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MILITARY KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR.

Colonel SAL WEY then proceeded with his motion
for a Select Committee, to inquire into the case and
claims of" the Military Knights of Windsor," as set
forth and referred to in their two petitions presented to
this House upon the 7th day of August, 1846, and 23d
day of February, 1847, and which are further set forth
and referred to in the petition of the 20th April, 1849,
by several electors, tax and rate-payers of the borough of
New Windsor. The Honourable and Gallant Colonel,
after observing that this was not a question of law, but
one involving the honour and prerogatives of the Crown
a 3 Sovereign of the Order of the Garter, proceeded to
give en account of the foundation and history of the
institution referred to in his motion. He observed that,
by the ancient charters, the Dean and Canons of Wind-
sor were appointed trustees for the Poor Knights, but
that they had scandalously abused the trust reposed in
them, and was about to specify the nature of the ancient
foundation, when
An HON. MEMBER moved that the House be counted.
More than 40 Members being present,
Colonel SALWEY resumed. He referred to the fre-
quent attempts made by the Dean and Chapter of
Windsor to throw off their military brethren, and the
many instances in which they had deprived them of their
due share of the henefits of the order, as so many proofs
of the iesatiable rapacity of the clergy in these days.
He rested his case on behalf of the Poor Knights of
Windsor on two deeds, one framed on the 4th of August
1547, in the reign of Edward VI., the other an in-
denture of Queen Elizabeth, in 1559. By a covenant
made by the Dean and Canons of Windsor with the
Crown in the sth year of the reign of Elizabeth, it
was laid down that lands, &c., of the value of 6001.
per annum were for ever to be bestowed on 13 Poor
Knights within the Castle of Windsor. The Honour-
able and Gallant Colonel was proceeding to animadvert
upon the fact that about 17,0001. had from time to
time been voted in the miscellaneous estimates for re-
pairs and alerations of the houses of the Military
Knights, when
An MON. MEMBER again moved that the House be
counted. There not being 40 Members present, the
House adjourned.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

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

TUESDAY, AUG. 5.
PATENT LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)

Clause 14 (Law officer to refer specification and objections
to an Examiner for his report) : - Amendment proposed, page
5, line 26, to leave out the words and utility :" Que.tion
put, " That the words and utility' stand part of the Clause."
The Committee divided :

MINORITY-AYES, 1.
Walmsley, Sir J.
Williams, W. TELLERS.
1 Ricardo, J. L.

MAJORITY—NOES, 46.
Alcock, Thomas Grenfell, Charles W. Parker, John
Baines, M. T. Ilardeastle, J. A. Portal, Melville
Barrow, W. 11. Hawes, B. Romilly, Colonel
Bell, Jacob Headlam, Thomas Salwey, Colonel
Bouverie, E. P. Henley, J. W. Seholefleld, William
Brotherton, J. Heywood, James Scobell, Captain
Labouchere, Henry Spooner, Richard
Hodges, T. L.
Buller, Sir Y. Seymour, Lord
Lacy, 11. C. Tennent, R. J.
CCarobdbwolecill,,J. C. Edward
Cockburn, Sir A. Lewis, G. C. Thompson, Colonel
Duncan, George Lygon,;Gcneral Westhead, J. B.
Evans, Sir Dc Lacy Mackinnon, W. A. Willoughby, Sir H.
Forster, M. M'Callagli, W. Wilson, James
Freshfleld, J. W. Mullings, J. It. Wood, Sir Charles
Graham, Sir J. Muntz, G. F. 'mama.
Greene, Jolla Newdcgate, C. N. Bill. Lord Marcus
Greene, Thomas Norrey3, Sir D. Bellew, B. M.

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According to the programme which has been issued
by the society, it appears that Thursday and Friday
last were devoted to the quiet and intellectual relaxa •
tion of a conference at the hall of the Literary Insti-
tion, Aldersgate-street. On Sunday the pulpits of
many of our metropolitan churches were used in pro-
mulgating the principles of teetotalism, while on Mon-
day evening an assembly or soiree, partly musical and
partly elocutional, was held in Exeter-hall. Yester-
day was set aside for a procession to the Exhibition ;
to. day a public breakfast at the London Tavern, and
a fete at the Surrey-gardens take place; Thursday an
aggregate meeting will be held at St. Martin's-hall ;
and Friday concludes the week's labours with a grand
day at Rosherville-gardens.
The proceedings of Monday evening commenced
with a hymn, sung in excellent style by a selection
from the Welsh choir, who were stationed behind the
platform.
The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeting in sup-
port of the teetotal cause. Fifteen years previously
he was present at a meeting of teetotallers in that
ball, and though the attendance upon that occasion
was not very large it was sufficient earnest of the
moral movement to cause him to conceive hopes which,
he was now happy to add, had been realised in the
fullest extent.—(Loud cheers.) The temperance
movement, which commenced about twenty years
since in the town of Preston, in Lancashire, had now
spread out into a mighty association, which even the
powerful influence of the collective press would be
unable to put aside or laugh down. Their efforts
were dictated by a sense of duty to their fellow-men ;
for, if the reports of the criminal officers of the land
were to be relied upon, and the statements of the
medical profession to be credited, drunkenness was
the inceutive to half the crime, and a cause of a great
portion of the disease which prevailed in this country.
If, therefore, their efforts tended to the reduction of
two great scourges of a nation, who should say that
they were useless, or who should sneer at their mo-
tives ? He trusted their assembling there that even-
ing might still further draw public attention to the
end they were desirous of attaining, and that the in-
dulgence on their part of a laudable curiosity in vi-
siting this great metropolis at the present festive sea-
son might be the means of general and mutual im-
provement both by precept and example.—(Hear.)
Mr. GREEN then read an address of welcome from
the committee of the conference to their supporters
who had arrived from the country. After congratu-
lating the meeting on its assembling at the present
auspicious season, the address went fully into the
effects of drunkenness, and argued that nothing short
of total abstinence was safe, if a man wished himself to
be free from this degrading vice, and the course of
evils which surely followed in its train.
The address was received with prolonged applause.
The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr.
E. BURRITT and other gentlemen, whe entered fully
into the great question of the evening—viz., total ab-
stinence. Some of the speakers adverted to the great
teetotal procession on the following morning to the
Great Exhibition, and predicted that the advocates
of teetotalism, either in cheer, health, or manners,
would not suffer in the comparison with any at the
" world's fair."
The efforts of the "Bethesda Choristers" and the
Welsh choir contributed much to the enlivenment of
the evening, which passed off most agreeably, and ter-
minated with the usual vote of thanks to the chair.

FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC.
The following are the last returns of the gross re-
ceipts of the principal French Railways :
NORTHERN.—From July 23 to July 29: Passengers,
362,564 E.; goods, 189,854 f.; total, 552,418 f.
ROUEN.—From July 20 to July 26: Passengers,
115,2141.; goods, 80,4061.; total, 195,620 f.
HAVRE.—From July 20 to July 26 : Passengers,
42,8051.; goods, 35,099 f. ; total 77,904 f.
ORLEANS.—From July 21 to July 27 : Passengers,
89,010 E ; goods, 97,617 E; total, 186,6271.
13onnEaux.—From July 15 to July 21: Passengers,
46,3541.; goods, 42,539 E; total, 86,693 E
VIERZON.—From July 21 to July 27 : Passengers,
38,039 f.; goods, 38,159 E; total, 76,198 f.

BOULOCiNE.—From July 21 to July 27 : Passengers,
42,428 E; goods, 14,777 f.; total, 57,205 f.

NANTES.--FrOM July 19 to July 25 : Passengers,
21,582 f.; goods, 12,385 f.; total, 33,967 f.
STLIASBURG.—From July 23 to July 30: Passengers,
110,688 f.: goods, 64,582 f.; total, 175,270 f.
BALE.—From July 7 to July 13 : Passengers,
29,996 t.; goods, 19,470 f.; t0ta1,49,466f.

MoNTnintu.:—/rom July 16 to July 22: Passengers,
10,029 E; goods, 13,416 E; total, 23,4451.
MARSEILLES.--From July 16 to July 22: Passengers,
54,9301.; goods, 28,883 f.; total, 83,8131.
LIONS.—From July 13 to July 19 : Passengers,
223,462 f.; goods, 71,7051.; total, 295,167 f.
CHARTRES.—From July 14 to July 20: Passengers,
26,5131.; goods, 17,478 f.; total, 43,991 f.

POSTAGE STAMPS.
At the instance of Mr. Muntz, the House of Com-
mons has ordered to be printed a copy of all the corre-
spondence that has taken place since 1847, between the
Lords of the Treasury, the General Post-office, and Mr.
Archer and the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, rela-
tive to Mr. Archer's machine for perforating sheets of
postage label stamps. The inconvenience which Mr.
Archer proposed to remedy—serious enough to persons
of voluminous correspondence, and still more so to a
postmaster during the last half-hour for receiving letters
—is the trouble occasioned by the present mode of
cutting or tearing sheets of postage stamps into single
heads. For this purpose he invented a machine, which,
it is stated, can be worked by two boys, and by the aid
of which stamp sheets may be so minutely indented
in the directions of the white lines as to allow the
stamp to be instantly detached from the sheet, with-
out the operation of cutting. The plan, it was
argued, would secure the folding of stamp-sheets with-
out creasing them, while the rough or dental edges given
to the stamps would cause them to adhere to the letters
much better than when cut by scissors. Mr. Archer,
feeling confident in the seccess of his plan, proposed that
his claims for compensation should be contingent upon
the unqualified approbation of the public, the Post-
master-General, and her Majesty's Commissioners of
Stamps. The superintending presidents of the inland
and London district post-otficee thus referred to Mr.
Archer's machine, under date the 14th October, 1847 e-e.
"The machine appears to be u very clever and useful in-
vention. . • • • We are thoroughly con-
' viewed that postage-stamps separated by it, having
jagged edges, will adhere to letters far better than
those cut from the sheet by knives or scissors.
• • • • . We submit it is most de-
sirable that the invention be recommended to
the notice of the Commissioners of Stamps." The
machine obtained the approval of the Board of Stamps
and Taxes, and of the Leeds of the Treasury, and after
one or two experiments it was found to answer the pur-
pose for which it was intended. A sum of 2001. was
proposed tg be given IQ Mrs Archer el an Witcrate ret

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