The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

MAJORITY-NOES, 115.

Forty-fifth Clause (Power of distraining goods in Factory
where the occupier is convicted) :—Amendment proposed, in
page 18, line 5, after " goods and chattels," to insert " the
property of such occupier :'—Question put, " That those
words be there inserted :" The Committee divided:—
MINORITY—AYES, 22.
Aldam, William Hawes, B. Stansfield, W. IL
Arundel, Lord Henley, J. Werner Strutt, Edward
Collett, John Howard, P. H. Wawn, John f
Crawford, W. S. Marshall, W. Yorke, it. H.
Duncan, George Marsland,
H Henry
Fielden, John Mitcalfe, Henry TELLERS.
Forster, Matthew Muntz, G. F. Granger, Thomas C.
French, F. Philips, M. Agliouby H. A,
Gill, lhos. Scholetield, J

MAJORITY-NOES, 77.

THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL

OF INDIA.
At the present moment some few particulars of the life of.'
the distinguished successor of Lord Ellenborough in the Go-
vernment of India, will not be unacceptable to the majority
of our readers. The Right Ilon. Sir Henry Hardinge, is the
son of the late Rev. Henry Hardinge, rector of Stanhope,
Durham, and was born in 1785. His mother was a daughter
of James Best, Esq., of the same county, and he is brother
to the late Baronet, the Rev. Sir Charles Hardinge, whose
son succeeded to the Baronetcy in 1836. At an early age he
evinced a strong disposition for a military life—a disposition
which his parents, with praiseworthy discernment, thought
fit to encourage, and he was therefore educated with muck
care for the noble profession in which he so soon and so
greatly distinguished himself. His valuable services in
Spain and Portugal are repeatedly the subject of warm com-
mendation in the dispatches of his illustrious commander ;
and at that momentous crisis in European affairs when the
Prince of Orange proposed levying a large body of troops, it
was to Captain Hardinge that Lord Wellington recommended
his Royal Highness to apply for counsel and assistance. Sir
Henry was present in person at the follo‘ying actions or battles,
at each of which he more or less distinguished himself, re-
ceiving several severe wounds :—BusacotAlbuera, Badajoz,
Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, and
Orthes ; he was also at Waterloo, and at the terrific engage-
ment at Ligny he lost his left arm, for which he receives a
pension of 300/. For his services in the Peninsular he was
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of In
the
present
rewarded with a cross and five clasps, and from 1809 to 1813
he was Deputy-Quartermaster-General of the Portuguese
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Clerk of the Ordnance, which office he continued to fill until
1828, when he was made Secretary-at-War. In 1830 he was
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James,
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M.P.
appointed to the important post
in of Secretary for Ireland,
which he resigned at the dissolution of the Duke of Wel-
lington's Administration, and 1834, during the brief Ad-
ministration of Sir Robert Peel, he was again selected to fill
that office. On the accession of the Conservatives to power
in 1841 he was re-appointed Secretary-at-War. Sir Henry
became a Lieutenant-General in the army in November,
1841, and obtained the Colonelcy of the 57th Foot in 1833.
He has represented several boroughs in Parliament, but has
sat for Launceston since 1832. He is known to have long
enjoyed the intimate personal friendship and esteem of the
Duke of Wellington.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT.---A most dreadful accident
occurred yesterday in a colliery near Llanelly. It ap-
pears from the particulars we have been able to gather,
that between two and three o'clock yesterday afternoon,
the engine in the Penbwlchgwyn colliery, about two
miles from Llanelly, caught fire. After a short time the
engine, with a tremendous crash, fell into the pit, shut-
ting out every chance of escape for the hundred men
and children who were working in the pit. All at-
tempts to put out the flames were vain. Exertions to
extricate the sufferers were used incessantly, but at
eight o'clock last night not one of them was got out of
the pit. It is much to be feared, therefore, that every
soul has perished.—Welshman of Saturday.
THE EARL or RIPON.—We are happy to state that
the Noble President of the Board of Control has nearly re-
covered from his late attack of illness.