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London, England, 1846-08-07 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, AUG 5.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS

ad angereLeodrdtsob:_rought up the following Bills, which
No. 2) Bill—Argyll Canal Bill —Taw Yale
their
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bour, Waterworks, and Paving Bill—Amendments to Lord Kin-
naird's (Sir John Webb's) Estate Bill —Wisbech, St. Ives, and Cam-
bridge Junction Railway Bill, without amendment—Rugby and
Leamington and Warwick Railway Bill—Glasgow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle Railway Bill—Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Railway Bill
—London and South-Western Railway (Basingstoke and Salisbury
Extension) Bill —West London Railway Improvement and Extension
Bill, with Amendments.

THE TWENTY-FIFTH REPORT
FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAIL-
WAY BILLS CLASSIFICATION.
The Select Committee appointed for the Classification of Railway
Bills, according to the Resolutions adopted by the House, have
considered the several matters referred to them, and agreed to
report as follows :
Your Committee recommend that the Cork and Waterford Railway
Bill be referred to a distinct Committee, Group No. 72.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The following Members were in the House when counted
out on Tuesday evening:--
Mr. Strutt Dr. Bowring
Sir W. Feilden Mr. Bouverie
Mr. Maitland Mr. H. Berkeley
Mr. Parker Mr. B. Escott
Mr. Tufnell Mr. D. Morris
Mr. Brown (Lan.) Mr. Wawn
Lord J. Russell Lord M. Hill
Mr. Ewart Chancellor of Exchequer
Mr. Warburton Sir E. Colebrooke
Mr. Fox Maule Mr. Pattison •

Mr. Duncan
Mr. Dickinson
Lord Courtanay

Mr. Langston
Mr. Christie
Sir T. Esmonde

Mr. Hawes

Sir G. Grey.

Mr. Hume

Mr. Thorn-qy

Mr. Mitcalfe
Mr. Baine

Mr. Barnard.

THE WORLD'S TEMPERANCE

CONVENTION.
TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT.

The Convention resumed its sittings en Wednesday morn
ing. Mr. Samuel Bowly took the chair.
The SECIETARY read a paper containing a statistical ac•
count of the state and progress of temperance principles
throughout the country. Among the statements contained
therein may be mentioned the following :—That in the town
of Bury alone no leas a sum than 21. 3s. 4d. was annually
spent by each man, woman, and child, in strong drinks ; the
Poor-law Commissioners' circular stating the sum expended
in that manner to be 24,000,0001., which is more than four
times the amount of poor-rates throughout the kingdom.
The amount of spirits annually consumed by each person in
the United Kingdom was—in England 7 1-9 pints, in Ireland
13 pints, and in Scotland 23 pints.
The CH/LEEMAN then proposed a resolution, by which it
was agreed to refer the large number of statistical documents
which the business committee had received, and wbich it
was impossible to arrange, to a statistical committee, to draft
from them such information as they deemed desirable, whidb
Was to be hereafter printed and published.
Mr. HorwooD, Dr. BEECHER, and other gentlemen, spoke

in support of the resolution.
The Rev. T. SPENCER followed, and stated the following
details, which bad been calculated by a gentleman, well-
known as the author of " Mammom"—that in this metro-
polis there are at present 12,000 children training in vice :
3,0110 persons receivers of stolen goods ; 4,000 annually com-
mitted to prison for crime ; 10,000 living by gambling;
20,0i0 by beggary; and 30,00 practising theft and fraud.
To feed all this depravity, three million's worth of spirituous
liquor was employed, producing in one year 23,000 drunkards
reeling about the streets, 150,000 drinkers of spirits, 5,000
temples of debauchery, and innumerable sabbath-breakers.
The whole of this vice be attributed in a greater or less de-
gree, and more or less directly, to the use of spirituous
liquors. The reformation which
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same inquiry.—(" Oh, oh!" and laughter.)
The meeting was then addressed by Dr. CAMPBELL, upon
some of whose sentiments an irregular discussion ensued.
Mr. BUCKE made some remarks impugning the accuracy
of the Rev Mr. Spencer's statistics.
Mr. DuwL•r followed, comparing the present state of
crime in England and in France. The total of his conclu-
sions were that the annual offences against the person were—
in London, 8,333 ; in Paris, 3,416. Offences against pro-
perty—London, 17,794 ; Paris, 4,076, being three to two of
the first, and three to one of the latter class, against London.
Mr. Chrimes, Mr. Miatt, and Mr. Joseph Sturge, delivered
further addresses in support of the principle, after which the

meeting adjourned. -
paraodposseecdon by Mr. Inwards.
Mr. Hewson having also spoken in its support, the bded Mr. Henry Clapp,
At the commencement of the afternoon sitting a resolution,
expressing generally the opinion of the meeting on the sub-
ject of strong drinks, and which had been postponed from
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resolu-
tion was carried, after a slight amendment, the fruit of a
lenthened discussion.
The SECRETARY then read a letter from the committee of
the South Indian Union on the subject of temperance, and
congratulated the society on their progress; after which a
resolution was proposed by Mr. JOSFI'II SPLNcER, of York,
expressing the satisfaction of the meeting at the progress of
the temperance cause among seamen, and at the additional
premiums offered by several assurance companies on ship:;
where the use of spirituous liquors was confined to the medi-
cine chest.
Mr. THORPE, of Halifax, seconded, and the Rev. Mr.
MARSH supported the resolution, alluding to the progress of
temperance in the American vessels, in none of which that
sailed from New York were any spirits in use. The same i
results were to be hoped forill the navy of that country,