The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-04 00:00:00

WORCESTER.

In the room of Sir T. WILDE, who has been ap-
pointed her Allijesty's Attorney-General.

DUNGARVAN.

In the room of the Right Hoe: R., L. fifIEIL, who
ha; accepted the office of Master of the Mint.

PERTH.
In the room of the Right Hon. FOX MAULE,
who has been appointed Secretary-at-War.

MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

The Us!4er of the Black Rod appeared at the bar, and
summoned the attendance of the Commons to hear the
Royal Assent given by Commission to various Bills (for
which see Lords' report).
OUTRAGE ON BRITISH SUBJECTS._

Mr. O'CONNELL presented a petition from Thomas
Brodigan, Esq , Pilton House, County Meath, a magis-
trate of that county, complaining of the outrage to which
he, in common with other British subjects, was subjected
on the occasion of bis visiting Jerusalem on Good Friday
last (detailed in the correspondence which appeared
in the The Sun of yesterday), and praying that
effective measures may be resorted to by the English
Government, which will cause the Sublime Porte to
exert a more repressive authority against such outrages,
and thus protect British travellers visiting the East.
CLARK'S DIVORCE BILL.

Lord DUNCAN moved that a message should be sent
to the Lords, requesting their Lordships to furnish this
House with a copy of the minutes of the evidence taken
in Clark's Divorce Bill.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time:—
Clark's Divorce.

Ely and Huntingdon Railway (Bedford Extension).
Howell's Charity Estate.

Sheffield and Lincolnshire Extension Railway.
Somerset Sinal Debts Court.
GLASGOW AND BELFAST UNION RAILWAY.
Mr. HODGSON moved that the further consideration
of the report on this Bill should be postponed until the
evidence had been printed.
After some considerable diJcussion strangers were
ordered to withdraw.

On our re-admission we found that no division had
taken place, but that the postponement of the question
had been agreed to.
IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from
several of the shareholders of the South-Western Rail-
way Company praying that the House would not grant
any power to the Portarlington Railway Company,
which would allow that Company to purchase their line
or railway. They also prayed that the decision of the
Committee with regard to that railway might be allowed
to stand.

Mr. F. FRENCH, in moving the re-committal of the
Irish Great Western Railway (Dublin to Galway) Bill,
said that there was naturally and equitably a
feeling in the House to support the de-
cision of its Committees, and such a feeling
should not be departed from unless upon some strong
and peculiar grounds. This Bill had received the sanc-
tion of the Board of Trade and had actually passed both
Lords and Commons. The evidence on which the decision
had been come to. and the decision of which he com-
plained, was in the hands of every Member of that House.
The Committee came to the decision that they would not
allow parties to be heard in opposition to the preamble
of the Bill, notwithstanding whioh they admitted such
evidence. The line was recommended by the Board of
Trade because it would open up railway communi-
cation between the eastern, western, and southern
ports of Ireland. After stating that the Bill had
received the sanction of the House of Lords, he
said he called for a revision of the Bill on the broad
ground of public interest and national justice.
They had witnesses to prove that another line would
have been more consonant with the public good, but the
Chairman refused to hear the evidence.
He looked in
vain for any
reasons which would haws justified
the Committee having thrown out the line which
he (Mr. French) advocated. The opposing counsel to
it admitted that they had completely proved the pre-
amble of the Bill, yet the Committee came to a far differ-
ent conclusion. Their great object wasto open the
western district and thus open the fisheries,
, for which a Dutch company, in
the reign
of Charles the Second, paid for liberty to fish 5,0001. per
annum. They depended on the fact of being able to
connect Liverpool with America by a voyage of seven
days • and with such evidence before them he wondered
how Ale decision had been arrived at by the Committee.
Mr. W. COLLETT, in rising to sscond the motion,
expressed his astonishment at the decision the Committee
had come to, seeing that the Dublin and Galway line
was the only railway that proposed to accommodate
Galway, and thought, as Parliament last year all but
sanctioned the measure, the House ought to support its
decision of the former Committee.
Mr. MACKENZIE defended the course adopted by
the Committee. lie denied that the Bill was the same
as the one which was before the House last year, and he
would therefore oppose the motion.
Mr. REDINGTON believed that the Committee had
acted conscientiously',but their decision was nothing
less than absurd.--(Hear, hear.) All his Hon. Friend
sought by his motion was, that the House should give
effect to the decision given by the House of Lords on
this subject during the last session of Parlia-
ment, Tha pills ward not necessarily competing
Bills, and the House of Lords, looking upon
them in that light, had passed them. Be-
lieving that hig Honourable Friend had made out a
sufficient case for his motion, he should give him his
support. If the motion were not agreed to, he considered
that the vast population which would be accommodated
by this railway would be most unjustly treated.