The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-06 00:00:00

GLOUCESTER,

The object of the proposed Bill is to connect those towns with the
branches of the Great Weston Rath, ay. 'the length of the whole
line as originally contemplated would be a, out seventy miles, but
we nderstand that it is intended to with trim part of the project.
which N, ould greatly dimmish the length of the line, and ►educe the
estimated cost lions 1,500,000/. to 1,000,000/.
The engineer is Mr. Brunel, the agents are Messrs. Burke, Pritt,
Venables and Co. The solicitors are Messrs. Howe and Hunt, White-
hall, Loudon; Mr. Elgie, of Worcester; Messrs. Bodeman and Evans,
of Hereford ; and Messrs. Whitaker and Helps, of Gloucester.
The usual torrual evidence was gone through.

Sub-Committee No. 4.
This Committee assembled at twelve precisely, Sir W. Heathcote
In the chair, and proceeded with the adjourned case of the
LAUNCESTON, AND SOUTH DEVO 6. (No. IX.)
It will be remembered that the formal proofs in respect of this Bill
were commenced, but not perfected, on Friday last No evidence we
offered of the deposit of plans and sections at the offices of the clerks ofthe
peace for the counties of Cornwall and Devon, through which the line
passes; but it was explained by Mr. Burke that plans and sect.ons
had been deposited, which, being found to be inaccurate and useless,
were abandoned by the promoters of the Bill, and other plans, &c.,
deposited in lieu of them. These latter were, however, not deposited
until the middle of December. It was the intention of the promoters
to leave it to the Sub-Committee to report that no evidence had been
given of the deposit of plans with the clerks of the peace, and then
the promoters could put forward the fact of the deposit of plans in
December, in their statement to the Standing Orders' Committee,
who wou.d, they hoped, admit them as sufficient.
The Committee now proceeded to hear the case in support of a
petition against the line, being that of two owners and occupiers
of land.

Mr. BLUME objected to the hearing of this case, as he said he was
prepared to show that the petitioners, one Of. whom was the attorney
to the promoters of a competing railway, were not " owners,
lessees, and occupiers" of land upon the line; but as he admitted that
he could not prove that the attorney to the other line was not
a lessee of land, the Committee were of opinion that the petition
must be entertaineo, but only as on the part of one petitioner.
Mr. ELLICOMBE, who appeared in support of the petitioner, called
the clerk of the peace for Devon to gire evidence in support of a
number of all, gations, to the effect that the plans deposited with him
were incorrect; that they contained no datum line, that there was
no scale, Sec. The clerk produced the plans, and proved that they
were deposited on the 29th November.

Mr. BURKE said, that it was needless to enter into the allegations
of this petition, as it was admitted that the plans Mere generally
incorrect, and the promoters did not rely on them.
'[he Committee were of the same opinion, but Mr. ELLICOXBE in-
sisted on giving evidence in support of all the allegations that were
not admitted by Mr. Burke. Having gone through that part
of the petition that referred to the plans, and giving several
violent " kicks" to the " dead horse," proceeded to allegations re-
ferring to the books of reference, &c.

Sub-Committee, No. 6.
This Committee met in room 12, at the usual hour. Captain
Jones in the chair. Present also Mr. Deedes, Mr. T. Egerton, and
➢lr. Phillips.

NORTHAMPTON AND BANBURY.
This Bill was originally placed on the list of Sub-Committee No. 5,
but as that Committee did not meet this morning the Bill was re-
ferred to No. 6.

Mr. COATES, on the part of the promoters of the Bill, said he was
not prepared to meet the allegations of the petitions against the
Bill, as, understanding that all the Bills in the list of Sub-
CoMillittee No. 5 were adjourned until the Thursday after Easter, he
had not considered it necessary to have his witnesses in attend.
ance.
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The CHAIRMAN Bald
discussion, the petitioner consented to the adjournment,
As the petitioner retused
after much thattu the
on conditiond that the promoters of the Bill should pay the costs in
ciirred by the attendance of the witnesses to-day. The case was ac-
cordingly a Journed.

THE NEW PEERAGES.— u have rood reason tai bc—
lieve that Sir Henry liardinge will be created a viscount and Sir
Hugh Gough a baron; the titles, however, are nut yet determin d.
We need scarcely point out the gross improbability in the story circu-
lated in many of the newspapers that the Govenior-General of India
was to be made " Lord Penshurst, of Penshurst, in the county of
Kent," as that is the British title Viscount Strangiord and the ad-
ditional designation of Lord de L'lsle It is true that the Whigs
created an Lad of. Leicester and a Lord Monteagle, when both were
already in existence, and a Lord Vaux whi e the title was under
claim ; but there is no reason for supposing that such flagrant piracy
will be drawn into a precedent.—Post.

The ashop or Durham, at a recent meeting of the
committee of the Hospital for Consumption, at Brompton, offered to
''ite tfll., providing other subscriptions of a similar sum
His Lordship's benevolent example has been tel-
could be of that amount, which is to be
Sir appro-
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It is isow pretty generaliy --mmand that beaati-
Baldwin Walker; K.C.13.;*111 he appointed to
MI frigate the Constance.— Dulled ‘sereiet Gazette.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY.-- IHE MARQUIS OF '.r.r.—
TIIAMPTON'S CONVZMAZIONE.—The Marquis of Northampton, as
President of the Royal society, gave the fourth and last of his Lord-
ship's conversaziones this season, on Saturday, at the family residence
on the Terrace, Piccadilly. At nine o'clock the saloons of the noble
President were resorted to by a very namerous assemblage of the
more distinguished literary and scientific members of the various in-
stitutions in the metropolis, and by half-past ten the several rooms
were crowded to excess. All the apartments were admirably illu-
minated, and, as usual in the lower dining-room, refreshments were
provided in abundance. In the course of the evening much atten-
tion was excited by the introduction of Posaara, the New Zealand
Chief, who accompa,pied Mr. G. F. Angas to the soiree. The chief-
tain was attired in the full costume of his native country, and what
was more singular to the intellectual company around him, brought
a spear but a trifle less formidable than the halberts of our royal
wardens. Mohun Lal was also present in the characteristic habili-
ments peculiar to his country.
ther • ve3c 17:03rA of cattle f,".n.
veyed from this city and Yarmouth by tltss trains for the London
Mnutv,

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