The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-19 00:00:00

IRELAND

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Total against the m0ti0n........ 381

The following whigs voted in the majority on this ques
Lion :

Baring, F. T. Hatton, Captain Villiers
Cavendish, C. C. (Youghal) Heathcote, G. J. (Rutland.
Cavendish, G. H. (Derby- shire)
shire) Howard, Lord (Shaftesbury
Colborne, W. N. R. Howard, P. H. (Carlisle)

Curteis, H. B. Labouchere, H.
Dawson, T. V. Lemon, Sir C.
Drax, J. S. W. S. E. O'Brien, W. S.
Ebrington, Viscount O'Conor Don.
Esmonde, Sir T. Ogle, J. C. H.
French, F. Redington, T. N.
Gill, T. Russell, Lord J.

The following members voted in the minority on Monday
last, who did not vote last year upon this question :
Barnard, E. G. Jervis, J.
Berkeley, C. Langston, J. H.
Browne, W. (Kerry) Layard, Capt.
Buller, C. Macauley, T. B.
Buller, E. Maule, Fox

Chapman, B. Morison, Gen.
Christie, W. D. Pochell, Capt.
Clive, E. B. Ponsonby, J. G.
Collett, J. (Athlone) Ponsonby, Hon. C. F.
Corbally, M. E. (Poole)
Craig, W. G. Pulsford, R.
Crawford, W. S. Rice, E. R.
Dalmeny, Lord Roche, Sir D.
Dashwood, G. H. Roebuck, J. A.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. Ross, D. R.
Ellice, E. Russell, Lord E.
Ellice, E. (St. Andrew's) Scott, R.
Fleetwood, Sir P. H. Scrope, G. P.
Forster, M. Seale, Sir J. H.
Fox, C. R. Smith, V.
Gisborne, T. Standish, C.
Grey, Sir G. Stanton, W. H.
Grosvenor, Lord R. Townely, J.
Hay ter, W. G. Tufnell, H.
Holland, H. Turner, E.
Howick, Viscount Vivian, J. H.
Hume, J.

FORMER DIVISION ON THE CORN LAWS

1843, March 14.—" That a committee be appointed to in-
quire whether there were any peculiar burdens affecting the
landed interest." (Mr. Ward.)—Ayes, 133; Noes, 232.
1842, March 14.—A similar motion to the above. (Mr.
Ward.)—Ayes, 115 ; Noes, 230.
Feb. 16.—An amendment, opposed to a sliding scale,
but in favour of a fixed duty. (Lord J. Russell.)—Ayes, 226 ;
Noes, 349.

March 9.—For the second reading of Sir R. Peel's
Corn Importation Bill.—Ayes, 234; Noes, 176.
Feb. 24.—" That all duties on corn, grain, &c.,
do cease and determine." (Mr. Villiers.)—Ayes, 90 ; Noes,
393.

1840, May 26.—" That this house will resolve itself into
committee to take into consideration the duties on foreign
corn." (Mr. Villiers.)—Ayes, 177 ; Noes, 300.
1839, March 18.—Similar motion to the above. (Mr. Vil-

liers.)—Ayes, 196; Noes, 342.
1838, March 15.—Ditto. (Mr. Villiers.)—Ayes, 95 ; Noes
300.

1837, March 16.—T0 admit foreign corn into Great Britain
at a fixed duty.—Ayes, 89; Noes, 223.

* By an inaccuracy in the votes this number slightly
varies from the numbers declared by the tellers in the
house (125.)

THE "DUCHESS OF SUSSEX."

As the fact is becoming a matter of general discussion that,
in the event of the death of the King of Hanover and of the
Crown Prince, his son, the question of the title of Sir Augus-
tus D'Este to the throne of that kingdom will create some
controversy, the following letter from her Royal Highness
(the Countess of Ameland) to Sir S. J. Dillon, will not be
uninteresting. It is dated 89 long since as December 16,
1811.

-61 My Dear Sir,—l wished to have answered your last
letter, but having mislaid your first, I did not know how to
direct to you. I am sure you must believe that lam de-
lighted with your pamphlet ; but I must confess I do not
think you have stated the fact quite exactly, when you say
(page 25) ' that the question is at rest between me and the
Duke of Sussex, because the connexion has not only been
declared illegal by the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court,
but has been dissolved by consent—that I have agreed to
abandon all claims to his name.' &c. Now, my dear sir, bad
I believed the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Court to be any
thing but a stretch of power, my girl would not have been
born. Lord Thurlow told me my marriage was good abroad
—religion taught me it was good at home, and not one decree
of any powerful enemy could make me believe otherwise, nor
ever will. By refusing me a subsistence they have forced me
to take a name—not the Duke of Sussex's—but they have
not made me believe I have no right to his. My children
and myself were to starve, or I was to obey, and I obeyed;
but lam not convinced. Therefore, pray don't call this 'an
act of mutual consent,' or say, a the question is at rest.' The
moment my son wishes it, I am ready to declare that it was
debt, imprisonment, arrestation, necessity, (force like this,
in short,) which obliged me to seem to give up my claims,
and not my conviction of their fallacy. When the banns
were published in the most frequented church in London,
and where all the town goes, is not that a permission asked ?
And why were they not forbid ? I believe my marriage at
Rome good ; and I shall never feel ' the question at rest' till
this is acknowledged. Prince Augustus is now sent to Jersey,
as Lieutenant D'Este in the 7th Fusiliers. Before he went
he told his father he had no objection to go under any name
they chose to make him take; but that he knew what he
was, and the time, he trusted, would come, when himself
ustice do*ne to* his
*mother an* sister, and his
owrnidbirsteg.'j'

We have been informed that a letter from Mr. Colquhoun
inis been received by the Glasgow deputation, stating that at
an official interview he bad been informed that her Majesty's
commissioner was instructed to announce to the General
assembly the measure which Government has in contempla-
tion, and which must, of course, be in conformity with the
views enunciated in the House of Lords by Lord Aberdeen.
—Glasgow Herald.
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CUSTOM-HOUSE FRAUDS.—In the Court of Exchequer,
on :Monday, an information was tried at the suit of the cus-
toms department against Messrs. Chas. Cauty and Co. ex-
tensive silk importers at NA'atling- street, London, who were
charged with receiving two cases of silk on the 3d July, 1840,
and three other cases on the 14th August, 1840, without pay-
ment of the full amount of duty. After evidence had been
gone into on the part of the Crown, and for the defendants,
the jury returned a verdict for the Crown, with single da-
mages of £2OOO. This is, in effect, for the Crown, of 41111000,
as the damages are trebled by statute.
TEIE REPEAL AGITATION.— Minister's declarations re-
specting repeal of the Irish union were the subject of an
adjourned meeting of the Dublin Repeal Association on
Thursday, and of much heated language; Mr. O'Connell
called Sir Robert Peel an " audacious miscreant ' he
thanked the paltry whigs, the Marquis of Lansdowne and
Spring Lice. (Loud laughter.) Then there was that most
paltry, despicable, and contemptible politician—the News-
paper Henry Brougham—(protracted groans)—treacherous
to his friends, flattering and servile to his enemies. He was
disgraceful to the law ; he had talent of a high order, but his
mean and contemptible selfishness carried him beyond all
bounds of honour or decency—no road was too filthy for him
to advance to power. He was rejoiced that such a despicable
man was the enemy of the Irish people.
ADJOURNMENT V.•DIVISION.—The following is the des-
cription given in the " Notes and Proceedings in the House
of Commons," of the extraordinary scene on Saturday morn-
ing :—" Saturday, May 13.—Motion made, and question
proposed, 'that the debate he now adjourned ;' whereupon,
motion made and question proposed, ' that this house do now
adjourn'—motion, by leave, withdrawn. Question put,' that
the debate be now adjourned ;' the house divided—ayes 91,
noes 385. Original question again proposed ; debate arising
motion made, and question put ' that the debate be now ad-
journed " the House divided—ayes 80, noes 273, Original
question again proposed : debate arising; motion made and
question proposed, ' that the debate be now adjourned ;'
whereupon motion was made, and question, ' that this House
do now adjourn'—put and negatived. Question put, ' that
the debate be now adjourned ;' the House divided—ayes 78,
noes 172. Original question proposed ; debate arising :
motion made, and question proposed, ' that the Ecclesiastical
Courts Bill be now read'—motion by leave, withdrawn.
Original question again proposed ; debate arising ; motion
made, and question put, ' that the debate be now adjourned ;'
the House divided—ayes 119, noes 74 ; debate further ad-
journed till Monday next'"