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London, England, 1847-02-17 00:00:00

Gsour 28.

246. Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham—Peterborough
and Thorney Line.

247. Eastern Counties—Peterborough to Falkingham.
248. Eastern Counties—Spalding to Newark.
283. Great Northern—Deviations between Peterborough,
Boston, and Doncaster—the Bill, No. 2, as proposed in the
special report.
303. Great Northern—Branches to Sleaford.
GROUP 29.
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47. East Lincolnshire--beviatiOn at Boston, Ibc.
56. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire—Louth.
Horncastle, and East Lincolnshire Junction Branches.
70. East Lincolnshire--Louth to Lincoln.
203. East Lincolnshire—Louth Navigation Purchase.
302. Great Northern—Purchase of Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction, Sc.
304. Great Northern—Hormastle Branch, &c.
377. Midland—Extension of Nottingham and Lincoln
Branch at Lincoln, ec.

GROUP 30.
194. Great Northern—lsle of Axholme Extension.
278. Great Northern—Deviation between Grantham and
York.

317. York and North Midland—Kottingley Branch.
319. York and North Midland—East Riding Canals
Purchase.
404. Axholme—from Leeds and Selby, loc.
437. York and North Midland Hull Station and
Branches.

Your Committee recommend that the Great Northern Bill
(Deviations between Peterborough, Boston, and Doncaster)
be divided into two Bills, the one to contain the deviations
near Doncaster, the other the remaining deviations, and
that the first Bill be referred to Group 31, the second Bill to
Group 28.

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GROUP 31.
12. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire—Junction with
Midland, &c.
21. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire—Branch to
Chapel-town, &c.

146. Louth, Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole—Purchase of
Sheffield, &c.

149. Manchester andLeeds—Branch from the Huddersfield
and Sheffield, &c.
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184. Midland, Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, and Goole
Line.

268. Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster Junction—Nes-
borougl and Doncaster.

283.. No. I. Greta Northern—Doncaster Deviation. See
Special Report, appended to Group 28.
GROUP 32.
44. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire—Station t
Sheffield, No. 2.
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83. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire—Sheffield
Canal Purchase.

185. Midland Maaborough and Normanton Stations
Enlargement.
267. Sheffield, Rotherham, Wakefield, and York—Partial
Alteration of Levels, &c.
411. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...Station at
Sheffield.

41. Leeds,&c Dewsbu GROUP 83.
W ry, and Manchester Extension to
akefield, .

66. Leeds Central Railway Station.
138. Manchester and Leeds--Alteration of Levels of Brig-
house Branch, &c.
156. Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland Junction.
310. Great Northern—Extension to Leeds and Wakefield,
&c,„ and Deviation.
888. Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester—Onset Branch, &c.

IiRSUP 34.
20. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire—Branch from
Oldham to Ashton.

42. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...Station Ap-
proach in Manchester.
63. Rochdale Canal--Sale to Manchester and Leeds Rail-
way Company.
67. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire—Ashton C %nal
Purchase.

128. Huddersfield and Manchester—Branch from Oldham
to Ashton.
131. London and North-Western—Lease and Purchase of
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, &c.
132. Huddersfield and Manchester—Deviation and Altera-
tion, &c.
307. Oldham Alliance--Lines from Oldham, &c.
Gaut'. 25.
39. Black! una Darwen, and Bolton Railway Acts Amend-
ment—Deviations.

85. Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding—Burnley and
Colliery Branches.
97. Preston and Wyre—Extension from Lytham to Black-
port, &c.
112. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Junction Acts Amendment.
148. Manchester and Leeds—Branches, Extensions, &c.
271. East Lancashire Deviations and Nantwich Coal
Branch.
272. East Lancashire—Burnley Connecting Line.
275. East Lancashire—Bury to Manchester.
275. East Lancashire—Clitheroe, Nytton, and Padiham.
Gnour 36.
166. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway and Branch.
199. Manchester and Southport Railway and Branches.
224. London and North-Western—Ormskirk and Bamford
Branch, &c.
273. East Lancashire—Southport Branch, and Preston
Extension.

GROUP 37.

81. London and North-Western—Purchase of the Elles-
mere interest in the Manchester, South Junction, and Altrin-
cham.
300. St. Helen's Canal and Railway Amendment 8i11...
Warrington and Blackbrook Branch, &c.
475. London and North-Western—Liver• street, Liverpool
Station, be.

GROUP 38.
215. Lee ds and Thirsk—Knaresborough and Boroughbridge
Branch.
216. Leeds and Thirsk—Harrogate and Pateley Branch.
281. Leeds and Thirsk—Branch to Melmerby, &pc.
219. Leeds and Thirsk—Deviation of Main Line, ic., in
Chimple Valley.
318. York and North Midland—Harrogate Branch, &c.
GROUP 39.
96. Wharfdale Railway Act Amendment and Deviation.
134. North-Western—Skipton, Casterten, &c., Diversion.
233. Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-on-Tyne Junc-
tion, &c.
234. Northern Counties Union Deviation.
245. Liverpool, Manchester, and Northern Counties Union
Amalgamation.

GROUP 40.
75. Hartlepool and Stockton Junction.
117. Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland, and Weardale, &c.
Amalgamation.
173. Clarence and Leeds and Thirsk Amalgamation.
214. Leeds and Thirsk—Leeds, Durham, and Newcastle
Extension, &c.
217. Leeds and Thirsk--Eaglesclife and Stillington Ex-
tension, &c.
315. York and Newcastle—Pelaw Tyne Docks, Branches,

404. York and Newcastle—Wearmouth Dock Enlarge-
ment.
405. York and Newcastle—Main Line Improvement, bc.
406. York and Newcastle—Hartlepool Dock and Railway,
&c., Purchase.

Giaour 41. Berwick
316. York and Newcastle and Newcastle and
Amalgamation.
407. York and Newcastle and Newcastle and Berwick and
North British Amalgamation.
439. Newcastle and Berwick—Easten
440. Newcastle and Berwick--Chit li ;ion Bt Line,
ranches.
an ehes.
The Committee will m
on Thursday next to receive
any suggestions referenceeet
to the preceding groups.
MRS. GORE'S IVEw 'ALE_ " TE3IPTATION AND
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with which they
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been received will, it. is to to!. hoF,ed,
pro the means of encouraging this poplar novelist to
prove
another such divergence from her usual course. A story of
ne
Werfut interest, simply told, is decidedly the only thing
likely at the present day to rivet the attention of the public.
We do not say that irs. Gore can write like Defoe or
Godwin, but to remind the reader of them is to achieve no
small degree of fame.
PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES.—The
Q. E. D. from New York, Shenandoah from Philadelphia,
and Harmony and Rowland from New Orleans, which were
reported at Liverpool on the 13th inst., bring 6,873 barrels
flour, 12,000 bushels wheat., 3,349 sacks Twain). corn, 1,000
barrels Indian corn meal, and 400 barrels bread.
The electric fluid fell a few days back on two
trees, neat the road leading from Landerneau to Lesneven
(Fiuisterre), and reduced them to fragments. A carter who
was passing at the moment bad two of his horses killed and
the other injured. He himself lay for three hours nearly in-
frassible, but he has SIRCO recovered.

MILLBANK PRISON.
Copy of a Letter from the Secretary of State to Bick-
ham Escott, Esq., and of the Report therein referred
to on the state of Millhank Prison. •
Whitehall, Feb. 6. 1847.
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Sir,—l have received a document purporting to be a
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report to her Majesty from you as a member
of the re-
cent commission of inquiry into the state of Millbank
Prison.
I have to acquaint you that a report having been al-
ready presented from that commission, signed by the
majority of its members, I should not be justified; ac-
cording to the usual practice in such cases, in presenting
to her Majesty the document bearing your signature, as
a report made in pursuance of the commission.
In cases where a difference of opinion exists among
members of a commission appointed by the Crown, the
fullest opportunity is afforded to any member who-differs
from his colleagues of stating his opinion, either in a
document appended to the report, or in some other form.
Having informed you that I should willingly receive
and lay before the House of Commons your opinion on
the matters inquired into by the Millbank Commis-
sioners, and having, with a view to facilitate this
object, suggested the form of the document in which
your opinion could be expressed, I had not anticipated
the possibility of any difficulty arising on the subject.
As, however, you have declined to conform to the
ordinary practice, and appear to attach importance
to the form which you have yourself adopted, I shall
retain the document in question in this office, as the
record of your opinion, although, for the reason which
I have stated, I shall be unable to submit it to her
Majesty.--I have, &c.,

G. GREY.

(Signed)
Bickham Escott, Esq., M.P.
The undersigned, being ono of three Commis-
sioners directed by your Majesty's letters patent dili-
gently to search and inquire into the conduct and ma-
nagement of your Majesty's prison at Millbank, 'dila into
any abtt es or grievances which may exist in the ma-
nagement of the said prison, and commanded by your
Majesty's said letters patent to report to your Majesty,
under their hands and seals, their several proceedings,
and a hat they shall find touching the same—humbly re-
ports to your Majesty,
L That together with the Earl of Chichester and
Lord Seymour, the two other Commissioners, with whom
the undersigned was associated in this inquiry, he has
diligently inquired into the aforesaid matters. •
2. That he has read a report on the aforesaid
matters which has been presented to your Majesty,
under the hands of the said Earl of Chichester and Lord
Seymour.

3. That in the report is the following statement :
" We have, however, determined to report the evidence
in full."

4. That he is informed, and believes, that such evi-
dence has been so reported by the said two Commis-
sioners ; yet that report, as aforesaid, has been printed
and delivered to Members of the House of Commons for
their perusal and consideration, without any report
whatever of the evidence given viva voce before your said
Commissioners.

5. That upon a patient hearing and due consideration
of the evidence given before the said Commissioners, and
the demeanor of the several witnesses, and a personal
inspection of the said prison, it appears-
6. That the prison at Milbank, by stet. 6 and 7 -Vic.,
c. 26, and by virtue of other statutes, and by orders of
one of your Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, is
a place of confii.ement for convicts under sentence or
order of transportation.
7. That the condition of the various apartments. wards,
offices, and furniture of the said prison is generally very
good, for order, cleanliness, purity of air, and their ap-
propriate uses. _

8: That from this general statement must be excepted
the dark cells, which are unwholesome and improper
places for the confinement of prisoners.
Q. That the diet of the prisoners, ordered by the-Se-
cretary of State according to law, when not curtailed
by punishments inflicted by the officers of the prison, is
wholesome anctample.
10. That the health of the prisoners is generally good.
11. That there are faults in the discipline and order-
ing of the said prison, which require reformation.
12. That the rules for enforcing silence, and the se-
parate confinement of prisoners in the said prison, de-
mand further inquiry and great consideration at the
hands of your Majesty's advisers and your Parliament.
13. That unjust and cruel punishments have been in-
flicted on certain of the prisoners within the said prison
by orders of the governor and the inspectors.
14. That such punishments have been unjust and
cruel, inasmuch as they have been inflicted without a full
hearing or due consideration of the evidence bearing on
the several cases, and have been disproportionate to the
offences charged against the prisoners.
15. That sufficient care has not been taken by the
chief officers of the said prison to guard against the in-
fliction of punishment in cases where it might be inju-
rious to health.

16. That serious injury to the health of prisoners has
been the consequence of such punishments.
17. That such punishments inflicted on prisoners of
weakly constitutions have aggravated their infirmities
and accelerated their deaths.

18. That such consequences have not followed from
itny proved malice, or wilfully evil design of the governor
or other officer of the said prison.
19. That the main defects in the personal character
of the governor of the said prison have been an insufficient
knowledge, or lack of observance of -the first and _ele-
mentary principles by which all judicial inquiries should
be governed, and a hasty, boisterous manner of issuing
orders and decisions, which has hurt the feelings of other
persons, and given offence, even when the orders them-
selves may have been just and lawful.
20. That the chief merits of the said governor consist
in a strict enforcing of order and discipline, personal
courage, and a spirit of improvement in much of the
management of the prison.
21. That it is probably no easy thing to find a man in
every qualification well fitted for the exercise of such an
authority as that of the governor of such a prison, on
whom a peremptory enforcing of strict rules, and prompt
decision, and stern firmness in the execution of all his
duties, should, if possible, be associated with equanimity
of temper and a mild demeanour.

22. That the conduct of the inspectors of the said
prison has not always manifested that attention to the
established principles of judicial inquiry which ought 'to
be required from all persons to whom the Legislature
has confided the power of punishment.
23. That much of the evidence given before the Com-
mission was irrelevant and unsatisfactory, from the dis-
ingenuous and evasive manner in which questions were
answered, and that the chaplain, the chief medical officer,
and the resident surgeon of the prison, have especially
incurred this censure.

24. That the charges which have been laid against the
governor and chief officers of the said prison have, in some
instances, been exaggerated accusations, and in some other
instances remain unproved. Yet enough has been proved
to show the necessity which existed for some impartial and
searching inquiry into the state of the prison, and to in-
spire a confident hope that the evidence which has been
elicited by the Comtnis:ion. and :he facts which have
been thereby brought to light, may lead to great and
perman,i4 improvements in the future management of
your Majesty's prisons.
All which is humbly submitted to your Majesty, under
the hand and seal of your Majesty 's faithful subject ancl
servant, _ _ B. ESCOTT (L.S.)

Febrizary 1, 1147.

GES ON THE GLASGOW
RAILWAY.
(From the Scotsman.)
The miserable mismanagement as regards mere secular
business of the active theologians who at present conduct
the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway is getting more and
more beyond endurance. As in previous cases, we cannot
attempt to find room for all the mishaps of the week, but
confine ourselves to the latest.
When the dispatch train from Edinburgh of Thursday
morning had got to the open country beyond Falkirk, it
very peacefully and noiselessly came to a dead stop.
Heads were immediately popped out of windows, and
inquiries uttered of "Hoboa! what's the matter there ?"
and such like ; to which the very simple and emphatic
answer, " Stuck," was returned by the officials of the
train, who were standing looking on with mach come
placency, like people who were accustomed to such a
phenomenon, and were curious to see its effect on
strangers. " Bless me, how did it happen ? %%ill we
be long kept ? Can we get out with safety ?" were the
sort of exclamations that succeeded the intimation.
" With perfect safety," said the proper officer, with a
sardonic grin ; " here we stick till the slow train comes
up." " Confound it 1" shouts a lively English voice
from the interior, " this sort of thing seems to happen
once a week here." "You would be more correct if you
said once a day, sir," was the rejoinder of the philo-
sophical official.
Some of the passengers. the object of their attempt t;l_
visit Glasgow being defeated, returned to Edinburgh
with with the next train from the west, and t
fora when they
benefit they had not anticipated or p
they took
left Edinburgh—an exhilirating wagcasazideseotarwyar,cl over the
frozen moor. When they reached
the opportunity of giving
the following document their views of the matter 13.
ctie—cary Station, Feb. 11, 1447.
passengers by the ten o'clock
fast train
h to Glasgow, state that the
enginecame to a dead stop at a quarter past eleven
nbu g r
o'clock, tbs
fheroormt subscribers,
dEisd tiance west from Falkirk.
We understand that the accident occurred from the
breaking of a decayed pipe in the fire basket ; and we
beg to record our conviction that this stoppage pro-
ceeded from no other cause but the carelessness of those
whose duty it is to provide proper engines on the line.
" JAMES DIX, Bristol.
" ROBERT ALLAN, Edinburgh.
•
" J. H. BURTON, Edinburgh.
" WILLIAM NIC HOLSON, Lime-street, London.
" JOHN SPENCE, 10, Hunter-square, Edinburgh.
" HENRY HOLDING HICK, Northampton.
" W. WOOD. Leith.
DAVID PORTEOUS. Walsall, Staffordshire. '
ROBERT CORMAcK, Berwickshire.
" ‘VILLIAM INPLAREN, Leith."

ST

The train, now unquestionabiy;:it," in the neutral
sense of the word, received a friendly shove from the
" slow train," which left Edinburgh at eleven o'clock ;
it was subsequently picked up by a pilot engine dis-
patched from Glasgow. It left Castlecary at a quarter
before one, and, to the final wonder of the passengers,
was not much more than an hour and a half beyond its
proper time.

RISE IN RENTS IN EDINBURGH.—The rents of
houses, shops, &c., within the city for the current year are
much higher as compared with the former. But the land-
lords have made a most serious and ungracious advance op.
the Tents of next year. In some cases sixty per cent. over
the rent of the present year has been,added to that of next-iee
Eciitibur9h Post. _ _

We are informed that official information was
yesterday received that the Emperor of Russia has prohi-
bited all further exportation of corn from hia dominions.