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never would. His election, as far as he wa
as pure as that of the hon. member for Bath.
Mr. ROEBUCK thanked him for his candid answer, and
then asked Sir John Hobhouse whether it was not arranged,
respecting the Nottingham election, that a sum of money
should be paid down to stop the inquiry, and whether a fur-
ther sum of money was not to be paid in order to let a certain
gentleman walk over the course.

Sir J. HOBHOUSE declined to answer the question.
Mr. ROEBUCK then put a similar question to Mr. Elphin-
stone, who said, in reply, that there had been a compromise,
but he was no party to it.
Mr. ROEBUCK next applied to Major Beresford, who said
he declined to answer the question of the learned inquisitor.

Mr. ROEBUCK then asked the Speaker if it was competent
for him to move for a committee of privilege before the house
proceeded to the business of the evening, and was replied to
in the affirmative.
Sir R. PEEL was anxious to proceed with the income tax
committee, and hoped the hon. member would postpone his
motion until Monday. It appearing, however, to be the wish
of the house that

Mr. ROEBUCK should proceed, he entered upon the sub-
ject accordingly. He said he was induced to bring forward
the present motion, which he knew was somewhat extraordi-
nary, because he had grave reasons for suspecting that the
hon. members for Harwich, Nottingham, Penrhyn and Fal-
mouth, Reading, and Lewes, were open to accusations of
bribery and corruption. The hon. member referred to the
details of some of those cases ; but when he came to Not-
tingham, he said he understood that the entire constituency
had been bought and sold ; bought by Sir J. Hobhouse and
Sir G. de H. Larpent, and sold to Mr. Walter, who was to
be allowed, for a specified sum agreed upon, to obtain the
seat to be vacated by one of the sitting members. The hon.
and learned gentleman concluded by moving for a committee
of privilege, and called upon Sir J. C. Hobhouse to second
the motion.

Mr. FITZROY seconded the motion, and repudiated the
charge of bribery and corruption, as applied to him, as a foul
calumny. He was fearless of the result of the investigation
of the committee.

Mr. C. W. WYNN said the question was one deeply in-
volving the honour of the house. It was of the greatest im-
portance that it should be well considered, and he therefore
moved the adjournment of the debate until Monday next.
After some further observations the adjournment was

agreed to.
The house then resolved itself into committee on the In-
come Tax Bill.

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On clause 96 being proposed,

Mr.VHUT:I movedthat the profits of persons in trade, on
which the income tax, should be levied, should be estimated

by those of the preceding year, and not by the average of the
three years preceding. On a division the amendment of Mr.
Hume was negatived by a majority of 76 to 27.
On the 188th clause being proposed, to the effect that the
tax remain in force until the sth of April, 1845,

Mr. HUME moved that it should continue in operation for
e year only, instead of three years.

On a division, Mr. Hume's -motion was negatived by a
majority of 174 to 52. _ _

Mr. R. YORKE moved a clause to the effect that attorneys
should be exempted from the payment of their certificate du-
ties during the period they were subjected to the income tax.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed the mo-
tion on the ground that if all persons were allowed to deduct
the amount of their other taxes from the income tax they
were called upon to pay, the latter tax would be very unpro-
ductive.

After some conversation the committee divided, and Mr.
Yorke's motion was negatived by a majority of 183 to 18.
Mr. DUNCOMBE moved a clause to the effect that the non-
payment of the income tax should not disqualify the voters
in boroughs from being placed on the registry, or voting at
elections for members of parliament.
Sir R. PEEL said he was not desirous of imposing any
new restrictions upon the exercise of the elective franchise,
and would, therefore, inquire if the non-payment would dis-
qualify the elector, and if so, he would take care that a clause
should be introduced to guard against such an occurrence.
The whole of the clauses having been disposed of, the
house resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on
Monday.

The Other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION COMMITTEE

CLOSE OF THE PROCEEDINGS

The committee re-assembled on Friday at the usual hour.
Mr. Austin said, that after the committee yesterday came
to their resolutions, he and his learned friends held a consul-
tation, and the result was, they had advised their clients not
to proceed with the other petition.
Mr. Cockburn then applied to the committee to declare the
last election void.

The room was cleared, and on strangers being re-admitted,
the chairman announced that the committee had resolved,—
" That the last election of burgesses to serve in parlia-
ment for the borough of Southampton was a void election.

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" That the committee had determined to report specially to
the house.

That Charles Coombes Callen was bribed with the sum of
£lO paid to his wife for him.

" That Joseph Whitmarsh was promised a bribe of ;£lO,
the whole or some part of which was afterwards paid.
" That Joseph Red wards was bribed with the sum of £5.
" That William Andrews was bribed with the sum of £3.
" That Giles Pasquin was bribed with the sum of £3.
" Each of them to vote for Lord Bruce and Mr. Charles
Cecil Martyn.
" That the evidence given before this committee relative to
an extensive system of treating carried on through the means
of local associations ; the payment of large sums to chairmen
and colourmen, many of whom were voters ; and the expen-
diture of a sum of money for the purposes of the election,
amounting to nearly £5OOO, and therefore far exceeding the
ordinary and regular legal expenses, is deserving of the serious
attention of the house.

" That the committee feel that they have been prevented
ascertaining the extct mode in which this money was ex-
pended, by the loss and destruction of vouchers and other
documents connected with those payments, particularly in
the case of William Rouse Mabson, who, after having been
served with the speaker's warrant, disposed of those in his
possession."
The committee then separated.

THE BRIGHTON ELECTION

RETURN OF THE CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE

BRIGHTON, MAY 6.—Between five and six o'clock this
morning the conservatives sent their bands round to arouse
the electors and prepare them for the victory which awaited
them. Lord Alfred Hervey took the lead the first half hour
of polling, and swelled his majority every quarter of an hour
to such an extraordinary extent that the most sanguine of his
supporters were perfectly astonished.
At five o'clock this afternoon the returning officer declared
the state of the poll as follows :
Lord A. Hervey (Conservative).. 1,277 (Loud cheers).
Harford (Whig)
Brooker (Charti5t)........

Lord A. Hervey, the declaration having -been- made, said
this was a proud day for him, and for the Conservative party,
who brought him forward, and to the latest period of his
existence he should never forget the kindness and the courtesy
by which he had been received by gentlemen of all political
opinions, and the warm and zealous support which he had
obtained from the kind friends who had placed him in his
present triumphant position. (Cheers.) He considered this
not as a personal triumph only, but a triumph also of politi-
cal opinion. He had told them in his canvass that while he
should be most anxious to remove every practical grievance,
and to reform all real abuses, he should feel it to be his duty
to oppose all measures calculated to destroy and not to im-
prove the British constitution. His lordship then repeated
his determination to support the present Government, and
to promote all their local interests, and having again re-
turned thanks bowed himself from the hustings.
Mr. Harford and Mr. Brooker also addressed the electors,
who then quietly dispersed.
A most extraordinary change has taken place in the poli-
tics of this borough. From rampant radicalism the borough
has become conservative, as will be seen by a comparison of
the numbers at the last general election and the present one.
We subjoin the numbers of the last election :
Pechell (Radical)
Wigney (Radical)
Dalrymple (Conservative) 872

THE STATUES OF THE MARTYRS, CRANMER,
RIDLEY, AND LATIMER.

We briefly noticed in our last the safe arrival of these
statues from the studio of the late Sir Frances Chantrey.
They were executed from the designs as well as models of
Henry Weekes, Esq., to whose powers of thought, classical
taste, and admirable workmanship that great sculptor, by his
last will, entrusted the completion of his professional engage-
ments. It might have been feared, from Sir Francis's ina-
bility to give to the work the benefit of his genius, that we
should have had to regret the loss. But of the scholars'
knowledge and feeling, and his adoption of the feelings and
purposes of the Committee, have given to the statues of
these holy men aspects and attitudes most characteristic,
not only of their mental and moral endowments, but of their
peculiar acts and offices in the work of the Reformation.
The venerable Cranmer bears on his left fore-arm that
sacred volume which, in his preface, he calls " light in dark-
ness, food in hunger, and in coldness, fire." The edition is
noted by a deep cutting in its cover, " Maye, 1541." It
was the year which witnessed the first positive :Ind peremp-
tory circulation of the Bible through the parishes of England,
under a notification of the royal authority on its title-page.
It may be recollected that the foundation stone of the Mo-
nument was laid in May, 1841—three hundred years after-
wards. This donum regium was obtained at the earnest
intercession of the Archbishop. It was therefore due to his
piety and patriotism to exhibit in the most expressive way
his special claims upon the gratitude and veneration of our
Church and country.
It is known that it was one of the misfortunes which
clouded the early rising of the light of the Reformation that
there were differences of opinion upon matters which have
long ceased to disturb and distract men's minds—the law-
fulness of official vestments. Bishop Hooper was with diffi-
culty prevailed upon to conform and wear " the rochette,
surples, cope," at his consecration, according to the ritual of
1549. But the mind of Bishop Ridley, entirely occupied
upon his perilous conflict with the enemies of the Gospel,
did all he could to prevent these vestiary questions from
creating differences among those who were ready not only to
be bound, but to die for the name of Christ. The robing of
Ridley's statue indicates his constancy in this matter; it
points out his undisturbed conformity with what bad become
the law of the land in respect to episcopal apparel, whilst his
hands, firmly locked together, his erect countenance, and
well-balanced stability of body, aptly represent the firmness
of his faith and the integrity of his confession. They suit
the Confessor as well as Martyr, who said' " I believe the
Holy Catholic or universal Church, which is the communion
of Saints, the house of God, the City of God, the spouse of
Christ, the pillar and stay of the Truth. I believe in the
Rule of this Church, which is the Word of God."
Cornthird statue is that of Bishop Latimer : it faces the
Ort
Market, and is the very image and representation of
crossed over thb
Pious humility, or rather of old age, stooping under the burthen
nr-wisetioroefyears but mainly indicative of submissiveness
But there is also the to the
the aged Latimer God, and of holy resolution to do it ;the arms
you to be good to say
reast greatly aid the expression of humility.
rto look of that self-possession which enabled
good memory, to his disputatious Judge, " I pray
an old man. Disputation requireth a
and
the better, I _mine is marvellously weakened, and never
wilt, for the •
erred, an Both err. IliFirison. The Popish Church bath
but spiritually. The There is no mention made of any eat-
ingof transubstantiation."—_ Romish Church begat the error
uxford Herald.

The Earl of Devon, HenryearaJohn
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an inquiry into the late forgery of exchequer
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each by a
fine of e5O, for his neglect in not making out the list.
• ht other actions to recover the like Gre-
gory then brought e penalties
for not exhibiting the list when an inspection was demanded,
but the Court of Exchequer, on Monday last, decided that
the actions for the second penalties could not be sustained,
and gave judgment for the defendants.

UNITED STATES.

The packet-ship New York, Captain Cropper, arrived at
this port yesterday morning, from New York, with papers
from that place to the 21st ultimo, being six days later than
those brought by the Virginian, and the receipt of which we
acknowledged in our last publication.
_

The Neii, York Herald of the 16th gives a list of the ves-
sels then in that port, from which it appears there are seventy
ships, thirty-tour barques, ninety-five brigs, and two hundred
and fifty schooners in the city, and sixty-one, of all classes,
lying at Brooklyn. One-third of these, it is stated, are
lying idle. " with no captains, no crew, no freights, and no
prospect of getting any for some time to come." Most of
the number are for sale, though there are no buyers in the
market. This leads to some reflections as to the probable
cause of so much stagnation in trade.

The packet-ship Sheridan arrived at New York on the 16th
ultimo, and the Great Western steamer on the 17th, with the
intelligence of the then proposed financial and commercial
code of the new British government. Nothing had been
heard of the Britannia at New York prior to the departure
of the packet.
The influence of the news from England was not very ap-
parent. Commercially, the state of affairs remained much
the same. Nothing appears to have arisen from Lord Ash-
burton's mission, though it is stated that Governor Fairfield
was about to convene the legislature of the State of Maine,
in consequence of despatches from his lordship, stating that
he was fully authorised to settle the boundary question, and
that there was every probability that this long disputed mat-
ter would soon be settled to the satisfaction of all parties.
The Herald, after discussing the relative merits of the
various ports in the country, as places for the departure of
the steamers for the West Indies, or any port in America,
gives a decided preference to Liverpool in every case.
The Hon. W. Lawrence, a representative in congress,
from Pennsylvania, died at his lodgings in Washington, on
the 17th ult. The appropriation bill was taken out of the
committee in the house of representatives, and reported for
final passage on the 18th. A very exciting debate took
place.
A grand ball had been given at Washington to Mr. Clay,
at which many of Lord Ashburton's suite were present.
The fine packet-ship Louis Philippe, trading between
Havre and New York, went ashore on the 14th ult., about
20 miles from Montank Point. She had 120 passengers on
board, all of whom were saved. The cargo consisted of
French dry goods, which it was expected would all be saved,
though in a damaged condition.
A much better feeling prevailed in the money market, and
the stock market was more buoyant. It is said that the new
English Tariff will be peculiarly beneficial to the western
states. The reduction on tallow, lard, beef, and pork alone
offers an immense outlet to those articles, of which the west
has a superabundance.
A. vessel was taking in, at New York, a cargo of raw cot-
ton for Canton. It is a low-priced cotton, laid in at 5 and
6 cents per lb.
The latest news from Mexico states that the invasion of
Texas, on the part of the Mexicans, was only a small in-
vasion. General Arista was at Monterrey, four hundred
miles from the frontier of Texas.

General Rafael Vasquez, commander of the expedition to
Bexar, writes from the banks of the Rio Grande, under date
March 11th, and gives an account of his retreat, which was
effected without hindrance or molestation on the part of the
Texians. He says that on his arrival near the Great River,
so exhausted were the horses of his men, that had they been
attacked, not more than forty of them would have been able
to join in the charge.

CHINA

CIRCULAR

TO HER BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS IN CHINA

Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in China has the pleasure
to announce to her Majesty's subjects in China, that the dis-
trict cities of Yuyao, Tsikee, and Funghwa, distant respec-
tively 40, 20, and 30 miles from Ningpo, have been lately
visited and temporarily occupied by detachments of her Ma-
jesty's combined forces.
The Chinese government having thrown garrisons into the
cities in question, and given out that the object in so doing
was to encourage (or perhaps, more correctly speaking, to
intimidate) the inhabitants of Ningpo and the surrounding
districts to withhold obedience to the British authorities, and
likewise to deter them, as far as possible, from furnishing
provisions and supplies, it was resolved by their Excellencies
the Naval and Military Commanders-in-Chief, to take an
early opportunity of dislodging those garrisons ; and on the
weather (which had been extremely wet in the early part of
December) becoming frosty and favourable for operations,
the necessary arrangements were completed for carrying that
resolution into effect.

The Sesostris, Nemesis, and Phlegethon steamers, carrying
about 700 men of all arms, and towing a number of boats,
weighed from their positions at Ningpo on the morning of the
27th of December, and proceeded up the river. The former
ship, owing to her greater draught of water, was obliged to
bring up about two-thirds of the way to Yuyao, off which
place the two smaller vessels anchored late in the afternoon,
when the troops landed immediately under the personal
directions of his Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh
Gough, K.C.8., and, having taken possession of a small
battery mounting four guns (which the Chinese had thrown
up to enfilade the approaching reach of the river, but which
they did not venture to defend), were lodged for the night in
a large temple or josshouse, situated on a bill which over-
looked the town at the distance of less than half a mile. At
daylight on the morning of the 28th his Excellency the naval
Commander-in-Chief disembarked with the seamen and ma-
rines, and preparations were made for escalading, when some
of the people came out and declared that the garrison (stated
to have consisted of 1,200 regulars, and an equal number of
militia) had quitted the town during the night, and that the
gates were open. Our troops, in one division, and the sea-
men and marines in another, accordingly marched in, and
separaed at the southern gate, to go round the town along
the ramparts. When the naval division had advanced part of
the stay, a fire of jinjalls and matchlocks was opened on it by
a considerable body of Chinese soldiers, which had taken
post outside the walls, at a spot near the north-west angle,
where they were covered by a deep canal. It unavoidably
occupied some little time for her majesty's forces to gain
egress from the town by the northern gate, leading over the
canal, and in the interim the enemy had decamped across the
country. They were hotly pursued for seven or eight miles,
during which numbers of them threw away their arms and
heavy clothes. A. military position on which they retreated,
about five miles from Yuyao, was burned, and a very exten-
sive barrack (temple), close to that town, containing a maga-
zine of gunpowder, and great quantities of arms, clothing,
and other munitions of war, was subsequently set fire to and
utterly destroyed. Twenty-eight prisoners were taken,
amongst whom were several subordinate officers, and it is
believed that from 75 to 100 of the enemy were killed and
wounded during the affair. Had they only stood to allow her
majesty's forces to close with them, not a man could have
escaped ; but their local knowledge of the roads, combined
with the fact of the whole country being knee-deep with fro-
zen snow (which covered up and concealed the paths), gave
them a decided advantage over their pursuers in their flight.
On the 29th the city was examined, and an immense pub-
lic granary of rice discovered, and given to the inhabitants
to carry away. On the 30th, the small steamers descended
the river, and rejoined the " Sesostris ;" the three vessels
anchored that afternoon on the nearest point to the city of
Tiskee, which lies between four and five miles from the left
bank, and which was found on the following morning (the
31st) to be deserted by the Chinese troops and all the civil
authorities. The public buildings were here destroyed, as
far as that could be done without endangering the town ; the
population were permitted to take the grain from the govern-
ment granary, which was very large and quite full of rice ;
and the combined forces having re-embarked, the steamers
returned to Ningpo on the evening of the 31st December.
It affords her Majesty's Plenipotentiary extreme gratifica-
tion to add, that not a single casuality occurred during these
movements. Mr. Midshipman Lock, of her Majesty's ship
Blenheim, was struck on the foot by a spent jinjall ball, but
fortunately escaped with a slight contusion. The cold was
intense during the whole period, the thermometer ranging at
night ten and twelve degrees below the freezing point ; but,
notwithstanding this fact, and the unavoidable exposure, the
troops, seamen, and marines, all came back in the highest
health and spirits.
An unfavourable break in the weather prevented the in-
tended movement on Funghwa being put into execution until
the 10th instant. On that morning the Phlegethon and Ne-
mesis started from Ningpo, and were brought up by a bridge
across the river about noon. The land forces, with the
Lieutenant-General commanding, here landed, whilst the
seamen and marines, under his Excellency the Admiral, went
some miles further up the river in boats. The two divisions
arrived simultaneously at the city of Fungewa about dusk,
and found it deserted by the Chinese authorities and troops.
The same steps as were adopted at Tsikee with regard to the
public buildings and granaries were next morning adopted
here, and the combined forces returned to the steamers on
the afternoon of the 11th, and to Ningpo early on the 12th
instant.

Although these operations are of no moment considered in
a military point of view, yet their moral and political effect
is highly important, and on that account Her Majesty's Ple-
nipotentiary deems it expedient to make the result of them
public. They evince our irresistible power, as well as extra-
ordinary forbearance so far as the people are concerned ; and
it has been ascertained, that such was the consternation on
the news of the descent on Yuayo reaching the provincial
capital of Hong-chow-foo (distant above 100 miles,) that
Imperial commissioners and other Chinese officers fled from
that city to Soochow, 90 miles further north.
The Phlegethon steamer and Bentinck brig of war have
just proceeded to examine and reconnoitre the bay of Hong-
chow-foo and the port of Chapoo.

God save the Queen.
Dated on board Her Majesty's ship Blenheim, at sea, on
the 24th of January, 1842.

HENRY POTTJNGER,
Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary.