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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1546.

of every freeman, the power of selling in the dearest
and buying in the cheapest market. Englishmen are
not deficient in any of the qualities calculated to
ensure success, in a free and open competition, and
the experience of past years fully proves that in every I
instance in which the experiment has been tried it haz
been eminently and entirely successful. Another
reason also might have influenced their Lordships in
their newly acquired zeal. By the invariable prac-
tice of more than 200 years, the entire legislation on
Money Bills, Bills of Supply, and of Customs, has
been vested in the Commons House of Parliament;
this practice has been founded on the well recognised
principle, that the people can only be taxed
.
by or through their representatives. It es
to the strict and invariable observance of
this undoubted privilege of the Commons
that their power is chiefly owing, and that we are
indebted to some of the most valuable enactments of I
modern times. The greatest jealousy has ever existed
as to any, the slightest interference, by the other
branch of the Legislature therewith, and any Bill of
this description, receiving any alteration or amend-
ment in the Lords, is, as a matter of course, rejected
by the Commons on its return to their House
Thus, the amendments recently carried to Lord
HARDINGE and Lord Goeetes Annuity Bills, will,
unless their Lordships reconsider their decision, have
the same effect as if they had rejected the measures.
Their only
power is that of affirmation or
negation. it; then, the monopolists had suc-
' "'led in obtaining a majority on any of the
points they brought forward, it would have
had the effect of destroying the entire measure.
The Duke of RICHMOND led the assault. His Grace's
first attempt was solely for the purpose of delay ;
it was founded on a petition from the Spitalfields
weavers, praying to be beard by counsel at
the bar of the House again ;t the repeal of
the duty on foreign silks. Had the motion
been carried, much delay and inconvenience
would necessarily have teen the consequence. How
would it have been possible to have refused the same
privilege to any other trade affected by the Bill ? The
speech of the counsel employed would not be the
only thing their Lordships would have bad to hear.
To make such a speech in any degree valuable, it
would be necessary to examine witnesses in support of
the statements made; and it would be impossible to say
to what length the proceedings would go, or when they
would terminate. Practically there would have been an
nd to any legislation on the subject during the session.
ord DALuousru pointed out the true distinction
between the present case and those which had been
adduced as precedents for the application. These
I cases were when some particular trades or interests
were to be affected by some special measure, but this
was a general measure only, incidentally affecting
the petitioners as well as a great number of
other individuals. The proposal was finally rejected,
; but by a very narrow majority, and by the votes of
proxies, a practice which we confess we do not regard
with a favourable eye, however satisfactory its result
might have been in the present instance. If, however,
the practice is to be tolerated, we think the occasion a
perfectly legitimate one for its exercise. Last night
the various clauses were gone through in detail, and
'although amendments were proposed and divisions taken
on many points, we are happy to say that the Bill was
finally reported without amendments. It will, we
suppose, receive the royal assent at the same time
with the Corn Importation Bill, and the cause of free-
trade will be triumphant. True it is, that the Bill as
it stands is not all we could have wished for, but it is a
step in the right direction; and we have little doubt
that the experience of its good effects will speedily
lead to the further and entire carrying out of the
principles on which it is founded, and the removal of
the anomalies in the present Bill, alluded to by Lord
DALHOUSIE.

the projected cocklofts of the new Houses of Parlia-
ment ; conceiving, as we do, that these papers should
not be regarded as subordinate matters, and as mere
materials for filling the unused bins of a wine cellar,
but rather as the most costly relics of our national
antiquity in the possession of the Government. We
shall, therefore, look with contiderable interest to
the Committee proposed by Mr. CHARLES BULLER.

It is said that the Austrian Government has refused
to accede to the proposition of the King of SARDINIA,
to submit the commercial differences between the two
States to the arbitration of a third power, but has
expressed a wish that a commission should be appointed
to arrange these differences.

By a decree issued on the 6th inst., by the King of
the "Two Sicilies, a reduction] of 15 per cent. is made
in the import duties upon foreign merchandise brought
into the kingdom by the port of Brindisi, and intro-
duced at Beece, Barri, Foggea, Campo Basso, and
Chieli. In other provinces the reduction is 10 per
cent., except at Naples and Palermo, where it is only 2
per cent.

The King of SAXONY prorogued the Assembly of the
States on the 17th. In the course of his speech front
the throne, his Majesty, after expressing his regret that
greater progress bad not been made in the measures for
reforming the criminal law, said that he was disposed
to admit the principles of publicity in the prcceediegs of
the Court, but that at the same time he felt the necessity
of proceeding with caution.

Madrid papers of the 17th have been received. Their
contents are unimportant. It is said that the Mad:id
and Barcelona Railway is to be commenced imme-
diately. _ _

M3DRID BOMA, JUNE 17.—Threes quoted at 33i fur
cash.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday. The
speech of Sir ROBERT PEEL on Friday is the subject of
comment in almost all these journals, and they are
nearly all unanimous in acknowledging it to be a pow-
erful display of eloquence and reason, which must pro-
duce a favourable effect on his position. The Journal
des Dauts devotes three columns to the review of the
labours of the French Chambers during the session ;
and the National has a long article on the subject of the
United States and Mexico. We extract the following
from the Epoque .

If his intentions be carried into operation, Mr.
CHARLES BULLER may be entitled to some portion
of the renown attached to HOLLINSHED, STOWE,
HUME, and LINGARD, inasmuch as he will have been
instrumental in preserving from oblivion some of the
most precious relics of our national history. There
is, indeed, a very peculiar importance in the motion
brought forward yesterday evening by the Hon.
Member for Liskeard ; and a motion, moreover, which
comes upon us with additional pleasure, as one alto.
;ether divested of party recrimination, and wholly
incripable of eliciting invei3tive. It is simply a zi:o- i
position that a Select Committee be appointed
to consider and report on the best means
of providing a General Record-office, as a suitable
repository for the public records of Englani
and 'Wales. And when it is remembered that these
most invaluable documents, constituting, according
to the expressive language of the Deputy Keeper of
the Records, " a series unequalled for antiquity, for
extent, for continuity, and for the information which
they afford," are scattered through a variety of public
edifices, wholly inappropriate for their reception; when
it is remembered that a vast bulk of them are actually
"lumbered" away into the dilapidated riding-school
of old Carlton house, as though so much cumbersome
rubbish ; that others again are squeezed (without
any reference to their safety or their symmetry of ar-
rangement) into the White Tower of the Tower
of London, immediately above the vaults appropriated
by the Master-General of Ordnance as a gunpowder
magazine, and that the remainder are involved in a
complication of dangers from accidental destruction
in the Westminster Chapter-house, the Rolls' Chapel,
and the Beauchamp, or Wakefield Tower, it will be
readily acknowledged that these inestimable treasures
hold- their existence by a wonderfully precarious te- 1
nue. To the bibliographer, the bookworm, and the
historian, the arrangement proposed by the Hon. and
i Learned Member for Liskeard would prove of the most
inconceivable advantage; it would enable that laudable
fraternity to collate occurrences with more scrupulous
accuracy thanheretofore : it would save a large amount
of unnecessary pedestrianism between Westminster and
Chancery-lane, and would, moreover, facilitate in
every possible manner the compilation of copious his-
torical commentaries. Had these jumbled and diffused
records teen thus parcelled out and accumulated in a
single structure, Mr. CARLYLE might much more
readily have pulverized DRYASDUST, and we might
long since have obtained the still unpublished lucu-
brations of Mr. MACAULAY. But, looking at the
matter in its most comprehensive and generalised
light, it
.becomes one of the most signal neces •
sity to us, as lovers of our country, as cherishers
of our history as a people, as advocates of the
diffusion of civilization, and as a race

" We learn from a certain source that the Austrian Ambas-
sador at London, who also is the representative of Florenc:e,
has refused to grant a passport to Prince Louis Napoleon for
Tuscany. The Austrian Ambassador declares that from the
moment Prince Louis made his escape from the citadel of
Ham he could not, without being wanting in consideration
for the French Government, facilitate the Prince's journey to
Italy without a special authority from the Grand Duke of
Tuscany. He therefore has recommended the Prince to
apply direct to the Grand Duke fur permission to go to Flo-
rence and visit his sick father."

A letter from Constantina of the 13th says:—" Colonel
Eynard has had to repulse two vigorous attacks by the
Hamouchas. One was on the 9th, the other on the 11th.
In the litter he killed about 120 of the enemy, burnt their
villages, and carried off their corn. The sth regiment of
Hussars suffered severely. It is said to have lost in one
charge 25 men and horses."
PARIS BOURSE, JuNr. 22.—The market has been again
very dull to-day, and from the small amount of business
transacted, the prices may be almost considm•ed
nominal :—Threes at 83f. 15c., and Fives 120 f.
55c. for end of month. In the Coulisse, after the
Bourse, prices were a shade lower. The market closed as
follows :—Three per Cents. for Cash, 831. 10c.; for Account,
83f. 15c.; Five per Cents. for Cash, 120 f. 50c. ; for Account,
120 f. 55c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,4801.; Neapolitan,
102 f. 130 c... Spanish not quoted. New Loan, 83f. sc.
RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has been depressed
throughout the day, and at the close prices were again a
shade lower. For Cash—Paris and Orleans left off at
1,24'4.. 75e. ; Paris and Rouen, 1.015 f. ; Avignon, 880 f. ;
Strasbourg and Bale, 218 f. 75c. ; Northern, 730 ; Bordeaux,
€921. 50c. ; Monterean, 375 f. •, Paris and Lyons, 563 t. 25c.;
Paris and Strasbourg, 500 f. ; Nantes, 512 f. • Havre, Vierzon,
Boulogne, Fampoux, and Dieppe, not quoted.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 23.

Boulogne and Amiens, 147,—Louvain and Jetnappe, —Luxem-
bourg. I% —Northern of France Constituted, 1314—Paris and Lyons
Constituted, %—Satubre and Meuse, 4%.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before the LORD CHIEN' BARON and
Special Juries.)
FaCHARDSON V. DOYLE.

Mr. Knowles, with whom was Mr. Symon, appeared for
the plaintiff; and Mr. Jervis, with Mr. Bayley, for the de-
fendant.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a bookseller,
living in Cornhill, against defendant, who is the editor of the
Morning Chronicle, under the following circumstances: It ap-
peared that defendant in 1843 received a letter from Mr. Scott,
the Indian correspondent of the Morning Chronicle at Cal-
cutta, requesting him to go to Mr. Richardson, and to order
the magazines and certain newspapers to be; sent to Mr.
Saunders of the Agra (Indian) newspaper, a gree-
ablyto the wish of the latter. In consequence of that
letter, ~the defendant gave the order as requested.
' It appeared the order was attended to; and in December
1841, plaintiff made out his account iu the name of Saunders,
and sent it to the defendant for settlement. Defendant then
wrote to say that he had nothing to do with the account,
that he had only delivered the order at the request of the A.
correspondent, who acted in the matter at the in-
stance of Mr. Sau.nderi, and that consequently ha
was not liable. Notwithstanding the plaintif continued to
supply the magazines, &c., for four months longer, and the
present action was brought for the amount of the account
thus become due.

...„
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 46/ 118.31.

ELECTION OF StiEktIFFS.
(THIS DAY.)
This being the day appointed for the annual nomination of
Sheriffs, and other officers, at twelve o'clock the Hall had
become densely crowded with liverymen. At the exterior of
the hall were large placards with the names of Alderman
Challis, R. W. Kennard, Esq., J. Walter, Esq., and Thomas
Thornton, Esq.,-for sheriffs. Prior to the business commene-
ing, another placard was posted intimating that Messrs.
Walter and Thornton's names had been posted without their
authority. At one o'clock the Lord Mayor and civic
authorities appeared on the platform, and the Common Hall
having been opened by the crier,
The RECOADZU briefly addressed the Hall.
A list of names was then read over by the COMMON SER-
GRANT. The names of Messrs. Walter ( Times) and Thorn-
ton were received with a general hissing, but on the con-
trary, those of Mr. Alderman Challis and R. W. Kennard,
Esq., caused very general applause.
he show of hands was declared to be in favour of the two
latter gentlemen, who, as no poll was demanded, were de-
clared duly elected.
The remaining business having been disposed of, the hall
was dissolved.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

I.ONDON, JUNE 24.—WInd S.W., light airs, and cloudy.
PoRT3IIOUTIL, JUNE 23 —Wind W.N.W., fresh breezes.— Arrd.
her Majesty's ship Pique, Bermuda.
Covas, JUNE 23.—Wind W., squally.—Arrd. Otto, Boos, Bahia ;
Barrington, Barton, Havannah.
PLYMOUTH:, JuNE 22. Wind W. by N.—Arrd. Hope, Turner, Pata-
gonia, for Hull, part of cargo thrown overboard.
HoLltixan, JUNE 21.—Arrd. Success, Morris, Caernarvon, for
trang ford, leaky.
Coax, JUNE 21.—Wind S.E. fresh breeze.—Arr.l. British Queen,
Hogan, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off, Mars, Currie, Windsor,
Nova Scotia.
On, Tim SEVEN HEADS —Columbine, Calcutta.
ZEAL, JUNE 23.—The Malorina, Beer, of Waterford, for the Baltic,
got on shore on the Goodwin this morning, In thick weather, was as-
sisted off, and proceeded without apparent damage.
LEITU ROADS, JUNE 21.—The Clara Maria, Schneiders, Crange-
month, to Stettin, sprang a leak yesterday, off May Island, put Into
Leith, and must discharge.
H AIM wit, JUNE 23.—The Hopeful, smith, of and from London for
AlliStardam, was assisted in here to-day, very leaky, having sprung a
leak In the Stein this morning.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY.

The supply of English Wheat on sale was very limited, but of Rill
average quality. Although the attendance of buyers was small
selected parcels moved off steadily at full prices, hut all other kinds
were meglected. Foreign Wheat, free as well as in bond, was in good
request, and previous rates were well supported. In Barley a mo-
derate business was doing, while Malt was quite as dear. The show
of Oats was again very small, owing to which the Oat trade was
firm. and the currencies had iu some instances an upward tendency.
Beans, yeas, and Flour, firm at late rates.

" who speak the tongue
That Shakspere spake,"
to perpetuate every vestige of those public documents
in which the deeds of our ancestors, even as far back
as the thirteenth century, are recorded. It is a
trust for which we are responsible to our
posterity, and for the partial removal of
which we opine the Master of the Rolls would not be
entirely
ungrateful—by the construction of a separate
15'111'11'1g for their reception, and in which
Zed?y ! Individual
_idolual paper might be duly classi-
moment,
ttati4ne records remain at the present
are the extremest jeo-
pardy; through a thousandin
annihilation_ seems t, I,4aver nooksan. and crannies
They are bundled into out-of..the_wgamg over them.
ng propinquity with fire.Levleossetts in the
inceEnntly defaced by the ravages of mildew,hey are
most alarming
caked over with the (lusts and cobvieb,, of and
nina an antiquary m an-
tiquity. Some mor , ay wend
Carlton- gardens, for the pur-
his way towards 0
Some protocol among the MSS.pose of congulting some
i
and discover, to his constern.,.t ,on , that the entire of
the records hare been involved, duringa the night : in a
Paper building It
• s. '
'sitastrophe similar to that of f‘
is really d!ztreasing and intolerable to consider how
much these documents are dependent upon a casual
atom of tinder ; the more so, as an accident
to them would be utterly irreparable. From
Mr. BULLER'S Committee we may, however, antici-
pate the substitution of Some remedy, and the con-
struction of some edifice, worthy of containing the
real history of Great Britain, a structure in which
the public records might be ranged in consecutive
order, And entirely removed from danger by
fire-proof precautions. We are not now speaking of a
mere magere de =venom", but one of positive, and
scarcely calculable itnportanee. indeed, so impressed
are we with this consideration, that we are verily
rejoiced that, what with Mr. BA.uaT'e diago-
nal roof. beam, Ana'
...11r. Rain's Very flatulent
machinery, the public reoorcta viTte Doi ::nloyed to
...... _ .

The Corn Lupo- ,ttie
ion having virtually passed I
through the House of Lords, the protectionist Peers
turned their attention to tbie Customs Duties Bill,
and sought IA every respect, and ,
. I
by "every means,"
to delay and embarrass the Government, and to pre-
vent the country from receiving the tun benefit of
brought forward
the enlightened policy the
Ministry. The agriculturrsts were not satisfied
with the unavailing efforts made by them to continue
the ;n=ation on the nation's food, but they put them-
nt
uing
seives forward as the defenders of the m factor
an
oly
population. They are such arde lovers o
f monop
that tlvlt are anxious to sustain it in every particular.
They are well aware that the various reductions and
alterations formed a part of one great and compre-
hensive whole, dud that any change as to an
isolated portion must
_he regarded, not merely
gs try its effects in that single . instance, I
but as' to the entire measure. krotection might
be taken away from some trades, _ but a corre-
uponiing benefit is given to them in the other redue.
Cons thereby contemplated. ft i; a r,icely_Fi„d
and well-balar.eed plan, in which the taking away of 1,
even one single link murt be injurious to the general
Working .f the whole. If the changes proposed were
e-,-.9r to he oartied into effect, no thne could
,o proper for the purpr,se es the present,
when the entire Syatem of our commercial relations
w;th countries is about to iindergo
a e;langeprodoctive of the greatest advantages to all
clasw.- - The system of protection has, we "trust, been
finally amt for ever abandoned; the wise-r and better
plan of pan:pitting every trade to be free and unfettered
by any restriction has taken its place. Henceforward
every man -must trust to his own skill and industry ;
the atroogeet motives are applied for his saertions, for
while an the one hand he natist trust entirely to those
exertions, unassisted and unpro4cted, on the other
bawl, he is assured that no vexatious; interference
1,111 prevent hie obtaining full employment for his
infitistr,- be will pots - ess that which is the birthright )

AnmvALs.
Wheat. Barley.
English .• •• •• 1.930 qrs. 850 qrs. 3,l7oatgers• I 1,1111°0u:it.
[rich
rureign .. • • • 7,630
Malt, 2,760 ors.

9,300

THE SUN, _LONDON, IV'EDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1846.

satisfactory than those received by the last opportunity. Still
the stocks of British manufactured goods were large, and the
money, comparatively speaking, rather tight.
In ie Consol Market there has been a considerable degree
of business displayed to-day. For the Account the price
has Leen reduced to 943. The Reduced Three per Cents.
have receded in the same proportion as Consols. The pre-
mium upon Exchequer -bills, after having reached 145., again
receded to Ps. Bank Stock is also lower, resliaing but 205.
East India Bends are at 18s. premium, and the New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. are at 96
The only bargains in the Foreign -Funds this morning have
bean these :—ln Mexican, at 27% ; in Portuguese Four per
Cents., at 4914 / ; in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
at Wye ; and in the Four per Cents., at 924.
A good deal of business has been transacted in the Railway
Shares and Scrips to-day, but we cannot report any improve.
ment ; on the contrary, the market is upon the whole heavy.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSINt:
O'CLOCK.
•• 235 y,, 205 205

would agree to the motion, which he considered a most rea-
sonable application.
Mr. WILLIAMS said it was not a matter of negligence on
the part of the electors which disfranchised them, it was
often the want of means to pay the collector the moment
he called. The short time given to pay was a matter of the
greatest inconvenience to the greater number of electors of this
country ; and be could not see the objection to grant an
additional three months. In his own case, he could say that
it was the practice of the collector to leave the paper and not
call again until the time had elapsed for payment, in order to
secure the franchise. He would therefore propose that the
House would go into Committee on the Bill.
Mr. B. ESCOTT supported the motion. There was one
thing which was much in its favour, as it would tend to
do away with bribery, which very much prevailed in the
payment of these taxes, in order to qualify for the franchise.
He considered, therefore, that it was a step in the right
direction; the House had already sanctioned several altera
tions in the Reform Bill, and he therefore hoped that the
House would go into Committee, and hear the objections
which might be made against it in detail.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM said he would extend the
usual courtesy to this Bill, and permit it to go into
Committee, if he thought that any of his objections to it
could be there removed. He considered that there could beno
better test for the franchise than that of property and solvency.
Ile could not consent to extend the period beyond three
months. He next came to the last point, about the mode of
paying the rates. The Hon. Gentleman who introduced the
Bill, said he was not prepared with any plan on the subject
now, but that when the Bill went into Committee
he would be ready with a provision. He (Sir
James Graham) thought the matter ought to have
been met now, as a point of considerable importance. He
contended that there ought to be a payment of rates, or a
tender of payment ; it was not sufficient that a claim
to pay was preferred. He thought the teats of the Re-
form Bill, which had been objected to, were excellent
provisions to secure the proper working of the mea
sure, and he could not consent to their relaxation or
abrogation. As he wished to maintain the Reform Bill in
its integrity, he could not consent to the measure before the
House.

Sir
r G. GREY said the question before the House was only
one in degree, and he supported the alteration proposed be-
cause the present rate-paying clauses had been found very
restrictive and oppressive. Were they to decide that there
was never to be any alteration in the Reform Bill ? He
hoped such a principle would not be entertained by the
House, but wherever they found any portion of that measure
which did not work Well, they' would be prepared to support
a remedy.
Mr. IIERNAI could not agree with the Right Hon.
Gentleman/ (Sir Junes Graham) that the rate- paying
clauses of the Reform Bill should not be touched,
or that they worked well. It was well known that in the
parish of St. John's more than three months after passed
over before the collector of rates called, yet though the
parties might be perfectly solvent and able to pay, according
to the doctrine of the Right Hon. Gentleman, they must run
after the collector in order to pay him, or else be disfranchised.
Mr. HENLEY supported the views taken by the Right
Hon. Gentleman (the Attorney-General). He thought that
great confusion would arise were they to extend the period
beyond three months. Parties would get into debt for rates,
and not have that inducement to pay them which they had
now, when it was provided they should do so in order to get
enfranchised.— ( I-1 ea r, hear.)
Colonel SIBTHORP had heard the objections against
the Bill urged by the Right Honourable Baronet, the
at present Secretary for the Home Department
(Laughter)--and he must admit there was some force
in them. He did not think the Bill before the House
necessary or desirable, as some principle must be laid down to
regulate the right of voting ; and he thought the three
months' ratepaying clause of the Reform Bill sufficiently
lenient. If a division took place he was sorry he should be
under the necessity of going into the same lobby as those
Right: Hon. Gentlemen—(Laughter)—(alluding to Sir IL
Peel and Sir J. Graham, who were sitting together on the
Ministerial Bench).
Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE supported the Bill. He wished
to know why there should be a difference between a county
and a borough elector. There were no rate-pa) ing
clauses relating to the qualification of county voters,
yet that did not amount to universal suffrage. He
considered the borough electors quite as respectable as 501.
tenants-at will, and he thought it invidious that rate-paying
res rictions should be imposed on the one and not on the
other. He was against all restrictions of a rate-paying cha-
racter. He went much further in his views than the present
Bill, still he would support it. He must say, the manner in
which the present Bill had been received showed that tits
House was as much opposed to an extension of popular rights
as ever it was.
Mr. NVALBOLE shortly addressed the House against the
second reading of the Bill. He thought the law as it stood
liberal and fair enough.
Mr. P. HOWARD thought they ought not to pass such a
Bill at that late period of the session, or till the sense of the
country was taken on it. He must, therefore, under the cir-
cumstances, vote against the second reading of the Bill.
Sir DE LACY EVANS replied in support of the Bill. He
denied that the Bill was a violation of the Reform Act. In-

stead of being so, its object was to carry but more eflectively
the inteif tions of that law.

The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading of the Bill
Against it 94
Majority against it —4l
The Bill is consequently lost.
(LEFT SITTING.)

RAILW A Y COMMIT EES.

(1 HIS DA Y.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room
CAMBRIDGE .&ND OXFORD.

Their Lordships met this morning at eleven o'clock, Lord Morn.
ington in the chair, and proceeded with the ease of the promoters.
Lord Bardwicke gave general evidence in favour of the line, ch.
serving that, as ft resident in the country through which the line
passed, be had every opportunity of forming an opinion. Great ad-
vantages would result from the formation of this line.
Mr. George Wedd gave evidence as to the advantages to the
bonnet trade ut Lutou that would result front the formation of this

The CHAIRMAN expressed his opinion that this was quite enough
evidence as to the inicessity for and advantages that uould result
frrin a ruilw.ty communication with Luton, if:.t as one of the Noole
Lords disagreed with him the room was cleared, acd on our re-ad-
mission, the Committee decided that there was sufficient evidence as
regarded Luton, hut on the representation of counsel that there was
some evidence as In the cattle traffic, which was considered im•
portant, it was agreed that it should be heard.
air. Kinsley, a farmer and grazier of llitchln, gave evidence as to
the cattle traffic between Cambridge and Luton, and other places on
this line.

Room B.

GLASGOW, SARRHBAD, AND NEILSTON
(PAISLEY BRANCH).

Their Lordships met at eleven this morning; Lord Roden, chairman.
It being announced that the case for the promoters of the Bill
was concluded,

Mr. WAKELING opened the case en the part of the Glasgow, Kil-
tnarnock, and Ayr Company, opposing the Bill. Be proceeded to call
witnesses to prove that the principal and almost the o:;ly traffic
between the places this line proposed to accommodate was the mine-
ral traffic (coal, &v.), and that this railway would not give a suffi-
cient accommodation to that traffic.

Mr. Campbell (who was the first witness called) and Mr. Coates
gave their opinion that if the line were made, it would not be used
for the coal traffic ; they themselves would not use it.

IMPORTANT DECISI JN.
Room 6.

The Committee met this morning, at eleven o'clock, Lord Ilard.
wlcke in the chair.

EAST AND WEST irosursaini: TUNCTION
(KNAILESBOROUGE TO TORE).
Mr. BAtrixs, with whom was Mr Knowles, opened the merits of
the line, and called Lord Ilarewood and Mr. Dent, who spoke to the
necessity which still existed in the district for Intsrconnnunication.
At the desire of the Committee Mr. Thomas Grainger, engineer
of this line, and also of the Leeds and Thirsk line, was
called, who stated that there existed a chasm in the rail-
way accommodation In the neighbourhood of Knaresborough,
that a person going from Knaresborough to York would
have to drive or walk four miles to Cripple Mills, on the Church Fen-
ton line ; and although the Leeds and Thirsk line came neat to the
Church Fenton line, the latter was 48 feet above the level of the
others, so that no Junction could be formed between them.
It was stated in evidence that the line was supported by low-fifths
of the landowners on it.

lir. Buss appeared to oppose it on the part of nine proprietors on
the route.

But the Committee, after having the room cleared, considered that
no residential injury was done, and that it would be unnecessary to
enter into the que.tion of traffic, as the line was supported hy so
large a number of the proprietors, the Chairman expressing it as his
opinion, that it would be one of tae best lines iu the district, beating
the others hollow.

The room was again cleared,
The CIiAIIIMAN told the parties when re-admitted that the Bill
had passed the Committee without amendment, and would be re-
ported on to the House.

ROL a.. OE
GROUT 11.

The Select Committee appointed to consider the meths of the Bills
comprised in this group re .assembled at the I.sual hour this morning,
Lord _Nlorpeth in the chair.
SOUTH DEVON EXTENSIONS.

The Committee decided this morning that the preamble to this
Bill had beta proved, so tar as the Dartmouth, Sutton Pool, :NMl-
bay, and Newbasset branches were concerned, but not proved as re-
garded the Plymouth and Tavlstock branch.
The Committee then proceeded with the consideration of the
clauses. The whole of them were agreed to with some trifling
amendments, and the Chairman was directed to report the Bill ac-
cordingly.