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London, England, 1847-02-22 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From Lie Votes ana Proceedin, s of the House of Commons.

rmDAY, FEB. 19.

The following Railway Bills were presented, read a first
time, and ordered to he read a second time :
York and Newcastle and Newcastle and Berwick Amalga-
mation—" to authorise the consolidation into one undertak-
ing of the York and Newcastle and the Newcastle and Ber-
wick Railways."

York and N•rth Midland (Harrogate Branch, Borough.
bridge, and Knaresbcrough Extension)—" for enabling the
York and North Midland Railway Company to make a
Railway from their Church Fenton and Harrogate Branch to
Knaresborough and Boroughbridge."
York and North Midland (Knottinglev Branch)—" for
enabling the York and North Midland Railway Company to
make a Railway from their Line at Burton Salmon to Knot-
tingles-, with a -Branch therefrom, and for other purposes."
York and Newcastle tPelaw Tyne Dock, &c., Branches)—
" for enabling the York and Newcastle Railway Company to
make certain Branch Railways in the counties of Durham
and York, and for other purposes.
York and North Midland (East Riding Canals Purchase)—
" to authorise the purchase by 10-ie York and North Midland
Railway Company of the interests of the Shareholders in the
Market Weighton Canal ; and the purchase of the Canal
communicating therewith, called Sir Edward Vavasour's
Canal ; of the Pocklington Canal ; and of the Leven Canal ;
all in the East Riding of the county of York."
London and South •Western—" to amend the Acts relating
to the London and South Western Railway, and to enable
the London and South-Western Railway Company to in-
crease their capital. and to complete various arrangements
with other Companies and undertakings, and for other
purposes."
Northampton and Banbury Rahway—" for making a Rail-
way from the Northampton and Peterborough Branch of the
London and North-Western Railway to the town of Ban-
bury, to be called The Northampton and Banbury Railway,'
and for other purposes."
The following Railway Bills were read a second time, com-
mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection :

Dundee and Newtyle.
Dundee and Perth (Alteration and Extension and Inch-
ture, Polgavie, and Inchmichael Branches).
Cheltenham and Oxford.
Edinburgh, L.ith, and Granton (Leith Extension).
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton (Union Canal and Caledo-
nian Railway Junction).
Eastern Counties (Spalding to Newark).

Braintree and Halstead.
Eastern Counties (Wisbech to Spalding).
Eastern Counties (Peterborough to Folkingham).
Midland (Erewash Valley, &c.).
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction
(Alteration of Main Line and Hawes Branch).
London and South-Western (Andover to the Bishopstoke
and Salisbury Branch, &c.).
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Peterborough and

Thorney Line).
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle- upon- Tyne Junction
and Northern Counties Union Amalgamation.
South Staffordshire (Cannock, Wyrley, and Norton Branches,
&c.)

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The following Resolutions were reported from the above
Corn m ttee-:
1. That in the case of the Caledonian Railway (Extension
of Motherwell Branch of Clydesdale Junction Railway to
Auchinheath Mineral Field with Branches to the Wishaw
and Coltness Railway, Canderside, and Hamilton) petition,
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on the inser-
tion of a Clause restraining them from taking a house and
garden adjoining numbers 85 and 86, in the parish of
Hamilton.
2. That in the case of the Caledonian Railway (Branches
from the Clydesdale Junction Railway to the Douglas and
Lesmahagow Mineral Fields and to Strathavon) petition,
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on the inser-
tion of Clauses restraining them from taking any part of a
small piece of land between Number 8 and a road excluded
from the limits of deviation, at the corner of a field, Number
6, in the parish of Blantyre ; and also any part of a field
between a road, Number 14, and a field, Number 10, in the
parish of Dalserf ; and also the part of Numbers 23, 23, 23,
in the parish of Stonehouse, adjoining the occupation road
Number 19 ; and obliging them to prolong the road Number
202, in the parish of Lesmahagow, and to carry the same
under the Railway by an arch of legal dimensions, if required
so to do by the Trustees of the said Road.
3. That in the case of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :
That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on
forthwith giving such Notices, andslepositing such P,,lans and
Sections with reference to any proposed new works as are re-
quired by the standing orders for Bills of the second class.
4. That in the case of the Newmarket and Chesterford
Railway ( Extension to Bury St. Edmund's, with a Branch
to Ely) petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed
with :--That the parties be permitted to proceed with their
Bill, on making the Plan deposited in the Private Bill-office
agree with the Book of Reference, by inserting on the Plan
the Number 6 b, in the parish of Gazeley, and Number 5, in
the parish of Westlev ; and on striking out of the Book of
Reference Number 515, in the parish of Soham ; Number 5 a,
Number 25, and Number 27, in the parish of the Holy
Trinity, Ely; Number 12, in the parish of Kenford ; and
Number 6 a, in the parish of Gazeley ; and on the insertion
of such Clauses with respect to the height and span of the
arch over the river Ouse, as the Commissioners of the Ouse
Navigation may consider necessary.
That the Committees on the four preceding Bills do exa-
mine, in the first place, how far such orders have been com-
plied with ; and do report the same to the House on the re-
port of the Bills.—Resolutions agreed to.
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
The following *Railway Bill is appointed to be read a
second time on Wednesday, Feb. 24 :
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and
Goole (Partial Alteration of Levels, &c.).