The Sun.
London, England, 1836-04-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AM], 26.

COURT CIRCULAR.

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Yesterday.was the birthday Of the Duchess Gloucester,
Her Royal HighnbiS received &togrAittlatOiy,l,riAtii ,thiring the
day frtint,gb Paellas ketit, the Princess Victoria, and the
PEOce of Leiningen, the Duke of Cumberland, the Princess
Augusta, and the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg. The Fo-
-reign Ambassadors and Ministers, and the Nobility and Gentry,
called st 919cr House to leave Owir P4lllO for her Royal
Higbness,
PtljW=ef Ptimbt:ilaTid cante to town yditerday from his
re?,dl tli k lyt ilelo
The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg dined with the Prin-
cess Augusta on Sunday. Her Royal Highness afterwards
visited the Duchess of Gloucester. •

A meeting (numerously attended) of Members of the House
of Commons took place yesterday at the Foreign-office. The
Members were met by Lord Morpeth, Lord John flusjell, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, and other Members of the Go-
vernment.

The French Ambassador, and the Danish and Portuguese
Ministers, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
A numerous deputation of the Dublin Steam Packet Com-
pany had an interview yesterday with Mr. Poulctt Thomson,
at the Board of Trade.

Mr. Browne, Agent for Antigua, had an interview with Lord
Glenelg, at the Colonial-office, yesterday.
The Lord Chancellor visited Lord John Russell yesterday,
at the Home-office.

The Marquis of Lansdown returned to town on Sunday from
Windsor.

FASHIONABLE. INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

F. Campbell, Esq., Mrs. Campbell, and Miss Campbell,
at Burners Hotel, from their seat, Birkfleld House, Ips-
wich ; Captain Wilkinson and Miss Wilkinson, at ditto, from
Walsham-le- Willows, Suffolk ; A. Haigh, Esq., Mrs. Haigh,
and Miss Haih, at ditto, from the Continent ; the Rev. Wil-
liam Mansfield and Mrs. Mansfield, at ditto, from Mytton
Bryant, Bedfordshire; Mrs. Market, at ditto, from Meop-
ham, Kent ; Miss Cooke, at ditto, from Hilton-park, Worces-
tershire; H. Rodwell, Esq., at do. ; Mr. and Mrs. Lysley, In
Fitzroy-square, from Mimwood, Herts.

DEPARTURES.
Lady Harriet Drummond and family, at the Berners Hotel,
Berners-street, for their seat, Albury-park, Surrey ; Henry
Drummond, Esq., from ditto, for Parts ; J. Green, Esq., and
Mrs. Green, from ditto, for Bury St. Edmund's; the Rev.
J. Clay and Mrs. Clay, ditto, for Worley Lodge, Essex;
Miss Lockwood, from ditto ; Hon. Lady Burton and suite,
from Symonds's Hotel, Bond-street, for her seat in Dublin ;
Capt. Burton, from ditto, for Richmond; Mrs. Warburton and
family, from ditto, from their seat, Tible Hedington.

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THIS EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, APRIL 26

The King has been graciously pleased to appoint Jacob James
Hart IN-if: id.be' 144-1114esty:s Consul for the kingdom of Saxony.
'ii KNOcidiV HS..? alsV .b'e'en .b ~2eiolisi~ plea,ed t.) appoint
Hugh VVilsen, ESi, lie lag IlialOsty's' Crotisnil at Aried, in the
republic of Peru.

• DECLARATION OF INSOLVENtY'-‘
JAMES DEFRIEZ, tobacconist, Mile End-road.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED,
THOMAS JONES, draper, Shrewsbury.

I3ANKRUPTS.
THOMAS EDMONDS, victualler, Fleet-street.
THOMAS COAILEY, brewer, Romsey Infra, Hampshire.
THOMAS ADAMS, cheesemonger, Parwich, Derbyshire.
SAMUEL CEARNS, grocer, Liverpool.
WILLIAM WILSON, scrivener, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
SAMUEL HIBBERT and GEORGE HIBBERT, cotton-
doublers, nerbyshiee,
NOAH ORAII, grocer, Leicester.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the chair this day at the usual hour.
DUN NAVIGATION.

Mr. CHILDERS presented a petition against the Dun
Navigation Bill, and several other private Bills.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.

Lord STORMONT moved the second reading of the
Great Northern Railway Bill.
Mr. WODEHOUSE presented a petition against the
Bill.

Colonel SIBTHORP said he should oppose the second
reading, and propose that it be deferred till this day six
months.—( Hear, hear.) It was well known that he
was not favourable to any railroad, but in addition,
he objected to this, because the standing orders had not
been complied with, which require that copies of the whole
of the plan should be deposited in the offices of the Clerks of
the Peace of the several counties through which the line was
proposed to pass. Having also minutely considered the evi-
dence taken before Committees on other Bills, he was inclined
to think a different line would be preferable.
Major HANDLE Y would also oppose the second reading
of this Bill, although, if he were to consult his own interest,
lie would support it, inasmuch as it was much more conve-
nient to him than the other line—(Cries of " Hear.")
He thought it was the duty of that House to protect
property against the speculators of the Stock Exchange, for
this was a speculation of this description, as might be inferred
from the parties concerned in getting it up, and, strange to
say, it was backed by Members of that House ; and a petition
had been presented in its favour with 42 signatures, one of
whom had no property in any of the counties through which the
railway was to pass. When he first saw the petition, he
thought it was on the subject of some Western Railway, from
the residences attached to the signatures, many of which were
Bath, Bristol, and other places in the West of England.
In the present case he had found with surprise that on the last
day granted by the rules of that House for lodging plans, they
had indeed been lodged, but some of them not till midnight.
When he came to look at them, so far at least as regarded his
own property, he found that there were no landmarks, no guides,
and, in short, that it was impossible for a person to follow
them even through his own estate.—(Hear, hear.) He had
found that surveys had in very few instances been taken,
and the sections varied considerably from those laid down in
the plans. It was, therefore, impossible that any Committee
could allow the Bill to proceed ; and it was the duty of that
House to protect private country gentlemen, whose parks and
gardens were ruthlessly intruded upon, and had no other way
of defending their rights than by coming before a Committee
of the House, at an exoensg_gf ..nerb.,mgia^Z. -sucitusigtarat
for pressing forward the present measure. He did
not wish that the Bill should be exposed to the country as
it might entail ruin upon many, but still he appealed to that
House if he had not made out a sufficient case to induce them
to reject it. The landed proprietors along the line were
anxious for a railway, but they wished it to be a well digested
and well considered one. If this was the best line, the parties
were now before a Committee as a competing line. Let them
prove their case, and defeat that opposing Company, and
they would be in a better situation for coming before
the House next year. He had an advertisement which had
gone round the whole of the papers on the line, and had ap-
peared in the Times, stating that shares would be issued up till
the 15th inst., and that no deposit would be required. This
clearly showed that the public were not anxious to accept
these shares; and that the forty-two west country gen-
tlemen found that there was much difficulty in getting
rid of the number of shares which was necessary in order to
let them come before the House. He opposed the second
reaching
House
of theto Bill,its
countrybeing
a and !h thesetime
r rash
speculators—(Cheers)—when they found that six hundred
for
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betweengr o a!: dof
the
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land owners had never been asked whether they assented or dis-
sented, and when there were 300 or 400 gentlemen
in, Lincolnshire, whose property would be much affected, who
would be dragged up before the Committee if the House
passed the Bill. He trusted they would agree to the amendment
of the Hon. and Gallant Member.

Mr. HE AT HCOTE said that although he was not very
sanguine about the whole of the Railroad Bills that had been
brought forward, yet he could not go so far as some of his
friends did in his observations against them.—( Hear.)
As far as his own opinion went he thought it advisable
to give the present Bill a negative. His Gallant Friend had
stated that the Standing Orders had not been complied with
with respect to this Bill. Now, as to mere technicalities, he
must profess he was utterly ignorant, but for himself, he must
say, that the first notice he had of this Bill was from the public
newspapers that it had been read a first time, and a friend of
his only knew of it a few days ago.—( Hear, bear, hear.)
In the present instance, however, there had been
not only a want of technical notice, but a want of that noto-
riety which ought to be given to it. In the present Bill there
was a chain of private injuries which the House ought not to
tolerate. He believed there was a much better line proposed;
but if there was not, all he would say was, let them both start
fair. He understood that the other line got rid of all
those intringetnents of private rights which were so much
complained of the line proposed by the present Bill. He was
perfectly acquainted with the respectability of the parties con-
nected with one line, but he knew little or nothing of the par-
ties connected with the other. There was not an individual
subscriber who expected that this Bill would pass this Session,
so that it would not be fair to the subscribers themselves to
pass it, as it would be a saving of money to them if they did not
go into Committee. He had not the slightest personal feeling
in the matter, and he was sure if they went into Committee, that
he would attend as well as he was able, and examine the two
lines as well as he could ; but he thought they would be doing
justice to the petitioners and to the public if they stopped the
proceedings in the present stage.
Mr. EATON was understood to say that in justice to the
petitioners they ought to allow the Bill to be read a second
time.

Lord ALFORD opposed the Bill.
Mr. D. W. HARVEY said that the best thing that could
be said in favour of this Bill was that this was the third expe-
riment that had been made to get rid of it—( Hear, hear,
hear)—and if it succeeded it was the only one against
which attempts had been made to disturb it on the second
reading—( Hear.) If there must be railroads, for the sake
of the public the best ought to be selected, and it certainly
unhappy mode of giving the choice, by taking away
ls a m
the lrefe°rsence. Here were two Bills, both proposed to go
from London to Cambridge, then from Cambridge to York,
and they then both proposed hereafter to turn to the right,
and so on to the north.—( Hear.) If they were prepared 'to
destroy the one, it would help greatly to favour the other.
Was it not important that the Committee before whom the
merits of these lines were to come, should have before them
Hear, hear.) lie was not dis-
inclined—looking iat?—th(e precipitancy with which these
plans were executed—he apprehended that they had not
in all cases the best-looking at the irreparable evil that would
arise from an inconsiderate choice, and the comparative small-
ness, of the inconvenience from delay—he was not disinclined to
defer everyrailroad respectingwhich there were competing lines.
It was stated that those who were now opposing this line were
extremely anxious to avoid expense, extremely anxious to
have the best line, extremely impartial in their advice, and yet
in some way or other those who were opposing the one were
supporting the other. They were told the notices were irregular
and that no line could be worse—how could they know that ?
These were mere assertions. It was a matter entirely to be
examined before the Committee.—( Hear, hear.) He thought
the House should not act partially, by throwing oat what
' might be good, and giving countenance to that which might
be bad.L-( Hear, hear. )
Mr. O'CONNEL I, said the principle of a railroad was
what they had all agreed upon, and if the question was what
was a proper line for a railroad, that was a question to l.e
decided by a Committee, and not by the House itself.
Mr. FINCH agreed with what had fallen from tl.e
Member foe Dublin, but he was afraid it would put the parties
to a great deal of expense. At the same time he thought, if
information was desired, that information should be obtained
which would lead to the most satisfactory conclusion.
Mr. EVEL YN DENISON believed the parties had already
been before a Committee, and the question was, whether they
had put themselves into a situation, as that if the line should
be considered preferable it ought to be adopted this year ?
Ile did not think they had put themselves into that situation.
They had not done that which wasnecessary to give the

parties interested in the Bill sufficient information, and 1 e
should therefore vote against the second reading of the Bill.t
Mr. CHILDERS saidit appeared to him that the great
object should be to adopt not the best line between two towns.
hat what would be the best leading from the extremities of the
country between London and Edinburgh and London and
Liverpool.
Mr. PRYME was convinced that it would be impossible to
make Ns( itt the fens of the country through which it
was proposed id na36 rithont a very considerable expense.
Lord STORMONT brEti replied, and maintained that
the Committee was the proper ut to decide upon the
utility of the two lines.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw,—
whesti there appeared
For the second reading B5
Against it „ 99
Majority against the 8i11.... ........
On off fe.admission to the gallery we found Mr. HUME
)resenting a petition against the Islington Market Bill for
abolishing Smithfield Market.
Petitions to the same effect were presented by Alderman
THOMSON, Mr. A. CHAPMAN, and Captain PECHELL from •
Chelmsford.
Mr. BARNARD presented a petition from John Russell,
against certain clauses of the Greenwich Improvement Bill.
Alderman THOMPSON presented a petition from Sun-
derland against the Scarborough Harbour Bill.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition against certain
clauses of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway Bill, and one
against the Bill entirely.
On the motion of Mr. PLUMPTRE, the Ashford and
Maidstone Road Bill was read a third time, and passed.
The further consideration of the Report of the Committee
on the Trinity Harbour Bill was postponed for a fortnight.
ST. CATHARINE'S DOCK BILL.
On the motion of Mr. CRAWFORD this Bill was read a
second time. _