The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-20 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—FEB. 19.
MARRIAGES AFFINITY BILL.
Order for second reading read. Motion made, and ques-
tion proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time."
Amendment proposed, "To leave out the word 'now,'
and at the end of the question to add the words upon this
day six months.' " Question put, " That the word
' now' stand part of the question." The house divided—
Ayes, 144; Noes, 133.

AVESI-144.
Adair, 11. E. Forster, Charles D. Morris, D.
Adeane, II .T. Forster, W. E. Morrison, W.
Agar-Ellis, Hon. L Fortescue, Hon. F. Padmore, It.
Alcock, T. - Fortescue, C. S. raga, C.
Andover, Lord Freeland, H. W. Paxtow, Sir J.
Antrobus, E.
French, Fitz stephen Peacocke, G. M.
Archdall, Capt.M.E. Galway, Viscount Pease, H.
Atherton, Sir W. Gard, It. S. Peel, Sir R.
Ayrton, A. S. Gaskell, J. M. Peto, Sir M.
Ball, E. Gibson, T. M. Pilkington, James
Baring, Sir F. Gilpin, C. Pollard Urquhart W
Baring, Thomas Glyn, G. C. Potter, E. ,
Baxter, W. E. Goldsmid, Sir F. Pugh, D. (Carman)
Ilazley, Thomas Gower, F. L. Ricardo, 0.
[leamish, F. B. Gregson, S. Russell, Hastings
Beaumont, W. B. Gray, William Salomons,Ablerman
Beaumont,Somerset Grey, Rt. Iln. Sir G.
Scholefle,d, W.
Berkeley, Hon. 11. Gurdon, B. Seely, C.
Botlield, Beriah Hadfield, Geo. Seymour, Digby
Brand, H. B. Hanbury, It., jun. Shafto, R. D.
Briscoe, J. I. Ilankey, Thomson Shelley, Sir J. V.
Brocklehurst, John Hassard, M. D. Sidney, Thomas
Browne, Lord J. T. Headlam, Thos. E Smith, J. B.
Buller, Sir A. Herbert, H. A. Smith, M. T.
Card Well, Rt. lln. E. Ilume, W. Spooner, R.
Carnegie,Hn. C. Hutt, W. Stanley, Lord
Childers, H. C. E. Ingham, R. Stansfeld, J.
Clay, James Jervoise, Sir J. Steel, John
Clifton, Sir R. Jollifre, Sir W. Stirling, Wm.
Clive, George Kelly, Sir P. Talbot, C. It. M.
Cobden, It. Kershaw, J. Taylor, Colonel
Colebrooke, Sir T.E. King, Hon. P. Tollemache, lIon.F.
Collier, R. I'. Kinglake, Seri. J. Trelawny, Sir J. S.
Copeland, Ald. Knatchbull-Hug,ess Turner, J. A.
Cox, W. Langton, H. G. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C.
Crossley, Frank Lawson, W. Westhead, J.
Dalglish, Robert Layard, A. H. G. Whalley, G. H.
G. Denman, G. Lennox, Lord G. Whitbread, S.
Douglas, Sir C. Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. White, Jas.
Duke, Sir James Lewis, Harvey Willcox, B. M.
Dunkellin, Lord . Locke, John Williams, W.
Egerton, A. F. Mackinnon,W. A. Woods, Henry
Elphinstone, Sir J McMahon, P. Wrightson, W. B.
Evans, T. W. Malins, It., Wyvill, M.
Ewart, William Marshall, W.
Fenwick, Henry Martin, P. W.
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,
Fermoy, Lord Martin,J. TELLERS.
Filmer, Sir E. Massey, W. N.
Foley, lion. H. W. Merry, James Milnes, H. M.
Foljambe, F. J. S. Moncreiff, J. Buxton, C.

NOES, 133.
Acton, Sir J. Gavin, Major Montagu, Lord R.
Adderley, C. B. George, John Montgomery, Sir G.
Arbuthnott, Gen.H. Getty, S. G. Morgan, C. 0. S.
Astell, J. 11. Gordon, C. W. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J
Baillie, 11. J. Graham, Lord Wm. Mundy, William
Baring, 11. B. Greenall, G. Nortlicote, Sir S. 11
Barttelot, Col. Haliburton, Justice Ogilvy, Sir J.
Beach, W. W. Hamilton, Jas. H. Facke, C. W.
Bentinck, G. W. P. Hamilton, Major Palmer, Sir R.
Benyon, R. Heathcote, Sir W. Parker, Major W.
Beresford, W. Henley, J. Patten, J. W.
Blencowe, J. G. Hennessy, J. P. Paull, H.
Bovill, Wm., Henniker, Lord Pevensey, Viscount
Brady, John Hervey, Lord A Powys, L. P.
Bramley-Moore, J. Heygate, Sir F. Puller, C. W.
Bramston, T. W. Holmesdale, Lord Ridley, Sir M. W.
Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hope, G. W. Rogers, John J.
Brooks, R. Hopwood, J. T. Rowley, Hon. B. T.
Burghley, Lord Hotham, Gen. Lord Salt, Titus
Caird, James Howes, Edward Sclater-Booth, a
Cairns, Sir H., Hubbard, J. G. Scott, Lord H.
Cave, S Hunt, G. W. Scully, V.
Chapman, J. Johnstone, Hon. H. Selwyn, C. J.
Clive, 11. G. W. Johnstone, J. J. H. Seymer, 11. K
Cole, Hon. H. A. Kendall, N. Shirley, E. P.
Collins, T., jun. Kinnaird, Hon. A. Smith, Abel .
Corry, H. L. Knatchbull, W Smith, S. G.
Cubitt, George Leader, N. Somes, Joseph
Deedes, Wm. Lefroy, A. Stanhope, J. B.
Disraeli, Benjamin Legh, W. Steuart, A.
Dunbar, Sir Wm. Lennox, Lord H. G Turner, C.
Duncombe, A. Leslie, W. Vansittart, Wm.
Dundas, Frederick Lindsay, General Verner, Sir Wm.
Dundas, Sir David Longfield, Robert , Walcott, Adm. J. E.
Dunne, Col. Lyall, G. Walpole, S. H.
Du Cane, Chas. Lygon, Hon. F. Walker, J. R.
Dutton, Hon. R. H. Macaulay, li. Watlington, J. W.
Egerton, E. C. M'Cormick, W. Whitmore, H.
Egerton, W. Mackie, J. Wood, W.
Estcourt, S. Maguire, J. F. Wyndham, Hon. I'.
Ewing, H. E. C. Mainwaring, T. Wynne, W. W. B.
Fane, Col. Malcolm, W. J
Farquhar, Sir M. Manners, Lord J. TELLERS.
Fitzgerald, W. S. Miller, William
Forde, Lt.-Col. W. Mills, A. Cecil, Lord R.
Forester, Col. G. C. Mitford, W. T. Blackburn, I'.

THE NEW VICTORIA EXPLORATION

EXPEDITION.

By the Melbourne Argus we learn that a com-
mission of inquiry has sat to ascertain the causes of
the fatal results of the expedition under Mr. O'Hara
Burke. Brahe, who returned from Cooper's Creek
only nine hours before the arrival of Burke, Wills,
and King at that post, has been strictly questioned
as to his reasons for not waiting longer, and Wright,
who had been left at Menindie by Burke, as to the
reasons for his not moving up after Burke to Cooper's
Creek, in order to accompany him on the route into
the interior. According to Brahe's own evidence he
had left in his letter in the cache found by Burke a
much better account of the condition of his party and
horses and camels than was the case. He now re-
presented that both himself and Paton were unwell,
and that his horses and camels were sick and over-
worked. Sir Francis Murphy strongly represented
to him the consequences of having thus left a false
account, as had Burke, Wills, and King been aware of
their infirm state, they would most probably have
made the effort to overtake them, and thus might
have been saved. Brahe asserted that Burke had left
orders that he need not wait for him more than four
months, as he should probably make for Queensland.
Wright excused his not following promptly after
Burke by stating that he had to wait at Menindie
for despatches, and to purchase horses ; that there
several of his party fell ill, and he, himself, in
endeavouring to push on to Cooper's Creek,
missed his way, was stopped by want of water, and
went back, When he at length reached Cooper's
Creek he had given up all hope of Burke return-
ing, as Burke informed him that he meant to return
by Queensland. Wright gave a very poor account
of his reasons for not immediately following Burke
to Cooper's Creek, confessing that he had remained
at Menindie from the sth of November to the 19th
December, merely looking after the stock and the,
camels, and " not knowing rightly what to do:
Different parts of his statements did not at all agree,
nor could he reconcile them, to the great dissatis-
faction of the commission.
The limes, in commenting on the calamities and
sufferings of Burke's party, the other day, said
that it was very easy to see errors after they were
over, but who could point out a better courso than
3e :1w pursued ? Now, with all honour to Burke
for his 05;_thusiasm and persevering bravery, there
neeer has been any doubt whatever at Melbourne
since he set out of the certain result of terrible
sufferings. Impetuous in his temperament, he
ipushed on without the necessari calculations. Had
he never divided his party, and left 170 portions of
it behind, but had kept the whole alvalcade
together with all their provisions, making easl
stage e, he would have gone and returned with'
out any considerable difficulty. He found the'
country between Cooper's Creek and Carpentarite
well-watered and grassed, but by the time he reached
the approaches to the Gulf, his provisions were
so exhausted that he had then to make is
desperate push back, which inevitably destroyed his
six camels and one horse,leaving Gray done up and
buried in the wilderness, and only reachitig Cooper 'S
Creek for himself and Wills to die of ex:eaustion,
as Gray had done. Teat is the solution Of the
whole tragic mystery.
The chief exploring expedition, under Mr. Hovritt
left Melbourne on the 9th of December to procee&
to Cooper's Creek, to disinter the remains of Burke
and Wills, and to send them down to Melbourne,
where a public funeral is to be given them and
a monument by Summers, the sculptor, to
be erected over them. Somo sensible and
in the commission strongly recommended
that tht; remains of the discoverers should be
left where therT
are, and an obelisk erected over
them, with a proper
;ascription. This spot, lying
where the old and new
onies will ,meet, would
become historic ground. Bat; this wise counsel
seems to have been overruled.
The expedition is then to proceed into the
interior, to prosecute the work of discovery, and to
endeavour to meet the expedition which was to
set out from the Government steamer Victoria, sent
round to the Gulf of Carpentaria, southward, 111
the hope of finding Burke. A telegraic from Syd-
ney has communicated news of Mr. 187,alker and
his party, who started from the north-east Oast to
endeavour to find traces of Burke, by striking his liYie
diagonally. He was said to be on the Victoria
river on the 10th of October, and was making for
Carpentaria, where he hoped to hail the flag of
Commander Norman, of the Victoria, by the 10th
of November. If Walker, who is a brave and ee-
perienced bushman, accomplished this, news Will
soon be heard of him. Hewitt has authority to con-
tinue his explorations in the interior for fl'ila
months ; and, what we may expect from his die-
coveries, added to those made by Walker, by the
expedition southward, from the steamer in the Gulf
of Carpentaria, and by Mr. Gregory, recently in tllO
neighbourhood of Nicoll Bay, 21 deg. south latitude,
will throw a flood of light on the hitherto terra ../3'
cognita of Northern Australia.
The friends of the parties, and the public at large,
will read with much pleasure a part of King's, the
survivor, evidence, given before the Exploration
Commission of Inquiry :—" I wish to say something
about the party being provided with good books.
I have the pleasure to say that each of us had 3
bible and prayer-book, and occasionally read then
both going and coming back ; and before the death
of Mr. Burke I am happy to say he prayed to G°d
for forgiveness in Christ."
King, since his return, seems to have conducted
himself with great good sense. A Mr. Coppin, 311
American we believe, and the Barnum of Victoria,
has offered him £l,OOO to attend for twelve mouths
a panorama, of the Burke Exhibition. King de-
clined the offer, saying that he could not feel moll
an exhibition of the sufferings of his companions td°'
be other than a cruel desecration on his part, an
that he left himself wholly in:the hands of the G°-
vernment in everything regarding the expedition.