The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-22 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

(From the Potes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.)
POOR RATES COLLECTION BILL.
Clause to exempt parishes having local Acts, brought up, and
read ; Motion made, and Question put,-66 That the Clause be
now read a second time :"—The House divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 21.
Henniker, Lord Redington, T. N.
Holmes, W. saiwey, Colonel
Hume, Joseph Vere, Sir C B.
Humphery, J. Vigors, N. A,
Langdale, Hon. C. Williams, W.
Lincoln, Earl of TELLERS.
Lowther, J. H. Duncombe, T. S.
O'Connell, D. Pechell, Captain

Darby, George
Douglas, Sir C. E.
Ewart, NV.
Fielden, J.
Finch, Francis
Gaskell, J. M.
Grimsditch, T.
Hawes, B.

,JORITY-NOES,
Hoskins, K.
Howick, Lord
Hutton, It.
Irving, John
Kemble, Henry
Labouchere, H.
Lushington, Hon. S•
Macauley, 'l.'. B;
Nadi, ay, I'. St. John
Milton, Viscount
Morpeth, Viscount
Muskett, G. A.
Pigot, D. R.
Pryme, C.
Reid, Sir J. B•
Rice, T. S.

Baring, F. T.
Bernal, It.
Bridgernan, H.
Briscoe, J. I.
Broadley, Henry
Brotherton, J.
Bryan, George
Callaghan, Daniel
Divett, E.
Eliot, Lord
French, F.
Gordon, Robert
Grey, Sir G.
Harcourt, G. G.
Hawk es, 1
Hobbouse, T. B.

Rich, Henry
Rolfe, Sir R. M.
Russell, Loid John
Rutherford. A.
Sheil, R. L.
Somerville, Sir W.
Stanley, W. 0.
Steuart, R.
Stock, Dr.
Tho 'son, C. P.
Troubridge, Sir T.
Wood, C.
Yates, John A.

TELLERS,
Stanley, E. J.
Parker, John

THE CHARTISTS AND THE ARMY

•
A Correspondent of the Naval and Military Ga-
zette, whose panacea for all the political, economical;
and social ills that afflict the country is " more sol-
diers," supplies the subjoined somewhat curious and
very characteristic speculations :
" Could the disaffected be drawn together in one
mass (writes the Hotspur) the cannon would crush them
like wasps beneath a lion's paw : the sole question is,
how to get those wasps under the paws of that lion—
' Hie labor, hoc opus est.' A squadron of Life Guards
would scatter ten thousand Cossacks ; but the Cos-
sacks might wear it out by eternal fatigue and return-
ing on its flanks.
" Does any one in his senses suppose that, were re-
volt determined on, the people would begin by forming
across the streets, and exchanging shots with the regu-
lars ? The Radicals are not such fools. That might
(10 very well for an unorganized Irish mob ; but the
Quaker Lancaster and Maceroni have together taught
them a different way of going to work. The first signal
of mischief will probably prove an incendiary outbreak
at Wolverhampton, or some third-rate manufacturing
town. Part of the Birmingham troops promptly march
to the rescue. Immediately on their departure, Stour-
bridge, occupied by colliers, may hoist the tri-coloured
flag. For its reduction, another detachment marches, so
soon as four companies of the 29th can arrive from
Weedon to take their place. The detachment marched
upon Stourbridge requires one of the teo field-pieces at
Colonel Thorn's disposal, and by a few shots at the
corner houses, followed by a rush with fixed swords, or
what would be better, with rifles slung, sword in hand,
the insurgents will be reduced. Meanwhile the work
would " sae bonnily on.' The oil-shops, cs.c. in the
suburbs, first assailed by small parties, are set on fire.
Suppose the flames appear in a dozen places at the
same time Each must be attended to ; yet not more
than 12 dragoons, or 20 bayonets, can be spared for
each. When thus divided into small parties, the out-
break in the town itself begins. Stopped in every direc-
tion by overturned carriages, carts, and caltrops, the
communications of the soldiery are interrupted ; stray
shots from windows or corners of streets ' strike
their columns, and in the darkness they hesi-
tate to assault houses, the holders of which stand
ready with halberds reaching over the infan-
try fusil. Under the most favourable circumstances,
a night attack requires great skill in the leader, and
much confidence in the troops. The only chance of
success lies in reliance solely on steel ; but no officer
can forbid loading, if opposed to weapons which his
bayoneteers have not been taught to overreach. Missiles
from the houses, grenades, glass bottles, brickbats, would
knock some over, and not improbably detached sec-
tions, finding their retreat cut off, might capitulate with
the mob, whilst three or four hundred men, still effec-
tive, rallying on their barracks, or, which would be
better, seizing on the railway depot, can act only on
the defensive till relieved by reinforcements from Lon-
don, that the Government could hardly spare.
" The arrival of those reinforcements would termi-
nate revolt undoubtedly ; but what would be the result
of one week's paralysis of our internal communi-
cations ? A run upon the Bank is the least thing
to fear. How many of the London traders could stand
a panic now ? Is one in five hundred of those purse-
proud brawlers prepared promptly to wind up
his accounts? I know not, but rumours are rife that
there is something rotten in every department of affairs.
The aristocracy would be assailed not less than their in-
feriors. Pressed upon by their mercantile customers,
the bankers could make no advances to their noble pa-
trons. The terror, the distress, the destruction thus

caused, would go far to bring about a rising in the me-
tropolis as well. A hundred thousand destitute work-
men might, in three hours, destroy what we could hardly
restore in the next thirty years.
I do not, however, expect that the revolutionists will

speedily so commit themselves. The time is not vet
come. Were Birmingham or any other town to pro.
claim a republic, let me ask whence the troops for its
reduction could "t present be spared. The 45th and
Life Guards from Windsor, the 11th Light Dragoons
from Brighton, the Cavalry regiment at Ipswich, with
such of Brotherton's bull-dogs at Maidstone as have
been tolerably broken in, form our whole disposable
force. Dismounted Cavalry, armed with the new
percussion carbine, and drilled by Pasley in esca-
lading are doubtless, as stormers, worth twice their
number of knapsacked Foot, untaught to close if their
adversaries stand firm. Unluckily our horsemen on
home service are neither so armed nor so drilled.
To the 2,500 soldiers thus disposable, might be added
half as many police, each equal, either individually or
in mass, to a Chartist pike-man ; and perhaps six field-
pieces
might also be spared from head-quarters at
Woolwich ; but if those six field-pieces practise no bet-
ter than I observed them not long since at Woolwich,
they might almost as well remain at home. To assem-
ble even this force, Brighton, Maidstone, Canterbury,
and Norwich, all towns abounding with revolutionists,
must be left to proclaim the Charter, if they will. Un-
doubtedly the efforts of the seditious would soon be
repressed ; but what if, scattering through the country
in small bands, they commenced a skilfully arranged
system of Chouannerie ? One third at least of England
affords facilities for that confounded system, of annoy-
ance, at least equal to Brittany or La Vendee."

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A Correspondent writes, that Mr. Eley, he in-
ventor of the patent wire cartridge, has recently brought
to perfection a waterproof detonating cap, which must prove
of great service to sportsmen, as the ordinary percussion
cap is liable to become totally useless when exposed to the
slightest damp. The new cap may be rolled in wet flannel
for any
AWFUL DEATH.--A coroners inquest was held
on Tuesday, at the Coach and Horses, Strand, before Mr.
length of time without suffering the slightest injury.
Higgs, on the body of Mrs. Mary Ann Bedford, aged 42
years. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased,
who was enciente, and within a few days of her confine-
ment, retired to rest about ten o'clock on Sunday night,
immediately after having eaten a very hearty supper. On
awaking at three o'clock the next morning she complained
of a great difficulty of breathing, and appeared to be dying
from suffocation. Mr. Walker, of Drury lane, surgeon,
was sent for, and his assistant, having promptly attended,
said that nothing could be done for the deceased, as both
herself and the child were quite dead. Verdict—" Died
of suffocation."
The official Gazette of Ilunich announces that
whilst Russia is enforcing quite a commercial blockade
against Prussia, the Czar proposos to opon all pn,3l-Jio
canals with Austiid.
communication by road, rail-ruad, and