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London, England, 1844-07-05 00:00:00

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes au t Proceedings of the Homo! Commons.)
THURSDAY, JULY 4.
POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question
proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do new leave the Chair :"
Amendment proposed, toleave out from the words" That the"
to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " Act
4 and 5 Will. 4, c. 76, commonly called the New Poor-law, is
unconstitutional in principle and oppressive in operation; that
it is therefore expedient that the said Act should be taken into
consideration, with a view, not to its partial amendment, but to
its entire re-construction," instead thereof :—Question put,
" That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the
Question :" The House divided :
MAJORITY—AYES,' 199.

MINORITY—NOES, 19.
Cochrane. A. Hindley, Charles Smythe, Hon. G.
Collins, William Hodgson, F. Wakley, Thomas
Crawford, W. S. M‘Geachy, F. A. Williams, W.
buncombe, T. S. Manners, Lord J.
Fielden, J. Munta, G. F. TELLERS.
Fleetwood, Sir P. Morris, David Ferrand, W. B.
Forman, T. Seaton Pechell, Captain Borth wick, Peter
Hall, Sir Benjamin Pollington, Viscount

After the ceremony of Thomas Campbell's funeral
at Westminster Abbey, last Wednesday, a meeting was
held at the Polish Association, 10, Duke-street, St.
James's, at which a portrait of the departed poet was
presented by Colonel Szyrma, from his countrymen, to
the Association, of which, as is well known, Campbell
was the first President, and its founder in 1832. On
this occasion, speeches were delivered by Lord Dudley
Stuart, Colonel Szyrma, and Count Krasinski, comme-
morative of the many and signal services Campbell bad
rendered to the cause of Poland, of which, since his
earliest youth, he was one of the warmest and most per-
severing advocates.
The Bishop of Cashel and family, the Rev. J. West-
. brecht and family, Major Bond, and Sir Joseph de
Conray Leifer, embarked yesterday morning on board
the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship
Soho, for Antwerp.
The Lord Mayor and (the Lady May-Tress gave a
most splendid ball and supper at the Mansion-house on
Wednesday night. There were upwards of three hun-
dred and fifty guests. They were received in the grand
suite of apartments on the same floor with the Egyptian
so
Hall, which underwent, at the commencement of the
present Mayoralty, complete a rp-decoration, and
which was on, this occasion fitted up, for the first time
during several years, as a ball-room.
BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON, GRATUITOUS SUPPLE-
MENT, SUNDAY, 7th JuLY.—Running Rein and Orlando; ver-
batim
report of the Trial, to the extent of Eighteen of the
Bell's Life Columns ; evidence before the Select Committe on
Gaming, and the usual Sporting varieties. Bell's Life is re-
gularly published in time for all the Saturday afternoon rail-
ways. A Sixpence, inclosed to Mr. Clementoun., 170, Strand,
will insure a copy by return of post. All persons interested
in Sporting matters should read Bell's Life of July 7.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A circumstance
the like of which has never been known within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant of Beds, occurred in this county on
the 20th instant. Mr. Jeffreys, a farmer, residing at Great
Barford, whilst his neighbours were sowing barley, cut and
carted a quantity of the same grain. The barley in question
was the produce of a field that had been severely injured by
the hail storm of the last year, and the occupier had had it
ploughed up for the purpose of sowing it with wheat, but ob-
serving a good deal of the grain growing, he allowed it to
stand, and the result has been that he has obtained an excel-
lent crop, a fine sample of which was exhibited in Bedford
market on Saturday last.—Herts County Press.