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GROUP XLV.

This Committee met at twelve o'clock, in Room 28 ; Sir
Denis Le Marchant, chairman.
EDINBURGH and NORTHERN (BRANCHES
TO ST. ANDREWS and NEWBURGH).
John Alexander, road surveyor, examined.—The proposed
railway would completely alter the present roads. That at
Colinsburgh would be carried over the railway at an eleva-
tion of 28 feet 8 inches. He considered that the line as pro-
posed to be laid down would be of no great benefit to the
public, and that the mode of carrying it on an elevated em-
bankment was attended with considerable danger.
Mr. MITCHELL, one of the magistrates of Cupar, spoke to
the general feeling of opposition to the scheme whichectuated
the people of Cupar, and to the danger which would accrue
from the high embankment which would be necessary for
the purpose of carrying the roadway over the railway.
Mr. Heriot, convenor of the Statute Labour Committee,
corroborated the evidence given by Mr. Alexander.
This closed the case.
Mr. HOPE shortly repliel for the Company.
The room was then ordered to be cleared, and on the re-
admission of parties,
The CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee could not
express their decision in the absence of the report of the
Railway Commissioners.

EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN (TAY
IMPROVEMENTS, &c.)
Mr. Sergeant BELLASIS opened for the promoters. The
object of the Bill was to obtain powers to build piers, &c., on
the ferry from Port. on-Craig on the south, to Broughly on
the north of the Tay, so as to preserve in its entirety the
Edinburgh and Northern Railway. The Learned Counsel
having explained the details of the-Bill, proceeded to examine
witnesses.
The Committee heard one witness on general evidence,
and then adjournel till Friday, the 28th inst.

GROUP XLVI.
NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY (No. 10
Evidence was called on behalf of Mr. Miller to show that
the proposed line would affect seriously his property, and
that the proposed line would pass through upwards of 200
acres of his ground, over the whole of which water-courses
had been constructed at considerable expense, and the benefits
of which would be entirely destroyed by
posed line.
Mr. TALBOT then addressed the Committee on behalf of
the promoters of the Bill. At the conclusion of his address,
The Committee intimated that in consequence of one of the
Bills, properly speaking making the pro-
opposing this line, having been by
mistake referred to Mr. Greene, the Committee would give
no decision until the Bill had been brought before them.
The Committee accordingly adjourned till after the
holidays.

GROUP XLVIII.
The Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock; Lord Courte-
nay in the chair. All the other members were present.

GLASGOW, Ain'XIRXE, AND nroNnzaNros
JUNCTION (COWLAIRS, CIINTRAL =DIC-
TION, AND CARIWYLIC nEANcuEs).
The case for the Caledonian Company in opposition to the
Bill was then taken.

Mr. Collister, C.E., examined, and deposed that he was
the resident engineer of the Caledonian Company, now con-
nected with the Pollee and Govan. The terminus would be
at the south side of the river, and the main line would be
opened in about November next. The present scheme would
cross their main line on the level. There were two lines of
rails of the Caledonian at the point of crossing, on which all
the traffic would have to go, and consequently there would
be considerable danger. In order to make such a crossing at
all eligible, they ought to have several lines of rails instead
of two; but this they could not have without rebuilding
their bridges and making considerable alterations. 'They had
not room for such an alteration at present. The distance
from the point of crossing the Caledonian, on the level, to the
Central Junction running on to the Polloc and Govan, was
but ninety yards, so that a moderately long train would
block up_ both lines, and great danger would be incurred.
Mr. Locke, C.E., corroborated the evidence of the pre-
Pious witness.

This closed the evidence for the Caledonian Company. I
Mr. Sergeant )usury replied on behalf of that company
against the Bill. lie said the general objections to the
scheme had been so well stated by Mr. Austin that he would
Under the best not refer to them. He would confine himself to the inter-
section of the Caledonian line, and he submitted
that no case had been made for such an interference.
The crossing would take place
which would be attended
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the leading traffic of both companies continually passing and
repassing. The Learned Gentleman having amplified on
these points, concluded by. calling on the
Committee to
reject the preamble of the Bill.
Mr . WH LATLLI
- ' replied on behalf of Mr. Dixon, iron-
master.
The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow, when Mr.
1 Andrews will reply.

BILLS.
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LIVERPOOL GUARDIAN GAS COMPANY.
ASHTON GAS COMPANY.
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referred met this day, in Room 8, at the usual hour, for the
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Bill was postponed till next Monday Week.
passed the Bill of the Liverpool Gas Company.

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TIIE LACE TRADE.—The appearance of things in
the holders have declined to sell, except
this market does not improve. Sales. are of a limited amount,
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plain
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tinghant Re, iew.
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states that the Sarah Sands would not leave New York
till the 11th instant. This notice seems necessary,
rorttl:ere are parties now expecting her arrival at that

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 21.
The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four
o'clock.

LORDS' AMENDMENTS.
The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
considered and agreed to:—
Claridge's Patent Asphalte Company.
Doddington Rectory Division.
Scottish Union Insurance Company.
REPORTS.
The following reports were brought up:—
Cleveland-square, St. James's, Westminster, Improve-
ment.
Mancheser ani Birmingham and North Staffordshire
Junction Railway.
The reports on the following Bills were further con-
sidered and agreed to:—
Bridge House Estates Debt.
Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company.
Dunfermline Waterworks.
Glasgow, Dumfries, ani Carlisle Railway, and Glasgow,
Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 1).
Imperial Continental Gas Association.
Plymouth and Taristock Road (No. 2).
Payne's Patents Assignment.
Warrington Gas.
Wexford Free Bridge.
York Improvement (Lendal- bride.° and approaches).
THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third time and passed:
Birkenhead Commissioners Dock Acts Amendment
(Construction of New Docks and Alteration of Cul-
vert).
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway
(Deviations between Duntocher Limeworks and Bow-
ling, &c.)
Dublin, Dundrum, and Rathfarnham Railway (Extension
-to Stephen's -green).
Dublin and Drogheda Railway (Branch from Navan to
Dells).
General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour Railway
Branches.
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct, and Glasgow
Southern Terminal Railways Amalgamation.
Great Western Railway (Branch to join the West
London Railway, Widening and Enlargement of West
London Railway, and Branches to Hammersmith, and
to join the London and South-Western Railway near
Lambeth).
London Sewage Chemical Manure.
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Newcastle,
Anniskinnan, and Baltrasne. Deviations).
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Extension
from Athlone to Galway).
Newry and Enniskillen Railway.
Norfolk Railway (from Thetford to the Lowestoft Rail-
way near Reedham, with a Branch to Halesworth).
Runcorn Gas.
Sheffield Markets.
Staffordshire Potteries Waterworks.
Swansea Valley Railway.
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway.
Westminster Improvements.
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway (Staines
to Ascot and Wokingham, with Branches).
Windsor, Staines, and South-Western Railway (Rich-
mond to Windsor, &c.)
LAW OF MARRIAGE.

Lord Kamm HILL appeared at the bar in his
official costume as Comptroller of her Majesty's House-
hold, and upun being called upon by the Speaker, he
said that he had, 'in consequence of the desire of the
House, presented their address on the subject of the law
of marriage to her Majesty, and he had received her
commands to return the following answer:—
" I have received your address relating to the law of
marriage: my consideration shall be given to the subject
to which your address refers."
CROYDON COMMERCIAL GAS COMPANY
AND COKE BILL.

Mr. KEMBLE moved that the order for reviving the
Committee on the Croydon Commercial Gas and Coke
Bill be discharged, and referred to the Committee of
Selection.—Agreed to.
REPORTS ON RAILWAY BILLS.

Mr. GREENE moved that the reports on railway
Bills, which by the standing order of the House ought
to be considered upon Thursday, be considered on
Friday. the 28th day of this instant May.—Agreed to.
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION, AND
BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND
DUDLEY RAILWAY AMALGAMATION BILL.

Mr. SPOONER moved the third reading of this Bill.
Sir CHARLES DOUGLAS asked for a postponement
of Ibis Bill for ten days, until they should see what ter-
mination the legal proceedings at present pending in 'the
Court of Queen's Bench would have.

Mr. RUSSELL said that he trusted the House
would not yield to the suggestion of the Honourable
Member. If the objection urged was a good and
valid one, it ought to have been urged on the bringing
up of the report; and after the discussion which had
taken place, he did not see that this motion ought to
have been made. If the House would resolve not to
pass any measure in reference to which legal proceed-
ings were taken it would be quite easy to defeat any
Bill.—(Cries of " Divide, divide.")
Sir C. DOUGLAS said that he would net divide
the House upon the question. All he desired to do was
to call the attention of the House to the fact, which was
not disputed by the Hon. Gentleman. He would
accordingly withdraw his amendment.
The Bill was then read a third time.
THE NAVIGATION-LAWS.

Mr. CURTEIS presented a petition against any
alteration in the navigation-laws.
CASE OF MARY DAWSON.

Mr. FERRAND presented a petition from a working
man of th© name of Dawson, in the neighbourhood of
Keighley, in the county of York, complaining of the
treatment which his daughter, Mary Dawson, had re-
ceived from her employ er, a Mr. Ellice. The petition
alleged that his daughter was a weaver in the
factory of Mr. Ellice, where she had a warp in hand which
was so bad that she could not weave. From some dis-
pute which arose on the subject, she left his employment
on the 10th of March. In consequence, she was brought
before the magistrates at Keighley, but nothing was done
with her at the time. She got employment in auother
mill, where she continued till the 30th April. On that
day, without any notice, a constable came and took her
to prison. She was taken through the streets to the rail-
way station, and hurried to Wakefield, where she now
lies committed to the House of Correction for a month.
lie now gave notice that after the holidays he would
move that the petition be printed with the votes, with
the object of bringing the subject before the House.
COMPENSATION TO TENANTS FOR AGRI-
CULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS.
Lord INGESTRE presented a petition from the
owners and occupiers of land in the county of Stafford,
stating that the security of tenure was the exception and
not the rule, and praying that the Government would
introduce a measure to secure compensation to tenants
for their agricultural improvements.
NAVIGATION-LAWS.
The NOBLE LORD also presented a petition from 4,000
seamen, belonging to ships out of the port of London,
expressing their regret that an intention was expressed
of interfering with the navigation-laws, which would
have the effect of throwing them out of employment,
and giving their bread to foreign sailors. They prayed,
therefore, that the navigation-laws should not be inter-
fered with. The Noble Lord moved that the petition
bo referred to the Navigation Committee.
MEDICAL REGISTRATION BILL.

Mr. V. SMITH presented a petition from the stir-
ffons of Shrewsbury in favour of the Medical Registra-
tion Bill.

ROMAN CATHOLICS.

Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petitition from a place
in Bedfordshire against any further concessions to the
Roman Catholics.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE FOR THE
HOLIDAYS.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL said—Sir, as it was under-
stood last night that the debate on the Poor-law Amend-
ment Bill would be finished in the course of to-night, I
beg now to move that this House, on its rising, shall ad-
journ until Friday next.
The motion 'was agreed to.
THE BANKRUPT AND INSOLVENT LAWS.
Mr. BOLTVERIE wished to ask a question of the
Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the
Home Department. Last session he had charge of a
Bill which proposed to apply a remedy to some of the
serious evils which many persons in this country were now
suffering from some of the defects in the bankrupt and insol-
vent laws, but he withdrew the Bill on the understanding
that the Government would introduce a Bill in the course
of this session for a similar purpose. He understood
that such a Bill had been introduced into the other
House of Parliament, and he therefore wished to ask his
Right Hon. Friend what state the Bill was in, and
whether there was a reasonable prospect that that Bill,
or some other for a similar purpose, could be passed
into a law during the present session?
Sir G. GREY said that since last session this subject
had been under the consideration of the Lord Chancel-
lor, and recently the Noble Lord had introduced a Bill
into the House of Lords, which was intended to be
referred to a Select Committee. He could not express
any opinion as to the period when it might be expected
in that House.
STOCK-IN-TRADE EXEMPTION BILL.

Sir R. H. INGLIS said be wished to aiicaTother
question in relation to another important Bill which
stood No. 24 on the orders of the day for that night. It
was the Stock-in-Trade Exemption Bill. He wished to
know whether the Right Hon. Baronet could not make
such arrangement with his colleagues as to allow this
Bill to come on at such an hour on some day that a
fair discussion might be taken upon it.
Sir GEORGE GREY was not aware that it was in-
tended to offer any opposition t 6 this Bill, but at all
events, if they did not get down to the Bill till a late
hour, he should postpone it.
Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to know what the Right
Hon. Baronet considered a late hour.
Sir GEORGE GREY—After twelve o'clock.
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL.
Mr. GEORGE BANKES wished to ask the Right
Hon. Gentleman the Vice-President of the Board of
Trade whether he intended to proceed with this Bill,
and if he did, when?
Mr. T. M. GIBSON—Not till after the holidays.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved that after the Ist of
June orders of the day should have precedence of
notices of motions upon Thursday.
OFFICE FOR PUBLIC RECORDS.
Mr. M. MILNES wished to know whether anything
had been done towards the erection of an office for the
reception of the public records ?
Sir G. GREY said that the subject was under the
consideration of the Government.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS BILL.
Mr. E. DENISON wished to know when the Eccle.
siastical Commissioners Bill would be again brought
before the House?
was undsref,oo4 to §ay that
Lord JOHN RUSSELL
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