The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-23 00:00:00

GREAT GRIMSBY.

By this Bill it is -proposed to form a railway from Penniston, in
the West Riding of Yorkshire, at the Sheffield and Manchester line,
to Brigg, in the county of Lincoln, where it is to join the Great
Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway.
The length of the line will be about 47% miles, and the cost is
estimated at 702,0001. Mr. H. Billington lathe engineer ; and Messrs.
Sudlow and Kingston are the Parliamentary agents.
Two petitions were presented againt the Bill, but the solicitors for
the respective petitioners did not appear to press the hostile alle-
gations.

The Committee were satisfied that the standing orders were com-
plied with, but postponed the final decision of the case till to-morrow,
for the attendance of a witness not forthcoming this day.
LANCASHIRE AND NORTH 'YORKSHIRE.
The Committee resumed, to-day, the consideration of this Bill,
which had occupied a long time at the last sitting of the Committee
on Thursday, and was fully.reported in The Sun of that day.
After hearing the remainder of the proofs in support of the measure,

The Committee decided upon reporting that the standing ordeg
had not been complied with, on the grounds alleged in the peti-
tions respecting the imperfection of plans, sections, and descriptions.

W2AR DOCX RAILWAY.
The object of this Bill is to comtect the Northumberland and
Lancashire Junction Railway with the port of Sunderland, and to
give the collieries In Wear Valley a goodrailway communication with
a shipping pott. The length of the proposed line is twenty-six miles,
and the estinlated cast 530,0001. The engineer is Mr. Thomas Storey,
and the Parliamentary agents are Messrs. Dyson and Co.
The Bill was opposed in a petition from the Newcastle and Darling-
ton Railway.

The first allegation on the part of the petitioners was, that in the
book of reference deposited in the Private Bill-office, the lion.
Charles Grey and the Right lion: Lord Duncan were, as trustees
under the late Countess of Durham, described as the occupiers
and owners of certain property marked Nos. 2 and 3 in the plans,
whereas the said property belonged to the Newcastle and Darlington
Junction Railway Company.
On the part of the' petitioners proof was given that they had pur-
chased, and were in possession of the property in question, but it was
not shown that any conveyance hall taken place.
The Committee decided that the allegation was not sustained.
The next allegation was, that no application had been made on or
before the 31st of December last, to the petitioners, who were, and
still are, the owners and occupiers of certain waste lands stated to be
within the limits of deviation, and marked No. 5 in the plans.
The Committee ultimately decided that the notices were insuffi-
cient, and that this allegation was sustained.
There was another allegation to the effect that the application
which was given in writing to the petitioners as owners and occupiers
of a certain branch railway, marked No. 4; in the above-mentioned
book of reference deposited in the Private Bill-office, was imperfect,
and did not sufficiently describe the manner in which the said branch
railway would be affected by the proposed line—also that there was
no notice given of the proposed Company's intention to alter the level
of the said branch line, as appeared by the plans and sections de-
posited, whereas it was proposed by-the promoters of the Bill to raise
the level of the branch three feet six inches, and to. alter the in-
clination from one in-456 to one in 115.

This allegation was abandoned by the petitioners, but the Commit-
tee wishing to satisfy themselVes that the objection was not valid,
called and examined the engineer of-the line, and, after some discus-
sion, decided that the standing orders were in this respect 'complied
with.

Sub-Committee No. 7.

This Committee met at ten o'clock this -morning ; Mr. Greene in
the chair.

The Committee, after hearing the customary formal proofs, de-
clared that the standing orders had been complied with in respect
of the following lines
IRISH GREAT SOUTHERN AXD WESTERN (CORK
MOUNTMELLIC JUNCTION.
ELY AND HUNTINGDON (BEDFORD EXTENSION).
COCKERMOUTH AND WORKINGTON EXTENSION.
The Committee then adjourned. -

HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day, at eleven o'clock, to hear appeals. The
Peers present were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord
Cottenham, and Lord Campbell.
THE CORPORATION OF GLOUCERTER V. BURMAN ♦ND OTHERS.
Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning with the further
arguments in this part-heard appeal.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.)
WALFORD'V. ADM
Walford and others, for the proprietors of the Birmingham
Coal Company, hold the defendant liable for the debts of the Com-
pany, as well those contracted posterior as those existing prior
to the sale of defendant's shares to the Committee of Management.
The attention of the Court was engaged with the arguments and evi-
dence on the supplemental bill.
Sir J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE.—We are sorry to observe that his Honour
is painfully Interested in this day's news from India by the loss of his
son, G. W. IC. Bruce, Cornet, of her Majesty's 3d Light Dragoons,
reported on the list• of killed at Moodkee: His Honour came down
this morning to Lincoln's Inn, as usual, ignorant of the calamity
which had befallen htm. On learning the sad intelligence than the
morning papers, he immediately gave notice that he would not sit for
a week, and left.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

•
The fifth Session of the present Mayoralty was opened this morn
lag by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, and Aldermei
Hunter, Challis, and Hughes.

The grand jury having been sworn, the Recorder charged them
as follows :--

Gentlemen of the Grand•Jury,=The present calendar contains a
list of no leSs than 120 prisoners, but that number will no doubt be
augmented before the termination of your labours. The number is
not so great as in -some of the previous sessions, but the crimes
charged are of no common magnitude. There are three charges of
arson ; several of making and uttering counterfeit coin ;
three of ' rape ; several cases of misdemeanour of
the worst character; three charges of murder, two being
committed -in one county and the third in another. The
Learned Recorder then read the statute which related to arson, and
after explaining the degrees of that crime, he went on to direct their
attention to the murder which had been committed in Drury-lane.
If (continued the Learned Judge) the evidence which shall
come before-you is the same that i hive read in the depositions, I
would advise you to put the case hi course of further investigation.
The second case of murder is a charge against parents, of causing the
death of an infant by administering poison ; and they are charged also
with concealment of birth. With respect to the first of these charges,
1 de not think, after a careful perusal of the evidence, that the crime is
°came home as against the soother; but of course that point will be
for you to determine. With respect to the second charge, Ido not
think that it can at all be substantiated, for as a surgeon was tailed
in the concealment is at an end. You may be all more or less ac-
quainted with the circumstances of this case from the statements
which have-from day to day appeared in the public prints. Whether
those statements have answered a good end or an evil one,
I am not here to say;- whether the publication of the facts
connected with it have assisted the truth or thrown diffi-
culties in the way of justice, I shall not pronounce an opinion
on ; but whatever, Gentlemen, - may have been your previous
impressions, you must now "

behind you. and look only

to the evidence which shall be brought before you. If you find
that the child died a natural death, then, however morally guilty the
prisoners may be— however abhorrent the intercourse that touk place
between them—into that connexion you have no right to inquire.
They are freed from the charges preferred against them, and your
duties, as regards them, are at an-end. The Learned Recorder then
referred to• the charges of rape, and concluded by expressing his
deep regret that a calendar so limited, in point of numbers, should be
so fruitful in offences of the highest order. He was sure that they
would give -to every case its duo consideration ; and without further
detaining them by any lengthened remarks, he would at once dismiss
them to their duties.