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London, England, 1846-07-28 00:00:00

S Ny JULY 28, 1846.

PARLIAMENTA itY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.
MONDAY, JULY 27.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY (LON

DON-BRIDGE EXTENSION) BILL.
The Earl of Lincoln reported from the Select Com.
mittee on Group (67) of Railway Bills, that, in the case
of the London and South-Western Railway (London-bridge
Extension) Bill, the Committee had examined into the
several matters required by the standing orders to be in-
quired into by Committees on Railway Bills, and agreed to
the following report :
That the proposed work is an extension of the South-
Western Railway, and proposed to be constructed by the
London and South-Western Railway Company, out of their
subscribed capital ; in consequence whereof the first six
sections of the 87th Standing Order did not appear to the
Committee to be applicable to the present case.
That the proposed railway is a complete and integral line
between the termini specified ; that ;is, from the intended
new station of the said London and South-Western Railway,
now about to be constructed near the York-road, Lambeth,
to the Thames, near London-bridge, all in the county of
Surrey, and is not part of a more extended plan now in con-
templation, and likely to be hereafter submitted to Parlia-
ment, and the calculation of remuneration does not depend
upon any contemplated extension.
That no report from the Board of Trade, in regard to the
Bill, has been referred by the House to the Committee.
That there is no plane proposed to be worked by assistant
engines, either stationary or locomotive.
That there is no peculiar engineering difficulty on the pro-
posed line.
That there is no tunnel.

That the gradients and curves are favourable; the steepest
gradient being 1 in 467, and that at its divergence from the
metropolitan extension of the said London and South-
Western Railway; and the smallest radius of a curve being 1
furlong 6 chains, at the London-bridge terminus.
That the length of the line to the river Thames is 1 mile,
1 furlong, 8 chains, and 30 links.
That it is not intended that the Railway should cross any
turnpike or public road on a level.
That the amount of the estimate of the cost and other
expenses to be incurred up to the time of the completion
of the Railway is 500,0004; which appears to be supported
by evidence, and to be fully adequate for the purpose.
That the estimated charge of the annual expenses of the
railway is 30 per cent.; and the calculations on which it is
founded have been sufficiently proved.
That the number of assents, dissents, and neuters upon
the line, distinguishing owners from occupiers, are as stated
in the appendix (A); but, from the peculiar nature of the
property traversed, it does not seem possible to state the
length and amount of property belonging to each class.
That Mr. Tite, the architect and surveyor, was examined
in support of the Bill, Mr. Joseph Locke being engineer.
That the following petitions were referred to the Com-
mittee, viz.:—

A petition from the Commissioners of Sewers for the limits
extending from East Moulsey, in Surrey, to Ravensbourne,
in Kent, alleging that the intended line would interfere with
the sewers, sluices, watercourses, walls, banks, arches, &c. ;
that they are compelled by Acts of Parliament to keep the
same in complete order; and that provisions ought to be in-
serted in the Bill for their protection.
A petition from the Commissioners for paving the streets
within the borough of Southwark, and certain parts adjoin-
ing, and for cleansing, lighting, and watching the same,
alleging that the proposed line would pass over, by means of
arches and bridges, certain thoroughfares through which
there is great traffic; that the traffic through the thorough-
fares through which the line proposes to pass would be im-
peded on account of the said arches and bridges ; that it
would interfere with their rights and interests; and that
there are divers clauses injurious to them as Commissioners.
A petition from the Commissioners for paving, cleansing,
lighting, and watching the streets within the manor of South-
wark, otherwise called the Clink, or Bishop of Winchester's
Liberty, in the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, in the
county of Surrey, alleging that the proposed line is intended
to be built upon arches of a certain height, and passes
through a populous neighbourhood, the effect of which would
be injurious to the property in the neighbourhood • that it
would be inconvenient and injurious; that the traffic would
be impeded; that the rates would be diminished ; that they
ought to receive compensation; and that provision ought to
be made with respect to arches, &c.
A petition from the trustees of Surrey Chapel, alleging
that the proposed line would pass near the said building ;
that the service would be interrupted, and that the property
would be injured.
A petition from the Right Reverend the Bishop of Ro-
chester, alleging that he is interested, in the right of the see
of Rochester, of considerable property, which would be ma-
terially injured ; that there is no public necessity; that it
would be injurious to the county of Surrey; and praying for
clauses to protect his rights, and for compensation for the
diminution of rates, tithes, &c.

A petition from the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of
Winchester, containing similar allegations.
A petition from Richard Dean, a builder, alleging that his
property would be materially injured; and that he would be
ruined.

A petition from Charles Pott and others, lessees of pro-
perty, alleging that their property will be injured, and pray-
ing for full compensation.

A petition from William Paynter, containing same alle-
gations as above.

A petition from certain owners and occupiers of property
on the line, alleging that the property will be injured in the
locality of the line; the noise would be very objectionable;
that the streets would be rendered unsafe, and that their
width would be decreased ; that the viaduct will form an in-
terruption to the traffic; that the trade will be injured, and
complaining of residential injury.
A petition from the South-Eastern Railway Company,
under their corporate seal, alleging that a Bill is pending for
making a line from the south-west side of the Waterloo-
road, near the York-road, to the London and Greenwich
Railway, which would be of great public advantage; that the
line proposed by the South-Western Railway will intersect
that line; that that line is uncalled for, and would be of no
public advantage.
A petition from the Wardens of St. Saviour, Southwark,
and inhabitants of St. Saviour, by the trustees of the Borough
Market and the committee of the parish estates of said
parish, alleging that the proposed line is to be made
upon arches and viaducts, and would greatly damage, if not
entirely destroy, the importance of said parish, rendering
all the properties contiguous, and not required by the line, of
little or no value, interfering with the traffic, and greatly in-
juring the property in the neighbourhood; that the trade of
the shopkeepers would be injured by the removal of a great
portion of the public from their houses to make room for the
construction of the line; that the service at St. Saviour's
Church would be interfered with and interruptetl ; that the
rates would be reduced ; in fact, that it would be highly in-
jurious to the whole of the parish, unnecessary and uncalled
for, and would be of no public advantage, and that a better
line might be made.
That the Committee are satisfied of the fitness in an en-
gineering point of view of the proposed work.
That there are no special circumstances of which, in
the opinion of the Committee, it is desirable that the
house should be informed, excepting that the delay which
has arisen in the progress of this Bill is to be attributed
only to the fact, that the Commission appointed by her
Majesty, pursuant to an address from the House of Com-
mons of the 23d of March last, to investigate and report
their opinion upon the various railway projects of which the
termini were proposed to be established within or in the im-
mediate vicinity of the metropolis, had not made its report
in time for its submission to a Committee of your House at an
earlier period of the session.
That the attention of the Committee has been directed to
the report from the Royal Commission in regard to the termini
of the railways in the metropolis, which was referred to them
by the House; and, in passing the present Bill, the Com-
mittee have in so far sanctioned the recommendation con-
tained in such report.
The Earl of Lincoln further reported from the Com-
mittee—That they had examined the allegations contained
in the preamble of the Bill, and had amended the same, by
omitting the extension to the High-street in Southwark,
conceiving the same to be unnecessary; and had found the
allegations of the Bill, as amended, to be true; and had gone
through the Bill, and made several amendments thereunto.
APPENDIX (A).
Assents. Dissents. Neuters.
... 6 21 10
... 86 95 104
... 352 223 208

Owners ...
Lessees ...
Occupiers ...

Total

... ... 444.

A CHILD SUFFOCATED BY ITS riRIINKEN MOTHER.—
Yesterday morning an Inquest was held before Mr. W. Carter, at
the Windmill Tavern, Wyndham-road, Camberwell, on the body of
Janice Brigden, aged four weeks, whose parents reside at No. 1,
Love-court, Bowyer-lane. The deceased was the son of a carpen-
ter. who had latterly led a life of dissipation and drunkenness,
neglecting his family, and leaving them without the necessary food,
for days together. On Tuesday last the mother went to Petkham
fair, near the Surrey Canal, in search of her husband, where she
found him, but she was unable to obtain any money. She subse-
quently met some friends and went home intoxicated. At a late
hour the parents went to bed with the deceased, but during the night
the mother got on the body of the deceased, and at five o'clock the
following day the child [was discovered quite dead and black in the
face. Mr. Blaxland, the surgeon, was called in, but his services
were of no avail. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
death."

DEATH FROM EARLY WEANING.—oft Saturday after-
noon:Mr. Wm Baker, Deputy Coroner, held en inquest at the Jolly
Weavers, John's-row, St. Luke's on the body of Jane Carpenter, live
months old, who died from starvation, in consequence of having been
too early weaned. The body had been exhumed on account of a
report that death had been caused by laudanum. It appeared from
the evidence, that the deceased was the offspring of a single young
woman, named Rebecca Carpenter. She, about two months after
the birth of her child, went into service, on which she put it out to
dry nurse, in the care of a married woman of the name of Mitchell.
About five weeks subsequent to its being there, as she found it almost
always asleep, she went with it to Dr. Reece, who remarked that
some sleeping medicine had been given to it, which was denied by
the nurse. The deceased, however, continued in a similar state, was
always fretful, and from being a fine healthy child became painfully
emaciated. She then took it to a Mrs. Arnold, where it died on that
day week, and was buried on the following Thursday. Mr. J. Cour-
tenay, surgeon, Finsbury-terrace, made the past mortem examination.
He found all the vital organs in a healthy state, but much emaciated.
He attributed death to starvation, from the deceased not having its
natural diet, or to exhaustion from diarrhoea, consequent upon too
early weaning. Verdict, " That the deceased died through exhaus-
tion from diarrhoea, consequent upon too early weaning."
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE LONDON DOCES.—Yes-
terday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. W. Baker, jun., at
the Duke of Wellington, Cannon-street, St. George's-in-the East, on
the body of Robert Weston, aged forty, late watchman in the London
Docks. It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday evening
last the deceased was standing on the gunwale of a barge lying in
the Wapping basin. He was ordered to go on shore by his foreman,
when his foot slipped and he fell into the water, and immediately
disappeared. Several labourers repaired to the spot, and succeeded
in recovering the body shortly afterwards, but he was quite dead.
The jury returned a verdict ef " Accidental death."
IMPORTATION OF FRUIT AND CATTLE. Yesterday,
the Columbine steam-ship, from Rotterdam, arrived in the Pool,
with 700 baskets of fruit, consisting of currants and apricots. The
steam-ship Rapid, from Harlingen, arrived on Sunday afternoon,
with 80 bullocks and 101 sheep. The Neptune steam-ship, from
Hamburgh, also brought 50 bullocks, 11 calves, and a large quantity
of yeast.
THE DAGENHAM MURDER.—We have been informed
upon good authority that no clue has yet been obtained to the party
who committed the murder of the late police-constable Clarke, at
Dagenham, early on the morning of the lath of Juno last; and as it
is deemed possible that the guilty person may have been injured in
some way in conflict with the deceased, it would serve the ends of
justice if any surgeon of a hospital or dispensary, or any primilite me-
dical practitionet who has attended an individual injured about that
time, will give immediate information to the police authorities at
Scotland-yard.
_ _ _ _ _

Mr, Adam Elmslie arrived at the Foreign-offiee yes-
.tergax tram China, being the bearer of the late convention signed by
the Emperor, for ratification br her higJestY•

COURT CIRCULAR.
Their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians,
attended by Madame La Comtesse Vilain XIV., Dame
du Palais, and Major A. d'Hanins de Moerkerke, Officier
d'Ordonnance, landed at Woolwich at ten minutes past
two o'clock yesterday afternoon, from the Garland
steam-packet from Ostend, and in a few minutes entered
one of the Queen's carriages and four, and proceeded to
town on a visit to her Majesty. Lord Byron, Lord in
Waiting to her Majesty, and Lord George Lennox, Lord
in Waiting to Prince Albert, Ereceived their Majestics
on landing, and attended them to town. His Excellency
M. Van de Weyer also attended -their Majesties from
Woolwich to town.

The august visitors arrived at Buckingham Palace at
a quarter-past three o'ck ek, and were received in the
Grand Hall by the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the
Houshold, and Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour, Equerry in
Waiting to Prince Albert.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians,
after their arrival at Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the exhibition
of the Royal Academy yesterday. The royal suite con-
sisted of the Countess of Desert, Lady Caroline Cocks,
Hon. Miss Devereux, the Lord Steward, the Master of
the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to his Royal High-
ness, the Vice-Chamberlain, the Master of the House-
hold, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, Colonel Arbuthnot,
and Lieutenant-Colonel Seymour.
The officers of the Royal Academy received her Ma-
jesty and her Royal Oonsort, and conducted them
through the different schools.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince
Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice,
took an airing yesterday in a carriage and four, accom-
panied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Helena was taken
an airinggyesterday in the pleasure-grounds of Buck-
ingham Palace.
The Royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingham
Palace included their Majesties the King and Queen of
the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, the Duke of Norfolk,
Earl Fortescue, Earl Spencer, the Comtesse Vilain
XIV., Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness Speth,
Captain Francis Seymour, and Major de Moerkerke.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester,
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George,
and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, honoured the Duke of Welling-
ton with their company at dinner yesterday evening, at
Apsley House.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince George and the He-
reditary Grand Duke of Mecklenbargh Strelitz went to
Woolwich yesterday.
Lord John Russell arrived in town yesterday, from
Wimbledon. The Lord Mayor, Mr. Pattison, M.P.,
and a deputation from the city of London, had an inter-
view with the Noble Lord.

Mr. Hindley and Mr. Brocklehurst, with a deputa-
tion from the hand-loom weavers of silk, had an inter-
view with the Earl of Clarendon on Saturday, at the
office of the Board of Trade.

Dispatches were received yesterday, at the Colonial-
office, from the Governors of the Mauritius, Ceylon,
and Gibraltar.

Lord and Lady Stafford, and the Hon. Miss Jerning,
ham, have left Farrance's hotel, for Talacre, Holy•
well, Flints.

ARRIVAL OF THE KING AND
QUEEN OF THE BELGIANS.
WooLwrcir, JULY 27.—Intelligence having been received
at the Woolwich Dockyard that their Majesties the King and
Queen of the Belgians were expected to arrive in England
about two o'clock r.m. to-day, Captain Superintendent
Houston Stewart, C.B. ; Commander Smith, of her Majesty's
Dockyard, Woolwich ; Commander Cragg, of the Sphinx
steam-vessel ; Commander Caffin, of the Scourge bomb
steam-vessel ; Master Commander Cook, of the Black Eagle
steam-vessel, and the heads of the departments of the dock-
yard, assembled on the wharf to receive their Majesties on
their arrival.

Lord Byron and Lord George Lennox arrived before one
o'clock with two of the royal carriages, and M. Van de
Weyer, the Belgian Minister, to receive and attend their
Majesties to Buckingham Palace.
At a few minutes before two o'clock the signal was given
that the Garland steam-vessel was in sight, with the royal
standard of Belgium at the mast-head.
At ten minutes past two o'clock their Majesties landed,
and were received by the naval and military officers and
heads of the departments of the dockyard and numerous
respectably dressed spectators uncovered, and walked along
the wharf, which was covered with green baize, to one of
the royal carriages, escorted by Captain Superintendent
Houston Stewart and Major-General Sir Thomas Dewnman,
the guard of honour of the Royal Marines presenting arms,
and the band playing the national anthem. Captain Flude's
battery fired a royal salute, to announce the landing of their
Majesties. Their Majesties then left the dockyard for Buck-
ingham Palace, having declined an escort of the Royal Horse
Artillery, under the command of Lieut. Adey, in attendance
to accompany them en route.

His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge and his
Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklen-
burgh-Strelitz arrived at 'Woolwich to-day at twelve o'clock,
and were received at the garrison by Major-General Sir
Thomas Downman, C.B. and Colonel Turner, C. 8.,
Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, Brigade-Major Cuppage, and
Captain Tylden, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General,
with a number of officers of the Royal Regiment of Artllery.
His Royal Highness and the Grand Duke then proceeded to
the square where the horses of the brigade of artillery are
kept, and witnessed the short period required to bring out
and mount them in review order. The troops of Royal Horse
Artillery, under the command of Colonel Wylde, C. 8.,
with Lieutenant-Colonel Hardinge, K.H., second in com-
mand, walked to the common, and at the west gate of the
garrison his Royal Highness and the Grand Duke wit-
nessed the mode in which the guns of this branch
of the ordnance service were attached and made ready for
action. On arriving at the common, Major- General Sir
Thomas Downman, Commandant of the garrison, and the
royal visitors were joined by a numerous staff, amongst
whom we observed Colonel Cleaveland, Lieutenant-Colonel
Bastard, Lieutenant-Colonel Grant, Lieutenant-Colonel Craw-
ford, Lieutenant-Colonel Louis, Lieutenant-Colonel Vaughan
Arbuckle, Major Askwith, Captain Hill, Captain De Prinzy,
and Captain Benn. The three troops of Horse Artillery,
under the respective commands of Captain Ingleby, Captain
F. Warde, and Captain Cleaveland, on the gallant comman-
dant the royal visitors and staff occupying a station at the
flag-staff, walked past, and then at trot and full gallop,
affording evident gratification to the royal visitors by the
celerity and precision of the movements. The troops were
then exercised in the whole of the evolutions of the
Royal Horse Artillery, and though the ground was very
dry and hard, performed the whole in a most admirable
and highly efficient manner. On the gun carriages being
dismounted, his Royal Highness Prince George went
up with his Royal Highness the Grand Duke, and
witnessed the details of the movements very minutely, and
at the conclusion thanked Colonel Whyte and the officers
and men in the name of the Grand Duke and himself, for
the gratification they had experienced in witnessing the ex-
ercises of the gallant corps under his command. His Royal
Highness was received, on arriving at the common, with a
general salute, the brass band of the corps playing the Na-
tional anthem. On their Highnesses' departure, a salute was
fired from'-the guns of the Royal Horse Artillery. During
the period the royal visitors remained at the garrison the
royal standard was hoisted at the mortar battery, and their
Highnesses witnessed the last round of mortar practice car-
ried on by the gentlemen cadets, at a flag-staff eight hun-
dred and fifty yards distance.
After leaving the common their Highnesses proceeded
to the mess-room of the Ordnance corps, and partook
of an elegant dejune, the band of the Royal Artillery playing
in front several of the finest airs and marches. Shortly
after three o'clock their Highnesses proceeded to the landing
place, and embarked in one of the Waterman's steamers for
town.

FRENCH PLAYS.—We regret to announce that the
sudden and severe indisposition of the great actress, Ifcllle. Rachel,
prevented her appearing last night as ltoxalano, in the tragedy of
Bajazet. We sincerely hope that her health will be quickly restored,
and that we shall soon again enjoy her transcendant Impersonations
of the heroines of the French classic drama.

DEATH OF LADY BARING.—We regret to hear that
Lady Baring, wife of Sir Thomas Baring, and mother of the Right
Hon. Francis Thornhill Baring, M.P., expired on Sunday morning
last at Stratton Park, the family seat, Rear Winchester. Her Lady-
ship bad been in declining health for some months past. She was
eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Sealy, of Calcutta, and married in
1794 Sir Thomas Baring, by whom she leaves issue four sons and
three daughters. The families of Lord and Lady Ashburton, the
Right Hon. Francis and Lady Arabella Baring, Mr. Thomas Baring,
M.P., the Hon. William B. and Lady Harriet Baring, Mr. H. B.
and Lady Augusta Baring, and several families of rant are placed
in mourning by her Ladyship's lamented demise,
DEATH OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE HEINRICH
OF Paussia.—lntelligence reached town yesterday of the demise of
his Royal Highness Prince Heinrich of Prussia, who died at Rome,
after a short illness, on the 11 th inst. The deceased Prince was
born on the 30th December, 1781, and had been residing for upwards
of twenty-live years in that vicinity. His mortal remains are to be
removed to Berlin for interment, in the mausoleum of the Royal
Family of Prussia.

the Duke of Welling-
eveEnllnTgAMidr. CWAilußTainAcearctlDer ACCIDENT
anA TinquttTaTtLE -BRIDGE:—Last
forty-five years, a carpenter, lately residing at No. 9,i Thomas-street,
Welling-
ton Tavern, Newington-causeway, on the body of gamTuel Burt, aged
Newington. The deceased was in the employ of Messrs. Piper and
Co., N 0.173, Bishopsgate-street Without, builders. On Thursday
last he went, in company with other workmen, to make some altera-
tions at the Mill-hill Grammar School, Hendon, and while on his
way home in his employer's cart, near the Small-pox Hospital. at
Battle-bridge, he overbalanced himself, and fell over the end of the
cart into the carriage-way. He was raised up by his friends and
carried to a surgeon s, but he refused to go In, and was consequently
taken home with all speed, where he was placed under the care of
Mr. Thomas, surgeon, of No. 68, London-road. There appeared no
external marks of violence, excepting a contusion on the scalp from
the fall. Symptoms of inflammation of the brain subsequently came
on, which terminated fatally on Friday morning last. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental death."
ACCIDENT FROM MACRlNERY.—Yesterday a distress-
ing accident occurred to a man named Robert Melding, aged twenty-
eight years, a paper maker, residing at Carshalton, Kent. Re was
in the employ of Mr. Muggeridge, proprietor of the paper mills, at
Carshalton, and while walking up a ladder to a platform with a
heavy load of wet rags, it gave way, and his leg got into one of the
cog. wheels, and before it could be extricated his left leg was literally
crashed to pieces. He was seen by a surgeon, who recommended
his removal to St. Thomas's Hospital, whither he was taken in a
cart. The injuries he had sustained were of such a character that it
was deemed necessary to resort to amputation. The poor fellow is
going on as wall as can be expected.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE. Yesterday, the following
notice was affixed to the walls of the General Post-office, Charing-
cross :—" A mall will be made up for the islands of Ascension, and
be forwarded by her Majesty's ship Contest. All letters intended to
be so forwarded must be addressed, ' Her Majesty's ship Contest,'
and will be liable to a packet rate of postage of Is., not exceeding
half an ounce, BE4. No charge will be made on newspapers, The
Contest is expected to sail for Portsmouth about the 28tb instant.
...July 27, 1846."
Baron and Baroness de Dingell are about leaving
town fer Scarborough, Yorkshire, the Baron unfortunately bej
prevented from his intended journey to Germany by an acci,dent he
lately met with whilst riding.
PAWNING A CHILD.--A mother .having parted with
sitter moveables to procure whiskey, resorted to the extraordinary
eXpedlont of pawning her thild; "aged 'iffibtfrefght ears. sfie was
left in the ownshop all nigUt,---Zeiinbutvh Ileraki.