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RAILWAY COMMITTEES (YESTERDAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. GUOUP I. LONDON AND YORK. MIASTMIN COMM TIES). The Committee met again this day at eleven o'clock; the Earl of Lovelace, chairman. Henry Hawkes, Esq., a landowner at Spaldi ng , was ca ll e d , an d examined by Mr. Sergeant Joxas, en beh a lf o f th e E as t ern C ounties R a il wa y. The witness said the Eastern Counties line would be of great advantage to the landowners in his pa, tof the country. The London station of that line was more favourable than that of the London and York. Had had conversations with the people of his district and they were in favour of the Eastern Counties scheme. By Lord VIVIAN—Had not attended a public meeting to obtain that opinion of the residents of Spalding ; had merely gathered it in conversation. The witness was briefly cress-examined by Mr. Sergeant KING- Lelia—One reason for his preferring the Eastern Counties was that there were already 46 miles of the line made, and this would make the whole line much sooner for the service of the traders than that of the London and York. The latter line would certainly make the distance between London and Spalding shorter by twelve miles. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP 11. CORNWALL. This Committee met at the usual hour, Viscount Morpeth, chairman. The first witness called was Mr. Pearson, the manager of the steam bridge over the Bamouse. He stated that carriages were easily driven over it and with perfect safety. At one time Womb well's menagerie passed over. It had borne a weight of 210 tons, and it was calculated that it would bear upwards of iOO tons more than that. Mr. Brunel, C.E., was then examined by Mr. Sergeant lintoLasz —The gradients were of a favourable nature, the steepest one being 1 in 60. The soil was particularly favourable for the construction of railways. They proposed to cross the RaMOUSe by means of the existing steam bridge. but if that were not found to be sufficiently strong they could easily build another. The trains would run down an incline on to the bridge. There would be no difficulty in getting them up again. It might be done by simple mechanical means. It could be effected by means of an engine over a perpendicalar shaft, such as that used for the purpose oflifting carriages from the Derby Rail way on to the London and Birmingham Railway. Great care had been taken in the laying out of the line, and he considered it would prove highly remunerative. The Earl of St. Germans was called, who gave evidence In favour of the line and the accommodation which it would attend to the district. The Committee then adjourned. GROUP Ix. The members of this Committee resumed their labours at 12 o'clock this morning,. Lord Worsley in the chair. All the members were present. The adjourned case of the CALEDONIAN (GLASGOW T.T.R,:virrzx AND BRANCHES). was resumed. Mr. HOPE, on the part of the promoters of the Bill, reminded the Committee that the object of their adjournment was to give time for an alteration in the plans, and for an application to Parliament to dispense with the standing orders. This had been accomplished ; the proposed alteration had been made, and the Standing Orders' Com mittee had reported that the standing, orders ought to be dispensed with. Mr. Essington, the engineer to the line, explained the manner in which it was proposed to accomplish the deviation. The objection able gradient of one in eighty had been got rid of, and an incline of one in 100 substituted. Mr. Sergeant MUMMY, who appeared to oppose the line on the part of the General Terminus Company, opposed the Bill on the ground that it interfered with part of their property, and would prevent them from fulfilling a contract they had entered into with the Kilmarnock and Ayr Company, and for the carrying out of which this land would be required. Mr. Sergeant MURPHY pat in a copy of the agreement, and Mr. Hope consented to admit this document, Mr. Sergeant Murphy not being prepared to prove it. Mr. C. D. Donald, Secretary to the General Terminus Company, was called to prove that the notice of the intention of the Company to introduce atnew clause was only received on Saturday, the 6th instant, and that the Bill went through the Standing Orders' Coin mittee on the following Tuesday ; so that he had not time to oppose the Bill. In the eourse of this witness's evidence, it appeared that the land in question had been bought by the provisional committee upon their own responsibility before the passing of the Bill, and that there were no powers to buy any such land in the Bill. The CHAIRMAN put several questions to the witnesses as to the manner in which the Company had become possessed of this land, observing that though it had nothing to do with the point under con sideration and could not, therefore, be said to come directly before, the Committee, that it was certainly a matter fer the consideration of Parliament. He suspected it was a very common thing for rail way companies to purchase, and make use of, land not included in the powers of their Bills. Sir T. PHILLIPS, on the part of the Glasgow and Ayr Railway Com pany, was about to make some observations, when Mr. HOPE objected, and said that his Learned Friend had no locus standi. Sir T. PHILLIPS said that the Glasgow and Ayr was a part of the West of Scotland Junction, and that at the time the latter Bill was disposed of, power was reserved by the promoters to oppose this Bill. The Committee ordered the room to be cleared, and after a short time re -admitted the parties, in order to learn mere distinctly upon what grounds Sir T. Phillips claimed to appear. Sir T. PHILLIPS said that he claimed to appear on the part of the Glasgow, Pais ey, and Ayr, both as a part of the West of Scotland Junction, and as being' one of two parties having a contract, for the carrying out of which it was necessary that they should retain the land which it was proposed to take by the additional powers. The room was again cleared, but the door was hardly closed when the parties were called in again, and the Committee declared that Sir T. Phillips could not be heard. The CHAIRMAN then said that the Committee had decided upon inserting the additional power in the form of a clause, and that a clause should be inserted, to the effect that if any additional expense should be incurred by the General Terminus Company, in making their branch to the Glasgow and Ayr, in consequence of the introduc tion of the additional powers into Ms Bill, that such additional ex pense should be defrayed by the Caledonian Hallway Company. A message was received from the Admiralty, to the effect that as the report of their Commissioner on the Clyde Bridge had not yet been received, they could not give any opinion as to whether they would ba likely to assent to the crossing of the Clyde by this line. After a discussion of some length, it was determined that the Bill should be passed, with a clause that if the Admiralty refused their consent the Company should use the alternative line. Here a question arose as to the right of the counsel on the part of West of Scotland Junction to appear against the alternative line. The room was cleared on this point, and after a long discusion the Committee re-admitted the parties, and announced their decision, that althc ugh counsel for the West of Scotland Junction could not appear on the question of the adoption of the clause for additional powers, yet such counsel could appear against the alternative line. In the course of a desultory conversation which ensued, Mr. Ser geant MuaPiiir expressed his doubts of the power of the Committee to pass the additional clause, and intimated the intention of the Corm , pany to dispute its legality, if they should find it advisable to do so, after the passing of the Bill. The consideration of the manuscript clauses was, at the request of Mr. HOPE, adjourned until Thursday. The printed clauses were all disposed of. Mr. HOPE said he presumed the Committee considered the preamble proved ? The Committee considered that it was, and gave their formal vote to that effect. The consideration of the alternative line stands over till Thursday. GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GE.EZNOCH (POLLOCH AND GOVAN BRANCH.) In this case Mr. HOPE said that the parties had not succeeded in making any arrangement with the Canal Company as to the manner in which they should pass the canal. He had therefore to propose the introduction of a clause by which it should be provided that the line should not be carried over the canal without the consent of the Company. After some discussion this was assented to, and the Bill passed, with this clause inserted. GLASGOW SOUTHERN TERMINAL. The CI - UM/LAN proposed that this Bill (the last on the list) should now be taken. Mr. Hort said that the chief eounsel on that Bill was Mr. Hild yard, and the Committee were no doubt aware of the position in which that gentleman was placed. It would, he believed, be impos sible to go into the case to-day, but he had no doubt it would go on on Thursday. The Committee then adjoraned till Thursday. GROUP X. The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room No 1 (House of Commons), present Mr. Deedes (chairman), Mr Arkwright, Mr. Farnham, Mr. Stanley, and Mr. Vivian. They immediately called on the CEIZZDONZABT ' (DUNDYVAN B2ANCJI) A BROAD HINT TO LEADERS. It was then intimated that the promoters did not mean to call any further evidence, considering that their case was established as against the Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands. Mr. FORSYTH requested that the Committee would grant a few minutes' indulgence to Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., who, as leading counsel in this case, was prepared to sum up the evidence of the promoters, but was unfortunately at that moment engaged in another room. The Committee, having waited for a consid,rable time, expresses impatience at the delay, and called on Mr. Forsyth to proceed with the case. Mr. Forsyth was most reluctant to do so ii the absence of 2klr. Cockburn, who hut prepargd himself for the task. The Learned Gent'eman then, as it appeared, went out to hasten Mr. Cockburn. In his absence, The CHAIRMAN, addressing, the agent, said that the Committee did not think it was their duty to the public or to the parties to give such Indulgence as was here required to a counsel who had paid no attention whatever to the case from the commencement. They would not wait any longer for Mr. Cockburn, nor could they see any reason why Mr. Forsyth, who had diligently attended to the case from beginning to end, and had heard all the evidence, should not proceed with h s statement. He was perfectly competent to do so, and there was no realon for wasting time in extending indulgence to a gentleman who had sot heard a word of the evidence. At length, with great hesitation on his own part, tut on the pe remptory demand of the Committee, who would wait no longer, it being one o'clock, Mr. Foasrru proceeded to make the statement for the promoters as made out in the evidence. After the conclusion of Mr. Forsyth'S elaborate and able statement, Mr. ANDREWS, Q.C., replied on behalf of the Glasgow, Airdrie, and Itlonklands, dwelling most emphatically upon the great advantages which that line would confer dpon the whole community of Glasgow, by choosing the Mile-end district as the site of its terminal station, and upon the University, by giving a new set of buildings in a far superior situation. The room was then cleared for a division, and, on the readmission of strangers, The CHAIRMAN announced the decision of the Committee to be, that_ the p ream b le of the Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Bill was proved ; and that the preamble of the Caledonian (Dundy van Branch) was not proved. The consideration of the clauses in the Bill, of which the preamble was passed, was postponed. CAMEDOZZIAN (GLASGOW, GARNIEntz, AND coaTBItIDGE strivvriozr. The preliminary evidence on this Bill (according to Mr. Dun combe's resolutions) was then taken,and the Commi ttee adjourned till twelve o'clock on Thursday, the Chairman e xpressing a hope that. the parties would be in readiness, so that the whole might be eo n _ eluded on Friday, before the holidays.: GROUP xr. The Committee re-assembled this _day at the usual hour ; li r , Henley, chairman. - „ THE AIRDRIE AND BATHGATE AND EDnvmuiton AND BATIIGATZ. ' The Committee went through the clauses of these Bills, which were all agreed to, and the Bills ordered to be reported to the Mouse. The consideration of the several lines which formed tills group being finished, the labours of this Committee terminated. GROUP . The Committee met to-d a y at twe:ve Xlll o'clock . ; Sfr William Clay in the chair. CALEDONIAN (LANGHOLIII BRANCH). On the re-assembling of the Committee, Mr. RICKARDS applied for the production of the agreement between the promoters of the North British scheme and the authorities of the Carlisle, respecting the cro sing of Borough-street, about which it was alleged yesterday that the alteration would be beyond the Parliamentary line of deviation. Mr. Osecmte had no objection to the production of the agreement, except that it might be drawn into an improper precedent. He understood, however, that the petition of the parties who were Instrumental to the agreement was withdrawn. Mr. Ricsaans begged leave to state that such was not the case. The Corporation of; Carlisle might have withdrawn their opposition, but the inhabitant bad not. Mr. OSBORNE said, in that case the agreement would he of no use, if the parties interested in the agreement had withdrawn from it. After some conversation pro and con., the promoters of the North British line agreed to furnish copies of the agreement to the parties on the other side. • The examination of witnesses was then proceeded with. Mr. Williamson, mining engineer, examined. Said he was Inti mately acquainted with the Mid Lothian, Berwick, and Canoble coal fields. He thought that both the Berwick and the Lothian coals, by the railways in progr e ss of construction, would find their way to Hawick. The price of screened Berwic k coal at the pit's mouth was 4s. 6d. The Canoble coal was unscreened. By the Kelso line of railway the Berwick coal could be laid down in Hawick at 9s. The distance was thirty-six miles. He did not think the Canoble coal-field would drive out:the Berwick and Canobie Itwas not likely that the latter wool dlie on their oars, and allow one coal-field to drive them out. He did not at all agree with the wit nesses who thought that the Canobie was so important to Hawick. The whole consumption of the Hawick was about 17,000, of which about one-half might be got from Canobie. This would make their receipts from coal traffic about 15,0001., or about one-half the sum the promoters of the Bill calculated. There were about ten pits in operation in the Berwick district. There was also a con siderable amount of coal brought from Northumberland into the dis. trict round Jeciburgh. The table of the North British line in regard to the coal tragic was the most exaggerated he ever saw. A ton and a half for each person was quite enough for a district where coal was cheap, without adding 50 per cent. (here were several parishes north of Hawick which it was absurd for Mr. Marshall to calculate would be supplied from Canobie. He bad himself prepared a counter table on the mineral traffic that might be expected. He calculated that the whole of the traffic in coal, including Langton, would yield 2,1191., instead of 12,6991., which they made it. He thought the expectation of 60,000 tons going to Carlisle most exaggerated. The coal that was exported from Carlisle was far superior to the Canobie coal ; it was screened coal. The Cumberland coal was superior to te Canobie by at least 2s. a ton. The Cumberland coal was shipped last year from Carlisle at 6s. 6d. a ton. It is more now, but only temporarily so. He did not think the Canobie coal would successfully compete with the Cumberland coal at Carlisle, either for shipping or to supply the wants of the inhabitants. The best Cumberland was 9s. a ton at the depot, and 5s for culm for manufacturing purposes. The whole field at Canobie had been assumed oy the Dumfries and Nithsda le and the Hawick lines to yield 203,000 tons annually. Mr. Osfroanx said that when his witnesses, Mr. Maxton and Mr. Gibson were under examination, the other side did not ask sin gl e question a e question as to the supplies which the Canobie coal-field yi e ld e d. allow trusted, therefore, if this examination was to goon , they would coal. them to recall Mr. Gibson to speak upon the qua ntit y witnesses a ft er a case was closed. If they d id so, there Mr. HICK/ EDS said it was against all the rules ofevide w n e ce hi t d o he rec h a e l end to the inquiry. who had b et much the moment, p ositive de claration a s It wasT e h C h l A t la: opinion e ht s a e i n d ef thatth the t present wa s not of the witnesses twattmheasteteargeolef een called on the ether side. He did not consider there was any necessit y for callin g back the wit nesses referred to. Mr. HICEARDB—But that opinion is the result of scientific investi gation, which is more important than the evidence of a proprietor or agent, who is interested in giving a favourable representation to the Witness's examination continued—Me had been exclusively en gaged in making immense surveys. He had been employed by the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Lothian, and Lord Jedburgh. He had himself been engaged in a coal-field near Dalkeith as large as the Canobie field, and all they had been able to raise from it annually was 30,000 tons. The witness was then examined with the object of showing that the lime and other mineral traffic had been much exaggerated. He did not think the Canobie lime would go beyond Zawick. Cross-examined by Mr. TALBOT—He thought the Berwick coal would go up as far as Hawick. At present there was not much Berwick coal consumed in Hawick. He went into the Hawick district in November last et the instance of the Caledonian Company. He spent two days and a night at Hawick, i nquiring into the coal consumption. He was told by the manufacturers that they frequently got coal from Berwick, but he coald not say how much of it was consumed. He could not name the manufacturers who gave him the information, as he had not his memoranda here. He had been one afternoon at Canobie, and examined the strata. Mr. Nicholas Wood, mining engineer, of Newcastle, said he had visited many of the coal-fields in the south of Scotland. He agreed generally with the evidence of Mr. Williamson, that Hawick would be partly supplied from Berwick and partly from Canobie. He had looked over Mr. Williamson's tables, and concurred in them. Cross-examined by Mr. LIDDELL —He did not think an addition of 50 per cent. a fair increase to be made in the tables. Chevington was the nearest coal-field in Northumberland to Berwick. The best coal there was 6s. a ton, and the small coal was about 2s. The best Canobie coal, at the pit's mouth, was ss. 4d., but he did not think the small coal was so cheap in proportion to the Chevington, as there was a greater demand for it. If the small coal at Canobie was as cheap in proportion as the best coal, then, 14 Canobie was eighteen miles nearer to Hawick than Chevington, the coal of the former would be used for manufacturing purposes at Hawick, in preference to the latter. He did not think the Campine coal would go round by way of Carlisle to be exported. The reason of coal being so dear last year at Carlisle was on account of the stopping of the Blenkensop colliery. That also detained the ships from getting loads. The largest outfit he had known from any pit in one year was 50,000 tons. He thought 50,0110 tons from twelve coal-pits in the Lothians, as stated by the previous witness, a small quantity. Mr. Steele, Mayor of Carlisle, and proprietor of the Cariis'e Journal, deposed that he had paid great attention to the question of communication with Scotland. He had been examined last year on the Caledonian Railway. He was decidedly of opinion that only two through lines into Scotland could be supported—one on the east side, and another towards the west. He then supported the Caledonian line, in prefer ence to the Nithsdale line, as s ffording the best general accom modation. If this line were passed, there would with the Nithsdale line be two communications to both Edinburgh and Glasgow, which he did not think the traffic would support. The whole capital thus required would be to be raised by the bills, 5,160,0001. ; and sup posing one-third raised by loan, which was usually done, that would make a total of 6,1380,000/. From iniormallon derived from engineers, he calculated the working schemes per mile per annum at 6001., which on 367 miles of railway would be 220,0001. Now, that with an addition of 4 per cent. on the capital would make 233,2001. more, or a total of nearly half a million, that would have to be raised. He did not think much stone would be brought by the railway, as it could be got in large quantities not far from Carlisle. Besides, brick for building purposes was in the generality of Instances preferred. The quantity of coal consumed in Carlisle and its neighbourhood was about 60,000 tons. It was got from various poin's in Cumberland, and brought by the Newcastle and Maryport Railways. The Cano bie coal was ouch that he would not use for household purposes. There was an extensive quantity exported. The best on board was 83., the second 55., and the small As. The small coal was very well suited for manufacturing purposes. The Canobie coal would have to go on to the Newcastle line and go down to the canal by it for shipping. He thought it could not be shipped tor less than 7s. 7d. a ton. It would also have to compete with the Maryport line._ Cross-examined He knew that a griat number of the inhabitants of Carlisle had petitioned for the present line, but he could nut state what their motives were. Perhaps they might expect supplies of coal by it. He had given his individual opinion that this coal would not be much used in Carlisle. He could not speak as to the wants of the Hawick district. Mr. Wiliiam Pare, traffic-taker, examined—He took the traffic of the Hawick and Carlisle turnpike road in 1844, and again in last autumn. He placed men at different points last year—he took the first fourteen days in October. He had prepared a table founded on those observations. He calculated the probable amount of traffic for post-horses, gigs, and other private conveyances, to be 1,4091. 13s. 4d.; this was from Hawick to Carlisle. The North British estimated it at 3,6651. They had added 150 per cent. on that, instead of 100 per cent., as last year. He had assumed of those that were travelling, except by post-horses that the half would take the railway. The general merchandise and agricultural produce he noted in a similar way; the amount was 1,481/. 17s. 9d. He had excluded in his cal culation the fish and meat supposed, on the other side, to go front Dalkeith and Dunbar, and also the Hawick and Newcastle traffic, respecting which he cou:d not make any comparison. The item he named was to set against the 1,5191. in the table on the other side. Instead of 5,7621. for stone, wood, &c., taken credit for on the other side, he set down 3911. For small parcels he thought 3,0001. very much exaggerated. In the tables of the Caledonian line this year he estimated the through traffic from Carlisle to Edinburgh to be 20,9131, and to that extent the present line would be a competing line. Cross-examined—ln some cases he had known 15 per cent. of in crease in traffic, and more. The most common rate was 190 per cen•. It was not common to double the merchandise. He had never known it doubled, but coal he had. His object in 1844, was to take the through traffic from Carlisle to Edinburgh from those tables. He did not assume any traffic between Carlisle, Langton, or Campine, as the line was not proposei to touch them, and he had nothing to do with the threugh traffic. - Yot any of the local traffic was noted. In the last observation, he made the goods between Langholm and Hawick backwards and forwards to be 1,837 tons per annum. That was according to the observation of fourteen days. He did not speak us to the coal at all. He was not aware that large quantities of grain went from Roxburgh towards Dumfries. Mr. Collister, resident engineer of the Caledonian Railway, exa mined—He had made two surveys of the Hawick and Carlisle line. He made the last observation about a month ago. He was ob structed by the Duke of Buccleuch's gamekeepers but as far as he could do so he ran levels. The works were very heavy, the valleys beng steep, and the hills very abrupt. The witness here put in a section of the works which he had drawn out in which some specifi cations were made which did not appear in the plans and sections of the promoters. The sections of the latter dl.l not represent the whole of the works. This was in consequence of the shelving manner in which the line crossed the side of a steep hill. For thirty miles the line was taken through grawacke or whinstone rock, the cutting of which would be very expensive. The Teviot was crossed thirteen times in nine miles. The promoters of the Hawick gave the estimate of the ordinary earthwork at 111,4481. ; he set it down at 151,507/. For whinstone— The CHAIRMAN suggested that the witness had better put in the details in the form of a table. Mr. RICKARDS said the table should be supplied to the Committee, as also to counsel on the other side, and in the meantime a few minutes would suffice to ask all the questions necessary on the items. Witness's examination continued—The whinstone and sandstone cuttings he set down at 519,374 cubic yards, at a cost of 78, 7331 . , which they made 497,000 cubic yards, at 70,3471. The tunnel he estimated at 15,0001., they made it 9,9001. The witness then went over the viaducts proposed to be made, all which were undervalued. For all the items he had referred to he estimated 483,6951., instead of theirs, which was 328,320/. The permanent way, ballasting, Ste. he set down at 225,8461., instead of 189,2911., their estimate. Ttie value of the land and the two small branches he took at their estimate. The result of the whole was, that his total was 820,629/., instead of theirs, which was 660,000/. He had taken the works at the rates which the Caledonian were let at. One of the main thoroughfares in Carlisle war crossed on the level according to the deposited plans. They could not deviate so as to cross by a bridge, because they could not, according to the de posited plans, take sufficient width for the approaches. If Borough. street was lowered as proposed, it would be below the natural drain age of the town. According to the agreement that had been entered into, the rails would have to be raised eight feet more than they were stated in the deposited plans. The Caledonian ( Langholm branch) was thirteen miles long. The severest gradient was one in 150, and the sharpest curve a radius of half a mile. The engineering pecu liarities were more favourable than those of the opposing line through the same tract. The e.timate was 180,0001. ; this included works and land for a double line, but only a single line of rails was proposed to to laid down. The works were ger•erally favcurable. There wauld be no difficulty in making a communication from the line tO the Cacoble coal-fleids. The Committee then adjourned till Thursday at twelve o'clock, when the cross-examination will be taken. GROUP XIV. The 'Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bilis comprised in this group re -assembled at the usual hour this morning, Mr. Prothcroe in the chair. MEETIT .A.TrfIOSPIIER.IC SCHEME. The Committee decided this moruing that the chief plan Included the Maidstone Branch as a portion of the main line, and the pro moters cowl therefore adopt it for entering Rochester. The examination of Mr. Bherrard, the engineer, was then resumed, but he added nothing of importance to his evidence which was not given yesterday. - On cross-examination, Mr. Sherrad stated that his estimates did not include the atmospheric pipe nor either the payment for the patent right or the stationary engines. In laying out the line he had no specific mode of working in view, because his instruction from Mr. Cubitt, the consulting engineer of the line, was to procure a line with a ruling gradient of lln 80. The witness was cross-examined at considerable length with a view of showing that his comparison between the two lines, both as regarded gradients, tunnels, with stations and lengths, had been made upon an erroneous principle. The Committee then adjourned till Thursday, at twelve o'clock. GROUP XVII. The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock. The Hon. E, Yorke in the chair. MANCHESTER AND SOUTHAMPTON AND SOUTH WESTERN (ROMSEY AND REDBRIDGE BRANCH). Mr. James Griffin, of the firm of Griffin and Co., was then called and examined by Mr. HATHzlvrom—Has a yard at Redbridge, and has supplied the Government with foreign and English timber. Receives a great quantity of timber from America and the Baltic. Sends a good deal of timber from Redbridge to Salisbury by land carriage which he should send by this branch. The cuatast.ste intimated that the Committee were satisfied that there was a good deal of traffic between Redbridge and Salisbury. It .d n en ee ce o u n at the same time they would be glad to hear e 1 would therefore be unnecessary to multiply evidence tl , t • tO s th i e Di co n si of transit and the saving which the line would v eff Examination continued —The cost of sendingeet. a from Redbridge to salisbury was 10s. ; by ma u ra %t of timb er m ;. eo z i tlid be about half that amou n t. Th e L ondon, Salisbury, a made, would be o f cons id era b le advantage, as it would promotieett timber trade with the west of England and take inland goods fur exportation and bring foreign goods back. Cross-examined by Air. It. Guarzy.—Timber landed at Southamp ton was floated up to Redbridge, and the expense of floating up 50 loads, which would require the assistance of two men, would be 10s. Small quantities were not floated, but conveyed by land carriage. Now pays Is. per load per mile for the conveyance of English timber. The railway charge is 4d. The expense of floating a load uo t Ri d'iridg• was 4d. or 6d. The drafting was not more than Id. a , ; : a ~ Was not aware that the Manchester and Southampton sought no more in their Bill to charge bruin powers I%d. a load. It they charge would be Gd did this, the only additional . think you could sell it cheapen by floating it than tin Do you —We should be able i t at Southampton . to Lo BO at Red merchant bridge, bat not at Salisbury. Could not name any other place where he could sell it cheaper. th Western terminu - s lii abo t The Sou - u a guar- By Mr. SAUNDEItS— k b water more than half a mile. The mile from the doc s, y ter of a M inchester and Southampton terminus is near the public quay,The witness, in reply • to Mr. Days, said timber could not b e the ebb A n d flo e of the tide, or during floated up to Redbridge during ^, except a sou - a th e ist wind. the prevalence of heavy g—es, A line from Redbridge to Romsey would be of By the CHAIRMAN— quantity of timber at South large q infinite advantage. If he had a w • Redbridge as no , perhaps he should South ampton he should float it up to send small quantities by the railway. The CHAIRMAN said—Perhaps the promoters of the line were de sirous to know the opinion of the Committee with respect to their project. It was quite clear that somebody must construct it, be cause such a line would be of particular benefit to inland traders, and t to traders at Ding ; but the promoters had only proved his fact by i , evidence from the two extremities of the line,:Romseylatai Rt &ridge ; but Eling and Redbridge are situated on an tuary. toreach which various menses had to be incurred—river dues, pilotage, things,which ofcourse increased the cost of transit. 'the Co mmitteehad, however, to look not simply to the public or local advantage, but to the greatest public advantage which i t would afford. Now, as he had said, they had only proved this by those locally interested. They wanted more general and extended evidence than that which hati up to that time been exhibited to them. After the examination of several other witnesses , the Committee adjourned adjourn to the till Thum slay, and on Friday they will Thursday following of which were considerable wool and glove manufactories, where as wally as 1,200 tons of coals were con:llnd annually, and 1,000 tcna more in domestic purposes, at a price of 30s to 335. a ton. That price would certainly be greatly reduced, and the price of timber from Gloucester, which came by a very circuitous route, would also be affected. The Stratford branch was nine miles long, running through the parish of Weston,in Gloucester, through Mickle ton up to the borough of Old Stratford. There existed, he said, at present a tramway from Stratford to Morton-in-the -Marsh, and in the contest of last year much stress was laid upon this tramway, Which the Company, it was understood, would keep open and improve. But that tramway was circuitous and inconvenient for locomotive purposes. The present branch was therefore proposed, but yet the tramway would be kept open.. The communication to Stratford at present was by the Avon and the canal to Birmingham. Coals were prin cipally brought. from Staffordshire, between Kidderminster and Dudley, and there was great traffic in corn. There was consider. able traffic 'with Esham, with Chipping-Camden, where there were silk mills, and with Chipping-Norton, where wool manufac tures were carried on. The Droitwich Branch was intended to open communication with the Stoke works. The Stratford branch, he said, was opposed by the London and Birmingham Company, who had two lines in another Committee, one from Halnpton-in-Arden to Ashchurch, and one transacting that line from Weedon to Wor cester. But last year they had opposed the main line, and now since that line had been passed he expected that Parliament would decide against allowing their last year's opponents to take away the traffic of the line which had been already sanctioned. Several witnesses were called and examined on the traffic of the different districts through which branches are proposed. Mr. Brunel, engineer for the line, stated that the length of the branch to Witney was 4% miles ; to Stratford, 8 miles, 6 furlongs ; and to Stoke, about 1 mile. There was no engineering difficulties on them, and the steepest gradient on them was one in 74, for a distance of 20 chains. The estimate for the Witney branch was 68,0001., for the Stratford, 114,0001., and far the Stoke branch, 12,0001., but the gross estimate was 220,600/. He stated that on the main line they were laying down the broad and narrow gauge from Abbotsford to Worcester and Wolverhampton, by order of the Board of Trade. He did not know what gauge would be adopted on the Oxford to Ban bury line. He did not see any difficulty of communication from the broad to the narrow gauges. The Committee then adjourned to Thursday next, at twelve. GZ PP XLIV. The Committee met this morning at twelve, Lord Palmerston in the chair. The Committee were occupied with the formal evidence required by the House in respect to the amalgamated projects now known as the Northern Counties Railway, the Bill for which was read before the Committee yesterday, and agreed to. The Committee proceeded to read the clauses of this Bill, but Mr. ALEXANDER applied for leave to enter first upon the merits of the Preston and Wyre Railway —a scheme which, through mistake of the Committee of Classification, had not been referred to this group till lately. The CHAIRMAN refused to enter upon the consideration of this new project, which, in conformity with the rules of the douse, must be postponed to the sth of June next. Mr. ALEXANDER applied to have a clause introduced into the Bill then before the Committee, giving powers to the Preston and Wyre Company to construct a short lino of nine miles' length ,between theirs and the Fleetwood line. The CHI IRMAN would not consent to consider anything which was not properly before the Committee. . . The clauses of the Fleetwood Bill were then read and agreed to. The Committee then adjourned ti I twelve on Thursday next. GROUP LIZ. This Committee met to-day at the usual hour ; Mr. P.. Mile chairman. GRAND JUNCTION (lIITYTON AND WAR RINGTON BRANCH), AND ST. HELEN'S CANAL AND RAILWAY. IMPORTANT DECISION. Mr. TALBOT opened the case of the Huyton and Warrington Branch on behalf of the Grand Junction Company. Captain Huish, of the Grand Junction Railway, and Mr. Locke, civil engineer, were then examined on behalf of the promoters. Mr. Sinclair was examined by Sergeant WHANGRAM on behalf of the St. Helen's Canal Railway Company. The room was then cleared, and on our re-admission The CHAIItItdAN AMIOUBeed that the preamble of the Grand Junc tion (lluyton to Warrington) Railway Bill was proved, and that the preamble of the St. Helen's Canal and Railway Bill was proved only as far as Garston. 'The Committee then adjourned till three o'clock on Thursday next GROUP LIII This Committee re-assembled at twelve o'clock this morning, in Room 26 (New Houses of Parliament). Present, lion. E. Lascelles (in the chair), the Earl of Arundel and Surrey, Mr. Hildyard, Capt. Dalrymple, and Mr. R. Clayton. stistoPsuntz UNXON AND CANAL (CUES. TER TO WOLVERHAMPTON). The evidence in this case was resumed Mr. Thomas Baldwin, carrying agent to the Chester and Aylesbury Canal Company, being the first witness, was called to show the superiority of a railway over a canal, in the carriage of passengers and traffic, and the desirableness of having a direct line of railway commit nication between Wolverhampton and Birkenhead. Mr. James Boydon, an extensive ironmaster, was next called, to show the great advantage that would be conferred on the iron masters in the neighbourhood of Wolverhampton by the constriction of this railway. mr. Alexander Easton, resident inglieer to the Birmingham and Liverpool Canal Company, was the next witness. He proved that that company experienced great difficulties in procuring a proper supply of water, particularly in the summer months. Mr. Edward Cresswell, of the firm of Hayward, Creswell, and Sons, iromnasters, Dudley, was next called to show the benefit which the construction of this railway would confer on the ironntasters of Dudley and the neighbourhood. The remainder of the day was occupied with the hearing of similar evidence, and the Committee adjourned at four o'clock till twelve on Thursday next. GROUP LIV. COVENTRY, NIINEJLTON, EIRMINGR.ADX AND LEICESTER. The Committee met at twelve precisely this morning, and were oc cupied for some time in deciding on the order in which they should proceed with the numerous Bills comprised in their group. The Committee decided eventually to proceed with the Coventry, Nun eaton, Birmingham, and Leicester Itailway. . _ The Bill was opposed by the Leicester and Birmingham Company and by the Birmingham and Leicester Direct Company. From the evidencell;;;;red that the length of the line from Coventry to Nuneaton was twenty-six miles, and from Leicester to Birmingham about eighty-five miles. The estimates were fully sufficient to carry out the works. There were no peculiar engineering difficulties to be contended against. The population was numerous in the vicinity of the line, and the general mineral and other produc tions would ensure a ready and remunerative traffic. The Committee were engaged all day with evidence of a general nature, and adjourned at four o'clock. THE SUN, LONDON, WrtDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 27, 1846. GROUP XVIII. The Committee met this morning; Mr. B. Denison, chairman. EXETER,TEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER aND LONDON, iitALISEURY AND YMOT.TIL. The CHAIRMAN announced, that he had received two letters, which had been very improperly addressed to him, as chairman of this Committee. He would hand them over to toe Committee's clerk, and hope t that the publicity which would be given to this transac tion would prevent a repetition, for the future, of any such improper conduct. It W 5 decided by the Cogunittee, that they W 214-91117 hear two engineers on each side of the line—a Committee basing recommended that course he would adopt their recommendation. The examination of Mr. Vignoles was then proceeded with, but In consequence of the previous instruction of the Committee was not extended to any length, and embraced no new features on the evidence of Mr. Lester, given before the Committee yesterday. Lord Morley and Lord Vivian were then called, who gave evidence in favour of the line, as being a more direct and shorter route to L and affording greater accommodation to the intermedi a t e districtso n r. Tito,t h a I n a nd was surveyor given by ad the architect, existin g lines.w awa s then called, who proved hen iu n the quantity of land required for the construction of the railway. Mr. S Herbert, Secretary at War, M.P. for South Wiltshire, proved the great necessity of railway accommodation in the districts through which the railway proposed to pass. He considered, both in his pri vate and official character, that it was advisable that there should be a continuous line of railway along the coast. He knew that the military authorities attached great importance to having a line which would connect Falmouth, Portsmouth, Southampton, Dover, and Sheerness, for the conveyance of troops. A break of gauge would be very inconvenient for this purpose, in consequence of hav ing to unload and repack the luggage, which with large bodies of troonwas very considerable. Mr.slticke was then examined with reference to the alternative flue between Yeovil and Exeter, which leaves the main line at the 59th mile and joins it at the 74th. Mr. Cockauarr then put in the agreement between the two com panies and the South-Western Railway and the Cornwall and Devon Central. The returns in accordance with the Duncombe resolutions were then handed in for that portion of the line between Basingstoke and Salisbury. This formal proceeding closed the case on behalf of the promoters. At the request of Mr. Talbot and Mr. Butt, the Committee ad journed till twelve on Thursday. GROUP IX, Thh Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, Mr. Sotheron in the chair. LONDON, HOUNSLOW, AND WESTERN. The further consideration of the case on behalf of this Bill was re sumed. Captain Moorsom was again re-called and cross-examined at some length with regard to the destruction to private property, which the construction of the line would involve. Evidence having been called as to the value of the property that would be required for the purposes of the line, the case of the pro moters was closed. _ The Committee adjoined till Thursday at twelve o'clock, when the case for the opponents will be g•ne into. GROUP XXII. This Committee met this morning at the usual hour. Sir George Grey in the chair. IPSWICH, NORWICH, AND YARMOUTH. Evidence on tragic resumed. Mr. Capon, a farmerat Dennington, corrobated the evidence ahead.) , given as to the tramc anticipated on this line. - This witness was subjected to a long cross-examination by the opposing counsel, but nothing material was elicited. Mr. 0. Colman, Sheriff of Norwich, gave evidence as to the advan tages whi..ll the line would confer by increasing the facilities of transit for corn. Mr. Wilde, Coroner of Norwich, and Mr. Prior, a maltster, gave evidence as to the great want of railway communication at present, .nd the neces,ity for constructing the proposed line for the accom modation of the wants of the district. GROUP XXII. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. A. Edwards, a general merchant at Woodbridge, detailed the quality of exports and imports at Woodbridge, which he considered would be greatly increased if the proposed line were constructed. Mr. W. Ruston, of Mark-lane, pointed oat the increase which might be anticipated in the coasting trade by the proposed line. Mr. Thomas Crisp, farmer, near Orford, and others, reiterated the above evidence, and the Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to. morrow. GROUP XXVI. SOUTH ESSEX. The Committee, Mr. M. O'Connell in the chair, assembled at twelve o'clock, but the room was cleared for the discussion of some point as to their private regulation, and on the re-admission of strangers, Mr. Cccitsuas addressed the Committee on behalf of the South Essex Company, and went through the several points afforded by the evidence which hid been adduced, resting chiefly on the principal object, which the company had stated, of affording rail way accommodation to the whole county of Essex. In the course of his observations the Learned Counsel contrasted the respective advantages of the line which he advocated, and those of the North Gravesend line. The branch to Tilbury had this only advantage to recommend it—it is a branch of a main line, which can be worked at a small and comparatively insignificant expense ; and thus it might be made to pay, and, taken in a subsidiary point of view, it might be worth the while of the company to work it. After alluding to the case of the town of Barking, where the North Graves end Railway crossed the place on the level, the Learned :ounsel entered upon the , general merits of the line of the South Essex Company, including the carriage of mature, flour, an( No objection had been made to the carriage of cattle and sheep, and the only subject then for consi deration was the conveyance of coals. In looking at the general merits of the line, the first consideration was the existence of the river Crouch, which, nearly at the mouth of the Thames, had a naturally formed harbour, accessible in all states of the tide, and yet perfectly secure in every state of the weather. This harbour must become the receptacle for a great portion of that trade which now impeded the river Thames, and blocked up the port of London. The consumption of London is at the present time 3,000,000 thus, and may possibly rise to the extent of 5,000,000. The com pany took credit for the landing and carriage of 250.000 tons. This would afford so small a relief to the river, that it was not unreason able to suppose that a much larger quantity would be carried by the railway than that which is at present estimated. This, in addition• to the fact of the ability to reach Gravesend with equal facility to that which was offered by the opposing line— taking all the circumstances into consideration, the South Essex line was the one the most worthy of consideration, and the only one which ought to be granted. • Mr..Taitas replied on behalf of the North Gravesend Company, when, The CHAtamAri inquired whether this was the subject of sub scription contract ; to which the Counsel replied, that it was a project emanating from certain parties connected with the Eastern Counties Company, although not the project of that Company itself. But this much he might say, that haying got their North Woolwieh line, and their Thames Junction line, the Eastern Counties Com pany felt that being an established company they could afford greater accommodation to the public in an access to Gravesend. The grand difficulty of the opposing line was, that they had no ter minus whatever worthy of the slightest notice. If at Stepney, there were the docks to compete with ; if at the blinories, they were in the midst of a neighbourhood which clearly was too well occupied already ; if in Fenchurch-street, the depot was clearly quite snap plieable for coal, on which so much reliance was to be placed, and he would venture ro say that it wasequally unfitted for corn. Through out the whole case it was evident that the only saving upon coals was ninepence, and as the North Gravesend Com pany contended only threepence. That colliers he insisted, would revcr be discharged in any amount at Crouch, and he believed that the granting of this line would amount to a Parliamentary tax of d. on all the coal brought by means of this railway. Re would venture to assert that, even if this line were made, the greatest quantity of coal would be sent into the interior of the country from the depot of the Blackwell RAlway, and it was in evidence that the residents of Rocheford are now getting their coals as low as 20s. a ton. The case of the corn trade was equally plain. Then, as regards the passenger traffic of 374,0001., although the whole population of the county was Only 340,005, so that it would be necessary to have every individual in the county, men, women and children, to create this tr a ffi c, an d even then it would be short of the amount. The line, in fact, did not pass through any place with more than 2,000 inhabitants; so that, through one means or other, a great part of the income would he done away with, and he did not beileve that any Committee would sanctioa the carrying out of a line which was to extend the deficiencies of the Blackwall Railway—in fact, the only argument that could be used for widening the Blackwall Railway under the assumption of bring ing a large traffic upon it from extraneous sources. Now, the North Gravesend Company had the right to take the population round their terminus just as muck as the North Kent Company had the right to carry thee who went from Southwark and other places, on the south side of the water. The South Roiex scheme was one not ripe for Parliament ; tha the assertions had not been made out, and that there was no definite terminus. With respect to the other line, it is one projected by an established company, whose experience enabled them better than her parties to judge et the probabiliti es of success. The North Graves end line wou I 1 cost only about 250,000/., and its only opponent among the landholders was a gentleman of the name of Thompson, but except ing him there was no opposition whatever on the part of the local residents, and the Learned Counsel trusted that the Committee would give equal and fair chance of competition to both companies. The room was thent learad. On Me re admission of the parties, the CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee, after much patient investigation, had come to the con clusion that thd preamble had not been proved in either of the cases. GROUP XXVIII. The Committee re-assembled to-day at twelve o'clock, In Room 33 of the \ew Houses of Parliament. There were present Lord Dal meny (chairman) and the other members. LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM (ST. ALBANS AND LUTON BRANCH). The evidence in support of this Bill was resumed. Mr. John Walton examined—Lived at Flamstead, on the line. Their two nearest market towns were Litton and Hemel Hemstead. The want of a railway communication with St. Albans was sensibly felt. This witness was ems-examined at great length, tut nothing ma• terial was elicited. Mr. William Elliot examined—Lived at Dunstable. There was considerable traffic in straw plait manufacture from Dunstable to London. By the railway proposed they would have accommoda tion two ways, while by the London and York line only one would Le afforded. Cross-examined by Mr. WELLS, on the part of the petitioners against the Bill—Redbourne had suffered very severely by the withdrawal o: the traffic from that plate. He would be as well satisfied with a line that should be three miles longer to London, for be considered it would be equally beneficial to Dunstable. After hearing some further evidence, The Committee adjourned at four o'clock till Thursday. GROUP XXXI. SOUTH WALES.—(NO. II.) The Committee assembled this morning at th• usual hour, when, The CHAIRMAN inquired what proposition the supporters of the Bill had to make to the Committee, a portion of their preamble having been struck out. Mr. AUSTIN, for the promoters, said, that they proposed to carry the line from Chepstow to Bumspill, on the river Severn, and to a point of junction with the Forest of Dean Railway. This railway would fill up the lacuna caused by striking out part of the preamble, and enable the trunk line of the South Wales Company to be carried on without break or interruption. Again, if the preamble were so altered as to allow a junction of the South Wales Railway with the Monmouth and Hereford, a entinued communication might be obtained with the city of Gloucester. The clauses of th e Bill were then proceeded with and arranged. Several new clauses, having respect to the junction of the - South Wales Railway with existing lines, and for the regulation of the tolls were introduced into the Bill, and the Committee adjourned. GROUP XXXII. The Committee met this morning at twelve, Mr. J. E. Denison In the chair. BUCK.INGRAMBRIRE (TR.TNG TO BANBURY). d the clauses were partly read and agreed t terday, an The preamble of the Bill for this project was declared 4 l7 b e u d t y t e h e- e matter was re-opened by Mr. COCKBURN, who appeared for the Great Western, and Stated mainly influenced the Coaimitee to pass the d m th :ly t , wh th a e t forming of a junction with the Oxford it d a t:a d t ß o u f l'is ify il li cli n ill e en- -- tin c a' oul not be thitrw. effected, os Tr o a z i tEg aN ti t; thereN said b t e h i a n t g i a t w q ui tedifference an nf easy 15 y fe feet matter e t r h et to levelsfon form of a Amnon between the two railways by a siding on the slope of the proposed line, and join the Oxford and Rugby line is ithin the line of deviation. Mr. cocirstran said he perfectly understood the question now. Tho promoters intended to make a line which was not laid down in the sections deposited, and therefore it could not be done. The CHAIRMAN said the question had arisen at the winding up of the Bill yesterday, and after the opposing parties had left the room the Committee thought that the opponents of the Bill bad neglected the most important point ; but having done so; they had now no locus stancli before the Committee, and the Committee must investi gate the question for themselves. 11r. Stephenson and Mr. Carter stated that it was not necessary to lay down sidings on the plans deposited, or to apply to Parliament for powers to make these sidings, as they did not ask for power to compel the Great Western to allow the junction. The same means statedlast nohiu t ge h ghi a intL t ,taa t ti w nnh de o , had been used in forming a junction between the London and Bir mingham and the Grand Junction, and no application had been made to Parliament for powers. a s Co m mittee,TsathrseeT,w.ulori,:tlyidi. t,..,Torstthe:apoft:xeltrirf;crtodtenodas have b d day e v r eti a th t une i gov painthy, llai said nu z thatw hich t h h a e d i r been decision raised, of ayes terdayndproceeded to read the rest of the clauses. s ft afi nd m w it i t s e h d ed in t t o o h t e he he ß ard ill o h n ad the e so n l (el thisartohoiriurste,nhvedee.mr had been morning, e r ved i t o w f s , .s ppo ve s tr uo p n io t p o er t , ii i e nas ß l i n ll uc w h ,h, a n s re turned for answer that they would not read them. for them. lie the B li l e ll they ample ep oftimitY was furnished for securing their own interests, The ha C cl u n A eg ut rec A t N ed th t and now, after considerable delay had been caused, they made 'ap l P ca tion ...hen the case was about being wou n d up. Committee refused to hear coun se l upon the clauses, but or- The dered them to be given in. Two of the clauses were admitted into the Bill and this closed the case. oxpoaD, WORCESTER, AND w olivEß. HAMPTON. Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., Mr. Talbot, Q.C., and Mr. Whitmore appeared for the promoters of the line, which is opposed by Mr. Sc'lfe and 1 Spooner, on the part of the line and landowners in the d lr. trict opposing, and by the solicitor to the London and Blrminghals- Railway. ni Mr. TALBerr opened briefly the merits of the branches Proposed from the main line, which had been sanctioned by Parliament last Year. The objects of the Bill, he said. were fourfold--to form a branch to Witney, which was four miles from the trunk line ; and the branch to Strafford on Bing another to join the Stoke branch of last year, a southward communication to near the town of Droitwich ; ant to take powers to purchase the Stratford -on-Avon Canal and the Stourbridge Extension Canal. The branch to the town of Witney would cozier &Mt DiAlttlt OA On AZI A populAtio4 of 6,000 8 _ _ GROUP LVI. The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the Bills comprised in this group re-assembled at the usual hour this morning ; Mr. Ewart in the chair. LONDON AND XIIRSIISTONAMS STATION IIYLPROVEDZMNTS 1 and CROYDON (TRILBIES TUNCTION ,CANAL; EXTENSION. The clauses in these Bills were agreed to, and the Bills theinselyes formally p•used. LONDON AND BLACZWALL. The next case gone into was that of the London and Blackwall Railway Company, who, according to Mr. Hill, their counsel, wished to widea their line from Stepney to the station near Fenchurch street, a distance of about a mile. The main line, it would seem, had cost 1,100,000/. ; but the returns had disappointed the promoters, although the public had reaped considerable advantage from it. It was calculated originally that two millions and a half of passengers would pass over the line at much higher fares than were at present charged ; but the results had gone beyond that point, so f ar as t h e number of passengers was concer ne d , b ut not with respect to fares. The number of passengers which passed over the line last year was 30,182,000, and it was clear from this fact, although the undertaking had not proved so profitable to the pro moters as it was at first anticipated, it had been of incalculable be nefit and advantage to the public. Last year Parliament granted an extension from Stepney to Bow, where it formed a junction on the one hand with the Northern and Eastern Railway, and on the other with the Eastern Counties, the first line running to Norwich and Yarmouth, and the second to Colchester and Ipswieh ; and the pre sent Bill was for giving powers to widen the Blackwall Railway from Stepney to Fenchurch•street, with the view of accommodating, and bringing the traffic of those two giest railways up into the very heart of the City of London. The Bill was opposed by the Corporation of London, the East and West India Docks Company, and the proprietors of different build ings on the route. Mr. Tite, the architect , was the first witness called, w h o gave very positive evidence in favour of the Bill. He said th e tra ffi c on the and lie had no d ou b t most of them would make use of the proposed extens i o n i n the event of its bein g conce d e d b y the Legislature. The traffic would also be consid era bl y i ncreased by million n ern of passengers,a and Eastern, and Eastern C ount i es lines, amounted to a a proposed extension to Epping, which the Eastern Counties Company were promoting in the present session. The value of the land and buildings to be taken by the proposed extension he estimated at 179,000/. The witness was cross-examined by the various counsel who appeared against the Bill, with the view of showing that the necessity for the line was not sufficient to justify the destruction of Property it would occasion. Mr. Joseph Locl• the engineer of the Blackwall Company. stated, that it was intended to unite the Bow Extension and the Extension now before the Committee with locomotive engines. The proposed extension was to enable the .Blackwall traffic, which was worked by stationary power, to remain uninterrupted, as it was at present. The length of it would be about a mile and a half, and he estimated its cost at 229,396/. The gradients and engineering features of the line were exceedingly favourable. The Committeettdjoumed at four till twelve o'clock on Thursday. STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES. HOUSE OF LORDS. This Committee met to-day at two o'cloct, when the standing orders in the cases of the following railway projects were declared to have been complied with : EAST LINCOLNSHIRE RAILWAY. Agents, Messrs. Dyson and Co. MALTON AND DRIFFIELD JUNCTION RAILWAY. Agents, Messrs. Wilifams , m and Co. NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY. Agents, Messrs. Burke, Plitt, and Co. NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY (HAWICK BRANCHES). Agents, Messrs. Burke, Pritt and Co. EXETER AND EX %:OUTII RAILWAY. Agents, Messrs. Herrington and Co. The Committee then adjourned. THE NEW PALACE OF WESTMINSTER. The second report has just been issued by the Lords' Select Committee to inquire into the progress of the building of the Houses of Parliament, and to report to the House, and to whom leave was given to report from time to time to the House. This report is to the following effect "That the Committee have again met, and having exa mined Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney as to the best system of ventilation for the new Houses of Parliament, are of opinion, that further inquiries and experiments should be made, under the direction of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, before the final adoption of any plan hitherto proposed for that purpose. " And the Committee have directed the evidence of the said Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, taken before them, to be laid before your Lordships." ( This evidence is decidedly against the practicability of Dr. Reid's plans.) THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL GE JERSEY.—We have much pleasure in being able to announce, on indisputable p w r h o o no h u a n s en e b e e din s c u u ff ra e b ri l n e g fro byt m de woo a f fn th ee: fi f r o s r t authority, th a t M r . D u p re , th e Solicitor-General whonofu enrdswoeyans: has quite recovered his hearing. Mr. Dupre has of late been under the treatment of Dr. Cronin, of Leicester-place, Leicester-square, so eminent for his cures in cases of deaf ness, by the use of Arnica Montana, of which we ourselves can bear ample testimony. United Service GazetL BRIGHTON. MAY 25.—M. de Grimm, with dispatches for Baron Brunnow ; Mr. Welch, with dispatches for the Portuguese Ambassador ; Count de la Rochefoucauld, the Countess St. Isidro, Count Barrack, Captain Tyrwhitt, and Count de Giulia°, arrived this morning by the steamer !tons Dieppe. A NOVEL AGRICULTURAL BARGAIN.—A curious sale of agricultural stock was effected last week in this county, not by the customary mode of the auction :er's hamgier, but by pounds weight. Mr. William Byford, cattle-dealer, of Shalford, contracted with Mr. T. Wade, of Orange Hall, Gosfleld, to buy his entire live and dead stock —not only his beast, and sheep, and pigs, and other eatable animals, but waggons, carts, rollers, in fact everything from his line cart horses to his grindstone, at 3d. per lb. The stock In cludes IS or 20 horses, cows, waggons, ploughs, harrows, harness, indeed everything for carrying on the business of two farms, and It is calculated that the purchase-money w no il w la se m t ount to 3,0001. or 4,oool.—Eu ex St an d ard. the N G l ase W tte ( d ) u P M ER idl, s ß ta Y tes ß th ° a S • S a iN ll i d - o — uh A t is l etter f a .r t oni rest ltal- in respecting a report by which the musical world has been agitated. Rossini has consented to break his long silence. The celebrated Maestro has dBescr,lrirbeendzwe i o l ua l c fl b t oß n roa ii ri s e h lt34. Lhe libretto. Scribe is about to set out for positively engaged to write the partition of an opera, for which Bo logna, where he will settle the plan of his work with this so long desired theb though been learning a g n p sustained om here ls e ao thatf. df i f r hnt o ohe m pe erse the th e The agriculturists are beginning to some As faranxiety e t o ca t n h e l e w arn ea! hneor, injury t. th his whatevercritical p h e a rl s od hi t o h f e t r h t o e rainwheat fields has l oa f k a fallen I n a st little c yellow . o p l ens 1y of ln aal late, d in the hill country.—Gloucestershire Chroisic pre sent writing be verified, the harvest will be good as well as early , weather m, which beams from the sky at this THE NELSON CoLuruN. The public will be gratified • y be entertained of the speedy disappear ance the base of the Nelson barricade and deformed Trafalgar-square. of the unsightly timber which has so long surrounded employed in dressing the and making preparations for the During the last week a considerablee°lumg number of workmen have been bricks foundations of the pedestals of the recumbent lions which are to orna ment the angles of the basement, and for the reception of the flig,hts otgrai4te . WPS Which ITLII coraplott the 911061 Plan! especiallyr l oo k 8 n r isi ng w cirt crops . 1) 3 . TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. At the Council Chamber, Whitehall, the 25th day of May, 1846, by the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council.—lt is this day ordered by their Lordships, that his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury do prepare a Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving to Al mighty God for her Majesty's safe delivery of a Princess; and that such Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving be used in all churches and chapels in England and Wales, and in the town of Berwick upon-Tweed, upon Sunday, the 31st day of May instant, or the Sun day after the respective ministers of such churches and chapels shall receive the same. And it is hereby further ordered, that her Ma jesty's printer do forthwith print a competent number of copies of the said Form of Prayer and Thanksgiving, that the same may be forth with sent round and read in the several churches and chapels cf England and Wales, and of the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed. WM. L. BATHURST. At the Council-chamber, Whitehall, the 25th day of May, 1846, by the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council—lt IS this day ordered by their Lordships, that every minister and preacher, as well of the. Established Church in that part of Great Britain called Scotland as those of the Episcopal Communion, protected and allowed by an Act, passed in the tenth year of her Majesty Queen Anne, chapter 7, intituled "An Act to pre vent the disturbing those of .the Episcopal Communion in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, in the exercise of their religious worship, and in the use of the Liturgy of the Church of England ; and for repealing the Act, passed In the Parliament of Scotland, intituled •An Act against irregular Baptisms and Mar riages,' " do, at some time during the exercise of Divine Service in their churches, congregations, or assemblies, on Sunday, the 31st day of May instant, or on the Sunday after the. ministers or preachers of such churches, congregations or assemblies, respec tively, shall be enabled so to do, put up prayers and thanks givings to Almighty God for her Majesty's safe delivery of a Princess. WM. L. BATHURST. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, WAY 18. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty's birth-day will be cele brated on Tuesday the 9th of June next. WHITEHALL, MAT 23, 1846. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Hon. and Rev. George Neville Gren- ille, Master of Arts, the deanery of her Ma jesty's Chapel Royal in the Castle of Windsor, with the Registry of the Knights of the Most Noble Order of the Garter thereunto an nexed, the same being void by the death of the Hon. Dr. Henry Lewis Hobart, late Dean thereof. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAT 23. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir George Benne Hamilton, K C.H., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Berlin:, to be her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to appoint Henry Francis Howard, Esq., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at the Hague, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Berlin. The Queen Las also been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. Henry George Howard, now First Paid Attache to her Majesty's Embassy at Paris, to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at the Hague. DOWNING-STREET, MAT 25. The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Barney, Esq., late a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Corps of Royal Engineers, to be Lieut.- Governor of North Australia, and` to administer the Government of that colony, under the style and title of Supet intendant thereof. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint J. S. Hampton, Esq., Surgeon in the Navy, to be Comptroller-General of Convicts for the island of Van Dietnen's Land. ADMIRALTY, MAr, 21. Corps of Royal Marines—Second lieutenant H. B. Leonard to be First Lieutenant, vice Philips, deceased. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Wilts. Royal Wiltshire Regiment of Militia —W. Tucker, Esq., M.D., to be surgeon, vice Maule, deceased, May 18. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the East Riding of the county of York, and of the town and county of the town of Kingston-upon- Hull. East York Militia—J. J. Hopkinson, to be Captain. May 12 ; T. B. Locke, Esq., to be Captain, May 14 ; F. Uppleby, Esq., to be Captain, May 15 ; C. W. Clubley, Esq., to be Captain, May 16 ; C. N. Hopkinson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, May 18 ; J. T. Buckle, Gent., to be Lieutenant, May 20. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Hussar Regiment of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeomanry Cavalry —The Hon. H. T. Lascelles, to be Lieutenant ; J. D. Dent, Gent., to be Cornet, May 15. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire. Second Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeonr anry Cavalry—Lieut. R. Rose to be Captain, vice Perkins, resigned, May 15 ; F. Northey, Gent., to be Cornet, April 27. ERIATA.—The following commissions, signed by the Lord Lieu tenant of the county of Peebles, should have been in the Berwick shire, Iladdingtonshire, Linlithgowshire, and Peebleshire Regiment of Militia, and not in the Local Militia, as stated In former Ga zettes ;—J. W. Murray, Gent , to be Lieutenant,. vice Pierce, de ceased, Feb. 11 1 • J. Salton, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Morrison, de ceased, April 23. • BY THE QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION. VICTORIA, R. Whereas, by our order in Council of this day's date, we were graciously pleased, for the reasons therein contained, to annul the royal proclamation of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, of the third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, directing that distribution should be made of the net proceeds of prizes captured from the enemy, of captures and seizures under the several Acts passed relating to the revenues of customs, and to trade and navigation, for the abolition of the slave trade, and for the capture and destruction of piratical vessels, and of the rewards conferred for the same, according to the scheme therein set forth ; and it is expedient that provision should be made by us for the future distribution of such proceeds or rewards ; we do make known to all our loving subjects, and all others whom it may concern, by this our Proclamation, by and with the advice and consent of our Privy Council, that our royal will and pleasure is, and we do hereby direct, that the distribution of such proceeds and rewards shall be made in the following manner, viz. : That flag officers or officer, commodores of the first class, and cap . tains of the fleet, shall have one sixteenth of the net proceeds arising from prizes captured from the enemy, and from all other captures, seizes head moneys, grants, and bounties as afor esa id, made by the ships and vessels under his or their command, save and except in the cases herein-after submitted. Tkat when two flag officers shall be serving together, the chief shall have two-thirds of the said one sixteenth, and the other officer shall have the remaining third part. That when there be more than two flag officers, the chief shall re ceive one half of the said one-sixteenth, and the remaining half shall be divided equally amongst the junior flag officers, com modores of the first class, and captains of the fleet. That no flag officer, or commodore, of the first class, or captain of the fleet, not actually present at the capture or destruction of any pi ratical vessel or privateer belonging to the enemy, shall be enti tled to share in the distribution of any head money or bounty granted in respect of the crews of such piratical ships, vessels, or boats. That no flag officer as aforesaid shall share in any remuneration or reward conferred or awarded as saii age, unless he shall have been actually on board the ship or vessel to which the award shall be made, or have persenally aided or assisted in the transaction at the time the - service was rendered. That no flag officer commanding in the ports of the United Kingdom shall share in the proceeds of prizes captured from the enemy, nor in other captures or seizures as aforesaid, male by ships or vessels which may sail from such ports by order of the Lord High Ad miral, or the Commissioner for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, nor in the reward., &c. conferred for the same. That when ships or vessels under the command of several flag officers which belong to separate stations shall h appen t o b e j o i nt captors, each flag officer, under whose orders each ship or ves sel may be, shall receive a portion of the flag shave of one sixteenth of the net proceeds in proportion to the number of officers and men present under the command of each such flag-officer; and the same regulations as to the apportionment of the flag share is to be ob served when ships or vessels under orders from the Lord High-Ad miral, or the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High- Admiral, shall be joint captors with ships or vessels under a flog or lags. And we do hereby farther direct, that the following regulations be observed in respect to the distribution of the remaining portion of the net proceeds of prizes, captures, seizures, and rewards before mentioned (after the deduction of the flag share of ow -sixteenth), or of the whole amount of such net proceeds in the cases herein-before provided, where no flag-officer shall be entitled to share. First, that the officers and men composing the complements of our ships and vessels be distributed into thirteen classes, and that each officer and man and boy who shall have been actually on beard at the time of any such capture, seizure, &c. as aforesaid, shall receive such number or portion of shares as are expressed to each class re spectively in the following table : First class—Commodores of the second class, captains, field officers of marines or land forces above the rank of major, when doing duty as field officers above the rank of major, one hundred shares. Second class—*Commanders, medical inspectors of hospitals and fleets, field officers of marines or land forces of the rank of major, when Going duty as such, fifty shares. Third class—Secretaries to flag officers commanding in chief, deputy medical inspectors of hospitals and fleets, tsea lieutenants, tmasters, captains of marines or of marine artillery, or of land forces, when doing duty as such, whether having higher brevet rank or not, ten shares each. Fourth class—Chaplains, secretaries to junior flag officers and com modores of the first class, surgeons, paymasters arid pursers, naval instructors, mates, lieutenants of marines, of marine artillery, or of land forces when doing duty as such, second masters, assistant surgeons, five shares each. , Fifth class—Gunners, boat mains, carpenters, first engineers, clerks in charge, clerks (passed), four and a half shares each. Sixth class—Midshipmen, master's assistants, second and third class engineers, clerks, naval cadets, clerk's assistant, three shares each. Seventh class— Ship's cooks, admiral's coxswains, leading stokers, masters at arms, seaman's schoolmaster, sailmakers, ropernakerF, gunner's mates, boatswain's mates, carpenter's mates, caulkers, blacksmiths, sergeants of marines, sergeants of marine artillery, sergeants of land forces when doing duty as such, two and a half shares each. Eighth class—Ship's corporals, captain's coxswains, quarter-masters, captains of the forecastle, captains of the main top, captains of the fore top, captains of the hold, coxswains of the launch, corporals of marines, and of land forces when doing duty as such, corporals and bombardiers of marine artillery, head kroomen, pilots, two shares each. Ninth class—Sailmaker's mates, coopers, armourers, cauiker's mates, captains of the mast, captains of the after-guard, captains of the mizen top, yeoman of signals, coxswain of pinnace, second head kroomen, paymaster and purser's steward, one and a half shares each. Tenth class —Able seamen, musicians, stokers and coal trimmers, carpenter's crew, sailmaker's crew, cooror's crew, painters, yeoman of store rooms, flag officer's stewards, flag officer's cooks, flag offi • cer's domestics, captain's steward, captain's cook, subordinate officer's steward, subordinate officer's cook, sick berth attendant, privates and fifers of marines and land forces when doing duty as such, gunners of marine artillery, ordinary seamen, one share each. Eleventh class—Paymaster and purser's steward's mates, cook's . . mates, barbers, landsmen, kroomen, three-fourths of a share each. Twelfth class —Boys of first class, half a share each. Thirteenth class—Boys of second class, three eighths of a share each Seamen gunners to share In all captures, rewards, &c., as afore said, in the class immediately above that of the class in which their rating is mentioned. That in all cases in which supernumeraries, whether officers or men, shall be ordered to do duty on board any of our ships by the Lord High Admiral, or by our Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral, or by other proper authority (the ordeiti of the captain or commander, if no senior be present, to be deemed sufficient authority), they shall share according to the class of the ranks or ratings which they hold in the service, if not ordered to do duty in a higher capacity. All persons borne en board our ships merely as passengers, whether officers or others, and wh o may b e present and not decline to render general assistance in any action that may occur in making any capture or seizure, shall be entitled to share in the eleventh class if above the age of twenty, and in the thirteenth if below that age. And that in the event of any difficulty arising in respect to the re gulations hereby proposed, or any case should occur not herein pro vided for, or not sufficiently provided for, we arepleased to authorize the Lord High Admiral, or our Commissioners for executing the office of Lerd High Admiral for the time being, to issue such directions thereupon as may appear just and expedient; and that such direc tions shall be considered final, and have the same force and effect as if specially provided for in our Royal Proclamation. Provided always, that the distribution hereinbefore proposed to be made, or directed to be made, shall net be construed to affect any captures, seizures, &c., made within three calendar months from the day of our Royal Proclamation, nor any captures, seizures, &c. which shall be made after that day, and which shall be con -1 demned or adjudged in any of our Courts of Vice-Admiralty, or any Court of Mixed Commission, before notice of our Royal Proclamation shall have been received by the Vice Admiralty Court, or Court of Mixed Commission, in which such condemna tion or adjudication shall pass ; and we do hereby further direct, that the proceeds of all such captures, seizures, &c., made within three months from the day of the date of this our Royal Proclamation, or which shall be made after the date of this our Royal Proclamation, and which shall be condemned or ad judged in any of our Courts of Vice Admiralty, or any Court of Mixed Commission, antecedent to the notice of this our Royal Proclamation having' been received in such Courts, together with all rewards aforesaid, shall continue to be distri buted in the proportions and manner directed in and by his said late Majesty's said Royal Proclamation, dated the third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six. Given at our Court, at Buckingham Palace, this nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun dred and forty-six, and in the ninth year of our reign. GOD save the QUEEN. CIRCUITS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS. AUTUMN CIRCUITS, 1846. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. Henry Revell Reynolds, Esq., Chief Commissioner . Yorkshire, at Sheffield, Wednesday, O ctober 2l. Yorkshire, at Wakefield, Thursday, October 22. At the town and county of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, Tues day, October 27. Yorkshire, at York, Thursday, October 29. Yorkshire, at Richmond, Saturday, October 31. Durham, at Durham, Monday, November 2. Northumberland, at the Moot Hall , Newcastle-ar em-Tyne, Rednes. day, November 4. At the town and county of the town of Newcastle-u 1 on -Tyne, the same day. Cumberland, at Carlisle, Friday, November 6. Westmorland, at Appleby, Monday, November 9. Westmoreland, at Kendal, Tuesday, November 10. Lancashire, at Lancaster, Wednesday, November I I, Lancashire, at Liverpool, Wednesday, November 18. Montgomeryshire, at Welshpoel, Saturday, November 21. Merionetshire, et Dolgelly. Tuesday, November 24. Carnarvoushire, at Carnarvon, Thursday, November 2!, Anglesey, at Beaumarls, Friday, November 27. Denbigh, at Ruthin, Monday, November 30. Flintshire, at Mold, Tuesday, December 1. * But when a commander Is not in company with weaptain he is to receive seventy-live shares. t But lieutenants or masters in command of vess3ls of war, and masters of the fleet, are to receive twenty shares each, instead of ten. Cheshire, at Chester, Wednesday, Decem'wr 2. At the city and county of the city of Chester, the same day. HOME CIRCUIT. John Greathed Harris, Esq., Commissioner. Kent, at Dover, Friday, November 6. At the city and county of the city of Canterbury, Saturday, Nov. 7, Kent, at Maidstone, Monday, November 9. Sussex, at Lewes, Friday, November 20. Hertfordshire, at Hertford, Tuesday, December 1. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. William John Law, Esq., Commissioner. Berkshire, at Reading, Wednesday, October 28. Oxfordshire, at Oxford, Friday, October 30. Worcestershire, at Worcester, Monday, November 2. Radnorshire, at Presteign, Wednesday, November 4. Herefordshire. at Hereford, Thursday, November 5. Brecknockshire, at Brecon, Saturday, November 7. Carmarthenshire, at Carmarthen, Monday, November 9. Cardiganshire, at Cardigan, Wednesday, November 11. Pembrokeshire, at Haverfordwest, Thursday, November 12. Giamorganshire, at Swansea, Monday, November 16. Giamorganshire, at Cardiff, Tuesday, November 17. Monthouthshire, at Monmouth, Thursday, November 19. Gloucestershire, at Gloucester, Friday, November 20. At the city of Gloucester, the same day. At the city and county of the city of Bristol, Monday, November 23. Somersetshire, at Bath, Wednesday, November 25. Devonshire, at Plymouth, Saturday, November 28. Cornwall, at Bodmin, Monday, November 30. Devonshire, at the Castle of Exeter, Wednesday, December 2. At the city and county of the city of Exeter, the same day. Somersetshire, at Taunton, Friday, December 4. Dorsetshire, at Dorchester, Monday, December 7. Wdtshire, at Salisbury, Wednesday, December 9. At the town and county of the town of Southampton, Thurs., Dec.lo. Southampton, at Winchester, Friday, December 11. MIDLAND. CIRCUIT. David Pollock, Esq., Commissioner. Essex, at Chelmsford, Monday, October 19. Essex, at Colchester, Tuesday, Octot•er 20. Suffolk, at Ipswich, Wednesday, October 21. Norfolk, at Yarmiluth, Friday, October 23. Norf.,lk, at the Castle of Norwich, , aturday. October 24. At the city and county of the city of Norwich, the same day. Norfolk, at Lynn, Tuesday, October 27. Suffolk, at Bury St. Edmunds, Thursday, October 29. Cambridgeshire, at Cambridge, Saturday, October 31. Huntingdonshire, at Huntingdon, Wednesday, November 4. Northamptonshire, at Peterborough, Thursday, November 5. Rutlandstire, at Oakham, Friday. November 6. Lincolnshire, at Lincoln, Monday, November 9. Nettingharnshire, at Nottingham, Wednesday. November 11. At the town and county of the town of Nottingham the same day Derbyshire, at Derby,l hursday. November 12. At the city and county of the city of Lief& Id, Saturday, Nov. 14. Staffordshire, at Stafford, Monday, November 16. Shropshire, at Shrewsbury, Wednesday, November 18. Shropshire, at Oldbury, Friday, November 20. Warwickshire, at Birmingham, Saturday, November 21. Warwickshire, at Warwick, Tuesday, November 24. Warwickshire, Coventry, Thursday, November 26. Leicestershire. at Leicester, Saturday, November 28. N •rthamptonshire, at Northampton, Monday, November 30. Bed.ordshire, at Belford, Wednesday, December 2. Bdtkiaghamshire, at Aylesbury, Friday, December 4. BANKRUPTS. _ _ George Gordon Cummings, teahroker, America-square, MinorlPs, to surrender June 6 and July 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Alsager, official assitnee, Birchin-lan , Cornhill ; Buck, Mincing-lane. Joel Rudman, oilman, Bath, June 3 and July 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptc3. Pennell, official assignee; Berkeley, Lin coln's Inn-fields. John Douglas Hereec, grocer, Colchester, June 3 and July 7, at one at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Parry, Milne, and Morris, Harcourt-buildings, Temple; Smythies and Goody, Colehester. Edward Harwood Brace and James Allen, warehousemen, Mitre coart, Milk-vtreet, Cheapside, June 3 at half-past one. and July 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Reed and Langford, Friday-street; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. Robert Nelson, hotel keeper, Great Portland-street, June 3, at two, and July 3, at cloven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Watson and Broughtons, Falcon-square. Jonathon Clarkson, grocer, King's-road, Chelsea, June 1, at half past two, and July 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur quand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Archbutt, King's-road, Chelsea. William Cooper, hardwareman, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, June 4, at twelve, and July 11, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Green, official aaslgnee, Aldermanbury ; Goddard, Kiug street Cheapside. Joseph Avery, dealer in plate and jewellery. Manchester-street, Manche: 16 , r-square, June 5, at eleven, and July 11, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Stafford, Buckingham-street, Strand. John Beaton, tailor, Upper-st , eet, Islington, June 4, at two, and July 2, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman•street buildings ; Rae, Warwick-court, Holborn. Joseph Davis, dentist, Pall-mall, June 9, at half-past two, and July 3, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Beart, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. Arthur Burton, coal merchant, Ranelagh-wharf, Pimlico, June 10, at half-past two, and July 3, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Fitch, Bridge-street, 131ackir iars. William Danson, builder, Birkenhead, June 9 and 29, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee. Liverpool ; Conithwaite and Co., Old Jewry-chambers ; Pemberton, Liverpool. Stephen Hey, worsted manufacturer, Colne, Lancashire, June 9, and July 3, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, offital assignce, Manchester; Hawkins and Co., New Boswell-court, London ; Parry, Manchester ; Wells, Bradford, James Wilkinson, grocer, Manchester, June 16 and 33, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manches ter ; Hammond, Furnival's Inn, London ; Bennetts, Manchester. William Mallett, milliner, Chenton-upon-Medlock, L'incashire, June 9, and July 2, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Sibley, Wharton-street, Pen tonville, London ; Brookes, Manchester. Joseph Goldthorp, grocer, Manchester, June 12, and July 2, al tivelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester , Jaques and Edwards, Ely-place, Holborn, London ; Heath, Manchester. John Tempest and William Tempest, share brokers, Leeds, June 8, and July 2, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official as signee, Leeds; Sadlow and Co., Chancerylane, London; Middle tpn, Leeds. Thomas Bointon, money scrivener, Pickering, Yorkshire, June 1, and July 2, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Hawkins and Co., New Boswell-court, London ; Kendall, Pickering; Dunning and Stewman, Leeds. Richard Carlile Capleton, tea dealer, Cheltenham, June 12, and July 7, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official as- Bristol ; Paterson, Bouverie-street, London ; Roberts, Keyn sham, Somersetshire. William Watts, carpenter, Cheltenham, June 9, and Jtly 'T, at half-past twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, edictal as signee, Bristol ; Packwood, Cheltenham ; Sabine, Bristol. [Dividends, &c., in our Next]. LAW IN TEL LIGEN CE. HOUSE OF LORDS, May 25. The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, the Earl of Staf ford, and Earl Stanhope. PINKUS V. THE RATCLIFFE GAS COMPANY. The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed, and occupied their Lordships the whole morning. ROLL'S COURT, May 25. The Master of the Rolle was occupied the whole day with motions and petitions. No case calling for a particular report came before his Lordship in the course of the morning. VICE CHANCERY COURT, May 25. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) THE DUKE OF LEEDS V. EARL AMHERST. His HONOUR gave judgment in this case to-day, declaring that the assets of the late Duke of Leeds were answerable for the equitable waste that had been committed. The case occupied the Court some days in argument a short time ago, at which period we gave a short outline of the facts. THE ATTORNEY- GENERAL V. THE EARL OF DEVON. The further arguments in this part-heard case, the ques tion in which relates to the management of th e Tiverton school, were resumed, and occupied the Court the whole day. We have already given a detailed account of the facts. The Vice-Chancellors KNIGHT BRUCE and WwitAxt were occupied the whole morning with causes of no interest. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 25. (Sittings in Banco, at Westminster Hall.) HOUSTON V. NORRIs. In this case it appeared that the parties stood in the respec tive position towards each other of landlord and tenant; that an understanding had been entered into between them by which the plaintiff (the tenant) was bound to pay his rent at a certain time, the landlord paying the taxes, and not paid within 28 days after that day, the tenant should cease to occupy. The tenant had not complied with the ) terms of the agreement, and the landlord took possession, which the tenant conceived was an illegal act and took an action, but the jury found for the defendant. Counsel for plaintiff now sought for a rule for a new trial upon the grounds that he occupied under a lease. The COURT was of opinion that the agreement between the parties included any other title, and refused the rule. 11F:ALE V. MOLES AND OTHERS. In this case the plaintiff had agreed to build a steam boiler for a certain sum, of which 490/. was the balance, for the defendants, who called themselves " The Common Road Steam Carriage Company." The action was for goods bar gained and sold, and an account stated, and the jury found for the plaintiff. Counsel now applied for a rule to show cause why that verdict should not be set aside and a new trial granted, upon various grounds, all of which involved points of legal technicality.—Judgment deferred. May 26. (Sittings in Banco.) LOWE V. PENN. The Court gave judgment in this case to-day. It was argued tally on Friday, and was one in which was involved the question of an alleged infringement of a patent invention for propelling steam vessels by means of an improvement upon the original Archimedian screw. The public are already familiar with the fats of the case, as they have already been published several times. The Court grant( d a rule for a new trial, and then proceeded to try cases at Nisi Prius. They were all either undefended cases, or actions upon bills of ex chauge of no interest to any but the parties,concerned. BAIL COURT, May 25. This Court was occupied for the greater part of the day in disposing of undefended causes, and in hearing cases in which the claims of the plaintiffs were for services rendered as engineers' assistants in different railway schemes. POLICE INT h LLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. The follciv:ng c a r. excited a great deal of public interest. Thomas Richards, (Policeman 486,) and Henry Kirby, money-taker to the London and Westminster Steam-boat Company (wooden boats), were summoned before Alderman Gibbs, for having used insulting and obscene words to Mr. Charles Funge, an officer of the Vice-Chancellor of England. Mr. Shadwell, the son of the Vice-Chancellor, and several other gentlemen were present during the investigation. Kirby, upon being asked whether he was guilty or not guilty, said "Partly guilty and partly not guilty." Mr. Funge stated that on Friday last he took the boat (the Primrose) from Westminster to London-bridge, and waited on the dumb lighter on which he had landed thr half an hour or more, and upon leaving it he was accosted by Policeman 486, who said to him " You had better be off, the othi r one it gone. We have many such as you about here, and youthb3d. better go." Witness.asked what the policeman a me n a n t a , any addressing him in that manner, and said " If I ha s v ho d uid thing wrong by remaining about the lighter, ) I was doing wrong." Witness left the bend, went to Kirby, come and spoken to me in a proper mann_eare,aFbduttonldntmteeetibinagt satisfied returned with a peony in his om b penny, determined to the place the return m, o t n n e y- Westminster,tak e r and to to take the money, and conduct. Kirby, him m d out the meaning of such o a ff n e d r e d Alderman as well as the policeman, had before? Mr. Funge—fie , ' indignantydenied the truth of "The other one is gone observed thatohinenh,irdwiwieaavdrenridirtbhye twalidtn3e,nasnottinbleafaovree. gone, you are a pickpocket. him that I was known the accusation, told to many people I 0 Kirby f coursesat Mr. Goldha ' warned me off ; in the City, and mentioned . ra 8 name, as a gentle man who was probably known to him. Ile said he did not and he refused to take it. I th en requested the - care. I offered him my card , but he said he did not want my card , anto go with me to several ge n tl emen, to whom I rePfe°r:eeed, m in the City, but he refused to g ), stating that it was out of his beat. I was refused permission to go on hoard. On Saturday Mr. Peters, Mr. Goldham, jun., and myself, went down to the pier to see whethe r Ki r b y intended toniake any acknowledg ment or apology f or his conduct, but that person said he did not at all care about it, refused to give his name, or the name of the secretary to the company to whom application might be made for redress, and behaved in an extremely gross and unbecoming manner. Alderman Grans—What have you to say in answer to the charge, Kirby ? Kirby ---I was, my Lord, busily en gaged in taking money for the London and Westminster Steam-boat Company, when this policeman (Richards) came and said that one of the swill mob was on the lighter, and he then pointed out the gentleman who made the complaint as another of the swell mob. I heard an altercation between the gentleman and the policeman, and when the gentleman offered the money to pay his passage to Westminster, refused to, take it, as the officer had told me he was a pickpocket. Alderman QLl3Bs—Policeman, what hap) yon to say ? Richards—l was called down by the pier master to make two persons leave the pier, and he pointel out one whom knew well, Bill Dunn one of the gang at the Elephant and Castle. He also pointed to the gentleman who has made the complaint. I asked Bill Dunn if he knew the complainant; and he said that he knew no party whether he knew them or not. I told the gentleman, thinking that he was a com panion of the person I knew to be one of the swell mob, that he had no business to wait there, and I then went to Kirby, and told him to mention to the captain that one of the swell mob, meaning the other person, whom I knew to be a bad character, was about the place; but I never said the gentle man was one of the class. Kirby—l certainly said the gentleman was a pickpocket; and I said so upon the information of Richards, who declared that such certainly was the case. Alderman GIBiS (to the policeman)—Did you see a pick pocket speaking to this gentlernrn ? Richards—No; but I can produce a witness who did. Eaward Jones, (the policeman's witness) who stated that he was a wateli-maker in Bermondsey, and he was on the pier at the time the circumstance occurred. He heard not a word of abuse, but he saw a person close to the gen tleman, and he thought be saw them speak together. The other person, whom he supposed to be a pickpocket, he saw moving about the gentleman very much for a long time, but he was not sure that they spoke together. Mr. Goldham, jun., said, that on the Saturday of the oc currence. Kirby, upon being called upon by him and other friends of Mr. gunge, behaved in the most bullying and in solent manner, refused to give his name, or the name of the .eeretary, to apologise or explain, and said again that Mr. Finge was a pick-pccket. Kirby solemnly declared that he did not know Mr. Gold ',am at the time. The policeman called another parson, who, he said, was capable of giving evidence for the defence. ThomasStill, — who stated as well as he could, that he was pier-master at the Old Shades pier, when the transaction ► took place, then stood forward. Alderman Gums—Well, what have you to say ? Witness —I have to say that it was on Sunday last. Alderman GIBBS—On Sunday last ! Witness—Yes ;on Sunday it was that it happened.—(Great laughter.) Alderman GIBBS—WeII, I certainly shall not take your evidence as to a transaction of Sunday for what happened on Friday. (Witness looked stupidly at the Bench.) Alderman Gthns—Are you quite sober? Witness-Sober! oh, dear, yes.—{Laughter.) Alderman GIBBS—As I have said upon former occasions, while it is the duty of the magistrates to protect the police in the just and proper discharge of their duty, it is equally his duty to inflict punishment ter the very injurious offence of exceeding the bounds prescribed to the force. It is evi dent that you, Richards, have acted in this case in a very unwarrantable manner. You saw a person, whom you knew to be a thief, following about this gentleman, of whom you knew nothing, and in all probability tor the purpose of rob ing him, and at the same time that you let the notorious thief go, you condemn this gentleman as a pickpocket, and refuse to let him:avail himself of the., opportunity, by identi fication, to show that there was no foundation for the suspicion. Kirby has, through your representation ; narrowly escaped a wrious difficulty, but as he acted upon information which, if correct, would have completely sanctioned his con duct, I discharge him._ Richards—* Lord, I never told Kirby the gentleman was a pickpocket, for I never knew any thing of the kind. I never knew the gentleman. Alderman GIBBs—I fine you, Richards, twenty shillings for this very gross act, and I hope the decision will have its effect upon those individuals of the force who are too fe!r ward. Kirby—l humbly beg the gentleman's pardon. If he will accept my apology I offer it to him sincerely. Mr. Funge and his friends then left the justice• room. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Thomas Oranz, about 25 years of age , porter, was charged with stabbing a female named Elizabeth Norton, under the. following circumstances : Between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday night last, the prisoner and the injured woman were drinking together in the tap-rom of the City of Hereford public-house, in Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square. Norton was intoxicated, and a violent altercation ensued between them, in the course oi'which she struck the prisoner twice in the face, making use at the time of very abusive and provoking language. On the prisoner recovering the second blow, he rushed and closed with Norton; they struggled- for an instant or two, and then Norton called out that she was stabbed ; blood wall directly afterwards seen streaming from a wound on her left side. She shortly became insensible, and afterbeing removed to a chemist's in the neighbourhood she was conveyed to Middlesex Hospital. In the interim the prisoner effected his escape from the public-house, and absconded from the neigh" bourhood. However, police-constable John Manning , No. 86, of the E division, succeeded in tracing him out, and between eight and nine o'clock last evening apprehended him, concealed in a water-closet, in Granby" place, Waterloo-road, Lambeth. Norton is about fifty years of age, a married woman, and the mother of several children now living. For several years past she bad cohabited with the prisoner. Inspector Clements, of the E division, handed to Air* Maltby a certificate from the Hospital, of the woman being confined there from the effects of a stab of a very severe Da' ure in the left side, as to the probable result of which no opinion could at present. be formed. The wound was between two and three inches in depth. Mr. MALTBY asked if the prisoner wished to say anything in the present stage of the proceedings? The prisoner, wbo seemed fully conscious of the very serious situation that he had placed himself in, said, on the woman striking him a second time, he made a rush towards her, having a knife in his hand, with which they had been eating their supper; hoA the wound was inflicted he was not conscious. Here he burst into tears. Mr. MALTBY remanded him until Thursday. MARKET NE WS.—(YESTERDAY). Emir 'az cS.I4.ILIATo. SMITHFIELD.-Meadow Hay, 3/ to 41; Clover ditto. 41 5s to 51 153 ; Oat Straw, 1112 s to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 41 5s ; Clover ditto, 41 5s to 51 14s ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 1/ 168 per load. Both Hay and Straw met a dull sale at our quotations. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 3/ to 4/ ; Clover ditto, 45 5s to 5 16s; Oat Straw, II 12s to 1/ 14s; 'Wheat Straw, 11 148 to 1116 s ,er load. Trade dull, at barely late rates. (From the London New Price Current of May 26.) SUGAS.—Although there were sellers of West India Muscovado Sugar privately upon rather lower terms, still there was only limited business transacted in either Grocery or Refined sorts, and the purchases did not exceed 250 hhds and trcs, Including 100 hhdg of Barbadoes, which sold at full rates. REFINED.—To day refined goods were purchased with caution LT the home trade, and lower prices were taken. Minium& —This afternoon chore was only a limited demand O r ., Mauritius, and the parcels offered at public sale amounting to 9,34 ' bags 378 casks went off quietly at barely former rates. EAST INDIA —This afternoon six parcels of Bengal Sti3 o ,, , amounting to 3,538 bags, were brought to public sale, and nearly a. found buyers, but former ates were not generally maintained _ FOREIGN.—To-day white Bahia Sugar was urehased with caut ion privately, and 199 cases 2 boxes 1 barrel at auc ti on were taken in at eo the full worth. COFFEE.—This afternoon at public sale 1,655 bags of Ceylon CO were offered. The sound Native were all taken in at rather lon;e r rates. Of La Guayra 436 bags 613 barrels were offered and nea r ~ all withdrawn. Mocha met with little attention, and 381 bales a t auction only in part sold at rather lower rates. TEA.—The market has presented a dull appearance since la st Tuesday ; the business transacted in all descriptions in some era! have been limited—Green has sustained the former value, but for Black rather lower rates in some cases have been taken. SPICES.—To-day Pimento was in limited request, and of the sett.; 600 bags at auction was nearly all taken in at easier rates. Of ICa'" i , megs 54 cases w ere nearly all taken in at easier rates. 253 bag ' Mal .bar Pepper were sold, but at rather lower ra t es. 35 cases Ala' labar Cinnamon went at the low rates of 5%d to 8d per lb. Sputirs.—Although Jamaica Rum can be obtained upon rather lower terms, still shippers and the home trade have operated wit li caution, and only small parcels have been disposed of. Demerara has been sparingly dealt in, but in prices there is little variation . Leeward Island has been purchased with more freedom, an d price , have advanced. Calcutta has been purchased with more freedoro , and prices are firmer. 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