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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons

MONDAY, JUNE 29.
SHEFFIELD, ROTHERHAM, BARNSLEY, WAKEFIELD,

HUDDERSFIELD, AND GOOLE RAILWAY BILL.

Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Bill be now read
the third time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word
"now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this
day six months:"— Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part
of the Question." The House divided :

Acland, Sir T.
Ainsworth, Peter
J. P.
Antrobus, Edmund
Archbold, Robert
Arkwright, George
Austen, Colonel
Bailey, Joseph
Baine, Walter
Barnard, E. G.

MAJORITY—AYES, 146.
Ellice, Edward Mahon, Viscount
Elphinstone, Sir H. Maitland, T.
Entwisle, W. Martin, John
Estcourt, T. G. Masterman, John
Feilden, William Maule, Fox
Fielden, John Meynell, Captain
Fitzroy, Henry Mitchell, T. A.
Fitzroy, Lord C. Morpeth, Viscount
Flower, Sir J. Neeld, Joseph
Forman, T. S. O'Connell, Daniel
Forster, Matthew O'Connell, J.
Fox, S. L. Paktngton, J. S.
French, F. Pattlson, James
Frewen, C. H. Peel, Jonathan
Fuller, A. E. Plumptre, J. P.
Gill, Thomas Plumridge, Captain
Godson, It. Pollington, Viscount
Gore, Montague Powell, Caleb
Gore, Robert Rashleigh, W.
Goring, C. Reid, Colonel
Greene, Thomas Repton, G. W. J.
Grosvenor, Lord R. Rolleston, Colonel
Hale, R. B. " Bound, C. G.
Hamilton, J. H. Round, John
Harcourt, G. G. Shaw, Rt. Hon. F.
Hawes, B. Sheppard, T.
Hinde, J. H. Taylor, E.
Hindley, Charles Thompson, Aid.
Hodgson, F. • Thornhill, G.
Hodgson, Richard Tollemache, F. J.
Hamby, John Tower, C.
Houldaworth, T. Towneley, John
Howard, C. W. Trelawny, J. S.
Hume, Joseph Trench, Sir F.
Hutt, William Trollope, Sir J.
Inglis, Sir R. H. Vane, Lord H.
Jervis, John Vernon, G. H.
Ker, D. S. Villiers, Viscount
Labouchere, Henry Vivian, J. H.
Lascelles, E. Waddington, H. S.
Layard, Captain Wakley, T.
Lindsay, Captain Warburton, Henry
Lockhart, A. E. Welby, G. E.
Long, W. Winnington, Sir T.
Lopes, Sir R. Wynn, sir„W.
Lyall, George Yorke, Henry B.
Lygon, Gen.
Mackinnon, W. TELLERS.
M`Carthy, Alexander Lascelles, W. S.
)`Taggart, Sir J. Manes, R. M.

Bateson, Thomas
Beckett, W.
Benbow, John
Bentinck, Lord H.
Berkeley, Craven
Bernard, Viscount
Blackbnrne, J. I.
Bouverie, E. P.
Bowring, Dr.
Boyd, John
Bramston, T. W.
Bridgeman, H.
Bright, John
Brisco, M.
Broadley, Henry
Bretherton, J.
Buller, Sir J. Y.
Busfeild, W.
Carew, W. H. Pole
Chandos, Marq. of
Chapman, A.
Christopher, R. A.
Chute, W. L..W.
Clerk Sir G.
Clifton, J. T.
Collett, John
Compton, H. C.
Coote, Sir C.
Dalmeny, Lord
Dalrymple, Captain

Denidstouri, J.
Dick, Q.
Dickinson, F. F.
Douglas, Sir C. E.
Douglas, J. D. S.
Duncan, Lord
Duncombe, A.
Du Pre, C G.
Easthope, Sir J.
Ellice, Rt. Hon. E.

MINORITY-NOES, 58.

Batllie, Col. Farnham, E. Philips, G. R.
Baldwin, Barry Ferguson, Sir H. Richards, Richard
Bennet, P. I Gisborne, Thomas Ross, David R.
Beresford, Major Grimsditch, ThomaS Seymour, Lord
Berkeley, H. F. Hamilton, W. J. Smith, Abel

Bruce, 1..0rd E. Hanmer, Sir John Spooner, Richard
Buckley, Edmund Hastie, A. Staunton, Sir G.
Burrell, Sir C. Heneage, Edward Stuart, J.

Cavendish, C. C.
Colebrooke, Sir T.

Hughei, W. B. &raft, Edward
Humphery, Aid. Wall, C.B.

Collins. WSlliwm

Leader,

Wal4;l, 5 T.

Craig, W. G. Mackenzie, W. F.
Crlpps, William Mangles, It. D.
Davies, D. A. S. Marshall, W.
Denison, E. B. Morris, David
Duncombe, Thomas Northland, Viscount
Dundas, Admiral O'Connell, M. J.
Ebrington, Viscount Ord, William
Evans, William Parker, John

Wood, Charley
Wortley, Lord
Wortley, J. S.
Wrightson, W . B.

TELLERS.
Arundel, garl of
Cavendish, G. H.

MEETING OF THE LEAGUE.

MANCHESTER, JUNE 29.-A very full meeting of the
executive council of the League was held in the
Council-room, in Newall's-buildings, on Saturday after-
noon, George Wilson, Esq., in the chair. Mr. Cobden
was present, and took part in the proceedings. The lead-
ing qu.•stion brought under the consideration of the
meeting, was the immediate or future dissolution of the
League. Some discussion ensued, and Mr. Cobden,
we understand, expressed himself in favour of an
immediate dissolution. It was contended, however,
by other parties, that it would be injudicious and impo-
litic to break up the association so long as the ob-
ject for which it had been organised, namely, the repeal
of the corn-laws, bad not yet been fully and entirely
accomplished. It was, therefore, ultimately agreed
that the act of dissolution should be postponed, to be
rendered coeval, perhaps, with the expiry of the corn-
laws in 1849; but that its operations and functions should
at once cease, and that its affairs should be wound up
with as little delay as possible. It was also distinctly
understood that, in case of future emergency, the League
should be recalled into existence.

• It will be recollected that in respect to the quarter of
a million fund, the first payment from the subscribers
required to be made was an instalment of 20 per cent.
on the respective subscriptions. No further instalment
than this will be called for; but that portion of the sub
scriptions will be absolutely necessary to enable the
League to meet all its monetary engagerilents before its
operations shall cease.
A meeting of the general council is convened for
Thursday next at the Town-hall, at which all the sub-
scribers of 501. and upwards will have the privilege of
attending. The object of this meeting is to ratify the
proceedings of the executive council at their meeting on
Saturday.
Nothing definite is yet known as- o. the Cobden testi-
monial. A few gentlemen, in tWr private capacity,
have met together to discuss the subject, but no plan has
hitherto been determined upon. A testimonial worthy
Mr. Cobden's distinguished services will doubtless be
agreed upon, and the eminent labours and talents em-
barked in the cause of free trade, of Colonel Thompson,
Mr. Villiers, Mr. Bright, and Mr. George Wilson, the
chairman of the League, will be acknowledged by the
presentation of some appropriate reward.
There is a strong public feeling in favour of a popular
demonstration, that all classes of the people may partici-
pate of a general holiday, in celebration of the event. In
a few days, perhaps, something may be proposed to
meet the wishes of the community.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ST.
JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND.
(From the Times.)
isy the Pearl, arrived off Teignmoutb, we have receive(
the following particulars of a most destructive fire, whichihad
occurred at St. John's, Newfoundland, by which three-fourths
of the town had been consumed.
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND.
(From the Morning Courier extra, June 12.)
On Tuesday morning the sun rose on St. John's a busy
mart ; its population arose from the slumbers of the previous
evening, and applied themselves to the occupations of the
day with the hope that it would be as the days that had gone
before; and ere that san had set at least three-fourths of the
town, including the whole of the business part of it, were in
ashes.
As far as we have been able to ascertain, the fire, though
accidental, arose from carelessness ; its origin was in George-
street, off Queen-street, in a house, the lowest part of which
was occupied as a workshop by Messrs. Hamlin, cabinet-
makers.
In a few minutes the premises of Messrs. J. and W. Stew-
art, P. Rogerson and Son, and Boyd and M'Dougal, were
one mass of flames. It soon communicated with the oil vats
of Messrs. Stewart and C. F. Bennett and Co. Mr. J. H.
Warren's premises and vats caught immediately after • as
also those of Messrs. Rennie, Stewart, and Co., Mears. New-
man and Co., Messrs. T. and J. Kent, and of Bowring
Brothers, Messrs. M‘Bride and Kerr, Messrs. Berne, John-
stone and Co., and the stone buildings occupied by Dr. Car-
son, Mr. Grace, and other buildings. The premises of Mr.
E. Smith and Wilson and Co.,soon followed, and also Mr.
Cliff's wharf, the houses on oth sides of the street, from
Messrs. W. and H. Thomas and Co.'s, to those of Messrs.
Barnes and Job, Brothers, and Co., and Messrs. Hunter, &c.,
the Bank of British North America, Messrs. J. Tobin and
Co., L. O'Brien and Co., and James Douglas and Co. Her
Majesty's Custom-house was immediately after on fire,
whence the flames extended downwards, destroying every-
thing before them, including the premises of Messrs. Gill,
Dunscomb, and Harvey, Robinson, Brooking, and Co., and
proceeded along the beach to Messrs. Parker and Green's, at
Magolly Cove.
While the fire was raging in Water-street, and on the
wharfs, it proceeded up Queen-street to Duckworth-street
with equal rapidity, in the line of Messrs. Newman and Co.'s
premises, where it stopped. The fire swept everything before
it down on both sides of Duckworth-street. The fire reached
the Court-house, it communicated with the building on the
south side, destroying the corn room, Marine Insurance- office,
Agricultural Society Museum, and stone-house of Mr. Prowse.
The fire proceeded rapidly as far as the Ordnance Store,
which was burnt. On the lower side of Duckworth-street,
the houses were burnt as far as the house of Mr. Reid. From
Duckworth• street the fire proceedednorthward on the King's-
road to Gower-street, destroying every house on both sides,
and about twenty in Gower-street. Along the theatre to
the King's-road, between Duckworth-street and Gower.
street, a considerable number of buildings were consumed.
The fire commenced about half past eight in the morning,
and about seven in the evening the work of destruction may
be said to have been completed, so that in ten hours and a
half our town was almost totally destroyed, and the moon
rose in cloudless splendour, throwing her mild light on a
houseless population, who stood viewing, with intense
anguish, the smoking ruins of their habitations.
A great number of mereantile establishments, besides those
we have named, were destroyed, and were we to attempt a
complete list, we should have to name every firm, except the
solitary one of Messrs. Newman and Co., which is the only
one now in St. John's that has either a store or an office,
except the stores on the south side of the harbour.
A. public meeting was held in the factory at three o'clock
on the same afternoon, to devise measures for the relief of the
destitute; it was numerously attended. It was ascertained
that there were 4,000 bags of bread and 8,000 barrels of flour
in the merchants' hands.
Only three men are reported to have perished in the
flames. The want of water was much felt.
was almost totally destroyed by fire on the 9th
Tniasnaorrn, JulgE 29.—The town of St. John's, New-
foundland,
All mercantile establishments from Messrs. Newman and
fo°fuJnudniane.Cl'
Co.'s, at the head of the harbour to the fishing establishment
of Mr. Michael Rowell, at Chain Rock, are totally destroyed ;
this includes more than two-thirds of all the town. The loss
of property is
that not one-twentieth part of the goods
and property in shops and stores is saved.
ro testa nt Church, Custom-house, and Ca-
tholic immense.
It
houseless,is and famine is greatly feared.
Many of the vessels had their sails and rigging burnt. The
Pbrnt.
caught fire, but none had their hulls seriously
damaged.
Cort . conventhouse,evessold
Some are
Court
.

Tushe,e
on Lord
greempoert,
nt
Mayor gave a dinner at the Mansion
Ho
last to a select party of friends.
BAHIA STEAD' NAVIGATION COMPANY.—The annual
meeting of this company took place yesterday at the George
Saturday
and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill. Mr. Saunderson in the chair.
It dt that the directors had endea-
voureds for the transfer of the com-
pany's property to the Brazilian Steam- packet Company on
o m froma
ke arrangements
favourable terms, but had not succeeded. From the last ad-
vices they had learned that some of the Brazilian capitalists
had started another company, many of whom were share-
holders in this company, and had been successful with the
provincial Government, se that this company was looked upon
trhaen
as having forfeited its claims to protection. The directors
had sent in a memorial, but no reply had as yet been received.
Under the present circumstances, the directors were unable
to advise the shareholders how to act, but he hoped to do so
in a short period. It appeared from the accounts, that the
paid-up capital in this country- was 46,4104 and in Brazil
7,753/., making together 54,2231. There was a trifling balance
at the bankers, and considerable property abroad which could
not be exactly estimated at present. After some discussion,
the report was received, and three directors were re-elected,
whell the meeting adjourned.