The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-28 00:00:00

MAJORITY-NOES, 89.

Anderson, Ahhur Hardcastle, J. A. Pilkington, James
Bass, ➢i. T. Harris, Richard Pinney, William
Berkeley, C. L. G. Hastie, Archibald Roche, E. B.
Birch, Sir T. Hawes, B. Romilly, Sir John
Bright, John Henry, Alexander Russell, F. C.

Brotherton, J. Heyworth, Lawrence Rutherford, A.
Brown, W. Hindley Charles Salwey, Colonel
Cavendish, C. C. Hodges, T. L. Scully, Francis
Cavendish, W. G. Howard, E. G. Shafto, R. D.
Cobden, R. Howard, P. H. , Sheridan, R. B.
Cowan, Charles ,J. Hume Smith, R. V.

Crawford, W. S. Humphery, Aid. , .
Smith, M. Tucker
Davie, Sir Henry Jervis, Sir John Somerville, Sir W.
Drummond, Henry Kershaw, James Strickland, Sir G.
Duncan, Viscount Leonard, T. B. Stuart, Lerd D.
Duncan, George Locke, Joseph Thicknease, Ralph
Buncombe, A. Lushington, C. Thompson, Colonel
Dundas, Admiral M•Gregor, John Thompson, George
Ellis, John Maitland, Thomas Thornely, Thomas
Evans, Sir De Lacy Marshall, J. G. Tufnell, Hoary
Ewart, William Matheson Colonel Wall, C. B.

Fagan, William Moffatt, George Wawn, J. T.
Fordyce, A. D. Morgan, H. K. Willcox, Brodie
Forster, Matthew Morris, David Williams, John
Fortescue, Chichester Mostyn, E. M. L. Wilson, Matthew
Fox, R. M. Mowatt, Francis Wyld, James
Gibson, T. M. O'Connor, Feargus Wyvill, Marmaduke
Glyn, G. C. O'Flaherty, Anthony
Greene, John Ogle, S. C. TELLERS.
Grenfell, C. Pascoe Pattison, James Osborne, Ralph
Grey, Ralph W. Pendarves, E. W. Clay, Sir W.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—On Monday the 26th the Member for the West
Riding brought on his amendment for the reduction of
the naval and military expenditure to the scale of 1835.
The mover introduced it in an able address, and was
supported by almost every Member known to give at-
tention to such subjects, with the exception of those
whom the custom of the House does not allow to speak
on general questions. The replies of the Government were
neither t;rilliant nor effective. Every successive occasion
for the increase of the military force since 1835 was paraded
in order, but nothing was ever said of reduction when
the occasion ceased. So that the whole might have re-
minded the audience of " Boa's" description of the house
whore people were eternally going up stairs, and never
coming down again. Some very small items also were
brought forward to swell the defence ; as for instance
the necessity of providing the army with percussion
muskets, the fact being that the reduction of one bat-
talion would find the army with percussion muskets for
ever and for ever. The amendment was finally supported
by eighty Members, tellers included; showing the same
strength as on former occasions on similar questions,
allowance being made for a few who might be expected
to find the balance turned by the desirableness of sup-
-
porting the Government.
On Tuesday the most interesting of the debates
was on the motion for the second reading of the White-
chapel Tithes and Easter Offerings Bill; the object of
which, as stated in the printed paper put into the hands
of Members by the promoters of the Bill, is to " com-
mute a litigious mode of payment to one free from such
objections," by paying the Rector out of the Poor Rates.
I wonder whether any Irish landlords could be found
agreeing to an exchange of similar effect, by Chang.
ing their rents into a charge upon the Poor Rates or
the Consolidated Fund. Many Members actively sup-
ported the resistance to the Bill; though the number
was reduced by the arbitrary rule as before, which pro-
hibits certain Members from speaking upon public busi-
ness. It is hard upon a Member, who has probably been
urged by his supporters on a particular question, and
who it may be is in hot water with his constituency as a
man who cannot or will not support the objects in which
they feel interested, to find himself utterly ex tinguishedfrom
such a cause. But there is scarcely an alternative for a
Representative not holding certain advantages either of
office or of constituency, between being one of the gra-
duated bores of the House, and finding himself barred as
described.

I am, Sir, your 6aedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, Feb. 27, 1849.

THE SISTER