The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-09 00:00:00

LATEST BETTING.

CHESTERFIELD STAKES.-3 to 1 agst Ibrahim Pach2, sto
1 agst Nerissa, 7 to 1 agst Lady Lurewell, 7 to 1 agst Doctor
Goodall.

All are scratched but the following :—Dr. Goodall, Nerissa.
Galata filly, Lady Lurewell, Miami (Sister to Deer Chase)
Ibrahim Pacha, and Vert Vert.
LIVERPOOL CEP.— 5 to 2 agst Mendicant (taken freely),
16 to 1 agst Premier.
Goonwoon STARIES.-9 to 1 agst Camera Obscura (t),
11 to 1 agst The Hero, 20 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger (t),
20 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild.
DERBY.-50 to 1 agst War Eagle (t), 50 tot agst. Reiver
(t), 50 to 1 agst Abdiel (t), 50 to 1 agst Epirete (t), 50 to 1
agst Cossack.

THE LATE FIRES AT SOW:I.M.
APPREHENSION OF THE SUPPOSED
INCENDIARIES.
The hand of the incendiary has been again busy in
this district, which suffered so much during the late
reign of " Swing." We have already published an
account of the fire, which, commencing on the premises
of Mrs. Peachey, of Hall-street, on Friday morning last,
consumed property which, now that a calculation has
been made, is found to have been of the value of 6;0004
besides rendering homeless 79 persons. '
Before entering on the subject of the apprehensi.on of
the parties charged, we may state that during tte last
two months no less than five fires have occurre.t in the
immediate neighbourhood, viz.,—
First, on the premises of Mrs. Staples, which were
entirely destroyed.
Next, on Mr. Morley's premises, which were unin-
sured.
Then, on those of Mrs. Gawtrey ; this latter was sup-.
pressed before it had occasioned much damage. The
miscreant, however, who caused it was not to be baffled,
and the house was again fired on the succeeding Sunday
evening. The premises were, on this occasion, totally
consumed, and involved also the destruction of those eV
Mr. Fenn.
But the climax was not reached until Friday night.
Such was the illumination produced by the fire of that
night, that it was distinctly seen at St. Ives, Somersham,
Cambridge, Huntingdon, and other places within 20
miles. It is consolatory to know that the whole of the
losses are covered by insurance, chiefly in the Suffolk
Vire-office.
An attire inquiry into the origin of the calamity
was instituted. It resulted in the apprehension of
Cornelius Harvey, and his nephew, James Harvey;
the former is a man of independent property, and
the latter a grocer and draper of the town. The
premises of the younger prisoner were burned, and
the charge preferred against them was tide ignition
of the houso of Mrs. Peachey with a ,:iew to the de-
struction of that ofJames Harvey. The stock and premises
of James are stated to have been over-insured, and he was
indebted to his uncle 3001., th' desire for the realisation
of which, by defrauding •,:ne Suffolk Fire- office, would
wain to have led tr..rm to the commission of the act
with which the; stand charged.
The pri;',,nors were examined before J. Dobede, Esq.,
resid,cnt magistrate, at the Crown Hotel, on Friday.
Wilkin attended for the parish ; Mr. Ilustwicleand
Mr. Sparkes, of Bury, for the Suffolk Fire-office ; and
Messrs. Isaacson, of Mildenhall, for the prisoners.
It appeared that although the whole of the you Eger
prisoner's stock was saved, he had claimed fre,o, the
office the full amount of its insurance. St'.ch other
evidence was adduced as warranted the rer4and of the
prisoners, and they were conveyed to thP, county gaol at
Cambridge.
' It is estimated that on Sunday 5,b00 strangers visited
the scene of the fire. The m 056 vigilant night watches
are kept up. The timely "assistance rendered at the late
fire was owing to .'ne vigilance of some voluntary
I watchers who were afraid to go to bed. A regular
corps has since been organised.

IMPORTANT DECISION TO RAIL-

WAY PASSENGERS IN SCOTLAND.

In the Small Debt Court, on Thursday last, a case was
tried before Mr. Sheriff Campbell, at the instance of
Elizabeth Caldwell, Kilbarchan, against the Ayrshire
Railway Company, in which points of considerable im-
portance to passengers by railway, and also to railway
directors, were elicited. The pursuer, and several
others, bad taken third-class tickets from Paisley to
Cochran Mill station, where they intended to land. On
reselling that station, the passengers endeavoured in
vain to open the carriage door. They then cried for
some one to come and open it, but nobody came until
the train was started, when a man came forward (it was
not proved whether it was the guard or a person uncon-
nected with the company), and opened the door, and
took out the passengers, including a woman and child,
while tho train was running. In the hurry, one of the
passengers leaped upon the skirt of the pursuer's
gown and tore it, and it was for the value of the gown so
torn that the action was brought, on the ground that
sufficient time had not been allowed for the passengers
to land before starting the trait. Three witnesses were
examined for the pursuer, who concurred in stating the
case as we have narrated it. Two witnesses, the guard,
and the manager at the station, were offered for the de-
fence, but not examined, an objection having been taken
to the competency of the guard, that he would have to
pay the damages to the Company, in the event of the
pursuer obtaining decree. The Sheriff, after shortly
runuing over the evidence, pronounced decree, with full
expc nses, against the Company. After pronouncing de-
cree, the Sheriff remarked that he was sorry the pre-
sent was not the only complaint that bad been made to
him of the short time allowed for passengers to land at
tho different railway stations, nor of the difficulties ex-
perienced by passengers at landing. It required the
strength of a man to open the carriage- doors, and in the
case of women either travelling by themselves or with
children it was often impossible fur them to get out in
the time allowed at the stations, and nobody would say
that they were not proper parties to travel by railway.
Passengers should be allowed to collect their senses,
and be made aware of the stations, and not hurried out.
But, added the Sheriff, I would be even inclined to go
a step further, and say that it is not the duty of railway
passengers to open the carriage doors at all, but that
this should be done by the Company or their servants,
and he strongly impressed upon the railway directors
to attend to this in future, and not expose the lives and
property of the public in the way hitherto done.
The Learned Sheriff's remarks were most attentively
listened to by a crowded Court, and we have no doubt
they will produce the requisite effect in the proper quar-
ter, an object which the pursuer considered of far more
importance than the value of the gown.—Glasgow Sa-
turday Pose.

THE BONE-CRUSHING SYS7E3I.
REPORT of the SECRETARY of the POOR-LAW
CONIMISSIONERS on BONE-CRUSHING.

There appear to be two sorts of bones used in agri-
culture : Ist, the bones of commerce, from which all
the gelatine fat and animal juices are boiled out—a pro-
cess necessary, it is stated, to prevent decomposition,
and accidents and annoyance during their transport.
In this state the bones consist chiefly of phosphate of
lime, carbonate of lime or common chalk, phosphate of
magnesia, soda, and cartilage ; and in this state are
eold by the manure companies and preparers of ma-
neres, and are stated to be inoffensive, and compara-
tively uninjurious. 2dly, " green bones "—those in
which the gelatinous and other animal matter is re-
tained in the same state in which the bones are collected
by the bone-gatherers and others, from amidst dunghills
and heaps of ashes and refuse.
Inasmuch as the smell is referred to in the paper be-
fore me, it is inferred that the objection is taken to the
process of crushing the green bones, i. e. those bones
which give off putrid emanations; and it is the eligibility
of the proeeas of crushing such green bones, as fitting
work for the inmates of workhouses, that is hereafter
considered.
There does not appear to be any recorded or precise
observations as to the specific effect of putrid emanations
from bones or from bone dust ; but there are no general
facts now more clearly ascertained than that all putrid
emanations from decaying animal matter are noxious,
that " the effects of such miasma are manifested imme-
diately on all surrounding human life (and there is evi-
dence to believe they are manifest in their degree on
animal life generally), in proportion to the relative
strength of the destructive agent, and the relative
strenkh or weakness of the beings exposed to them.
The effects are seen first on infants, then on children, in
the order of their age and strength, then on females, or
on the sickly, the aged, and feeble ; last of all, on the
robust workmen, and on them it appears on those parts
of the body that have been previously weakened by excess
or by illness."—( Vide Supplement to the Sanatory Re-
port for the general character of the evidence to support
this conclusion, paragraphs 5 to 11.) In general, the
work of bone-crushing appears to have been undertaken
by stout able-bodied men, on whom the influence of
noxious effluvia is not commonly immediately manifested,
nor likely to be observed ; but particular instances are
known where it was observed that nausea, inability to
take food, was the result on healthy independent labou
Tors, when employed in crushing bones from which the
putrid emanations were strong. The same labourers
sustained no nausea or inconvenience whatever during
prolonged employment in loading, unloading, and spread-
ing dung.
The conclusion would be, from all such information as
appears to be applicable to the subject, that the process
is one which if it were carried on by independent la-
bourers, as a matter of private speculation, that would
come, ji)rtieri, under consideration with other processes
in manufactories where deleterious processes are carried
on, and on which it has been submitted to the Legisla-
ture for decision, whether they ought not to be placed
under authoritative regulations, with a view not only to the
protection of the public from the emanation as common
nuisances, but for the protection of workmen engaged in
conducting them (vide Sanatcry Report, page 256 to page
261, on the employers' influence on the health of workpeo-
pie, by regulation of their pieces of work), and whether
this process of crushing green bones is not one which,
from its peculiar offensiveness to the smell (and the
smell is in respect to emanations from decaying
animal as well as vegetable substances, the faithful
monitor of causes injurious to the health), ought to
be required to be conducted under chimneys, or with
appropriate appliances to carry away effluvia, and to pro-
tect the workmen from inhaling the dust, which will be
more injurious than the effluvia ? If protective legisla-
tive provisions on this principle were adopted for the
protection of independent workmen, there could be little
doubt that the process in question will be comprehended
within them as being at least as injurious and offensive
es several processes which the Building Bill before Par-
..
eament proposes to exclude for the future from the me-
se c nolis. It would seem to follow, that the remedy which
it were desirable to apply by legislation for the abate-
ment of the nuisance arising from the process when car-
ried on as a private trade, should be applied to the pro-
cess now that it is brought within the cognisance of a
public authority. The question then arises, whether it
es practicable to conduct the process with proper care,
and with the re9uisite protective appliances, when that
process is carried on as an incident to the ordinary
workhouse management ?
It is assumed that it is not practicable to do so, exaept
at an expense of labour that will outweigh its advankres.
)11r. Tufnell states, " that' the boxes used for crush-
ing the bones should always be perfectly dry, and brokers
under en open shed, when the smell or effluvia is next to
nothing."
If these conditions be obtained, and if the effluvia be
reduced to " next to nothing," then undoubtedly the
"injurious effects will be reduced to next to nothing,
and there would be nothing to object to in requiring this
labour to be performed by young able-bodied men.
This statement cannot, however, be taken to the letter,
as it is obvious that bone' enclosed only in a box, with
an open top, in a shed, without any contrivance of a
chimney, or funnel, to create a draught and carry away
the effluvia which the box will freely give off, could not
be inoffensive. The air contained in them being, how-
ever, more diluted, will, to some extent, be less noxious
than if the process were carried on in a closed chamber;
but the process would still, pro tonic), be an injurious
one, even to 3oung labourers, if kept to such labour for
any great length of time.
But it is to be borne in mind, that " able-bodied
paupers" will not, in general, be of the most robust
class. Those whom the guardians may often be the
most disposed to set to work will be those whom they
consider to be the worthless class, the idle and the dis-
sipated. Now the dissipated will be pre-disposed to all
inch deleterious influence by their dissipation ; they
may be deserving of punishment, but punishment cannot
legally he mixed up with relief, nor would exposure to
nausea and a fit of illness, be a mode of punishment re-
cognised. Mr. Tufnell considers bone-crushing to be a
sort of employment " peculiarly suitable to the semi-
able-bodied, a class very difficult to deal with, and who
may be very easily set to work in this way." Now, on
the principle above cited, as conclusions from medical
evidence as to the increased effect of putrid emanations
in proportion to the weakness of the persons exposed to
them, the semi-able-bodied is a chess on whom, as being
doubly susceptible, such exposure must at least be
doubly injurious.
It is, moreover, to be considered that the workhouse,
besides being a place of work, according to the ability
of the parties received, is also to be viewed and dealt
with as a hospital, and a place of reception for the sick
and convalescent, and very young children, and of
weakly and susceptible persons ; it is therefore a place
front which all deleterious effluvia should be excluded,
a place for which such a process and traffic as that in
question is peculiarly unfitted; for though decaying bones
may be placed in the outhouses, yet it may be presumed
that it will be an object of difficult attainment so to con-
fine the fumes as to prevent them being carried into the
house, and amidst the susceptible classes of inmates.
It may be that with the very little attention that has
hitherto been paid to the effect of such influences on
health, the deleterious effect of the putrid emanations
from decaying bones will not be greater than those to
which the inmates of most workhouse a are still exposed

(the effluvia from cesspools, and bogholes, and draing,
for example) ; but on that very account additions should
nog be made to the existing depressing agencies. But
now that the operation, and causes of disease, of such
agencies is better understood, the whole should be re-
moved.

ply an extent of skilful arrangement and care which
there is no security or reasonable expectation %NM bo
be applied to the work when conducted under ordinary
workhouse management :
That although, when the emanations are not highly
offensive, or where the bones are not in an active state
of decomposition, they may be housed or worked with
impunity, by healthy labourers, yet, on account of the
greater susceptibility of the sick and the weakly inmates,
no materials giving off such emanations ought to be
brought within the precincts of workhouses:
It is considered that the process of bone-crushing
ought not to be indiscriminately sanctioned as an eli-
gible mode of setting paupers to work.
But beyond the nature of the employment itself, the
terms on which it is recommended for adoption by Mr.
Tufnell, and by some of the guardians, if any dependence
is to be placed on the newspaper reports transmitted with
the documents, appear to imply mistakes as to the prin-
ciple'of the law, and deviations in the practice, which re-
quire some observations.
The employment is recommended by Mr. Tufnell be-
cause "it is very hard work, and from their not being
accustomed to it, very disagreeable to paupers." One of
the guardians of the Honiton Board is reported to have
said that he thought bone-crushing might be advan-
tageously continued as " a test."
Now it may be questioned whether any part of the law
justifies the application of any process, simply and solely
as " a test."

Any poor person being in danger of perishing from
destitution, having no means to maintain him," that is,
having no work whatever, is, in the terms of the 43d
Elirtbeth, to be relieved by being " set on work" out of
the funds provided under the authority of that statute ;
the sort of work specified in the statute appears to be
ordinary and usual occupations on "necessary wares
and stuffs." In return for such work he receives relief,
and the condition on which such relief ought to be given
is thus stated in the report of the Commissioners of
Poor.law Inquiry:—
"The first and most essential of all conditions, a prin-
ciple which we find universally admitted, even by those
whose practice is at variance with it, is that his situation
on the whole shall not be made really or apparently so
eligible as the situation of the independent labourer of
the lowest class. Throughout the evidence it is shown
that in proportion as the condition of any pauper class
is elevated above the condition of the independent
labourers, the condition of the independent class is de-
pressed, their industry is impaired, their employment
becomes unsteady, and its remuneration in wages is
diminished. Such persons are, therefore, under the strong-
est inducements to quit the less eligible class of labourers
and enter the more eligible class o paupers. The con-
verse is the effect when the pauper class is placed in its
proper position, below the condition of the independent
labourer. Every penny bestowed that tends to render
the pauper's condition more eligible than that of the in-
dependent labourer is a bounty on indolence and vice."
All this is true, and yet if the applicant have " no
means" to maintain him, if he be in the position con-
templated by the statute of Elizabeth, however simple
the fare, and hard the task of ordinary and useful work,
being saved from the consequence of having "no means"
to maintain him, it is still relief which he receives, and
the provision is still a beneficent one.
In another part of the report of the inquiry, p. 264, it
is stated as an incident to the carrying out of this prin-
ciple, "that the offer of relief on the principle suggested
by us, would be a self-acting test' of the claim of the
applicant." _

"It is shown throughout the evidence that it is de-
moralising and ruinous to offer to the able-bodied of the
best characters more than a simple subsistence. The
person of bad character, if ho be allowed anything
could not be allowed less. By the means which we pro-
pose, the line between those who do, and those who do,
not need relief, is drawn, and drawn perfectly. If the
claimant does not comply with the terms on which relief
is given to the destitute, he gets nothing, and if he does
comply, the compliance proves the truth of the claim—
namely, his destitution."

The test is still the incident to the principle on which
the relief is administered, the pauper is still relieved by
being " set to work." All the examples of dispauperised
parishes cited by the Commissiont rs of Inquiry were by
setting the applicants on work, on ordinary and usual
work of the character of the work specified by the statute
of Elizabeth, but it appears to he going not only beyond
the terms of the comment of the Commissioners of In-
quiry, but beyond any terms of the law itself, to erect
the mere incident into the principal and sole objects of
the law. When used in such a manner as above recited,
and with such a process, the man is popularly under-
stood to be (and it is to be feared is often intended to
be) " tested," as a coin is tested by the application of
nitric acid, or aquafortis, and then put aside without any
further care if he star.ds the test. The law directs work
to be given as the inseparable condition of the benefit,
and as a relief, and not as " a test." But when it is stated
that that which is of little or no use as labour, is valu-
able, and to be retained as a "test," a course is taken to
bring the law into odium, to excite opposition against it,
and by the injudicious use of the word " test," justify
the declamation against its administration, that its real
intent is to " torment" the paupers.
To an idle and vicious man, any work such as an in-
dependent labourer executes with cheerfulness, may be
disagreeable, but it is only on the condition of his being
set on work, however disagreeable, that the statute of the
43d Eliz tbeth allows him to receive relief. In prin-
ciple, and according to the fair interpretation of that
statute, the usual and ordinary work should be such as
may offer no temptations to an idle man, but present no
ground of fear to an industrious one, that if he take the
employment he will be subject to a fit of illness, or to
any severity that is to operate not as proper labour, but
simply and solely as a test. If the word were taken
from their report, which dues not appear, the Commis-
sioners of Inquiry mat fairly complain that no precau-
tion can protect any term from perversion, when a word
used as characterising an incident is coined into a
phrase, and used as above described in the face of such
illustrations as the following :
" A further advantage of extended districts, the
unions, say the Commissioners, arises from the com•
parative facility of providing for the paupers' useful
employment Opportunities for such employment are
wanting in many parishes; in others exist in forms too
large to be undertaken, and is still more numerous in-
stances exist uselessly, in consequence of the jealousies
which always act most powerfully in small neighbour•
hoods. It appears that one of the first preliminary
measures must be the preparing for the able-bodied
more of this employment than we believe that they
will accept."

"Emplovment of some kind can indeed be always
provided, but it appears to us that it ought to be useful
employment. Parish officers, whilst they have had suf-
ficient labour of this description before their doors, in
their unwillingness or their inability to take upon them-
selves the trouble of superintendence, or to make any
immediate pecuniary sacrifice for the purpose of enforc-
ing the performance of that labour, have resorted to the
expedient of sending paupers on fictitious errands, with
hvikets full of stones, or blank paper, directed as letters,
and other devices of the same nature, obviously intended
to torment them. Such contrivances are pernicious in
the revengeful feelings which they generate in the
minds of the paupers themselves, and they are also
pernicious in exciting sympathy in behalf of the indo-
lent and vicious, and in the obstacles which they create
to the use of legitimate labour and salutary discipline ;
we believe that they ought to be carefully prevented.
The association of the utility of labour to both parties,
the employer as well as the employed, is one which we
consider it most important to preserve and strengthen,
and we deem everythinr, mischievous which unneces-
saril y gives to it a repulsive aspect. At the same time
we believe that in extended districts the requisite
sources of employment will be easily found. The supply
of the articles consumed in workhouses and prisons will
afford a large outlet for the manufactures carried on in
the house ; and with respect to out-door employment,
it is probable there are few districts to which such evi-
dence as that contained in the following extracts would
not be applicable."
The work exemplified is town drainage, and road
making and road repair. It may be asserted that, in
general, public work may be found within the district of
the union, possessing the dualities recommended, if the
officers Entrusted with the local administration of the
law exercise due diligence. The recommendation of
such a process as that in question, because it is easy of
application, because it is efficient, that is to say, severe
as a test, may amount only to this, that it saves the
union officers the trouble of providing and superintend-
ing useful and less objectionable stock, or materials on
which to set the applicant on work, or, in other words,
pauperises the officer at the expense of the pauper.
The doctrine propounded, that no work should be
undertaken which interferes with private labour, is open
to much observation. Its application to the process in
question is mistaken in fact, as it will be seen from the
price current of measures, and their prices in London in
October last, given in Mews. Johnson and Shaw's Agri-
cultural Almanac for this, tear, that bone-dust is a re-
eular article of manufacture and private commerce.

DUEL,--A letter from Munster states a duel took
place close to that town, under the sanction of one of the
tribunals of honour now established throughout the Russian
army. It appears that Baron de Denkhaus, a lieutenant of
the 11th regiment of Hussars, having, when playing billiards,
used some insulting expression to Lieut. de Bounhart, of the
13th Infantry, the latter brought the matter before the Tri-
bunal of Honour of the place. The Court endeavoured to
induce the offending party to retract the expression used, but
finding this to be impossible, it authorised a duel with sabres
between the parties. The meeting took place near the town,
wAho ttdakwas theeirrec
seats,
at threesano in the afternoon, in presence of an immense crowd.
tedat one end of the lists for the judges,
Isdra"nseedw ina
attempt
uniform.ptw a was
made OOn theo
effecta ra:-
rival of Ow
reconciliation,eambatan hut,
ao4nonitsas proving unsuccessful, the opponents
were directed to
andres inwith
their their esi
ht.
rety
sleeve,es bli n dto
folded, and then, with head,
.reclehiverng two slalalsietvcaunitswooonntdhoenarm,
fo4ght. with great determine-
hare,
tcioornotatemn,cdeathiloe
oaothtaacrkt
but soon after g;ring M. de Denkhaus
thigh which prevented his standing. The fight was declared
at au end. After the first medical aid was given, the Judges
recommended the di- putants to be reconciled, which thez
consented to, and shook hands amidst the cheers of the multi-
tude. All the partioS Concerned then withdrew. This is t
first duel authorised by any tribunal of honour, reconci
tion haying been effected In all tip 9Y her cases brought be
fore than.
ATTE3IPTEI, AROASSINATION.—On Thursilay an gt-
tempt was made to assasainate Mr. Charles Farrell, of Dalyse
town, justice of the peace, nett.' Loughrea, in the county of
Galway. Thia gentleman observed 'a grange man at his
parlour window, looking in very intently. He asked his
business ? "Charity," replied the fellow. He was told there
was nothing for him, whereupon ha presented a paper to Mr.
Farrell, whkeh he refused to look at. Thia movement was
evidently inte4dB.4 to arrest the attention of that gentleman,
for the fellow drew A OW from his breast, and was in the
act of cocking it, when Mr, Farrell milled towards him, call-
lag to his servants. The intended aasasaia wag apprehended
after u run MC three miles across the country, and 'O4 his per-
son were I'o4o two ball cartridges, together with the loaded
pistol. lie was icten4ed lit the gaol of Loughrea. His
name is Burke, and had just i1e.94 litlr.o4o after SiXo2ollthS
implisonment for robbery.

Tho process of bone-crushing is recommended as
being advantageous
phosphates, sulphates,
Preparations of
chemical substances, sulphates, and carbo-
matribated with the varluatescids, are valuable as fer-
tlttseNand are well prepared by the manufacturers, but
wcitireon account of importancetheir to agricul-
for manipulations
twee tainnfitted and dangerous
in thew duse. On these several grounds, then,
That th4yprocess of crushing bones
is one which, when
when in a state in
which tbey,grve off putrid effluvia,
in uarded; is deleterious :
hat tlin protective precautions requisite, even when
T
he epployment if give* to robust, able-bodied men, in .

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1846.

lIOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XVII.
MANCHESTER. AND SOUTHAMPTON.

The Committee met at twelve o'clock to-day, for the put,
pose of proceeding with the clauses postponed from wester,
day, which occupied the whole of the dad•.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships met tbis morning at the tkual hour, Lord
Shaftesbury in the chair, and present Lords Redesdale, Ha-
warden, and Winchester.
There were but four Bills—all railway Bills—of which one
was on second reference. This was the
MANCHESTER AND LINCOLN UNION RAILWAY,
AND CHESTERFIELD AND GAINSBOROUGII
CANAL,
in which the standing orders were complied with.
SHROPSIIIRE UNION R AILWAY AND CANAL
(.NEWTOWN TO CREWE).
The standing orders were complied with in this case also.
The Committee then resolved itself into a Select Committee
on Merits.
On assuming this I,rin their Lordships disposed of the two
following Bills, which were the only railway Bills on the
list :

GREAT WESTERN AND WYCOMBE.
The promoters of this Bill succeeded in proving their
preamble.
GRAND JUNCTION (lIUYTON AND ASTON, AND
OTHER BRANCHES).
The preamble of this Bill also was declared proved.
Their Lordships were occupied the remainder of the sitting
with unopposed Bills for various local purposes.