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NORTH KENT EXTENSION.

The Committee then adjourned till Monday, at twelve.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE

(THIS DAY.)
The Committee on standing orders met this day at the
usual hour. The following were the decisions which the
Committee came to during the course of the day
KILMARNOCK AND AYR DIRECT RAILWAY.
Allowed to proceed.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY (Branch to join the
West London Railway; Widening and Enlargement of
the West London Railway; and Branch to Hammersmith,
to join the London and South• Western Railway near
Lambeth.)
Allowed to proceed.
EDINBURGH AND _NORTHERN RAILWAY (Branch
from Burutisland to Dunfermline Branch).
Allowed to proceed.
WATERFORD AND LIMERICK RAILWAY.
Allowed to proceed.
DUBLIN IMPROVEMENT.
Allowed to proceed.
WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUB-
IAN RAILWAY (Repeal of the Act).
Allowed to proceed.
GRAVESEND CEMETERY.
Not allowed to proceed.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock.

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AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.)
The sale of Railway Shares jp-day, by Messrs. Lamond
and Co., was flat, and the quotlaions were again a shade
lower. The following are a few of the principal sales :
East Indian £o 8 6
Great Western of Bengal 0 6 6
Madrid and Valencia
Great Northern (London and York Reg.) 2 6 0
Manchester and Southampton 0 17 6
North British Extension
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B). .....
North Staffordshire
Leeds and Thirsk, Preference
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole 2 0 6
Leicester & Bedford, Exchange Certificate 0 12 6
Eastern Counties ..... ........• ... ........
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, ex int 4 13 0
Newcastle and Berwick
Derby, Statlord, and Worcestershire .... 0 9 0
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston

COURSE OF EXCIIA
Amsterdam ....C.F. 12 3
Ditto, at sight...... 12 1
Rotterdam .... ••2 U. 12 4
Antwerp ..... •• • . 25 80
ILarhurgh .... • M. 13. 13 10%
Allows ..... • • ....
Paris, 3 days' sight ...• 25 45
.Dttte, 3 months.. .. .. 25 75
Marseilles • .... 25 85
Bourtleaux ......... • - 25 85
Frankfort on Maine.... 121
Fetersburgh, 3 U 5......—
Berlin.... •• •• ••
Vienna, enc. do ••• . • • 10 3
Trieste, ditto.... • ... .. 10 3
Madrid .......
0 id I z
•
Barcelona .....
5eri11e.........

,NGE.-(TIIIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.......... Gibraltar
Leghorn
Genoa ..•• • ....... •• 26 85
Milan ...... •• •• ••
Venice...... •••• •••"•

Naples .. • . 40%
l'alermo, per OA.. ...... 121

Lisbon .;....• ... .

Oporto • • . 1
Itio Janeiro • • ...... • • 28

Bahia
liuenos Ayres .. • .....
New York, 21 days'sight
11111dilelphia .... • •

PAICLS OF BULLION, TER Oz.
Foreign Gold In bars ...£3 17 9
New Dollars ••.. • . 0 4 10%
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Silver in bars ......•• 0 5 051

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELEOR took his seat upon the Wool-
- sack this day, at Five o'clock.
BIRMINGHAM AND NA, ORCESTER RAILWAY.
The Earl of RIPON presented a petition from the Bir-
mingham and Worcester Railway Company complaining
of toe conduct of the London and North-Western Rail-
way Company, in purchasing up the Birmingham and
Oxford Railway, in order to defeat the policy of
an Act passed last session, he would accordingly move
that the petition should lie upon the table of the House.
Lord LYNDIIURST said it was a matter of great
importance, and he considered that the House ought to
grant a Committee of Inquiry into the facts of the case.
The course they have adopted is this,—out of the 50,000
shares, they had purchased 38,000 ; the remaining
shares were divided among the shareholders, and the
dependents of the company. 'The object was plainly to
defeat the opposition of a rival company, and he would
suggest that his Noble and Learned Friend should move
for a Committee of Inquiry into the allegations of this
petition.
Lord BROUGHAM quite concurred in the opinion
that thc se allegations should be left to the inquisition of a
Committee, fur the Bill alluded to was clearly a fraud
on Parliament. The only difficulty that struck him
was that this matter was under a course of inquiry in a
Court of law.

Lord LYNDHURST had made inquiry and was cer-
tain that no such difficulty existed.
Lord BROUGHAM was sure that his Noble and
Learned Friend would perceive that he was in favour of
the committee.

Lord LYNDHURST said that there were more in-
tereststs than those of the Oxford and Birmingham
Company invested in this question. There was the
Great Western Company also, who were largely affected
by the conclusion to which they might come.
After a few words from the Duke of BUCKINGHAM
and the Earl of WICKLOW,
Lord BEAUMONT said that be was quite opposed
to
this Committee, for a Bill was at the present moment
Pending before the otber House of Parliament to enable
the Londod and Birmingham Company to lower their
tolls, and as that Bill would have to go through both
/louses there would be ample opportunity for inquiry.
Lord LYNDHURST was of opinion, that as the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway was already in the pos-
session of the Oxford and
matter at all. and Birmingham Company, that
the
Bill could not
Lord CAMPBELL professed himself wholly ignorant
uld, therefore, refrain
of the facts of the case, and he
from offering any opinion whateverwo ;Nb(ut he must say
,tlle and Learned
that he perfectly concurred with his
Friend on the cross benches (Lord Lyndhurst),that. and with
his Noble and Learned friend opposite,
quite necessary, but he thought that objeientlelloiruyldwbaes
obtained without a Committee.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE agreed With his
NoWe and Learned Friend, that this was not a matter
with which they should proceed hastily. Aa the subject
divided itself into two parts, that very materially affected
the interests of the public ; he would suggest that they
should refer it to the Railway Board that had been
specially appointed to superintend the operation of
rail*ays.
After a few words from Lord BROUGHAM,

Lord Sands was to give evidence in favour of
this line. His Lordship gave strong and decided testimony
in favour of the South-Eastern Company, who, he said, had
done everything in their power to give Kent efficient rail-
way accommodation. The people of Faversham undoubtedly
were in favour of the South-Eastern line.
A long discussion took place as to whether the corporation
of Canterbury should be heard as petitioners against the
preamble of the Bill.
Sir Edward King, Port Admiral at Sheerness, was more
familiar with the water communication to the metropolis
than with the land communication, but he still had no doubt
that a line connecting Sheerness with Woolwich and London
would be of advantage.
Cross-examined by Mr. TALBOT —The present garrison at
Sheerness numbered some 200 men, and the stores at present
came by water. He was not able to give a positive opinion
as to the relative merits of either conveyance.
Mr. Stephen Lush Lushington had sat in Parliament as
Member for Canterbury, and was well acquainted with the
way Company. He was chairman of the committee of the
Faversham Navigation ; he was aware that great sums were
laid out in the improvement of that port, and he considered
that the money was well laid out. The general feeling of the
district landowners was in favour of the line from Strood to
Chilham. and so important was deemed the necessity of
having a communication by rail with Ashford, that the con-
sent of all the landholders, without an exception, was given
to the formation of the line from Faversham to Chilham.
Meetings had been held at which the proprietors attended,
and the universal feeling was in favour of the South-Eastern
line.

Mr. Plumptre, M.P., thought the South-Eastern Company
had chosen the route best fitted to supply the wants of North
Kent. He believed that were it not for the technical objec-
tion which was raised last year, with respect to the purchase
of the Rochester Canal, that there would be no excuse for
the intrusion of the Brighton Company.
Sir Brook Bridges considered that it was absolutely neces-
sary that a full communication should be given between Lon-
don and the great towns of Kent; and the South-Eastern
Company being already in possession of Gravesend, Strood,
and Rochester, he thought it would be for the interest of the
county if the whole chain of railways were in their hands.
Mr. George Neame, alderman of Canterbury, was the pro-
prietor of considerable property in that locality. He was de-
cidedly in favour of the South-Eastern extensions, and he
thought that the public feeling was generally expressed in
favour of this company.
Cross-e.camined by Mr. HOPE—He had been connected
with the Whitstable Company, and had no reason to com-
plain of that connexion.—(Laughter.) He had had a lover's
quarrel with the South-Eastern Company on more than one
occasion—once when they raised the fares. He had attended
a public meeting in consequence, and had pretty soundly
expressed his opinions there.—( Laughter.) The meeting
only grumbled—(Laughter)—and did nothing more. The
South-Eastern afterwards explained their reasons for raising
the fares, and, he believed, to the satisfaction of all parties
concerned.

Lord LYNDHURST then said, that, after what fell
from the Noble Marquis, he would suggest, that the fur
ther consideration of the subject should be adjourned till
Tuesday next, and he should then name the appointment
of the committee. He would now move that the petition
be printed, to which he presumed there would be no
objection.
Lord BROUGHAM thought they would be better
able to consider the question than the Railway Board,
and be would not give his reasons why he thought so.
The subject then dropped.
IRISH PAUPERS.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Black-
burn, complaining of the influx of the Irish poor into
this country, and praying for a stringent law to compel
the landlords of Ireland to support them. The Noble
Lord proceeded to comment on the statements of the
petitioners, and stated that the poor were sent over at
2s. 6d. a head, at the expense of the landlords of Ireland
The Earl of DEVON said that there was one state-
ment made by his Noble and Learned Friend which
ought not to have been made without the best founda-
tion. That statement was, that the poor of Ireland
were sent over by the landlords of Ireland at 2s. 6d. a
head, to be fed by the people of England. This was a
reflection upon a large, and, as he believed, a highly
respectable body of men, on whom he believed it was a
reflection as unnecessary as it was unjust.
Lord BROUGHAM had the greatest confidence in
the sources of his information.
The Earl of DEVON wished to know whether his
Noble and Learned Friend spoke in explanation or reply?
Lord BROUGHAM—Which I please.
The Earl of DEVON spoke to order.
Lord BROUGHAM—So do I; and I put it to your
Lordships whether I am not entitled to a reply on a debate
upon a petition, and, if I am not in order in that motion,
whether I am not entitled to speak on a motion for a
Committee for the consideration of that petition. His
only object in the presentation of this petition was to
show the practical effects of the present proceedings of
Government. He had the best possible authority for
the assertion that the poor of Ireland had been
sent over to this country at the expense
of others, to be sustained in this country.
His Noble Friend was a member of a committee before
whom he had summoned his informants, and they were
ready on oath to confirm the statements which they had
made to him of the fact which ho had put before the
House.
The Earl of DYSART would put it to their Lordships
whether they were to be wearied night after night by
the attacks of the Noble and Learned Lord, who hoped
abilities and varied attainments to which many of those
who had to make their defence could not pretend.
Lord BROUGHAM bad but one object in all these
attacks, and that was to impress on the minds of the
country were not to oe supporteu r r-r th9l-
- nor even at the expense of the Irish people, but
that the landlords were themselves to bear their portion
of the burthen.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE only rose to refute
the absurdity that the sustentation of the Irish people
was to be made at the expense of the English. They
had come to us in an extreme exigency, and it was our
duty to relieve them as a portion of the population of
Great Britain, for in truth Ireland is a portion of Great
Britain.

(LEFT SITTING

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
SECOND READINGS.

The following Bills were read a second time and
ordered to be committed :
Axholme Railway (from the Leeds and Selby Railway
to Gainsborough, with branches).
Bingley Gas.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (improvement of the
ferry between Ferry Port on Craig and the North
Shore:of the river Thy).
Enfield and Edmonton Railway Extension.
Leominster Canal Navigation Sale.
Liverpocl Corporation Waterworks.
Manchester and Birmingham and North Staffordshire
Junction Railway.
Newhaven Harbour, Ouse Lower Navigation, and Lewes
and Laughton Drainage.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (No. 1
—Extension and Amendment).
Portland Harbour of Refuge and Breakwater.
Rochdale Improvement.

MACDUFF HARBOUR.
On the motion of Sir A. L. HAY, the second reading
of the Macduff Harbour Bill was postponed till this day
week.

STOCKTON AND HULL RAILWAY.
Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from Lord
Brougham and ,others against the St3ekton and Hull
Railway Bill.
It was ordered to be referred to the Committee upon
the Bill.