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town of gelsteri a claim on public favour, a ground for
inflicting oh it a permanent injury.
Lord 3. RUSSELL had no intehtioh or iMptting
blame to the yeomanry, and his flight Hon. Friend Might
as well have said that he *isheil to ruin agriculture when
he objected to the o'Nthiption for farm servants;
Sir R. VITVYAN thought that in relation
to otltef towns, had no right to keep two Members ; but
ill relation to the elements of representation, as laid down
by the Noble Lotus, it had.
After a few words from Mr. WY 3%

Mr. HUNT could not agree in the objections stated by
the Right Hon. Gent!Wain (Mr. Wynn), for be saw no
reason why ileiston should have an additional Member,
because it had a yeomanry corps. He knew it to be a
fact that many of the members oldie -iebiitailry corps were
in the habit of enrolling thettselves, Merely for the pur-
pose of saving the bot;e tax ; and that, on rekiew days,
they were it the habit of sending the horses out with
butchers' boys OA apprentics on their backs to do the
duty.—(Cries No," and laughter.) It was a fact. and
he knew it.—(Laughter.)
Mr. ARTHUR TREVOR bad I-Ye honour to be a
member of a yeomanry raps.; and he, on their part, re-
pelled the insintiftioits of the Hon. Member for Preston,
with an indignation which could be only exceeded b.y his
eentetnpt.—(Laughter.) The members of the rentoatiry
corps were taken from a class of men to Whom the payment
of the horse tax was a matter of very little consequence.
Aft2r a few words from Mr. PIGOTT, which did not
reach the gallery,
Mt HUNT said, the Horn Member for Durham (Mr.
Trevor) boasted that lee belorged to the yeomanry; but
really if he (Hunt) had not heard it from the Hon.
Member's own !flout!), he could not believe it.—
(Laughter and cheers.) He was sure) hotvever, that the
Hon. Member must be an ollicer; for if he had been e,
private, he could net have got out of the awkvv:trti squad.
—(Continued laughter.) He knew nothing of the yeo-
tnanry or of the Hon. Akentber, but this he would say,
that if the Hob Member was a sample of the yeomanry,
he hoped the Lord would keep him out of their way.
-.. Mr. TREVOR would only put it to the good taste
and feeling of the Committee whether the course pursued
by the Member for Preston was not quite unparliamentary.
After a few words from Mr. Piut ED, recalling tho Com,
mittee to the question really at issue,
Mr. CROKlift said that the Noble Lord, when re-
plying to the objections of the Hon. Baronet (Sir H.
Willoughby), with resrect to Dartmouth, had declared
he would not Irok to the amount of taxation paid, but to
the amownt of the books of assessment.—(Hear, hear.)
Its the case of Helston, however, the Noble Lord, still
adopting the principle of taxation, took a different course,
for be declared now that he would not at Helston look to
the assessment, but to the amount actually paid.—(Cheers.)
if the Government intended to deprive the borough of
nekton of its rights by a proceeding of this kind, they
should have given the members of the yeomanry corps
fair notice, and he was confident that under such circum-
stances they would at once have dissolved themselves rather
than by continuing their services lose the privilege to
which they were entitled.
Sir H. ST, PAUL having made a few observa.ions from
beneath the gallery amid loud calls of " `Question !"

Lord JOHN RUSSELL denied that he had intended

to cast the slightest imputation on the yeomanry, for no
man held their services higher than he did. The question
at issue was distinct from that of their service. It was,
whether the exemptions from taxation were to be included,
and he was by no means certain, if there was no yeomanry
corps at Helston, that the same number of horses would
be kept.—(Hear.) •
Lord VALLETORT said, that the yeomanry of Hols-
ton were the corps to which the whole of an important
district owed the protection of its property during the in-
cendiary riots of last summer ; and could it be possible
that a British House of Commons would now turn round
on those who had enrolled themselves for such a laudable
purpose, and say, because you have done so, we will de-
prive you of your franchise?—(Hear.)
After an observation from Sir JOHN BR V DOES,

Mr. CROKER was not, certainly, prepared with cal-
culations to show the effect which would be produced on
the taxation of Helsten by adding the duty payable on yeo-
manry horses ; and he would, therefore, move that the

further consideration of that borough be postponed.
Lord ALTHORP contended that the question for the
Committee to decide was simply this : if they were pre-
pared to allow the exemptions on the score of horse duty,
as part of the taxation of Helston, there was a reason for
postponement. If they were not prepared to allow it,
then they could decide at once. He was not disposed to
say it would be safe to admit the principle contended for
by the Right Hon. Gentleman, and therefore he must
press the question to a division.
Mr. C. WYNN said that the horse duty of the yeo-
many was not extinguished, it was merely postponed ; and
if the corps were to dissolve themselves, they would in-
stantly become liable.—(Hear.)
The Committee (after a delay of three quarters of an
hour, during which they debated with closed doors), di-
vided—

Ayes 256
Noes
Majority
The House then resumed, and the CHAIRMAN obtained

leave to sit agsin on Tuesday next.
Mr. BERNAL brought up the report of the Committee
of Supply on the Ordnance Estimates. The report was
read, and the resolutions agreed to.
Mr. GOULBURN asked the Noble Lord opposite
whether it was the intention of the Government to bring
in a Bill for the consolidation of the laws relating to the
assessed taxes, and for continuing the law for the composi-
tion of assessed taxes?
Lord ALTHORP should bring in a Bill for both pur-
poses.
On the motion of Lord ALTHORP, it was ordered that

the House, at its rising, should adjourn to Monday next.
Lord NUGENT moved that the Speaker do issue his
warrant for the election of a capital burgess for Great
Marlow, in the room of Owen Williams, Esq. deceased.
Mr. R. TREVOR gave notice that he should move that
the county Members of England and Wales be added to the
Committee now sitting on the divisions of counties.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock.

It is disagreeable to observe the position in
which Lord PLUNKETT appears to have been placed, or to
have placed himself, before the House of Common•, with
regard to the Secretaryship to the Master of the Rolls. If
his Lordship assented to the introduction of a legislative
measure, for the sake of enabling Sir 'WILLIAM 11I'MArtots
to try his legal right, then, undoubtedly, in point of high
feeling, he ought not to have qualified that assent, by sti-
pulating to save the pocket of an individual whom lie had
himself appointed from the results, whatever they might
be•, of a decision upon the luestion of right. The MASTER
of the ROLLS must estahlish the right, or have it given
against him. In the latter c ,se, the Loan CHANCELLOR'S
nominee would have nothing to fear, and he had no need
of any prelirninaty protection : in time former case,—namely,
that of the question being determined against the CHAN-
CELLOR,-he ought not to make any condition which
would deprive the MASTER of the forts of his present
right, and transfer it pro hoc vire, and in defiance of law,
to himself. The taste of the House of Commons, on this
occasion, evidently revolted against the Irish CHANCELLOR.
We repeat it is a disagreeable business.—. Times.
" The Adventures of a Younger Son," about
which so much curiosity has been excited, are said to con-
sist in a great measure of a narration of remarkable events
in the Indian seas, in which an English gentleman of family
was deeply concerned. The publication of this book is
expected to be a valuable addition to our national tales of
the sea.
The absence of Lord ALTH-CRP and Lord
JOAN RUSSELL from the dinner given by the LORD
MAYOR, on Saturday last, originated in recent delicate
health, and the consequent necessity -of being abstemious
in respect to the pleasures of the table.
instructions have been received at this Cus-
tom. house that all vessels, the crews of which are in good
health, are to be immediately released from quarantine.—
Plymouth Journal. • •
ST. ANDREW'S, HOLBORN.--Yesterday a
meeting of pirishioners took place upon the subject of a
Board of Health. It was proposed to raise a sum of money
on the poor rates, but this proposition was rejected. In
the course of a desultory discussion which took place it
was observed by several of the speakers that the late alarm
of cholera originated with a certain portion of the public
Press. _

The late Viscount DowNE, whose dissolution
at his seat, Colwick-hall, in Yorkshire, we announced
yesterday. was a Nobleman of most retired habits, gene-
rally residing upon his highly.cultivated estates in the
North. His Lordship was Colonel-Commandant of the
2d West York Militia, and by his marriage, in 1815,
with Louisa MARIA, daughter of the late GEORGE WEL•
STEAD, Esq., he has left no successor to the title, and the
family .honours therefore devolve on his next brother, the
lion, and Rev. WILLIAM HENRY DAWNAY. Lord
' Dow:ix sat in the House of Lords as Baron DAWNAV, in
tl.e Peerage of Great Britain, and judging by his vote in
favour of the second reading of the Reform Bill, he was a
Nobleman of liberal politics.