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carried cheaper on this Railroad than On any other in
Northumberland. He hoped the House would now -agree
to consider of the Report.
Colonel SIBTHORP opposed the Bill.
Mr. CHAPMAN also opposed the 8111.
Mr. INGHAM Supicorted'the Bill.
Sir M. W. RIDLEY could fully explain the regulations
of this Railroad. It had been an invariable custom
from time immemorial in Northumberland, Durham, and
the Teat coal districts, that the ooal owners were
obligedr to come to some agreement with the landlords,
to enable them to make railways for carrying coals over
the land of the different individuals to the place of ship-
ment. They were obliged to make separate and distinct
arrangements with every landlord. This railway would
interfere with these agreements, which had been made for
centuries, and the landowners, whose property was thus
destroyed, felt that the proprietors of this railway were
called upon in justice to make some compensation
for carrying the coals on the public railway, and compelling
the landowners to give up the advantages which they de-
rived from the private railways. This was the whole Mys-
tery of the opposition to this railway. The chief object of
the Bill was to enable the coal-owners to convey
their coal with greater facility than they had hitherto
been able to do.—(Hear, hear.) He only wished that
the House should be disabused on the subject before it
came to a decision,
After a observations from Mr, Bell and Mr. G. F.
Young in explanation, strangers wore ordered to withdraw.
The Gallery was then cleared for a division, when there
appeared—
For the original motion
For the Amendment
3lajorit
YORK AND Nown. MIDLAND RAILWAY.
On the further consideration of this 13111 being moved,
Mr. POTTER proposed a clause of which he had given
notice, to the effect, that no • railway shall be made across
any street or highway, or public bridle-way, or footpath on
the level without the consent :n writing of some two justices
of the peace for the county, acting for the division within
which the street, &c., so t 9 be crossed shall be situate,
After a few words from Mr. PARKER and Sir J. BECKETT,
Mr. BAINES said the objectigns felt by the people of
Leeds to the Bill, had been reillived in a great measure,
and they had that day confirmed their favourable opinion
of it by sending a petition, signed by 10,000 persons
in favour of it, although the petition had boon .only
three days exposed for signature, although Leeds would be
subjected to all the inconveniences of which the people of
S!ieffi?.ld had complained. He was glad to hear from his
Hon. and Learned Friend that an arrangement satisfactory
to all parties was in progress, and it would give to Sheffield
the advantages which were sought for, and by which the
traffic would not be diverted from the usual line. On the
whole, he believed that no railway could be better con-
structed for the public good, and he was aura that none
had ever received a more patient investigation.
The clause was then agreed to.
RAILROADS.

- Mr. MORRISON, in rising to submit the motion re-
specting Railways with which he meant to conclude,
said he wished that some Honourable Gentleman more
able to do justice to the subject, had introduced it. He
always fait the greatest reluctance in bringing himself to the
notice of the House, and in claiming their indulgence on this
occasion, he did so from the importance and magnitude
of the interests which were involved in the subject he
was about to submit to the House.—(Hear.) Honoura-
ble Members might differ from him upon this subject,

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the wool,
sack at a few minutes to Four o'Clock.
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.

A Message from the Commons brought up the Clyde
Navigation Bill, with the Lords' amendments, to which the
Commons had agreed also the Dawlish and Teignmouth
Road Bill, the British Alkali Company Bill, and the
Duckenfield Waterworks Bill.

The Bills on their Lordships' table were advanced a
stage.
PLURALITIES AND BENEFICES.

On the motion of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY
the Pluralities and Benefices Bill was read a third time and
passed.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a peti-
tion from Belfast, praying for the commutation of the
punishment of death. The petition was signed by an in-
dividual with whom he understood the Noble E
opposite (Mulgrave) was intimate during his tour into
that part of the country ; and he was rather sur-
prised, knowing that the Noble Earl was about to
proceed to attend his Parliamentory duties, that it had not
been entrusted to him for presentation. The petition was
signed by Finlay, proprietor of the Northern Whig, a gen-
tleman who, by his writings, had tended much to set that
part of the country in a flame. tie begged to ask the
Noble Earl whether that gentleman (Mr. Finlay) was
not about to be appointed to a stamp office under the
Noble Lord's patronage ?
Earl MULGRAVE had no objection to answer the
question of the Noble Earl. He might have 'seen the Gen-
tleinan to whom the Noble Lord alluded, but he had not
the honour of being an intimate acquaintance of his, al-
though he had no doubt he was a very respectable man.
With respect to his (Earl Mulgrave) having given Mr.
Finlay a stamp office; he had not done so, and for this
reason, although many others might perhaps be given, the
place was not in his (Earl Muigrave's) gift.—(A laugh.)
Lord LONDONDERRY, as we understood, would
have an opportunity in the coars3 of the night's debate, of
bringing the charges against the Noble Earl before their
Lordships Bar. He could not place the least confidence in
the Noble Loars Administration, and with respect to the
case of
.Mr. Gore Jones, to which he had on a former oc-
casion called th4ir Lordships attention, he must say that by
the Noble Lords appointment in that case, he had grossly
insulted the Magistrates of the County Down.
Earl MULGRAVE was perfectly ready to enter upon
his defence whenever the Noble Earl thought proper to
bring the matter forward, and he trusted he should be able
to discuss it with perfect temper, and with a recollection of
the ancient terms of intimacy which had subsisted between
himself and the Noble Earl. He complained of the want of
courtesy in not giving him notice of the petition which he
had presented on that•-subject.-7(The conversation here
dropped).
CHURCH DISCIPLINE.

The Bishop of EXETER wished to ask the Noble add
Learned Lord on the Woolsack whether or.not any measure
mould be shortly brought under consideration on the sub-
ject of Ecclesiastical discipline. He had' himself felt the
inconvenience of the present system, during the last two or
three years, and he wished to know if any hope might be
entertained of a speedy remedy.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Bill for the
Reform in the Ecclesiastical Courts had been postponed, so
that it and the Bill about which the Right Rev. Prelate
enquired, should be introduced and passed through the
House together. He had this morning the draft. of the
Bill in his hande, and lie could assure him as little time as
possible would be allowed to elapse before its introduction.