The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-11 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
FRIDAY, InC. 10.
CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRELAND) BILL.
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
First Clause (Provisions in this Act to apply to any part
of Ireland specified in the Lord• Lieutenant's Proclamation):
—Amendment proposed, page 1, line 13, after the word
" Ireland" to insert the words "in which such Crimes and
Outrages shall have been reported to have occurred :"
Question put, " That those words be there inserted." The
Committee divided

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MINORITY—AYES, 4.
Meagher, Thomas Reynolds, John
O'Brien, Timothy TELLERS.
O'Connor, Feargus O'Connell, John
O'Connell, Maurice

MAJORITY-NOES, 203.

NEW WRITS.—The writ issued on Thursday night
far Newcastle-under-Lyme, was on account of somei
doubt having been thrown on the legality of IN F.
Christie retaining his seat, the firm with which ho is
connected having entered into a contract which, it is
snpposed, might be considered within the meaning of the
Act against Government contractors sitting in Parlia-
ment. Mr. Christie returns to his constituents for re-
election, and, as is usual in such cases, it is supposed
no opposition will be offered to his return. There will
be a new writ soon issued for Weymouth. The Sherborne
Journal states that W. D. Christie, Esq., has determined
to retire from the representation of that borough. An
election to supply this vacancy will probably take place
during the coming week.
111. n. COBDEN RETIBING PROM BUSINESS.—The
Manchester papers of Saturday contain an announce-
ment of the dissolution of partnership between " Richard
Cobden and Frederick William Cobden, as printers of
calicoes and other goods, at Crease Hall. near Chorley,
in the county of Lancaster, and at Manchester, in the
said county., We should infer from this that the
Hon. Member for the West Riding proposes to devote
himself more exclusively to legislation and statesman.
ship.
WOOLWICH.—An order has been received at this
establishment to prepare 90 field guns, 9-pounders, with
carriages and timbers, for the dock-yard battalions; but
the works already on hand are so great that it will be
some time before the above order can be completed, and
an additional number of hands will be required. Seve-
ral members of the Board of Ordnance visited the Royal
Arsenal last week, for the purpose of examining the
various workshops in the carriage department, and con-
sidering the best mode of increasing the accommodation
fur the extra number of men who will be required to
accelerate the works, and to enable the members of
the board to frame the estimates for the ensuing year,
which will be considerably increased, as it is now decided
upon to enlarge the workshops, and also to build new
and extensive premises for facilitating the progress of
the works, and employing the best machinery that can
be obtained to assist -the manual labour. Six guns,
mounted on field carriages, are in hand at present for
the Sheerness dockyard battalion, and four guns for the
Clarence Victualling-yard battalion, at Portsmouth,
these being required immediately.
RIVER. PLATE. Advices of the 9th of October
appear to have reached Havre from Monte Video ; but
we have no news excepting that Rivera had been
banished by the Montevidian authorities, and sent to the
island of St. Catharine. So much for Lord Aberdeen's
protege,-whose virtues were so much extolled by the
parties who now drive him from their shores.
HAMMERSMITH.—Thursday a public meeting was
held at the Hall in the Bridge-road, at which a resole
tion Has agreed to that a petition should be presented to
Parliament, praying that the extensive parishes of Ham-
mersmith, Kensington, Fulham, and Chiswick should be
constituted into a Parliamentary borough.