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Acts Amendment Bill was considered and agreed to.

THIRD READINGS.

The following Bills were read a third time arka
passed:—
Caledonian Railway (branches connecting the Clyaes.
dale Junction and Wishaw and Coltness Rail-
ways, &c.)
Walsall Improvement and Cemetery.
Wishaw and Coltness Railway (Deviation Connecting
Branch and Improvement).
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY (BRANCH ACROSS
THE CLYDE AND GLASUOW STATION).
On the motion that the report on this Bill be en-
grossed,

Mr. HUME said the Admiralty had for three suc-
cessive years refused to consent to any railway passing
across the Clyde, and by one of the most extraordinary
proceedings that he had ever known to occur in any public.
department, the Admiralty had withdrawn its veto, and
sanctioned the project. In order, therefore, to give the
trustees of the Clyde and the people of Glasgow an op-
portunity of showing the injury which such a bridge
would cause to the navigation, he would move that the
consideration of the Bill be postponed until next session.
Mr. FOX MAULE said that the communication
which the bridge would afford between the south and
the north sides of the Clyde would confer great advan-
tages upon the people of Glasgow, and 'would
not cause any obstruction to the navigation.
Lord LINCOLN said he was of opinion that the Ad-
miralty were undoubtedly wrong in withdrawing their
veto against the construction of the bridge, and consi-
dered that it would be more to the public interest to
postpone the Bill until next year.
Captain FITZROY said the Admiralty had made s
very strict inquiry into the matter, and finding that they
could not in their public capacity offer any further op-
position, and as there was no opposition by any party
to the project, they consented to withdraw their vete.
The House then divided, when there appeared—

For Mr. Hume's amendment - 19
Against it
Majority
The report was then agreed to.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
On the question of the further consideration and
adoption of the report on the Great Western Railway
Bill (to confer additional power on the company with
reference to the purchase of the Birmingham .and Ox-
ford Junction),

Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition against the
Bill, and praying that the House would sot allow it to
pass until the company had reduced, their fares to the
sum prescribed by law.
Mr. DENISON objected to the further progress of
the Bill, because in his opinion it contravened the Act
of Parliament with regard to the gauge of railways.
The question involved in this Bill was a matter of such
importance as to induce him to call upon his Right
Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade to
state his opinion on the subject of its provisions.
Mr. LABOUCHERE would not go into the large
question of the broad or narrow gauge. He would say,
however, that he thought the question of gauge in a
most unsatisfactory state. He was prepared to resist
the provisions of the Bill now before the House so far
as they went to provide a double line of railway;
his intention was to give notice upon the third read-
ing of his intention to move that the clause with

respect to the double gauges should be struck out of the
Bill.

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hoped . the House would, therefore, give that con.
sideration to the report of the Committee which the
deserved. The Committee of which he was a member
would be unfairly dealt with if the House acceded to the
proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman.
Sir EDMUND HAYES, the Chairman of the Com-
mittee, declared that he perfectly coincided in the ob-
ndCtHaotßteltnhSteiTonodPtuhHteieEcsß thought the report of the
serrations of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Christopher).
Sir L. O'BRIEN supported the decision of the Com,.
mittee.
Mr. MUNTZ wished that Hon. Gentlemen, before
they voted, could have an opportunity of witnensinr
the facility with which the carriages were changed
from one gauge to the other in Gloucester. The
plan had been in operation since October last, u,p-
wards of thirty trains had passed to and fro in the
course of a day, and the process of changing the trains
was effected without the slightest difficulty. He repre-
sented a large constituency who were most anxious to
have the double gauge. The House had consented to
the double gauge being carried to Wolverhampton, and
he saw no reason why persons living in that looalitip
should be enabled to get to London before the people of
London, owing to having a more rapid means of trausit
by the broad gauge.
The report was then agreed to.
The following reports were then agreed to:—
aliaburgh and Bathgate Railway (Extension and De.
viation).
Great Western Railway (Branch from Slough to
Windsor).
Great Western Railway (Loop Line from the Binning-•
ham and Oxford Junction Railway through Les •
mington).
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junc-
tion Railway (abandonment of the railway and diem.
lution of the company).
London and South-Western Railway Company and
Southampton and Dorchester Railway Company
Amalgamation.
Whitehaven and Furness Junction Railway (Extension
or Deviation Line from Silecroft to Foxfield, &c.)
CHURCH-RATES.
Mr. OSBORNE gave notice that on an early day he
should move for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish
church-rates. •

COLONIAL EXPENDITURE.
Sir WM. MOLESWORTH gave notice that on
Tuesday next he should move a resolution to the
effect that it was the opinion of the House that the
colonial expenditure was excessive and ought to be di-
minished, and with the view of accomplishing that
object the colonies ought to be invested with larger
powers for the local administration of their own affairs.