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PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS,

(Prom Me rota and Proceedings of Me House qf Comment.)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20.
COUNTY CORONERS BILL.
(IN THE COMMITTEE.)

Sixth Clause (Coroner to be chosen by a majority of per.
sons duly qualified to vote at the Election of Knights of the
Shire for the County, &c.) :—Amendment proposed, to learn
out " Knights of the Shire," in order to insert " Coronets,'
instead thereof:—Question put, " That Knights of the
Shire' stand part of the Clause :P—The Committee divided ;...
MI NORIT Y—A YES, 45.
Arkwright, George—Leominster Lascellcs, Hon. W.—Walep field
Bailey, J.—Herefordshire Lawson, A.— Knaresborough
Baskerville, T. B.—Herefordshire Lincoln' Earl of—Northamptote.
Beckett, W.—Leeds: shire, South
Bradshaw, James—Canterbury Lygon, Major-Gen, Hon. If. 8....
Buck, L. W.—North Devonshire Worcestershire West.
Chute, W. L. W.—West Norfolk March, Earl of—West Sussex
Cripps, William—Cirencester Marsham, Lord—West Kent
Darner, Hon G.—Portarlington Miles, Philip W. Skynner—Br44c
Darby, George—East Sussex Miles .William—Somersetshire
Dickinson, F. K—Somerset W. Nichol], Right Hon. Sir John
Divett, Edward—Exeter Ossuiston, Lord—Northumbs s nd
Farnham, E.B.—N. Leicestershir Patten, J. Wilson—Lancashire
Flower, Sir J.—Thetford Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon
Fuller, A. E.—East Sussex Rendlesham, Lord—East Sullclk
Gaskell, James Milnes—Wenlock" Russell, C.—Reading
Gladstone, Captain—lpswich - Shirley. E.—Monaghan
Gore, W. R. 0 —Sligo Co. Smith, T. B. C..— Ripon
Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G. Spry, Sir S .T.—Bodmin
—Dorchester Sutton, C. M.—Cambridge

Hardinge, Right Hon. Sir Wal4h, Sir John B,—Raduoisbne
Launceston _ Wilbraham, Hon. R. B.—lanca-

Hinde, J. Hodgson—Newcastle. shire
upon. Tyne ' Wyndham, Colonel.—.W. Fussex
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Irving, JOhn—Antrim Cc. TELLE aft.
Jermyn. Earl—Bury, Suffolk P.akington„ J. S
KnatchbuU, Sir E.—East Kent Knight, H. G.—NotunghamsLite

MAJORITY—NOES, 70.
Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermoutts Hanmer, Sir J.—Hull
Aldam, William—Le ds ' Hawes, B.—Lambeth
Arundel and Surrey, Earl of— Hay, Sir A. L —Elgin, fie
Arundel Henley, J. W.—Oxfords!' ire
Bannerman A.—Aberdeen Hindley, Charles-I..shtorr
Barclay, D.—Sunderland Hxlg,ort,lttd.—Berwick-qn lweed
Berkeley, Hon. M. F.—Gloucester iloward, C. W. G.—Cumt erlend
Berkeley, Hon. H. F.-Bristol Hutt, W.—Gateshead
Bernal, FL jun.—Wycombe James, William—Cumber and
Bowes, J.—South Durham Johnstone A.—Renfrew, &o.
Broad ley, Henry—East Yorkshire Kemble, H.—East Surrey
Brotherton, J.—Salford Manners, Lord J.—Newark
Bruges, W. H. L.—Devizes Marjoribanks, S. —Hythe
Puller, Charles—Liskeard Martin, John—Tewkesbu• y
Buller, Edward—Stafford Morgan, O.—Monmouthshire
Butler' Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co Morns, D.—Carmarthen
Byng, Right Hon. U.S.—Chatham Morrison, Junes—lnverness
Cavendish, Hon. G. H.—N. Derby Napier, Sir Charles— Maryleben2
Colborne, Hon. W.—Richmond Paget,;Lord A.—Lichfieki
Collett, John—Athlone Philip., G. R.—Poore
Crawford. S.—Rochdale Plumridge, Captain—Pe4.tyn at d
Davies, D. A.— Carmarthenshirc Falmouth
Dawson, Hon T. V.—Louth Co. Ricardo, L.—Stoke-upon Trent
D'Eyncourt, Right Hon. C. T.—
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Law beth
nougbis, Sir C. E.—Warwick Smythe, Hon. G.—Cantel Inity
Duncan, Viscount—Bath Strickland, Sir G.—Preston
Duncombe, I'. S.—Finsbury Trelawny. J. S.—Tavistsck
Duarlas, Admiral—Greenwich Troithridge, Sir E. T.—S,,rrilirch
Egerton, W. 'Patton—Cheshire Wall, C. Raring—Guildford
FAcott, B.—Winchester Wallace. Robert—Greenock
Ewart, Wil ham— Dumfries Ward, H. o.—Shefileld
ridden, John—Oldham Wawn, J. T.—South .Melds
Fox, Colonel—Tower Hamlets Wish re, William—Yarmouth;
French, F.—Rosscommon Want, Colonel T.—Mithilesex
Gill, T.—Plymouth TELLERS.
Guest, J. J.—Merthyr Tydvil Scott, Robert—Walsall
Hall, Sir Benjamin—Mar y lebone Warburton, ii —Kendal

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COACiI ROBBERY OF 1,500 SOVEREIGNi.—On
Monday theDeflance, Oxford coach, was robbed of the above
sum, which had been forwarded from a banking-house west
of Tdmple•:bar to Messrs. Robinson, Thomson, and Co., of
the Old Bank, Oxford. The coachman, Mr. Hobson, who is
a highly respectable man, it appears, has been in the habit
of bringing bankers' parcels to Oxford, which no doubt some
of the swell mob were aware of. The box containing the gold
was put in its accustomed place of security, in the front boot,
in London but on arriving at the Old Bank, Oxford, it was
missing. It is supposed that the robbery was committed by
a person who occupied the box-seat, as on arriving at Benson
he was seen to open the boot, during the time of changing
horses, and take something out. One of the passengers, who
is also supposed to be a confederate, stopped at Benson, where
he was taken into custody the same night by Lucas, the Ox-.
ford City Marshal. He has undergone a private examimation
before the Magistrates, and is remanded. The box passenger
kept his place to Oxford, and at that time, not being sus-,
pected any more than any of the other nine passengers, got
off the coach, and has not since been heard of.

ARTISTS BENEVOLENT FUND.— Yesterday, the
annual meeting of the members of this charity, established
in 1810, Under the patronage of George the Fourth, by whom
the charter of incorporation was granted to it, was held at
the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street. B. Bond Cab-
bell, Esq., presided. It appeared that the fund is raised, and
wholly supported by the contributions of its members. for
their own relief in sickness or superannuation. According
to, the annual Report read, the receipts, during the year were,
including a former balance of 99/. 5s 11d., dividend on
snack, 561/. IBs. 9d., &c., 1,518/. 13s. Id. ; deducting the ex-
penditure, a balance of 109/. 17s. 9d. remained with the
treasurer. The stock possessed by the Institution new is
upwards of 19,3001.
'BRIGHTON, MARCH 20.—Lord Lorton, the ])eau of
Chichester, and Captain Shiffner have arrived at the Albion I
Colonel Banbury, at the Bedford; Lord Suffield, Captain
Johnstone, Captain Fane, bniral Tomlinson, Sir W.
Wellesley, and Lady Knighton, at the Royal Yuri: ; the
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, Lord Francis-Egerton and
the Ladies Gower, are an a visit to the Duke and Duchess of
Norfolk, at Arundel Castle ; the Earl and Countess of Shef-
field have left Sheffield Park, near Uckfield, for London. The
departuse of the Duke and Duchess of Somerset from Brighton
has broken up the fashionablescason. Amongst the departures
arc the Earl and Countess of Belfast, the Dowager Lady Lis-
towel], Miss Brooke, Sir Alexander and Lady Duff, the
Dowager Duchess ofßeaufort, Lord and Lady Prudhoe, Miss
Girdlestone, Sir George Wombwell, and the on. General and
Miss St. John.
DerfuN', MAnrn 19.—The Mary, James, of Milford, which
stranded on the. Wicklow •Bar, has gone to pieces. The Kist)
light has-beort•toviredhaok to -44'14140th

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thi:,nitisi friendly quarters. For ten years—no
small period in the Iffe'd man—Sir Robert thought it politic
to hide his wisdom, and-meekly bow his head in silence •
connridsird•etrhee4- sittorhi,ia
mis:dfleVhig ascendancy. For ten years he
too mme to-- baffle; to "convict, to
qualify, but not t& advise. Hi had ;jot berm *led in. It
was not, therefore;Lt his place to initiate. It was his duty to
speak only when spoken to—a rule of propriety applicable to
sous Classes, among whom Sir Robert appears to have
included the adult statesman. He stood by. The Whigs,
sash, blind, precipitate, rushed into the most desperate and
,ridiculous scrapes. ' Sir Robert looked on neither in sorrow
nor in anger. ,Brought over and over again to "a dead fix"
by their own preposterous folly, they actually implored,
with more than speechless eloquence, the aid of some abler
practitioner. " Wont what do you advise ? What would
you have done ? What's your plan ?" " It's your
place to consider all that, . gentlemezt," was his
only reply. " You possess all the sweets •sof office
_;
you, enjoy the confidence of the public patient; we watch
with some interest the treatment you are pursuing.; and,
being a little concerned in the matter; will avail ourselv‘es of
the right to interfere, when we see you carrying
,your
quackerytoo far; nor is it inconsistent with ourviews to nistil
a general suspicion of your incompetency; but as for.advice
and assistance, not a syllable shall you have. Let the sad-
ferer call us in, and then we-will consider his case, and do
ourbest." Now,.all this might be politic. The result seems
to show that. The homoeopathic statesmen, who anticipated
revolt by rewarding sedition, were at last forced to retire,
and the old alteratives walked in. But we most seriously
doubt the duty of this Parliamentary silence; and whatever
be the resell to individuals, the result to the nation is unter-
tunate. The doctors don't appear to unlearn their silence..
They can't shake ')ff their acquired reserve. They still use
their eyes, and are very clever, and seem perfectly tceunder •
stand the case; but they do nothing. It is their fate still to
stand by. What is the'present state of things? A great social
disease calls for remedy. The symptoms are manifest. By this
time there' can :be no doubt about the retnedy-4 legislative
check: Ithas been tried on an inadequate scale for a consider-
able period, not indeed with perfect success, but with suffi-
cient to justify a larger and more careful application. The
remedy may, perhaps, be dangerous without.a proper col-
lateral treatment ;"_but it is still the only remedy that meets
the case. It seems really a case, not for wisdom, but for de-
cision. But the Premier does nothing. At least what he
does is next to nothing. He won't be responsible, and looks
on while others act, offering only a sort of habitual resistance.
He may, perhaps, be the most sagacious statesman in the
House,. but cannot coequer his ris inertice—the trick of stand-
ing by, with his eyes about him, but his hands in his pockets.
There is every circumstance that can aggravate the almost
provoking folly of this course. The plan which Sir Robert
won't'adopt, and leaves to anybody else who will, is his own
patrimony. Nobody in the whole world has so much right
to it as he. It is as much his own as Drayton Manor, and
his baronetcy': Old Sir Robert Peel, one of the most .re-
markable men of his day, both for his virtues and his talents,
after almost creating that great branch of manufacture, in
which, we believe, Mr. Cobden is now facile princeps, and atter
procuring legisletive,protectidh for the apprentices, who were
then so generally employedi'did -all he could to procure
the same protection for all, whoever might require protec-
tion; for that was his rule. Thirty years since he proposed
the very plan which his son now endures to see in other hands
thin his own ; though not being,like his son, .the Premier,
he had the mortification of seeing it cut down below what he
Considered humanity and wisdom. On the present Sir Ro-
bert Peel's strong, natural, and personal claims to this noble
work of legislation, we need not observe. His speech on
MondaY•of,itself is, sufficient proof on that point. Yet his
own hoiilooni, his own official privilege, his own natural
right, he"suffers another to seize from him. Strange to say,
the very,considerations that encouraged the father terrify
the son. The father confesses himself " diffident of his own
abilities to originate legislative measures ;" yet, finding that
his first Act in favour of parish apprentices has become a
dead letter, in consequence of the use of another class of la •
hour, he does not sit still, but goes farther. In his memorial
given in our - Tuesday's columus he says :—" Gentlemen,
if parish apprentices were formerly deemed .. worthy
of the care of Parliament, I trust you will not with •
hold from the unprotected children of thepresent day an equal
measure of mercy, as they have no masters who are obliged
to support them in sickness, or during upfavourable periods of
trade." This apparent necessity of extending a rule of pro..
tection once admitted to any who may require it, which old
Sir Robert ,Peel, a man of the strongest practical sense, thus
gladly embraced, is treated by the son as a reason for not even
admitting the rule in the first instance, or at least not acting
on it, when we can without difficulty. He takes in his hands
the Report of. the Children's Employment Commission, and
enumerates the manufactures to which the existing Factors-
Acts, and the Bill now in Parliament, do not extend. lie
expatiates on' the miseries disclosed in that Report, miseries
which legiSlation does not at present attempt to mitigate.
" I can time the steam-engine," he adds, " and the larger
factories, but not every small workshop, every master, every
'parent." What is this but a mere phantom of difficulty ?
a mere sinking under the sense of the Afinite,
when the finite is all we shall ever be really .ialled
on to perform ? The present duty of the Legislature
is easy and obvious. There are large assemblages
employed in the same manufactories and in the same mills.
As it happens, these can be controlled.. Their magnitude,
their place in the social system, constitutes a legislative
necessity. De minimis non curat lex. But the steam. engine
is, as it were, a fourth estate of the realm—a mighty foreign
power introduced; it aggravates private into public evils, and
domestic into political. But, most happily, its very.greatness,
which otherwise would make it intolerable, reduces it to
order. It can be timed. It cannot hide oppression infra
parietes. Its size and power make it a public agent, and
bring it under public duty. But, after all, granting that
there will remain large classes who cannot be protected, does
that excuse us from doing what we can? Again, is there no
power in example ? Is the continual sight of worftpeople
laying aside their, daily labour at six o'clock of no effect ?
Do not the acts of the nation, as well as of individuals,help
to set the- tone, and create a public conscience? This, too,
applies, by the way, to .objections drawn from foreign coins
petition. All nations, European and Transatlantic, complain.
and that most justly, that we have heretofore set an example
of excessive drudgery, which has tended to enslave the whole
civilised world. Lately, they have learned from us to miti-
gate this drudgery. Is it beyond all hope that they will
borrow our ton hours' time?