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London, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceen'in the House of Cornnumx.)
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
SATURDAY, FEE. 13.
The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
second time :

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 17.
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Extension from Athlone
to Galway).
Exeter and Exmouth.
Leeds and Thirsk (Leeds, Durham, and Newcastle Exten•
sion, &c.).
Leeds and Thirsk (Deviation of Main Line in Crimple
Valley, , c.).
Leeds and Thirsk (Knaresborough and Boroughbridge

Branch).
Leeds and Thirsk ( Eaglescliff and Stillington Extension).
Leeds and Thirsk (Harrogate and Pateley Branch, &c.).
Leeds and Thirsk (Branch from blelmerby to Northallar-
ton, &c.).

THU RSDAY, FEB. 18.
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton (Leith Extension).
Ediubargh, Leith, and Granton (Union Canal and Caledo.
nian Railway Junction).
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Peterborough and

Thorney Line).
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle•upon-Tyne Junction
and Northern Counties Union Amalgamation.
Cheltenham and Oxford.
London and South-Western (Andover to the Bishopstoke
and Salisbury Branch, &c.).
FRIDAY, FEB. 19.

Dundee and Newtyle.
Dundee and Perth (Alteration and Extension and Inch.
ture, Polgavie, and Inchmichael Branches).

PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(Room 22, before Mr. Examiner SMITH.)
UNOPPOSED LIST.
In the two following unopposed cases the customary formal
proofs were put in, and the standing orders complied with :
Liverpool Corporation Waterworks.
Eastern Union and Bury St. Edmund's Railway Amalga-
mation.

OPPOSED LIST.
BLANDFORD AND BURTON.
This adjourned case was then resumed. It occupied the
whole of the day, but the allegations sustained were not of
any great importance.
(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY.)
UNOPPOSED LIST.

In the following unopposed cases the formal proofs were
completed:—
Great Northern Railway—Hertford, Hatfield, and St. Al-
ban's Branch.

.... ..
Great Northern Railway—Deviation between Grantham
and York.

Boston' Stamford, and Birmingham Railway—Branch to
Wisbech Harbour, and Wisbech Harbour Improvement.
Boston, Stamford. and Birmingham Railway—from Wis-
bech to Sutton Bridge, with Branch therefrom to Sutton St.
Mary, and Improvement at Sutton Bridge.
OPPOSED LIST.
EDINBURGH, LEITH, AND GRANTON RAILWAY—
LEITH AND GRANTON JUNCTION.

In this opposed case it was decided that the standing orders
had not been complied with in one or two instances.
EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY—ILFORD TO TIL-
BURY FORT AND SOUTHEND, WITH A BRANCH.
In this case the opposition was withdrawn, and the custo-
mary formal proofs having been put in, the standing orders
were declared to hare been complied with.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY—DEVIATIONS BE-
TWEEN PETERBOROUGH, BOSTON, AND DON-
CASTER.
In this case also the opposition was withdrawn, and the
standing orders complied with.
Adjourned till to-morrow.

MEETING OF THE IRISH PARTY.
Another meeting of Peers and Members of the House of
Commons was held on Saturday at their chambers, Parlia-
ment-street. Among those present were Lord Monteagle,
the Marquis of Sligo, the Earl of Mountcashel, Sir E. Hayes,
Mr. H. Lefroy, Mr. Edward Grogan, Colonel Acton, Mr.
'Villiers Stuart, Mr. P. S. Butler, Mr. Morgan, Mr. M.
H. Tuite, Mr. William Smith O'Brien, Mr. R. Osborne,
Mr. Henry Grattan, Mr. Fitzstephen French, Alr. William
Henry Gregory, &c. &c. Lord Monteagle occupied the chair.
Mr. SPOTTISWOODE, accompanied by three other gentle-
men connected with the mcneyed and mercantile inte-
rests in the city, was introduced to the meeting; and,
atter sonic brief observations explanatory of the object of his
visit, laid before their Lordships, and the other members of
the Irish party, certain suggestive propositions embodying
a scheme for supplying the funds necessary to carry out Lord
George Bentinck's measure with respect to railways, in
the event of the Railway Bill introduced into the House of
Ccimmons by the leader of the Protectionist party receiving
the sanction of the Legislature. Mr. Spottiswoode sub-
mitted that there were many reasons which should induce
the Government to encourage the construction of railways in
Ireland. They would not only furnish employment for a
large number of the Irish population, and consequently re-
lieve the existing distress, but would afford permanent
means of occupation to a considerable class of persons in
maintaining and working the railways when completed.
Railways in Ireland, too, were desirable for the general
convenience and advantage of the whole community of
Great Britain, and, when formed, would be property, created
by otherwise unemployed labour, of a profitable nature to
those who possessed it. The money for making the railways
might be easily provided by the means of Exchequer notes
of 11. each, bearing no interest and receivable in taxes and
other Government payments, without cost to the Exche-
quer and without disarranging the national finances ;
but, on the contray, the circulation of such .Exchequer notes,
by providing the wages of labour, would increase the con-
sumption of exciseable articles and thereby improve the
national revenue. Moreover, the money so provided would
not withdraw the means of prosecuary, atuindgesopteticeiralulysefautitohcecupprae:
the general industry of the
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community.
The several suggestions made by Mr. Spottiswoode were
freely canvassed, but no formal resolution upon their merits
was adoped ; they will be brought under the consideration of
the Irish party at a future meeting on an early day. The
proposition for raising the 16,000,0001. of money required by
Lord G. Bentinck's scheme, by the of 1/. Exchequer
asbeoncutmo
commended
Government payments, cause
notes, bearing no interest, anddreacuelvaanbilme tantetdazdeisscuanssdioont,hieur
that the plan proposed bythe
Irish
elswriell
to the notice of Government by some of party the
course of the adjourned debate, which is to be resumed this
which every Member took
thepart.
deputationher
by prolonged discussion in
evening, if not interfered
Committee on the Irish Poor Relief ,
Bill, which stands spe-
cially on the orders.
Mr. Spottiswoode and
discussed. It was
the subject of medical charities was
should be made to Government
lwiisthfriends then withdrew, and
agreed that application
superintendence.
Thanks were voted to Lord Mouteagle for his conduct in
four
for the introduction of a more efficient system of medical
the chair, and the meeting separated shortly before
o'clock.
63, I

The Moniteur Algi•rien of the 30th ult., in giviniz
an account of the last razzia of General Cayaignac, which
has already been mentioned, states that Abd-el-Kader him-
self had but a few hours before been in the same neighbour •
hood Conatilittin a razxia upon A tribe which PM hostile to
him.