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Amiens and Boulogne. • • •• • • •• • •• • •
Arbroath and Forfar •• • •• • •••• • • "
Chester and Birkenhead •• • • ••• • • • • •
Caledo
Chester and Holyhead. • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Cockerrnouth and Workington.... . • •
Dublin and Drogheda. • •• • • •• • •• • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen •• • •
East Anglian.... • • • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • • • •• • • • •
Edinburgh and Northern • • • • • • • • • • • •
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
East Lancashire • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Eastern 'Union • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Glasgow, Garukirk, and Coatbridge...
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock• • • • • • •• • " • •
Great Southern and Western . • • • • • • •
Great Western, &,e • • • • • • • " " •" • • •
Kendal and Windermere...........
Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • • • •
Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • • • • • ..... -
Leeds and Thirsk....• • • • • • • " '• •" •
Londonderry and t• nniskillen.• • • ••••
London and North Western, &c.
London and Blackwall• • • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and Brighton . • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
London and South Western. • • •• • • • •
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Maryport and Carlisle • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.. • •
Midland Great Western (Irish) • • • • .•
Newmarket.• • • • • • • • • • • • " • • • • • • • • • •
Newcastle and Car1i51e..............

2,135 2,
985
1,979 1,
16,663 16,

117 -
5,849 8,
1,380

144 -3G,'212 35,

692
6,539 5,
6,973 6,
2,163 1,
447
16,0114 17
677 -

1,828 2,
1,577 1,
1,907 :1,
2,805 5,
1,176 -

North British .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Paris and Rouen . • • • • • • • • • • " • • • •
Rouen and Havre .. • • • • • • " " • • "
Scottish Central ...... . .
• •
Shrewsbury and Chestsr • • • • • • • • • •
South Eastern and Branches •• • • • •
South Dev0n.....................
Taft Vale

480
7,105 6
526
1,957 1,
849
173 -

Ulster . • ..... ••• ••••••• • • • • • • •
Whitchaven Junction .• • • • • • • • • • • •
Wishaw and Coltncss •• • • • • ••• • •
York and Newcastle . • • • • •• •• • • • •
York and North Midland •.•• • • • •

10,013 7,:
7,438 5,'

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, March 24.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the
Woe 'sack at Five o'clock.
JEWS.
The Bishop of LLANDAFF presented several peti-
tions against the admission of the Jews.
QUEEN'S PRISON BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
ODD FELLOWS.
Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from the
Odd Fellows of Durham, praying that they may be
placed under the provisions of the Friendly:Societies
Act.
AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS' BILL
This Bill, on the motion of Lord MONTEAGLE,
was read a third time and passed.
CRIMINAL LAW ADMINISTRATION BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of this
Bill, with respect to which he would not occupy their
Lordships' time, as he believed it would not have to
encounter any opposition. Its object, as their
Lordships were aware, was for the purpose of
establishing a court of appeal in criminal cases.
Ile objected to the measure which had been proposed
some two years since for the purpose of establishing a
court of appeal in criminal cases, before which convicts
could, as a matter of right, move for a new trial, because it
would give a most unfair advantage to the rich man over
the pour man. In no country in Europe was such an
appeal admitted. In France, the Court of Cassation
merely decided on matters of law; not on matters of fact,
but still he admitted that some alteration in the criminal
law on that point was necessary, and lie should not
object to have the matter referred to a Select Committee.
The Marquis of SALISBURY defended the manner
in which justice was administered by the county magis-
trates and in Courts of Quarter Session.
Lord CAMPBELL had no intention of casting the
slightest slur on the administration of the criminal law
by the Courts of Quarter Session.
After a few words from the Earl of DEVON and Lord
STANLEY, the Bill was read a second time, and ordered
to be referred to a Select Committee.
, Their Lordships then adjourned.

ROUSE OF COMMONS, March 24.
The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before
Four o'clock.
PATENT GALVANIZED IRON COMPANY.
Mr. BROTHERTON moved that leave be given to
withdraw the petitions of John Chevallier Cobbold
(presented 28th February), and of Henry Pattison
(presented Ist March), against the Patent Galvanized
Iron Company (Incorporation of Company, with powers
to hold lands to raise money by loan, and to purchase
Letters Patent) Bill. That leave be given to withdraw
the petitions of John Chevallier Cobbold (presented 28th
February), and of Henry Pattison (presented Ist March)
against the Patent Galvanized Iron Company trading
under the style or firm of " Manus and Rawlinsons"
Bill.—Agreed to.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Railway Bills were read a second time
and ordered to be committed.
Aberdeen (Additional Capital).
Airdrie and Bathgate Junction (Amendment and De-
viation).

Arbroath and Forfar (Additional Capital).
Birmingham and Oxford Junction (Deviation from
Leamington to Warwick).
Bristol and Exeter (Glastonbury Navigation and Canal
Purchase).
Direct London and Portsmouth.
Drumpeller Railway.
Dundee and Arbroath (Dundee Junction).
Dundee and Perth (Dundee Juuction).
Dundee and Perth (Lease of the Dandee and Arbroath
Railway),
Dunfermline and Qaeensferry (from Dunfermline to
North Queensferry, with a Branch to Inverkeithing
Harbour).
Edinburgh and Glasgow (No. 2—Amendment of Acts,
New Branches, Abandonment of Branch, and Increase
of Capital).
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 'and Glasgow, Airdrie, and
Monklands Junction (Amendment of Acts).
East Anglian (Ely and Huntingdon Railway, Extension
of Time).
East Lincolnshire (Alteration of Great Grimsby Branch).
Furness Railway.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (Revision of
mlximum Tolls and Charges on the Glasgow, Paisley,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railways).
Great Western (to confer additional Powers on the
Company with reference to the Purchase of the
Birmingham and Oxford Junction, &c., Railways).
Great Western (Loop Line from the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction Railway through Leamington).
Kendal and Windermere Act Amendment.
Leeds and Thirsk (Alteration of Levels of Leeds and
Hartlepool Railway in Eagleecliffe, Preston, and
Stockton, &c.)
London and South-Western Railway Company's !Acts
Amendment, Extension, Deviation, and New Works.
London and South-Western, Exeter and Crediton, Taw
Vale Railway and Dock, and Bothnia and Wade-
bridge Railway Companies Arrangements.
London and South-Western Railway Company and
Southampton and Dorchester Railway Company
Amalgamation.
London, Brighton, and South Coast (London bridge and
New Cross Stations, &c).
London and Blackwell Connecting Branch, &c.
Londonderry and Enniskillen (Relinquishment of Line
between Omagh and Enniskillen, &c.)
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Humber Fer-
ries Improvement at Hull and New Holland, &c.)
Midland (Branch to Ripley, &c.)
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Deviation Line from
!re Mullingar to Athlone).
Midland (Alteration of the Line and Branches near
Wellingborough, and Approach to the Wellingborough
Station).
Newport and Pontypool Act Amendment.
Norfolk (Amendment of Acts and Extension of Time
for commencing Reedham and Diss Branches).
North British (No. I—lncrease and Division of Capital).
North British (No. 2—Junction with Leith Branch of
the Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway, &c.)
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Extension of
Time, &c.)
South Wales Amendment of Acts.
Vale of Neath (Power to the South Wales Company to
subscribe, and Amendment of Acts).
Whitehaven and Furness Junction (Extension or Devi-
ation Line from Silocroft to Foxfield, &c.)
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Great North of Eng-
land, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junction Railway, and
Hartlepool Dock and Railway Leasing).
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Deviation and abandon-
ment of part of the Thirsk and Melton Branch).
The Burutisland harbour Improvement Bill was read
a second time, end ordered to be committed.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY
(POWER TO PURCHASE) BILL.
On the motion that this Bill be read a second time,
Mr. FORSTER rose to move, as an amendment, that it
be read a second time this day six months, on the
ground that it would place in the hands of a railway
company the monopoly of the traffic between Dublin and
Holyhead.
Mr. H. BERKELEY seconded the motion, and said,
no doubt, the President of the Railway Board, if he were
in the House, would also join in the opposition.
Mr. GLYN then said the Bill was not now brought
in for the first time, as it had been on a former occasion,
before the House. The Commissioners of Railways at
that time allowed the Bill to proceed, and the Committee
to whom it was referred declared that its carrying out was
expedient; but it was withdrawn simply on the ground
that the session was near its close, and that it could not
be complete l before the prorogation. The Chester and
Holyhead Railway Company, F o far from wishing
to establish a monopoly, were perfectly ready
to treat with the established companies if they
were disposed to undertake the service ; if they
were prepared to do so the promoters of the Bill were
prepared to withdraw that p'rtion of it. The condi-
tion, however, on which the company proposed carry-
ing out the steam-boat communication, with the terms
they proposed to charge, were before the House, and
were to be ren&red subject to the approval of the Board
of Trade. The rates were extremely low.
Mr. F. FRENCH opposed the Bill, on the ground that
it would utterly ruin the existing companies.
After a few words from Sir W. HEATilcurE,
Mr. GLYN stated, in reply, that the company sought
power to raise further additional capital, and that they
would be put to much inconvenience if those provisions
were not assented to.
Sir H. VERNEY considered that the Bill would
create a monstrous monopoly, and that therefore the
House ought not to consent to it.
iMr. GLYN said that, acting upon the suggestion of
the Hon. Member, he would withdraw his motion.
The second reading of the Bill was then postponed.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY (BRANCH
FROM SLOUGH TO WINDSOR).
On the motion for the second reading of this Bill,
Mr. GLADSTONE said that he much regretted the
absence of a Member of the Government of whose ser-
vices the House was at present deprived by the late de-
cision of a Committee—he meant the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman at the head of the Railway Board, the late Mem-
ber for Derby, because the suggestion he (late M 1
stone) was about to make was one which could have
been offered with peculiar propriety in presence of the
Right lion. Gentleman, but in his absence he should
address himself to the Noble Lord at the head of the
Woods and Forests; and while stating to the House his
regret at the absence of the Right. Hon. Gentleman, he
might perhaps be permitted to express a confident and
earnest hope that the Noble Lord would permit himself
to be appointed & mediator between the two great com-
panies interested in this question, with the view of pre-
venting :the enormous expenditure and haraseing liti
gation which had taken place heretofore. In the last ses-
sion of Parliament both the South-Western and
Great Western introduced Bills to enable
them to reach Windsor. The Bill of the
Great Western was rejected, and that promoted by the
South-Western Company, extending their line from
Richmond and Staines to near Windsor, was adopted.
That being the case, the South-Western had seen proper
to introduce in the present session a Bill for the purpose
of connecting Eton and Windsor with Slough, as well as
with Richmond and Staines. This would be done by
means of a single terminus for Eton and Windsor, and
that would be of course the best terminus that the case
could admit of. The South-Western were obliged to
run their line at a vast expense, a bridge having to be
constructed over the Thames at Windsor, yet the line
they now proposed to extend, although as good a one as
in the circumstances they could get, was still a
very objectionable one. He did not think that
the competition that existed between the com-
panies to the town of Windsor would bent fit
either party. He could not imagine for a moment that
three lines to London could exist eves if they were sanc-
tioned. A Bill of the South-Western Company's had

been passed two days ago, and the present Bill would,
therefore, only open up the controversy which had
raged in past times. They might now look forward to
an extensive litigation between parties. There could be
no doubt that the heads of Eton College would offer a
determined opposition to the Bill; the Great Wes-
tern ;and South-Western Company would wage
another desperate warfare. There could be
no question of such if the Great Western were
permitted the privilege of making a line to
the royal rsidence. Now, he thought that the Noble
Lord ought, with the influence which his position gave
him, with the advantages of his well-known and estima-
ble character, and with his distinguished reputation as
one of the representatives of her Majesty's Government,
he did think that the Noble Lord, on such an occasion
as the present, when the question involved the comfort
and convenience of her Majesty, and the integrity of
the royal dwelling—he thought that in such a case the
Noble Lord might very well be disposed to take
on himself the character of mediator, and by his
influence with the opposing parties do great good, by
preventing litigation and se moving an existing cause of
offence and quarrel. He was not there as the advocate
of the college, or of any competing railway company.
It did rest with the House to reject the second read-
ing of this Bill, but he believed that the House would
agree with him in thinking that if the Noble Lord, by
his interference between these two companies, could
prevent the incurring of enormous expenses, he would
be not only conferring a boon upon the companies
themselves, but upon the college, the town of Wind-
sor, and the public generally. If this Bill
should pass the House might rest assured that the
matter would not end here. In that case the South-
Western would press for powers to enable them to carry
their station to the town of Windsor. They would
naturally ask the House to extend the same advantages
to them that it did to the Great Western. lie did not
see how the House could refuse them. Fully acquainted
as he wus with all the cite:utneeances of the case, he must
state his conviction that it would be impossible for the
House to refuse the South-Western Company a station
at Windsor, if they allowed the Great Western to
carry their line as at present contemplated.
Now, for the purpose of public convenience, and for:the
purpose, in part, of preserving, if not of furthering the
well-being of Eton College, with which many of their
early recollections were associated, and of preventing
an expensive and unncessary contest, he did think that
if the House could induce the Noble Lord to take on
himself a task of this kind, he might be well considered
a public benefactor.
Lord MORPETII said that, with reference to what
the Right Hon. Gentleman had suggested in so pleasing
a manner, as to his great powers as a mediator, he could
assure him that no one would be inure rejoiced than he
if an end could be put to the prosecution of the
further litigation between these two great companies
with respect to this object of coming into the royal
borough of Windsor. He (Lord Morpeth) had, as the
Right Hon. Gentleman observed, when referring to
Eton, many pleasing recollections of thee place, and he
was happy to see that he had the sympathies of the
Right Hon. Gentleman on this subject; but, with respect
to a reconciliation of the matters in dispute between
the Great Western and South-Western Companies, he
must confess that he had no expectations that he should
be able to adjustithem; and he could not avoid expressing
his opinion that any benefit which for public convenience,
ought to be conferred upon one company, and one only,
ought, in consideration of their longer occupation of the
district, to be conferred upon the Great Western Com-
pany.
Mr. CRIPPS did not exactly understand for whom his
Right Hon. Friend appeared. He did not understand
him to appear for the SoutloWestern Company, and he
had himself told the House that he did not represent
the interests of Eton College. With respect to the
suggestion made by the Right Hon. Gentleman, he (Mr.
Cripps) would only say that while the Great Western
Company did not fear to meet the ordeal of any of the
tribunals, they were quite ready to have the question
in the hands of the Noble Lord, the First Commissioner
of Woods and Forests, or with the Noble Lord at the
head of her Majesty's Government. His Right Hon.
Friend stated a fact when he told them that one of the
objects of the Great Western Company, in the outset,
was to carry their lino into Windsor. They proposed
some years ago to do so, but special influence was set
at work to prevent them from succeeding in this endea-
vour. A few years after the South-Western Company
brought forward a Bill, and succeeded to a considerable
extent in obtaining what they sought in this direction.
Their scheme was a much more objectionable one than that
proposed by tee Great Western Company from Slough,
inasmuch as it passed directly le twE en the Castle and
the river. When he came into the House that night, he
had not the slightest idea that any opposition would be
given to the Bill, and he was therefore taken somewhat
by surprise by the Right Hon. Gentleman. He would
not, however, fatigue the House by going into the his-
tory of the contests between the Great Western and
South-Western Companies. In conclusion, he would
again repeat that he was quite willing to leave the matter
in the hands of the Noble Lord,
Mr. CHAPLIN said that the Hon. Gentleman who
had just sat down had, on the part of the Great Western
Company, expressed himself ready to place him-
self in the hands of the Noble Lord at the
head of the Woods and Forests. He (Mr.
Chaplin) would be equally ready on tire part of
the South-Western Company to do so. The House would
bear him out when he said that, in the last session o
Parliament, a Bill of theirs was suspended in its pro-
gress that a fair opportunity might be afforded for the
Great Western and South-Western Companies to meet
the differences between them by a friendly arrangement.
But he must be permitted to say that, however strongly
the Noble Lord had expressed himself now in favour of
a settlement of this question, he (Mr. Chaplin) could
not give him great credit for his etiOrts to bring about
such on a former occasion. The proposition made by the
South-Western to the Great Western Company was a
very fair one. They proposed that whoever should carry
out the line to Windsor should consent to a clause
giving to the other power to use the line; but the Noble
Lord never evinced the slightest proof of wishing
to bring about this arrangement, nor was there
reason to suppose that the Great Western Company
were inclined to come on our line or let us go on theirs.
If the Noble Lord acceded to the suggestion of the
Right lion. Gentleman he should, on the part of the
South-Western, very readily consent to the arrange-
ment.
Lord MORPETH said he should have been glad to
offer his mediation, but he confessed he had no great
hope of a favourable result.
The Earl of LINCOLN said, that after the readiness
evinced by the representatives of those two great com-
panies, he did hope that the Noble Lord opposite would
withdraw his repudiation of the task sought to be im-
posed on him, and thereby give the country and the par.
ties particularly interested an opportunity of bring-
ing this question to a satisfactory result. 'The
Noble Lord said that if any company obtained
an entrance into Windsor it should be the Great
Western Company. He (Lord Lincoln) was quite pre-
pared to agree with the Noble Lord thus tnr, but if they
?,-ranted the Bill now before the House, and allowed the
Great Western Company an entrance into the town of
Windsor on the one side, the South-Western would in
a few years ask the House to give them also an entrance
into Windsor on the other side, and he did not see how
their request, under the circumstances, could be well
refused. These companies had already expended large
sums in their efforts to approach the town of Windsor.
and these sums would be largely and permanently in-
creased if they had two stations instead of one terminus
common to both companies. He was happy to find that
the results which were only too frequently obtained by a
circuitous and expensive mode, might be had by a
simpler process, and he hoped, therefore, that the Noble
Lord would consent to this amicable arrangement be-
tween the two companies.
Lord MORPETII said, that so falifrom repudiating
this proposal, he should be extremely glad to consent to
it, it the two companies would only show a disposition
themselves to smooth away difficulties.
Tile Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to
be cominitted.

SLIGO ELECTION.

The following Members appeared at the table and
were sworn to try the merits of the election for Sligo:—Mr.
T. C. Granger (C,-:airman), Mr. Disraeli, Mr.P. Scrope,
Mr. J. Hayward, and Sir J. Jolinstone.
RYE ELECTION.
The following Members appeared at the table, and
were sworn to try the merits of the election for Rye:—
Mr. E. Divett (Chairman), Sir 11. littiford, Mr. J. 11.
Vivian, the Hon. F. Charteris, and Jlr. M. J. Blake.
THE EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN RAILWAY.
On the motion for the second reading of the Edinburgh
and Northern Railway and Stirling and Dunfermline
Railway (Queensferry and luverkeithiug Branches)
Bill,
Sir J. CLERK opposed the motion. He moved, as an
amendment, that the Bill be read a second time this day
six months.
Mr. F. MACKENZIE said the Right Hon. Baronet
was in error when he supposed this was a similar Bill to
the one rejected last year. In the present Bill
many improvements and amendments had been intro-
duced, said, as most parties who opposed the Bill had since
withdrawn their opposition he thought the house ought,
in justice to the company, to reject the amendment.
Mr. COWAN supported the second reading. The
Bill was only opposed by one individual, and even that
opposition arose out of the fact that the company had
refused to give 50,000/. for the land belonging to him
which the line traversed.
Mr. son' ELION opposed the second reading.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the amendment
Against it
Majority in favour of the amendment —45
The Bill was lost.
Mr. REYNOLDS presented several petitions against
the Chester and Holyhead Railway Bill,
GAME-LAWS.

Mr. BRIGHT gave notice of his intention to move
immediately after the Easter recess, for leave to bring
in a Bill for the repeal of the Game-laws.
FARES ON RAILWAYS.
Mr. BANKES gave notice of his intention to move on
au early day a resolution for the purpose of securing a
diminished rate of charges to the public upon all rail-
ways in the United Kingdom.
DERBY ELECTION.
An Tim MEMBER gave notice of his intention to
move, upon an early day, that the minutes of the evi-
dence given before the Derby Election
Committee
should be priated.
ENTERING PORTS WITHOUT PILOTS.
Lord RENDLESHAM wished to ask the Secretary
of the Admiralty, whether it be trw, that two French
steam-ships of war were brought into Sheerness harbour
during the night by their owu masters, without any.assis-
tance from a licensed pilot? Also, whether, on the occa-
sion of a French ship of war coming into Harwich
harbour this last autumn, there was not some delay or