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advantage in time and speed, on the public. The bill ought
to be carefully investigated upstairs in committee. The
bill had successfully passed that house, but was lost in the
House of Lords through the opposition of landowners.
Mr. M. MILNES deprecated the practice of bringing
forward these kind of bills year after year, and thus putting
the landowners and others to enormous expenses.
Mr. NORRIS would, as in 1861, vote in favour of the
bill. The house ought not to permit landowners to stand
in the way of the construction of an important public
work,
Mr. MASSEY said it was quite true that the bill was
carefully investigated by that house in 1861, and ultimately
thrown out of the House of Lords, but surely that
house was as competent to judge of the necessity of the bill
as the Upper Horse. Since 1861, he understood the
opposition of one of the most important of the land-
owners had been withdrawn. He considered that
the bill ought to be referred to a committee up stairs. The
promoters were, he thought, specially entitled to the favour
of the house. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. LYGON explained, as cone of the members of the
committee of 1861 on the bill, that it met the approval of a
large majority of the committee.
Mr. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN said his name was
on the bill, and he desired to say it was not exactly the same
bill as 1861. Since that period the company had made ar-
rangements with some of those who had heretofore opposed
it. The bill should be referred to a committee up stairs.
Col. KNOX opposed the bill. He could not understand
how 20 minutes could he saved in three-quarters of a mile.
(Laughter.) He thought the house ought not to let rich
railway companies tire out legitimate opponents in the
way it was asked to do. The promoters ought to pay
the expense to which opponents had been put before they
were allowed to proceed.

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Sir B. BRYD-GES denied that the bill would be of any
real public benefit. The landlord who had not agreed with
the company was not residential. The opponents had al-
ready been put to an expense of £5,000, and it would be too
bad to make them pass again through the ordeal of opposi-
tion, and to incur the like expenses. (Divide, divide.)
Mr. CORBALLY intimated that the case before the
house strongly indicated that a new mode of legislating
with respect to private bills was desirable. The President
of the Board of Trade intended to-night to move for a select
committee on the subject, which would remedy, he hoped,
the evils complained of in the, course of this discussion.
The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading
Against

Majority . 11.

The bill was consequently lost.
PRIVATE BILL FEES.
Mr. R. HODGSON then rose to propose rescinding so
much of the table of fees charged at the House of Commons
(under the standing order of the house passed in 1852 as
multiplies the fees payable on the petition, first, second,
and third readings, and report of private bills, according to
the money to be raised or expended under the authority of
such bills—the reduction to take effect in respect of private
bills introduced in the present session.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]

LONDON GAZETTE—This Evening.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE, FEB. 16.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has been
pleased to make the following appointments in his house-
hold :.—To be Honorary Chaplains—The Rev. Arthur
Penrhyn Stanley, D.D., Canon of Christ Church, Oxford,
the Rev. Charles Kingsley, M. A , the Rev. Henry Mil-
dred Birch, M.A., the 11,-v. Charles Feral Tarver, M.A.
To be Physicians in Ordinary—William Jenner, Esq.,
M.D., Edward Sieve King, Esq., M.D. To be Surgeons
in Ordinary—J ames Paget, Esq., George Pollock, Esq.
To be Surgeon Extraord nary—John Minter, Esq., R.N.,
M.D., F.R.C.S. To be Honorary Physicians—Thomas
King Chambers, Esq., M.D., William Henry Acland, Esq.,
Alexander Armstrong, Esq., M.D., R.N.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 14.
The; Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Brougham
Loch, Esq., C. 8., to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of
Man, in the room of Francis Pigott.Stainsby Conant, Esq.,
deceased.

WHITEHALL, FEB. 17.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Reverend
Charles; William Maude to the rectory of Munden Magna,
in the county of Hertford, and in the diocese of Rochester,
void by the death of the Reverend Henry Dawson.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, FEB. 16.

The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Edward
Hyde Hewett, Esq., to be her Majesty's Vice-Consul at
Loanda.

CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 16.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT. _

County of Cambridge—George John Manners, Esq.
(commonly called Lord George John Manners), in the
room of Edward Ball, Esq., who has accepted the office of
Steward or Bailiff of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, FEB. 17.
10th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Sir Sydney John
Cotton, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General
Thomas Burke, deceased.
WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Feb. 17.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Lieutenant Frederick John
George Hill to be Second Captain, vice Balfour, pro-
moted; Lieutenant Robert Charles Walter Campbell to
be Second Captain, vice Frederick Sydney Maude, de-
ceased ; Quartermaster-Sergeant Joseph Vignaux to be
Quartermaster, vice John Cass, retired from half-pay;
the first Christian name of Lieutenant Feilden is Haugh-
ton, not Houghton, as stated is Gazette of 6th instant.
BREVET—Quartermaster John Cass, retired upon half-
pay, Royal Artillery, to have the honorary rank of Cap-
tain,

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
Win. Kerr Howatt, draper, New Windsor

BANKRUPTS.
The following are the only bankrupts of any importance
in the Gazette of last evening:—
Edward Murruss, licensed victualler, Maidstone
John Keyse, draughtsman, Newington
William Fryer, shoe manufacturer, Norwich
Samuel Nichols, jeweller, Birmingham
William Nicholson, tailor, Bedford
John Cassidy, plumber, Huddersfield
Elihu Price, merchant, Birmingham
Thomas A. Turner, currier, Birmingham
Daniel Ward, engineer, Bridport
Thomas Rider, commission agent, Manchester
John Clayton, farmer, Chesterfield
Elias Bucuris, publican, Everton
Wm. Collins, farmer, Burn-bridge, near Selby
John Masters, carpenter,
Weymth
Devonshire
Robert Spencer, farmer, Milton Abbott,
Richard K. Adams, baker, Southampton
James Clarke, butcher, Exeter
Edwin Hanson, carver, Bradford
George Stansfield, farmer, Idle, Yorkshire
John Dent, carpenter, Atherstone
John Fermor, builder, Bushey-heath, Herefordshire
Thomas Thomas, draper, Bayswater-road
Samuel Adams, farmer, Great Waltham
SCOTCH BANKRUPTS.
Thomas Jackson, innkeeper, Inver, near Dtmkeld
Alex. Todd. tailor, Forfar
Johu Dow Bell, farmer, Rashiehall, near Balbeggie
John Munro (Bain), farmer, Springfield, Alness