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London, England, 1842-05-17 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

(From the Votes and Proceed:faggot' the Howe Commons.)
FRIDAY, MAY 13.
ELECTION PROCEEDINGS.
DIVISION ON MR. T. DUNCOMBE'S MOTION.
MINORITY—AYES, 17.
Grosvenor. Lord R. Plumrldge Captain
Hatton, Capt. Villiers Smith, It. Vernon
Hinde, J. H. Turner, Edmund
Mitchell, T. A.
Napier, Sir Charles
O'Brien, W. S.
O'Connell, J.

Bernal, Captain
arew, Hon. R. S.
Christmas, W.
Collett, W. R.

Crawford, W S.
Forbes, William
French, F.

TELLER@
Duncombe, T. S.
Wakley. Thomas

MAJORITY—NOES,
Acland, Sir T. D. Gaskell, James Mitoes
Wand, T. D. Gladstone, W. E.
Acton, Colonel Gore, Montague
Adderley C. B. Goulburn, Henry
A aeworth, Peter Graham, Sir James
ildam, William Granger _T. C.
Allix, John Peter Greenall, Peter
Antrobus, Edward Grimston, Lord
Arkwright George Grogan, Edward
%ttwood, M. Halford, H.
Rogge, W. Hamilton, W. J.
Bailey, Joseph Harcourt, G. G.
Bantle, Colonel H. hampden, Renn
Baring, F. T. Hardy, John
Barnard, E. G. Henley, J. Warner
Bernard. Viscount Hepburn, Sir T. B.
Blackstone, W. S. Hill, Lord A. M. C.
Botfield, Beriah Hodgson, Richard
Bowring, Dr. Hope, Hon. C.
Brotherton, J. Howard, P. H.
Browne, Hon. W. Howick, Viscount
Brownrigg, J. S. Hume. Joseph
Bruce, C. C. L. Jackson, Serleant
Buck, L. W. Johnson, W. G.
Buller, C. Johnstone, A.
Butler, Colonel Johnstone, Sir Jobn
Campbell, A. Kelburneord
HenryH
Chapman, A. Kemble,
Charteris, Hon F. Knatchbull, Sir h.
Christie, W. D. Knight, H. G.
Clayton, R. R. Lambton, Hedworth
Cobden, Richard Lawson, Andrew
('odrington, C. W. Leader, J. f.
Collins, William Leroy, Anthony
Courtenay, Viscount Lemon, Sir C.
Cripps, W. Leveson, Lord
Darner. lion. G. Liddell, H. T.
Dawnay, W. H. Lincoln, Earl of
Denison, E. B. Lyall, George
Douglas, Sir tr. Maclean, D
Douglas, Sir C. M`Geachy, F. A.
Duff; James M‘Taggart, J.
Dundas, David Maher, John
Egerton, Lord F. Mangles, R. D.
Eliot, Lord Martin, C. W.
Elphinstone, Howard Masterman, John
Escolt, Bickham Morgan, Octavius
::vans, W. Morison, General
Ferguson, Colonel blunts, G. F.
Fitrroy, Captain Norreys, Sir D. J.
Fleming, J. Murray, A.
Flower, Jir James Packe, C. W.
I. ollett, Sir William Pakington, J. S.
Forster, Matthew Palmer, Robert
Fuller, A. E.

160.
Palmer George
Peel, lion. Sir R.
Peel, Colonel It.
Pendarves, E. W.
Philips, M.
Plumptre. J. P.
Polhill, Frederick
Pollington, Viscount
Pusey, P.
Rawdon J. D.
Reade, W. M.
Richards, K
Roebuck, J. A.
Rose, Sir George
Round, C. G.
Round, John
Rundle, J.
Russell, Lord John
Bandon, Lord
Shaw, Frederick
Sheil, R. L.
Sheppard, T,
Somerset, Lord G.
Stanley. Lord
Stansfleld, W. R. C.
Staunton, Sir G. T.
Stuart, Lord James
Stuart, Villiers
Sutton, Hon. h. M.
Tancrad, H. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Thornhill, George
Trench, Sir P.
Trollope, Sir John
Trotter, J.
'l'ufnell, H.
Tyrell, Sir J T.
Vere, Sir C B.
Vernon, G. H
Vivian, Major C.
Vivian, J. E.
Walsh, Sir John
Ward, H. G ,
Williams, W.
Wood, B.
Wood, C.
Wood, Colonel
Wortley, Hon. J. S.
Wynn, C. W.
Yorke, Hon. E. T.
Young, John

TELLERS.
Fremantle, Sir T.
Baring, H. B.

PORTUGAL.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY AFTERNOON.—The Braganza
(steamer), Captain Lewis, arrived this morning at ten
o'clock, from Lisbon, &c. She brought the following
passengers :—From Gibraltar, Sir C. Smith, Mr.Veeches
and three children, Mr. Grossie, and Mr. J. Weelen ;
Cadiz—Mr. C. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Houghton, Mr. M.
Farand, Mr. and Mrs. Batt, and two servants, Mr. H.
Bevan, and Miguel Garcia Salle ; Lisbon—Mr. and Mrs.
E. Moon, Miss E. Moon, and servant, Mr. Bonsell, Mr.
T. B. Cordwise, Mr. T. Maxwell, Mr. S. J. Kendall, and
Mr. Galloway ; Vigo—Ellen Castro, Mr. J. Wigcey,
and Mrs. E. Loekson and child.

Her Majesty's ship of the line, Indus, and Lynx schooner,
and a French corvette, were at Lisbon on the departure
of the Braganza. At Cadiz was a French brig of war ;
ut Gibraltar, her Majesty's ship Formidable, Belvedera
(frigate), and Lizard (steamer), a French man-of-war,
and the United States frigate Brandywine.
The Braganza brought home seven packages of specie.
Captain. Lewis reports that in passing the Shingles
there was a vessel ashore, which he supposed to be
either a revenue cutter, or one of her Majesty's dock
yard lighters ; but he could not get near enough to
render assistance. It was quite calm. She got ashore
in consequence of a thick tog prevailing.
The Tay mail steamer will sail for the West Indies to-
morrow. She will not take out many passengers.
The Great Liverpool, from Alexandria, now at the
Motherbank, will be released from quarantine to-morrow.
LISBON, MAY 9.—The Portuguese firm of Lima
Sampaio failed last week, at Oporto, for the large sum
of 900 contos, or upwards of 200,000/. As usual, in such
cases, the declaration of suspension of payments was
accompanied with an assurance that the assets were
quite sufficient to cover the liabilities. The bankrupt at
once gave up to his creditors 2,000 pipes of Port wine .)f
the best quality, /and likewise surrendered to them his
estates in the province of Minho. The wine will go but
a very little way towards satisfying their demands ; and
although his landed property is said to be extensive, it is
not at all. likely that it will be found sufficient to make
up the deficiency, particularly considering that the stag-
nation of the wine trade, which has been the cause of his
misfortune, cannot fail to have greatly lowered the value
of such property, consisting as it does altogether of
vineyards. 'Phis event, by increasing the distress already
so severely felt throughout the Pert wine-growing dis-
trict, ought to stimulate the Government to conclude the
commercial treaty with England, by means of which
alone that distress can be removed.

The Queen is understood to have agreed to nominate
twenty-eight Peers, the majority of which are from the
Chartist party, though a few Septembrists and some ex-
Miguelites are among the number. The decree has not
yet been published • but the followin: are understood to
have been certainly nominated ;—Marquis of Vianna,
Marquis das Minas, Counts das Antas, Bomfim, Santa
Maria, and Terena (Jose) ; Viscounts Beira, Oliveira,
Semadaes, and Bertandos ; Baron Tojal, Villa Pouca,
and Almeidinha ; Senhors Aguilar, Pessanha, Hen-
riques, Soares, J. da Silva Carvalho, Antonio de Sal-
danha, Ozorio, Vas Preto, and Trigueiros. The Mar-
quez das Minas, D. Bras da Silveira, was married yes-
terday to a daughter of the Duke of Palmella.
The British Government, it is well known, has from
the very outset made it a condition for the formation of
any new commercial treaty with this country, that there
should not be on this side any, monopoly affecting the
export trade ; and if that of Portugal, pretending to re-
gard the representation in question as the expression of
a wide-spread feeling, should evince a disposition to
adopt the measure recommended in it, the negotiations
will be broken off ; or, at all events, a fresh theme of
discussion will be started, which will serve the required
purpose of further delay.
I have nothing new to say respecting the approaching
elections, further than that the opposition papers are al-
ready beginning to acknowledge, indirectly, that the
Government is likely to have every thing its own way.
The Queen has issued two decrees regarding the
island of Madeira, by the first of which American eagle,,
and dollars are to be legally current in that island, at
the rate of 1,000 reis per dollar, and English sovereigns
and silver coin, which were already current there at the
rate of 4,600 reis per sovereign, are now to be raised to
that of 4,800 reis Rer sovereign,. By the second decree
rice, the produce of Asia, is rendered admissible there,
under whatever flag and from whatever place imported.

EXPERIMENTS AT WOOLWICH.
WOOLWICH, MAY 14.—Captain Sir Thomas Hastings,
of the Excellent gunnery-ship, stationed at Portsmouth,
who has been present at Woolwich, on the part of the
Mmiralty, during the whole of the time the recent ex-
piriments in the Marshes were carried on, having arrived
oa Thursday, although the ‘s eather was very unfavour-
able, from the quantity of rain which fell during the
morning and forenoon, caused the men to be ordered out
at half-past one o'clock for practice against the repre-
sentation of a ship's side and coal-box for protecting
steam-engines on board vessels of war. Fortunately, the
weather became more favourable in the afternoon, and
the following members of the Select Committee ap-
pointed by the Board of Ordnance, attended. Colonel
Cockburn, Colonel Lacy, Lieutenant-Colonel Dansey.
C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Dundas, C. 13., and Lieutenant-
Colonel Chalmer.

Lieutenant-Colonel Dundas Conducted the practice of
the 68-pounder gun, weighing 110 cwt., cast from a pat-
tern of his own, and Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer con-
ducted the practice of Mr. Monk's 56-pounder gun,
weighing 97 cwt. Major Hardinge, K.H., brother to
Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Hardinge, K.C.8., Secre-
tary at War, with Lieutenant Pack, had charge at the
butt, and by the promptness with which the Major
availed himself of the ships clearing the range, some
excellent practice took place. Captain Sir Thomas
Hastings on this occasion remained nearly the whole of
the time with Major Hardinge at the butt, and was so
satisfied with the practice of the 56-pounder gun that it
was ordered to discontinue firing after the twenty-fourth
round. Several of the SG-pounder shot entered the
coal box and caused great destruction, and although
they did not pass through they tore the joinings from
the bottom to within about two feet of the top. Two
more rounds were fired from the 68-pounder, one of
which rent the joinings at the east end of the coal
box from the bottom to within about three inches
of the top, and a great quantity of the coals fell out.
The experiments with these guns, which were made
at the long range of 1,250 yards, having been con-
cluded, General Millar's ten-inch gun commenced
practice, having been previously placed at a range of
900 yards. The firing from this gun with shells was the
best that could have been witnessed. The first shell
entered the centre of the bull's eye, but did not explode,
probably from the action of the loose coals through
which it passed extinguishing the igniting composition
before it could communicate with the contents of the
shell. The second shell entered within about two fac.t
of the bull's-eye, and did not explode, probably from the
same cause as in the former case. The third shell en-
tered about nearly the same distance from the bull's-eye
as the second, only nearer the ground, and in six seconds
exploded, throwing up into the air a flame of ignited
small coals to a height of upwards of thirty feet, forming
a grand and imposing spectacle, and scattering fragments
of the shell, wood, and coals, to a distance of 200 yards
in all directions ; and the scene at the moment reminded
Major Hardinge of the blowing up of a moderate-sized
tower erected to protect a bridge over the Vavasour,
when the British armies were about to cross that river,
and by a singular coincidence Lieutenant-Col. Dansey,
who was present when the tower was blown up, was close
to Major Hardinge when the explosion of the coal-box
was effected in the marshes. A fourth shell was fired,
but it entered and exploded in the butt.
The experiments were resumed at one o'clock on
Friday, the practice being with 10 inch shells from Ge-
neral Millar's gun, removed back to its former station, a
distance of 1,250 yards. The interest which the experi-
ments created caused a great number of officers to at-
tend, amongst whom were the following :—Major-Ge-
neral Sir H. D. Ross, K.C.8., Deputy-Adjutant-Gene-
ral Colonel Cockburn, Colonel Paterson, Colonel Lace,
Colonel R. Jones, Colonel J. E. Jones, Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Dansey, Lieutenant-Colonel Dundas, Lieutenalit-,
Colonel Chalmer, and Lieutenant-Colonel Belson, Mayor
Hardinge, Major Hope, Major Anderson, Captains
Strangways, Palliser, and Forbes, of the Royal Artillery,
and Colonel Sir George Charles Hoste, C. 8., and Bri-
gade-Major. Sandham, of the Royal Engineers. Captain
Sir Thomas Hastings was also present on the occasion.
After continuing the practice with shells for some
time without doing mush injury at that distant range,