The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(THIS DA Y.)

Sub-Committee No. 1.
This Committee met to-day at twelve o'clock, Mr. Strutt,
chairman.
The Committee upon assembling intimated to the gentle-
men of the press that they were most willing to afford every
accommodation to the representatives of the various journals
in the execution of their duties. Then, therefore, appointed
the side table for them on the left of t he Chairman, which was
the best arrangement that, under the circumstances, could
be made.
LONDON, WARWICK, LEAMINGTON,
AND ZEIDDEItiVIZATSTER..
This att.:burned case was then called on.
Mr. Coates appeared for the promoters.
Mr. Burma proceeded with the allegations in the petitions
against the Bill. They consisted of errors in the plans and
sections, but none of them were of vital importance to the
Bill. A few were sustained and many were abandoned
Mr. Samuel Hughes, C.E., was called by the opponents to
prove errors in the plans and sections.
A few arguments by Mr. COATES were sustained and
others overruled.

Sub-Committee, No. 2.
This Committee nu t to-day, shortly after twelve o'clock.
There were present Sir J. Y. Buller (Chairman), Mr. G.
Craig, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Walker.

TRING, READING, AND BASINGSTOKE.
This was the first Bill considered, against which there was
one petition from Mr. William Waithem, for which no one
appeared.
['he formal evidence havirg been gone through, the Com-
mittee found that the standing orders had been complied
with.

The object of the promoters of this Bill was to construct a
lice of railway from the London 2nd Birmingham Railway
at Pitatone to the parish of Saundaton, which was part of
a proposed extended railway from Tring to Basingstoke, to
join the London and South-Western Railway, the remainder
to be incorporated in another Bill. Engineer, Mr. S. Hughes,
C.E. Amount of capital, 124,00 W., and length of line fifteen
miles. The Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Dyson and Co. ;
solicitors, Messrs. G. P. Hill, and T. G. Everill, Soho-square.
Mr. Ellicombe appeared in support of the Bill.

GLIISGOVIT,PAISLEY, ILILMARBTOCIL, AND

•
AIM, AND DRANCIIES.
This was the next petition taken into consideration. The
object of the Bill was to construt t a railway from Paisley to
near Kilmarnock, with branches to Drybndge. The esti-
mate of the undertaking was 1,600,0001., and the subscription
600,000/., while the length of the line, with the branches,
was about twenty six miles.
Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Burke, Pritt, and Vena-
bles ; engineer, Mr. John Miller.
There were several petitions against this Bill.
The form.al evidence having been heard,
Mr. Piurr said he would suggest to his friend, Mr. Laing
(the agent for the petitioners), a course that would abridge
the labours of the Committee, and would not in any degree
injure the case of the petitioners. It was simply
this :—That they (the promoters) admitted various in-
accuracies in the plans and sections deposited on the 30th
of November, but that having found that to be the case,
they had deposited amended plans and sections on or be-
fore the 31st of December. If his friend, therefore, would
take this general admission, instead of going into the alle-
gations in the petitions, as had been done in the Welsh and
Midland Railway, and in another case with which
his friend must be acquainted, they would save
time to all parties. If this suggestion were not adopted they
were prepared to go info the allegations seriatim.
Mr. LAIN(} said he was willing to agree to any course that
would save the time of the Committee, but he must
object to his Learned Friend, Mr. Pritt, going into
any proof of his having deposited any other plans
than those deposited on the 30th of November. A
case exactly similar to that arose before Committee 3,
with reference to the South Union Railway, and Mr. Venables
there objected to any proof being given in evidence of what
had taken place subsequent to the 30th of November, and
the Committee decided'in favour of Mr. Venables. He must,
therefore object to his friend proceeding in the course he had
proposed.

The CHAIRMAN said, it did not make the least difference
whether the evidence in question was given there or before
the Committee above stairs; but the question was, whether
evidence not produced then could be taken up stairs.
Mr. LAING said that, accord .ng to the Act of Parliament,
the parties were permitted to make any .statement such as
his Learned Friend had offered here up stairs, but that at
present that could not be accepted.
The CHAIRMAN thought that if the parties could come to
some arrangement it would be better.
Mr. LAING said that one of the greatest landholders on the
line was in attendance there, and objected to the adoption of
the course proposed, having been already detained several
weeks in town at a heavy expense.

Sub-Committee No. 6.
This Committee re-assembled this day; present, Captain
Jones (in the chair), Lord Ebi ington, Mr. Deedes, and Mr.
Pakington.

BRISTOL, lIIILMIXGRAM AND MIDLAND.
This case was postponed in consequence of an informality
in the petition.

131T0K1NG11.5141 (TTLING TO BILNIIITET).
This was the next case called on. The object of the pro-
moters of this Bill is to construct a line of railway from Tring,
which will pass through the towns of Aylesbury, Winslow,
and Buckingham, and terminate at Banbury.
The length is thirty-one miles, the estimated cost is 850,000 L,
for which amount the deed has been executed.
The engineer is Robert B. Dockray, Esq.; the Parlia-
mentary agents, Messrs. Dorrington and Co. ; and the soli-
citor, Samuel Carter, Esq.
It was discovered by the Committee that in reference to
cross sections, opposite to the line intended to represent the
present surface of the ground, the words "altered surface"
were written, and vice versa—the present surface of tl.e road
ought to have been represented by a straight line, whilst on
the contrary it was designated by a dotted line, and the re-
verse was the case with respect to the altered surface.
`Tice room was cleared, and after upwards of half an hour's
time the parties concerned were re-admitted, when
The CHAIRMAN said that they bad fully considered the
point themselves, and also referred to the chairmen of the
other Sub-Committees, and they had come to the determina-
tion to report to the Standing Orders' Committee the non-
compliance with the standing orders in this respect.
Mr. DoßrtussTorr—Perhaps you will be kind enough to
attend that Committee when this case comes before them.
The Cirmozior—l shall attend the Committee, of course,
and report the whole of the circumstances.
Mr. DORRINGTON—Thank you, Sir.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
This Committee resumed its sittings this day at twelve
o'clock.
NEWRY, ARMAGH, and LONDONDERRY RAILWAY.
The Committee decided, after hearing the usual evidence,
that the Company in this case had complied with the stand-
ing orders.
THE WEXFORD, CARLOW, AND DUBLIN JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.
The Committee reported that in this case also the Com-
pany had complied with the standing orders.

WEST CORK MINING COMPANY.

(THIS DAY.)
The half- early meeting of this Company was held at the
George and Vulture Tavern, Cornhill, this day, at one o clock,
but the attendance was very small.
Mr. Wirt'AN, on taking the chair, proceeded to lay before
the meeting a summary of the receipts and expenditure of
the Company from July, 1837, to Dec. 1845. The cash ac..
count showed a debt of 24,275/., and deducting the
expenditure, a balance of 854 was left in the bankers'
hands. The Chairman stated the present liabilities of the
Company to be about 1,8701., to meet which the directors bad
still to receive 1,3451. balance, unpaid upon the call of 10,0001.,
but in order to get up that sum, it had been found necessary
to institute a suit in Chancery, which was pending at that
moment. On that account, he had been unable to bring the
affairs of the Company into such a position as to make it
possible to have them wound up at that meeting, but he
trusted to accomplish this by the meeting in August.
The accounts were approved and passed.
It was then moved and carried by the shareholders present,
and approved of by many absent, that the shareholders of
the Company were under great obligations to their Chairman,
Mr. Wittan, for the exertions he had untiringly made
in the cause of the Company, which had been successful in
saving them from much greater loss, and that, in token of
their gratitude, they thought it proper to make arrangements
for presenting him with a testimonial.
The meeting was then adjourned.

Viscount and Viscountess Canning entertained a
select circle at dinner last evening, at the family mansion in
Grosvenor-square. The guests included the Earl and Countess
of Malmesbury, Lord and Lady Stanley, Viscount and Vis-
countess Jocelyn, Lord Redesdale, and Lord Ossulston.

THE INDIAN MAIL.--The Alexandre, French packet
steamer, arrived at Marseilles, on Friday morning, from
Alexandria. She reports having met the Iberia going for
the India mail within thirty leagues of Alexandria. At her
departure the Indian mail bad not been telegraphed from
Suez.

INTENDED REVIEW OF PENSIONERS.—OR Wednesday
circulars were issued for the muster of those pensioners that
have been called out by Government to perform garrison
duty in various parts, in lieu of the rEgiments of the line.
They are ordered to assemble in Hyde-park, in their new
clothing, on the Ist day of May next, to be reviewed; after
which they will be muched off to their respective stations.:
GLASGOW PIG IRON TRADE, MARCH 3.—The market
continues in the same depressed state, but few transactions
taking place. The prices may be quoted at 728. 6d. Pre-
sent prices have given rise to several inquiries for export
orders, which trade is expected to be large this spring:—
a/avow National.

FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, between
eight and nine o'clock, a young man, named John Neville, son
of a Greenwich pilot, was in a boat at the entrance of the
Regent's Canal Dock, Ratcliff, waiting fora ship about to leave
the dock, when an empty barge, named the Betsey, at the
entrance of the lock, was driven by a gust of wind to-
wards the pier-head where Neville was. He attempted to
stear clear of the danger, when the rudder of the barge
knocked him down over the thwarts of his boat, and he was
crushed by the barge in a frightful manner. Immediate as-
sistance was rendered, and the lockmeu on the pier-head
brought him ashore, but he died immediately afterwards.
THE CRIES OF PARLIAMENT.—Among the London
cries alluded to in various descriptions of the metropolis, those
uttered by the voice of Parliament have been somewhat unaccount-
ably omitted. These cries, and their import, are principally the
following :
Hear, liner I
Oh, oh I
Tremor ndous cheering

implies An obvious truism.
- A disagreeable truth.
- A bit of claptrap.
. An Hon. Gentleman committing
hirnself.
- We don't want to hear you.

[ronical ditto

Question 1 and Spoke I

Order!
Cock-a-doodle-doo

Turn him out.
A moral max.im.—Punch.

The Rev. Sir Samuel Synge Hutchinson expired
last week, at his seal, Palermo, near Dublin. He had attained the
venerable age of 90.
ANCIENT CONCERTS —The Earl of Cawdor will
direct the first concert of ancient music on Wednesday next, for
which his Lordship has engaged Madame Caradorl. Miss Dolby, and
Mrs. Sunderland ; Messrs. Allen, Hawkins, Machin, and F. Lablache.
Conductor, Sir Henry Bishop.
ADDISCOMBE COLLEGE.—Captain Strais, after having
filled the chair of fortification lecturer for twenty years, has retired
on a pension of 6001. a year. According to the statutes of the Col-
lege, each professor is entitled, after twenty-one years, to retire on
two-thirds of his salary.
SUING FOR DAMAGES.—" Hallo, Sharp," said Pop,
meeting him the ether day in the street, " you hobble, my boy ;
what's the matter with you?" "Oh, I had my feet crushed through
the carelessness of a conductor the other day, between the cars, that's
all." "And don't you mean to sue for damages ?" "Damages I No;
I have had damages enough from thent already; hadn't I better sue
for repairs ?"—"rierieun Paper.