The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-06 00:00:00

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS.

(Fres the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, MARCH 5.
MOTIONS.
Motion made, and Question put, " That no Motion, if
opposed, shall be brought on and discussed in this House after
midnight :" The House divided :
MINORITY—AYES, 16.
Aldam, William Morris, David
Bowring, Dr. Morrison, James
Byng, George Stevens Scholefield, Joshua
Collett, John Trelawny, John S.
Crawford, William S. Wawn, John Twizell
Dennistoun, John Yorke, Henry Redhead
Ewart, William
Fielden, John
Hill, Lord Marcus
James, William

TELLIES.
Williams, William
Brotherton, Joseph

MAJORITY-NOES, 146.

LITERATURE.

WILD SPORTS. 2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1844.

These volumes are from the pen of Colonel Ed-
ward Napier, to whom the public are already in-
debted for a pleasant gossiping work entitled " Scenes
and Sports _in Many Lands.' The work before us
is of a similar character to that of its predecessor—
that is to say, sketchy and desultory, not deficient in
anecdote, and penned in the easy, cheerful spirit of an
experienced traveller. The first three or tour chap-
ters are devoted to a description of the scenery in the
immediate neighbourhood of Madras, in the course
of which the gallant author alludes to the terrific
fury with which the se4 breaks on the Coromandel
coast—a circumstance which has been remarked by
all who have ever visited that quarter of India ; he
then proceeds to detail the particulars of a stormy
and protracted voyage to the Mauritius, when, on
one memorable occasion, " a crash as of ten thousand
Avalanches burst in deafening peals over-
head; the rain descended as if the very
sluice-gates of Heaven were opened ; and as far as
eye could stretch through the drifting torrents and
salt spray, the broad surface of the deep presented a
universal appearance of white and bubbling foam."
We next find Colonel Napier wandering among the
sierras of Spanish Andalusia, popping at eagles, and
hunting stags and wild boars ; from thence he set out
for Gibraltar, of which he gives a brief but graphic
description, crosses over to the opposite coast of
Africa, where he resumes his sporting amusements ;
and then takes flight for Syria, his rambles and ad-
ventures in which country form the most entertain-
ing portion of his volumes. The work is embel-
lished with several illustrations, and will be very
likely to please the lovers of light, superficial
reading.

RATHER RAW.—A Welsh sailor was married on
Tuesday morning last, at St. Woollos, fo a blooming nymph
some ten years his senior ; but seldom has a marriage been
" solemnized" under more ludicrous circumstances. The gay
bridegroom forgot his responses, and instead of answering the
Rev. Gentleman's questions by saying, " I will," and so on, he
bawled out the clergyman's words, " Wilt thou have this
woman to be thy wedded wife ?" From either stubbornness or
sheer stupidity, the confounded man so delayed thb tender
proceedings, that they were about being finally stopped, when
the Rector gave him another chance, and with enormous dif-
ficulty contrived to get the overcome and amazed Welshman
through the fire.—Merlin.
"ROYAL BENEVOLENCE."—A paragraph which has
just appeared in some of the daily papers under the above
heading, stating that her Majesty has been graciously pleased
to command that the whole of the unconsumed wine at the
Royal table at Windsor Castle should be given under proper
regulations to the sick poor of Windsor and Eton, is totally
without foundation. The whole of the unconsumed wine at the
Royal table, which is of the most choice description, is regularly
conveyed back to the cellar, then carefully corked up and
kept in readiness for the following day's consumption, and
again placed on the Royal table. The mistatement probably
originated with respect to the refuso wine in the steward's
room, which is left in the decanters at the table after dinner
and supper ; wine being allowed to the pages and upper ser-
vants in the proportion of two bottles to three men, and one
pint to each woman, per diem. This refuse wine, on the whole
about a bottle or so, which was formerly the perquisites of the
Wis now given away to the poor on pro-
pebeing
gmade to the Deputy-Comptroller of her
ii:teril applicationorpagesb' men,
Majesty's Household.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY OF COPPER ORE.-.--It is a
well-known fact that copper mining in Cornwall is of com-
paratively recent origin, and that the mines in this county
were, at no very remote period, worked only for tin, the
copper ore being considered as useless, and, consequently,
thrown aside. A singular confirmation of this has just oc-
MTNin widening the road in the neighbourhood of Chace-
water. Captain Davies, the contractor, in removing the old
hedges, perceived among the stones of which they were com-
posed a considerable number that contained copper, and has
actually selected from them several tons of copper ore. These
Stones had, no doubt, been raised by miners in search of tin,
f 4 a priod when their value was not known, and used as
materials ibr constructing the hedges in which they were
folic • gani4o3,,vo, to contracting for the job, has been
eQ fOitunda as to secure the sfoneo of the old hedges, And is,
consequently,;considerablegainer 1* Ow
&SP9Very.,--.
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