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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION Si

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(From the Poles and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, JULY 29, 1839.
POOR LA TV COIIIIIDSSION CONTINUANCE
BILL.
Motion made, and Question proposed—. That Mr. Speaker
do now leave the Chair :"—Amendment proposed, to leave
out from the word " That to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this House will, upon this day three months,
resolve itself into the said Committee," instead thereof :
Question put—." That the words proposed to be left out stand
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Pcel, Sir ft. 4.dam, Admiral Sir C. Grey, Sir G. Pendarves, E. W.
Aglionby, H. A. Grote, G. Perceval Colon I
Ainsworth, Peter Raiford, H. I Pigot, D. R.
Barnard, E. G. Harcourt, G. G. Redinyton, T. N.
Barrington, Viscount Hardingc, Sir H. Rice, T. S.
Berkeley, F. H. Elastic, A. Round, J.
Berkeley, Hun. C. Hawes, B. Russell, Lord John
Bernal, 11. Hobhouse, Sir J. C. Rutherford. A.
Blackburn, John I. Hodges, T. L. • Seymour, Lord
Blair, J. •Holmes, W. Sheil, R. L.
Bowes,lT.. Hope, Hon. C. Sheppard, T.
Bramston, T. W. Hoskins, K. Smith, G. R.
Briscoe, J. Houstoun, G. Smith, R. Vernon
Broadley, H. Howard, P. H. Somerset, Lord C.
Broadwood, H. Howard, Sir R. Somerville, Sir W.
Bryan, George Howick, Lord Stanley, W. 0,
Burroughes, N. N. Hume, Joseph Steuart, R.
Chetwynd, Major Hutt, W. Stock, Dr.
Clay, W.
Hutton, Robert Surrey, Earl of
Clements, Lord Ingestrie, Lord Talbot, C. R. M.
Clerk, Sir G. Irton, S. Teignmouth, Lord
Cochrane, Sir T. J. Labouchere, H. Thomson, C. P.
Cedrington, Sir E. Langdale, Hon. C. Thompson, W.
Craig, W. Gibson Loch, James Thornely, Thomas
Dalmeny, Lord Lowther, J. H. Townley, R. G.
Darby, George Lygon, Hon. Gen. Troubridge, Sir T.
Darlington, Earl of Mackinnon, W. A. Vere, Sir C. B.
De Horsey, S. H. Maul; Hon. Fax Vigors, N.
Donkin, Sir R. Mildmay, P. St. John Waddington, H. S.
Eliot, Hon. J. E. Morpeth, Viscount R Ellis, J. Morris, David
Warb Wallace,urton, H.
Euston, Earl of Murray, A. Wilbraham, G.
Ewart, W. Muskett, G. A. Wood, C.
Farnham, E. B. Neeld, John Wood, Siatthew
Ferguson, Sir R. A. t Norreys, Sir J. D. Wood, G. =W
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kllmer, Sir E. i O'Brisp, W. S. Wood, Thomas
Fitzroy, Lord C. I O'Connell; J. ' Worsley, -Lord
Fremantle, Sir T. O'Connell, M. J. Wyse, Thomas
Freshfield, J. W, Pakington, J. S. Yates, John A.
Gaskell, J. M. Palmerstone, Visct,
Gordon, R. Parker, John
Gordon, Hon. W. Pechell, Captain
Graham, Sir J.

TELLERS,
Baring, F. T.
Stanle9, E. J.

MINO R IT Y—NOE S,
Hinde, J. H.
Hindley, Charles
Hodgson, Richard
James, Sir Walter
Kemble Henry
Leader, J. 'l'.
Lowther, Colonel
Miathew, G. B.
O'Connell, D.
Palmer, G.

Alsager, Richard
Bridgman, Hewitt
Brotherton, J.
Collins, William
Douglas, Sir C. B.
Dru.
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Thomas'
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Easthope, John
Fielden, J.
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Hall, B.

Parker, R. T.
Perceval, Hon. G. J.
Sanderson,-R.
Turner, William
Wakley, Thomas
Williams, W.

TELLERS.
Johnson, General
Attwood. T.

THE CHARTISTS.

The following notices of the Chartists' proceedings are
taken indifferently from the Liberal and Illiberal portion
of the provincial press :
Newcasme.--The Chartists •in our neighbourhood are
perfectly quiet. On accurate inquiry we find there are
two at Whitley colliery. The numbers of them, in fact
we find, when strictly inquired into, become everywhere
" small by degrees, and beautifully less."—Tyne Pilot.
SUNDERLAND. —The Magistrates of Newcastle and Sun-
derland have prohibited further public meetings of the
Chartists ; and in these towns, as also in Durham and our
own borough, great numbers of special constables have
been sworn in.—Gateshead Observer.
The vigilance [of the borough Magistrates and other
authorities continues to be unabated ; and, up to this time,
the peace of the borough bas not been further disturbed.
Indeed, such is the present state of the civil force, that if
all the coldiers in our garrison were required elsewhere, as,
from what we hear they possibly may be, the local con-
stabulary would be perfectly competent to put down any
outrage on the part of the turbulent in Sunderland.—Sun-
derland Herald.
CARDIFF.—We hear that a Chartist meeting was re-
cently held at Cardiff, when Mr. Frost, of Newport, re-
galed about some sixty or a hundred of the navigators, who
earn an honest subsistence by daily labour in excavating
the mud at the Bute Docks, with a long dissertation upon
Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and paying Mem-
bers, &c. It is truly lamentable, that these poor indus-
trious and contented people shonld be made unhappy by
the idle preachments of any spouting demagogue who may
attempt to instil into their minds the poison of discord and
discontent, which cannot in any point of view but be more
injurious to themselves than to the other grades of society.
The classes who attended this " Sir Oracle" were, we are
informed, from the want of education, clearly unable to
estimate the relative merits or demerits of the important
questions mooted by Mr. Frost, of which be could not but
be well aware • it was therefore manifest,'tbat he could not
have expected to have enlisted any but the blind passions
and prejudices, and the physical powers of these deluded
men, as the desired consequence. We shall be sorry
again to hear of a similar exhibition at Cardiff, and now
recommend the working classes of that place in future to
seek repose at their own homes, for the few leisure hours
at their command after the performance of their daily la-
blurs, and to cease attending at a certain public-house, for
the purpose of hearing the incendiary orations of those dis-
tinguished spouters, who have recently set themselves up
as leaders, in attempting to explain matters wholly beyond
their ken.—Cambrian.
KENDAL.--Our police report contains a notice of the re-
presentation made by our contemporary of the Gazette to
the Mayor of the announced purpose of the Chartists to
burn him in effigy on Tuesday last. We have now to re-
cord that the intention, if ever seriously indulged, which
we do not believe, was not carried into effect. It was
nothing but a hoax upon him, we are confident, and the
wag has gained his object in the fright which he has given
the loyal editor, and the laugh excited against him. No-
thing of public demonstration has taken place, except a
congregation of members of the Working Men's Associa-
tion on the race course last Sunday afternoon, when one of
Stephens' sermons was read to them. "An anonymous
correspondent," the same perhaps who favoured our con-
temporary with his friendly warning, informs us that a si-
milar meeting will be held on Sunday neat, and invites us
to attend. Sundry rumours are abroad of a large importa-
tion of pikes, but they are probably as true as that the
Chartists intended to burn the effigy of the editor of the
Gazette. In all other respects, the utmost quiet prevails,
and so far as outward appearances go, we should not imagine
a single Chartist existed in the town.—Kendal Mercury.
WORCESTER.—In Dudley this disorderly sect have been
rearing their heads in rather an alarming manner, but the
Magistrates, with praise-worthy promptitude, have deter-
mined that the law shall reign. A man named William
Smith Lindon, residing in Price-street, Dudley, was com-
mitted on Thursday week to our county gaol, on a charge
of seditious language uttered at a Chartist meeting held on
the 16th (the day after the Birmingham riots) in that
town ; and on Saturday, Samuel Cook, draper, Dudley,
was held to bail to appear at the next Assizes, and answer
for a similar offence, himself in 3001. and two sureties in
1501. each. The Lord Lieutenant of the county, Lord
Foley, with becoming alacrity, was on the spot, and assisted
in the examination of the prisoners; and this wholesome
nipping of " treason in the bud," appears to have had the
best effect in averting further foolish and wicked displays.
In apprehension of disturbances at Stourbridge, the Lye
Waste, and other manufacturing districts, and to be ready
to aid in repelling disorder in Birmingham, portions of the
Worcestershire Yeomanry have been quartered at Moor
Green and Hagley during the week. The Worcester and
Upton troops marched early on Monday morning to re-
lieve the Westwood and Hanbury troops. Fifty of the
troops remain at Moor Green, composed of such members
as can most conveniently be spared from their own avoca-
tions; and we learn from a correspondent, a member of
the Worcester troop, the following particulars :
" Twenty-four of us are billeted at Lord Lyttelton's,
and the remainder at the gentry and farmers' houses. On
Monday, we were under arms until 11 o'clock at night, an-
ticipating a riot near Stourbridge, bnt all was quiet. A
letter has been received from Lord John Russell, in an-
swer to a request for regular troops, stating that troops
could not be spared, and that the Yeomanry must perform
the duties required. Part of the Worcestershire regiment
are at Captain Taylor's, Moor Green, and it is uncertain
whether we shall not be ordered to relieve them. It is
admitted that but for a force being here a break-out would
take place. I enclose you an instrument which I got from
a sergeant in the Stourbridge troop, and he states immense
numbers are being made, and that parties are on the look-
out to discover the makers. You will perceive it is to
throw before cavalry, when they advance. Throw it down
any way and it prevents a formidable obstacle, as should a
horse step on it the horse and rider would be down, and
lameness for life ensue to the horse."
The instrument consists of four sharp conjoined pikes,
about an inch and half long, sticking out from a common
centre at right angles, and is the same which was em-
ployed so effectively by King Robert Bruce, at the battle
of Bannockburn, against the English cavalry. Our cor-
respondent adds, that " A Chartist meeting is announced
for this (Friday) evening, at Stourbridge."
It would appear, from the foregoing, that the duties of
the Yeomanry may be somewhat heavy should it unhappily
turn out that the promptness with which the first symptoms
of disorder have been met should be ineffectual in pre.
venting the Chartists from endangering public tranquillity
by their insane meetings. In the present case we think it
due to the Queen's Own to say, that officers and men alike
deserve great praise for the alacrity with which they obeyed
the summons, and the soldier-like manner in which they
turned out at the call of the civil authorities to prevent
outrage and disorder.— Worcester Herald.

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.—CURIOUS ILLUS-
TRATIoN.—At a meeting which took place the other even-
ing for the purpose of forming a North London Mechanics'
Institution, Mr. Basil Montagu, as an illustration of the
maxim that knowledge is power, related the following
anecdote. He was walking a few months ago in Portland
Place, when he observed a large crowd of
people assem-
bled, and found that it was in consequence of a large mas-
tiff dog having a lesser one in his gripe. Several persons
tried, by splitting the mastiff's ear, and by biting and
pinching its tail, to make it let go its hold, but in vain. At
last a delicate and dandified young gentleman came up, and
making his way through the crowd into the circle, requested
to be allowed to separate the dogs ; assent was given amid
jeers and laughter, when the dandy slowly drew from his
pocket a large snuff-box, and having taken a pinch himself,
inserted his fingers again into the box, and withdrawing a
larger pinch deliberately applied it to the mastiff's nose.
The snuff operated so powerfully on the animal's olfactory
nerves, that it not only immediately let go its hold, but
made its escape as fast as it could. The dandy was loudly
cheered, upon which he stopped for a moment, and said,
" Gentlemen, I have merely given you a proof that Know.
ledge is Power.'"

(extensive preparations having been made to render the
ancient ceremony of viewing the western boundary of the
City's jurisdiction over the Thames as imposing as possible,
the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress sent invitations to
the principal inhabitants in the vicinity of the river as far as
Henley to a succession of festivities in commemoration of the custom. The last occasion on which the Chief Ma-
gistrate performed the duty was in the Mayoralty of Al-
derman Venables, and that gentleman's predecessor in ob-
serving the form was Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, with
an interval of fourteen years between each occurrence, the
period at which rumour says it is necessary to assert the
jurisdiction of the "famous city" of London.
The early part of the week was oceupied in visiting
Henley, Clifden Springs, &c., and on Thursday his Lord-
ship and party arrived at Windsor.
On Friday morning, her Majesty having commanded
that all the apartments of the Castle should be thrown opeu
to the Lord Mayor, his Lordship, accompanied by his
guests, proceeded in carriages to view the beauties of that
magnificent abode. Even the private rooms, to which no
visitors of what rank soever have had admission, except the
members of the Royal Family, were upon this occasion
made public, and for the space of an hour and a half the
party were engaged in passing through the rooms and ad-
miring the taste with which the gorgeous furniture and
decorations were arranged in every part of the palace, and
the extensive views in which art might be said so vie with
nature in producing effect. Upon their return to the White
Hart the party sat down to dinner, when the Lord Mayor
proposed the health of the Queen.
The whole company immediately rose and drank the
toast amidst shouts of applause, in which the people out-
side joined.
His Lordship, after the health of the Queen Dowager
was drunk, retired, and
Sir C. S. HUNTER occupied the chair for the rest of the
evening. The Hon. Baronet proposed " The healths of
Mr. Ramsbottom and Mr. Gordon, the Members for the
ancient borough of Windsor."
Mr. RAMSBOTTONI returned thanks for his colleague and
himself, as well as for their constituents in general, for the
very flattering visit which the Lord Mayor and Aldermen
of London had paid to their town.
The party soon afterwards prepared for the ball, which
took place at the Town Hall. There were about 400 per-
sons present at the ball, which was kept up until two
o'clock in the morning.
At nine o'clock on Saturday morning a gun was fired to
give notice that the time had arrived for the departure of
the Lord Mayor from Windsor, and half an hour afterwards
a salute announced that the party were all on board and
under weigh. Upon their arrival at Magna Charta Island
they were saluted with guns, and received by Mr. Harcourt,
M. P. for the county of Buckingham. Here the scene
was animated. From the door of the cottage to the water's
On the 11th instant, '.Zr. Hurry, of Bozeat, ga- edgewhich were covered with crimson car p
petting. the
On the last
kind, the heart of which measured . exactly three yards step stood Mr. and Mrs. Harcourt and their youthful son,
round, and served one cow and twelve pigs for food for two who held in his band a large bouquet of flowers. On each
days.—Northampton Herald.
side of the landing were placed 120 boy
s and irls of the
MR. LODGE'S PEERAGE.—As the Nobility are charity school, dressed in the costume of King John's time,
sending in their corrections to this valuable work, it may and holding baskets of flowers. The banks of the river
not be amiss to extract the followingfrom among the tes-
were crowded with people,
and in the front of the cottage
timonies borne to its accuracy, ns it contains a hint which
stood the nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood, and
it will be desirable should be acted upon. " Lord the surrounding villages with their families. At a little
presents his compliments to Mr. Lodge, and begs to assure distance stood Mr. Harcourt's labourers, with agricul-
him he has looked over the enclosed paper with great care tural implements in their hands. The band of the 24 Life
and attention, and finds it perfectly correct. " Lord -- Guards, stationed on the grounds, joined the Lord Mayor's
hopes Mr. Lodge will permit him to add that he has never band in the National Anthem. momentdTheiith uu theuet
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yet found so few mistakes in any publication of the kind Mayoress landed she was presented
and the b
gold byq the son
as in his last edition, and if every Peer will carefully cor- elegant cornucopia of
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party ascended the steps and
of Mr. Harcourt, and
rest the paper Mr. Lodge sends him, a good and correct Peerage will at last be published."
their passed p
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DISTURBANCE IN THE ISLAND OF ITAR-
which the first thing that attracted their attention was the
nis.--A circumstance of a very rare occurrence in the re- stone on which King John signed Magna Charta. Mrs.
mote and peaceful islands of the Hebrides has just taken Harcourt provided each of the party with a book of the
place—popular commotion among the people ; and both views of the island, and begged that they would all enter
the civil and military powers have been called in to quell their names as visitors to the island. Ankcrwick House,
the disturbance. The Earl of Dunmore, the proprietor of the residence of Mr. Harcourt, was fitted up to receive
the Island of Harris, contemplating some extensive im- them in true baronial style, the walls being covered with
had given notice to a number of the cotters
provements in the culture and management of the land, emblems and ancient armour. The spacious hall was laid
, about fifty out as a banquetting room.
families, to remove from their huts and little patches
of Mr. Harcourt had provided, under a tent, refreshments
ground. The Earl, it is said, offered the people a sum for all the Lord Mayor's watermen, servants, officers, and
of ell, each, and made arrangements for their emigra- attendants. The state barge on its departure was saluted
tion. To these terms they consented, but when the with guns, which kept up a fire as long as the party were
parties went to complete the arrangement, the within sight of the host and hostess.
islanders refused to comply, and showed a spirit Upon their arrival at Staines, where the City boundary
of determined resistance. The officers employed to stone is placed, the barge was moored, and a procession
carry the ejectments into effect were deforced, and it was w found impossible to proceed without additional assistance, was formed.
On arriving at the boundary stone the procession was
arranged and landed, and was a most attractive spectacle.
It was feared also that violent measuresA pmpi.lgichattibnenrehsnovritleld
to and blood shed in the struggle.
g Mr. C. Lee Wilson mounted the stone and held the City
been made, a detachment of the 78th regiment was sent colours on the top of it, the band struck up the national
from Glasgow, in one of the steamers, to Oban, where they anthem, and the procession perambulated the stone three
arrived on Friday, and immediately re-embarked for Por- times. The sword-bearer then placed the sword
tree. At the latter place they were to meet a party from on the stone, and the Lord Mayor entered the circle,
this place. consisting of Mr. A. Fraser Tytler, sheriff of the
and taking off his hat was presented with a glass of wine,
county, Mr. A. Fraser, sheriff substitute of the Fort Wile
which he dran to e
Liam district ; Mr. Mackay, procurator fiscal, and Mr.
don, may God k, saying, " Prosperity
preserve the City.of Londthon City of Lou.."
John Macbean, an active criminal officer of Inverness. The The civic party then re-entered the barge under another
whole were then to sail for Harris in the Atalanta revenue salute, after the Lord Mayor had directed that the event
cutter, in which the sheriff and his friends proceeded on
Thursday last from this place to Portree. We can onl should be recorded un the stone, and they proceeded to
express our hope that the difference may be satisfactorily Hampton Court, where a deputation from the clergy and
and amicably adjusted. Nothing can be more miserable Y i
Lordsnhabitantship went on board and presented an address to his
than the condition of these poor islanders, living in the
most wretched huts, destitute of employment, and for ever
calve
Hampton the Maria Wood barge was ready to re-
on the brink of famine. Emigration to America or Aug.
the last of the large and hospitable entertainments given
tralia would be the greatest boon that could be conferred
by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress on this occasion.
upon them. This is a point on which all well-withers of
the Highlanders are agreed ; and we sincerely trust that The ceremonial of the view then concluded, and thepareft Maria Wood barge, entered their carriages,
drove arrangements may be made for this purpose of such a
and ty lthe
off to artown.
nature as to overcome, by moral force, the repugnance
The Lord Mayor and Lady
'Mayoress arrived at the
natural to our poor countrymen at quitting the land of Mansion-house at ten o'clock on Saturday night, after as
their fathers. The population of the island of Harris, ac- of six days on the business of the conservancy 0
cording to the census of 1831, is 3,900.
—lnverness Courier. the
River name,,.