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London, England, 1847-07-09 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 7.
PARLIAMENTARY ELECTORS 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 the end of the Question to add the word " to-morrow :"
—Question proposed, " That the word ' now' stand part of
the Question :"—Amendment, by leave, withdrawn :—Ques-
tion put, " That the Bill be now read a second time." The
House divided :

MINORITY-AYES, 67.
Aglienby, H. A. Grey, Sir G. Protheros, E.
Arundel, Earl of Grosvenor, Lord R. Pusey, P.
Seine, Walter Hallyburton, Lord Rich, Henry
Bannerman, A. Hatton. Captain Shell, R. L.
Baring, F. T. Hawes, Benj. Smith, R. V.
Berkeley, H. Ilervey, Lord A. Somerville, Sir W.
Bernal, Ralph Hindley Charles Strutt, Edward
Blake. M. J. Hobhouse, Sir John Tancred, H. W.
Bowring, Dr. Hume, Joseph Thornely, T.
Brotherton, J, Jervis, Sir John Trelawny, J. S.
Brown, W. Macaulay, T. B. Troubridge, Sir E.
Browne, W. Maule, Fox Tufnell, Henry
Buller, Charles Moffatt, George Villiers, Charles
Buller, Edward Molesworth, Sir W. Vvian, J. H.
Colebrooke, Sir T. Monahan, J. H. Wakley, Thomas
Dalrymple, Captain Morris, David Walker, Richard
Duncan, George Morison, General Ward, H. G.
Dundas, Admiral Norreys, Sir D. Williams, W.
Dundas, F. Osborne, Ralph Wood, Sir Charles
Escott, Bickham Parker, John TELLERS.
Ferguson, Sir R. Pechell, Captain
Ferrand, W. B. Perfect, Robert
Forster, Matthew Pinney, William
Gore, Robert Flumridge, Captain

Evans, Sir De Lacy
Duncomba, T.

MAJORITY-NOES, 72.

Acland, Sir T. Estcourt, T. G. Manners, Lord C.
Adderley, C. E. Feßowes, E. Miles, P. W. S.
Arkwright, 2,. Fitzroy, Henry Mundy, E. Miller
Austen, Colonel Floyer, John O'Brien, A. Stafford
Bankes, George Frewen, C. H. Pakington, Sir J.
Bennet, P. Fuller, A. E. Palmer, G.
Bentinck, Lord G. Gardner, J. D. Powell, Colonel
Bodkin, W. H. Graham, Sir James Prime, Richard
Boldero, H. G. Granby, Marquis of Rashleigh, W.
Botfield, Beriah Greene, Thomas Repton, G. W. J.
Bowles, Admiral Grogan, E. Rolleston, Colonel
Brooke, Lord Hamilton, G. A. Round, John
Buck, L. W. Hamilton, Lord C. Seymer, Henry Ter
Carew, W. P. Henley, J. W. Stuart, John
Christopher, R. A. Hildyard, T. B. T. Thornhill, G.
Clive, Viscount Hill, Lord E. Tollemache, J.
Codrington, Sir W. Ilotham, Lord Verner, Sir W.
Colvile, C. R. HoulcLsworth, T. Vyse, H.
Courtenay, Lord Inglis, Sir R. Waddington,7 H. S.
Denison, E. B. Jermyn, Earl Walpole, S. H.
Dickinson, F. 11. Jolliffe, Sir W G. H. Worcester, Marquis
Dodd, George Jones, Captain Wortley, J. S.
Duckworth, Sir J. Lawson, A. Mums.
Duncombe3A. Lowther, Hon. Col. Newdegate, C. N.
East, Sir J. B. Lygon, Gen. Spooner, Richard

THE MAYOR AND THE PUDDING.—A very fashion-
able dish in London just now, and a most exquisite
dish in the goodly line it is, is what is called an ice
pudding. It is of the genus ice cream, but a most
splendid species of the family. It comes on with the
sweet course, and has the deceptive appearance of
being a smoking hot plum pudding. The delusion
is sometimes increased by a litttle chimney, with
a flame proceeding from it, being placed in the centre,
so as to make it wear a most " all hot, all hot " look in
the eye of the unsuspecting gourmand who sees it for
the first time. Not many months since a chief magistrate
of Liverpool, not the present one, (lined with the Lord
Mayor of London. Spying the fiery chimney in the
middle of the delicious looking pudding, liJ booked him-
self for a slice. When it was set before him, thinking
how very hot it must be, he stirred it round and round
upon his plate until he fancied that he had reduced it to
the requisite coolness, the good citizens all the time
watching his proceedings, and anticipating a hat
n-ou!d come next. At last, all fears of burn-
ing his mouth being, as he fancied, over, in went a
spoonful, which none but a whale or an alderman
or a mayor would dream of bolting at once. And
then came the scene. His worship mistook the icy
coldness of the pudding for scorching heat—puff—
cough—hem— hem—splutter splutter —Out it came,
much more rapidly than elegantly, upon his plate
again, to the horror of the exquisites present, but
to the infinite glee and mirth of the cockney por-
tion of the company. It is still a standing joke at
the Mansioa-house' where it is often heard, " Will you
not taste a little of the Mayor of Liverpool's pudding?"
It would, doubtless, be doubly cold to the poor sufferer,
as he is a man rather of a fiery temperament himself.
Nobody ever thought him a nice Mayor, but as an ice
one, he comes nearer to it than ever he did before.—
Liverpool Albion.
DESPERATE BATTLE BETWEEN SMUGGLERS AND
CUSTOM-HOUSE OFFICERS.—Last week a Custom-house
officer of Hirson (Aisne), whilst on the watch, at about
eleven o'clock in the evening, saw a band of twelve men,
carrying packages, leave a wood. He fired his gun as a
signal for help, and rushed on the smugglers ; but the
gang, excited by their chief, surrounded the officer, and
struck him on the head, inflicting large wounds. In
the midst of the struggle several other Custom-house
agents came up, and a severe battle took place between
them and the smugglers. One of the latter wrested the
gun of one of the officers from him, and beat him with
the butt-end of it with such violence, that he broke it.
At last the victory fell to the Custom-house men, and
they succeeded in making four prisoners on the spot.
The chief of the gang being well known, he was sub-
sequently arrested.—Galignani.
AMERICAN ICE.—The vessel Virgilia, arrived at
the port of Liverpool from Boston, United States of
America, has brought, with articles of food and general
merchandise, 291 tons weight of ice. This is the first
importation of the kind from the United States during
the present season, although one or two arrivals of ice
took place about three months since from the northern
regions of Europe. It is well known (for particular
mention was made of the circumstance in our columns on
several occasions at the time) that the supplies of ice
from America were during the past year of so exten-
sive a nature, and continued for so long a period of time,
as to become quite an article of general commerce in the
list of imports from that great supplying country, and
now that they have once made a commencement, there
is little doubt but that they will continue this year to an
equal, if not, in consequence of the greater severity of
the past winter, increased, extent. For the same reason
(the intense cold of the past winter) there is, doubtless,
a much more extensive stock of ice of home production
in the metropolitan wells than was the case during the
past summer, when the scarcity of it was notorious, and
caused the foreign supplies to be bought up with avidity,
which was increased by the exceedingly hot weather
which then prevailed. There is, however, a peculiar
solidity and firmness about the ice collected in the
American lakes, which for various purposes is a great
advantage, and the particular properties which it pos-
sesses will very likely cause it to maintain its acknow-
ledged favour with the public.
CONVICTION OF THE TWO FEMALE RAILWAY
PICKPOCKETS AT BRISTOL.—There appeared in oar
journal, a short time since, an account of the.eampp, ile_,
hension, at Bristol, of two elegantly-attittuth, females,
upon
giving their names Ann Loft and Caroline S
med Barnard,
a charge of picking the pocket of a lady
while waiting at the booking- purse con-
Exeter Railway, at Bristol, andt te
. These parties, who,
o ffisee :rzfr:itgh the Bristol and
taining seven five pound-notes.
there engaged for some
there is reason to belie
time past in levying nvet;ibutions the railway and steam-
wee°re tried yesrday at the Bristol
left prisoners
the
ohffie cye at;
packet passengers.
before the Recorder, R. B. Crowley,
adduced to show that Mrs.-
asßar-
nardEsq. Evidence•the waiting-room
sitting in wa mat the station, the
Quarter
w a s
was
and that Mrs. Barnard having felt for and
pushed aga;nst her several times, and at length
missed her purse, they were pursued and overtaken in
first indignantly denied the charge, and
the London booking-office of the Great Western Rail-
way,
threatened an action for defamation ; but upon being
seised one of them dropped the purse and money. The
jury found them both guilty, and they were sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour.
DEATH OF ANOTHER PARISH MEDICAL OFFICER.
—Mr. Curtis, one of the district parish surgeons for St..
Pancras, and registrar for Camden-town, has died of
fever. It is said that the incipient symptoms of hie
disease were precisely similar to those that characterised
the fatal illness which carried off Dr. Lynch. Mr.
Curtis is the third parish medical officer that, within a
few days, has fallen a victim to fever in the metropolis.
The late Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Pearson,
K.C.8., Colonel of her Majesty's 85th Regiment of
Foot, formerly residing at Bath, but late of Cabaleaa
House, Hereford, has devised all his real estate
bto i.
wife, together with all the personal property,_atotalineTn
T.
joyed by her for her life, and then to his son C
A. Pearson absolutely ; and has charged
land in the parishes of Sandford Oreas and Rimpton, in
his estates.p and.
Somersetshire, with all outgoings and expenses, and ap-
pointed Lady Pearson the sole executrix of his will, exe-
out•ed is 1843.