The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-09 00:00:00

Room C.

//LAC REURN, C it.rrnmao V, AND NO RTII
WESTERN JUNCTION.
(ContinueAl from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
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Their Lordships were occupied the greater part of the
morning with a discussion as to the propriety of inserting
a clause, proposed by the opposing company, as to the
nature in which the junction should be formed.
The Committee (after clearing the room on this point)
refused to admit this clause, but expressed their decided
opinion that a clause to render the junction more convenient
ought to be inserted. They would leave it to the engineers
and surveyors of the companies to arrange the matter
between them. They were determined upon inserting a
clause.
Several witnesses were then called, and gave evidence in
corroboration of that given yesterday, which was reported
with sufficient fulness in The Sun. _

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The case for the promoters being concluded, that for the
opponents was proceeded with ; after which the Commit tee
passed the preamble of the Bill. The consideration of the
clauses was postponed on account of the lateness of the hour,
and the Committee rose at four o'clock, and adjourned till to-
morrow, when they will hear the case for the promoters of
the Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction.

' Room 5.
BUCILINGIZAIVLSIIIRM ( TRING TO BAN.

BURY).

The Committee on the above Bill met, to take into con-
sideration the points on which it had been re-committed, in
Room 5 (Committee rooms in Abingdon-street). Lord
Stanley took the chair as usual.
There was no opposition; and, after the adjustment of
some of the clauses, the Committee passed the Bill in its
amended form, and then rose finally.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XVII.
IMPORTANT DECISION.

IVIANCHESTEM AND SOI7THABIPTON AND
SOUTH-WESTERN (ROMSEY AND RED-
BRIDGE BRANCH).

The Committee met this morning shortly after twelve
o'clock ; present, the Hon. E. Yorke, the Hon. Mr.
Tollemache, Sir Walter James, Mr. Brocklehurst, and Mr.
Kerr.

The CHAIRMAN ordered the room to be cleared, and the
Committee remained in deliberation until a quarter past three
o'clock, when the parties and the public were admitted.

The CHAIRMAN said the Committee have to announce to
the parties, that the preamble of the Romsey and Redbridge
Branch is not proved, and that the preamble of the Man-
cheater and Southampton Bill is proved. But the Cotnmittee
insist on the insertion of a clause, providing that the line
between Romsey and Redbridge shall be common to both
the South-Western and the Manchester and Southampton
Company, with equal participation in the advantages result-
ing from the station at Romsey and the line south of Rom-
sey, and the use of the terminus of the Manchester and.
Southampton line and the tramways along the quays to the
docks.

The Committee then proceeded to go through the clauses
of the Bill.

GROUP XXXIII. •

The Committee upon this group re-assembled at half-past
one o'clock this day, in Room No. 24 (Grand Corridor), Sir
R. Ferguson in the chair, for the re-committal of the

Star/LINGUA= A. 1733 OXFORD JUNCTION
Bill ; pursuant to a resolution of the House yesterday.
The clauses for which the Bill had been re-committed
were under consideration the whole of the morning.
The Committee did not think it expedient to go into the
question of the tolls of the Great Western Railway, but in-
serted special clauses in the Bill to provide for a revision of
the tolls in the event of an amalgamation being carried into
effect.

In the case of the other Bill, the
OnranD AND 21.1-4211.7.Nt;ZAIVE TUNCrION
(BIRMIN GEL.= EXTZINSXON).

The Committee came to the same decision, and then
separated.

GROUP LXI

The Committee met to-day, at twelve o'clock, in Room No.
26 (Grand Corridor), Sir John Duckworth in the chair; and
proceeded with the consideration of the

LIMN lIIITILGH AND GLASGOW Inn ON

CANAL.

The preamble of this Bill having; been agreed to yester-.
day, the Committee was occupied the whole of the morning
in going through the clauses.
The clauses were not all gOne through at half-past three
o'clock, when the Committee poStponed the further considera-
tion till to-morrow, and • proceeded with the evidence re-
specting the other Canal-Railway Bill in the group—namely,
the

GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND JOHNSTONE

CANAL SALE.

The hearing of this evidence occupied the remainder of the
sitting. It pertained merely to the great deprecation of
the canal property by railway competition.

GROUP LXIII.

The Committee met this morning at twelve o'clock, Mr.
Tatton Egerton in the chair, to go through the clauses of the

NEIATZ,Y, VtTARRENPOZZZT, AND
jZOSSTIT.EVGR.

Bill. Considerable opposition was offered to the line by Mr.
Hall, across whose pleasure grounds the line is partially to
pass. Several witnesses were called to show the injury
that would be done to the property, and the propriety
of putting in a clause compelling the company to deviate so
as to save Mr. Hall's grounds by encroaching on the Newry
river. It was brought out, in evidence, that Mr. Hall had
promoted a line almost similar to the present in 1836.
The room was now ordered to be cleared. _

The CPMRMAN informed parties, on their re-admission,
that the Committee had rejected the clause tendered by Mr.
Lowndes, counsel for Mr. Hall. They thought the company
should be bound to construct the Parliamentary line,
and were of opinion, that persons placed as Mr. Hall
was, should be handsomely compensated by the company.
Other clauses were then read, and after some amendments
agreed to.
This closed the labours of the Committee.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met, at twelve o'clock, in Room 1 (House
of Lords), Lord Shaftesbury in the chair, and present, Lords
Redesdale, Winchester, and Hawarden.
There were but three Bills on the list, each of which had
been adjourned from yesterday.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM (COVENTRY TO
NUNEATON).
Their Lordships having heard the remaining evidence, de-
cided that the promoters of this Bill had proved compliance
with the standing orders.
NORTH WALES.
The Committee made a similar decision in this case.
COVENTRY, NUNEATON, BIRMINGHAM, AND
LEICESTER.
Compliance with the standing orders was also proved in
this case.
At ene o'clock their Lordships resolved themselves into a
SELECT COMMMITTEE ON MERITS,
in which capacity they proceeded with the further hearing
of Doctor MacFarlane's (Glasgow College) Estate Bill,
which had repeatedly been adjourned from day to day, each
time engrossing a lion's share of the Committee's time and
attention. It was the only Bill on the list.
Their Lordships, having been occupied ever since one
o'clock with McFarlane's Estate Bill, rose shortly before
six, and adjourned till to-morrow.

MARLBOROUGH HOUSE, PECKHAM.—On Monday last,
the Grand Jury, at the Surrey Sessions, Newington, returned
a true bill for an assault upon Mary Smith, against Josiah
Evans, one of the relieving officers of the City of London
Union, and George Bennett, a City pauper ; and, it being
generally supposed that the case would have come on for
trial yesterday, a great deal of interest was excited. It will
be recollected that some weeks ago the defendant Bennett
and Brace bad been brought to Lambeth police-court on a
warrant charging them with committing a very savage
assault upon two other casual paupers who had slept at
Marlborough-house, named smith and Jones. On that occa-
sion the complainants did not appear, and there was too much
reason to suppose that they had been kept out of the
way intentionally, but at all events the defendants were
discharged. From the publication of the case, and the
facts set forth, the Poor Man's Guardian Society took up
the matter, offered a reward for -the discovery of Smith
and Jones, and the former was at length found out. A
eecond warrant was then granted on the application of the
Chairman of the Society, and Smith's own statement, against
Bennett and Evans, and the case of assault, upon the hearing
of the case, being clearly established against both defendants,
the magistrate sent the case to the sessions. The witness
was in attendance on Monday, and the grand jury, as above
stated, found a true bill against the defendant, but the latter
traversed it until the next session in October, when it will be
heard at those sessions.

TEE NATURAL SON OF NAPOLEON.—The suit insti-
tuted by Count Leon against the Countess de Luxbourg was,
on Thursday, partly decided by the Cour Royale, which de-
clared that the defendant was the mother of the plaintiff, and
adjudged her to make him a provision of 4,000 f. pendente
lite, reserving the question of 6,000 f. per annum demanded
by the Count.— Galignani.
ACCIDENT FROM MACHINERY.—Some days ago the
following sad accident occurred at a flatting mills establish-
ment in Lyons. Part of the dress of a youth of sixteen was
caught in one of the wheels of the hydraulic engine, and he
was drawn into it. He was not missed at the moment, but
as the wheel stopped, the workmen looked for the cause of
the stoppage, and found the mutilated remains of the Victim.
The body WU aetiallY tom to pie=