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gone the fullest and most ample consideration, and he
ventured to
.hope that they would not re-impose upon the
Committee the duty it had already discharged.—( Hear.)
The ollect of the amendment was not the reconsideration of
the Bill, but to get rid of it altogether. Ha believed if
the measure was allowed to proceed the public would be
enabled to obtain all the benefits and advantages which the
Railway Committee had suggested, whereas if the !Bill
was postponed for an indefinite period it would subject
the pubic to much inconvenience.

Captain PECHELL was ready to acknowledge the
satisfactory and honourable manner in which the Right
Hon. Baronet had discharged the du:ies cf. Chairman. In
his opinion there had been a great waste of the time of
Hon. Members, and of money, during the sittings of the
Committee, a great deal of evidence having been intro-
duced, to no purpose at Hear, hear.) Disagreeable
however as the duty was, he thought they were bound to go
bark to the Committee, and satisfy the claims of all parties.
It appeared that the Croydon and Brighton parties thought
themselves Seriously aggrieved in not being allowed to
make the the termini of their railways at London-bridge.
lie had no complaint to make against the majority
who had voted against him in Committee, as they
bad taken the greatest pains to satisfy themselves
of the facts, and many of them had gone down to inspect
the station. It appeared to him, however, the Greenwich
Company would never be able to carry cut the works to
their completion, and he thought it time for that House to
stem in and interf,'re. Under these circumstances he
would support the amendment of his Hon. Friend.
Sir A. DA I, RYM PLE wished to say a few words, as
the interests of his constituents were deeply involved
in the subject. He had gone into the Committee impressed
with the conviction that no arrangement should be made be-
tween the companies, to deprive the inhabitants of the
town of I3righton of the advantage of the terminus at Lon-
don Bridge. At the same time he thought they would
not be justified in depriving the Greenwich Company of
that portion of land which they had purchased vale years
ago, for the purpose of increasing their business. In the
Committee he had supported the Greenwich Company,
because he thought they were the best parties to complete
their own line. Then arose the question of toll. It ap-
peared that the Croydon Company had agreed to pay the
Greenwich Company 3d. for every passenger carried upon
their line, but it was absolutely certain that the Croydon
Company never contemplated having a line of their own,
because it could only be made on the south side, while
they had built their station on the north. The Greenwich
Company had proposed to complete their works within
eighteen months according to the provisions of the Bill,
and as it was not only their design, but also their interest
to do so, there could be no doubt of its being done. They
had also r &red to build a station on a platform on the
south side for the Croydon Company, on condition that
they were put in possession of the present station. Alto-
gether their conduct had been very fair; he would there-
fore support the original motion.
\lr. DA RB Y said the real question was, whether they
would deprive the Greenwich
Company of land necessary
for their works by a private Bill. There was a clause in
the Bill prohibiting the traffic from crossing from one line
to another ; therefore, unless the Croydon Company had
another station on the other side of the line, and which
must he a matter of arrangement, the public would run
much hazard ;it could not be done by compulsion. lie
would vote for Oa amendment.

Sir JAMES GRAHAM said the Company had per-
misson to make a double line, but it was not compulsory
upon them to do so. Ile thought a double line absolutely
necessary for the s fety of the public, and therefore, that
the clause should be sent back to the Committee, with in-
structions to make it compulsory.
Sir EDWARD KNATCHBLILL said a few words
which were inaudible in the gallery.
Mr. L. HODGES had been exceedingly anxious to
meet the case by proposing a clause in the Committee,
enacting► that. in the event of the Greenwich Railway
Corrpiny failing to make the two lines, the other Corn-
pany might have the power of doing so; but theproposi-
tion had been overruled. Ile had been induced to do
this because Colonel Lamreman, the engineer of the

Greenwich Company, in opposition to the spinion of the
General Committee on Railroads, had stated it as his
opinion that the present line of railway was perfectly
adequate for the accommodation of three lines. This he
thou ght afforded ground for apprehension that the Green-
wich Company did not intend to increase their works.
The Hon. Member, who was frequently inaudible during.
his address, from the great confusion prevailing in the
House, sat down amidst loud cries of Divide, divide."
Mr. L AB() UCH ERE thought it was always the safest
course to take it for granted that the Committee to whom

a private Bill had been referred had done trieir duty, and
had conic to the best and most honest conclusion in their
power.—( Hear, hear)—and if the House reversed the
conclusions come to by a Committee, he thought they
were much more likely to come to an unjust conclusion
than by suprrting the Committee in its decisions._
Cheers,) On these grounds he could not agree to the
motion of his Hon. Friend to refer the Bill back to a
Committee, with an instruction to make further inquiries
into many subjects which had already occupied their at-
tention. At the same time he was aware of the opi-
nion of the Select Committee on Railroads, to
which the Right Honourable Gentleman the Mem-
ber for Pembroke had referred, and he thought
it was the duty of the House to see that the intentions of
that Committee were carried into effect by the Greenwich
Company. Under these circumstances, he thought that,
on the third reading of the Bill, those Gentlemen who
had the management of it were in duty bound to introduce
a ci suse into the Bill, for the purpose of carrying those
reccmmendations into effect, and making it compulsory on
the Company to do so ; and if such clause were not in:rc-
duced, lie should oppose the third reading. As it was he
could not now support the motion of his Hon. Friend.
Mr. W. ATT WOOD said that the Committee had,
after much muture deliberation, adopted the plan which
they considered the most effectual for inducing the Green-
wich Railway Company to provide for the safety of the
public. The clauses already introduced into the Bill, ap-
peared to them sufficient for this purpose ; if they appeared
not to be so, it would be much more satisfactory that such
cd.:uses should be introduced into the Bill by some Hon.
Member connected with the Select Committee on Rail-
roads, than by those who had the management of the Bill.
Mr. K EMBLE would suggest to his lion. Friend op-
situ the advantage of withdrawing his amendment. He
was himself opposed to the Bill, as he did not think it
provided sufficiently for the security of the public ; but he
thought that a division, undr the present circumstances,
would not promote the object which his Hon. Friend had
in view.

:NIT. HODGES would accede to the suggestion, and
‘lithdraw his amendment. _ _

The amendment was then withdrawn, and the Bill read
a second time.
Mr. HUME gave notice that be would move, on the
14th of July, that an humble Address be presented to her
Majesty, prayiag that her Majesty would order the Na-
tional Gallery to be thrown open to the public on Sundays,
during such hours as public-houses were allowed to re-
main open.
Lord ASHLEY gave notice of his intention, on the
14 It of July, to move for an address to her Majesty, pray-
ing that she would be graciously pleased to appoint a Com-
m•s-don to inquire into the labour of children in factories.
Mr. HAW ES postponed his motion, which stood in the
paper for to-day, for leave to bring in a Bill to declare the
holders of certain judicial offices incapable of being elected
or sitting as Members of the House of Commons, to
Thursday week.
Mr. G. HOPE gave notice that he should to-morrow
move for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal so much of the
Act of Queen Anne as prevented the election of mayors
for Parliamentary boroughs.
CHURCH EXTENSION.
Mr. LAW HODGES and Mr. HAWES presented
petitions against Church Extension.
Sir R. ING LIS presented petitions from the Society
fer the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, from the
Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of
Oxford, agreed to unanimously by Convocetion ; from
the inhabitants of Southmolton, Devon ; and various
other places, all in favour of Church Extension.
The Right lion. Baronet then said, often as he had
occas'on to address the House, never, except upon one
occasion had he thought it necessary to implore its etten-
tien—he had always been contented with that attention
which had been vouchsafed to him, except two or three
the attention of
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he thought the question so important that he had implored
their attention'; it was cheerfully granted, and the House
unanimously agreed to an address which he proposed upon
the subject. The motion be was about to propose had re-
ference not to those whose only claim upon them was that
they were the children of one common father, and were
the heirs of one common humanity; those for whom he
was about to plead had the claim of brethren—they be-
longed, along with lion. Members of that House, to one
common father land—they had the claim of fellow-Christ-
ians .and therefore he implorod the House to favour
him with its attention, while, as shortly as possi-
ble, be laid the case before them. The subject was
introduced to their notice by petitions of a cha-
racter which ho believeg pre-eminently entitled
them to the attention of the House. The number, too,
was very considerable ; but it was not to the number only
that he would specially call the attention of lion. Mem-
bers. The number of petitions presented during the pre-
sent Session was 2,546, with 213,589 signatures, all pray-
ing, in different tones, for one common object—that the
Ilouse would make prevision for the spiritual destitution of
the country. The petitions came from a vast variety of
places—many had been presented from rural districts,
while, on the other hand, petitions had also been presented
from Bradford, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, and
other large towns. The petitioners were conscious of the
evils around, and they were conscious also of its being
their duty to try to relieve them ; but they were equally
conscious that nothing but national means could grapple
with them. Other petitions had been presented from dif-
ferent parts of the kinedom, and he had himself pre-
seated several. Now, what was the general character
o" these petitions? The petitioners did not p,.ay that they
might be relieved from a burden, they asked for a good
to be. purchased by a costly sacrifice to themselves—
they asked that all the people should have increased
means of instruction according to the pract;ec and prin-
ciples of the Ecelesiattical Church. They asked it on
the ground that the freme-work of the Church Establish-
ment was formed for a different age, and that the popula-
lation had outgrown the Church accommodation. In the
17th century the population was 5,475;000. It increased
one million in the first part of the 18th century. In
the second part it had increased two millions, but at the
end it did not exceed nine millions. lie believed that
the whole increase in the last century was six millions,
but that increase had not taken place equally over the
whole surface of the country, one-third of the population
was comprised in towns, exceeding 10,000 in number, and,
he believed it would be stated with some truth, that in
every great t own where there was a population of upwards
of 10,000, b td doubled its population within the last 40
years. The i ncreaee of religious instruction had not, un-
happily, kept Fut-) Frith the increase of population. In the
reign of Queete A,itt, it was found that in the Metropolis
alone, 200,000 eouls were .'eft without religious accommo-
dation, and an, -.Act of Parllai.:ent had accordingly been