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and Manchestar and Lincoln Union Railway, and Ches-
terfield and Gain borough Canal Amalgamation Bill
was also read a third time, and the several ameudme❑ts
agreed to.

REPORTS.
The reports upon the tollowing Bills were brought up
and ordered to lie upon the table:—
Croydon Commercial Gas and Coke.
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riling Junction Railway
(Burnley and Colliery Branches).
Great Northern Railway (Deviations between Gains-
borough and Doncaster.)
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Deviations and
Alterations in Oldham Branch, &c.)
Ipswich Docks.
Legal Quays (London).
Leominster Canal Navigation Sale.
London-bridge Railway Termini General Enlargement.
London (City) Improvements.
London and North-Western Railway (Lease and Pur-
chase of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchetavr
Railway).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station
at Sheffield and Branch to the Sheffield Canal).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Shef-
field Canal Purchase).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Junc-
tion with the Midland Railway, viii Barnsley, and
Branches therefrom).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway ( Brat, ch
to Chapeltown and Thurgoland Coal Branch).
Midland Railway (Masbrough and Normanton Stations
Enlargement).
Midland Railway (Extension from near Leicester chi
Bedford to Hitchin, and to Northampton and Hun-
tingdon, and Enlargement of the Leicester Station).
Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction).
Midland Railway (Mangotsfield to Bath).
North British Railway (No. 1).
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Rudders-
field, and Goole Railway (Partial Alteration of
Levels, &c.)
South-Eastern Railway (Widening of the Greenwich
Railway and Arrangement and Enlargement of the
London-bridge Station).
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway (Peni-
stone, &c., and Purchase of Sheffield, Rotherham,
Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Rail-
way, Dun Nivigation, and Dearne and Dove Canal).
Swansea Harbour.

Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland and Weardale, Wear-
dale Extension, and Wear and Derwant Railways,
and Shildon Tunnel Amalgamation.
Westminster and Part of Middlesex Sewers.

York and North Midland Railway (Knottingley Branch).
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LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The Lords' amendments on the following Bills were
considered and agreed to :—Belfast Port and Harbour
Railway, Ewell Rates Bill, Sheffield Markets Bill.
ROYSTON AND HITCHIN RAILWAY (SALE
OR LEASE).

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
WEYMOH AND MELCOMBE REGIS HIV.-
HOUR AND BRIDGE TRUSTS. •
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
HOLYHEAD HARBOUR.
Mr. WILLIAMS moved that Captain Berkeley, Mr.
0. Gore, Mr. Duncombe, Captain Jones, Mr. Bankes,
and Viscount Clive, be added to the Select Committee on
the Holyhead Harbour Bill. He would not have
detained the House one moment on this subject,
nut that he understood the Secretary of the
Admiralty was to oppose it. The Committee ap-
pointed on the Bill was most unsatisfactory ; two of the
Gentlemen appointed being directly interested in this
Government job. The Hon. Gentlemen then quoted
the opinions of some eminent engineers against the
availableness of the harbour. Now, in the face of such
statements as had been made by eminent engineers,
whose attainments could not be questioned, and who had
been employed in public works fora number of years, were
they determined to act contrary to their expressed opinion
on the matter ? It was estimated that the cost of the work
would be 600,0001. That estimate was made by an
engineer of eminence, opposed to which was the esti-
mate of George Rennie, that the cost would be
1,800,0001., who had stated also that great loss would
be sustained by the blasting that would be necessary,
and that it would be almost impossible to obtain blocks of
stone of sufficient sine. Sir George Rennie also stated
that the labour of throwing down the breakwater
would be very great. Now by which of these opinions
should they be guided ? He thought the House
called upon to appoint a fair Committee, and he begged,
therefore, to move that Captain Berkeley, Mr. Ormsby
Gore, Mr. Duncombe, Captain Jones, Mr. Bankes, and
Viscount Clive, be added to the Select Committee on
the Holyhead Harbour Bill.
On the motion that Captain Berkeley be added to the
Committee,
Mr. WARD opposed it on the ground that the addi-
tion of other names to the ten already appointed was
utterly unnecessary and unwarranted by the usages of
the House.

Captain HARRIS thought before the Committee was
appointed, the Bill should be for some time before the
House. He was of opinion they should be particularly
cautious before they laid out money on this harbour, and
that the report should be laid before the House prior to
anything being done. _

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Mr. HUME said the House should be slow in laying
out the public money on this project before the fullest
investigation was had with regard to it.
Mr. KELLY thought the interests of Ireland should
form some ingredient in the consideration of this question.
Ample information had been obtained, and all the
engineers had concurred in recommending Holyhead
harbour as the harbour of communication with that
country. He trusted that the Government would
persevere to stand by the decision of the Committee in
this case.
The gallery was then cleared, but no division took
place, the Hon. Member having withdrawn his motion.
Messengers from the Lords brought up sundry Bills.
EDUCATION.

Mr. WATSON presented a petition from the Roman
Catholics of Newport, in Shropshire, and other places,
praying to be admitted to a participation in the vote
for educational purposes.
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