The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday, on the re-assembling of the committees,
Mr. Burke and Mr. Millward having been heard on
both sides, the committee decided on passing the bill
for the Maryport and Carlisle, and rejecting that of
the Whitehaven Junction and Cockermouth and
Workington. The case of the Dover, Deal, and
Sandwich Railway was called on in Mr. Ingham's
committee. Mr. Calvert appeared for the promoters,
and Mr. Round for the London, Chatham, and
Dover, and Mr. Somerset for the Dover and Deal
Railway, who compete with it and oppose. The ob-
ject of the bill is to .nake three new railways—the
first of nine miles from the London, Chatham, and
Dover, near to its Shepherds-well station, to the
South-Eastern at Deal; the second of two miles, from
the first at Eastry to the South-Eastern at Sandwich
station; and the third from the first to the west bank
of the Stour in Sandwich. They propose to raise
£llO,OOO in shares and £36,000 loan. Witnesses were
examined as to the local traffic in favour of the line,
and Mr. Wilson by Mr. Denison as to its engineering
features. The committee on the bills of the Great
Eastern partly settled the clauses, and adjourned
the further consideration of them until Monday. The
bill for the Ely, Haddenham, and Sutton Rail-
way was withdrawn. A committee consisting of
Mr. Dodson, chairman of Ways and Means, Mr. C.
W. Packe, Mr. Kinnaird, Mr. T. Miller, and M.
Vivian, and Mr. Buchanan,considered and passed the
following bills :—lpswich and Felixstow, for a rail-
way of 11 miles from the Great Eastern Wester-
field Station to Felixstow.; Preston and Wyre, to
widen and lay down additional rails on the Black-
pool branch ; Buckfastleigh and Totness, for a line
from Buckfastleigh to Ashburton, to- raise £48,000
by shares and £16,000 by loan; Whitehaven, Cleator,
and Egremont, for tramways to the mineral dis-
tricts of Egremont, and to raise £20,000 ; Mistley,
Thorpe, and Walton, to enable the Great Eastern
to subscribe £20,000 to the undertaking ; Hexham
and Allendale, for a line of 12 miles between these
points and of seven miles at Allenheads, to raise
£120,000, and borrow £40,000.
The referees were engaged in hearing witnesses
and counsel on the engineering and other features of
the following bills, with a view of reporting them to
the Select Commitees :—King's Lynn Docks and
Railway, Lynn and Sutton-bridge Railway ; Fur-
ness, Whitehaven, and Furness ; Surrey and Sussex
Junction, Fareham and Netley Railway, and Al-
cester and Stratford-on-Avon Railway. The bill for
the Sussex Central Railway was withdrawn.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—March 9.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-31Aucx 9.
APPEALS.
MACKINTOSH V. SMITH.

In this case, which comes before the house as. a bill of
exceptions from the ruling 'of the Judge Ordinary in Scot-
land, affirmed by the Court of Session, in the trial of an
action raised by the appellant for an alleged illegal deten-
tion by the respondents in a lunatic asylum, the arguments
were resumed. At the close of the appellant's case,
Their lordship; without hearing the respondent's coun-
sel, affirmed the decision of the court below, and dismissed
the appeal.

BOLDER° V. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.
The arguments in this part heard case, which is an appeal
from a decision of Lord Chancellor Campbell, refusing to
admit a claim of the appellant to a refund of his subscrip-
tions to the Bengal Civil Service Annuity Fund, fromwhich
he received an annuity, were resumed and concluded. The
case was fully reported a few days since.
Judgment was postponed.

ROLLS' COURT.
(Before the Master of the Rolls.)
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON V. LORD ROBERT MONTAGU.-

PRIVATE LETTERS.

This was an ex parte application for an injunction by the
present Duke of Wellington against Lord Robert Montagu
to prevent him from publishing certain private letters Of
the late Duke and Duchess of Wellington under the follow-
ing circumstances :—lt appears that the late Duke and
Duchess were both confidential friends of the late Lady
Olivia Sparrow, of whom Lord Robert Montagu is now the
legal representative. In his character as such representa-
tive Lord R. Montagu became possessed of the letters in
question, and offered them for sale to the trustees of the
British Museum. In the month of February, in this year
the present Duke of Wellington received a communication
from Sir Roderick Murchison, informing him of the offer
made by Lord R. Montagu to sell the letters to the Museum,
and of the refusal of the Museum trustees to purchase them
on the ground of their being private letters. Sir Roderick
Murchison at the same time told the Duke that the letters
were left at the Museum in the custody of Mr. Bond for
the purpose of valuation. On the Duke of Wellington re-
ceiving this information he wrote to Lord Robert Montagu
for an explanation, and received the following letter in
answer :

"My dear Duke,—Perhaps you may remember that last
summer, when you were riding and I was walking in Rot-
ten-row, I offered you the letters referred to, but it seemed
to me that you did not care for them. I would never have
offered them for sale without having done so, nor would I
do so now, only that a house agent threatened an action
for commission, and I had to pay an enormous demand
which I cannot liquidate. Your letter was accompanied
by a letter from the British Museum, stating that they pro-
pose to treat for all the other MSS., excepting the Duke of
Wellington's letters, &c. I will write and ask what part of
the £llO they will pay for the rest, and hand the other let-
ters to you for the remaining sum.—Yours very faithfully,
"ROBERT MONTAGU."
Upon Lord Robert Montagu writing further, and informing
the Duke that Mr. Bond had valued the letters at £BO, the
Duke wrote to Lord R. Montagu protesting against the sale
or publication of the letters, and maintaining that the course
pursued by Lord R. Montagu was not only improper, but
illegal, inasmuch as, although the letters were the property
of Lord R. Montagu, as the heir to the party to whom they
were written, the Duke, as representative of his father and
mother, had the right of forbidding the publication of them,
and that "the mere showing of them was publication."
On the 3d of the present month of March the Duke re-
ceived the following letter from Lord R. Montagu :
"My dear Duke,—As a matter of courtesy I will let you
see the letters in Mr. Bond's office in the Britis h Museum ;
but not as a matter of right. I reserve the pr ice that I shall
now ask for them.—Yours sincerely,

" ROBERT MONTAGU."

In answer to a letter from the Duke to Lord R. Montagu,
requesting an order to see the letters at the British
Museum, the latter thus writes:—
"Dear Duke,—An order is not necessary to enable you
to see the letters at the office of Mr. Bond, where I have
left them for your inspection on any day before 4 o'clock ;
but they must not be removed. I find that the real value
of them is considerably more than £BO. I have no wish to
sell them to you ; it is out of courtesy to you that I delay
selling them elsewhere, in order to give you an opportu-
nity of purchasing them.—Yours truly,

- _
"ROBERT MONTAGU."
The present bill was filed to restrain the sale or publica-
tion of the letters above referred to, on the ground that
they were private letters of the late Duke and Duchess of
Wellington to a personal friend ; that the present Duke
was the legal representative of the writer of such letters,
and that the sale or publication of the letters would be a
breach of private confidence and a -violation of the social
rights and immunities that should always attach to letters
of such a class.

His Honour granted an interim order until Thursday
next, and directed a copy of the bill and notice of motion
for that day to be served on Lord Robert Montagu.
Mr. Selwyn, Mr. Hobhouse, and Mr. Osborne Morgan
appeared in the case.

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Bays very It is ten o'clock :
' Thus we may see,' quoth he, "how the world wags."'

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