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was resumed.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock until to-morrow.

GROUP LXX.

This Committee re-assembled to-day, when the evidence in sup-
port of the
DUBLIN AND EINNISICILLEN
was resumed, and not concluded at the rising of the Committee at
four o'clock.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met this morning at the usual hour, Lord Shaftes-
bury in the chair.
Immediately on meeting they resolved themselves into a Select
Committee on Merits, and proceeded to the discussion of the Bills
which came before them In that capacity. There were fourteen
Bills on the list, but only six were railway Bills.
WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS (KIRKSANTON DEVIATION).
Their Lordships declared the preamble of this Bill to be preyed.
LEEDS AND BRADFORD (JUNCTION AT BRADFORD).
The preamble of this Bill also was declared proved.
SHREWSBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND SOUTH STAF-
FORDSHIRE JUNCTION (No. 1.)
A favourable decision was made in respect of this Bill also.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM (WEEDON AND NORTHAMP-
TON BRANCH.)
Preamble proved.
TAFF VALE.
The promoters of this Bill proved their preamble to the satisfaction
of the Committee.
EASTERN COUNTIES (THAMES JUNCTION BRANCHES).
Preamble proved.
Having disposed of the above Bills, the COmmittee resumed the
form of a Committee on Standing Orders.
The list contained nine Bills, six were railway Bills, and two of
these were on second reference.
CALEDONIAN, POLLOC, GOVAN, AND CLYDESDALE JUNC-
TION RAILWAYS AMALGAMATION.
The Committee decided that the promoters of this Bill had proved
compliance with the standing orders.
MANCHE sTER AND SOUTHAMPTON.
This Bill Bas opposed by the same parties who appeared against
it in the Commons. In the course of the day an alleged Inaccuracy
in the levelling was pointed out by the opposing agent, and after
a long discussion it was agreed that the dispute should be referred to
an independent engineer, chosen by consent of both parties, who
should be sent over the line, to re-survey five miles of the line. The
decision in respect of the disputed points will therefore stand over;
but in all other respects the standing orders were complied with.
The Committee, after adjourning one or two Bills, rose at a late
hour. They will meet again to-morrow, at one.

MADRAS, NELLORE, and ARCOT
RAILWAY COMPANY.
The half-yearly meeting of this Company was heldlyester-
day at the Offices, Greshatn Rooms, at two o'clock.
Lord CHARLES BEAUCLERK having taken the chair,
stated, after comparing the expenses of other schemes
with those of this Company, he had the greatest
tst he expected they w
satis-
faction in laying before the shareholders a statement
of the
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the
hesitated
directors justice by a vote of confidence. lie said this pro.
ject had been brought out during a temporary panic in the
money market, and yet the shares were taken up and almost
all paid upon. The committee having called in and settled
all the outstanding claims against the Company, felt they
were in a condition to go and register the Company in April,
1846. In January the chairman of the Company had an in-
terview with the chairman of the East India Company, the
issue of which was highly satisfactory.
The SECRETARY then read the Committee's report, which
stated that they had placed a sufficient sum in the hands of
Messrs. Arbuthnot and Co., for carrying out the Parlia-
mentary arrangements in India ; that efforts were being
made to organise an efficient local Committee in India, and
that the line was so laid out as to connect Madras with
Calcutta and Bombay.
A PROPRIETOR having asked whether any surveys had
been made?
Mr. PRAYER, the solicitor to the Company, said the East
India Company were themselves at present making surveys
of the different' presidencies, and would not come to any con
elusion on any proposed line, till all the surveys had been
made, and then, they might not adopt any route as laid
down by the Company; however, the deed of this Company
allowed them to deviate, arid he hoped that they would hear
something definite about it in the course of two or three
months.
Several proprietors acquainted with India, expressed
sanguine hopes as to the proposed line.
Mr. llzsi.Es moved the adoption of the report, which was
seconded by Mr. BAKER, and carried unanimously by the
meeting.
A vote of confidence in the directors, and of thanks to the
chairman, was moved by Mr. Ilwas, and unanimously
passed.
The meeting then adjourned.

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LISKEARD.—The prospects of harvest here are most
cheering : the future staff of life to all classes—the wheat
crop—is likely to be superlatively productive ; for there is
every reason to believe we shall have a repetition of the
abundance and quality of the year 1818. There is a field of
wheat within the limits of this borough, the property of Mr.
G. Sargent, estimated to yield, when ripe, at least forty
double Winchester bushels per acre.—Plymouth Journal.