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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
FRIDAY. FEB. 5.
DESTITUTE POOR (IRELAND).
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
Third Clause (Relief Committees to be formed; Provided
always, That the justices resident in such electoral divisions,
if any, and the guardians of the poor elected for such elec-
toral divisions, and one of the inspectors to be appointed by
the Relief Commissioners, shall, in every case, be constituted
members of such Relief Committee):—Amendment proposed,
in page 2, line 22, after " elected for such electoral divisions,"
to insert the words, " and the clergy of all denominations
officiating in such electoral divisions :"—Question put, " That
the proposed words be there inserted." The Committee
divided

MINORITY—AYES, 32.
Acton, Colonel Grogan, E. O'Connell, D., Jun.
Aglionby, H. A. Hamilton, J. H. O'Connell, M. J.
Archbold, Robert llamilton, G. A. O'Ferrall, It. M.
Arundel, Earl of Harris, Captain Osborne, Ralph
Barron, Sir H. W. Hayes, Sir E. Rice, E. R.
Bellew, R. M. Kelly, James Shaw, F.
Chapman, B. Lawless, Cecil Smithwith, R.
Cole, H. A. Martin, T. B. Somers, J. F.

Connolly, Col. Miles, William
Corbaily, M. E. Norreys, Sir D. TELLERS.
Dawson, T. V. O'Brien, C. O'Brien, W. S.
Grattan, Henry O'Brien, Timothy O'Connell, Job i

MAJORITY—NOES, 128.
Aldam, William Evans, William O'Conor, Don
Allix, J. F. Ferguson, Sir R. Ord, W.
Arkwright, George Finch, G. Parker, John
Baillie, Colonel Forster, Mathew plumridge, Captain
Baine, Walter French, F. Power, James
Barclay, David Gibson, Thomas M. Protheroe, E.
Barkly, Henry Godson, R. Pulaford, Robert
Baring, F. T. Gore, Robert Rawdon, Colonel
Barnard, Edward G. Goulburn. Henry Reid, Colonel
Bateson, T. Graham, Sir James Beaton, G. W. J.
Berkeley, Captain Grey, Sir G. Rich, Henry
A.
Berkeley, H. F. Harcourt, G. Roebuck, J.
Bernard, Viscount Hastie, A. Ross, David R.
Blackburne, J. I. Hatton, Captain Rutherford, A.
Blake, M. J. Hawes, Benj. Scrope, G. P.
Bodkin, J. J. Hay, Sir A. L. Seymour, Lord
Bowring, Dr. lleathcoat, John Sheridan, R. B.
Brocklehurst, J. Henley, J. W. Somerville, Sir W.
Erotherton, Joseph Hope, Sir J. Spooner, Richard
Stansfle
Brown, W. Howard, C.W.G. ld, W. R. C.
John
Buck, L. W. lloward, E. G. Stewart,
Buller, Edward Hume, Joseph Taylor, E.
Banbury, William Hutt, William Thornely,
Sir E.
T.
Clay, Sir W.: James, William Troubridge,
Turner, Edmund
Clements, Viscount Jervis, Sir John
Colebrooke, Sir T. Labouchere, Henry Vane, Lord H.
Collett, John Lambton, H. 'Verner Sir W.
Coote, Sir C. Lincoln, Earl of Vesey,'Hon. T.
Corry, Henry Lockhart, A. E. Vivian, J• li.
Conrtenay, Lord Lygon, General Waddington, 11. S.
Cowper, W. F. Macaulay, T. B. Walker, Richard
Craig ,W. G. Mackenzie, W. F,
Crawford, W. S. Mackinnon, W.
Dallier, Colonel Maitland, T. Warburton,
,ffr
jt0..1.1. 1.
Deedes, W. Mangles, D. William W.
Denison, J. E.
Dickinson, F. H. MMaanußleTio Load
3.
Duncan, Lord wirWood°:::
TheSiorolorganaelaorTles.
Morpeth, Viscount —Y , B
Duncan, George Morris, David Yorke, Henry B.
Dundas, F. Mostyn, E. M. Young, J.
Dundas, David Mure, Colonel Trani.
Ebrington, Viscount Napier, Sir Charles
P.Tarim% H.
Egerton, Sir
Newdegate,
N.
Escott, Bickham O'Brien, A. Stafford 1:{_111, Lord M.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, FRIDAY.--'lle Queen and Prince Albert took
their usual early morning walk.
The Royal family took walking and pony exercise this
forenoon in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out this morning
on horseback, accompaniod by Count Alexander Mensdorit
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent had an evening
party at her residence, Froginore House.
A deputation from the Council of the National Institute of
Pen-
Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery, consisting of Dlr.
nington (president), Mr. Martin (Reigate, vice president),
Mr. Clifton (vice president), Mr. Fuller (member of council),
Mr. Bird (member of council), Mr. Ancoll (member of coun-
cil), and Mr. toss (secretary), had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. General Ship
Mr. N. W. Symonds, Secretary of heOwners Society, had an interview with the
the Rig Board of
ht lion. T.
Milner Gibson, yesterday, at the Ace of
Trade.
Sir William G. Hylton Jolliffe, had an interview with the
Right lion. E. Strutt, yesterday, at the office of ther. CWil-
om-
missioners of Railways in Great George-street. M
liam Blake had also an interview with Dlr. Strutt, yes-
terday.
Ilis Excellency the Brazilian Minister, transacted business
yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Mr. J. Galt had an interview with
_Earl Grey yesterday,
at the Colonial-office.
Colonel More, M.P., accompaniea the deputation cif Scotch
distillers with other Members of Parliament to the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on Thursday
Mr. A. Kinnaird bad an interview yesterday with Sir
George Grey.
Mr. Pattison, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of
Clarendon yesterday at the Board of Trade.
Lady John Russell was indisposed yesterday, but was
intended to
better last evening.
dinner,
terLs residence in
Lord John Russell's Parliamentary
have been given this day (Saturday)
yesterday .
lace, is s unavoidablyhad
,n
interview postponed.
with the
Chesham-p.ace, i
Mr. Hutt, M.P..
Ilon. T. Milner Gibson.
Right
I The Duchess of Inverness bad a select party at dinner
I
3 esterday at her residence in Kensington P
ace.
a ..

SERIOUS INDisroSiTION OP LADY JOHN RUSSELL.
—We regret tolearinrngthiartomLadseyvjeroehninildnisspsoesllitX, whichhi during this
s
week been suffering
the family connexions. On Wednes-
day muchriaandlyisehtYi was considered in rather an yinalaring
day last her
condition, but on Thursday morning there was apparent
la the evening of the latter day a change, we
provement.
the worse, took
Ladyshipplace, and up to last night
lament to say for
illness,emttheer 8
ofNoble
the Premier
Cabinet
it was stated that her , remained much the same.
Russells
.is, with
the
nl
Owing to Lady John
was prevented from dining
at the Marquis of LallSdowne's on Wednesday, and also ab-
sented himself from the PriNi7a3Council., at Windsor Castle.
On Thursday. Dr. Rigby been in attendance on her
Ladyship throughout her illness,willAs 1),. seen by our Court Circular,
appointed for this even-
' her Ladyship was better last
inif,ht. Lord JolM Russell has,
of her Ladyship.
postponed his Parliamenta!yynner,
ing, in consequence of the indisposition
Da. RoBERTSON or AULTNAsEIACIL—Our vene-
rable townsman, Dr. James Robertson of Aultnaskiach, died
at his residence'. in the vicinity of Inverness, on the 27th
ultimo, at the ripe age of eighty-one. So early as 1787 Dr.
Robertson was established here as a medical practitioner, wid.
was soon after extensively employed and consulted by all the
leading families in the north. For the last twenty years he
had withdrawn from the active duties of his profession, bat
he was still called in when danger was al, hended, and his
1 services were always at the command of all classes without
1 fee or reward. For many years Dr. Robertson was Provost
of the burgh, and his gentlemanly manners, his active and
kindly disposition, and the warns interest he took in all
matters relating to the town, rendered him one of our most
conspicuous citizens. His remains were this (Tuesday)
accompanied to the grave by a great concourse day
of persons,
i Intil a the t9Till aild colugry.—inverneo courior,
.

- . 6, 1847
(CONTINIP„.-
Another of Gilfillan's Literary Portur4
the present number. -It is one of thr, t, is
TAIT'S MAGAZINE. 1'
prefixed to
and not the least brilliant he ha; % interesting
produced.
hill
•
His theme is the character and writ,in
As might have been anticipated, Urgs l Thomas Hood.
his critical observations
principally atiflllan restricts
of thc., deceased author. V. -
the. serious poetry
merits of that poetry, a••
-e discrimination of the
tragic narratives" at particularly ,of the " homely
keen and gene- and the " grave prithetic lyrics" is
uttered an p.• .ous. Upon Eugene Aram's dream is
than ti- arrest panegyric, but not n jot more earnest
if Sr.- powerful poem deserves. On the celebrated
„ng of the Shirt," again, the strictures are forcible
enough, the writer fully appreciating the burden of that
strange and stirring chaunt—" now shrunk down into the
whispers of weakness, now shuddering up into the
laughter of despair." One remark upon the idiosyncrasy
of Hood is well conceived and clearly worded. " It' he
cannot get rid of the grim gigantic shadow of himself,
which walks ever before him as before all men, he can
at least make mouths and cut antics behind its back."
That sentence in itself is a fine eulogium upon the genial
disposition and, we had almost said, the profound wisdom
of poor Hood. "Some will continue to follow the en-
baptised terror in tame and helpless submission," con-
tinues Mr. Gilfillan, "others will pay it vain homage ;
others will make to it resistance equally vain ; and
many will seek to drown in pleasure, or forget in busi-
ness, their impression, that it walks on before them—
silent, perpetual, pausing with their rest, running with
their speed, growing with their growth, and strengthen-
ing with their strength, forming itself a ghastly rainbow
on the fumes of their bowl of festival, lying down with
them at night, starting up with every start that disturbs
their slumbers, rising with them in the morning, rushing
before them like a rival dealer into the market-place,
and appearing to beckon them on behind it, from the
death-bed into the land of shadows, as into its own do-
main." Was there not wisdom in that fitful laughter
and those fantastic gambols of Hood ? And did
that laughter and those gambols deteriorate in
any measure the effect of his deep and enthral-
ling pathos ? Did they not rather enhance
in a wonderful degree the emotions produced by his
impassioned verse, breaking in with a jest upon the me-
lancholy wail of the sempstress, mingling a quaint smile
with her tears, throwing " a dimple on the red waves of
hell ?" Upon this apparently rich eccentricity, Mr Gil-
fillan observes, " Hood, as well as Shakspere knew that
to deepen the deepest woe of humanity. it is the best
way to show it in the lurid light of mirth." That is part
of the secret of that charm, half-pensive, half-jocose,
which pervades the metrical writings of Hood. He
laughs, and jokes, and puns, and exaggerates, and sets
the table in a roar, because, as Mr. Gilfillan surmises,
he felt that " if he wept at all, it were floods of terrible
and burning tears." It is with the deepest pleasure we
hear that one hundred pounds has been obtained from
the Royal Bounty for the pressing necessities of the
two orphan children of Thomas Hood, and that it is the
intention of the Prime Minister to ensure them a com-
petent pension in June. The nation owed some trivial
mark of honour like this to the memory of as true a
man and as gentle a heart as England ever
possessed. The " Letters and Dispatches of Napo-
leon," as well as the " Lives of the English
Chancellors," by Lord Campbell, are severally
reviewed, at some length, with copious quotations.
Thomas de Quincy contributes another article upon
" Walter Savage, Landor ;" and John O'Connell com-
mences certain "Arguments for the Repeal of the
Union." The principal excellence in the latter paper
is, that it condenses into a few pages the plea of the
Liberator, and his millions of followers. " Sketches in
Cities," beginning with Glasgow, promises to be a very
readable series, and calculated to do good service in the
way of municipal improvement. Contrast begets emu-
lation and emulation necessitates advancement. The
remainder of the magazine is of inferior importance, not
excepting the Political Register.

CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE. Part VI.

In the opening chapter of this part, Christopher
is introduced to the interior of Gudge's Villa, at
Brompton, and having been fitted out in a second-
hand suit of page's costume by a Jew client of
Gudge's, appears as the " Buttons " of the establish-
ment, whose duty it is to attend to Mrs. Gudge in her
peregrinations, and to drag the "Olive" round the
neighbourhood in a child's chaise. Sprouts and his
companions, Bessy Payne, Miss Twits, and the Jolly
Man, after their sudden ejectment from Gudge's
chambers, adjourned to a steam-packet, of which the
brother of the Jolly Man is the steward, where they
finish the evening, the Jolly Man undertaking to
attend the ladies home, while Sprouts, having no
place of abode, sleeps on board. The following de-
scription of a summer night on the river is as true as
it is beautiful :
" If you have never passed a summer night upon the
river as it flows through the metropolis—and the
chances are, that circumstances have never offered you
the chance of doing so—you cannot conceive how much
of the beautiful, and even romantic, still hangs about
our cold, common-place, money-getting London. You
must wait until the roar of swarming life has been stilled
in the streets and on the bridges ; and all traffic has
ceased upon the water; until the house-fires have nearly
all died away, and the moon is shining down from the
clear heaven upon the sleeping city. And then Venice
itself is scarcely more 'beautiful. For the outlines of the
very warehouses, softened in the tranquil light, assume
picturesque forms that might be palaces with less effect ;
and the spires of the churches, with their vanes faintly
gleaming, rise sharp and white in the air ; whilst along
the banks, mingling with the lamps, here and there, red
fires break out, reflected quiveringly in the miter, and
throwing the forms of those who move about them in
giant shadows upon the adjoining buildings, seen on the
open wharves, and through the arches, in the bluish
misty distance, when the other lights become mere
specks. Lesser lights, too, twinkle like eyes from the
heads of ships that lie in clusters on the river, which
flows on, breaking the reflection of the moon into dan-
cing flashes, and gurgling and eddying with a subdued
noise by the sides of the craft, and the piles and but-
tresses that divide its course. The appearance of a
great city in the repose of night is always impressive,
but chiefly so when viewed from the water, as the feeling
of entire isolation flings an additional charm of interest
over it." _ _

In the morning Sprouts repairs to the establishment
of the Jolly Man, who turns out to be a proprie-
tor of advertising vans, and by his interest is engaged
by an old widow, who combines the occupation of
tobacconist, librarian, and newsvendor, as her assist-
tant, and here he unexpectedly meets with Bessy
Payne and Miss Twits, who have always patronised
the establishment. The Gudges give a grand dinner
party, to which Sir Frederick Arden is invited, and
to which Mrs. Hamper, accompanied by her nephew,
a Mr. Ellis, comes uninvited. The appearance of
Mr. Ellis produces an extraordinary effect upon Sir
Frederick and upon Gudge, who retire together for a
few minutes' private conversation in another room,
where we leave them for the present.

RAILWAY MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
Emboldened by the success of his first number,
the proprietor has reduced the price of his magazine
to a shilling, and has stamped it so as to secure its
transmission free by post. Perhaps the most valuable
piece of railway intelligence in the present number
is the verbatini report of the conference which took
place on the Bth of January last, between the
directors of the South-Eastern and those of the
London and Brighton and South Coast lines. Not only
will every shareholder in these companies peruse this
report with attention, but all those who reside along
the course of any of the projected lines, or who take
any interest whatever in Kentish railways, will
refer to this report for information on the subject.
We are glad to find the editor, in the course of an
elaborate article, doing full justice to the claims of
the South Wales line of railway, which have of late
been most unaccountably overlooked. As he justly
observes. " It is a line of great national and
local importance, and one of the most exten-
sive, if not one of the most useful, which the
country] has yet produced." The writer gives
a history of the line from its first projection up to the
period of its being leased by the Great Western Com-
pany—a history illustrative of the difficulties which
the sinister interests of local authorities, and the
ignorant prejudices of official pedantry, are continu-
nlly throvrizAs in filo way of thr. h..f_onotrived
schemes for the public advantage. The present
number of the Railway Monthly Magazine is a great
improvement upon its predecessor. It is well got up,
and is a complete repertoire of railway information.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. -
At the Court at Windsor, the 4th day of February, 1847,
Present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint Lloyd Vaughan
Watkins Esq., to be Lord-Lieutenant-and Castes Rotulorum
of the county of -Brecon, he this day took the oaths ap-
pointed to be taken thereupon, iastead of the oaths of
Allegiance and Supremacy. Her Majesty. in Council was
this day pleased, upon the representafon of the Right Hon.
the Lords of die Committee of Council on Education, to ap-
point Edward Carleton Tufnell, Esq., and Joshua Festin
Ituddock, Esq., to be two of her Majesty's Inspectors of
Schools. -

DUCHY OF LANCASTER, FEB. 4,1847.
The Queen has been the day pleased to appoint William
Gale, of Lightburn-house, Ulverstone, Esq., to be Sheriff of
the county palatine of Lancaster for the year ensuing.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 3.
The Queen has , been pleased to appoint Dr. William
Pulteney Alison to be First Physician to her Majesty in
Scotland, in the room of Dr. J. H. Davidson, deceased.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Dr. Robert
Christison to be one of her Majesty's Physicians in Ordinary
in Scotland.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Dr. James
Young Simpson, to be Physician Accoucheur to her Majesty
in Scotland.

District Court—J. A. Lee, ironfounder, Liverpool, March 1!
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court—C. Taylor, brush
manufacturer, Birmingham, March 1, at twelve, at the Bir-
mingham District Court--J. B. Dunkerley, draper, Man-
chester, Feb. 26, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
—W. Barker, cotton spinner, Tottington Higher-end, Lan-
cashire, March 4, at twelve, at the Manchester District
Court.

CERTIFICATES is be granted, unless cans© be shown to

I the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
C. Burrell, cheesemonge ,r Northumberland-place, Com-
mercial-road, Feb. 27—J. Lamont, ship owner, Wellclose.
. square, Feb. 26—P. Howard, wine merchant, Hingham,
Norfolk, Feb. 24—J. Mousley, builder, North Brixton,
March I—T. Marsh, chair manufacturer, Camomile-street,
Bishopsgate-street, March I—C. Boror, grocer, Elliot's-row,
Lower-road, Islington, Feb. 26—W. Trice, grocer, High-
street, Stepney, March I—J. Mears, builder, Bristol, Feb. 26
—J. Sutcliffe and Company, cotton spinners, Birstal, York-
shire, March 2—J. Sutcliffe, cotton spinner, Whalley, Lan-
cashire, March I—A. Burton, coal merchant, Pimlico,
March I—T. Broady, chemist, Chester, Feb. 26—J. Lester,
farmer, Pen-y-gelle -lodge, Denbighshire' Feb. 26—J. Hub-
bard, auctioneer, Ratmgate, Feb. 26—J. G. Rifford, brewer,
Holloway, Feb. 26.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
A. Simms and E. A. Power, cigar dealers, Birmingham—
T. Begbie, F. T. Young, and G. Young, corn factors, Mark-
land—H. D. Colgan and R. Matthews, hot pressers, Fit-
chett's-court, Noble-street, City—G. Ray and H. Imlach,
surgeons, Milton, Kent—F. and A. Carter, attorneys,
Coventry--E. Cooper, E. P. Cooper, and B. Cooper, woollen
cloth manufacturers, Stayerton, Wiltshire—W. J. Hill and
F. Bates, linend rapers, Kentish-town—T. Parry and T. Light-
foot, sugar refiners, Liverpool—P. Littlejohn and J. W.
Thomas, wine merchants, Liverpool—W. Stubbs and W.
Walker, china manufacturers, Stoke-upon-Trent—J. and H.
Reeves, colourmen, Cheapside—F. F. Davis and G. C.
Stewart, ale merchants, Water-lane, City—J. Blackall and
E. Webb, shoemakers, Corbet-court, Gracechurch-street— A.
D. Young and %V. Ridge, tea dealers, Gracechurch-street—J.
and J. Hobson, scissor manufacturers, Sheffield—W. II Bell,
H. Hunter, E. Bell, and J. Hargrave, general commission
agents, City (so far as regards H. Hunter)—M. Birkbeck
and A. Quitvow, merchants, Bradford, Yorkshire--J. Mason
and J. Williams, builders, Liverpool—H. M. Soole and A.
Duncan, lightermen, Hull—A. Parker and F. Shield, ship
brokers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Letts and C. T. Cooke,
millers, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire—T. Holt and F.
White, dry salters, Manchester.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. •
John Callum, contractor, Glasgow, Feb. 10 and March 3
at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Gilmour. Glasgow. ,
Alexander Turner, cabinet maker, Glasgow, Feb. 10 an&
March 3, at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Dick, Glasgow.