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PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of theyouse 01 Commons.)

THURSDAY, JULY 12.
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.

The following Resolution wa; reporit:Tl from the above
Comm; ttee _ _

That in the case of the Aberdeen Destitute Female Orphan
Asylum (Davidson's) Estate Bill, the standing orders ought
to be dispensed with : Tnat the parties be permitted to
proceed with their Bill.—Resolution agreed to.

PAIMIA3IENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the -Votes and Proceedings rf the House rf Cotnrrk%zs"•)

THURSDAY. JULY 12.
SUPPLY.
Order for Committee read ; Motion made and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair:"--
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to
the end of the Question, in order to add the words " an
humble Address be presented to her Majesty, on the subject
of certain illegal Ordinances or Acts of Council for the tax-
ation of the people of Van Diemen's Land, the attempts of
Lieutenant-Governor Sir William Denison to intimidate the
Judges of the Supreme Court of that Island into declaring
such Ordinances or Acts to be legal, and the grievances
complained of by the Colonists of that Island in their peti-
tion presented last year to her Majesty, and printed by order
of this House ; and that her Majesty may be pleased to
direct the local authorities in future to respect the indepen-
&nee of the judicial functions of that Court, and also to
signify her disallowance of any Ordinance or Act subse-
quently passed by the said Lieutenant-Governor in Council,
for giving to such illegal Ordinances or Acts the force of
law," instead thereof:—Question put, "That the words pro-
posed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House
divided:—

MAJORITY—AYES, 72.
Anson, Colonel Gladstone, W. E. Mitchell, A. T.
Armstrong, R. B. Greene, Thomas Norreys, Lord
Bagshaw:John Grenfell, C. P. Palmerston, Vig.
Baines, M. T. Grey, Sir George Parker, John
Baring. Sir F. Grosvenor, Lord R. Patten, W.
Bernal, Ralph Harris, Richard Plumptre, J. P.
Birch, Sir Thomas Hustle, Archibald Ricardo, Osman
Brotherton, J. Hawes, Benjamin Rich, Henry
Brown, W. Hay, Lord John Richards. Richard
Clay, James Hayter, W. G. Russell, Lord J. .-
Clay, Sir W. Herbert, 11. A. Russell, F. C.
Cowper, W. F Herries, John C. Sandars, George
Craig, W. G. Hervey, Lord A. Seymer, Henry tier
Denison, J. E. Hobhouse, T. B. Seymour, Sir H.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. Howard, C. W. Shalto, R. D.
Dickson, Samuel Jervis, Sir John Smith, Vernon
Drummond, Henry Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Somerville. Sir W.
Dundas, Admiral Knox, Colonel Sotheron, T. H.'S.
Dundas, Sir David Lacy, H. C. ' Thicknesse, Ralph
Ebrington, Viscount Langston, J. H. Vane, Lord H.
Ellis, John Leonard, T. B. Wood, Sir Charles
Elliot, John E. Lewis, G. C. Wrightson, W. B.
Fergus, John Lincoln, Earl of TZLLERS.
Ferguson, Sir IL Maple, Fox Hill, Lord Marcos
Foley, J. H. Melgund, Viscount Lascelles, W. S.

MINORITY-NOES, 21.

Anderson, Arthur
Baillie, H. J.
Cobden, R.
Colebrooke, Sir T.

Henry, Alexander O'Connor, Feargus
Ilume, Joseph Pliltington, James
Kershaw, James Roebuck, J. A.
Lushington, Charles Smith, J. B. _ _

Duncan, George Meagher, Thomas Thompson, Colonel
Ewart, William Martin, John Walmsley, Sir I.
Fagan, William Molesworth, Sir W. TELLEB.S.
Fox, W. J. Mowatt, Francis knatey, Thomas C,
Gibson, T. M. O'Connell, John Wood, W. P.