The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN
PARLJAmszfr.

Yesterday, after a conferetce with counsel
cad the prcdoesional parties promoting the annieroas bills
for the new metropolitan railways, the committee decided
cm dividing them into two separate mum, so sa to abbre-
viate the labour and facilitate the objects of the isquhy,
Bodies that at their present rate of progress, if all the T 3
schemes before them had to be dealt with and decided by
one committee, oes half the erosion would be oonaumed,
sad that they would not be able to get through them in
sufficient time to enable the promoters to comply with the
imperative standing order of the House of Lads, which
requires that no bill should be read a eroond
time in that house after 12th Jane. Under these

oiremostsoms sod the proposed altered arrangement it was
resolved that the DOW group or committee, the members of
which will have to be appointed. should have aasigned to
them for consideration the following oodertakings :—North
Loodon Railway (Kingsland sod Totteoham hoe), Totten-
ham and Hampstead, losidoe aod Brightos (new
Metropolitan Railway (Nottiag•bill and Brompton Eaten-
Moo), sod Metropolitan Railway (Trinity souse* Ertession),
leaving the others to be dealt with by the original room-
mittee.

Mr. Berke then opened the case of the proposed new
exteosioos of the London, Chatham, sod Dover Railway,
oe the south side of London. These consisted brat ofs line
of 1 mile 75 chains and diverose of existing railways se or
err Battersea, culled the Barrer works, sad other rail-
ways and alterations of authorised railways at and seer
Beres-hill, else a widening fora leagth of one mile of •
portion of the company's weetend seers from the Wands-
worth-road to Shepherd's-lame, Brixton, snob works celled
the southern works to become part of the westead seeks
of the oropany's Metropolitsa litensions, together with an
intense. to 000neet the compaey's authorised Greenwich
line with the North Kent line of the South Easter, to he
celled the Kent works, sad to berate part cf the seaters •
✓atios of the Metropolitan Exteusioa. The company pro-
pose to raise for the Kest works 220,0001. by eastern sea
Lion share, 1864, is the Metropolitan Extensions, looters
section, and 73,0001. by mortgage of the Easters notion,
and 100,0001. by general preference shares, to be applied is
discharge of further sneers of dividends on the guantoteed
capital of 500,000/. created under the Extension to Dover
Act, and to be redeemed, together with 60,000& raised in
1861, in 15 years after the passing of the bills. The evidence
of Sir C. Fox, ',ogres of the line, occupied the remainder
of the day. The committee on the bill of the London and
North Weiler. RailwayCompaay, for improving the preset
traffic arrangements between England and Ireland, after
wooed in opposition for the ershire sail York.
stellw Ls
aachester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, sad Great
Northers, rand the bill subject to the insertion
of provisions in favour of opposing intense.
The bill for the proposed Blackpool and Fleetwood Rail-
way was thrown out, and the case for the Kooteod sad
Gazers/ Railway epees& Continuous *riders on reseal
meets was taken le the committees on the Bristol Central
Station Railways, cis the Portpatrick Railway, Girt Nor.
there forensics from Lincoln to Bourn), end Wrexham.
Mold, and Ommiales Quay Railway. The committee on the
new Money Desks, at an estimated oast of 875,000 k, pared
that measure apart from any decision as to the orrice of
tonere, rates, and does. The bill for the Nottingham Or
also went through. Lord Donoughenors'a committee set to
cousider the Birmingham end Staffordshire Gas Bill; and
the Earl of Carearre's committee examined the Duke of
Devoashire and others on the proposed Ashes and !Maly-
bridge Waterworks. The committee on the Millwall Carl
and Docks intimated an opinion in favour of the bill, pro-
vided satisfactory proof wen given of complete ooroplience
with the reading orders.

LONDON IssTrrtrrioN. —The fifty -ninth annual
meeting of the proprietors of this institution was held yes-
terday in the lecture theatre of the institution, Paisbory.
cerium; Mr. T. Basis', M.P., in the chair. Mr. 11* ILP.,
the secretary, read the report, which righted that the
attention of the =angers had been directed to obtainies
a better supply of new and popular work; and there are
now 600 volumes ferniaird for distribution by the Library
Company. Tie permanent library and collections are in •
complete and effective conditioo. The lectures delivered
during the somas bare excited general interest amid diffused
much information, especially those on chemistry and botany,
sod the laboratory experiments of Professor Lankly') have
been productive of valuable results. Tie committee had come
to the resolution of opposing the various schemes for form-
ing a railway terminus in Finsbury-elms, as likely to prove
highly injurious to the newest' of the inetitutioe. The
financial statement showed the total receipts for the year b 7
subscriptions, &c., to be 3,3701, 16; 11d., and thee:peed'.
cure to be 2,5791. 7s. ; lorries 7911. 9a. 11d. bales= on the
year. The chairman bevies moved tie adoption of the
report, mum oragestiou were made by various proprietors
foe improvements in the niaaagornent of the imitsturieo,
which the chairman promised ehould be takes into eau-
sideration. The report was thee adopted. The retirieg
member@ of the committee having been re-elected, the
meeting concluded with • vote of thanks to the chained's.
TKIHDI7I TO THE MENOST OF THE LATE RICHARD
ROSIsTS.—As influential meeting was held yesterday at the
haw of the Society of Arts, to consider the moat appro-
priate mean of testifying to the guarel mese of the im-
portant services readeeed by the late Mr. Richard Roberta
to manufactories industry sad the arts. Tie followiag
solutiou was proposed by William Yairbaina, LLD.,
PLS., seconded by Mr. Thomas Baskry, /LP., and carried
uminiutotiely. :—"2'hat this meeting is of opinion that the
emimint services which Mr. Richard Roberts kes murdered
to the manufacturieg industry of this 'matey and the world
at large by his useful invention; deemed some sabsteatial
and permanent record, and that the most appropriate tit.
buts to his memory would be in the first iseteue to
provide for the iodepeadeoce of his only daughter, and that
for this purpose a feed be raised by public atbscriptioa."
The following noblesnes sod gentlemen were appointed •
ounniibtee to carry the above resolution into effect :—Mis
Graft tie Duke of flotherlaad, the Earl of Caithness, Lord
Stanley, M.P., Lord Alfred Churchill, M.P. Sir Edward
Belcher, C. 8., Mr. Tboame Beale , Mr. John Pon-
der, M.P., Dr. Fairbeisa, Funk, Mr. &rah Col.
burs, Mr. Beenesa Weedereft, Mr. Thome, Lobster, Mr. J.
?names, Mr. P. Le Neve Foster, ion. sect, and abets.
A CRIURCH CoNtsCSAlrloff IN TES ZTENING.—
The Bishop of Leedom bes axed tie 'ragtag of May 25
tor the immunities cif 81. Pura aural; is the parish
of Pa. llastkies, Betimil-peee, it ceder that the
weal/tar rosy be presoak for whose spiritual use it is
5001. are still required to complete tie
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