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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
This Court was occupied nearly the entire day in hearing
the arguments of the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals in a
case arising out of an act of the Corporation of Warwick.
The question was eutirely a dispute between two political
parties in the town, though it was nominally whether the
Corporation had, by the Municipal Act, any power over cer-
tain public charities.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. CHAMBERS made an application to the Court to change
the venue of a case from the county in which it was about
to be tried to London, or elsewhere. The grounds of the ap-
plication were, that the plaintiff, who was a poor man, had
been prosecuted by the defendant, Sir R. Murray, for an
alleged breach of the game-laws, for which he had been im-
prisoned, and for which imprisonment he now sought to
take an action, as he contended that it was a false
imprisonment; but he apprehended that the defendant had
such influence in the district where the case was prcposed to
be tried, that the jury would lean towards the side of the
defendant.
The Court refused the application, upon the ground that it
would be an imputation upon the impartiality of the jurors
to grant it.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

(THIS DAY.)

ROUSE OF COMMONS.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
Mr. O'CONNELL--He could quote M. Thiers as an sa-
ne (Mr. O'Connell) con-
ample of a perfect statesman.
sidered that this suggestion of the Hon. Member, if it had
no other good quality, had at least that of novelty to re-
commend it. It was something peculiarly novel to re-
commend the example of France in religious matters. The
lion. Member said that this accomplished statesman had at-
tacked the Jesuits. He (Mr. O'Connell) contended that
that man was no statesman who only pandered to the bad
prejudices of his countrymen.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He
challenged the Hon. Member to bring one charge against
the Jesuits, and to prove that charge. He had thrown
that challenge down to the Honourable Member
some weeks ago, and he had not yet been
able to bring such a charge. True, he had spoken of a con-
sultation of the Parliament of Paris in the year 1762, where
calumnies of the worst description had been originated
against that ecclesiastical body. But he (Mr. O'Connell)
would ask, if it was either right or fair to bring this con-
sultation forward as a charge, when: the Hon. Member well
knew that these calumnies had been refuted times out of
number ; when he could have informed the House, that
Archbishop Amend, and all the French Bishops in the last
century, had protested against those calumnies? Did the
Hon. Member forget the speech of Henry. IV., when that able
and powerful monarch did full justice toJesuits, but the Hon.
Member said :something about the Emperor of Russia. He
quoted Thiers as his model of a statesman, and now he
quoted the Emperor of Russia as a model of kingly piety.
The Hon. Member made certainly a singular selection.—
(Laughter.) He again challenged him to substantiate a sin-
gle charge against the Jesuits. They were a most estimable
body. They had been the patrons of literature in every age.
As a community they were distinguished for the exercise of
every virture. Their hospitality was unbounded, their cha-
rity sincere, and however they might be villified now, they
would be regarded in history as the truest benefactors of man-
kind.
Mr. FINCH said that, in his opinion, the Hon. and
Learned Member for Cork had not fairly stated the argu-
ments of his Hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle-under-
Lyne, when he said that the Hon. Member wished them
to follow the example of France in matters of religion. He
(Mr. Finch) considered that the JesuitA had in two many
instances been calumniated, but no one could deny that, in
consequence' 'of the dangerous tenets they propagated, they
had been driven out of every country in Europe.
After a few words from Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR,
which were inaudible in the gallery,
Mr. PHILIP HOWARD said that one of the wisest mo-
narchs in Europe, Frederick the Great of Prussia, had given
them a refuge in hs dominions. He felt that this Bill would
not be otaected to by the great body of the people of this
country-
Mr. NEWDEGATE had always objected to the repeal of
the clauses of the Act of 1829. 'this oppoisition did not arise
fr,,m any wish to persecute the Roman Catholics, but from a
desire to preserve the peace and well-being of the country. Be
trusted that her Majesty's Government would not consent,
to the repeal of those clauses, which they had themselves in-
troduced. The reason why those clauses had never been put
in force, of course, was best known to the Right Hon. Baronet
the Home-Secretary.
ATr. M. MILNES said, that for some years the youth of
the Roman Catholic community had been entrusted to the
Jesuits fur their education, and no evils had resulted from the
Catholic youth being so educated.
Sir R. PEEL said he was ready to consent to a division of
the Bill, for the purpose of being enabled to express his opi-
nion with regard to that part of the Bill which contemplated
the repeal of part of the statute of 1829. Of course it was
necessary for him to vote for the motion of the Hon. Gentle-
man, in order to make the division of the Bill. He would
advise the Hon. Gentleman to permit the House to go into
Committee on the Bill pro forma; he would then have the
opportunity of taking the sense of the House on any clauses
to which he objected.—(Hear' hear.)
Mr. LAW recommended that his Hon. Friend should not
give way to the proposal of the Right Hon. Gentleman, but
persevere in his motion.
Lord J.'RUSSELL considered that there could be no dif-
ficulty in adopting the advice of the Right Hon. Baronet.
Mr. WATSON said that the House had already affirmed
the principle of the Bill, for the second reading of it had
already taken place. The present measure would not repeal
the Act of Supremacy, for supremacy was the common law of
England.
Mr. NEWDIGATE explained.
Lord JOHN MANNERS said that the Hon. Member for
Newcastle had stated that he did not wish to impose any
penalties on the profession of religion. The supremacy of
the Pope either was or was tot a doctrine of the Roman
Cal holie religion. If it were not, then he called upon hi,
Bon. Friend to allow this Bill to pass and if it were, then he
called upon him to go with them and enforce the penalties.
The fact was, those who professed to be the most sincere
friends of civil and religious liberty 'rely often turned out to
be the moat bitter of its foes.

Mr. ESTCOURT rose amid repeated cries of "
and said be should only detain the Holsse for a very few
minutes. The lion. Member who had charge of the Bill had
stated that he intended to expunge all the clauses down to
that which related to the statute of George IV. He thought
there was a secresy with regard to the Bill, for when he had,
on a previous occasion, made some observations with respect
to this particular Bill, they were net received with
much favour ; but a different opinion now appeared
to prevail. This only he would say, that if
those clauses were repealed, it would be a vio-
lation of the contract which was entered into in 1829.
The Bill was, in fact, a Bill for an amendment of the
Act of 1829, and if it had been introduced with that avowed
object, his Right Hon. Friend below him (Sir R. Peel) it
would have met it with his unquestionabje opposition. He
would suggest that the Hon. Member (Mr. Watson) should
avail hiniself of the proposition of the Secretary of State for
the Home Department. By doing so, that Hon. Member
would undoubtedly lose an advantage which he had obtained,
unfairly obtained, but he did not doubt, that from the re-
spectability of that gentleman, he would readily give it up,
and not shuffle a measure like this through the House.
Mr. B. ESCOTT said, that what was meant by shuffling
and by unfair advantage had not been explained ; but he
would renaindthe House that this Bill had been read a second
time by a maority of three to one, and he thought that the
proper course was to go into Committee, oppose what was
bad, %prove what was good, and do what they thought
proper with the-Bill on the third reading.
After a few words from Mr. COLQUIIOUN, which were
hardly tolerated by the House,
Mr. SPOONER said,. that although he might have ap-
proved of the early-part of the Bill, he could not assent to
the latter part of it ; and he felt assured that it was not com-
petent for the House imthe present stage to divide the Bill.
It his Right Hon. Friend at the head of the Government
assented to this measure, he would in fact be doing neither
more nor less than practising upon the House, and being a
party to a measure for amending the Act of 1829.
Sir ROBERT PEEL trusted the House would allow him
to answer the perversions of the Hon. Gentleman who had
just sat down.—(Laughter.) He proposed that the Bill
should be divided into two parts, and as the Hon. Gentleman
objected to the first part of the Bill, he would have the op-
portunity of dealing with it ; he thought his suggestion should
be met in the spirit it was made in.
ctlr. SPOONER objected that the Bill could not be di-
vied. If the Right Hon. Gentleman allowed the House to
go into Committee. he was virtually repealing the law which
he had declared should never
btt, repealed.
The House then divided on
question that they go into
Committee, when there appeared'
For going into Committee llO
Against it
Majority for going into Committe
e and 3 the
The House then went into Committee on the Bill,
preamble was agreed to.
On the question that the first clause stand part of the
Bill,
Mr. LAW moved that the clause be omitted altogether.
Mr. WATSON said that he did not intend to proceed fur-
ther with the Bill at that time. He should, therefore, pro-
pose that the Chairman report progress, in order that the
Bill might be recommitted for the purpose of introducing

certain clauses.
Mr. LAW said that he was in possession of the.Honse.
The clause had been put, and in the exercise of his public
duty he should not give way.
Lord J. RUSSELL said that the course taken by the Hon.
and Learned Member was not a very fair one to the Hon.
and Learned Member who had the conducting of this mea-
sure. It would be in the power of the Hon. and Learned
Member to oppose this Bill in an after stage, and therefore
his- present opposition was neither handsome nor courteous
to his Hon. and Learned Friend (Mr. Watson), nor very
just to the House.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. LAW said that the division which had recently taken
place was for the express purpose of getting rid of the
Bill, and Honourable Members on his side of the House
were not, therofore, parties to any arrangement between the
Right Hon. Baronet and Hon. Members opposite. It was
now proposed to carry out that arrangement, that his Hon.'
and Learned Friend should have an opportunity of re-print-
ing and bringing forward this Bill in a new shape, of, in
fact, making this two Bills instead of one. He was opposed
to this Bill in any shape, and he therefore claimed his right
to proceed in this course. He had personally the highest
respect for the Hon. and Learned Member opposite, but he
bad a public duty to perform.—(Hear, hear, and Oh, oh !)
He considered this Bill was of a pernicious character, and he
viewed
ewdwith suspicion all measures which emanated from
other Aide, and which received the approbation of the
Right
onourable Baronet at the head of her Majeso Go-
vernment.
Sir ROBERT PEEL trusted that the Hon. and Learned
Member who had last spoken on the performance of his
public duties, discharged them with more temper and mode.
ration, and with more acuteness than he had then shown.—
(Laughter.) There must have been some great misappre-
hension on the part of the 'lon. Member in
from which he could gain no possible advantage.
and Learned Member (Mr. Watson) had merely The Hon.
ly asked to
have the Bill recommitted for the purpose of having
rtain
clauses introduced which, if proposed on the instant, world be
less intelligible than if they were printed and Hon. Members
had time to consider them.
Mr. LAW said that he had a right to complain of any in_
sinuations—(Ob, oh')—thrown out as to the manner in which
he discharged his duties in another place.—(Hear, hear.)
He thought the Right Hon. Baronet had no reason to sug-
gest that those duties were not discharged with that temper
and that attention which were due to them. He did not
complain of any opinion that the Eight Hon. Baronet might

be pleased to entertain of those duties, but he thought,
speaking of courtesy, that much discourtesy had been ex-
hibited to him by the Right Hon. Baronet. If he had
thought that his assent would give no advantage to the pro-
moters of the Bill he should not oppose it then; but such was
not his opinion, and he felt that it was his duty therefore to
follow this course.

Mr. COLQUHOUN said they had got rid of the first part
of the Bill, and the Right Hon. Baronet ha I stated that he
should oppose the second part. They had, therefore, accom-
plished their object, which was the extinction of the Bill.
Mr. ROEBUCK said that it was not so, as he should move
that the Chairman do report progress, in order that the new
clauses might be printed in a separate form.
Mr. BERNAL thought the better course would be to re-
print the Bill.
Mr. NEWDEGATE, after condemning what he called the
want of temper of the Right Hon. Baronet, (
suggested
itloe
the Hon. Member for Cambridge University.
'M
in orraer Law),
the
propriety of withdrawing his amendmentfoa, when they
Bill might go through Committee pro
would see what the Bill actually consisted of.
Sir R. PEEL said that those who required a perfectly
unruffled
Hnffleodn. Gtemenpeareminahnimwoushldoublde sinetntoheteetxtearmppolesittihoenmtshealvneisf.
The
the Bill had been brought forward in its original shape.
On Wednesday next, so far from gaining any advantage, a
motion could be made that the Speaker do leave the chair,
and that the House do go into Committee on that day six
months, and so far from entering into any compact with the
Hon. Gentleman, he believed that he had never a word of
conversation with him on the subject in his life. He could
not consent to repeal any of the provisions of the Act of
1829, nor would he give any pledge to support any amend-
ment which might be introduced.
Mr. NEWDEGATE explained. He did not impute to the
Right Hon. Gentleman any unworthy motive.
Mr. LAW did not wish to oppose any difficulty to the wish
of the House, and would withdraw his motion.
The motion was then withdrawn.
BANKRUPTCY AND INSOLVENCY BILL.
On the motion of Sir J. GRAHAM, the second reading
of this Bill was postponed for a fortnight.
ART-UNIONS BILL.
The Committee on this Bill was also adjourned for a fort-
night, on the motion of the Right Hon. Baronet.
CORRESPONDING SOCIETIES AND LEC

_
ROOMS BILL.
On the motion of Sir J. GRAHAM, this Bill was read a
second time.

ELECTION NOTICES BILL.

The House went into Committee on this Bill, and it was
ordered to be reported on this day (Wednesday') fortnight.
ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.
The House then went into Committee upon this Bill.
A few verbal amendments were moved and agreed to on
clauses 1 and 2.
Mr. LAW then moved the addition of the following
clause :—(Power to award hard labour, and the costs of
the prosecution in all cases.)—" And whereas it is expe-
dient to give to Criminal Courts the power to award
hard labour as a portion of the punishment inflicted on
offenders convicted before them, and also to give to
such Courts the power of allowing reasonable costs in
all cases prosecuted or tried before them ; therefore, be it
enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Court before which
any offender shall be convicted of any misdemeanour, to sen-
tence (if such Court shall see fit) such offender to be kept
to hard labour, either in the common gaol or house of
correction, for the whole or any part of the term for
which such Court is now by law authorised to direct
such offender to be imprisoned, and to direct (if it shall see
fit) the costs of the prosecutor, and witnesses for the prosecu-
tion, in all cases of misdemeanour, to be paid in the same
manner and under the same regulations as the costs in
certain cases of misdemeanour are directed to be paid by the
statute passed in the seventh year of the reign of his late
Majesty King: George the Fourth, intituled An Act for
improving the Administration of Criminal Justice in
England."'

Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that the clause proposed by
his Hon. Friend was a very important one. He looked with
very great jealousy to any extension of the powers to the
criminal courts in the manner proposedrby the clause. It
required great consideration before they came to any decision
on so important a change as the clause contemplated. He
could not say he was quite prepared to oppose the clause
until he had heard the reasons of his Hon. Friend.

Mr. LAW explained that the clause was merely an exten-
sion of the powers contained in sec. 63, chap. 74, of the Act
of George IV. He knew of several instances of aggravated
assault, which had been very inadequately punished, in con-
sequence of the provisions contained in the 7th George IV.
not meeting the case. By the present law, in cases of con-
spiracy and of assault, the parties who brought the criminals
to justice were not allowed the expenses of the prosecution.
This has been the subject of animadversion day :after day
for years, and it had not yet been remedied. The object of
his clause was to give the criminal courts the power of
awarding reasonable costs in all cases prosecuted or tried
before them.

Sir J. GRAHAM should feel greatly obliged if his Hon.
Friend would withdraw his clause for the present, and pro-
pose it again on the bringing up of the report. This would
give him time to consider the matter, and as it was a very
important subject, the clause should not at this moment be
pressed.
Mr. LAW consented to the postponement of his clause
until the bringing up of the report.
After a few words from Mr. F. EGERTON,

Mr. BODKIN was perfectly willing to agree to any post-
ponement of the clause, as it would give further time for the
consideration of the matter.

Mr. J. JERVIS thought that the powers proposed in the
clause of his lion. Friend would be dangerous in the hands
of the judges.
Mr.GRAINGER was of a similar opinion. With regard to
the first clause, he agreed that too much power was placed
at the disposal of magistrates with respect to cases of mis-
demeanours, and therefore he thought it should be altered.
With regard to the others, he should be contented that they
should remain as they were.
After a few words from Colonel SIBTHORPE,

Mr. LiklV would be glad to receive the suggestions of
llon. and Learned Gentlemen opposite as to the particular
cases which should be exempted from this clause.
Mr. HENLEY objected to the introduction of the word
" conspiracy." They ought to define the particular crime
intended by the term, as at present it was altogether too
vague, and would lead to abuses.

Mr. B. ESCOTT would wish that the particular costs in
particular cases shouk be specified.

The claim was then withdrawn.
The House resumed, and the report was ordered to be
brought up this day week.
The House then adjourned. '

CHESTER RACES.
TUESDAY NIGHT, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

The Plate race, left undecided when our report left, was
won in three heats by Captain Harcourt's The Druid, 3 yrs,
beating flighfield, Hetman Platoff colt, Felix, and Chartzt.

LATEST BETTING.
The only changes in the Cap betting are:-
14 to 1 agst Sweetmeat
15 to 1 agst Clumsy
17 to 1 agst Vitula—taken
20 to 1 agst Vol-au-Vent
25 to 1 agst Inheritress—taken
25 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger
30 to 1 agst St. Lawrence
50 to 1 agst Ruff
50 to 1 agst Queen of Tyne
1000 to 15 agst Crim. Con.

THE WEST INDIA WAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, HALF FAST TWELVE.

The Royal Mail steam-ship Medway, Captain W. S. An-
drews, arrived this morning at 11 o'clock, with the usual
West India and Mexican mails, and the large number of 109
passengers.

She also brings an extensive and valuable freight. The
amount of dollars for the dividends is only 46,000; viz.
36,000 from Vera Cruz, and 10,000 from Tampico.
The latest dates brought by the Medway are—Tampico,
22d of March ; Vera Cruz, let of April ; Havannab, 10th of
April ; Honduras, 20th of March ; Chagres, 28th ; Jamaic',
April 8 ; Carthage, March 30 ; Demerara, April 3 ; Trinidad,
sth ; Barbadoes, Bth ; Grenada, 9th ; St. Thomas, 14th ; La
Guayra, 7th ; Bermuda, 22d.

The principal freights brought by the Medway consists of
289,580 dollars, including 36,003 from Vera Crnz on account
of the Mexican' dividends; 10,000 from Tampico on ac-
count of the Mexican dividends ; 2201. 2s. 6d. British coin ;
420,603 dollars in gold dust and gold ; 4 boxes Vanilla ;
24 serous of Jalapa ; 52 boxes and packages plants ; 59
serons of cochineal; 115 cases and boxes cigars; 138 bales
tobacco ; 94 turtle, for Nassau ; 38 cases preserved turtle ;
1 package aloes ; 52 ditto sundries ; 6570 z. gold ; 7500 z.
silver; and 121 b. platina.
There is no particular news of importance by this arrival,
either from the West Indies or from Mexico.

RA HAT A Y COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)

GROUP IV T.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
PERTH AND INVERNESS.

Irr. Hora then proceeded to open the case fur the promoters of
this line, *lid remarked in the outset that there appeared to be an
impression on the minds of the Committee that the parties were not
otstrttct anxious
to
make their line, and had merely brought it forward to
the progress of parties - also, they are ready, and willing,
The Cal....mem said the
and prepared to make a line. '
Committee could not shut out from their
I:hceatillt been presented by the
consideration the fact, that
onMlyrs.ollooschEarseasidatnhdathoweitous
shareholders against the line
petition, representing
of the shareholders were in favour of the scheme,itt that the majority
ever, for that preliminary point, and now for the go
gents
much,
, line. Now, the Committee must bear in mind Use fact, that the f that
sent district was open and free for the introduction of railways, Pend-
. their decision would therefore settle in what route the traffic for all
time should pass. Most of the schemes which had lately come be-
fore the Legislature the Committee must remember had been
brought forward for correcting mistakes in • this respect, and it be-
idanael:suitinsrtielBn:
hoved the Committee to be careful not to select a line which
might hereafter be 'found not sufficient to accommodate the dis-
tricts. The line he represented followed the old Highland road
from Inverness to Nairn, and ran on, after a short detour in a direct
line to Perth, one of the first market towns in Scotland. Aberdeen
was a port of comparatively minor importance, but lately
it
had secured for itself a monopoly of 'theeastern and
western traffic, anti ~the Great North of Scotland line
was only promoted to propitiate that traffic, and
if it was carried, a tax in the shape of dues to the extent of 30,0001.
a year, would be imposed on the North of Scotland. why was this,
when they had this: glaring fact; before them, that by the
Great North of Scotland the traffic going to Perth would have to go
round de
tour of 63 mil:es. Ile contended that the traffic
al
of the seven counties lying to the north of the Marry
aFrith was infinitely of
greater importance than the
the control of all the
traffic to the east or the south, nd, therefore,
traffic of these districts ought to be placed in the hands of the Perth
and Inverness Company. There was sufficient eastern traffic
to support the
Great North Line, but the control over the
working of these lines ought to be in the hands of the
through Company. Now the through line would shorten the distance
for all the northern traffic 67 miles, and some of the local traffic 22
miles; and this they could accomplish for 1,750,0001., being only
250,0001. more than the estimate of the Great North of Scotland line.
Besides shortening the distance to the extent he bad mentioned, there
would be better stations at Nairn, Banff, and Inverness, while the
line would be so laid out as to facilitate future extensions to the
north. The gradients on the line he should show were in no way ob •
jectionable, and he was sure the Committee, after hearing all the
evidence he should produce, would decide in favour the Perth and In-
verness line.
Mr. Joseph Mitchell, engineer of the roads through which the
proposed line would pass, a gentleman who laid out the Scottish Cen-
trallled Pr vi to 1843, he had
Railway, was the first witness ca . e ons
directed
it's attention to ascertain whether it was practicable to
make a line of railway between Perth and Inverness. He had com-
municated with most of the influential parties in the north,
and they were most anxious,
having experienced the inconvenience
of going round by Aberdeen, to have such a line. Accordingly, for
line, and alter
the purpose of making a survey of such a many sur-
veys the present line was decided upon. The works along the whole
line consisted almost entirely of gravel and sand. There were all
the materials for making the line, exeept the iron. The worst gra-
dient was 1 in 70, for eight miles, two furiongs, and six chains.
There would be no difficulty in working it. Ills surveys,
and estimates had been revised by Mr. Locke and another gentleman
of eminence. The length of the main line was 125 miles 4 furlongs
and 5 chains, of the branch by Nairn to Kildrummie four miles 3 fur.
lonlgosand 5 chains, and of the branch to the harbour of Inverness, 4
n gs, making in all 130 miles four furlongs. The estimated cost
, I the main line and branches was 1,400,0001. Neither on the
tr.iai Lag nor branches are tiler giu difil ulti 0 0n tering o a* . Wore was

only one tunnel, viz.,
v
There was also a at Birnam-hill, near Dunkeld, 425 yards in length.
iaduct, 484 yards in length, at Kindrochit, four
miles above Blair.tori asThoefbreivderyges odnesothrieptlilloine
fordo nthoteirinveroolvoetiohn arc
works, and ma
found in the immediate neighbourhood. The principal part of the
earthwork WM of a very favourable character, consisting almost
wholly of gravel and sand. It was proposed that ground
should be taken and the whole works constructed for a
double line, and that the railway for twenty-two miles eut
of Inverness, and for eight miles: through the valley of Athol,
where a steep gradient:occurred, should be laid with double rails.
The gradients were of a favourable character, little, if at all, inferior
to those of the Caledonian Railway, which, as a through com-
munication from Edinburgh and Glasgow to Liverpool, Manchester,
and London, received the sanction of Parliament last year. From
Inverness, for the first 15 miles, the steepest gradient was 1 in 330 ;
from that point the line passed along the inclines of 1 in 84 for 7 miles
1 furlong 8 chains ; from thence it ascends 1 inloo for 2 miles 1 chain ;
it then ascends 1 in 144 for 1 mile 1 furlong ; it then descends 1 in 330
for 1 mile 1 furlong 2 chains. These gradients had been proved to
admit of being worked with facility, and the increasing improve-
ments in the construction of locomotives were calculated to neutra-
lise the disadvantages which were formerly anticipated from difficult
gradients. The line has been selected after the most:anxious survey
of the country, and is submitted as the best, as well as the most direct
line that can be laid down between the south and north of Scotland.
The Great North of Scotland line as it approaehed Inverness a as
several lines below the surface of the sea, and he for one did not
think It could be made for the estimate which had been sent.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock till twelve to-morrow.