bear any resemblance to its own state, it must
be very broken indeed."
THE POPE AND TILE TORIES.—It iS confi-
L'ently stated that some knowing ones among the Tories
have found means to put a finger in the Pope's eye, and
pers,lade him that he ought to join them and Dr. Al' Hale
in a ,crusade against the national system of education.
They have Holiness that there is a
represented to his
tendeucy bet thatee Church and the Church of England
to coalesce, an
the National Board is the only or
chief stumbling-b:nck to their immediate junction. The
Pusey monks and their scholastic publications are appealed
to in confirmation of :his illusion, which, though mani-
festly preposterous to every' one in Ireland, is sufficiently
plausible at a distance to bace imposed upon the Great
Infallible himself. A rescript from the College of Propa-
t gentle may, therefore, be daily expected, condemnatory of
the system of instruction now sanctioned in Ireland, and
giving over the rising generation to total ignorance, or to
such sugar-plums as the bland doctors of Toryism love to
distribute. Some very high Protestant names are asso-
ciated in this truly Jesuitical plot, which is the more easily
practicable, seeing that the Court of Rome is left to derive
all its knowledge of what passes in the Unitcd Kingdom
from casual visitors and sojourners, who are, for the most
part, of the Tory party. Why is there not an English
Minister at Rome to defeat the machinations of such in-
triguers ? 'The absurdity of keeping up the old show of
non-intercourse is too glaring. As the principle in sup-
port of which it was adopted has been long since abandoned,
the practice is unjustifiable by any intelligible rules of
policy, whilst, in its effects, it is most inconvenient.—
Gerrespondent of the Chronicle.
The Brighton Gazette affects to think that Mr,
Wakley furnished " a rich specimen of nonsense," when
on Friday last in the House of Commons he said the work.
ing closes of the community were too dissatisfied with the
injurious effects of the Corn laws, and tho bad system of
legislation hitherto acted upon, to feel any desire to in-
dulge in epistolary correspondence. Is then, the simple
statement of a plain matter of fact nothing but a rich spe-
cimen of nonsense ? We put it to our witty well-condi-
tioned Contemporasy whether, if it were his ill fortune to
belong to the suffering class, and were, like many of them,
wanting bread, he would have any great appetite for pens,
ink, paper, and postage. We apprehend he would prefer
appropriating his copper capital to the purchase of a loaf,
and would no doubt at the same time see that but for the
Corn-laws the loaf would not only have been larger, but
that his means of buying it would also have been better.
On Sunday last some excitement was occasioned
in this town by an order for the marching of the Devises
troop of Yeomanry Cavalry to Trowbridge, to assist the
civil power in the preservation of the peace. At about
five they departed under the command of their captain, and
returned on the Monday afternoon. They were draun out
on Trowle Common at three on Monday morning, but the
Chartists did not muster ; a few boys were amusing them-
selves with trap-ball, and the services of the military were
not required. On Sunday afternoon a lad named Carrier
was brought up under the escort of four hussars, and com-
mitted to the New Prison, on a charge of posting an in-
flammatory hand-bill. On Monday last four other pri-
soners were brought up, charged with an attempt at rescue.
—Davi:es Paper.
PERVERSION AND ERROR.—HOW many ab-
surd systems of cosmogony have been spun out of the
sublime simplicity of the Mosaic narrative of the creation !
how many harsh doctrines and wild hypotheses have been
found in the story of the apple and the serpent I Even in
\ writings has put fetterseo
the free development of
reord to the difference misapplicationh of the Hebrew
thnet e human mind, and impeded
precede
civilization, the intolerance of
suppu--
sed to furnish a
Chris-
tians.—Herder.
The splendour and
tournament have attracted great numbers
from all parts of Europe,
ofnnoavteioitnyalosfpirit.
approaching Without any
times, and of the state of
thent
for Jewishth e conduct religion
of has been
Several the
of
from London intend journeying by land to be present
occasion; the majority, however, prefer steaern
commodious and pleasant mode of travelling, and
the Nobility and
f the fashionables
on the
the most
taketh
ylaeauftfhel
ad-
vantage of the elegance and comforts afforded b
'menus Scotch Steam \ essels. The superiority ofe nu-
merous
Steam Ships, and the simple and
parties of
contrivance of embarking passengers, horses, carriages
&c., from Hose's Steam Wharf, without the risk of small
boats :'licit general admiration, and the large
Noblemen and Gentry who are continually going and
coming with them must be highly gratifying to the res.
pectable and spirited prcprieters. .
An old man, a cousin of his Ma the Kin
j est y g
of Sweden, was taken into custojs' on the 10th ult., for
cutting a little fire-wood in a forest ns'9.l' Beauvais. He
was so infirm, from his advanced age, as to resider it neces-
sary to be conveyed to prison in a cart. 1
MANSION HOUSE.—When the Lord Mayor
entered the justice room, yesterday, Mr. Nobler handed
him a chock which had been transmitted by the Commis-
sioners of Customs, for 101. the amount of the penalty in-
flicted upon Elizabeth Gaston, the searcher of the City of
Boulogne steam-yes sel,for having without reasonable cause
searched the two young ladies who appeared to complain
against her some days ago in the justice room. His Lord-
ship expressed his gratification at being saved the dis-
agreeable alternative of resorting to any apparently harsh
way of ecovering the penalty.

METROPOLITAN POLITICAL

SUMMARY.

The Courier of last evening, speaking of the discus-
sion on Thursday in the Lords, of the Slave Trade Suppres-
sion Bill, says:—" The Duke of Wellington opposed the
Bill on the grounds on which he resisted the former Bill—
the desire of placing the whole responsibility on the
Executive and not on Parliament. If the Duke's object is
that the quarrel now pending between England and Portugal
should end in a war his conduct is intelligible enough.
The hostile attitude of the House of Lords has already
weakened the British Government in its foreign rela•
tions, and had the Duke of Wellington succeeded in
making this Bill a fresh occasion for manifesting the want
of support which the Crown now receives from the here-
ditary branch of the Legislature, we may rest assured that
the Portuguese slave-trading interest—an interest very
nearly as powerful in Portugal as the Corn-law interest is
in England—would not have failed to speculate on the
further endurance of Great Britain, and a war must have
been the consequence. The Bill was ably supported by
Lord Brougham."
The Globe expresses its satisfaction at the Lords' decision
on the Slave Trade Suppression Bill, in the following
terms : —" We most sincerely rejoice at the decision of the
House of Lords last night upon the second reading of the
Portuguese Slave Trade bill, and trust that we may now
congratulate the country upon the certainty that this
Bill will become law. There will probably be some
alterations made in the Committee, in order to ob.
viate some objections which were stated in the dis-
cussion last night ; but as all parties appear to be
equally anxious to accomplish the object in view, it is to be
hoped that no alterations will be pressed which will in any
degree impair the efficiency of the Bill. The debate was
remarkable, and highly honourable to the House of Lords;
on all sides was expressed the utmost detestation of the
slave trade, and the highest indignation at the faithless
and profligate conduct of the Portuguese in still following
this criminal pursuit, in violation of all the engagements
made by them to give it up."
The Standard thus alludes to the Portuguese Slave
Trade Bill :—" The Portuguese Slave Suppression Bill,
authorising her Majesty to issue orders to her cruisers to
capture Portuguese vessels engaged in the slave trade, was
read a second time in the House of Lords last evening,
notwithstanding the opposition of the Duke of Wellington,
who seemed to think that Ministers had not gone the right
way to accomplish the object which persons of all parties have
in view. The evil as it at present exists is a crying one,
and goes far to neutralise the efforts that have been made
in most civilised countries to put an end to this disgusting
traffic. Without some stringent measure, which will give
security to commanders of her Majesty's ships to seize a
slaver, carrying what flag she may, no definitive determina-
tion of this horrid trade can be ensured. In a late debate,
one of many cases in which her Majesty's officers had been
subjected to enormous loss in consequence of proceedings
being taken against them by owners of slave-ships, or ships
presumed to be such, was instanced."
The Times of this morning, in the course of a leading
article, on the trite, well-worn subject of the Lords' Irish
Committee of Enquire, trumps up an old story against Mr.
O'Connell, to the effect that at a public dinner given to
him, as far back as the commencement of the year 1837,
he recommended the people to " shed b100d.," as the only
chance they had left of regaining their rights. This story,
the truth of which was denied by Mr. O'Connell himself,
upwards of two years ago, is revived for the purpose of
showing how lenient the Irish Government was to its own
partizans, while to its Orange opponents it dealt out the
sternest measure of severity. This is but a clumsy mode of
attacking Lord Normanby's administration, for the strong
party motives that dictated the attack are so glaring that
they can deceive no one.
The Morning Chronicle, calculating the chances that
the Tories have of regaining office, comes to this just con.
elusion :—" By analyzing the state of parties in Great
Britain ; by estimating the probable effects of the first
overt act of Toryism in a Tory Government, and the popu-
lar union and excitement that would ensue; we think we
could show more difficulties, in long perspective, that must
be fatal to the continuance of such a Government, even
though its establishment were accomplished. While her
ingenuous nature continues incorrupt, darkness shall do
the work of light, and a lie be the herald of truth, before
Sir Robert Peel becomes the Minister of Queen Victoria."
Our Contemporary adds—" It remains to be seen whether
Ministers will allow the Session to close, without holding
forth some definite prospect of future efforts on behalf of
those political and social Reforms which the state of the
country requires."
The Morning Herald observes, with reference to what
it calls the French aggressions on British trade :—" In
regard to the flagitious conduct of the French Govern-
ment towards the British traders in gum on the African
coast, does the Minister, who is, unfortunately, intrusted
with the conduct of our foreign policy, deny or dispute
the facts of that unpunished and unatoned-for aggression,
as stated by Lord Strangford ? Not in the least ; he ad-
mits the whole of the iniquitious violence charged on the
French Government. He declares that he has rernons
strated with that Government, and pressed upon its atten-
tion the claims of the injured British traders. His re-
monstrances must have been made in the gentlest, sweetest
tones that the juvenile god of soft desires could command."
The Morning Post thus alludes to the reprieve of the
Chartist rioters, who were capitally convicted at the War.
wick Assizes:—" We are not advocates for sanguinary
punishments in general, but we are very doubtful that the
reprieve of the criminals capitally convicted at Warwick
was a reasonable exercise of mercy. It is more than
questionable that the cause of humanity has been pro-
moted by this act of Ministerial policy. The character of
the inducement to this act of mercy may be judged of from
the class of persons to whose solicitations the lives of the
criminals were granted."
The lliorning Advertiser, alluding to some of the Tory
Lords' opposition to the Portuguese Slave Trade Bill, re-
marks as follows :—" They are panting for measures to
extinguish it, and they only lament, which, however, they
do most deeply, that two successive Bills, brought in to
destroy this nefarious practice have been forsooth, such as
they could not, in spite of their ardent zeal for the object
of them, conscientiously sanction. In short, as was shrewdly
observed by Lord Minto, all these noble persons are actu-
ated by precisely the same holy horror of the crime as the
Portuguese in their public papers, and their laws, as well
as their treaties; and their laudable loathing of iniquity
leads to a result precisely similar.