The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday the referees reassembled in committee-room
No. 11—Mr. Dodson, Chairman of Ways and Means, pro-

siding.
Tho case of the Havant, Hambledon, and Droxford Rai

way was called on, Mr. Johnson appearing as counsel for
the promoters, who apply to be empowered to make rail-
ways of seven miles, from a junction with the Brighton
Railway, near the Havant Station, to Hambledon, and an-
other of four miles from the latter place to the Peters&ld
and Bishops-Waltham Railway at Droxford ; to raise
£150,000 in shares and £50,000 by loans; with running
powers over neighbouring railways. Reversing the order
of proceeding in all previous Sessions the Chairman called
on the opponents of the Bill, who, together with the
promoters, are restricted to the employment of one
counsel, to state the grounds of their objection. Mr.
Clarke was about to address the committee on behalf
of the London and South Western against the bill,
but the committee decided that they had no locus standi.
The other opponents of the Bill were the Petersfield and
Bishops-Waltham Railway, represented by Mr. Mere-
wether, Q.C., on the ground of insufficient engineering, the
junction proposed to be effected being at a gradient of 1 in
80 for a mile and a half, and by Mr. Cripps, for the Hon. 3/Ir.
Dutton, Lady Napier, Mr. Thistlethwaite and others, on the-
ground of residential damage. Mr. Collister, C.E., was ex-
amined at considerable length against, and Mr. Ashdown,
C.E., in favour of the engineering features of the under-
taking, and the case, which occupied three hours and a half,
closed, and the referees adjourned.
In the cases heard before Mr. Frere, the bill of the Peter-
borough, Wisbeach, and Sutton Railway for extensions to
Upwell and Crowland, was declared to have complied with
tha standing orders, and the bill of the Waterford and
Passage not to have so complied,

It is stated in a letter from Bremen of the 24th,
that in consequence of a rescript of the Hanoverian Go-
vernment, Prussian notes will no longer be received
at the telegraphic office in Hanover. This measure
has no doubt been taken by way of retaliation for
the establishment of branch Prussian banks abroad.

The King of the Belgians has just decreed the
erection of a statute to David Tethers, the painter,
on one of the public squares at Antwerp. The
State will contribute a sum of 18,000 fr. towards
the cost. M. Ducaju, a sculptor of Antwerp, is
charged with the execution of the work.
BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—HOMO 3 Tathic practitioners,
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doe-
trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country
there were to be obt feed no preparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied to the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
tlomceopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1819 to turn
hls attention to this subject, and at leni,th succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes
thro :gh, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, gi ateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
clods aroma. Dr. Hassa,l, in his work, "Food and its
Adulteratio 5," says —"Cocoa contains a great variety of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingrediP,it necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured
is tin-lined ilb., fib., and 11b. labelled packets, and sold by
all grocers, confectioners, and chemists.—[ADVT.]