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London, England, 1850-04-10 00:00:00

WETINEFIDAV EVENING,

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceeding; elf the House f Cunanun

TUESDAY, APRIL 9.

DUNDEE AND PERTH. AND ABERDEEN RAILWAY
TION, UNDEE D ARBROATH AND

DUNDEE AND NEWITLE RAILWAYS bILL.

Order for Second Reading rea 1; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and
at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day
six months." Question put, "'That the word ' now' stand
part of the question." The House divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 39 .
Arbuthnott, Hugh Herbert, 11. A. Salwey, Colonel
Blandtord, Marquis Hodges, T. L. Stanfield, W. It.
Castlereagh, Vis. Hume, Joseph Stuart, Lord Dudley
Decries, W. Kershaw, James Thicknesse, Ralph
Dick, Quintln Lacy, It. C. Townshend, Captain
Dinicombe, 0. Loveden, l'ryse Verney, Sir H.
Ettrington, Lord 3PGregor, John Villiers, Charles
Fergus, John Molesworth, Sir W. Wall, C. B.
Fitzroy, Henry Morgan, 11. K. Watkins, Colonel
Greene, Thomas NI orris, David Wawn, J. T.
Grenfell, C. Pascoe Pilkington, James Wilson, James
Grenfell, Charles W. Pinney, W. TZLIAMS.
Hall, ;;;ir Benjamin ltendlesham, Lord Thompson, Colonel
Ilallyburton, Lord J. Bich, Henry Duncan, tieorge

MAJORITY-NOES, 79.
Inhtey, Thomas C. Fordyce, A. 1). Ogle, S. C.
A rkwright, Forster, Mathew Parke, C. W.

Baines,-.M. 'l'. Fox, W. J.
Bankes, George French, F.

Peto, :Samuel
Pugh, David

Barnard, E. U. Frewen, C. 11. Ritilord, Francis
Barrington, Vis. Fuller, A. E. Russell, Edward S.
Beckett, W. Gibson, T. M. Russell, F. C.
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Berkeley, H. F. Goddard, A. L. Sandars, George
Berkeley, C. L. G. Gordon, Admiral Scrope,M. P.
Blackstone, W. S. Goulburn, Henry Shafto, R. 1).
Boldero, H. G. Greenall, Gilbert Sidney, Aldennan
Bramston, T. W. Harris, Richard Smith, J. Benjamin
Brockman, E. 1). Ilastie, Archibald Smyth, J. G.
Brotherton, J. Henry, Alexander Spearman, H. J.
Brown, W. Lennox, Lord A. Thornely, Thomatt
Buck, L. W. Lindsay, Colonel Townley, R. G.
Cardwell, E. Lockhart, W. Verner, Sir W.
Chatterton, Colonel Long, W. Waddington, David
Cliftord,..Henry M. Mackinnon, W. A. Waddington, H. S.
Clive, Henry B. March, Earl of Westhead, J. P.
Cocks, T. S. Martin, Samuel Willcox, Brodie
Codrington, Sir W. Masterman, John Williamson, Sir H.
Colebrooko, Sir T. Matheson, Colonel Willoughby, Sir H.
Denison J. E. Maule, Fox
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Divett, Edward Moody, C. A. TELLERS.
Dunne, Colonel :Hollings, J. R. Spooner, Richard
Egerton, Sir P. Naas, Lord Egerton, W. T.
Evans, Sir De Lacy O'Brien, Sir Lucia.

WINDOW-TAX.

Motion made, and Question put, " That whereas the
present mode of assessing, levying, and collecting Taxes on
air and light in England and ticotland interferes most pre-
judicially with the health and sanitary condition of the in-
habitants of Great Britain, thereforsejt is expedient that the
Window-tax should be repealed." The House divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 77.
Aglionby, H. A. Fox, W. J. Pechell, Sir G.
Baillie, H. J. Gibson, Thomas M. Perfect, It.
Baldwin, Barry Greenall, Gilbert Pigott, Francis
Barnard, E. G. Greene, John Plumptre, J. I'.
Berkeley, Henry F. Grenfell, C. P. 'Raphael, Alexander
Berkeley, C. L. G. Grosvenor, Lord R. Rutford,lFrancis
Bouverie, E. P. Hall, Sir B. Salwey, Colonel
Bremridge, Richard lleald, James Sandars, George
Bright, John Henry, Alexander Sell oledeld, William
Cabbeil, B. B. Hervey, Lord A.. Sidney, Alderman
Chatterton, Colonel Heyworth, L. Smith, John B.
Clay, James Hildyard, It. C. Stanley, E. H.
Clifford, H. M. Horsman, Edward Strickland, Sir G.
Cobden, Richard Humphery, Ald. Stuart, Lord D.
Codrington,:Sir W. Keating, Robert Thicknesse, R. A.
Coles, Henry B. Kershaw, James Thompson, Colonel
Dashwood,:G. H. Lacy, Henry C. Tollemache, F. J.
Dick, Quintin Langston, J. H. Tyrell, Sir J.
Divett, Edward Lewisham, Vioc• Verner, Sir W.
Duff, James : Loveden, I'ryse 'Wyse, 11.
Duncan, George Lushington, Charles Wawn, J. T.
Ellis,'John Meagher, Thomas Willcox, Brodie
Evans, Sir De Lacy Moffatt, George Wood, W. P.
Evans, John Morris, David
E wart, William Mowatt, Francis TELLERS.
Fergus, John Muntz, G. F. Duncan, Lord
Fordyce, A. D. Pearson, Charles Home, Joseph

MAJORITY—NOES, 80.
Armstrong, Sir A. Raiford, Sir 11. Parker, John
Baines, M. T. Barris, Richard riikington, James
Baring, Sir F. Ilastie, Archibald Power, Nicholas
Barrington, Viscount Rowe!, B. Richards, Richard
Beckett, W. Hayter, W. G. Romilly, Sir John
Bellew, R. K. Ileathcoat,Jolm Russell, Lord J.
Bowles, Admiral Herbert, Sidney Seymour, Lord
Boyle, Colonel Heywood, James Shell, It. L.
Brotherton, Joseph llobhouse, Sir John Smith, J. A.
Brown, W. 'lodges, T. L. Somers, J. P.
Browne, R. D. Howard, Lord E. Somerville, Sir W.
Busfeild, W. Jervis, Sir John Thornely, T.
Clerk Sir G. Lascelles, W. S. Towneley, John
Clive, 11. B. Lewis, G. C. Tunic'', H.:
Cowper, W. F. Lindsay, Colonel Turner, G. J.
Craig, Sir W. G. Lockhart, W. . Vane, Lord H.
Denison, J. E. Lygon, General Villiers, F. W.
Dundas, Admiral Mackie, John Wall, C. B. ,
Dundas, Sir David Mackinnon, W. Walpole, Spencer
Ebring ton, Viscount M.Neill, Duncaa Wellesley, Lord C.
Elliot, John E. Maule, Fox Williamson, Sir H.
Emlyn, Viscount Mitchell, T. A. Wilson, James
Enileld, Lord Morgan, H. K. Wood, Sir Charles
French, F. 'Copier, Joseph Wyvill, Marmaduke
Goulburn, Henry Norreys, Lord
Grace, o. D. Oswald, Alexander TELLIES.
Grey, Sir George Paget, Lord Clarence Hill, Lord Marcus
Grey, R. W. Palmerston, Vis. Rich, Henry

Mr. Locke King and Mr. Alcock did not arrive in time to
vote for the repeal of the window-tax, having been at the
Quarter Sessions at Reigate.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—On Monday the Bth, the process of repre-
sentative
government resumed its course. The Go-''
vernment displayed a want of that foresight which
enables individuals to conduct their affairs with-
out running on the rocks of harsh disappointment,
in allowing a vote to go against them, by
a majority of 48 to 40, which is in not an inconsi-
derable House as being more than double what the
rule requires, on so comparatively small a question as
the position of Assistant-Surgeons in the Navy.
The question, though not without its difficulties, only
wanted a little will to find a way ; and it is impossible
that anything can have been bettered, by letting it
come to the precise issue described.
In the Committee on Supply the same scene was
repeated as in a former instance. The Conservatives
moved, that in consequence of the reduction of prices
consequent on the abolition of the Corn Laws, it was
necessary to reduce expenditure, and to begin with
the salaries of the Ministers. And then they angled
for such of the Free-Traders as they knew
they were sure to catch. For certain it is,
that there is no possible form under which
the Conservatives can dress a motion, and
bait it with the prospect of a few hundred pounds to
be taken from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at
which large trout from the Free Trade and Liberal
benches will not eagerly leap.
Suppose now, that in the early stages of the con-
test for Free Trade, a man professing to be enlisted
in the Free-Trade cause, should have proposed to
have addressed himself to the Government as follows.
" Our prayer is, that you will put yourselves forward
to put down the existing supremacy, and make the
feeble into the strong. And when you have done it,
the first thing we will do, shall be to reduce your sala-
ries. We laugh, just now, at the assertion of the
Protectionists, that all incomes must come down as
the consequence cf Free Trade. But as soon as the
thing is done, we will turn over to the other side, and
the first experiment shall be on you."
I may seriously ask, whether the man who should
have proposed this, would have been held worthy of
any confidence, or would not have been held to be in
joke; and whether, on earnest consideration, there is
any reason for forming a different judgment now.
On Tuesday, something of the same want of fore-
sight was evinced, in allowing a motion for the re-
moval of the Window Tax to be brought within so
narrow a difference as 77 against 80. But for a
most irrational attempt to connect the removal of the
Window Tax with the licensing of the Slave Trade on
the Coast of Africa, it is probable the majority would
have been in favour of the removal. For there must have
been at least twenty Members present, who, after
what was said, must have had considerable difficulty
in determining whether they could with decency vote
for the removal of the Window Tax, when it was
chosen ,to be presented to them in such company.
It is hard to tell, why the Window Tax might not
have been removed from the people of England, with-
out insisting on the restoration of the Slave Trade being
in some sort the understdod concomitant of the rote.
But men will have their own notions of the politic
and the wise ; and this was one of them.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
N OLD REFORMER.
1850.
London, 10th April,

STATE OF CHU_ RCH AND DIS-