The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-30 00:00:00

PARLIAMEN'FARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Pates and Proceedings of Me House of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 27.
PUBLIC BUSINESS.
Motion made, and Question put, " That no new business,
which shall be objected to by five Members, be brought on
after twelve o'clock at night."—( Mr. Brotherton. )—The House
divided :

Aglionby, H. A.
Baines, E.
Blake, M. J.
Blakemore, R.
Briscoe, J. 1.
Corbally, M. B.
I)ashwood, G. H.
Hector, C. J.
Home, J.

NORITY-AYES, 31.
O'Brien, W. Smith Style, Sir Charles
O'Connell, D. Turner, William
O'Coitinell, J. Wak ley, Thomas
O'Connell, M. J. Walker, R.
O'Connor Don White, A.
Palmer, George Wilbraham, G.
Pluniptre, J. I'. I Williams, W.
Pryme, G. l'ate, J. A.
Salwey, Colonel I
Staunton, Sir G. T.
Strickland, Sir G.

Jackson, Serjeant
James, William
Morris, David

TELLERS.
Brotherton, J.
Ewart, W.

Ainsworth,'Pe`er
Baring, F.
Baring, H. B.
Barnard, E. G.
Berkeley, Hon. C.
wes, I'.
Blackburne, I.
Blake, NV. J.
Bothell, Beriah
Bowes, J.
Broadley, H.
Broadwood, Henry
Brownrigg, J. S.
Bruges, V. 11. L.
Buck, L. NV.
Buller, Sir J. Y.
Burroughes, H.
Busftild, William
• arew, NV.
Clay, W.
Clements, Lord
Clive, E. B.
Clive, Robert
Cochrane, Sir 'l'.
Compton, H. C.
Courtenay, Philip
Cowper, Hon. W. F.
Dalrymple, Sir A.
D'Eyncourt, C.'l'.
Benjamin
Divett,
Duncan, Viscount
Duncombe, 'l'. S.
Easthope, John
Eliot, Lord
Elliot, Hon. J. E.
Estcourt, T. G. B.
Evans, W.
Feilden, NV.
Fitzroy, Hon. H.
Fort, John
Fremantle, Sir T.
Freshrleld, J. %V.
Gaskell, James Milaes
Gisborne, 'l'.

.JORITY-NOES,
Gordon, Robert
Goulburn, Henry
Gr,.ham, Sir James
Greene, T.
Grey Sir G.
Grimsditch, Thomas
Hastie, A.
Hawes, B.
Hawkes, T.
Henesgc, G NV.
Henniker, Lord
Herbert, Hon. S.
Herries, John C.
Ilindr, J. H.
Hobhouse, T. B.
Hodges, T. L.
Hodgson, Frederick
Hodgson, Richard
[lope, von. C.
Hoskins, K.
Howard, E. G.
1-1,,0k, Lord
Hughes, W. B.
Hurt, Francis
Inglis, Sir R. H.
Irton, S.
Irving, John
Kemble, Henry
Knatchbull, Sir L.
Kiughtley, Sir C.
Labouchcrc, H.
Lasceles, W. S.
Lefroy, 1) . T.
Lincoln, Earl of
Lushington, C.
Mackinnon, W. A.
Macnamara, W.
Mahon, Lord
Illelgu3d, Lord
'Ailness Richard
Monypenny T,
Muntz, G. F.
Ord, W.
Packe, C. NV

130.
IPalmerston, Visa.
Parke, J

Parker, Montague
I'attison, J.
Peel, Hon. Sir IL
Perceval, Colonel
AI.
Planta, J.
Pollock, Sir F.
Praeil, W. T.

Pringle, A.
II edington, T. N.
Richards, R.

Round, John
Russell, Lord John
Searlett, J. Y.
Seale, Sir J. H.
Seymour, Lord
Shaw, Frederick
Shelburne, Earl of
Sheppard, T.
Somerset, Lord G.
Sotheron, 'l'. E.
Stanley. Lord
Stanley, Hon. W.
Stanstield, W. It. C
Stewart, James
Strutt, Edward
Stuart, Villiers

Talfourd, 'l'. Noon
Tancred, 11. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Trotter J.

"I:ufnell, 11.

,
Villiers. Lord
Vivian, Major C.
Waddington, I-I. S.
Wilshere, W.

,
Winnington, Sir T.
‘Votlehouse'
Young, John

TELLERS.
Stanley. E. J.
Smith, R. Vernon

PRIVATE BILL COMMITTEES.

Motion made, and Question put, " That it is expedient that
Committees on Private Bills should be approximated more
nearly than they now are to judicial tribunals, and exempted
as much a 3 possible frora all motives of local and personal in-
torest."--(Mr. Ewart. )--The House divided :

Aglionby, H. A.
Berkeley, C.
Bewei,
Blake, M. J.
Brotherton, J.
Bulwer, Sir L.
Greer., T. G.
Heathcoat, John

:NORITY-AYES,
Hector, C. J.
Hume, Joseph
Muntz, G. E.
Salwcy, Colonel
Stanstield, W. It.
Stewart, James
Strickland, Sir G.
Strutt, Edward

Baldwin, C. Barry
Barnard, E. G.
Briscoe, J.

JORI T Y-NOES,
Freshfield, J. VV.
Gordon, IL.
Goulburn, H.
Hinde, J. H.
Hodges, T. L.
Labouchere, H.
Morris, David
Noel, C. G.
O'Brien, NV. S.

Broadle.y, Henry
Bruges, W. H. 1..
Buller, Sir J. B. Y.
Busn Oil, W.
Courtellay, T. /'
Elliot, Hon J. E.

22.
'Talfourti, Serjeant
Tancred, H. W.
White, Andrew
Willialus, W.
Yates, John A.
TELLERS.
Ewart, W.
Warburton, H.

Packe, C. W.
Phillpotts, John 1,
Pringle, A.
Prynit (-'.
Rice, E. B.
Richards, Richard

TELLERS.
Cirey, Sir 0.
Estcoutt, T. G. B.

WALSALL ELECTION.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
Since I last had the pleasure of communicating with
you, the electors of Walsall have had a visit from Mr.
Charles Wilkins, of Manchester, who has been addressing
them in the George Hotel Assembly-room these two last
nights, on behalf of the Corn-laws, monopolies, and Conser-
vative principles. His audience has been composed almost
entirely of Tories, great pains being taken to exclude
those who were likely to oppose him ; few or none of the
non-electors are admitted on any terms, Meantime both
candidates are incessantly at work amongst the " doubtful"
or unpledged voters, and using other means to secure the
election. A few " gents." have arrived from the Carlton
Club to " assist" Mr. Gladstone.

The " writ" having arrived yesterday forenoon, the
Mayor (a Catholic) announced by placard that the nomi-
nation would take place on Monday morning at nine o'clock,
and the election is fixed for the day following.

PHENOMENA OF SOUND.—In the arctic re-
gions, persons can converse at more than a mile distant,
when the thermometer is below zero. In air, sound tra-
vels from 1,130 to 1,142 feet per second. In water sound
passes at the rate of 4,708 feet per second. Sound travels,
in air, about 900 feet for every pulsation of a healthy
person, at 75 in a minute. A bell sounded under water,
may be heard under water at 1,200 feet distance,
Sounds are distinct at twice the distance on water that
they ce on land. In a balloon, the barking of dogs on
the ground may be heard at an elevation of three or
four miles. On Table Mountain, a mile above Cape
Town, every noise in it, and even words, may be beard
distinctly. The fire of the English, on landing in Egypt,
was distinctly heard 130 miles on the sea. Dr. Jamison
says, in calm weather he heard every word of a sermon
at the distance of two miles ! ! Water is a better con-
ductor of sound than air. Wood is also a powerful
conductor of sound, and so is flannel or ribbon. Sound
affects particles of dust in a sunbeam; cobwebs and water
in musical glasses ; it shakes small pieces of paper off a
string in concord. Deaf persons may converse through
deal rods held between the teeth, or held to the throat or
breast. Echoes are formed by elliptical surfaces combined
by surrounding surfaces, or by such of them as fall into
the respective distances of the surface of an ellipse, and
are therefore directed to the other focus of the ellipse.
For all the distances from both foci to such surface are
equal, and hence there is a concentration of sounds at
those points, direct from one focus, and reflected back
again from the ocher focus. An echo returns a monosyl-
lale at 70 feet distance, and another syllable at every 40
feet additional. The echo of artillery is increased or
created by a cloud or clouds. Miners distinguish the sub.
stance bored by the sound ; and physicians distinguish the
action of the heart by a listening tube. Gamblers and
pie men can distinguish, in tossing money, which side is
undermost, though covered by the hand.

CASTLE HOWARD.—The Earl of Burlington
and family, who have been visiting the Earl and Countess
of Carlisle, left on Wednesday f r Chatsworth, the seat
of the Duke of Devonshire, from whence the Noble Earl
would proceed to Holkar Hall. Mr. and Lady Fanny
Howard left, on Tuesday last, for the metropolis. The
Earl and Countess of Carlisle and Lady Mary Howard
take their departure next week for Grosvenor place.
On Sunday last the theatre at Oldham was
opened for a Sunday school by a religious party who had
seceded from the ministration of St. Peter's Chapel.--
Manchester Grtardian,