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London, England, 1848-07-19 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

TUESDAY, JUSTY IS.
HIGHWAYS BILL.

Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair."
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That"
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this
House will, upon this day six months, resolve itself into the
said Committee," instead thereof :—Question put, " That the
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question."
The House divided :

MAJORITY-AYES, 88.
Abdy, T. N. Fertescue, Chichester Parker, John
Adair, R. Shafto Freestun, Colonel Perfect, R.
Alcock, Thomas Greene, Thomas Pinney, W.
Armstrong, R. B. Grenfel , Charles W. Pusey, P.
Barrington, Viscount llaggitt, F. R. Ricardo, Osman
Bernal, Ralph Hardcastle, J. A. Rice, E. R.
Bowring, Dr. Haste, Alexander Rich, Henry
Boyle, Colonel Hawes, Benjamin Russell, F. C.
Brotherton, J. hay, Lord J. Seyiner, 11. K.
Brown, W. Hay-ter, W. G. Sheil, R. L.
Browne, R. D. Heathcote, Sir W. Shelburne, Earl of
Buxton, sir E. Hobhouse, Sir John Sheridan, R. it.
Campbell, W. F. Hobhouse, T. B. Simeon, John
Cavendish, G. H. Hood, Sir A. Slaney, R. A.
Childers, J. W. Howard, P. H. Thicknesse, R. A.
Christopher, It. Ingestre, Viscount Thompson, Colonel
Clifford, Henry M. Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Townley, R. (I.
Compton, 11. C. Kershaw, James Trollope, Sir J.
Davie, Sir Henry Langston, J. H. Tynte, Colonel
Deedes, W. Lascelles, E. Verney Sir H.
Drumlanrig, Vis. Lascelles, W. S. Villiers, Viscount
Drummond, Henry Lewis, G. C. Villiers, F. W.
Duckworth, Sir J. M`Cullagh, W. T. Wawn, J T.
Duncan, George Ma:heson, Colonel Wilson, Matthew
Duncuft, John Milner, W. M. Wood, Sir Charles
Dundas, Sir D. 3lotratt, George Wyvill, Marmaduke
Elliot, John E. Moody, C. A.
Emlyn, Viscount Morison, Sir W.
E wart, William Morris, David
Foley, J. 11. Nugent, sir Percy
Forster, Matthew Paget, Lord Clarence

TELLERS.
Tufnell, Henry
Hill, Lord Marcus

MINORITY—NOES, 34.
Arkwright, G. Farnham, E. B. Newdegate, N.

liatesoi;, T. Floyer, John Palmer, Robert
Bentinck, Lord G. Frewen, C. H. Pechell, Captain
Bentinck, Lord H. Fuller, A. E. Pigott, Francis
Beresford, William Galway, Viscount Pugh, David
lioldero, Henry Gore, W. R. 0. Staffsrd, Augustus
Bremridge, Richard Gwyn, Bowel Waddington, H. S.
Buck, L. W. Heald, James Willoughby, Sir B.
Carew4W. P. Heathcote, G. J.
Coles, Henry B. Hodges, T. L. TELLERS.
Cubittt, William Hudson, G. Henley, J. W.
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Davies, D. A. Keogh, William Spooner, Richard
ligerton, W. T. Manners, Lord C.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Winchester, July 17.
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
Edwin Turner and Henry Turner were indicted for
unlawfully and maliciously setting fire to a stable be-
longing to one Henry Holloway, with intent thereby to
injure the said Henry Holloway.
Mr. Missing prosecuted, and Mr. C. Saunders defended
the prisoner.
The principal witness for the prosecution was a girl
named Mary Ann Amos, the daughter of a dairyman in
the service of Lord Palmerston, and who resides within
his Lordship's grounds at Oatlands, near Romsey, in the
county of Southampton. The witness swore that she
resided with her father, and that her duty was to milk
the cows and attend to the dairy. On the night of
Sunday, the sth of March, or rather at one o'clock on
the following morning, she was out by herself in the
streets of Romsey, when a policeman named Hammond
came and spoke to her, and told her to go home. She
thereupon moved towards her home, and when she got
to a bridge which she had to pass on the way,
she loitered about there for a considerable time ;
at length the policeman came up to the bridge, where
he reproved her for not having gone home, and
advised her to go at once. At some little distance
from the bridge, and nearly opposite the lodge gate
leading into Lord Palmerston's grounds, is an inn called
the Fox, kept by Holloway, and to which is attached
the stable in question. When being spoken to by the
policeman on the bridge, the girl said that she had seen
some one lighting some lucifer matches and placing
them under the thatch of the stable. The policeman
told her that he did not believe her, and desired her to
go home. She then went to the lodge gate, let herself
in with a key which she had, and went home; but whilst
she was at the gate she again saw two men, whom she
swore to be the prisoners at the bar, setting fire to the
stable with lucifer matches. She knew the prisoners at
the bar; trey were both dressed in smock frocks.
Cross-examined by Mr. SAUNDERS —I was not out at
this time of night on my father's business. I decline to
say whether I was out with his consent. He knew I
was out. I was not dressed in this fine dress then. I
was never out so late before. I decline to say for what
purpose I was out. I let myself into the grounds with
a key which I had. I decline to say how I got the key.
I have said all which I mean to say.
Hammond, the policeman, to considerable extent con-
firmed the evidence of Mary Ann Amos, but it appeared
from his evidence that although he told her that he did
not believe her when she told him that she had seen some
one placing matches under the thatch of the stable, he
forthwith went to the Fox and examined the premises,
without discovering anything suspicious at that time.
It farther appeared from toe evidence for the prosecu-
tion that the fire broke out about half-past two o'clock.
Mr. SAUNDERS in his address to the jury contended
that the young woman was entirely unworthy of credit;
and that she could not have spoken the truth, as the po-
liceman must have been examining the premises about
the time when, according to her evidence, the second act
of incendiarism was committed. He also called evidence
to show that Edwin Turner was in bed before one o'clock,
and that he had not a smock-frock on that night. It
further appeared, from witnesses who had known them
many years, that the prisoners had borne good charac-
ters as amiable and kind-hearted men. They were the
sons of a man who had been one of Lord Palmerston's
gamekeepers for nearly twenty-nine years, and Edwin
had for some years been an assistant gamekeeper under
his father.

The jury immediately acquitted the prisoners.
Nothing of the slightest interest has occurred in the
other court, where they have been occupied ell day in
trying a case against the Southampton and Dorchester
Railway Company for having diverted water from the
premises of a Mrs. Pilgrim at Southampton and other-
wise injured her property there.