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HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 10.
The Srwan took the chair at Twelve o'clock.
__ NEW MEMBER.

Sir MINIS LE MAfteunteTtoOk the oaths and his seat for
the city of Worcester,___

THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed :
Birmingham and Oxford Junction Railway.
Birmingham and Oxford Junction (Birmingham Extension).
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway.
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway
(Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Dudley line).
Brighouse Sewering, Drainage, and Lighting.
Glasgow and Belfast Union Railway.
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway and Extensions.
Larne, Belfast. and Ballymena Railway.
Liverpool and Bury Railway.
Liverpool and Bury and Manchester and Leeds Railways
Amalgamation Bill.
Manchester and Leeds Railway Extension.
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Cana/ Navigation and Rail-
way, and Manchester and Leeds Railway Amalgamation.
Monmouthshire Railways.
Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead Junction
Railway.
Templemore and Nenagh Railway.
Trent Valley, Midland, and Grand Junction Railway.
Mr. GREENE moved that the standing orders, Nos. 121
and Iz2, requiring amendments proposed on the report on
third reading ofa Bill to be referred to the Select Committee
on standing orders, be, to the end of the present session,
auspeaded.
The motion was pat and agreed to.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time :
Australian Agricultural Company ; Barr's Estate Bill ;
Parkes or (Yates) Estate Bill ; and Sligo and Shannon
Railway.

REPORTS.
The following reports were received .fi• -
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and Forth and Clyde
Navigation Junction ; Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor
Railway; South Staffordshire Junction Railway (No. 2)
(Bilston and Priestfield Branch); South Staffordshire Junc-
tion Railway (No. 3—Showhill and Portobello Branch);
and South Staffordshire Junction Railway ;(No. 4—Willen-
hall and Bloxwich Branch).
The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were con-
sidered and adopted :
Caledonian Railway (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge
Railway branches).
East of Fife Railway.
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Polloc and Govan
Branch).
Grand Junction Railway (Huyton and Warrington Branch).
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction Rail-
way.
Manchester Markets.

(YESTERDAY).

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room B.

Scottish Central Railway (Crieff Branch).
Scottish Central Railway (Perth Termini and Stations).
Sheffield, 'Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway
(Dukinfield, Worsborough, and Glossop Branches, and
Sheffield Station).

TAFF VALE RAILWAY.
Mr. ALDAM moved the further consideration of the re-
port from the Committee on the Taft' Vale Railway, provided
amended printed Bills shall have been deposited with the
door-keepers on Thursday, the 9tb of July.—Agreed to.
GLASGOW AND BELFAST UNION RAILWAY.
On the order of the day for the third reading of this Bill,
Captain DALBYMPLk moved that, in the case of the
Glasgow and Belfast Union Railway Bill, the standing order,
No. 121, be suspended, and that the following amendments
be made on the third reading :—Clause 42, line 3 (page 12 of
Bill as amended in the Committee), after " mentioned," insert,
" and upon the execution of a deed of conveyance, duly
stamped, for denoting the payment of the full and proper
stamp duty by law payable in respect of the purchase or
consideration money.." Same clause, line 10, after " same,'
insert, "and the said Glasgow and Belfast Union Railway
Company." Clause 47, line 5, page 14, after "up," insert,
" and the whole of such shares shall have been issued and
taken up."
Mr. HODGSON also moved a clause for the purpose
of reducing the rate of tolls proposed to be taken by the Bill.
A brief discussion ensued, in which Sir WILLIAMCLAY,
'
• Mr. E. DENISON, and other Members took part, which re-
sulted in the withdrawal of the amendments and clause.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
LARNE, BELFAST, AND BALLYMENA RAILWAY.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved the nomination of the Select
Committee on the Larne, Belfast, and Ballymena Railway
petition :—Mr. Thomas Duncombe, Mr. Evelyn Denison,
Mr. Beckett, Mr. Cripps, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. Ricardo,
and Lord Seymour, and that three be a quorum.
Sir DE LACY EVANS, as an amendment, moved that it
be an instruetion to said Committee to entertain and inquire
into any other similar complaints against parties similarly
concerned in any other railway scheme or company.
No seconder being found to the amendment, it dropped to
the ground, and the original motion was agreed to.
BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERIIAMPTON AND UR
VALLEY RAILWAY.
Mr. CLIVE, on the third reading of the Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley line) Bill, moved that clause 104 in
printed Bill, as amended by the Committee, be expunged,
and that the standing order, No. 121, requiring all amend-
ment& to be referred to the Standing Orders' Cornmitteee, be
stuwended.—Agreed to.
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.
The Hoe. MEMBER also moved, " That the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham Railway Bill be read the third time, not-
withstanding that the certificate required by the resolutions
of the House of the 23d of April last had not been deposited
in the Private Bill-office for three clear days."
After a few words from Sir GEORGE eLENE and Mr. E.
DENISON the motion was agreed to.
STANDING ORDERS.
Mr. GREENE moved, that the standing orders N 05.121 and
122, requiring amendments proposed on the report on third
reading of a Bill to be referred to the Select Committee on
Stand* Orders, be to the end of the present session sus-
pended.
After a few words from Sir George Clerk, Mr. Baring, and
Mr. Estcourt, the motion was agreed to.
Mr. GREENE moved that no amendment on the third
reading of any private Bill shall be received by the House
unless notice be given of the same at the Private Bill-ofic
on the day before.—Agreed to.
f3COTTISII SOLTIIF.RN RAILWAY.

Mr. GREENE successively moved that the order (Bth of
April) referringthe Scottish Southern Railway Bill to the
Committee of Selection be read—that the order be discharged
—and that the Bill be withdrawn.—Agreed to.
SLIGO AND SHANNON RAILWAY BILL.
Mr. GREENE moved that the Sligo and Shannon Rail.
way Bill, and the Australian Agricultural Company Bill, may
be read a second time, upon the breviate being laid upon the
table on Thursday.—Agreed to.
SHREWSBURY, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND SOUTH
STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.
Mr. GREENE moved that the Shrewsbury, Wolverham-
ton, and South Staffordshire Railway Bill be read the third
time.. Agreed to.
SOUTII STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.
Mr. GREENE moved that the South Staffordshire Rail-
way Bill report be considered this day.—Agreed to.
SALTHOUSE EMBANKMENT BILL.
Mr. TALBOT CLIFTON moved that the Salthouse Em-
bankment Bill be referred to Mr. Greene and the Members
appointed to prepare and bring in the same.—Agreed to.
LLYNVI VALLEY AND SOUTH WALES JUNCTION
RAILWAY.
Dr. BOWRING moved that, in the case of the Llynvi
Valley and South Wales Junction Railway Bill, the standing
order, No. 121, be suspended, and that the following amend-
ment be made on the third reading :—Press 2, line 29, after
"esquire," leave out "Francis Carnac Brown, Esq." Press
5, line ult., after "Esquire," leave out "Francis Carnac
Brown, Esq."
BRISTOL, BiRMINGILAWANDNIDLAND RAILWAY
Mr. R. HODGSON moved the suspension of standing.
orders 121 and 122, with reference to the Bristol and
Birmingham and Midland Railways Bill.—Motion agreed to.
Mr. HODGSON then moved the insertion of a clause in
the Bill.—Motion agreed to. Bill read a third time.
UGBY, LEAMINGTON AXD WARWICK RAILWAY.
Mr. R. HODGSON moved that the standing orders 124
Iliad 142 be suspended, with reference to the Rugby, Lea-
mington and Warwick Railway Bill, and the London and
Birmingham (Birmingham Extension) Bill.—Agreed to.
Mr. HODGSON then moved that the Bill be read a third
time this day.
Mr. GREENE supported the motion.
Motion agreed to. Bill read a third time,
ARGYLL CANAL BILL.
Mr. LOCKHART moved, on third reading of the Argyll
Canal Bill, the following amendments, and that the Standing
order, No. 121, be suspended as respects the same:—
Press 6, lines 3 and 4, leave out " Sir James Campbell,
Knight."
Press C, lines 10 and 11, leave out " Alexander Downie,
of Crossbasket," and insert "James M'lnness, David .'Ken-
zie, junior."
Motion agreed to, and Bill read a third time.
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.
Mr. LOCKHART, on bringing up the report from the
Committee on Standing Orders, moved, that the Caledonian
Railway (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Purchase) Bill
be read the third time, with the amendments.
Motion agreed to
AN
Bill read a RAILWAYe accordingly.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS EXTENSION.
Mr. BROTIIERTON moved, on the third reading of the
Manchester and Leeds Railway Extensions Bill, that the
standing order, No. 121, be suspended, for the purpose of
inserting the following amendment and clause :—Clause 33,
in the sixth line from the end of the clause, after " shall
and may," insert " subject as after mentioned." "And be
it enacted, That, from and after such union or =alga-
tion shall take place, the same tolls, rates, and
charges, and no other, authorised by this Act, and
the provisions herein contained in reference thereto, for the
use of the railway, and for the passage and conveyance
thereon of passengers, cattle,ianimals, carriages, goods, wares,
merchandise, articles, matters, and things respectively, shall
be applicable to, and be calculated, charged, and imposed
in respect to the use of the Preston and Wyre Railway, and
the conveyance thereon of passengers, cattle, animals,
carriages, goods, wares, merchandise, articles, matters,
and things respectively ; and in estimating the tolls,
rates, and charges to be taken for short distances and
fractional
parts of a mile, the same shall, with reference to
passengers, cattle, articles, matters, and things, conveyed by
the Company, as well upon tha North Union Railway, if then
`leased to or purchased by the Company, as upon the Preston
and Wyre Railway, he calculated and imposed in such man-
ner as tf the said last named two railways formed one line of
railway. Provided also, that from and after such union or
amalgamation as aforesaid the Company shall and are hereby
required to provide locomotive power on the said Preston and
Wyre Railway, in such and the like manner as they are
hereby required to provide the same upon the railway hereby
authorised."
Motion agreed ; Bill read a third time.
TEMPLEMORE AND NENAGH RAILWAY.
Mr. W. COLLETT moved the third reading of the Tern-
plernore and Nenagh Railway.
Motion agreed to, Bill read a third time.

STANDING ORDERS.
Mr. ESTCOUR'I brought up the report of the Standing
Orders' Committee,
THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK- .
r, DUCOUZ Moved, shattlio pet4lol2 of his

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Sovereign Highness the Duke of Brunswick be printed with
the votes.
Their Lordshi
HOUSE
met at Five o'clockSE OF LORDS, July 10. Mr. HENLEY wished the Hon. Member for Finsbury to
ps . postpone the motion till some of her Majesty's Micisters had
Messengers from the Commons brought up a large number taken their seats in the House.
of railway and other Bills, which were severally read a first Ms T. DUNCOMBE submitted that his motion was not a
tittle. .
question for the Ministers at all; he claimed as a right, on
scripholders of the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union Railway
t presentation of a eti to hit pd. It was a
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the
he
question of practice and formtion, of theave Houserinte . Ministers had
against the further progress of the Bill nothing whatever to do with the question. He did not pro-
Lord DENMAN presented a in
petition from a place the pose to go at all into the merits of the subject. Such
county of Down, praying for the abolition of capital punish- a course would be highly improper in the absence of
manta.
BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY Ministers; he would, therefore, insist upon the petition being
The Earl of CLARENDON was a
laid upon the table of the printed, and quite content to leave the matter in the
House 4 m hands ofthe Spekerinute of the Board of Trade on the subject of this The SPEAKER having intimated that the course which
Bill, and. moved that it be printed, and referred to the Com.. the Hon. Member proposed to adopt was perfectly in order,
mittee on the Bill.
Mr. HENLEY then moved that if the petition be printed
Siveral Bills were then advanced a stage, and the House it should be printed for the use of Hon. Members only, as it
adjourned. contained serious charges against the personal character of
persons very high in station.
The amendment was then agreed to.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY (BIRMING-
HAM EXTENSION).
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
BATTERSEA PARK APPLICATION ON MONEY BILL.
On the question being put that the report on this Bill be
brought up,
Mr. BROTHERTON said he was not opposed to Bills of
this description, but he thought it rather unjust that they
should be confined to the metropolis.
Mr. SPOONER entirely coincided in the observation of the
Hon. Member for Salford, and thought there were many
large manufacturing towns which stood quite as much in
need of these parks as the metropolis.—(Hear.)
The report was then brought up and agreed to.
BAT'TERSEA PARK BILL.
This Bill went through Committee, and the whole of the
clauses having been agreed to, the House resumed, and the
Chairman reported accordingly.—Report on Monday.
CHELSEA-BRIDGE AND THAMES EMBANKMENT.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM AND MIDLANDS
RAILWAY.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
CALEDONIAN RAIL WAY.
The Caledonian Railway (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coat-
bridge Railway Branches) Bill was read a third time, and
passed. _

- WEST RIDING UNION RAILWAY (No. 2).
This Bill was read a third time, and' passed.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
On the motion of Mr. PARKER, it was agreed that the
House, at its rising, do adjourn till Monday.
ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.
Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition, very numerously
and respectably signed, from parties professing the Roman
Catholic religion in Bolton, in favour of the Roman Catholic
Relief Bill.
The remaining orders were then disposed of, and the House
adjourned at Half-past Two o'ulook.

RAILWA Y COMMITTEES

CALEDONIAN (GLASGOW TERMINI AND
BRANCHES).

Their Lordships met at the usual hear in the above room,
Lord Bathurst taking the chair as usual. The cases for the
petitioners were proceeded with.
Several witnesses were called and gave evidence in corro-
boration of that heard yesterday.
Mr. John Miller, engineer of the Great North British
Railway, in his evidence said that the ground at Shiels•
bridge was already pre-occupied by the General Terminus
Company, whose Bill had been granted, so that the arrange-
ment come to by the Caledonian Company before the Com-
mons' Committee, to carry back their junction with the
Ayr Railway to near that bridge, could not be constructed
without diverting the Paisley canal beyond the limit
of the deviations which this Bill gives them power
to do. That, assuming the Caledonian got this
proposed terminus in the City, their mode of carrying
along the through traffic would necessitate a break of the
train ; that part of it might be carried along Bridge-street
by another engine, or they must give up the Bridge-street
branch altogether. Mr. M. considered that the whole
scheme was such as the engineer would not now, under the
altered circumstances, propose to lay down.
Cross-examined by Mr. HOPE—'There were altogether 105
feet within the limit of deviation and the canal, and four sets
of rails could be laid down in 53 feet; but not so if these
sets of rails belonged to different lines, and much less if they
were on different levels, as was the case here, for the canal,
the Caledonian, the General Terminus, and the joint line,
would give four different levels.
Mr. ANDREWS, Q.C., produced three letters of the 6th, Bth,
and 28th of May last, to Lord Worsley, Chairman of the
Commons Committee from the Admiralty, the last of which
was accompanied with a report from Captains Bethune and
Denison, unfavourable to any, crossing of the river Clyde, as
proposed by the Caledonian Company, south of the Stockwell-
bridge. The Admiralty agreed in this report, but their
letter of the 28th of May reached the Chairman of the Com-
mons Committee a day after the preamble of the Bill for the
Caledonian liine was passed.
Lord Belhaven having been called, said he was well ac-
quainted with Glasgow and the lines south and north of the
Clyde. He considered it very important that a junction be-
tween these should be effected, which would necessitate a
crossing of the river, but he thought one crossing, and one
only, should be allowed.

Mr. AUSTIN, Q,C., proposed to call Mr. Walker, with a
view to lay before the Committee a full statement of all the
circumstances under which the report from the Commis-
sioners of the Admiralty had been drawn up, which, be ex-
pected to show, was not a final decision.

Mr. ANnums objected to Mr. Walker being allowed to
give evidence, as the case for the promoters was closed.
The room was ordered to be- cleared. Parties, on being
re-admitted, were told that the Committee would call Mr.
Walker.

Mr. Walker, examined by the CHAIRMAN, said he had
been sent down by the Admiralty to examine this very cross-
ing, and he made his report on the 12th of March. He
understood that another company was to cross at the same
place. He believed that Captains Bethune and Denison
were sent down about the formation of the docks near
Glasgow. He said he had stated in his report
to the Admiralty that if a great public good were to be
gained, the obstruction would be very small to the river.
The Committee refused to hear Mr. Walker's report, the one
on their Lordships' table being later. He said he was consuiting engineer to the Clyde trustees.
Mr. ANDREWS then addressed the Committee against
the Buil, on the part of the Glasgow and Ayr Rsil-
way, the city of Glasgow, and the town of Gorbals,
and individual proprietors, contending that the approach
to Glasgow, and through it, should be confined to one great
general scheme, which would effect a junction with the lines
north and south of the Clyde without exposing the city
and private property, to be cut up by rival and independent.
companies. Bin Andrews, in commenting on the evi-
dence,
cautioned their Lordships as to the testimony given
by r. Walker, who admitted that he was consulting en-
gineer to the Clyde trustees, the Chairman of which was
called to give evidence in favour of the Caledonian line.
Mr. MONTAGUE SMITH addressed the Committee on be-
half of the heritors of Gorbals against the Bill, and called
witnesses to show that damage would be sustained by the
Gorbals parish church, situated within 30 feet of the -Cale-
i.onian proposed line, at the corner of Canton-terrace and
Buchan-street.