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LONDON:
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1141.

Our readers will find in another part of The
Sun, interesting and important news from
Chusan, of the 24th of October; Canton, of the
3d of November; Macao, same date ; Singapore,
of the S th ; Calcutt 1., Dec. 22; Bombay, Jan. 1 :
Lahore, Nov. 2; the Persian Gulf; Jan. 10;
Alexandria, Jan. 23, and Malta, Jan. 28, brought
by, and with the overland mail, which arrived
at Marseilles, on Tuesday last, and was thence
conveyed to London by express. The intelli-
gence from China is by no means so satisfactory
as we had been led to expect from the last
despatches. Except the d:ssrace of Commis_
!goner L/N, and the arrival at Canton of
KESIIIN, rthe mandarin, appointed to nege,_
tiate with Admiral ELLIOT the settlement o
British claims, nothing had been done of any
moment. Both in China and in India the
conduct of the ADMIRAL has created a
strong feeling of disappointment in which it is
impossible for the British public not to partici-
pate.ranstead of pushing on boldly to Pekin,
and dictating such terms to the EMPEROR as
would have uupired the Chluese with a proper

respect for the power of Great Britain, and in-
sured good treatment for all Europeans now trad-
ing, or who hereafter may trade, with China, the
ADMIRAL allowed himself to be drawn into the
meshes of negotiation, in which he is sure to be
beaten by the craft and the procrastinating
habits of the Chinese. In the mean time, his
forces are rapidly diminishing by disease,
the discipline of the remainder, from the
necessities of -the circumstances under which
they are placed, becomes relaxed; and should
a necessity for fighting arrive, he will find
himself obliged to call upon the Government
to fit out a fresh expedition. From the mo-
ment we learned that Admiral ELLIOT had
returned from the mouth of the Peiho,
on receiving a verbal and indefinite pro-
mise of a pacific arrangement of claims from an
emissary of the EMPEROR, we began to entertain
a suspicion that the gallant Admiral was not the
man to impress the Chinese with any high re-
spect for our national character. The Admiral
appears to have put himself entirely into the
hands of Captain ELLIOT, to whose luckless
blundering there is no end. We readily grant
that there are instances in which it is the duty of
a Government to allow to a brave officer an op-
portunity of retrieving errors committed from
an excess of zeal for the public service;
but the contest which has arisen out
of the opium question is not one of
them. Captain ELLIOT, by a long series of
overt acts, had satisfied every person of his utter
incapacity to discharge with dignity and be-
nefit to his countrymen, the important functions
with which the Government had vested him.
He ought therefore to have been recalled on the
arrival of the expedition at the mouth of the
Canton river. It is a deplorable affair, that with
nineteen ships of war, and four steamers in the
Chinese seas, we should be compelled to record
our belief, that unless the command is given to
more able officers we shall be in no better con- ,
dition as to trade or compensation a year I
hence than we were a 'year ago. Notwith-
standing the pressing demands of the Ad-
miral, not a single prisoner taken by the Chinese
had been released, and it was understood that no
hostile steps were to be taken to effect their libe-
ration. What stronger proof is wanting of the
Admiral's incapacity to conduct negotiations with
Asiatics? Would that Sir CHARLES NAPIER, ill

the Powerful, was off Chusan or Canton ! The
British prisoners would not long languish in cap-
tivity!
The news from Iniia is more satisfactory.
Lieutenant-Colonel MARSHALL with only 900
infantry and a few horse attacked NUSSEER
KHAN at the head of 4,000 Belouchees, and de-
feated him with the loss of 500 Belouchees, in-
cluding several principal Chiefs, and the Khan's
stores and baggage. The British suffered little,
and had only one officer killed. This brilliant
action took place on the Ist of December among
the hills near Katra, and was expected to pro-
duce important results.
There is likely to be some ticklish business in
Lahore. The widow of NAO NEHAL SING, who
has mounted the musnud, has, it appears, in con-
junction with the Prime Minister, been guilty of
the murder of her husband, and KURRUK SING,
in order to clear the way for her own assumption
of Royal power. The proofs of her guilt are said
to be in the hands of Lord AUCKLAND.

The news from the Persian Gulf is very satis-
factory. No further attack had been made upon
Aden, and the British troops there were in ex-
cellent health.

From Alexandria the news is highly important
and satisfactory. On the 21st the whole of the
Turkish fleet, under the command of Admiral
WALKER, sailed for Marmorice, and IBRAHIM
PACHA having been previously ordered to eva-
cuate Syria, the Pacha has fulfilled all the con-
ditions of his submission with perfect good faith.
Commodore NAPIER was still at Alexandria,
where it was most probable he would remain till
the arrival of the Imperial firman conferring on
the Pacha the hereditary Pachalic of Egypt.

The Earl of RIPON'S motion concerning Persia,
which stood in the Lords for Monday, was post-
poned, in consequence of the death of a relative
of that Noble Lord.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition for an
equalization of the duties on FAA and West
India produce, the prayer of which he sup-
ported. The Noble Lord also presented a peti-
tion from the Finsbury Working Men's Asso-
ciation, for the Charter, and in favour of FROST.
Another Report on the mode of proceeding in
the case of the Earl of CARDIGAN was presented.
It was confined to the persons who may occupy
the space about the Throne.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, it will be seen by
our report, was obliged to leave the House of
Peers on account of illness, but subsequent in-
quiries at his residence were answered by the
assurance that his Grace was a great deal better.
The Peers adjourned to Monday.
In the Commons a considerable number of pe-
titions were presented against the Poor-law; for
the Copyright Bill; for more Churches; for the
Charter, &c.

A new writ was issued for King's County in
:he room of Mr. FITZSIMON, who, has accepted
he Chiltern Hundreds.

Lord STANLEY gave notice that he will, on
Monday, put a question to Ministers on the ap-
prehension of Mr. MACLEOD, a British subject,
by the authorities of New York.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD having given way
with his motion on the Copyright Bill, Lord
JOHN RUSSELL moved the thanks of the
House to Sir ROBERT STOPFORD and the
officers and men employed in the Syrian
expedition. The motion was gracefully re-
commended by the Noble Lord, and warmly
supported by Lord STANLEY, Lord F. EGERTON,
and Sir H. HARDINGE, who, referring to Acre
and Sir SYDNEY SMITH, recommended that a
monument should be built to the memory of that
Gallant Officer in St. Paul's. The vote, after
several Members had spoken, was unanimously
agreed to.

-Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved the second
reading of the Copyright Bill, and explained
that he had been misunderstood as stickling for
the period of sixty years ; he was not wedded to
that period, and would be ready to adopt thirty
years, according to the Bill introduced into the
Chamber of Deputies.
Mr. MACAULAY opposed the motion in a long
and able speech, full of anecdotes and facts bear-
ing on the question. He moved that the Bill be
read a second time in six months.

Sir R. INGLis supported Mr. Sergeant TAL-
Pouttp's motion, and. the Learned Gentleman
having replied, the House divided, and the
amendment was carried by 45 to 38, consequently
the Bill was lost.

Mr. HAWES obtained leave to bring in a Bill
to amend the laws relative to the Medical Pro-
fession, after a few remarks from Mr. WAKLEY
and Mr. WARBURTON, recommending a reform
in the College of Physicians, the College of Sur-
geons, and the Company of Apothecaries. The
Bill was immediately brought in, and read a
first time.

Lord MORPETH'S Irish Registration Bill was
brought in, and read a first time.
The House adjourned till Monday, at a Quarter
before Eight.

It was of course to be expected, after Lord
STANLEY'S remarks on Lord MORPETII'S Bill, that
all the Tory press would join in a furious attack
on it. We are not disappointed ; they have done
so ; though none can surpass the Standard in
shameless misrepresentation. Lord MORPETH
quoted in his speech, from the Report of two gen-
tlemen who had been instructed to inquire into
the practice of rating to the poor in the Unions
already established in Ireland, the following sen-
tences. We quote from the report of the Morn-
ing Chronicle which the Standard admits it has
seen:—
By the operation of the 74th section of the Act, the
lower the test of value adopted in the union, the less
proportion of the rate which is to be paid by the tenantry,
and the greater that of the landlords. But, probably from
the causes already referred to, the inhabitants generally
wish the valuators to adopt a long scale of value. In this
desire the majority of the Board of Guardians in every
union we have visited concurred. The impulse towards a
low valuation is nearly universal. We made minute in.
quirks in each union with a view to ascertain what test
of value had in fact been adopted. The test of value en-
joined by the Poor Relief Act is the rent at which, ot
year with another, the tenement in its actual state migh
p t actual
tith
e
be reasonably expected to loeft
tfhroonireypesairrst?
iynesaurr,artitee pro.end
bable annual average c
an rt ga ien it in s
itsexcept state, and all rates, taxes, and public
othes expenses, if any, necessary
to mcahl
by the valuators in their
the forms of language adopted
being paid by the tenant. In all the unions, however various
the rent at which
in fact adopted in valuing a tenement was
evidence, we found that the test of value take': had been
a good landlord ought, in their opinion,
to t it. And in
dueed their valuations below the rents even of the
applying this test the valuators have almost I euniversally rest.
most
indulgent landlords in Ireland. In nine out of the eleven
rural divisions of the union, the actual rents exceeded the
valuation in proportions varying from 5 to 30 per cent.
So throughout the Report it is stated that the
valuation for rating to the poor was always taken
below the actual rents, and even below the rents
of the most indulgent landlords. A similar prac-
tice prevails in England, and notwithstanding
the recent Act of Parliament to assess property
to its full value, it is very generally, we believe,
assessed below that value. At any rate, to the
time when the Parochial Assessment Act was
passed, it was the general practice to rate pro-
perty to the poor at one-third or one-hatf of its
actual value. The Editor of the Standard would

not have dared to accuse the inhabitants of pious
Islington, or liberal Clerkenwell, of perjury, for
swearing that their property, measured by the
rent, was as 601. when measured by the valuation
for rates it was only as 40/. Yet the Standard
boldly accuses the Irish of perjury on account of
a similar discrepancy. Lord MORPETH gave a
list of the electors in different places, who, judg-
ing by their rents, had been placed on the re-
gistry, and who, judging by the valuation,
would have been rated below 10/., in order to
show that, by adopting the criterion of rating,
and preserving the 10/. franchise, the number of
electors would be decreased. On this difference
between the rent paid, or the actual value of the
property, and the value put on it by assessors,
in order to rate it to the poor, the Standard
makes out the following case :
Registered electors, all of whom have SWO7/1 up to a
101. qualification

200

Number of those whose tenure was really worth less
than 101., but more than 51 -.. 50
Number of those whose tenure was worth LESS THAN
?WE POUNDS I 1 l7
Leaving of unperjured electors, but 133 out of 200, or
about forty per cent. of perjurers.
Such are the gross and shameless misrepresen-
tations by which the cause of the Church and of
the Tories is supported. These men are no more
perjurers than the Editor of the Standard would
be a perjurer if he should swear that a certain
house in Clerkenwell is worth 701. a year, when
it is or was rated to the poor only at 501. But
piety and Protestantism
.are of themselves such
estimable qualities, that no vice seems too gross
in the professors of them to secure their predo-
minance.

Having thus exposed the calumnious misrepre-
sentation of our Contemporary, we shall proceed
to notice the not less mischievous conduct of his
leader. Lord STANLEY has introduced into the
House of Commons a Bill to establish a vexa
tious system of registration in Ireland, allowing
of objection after objection, and appeal after ap-
peal ; and to make this more vexatious and more
objectionable, he has left undefined the thing to
be objected to. What would our readers think
of the Legislature establishing Courts to try bur-
glary or forgery, and leaving the people ignorant
of what is meant by forgery or burglary? What
would be said of it if it multiplied excisemen, and
created Excise Courts in every village, to put
down contraband trading, and omitted- to state
what is contraband trade ? But this is tantamount
to Lord STANLEY'S conduct. He makes a whole
heap of regulations about the exercise of a pri-
vilege, and leaves that privilege so vague and un-
defined, that neither Judges, barristers, nor states-
men are agreed as to what it is. If the Noble
Lord had deliberately concerted a scheme to pro-
mote vexatious litigation, and to disfranchise the
people, he could not have acted in a manner
more appropriate to attain his object;
Lord MORPETH has gone to work in a different
manner. He, too, has proposed a Bill to amend
the registration of Ireland, but he has accom-
panied the regulations with a clear and precise
franchise. Whatever opinion may be formed of
the sum at which he fixes it, no person can for a
moment deny that it is wise, philosophical, and
just to define the franchise before making reg.u-
lationg for its exercise—to settle what the privi-
lege is before appointing Judges Ito decide whe-
ther it be possessed or not. On all the principles of
common, sense, the course pursued by Lord
MORPETH is superior to that of Lord STANLEY,
who would punish a man for not performing a
duty without telling him what his duty is, and
without enabling him by any possibility to find
it out.

But while Lord STANLEY pursues this unjust
course, let the reader mark the excessively arro-
gant tone with which he speaks of those who have
a dwelling of the net annual value of 51. He
sneers at such persons as constituting a body of
free and independent voters. They are not born
to riot in the spoils of others; they arc not rich
landowners ; they do not swell their rent-roll by
taxing other persons' bread; they are honest-
hard-working men, whose industry scarcely suf-
fices to supply their wants, because rapacious law-
makers plunder and degrade them. He may dis-
pise them ; but it is surely a more praiseworthy
occupation to cultivate the land than to make
bad laws. It may be agreeable to some man's tem-
per to make rabid speeches night after
night against masses of his fellow-creatures,
and kindle into active strife all the latent
prejudices of people having a different origin,
and professing a different religion; but such
oratory is as injurious to the community as
the labours of the humble husbandman which
feed it are beneficial. Better is it to harrow the
ground than insult the feelings of a sensitive
people. Better is it to break clods and cut turf
than to send artillery galloping through the
land to extort wealth from a population of Ca-
tholics, for an idle, worthless, Protestant priest-
hood. By such conduct has Lord STANLEY dis-
tinguished himself, and has been as great a
curse to the country as the honest cultivator of the
ground is a blessing to it. He may be proud of his
oratory, but it is one of the most mischievous gifts
that ever made a man an object of national
hatred. He may despise the dwellers in houses
rated to the value of 51.; but when they come to
know themselves, and appreciate properly his
and their relative worth—his title will no
longer command respect, and he will be deprived
of the power of injuring, and of the privilege of
insulting his humble fellow-countrymen.

We were amused yesterday to find two Jour-
nals which have taken directly opposite views
on the subject of railway superintendence, which
in fact for some time maintained a controversy
on the subject, both glorifying themselves on
Mr. LABOUCHERE'S Bill. Here is what the
Times said :
It is with feelings of peculiar gratification that we wit-
ness the successful result of our labours for the public
good upon the subject of railway accidents, in the Report
of the officers of the railway department of the Board of
Trade, from which we yesterday published copious ex-
tracts, and in the Government measure founded on that
Report. Up to the time when we first directed attention
to this subject, the railway proprietors had every thing
their own way ; the public mind seemed lost in a kind of
bewildering astonishment at the results produced by the
application of steam-power to inland travelling, and the
tew who considered that it was necessary to watch with
jealousy the progress of an important social revolution
(for it was nothing less), were in danger of being decried
as illiberal opponents of all scientific improvement.
The Chronicle was not less pleased :
We perceive, with much satisfaction (it said) that in
the Rtport of the Railway Department of the Board of
Trade, and in Mr. Labouchere's Bill, founded thereon,
similar views are taken of the subject to those which we
repeatedly advocated during the recent discussions:
We paid some attention to the subject at the
time of these discussions, and of the accidents
which called them forth ; and we, too, had then
the satisfaction of seeing our remarks quoted and
praised by some of our • Contemporaries, and
borrowed by others, but we cannot boast
that our " labours for the public good" have
found any countenance either in the Report of
the Commissioners or Mr. LABOUCIIERE'S Bill.
In truth, we are rather astounded, and so are,
apparently, the Commissioners themselves, as
well as the BOARD Of TRADE and PLANTATIONS,
at the vast power they recommend to be confer-
red on that hitherto unimportant and little known
and little exercised branch of our Government.
If we recollect right, Mr. HUME once recom-
mended that the Board should be abolished; we
are not quite sure, if this -Bill be carried, that it
may not, bye and bye, like AARON'S rod, swal-
low up all the other branches.
Mr. LABOUCIIERE, in proposing the Bill, said
" Hon. Gentlemen might be alarmed at seeing in
the Bill very large powers ;" but those powers
seem to have had no alarm for the Times, which
has been for years such an opponent of the lesser
power conferred on the Poor-law Commissioners,
in relation, not to the whole community, not to
what will probably soon be .the sole means of in-
ternal communication, but to the poor and the
paupers. That the Chronicle should not be

alarined does not at all astonish us, because our
Contemporary has long been a zealous advocate
for increasing the power and extending the
operations of Government. In what shape the
recommmendations of the Commissioners, and
to what extent, may be embodied in Mr.
LABOUCHERE'S Bill, we know not, but when we
remember the vast extent of railway property,
and the certainty that, till some swifter and safer
means of communication be invented, railways
will monopolize all travelling, we look with some
suspicion on recommendations of the following
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descrription.
be given to the Board of Trade'
of issuing regulations for
rnadi,hotheersefoinre that a general power should
_ appear ne:e general, or upon any railway
nagaer7cfnotrs
thean porecaoutiois as from
in particular, such arrangements
are aware that such an indefinite powerpnii issafeeptty.to Webe
looked upon with jealousy, but we see no alternative be-
and fettering the action of a supervis-
ite7eanuatshsourmitying it'
so as to render it practically of little use.
The principle of Government
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supervision necessarily im.
those
to
whom
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live, or abusing them, this is an argument notepno forr
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their hands so as to deprive them of the we
good, but for dispensing with supervision altogether. doing
the present case, also, it must be remembered that an ef-
fective supervision for the prevention of accidents is u ben°.
ficial for the railway companies themselves as for the public,
and that it is especially fcr the interest of the best conducted
railways to have the precautions which they themselves
adopt huin What Pio have
,een intercours,t witS the direqtavi n:JitAg_
of the principal railways in the king- I
ing officers of many
don,. we nee nnlivinced that a liveryision exercised on Os

principles, and confined to ti e objects above stated, would
be regarded with anything bur apprehension or distrust,
and that we should find the Railway Companies generally
wiling and anxious to co-operate with us in the common
object of insuring the greatest amount of safety to the
public.

Should the Legislature think proper to grant to the
Board of Trade this power, it is evident that it ought not
to be fettered by a proviso similar to that inserted in the
3d section of the 3d and 4th Victoria, c. 97, compelling it
to issue the same regulations in like manner and at the
same time to all 'Railway Companies. As a general rule,
the regulations should of course be as far as possible uni.
form; but there; are many cases. in which regulations
proper on one railway would be improper on another, and
there arc also particular cases (as for Instance those of
railways having a common terminus, and using a portion
of the same line In common) in which it might be neces-
sary to make regulations more in detail than would be
necessary on other lines. The best check upon any aLuse
of these discretionary powers would be a proviso that no
order or regulation should be issued by the Board without
a minute stating the reasons for its adoption, the pro-
duction of which might be at any time called for by
Parliament.

" Public safety," "precautions which appear
necessary," may be largely interpreted; and it
is something new in theory, though not in prac-
tice, that those who administer the Government
in every branch are to be implicitly confided in,
and all other classes of men are to be objects of
suspicion end mistrust. We will not now enter
further on this subject, but we shall watch the
progress of the Bill, stating at once that the late
conduct of Ole Legislature—conferring immense
monopolieS without knowing it—refusing or ne-
glecting to establish railways on any general and
public principle has given us no confidence
whatever in its present legislation. What is the
Board of Trade and Plantations, that it should
at once be endowed with a power hitherto denied
to any branch of the Government ?

The country will joyfully concur in the vote of
thanks by which the two Houses of Parliament
, have testified their admiration of the chivalrous
exploits of the British and Austrian seamen and
marines on the coast of Syria. The history of
naval warfare supplies no example.of the achieve-
ment of su many successes in so short a period ;
: arid when' it is considered that the peace of the
world depended upon the celerity of Commodore
NA PIER'S movements, his brilliant victories ac-
: quire an importance which it is impossible to,
over-rate. Nobly- leave our gallant tars and their
brethren of the marines, wiped 'away the stain of
degeneracy which was sought to be fixed on the
wooden walls of Old England. Triumphantly
have they vindicated the immaculate honour of
that flag, which, borne on the wings of conquest,
" braved a thousand years, 'the battle, and the
breeze ;" and which we trust is destined
to brave them a thousand years more with-
out quailing before an enemy. At the expiration
of services,, the principle of which was disap-
proved of by a large party in this country, it
must be truly gratifying to such brave men as
Admiral STOPFORD, Commodore NAPIER, Ad-
miral BANDEIRA, the Archduke FERDINAND,
Admiral WAIRER, Major-General Sir CHARLES
SMITH, and the whole of the officers, sea-
men, and marines, who took part in them, to
find the British Parliament unanimously con-
curring to lay at their feet that tribute of
admiration and gratitude which is never
obtained but by the most heroic achievements.
Other, and in a mercantile sense more substantial,
rewards, we doubt not, await them. In earning
such praise they have earned solid pudding. But
in the estimation of brave men, the unanimously
and deliberately expressed thanks of the Houses
of Lords and Commons is not a barren recom-
pense of glorious deeds. The objects of such
thanks are self-exalted and ennobled by them.
To merit the thanks of a nation is a noble object
of generous ambition;- to obtain them is often a
reward for the most distinguished service, which
the brave recipients would not exchange for all
the hidden wealth of Peru and Mexico.
When our readers consider that the failure of
the Syrian expedition would have plunged this
country into a hostile%conflict with France, they
will not require to be told that no honours await
the principal officer in achieving the success of
that expedition, and his brave companions in
arms, to which they are not fully. entitled.
Commodore NAPIER at once performed the
part of a gallant tar, and a consummate diplo-
matist. He displayed not more courage and
self-possession on the quarter-deck of the
Powerful before Acre, than he did saga-
city and persuasiveness in the VICEROY'S divan
at Alexandria. The services which he thus
rendered to, his country and to Europe are not
'to be estimated by the ordinary standard of naval
success in war. The same remark, in a restricted
sense, applies to the conduct of his colleagues in
arms, included in the Lords' and Commons' vote
of thanks—a vote which, we are confident, the
country will ratify by unanimous acclamation.

We beg leave to direct public attention to a
letter from a Correspondent at Walsall, which
appears h 1 another place. It gives us pleasure to
be the means of publishing anything which tends
to redeem the character of that borough. The
influence anee intimidation used ought not to have
been borne, and we blame the electors that they
were not all like the one honest and honourable
man mentioned by our Correspondent. Walsall
has much to perform to recover its character, but
we will hope with our Correspondent, that, in
spite of Mr. FOSTFR and the landlords, it will do
right at the next opportunity.

The French Journals of Thursday had not ar-
rived up to the hour of our going to press.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

(From the Poles and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
ramAy, FEB. 5.
COPYRIGHT 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
Vie 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:—

Arbuthnot, Hon. H
Baring, F. T.
Bentinck, Lord G.
Blair, James
Briscoe, J. I.
Brownrigg, J. S.
Buller, C.
Buller, Sir J. Y.
Bulwcr, Sir E. L.
Burr, Higford
Dahneny, Lord
!)'lsraeli, Benjamin
Douglas, Sir C.
French, F.

NORITY-AYES, 38.
Gaskell, Junes Al flees Parker, Montague
Gladstone, W E, Pigot, D. R.
Glynne, Sir S. R. Polhill, Frederick
Goulhurn, Henry Pringle, A.
Gr2ene, T. Russell, Lout John
Halford, H. Sheil, R. L.
Hawes, B. Stewart, James
Hope, Hon. C. Strickland, Sir G.
Howard, C. W. G. I Teignineuth„ Lord
Litton, Eeward Williams, Robert
Mackenzie, Thomas
Morpeth, Viscount
Morris, David
Pakington, J. S.

TELLERS.
Talfourd, T. Noon
Inglis, Sir R. H.

Adam, Sir Charles
Aglionby, H. A.
Barnard, E. G.
B,lves, T.
Blake, W. J.
Bodkin, John James
Broadley, H.
Brotherton, J.
Bruges, W. H. L.
Buller, E.
Chichester, J. P. B.
Clements, Lord
Duncombe, T. S.
Dundas, David
Easthope, John
Ewart, W.

,JORITY-NOES,
&lector, C. J.
Kemble, Henry
Langdale, Hon. C.
Leader, J. T.
Macauley, T. B.
Marshall, W.
Maul; Hon. Fox
41elgu.d, Lord
Mild Tray, P. St. John
Morrison, James
Munts, U. F. •
O'Brien, Cornelius
O'Brien, W. Smith
Ossulston, Loid
Philips, M,
Pryme, G.

41.
Rawdon.``./. D.
Richards, R.
Salwey, Colonel
Stanley, E. .1.
Stansfield, W. R. C.
Strutt, Edward
Villiers, Charles P.
Wakley, Thomas
Wall, C. E.
Wallace, IL
White, Samuel
Williams, W.
Wood, B.
TELLERS.
Hume, J.
Warburton, H.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

SUNrOFFICK, THREE O'CLOCK.

The country will be rejoiced to learn that the Duke of
Wellington was a good deal better at the above hour this
afternoon.

The following are some further particulars of the sud-
den indisposition of the Illustrious Duke, in addition to
those which we gave last evening in the second edition of
The Sun:—

His Grace was, as usual, occupying his seat prior to
puLlic business being commenced. Notwithstanding the
intense cold of the day he went there in en open carriage,
' which he has been accustomed to use for some time past.
While Lord Brougham was addressing the House, about
half-past five o'clock, the Duke suddenly left his seat, as if
with the intention of quitting the House by the door near the
throne. This circumstance, of course, did not attract any pe-
culiar attention ; but he had not proceeded far before his
Grace dropped his liat,which he kicked before him, appearing
desirous to g, t it out of the way, so that he might pick it
up at the further end of the House, and thus escape ob
svrvation. As the hat did not go far, he kicked it a second
time, whets it rolled tear Lord Redesdale, who was
sitting on the seats occupied by the Judges when they
attend the Parliament. His Lordship rose to assist the
Duke in getting the hat, but as his Grace was by this
time staggering, and not stooping for the hat, Lord
Brougham called across the table to support him, lest be
should fall, and added with considerable feeling,
" Send for a surgeon, send for a surgeon."
In a moment the Duke was surrounded by se-
veral Noble Lords, and left the House supported princi-
pally by the Earl of Aberdeen. The Duke was able to
walk, but with difficulty, and it was found that he was
suffering from an attack of swimming in the head,
but his Grace maintained complete self-possession,
and conversed with those around. He was offered the
carriage nearest the House; but he said his own was in
attendance, and he should prefers that. It was not,
howcv,tr, immediately forthcoming. and he ultimatel)
proceeded in Lord Brougham's close-bodied carriage
towards his own residence, attended by the Earl cf
Aberdeen, &c. Even when in the carriage, the extraor-
dinary action of the bead continued; and it was imagined
by those acquainted with the Duke's mode of life, that the
attack resulted from his remarkable abstemiousness in re-
gard to food, and which too frequently characterises his
mode of living. It is needless to state that his ill-
nessoff to obtain medichl aid; and, immediately after the
created great agitation. Lord Ellenborough drove
D-ke's arrival at Apsley House. Dr. Curne and Dr.
Chambers were in attendance. The irquities at Apsley
House were most numerous. Her Majesty, P.iace Atbert,
tlit; Duke cf Csinbridge, and the Duchess of Gloucester,
ail sent tuessciige:a tit At-, aftt.i.tite:.N9We
_health.j He Lad been out in toe cuutse: the'day, and
11/4" MIMI Visits, apparently in his usual

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