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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.
(From the Votes and Proceedingsof the House of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, NARCH 9.
CORN-IMPORTATION.

CHINA.
(From the Pekin Gazette.)
THE TRIAL AND CONDEMNATION OF HIS
EXCELLENCY COMMISSIONER ELEPOO.

Order for second reading read ; motion made, and questins
proposed—" That the Bill be now read a second time :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at
the end of the question to add to the words “ upon this day
six months:"—Question put, "That the word 'now' stand
part of the questio:i."
MAJORITY- AYES,
Acland, Sir Thomas Fellowes, Edward
Actand, T. D. Ferrand, NV. B.
Ackers, James Filmer, Sir E
Acton, Colonel Fitzroy, Captqin
Adare, Lord Fleming, J. W.
Adderlev, C. B. Follett, Sir W. W.
A It ord, 'Viscount Ffolliott, Johl
Antrobus, Edmund Forbes, William
Arkwright, George Forester, Hon. G.
Ashley, Lord Fuller, A. E.
Astell, William Gasket J. M.
kttwood, J. Gladstone, W. E.
Bagge, Wm. Gordon, Hon. W.
Bagot, Hon. W. Gore, Montague
Bailey, Joseph, jun. Gore, W O.
Millie, Colonel Gore, W. R. 0.
Millie, H. J. Goring, H. D.
Baird, William Goulburn, H.'
Ballwin, C. Barry Graham, Sir J.
Balfonr, J. M. Granby, Marquis
Baring W. B. Grant, Sir A. C.
Barneby, John Greena;l, Peter
Barrington, Lord Greer.e, T. G.
Baskerville, T. B. M. Gregory, W. H. .
l3atesoii, Sir Robert Grimston, Lord •
Beckett, William Grogan, Edward
nen, M. Hale, R. B.
Bentinck, Lord 0 Halford, H.
licresfor.i, Captain Hamdton, W. J.
Berrsford, Major Hamilton, Lord C.
Bernard, Viscount Hanmer, air John
Baler°, Henry G. Harcourt, G. G.
Borthwick, Peter Hardinge, Sir H.
'tottield, Beriah Hawkes, T•
.
Bradshaw, James Hayes, Sir E.
Braateton, T. W. Heneage, G. W.
Broadley, Henry Henley, J. W.
Broadwood, H. Hepburn, Sir T, B.
Brownrigg, J. S. Herbert, Hon. S.
Bruce, Lord E. Hartle, J. H.
Bruce, C. L. . Hodgson, F.
Bruen, Colonel Hodgson, R.
Buck, Lewis W. Hogg, J. W.
Buller, Sir J. B. Y. Holmes, W. A'Court
Bunkurv, Thomas Hope; Chute
Campbell, Sir H. Hope, Alexander
Campbell, A. Hope, G. W.
Carnegie, Captain Hurnby, John
i hapman, Aaron Houldsworth, T.
Charteris, Hon. F. Inglis, Sir R. H.
Cheiiea. Visconnt loon, Samuel

TRANSLATED FROM THE " PEKIN. GAZETTE," BY J. L. S.
The Hereditary Prince Hosnih, and the High
Minister Jinchow, and others, kneeling re-
spectfully, lay their report before the Throne :
In obedience to the Imperial will, having as-
sembled together to sit in judgment upon
the affairs submitted to our deliberations, and
having previously received the Imperial in-
structions to institute an investigation in
relation to Elepoo, who formerly -held the
office of Governor of the two Keang
iirovinces (Keangnan„ i. e. .Keangsoo and
J.inhwny and Keangse)
to, we have had him brought in obedience there-
to, before us in council
assembled, and have ascertained by investigation
the clear import of every 'circumstance; and
Elepoo, bowing to the ground and knocking his
!icad, through alarm arid fear lost all command
)t. himself. It appears that Eiepoo received
Imperial Commission, last year, to ex-
Amine into and- arrange • the affairs of
the barbarians in Chekeang ; and after he
had arrived in the province, be employed skilful
.;pies, summoned together the bravest of the mi-
litia, collected provisions, selected the most able-
bodied of the troops, and laid many plans for
Advancing upon and exterminating the enemy.
Afterwards, he earnestly desired to order
the said barbarians to repair to Canton, there
to wait until affairs could be •- examined into
and arranged. Tu gain renown he concluded
to offer them presents, and to order persons
to proceed to them and clearly explain his com-
mands, and at the same time to spy out their real
strength. He deemed it proper to dispatch
Changke, a person of his household ‘vhoin he
uad promoted six degrees, with an official mes-
senger Chin Chekan,,, over the sea' (to Tinghae)
to offer bullocks and sheep,. and various articles
as pr,sents, in return for which the said bar-
.atrians presented foreign broadcloths and
various commodities. Elepoo -retired to make

284.
Mundy, E. Miller
Murray, C. R. S.
Neville, Ralph
Newry, Viscount
Nicholl, J
Norreys, Lord
O'Brie , A. Stafford
Owen, Sir J.
Parke, C. W.
Paget, Lord W.
Pakington, John S.
Palmer, R.
Palmer, G.
Patten, John Wilson
Peel, Sir R.
Peel, Jonathan
l'emberton, T.
Pigot, Sir R.
i'lumptrc, J. P.
Pollock, Sir F
Powell, Colonel
Praed, W. T.
Price, Richard
Pringle, A.
Pussy, Pinup
Rae, Sir William
Rashleigh, William
Reade, W. M.
Reid, Sir J. it.
!lepton, George J.
Ri-liards, Richard
Rolleston, Colonel
Rose, Sir George
Round, C. G.
Round, J.
Rous, lion. Captain
Rustihrooke, Colonel
Russ 11, Charles
Russell, .1. 1). W.
Ryder, G. D.
Sanderson, R.
Sandon, Lord
Scarlett, Hon R.
Scott, Robert
Seymour, Sir H. B.
Shaw, F.
Sheppard, Thomas
S.irley, Evelyn J.
Shirley, E. P.
Sibthorp, Colonel
Smith, Abel
Smyth, Sir G. 11
Smoilett, A.
Somerset, Lord O.
Somerton, Viscount
Sotheron, T. H.
Stanley, Lord
3tewart, John
Stuart, H.
Sturt, H. C.
Str.ton, Henry M.
Taylor, T. E.
Taylor, J. A.
Tennent, J. E.
Thompson, Ald.
I'h rnhill, George
Tollemache, F. J.
Tollemache, John
Toalline, George
Trench, Sir Frederic&
Trevor, Hon. G. lt.
rotter, John
Tumor, Christopher
Tyrrell, Sir J.
Vane, Lord Harry
Vere, Sir C. 11.
Vernon, Granville
Villiers, Viscount
Vivian, John Ennis
Waddington, H. S.
Walsh, Sir .1.
Welby, G. Farlc
Whitmore, T. C.
Wilmot, t'r J.E.
Wood, Colonel T.
Wsod, Colonel
Wortley, J. 'mart'
Wyndham, Colonel
Wyndham, W.
Yorke, lion. E. T.
Young, John
Young, Sir W.

Chetwode, Sir John
Cholmondeley, H.
Christmas, William

James, Sir Walter
Jernsyn, Earl
Johnson, W. G.

Christopher, It. A.
Chute, W. L.
Clayton. Sir W.
layton. It. It.
Clerk, Sir G.
alive, R. H.
C.,ckburii, Sir G.
Codrington, C. W.
Collett, W. Rickford
Colville, C. R.
Compton, H.
Coote, Sir C. H.
Corry, H. L.
Courtenay, Viscount
Crc swell, Baker
Cripps, J.
Crowe, 'l'. Bright
Darby, George
Dawnay, Hon. W.
Denison, E. Beckett
Di !k.nson. F. H.
D'lsraeli, Benjamin
Dodd, George
Douglas, Sir Howard
Douglas, Sir C. E.
Douglas, J. O. S.
Douro, Marquis of
tiowdeswell; W.
Drummond, H H.
Duffield, Thomas
buncombe. O.
Du Pre, George
East, James Buller
Eaton, Richard J.
Egerton, W. T.
Egerton, Sir P. G.
Eliot, Lori
Emlyn, Viscount
Escott, Bickham
Estcourt, 'l'. G. B.
Farnham, E. B.
Feilden, W.

Johnstone, Sir John
Sir W.
Jones, T.
Ketnble, Henry
Knatchbuil, Sir E.
Knight, Henry Gall)
Knight, F Winn
Knighticy, Sir C.
Law, Hon. C. E.
Lawson, Andrew
Legh, George C.
Leicester, Earl of
Lemon, Sir C.
Lennox, Lord A.
Liddel
Lincoln, Earl of
Lindsay. H.
Lockhart, William
Lowther, J. H.
Lowther, Colonel
Lygon, General
Mackenzie, Thomas
Mackenzie, W. F.
Mackinnon, W. A.
MacGeachy, F. A.
Mahon, Lord
Mainwaring, T
Manners; Lord J
March, Earl .of
Marsham, Viscount
Martin, C. W.
Martin, T. E.
Martyn, C. Cecil
Master, T. W. C.
Mas.erman, John
Meynell, H.
Miles, P. W. S.
Hiles, W.
Milnes, H. M.
Mitchell, T. A.
Morgan, Octavius
Morgan, C.

La absolute refusal of the whole of the said
niches, which would have struck the bar-
rtrians with suspicion • and dread. But in-

•toad of being thus effected, they acted de-
ceptively with reg-ard to the dine of their pro-
ceeding to Canton, and Elepoo under these
circumstances received their presents. In reply
to a memorial touching the above, the imperial
will was received, strongly enjoining that the
articles be sent back. Eleepo, in obedience

thereto, flothwith took the various kinds of pre-
sents, and ordered Chin Chekang to go and give
them back to the barbarians, who would not
receive them.

During the second month of the present year,
the barbarians wishing to deliver back Chusan,
Changke and Chin Chekang were sent to take
one barbarian man and one woman to proceed
and make known the strict injunctions, that
when the city had been • given up then all
the barbarians should be delivered. The pre-
sents which they had previously made were all
sent back, and having received them, they set
sail fur Canton. But. Elepoo did not, in
obedience to the imperial will, forthwith advance
and slaughter, and make an. immediate and
thorough extermination Of them. The whole ot
his proceedings being iMproper and really
marked by imbecility, and being unworthy to
bear so high an office, he earnestly besought
that his crimes 'night be visited with heavy
taken
intopuil ei
dnet.ra ti‘oVne hole of
,frtoclei itlisttoe rlas,s
thtt having
the evidence which he in person has laid before
us, respectfully memorialise that in relation
thereto the sacred commands may be recorded.
Respecting the above case of Elepoo, the Im-
perial Coninnssioner and High Minister, his ma-
nagement of the barbarian affairs in Chekeang,
and his not being able at once to recover Tinghae,
the Imperial will was repeatedly transmitted
that he should proceed to exterminate the enemy;
but on every occasion he delayed and idly
looked about him, and through excessive timidity
did not go tbr ward, and that for every purpose he
proved himself weak and useless. We therefore
jointly solicit the imperial will, that Elepoo may
be forthwith disgraced from the office he for-
merly held as governor of -the two Keang pro-
vinces, and be sent to Ele, that, by strenuous
exertions, he may make amends for his offences.
Changke and the official messenger Chin Che-
kang, who formerly proceeded to the barbarian
ships, as we have found by examination, only
acted in obedience to Elepoo, and accordingly
we acquit them of crime. Let Chin Chekang
return to his military station, and let Changke
be released.

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

MI.
Acheson, Viscount
Ainsworth, Peter
Aldan', William
Anson, Hon. Colonel
Bannerman, A.
Bar, lay, David
Baring, F. T.
tiarnard, E. G.
Bell, John
Berkeley, C.l
Berkeley, G.
Berkeley, F. H.
Bernal, 11.
Blackstone, W. S.
Biewitt, Reginald
Rowring, Dr.
Brocklehurst, J.
Brotherton, J.
Browne, W.
Buller, C.
Busfeild, W.
Ilyng, George
Byng, G. S.
Cavendish, Hon. C.
Cavendish, Hon. G.
Chapman, Benjamin
Childers, J. W.
Clay, Sir W.
Clive, E.. B.
Cobden, Richard
Col. orne, W Ridley
Colebrooke, Sir T. E.
Collins, W.
Cowper, Hon. W.
Craig, W. Gibson
Crawford, W. S.
Curteis, H. B.
Dalmeny, Lord
Dalrymple, Captain
Dashwood, G. H.
Dawson, Hon. T. V.
Denison, John Evelyn
Dennistoun, J.
D'Evncourt, C. T.
Dufl; James
Duncan, George
Duncombe, T. S.
Diindas, C. W. D.
Ea.sthope, Sir John
Ehrington, Viscount
Ellice, Rt. Hon. E.
El! is, Wynn
Esmond°, Sir T.
Evans, William
Ferguson, oionel
Ferguson, Sir R. A.
Fielden, J.
Fit zalan' Lord
itzroy, Lord C.
Forster, Matt hew

40RITY—NOP.;S,
Fox, Charles Richan:
Gibson, T. M.
Gill, Thomas
Gordon, Lord F.
Gore, Robert,
iirey, Sir O.
Guest, J.
Hall, Sir B.
Haiford, Summers
Harris. John Q
Hastie, A.
Hatton, Captain V.
Hawes, B
Hay, Sir A. L.
Hayter, W. G.
Heathcoat, John
Hinuley, C arles
Hobhouse, Sir J. C.
Holdsaorth J.
Horsman
Howard, C. W.G.
Howard, H:
Lord
Humphery, J.
Hutt, W.
Jardine, William
John tone, Alex.
Labouchere, H.
Lainbton, H.
Langston, J. H.
Larpent, Sir G
Layard, Captain
Leader, J. 'l'.
Loch, James
Macaulay, T. B.
M`Taggart, John
Maher, V.
Mangles, R. D.
Marjoribanks, S.
Marshall, W.
Martin, John
Maule, Hon pax
Mitcalfe Henry
Morris, David
Morrison, William
Mostyn, Hon. E. M.
Murray, A.
Napier, Sir Charles
O'Brien, W. Smith
O'Connell.. D.
O'Connell, al J.
O'Connell, J.
o•Ferrall, more
Ogle, S. C. El.
ord, W.
Pag t, Frederick
Palmerston, Viscount
Parker, John
Pechell, Captain
Philips, G. lt.

176.
Philipps, Sir R.
Philios, Mark
Pinney, W.
Plumridge Captain
Ponsonby, C. F. A.
Ponsonby, Hon. JOllll
Powell, Caleb
Protheroe, E.
Pulsford, It bert
Rawdon, J. D.
Reddington, T. N.
Rennie, George
Ricardo, John Lewis
Race, E. 13.
Roche, Sir D.
• umbold, C. E.
Rundle, John
Itus,ell, Lord John
Russell, Lord E.
Scott, R.
Scrope, G. P.
Shell, R. L.
Smith, Penjamin
Smith, J. A.
Smith, R. Vernon
Somers, J. P.
Somerville, Sir W.
Stansfield, W. R.
Stanton, W. H.
Stuart, Lord J.
Stuart, W. Vi tiers
Strutt, Edward
Tancred, H. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Towneley, John
Traill. Georie
Trowbridge, Sir T.
Villiers, Charles P.
Villiers, Frederick
Vivian Hon. Captain
Wakley, Thomas
Walker, R.
Wall, B.
Ward, H. G.
Wawn, John T.
Westenra, H. R.
Wilde, Sir T.
Williams, Wm.
Wilson, Matthew
Winnington, Sir 1
Woo 1, Benjamin
Wood, C.
Wood, O.W.
Wo,sley, Lord
Wrightson, W -
Yorke, H. ftedhead

- That which your Majesty's Ministers,have ad-
judged of the cases brought before us in Council
assembled, we now reverently report to the
Court, that the Imperial will may be received
and recorded.

The Imperial reply. His Majesty's commands
have been received as follows :

"In co:tsequcnce of Elepoo having unsatis-
factorily mauaged the military affairs of
Chekeang, our imperial will was delivered to

TE1.1.P.551.•
Tufnell, Henry
Hill, Lord IlL4Tetl6

the princes and high ministers to adjudge the
crimes of which he was guilty, and it appears
that prince Jinchow and others, in council
assembled, have now reported upon the
above case. Elepoo, holding the office of
high imperial commissioner-for the arrangement
of affairs in Chekeang was unable forthwith to
recover the captured territories. The imperial
will was repeatedly transmitted to him, that he
should advance and set about really proving
himself to be imbecile; • and let him be forthwith
disgraced from the office he formerly held as
Governor of the two Keang provinces, and let
him be sent to Ele, that by strenuous exertions
he may make some amends for his crimes, and
be a warning to others. • Respect this."—Chinese
Repository for November..

LECTURES ON CHEMISTRY.
Dr. Reid delivered the first of his instructive and edifying
course of lectures at Exeter Hall on Wednesday, in the great
room, to a large, scientific, and respectable assemblage. After
some preliminary remarks, tending to extol the advantages which
a study of this science ensured, and its almost universal applicabi.
lity to the ordinary actions and offices of life, the learned Lecturer
proceeded to touch upon the leading difficul y attending chemistry,
viz., the indivisibility of matter. Those infinitesimal and atomic
particles, which no man has ever seen, which have hitherto, and
very likely ever will, evade the subtlest scrutiny, form the chief
agents in this science : pat tlcles which are mathematically divisible,
but not physically. Several experiments were performed, illustra-
tive of the extreme minuteness of these particles, which, after the
reduction they underwent, were nevertheless not then at the
myriadth part of their divisibility : thus a grain only of soluble
lead being dissolved in a large receiver filled with water, its par-
ticles on solution become so multitudinous as to render the whole
body of the fluid albescent. All chemical substances (continued
Dr. Reid) were either elementary or compound, and heat was the
great modifier of their forms and changes. An experiment &tad-
dative of this fact attracted much attention. Two bars of solid
iron, heated to a white heat by the forge and bellows erected in the
room, OR being brought in contact with a thick match of sulphur,
ran down in a liquid stream like !pelted wax or camphor. Oxygen
was the great agent pervading elation. Thy: air, the waters, the
animal frame, and every ponderable substance known, partook of
this universal operant, and that to such a degree that a chemist of
eminence had asserted it to compose more than half the globe. It was
this power existing in the air which acted so extensively upon the
masses of matter. Little was it believed at first that the mass of
opake coal contained in its indivisible atoms such heat and power
as we know them capable of developing, productive of life, and
conducive to all our arts and comforts. Press of matter precludes
us from recounting more copiously the scientific contents of the
lecture, or reviewing its brilliant and well-managed series of ac.
companying experiments, but shall at a future evening eonfer on
ourselves the pleasure of noticing at greater length this excellent
course of philosophic entertainment and instruction.

GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY.
Traffic returns for the week, ending March 5, 1842:
Passengers O•• O £679 7 6
Merchandise

£l,lll 12 0
Darlington, March 9. W. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

REMARKABLE ROBBERY AT TIIE OLYMPIC TREA-
fRE. —On Wednesday, shortly after the fall of the curtain ,
at this theatre upon the last scene of the Artful Dodge, an ex-
traordi: ary scene occurred, which afforded considerable amuse-
ment
to the audience. One of the visitors in the gallery,
in consequence of the familiarity of a ' companion, had his '
hat knocked into the pit, and, in order to recover it, a
numbtr of handkerchiefs were tied together to such a length
as would reach down to the pit of the theatre, for the pur-
pose of having the hat fastened to the end of them, that it
might be pulled up. Rather a suspicious-looking individual,
who had the hat in his possession, seized hold of the chain of
handkerchiefs, for the purpose, as was imagined, of affixing
the hat, when suddenly, to the great surprise of everybody,
he pulled the handkerchiefs from the grasp of the person in the
gallery who held them, and instantly " bolted," getting clear
off with his booty, to the great amusement of a facetious-look.
ing gentleman in the pit, who evinced his gratification by ejac-
ulating, " Well, if folks want to see an artful dodge,' let 'em
come to the Olympic."
SUDDEN DEATH OF A POLlCEMAN.—Wednesday,
as a police sergeant, No. 6 E, was going his rounds, in passing
through Middle-row; Holborn, he discovered police constable,
42 F, lying in a state of insensibility. Immediate assistance was
procured, and the unfortunate man was taken to the station-
house, when it was found he was lifeless; his death is supposed
to have been occasioned by apoplexy. A rumour that he was
killed by the falling of a tile, which was in circulation this
morning, is without foundation.
CONVICTION OF TWO MORE SPIES.—At the King's
County Assizes, two spies, named Levins and Martin, were
found guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury—Levins for swear-
ing against five men on a charge of houghing cattle, which he
had killed himself ; and Martin for . swearing that a person
named Sullivan had written—a threatening notice, which had
been fabricated and posted" by the spy himself. Chief Justice
Pennefather, after remarking that " cases such as these ought
to make the authorities pause before they listened to information
coming from such a quarter," sentenced Levins to be imprisoned
for two months and then transported for seven years, and Mar-
tin to be transported for seven years.--Dub/in Evening Post.
FISH IN THE BATH WATERS.—A singular circum-
stance occurred last week. The gold fishes in the ornamental
glass globes, in the Great Pump Room, from some unaseer •
tamed cause, became torpid and to all appearance dead ; so
that the official, thinking them to be really lifeless, threw them
from the window into the hot water lake. He had no sooner
done so than they began disporting themselves with great viva-
city, as if a new existence had been imparted to them. The
superintendent states that though the temperature of these
waters is usually 93 deg., not only gold fish, but eels and perch
thrive in them.—Bads Journal.
There are now living in the vicinity of Horsham
three Magistrates, whose united age is 269 years—Robert
Hurst, Shelle, Bart., 88 ; and J. DI.
co
sgq. y y
88Sir.ZBimriogthhtln Gazette.
REVERSE or FORTUNE.—At a meeting of the cre-
ditors of the Newton Bank, held at Exeter a few days since,
riismt, e Esq.,rai 3
it nes stated that Mr. Baker (one of the partners) went into
the concern with 17,000/., and had not now a shilling!
A new local newspaper, intended for the Counties
of Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, and Caithness, has just ap-
ed under the title of the Ross-shire Advertiser. It is to
L s conductedon Liberal principles.

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH IL 1842

VI. It is understood that our ships of war
which were seized by the barbarians have
❑ot yet been burned, but as formerly, lay
anchored off Hae-cho-ohill. On the nineteenth
the villagers secretly proceeded with intent
stealthily to set them adrift, designing to deliver
them to the officers and obtain rewards. They,
howeVer, did not suppose that they were closely
watched by the barbarians, who Sent their boats
in pursuit, and opening their great guns, killed
three of the people and recovered the said vessels
all back again.--Ibid, Dec. 4. •