The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY AND OTHER BILLS ON
STANDING ORDERS.
Yesterday the standing orders were complied with in
the following cases :
Great Northern Railway—No. 1, bill for amendment
of acts.
Caledonian Railway—For branch from Pollock and
Govan to goods station of Glasgow and Greenock. Esti-
mated cost, 14,700/.

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Blackburn Railway—For extension of time.
Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Railway. For aban.
ment of a portion of the main line, and substitution of a
line to the Waterford and Limerick Railway, and other
purposes, at an estimated cost of 11,0001.

- Limerick and Foynes Railway and Lianelly Railway
Bills.

Hull and Holderness Railway—For a line between
these places, and working arrangements with the York
and North Midland Railway. Estimated cost, 110,0001.
London and Brighton and:South-Coast Railway—For
enlarging the London-bridge and Brighton stations,
widening the Montpelier bridge at Brighton, and con-
struction of the Crystal Palace Railway, including the
purchase of land. Estimated cost, 85,0001.
The other bills passed were—Bristol Waterworks (in-
crease of capital), Blackburn Gas, Limerick, Corpora-
tion) and East London Waterworks (to improve, supply
new aqueducts and reservoirs) at an estimated cost of
200,000/.

Isle of Wight Railway—Yesterday the standing
orders in the case of this undertaking were declared not
complied with. The proceedings extended over three
days, and excited considerable interest, on account of
the nature of the opposition. Messrs. Dorrington ap-
peared in support of the bill, and Mr. Wyatt on behalf
of the memorialists opposing it—viz., the Earl of Yar-
borough, Admiral Hawker, Rev. G. H. Ward, the
Queen's College, Oxford, Sir G. Seymour, and other
landowners and residents. The line proposes to run
from Ryde to Ventnor, 16-i miles, and from West Cow&
to Newport. 4i, at an estimated cost of 240,0001. The
allegations of non-compliance with the standiug orders
sustained were with reference to defective notice to land-
owners, misdescriptions of property, and of owners,
lessees, and occupiers in the books of reference. There
were six allegations of errors in the levels, varying from
5 feet to 10 feet in various portions of the line, sustained,
with two or three allegations of less importance relative
to omissions of written descriptions on the plans. The
subscription contract put in was signed to the extent of
181,0001., with 19,0051. paid up. The bill will be re-
ferred to the select committe on standing orders.
Malton and Dineld Junction—The standing orders
were declared not complied with, on the ground of undue
publication of notice of intention to amalgamate with
the York, Newcastle, and Berwick.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A ROMAN CATHOLIC
PRI/MT.—Considerable sensation has been caused among
the inhabitants of Salisbury and the immediate neigh-
bourhood during the last few days, from the fact of a
rumour having been circulated respecting a fracas which
occurred at the Romish Church of St Osmond, in that
city, followed by a public denunciation by the officiating
priest. The altercation which gave rise to the unplea-
santness occurred on Sunday the 30th ult., in the course
of the service, and in the face of the whole congrega-
tion, who were not a little astonished at the extraordi-
nary interruption of the proceedings occasioned by the
anger of the disputants. It appears that for some time
past there has been a considerable falling off in the
number of worshippers at St. Osmond's, and a conse-
quent diminution of the stipend of the priest ; but having
obtained the acquiescence of his ecclesiastical superiors,
the Rev. P. Kelly had lately commenced levying a small,
fixed sum in the shape of a rate upon the members of
his flock, indiscriminately, in order to make up the
deficiency. In collecting these contributions no oppo-
sition was manifested by any member of the com-
munion until he applied to Mr. Vandenhoff (brother
of the well-known tragedian), a respectable tradesman
of the town. Mr. Vandenhoff refused to comply with
the demand made upon him, on the ground that the
more affluent members should contribute according to

the extent of their means, and the poorer brethren
should do likewise ; thus making the burden fall
lighter on those who were least able to pay. The priest
went round on Sunday to make the collection, when Mr.
Vandenhoff openly refused to pay his contribution ; an
argument of some warmth then arose between them,
and the reverend gentleman proceeded straightway to the
altar, and publicly adverted in the strongest terms to
what had passed is reference to his refusal. A day or
two afterwards a bill was sent in to his contumacious
brother charging for masses said for the repose of the
soul of a deceased child, with an intimation that unless
the sum was immediately paid ulterior measures would
be taken for its recovery. The Rev. Mr. Kelly is about
to terminate his connection with the Catholics of Sails-
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bury ; however, in justice to him, it should be stated,
that the above circumstances have nothing whatever to
do with his removal.

EXTRAORDINARY DEPORTATION OF IRISH POOR.—Yes-
terday, at the meeting of the board of guardians of the
Holborn Union, Mr. S. Pearson brought before the
notice of the guardians the circumstances connected with
a boy named Jeremiah Carey and his sister, who had that
day been received into the workhouse in a state of desti-
tution. It appeared from the statement of the children
that, along with their father, they were inmates of the
Clonakilty Union workhouse, in the county of Cork, and
one day all the inmates were called together, and asked
who would like to go to England. The children and
their father were induced to do so, along with about
100 others. They were afterwards taken in carts to the
seaside, and put on board a ship ; and, after being two
days and two nights at sea, were landed in England,
the guardians paying the passage money for the whole of
them. They had since been wandering about England,
and their father died lately at Tonbridge, in Kent.
If such conduct had been practised in England,
the guardians would have rendered themselves
liable to an indictment and the infliction of a penalty,
and he was desirous of knowing if the law provided any
remedy in the case of Irish guardians sending over their
poor in such a wholesale manner—Mr. James, the
clerk to the board, stated that he did not think that the
act of Parliament forbidding such a practice affected
r
Ireland. It would be well to keep the children here for
tpheearspornesent
written
union 41. He proposed that a letter shoulds
be
circumstances, and
to the Poor-law Board, stating the c.irsc
continued as
w:i t nTeos s seen' difthtehme ybwa back ewnoeuelddedc
—Mr. G. Day seconded the resolution,
deprecated the wholesale deportation
then unanimously
this country.—The resolution
urging them to provide a remedy agaoliofnnitreimssuhcphacuopnedrsuctto.
adopted. and stro.ostngthlye
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takes out about 300,0001. in
Australia, via the Cape,
n ers and a full cargo.
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specie and jewellery,
sixty p• g ,
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morrow for
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The Hellespont, al
, vaill be followed by the Argo, a
about the first week in April.
NEW MINT OF AUSTRALIA.—The first appoint-
mentsTHE
connection with the proposed branch establish-
ment in
of a mint in Australia have fallen upon Messrs.
ew
Welch and Drury, senior clerks of the Census establish-
ment, who are nominated as accountants on probationary
duties at the Miut. It is understood that the assay
masters will be selected from the Bank of England, and
that the mechanical arrangements in the forming of a new,
mint establishment are in progress.
SNOW.—Snow fell yesterday in Southampton for the
first time krizg the Ppace of two years.