The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

Yeatermlay, after a reply from Mr. Merewetlier,
the committee of which Mr. Ingham is chairman posed the
bill of the Cork and Macroom Direct Railway, and nega-
tived those of the Cork. Blarney, and slacroom and Lee
Valley line. Mr. M'Lean, C.E., and other gentlemen were
examined by Serjeant Beßasis, Q.C., on the merits of the
proposed Cradley Heath and Dudley Railway, proposed to
comninniode with the iron and coal districts, at au estimated
cost of 120,000/. The case of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company's Junctions and Deviations Bill
wee closed at length in Mr. Woodd'a committee, and Mr.
Denison opened the opposition cue of the Sontli•Eastern
and Mid-Kent C'ompaniex General trafßc and engineering
I evidence wee continued to be taken in promotion of the
Sherborne Railway, which is opposed by the South-Western
and Exeter and Yeovil Railways, and a great MAU of similar
evidence was adduced in the other committees on the bills
of the Swansea and Beath Railway, the Cleveland Railway,
and the Newcastle and Tyne and Derwent Railway. The
Lords' Committee on the Barnsley Coal Railway were
further occupied all day in bearing evidence pro and rout the
merits of that measure. The following bill' have been
passed in the committee over which Lord Redeidale pre-
skies :—East Suffolk Railway, to grant power respecting the
lease of the line, to authoriae arrangemeute in the
term Union and Norfolk, and with respect to their share
capital ; South Wales Mineral Railway, to extend their line
to the Briton Ferry Docks, and to raise 30,00 W. ; and West
Midland and Severn Valley Railway, for a line from the
Severn Valley at Benthall and Aladeley to the Wellington
Junction at Lightmoor.

ITNITED LAW CLUES' SOCIETY.—We observe
that the twenty-fifth anniversary festival of this very ex.
celleet institution is announced to take place at the Free-
masons' Tavern on Friday, the 21st instant, under the
presidency of Sir Hugh Cairns, M.P., who, judging from
the list of stewards, will no doubt be well supported. The
institution is one of the beat, if not the best, of its kind in
existence, as evidenced by the increasing support which it
receive, from the profession generally, and the large
number of its members. The advantages it offers to that
part of the profeesieo for whose benefit it was established
are many and great ; among them the following stand
most prominent :—A weekly sum of If. is payable in came
of illness ; a superannuation extending as high as 14s. a
week on • member becoming incapacitated from work
601. is, on the death of a member, paid to his friends,
arid 251. is osyable on the death of his wife ; also the use
of an excellent library; and a casual fund is kept up
which is not confined exclusively to members, but from
which they have the first claim to temporary assistance ie
the event et adversity or misfortune. Were the advan-
tages better known, the number of the members of the
society would, we are sure, be even than at reseni..
CAPTURE OP • SUPPOSED ig:I7DLIBIL —Ernest
Brown, charged with embezzling 10,0001. from • Ann in
Throgroorton-street, Lorries, has been captured at Mena
by detective Spittal, who has brought him back is the
City.