The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-02 00:00:00

Mr. DARBY presented a petition from a parish in Kent
in favour of the South- Eastern Railway Bill.
Captain PEC HELL presented several petitions in
favour of the Bill.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL then rose for the
e purpose
of calling the attention of the House to theP tit i oin
the case of the South Eastern Railway Company. The
Ilouse would recollect that it was a petition in behalf of
the South Eastern Railway Company. He would trouble the
House very shortly. A 13i1l had been introduced, and the
standing orders were not complied with, and he now
applied to have the standing orders dispensed with.
The execution of the plan had progressed to a considerable
should
extent, and if this applicationbe refused, the Bill
would be delayed until next year, and great inconvenience
would arise. All parties were agreed, and there WAS no
moved dissentient voice. He therefore that the Bill be al-
lowed to proceed.
Mr. HODGES felt grateful to the Hon. Baronet
\ir.
rl for
having brought forward this proposition in
absence. The circumstances under which the question
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originally presented itself to the Standing Orders
now quite different from what they were at that time, for
now there was no opposition whatever to the measure.
Mr. BA RNEBY said the proceedings in this case were
unprecedented. There was a Bill, No 1, which passed
the Standing Orders Committee,. and No. 2 did not, the
Committee reporting that in their opinion the Standing
Orders ought not to suspended. He thought:this was.a new
Bill, and the Speaker ought to give his opinion, in order
to guide the House to a sate decision. The Bill proposed
a deviation from the original line of upwards of three miles,
and the parties would not have fair play if the Bill
were allowed to pass, fur thry had been deprived of the
notice required by the orders.
Mr. HODGES rose to answer, but he was inter-
rupted by
Mr. I3A RNEBY, who spoke to order. The lion.
Member had already had one speech upon the Bill, and it
was ag,inst the rules of the House that he should have
another.
Sir C. BURRELL said the objection of the Standing
Orders Committee was merely technical, and ought not to
prevail when all the parties interested were consenting to
the alteration.
Captain PE CEIE L L. The great opposition to this
Bill was from the London and Birmingham Railway Com-
pany. They had withdrawn all their opposition, and were
now in favour of the line, as were all the parties whose
land was to be af'Ected. He therefore hoped the House
would not agree to defeat the Bill upon a mere technical
point.
Mr. DARBY said the parties who opposed the first line
were pettitioners for the second. He thought that no
parties could be taken by surprise.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL said the Bill now before the
House was the one in which all the Standing Orders had
been complied with.
The SPEAKER said it was a very strong proposition
to transfer the substance of a Bill, as to which
the Standing Orders had not been complied with to a
Bill in which they had been complied wih. He
considered the least objectionable course would be to ask
the House to allow the latter Bill to be proceeded with.
On the motion of Sir E. KNATCHBULL the debate
was then adjourned till Monday.
The Rochdale Water-works Bill was received.
Mr. H. BERKLEY presented a petition, in which he
said he could not concur, from Bristol, praying that
Robert Owen be beard before that House as to his new
philosophy.—(Laughter.)
Mr. BLACKSTONE presented a petition from Wal-
lingford against the power given to magistrates to support
Popish chaplains for gaols.
Lord A. LENNOX presented a petition from Cbi.
chester praying for an extension of religious instruction on
I the principles of the Church of England.
IMr. THORNELY presented a petition in favour of a
penny postage.
Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from a parish
in the County of Lanark, praying for an extension of the
Church of Scotland.
Mr. COLQUHOLTN presented three petitions to the
satire effect.
Lord G. SOMERSET presented a petition agreed to
at a county meeting in 'Monmouth, praying that no system of
national education might be established, unless it were