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London, England, 1840-07-14 00:00:00

*HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 13.

TiV; SrEAKER took the Chit short!y bcfore Tour
n'ckwrk.

f lb, (notion of Mr. MORRIS,
state Bill las rcad a second time, and ordered to lie
committed.
Mr. HODGES brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on the London and Greenwich Railway Enlarge-
ment and Station, and the Bill was ordered to be re-
committed.
On the motion of Mr.'OS WALD, the Lords' amend-
ments to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Bill were
agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. LOWTHER, the Earl of
Scarborough's Estate Bill was read a second time, and
ordered to be committed.
Mr. GREEN brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee on Angerstein's Estate, and the Bill was read
third time and passed.

Sir DELAaY EVANS presented a petition, signed
by 400 inhabitants of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields and
St. Anne's, Westminster, in favour of opening a com-
munication between Long-acre and Piceadilly.—Re-
ierred to the Committee on the Metropolitan Improve-
ments.

Mr. VILLIERS presented petitions from Lambeth,
Horsleydown, and other places, in favour of the repeal
of the Corn-laws.

Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from Messrs.
Goding, of the Lion Brewery, against the proposed
embankment of the Thames, as it would injure their
property, and praying the House not to sanction and
measure on the subject.—Referred to the Committee
on the Thames Embankment.
Mr. LOCH presented three petitions from different
parts of Scotland against Lord Aberdeen's Scotch
Church Bill.

On the motion of Mr. WALLACE, Lord Douglas's
Estate Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be
committed. _

Mr. MACAULEY brought up the Report of the
Committee on the Militia Estimates.—Referred to the
Committee of Supply.
Mr. ESTCOURT brought up the Report of the
Standing Orders Committee on the Metropolis Im-
provements Bill, authorising the parties to proceed with
the Bill.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
Sir H. VIVIAN begged to call the attention of the
House to the statements contained in a petition, which
hal been presented on the subject of the Report of the
Commissioners appointed to inquire into the best line of
railway communication between London and Dublin.
That petition was signed by the Hon. Member of the
county of Carnarvon, the Hon. Member for the Car-
narvon burghs, and others, and contained the follow-
ing passage :—" These opinions are strengthened by
the reports of Sir Francis Smith and Professor Barlow,
Sir JAMCS Gordon and Captain Beechy, R.N., docu-
ments which contain assertions the most -unfounded,
and recommendations the most mischievous." Now, he
trusted that the Hon. Member did not mean to apply
these observations to the reports of these gentlemen.
Mr. R. O. GORE had no hesitation in saying that

it was not intended, by the parties who signed the peti-
tion, to cast any imputation or reflection whatever on
Sir F. Smith or Professor Barlow. -
Sir THOS. TROUBRIDGE wished the Hon.
Member had extended his declaimer a little further, and
included Sir J. Gordon and Captain_ Beechy, who had
been spoken of in terms which he must call unwarrant-
able, and which their high characters and attainments
by no means justified.
Mr. R. 0. GORE was understood to say that he
thought there were some assertions in the report 'whiel,
were not warranted, and that these gentlemen had been
misled in the statements they had made.
Mr. ORMSBY GORE, sen., said the petition had
been presented to him, but he had declined to sign it,
although he must assert his right to affix his name to
any document he thought proper.
Sir T. TROUBRIDGE said it was his intention
to call the attention of the House to the matter on
Wednesday next.
Mr. W. 0. STANLEY wished to make a few re-
marks, as his name was, in some degree, mixed up in
the matter.
The SPEAKER apprehended that the Hon. Mem-
ber would be more in order if he postponed his observa-
tions till the subject came regularly before the House.
Mr. 0. STANLEY was understood to say that he
would call the attention of the House to the petition at
five o'clock.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from. Kilwinning,
complaining of the treatment of Lovett, Collins, Vin-
cent, F. O'Connor, and other political prisoners.
Sir D. NORREYS presented a petition from me-

dical practitioners in the south of Ireland, praying that
Grand Juries might be empowered to grant remunera-
tion to medical witnesses in cases of misdemeanour as
well as felony.
Mr. KEMBLE presented a petition from the par;sh
of St. Peter's, Wa!worth, in favour of Church Extension