The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-28 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'(7lt)ch.

RAILWAY CO M ITTFJ

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room C.
233111121110111,112 X WOLVERN.A.IVIPTON, a ►N'a
swim VALLEY (No. IL) BILANCNELEL.
Their Lordships met this morning at eleven o'clov ;AL.
Mr. Brunel, C.E., was cross-examined by Mr. H' )PE,
with a view of showing that the proposed line w ould
afford all the requisite advantage to the district. Ii i the
course of his crom-examination nothing, however, was
elicited to shake the testimony which he had give' a won
a previous occasion, with respect to the supers' 3r ity of
the lines supported by the Great Western Comp party,
connexion with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton Railway, over those proposed by th o Stour
Valley Company, which were supported by the i North-
Western Company.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP VL
EXETER (GREAT WESTERN).
The Committee raet at the usual hour, and p) poi ceded
to hear evidence w ith respect to the case of t het Mar-
quis of W-stminst( 3r, who complained that his - prcperty
at Motcombe would. be seriously affected if the lime pro-
posed by the Great Western Company were al lov red to
pass.

GROUP XXX.
AZEOZWEE (FR Om LEEDS AND BE7 Lam.
The Committee must at one o'clock, and pros *eded to
hear evidence in support of the proposed extens tion.

STANDING OADERS
ROUSE OF LORDS—(THIS DAY.)
The Earl of SHAFT 'ESBURY declared that tb e follow-
ing Bills had complied with the Standing Order :
Great Northern Railway (Deviations between ( krantham
and York).
Eastern Union Rail-/vay (Branch from Manni ngtree to
-Harwich).
Caledonian Railway (Edinburgh Station, and Branches
to Granton, and to -the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way).
The following petit ion was not allowed:—
ABERDEEN RAILWAY (BRECHIN BRANCH
DEVIATION).
The petition (pres ented to the House on the 'Nth of
June), praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill,
was referred to the 'Committee to inquire whather the
petitioners shou'd be heard.

SIR HARRY Satrtn.—The gallant General is about
to visit his native land, the Isle of Ely, and we under-
stand preparations fire making for entertaining him and
Lady Smith at a public breakfast at Ely, on. Wednesday
next. The Dean of EIN is expected to take the chair.

TATTERSALL-S—TRIs EVENING
Six O'CLOCK.

GO, )33 WOOD STAKES.
10 to 1 agst S.tultz
12 to 1 agst Vampyre
16 to 1 agst Milliner
25 to 1 agst illartext
25 to 1 agst Burgundy
25 to 1 agst Plover
25 to 1 agst Patch
30 to 1 agst LT, ydrangea
30 to 1 agst Fanny- Moore
33 to 1 agst Elis

'iOODWOOD cur.
2 to 1 agst 'The Hero
10 to 1 agst Dulcet
12 to 1 agv t Fitz Emilius
20 to 1 ag,st Halo

JULY STAKES.
2 to 1. agst Teetotum
4 to 1 agst lodine
ST. LEGER.
5 to 2 agst Cossack
12 to 1 agst Foreclosure
16 to 1 agst Farmer's Daughter
20 to 1 agst Black Dwarf _

DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Flatcatcher
50 to 1 agst Sheriff

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

'I The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool-
es tick at Five o'clock.

Messengers from the Commons brought up several
Sidle, which were read a first time.

CLERGY OFFENCES BILL.
This Bill went through Committee pro formd, to enable
t he Bishop of London to introduce several amended
c clauses.

PRIVATE BILLS AND BUSINESS OF THE
HOUSE.

77'
Lord BROUGHAM, in rising to bring before the
House the motion of which he had given notice, said he
n ftlt that he was not premature in introducing the subject
t,O this House. It was well known to their Lordships
that latterly the private business of the House had
increased to an enormous amount, and in order to
facilitate the progress of that business it was thdispensa•
bly necessary that some change should be made in the
mode of conducting it. After referring to those who
held the :office of receivers and " friars," and to the
alterations which had been made in their duties from
time to time, he proceeded to say that although these
offices had become almost obsolete from being delegated
to others, persons had been appointed to fill
them even at the commencement of the present
session. Twenty years ago he introduced a measure
into the other House of Parliament for the purpose of
simplifying the private business of that House,
and great good arose from it; but as the
private business of their Lordships had Row in-
creased to an almost incredible extent, he thought
their Lordships would agree with him, that some
further alterations were now necessary. In the courts of
law the proceedings were not taken without chart and
compass, and the chances of misdecision and corruption
were more guarded aginst than in the decisions of the
House of Parliament. The amounts recovered in the
did not generally relate to large sums of money, but to
exceedingly small sums. For instance, when he attended
the Spring Assizes of Lancaster in 1827, he found that
out of two hundred cases tried there in fourteen days
the average amounts recovered did not exceed 131. 15s.
These courts, nevertheless, tried cases of the utmost im-
portance to the great mass of the people; they pre-
vented whole neighbourhoods from being de-
stroyed by the rapacity of powerful or tyranical
Individuals ; they prevented the poor from be-
ing !wronged without an appeal to a jury
of their countrymen, and prevented an innocent man
charged with crime, from being punished from motive;
of revenge—in fact, the entrance of evil through any
chink or cranny was far more guarded against in the
courts of law than in the proceedings of the Lordships'
House.

(LEYT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER. took the Chair at Four o'clock.
Papers relating to the Unclaimed Prize Money of
Chelsea Hospital were presented.

liEPORTS.

The following Reports were brought up and received :
Leeds and Thirsk (Leeds, Durham, and Newcastle
Extension, &c.); Legh's Estate ; Hodgson Mule's
Estate ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail-
way (Supply of Surplus Water to Manchester, Salford,
and Stockport); Sutton Harbour Improvement ; York
and Newcastle Railway (Main Line Improvement, &e.)
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time :—Bowes'
Entate; Sir Henry Willoughby Rooke's Estate.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time:—Direct
'London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chichester,
London, Brighton, and South Coast, and London and
South-Western Railways; Horne's (Ferguson's) Estate;
Kingston-upon-Hull Dock Company ; Liverpool Fire
and Life Insurance Company ; Long's Estate ; Poyntz-
-field Estate ; Surrey and Kent Commission of Sewers ;
Tunstall Paving, Lighting, Cleansing, Watching, Irn.
provement and Market ; Wakefield Gas ; Wyndham's
Estate.