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_MORNING, JULY io, 1846.

I PE TAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 9

The Lout) CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack
at the usual Imur.
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.
Messengers from the House of Commons brought up certain

THE RICHMOND RAILWAY.
The Duke of CAUL:RIDGE said he had been entrusted
with two petitions from the parishes of Kew and Mortlake, to
present to their Lordships against that part of the Richmond
Railway which went to Kew. All the landed proprietors
were against the Bill, and the petitioners prayed tor the in-
terference of the House.
Lord BROUGHAM presented several petitions (amongst
others one from a gentleman residing in Cornwall) against
the Cornish Railway ; and one from the Remonstrant Presby-
terian Synod of Tyrone (Ireland), praying for the
entire abolition of capital punishment. A Gallant
Friend of his, at present with his regiment in
Ireland, bad entrusted him to present a petition again-t
the Cockermouth Railway, which ran within 500 yards of
his family seat, Cockermouth Castle, wherein his ancestors
had dwelt upwards of 800 years ago. The petition stated
that there was no necessity for the line running so close to
the House, and he (Lord Brougham) could bear witness to
the truth of that assertion. It would save money to the con-
tractors, but that was all.
INVASION OF IRELAND.
Lord BROUGHAM said that, seeing his Noble Friend the
Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster in his place, he would
ask him was there any truth in the report that an invasion
of Ireland was anticipated.—(Hear, hear.) There was a
report abroad that such was the case which he believed
was founded upon the fact of two cavalry regiments being
sent over to the country yesterday. He wished to know
was there any truth in the retort?
Lord CAMPBELL—As the report has nothing whatever
to do with the county palatinate of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, I am not awate of such having been the fact.
Lord BROUGHAM—I apprehend that the Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster has somethirg to do with it,
as the embarkation is reported to have taken place at Liver-
pool, which is within the palatinate—(Laughter)—but as
the Noble Lord does not know anything about it, there must
be no truth in the repot.»
Several other petitions were then presented, and their
Lordships adjourned at half-past Five o clock till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 9.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
Mr. MACCLINTOCK took the oaths and his seat for Carlow.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed:—
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudhy Railway.
Brighouse Sewerage, Drainage, and Lighting.
Bristol and Birmingham and Midland Railways.
Clonmel and Thurles Railway.
Cockermouth and Workington Extension Railway.
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Railway..
Creagh's Divorce Bill.
Cromford Canal.
Edinburgh and Glasgow and Scottish Central Railways

Junction.
Forth and Clyde Navigation and Bowling Bay Improvement.
Furness Railway Extensions.
Great Southern and Western Railway (Cork Extension).
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Oldham Branch).
Huddersfield and Sheffield and Manchester and Leeds Rail-

ways Amalgamation.
Killarney Junction Railway.
Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe Railway.
Mallow and Fermoy Railway.
Manchester and Leeds Railway Extensions.
Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland (Liffey Branch

and Longford Deviation).
Monmouthshire Railways.
Mountmellick Junction Railway.
Newport, Abergavenny, and liereford Railway.
Norfolk Estuary.
Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead Junction

Rail way.
Plymouth Great Western Docks.
Severn Navigation.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway, &c.,
Amalgamation.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway
(Peak Forest, and Macclesfield Canal Purchases).
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Junc-

tion Railway.
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Chester and Wolver-
hampton line).
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Shrewsbury to
Stafford). •
Strathtay and Breadalbane Railway.
Taw Vale Railway Extension.
Trent Valley, Midlands, and Grand Junction Railway.
Vale of Neath Railway.
Waterford, Wexford. Wicklow, and Dublin Railway.
West Riding Union Railway (No. 2).
Wexford Harbour Improvement.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway.
LIVERPOOL AND BURY, AND MANCHESTER AND
LEEDS RAILWAY AMALGAMATION BILL.
Mr. WILLIAMS objected to the consideration of this
report, on the ground that the property and interests of one
large Company was transferred to another Company against
the wishes and consent of the owners, and moved that it be
re-committed.
After a short discussion, the motion was withdrawn.
NEW WRIT.
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Mr.l TUFNELL moved for a new writ for the borough
of Lichfield, in the room of Lord Alfred Paget, who had
accepted the office of Clerk Marshal and Chief Equerry in
her- Majesty's Household.
kr. MUNTZ moved that the Committee on the Birming-
ham and Oxford Junction Railway Bill, and Birmingham
and Oxford Junction Railway (Birmingham Extension) Bill,
have leave to report forthwith, and that the reports be taken
into consideration. _

Mr. E. DENISON objected to the toll clause as it now
stood in the Bill, and; thought it ought to be revised. The
first part of the clause might remain, but the latter, he con-
sidered, ought to be altered.
Mr. T. BARING said the object sought by the recom-
mittal of the Bill was the revision of the toll charges. He
thought the clause as it now stood gave the Great Western
Company practically a complete control of the line. He
would ask the Chairman of the Committee what the members
of it meant by the introduction of the altered words in the
clause ?
Sir R. FERGUSON said before the alteration was made
the Committee consulted both companies interested, and the
result was the clause which was now submitted to the
House. He thought the clause fair towards the interests of
all the parties concerned.
Sir G. CLERK did not think the clause to be such as some
Hon. Members represented it. From reading it he did not
think it would throw the whole management and advantages
of the line into the hands of the Great Western Company.
The interpretation he put on it was nothing more than that
the shareholders of the company should not have the power
to prevent the Great Western Company running along it ;
and that the former should not be allowed to play.into the
hands of the other great rival company. Under all the cir-
cumstances he must ,upport the clause.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.
Messengers from the Lords broug,htlup several Bills, which
were ordered to lie on the table.
The discussion on the railway Bill previously under consi-
deration was then resumed.
Mr. HODGSON thought they ought to judge the clause,
not in reference to the London and Birmingham or Great
Western Companies, but in regard to the public interests.
He thought the clause so important that it ought to be
printed, and that time should be given for its consideration.
They would then see whether it was really in agreement
with the general intentions of the resolutions on railways
passed by Parliament.
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET was in' favour of the
clause as it stood.
Mr. G. W. HAYTER admitted that this case was pro-
vided for by the Consolidated Act, in the event of the two
parties being favourable to the union; but the House must
recollect that the Grand Junction and Manchester and
Birmingham Railways, who were allied to the London and
Birmingham, held the majority of the shares in the proposed
line, and hence the latter Company would have the power
of preventing the Great Western Company from using the
line unless the House agreed to the clause in its original
form.—( Hear, hear.) Now, under these circumstances, he
contended that it was for the benefit of the public that the
amendments which had been proposed should be agreed to.
Mr. GREENE protested that there was no necessity
whatever for inserting the clause in the Bill at all, in so far
as the original Consolidated Act gave the Great Western
Company sufficient power and control over the new line,
either as regarded the rights of themselves or the interest of
the public.—(Hear, hear.)
After a few words from Mr. Muserz and Mr. DENISON, the
amendment was withdrawn, and the clause in its original
form was agreed to.
The report was then received, and the Bill, as amended,
ordered to be engrossed.
LIVERPOOL, ORMSKIRB, AND PRESTON
RAILWAY.

The consideration of the report on this Bill was resumed.
The report was ultimately agreed to, and the Bill ordered to
be engrossed.
BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM, AND MIDLANDS
RAILWAY. _ _ _

On the question being put for the third reading of this
Bill,
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET suggested that the Bill
should be postponed, in order that a similar clause to that
introduced into the Oxford and Birmingham Railway Bill
should be inserted in this Bill. The circumstances
connected wi►h the two lines, and their relations to other
companies, were precisely the same.
The third reading under these circumstances was post-
poned till to morrow.
LARNE, BELFAST, AND BALLYMENA.
Mr. THOMAS DUNCO ABE moved "That the petition of
certain shareholders in the Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena
Railway Company, complaining of a fraudulent return to the
resolutions of the 30th day of April last, be referred to a
Select Committee; and that all further proceedings on the
said Bill be postponed until the Committee shall have re-
ported thereon." He stated that the Bill had been referred
to Mr. Green as an approved measure, and the promoters, in
complying with a resolution of the House had made a fraw
dulent return, in which they stated that no shares had been
retained for the provisional committee, whereas the peti-
tioners stated, and were prepared to prove, that 1,025 shares
had been allotted to 35 directors, who it appeared had now
vanished into four, and these four had taken only
100 shares amongst them. Upon the 1,025 shares ori-
ginally allotted to the directors, only 300 had been
paid upon, and the company hael received 18,0004 from the
public. II:: therefore moved that a Committee be appointed
to whom this matter should be referred, with power to report
immediately to the House.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. RICARDO opposed the motion, and contended that
it would he unfair, now that the Bill had passed both, Houses
of Pirliament, to put the promoters to the expense and
trouble of goiwg before another Committee.
Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. Baring, and Mr. Est-court
thought, as the petitioners appeared to feel themselves in-
jured by the proceedings, the motion ought to he agreed to.
Mr. lIICARDO said, that being so he would willingly
withdraw his opposition.—(Hear, hear.)
The motion was then agreed to.
On the motion of Mr. DUNCOMBE, the following Hon .
Gentlemen were appointed members of the Committee :
Mr. E. Denison, Mr. Beckett, Sir Robert Ferguson, and
Mr. T. S. Duncombe.
The reports on the following Bills were received:—
Billingsgate Market.
Curtis's Divorce.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Bradford Branch).
Newcastle and Darlington Junction Raiiway and Tyne

Dock.
ShrewEhury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshiri
Junction Railway (Coalbrookdale Branch).
South Staffordshire Junction Railway with Branches (No. 1.)
Sutton Harbour and Docks (Plymouth).
Taff Vale Railway.
Tunbridge W ells Improvement.
Warwickshire and London Railway (Hampton and Ash-
church line).
Warwickshire and London Railway (Hampton and Banbury
line).

Warwickshire and London Railway (Worcester and Weedon
line). •
The following reports of Bills were considered and adopted:
Cameron's Coalbrook Steam Coal and Swansea and Lottlfor
Railway.
Larne, Belfast, and.Ballvmena Railway (by order).
Tetnplemore and NenQ) Railway:-
THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.
Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the Mike of
Brunswick, complaining that he could not obtain impartial
justice in the courts of law of this country, and of various other
hardships to which he had been subjected. The petition con-
eluded with a prayei to the House that they would appoint
a Committee, before which he should be able to substantiate
his charges. The Hon. Member gave notice that he should,
to-morrow, move that the petition be printed with the Votes.
BATTERSEA PARK• BILL (APPLICATION OF
• - • MONEYS).
This Bill went through Committee.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned, at Two o'clock, until Twelve to-morrow.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room A.

LESIVIANAGOW, DALSERP, AND COAT-

BRIDGE rturnanam JUNCTION.

Their Lordships met at the usual hour, in Room A (New
Houses of Parliament), and proceeded with the case for the
promoters of the. Bill.
Mr. Adie and other witnesses were called, and gave evi-
dence in support of that previously adduced.
On the completion of the promoters' case,
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, on the part of the petitioning land-
owner, Mr. Holmesworth, addressed the Committee at con-
siderable length, and, on the conclusion of his speech, the
Committee, without calling upon him to give any evidence,
ordered the room to be cleared, and after a consultation of
about a quarter of an hour allowed the parties to. be re-
admitted.

Ihe CHAIRMAN then said, I have to announce to the
counsel that the Committee have determined to report to the
House that it is not expedient to carry the proceedings in this
case any further.
Having given this decision, the Committee rose at about
ten minutes to four o'clock.

Room B.

short space of half an hour, the Comtnittee rose at half-past
eleven o'clock.

Room 6.

A .S,ket Committee appointed to cons'der the merits of
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Midian4 Junction Railway,
and of the Heywood Waterworks, met at eleven o'clock this
morning in Rrom 6 (in Abingdon-street), the Marquis of
Westminster in the cnair, and present the Earls of Radnor,
Chichest,T, Sco. Earl Nelson was one of the members, and
attended in the course of the day, but in consequence of
severe. indisposition his Lordship itas unable to remain and
join in the labours of his Noble Colleagues.
Their Lordships first took the case of the
HEYWOOD WATERAVORICS BILL,

which occupied them for a considerable time. The preamble
was declared proved.

MANCHESTER, SHEFFICE LD, AND MID-

LAND 3UNCTION.

Mr. Talbot and Mr. Merrewether appeared for the pro-
moters of this Bill ; Mr. Hope, Mr. Paget, Mr. Ellison, arid
other counsel, for various petitioners against it.
Mr. Ti,noT having opened the case for the promoters, in
in a short speech, called
Mr. Isaac Schofield, table-knife manufacturer at
Shetlield, who gave evidence as to the advantages
to -*

at place— which the improved communication
with the districts traversed by the line would effect. He
gave statistical details as to the amount of coal con-
sumed in Sheffield, which are too lengthy for insertion
here. He said that great benefit would accrue to the owners
of factories from the reduction of the price of coal that
might be expected by the communication with the coal
districts.

This gentleman's evidence occupied the Committee up to
four o'clock, when they rose and adjourned till to-morrow
at eleven.

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

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

GROUP LXI.
The Committee on this group met to-day at twelve o'clock,
in Room No. 26 (Grand Corridor) ; Sir J. Duckworth in the
chair. They proceeded with hearing evidence on the clauses
of the two canal railway Bills, the
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW UNION
CANAL,
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND JOHNSTONE