The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday, after twenty days' sitting, the com-
mittee over which Mr. Puller presides passed the
bill of the West Riding, Hull, and Grimsby
Railway Company, subject to the insertion of
clauses giving running powers over the Wake-
field, Leeds, and Halifax line, and for the use of the
Leeds Central and Bradford and Halifax stations.
They were not prepared to concede clauses giving
the new company running powers between Bow-
ling-green and Halifax, on the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, but only such running powers to the
Great Northern between Doncaster and Wakefield
and on the branch that adjoins the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, near Oakenshaw. The other clauses are
to be considered to-day. In Lord Stanley's Com-
mittee on the Wellington and Cheshire Railway,
and the Wellington, Drayton, and Newcastle com-
peting line, the Committee passed so much of the
preamble of the first bill as relates to the line be-
tween Wellington and Market Drayton, and so
much of the preamble of the second bill as relates
to the line between Market Drayton and Silver-
dale, thus dividing the route between them, but
ignoring the remaining portions of their projects.
The case of the Llanidloes and Newtown, Mid-
Wales, and Manchester and Milford Railways, for
a new line for Llanidloes, uniting with the Mid-
Wales and Manchester and Milford, with a joint
station for the three companies at Llanidloes, and
to raise £33,000, was opened by Mr. Merewether
and Mr. Davidson. After hearing evidence, and
Mr. Wordsworth, Q.C., for the West Midland and
Colonel Farmer, the bill was agreed to, and the
clauses settled. Further evidence in favour of the
Bristol and Clifton Railway occupied Mr. Adair's
Committee. The opposition of the Caledonian
Railway to the proposed amalgamation of the
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee, and West of Fife
railways with the North British is now under con •
sideration. The bills of the Horsham, Dorking,
and Leatherhead Railway, Hereford, Hay, and
Brecon, and Burton-on• Trent railways were passed
in Mr. Massey's Committee; and those of the Dun-
dee and Perth and Dundee and Newtyle railways,
for power to raise £lOO,OOO, and the Uxbridge and
Rickmansworth, in the Lords.
THAMES EMBANKMENT.—Yesterday, in Mr. Cow-
per's Committee, Mr. Bazalgette, Engineer to the
Metropolitan Board of Works and the Main Drain-
age of the Metropolis, deposed that in 1860 he, in
conjunction with Mr. Hemans, submitted a plan to
Parliament for a solid embankment from West-
minster to Blackfriars-bridge very similar to that
now proposed by the promoters of the bill before
the committee, together with a road to the Mansion-
house, and to carry the great low level sewer, at an
approximate cost of £30,000, along the embank-
ment from Victoria-street-west to Cannon-street.
The coffer-dam used for the embankment would
enable them to construct the sewer.

L. 4 IN2ELLIGENCE.-111a! 20.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
EYRE V. BURMESTER.

This was an appeal from the Court of Chancery,
in Ireland, and was argued on the 6111 and 7th of
April last, and judgment postponed.
The matter involved is connected with the nu-
merous transactions of the late John Sadleir; and
the short facts divested of any extraneous matter
are as follows. In July, 1855, John Sadleir, being
then the chairman of the London and County
Bank and a member of Parliament, was indebted to
the bank about £20,000, for which the bank held
ample security. Janes Sadleir, his brother, who
was the managing director of the Tipperary Bank,
applied on his behalf to the solicitor of the bank
for a further loan of £90,000, which he offered to
secure on certain estates in Ireland. The applica-
tion was duly considered by a committee of the
bank, and a proposition made by James Sadleir for
the gradual liquidation and ultimate extinguish-
ment of the debt due from John Sadleir was laid
before them. It was to the effect that property of
the value of from £450,000 to £480,000 should be
assigned to three trustees, of whom James Sadleir
was to be one, the other two to be chosen from the
directors of the bank; that the trustees should have
power to sell as speedily as possible so much of
John Sadleir's property as should liquidate. any
advances which might be made by the bank, and
also the debt then due to the same ; that the bank
should advance to the trustees so much money. net
exceeding £lOO,OOO, as should discharge all the
outstanding liabilities of John Sadleir ; that a debt
of £40,000 due by him to the Tipperary Bank
should stand over until all the liabilities
due to the London and Corinty Bank were
paid ; that the Tipperary Bank should gua-
rantee the London and County Bank against.
any ultimate loss for advances to, and the
existing debt of, John Sadleir at the end of
18 months at the latest. James Sadleir also repre-
sented that there were freehold properties of the
value of £174,000 which could be realised before
the following December for the purpose of pay-
ment to the bank, and also a mortgage, called the
£C9llo3,no(ol°os, beforeinoil that
gage which was a good security for
time, by its being transferred
to another person, hut if that could nut be effected,
it could be paid off Eby the produce of sales of the
onMarquisths ;
and of
e rtts not being realised
y within eighteen
svenprotopf i
in the course of the then year, it might be adopted
months
eihna nr
bdeo se
by the link, if it chore, in part liquidation of John
Sadleir's debt ; and it was stated that there would
he abundance of surplus property beyond the
£174,000 and the 19000 which it was proposed
that the trustees should realise. In the result, cer-
tain estates were conveyed to the respondent Bur-
mester, who was and is a director of the London
and County Bank, and other trustees, James
Sadleir being one of them, and a sum of £95,000
was cgreed to bo advanced by the bank on that
security. In August, 1855, when the solicitor of
the bank applied to have deeds of conveyance
registered in Dublin, it was discovered that the
estates had been previously mortgaged to the apel-
lanr, Thomas J 1 EOctober, 1854. John
Sadleir, Jose 3•re, in
however, induced Eyre to execute a release
to him of the prior mortgage on his substituting
shares in a Swedish r.l
as a security. After
ai w. aa: s
the death of John 6 the
representatives
Sadleir, in February, 18a
representatives of the County Bank
proceeded to
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sell the estates in the Ib
rd Estates Court in
Ireland, but were met byi ebjeecbtesy d
bE y
yr ethat
the release he had executedan
o was
obtained
tain
fraud,
and that the shares which e - were substituted as his
security were forged and fictitious.
The Judge of