The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-18 00:00:00

C7IESTME

'This Bill Wa3 next considered. The object of the promoters is
to construct a line of railway flint Lichfield to Birmingham, the
length of which is 14 miles, 8 furlongs, and 80 challis.
Parliamentary agents, Messrs. Dorrlngton and Co. ; engineer, Mr.
Maclean.

There was one petition against the Ttill from Mr. George Edwards
complaining of non-compliance with the standing orders.
The formal proofs having been taken, the Committee proce+ded to
consider the petition, which was supported by Mr. Mare.
The first allegation teas that on the 7th mile and ith furlong the
vertical height of the niilwAy Was not ehown, which wassustaineil.

Thert was atioth6r allegation to the iatile affect, which was not
ah.t7,hied.

WaS than alitved that at the ninth wile and twenty-merenth
rind'', though the pt,llc road was shown, the *allot' the :welt whore
the bridge cro.,s4d was not given, whivit wan a(isitieJ•

nest allP4ation re.te that the apace Itetwfen 10 ntllee .54 eltaf opt
and II tulles 4t; s•haains was nut shown. This allegation leas ails-
taitteml.

Petition fn viler A llegeil that the rate of inclination at a cortain
'point ur the line 1,03 Itteorreelly stated to he 1 in :IU4.
Mr. Woolsey, engineer, STa97 examined, and stated that the correct
rate, was I in 130.

The t.'entulittee ruud the allegation to he sustained.
There were some other allegations to the saute effect, Alla the
s...:oinntittee found, that At 11 stiles 411 chains and 12 miles 4a ChAirlS
the rate of inclination was WM :ho Wit on the plans and sections.
An allegation, that at twelve miles five challis there was no eross
section given, was sustained.

It.scf. next alleged that at. certain points on the line, where the
river was crossed by tile railway, the vertical heigkt from the cur-
Eace of the river to the mils watt not shown. . _

:several 1118t111COS of the alleged omissions were adduced and ad-
mitted. It was next alleged that no notice had beea given to the
waterworks Company of their property, at section ft, being crossed
by the railway. Proof of the consent of the Company to the peti-
tion being adduced, the Comtnit.tee•founit that hi this ease the stand-
ing order, had been complied with.
This concluded the case for the petition.
The, CILIIRMIN then !Announced that to the .100:1 of this Rill the
stszidiug orders had not been complied with.
RUMMY IRON RAILWAY.

This was the next Rill considered.
There was ono petition against the PAH trout certain owners on the
and fuljeining the railway, which alleged that they lied not received
the necessary notices.
Mr. VENABLE., (who appeared in support of the petition)
Mid that he understood It was agreed between the st;;ents
Ott both sides that all the !Acts alleged here should be admitted, and
that they were merely to decide upon the principle involved in the
petition.

WALMSLtY, who appeared iii stipport of the Bill, after SaVIC
discussion, agreed to adopt that course.
The point at issue was whether lq a hilt of the third (lase It
woe necessary to serve notice on the owner" of land I. be affected
by soy work '•
Mr. VENABLE; said that the provision of the Ai t under
which the present ease came wa: the 36th. Since last
session another provision, 36 A, had been added to the Act, and
lie contended that the terns specially cl..d not, as was maintained on
the other side, mean exclusively, and therefore that thttd-class Bins
were included as well as those of the serood-class.
Mr. WALMSLEY offered a few observations in reply.
The room was then cleared.
After a tew minutes we were re-ailtoitteil, but the CtiAtam.x
merely announced that the. Committee would meet to-mat row, at
twilVß o'clotK, IBaYiliK the matter cnlicue ,141, jif4Vce.

lab-4 'entinittee No. 4

BRADFORD, WAKEFIELD, and MIDLAND.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

The nest allegation WAS to the effect that the properties situated
near the Bradford and Leeds and the Wakefield and Leeds Branches
were not numbered in the book of reference deposited with the clerk
of the peace of the West 'Ming.

For the promoters it w;1 alleged that the numbers were entered
upon the pages, which disappeared from the book after it was depo.
sited with the clerk of the peace.
The Committee decided tkat the allegation was sustained.
The next allegation charged that the levels, as laid down In tke
sections depcslted, were inaccurate to an amount from six to sixteen
feet in the depth of the cuttings.

After the engineering evidence in support of the allegation had
keen received,

Mr. GREGORY, for the projectors, said that he would admit that
between the points set forth there was an error •f about ten feet,
hoping that the engineer, Mr. Ifurphy, would give such an explana-
tion u would enable the Committee to report favourably for the
promoters on this point.

- - .
Mr. Murphy, being examined at some length, explained that the
error was occasioned throughout by one mistake made in casting up
the flguree at the commencement of the levelling, that is, at the
Wltkr
ease. ITT,
end of the branch.—Allegation sustained.
thebi . Pa, for the petitioners, then said that this concluded
their
The Committee then proceeded with the
Balla
TOM AND CMOUCESTER(GLOUCEISTAIN
AND STOREHOUSE JUNCTION).
The object or
line front Stonehothe Bill is to carry en the Bristol and Gloucester
that SIA to Gloucester, a length of about miles, se
as to complete in
Bristol and Rinnkithadirection the railway communication between
agent, Mr. Barrington'''. .1, The engineer is Mr. R. Stephenson ; the
against
and Mr. Addleou, of dente° solicitors, Mr. Carter, of Birmingham,
There walla petition a The estimated cost Is 100,0001.
the petitioners, did no, ti"'
Bill, but Mr. Pritt, who repre-
sentedpress it.
The fondal evidence having liter" to
putibiewnietitihrough, the standing orders
were declared to have been corn
TUX lIIILMENHEAD, Law. cA,...,,,..
CIIIISHIRE zulscrijo-31-"""o AND
`fits k' at Birkenhead, ~..1
object of the Bill is to connect the a., •
zhuand Stockport.
the Mersey, with the manufacturing disteieter°
IN: a communi-
cation from Birkenhead and Chester to
eiManchester
t miles, and that of the
The length of the main liue will bethirty.
Chester Branch will be eight miles. The cosh is
1,400,000/. The engineers are Messrs. Rendel and Liste;s•titrhated at
h
'Messrs. Burke, Pritt, and Co, ; and the solicitors are m e agents, seers. Mal.
laby, Townsend, and Newdell, of Birkenhead.
The formal evidence having been gone throngh, the titles of se-
veral petitions against the Bill were read, and the Committee agreed
to take the petition of a pernal In Warrington, who alleged that, being
the occupier of a shop within the limits of deviation, which entitled
him to receive notice from the promoters of the 11111, he had not re-
ceived such notice.
Mr. Pam submitted that the petitioner should have set forth that
K. was occupier or the shop in question on the 30th of November, and
further, that the petitioner did not suMelently designate the premises
in respect to which he complained to enable the promoters to allOse
that notice had in reality been served upon the petitioner.
Mr. COPTOClCeontended for the admissibility of the petition, hut
The Committee decided that it could net be reeelesd.

Sub-Committee No. S.

ERMINGZ.A.Y4 AND OXFOND (BIRMING'

NAM 2XT2WSXON.)

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.);'
It was objected that, in the sections deposited with the clerk of the
peace for Warwick, the standing order No. 25 was defective, Inas.
much as it was not on the same horizontal scale as the plan.
The agent for the Bill (Mr. Burke) said that the section was on the
urns seals as the plan, but that it was not en the same seals as the
" additional plan," which, he said, was not the plan with which the
section ought to agree.

After a long discussion as to the meaning of the term " the plan,"
and whether it was necessary that the sections should be on the same
seals as the additional plan,

The Committee decided that the standing orders were complied
with.

The objection was next raised that the datum line was not re-
ferred to any, fixed in, or near one of the stations. It appeared that
apleference was made to the station of the Grand Junction Rail-

The agent for the Bill admitted that technically there was a non-
oompliance with the standing orders. Tins line being but a part if
a larger line, the datum line had been referred to point which

£ s. d. a. d.
Commercial • •
East and West India pr cent. Stock. 140
East Country ••.• • • •
Laudon ••• • • • •• • • 51. pr cent. Stock. 117
St Katharine •••• •• • . 5 per cent. Stock. 104%
Sontliampton •••• • • • . 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 30

Name of Company

VIT.A.TER-woes

1/I vidend Amount
per of
Annum. I Share.

Paid.

s, d,
East Londom.... •• • • SL 100 0 0
Grand Junction
Kent •
Vauxhall
We.at Middlesex .. • • Si. be. pr cit. 63 12 9

Prica

1 LIST OF scOTTilin COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend I Amount
' Name or Company. per of Paid. ! Price
Annum. Share.
1
...---..-.-......- -.-_,.... -____
• A 8. d. X s. d
Bank of Scotland ...•• 6/. per cent. - 100 0 • 1165
Royal Bank et-Scot:and 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 1 159
British Linen Company St par cent. - 100 0 0 224
Commercial Bank .. , s 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 116234
National Bank, • ...... 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 , 143{
Union Bank of Scotland 731. pr cent. - 50 001 94
Western Bank dl. per cent. - 50 00, 80
NorthOf fiaotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 , 7%
Clydesdale Bank .. •.. • 6/. per cent. --10 0 0 13%
7:astern Bank.... -• • 51. per cent. - 10 00 , 1114
Caledonian Bank ..... 731. pr cent. - 210 0 I 4%
Edinb.lk Glasgevr Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7
City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 10 0 0 13%
Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 245.
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
Insur. Co. of Sestina • • Si. per cent. 10 I 0 All paid. 9%
North British Imam • . 5%1. pr cant. 200 0 0 10 0 0 273(
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 183
Edin. & Glair. Railway 11.101. per c. 50 0 0 50 0 0 73
Ditto, % shares•... 7s. 6d. p. s. 12 10 0 All paid. 17%
Edin., Leith, k Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 I 2134
Ulasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 51. per cont. 50 0 0 All paid. 71
Glasgw&Greenckßali. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 19
Glsgw & Gamkirk Rail. '5!. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 42
Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6!. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 39
Standard LifeAssurnce.lsl per cent. 150 0 0 210 0 ti
CANALS.
-..._.,
• , . . I
Dividend
Names of 1 ; :Dividend Names of ~., prim
Companies. 1 2 per ' Prise. Companies.
.4 peurin. ,
;01 Annum.' cc 1
t ; X
Ashfr.:c Oldh. 97151.55. pc' 72 Mournouthsh 100 81. 160
Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 31. 98
Barnsley •• • • IGO 121. ISO Macclesfield. 100 - 38
Basingstoke.. 100. - • - Neath •. • ... 100 171. 340
Brklik&Abrg;lso 51. ,85 Nottingham. 150 121. -
Crornibrd .... ;100' 14/. 150 Peak Forest . 78 31. 68
Dudley ......11 00 4/. - Regent's.... 33 1!. Ss. 25
Derby .. .. .. • 100' 61. 73 Rochdale.... 85 41. 77
Elismre&Chil33l 41. 65 Shropshire .• 125 U. -
Erewash ..• !100 321. ' 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 136
Forth & Clyd:100 41. - Do.LkFd St 12 Gt. p. c. 11
GrandJunctnl 100; 71. 85 Stlfrd &Wore 140 281. SOO
Grand Union'loo, 1/. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 15/. 230
Glamorgnsh ;172' 13%1. 2lO Stourbridge.. 145 201. i 280
(Bur & BrIsly;100; - • - Strtfra on AY 79 11. 10s. -
Grantham • • 1501 121 lOO Severn and
Rudderanekti 57 ' }26 1/. 81. 32
&mit lc A:ri,' 39 7s.- 6 -
Wye Rail.
• Lancaster ... I 471 "4' - Trnt & Mr.} 50 am -
I....ds&Lim,too, .")8. - icy' 'll.
341 517 Thams&Med 19
Leicester ..• • 140' 10i.
Leicstr Is Nthl 5,41 41. ,I% Worcstr lc} 78 2/. : 44
Loughboregh,l42l "I. 1850 , Illts isinlits G 7 11. 11 •

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From (From the London New Price
SI:GAM—To-day West-India )11
tions was much sought o.:ltr, .-.
per cwt above those of Friday,
:a‘lintlthebnr:intesessJ raide
ovenaat of..lt!,rc.h. 17.)
ably checked by the scanty supply at market, and au deserlp-
Wered, were 6d
tity sold amounted to only 110 hhda and tree. 8 quail*
REVINED.—To-day Refined goods were in extensive re-
quest by the home trade, and further advanced rates were
given, brown grocery lumps selling at 63e, and standard
lumps at 64s to 64s 6d. The market for bonded crushed
Sugar is very firm, at 358 6d to 35s 9d per cwt for first
quality.
MAITRITIUS.—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was in ex-
cellent request, and 8,715 bags and 164 barrels at auction
sold at an advance on former rates of 6d to is per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon, at public sale, 4,080 bags of
Bengal Sugar were offered, and the whole sold at en ad-
vance on former rates of 6d for white and yellow; brown sus-
tained the former value.
FOREIGN.—To-day there was little desire to purchase
Havanauth Sugar, and 2,137 chest; at public sale were taken
in rather above the value.