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various occasion, yet he did think it was his duty on this oc-
casion to propose the question for a vote of the House, be-
cause he thought that he could do it with justice; but at the
same time that he brought it forward he knew that he could
not avoid the observations which had been made. The Right
Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, had complained of
the offensive manner in which the communications had been
made in reference to the yeomanry, and he had alluded to a
letter which had been written to the Lord-Lieutenant
of the county of Kent; and, also, to letters which had
been addressed to other Noble Lords. The House,
however, had heard part of a letter of a Noble Lord read,
and they had no doubt also heard of a letter from another
Noble Lord ; and he would ask whether they considered
those letters so exceedingly temperate that there was no
ground of complaint in reference to them ? He would request
that the House would hear him read the terms in which he had
addressed the persons who had been alluded to, and would
then ask whether anything could have been more polite or
civil than the expressions which he had used? He said—" I
am further commanded by her Majesty to desire that your
Lordship will assure the commanding officer, and request him
to communicate to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and
privates of their respective corps, that her Majesty is deeply
sensible of the zeal and loyalty uniformly displayed by them
from the time of their first being called into action down to the
present moment, on all occasions when their services have
been required; and it is her Majesty's pleasure, as a mark of
her Royal approbation, that the officers should retain the rank
and honours belonging to their respective commissions."—
( Cheers.) They had not, he trusted, come to such a state of
things that the Minister of the Crown could not be allowed to
use such language upon such an occasion without its being re-
garded as a ground of harshness, and its being considered
such a severe and unjust insult that Lords Sondes and Win-
chilsea were perfectly justified in writing the letters which
they had thought fit to give to the world.—( Loud cheers. )
He concurred with his Honourable Friend the Member for
Btidport, and when such steps had been taken, opposition
was not called for to such an extent as had been manifested by
these two Noble Lords—one Noble Lord's corps of yeomanry
having been dismissed by order of the Crown, and the corps
commanded by the other being retained, but who had resigned
the command of it, because he said that he thought it a fitting
opportunity to do so:; and that they were not justified in issuing
their docuraents to men who had been in arms under their or-
de'rs, and that by doing so they set a bad example, and showed
that as far as they were concerned it was expedient that for
the future no military command should be girth to them.—
( Cheers.) What, he would ask, would be thought of the
Colonel of a regiment of militia, or a regiment of dragoons,
or of the line, who, on receiving an order from the Crown
for the reduction of the corps, should issue a circular or ad-
dress to the soldiers under his command, complaining of such
reduction as an unconstitutional act. He felt bound to say
thus much with regard to the manner in which the subject had
been dealt with, and above all being obliged as he had been to
reply to the speech of the Right Hen. Gentleman the Member
for Kent; but he also felt bound to say that he was far from
believing that the feeling- manifested by these Noble Lords
was generally felt.—( Hear, hear.) He did not believe
that such a spirit was common with officers commanding yeo-
manry corps—( Hear, hear, hear) ;—on the contrary, he
thought that these two cases were exceptions which were not
very happy or flattering in themselves.—( Cheers.) With
regard to the question of the reduction of these corps, he did
not feel called upon to say much in reply to the Hon. Member
for Kilkenny, because the attack had not been made on the
Government so much for not reducing this force, but because
a reduction had taken place in it. He said then, that not
maintaining extreme opinions on either side of the question,
and not wishing that this force should be entirely suppressed,
nor that the force should be maintained in the number called
out in 1831, he thought that he was justified in proposing the
pr.•s _
• ent vote. He felt also bound to say that much might
justly be said in favour of the yeomanry corps. In the first
place, it had been truly stated that they had shown great zeal
and patriotism in coming forward to preserve the peace of the
country in. periods of exci,ernent and disturbance. They had
also manifested great ability as well as temper when called
upon to act in a military capacity in case of riots or disturb-
ances. They had also been very useful in preventing persons
from doing so who felt disposed to create riots. At the same
time he did not, on the other side, think that it could be said
that this was a desirable force to be maintained for the preser-
vation of the peace of the country. He could not give them the
character of being the most constitutional force in the coun-
try.—( Hear, hear.) In this respect he could not compare
ttiem with the militia.—(Hear, hear.) He believed that the
militia had ever been regarded in this light by the constitu-
tional historians of this country, and had been revived in the
last instance by Lord Chatham. Although that force was not
so immediately under the Crown as the regular army, yet it
could be used against a foreign as well as against a domestic
fee, and it had been justly called by a high military authority
the first army of reserve of the country ; but it so happened
Ora the yeomanly force was regulated in such a way that it
could hardly be used for any* other purpose than for putting
down riots, or local disturbances, and it could not be of the
same use that the militia regiments were during the last war.
These corps could riot he made available for recruiting the re-
gelar army, or preserving the peace of large towns, or places
remote from the spot whre they were raised. Under present
circumstances, also, it was almost impossible that a corps of
yeernan,y could be called out in any particular district without
exciting a great deal of acrimony and animosity. He did not
• mean to attribute to the persons belonging to those corps any
I improper feelings, but it was almost unavoidable, that when
dissensions arose between one class of the population and an-
• other class, which gave rise to riots and disturbances, and
when this force was supposed to be connected with one of the
' parties, that it should not create more animosity than the re-
gular army would do in putting down local riots. The Right
' Hon. Gentleman had alluded to the riots that occurred at Bir-
mingham in 1791, and also to the use of the yeomanry at the
last election for that town. With respect to the last subject,
he knew from the officer commanding the yeomanry corps on
that occasion, that when the riots took place at the late elec-
tion the Colonel commanding the force remonstrated with the
magistrates of the town for calling the yeomanry corps of the
immediate neighbourhood into the town of Birmingham, in-
stead of a corps from a greater distance, and not so imme-
diately connected with the place. His Hon. Friend the Mem-
ber for Somersetshire, complained of the reduction in the num-
ber of the yeomanry in the county of Somerset; but the fact
was there was left in that county a body of yeomanry of not less
than 1,000 men, and in addition tothis, there were large corps
of yeomanry in the neighbouring counties. He would put it
to the House whether a yeomanry corps of 1,000 men was
not sufficient for the maintenance of the peace of a single
county. He was, however, of opinion that it was not
only expedient, but that it was the duty of the Govern.
meat to reduce the number of the yeomanry corps in those
places where their services were not likely to be required,
and also in the neighbourhood of large towns, where they
were likely rather to create riots than put them down in cases
of disturbances, and when other means existed of preserving
the peace. In 1831, when this force was re-organized and
called out, there were 18,303 men connected with it. This
number had been reduced to 4,709 men, and there were left
in the force in 1838, 13,594 men. He would ask, was not this
force, taken with the regular army, amply. sufficient to -.fleet
any probable emergency in which their services might be re-
quired ? For his own part lie would rather that any force should
be employed in case of local disturbances than the local corps
of yeomanry. The House was aware that several local dis-
turbances had taken place in carrying into effect the New
Poor. law Act, in which it was necessary to call out some body
to the aid of the local authorities; but instead of calling or, the
yeomanry
.corps, lie had preferred availing himself of the assist-
ance of some other body. When application had been made to
him in such cases, he had either gone to the Commander-in-
Chief, and asked for the assistance of some detachment from
the regular force, or he had sent to the Commissioners of Me-
tropolitan Police to dispatch a portion of that body to aid in
suppressing the disturbances. He thought that the regular force,
or the metropolitan police, were better adapted for the sup-
pression of local disturbances than yeomanry corps, or other
bodies having local connections. They could then be with.
drawn, and more quiet and tranquillity would follow than
there would be any chance of, if a yeomanry corps were called
upon to act in the same service, with the heart-burnings and
dissensions which would necessarily be directed against the
body so employed. His Hon. Friend the Member for Wilt-
shire suggested that, instead of suppressing any of the yeo-
manry corps, a part of the present expense might be saved by
not calling them out on permanent duty. He did not think
that this would be expedient, for if this body were maintained,
it was desirable that it should be an efficient force ; but it
could not be rendered so, unless it was subjected to constant
discipline and inspection. He repeated, therefore, if the force
was not constantly called out, the best characteristics of the
force would be destroyed. What they had then to consider
was, whether it was necessary to keep up the whole number
of the yeomanry force that was kept up in former years; and
he was of opinion, after the most mature consideration that he
was able to give to the case, that he was fully justified in
Irecommending the reductions that had been made ; at the
same time he could not concur with the proposal of the
Honourable Member for Kilkenny. While on this part of
the subject, he confessed that he was rather surprised to hear
the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite refer to what he
was pleased to call the acts of the Whig Government of 1827.
It was new to him to hear the Government of that day stated
to be entirely a Whig Government, having at its head, first
Mr. Canning, and then Lord Ripon, and of which Adminise
tration at least one of the Right Honourable Gentlemen oppo-
site was a member. But that Government, which had that
night been praised, had reduced the number of the yeomanry
to 7,025, while he proposed that that description of force
should be kept up to 13,394. He confessed that he had seen
no such letters as had that night been produced and read, and
cheered by gentlemen opposite, respecting the then reduction
of this force.—( Hear.) -That government was succeeded in
the Administration by the Duke of Wellington, who came into
office in 1828. That Noble Duke did not at that period think
it either expedient or necessary to have the yeomanry force
kept up to the extent that gentlemen opposite thought desirable,
but he did not recollect that such letters were then written
as had that night been produced.—( Hear, hear, hear.)
He did not hear Hon. Gentlemen opposite complain of the
Duke of Wellington having a yeomanry force of only 8,000
men ; but it now appeared that, because he proposed a force
of only 14,000 men, they could not restrain their indignation.
—( Cheers.) He confessed that, so far from deterring him
from pursuing the course which he had thought it his duty to
do, it led him to the conclusion that there were a great many
persons if, the country who considered the yeomanry force as
useful to party objects, and which, if the matter had not been
put forward in such a violent manner, he never should have
shoeght of.—(Cheers.) This force, however, had been in-
creased in 1.1 by Lord Melbourne, in consequence of parti-
cular circumstances then e4iiting, which had now ceased.
Sortie time ago it was a niatter under consideration whether
there ahotilsl not
.49 some dirginutiop in the number of the

cavalry force continued at home, or whether there should be a
reduction in the yeomanry force. He hesitated fora long time,
but'before the question was finally decided as to whether it
was expedient or not to diminish the number of the regular
cavalry force, it appeared necessary to the Government to
send a corps of cavalry to Canada. Under the circumstances
of the case it was not thought expedient to reduce this very
excellent force in the country, it was therefore thought, that
when this corps was sent to Canada, that there should not be
left a less force of cavalry in the country than there had been
within the last two years. He did not think, also, that the
force of the infantry was very large in the United Kingdom.
Under these circumstances, he did not thick it advisable the t
they should propose so large a vote for the yeomanry as had
been done in former years. When the expenses were not un-
avoidable, he did not think in the present situation of the
country that they should be incurred. If they did not strictly
adhere to this principle, he thought that they would most
justly incur the censure of the Honourable Member for Kil-
kenny, and other Honourable Gentlemen. On theses grounds
the reduction that had been effected, had been made. He
was exceedingly sorry that in making these rejections they
had excited such a feeling in the country as had been
manifested, but they could not consistently with their
duty, propose this expense on the country. The Right
Honourable Gentleman alluded to the riots at Birmingham in
1791 ; but he did not know what these had to do with the
subject any more than the riots of 1780. He did not know
how these were to be attributable to the want of yeomanry,
or how these were connected with the question of the
yeomanry. At the period of the riots of Birmingham there
were troops within a short distance, namely, within forty
miles of the place. He believed that they did not arrive in
time to prevent the disturbances ; but there were several
troops of cavalry at Nottingham. Before he sat down he
would say that he trusted the time was not far distant when
the means of the country would enable him to propose a vote
for a more available and efficient force for the country, and at
the same time a more constitutional body, he meant a good
militia force. He regretted that they were without the
means at present, and he did not think that it would be
advisable that a large expenditure should be incurred in the
present year; but he thought that a good militia force would
be most expedient and most constitutional, and might he in-
deed a most efficient and valuable body in case of hostilities
breaking out with any foreign powers. He had felt it to be
his duty to state thus much, he trusted without throwing any
stigma on the conduct of the yeomanry, but of course it was
impossible to satisfy those who were determined to see in any
act of the Ministers an attempt to ruin and overturn the
Constitution of the country ; he would, therefore, only
say that they mnst be allowed to continue to indulge in their
visions.—(Loud cheers. )
Colonel SIBTHORP said that the Noble Lord had
spoken of incurring the censure of the Hon. Member for Kil-
kenny. He ( Colonel Sibthorp) cared but little for that, and
he thought it would be well if the Noble Lord cared as little.
He disliked the reductions of the Noble Lord, because they
were partial ones. In conclusion, he must say, that he had
seen enough of the yeomanry to give him a high idea of their
services, and that with regard to the present motion of the
Hon. Member for Kilkenny, he was sorry in opposing it to
find himself voting in such company.
Mr. PHIL LIPS had previously voted in favour of a yeo-
manry force, but he was convinced, from what he had since
seen, of the dangerous tendency of it in promoting party ends.
Mr. GOULB URN had listened to the Noble Lord's ar-
guments most attentively, and he appeared to he only able to
advocate the reduction on the score of economy. Now, he
(Mr. Goulburn) must be allowed to observe, that reduction
was not always synonymous with economy--( Hear, hear.)
In 1831, what would have been the consequence had it not
been for the yeomanry force? The Government of which
the Noble Secretary of State was then a Member had
been compelled to call for a yeomanry force, and the country
might he put to 180,0001. expense to replace or recal the force.
The Noble Lord was now, on a false notion of economy, dis-
banding. The Noble Lord said he hod been guided in his
reductions by the rule of reducing single troops in preference
to regiments. If such a resolution were wise it was a questicn
of policy ; but what was the fact ? He (Mr. Gonlburn)
found the Fifeshire yeomanry of six trooi. s disbanded; he found
the Flintshire yeomanry of four troops ,and the Stirlingehire
of five troops, similarly dismissed. Of the four Berkshire
troops three had been reduced, and only one retained ; and
that happened to be commanded by an officer who was then in
command of a guard ship, and had since been made a clerk
of the Ordnance. Another point also must be noticed, that
the wilder parts of the country had been left unprotected :
and the only troop that was retained was stationed at Hunger-
ford. No change whatever had taken, place in the circum-
stances of the country to warrant the Noble Lord in the cone se
he proposed. The fact was the yeomanry were sacrificed to
political hostility and not to political necessity..—( Hear.)
Mr. FOX MAUL E said the Right Hon. Gentleman in
reference to the reduction made by his ( Mr. Fox Maule's)
Noble Friend used an expression which he was surprised to
hear. Ile was surprised at it the more because it was identi-
cal with one employed by a notorious public print of the day ;
but he should make no further observations upon it. With
regard to the case of the Flintshire yeomanry, four troops of
that force had resigned in February, 1837, in consequence of
a recommendation from the Lord Lieutenant of the county to
that effect. In reference to the Essex corps, the officers of
the Ordnance connected with the powder mills in that county
had stated that they had force sufficient with themselves to
protect those manufactories, and that they did not need the
protection or assistance of the yeomanry force. Then,
again, in Berkshire it occurred that the four troops in that
county only one was called out in 1836 ; and that being
found to be the most effective it was only natural
it should be retained in preference to the others—that was the,
Hungerford corps. And now, with regard to Fiteshire, it
was an undisputed fact that though there were riots in Dum
fermline since their establishment in 1831, they were never
called out to quiet them, but the Queen's troops were sent for
to effect that purpose. Yet from 1831 to the present year, '
that corps cost the country 14,0001. When this was consi-
dered it fully justified the experiment of reducing them, at the
same time that he did not think the slightest ground existed
for any imputation of their loyalty or devotion. In the county
of Stirling, too, the yeomanry had never been called out
since the battle of Bonnie Muir, in 1829, the riots which oc-
curred in that district having been uniformly quelled by the
regular troops. The only corps which had been called out,
were those of Lanarkshire and Ayrshire ; and each of these
being very strong, very willing to act not only in their own
vicinity, but elsewhere, and very active also, he thought it
formed a good ground why their services should be retained,
while those of other yeomanry corps in Scotland were dis-
pensed with.

Mr. HOUSTON (as we learned) was understood to yin-
dicate the Renfewshire corps from the imputation cast upon
them by the Lord Lieutenant of that county ; but he was
heard very imperfectly in the gallery.
Mr. FERGUSON said that with regard to the riots in
Dumfermline, neither the Lord Lieutenant of the county, the
Lord Advocate of Scotland, nor himself would have called
on the local or neighbouring yeomanry to suppress them.
Nothing, in his opinion, could be worse than to bring the
yeomanry, composed of the farming population, in contact
with the population of the manufacturing districts.
Sir H. HARDINGE wished to ask the Noble Lord (J.
Russell) two questions in connection with the subject under
debate. He perceived by the return which he held in his
hand that in the county of Hertford there were at present seven
corps of yeomanry that was, one in the northern division of
the county, four in the south, and two in the east. Now, on
the principle of the Noble Lord, as laid down in his own
observations, the single troop in the northern division should
be reduced. But ►t had been said that the Honourable
Member for Sheffield, who commanded it, having remonstrated
with the Noble Lord, it was, in consequence of what then
passed between them, retained. By the same return he ( Sir
H. Hardinge) also found that in Sussex the Petworth troop
commanded by a Gallant Friend of his own, had also been re-
duced. Now, economy could not be pleaded in this case, as
that corps had been clothed and principally maintained at the
expense of the late Earl of Egremont ; yet still it was re-
duced, though four troops, under the command of Lord
Surrey, had been kept on foot. That was clearly against the
principle of the Noble Lord; for even if the Hertford case were
to be taken as the precedent, the four troops of Lord Surrey
should have been reduced by fifty men for the purpose of hav-
ing the Petworth troop retained, as the corps of the Hon.
Member for Sheffield had been in Hertfordshire. Now, he
( Sir H. Hardinge) wished the Noble Lord would inform him
of the reason of the difference which had been made between
these two bodies?

Mr. ALSTON defended the retention of the Hertford
Yeomanry. With respect to the corps commanded by Capt.
Ward (the Hon. Member for Sheffield) he (Mr. Alston)
thought at the time the reduction was about to take place that
they had as good a right to be retained as any other men in
Hertfordshire—(Laughter)—for a better disciplined and
more effective body of men he had never seen, and he had
stated to the Noble Lord that it would be a hard case for that
part of the county of Hertford in which he lived if they were
not kept up.—(Cheers from the Opposition Benches, and
laughter. )
Sir ROBERT PEEL did not agree with some of the
positions laid down by the Noble Lord (Lord John Russell)
and the Under- Secretary of State (Mr. F. Maule). He did
not agree that the fact of the yeomanry corps not being
brought into operation was a reason for their being discon-
tinued. He believed that one of the most valuable effects of
the yeomanry was that it was not brought into collision with
the people, but that it was a dormant strength.—(Loud
cheers from the Opposition.) The highest possible compli-
ment that could be paid to the yeomanry force was that it was
never called into operation._( Cheers.) There being on the
one hand a consciousness of strength, and on the other hand a
consciousness that that strength was ready to be brought into
operation, prevented collisions and angry feelings, while no
party excitement was the consequence. Therefore the absence
of active operations was the very best reason for continuing
the yeomanry force.—( Cheers.) But it was a new principle
to hear that, according to the principles of the British Con-
stitution, the vicinage was not to be applied to for the purpose
of suppressing disturbance and preserving property. He
thought it was one of the most ancient principles of our
constitution that the vicinage was responsible for tranquility,
and it;,twas therefore to him a perfectly novel doctrine that the
regular force should be called in to maintain order, arm that
they should be brought from their quarters, a dis'ueee of fifty
or sixty miles, whilst the vicinage was not to be held responsi.
ble for the maintenance of tranquilllty. He thought, on the
contniry, that all the principles of the constitution imposed on
the vicinage the responsibility of maintaining rice. Ho
must say that he thought there was a clear distinetien between
such eases as that of. Canada, and the suppression of riots.
He could easily understand, in ease of a civil con 'Jet. that the
better Bourse would be to. employ a military force, but when
property was in danger from riot, the good feelings of all men
would be in favour of suppreasioo, and, they might appeal to
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the loyalty of the Queen's subjects to suppress it without ex-.
citing their apprehensions or wounding their feelings. If they.
we, e prepared to maintain a military force to such an extent.a.
to enable them to employ it on every occasion to suppress in-
surrection it would be very well, but he apprehended that
they could not maintain such a force, that they were hot
ready to have regiments of cavalry and dragoons scat-,
tered over the country.—( Hear, hear.) And to what
sort of men were they to apply this to ? To men of charac-
ter and substance, to whom they ought to give, as it were,
a retaining fee, in order that if the public tranquillity were
in danger they might come to demonstrate their loyalty, and
their determinadon to maintain the public peace.—( Hear'
hear.) He did not believe that the substitute for this force
Would be half so satisfactory—( Hear, hear)—and he must say
that upon the whole that part of the people of England was
ready to obey the law. He was not deeply alarmed at the
supposition of the Noble Lord opposite that the yeomanry
force that remained would be held on a very precarious
tenure. He had heard one of her Majesty's Lieutenants say
that nothing was so fatal as bringing the yeomanry into con-
tact with the manufacturing population of towns, and that
sentiment was cheered, and he believed by some Members of
her illijesty's Government. Now, if that were the principle
on which the abolition of the yeomanry force was to be sup-
ported, he was quite prepared to join issue upon it, because
he would show that it was in the manufacturing districts
ti.ese corps were upheld.—(Cheers from the Opposition.)
What were the counties in which they proposed to maintain
the yeomanry ? They were Cheshire, Lanarkshire, Lanca-
shire, Leicestershire, Northumberland, Nottingham, .
Somerset, Stafford, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, and York-
shire.—(Cheers.) He would ask why this force was to
be kept up in those counties only which had a manufacturing
population ? It was bicause they knew that a manufacturing"
population was more subject. to sudden excit,ment than an
agricultural population, that they could not part with the yeo-
manry force in those districts ; and though an occasional ni-
stance might occur, such as that at Manchester twenty years
ago, of exasperation arising out of party feeling, yet that was
the only instance that could be appealed to, to show the per-
manent evil consequences arising from the appointment of the
yeomanry. That this force was necessary in a large manufac-
turing population was admitted, for the reason given for main-
taining the Lanarkshire corps was its vicinity to Glasgow.
But the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) himself, when it was
oece., ary to vindicate a colleague, was willing to admit that
the increase of the force in 1831 was entirely justifiable and
wise. Why was it wise in 1831 to increase the yeomanry,
when party feeling ran very high, and there was great political
excitement ? If the Noble Lord thought the employment of
yeomanry bad, why was Lord Melbourne justified in increas-
ing the yeomanry in 1831? But whew there was excitement
among the manufacturing population, why did not the Noble
Lord come to Parliament and say, " We will not increase the
yeomanry, because it is dangerous, but we will ask you to in-
crease the infantry and cavalry, in order that we may avoid-
the evil consequences of local collisions and party spirit ?" On
this account he was totally unable to reconcile the different
grounds taken up by different Gentlemen in the course of this,
debate ; but his impression was, that this proposed saving 01
25,0001. would be a very great loss.—(Loud cheers from the
Opposition.) He did not agree with those who fancied that
when a necessity arose that the yeomanry, on account of this
supposed slight, would be unwilling to come forward to render'
their services. —(Cheers.) He did not believe that they
would be actuated by such feelings. Hon. Members might
read letters written under excitement by one individual or
anolier, but he would place against these individuals' acts
the testimony of a Noble Lord, with respect to those corps
which had been discontinued, that on all occasions on winch
their services were required they had uniformly disytayed
zeal and loyalty.—( Hear, hear.) This was wit',, respect
to the corps which had been discontinued, and he did not
claim a higher compliment for those which 'mid been con-
tinued. But if they had a powerful force composed of the
elite of the c.Juntry, composed of men who, be believed,
without disparagement to others, might firmly be relied
upon for loyalty, exertion, and personal sacrifice as any
other
class—if for 25,000 men they could avoid slighting these Inen
and wounding their feelings—if they could retain them 10 this
service though they might not have been called into actual
conflict, and though there might be no necessity for their act-
ing, he believed they would purchase for 25,0001. a year the affections of a loyal and devoted body of men, 'out a
great guarantee for the permanent maintenance of 1-.ranzint
IL>, than they could purchase by ant other mode in wh'c'
they could expend that sum.—(Loud cheers.)
An Hot. MEMBER, whose name we could not learn, said
gthat an Hon. Member had stated that the disbanding of the
yeomanry had given great satisfaction in Scotland, He could
only say that in the county whim he had the honour
treoarrepaire.ot
sent the people were dissatisfied with the reduction to the
utmost degree.
The Committee then divided, when the numbers were'.
For tho vote
Against it
Majority
Tke CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and ol,:tained
leave to sit again.
0n the motion of Sir R. PEEL, the Committee was ap-
pointed on the subject of recognizances and cost., of election
petitions as follows Robert Peel, Mr. Poulett Thomson,
Sir James Graham, Mr. John Parker, Mr. 'Williams Wynn.
Mr. Hume, Sir Thomas Fremantle, MY:•., Sergeant Ball, Mr.
Greene, Mr. Solicitor- General, Sir Edward Sugden Mr.
Charles Villiers, Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Shaw Lefevre, and Mr.
Pringle.
Standing
Orders, Committee nominated :—Mr. Shaw
Lefevre, Lord Viscount Ebrington, Mr. Poulett Thomson,
Sir James Graham, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Robert Palmer,
Mr. Aglionby, Lord Stanley, Mr. Pendarves, Lord Viscount
Sandon, Mr. Guest, Mr. Greene, Mr. Chalmers, Sir Thomas
Fremantle, and Mr. Villiers Stuart.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and.i
the House adjourned at half-past Twelve.

RECOLLECTIONS OF CAULINCOURT, DUKE OF
VICENTA.—These volumes (just published) throw lie,t on the
hitherto imperfectly explained facts relating to The Duke
D'Enghien's death, and Caulincourt effectually clear? .
him-
self of the charge of even involuntary participationin that
tragical event. There is another circumstance that imparts
great interest to this publication, namely, that the Duke of
Vicenza describes in minute detail the circumstances attendinr,`;
Napoleon's attempted suicide during the negotiations for the
abdication of 1814. The Duke slept at Fontainebleau
invu
the night when Napoleon took the draught of poison, and
and Dr. Ivan were the only persons present in the Emperof
bed-chamber during those dreadful convulsions under wlaic3
he was momentarily expected to sink.
MR. BULWER'S NEW NOVEL.—Mr. Bulwer
describes his new work, " Ernest Maltravers and Mice, 9
the most matured and comprehensive of his works of fiction.
It is more in the nature of the history of the heart, than anii.
l
thing he has yet published. It is a book in which the
author
has relied more upon his own resources tian any other I'v'nf.
writer would have had the courage to -attempt. Mr. BI;d!lei
has never indulged so rich a vain of eialck perception,
remark, and bold original and por‘erful thinking, as we find
opened up in Ernest Maltravers and Alice.—Examiner-
el
es
Museum of Natural History at the Jardio "e 9
;
Plantes, Paris, has received three gazelles and two ostriches
(male and female), sent from Abd-el-Kader to the King. Th
ostriches, on being placed in the enclosure allotted to the'n!
began to swallow the little pebbles which they found . I
with extraordinary avidity.
On Saturday a huge block of freestone, on a
waggon drawn by six horses, passed along Prince's
-street,
from the west. We understood it was from Binny qua rsr
Linlithgowshire, and is intended for
a. colossal statue of
Walter Scott, to be erected in Glasgow. It was being C°7 veyed to Fisherrow, there to be seulpturr.d by the skilful hand
of that rising artist, Mr. J. Ritchie_ The weiht of the
block is about seven tons, and the gross weight of" the roughmaterial to be used in this statue will exceed thirteen tone
Scotsman.
Another instance of the injury done to our fisher'.
men by the French fishermen, occurred off Brighton a fel;
days ago, when they ran into our boats. After being entanigle
upwards of three hours, at the imminent risk of their llvest
our men were forced to cut away, and the Frenchmen sue
eceded in stealing fourteen of the nets.—Brighton Gazettes

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On the 25th inst., at Ryde, Isle of Wight, the lady Cap
tun
John Strover Criddle, of the Indian navy, of twin boys. of
On Thursday, the 26th inst., at 23 A., Brook-street,
the lady
Major the Hon. George Ktppel, of a daughter.
ter. On the 25th inst., at Islington, Mrs. T. Howard, of a &Ale,.
.r.
On the 26th inst., at Clarence-terrace, Regent's-park, the 16 '
of George Reid, Esq., of a son.
On the 23d inst., at Huddersfield, the lady of the Rev. J. 11-
Oldham, of a daughter.
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At Weston Church, on MARRIth inE
st.D, Lieute;iant-Colonel Job"
Home, of the lion. East India Company's Se,ryice, to Susan, th°
eldest daughter of C. Batsford. Esq., of Wfr,ton, Somers

Colonel Studd, 76th Regirr.enDt.lED,.
onl y
child of
On the 25th int W Family,ane Patterson, s., at Wimbledon,)Lieut.-
On the 9th of Novem',Jer. at D'ennistoun , Van Diemen's Lands
J
Madras Army. wift of Captain P. Wood, of the Retired List,
At Mak as, on the 9th of December, Captain George Jobling9l
the l''t Native Veteran Battalion, and youngest son of the late ..!.
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J'Jbling, Esq., formerly of Newton Hall, Northumberland, aged 35
On the 25th inst., Mr. Robert Fairland, of Chapel-street, P6ll--
tQnville, aged 59.
On the 13th inst., at Ramsgate, Christopher Tennant, Es+, Al 3
his 81st year.
On the 22d inst., at Cheltenham, Cleveland Henry Augivitt;
So" of J. H. Hulme, Esq., of Camden House, Pittvill.e, agod .1
months.
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