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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16.
CORN-IMPORTATION.

Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question pro-
posed,—"That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair:"—Amend-
ment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end
of the Question, in order to add the itords, " this House, Con-
sidering the evils which have been caused by the present
Corn-laws, and especially by the fluctuations of the graduated
or sliding scale, is not prepared to adopt the measure of her
Majesty's Government, which is founded upon the same grin.
ciples, and is likel} to be attended by similar results,"— (Lord
John Russell,)—instead thereof—Question put, " That the
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :—The
House divided :—.

PAIR
FOR THE MOTION.
I'Court, Captain—Tamworth
Brooke, Sir A. B.—Fermanagh
Burdett, Sir F.—N. Wiltshire
Cartwright, Wm. IL—South Nor-
thamptonshire
Castlereagh, Viset—Down Co.
Clements, Colonel—Cavan
Dugdale, W. S.—Warwickshire
Eastnor, Viscount—Reigate
Henniker, Lord—East Suffolk
Irving, John—Antrim Co.
Jones, John—Carmarthenshire
Ker, David—Downpatriek
Lindsay, H. H. —:andwich

Pennant, D.—Carnarvonshire
Planta, Joseph—Hastings
Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon
Vesey, Hon. T —Queen's Co.

ABSENT CONS'
Arbuthnot, General—Kincardine-1

_
shire
Hotham, Lord—Leominster
_..

1 ngestrc; V iscnunt—Staffbrdshire
Jackson, Mr. Serj.—Bandon Bridge

ABSENT LI
A rchbold, Robert— Kildare

Bellew, R. M.—Louth

Callaghan, D.—Cork City
Chalmers, Patrick—Montrose, &c
Crawford, A—llochdale_

Denison, W. J.—West Sussex
Drax, J. S. W. E.—Wareham
Dundas, Frederick—Orkney
Ellice, Right lion. E.—Coventry
Etwall, Ralph—Andover
Grattan, Henry—Meath
Greenaway, Charles—Leominster
Elollond, Robert—Hastings
Howick, Viscount--Sunderland

S-34.

FOR THE AMENDMENT.
Wilde, Sir Thomas—Worcester
Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co
Cave, Robert Otway—Tipperary
Ainsworth, P.—Bolton

Fleetwood, Sir P. H.—Preston
Clements, Visc.—Leitrim Co.
OTerrall IL M.—Kildare Co.
Ellice, Edward—St. Andrew's
Seymour, Lord—TotneAs
White, Luke—Longford
Howard, P. H.—Carlisle
Liatowell, Lord—St. Alban's
Maher, John—Wexford Co.
Leveson, Lora
Pigot, David Richard—Clonmell
Feilden, W. J —Blackbnrn
shelborne, Earl of—Caine

ERVATIVES-8.
Kerrison, Sir E.—Eye
Palmer, George—Esreic
Vyvyan, Sir fl..—Helstone
Williams, T. Peers—Marlow

3ERALS-28.
James, William—Cumbe•land
Macnamara, Major - Clare
Martin, Thomas—Galway Co.
Norreys, Sir. Denham—Mallow
O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare
O'Brien, J.—Limerick City
O'Connell, Daniel—Cork Co.
Power, J.—Wexford Co.
Roche, E. B.—Cork Co.
Rumbold, C. E.—Yarmouth
Shell, Richard Lalor—Dungarvan
Stock, Dr.—Cashel
Talbot, C. R. M.—Glamorganshire
Vane, Lord IL—South Durham

ANALYSIS OF DIVISION.
Voted against Lord John Russell's Resolution (Tellers
included) 351
Voted for it (Tellers included) 228
Pairs (17)
kbsent Conservatives . 8
Liberals
Seats Vacant, Double Returns, &c.:--Southampton,
Salop, Carnwall, Clackmannan, Cardigan, Thetford,
Bandon, and Meath
Speak

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—We are inclined on the whole to accept
the view which is taken by those Ministerialists who
keep a weather eye open, and know they must look
out for squalls, which will at no distant day capsize
the crazy craft they are pitching and patching, in
the forlorn hope.that it may not " finally" founder till
the end of their trading voyage. The Times re-
presents this class of Ministerialists, and has no better
character to give of the Peel project than that
it will pave the way for a fixed duty ! Sir
James Graham also has repudiated the notion of
finality (and, if what we quoted yesterday respecting
him as a landlord is true, the Right Hon. Baronet
permits no finality in the rise of his rents at least).
It appears then, on the whole, that the best
which the cunning and long-headed portion of the
fcan say
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cept the augury 1 We admit the success with
which the New Corn-law Minister has placed the inte-
rest, by force of whose alarms he was hoisted to office,
on an inclined plane, where the mere momentum of the
masses behind them must press them onward. He
has deprived their position of that vis inePtice which
could alone give it a hope of permanence ; and they
have now before them the prospect of indefinite inno-
vation. They have moved just enough to demonstrate
that their disinclination to moving does .not enable
' them to resist the pressure from without. They will
still less be able to resist that pressure when it shall be
brought to enforce the necesssity of substituting reality
for pretence. So far, then, the abolition of monopoly has
been certainly forwarded. It does not follow that the cre-
dit for this first step belongs to those who have made it.
This is what the " No-finality" Ministerialists would
palm on the public. We do not hesitate to denounce
this as effrontery even in them astonishing. What
credit can be due for action against the most recently
professed principles ? What credit can be due to
claims for resemblance in principle to the very oppo-
nents who were driven from power by dint of raising
hostility to their principles ? What credit can be due-
for legislating on bad principles, to prove the value of
good ones ? That credit, whatever be its amount, the
Times claims for the scheme of Ministers.
STANDARD.—The debate upon Lord Jobn Rus-
sell's motion terminated last night in a signal victory
obtained by Ministers over all the various sections of
the Opposition, united for the occasion, and voting, if
not speaking, in perfect harmony. The numbers
upon the division were—For Lord John's motion,
226 ; against it, 349.—A Majority of One Hundred
and Twenty-three I This looks like a return to old
usages, and speaks well for the power and solidity of Sir
R. Peel's Administration. It is impossible to overrate,
the value of such a display of strength in relation to the
interests of the nation at home and abroad. We need
scarcely say that nothing of the kind has been seen
since the fever of the first reformed Parliament; but
we may properly remind those who resisted any re-
form, as necessarily disorganizing the constitution,
that they held such a manifestation of the just
power of the Executive, as impossible, after any
reform should be effected. We—our readers will,
we hope, be just enough to remember—maintained
the opposite opinion, avowing our conviction that
some reform had become necessary, we, professed
comparative indifference as to its form, confident that
whatever law might be presented to the people of this
nation, their good sense and good disposition would
draw from it the best consequences. Our anticipation
has been realised more promptly than it was possible
to hope. Within ten years from the passing of the
Reform Bill we see a Conservative Minister, supported
in a contest ,forced upon him, because as it was
believed to be the contest in which he must be most
seriously embarrassed, by a majority of one hundred
and twenty-three. The majority of ninety-one, with
which Sir. Robert Peel commenced his Government,
has been augmented by more than thirty per cent. in
four or five months, in defiance of an agitating con-
spiracy indefatigably employing for more than a year
all the incendiary topics by which popular feeling is
most easily excited. Is this the triumph of the Mi-
nister ? Certainly not. In the first place, it is the
triumph of the people—the triumph of the people
over the League—over their mercenary lecturers and
hired mobs.
COURIER.—The only speeches worthy of any
special notice delivered from the Opposition benches
were those of the three ex-Ministers—Lords Pal-
merston, John Russell, and Mr. Labouchere--and
principles as adverse to a free trade in corn were
maintained in each of these, as in any emanating
from the Ministerial benches. The great object for the
accomplishment of which the leaders of the Opposition
appeared to labour, was to prove that the step
adventured by Sir Robert Peel, though admitted
to have been taken in the right direction, did not
go far enough; indeed they struggled hard to
make it appear that the benefits to be expected from
the proposed change were not worth contending
for—" You innovate, but do not improve ; you
disturb, but do not settle ; you concede, but
do not conciliate "—were the burden of the
reproaches levelled by each succeeding speaker
against the framers of the measure then before the
House ; reproaches, which a glance at the construc-
tion of the proposed scale of duties, contrasted with
that it is intended to displace, shows to be utterly un-
justified. But it has ever been the_ characteristic
of the Whig party to mean abolition, when they
speak of amendment—to contemplate revolution, when
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speakers on his side of the House, Sir Robert Peel
vindicated his measure most triumphantly last night
demonstrating that though it may fail to
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ciliate extremes—though it may prove distasteful to
Anti-Corn-law brawlers on the one side, and to those
who exclusively look to the interests of agriculture on
the other—it will command the approval and sanction
of that large intermediate class, which may be justly
said to constitute the great bulk of the nation.

A JUNGLE SCENE.—As they penetrated deeper
into the woods, the gloom became more intense, and the deep
silence of solitude more imposing. It almost inspired
them with a feeling of awe. Not a bird, not even an
insect was heard. It appeared as if no living thing
had ever disturbed the solitude of the primeval forest. And
yet there were occasional traces of life. The tall rank grass
which grew up to the height of ten or twe!ve feet, was in
many places trampled down by the wandering herds of
wild elephants; several recent footmarks of tigers might
be traced along the sandy path ; and once or twice a Jungle_
dog was seen to glide across the road, with the drooping
tail and stealthy pace which Indicate the prowling savage_
Here and there an occasional opening in the tree-tops
varied the monotony of the scene. exhibiting a gorgeous view of the
mountains. Their stupendous crags, hanging woods, and spark.
ling water falls, backed by a sky of deeper blue than even Italy
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breezes which they had so lately left. —Old Forest Banger, by Capt.
Campbell,

The Minister of Public Works has given notice
that, from the Ist of March next, a fixed light will be established
on the summit of a tower recently erected on the rocks at the
Pointe de Chauveau, at the southern end of the Ile de Re, at 22
metres (68 feet) above spring tides. The light will be visible at
than 12 to 15 marine miles in fine weather.

'.SHE StJN, LONDON, FRIDAY IiVVNING, 1141131tuAllY 18, 1842.

COURT OF ALDERMEN.

THE VETERAN PEERS.-The following are
the names and ages of some of the oldest peers. Perhaps
there is no public body in the world, with the same limited
numbers, which can produce an equal number of men who
have attained to such venerable ages :-Abereromby, Lord,
72. A bergavenny, Earl, 87. Ailsa, Marquis, 72. Anglesea,
Marquis, 74. Berners, Lord, 80. Besborough, Earl, 84.
Bexley, Lord, 76. Bristol, Marquis, 73. Carberry, Lord,
77. Cathcart, Lord, 87. Colville, Lord, 74. Cork, Lord
75. Delamere, Lord, 75. Dinorben, Lord, 75. Donegal,
Marquis, 73. Dorset, Duke, 75. Dynevor, Lord, 77. Fer-
rers, Earl, 82. Grafton, Duke, 82. Grey, Earl, 77. Gray,
Lord, 78. Hamilton, Duke, 75. Havrowby, Earl, 80. Hunt-
ley, Marquis, 81. eitrim, Earl, 74. Limerick, Earl, 84.
Lonsdale, Earl. 85. Ludlow, Earl, 84. Lynedoch, Lord, 92.
Macclesfield, Earl. 87. Manchester, Duke, 74. Manners,
Lord, 86. Maryborough, Loid, 79. Mayo, Earl, 76. Mid-
dleton, Lord, 73. Mostyn, Lord, 74. Norfolk, Duke, 77.
Northwiek, Lord, 72. Plunkett, Lord, 78. Plymouth, Earl,
74. Ponsonby, Lord, 72. Portland, Duke, 74. Rolle, Lord,
86. Rossmore, Earl, 77. Save and Sele, Lord, 73. Shaf-
tesbury, Earl, 74. Sidmouth;Lord, 85. Sinclair, Lord, 74.
Stamford, Earl, 77. Stanley, Lord, 76. St. Germain's,
Earl, 75. Strathallan, Lord, 75. St. Vincent, Lord, 76.
Teynham, Lord, 74. Wellesley, Marquis, 82. Wellington,
Duke, 72. Western, Lord, 75. Westminster, Marquis, 75.
Wvnford, Lord, 75.
VALUATION OF LAND RENTAL.-It is esti-
mated that the present annual rental of the lands, houses,
buildings, &c., in England, Wales, and Scotland, amounts to
200,000,000/. • yet the landowners pay a tax only upon
9,000,0001, the valued rental in 1692! How is this? Our
windows are counted from time to time, to prevent sts from
escaping any part of the tax upon light. We are required
I every year to make a true return of any addition to the number
of our dogs, horses, &c., chargeable for assessed taxes; yet the
landowners have forgotten to make a return of their rentals
chargeable_ with land tax since 1692 ! The consequence is,
that the tax is now yielding only the same amount to the
revenue as it did 149 years ago, whilst the rental has increased
fifteen fold. A. bona fide land-tax of 4s. in the pound upon
the real rental of the country ought now to yield 40,000,0001.
a year while less than two milli ons are paid.- The Struggle.

Last week a Court was held for the despatch of
public business.
THE OFFICE OF JUDGE OF THE SHERIFF'S COURT OP

THE CITY OF LONDON.
In consequence of the general understanding that the
Report on the subject of the offices vacant by the de-
cease of sergeant Arabin would be presented, there was
a full attendance of mendiefs, as *ell as of persons ad=
mitted below the bar.
Alderman Baow:i, after a few preliminary observa-
tions, presented the following Report:—" In obedience
to an order of this Honourable Court of the 18th day of
January last, to consider the resolution of the Secon-
daries and City Courts Committee for a conference on
the Report of the City Solicitor, respecting additional
sessions being held at the Central Criminal Court, and
other subjects connected with the vacant offices in the
Sheriff's Court, and to confer with a deputation of the
said Committee, and to report our opinion upon the sub-
ject of the said communication, we, whose names are
hereunto subscribed of your Committee, do certify that
we were attended by Mr. Recorder, John Clerk, Esq.,
the Clerk of the Peace, and'Mr. Solicitor, and duly pro-
ceeded to consider so much of the said report of Mr. So-
licitor as related to holding of intermediate sessions at
the Central Criminal Court, and also as to whether both
or only one of the vacant offices of,Judge of the Sheriff's
Court should be filled ; and after conferring with a De •
putation from the Secondaries' and City Courts' Com-
mittee, as requested, we are of opinion that it is neither
necessary nor expedient that any increase should be made
in the number of sittings of the Central Criminal Court,
either by the holding of intermediate sessions. or by the
adjournment from time to time of each or any of the
sessions as now holden, which would, in effect, be the
same as the holding of intermediate sessions. That the
citizens of London have ever deemed it an important pri-
vilege that the local Magistrates elected by themselves
should form a portion of the Judges presiding in the
Courts established for the administration of criminal
justice within the City, and that in our opinion it
would be a dereliction of duty on the part of,the Magis-
trates of London were:they to sanction any measure which
might countenance their non-attendance at the sessions
of the Court, as now established by law. That while we
refrain from offering an opinion upon the question gene-
rally, whether any or both of the vacant offices of Judge
of the Sheriff's Court should be filled up, we are fully
convinced that the assistance. hitherto rendered by the
Court towards the admistration of justice in the Central
Criminal Court, by means of salaried judges in the per-
sons of the Recorder and Common Sergeant, and a Judge
Of the Sheriff's Court, is abundantly sufficient, andought
not to be increased, and that any occasional temporary
inconvenience from accidental circumstances, occasioning
the absence of any such salaried judges, maybe reme-
died by that accommodation which the Judges of the su-
perior courts, acting frem time to time as Commissioners
at the Central Criminal Court, are at all times kindly
disposed to render, when the salaried judges act-
ing for this City are incapacitated from dis-
charging their duties. At the same time we feel
it our duty to suggest that, should the Court of
Common Council eventually determine to fill up the two
vacancies, it will be desirable that the gentlemen who
may be elected Judges of the Sheriff's Court should re-
ceive their appointments at the salaries paid to those
officers prior to the establishment of the Central Crimi-
nal Court ; that it should be encumbent upon the senior
Judge for the time being to sit in such Court, as the
prior salaried Judge, on the part of this City ; and that
for such service he should receive an additional remune-
ration, to such an amount as shall be determined by
the ourt of Common Council ; and, further, that
the question of seniority between the Judges of the
Sheriff's Court should be determined as follows :—lf both
such Judges shall have been previously in the service
of the City, they should take rank according
to that held by them in such prior service ; if one of
such Judges should have been in such service, and the
other not, the former shall be considered the senior of
the two ; and that if neither of them should have been in
such service, they should respectively take rank as
Judges according to their standing at the bar ; and we
recommend the same to this lion. Court accordingly.
" All which we submit to the judgment of this Hon.
Court.

" Dated this Bth day of February, 1842.
" MATTHEW WEIOD, G. CARROLL,
MICHAEL GIBBS, A. BROWN,
JOHN JOHNSON, W. T. COPELAND."
The Report then gave rise to a long discussion.
Alderman T.WOOD moved the following amendment :
" That this Court are of opinion, both the vacant
offices of Judge of the Sheriff's Court should be. forth-
with filled up, and that the salary and allowance made to
the late Sergeant Arabin should be equally divided be-
tween the gentlemen who may be appointed ; and that
they be required to perform, in addition to their duties
as Judges of the Sheriff's Court, all the duties of the
Central Criminal Court heretofore performed by the late
Sergeant Arabia, not interfering with the duties hitherto
performed by the Recorder and Common Sergeant."
Upon a show of hands, the LORD MAYOR declared that
the amendment was negatived by a majority of 5 ; the
numbers being for the amendment 6, against it 11. The
Report was then agreed to, and ordered to be transmit-
ted to the Secondaries' Committee.

It is proper to state that the City's Solicitor's report
alluded to in the Report presented by Alderman Brown,
recommended, as our reporter was informed, the appoint-
ment of two Judges of the Sheriff's Court (who by virtue
of their offices are in the commission of oyer and terminer
and gaol delivery), to hold an intermediate session,
more especially for the trial of juvenile offenders, and
the abolition of the Evening Sittings of the Central
Criminal Court.

THE GERMAN WOOL TRADE.
HA msunGu, JAN. 25.—The position of the Ger-
man wool trade demands a somewhat lengthened no-
tice. The arrivals of wool into Hamburgh during the
past year, for shipment into Great Britain reached to
only 62,052 bales against 65,543 bales, which arrived
at Hamburgh during the year preceding. Never-
theless, the stocks of wool on hand in Berlin, Breslau,
Leipsic, and the other principal depots for wool in
Germany, were very much less on the Ist January,
1842, than on the same day twelve months previous.
The stock in Berlin was less than half the amount at
the corresponding period of last year. In Breslau
and Leipsic the comparative diminution was still
greater. It is computed that not more than 5,000 cwt.
of wool remained over in Breslau, and the stock in
Leipsic wits too insignificant to merit notice at all.
The stocks now on hand CiPnsist for the most part
'of fleeces of inferior growth and quality, the 5,000
cwt. in Breslau being exclusively low Polish fleeces,
and the stock in Berlin consisting principally of the
same description, intermixed with a very few flocks of
good Prussian or Silesian fleeces, upon which the
holders appear determined to speculate for high prices.
Combing fleeces, and lambs' wools fall entirely, and
the quantity of clean skin-wool of fair quality on
hand is unusually small. From these facts, it being
known that the export of wool from Germany to
France and Belgium did not exceed in 1841 that of
former years, proofs are afforded that the woollen
manufacture of Germany has flourished during the
past year ; proofs in corroboration of the statements
which were made last year from time to
time, and which were periodically alluded to
in the " Prices-current" of 1841. The depressed
condition -of all branches of the woollen ma-
nufacture of Great Britain, which is reported from
across the water by every mail, appears to have no
effect whatever either upon the opinions or the
operations of the German wool dealers, who are con-
tracting daily with the farmers for their clips of wool
of the present year, and are even paying higher prices
than were current at the last wool fairs. The Ger-
man wool dealer feels now independent of the influence
of British demand, and appears to regulate his operations
entirely by the state of the woollen manufacture of
his own country. The stock of wool in Hamburgh
amounts to about 2,500 bales, chiefly of inferior
Prussian and Mecklenburg fleeces. There is no
good combing wool to be met with, nor is the
general character of the stock such as would suit
the demand of a manufacturer of good cloths.
Holders here would gladly realise ; but as the wool
trade of this city deends almost exclusively
upon the demand from (Treat Britain (from whence
the accounts are excessively disheartening), and as the
quality of our stock in general is not calculated to
attract speculators, the market is perfectly inanimate.
A. few parcels of Prussian fleeces, which had been con-
signed to Hamburgh from Berlin for sale, have been
returned to the latter city, where the different posi-
tion of the wool trade will more than compensate for
the loss of carriage both ways, and all the other inter-
mediate charges.