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,system. He likewise complained of the manner in which the recent
alteration had been effected in the details of this measure.
Lord ALTHORP could not concur in his Hon.
Friend's strong opinion of this measure.
Mr. Alderman WOOD complained of the manner
in which the Resolutions had been altered.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT condemned the attempts
which had been made to separate into classes the interest of the
people.
Mr. HOBHOUSE would only say two words, and
they were to complain that Ministers should have suddenly altered
their Resolutions after the general support which they had received
in that House. Their alteration, too, was not for, but against,

the people, and to suit the particular interests of a party in
that House. The Members for the City of London, and of
other populous towns, ought to he heard without interrup-
tion upon a question so vitally affecting their constituents.
He would support Ministers in their original proposition.
What was the reason for the change in their plan ? Did not the
King's Ministers know that reason before ? He would assert,
that a Government like the present, which did not know its own
mind, was not worth twopence.—(A laugh.)—lt would not do ;
he declared to God that every one with whom he conversed out
of doors was of opinion that such a miserable disjointed Govern-
ment could not stand.—(Hear, hear, hear.)--If it had not been
for the Gentlemen on his (the Hon. Member's) side of the House,
where would the original proposition have been ? Had they said,
" for God's sake let them fight it out ; don't let us meddle with
the nasty mess," where would the King's Ministers have been ?
the proposition had been carried by only 61 ; had three or four
rows on his side of the House walked out, it would have been
shown by a vote of the House, what was well known out of it,
that the Ministers were divided amongst themselves, and could
not carry any great measure. He was called upon to stand by
Ministers when they would not stand by themselves. He would
'vote with the Right Hon. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and
against the Right Hon. the Vice-President of the Board of Trade.
—(Hear.)
Mr. PEEL observed, that the Honourable Mem.
her had been diverted, by his indignation against his Majesty's
Ministers, from the real question before the Committee.—
His Right Hon. Friend, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, had
distinctly left the subject of barley and oats open to consideration.
By the present modication of their original propositions, Ministers
were not liable to the reproach of being bullied by a majority in
the House ; nor did they deserve to be characterized in the elegant
and classical phrase of the Hon. Member for Westminster, as "s
Government not worth two-pence."—(Loud laughter.)
General GASCOYNE stated, he should maintain
his own consistency by voting for the original proposition.
Mr. WARD observed, that he had voted for the
original proposition under the conviction that it had been the re-
sult of consideration on the part of his Majesty's Ministers. He
viewed the present amendment as an encroachment upon that pro-
position, and should vote against it.
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE observed, that the only
fault he (Sir T. Lethbridge) had to find with the amendment was,
that 821. for barley was not enough.—(A laugh).
Colonel SIBTHORPE supported the amendment
by a few observations, which were inaudible from the noise in the
Committee.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL made a few
remarks which did not reach us.
Mr. MONCK rose amidst loud cries of " Ques-
tion." He would adhere to the original proposition of his Ma-
jesty's Ministers against the Ministers themselves. The averages
for the last forty years were wrongly taken.—(Goughing.)
The gallery was then cleared for a division, when the numbers
appeared to be—
For the resolution 215
Against it BB
Majority in favour of the resolution 177
The other resolutions respecting the duty on barley were then
agreed to without a division.
On the resolution respecting the duty on oats being put,
Mr. Alderman WOOD arid Captain GORDON
made a few observations, which the noise in the House prevented
us from catching accurately.
Mr. WHITMORE then rose, but the noise con-
tinuing, he sat down.
Lord MILTON complained of the interruption,
and expressed his intention of adjourning the House if it should be
continued.
A conversation ensued, in which Mr. Thompson, Mr. Peel,
Gen. Gascoyne, and Mr. Hume took part, tha_lattee gentleman ii.
sisting upon moving that the Chairman should report progress.
The motion was, however, not put, and
Mr. W. WHITMORE again rose, and hoped he
might be allowed to address the House very shortly, without in-
terruption. He was sure, notwithstanding what had been said to
the contrary, that the duty on oats now proposed was much mor:
oppressive than those under the existing law-
that
convincing the House, in its present
.ter?per, t q aui er settl on f,
et:117111;d, had
conviction
upon wit
which ought
would be forced upon them by the painful and disadvantageous
tru:dbuee aceotniseileZticf:,
means of experience.
Mr. HOME DRITAIMOND said a few words.
Mr. CHARLES GRANT thought that the
charges of his Hon. Friend were quite unfounded, and that, as far
as oats were concerned, there was a clear relief by the proposition
now before the House.
The resolution was then put, and carried without a division.
The other resolutions were agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at One o'clock.

LIST OF THE MINORITY OF THI
WHO VOTED FOR THE MINISTERS' ORIGINAL PROF,
IMPORT PRICE OF BARLEY AT afs. AND THE DI
325, AND 12s. citrrv. ,
Hobhonse, J. C.
Baring, F.
, 11. Hodgson F.
Battey
Bernal, R. Howick'Lord
Birch, J. J.
Hume,
Bright, H. Lumley, J. S.
Buxton, T. F. Lushiogton,Ar.
Calvert, C. Marshall, W.
Cradock, Col. Martin, J.
Ehrington, Viscount Milton, Lord
Fergusson Sr B, Monck, J. B.
Fortescue, Hon. G. Philips, G.
Fyler, T. Ramsden, J. C.
Gascoyne, Gen. ,Itancliffe, Lord

RTY-EIGHT,

:011TION OF FIXING THE
LIT AT 101., INSTEAD OF

Robinson, G.
Stanley, Lord
Thompson, Aid.
Waithman, Aid.
Warburton, H.
Ward, W.

Wood, J.
Wrightson, W.
Wyviu, N.
Whitmore, W. W.

Wilson, lair R.
'DeLuca.
'Wood, Aid.

Two Roman Catholics, having a Scriptural convic
tion of the errors of Popery, conformed to the Protestant reli-
gion at Magheracoolmony church on Sunday last. We have just
learned that a third person, also of the Roman Catholic persua-
sion, came forward on the same day, and partook of the Sacra-
ment in that church. Thus the leaven is beginning to spread in
Fermanagh.—Fermanagh Reporter.
LAKE OF ABRAHANI.---The noon-day sleep of
the Hadjee (a Mohammedan pilgrim) and his followers was en-
joyed on the sofa of the room that overhangs the Lake of Abra-
ham (in his native city, Ur of Chaldees), and after this, on our
way back to the town, we halted to take a pipe and nargeel at a
ptNic coffee-house. The great bench in front of the house, on
which the principal guests generally sat, was a seat of raised ma-
sonry, smoolt4 plastered, railed around with open wood work,
at the back and sides, and spread over with clean strawsnrats. It
overhung a clear stream, ritnning from the Lake of Abraham,
crowded with playful fish, and was capable of accommodating
fifty persona, who might sit there at their ease, to watch the cur-
rent of the brook. On the opposite side was a garden, so thickly
planted with trees, that the lofty and ruined walls of the castle
could be but here and there perceived through their openingsr
,
though appearing, from its elevated site, to be almost above ou
heads. A beautiful weeping willow, the trunk of which reared
itself from the banks of the stream, within a few feet of where we
sat, spread its falling branches over the waters, and completely
shaded us from the heat of the sun, while the scarlet blossom of
the pomegranate, and the finest combinations of summer-green in
the various trees that vied in richness and beauty with each other,
delighted the eye, and helped to complete the charm of this lovely
spot. Every thing that I had yet seen, indeed, about the town
and its environs, convinced me that the Turks were engine
and
lovers of nature; and here they had been peculiarly fortunate in
the combination of her beauties for the common enjoyment of all.
--Buckingham's Travels in Mesopotamia.
EXECUTION AND SuicipE.—.77White, alias (Mar-
chant.), one of the murderers of Selfridge and 'Jenkins, who was to
have been executed on Thursday last, hung himself en the pre-
ceding Tuesday night, Various efforts had been made to bring
him to a proper sense of his awful condition, but in vain. White
refused to see any clergyman and avowed that he had never en-
tertained
any idea of a future state, and merely asked to be hung
in his own clothes. During the evening of Tuesday, he occupied
himself as he was wont to do, in obscene singing and declama-
tion ; and !tit nearly as can be jutted he committed suicide about
He effected this by means of a silk
one o'clock the saferip of 4134ket ; the former he put
poeket handkerchief and a .7t.
around his neck and the latter_ he fasten,,,, . upper Con-
the grate of
the window of his eel]; having then tied them toe..._
tracted his legs and thus strangled himself.—New York Enquirer.