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London, England, 1845-03-21 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Totes and Proceedings of the Howe of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19.
CUSTOMS ACTS.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.)
Motion made, and Question put, " That the words ' Hides, tanned,
not otherwise dressed,' stand part of the Resolution." The Commit-
tee divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 73.
Forster, Matthew Plumridge, Captain
Gaskell, J. M. Polhill, Frederick
Gibson, T. M. Pringle, Alexander
Gladstone, Captain Scrope, G. P.
Goulburn, Henry Smith, T. B. C.
Graham, Sir J. Somerset, Lord G.
Grey, Sir George Somerville, Sir W.
Guest, Sir J. Stewart, John
Hawes, Benjamin Stuart, W. V.
Hindley, Charles Strutt, Edward
Howick, Viscount Sutton, Henry
Jermyn, Earl Tennent, J. E.
Johnstone, Sir J. Thomely, Thomas
Law, C. E. Tufuell, Henry
Legh, G. CZ Villiers, Charles
Lockhart, William Ward, H. G.
Lowther, Colonel Wellesley, Lord C.
Marsham, Viscount Williams, William
Marsland, Henry Wood, Colonel
Martin, C. W. Wortley, John;S.
Mitchell, T. A. Wyndham, Colonel
John
Norreys, Sir D. J.
Pech ell, Captain
Peel, Sir Robert
Peel, Jonathan

Ainsworth, Peter
Aidam, William
BaEllie, Colonel
Baring, F. T.
Baring. W. B.

Barnard, E. G.
Bentinck, Lord G.
Borthwick, Peter
Botileld, Beriah
Bowles, Admiral
Bowling, Dr.
Bright, John
Buller, Edward
Bnsfeild, William
Cardwell, Edward
Clerk, Sir G.
Cobden, Richard
Colebrooke, Sir T.
Collett, W. R.
Coote, Sir C. IL
eripps, William
Darner, Colonel
Bntwisle, William
Rscott, Bickhrun
Ewart, William
Forman, T. S.

TILLERS.
Baring, Henry
Young, John

MINORITY-NOES, 27.
Alba, J. P. Darby, George Neeld, John
Antrobus, Edmund Dickinson, F. PL Newdegate, C. N.
Arbuthnott, H. Douglas, Sir H. Palmer, Robert
Arkwright, George Egerton, W. T. Pusey, Philip
Banker, George Fuller, A. E. Tollemache. John
Barrington, Viscount Grimsditch, T. Tower, Christopher
Benbow, John Grogan, Edward Tyrrell, Sir J. T.
iloces, John James, Sir W. C. TELLE23..,
Eraniston, T. W. Kemble, Henry O'Brien, A. S.
Brocklehurei J. Long, Walter Sotheron, T. H.

\lotion made, and Question put, " That the words ' Silk, thrown,
not dyed.' stand part of the Resolution." The Committee divided :
MAJORITY—AYES, 85.
Ainsworth. Peter Forster, Matthew Patten, J. W.
Balllie, Colonel Gaskell, J. M. Pechell, Captain
Baring, F. T. Gibson, T. M. Peel, Sir R.
Baring, W. B. Gladstone, W. E. Peel, Jonathan
Beckett, William Gordon, Captain Plamridge, Captain
Boldero, 11. G. Goulburn, Henry Ponsonby, C. F. A.
Botfleld, Beriah Graham, Sir J. Pringle, Alexander
Bowles, Admiral Hamilton, W. J. Posey, Philip
Bowling, Dr. Butte, Archibald Russell, Lord J.
Bright, John Hawes, Benjamin Russell, Lord E.
Brotherton, Joseph Herbert, Sidney Smith, T. B. C.
Bruce, Lord E. Ilindley, Charles Smythe, George
Brace, C. L. C. Hope, G. W. Somerset, Lord Q.
Buller, Edward Hume, Joseph Strntt, Edward
Cardwell, Edward Humphery, Alderman Sutton. H. M.
Childers, J. W. Hutt, William Tennent, J. E.
Clay, Sir W. Inge strie, Viscount Thornely, Thomas
Clerk, Sir G. Jermyn, Earl Trotter, John
Cockburn, Sir G. Jocelyn, Viscount Tufnell, Henry
Copeland, Alderman Labouchere, Henry Warburton, H.
Cripps, William Lincoln, Earl Ward, H. G.
Dod'i, George Lowther, Sir J. Wellesley, Lord C.
Duncan, George M'Geachy, F. A. Wood, Colonel
Duncombe, A. M'Neill, Duncan Wortley, John S.
Egerton, Lord F. Marsham, Viscount Yorke, H. R.
Entwisle, William lilasterman, John
Eseott, Biekluun Mildmay, H. St. John TULLIS..
Ewart, William Mitchell, T. A. Young, John
Flower, Sir J. Morris, David Lennox, Lord A.
20rinan, T. S. Nieholl,-.John

MINORITY-NOES, 26.

Affix, J. P. Fuller, A. E.
Antrobus, Edmund Grimston, Lord
Bankes, George Henley, J. W.
Barrington, Viscount Legh, G. C.
Bramston, 'l'. W. Lockhart, W.
Broadley, H. Mundy, E. 3L
Brocklehurst, J. Newdegate, C. N.
Darby, George O'Brien, A. S.
Dickinson, F. H. Palmer, Robert
Eaton, R. J. Palmer, George

Repton, G. W. J.
Ryder, G. D.
Sibthorp, Colonel
Sotheron, T. H.
Tollemache, John
Tower, Christopher

TELLBRI.
Egerton, W. T.
Grimsditch, T.

•
RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PAR-
LIAMENT.
WEDNESDAY, M.utot 19.
The following Bills were presonted and read a first time
Manchester. Leeds, and Hull Associated Railway Companies.
Middlesbro' and Redcar Railway.
Yarmouth and Norwich Railway.
Wear Valley Railway.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway.
Southport and Euxton Junction Railway.
North Union and Ribble Navigation Branch Railway.
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway.
South Wales Railway.
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
Rye and Tenterden Railway.

The following Bills were referred to the Seleet Committee
on Petitions for Private Bills :
London, Worcester, and South Staffordshire Railway (Dud-
ley and Sedgley Branch).'
Great North of England (Clarence and Hartlepool Junction)
Railway.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway.
Scottish Midland Junction Railway.
Eastern Union and Norwich Railway (No. 2).
Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (No. 2).

The following Bills were reported; reports referred to ,the
Select Committee on Standing Orders :
Liverpool and Bury Railway (Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool
Railway aid Bury Extension).
Monmouth and Hereford Railway.

Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction Railway,—
Petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordered to be brought in
by Mr. John Stuart Wortley, Mr. Beckett Denison, . Mr.
Evans, and Mr. George Henry Cavendish.
Aberdeen Railway,—Petition for Bill reported, and Bill
ordered to be brought in by Captain Gordon, Mr. Bannerman,
and Lord Frederick Gordon.
Midland Branches Railway,—Petition for Bill reported,
aed Bill ordered to be brought in byMr. Stuart Wortley, Mr.
Evans, and Mr. Strutt.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Ely and Huntingdon Railway,—Committee on petition,
Friday, April 4.
Bristol and Exeter Railway Branches,—Committee on
petition, Friday, April 4.
Churnet Valley Railway,—Committee on petition, ad-
journed till Monday, April 7.
Grand Junction Railway,—Committee on petition, ad-
journed till Friday, April 4.
London, Chatham, and North Kent Railway,—Conunittee
„ on petition, adjourned till Tuesday, April 1.
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway,—Committee on
petition, Friday, April 4.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway, (No. l),—Committee
on petition, postponed sine die.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (No.2),—Committee on
petition, Friday, April 4.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Mr. Joseph Somes was yesterday declared
duly elected M.P. for Dartmouth. If there were any
who anticipated a different decision, we were not of the
number. From the announcement of the constitution
of the Committee, through the whole course of the inves-
tigation, and down to the publication of the final resolu-
tion of the Committee yesterday, which declared the sit-
ting Member duly elected, the result was as much a matter
of certainty as it was when, with the usual forms, the
Chairman of- the Committee last evening presented the
report at the table of the House. Those—if, indeed,
such persons can be met with—who attended to the
evidence, as adduced by the petitioners, and regarded
the Committee as a Court accessible to the force of
verified and, to a great extent, admitted facts, may be
astounded at the decision. All others regard the result
as having occurred in the ordinary course of events.
Tee majority of the Committee were of the sitting
Member's political party. The Chairman having, for-
tunately for Mr. Joseph Somes, been selected in the
order of rotation from the Tory benches, the question
in issue was as good as settled before the inquiry
commenced. The question to be decided was whether at
the time of the election Mr. Joseph Somes was, or had
then ceased to be, the holder of, or was in anywise in-
terested in, any contract with Government ? To show
that Mr. Joseph Somes was a contractor with the Go-
vernment for the supply of upwards of twenty thousand
tons of shipping, and held that contract up to the very
verge of the election, the following facts were established
in evidence before the Committee. The Speaker's notice
of the late Member for Dartmouth's death appeared in the
London Gazette on the 3d of December. Mr. Somes'
address to the electors of Dartmouth, announcing him-
self a candidate for the vacant seat, was circulated in
the borough on the same day. In that address Mr.
Somes' pretensions were enforced on the grounds of his
being " a great ship-owner"—the " owner of upwards of
'22,0(X) tons of shipping, and largely connected with
trade, commerce, and the colonies." The electors were,
_ therefore, urged, on the plea of advancing their " own
interests," to give Mr. Somes " such a reception and
support as would secure so useful a Member for their
seaport town." Mr. Somes therefore went down to
i )artmouth as a great ship-owner—" the owner of
220)00 tons of shipping," &c., when, if the case set up
by him in answer to that of the petitioners • t his
return is to be credited, ho had retired from against
anbiussi business,
parted with his ships, and transferred his contractss
with Government to other hands. In short, Mr. Somes
no longer possessed any, the least, interest in
the property. his possession of which was to confer
such vast advantages on the seaport town of Dart-
mouth ! We must request attention to the dates we
have already given. ()n the 17th of December Mr.
Somes appears to hare been made aware that the quali-
fications which were to be his recommendations to the
Dartmouth voters, were, in the eye of the law, destruc-
tive of his hopes. His ships were in the pay f Govern..
went. His contracts with the Admiralty operated as a
positive barrier to his entering Parliament. What was
to be done ? Mr. Somes would hare the public to be-
, lieve—and did, through his counsel, induce the Tory
„.,..-.„,zlLi: WS Jaajority of the Election Committee to believe, at least,
id •Vies--._: to deciso—that he, on the 17th of December, spontha-
,:-..... lieoge,ll,-apd as a free gift—not covertly, and for the
' •.u r Of evading the prohibition of the law—made
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