The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-17 00:00:00

THE DIVISION ON THE IRISH CHURCH.

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An analysis of the division on the motion to go into
committee on'the Irish Church spews that the total num-
ber of members who filed off into the respective lobbies
early yesterday morning was 584, against 618 who voted
on the morning of March 24. Counting the Speaker and
the four tellers, the numbers stand respectively at
589 and 623, thus indicating that there were 34
more members in the House when it was proposed that
the bill be read a second time than on Thursday night.
Three Conservatives then voted with the Govern-
ment, viz., Lord Lingham (Mayo), Mr. Orr-
Ewing (Dumbartonshire), and Colonel Vandeleur
(Clare). The number has now been raised to four, these
three gentlemen having once more gone with a Liberal
Ministry, the otLcrE member being the Hon. James Grant
(Elgin and Nairn), who, however, had formerly recorded
his vote against the bill. On the previous occasion six Liberals
went against their party, viz., Mr. Briscoe (WestSurrey),Sir
R. Clifton (Nottingham), ..Mr. Dal Way (Carrickfergus),
Mr. W. H. Maxwell (Kirkcudbright), Sir Roundel' Palmer
Richmond), and Mr. Sat:lidera:ll (Cavan). This list has
now been reduced to exactly one-half, the Liberal deserters
being Sir Robert Clifton, Mr. Dalway, and Mr. Maxwell.
It will thus be seen that Mr. Briscoe, Mr. Saunderson,
and Sir P. Palmer—the last-narncd gentleman was in
the House a few minutes prior to the division—eid not
vote at all on the second trial of strength.

On the 24th of March the majority in favour of Mr.
Gladstone was 118; this has since teen incratsed to 123.
There were then fourteen seats vacant, eighthelonging to the
Conservatives and six to the Liberals. Three elect:onshave
since taken place, Mr. Clive and Mr. Hoskyns (Liberals),
having been returned for Hereford ; Mr. Fielden and Mr.
Bornby (Conservatives), for Blackburn; and Major
Walker (Conservative), for Dumfriesshire. Two members
—Mr. Weguelin and Mr. Howel Gwyn—who voted for
their respective parties in March, have been declared
unduly elected. The seats, therefore, at present vacant
are—

LIBERALS.

Cashel
Bridgwater 2
Youghal

CONSERVATIVES.
Norwich 1
Dublin 1
Sligo
Beverley 2
West Sussex
Brecon

In addition to these, Mr. Birley, the Conservative
member for Manchester, has not taken his seat,
in consequence of a technicality in his election ;
and Mr. Hurst, the Liberal member for Hor-
sham—although Major Aldridge has intimated his
intention not to go on with his petition—has not as yet
taken the oaths. The vacancies, therefore, may be set
down as five and eight respectively, being an advantage
of three in favour of the Liberals. As 589 members were
in the House when the division was taken, and as there
are practically thirteen vacancies, it will be seen that
602 representatives are accounted• for, leaving fifty-six
absentees.

In the present division, as in the last, the Liberals
answered to the summons of the Whips with more unanimity
than their opponents. Last month the absentee members who
neither paired nor voted were three on the Conservative
side, viz., Major Dickson (Dover), Mr. Drax (Wareham),
and Mr. Du Pr 6 (Bucks) ; and two Liberals, Mr. Butler-
Johnstone (Canterbury), and Sir Robert Peel (Tamworth).
Each of these five gentlemen have now recorded their
rotes—the three former against, and the two latter in
favour of the bill. Coming now to the members
who paired in favour of the bill being read a
second time, we find that Colonel ICingscote, Arr.
Magniac, and Earl Grosvenor were on this occasion in the
House ; but Mr. Bass, sen., Mr. Henry Berkeley, Mr.
Harvey Lewis, and Mr. D. Williams (Merioneth), were
again absent. Probably their names will be found in the
list of pairs. Turning to those who previously paired
against the bill, it may be mentioned that Mr. T. Baring
(Huntingdon), Mr. R. Bright (East Somerset), Colonel
Wright (Nottingham), and the Hon. Percy Wyndham
(West Cumberland) now went into the lobby with their
party ; the other three—Mr. Cornewall Legh, Mr.
Cawley (who was at the meeting at Lord Lousdale's on
Monday), and Mr. Malcolm— were once more away fror •
the scene of the conflict.
Two prominent names which figured in the division list
on the last occasion are now significantly absent—Lord
Stanley and Sir Roundell Palmer. The noble lord
was not in the House during the whole of the debate,
but the learned member for Richmond sat immediately be-
hind Ministers during part of the time that Mr. Gladstone was
addressing the House. It may be mentioned that of the 645
members of the House (allowing for the thirteen vacant
seats) every one—with the exception of the Speaker and
Major Walker—have either voted or paired on this ques-
tion. The last-named gallant gentleman—who won a seat
for his party in Dnmfricsshire but a few weeks since—
probably paired.
The Liberals who-voted in the first division, hut were
now absent, were—Mr. Adair (Ipswich), Mr. Bagwell
(Clonmel), Mr. Beaumont (South-West Riding of
(Yorkshire), Mr. Bouverie (Kilmarnock Burghs), Mr.
Brassey (Hastings), Mr. Biogden (Wednesbury), Mr.
Bryan (Kilkenny), Sir Arthur Buller (Liskeard), Sir
Lytton Bulwer (Tamworth), Mr. Carter (Leeds), Mr.
Montagu Chambers (Devorport), :Arr. Delahmity
(Waterford), Mr. Howaid (Bedford), Sir T. D. Lloyd
(Cardigan), Mr. North (Hastings), Baron Mayer
de Rothschild (Hythe), Colonel Stuart (Cardiff),
and Mr. Traill (Caithness). The following Con•
servatives who were present in the first division were now
absent :—Mr. A mphlett (East Worcestershire), Mr.
Broadley (East Riding), Mr. Tom Collins (Boston), Mr.
Connolly (Donegal), Mr. Dowdeswell (West Worcester-
shire), Lord Gallwey (East Retford), Mr. D. Gooc
(Cricklade), Mr. Hutton (Northallerton), Captain
Jervis (Harwich), Mr. Jones (Carmarthenshire), Mr.
Knight (West Worcestershire), Mr. Laslett (Wor.
cester City), Mr. Liddell (South Northunnber7and), Hon.
C. Lindsay (Abingdon), Colonel Lowther (West Cumber.
land), Mr. J. Lowther (York), Lord George Manners
(Cambridgeshire), Mr. Mel'or (Ashton), Admiral Seymour
(Antrim), Colonel Somerset (Monmouthshire), Lord
Stanley (King's Lynn), Hon. F. Walpole (North
Norfolk), Mr. Williams (Barnstaple), and Mr. lt.
Winn (North Lincolnshire). It will be seen from this
that Mr. Beaumont, the member for the South-West
Riding, and Mr. Hutton, the member for Northallerton,
who were both declared duly elected on Thursday, did not
go into the division lobby. Both the members for
Hastings—where the petition against them was being
tried—also stayed away. Mr. Liddell had leave of
absence granted him on Tuesday night "on urgent
private affairs."
The tellers for the Ayes were Mr. Glyn and Mr. Adam,
and for the Noes Mr. Newdegate and Colonel Stuar'
Knox.

On Monday next Dr. Ball intend; to a-tk. the Chief
Secretary for Ireland whether the attention of her Majesty's
Government has been directed to the recomm, ndat ion con-
tained in the report of the Irish Church Commissioners in
favour of lessening the price of purchasing the perpetuity of
Church leases; and whether the subject was under the con-
sideration of the Government with a view to legislation.

Messrs. D. Yewdall and Son's mills, at Bramley,
were on Thrueday morning discovered to be on fire, but the
reel and hose kept at the police station were promptly in
operation, and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. A
remarkable escape is reported at the fire. Rawnsley, the
manager, entered the building, and was in 'the top
storey when tho iron roof foil in. It was supposed—not
unnaturally—that. ho had been buried amongst the ruins
and rubbish, hut, to the surprise of everybody, he was found
banging by the feet from ono of the rafterg, and was ress
cued from this predicament, having received a few very
slight bruises.
An "Army Medical Officer" writes to the Pall
Mall Gazette as follows :—" That. (notwithstanding the
paragraph in the appendix to the Queen's regulations
noticed in. your issue of the 14th instant) the sen-
tence of ' marking' has been carried out in some instances
as many as four and five times, can easily be proved by most
medical officera of any standing in the service; and within
tho past month I have examined two soldiers presenting
respectively throe and two distinct letters on their left
breasts." •
The storm on Wednesday appears to have been
general throughout the North of England and; the South of
Scotland. Very few casualties, however, are reported. A
horse was struck by lightning and killed at Preston, and a
young man, engaged in field operation with threc‘horses, in
Euxton, nesr Chorley, was f truck by lightning, which
caused the total loss of the use of his left arm. T 'go of the
horses were also partially disabled.—At Todmordcn three
houses were struck by the lightning. The one most damaged
was struck at the roof near the chimney at the gable the
lightning passed through the bedroom floor, into the hr 'use,
ni through two walls into the third house. In its cot.''rse
case clock, which was in the bedroom of the first house,
was euaashed to pieces, part of the ceiling was removed from n
the top of the Louse, Alms. Barker, who lived in the;
hors', lal her o so7ts nearly torn off, one stocking and
)ne fo t were much burnt; 6113 was struck deaf, and so
iar paralyzed that she could net walk. One of the
inmates of the middle house was struck blind, but only re-
maincd so a shot time. Most of the windows of Barker's
louse were blown out. Some of the slates were car-
ried a distance of twenty yards.—Early on Thursday morn-
ing lightning was observed in Kensington, but it was unac-
companied with thunder or rain. At half-past two o'clock,
after a vivid flash had passed, Police-constable Charles
Parfitt, 349 I, who was on duty at Campden-hill, felt a
smarting pain in his oyes, and immediately afterwards he
found that he could not see. Ile was assisted to the Kens-
ington police-station by a cabman, when it was found that
Le was blind. Ire was a single young man, and much. rel
§Dected.b,y his Apperior cpsers.