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tbirb Xbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloek. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) BLACKBURN, BURNLEY, ACCRINGTON, AND COLNE RAILWAY.—(GROUP D.) The Committee re assembled this day at twelve o'clock, and s'iortly afterwards proceeded with the adjourned business; Mr. Bernal in the chair. Mr. Cawley, the engineer, was the first witness called, but in the course of his examination was interrupted by the Chairman, who observed that he thought the standing orders had not been complied with in one particular instance; but after an explanation from Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, the Chairman was satisfied that they had been complied with. Mr. Sergeant NV RANGH A M put in several letters to prove that a satisfactory arrangement for compensation had been made between the Company and Mr. Parker, who was op posed to the Bill on account of the railway passing through his property. The examination of Mr. Cawley was then resumed by Mr. CA LVERT, when it was elicited that the gradients be tween Bromley and Accrington were favourable to the con struction of the line. There were several embankments necessary to be made. The distance between Blackburn and Bolton, by the present means of conveyance, was twenty-nine miles, but if the contemplated railway were made, the distance would be reduced to twenty-two miles. The best means of bringing cotton from Liverpool to Bolton would be by the North Union Railway, ant. then by the Blackburn branch to Bolton, and this would afford greater facility far the transmission of goods than by any of the present modes of conveyance. Mr. GREGORY, who appeared to oppose the Bill on behalf of Mr. Parker, then examined Mr. Cawley, and inquired whether there would be any entrance to the brornley Station for the public, unless it were made through pi ivate property in Royal-street at Bromley, when Mr. Cawley replied that the public station would be made in that street, but he was ignorant whether it was private property or not. The CHAIRMAN then observed that it would be necessary to bring evidence to prove if it was private property or not, and he further suggested that, in the examination of Mr. Cawley, it would tend to facilitate the business if he would make a sketch when there was any difficulty in describing the means of approach to the stations. Mr. Cawley's examination was resumed after Mr. Gregory had stated that he would not press the point to delay the time of the Committee. In reply to Mr. Gregory, Mr. Cawley stated that the land in the neighbourhood of Bromley, be longing to Mr. Parker, would not be materially injured by the passage of the railway, and that at an interview he had had with that gentleman, lie expressed his satisfaction at the manner in which it was proposed to carry the line by a deviation through his grounds, only requesting that as little land might be taken as possible. The Act would provide for all compensation for injury done to the property by the making of the line. The limits of deviation were necessary as laid out at present ; and Mr. Cawley presumed that it was necessary to retain the powers of deviation over every portion of the line until it was executed. Mr. ST. JOHN then proceeded to examine Mr. Cawley, but nothing further of importance was elicited. After a long conversation between the Committee and Counsel, the Chairman stated that it was admitted on both sides that the proposed station at Bromley should be carried into Royal-street, within the limits of deviation. Mr. Gooch was the next witness examined, but his evi dence merely tended to corroborate the evidence of the for. mer witness, Mr. Cawley. The Committee then proceeded to the consideration of the traffic on the proposed line, so far as regarded the distance between Accrington and Haslingdon, but what transpired was only of local importance. Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM then rose and stated the grounds of his objection, on behalf of the Blackburn and Colne Rail way, to the formation of theßlackburn and Darwen Railway, which he maintained would not afford any remuneration to the promoters, owing to its being merely a competing line between Manchester and Blackburn with the Colne Railway, and that there was not sufficient traffic between the two points to support two lines of rail way. He put it to the Committee whether the Company which he represented was to submit to the great loss which they must inevitably suffer, if the line of railway between Black and Darwen were permitted to be made. Witnesses were about to be called for examination, when an Honourable Member suggested that the room should be cleared, for the Committee to consider some plan for shortening the proceedings. The room was accordingly cleared, and on our return the Chairman stated that the Committee had come to the decision that it was useless for Counsel to pursue the cross examination of the witnesses at the present stage of the proceedings, for prima facie there was no evidence before the Committee that one line was preferable to another, or that the Black burn and Darwen line would injure the traffic of the Colne Railway. Mr. Sergeant WRANR HAM then proved compliance with the standing orders as regarded the traffic of the Blackburn and Colne Railway, &c., when it appeared that the whole ex pense of construction was estimated at 530,0001., the gross income, 62,0001. a year, and the net income, making allow ance for cost of working, 37,000/. a-year, leaving as nearly as possible 7 per cent. as the returns upon the money laid out, while the fares on passengers would be half the present charge by coach, and the cost for conveying goods only one third. Mr. GREGORY, after making a general statement of the grounds of objection on behalf of Mr. Parker, called Mr. Ward, whose evidence tended to show that there were two modes of access to the station at Burnley. At the close of the examination of this witness, Mr. GRE GORY requested that he might proceed to examine Mr. Locke, when, as he was proceeding to the table, a messenger from the Commons announced that the Speaker was at prayers. The Committee then adjourned till twelve to .morrow. SYSTON AND PETERBOROUGH RAILWAY. (Group T.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Robert Stephenson was examined at considerable length, and expressed similar views to those advanced by his father (the previous witness). He thought the present line much preferable to that proposed by Mr. Giles on account of the engineering, and also to the one originally proposed by his father but afterwards abandoned, upon better information, for the present one. The witnesses during the day were cross-examined at great length, without altering the main features of the evi dence produced. The case for the promoters of the Bill being closed, The CHAIRXA-N intimated that the Committee would take the case of the petitioners to-morrow at twelve o'clock. The Committee then rose at Four o'clock. BARNSLEY JUNCTION RAILWAY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. Croft, a colliery overseer, bore testimony to the con venience which this railway would afford to the coalowners, for conveying their coals to York, as well as to Hull and to Lincoln. Mr. Hopwood stated that the price of engine coal was 4s. 6d. a ton, and that of engine slack was 3s. a ton at the pits, and that they had no outlet for their coal west ward, but that their outgoing was 50 tons a-day, or 15,000 tons a-year eastward, and that if they had an outlet westward they would be able to supply a considerable demand that way, but the greater portion of the coals were passed by the canal, and the Canal Company were compelled, upon being required so to do, to form a tram-road for the pits to the canal. Mr. J. W. BRowN, a coal agent, testified that the circum stance that the chief supply of coal thr the Silkistone bed went into Brigg Grimsby and other places in Lincolnshire, that before theopening of the Northern Railway, the quantity of coal sent away was 102,000 tons, but since the opening of that railway, the amount has been less than 65,000 tons, and that there had been a falling in the supply to the York, Selby, and other neighbouring markets that had fallen off by more than 15,000 tons; that in consequence of the expense of carriage the Silkestone coal was sold in York at I Is. a ton, while the Durham coal was sold at 9s. 6d., and that if the railway was formed, the Silkestone coal would be able to compete with the Durham coal ; that the price at Selby was at present 10s. 4d., and if the railway were formed the price would be from Bs. 3d. to Bs. 6d., but he had not calculated what would be the expense of carrying by waggon, the price at the pit's mouth being ss. 6d., and the freight and lls together being 4s. Bd., so that he was not able to state to what the precise saving by the railway would be. Mr. D. CHARLESWORTH, a coal-owner, stated that there were no means of getting westward by canal, and that this railway would give that facility. He had recently sunk two new shafts, at the Higham pits, which had cost him 10,0001., from which communication was to be obtained by means of a cutting with the Sheffield and Manchester t nnel. They had three miles of canal unworked on this particular bed ; and that it was a very large unworked bed, and not of the very largest unwrought coal-field in England, and that the formation of this railway would give the coal -owners a double facility in the transit of their coals, and open up a road to Manchester, where there was now no road at all. In the event of this railway being formed, there would be a readier means of putting the coals on to the railway than there now was of platting them on the canal. Mr. Rhodes, engaged in the woollen trade, stated that the consumption of twenty. two manufactories at Gussop, which was a town largely connected with the manufacture of cotton, was thirty thousand two hundred and twenty-eight tons during six months, and that the price of this coal which was inferior to the engine-slack at Barnesley, was on an average of 7s. 6id., and that the additional quantity of coal con sumed in the manufactures there was about 20,000 tons for the halt-year, and that the whole yearly consumption of coal was 120,000 tons. If this railway were made he be lieved that the whole of this consumption would come from the Barnesley distri c t. The house coal now burnt in Glossop was a b out 12 s. a t on , an d that coal had been de creased in price about 6d. a ton, since the commencement of the Sheffield and M enc h es t er Railway, which was not yet completed, Mr. Lidebotham, a large cotton-spinner at Hollingsworth, in Cheshire, stated thatthe coals which were used at his works, which were within aoout half a mile of the Sheffield and Manchester Railway, wa r s 4s. 4 1 / 2 d. at the pit's mouth, with an addition of 3s. ) fo t c o ar s ria ge, making 7s. 10 1 ,A. a n ton, and that he used twentya-day. He conceived that they would get the Lilkesto ne coal,. which was of a better quality than that which they now used, at 2s. 6d. a ton cheaper. Mr. BINGLEY, a surveyor under the Inclosure Act, i n the n eighbourhood of I'enistone, s t a t e d that th under the Act could not be br ou ght into effective land inclosed lective working without the use of lime, and that if they c cheaper, as they would do by the formationof o tVs rai get 11 7 they would use double the quantity of that thcyl now did. Be conceived that the quantity used would be about 18,000 tons a year, the cost being 255. a ton, and the saving by the railway would be Bs. 6d. a ton. The quantity applied was from 2i to 3 tons an acre. Mr. JONATHAN BP.OwN, lessee of the Greenmore Stone quarries under Lord Wharneliffe, stated that he exported about 3,000 tons a-year, most of which went to the east ward, and that a considerable saving of time would be effected to Swinton by the Barnsley Junction Railway. Mr. B. Skidmore stated that he had had considerable xperience in making estimates of passenger traffic for several ailways in the north of England. He put in several tables, Twhich showed that the revenue he anticipated from p assengers was 10,126/. 7s. 4d., from 224,939 per sons. This was doubling the present coach traffic, and certain additions on other points of the line. He estimated for 400,000 tons of coal at 9d a ton, which would amount to 15,000/. ; for 40,000 tons of limestone and timber at 2s. a ton for the whole distance— making 4,000/. ' • for goods and grain 3,617 /. from existin g traffic, and 2,400/., and 2,400/. from expected traffic—making a total of more than 6,0001; for cattle 885/. —making a total of 35,000/. a year the exenses of workin he estimated at about 40 per cent.—leavinpg a net income g of more than 21,0001. per annum. On inquiry by the CHAIRMAN, Mr. Skidmore stated that he was not aware that there was any limit to the charge made by railway proprietors for carrying goods, and ex. plained that there were three elements in the expense ; first, the tolls; secondly, the propelling power; and thirdly, the carriages ; and on calculating these several items, he conceived that the total expense of carrying goods would be 2s. 6d. a mile. The CHAIR3IAN then suggested that Mr. Skidmore should look over his evidence, and correct anything which he thought needed amendment, at the next meeting, and the Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow. When these gentlemen told him that Protestantism was going to ruin, he could not help thinking how miserable and small this English Protestantism must be. With their Universities at Oxford and Cambridge, and with all the revenues of the richest church in the world, and a bench of bishops in the House of Lords to watch over its interests, he could not see how they could justify coming trembling and wining to that House for assistarce upon the ground that the small sum of 26,0001., was about to be voted to the Catholics of Ireland. He dismissed this part of the question at once, and he thought he had get rid of the charge of anything like bad faith. His prin ciple had been too long before the world to render it likely that such acharge could be maintained or supported He had never taken the low tone that religious conces sion to Catholicism in Ireland as a matter of grace or favour. With him it was a matter of right. He had always considered that as the Catholics were the majo rity in the sister country, they bad just as good a right to a Catholic Church establishment as they had to a Protestant Episcopalian Establishment in England, or a Presbyterian Church in Scotland. Their truth was not our truth, their church was not our church, and they had just as much right to resist Protestantism, as England would have a right to resist the introduction of Presbyterianism, or Scotland to resist the introduction of Episcopacy. into that country, and it was now time for doing away with the Established Church in Ireland, which only re mained as a monument of England's conquest and Ire land's disgrace. lie entertained the warmest sympathy with what the Hon. Member for Newark the other night called " Inde fininite Protestantism," and so he believed it was called during the last hunnred pears by such men as Swift, Burnett, and William HI. His own principles were sanctioned by the leading dignitaries of the Irish Church, and were clearly and explicitly laid down in an important work published by Archbishop Wheatley. Those were his sentiments ; and though he could not' help honouring the name that first asserted the rights of mind against the Papal power, he could not less honour the men who, in spite of revolution and of the change which had taken place in the aspect of their creed, still clove to the faith of their ancestors. It had been told the House by the Honourable Member for Elgin the other night, and he (Mr. Ward) could not avoid referring to it, for he considered this but an ad journed debate, that the . Catholics ought not be admitted to the same privileges with the professors of the Reformed religion, and it was added that the Duke of Wellington might say then, what the Duke of Ormond said two hundred years ago, that he hod been acquainted with the Catholics for twenty years, and that in that period he found them destitute of truth and unworthy of trust. It was time they dropped their prejudices, for they made their inquiries weak, and the Legislature ridiculous. He said it was time to discon tinue this one-sided policy, but they should take care in altering their courses that they should at last adopt the right course—that they should not again embark in what would ultimately prove to be a ruinous course. As to the fact that they had taken a new course, he had never seen a point on which such a mass of evidence had been brought to bear in that House. They had first the Noble Lord, the Member for the City of London ; then they had the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Davenport; they had the Secretary for the Home Department, and they had the First Lord of the Treasury. The Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home Department, had told them that this was the fisst of a series of measures for the amelioration of her Majesty's Catholic subjects in Ireland. The First Lord of the Treasury had told the House that this measure was a Government one, and by it the Government would stand or fall, and the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, who ought to have been the most cautious, proved himself on that question the most incautious ; They might have occasion to admire the courage of the Right Hon. Gentlmen, but they could not all give credit to his sagacity. He (Mr. Ward) would like to see what they were likely to do. He appealed to the House, if they were not establishing here a progressive prin ciple ? and if they took this step at all, they must be passed for all that would fol low. The question was simply this. How they could best settle the necessary and just claims of Ireland, and how they could best reconcile the people of Scotland and England to those principles which they considered necessary end right for that purpose. The Government were about to do that in a way which he thought the most likely to prevent any legitimate objec tions which might be urged by those parties. The ques tion involved some of the most important principles that Government could propose or Parliament sanction. It involved a principle of endowment as contradistin guished to the voluntary system—it iinvolved the principle of endowment out of the general funds of the country. As the particular funds which would be properly applicable were under the authority of Government otherwise applied—he would not say mis applied. As to those who objected to this measure, on the voluntary principle, he might safely leave them in the hands of his Honourable Friend the Member for the City of London, and the Noble Lord the Member for Liverpool. They, at least, had nothing offensive in their views ; they say that religion was never so healthy, that the power of truth was never so great as when disconnected with the State. They al leged nothing offensive to the Catholic principles or the Catholic rights. He (Mr. Ward) admitted that it . was a great principle, it was his own prin ciple some years ago, when he brought forward a motion with respect to the Irish Church. Equality was to be attained in Ireland, but he had no hope of obtaining that in the way they proposed. Was he to go on from year to year without any attempt to do away the anomaly of an endowment in Ireland which placed the clergy of one-eighth of the population in the possession of all the church property ; they provided another one-eighth with a regium d4num, and the re maining six-eighths had nothing. That appeared to him to be a sort of lop-.sided liberality ; at the same time, it and it might succeed probably would not be denied that the voluntary system had not pw yetbeen roerpsaer,as ad sufficiently fotrhei L professors r oisEs triedon r g sof religion in England, who ; Ireland had not yet been would depend on the voluntary system for their sup port, would be farther from degrading themselves by pandering to the passions of their flocks. What did it do in Ireland ? What did it do in th e U n it e d St a t es ? He always turned with pleasure to the speech made by his Noble Friend the Member for the City of London, on the debate for the motion which he (Mr. Ward) brought forward last year, when he (Lord J. Russell) dealt with the volun tar y principle in that highly philsophic spirit, which was almost peculiar to himself in that House. Here the Hon. Member read the passage from the speech to which he had referred, and which was to the effect that in th . e . United States there were a i ; vene b ri u e t nutpuh th pe t 9l s dn . could not be the case , ministers of various religious . sects who were sup ported by the voluntary ; a p n r d in w. c ,h ip y le w ; as yet this ? ev b e e n cau b s y e r those men was the cruel, and unchristian and accursed isopular voice for their placed in a position that would theyB73as maintenance they n e were werecdseel make them independent of their flocks. The same speaker then went on to say that it would be of immense importance to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland if they were placed in a position that would put them beyond the reach of th e i n fl ue nce of popular passion ; and if the appointment of those clergymen was entirely unshackled it would be of great importance, for th en th ey wou ld b e in some measure independent." Now, he did net think that their experience of Ireland, from last year, fully bore out the fact that such an altered state of things would be for the benefit of that country. What had taken place in Ireland, in reference to the Bequest Act ? The Most Rev. Dr. Murray, who had taken office under that Bill, bad been exposed to the most violent hostility and assault for having done so; but he held his ground until the s torm had blown over, which would have continued mu ch lonerthan it did b ut for Mr. O'Connell, who stopped it, . seeing that it would lead to r.o good to let it go on any longer. But insteed of citing D . r. Murray, who held a deservedly high character in public estimation ; as an instance, he would ask, why should even the most humble Roman Catholic clergyman be exposed to such tribunal. Ile now came to the motion of endow ment, which he looked upon as one of the greatest importance. It was a question which had taken a fast hold of the minds of the people of England, and also of the people of Scotland ; but in England it had so perverted and warped the minds of the people, that it made them insensible to the many wrongs their laws had inflicted on Ireland.—(Hear.) The Hon. Baronet admitted that he could not pretend to govern Canada or Malta on the same terms that he would undertake the government of Ireland to morrow. They were, he said, bound by capitulation, and they were bound by compact, but they were bound by something much higher, they were bound by common sense, and common prudence, and common justice. The Honourable Baronet knew that a religious establishment was no p inculcating .art of Christianity it was only a means of it. A n establishment depended upon its ut ilit y , and its utility as was seen the Church and State depen d, was bounded by its extent. T he alliance bettween id by the Hon. Baronet depended on its extent. How did the Established Church in Ireland bear out this ? Was the Church in I r eland in accordance with Hallam's beautiful definition of a State Chur that it ch, ought to exist by the will of, and for the people In some parts of Ireland the members of the Established Church were but as one per cent. by the whole population, and yet every attempt .at change every a ttempt to gi ve a proximation of justice for the present measure was not intended for anything more than proximate justice— every attempt of this sort was met by the Hon. Baronet with an appeal to the principles of George the 'Third, and Mr. Percival. He (Mr. Ward) had been favoured with a pamphl e t wr itten by Mr. Percival's son, in which, speaking of th e H on . Baronet, ho said , " Sir R. 11. Inglis, the man s hose public and private character mostnearly re sembles the character of that statesman whose prophetic foresight these pages are intended to illustrate, and who . is occupied, like hi m , in endeavouring to save his Queen and country f rom di sgr ace and danger. Why the ar guments in the p am phlet must be as chstasteful to the to the Hon. Member f or Elgin (Mr. C. Bruce) as Catholics of Ireland. It went to prove that there was but one true ch urc h, a nd that church wa s the Protestant church. [LEFT SPEAKING.] - bell, Preachers, from Castle-street Chapel, Reading ; Sway, Boldoe, Hants ; West George-street Chanel, Glasgow (Dr. Wardlaw) ; Salem Chapel, Ipswich ; Falkenham, Suffolk; Sutton, Suffolk; Sidbury, Devon; Romford, Essex ; Blaenafor, Monmouth ; Billesden, Skeffington ; Maidstone, Kent; Tintwistle , Tredw ston, Brecon ; Brechfa, Brecon ; New North Free Church, Edinburgh; the First United Secession Con gregation at Alloa, Clackmannanshire; Wesleyan Me thodists, Aberystwith, Cardiganshire; Neath, Glamor ganshire; Seven Oaks, Kent; Deptford, Kent; Inverary, Aberdeenshire; Shoreham, Kent; Molina and Killalea; May's-lane, Antrim; Knockbolt, Kent; Bingham, Nor folk ;;Calvinistic Methodists, Hill's-lane Chapel, Shrews bury; Cwrnian ; Baptists, Zion Chapel, Bradford, Wilts; Hales Owen, Worcestershire ; Redcross-street Chapel, Cripplegate ; Sunday School Teachers, Hollinworth ; Hatherton Chapel, Stockport ; Woodley, Berks ; Buii gay, Suffolk ; Padfield; Sidbury, Devon ; Tintwistle ; inhabitants of Spade, Norfolk ; Southminster, Essex ; Lingfield, Surrey ; Protestant Dissenters, Zion Chapel, Cwm Cvin, Glamorganshire ; Poultry Chapel, London ; Wimbledon, Surrey ; White.stone Chapel, Withington, Herefordshire ; Old Chapel, Llantyn Mair, Montgo meryshire; Elswiele, Lancashire; Chowbent, Lancashire; Bedford- street Chapel; Stroud, Gloucestershire; Cross street Chapel, Cheshunt ; Ebenezer Chapel, Boston ; Rowley Regis, Staffordshire ; Pengllys Llanfe haenyal, Montgomeryshire ; Sammah Chapel, Comities, Mont gomeryshire ; Creigfryn Chapel, Cams, Montgomery shire ; Baptists, Stockwell-gate, Mansfield ; Union-place, Longford, Warwickshire ; Llaunefydd, Denbighshire ; Chester-street, Wrexham, Denbighshire ; Teachers of Sunday school, Barking, Essex. Mr. PATTISON presented several petitions to the same effect. Lord J. RUSSELL presented a petition from the Presbyterians residing within twelve miles round Lon don in favour of the Maynooth Bill, and two petitions from certain individuals against the grant. Mr. PARKER presented a petition against the grant. PETITIONS. Mr. EVANS presented a petition from Derby against the desecration of the Sabbath. An How. MEMBER presented petitions against the London and York Railway Bill and against the Man chester and Sheffield Railway Bill. The petitions were ordered to be referred to the Select Committees on the Bills. Lord MAHON presented a petition against the plans of the Eastern Counties Raile ay. MAYW)OTH. Mr. GEORGE BANKES presented petitions from five parishes in the county of Dorset against the grant to Maynooth. He also presented several peti tions from landowners and labourers respecting the exist ing agricultural distress ; and petitions from the county of Dorset against the Poor-law Settlement Bill. CONDITION OF THE LABOURING CLASSES. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he would, on Monday next, state the terms of his motion in reference to the condition of the labouring classes in this country. Sir ROBERT PEEL said, in answer to a question from Mr. E. Denison in reference to the law affecting the terms of leases, that the Hon. Member must be under some mistake with regard to the time he had spoken of. But he begged to assure the Hon. Member that the subject to which he had alluded had been under the consideration of a Committee ; that Committee had made a report ; and as the rule adopted upon that report did very materially affect the interests of many in this country, he would not have the least objection to lay it upon the table of the House. LANDS CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION (SCOT LAND) BILL. Mr. LABOUCHERE begged to know from the Lord Advocate of Scotland when it was his intention to lay before the House the Lords' amendments on the Lands Clauses Consolidation Bill of Scotland? The LORD ADVOCATE said something in reply, but it was inaudible in the gallery. ACADEMICAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Lord ASHLEY, in postponing till Friday next the Committee on the Calico Print Works Bill, said—Sir, I take this opportunity of put ting a question, of which I have given notice, to my Right Hon. Friend at the head of the Government. Sir, in reference to a communication made by my Right Hon. Friend last year to this House, and in refe rence to the opening statement he made in the grant to Maynooth, I wish to ask him whether it is his intention to propose any further plan of academical education in Ireland, and if so, whether he could, before going into Committee, or im mediately afterwards, state the simple outline of the schemes which he is inclined to propose? Sir R. PEEL—I am much obliged to my Noble Friend for having given me notice of this question, and I beg to state THAT IT IS THE INTENTION OF HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT TO PROPOSE FURTHER MEASURES WITH REGARD TO ACADEMICAL EDUCATION IN IRELAND. It was my intention to proceed with this Bill now before the House, and to bring it to a close before any other business was gone into, with the excep tion of that of which I have given notice for Friday ; but I will undertake to say with respect to the measures which we intend to propose, having the same bearing as that at present under discussion—l will undertake, be fore the third reading of the Bill, that either myself, or some other member of the Goverment, shall give a gene ral outline of the measures we intend to propose. Mr. M. GIBSON presented four petitions against the Maynooth grant. Mr. B. ESCOTT presented a petition from a place in . Somerset in favour of the grant.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. NEWDEGATE presented a petition against the grant. Sir R. PEEL presented four petitions in favour of the measure, one from a body of English Presbyterians, signed by persons of very high respectability. The petitioners stated that they bad the strongest feel ing against the tenets and doctrines of the Roman Ca tholic religion. They did not think that they were vio lating any principle in supporting an increased grant for religious education in Ireland. Another petition was from the ministers and elders of the Old Presbyterian Church of Affieck ; the third petition was from the_ Presbyterians of Armagh ; and the fourth petition was from the north of Ireland also. MAYNOOTH—APPROPRIATION OF THE IRISH ECCLESIASTICAL REVENUES. On the motion that the Speaker do leave the Chair, Mr. WARD said that they had now reached that stage of the Bill at which, in concurrence, he believed, with the wishes of a large number of his friends, and in perfect accordance with those principles which, as a party, they had advocated for the last ten years in that House, it became his duty to place on record—not their hostility to the Govern ment plan, because in every measure of concession of Roman Catholic rights—in every expression of justice or of kindness which had fallen from either side of the House towards those whom they called fellow- , countrymen and fellow-christians, they cordially and entirely participated, but they refused as to the mode in which the measure contemplated for their benefit might be rendered one which would ' give permanent satisfaction to Ireland ; and he must beg to remind Hon. Gentlemen on his side of the House that they had a double duty to perform on this occasion— they had not only to look to the natural desire of conciliating - Ireland and sooth ing and healing the wrongs which had been done to that country for three centuries, but they must also look to England—they must not do away with one injustice by committing another ; and they must be aware of counterbalancing the good which they all hoped to do to Ireland by sowing the seeds of just discontent in this country.—(Hear, hear.) He remembered, when the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies came forward in this House with what he called a great measure for Catholic relief by taking off the vestry cess in Ireland, that Noble Lord designated the vestry cess as a galling blister to the Catholics, but be said that the Irish Church, which would benefit most largely by this cause of discontent, ought to hear the whole charge. He wished to amend this Bill by the principle included in his amendment, and not by any means to throw it out ; and he had given some proof of his sincerity, b) submitting to the obloquy which he received by refusing to concur in a movement, the object of which was to throw out the Bill on the second reading. That party had, by the result of last week, proved itself hostile to the Government measure. A Mem ber of Parliament had, in these times, quite enough to do to answer charges against him founded upon truth, without submitting to misrepresentation. He had been accused, by implication, of having betrayed a cause in which he never embarked. He had bad a long ac quaintance with the Hon. Gentleman, who had taken a very active part on the Anti-Maynooth Committee, and placed himself, at a very early period, in commuica tion with him (Mr. Ward)—in fact, as soon as he understood the nature of his motion. He suggested various alterations in the form of the motion, so as to make it more palatable to those who acted with him ; but he (Mr. Ward) declined to accede to every one of them, assuring him, at the same time, that the motion he intended to move had no reference to religious grounds. They wished that time might be given to the country to express its opinions, but he told these gentle men that he entirely concurred in the opinion of the Right lion. Baronet at the head of the Government, and in that of the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London, and added that he would not live half an hour more than the forms of the House absolutely'' required. [Here the noise in the HOW became so great, and the bustle at the bar so love., that the Hon. Gentleman ceased until the Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms cleared the bar, and order was in some degree restored.] He proceeded to se7, that he said so because he considered, with the gentlemen with whom he acted, that during the time which had necessarily elapsed since the introduction of the measure, the parties who opposed the Bill had succeeded in lighting up a flame dangerous and even discreditable to the country. How anybody after that could take into his head to write to the Times to express the grief of the Anti-Maynooth Committee which had expressed that he would push on his motion, but instead of doing so bad withdrawn it, and thus prevented the measure being defended by the corn bined votes of " true Protestants," and some of the adherents of the Whig party. He had the greatest respect for his Noble Friend t t iri h ie e ues m ti o o s n t (Lord iiw Russell) : J daf o r li coh n nia rtah c a t that Noble tohbal etb Lord, brl(e h i e Lhoer f de had would a rthate d d tak en say his si f aot wh h ne e aot mong the hoibss views e u w io s u c s e . rtai W n h l) e , n con h c e ur h r a e d d with thaline, t of of ever 7 one 0 Ilia au Noble Lord, and with that pporters on this side of the House. SUB-COMMITTEE ON STANDING ORDERS. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) DISS AND COLCHESTER RAILWAY. Mr. HUNT, for the opponents, called an engineer to prove that the miles and furlongs were not correctly marked on the plans and sections for a distance of twenty-five miles. The room was cleared on the allegation, and upon our re admission, The CHAIRMAN said the Committee were of opinion that though the plans and sections did not exactly agree, yet the inaccuracies were not such as could mislead the owners of the property comprised in the allegation. Bill referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE (WITH BRANCH) RAILWAY. This line of railway is to be thirty miles in length on the main line, with a branch of seven miles. Estimated cost 500,0001. Engineer, Mr Robert Stephenson ; agent for the Bill, Mr. Ellicombe. The formal notices having been gone into, a petition against the scheme from Josiah Dimsdale, draughtsman, of No. 3, West's-place, City-road, was put in. Mr. BARER appeared as agent for the opponent, and stated that certain owners, occupiers, lessees, and joint lessees, had not received notice of the intention of the promoters to take certain property on the proposed line. The first allegation was that Mr. Dimsdale, as one of the undertakers of the Loughfoyle Reclamation Company, had not received notice of the slab of Loughfoyle being re quired for the purpose of the railway. Mr. ELLICOMBE maintained that the allegation could not be sustained, inasmuch as it was not proved that Mr. Dimsdale was an undertaker on the 30th of November last. Mr. BAKER was unable to adduce evidence to that effect. Allegation was not sustained. Mr. BAKER submitted that no subscription contract had been lodged in the Private Bill-office with reference to the branch line, and that consequently the standing orders host not been complied with. Mr. ELLICOMBE explained—The subscription contract had been included in the 500,0001. for the construction of the railway. The Committee were of opinion that the standing orders in this instance had been complied with. Mr. BAKER said the subscription contract was invalid, inasmuch as the parties signing the contract were not suffi ciently bound. Mr. suffi ciently/ of Guildhall, argued against the allegation. The room having been cleared after deliberation, the CHAIRMAN said, the standing orders had not been complied with inasmuch as the parties subscribing do not bind themselves, their heirs, executors, and administrators, for the payment of money subscribed as respects the present Bill, the contract bearing date the lith day of February, in the present ses sion of Parliament, and all the signatures also bearing date in the present session, but the contract applying to an Act of Parliament, to be applied for in the next session of Parlia ment. The effect of this decision is to throw the Bill out for this session, unless the Select Committee on standing orders shall see fit to dispense with the non-compliance. The Committee adjourned to twelve o'clock on Friday. SHAPWICK MURDERS (BY EXPRESS.) EXECUTION of SARAH FREEMAN. (TIIIS DAY.) This wretched culprit expiated with her life, at Taunton this day, the diabolical crime of which she was convicted. It will be in the recollection of our readers that the unhappy woman was committed upon four distinct charges of murder, viz , for having administered arsenic to her husband, her illegitimate son, her mother, and her brother (of whose murder she was convicted at the late Spring Assizes), which caused her death. On Sunday the condemned sermon was preached by the chaplain from the Ist and part of the 2d verse of the 14th chapter of Hosea. A most impressive discourse was delivered, and every one present except Sarah Freeman appeared to feel its power. The individual who, to all human knowledge, stood most in need of spiritual conso lation, was the only one who evinced indifference. She rather courted than avoided allusion to the crimes with which she was charged, but invariably pro tested her innocence. Ever since her condemnation she slept soundly and ate heartily. On Monday last she asked permission to dispose of her clothes to the pri soners with whom she had been classed previous to her trial—this being granted, she wrote the names of the articles and the persons to whom she wished them to be given. The Board of Customs having reason to _Ave that extensive sm ugg li ng t ra nsactions have be en successfull y carried on by v esse l s engaged in the coast in g trade, and that there has b een a great laxity on th an d rummaging surveyors at som e ports in the boarding an such vessels, ha ve i ssu ed directions that the officers of . the part of the tide waterguard be strictly enjoined to rum ma ge coasting vessels as frequently an d thoroughly as possible, and to keep a record at their respective stations of the vessels so rummaged, for the inspection of the Surveyors-Geno ral of Customs on their official visits to the different THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY- EVENING, A PRIL 23, 18-15. ports of the kingdom. The Commissioners have also di rected the respective Collectors and Comptrollers of the Revenue to be impressed with the necessity which exists of enforcing a due compliance with the instructions con tained in this order, and have called their attention p.ir ticularly to a general order, dated December, 1822, by which they are desired to report specially any informa tion which they may have been enabled to obtain with ' respect to runs of smuggled goods, with the result of their inquiries, and which there is ground to believe has, in some instances, been entirely neglected. CAUTION.—A man of the name of Robert Ward (or at least calling himself so) is travelling about Suffolk with a petition, stating that he has lost two horses by death, and begging the contributions of the benevolent in order that he may be enabled to replace them. A number of signatures were attache d to the ono he showed at Ipswich; some of them have proved to be forgeries, and we warn the public against such an impostor. Should any of our readers happen of him, we should re commend them to put a label on his hack and direct him to the police, at Ipswich, at whose hands he would be sure to get some cheap fare and loding.—lpsevich Express. COTTON FACTORY.—A Company is about to be formed to erect a cotton factory on the Clyde, river, which w ill be the first ever established in the county of Cot k. The capital is proposed to amount to 750,0001. in 50/. shares. The site proposed is on the lands of Quartertown, within a mile and a quarter of Mallow, and within 400 yards of the proposed Great South Western Railway station, and within nineteen miles of Cork. It is said at this point there can be commanded the most powerful head of water in the South of Ireland, being a fall of 361 feet—and equal to a steam - engine of 120 horse power. y It is estimated that a steam-engine of equal power would cost near s,oool.—with an annual expenditure, calculating coals at 6s. per ton, as in Man • chaster, of 1,3001., while a water-wheel and tanks would cost but 1,500/., with an annual expenditure of 101.— Constitution. ANTWERP, APRIL 18.—The General Steam Navi gation Company's steam-ship Soho, Captain Whitcombe, arrived this day, and landed her passengers at the quay, among whom were the Baron de Lange'', and Colonel Maltby. The wind had been at E.N E., with much sea, which protracted the passage only a couple of hours longer than usual. We have to announce the death of Mr. James Balfour, of Whitt ingham, N. 1&, father of Mr. J. M. Balfour, M.P., who died at Whittingham House, Dunbar, on Satur day, after a protracted illness. The deceased gentleman married in 1815, Lady Eleanor, second daughter of the late Earl of Lauderdale, by whom he leaves issue a family of several children. Mr. J. M. Balfour, M.P., succeeds to a very considerable funded property , as well as landed estates, by his father's death. Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley, the Earl of Lauderdale, the Hon. Sir Anthony Maitland, C. 8., and several families of rank, are placed in mourning by the demise of that estimable gentleman. THE EXECUTION. The last dreadful sentence of the law was carried into effect on the top of Wilton gaol, near Taunton. The time appointed for the execution was eleven o'clock, but such was the anxiety to witness the death of this noto rious murderess, that long before that hour thousands of people were congregated in front of the prison. The wretched culprit retired to rest at twelve o'clock , last night, up to which hour the chaplain was in attend ance upon her. She slept soundly till six this morning, when she got up and ate a hearty breakfast. She was visited early by the chaplain, the Under-Sheriff, and the Governor, and again strongly protested her innocence, saying that she bought the poison for herself, and that her brother John took it from her bag and gave it to her mother and brother. When entreated by the Under-Sheriff, about ten o'clock this morning, to tell the truth, she very snappishly told him not to press her with any further questions on the subject. Shortly after ten she attended the chapel, and partook of the Sacra ment. At the conclusion of the service she was con ducted to the press-room, where preparations were made for her execution. Shortly before eleven she appeared on the scaffold; she joined in the prayers, and again protested her innocence. In a few minutes the fatal noose was adjusted, and she was launched into eternity. After hanging the usual time the body was cutdown and buried in the precincts of the prison. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. TATTON EGERTON, a new writ was ordered to be issued for the borough of Wood stock, in the room of the Marquis of Blandford, who had accepted the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds. The Spoad (Clun) Inclosure Bill, the Kendal Reser voirs Bill, and the London and Greenwich Railway Bill, were each read a second time. The Ely and Huntingdon Railway Bill was read a ,hird time, and passed. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY. Mr. LOCKHART presented petitions in favour of this Bill from the parishes of Carluke, Old Monkland, Both well, Glassford, Rutherglen, Shotts, Hamilton, Lishma hagow, Dalzill, East Kilbride, New Monkland, Dalserf, Cambusnethan, Cambuslang, Blantyre, Stonehouse, Carnwath, Carmunnoch ; and from the towns and vil lages of Rutherglen, Airdrie, Lanark, New Lanark ; also from the following parishes in the county of Mid- Lothian :—C olin ton, Currie, Ratho, Kirkne w ton, and Midcalder. THE GRANT TO MAYNOOTH. Mr. WAWN presented a petition from shipowners, and other inhabitants of South Shields, in favour of the proposed grant to the college of Maynooth. Lord CHARLES MANNERS presented several pe• titions against the grant from places in Lincolnshire. Mr. PLUMPTRE presented a great number of pe .itions to the same effect from various places in different parts of the kingdom. Petitions to the same effect were presented by Mr. Cobden, Sir John Tyrrell, Mr. Beckett Denison, Lord Clive, and Colonel Wood. NOTTINGHAM INCLOSITRE. Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from Notting ham against the Nottingham Inclosure Bill. SETTLEMENT BILL. Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Stour bridge against the LawMAYNOOTH of Settlement Bill. Captain PECHELL presented petitions from diffe rent parts of Sussex against the grant to the College of May nooth. Sir W. HEATHCOTE presented similar petitions. Mr. DIJ9DALE presented similar petitions from Warwick. Mr. ROSS presented petitions from Belfast in favour of the grant. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented petitions from diffe rent places against the arrestment of wages and the *rant to Maynootb. Mr. S. O'BRIEN resented petitions from Northamp tonshire and Staffor against the grant. Mr. B. DENJSON presented petitions in favour of the grant. Mr. HAWES presented similar petitions from Surrey. Mr. HINDLEY presented Il I petitions from the fol lowing places against the Maynooth grant :—The in habitants of West Hackney, Middlesex ; Brockwear, Gloucestershire ; Burkett Green, Berks ; Covesham, Oxor.; Know! Hill, Berks ; Woodly, Bucks ; Linlithgow, Bannockburn ; Bush Hill, Berks ; Teigh, Rutland ; Little Fransham, Norfolk ; Great Franshare, Norfolk ; Wendling, Norfolk ; Protestant Dissenters, Ebenezer Chapel, Camden Town; Chiswick, Middlesex; Falcon- square, London; Jamaica Chapel, Bermondsey; Woola,ston, Northamptonshire ; West Nile-street Cha pel,Ebenezer Chapel, R Upperhead . Mill, Glasgow ; street, Windss.o.orn;, Gliitiatmhoinr,ganslheirnebig.ahnts.; Saddleworth ; Brooken Hurst, Church street, ; Groes w E e s n sex ; Eg T i h w o ) ;fi il eld, Hants ; Salem Chapel, as C h h e Montgomeryshire ; Crown -street Chapel, a Soho . ; East m , Sals c b h u a r r y el , rc r e in n g e. - . D to e n a , n, G so lo m u c c r e s s e te ts r h ; ire E ; ndle ß ss e - t a h t l r e e h e e t gross ; Blandford, Dorset ; Dry Drayto'n Cam bridge ; Dryffryn, Brecon ; Howe Kinser:, Irn set ; Green Chapel, Assett, York ; Dogly-lane Chapel,- Kirkburton, York; Ranelagh Chapel, Chelsea; Mapple well, York; Henrietta-street Chapel, St. Pancras, Mid dlesex; Tenby, Pembrokeshire ; Sirhowy Iron Works, Monmouth; Zion Chapel, Whiford Flint ; Lamptor: Chapel, Heston, Middlesex ; Portobello, Scotland ; Heol Mostyn, Flint ; Salem Chapel, New North road, Hoxton, Middlesex ; Howard-street, Shrews bury ; Beauleaue Rails, Boldoe, Hants ; Village IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, April 22. The Loan CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack shortly after Five o'clock. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY presented petitions from different parts of Kent against the grant to the College of Alaynooth. The Bishop of WINCHESTER also presented similar pe• titions from Dovrnshire and other places. The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented similar petitions.: RAILWAY CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION BILL. The Earl of DALHOUSIE moved the third reading of this Lqd BROUGHAM had so often addressed their Lordships on the subject of railway legislation that he did not think it necessary fcr him, on the present occasion, to trouble their Lordships at any great length. The mischief of the course they were now pursuing was threefold. The first was the very great and almost unavoidable haste with which several of the railway measures must be carried through the various branches of the Legislature, inasmuch as it was physi cally impossible for those branches of the Legislature to be stow proper attention either on the principle or the details of each measure while there were 240 railway Bills in the same session before Parliament. He thought that ap plied, to a certain extent, to the two Bills which were now before the House for third reading, and he thought it might be judicious of the Government to select a number of principles, as they had done in those Bills. At the same time, it was his opinion that nothing could be worse contrived than the Railway Board. He did not say that his Noble Friend (Lord Dalhousie) was not well qualified to pre side over it, or t hat his Noble Friend had not sedulously devoted himself to the discharge of his new duties. But then the ordi nary business of the Board of Trade was quite heavy enough without this addition. And as it was admitted by all astronomers that there were not more than 24 hours in the day, if he consumed every day in the year 1845, it was physically impossible that the additional business could be done. Therefore, they admitted that they only heard one part of each case, and on the information thus obtained the House of Commons, which heard both sides, was to be governed. That was not the blind leading the blind, but the blind leading the seeing —( A laugh)—the blind Railway Board leading the seeing House of Commons. But it was said that the decisions of the Railway Beard did not decide the ease. But the fact was indisputable that if they decided against a scheme, it was one hundred to one but that scheme was re jected ; if they decided in favour of a scheme, it was one hundred to one but that it was adopted. He was almost ignorant of the practices of that depart ment, but this was what an uninitiated understanding would conclude from the fasts as they appeared. Property was very much implicated in this. Here were great shareholders vesting 10,000/. in a railway concern, And another class, who did not vest more than 10,000 pence, who had also an interest. These were the speculators. And this Railway Board was of great importance in determining the value of immense property, for a report in favour of the railway would raise the value ten per cent., and a report against would tumble it down 10 per cent. They heard only one party which was in favour of the railway, and never heard the adverse side. Now, suppose that he had a great interest in the South-Western Railway, and that he had almost evidence sufficient to destroy all chance of a report in favour of the South-Eastern Railway, he would not be allowed to urge one objection, and the only person heard was the railway projecters of the South-Eastern Railway. Then down would tumble his stock in the other railway ; whereas, if he had been allowed to be heard, his adversary would in all probability be defeated, and his railway would have been post poned. He believed that this was not without precedent, and a precedent of very great importance, for it came not only rom a person of consideration, but from a person of experience, and one of very high rank. Indeed it had royal authority, for the individual was no less a person than King James I. King James one day went into a court of law, and took the seat of the Chief Justice, and after hearing the argument on one side of the subject, he professed that he was quite ready to give his judgment; but it was delicately hinted to him that his decision might be dispensed with, and that it was not customary to give an opinion without hearing both sides. He, however, professed that it was vet y easy to decide upon hearing one side, either for or against, but that hearing both sides so overloaded the subject with difficulty, that it was next to impossible to co.ne to any decision at all ; and this was just the way in which the Railway Board acted. They heard the evidence on one side, in order that they might decide ; and they failed to take evidence, because they sat for the purpose of assisting the Howse of Commons in their decisions. They gave their opi nion for the benefit of both Houses when they had not suffi cient data for forming an opinion at all. There was something also in the way in which those cases were decided. There was something in the majority of the Board, because if the majority of these five gentlemen was only as three to two, the probabi lity was that the minority was right, and the majority was wrong; and he should be inclined no more to put faith in the infallibility of these gentlemen than he did in that of a certain foreign bishop. He spoke with all deference in the presence of his Noble Friend (Lord Beaumont); but he could not altoge ther give entire faith to everthing which he heard, and he re collected instances, and one might occur in that House that night, in which the majority was as three to two, and yet the majority were proved to be wrong, for after the matter had been maturely considered, the majority came over to the opinion of the minority. In that House they often found that the majority was in the wrong. The three and the two in the Board of Trade might decide on any given case. It was quite clear that it was material to know whether the majority were right or wrong. Suppose the Board should be two and two, which happened in the case of thelSouth•Eastern Railway. The Board were two and two, and the casting vote of that ideal individual, the Chairman, turned the balance. In point of voting that was decisive, but in point of authority it was no au thority at all, either way. It was a rule of the Board that every man, whether he agreed or disagreed with the , report, signed the report. Now that was not fair. It was not fair to the subject of the report, because it tended to make it appear that the party defeated had been defeated by the unanimous voice of the Committee. It was not fair to the Houses of Parliament, which the authority of this Board was intended to aid, because it tended to show them what was contrary to the fact, namely, that all the five members of the Board were unanimously agreed upon recommending a certain course ; but it was said that this was the common course of proceeding in the other departments. Could there be any similarity in the proceedings of the Board of Trade and every other department of the Government ? From the one an idea was given, while from the other an opinion was put forth. Therefore it was that he held the constitution of this Board to be eminently little calculated to attain the objects for which it had been constituted. Having stated thus much, he abstained from merely invidious remarks. But there was one reason which had great weight in his mind, arising from the secresy of this tribunal—one consequence of that had been that it had given rise to speculation and gambling, and if not actual jobbing, at least to great sus picion of it. They would never be able to eradicate this from men's minds as long as that tribunal was a secret one. If it were an open one, no man could entrap his neighbour by false stories of what he had picked up as to the probable resolutions of the Board. No one could overreach his friend in the pur chase or sale of railway shares. He was aware that there was one argument which might be adduced in favour of the Board, namely, the tendency of open courts to delay the business be fore them, but that advantage was greatly overborne by the disadvantage he had referred to. He diJ not deny to the Board the merit of industry. He had nothing to say against the mem bers composing that Board, but he did object to the construc tion of the Board itself. The infallibility of the Board of Trade wo3ld on this occasion be greatly doubted, because in the case of many Bills which the Board had reported favourably on it would be found that Parliament would reject them, and those which they had rejected would, he was persuaded, be adopted by the House. Thus, instead of assisting the labours of the House, the Board would be only found an obstruction with respect to another matter—namely, that the evils of this railway system would be to a certain degree attempted to he removed by the IBM before the House, and that the frenzy of speculation which had arisen in this country would be re pressed and kept within limits. He could not help thinking hat the disposition of Parliament was to encourage speculation and spread speculation. The Bill was pregnant with some good consequences, but he complained of it as giving too much facility to this sort of legislation, driving it on with railway , speed, a sort of wholesale species of Act of Parliament manu facture; one statute had contained no less than 150 provisions, and another, the Land Clauses Act, about as many more. They were methodizing, systematizing and seducing to a code the principles which were to govern all railway Acts (unless some peculiar exceptions), giving the same powers and facilities to all—promoters and objectors—the same systematic methodical plan, taking away the right to private property ; facilitating, expediting, quickening in the same sys tematic mode, and by a sort of corpus juris, subverting and confounding all the rights of private property. Why should such a systematic, methodical mode be adopted for the purpose of facilitating the passing of railway Acts? What was the con clusion to be drawn from this? Why it would seem that rail way speculation was the very breath of the community ; that they were essential to the welfare of the kingdom ; and that Parliament wished by every means in its power to promote the passing of railway Bills, and to encourage all sorts of gambling and railway speculation's. If twenty . or even thirty railway Acts were only passed in a single session, it would not be umnar7 to tom rucb, a code. Could gob; after baying . . lent themselves to this speculation—after having encouraged , were chained together. This was decidedly a bad sys tem, this mania—this frenzy of speculation as it h as been termed and he ho p ed the Governm rit would take steps to pu t $ —could they complain—could they wonder if those specu- stop to it. lators increased—if this railway-share gambling covered the The Duke of BEAUFORT complained that some tin a i r, whole length and breadth of the land — c ould the y wonder at persona were allowed to go about and circulate that his e a is r it, or blame it? Could they otherwi se than pity it, and that line had been sanctioned by the Board of Trade, whil should they not reflect a little before they helped to promote other instances they as particularly a-serted that they e 1,07 so pernicious a system, which instead of miti g atin g an evil from p rivate information that such and such a line Would b !!:' increased it—which, instead of applying a remed y , and en- vourabl y re p orted of by the Board. It was those reports sawn; deavouring to spread over a space of three yea rs that s p ecula- had led to so much s p eculation in the railway mar ket, ail e d ° , , t , Lion which would now be co m p ressed into one, course, had the Board of Trade never existed, they never w`" promoted it, nurtured it, and maintained its vitality. have been made. Should not they when the reaction came—when the revulsion The Earl of WINCHILSEA bore his testimony to took place—when the money market was oppressed—when a and impartial manner in which the Railway Department ° I g repetition of that convulsion in the money market took place, Board of Trade had discharged its arduous duties, and declare which had happened in former times from causes infinitely less his intention to support the third reading of the Bill. oak' potent than those now in operation—should they not reproach Lord CAMPBELL thought the Bill before the House vc themselves that they had clone nothing to mitigate or relax have the beneficial effect of lesseeing the expense of procuring 11, this fever of speculati n ? When that day should arrive, could vate and special bills for the construction of railways. He wisheso! they do otherwise than blame themselves as having been par- however, to draw the attention of the Noble Lord to the ans . _ ties, at least, to this delusion, when about December or Jan- lute necessity of another Bill being brought in tomeet tr nary next they should be reaping the bitter fruits of their eases of the Noble Lord ( Lord Ashburton), who followed oh! present conduct. In his opinion they were much to blame for N o ble Earl. Ile agreed with that Noble Lord that there °tie!!! the,atbhlee having allowed their neighbours the French to get so much to be a uniform rate of charges established on railways, _ I : ahead of them as to the sound method of dealing with order that the public might not be subject to the caprice of this question. In that country the Legislature took the particular company. In some cases railways would carry ao_iz i matter into their own bands—not as a matter of course, not almost for nothing at all, in order to ruin a neighbouring some without opposition, the speculators were against it, but the company, and h thought Parliament ought to adopt "'" Government in the most statesmanlike manner took the matter course which should effectually put a stop to this system of op e " into its own hands. Few railways were allowed to be con- pression. Then, again, the public suffered a hardship throng structed at first, and those were constructed on well-founded the railwa y com p an y not being liable to make good "I.?, ptincip:es. Another thing they h ad dyne for the benefit of dama g e which might. ensue to a private carriage during is.. the public. The railways were not a l lo wed to be vested in the transit over the railway. The damage was frequently n o_c, be companies beyond a term of years — fi ve and fort y , five and sioned b y the negligence of the company's servants, a V:a fifty, or five and thirty years. After the lapse of that time thought it was the bounden duty cf Parliament to make trw e 5 . 0 they reverted to the public , who mig ht renew the lease u p on alteration in the law, so as to throw the injury up advantageous terms, such as lowering of fares. Now here all who deserved, and were best able to bear, it. control over the companies was gi v en u p . It would have been Lord BROUGHAM, in reply, stated that he did not thi.?k . better if we had adopted a similar course to that which had that his charge, that the main body of those admissible t"" t oted been adopted in France. He dee p l y lamented that Railwa y Board was that of the railway projectors, was con o,e some steps had not been take n to dam p the mania b y the Noble Lord o p posite. He did not believe that th e at be for railway speculation. He did not mean to say that Earl hadunderstood his (Lord Brougham's)argument• Nb work there should be no railways at all. It would be absurd—it stated was, that from the Board being constituted to would be ridiculous to say so. Under p ro p er re g ulations the y in the dark, that certain persons were enabled to go into t", were the greatest possible public ben e fi ts. He did not mean Cit y , and p retend to have private information that the Bootie to say that there should be no railway s, but that there should had intimated its intention of throwiog out one scheme o r be only a certain moderate numbe r constructed at p resent, and ado p ting another. With regard to the South-Eastern Railw.a_Yo, that the others should be postponed because this mania ought a friend of his, one of the greatest capitalists in Loriu. ° 44 not to be encouraged. The only other subject with which he assured him that information was possessed by certain part i ! ie would trouble their Lordships was in reference to the powers of that had been the cause of a rise in the speculations. eit those railways companies. Since he had addressed their Lord- grounded the fortification of his own statement on the fact l" s f,, ships on this subject, he had heard of some what he should call at a great distance from town such information wasp osseisn; really heart-breaking circumstances of oppression of poor long before the decision was given by the Board. These If people who were trampled upon by the a g ents of railwa y Bills, would exist as long as this tribunal acted in the dark. If 01 because they had not the means of resistance. In fact the proceedings were made p ublic, no one p erson could hace.A agents to the Bills assumed to themse lves all the p ower of these g reater advantage than another in speculating. He object; Bills as if they had passed, so sure were they they would pass. to see railways multiplied over the whole country, uP",,,a tb Since he last made some observatio ns u p on this sub j ect in that p rinci p les that. now actuate the parties that brought them House on Thursday last, he believed wa s some p arties who forward. (Cries of Hear, hear.") Let had been complaining had he und erstood received some satis- be ado p ted without violating principles or property, and _lt faction. But he would now impl ore their Lordshi p s to listen would g ive them his support.—( Hear, hear.) He thotto i', to this. If a line was proposed to pass th rou g h an y p art of the that b y doin g so the y would avoid the gambling speculatiem, ) lands of a Noble Lord, he , of course , would be certain of re- that had taken p lace, and the monetary capital of the couu . dress ; there was no fear of him ; but, to make up for this, would he expended it, a proper and righteous cause.--(He ti the gardens of poor cottagers were c ut u p without the least The Bill was then read a third time ; and, on the que° hesitation: because they had n o t the same means of defence that it do p ass, that the occupier of a nob l e house had. Such were the Lord BROUGHAM moved that several amendments sh"4l common devices and contrivances of those companies, to call be added to it by way of rider, all of which were nega tl their acts by no other name. Then, on the other hand, if it without a division.—The Bill then passed. ead s was proposed to run a part of a line throu g h a nobleman's The Lands Railway Clauses Consolidation Bill w as r kitchen garden, he was satisfied if it could be avoided, to permit third time and passed. the line to run over his aven ue. It was like a man submittin g The Lands Clauses Consolidation Bill was read a third time , i to have his head cut off in order to save his le g from a similar and p assed ; as was also the Lands Clauses (Scotland) ni"' operation, or he was willing to sacrifice one eye to save the The House adjourned at Half-past Eight o'clock. other. He had received a letter from a clergyman who com plained that a proposed line would be sure to darken his study and library; but the writer added that he was but the mere incumbent, his patron was also a patron of railroads, and there fore he (the incumbent) had nothing to do but sit down and quietly submit for the remainder of his life. Now, any thing more grievous than this he had never heard. The clause in the Bill to which he principally objected, and which he singled out as the one which appeared to him to systematise in justice in the most marked manner, wes that clause in the Railway Consolidation Bill in the 32t1 section of the Bill. This was the clause—" That it shall be lawful for the company, at any time before the period limited for the completion of the railway, to enter whenever they pleased, without making any previous payment, or tender, or deposit on any land, within the prescribed limits, or if there were no prescribed limits, on any land not being more than 200 yards distant from the centre of the railway, and not being a garden, orchard, avenue, or walk ; and that it should not come nearer to any mansion than the prescribed distance, and if there was no prescribed distance then not nearer than 500 yards therefrom, and the com pany might keep the said land as long as it might be necessary for the completion or repairing of the railway, or any accomodation works connected there with, as might be required for any of the following pur. poses :—For the purpose of taking earth or soil by side cut tings ; for the purpose of depositing soil therefrom ; for the purpose of obtaining materials therefrom for the construction or repair of the railway, or such accommodation works as aforesaid, or of roads to and from, or by the side of the rail way ; and it shall be lawful to make deposits for the manufac ture of brick works, and also to dig or take from any such land clay, or stone, or sand, for the purposes of such works, or for the purpose of erecting any workshops or buildings of a temporary nature." Such was the clause—a clause which ought not, he thought, to be very agreeable to their Lord ships. They could take two hundred yards on each side of the railway, making in the whole four hundred yards, or a quarter of a mile, all over the country through which the railway run. Now, in the case of a farm in Essex, con sisting of two hundred acres, it was proposed that seven rail. ways should pass over it, and the consequence was, that nearly the whole of the farm was absorbed. And all this arose from their extraordinary love of rail say legislation. True, compen sation was provided by the Bill for the taking of land ; but the House must remember that only the damage actually done was to be paid for, and nothing more. There was but another remark, and that was the last he intended to make before he moved his amendment of that 32d clause. If these powers were necessary, at least the parties who concocted the measure ought to know what way they meant to go ; they ought at least to have made up their minds as to where their line ought to run; for he thought that if they did desire to change their minds and to go through another close than the one which they had marked down on the plan—but he wouid not give them a power of deviating to the extent of 100 yards to the right side or the left—and if, through any unforeseen contin gency, they were obliged :to deviate, then, at least, do so with the consent of the owners. The owners were quite enough at the mercy of the companies already. They now came to the owners after the passing of the Bill, for before they never thought of making any proffer at all ; but after the passing of the Act, they came to the owners, and then gave whatever they pleased. The object of his clause was to diminish the power of deviation to twenty yards, and that, with the permis sion of the owners. He had felt it his duty to make these few remarks, because he had reason to believe that the instance he adduced the other evening was not without its use. He had been told that the circumstance which he had stated of the ap plication of a devisee in trust to the Court of Chancery had stopped an extensive railway. He thought, therefore, that these powers were too extensive to be permitted without some check. He had received the thanks of many clergy, for what they were pleased to call the moral tendency of his exertions in preventing this species of gambling, which led to others of a worse description. For his part, he could say Lterari animunt. He had deemed it his duty to take the part which he had taken ; and he hoped he had given no offence to any individual, but if so, he had done his duty sincerely and conscientiously. The Earl of DALHOUSIE had explained to the House the nature and objects of the Bills now on the table when he moved the second reading, and he would not now enter into any dis cussion upon the principal one. But he would ask their Lord ships how mach of the time which his Noble and Learned Friend had occupied was devoted to the business before them. His Noble and Learned Friend devoted three quarters of an hour to censure the Railway Board, and a quarter of an hour to a lecture upon the evils of railway speculation. Really, he (Earl Dalhousie) never saw a smaller pennyworth of bread to so huge a quantity of sack.—( A laugh.) He would only say that, of all his Noble and Learned Friend had stated, there was only one thing to which he (Lord Dalhou-ie) could give the least assent—and that was, that there are but twenty-four hours in the day.—( A laugh.) His Noble and Learned Friend said that it was a fact which could not be denied, that the Railway Board heard only one side. Now, to that asser tion he must give a most unqualified and unhesitating denial. His Noble and Learned Friend said that the Board received deputations from railway directors, and no others were ad tted. To that he (Lord Dalhousie) gave a most distinct and positive denial. The Board sought interviews with no one. When they were ready to go into the inquiry, they stated as much in a public advertisement, and they received all persons who had any ?labile matters to submit to the Board ; but by the constitution of the Railway Board, they were pre cluded "rom going into the consideration of any private matters. At the same time, they never concealed from those to whom they granted interviews, that it would be on written statements only, to which the Beard could give its deliberate consideration, that any decision could be come to. And the decision to which the Board had come to on every case was founded on the fullest and most impartial con siderations. As to the speculations to which his Noble and Learned Friend said the Railway Board gave rise, he (Lord Dalhousie) did not deny that there were speculations—but he did deny that since the constitution of the Board, speculations had been carried to a greater extent. In former years the speculation was of greater extent, and of a more reckless kind. He could cite many cases, but their Lordships had not forgotten that of the Brighton Railway in which fortunes were made and lost in one day. The price of shares fluctuated from day to day, and hour to hour, as the favour of the Com mittee seemed to fluctuate. His Noble and Learned Friend said that the institution of the Board was calculated to promote speculation. Lord BROUGHAM had not said the institution ; he said the constitution. Lord DALHOUSIE said—Allow him to say what he meant. He did not attempt to state or explain what his Hon. and Learned Friend said or ineant.—( A laugh.) His Noble and Learned Friend had formerly alleged, and had now repeated that partial revelations had taken place. Now, when those allegations were made, he (Lord Dalhousie) required to be furnished with specific allegations. In the three cases which were before alleged—that of the South-eastern Railway, with which it was said a person in the employment of the Board of Trade was connected—to that charge, his Noble and Learned Friend admitted a complete answer was given. The next was— that some shadowy individual obtained information somewhere and used it somehow, on some day, in some place, in specula tion in some railway, by which he made forty thousand pounds. How was that charge to he met?—(Hear, hear.) It was also charged, that in consequence of improper informa tion, upon the day when the Board came to a decision, the shares of one or two rival companies rose, and those of the other went down. The fact was, that the rise in the price was occasioned by the union of the successful company with one al ready established.—( Hear, hear.) He (Lord Dalhousie) put it to their Lordships to postpone their judgment on the unfit ness and inefficiency of the Railway Board until the end of the section, when they would have all the results before them. In conclusion, he must remind their Lordships, that if they struck this clause out of the Bill, a similar one would have to be in troduced into the special Act. Lord ASHBURTON admitted that in some instances great disappointment had resulted from the proceedings of the Board of Trade ; but, in his opinion, it was utterly impossible for Go vernment-to take steps to avoid this. It was quite impossible to prevent railway speculations, but at the same time he was far from agreeing that improvements could not be introduced into the constitution of the Railway Department of the Board of Trade. But he objected to the provisions of this Bill being confined to railways which were to be hereafter made. Some of them ought decidedly to apply retrospectively to railways already in existence. There was, for instance, the ninth clause, which provided that no partiality should be shown by a railway company either in the transit of goods or of passen gers. No individuals, or body of individuals, were to have partiality shown to them by the railway company, but all were treated alike ; and certainly this clause was very essential for the ends of justice, and ho could see no reason why the same provision should not be applied to railways already in existence. There was another clause which ought to be ex o t n en e ded wh t i o ch railways . th e e na e ct x e i d sting thatf ut future e He a e ilw a a ll y uded com to the of should felo n s pr a o n v d i provide rate i p e ar s . at e mrh carriages l d f n e o r t t t h h e e clause panics s ee be applicable to existing railways? It was only the other day that he heard of a gentleman who got into a railway carriage and found hiineelf listed by the aide of a coup' o f 4 vim who TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETT DIVIDENDS DECLARED. l aw J. S. Christophers, merchant, East India-chambers , .'e - o ad hall. street—first div. of 2s. 6d. in the pound, April th any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. 1 3e King's Arms-yard, Coleman- street. dlf• Rev. R. F. Croughton, vicar, Melton Mowbray ----AJ ;4it• of 6s. in the pound, any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. I' more. Scl• T. B. Hall, grocer, Coggleshall, Essex — first div. of 2 8 u . in the pound, any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Gra''' . Coleman-st.eet. J. P. Davis, apothecary, Davies-street, Berkeley - etl' — ffice first div. of 20s. in the pound, any Wednesday , a t the ° of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. of e s fitl• L. Williams, woollen draper, Oxford — first div. •"; the in the pound, April 26, and three following Saturdays' office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane. 9d• S. Peach, grocer, Nottingham—first and final div. of 1 5 1 3ir , in the pound, any Thursday, at Mr. Christie's office, mingham. rtb er T. Daniell, copper smelter, Trelissick, Cornwall-- -0.1 „ t he div. of is. 6d. in the pound, in addition to 2s. ficl• o ffi c e of pound previously paid, any day after April 24, at the o Mr. Herneman, Exeter. toe, J. Watson, grocer,: Carlisle—first div. of 7s. in the P°f April 26, and any following Saturday, at the office ° Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. „ w oe, J. H. Heron, J. S. Heron, J. K. Heron, and A. cotton spinners, Manchester—final div. of id. in the P° %re. April 23, and subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Putt, Manchester. f H. Hardie, merchant, Manchester—final dividend o in he pound, April 23 and any subsequent WednesdBY' the office of Mr. Pott, Manchester. M. Atkinson, brinker, Temple Sowerby, Westtnore y is third and final div. of 7d. and 24-100th parts of a P ei gattlY the pound, in addition to 6s. 71d. in the pound e re o f Pr' declared, any Saturday after April 26, at the °the e Baker, Newcastle. upon -Tyne. • DIVIDENDS. et- At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-etrebajf-pa4 W. G. Clover, linen draper, Holborn, May 1 6, 4 1 a t eleven one—H. Wehnert, tailor, Leicester-square, MAY blaY 16 : —E. Green, tailor, Clifford-street, B on d-street' draper' at twelve—R. Underhill and J. Underhill , line' oatrie,,,r, Plymouth, May 9, at half-past eleven ,'"„A e'" ° cabinet maker, Lymington, May 13, at tw,- ter Butler, Witham, Essex, May 14, at half-pa it Bartlett, manufacturer, Goswell-street , twelve—W. Westrup and T. M. Cocksedge, millers, • l det, Crane, Shadwell, May 30, at eleven—J. Harding, t,;, 0 0, Farnham, Surrey, May 21, at half - past twelve—L. Rer:itlea wheelwright, Ballingdon, Essex, May 21, at 0ne...-J• t and N. Hadley, builders, Herne Bay, May 13, at halrol twelve—J. Andrews, stock broker, Threadneedle-str eet, wri f 22, at half-past twelve—G. Chapman. grocer, AYl e , s „ r `" May 22, at twelve—L, C. Lecesne, merchant, FeacP— buildings, Fenchurch-street,• May 22, at eleven. In the Country. t elef e° ' J. Johnston, miller, Anston, Yorkshire, May 22, at the Leeds District Court—C. Carter, miller, Saa,,'' e b- Leicestershire, at the Birmingham District Court--vi'e ton, ironmaster, Sedgley, Staffordshire, a ordshire, May 23, t Lim minghayn District Court—W. East, builder , Spaidi th tart colnshire, May 23, at one, at the Birmingham District t bolt' Wilkinson, draper, Hartlepool, Durham, May 1 , 5 „., t a past one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District LA''' o t tin Penny, mercer, Cockermouth, May 15 , at twelve, ato 9,00 er. .j e, a t Newcastle-upon Tyne District Court—C. Hu rt* S. Frodsham, merchants, Liverpool, May 15, at tertroiter, the Liverpool District Court—T. Hicfginson, Pa w/1 Cot° . Liverpool, May 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District to CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be e ll° the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. so d v W. Perkins, upholsterer, Portsea, May 13-- 4 .„*. 5 , Green, corn dealers, Berough-road, Southwark , atn• r gtee"' S. Humm, silk hat manufacturer, Brick-lane, Betl2,ll,''Pete°' May 27—J. and G. Hardy, grocers, Wisbeach , Cambridgeshire, May 20—H. P. Gray, horse dealer , '' 13 3 '.; street, Eaton- square, May 20—J. Ralph, innkeePer.% 107 May 15—T. Ferris, grocer, Wotton Basset, Wiltshir" )fei I5—J. Wells, carriers, Winchcomb, Gloucestershtrire'peet 16—T. Wilkinson, draper, Hartlepool, May 14- 7,-,‘',,e J. Dees, and J. Hogg, builders, Newcastle - upo n- kk 15—W. Coward, baker, Hartlepool, May 1441—',,,01er' woollen draper, Liverpool, May 15—S. Marshall, 31ei Hull, May 13—W. Hardisty, whitesmith, Wake&iotrit 14—J. and D. Hepworth, cotton warp dyers, Btrmi ter Yorkshire, May 13—T. and J. Darby, drysaltera , ham, May 13—J. Walker, builder, Jewry-street, 13...,t" May 13—H. Craven, corn miller, Wakefield, MAY dad a , T lie t Watt, merchant, Lime-street, City, May 13— • ~,,tee eh . Pe butcher, Harrow, May 13—J. Willer, licensed v 1- ,„, 0 0 0 "'" Windtor, May 13—J. E. Vardy, linen draper, ' May 13. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. a ras4l C. H. Deane and H. D'Usayer, professors of 1am. 7 .0 1° Regent-street—L. A. Clifford and G. Shorthouse, con merchants, Liverpool—J. Davie and J. Pitcher, i ti ,bitrc l : z Ipswich—C. W. Nicolay and J. Brown, chemists FeßoviVf street—T. and J. Carpenter, farmers, Tasburgh,'N°' De Whichello and F. Freshwater, grocers, Castle-street, ,toperdt ter-square—W. Wise and R. 3larter, umbrella stick North-court, Cowper-street, City- ' road —J. CrowtheArb-50100 Walker, scribbling millers, Leeds—J. Stubbs , E. 1 1 . P 5: and W. A. Stubbs (so far as regards W. A. Stubbs)" Chet; ter and H. Heritage, warehousemen, Bread-street. 00:, side—G. Cookes and E. S. Darvell, colonial brokert,lo: Tower-street--F. and T. Medhurst, weighing-mach ine it Denmark-street, Soho—C. N03, - es and J. S. Whitterti'ori, mongers, Coventry—J. and W. D. Pickworth, iro lll33 ,lep Waintleet, Lincolnshire—R. Shaw, E. N. B. Kirab:, H. Bedford, and J. Geddes, cut-glass manufaettLreli'oep„f, mingham—T. Morris and J. Ogden, printers , 9 ,1 - ii• s Moors, Lancashire—R. Connery, W. Hughes , anivoil- is Hughes, distillers, Chester—S. Hubbort and Or c i, mattress manufacturers, Old-street, St, Luke's-- - _,Jor l rs , and J. W. Davison, proprietors of the " Music": o 33ak e d, Dean-street, Soho—J. Poulton and T. Hills, cabi l3- . COPY* Chelmsford—J. and S. Carter, tailors, HolnaejOrcharl_., Cheshire—C. Brooke, S. Brooke, and J. Brooke, Robert-town, Yorkshire—T. Trainer and T. ISPLel li ' an X 4 l, Wiveliscombe, Somersetshire—T. Bennett, C. Br 31). Brain, coal masters, Forest of Dean—J. Cort and iron founders, Leicester—G. Simmons, jun. F. P'S s tdo and G. N. Simmons, attorneys, Truro (so fa ' r as I . "' Simmons, jun.) SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. A Die v e, Frazer and Sons, smiths, Inverness, April 29 allu—,ol3' at one, at the office of the Sheriff-clerk of I nveras-w Castle of Inverness. 00 aoP Lady Wynne and daughter arrive d in 140 early on Monday morning, by the General Steel IVO vation Company's Mail Packet Princess 1 3, 0" Hamburg. ----------" a.. BIRTHS. f 0 .4 On the 21st inst., at Cheater-square, the lady °- Pr' Ley, Esq., of a son. ‘Arllio tli On the 21st inst., in Walbrook, Mrs. Charles -1 t ., 9 41 nard, of a dauhter. At Sandgate g , Kent, the lady of F. Daniel Tjega" of a son. tli g MARRIED. p% , bi g ot, On the 22d inst., at All Saints, West Ham, Es s- E os Rev. John Stock, M.A., Vicar of Finching.field, p g., to Frederic, son of the late Samuel Francis Sosne 6 NY" of Stratford-green, and nephew to Joseph Somes, E s 4 ' __,,, Et 4 ' Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of Thomas W. 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