The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-09 00:00:00

GROUP LTI.

The Select Committee appointed to consider the merits of the kills
eomprised in this group re-assembled this morning for lite first thus
after the recess. Jr. Ewart in the chair.

LONDON AND BLACXWALL EXTENSION.
This ease was resumed, Mr. Whately appearing to oppose it on 1).-
half of the Last and West India Dock Company.
Several witnesses were called to prove that the proposed works
would inflict serious injury on the Cempany's property in Fenchurcli-
street, while the anticipated advantages of the proposed extension
were not sufficient to compensate the public or the Company for Busk
injury.

The
oppbsition occupied the Committee nearly the whole of the
lay, but it turned out to be ineffectlre, and the Committee decided
that the preamble of the Bill had been proved.
The Committee adjourned shortly after four o'clock.

GROUP LVII.
The Committee on this group met to-day at half-past one o'clock,
in room No. 27 (Grand Corridor) ; present, the Right Hon. F.
Baring (chairman), Mr. Staunton, Mr.:Baskerville, Mr. Berrvetie.
and Mr. Charles East.
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The Bills inclnded in the group are siz, viz.,
Dudley Camel and Birmingham Canal Atnatgamatios ; the
London and Birmingham Grand Junction, and
Manchester
and
Birmingham Railway Amalgamation, the Londonana
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(Aylesbury Purchase), the Shrewsbury,
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These Bills were severally ca
and petitions against the measitive re-
the absence of some of the leadiag counsel. At length
Consequence o
said, if the parties have agreed
The CHAIRMAN
Bills fret, the Committee will go en. We will wait five minute*
longer, and no more.
Mr. WADDINGTON, who appeared for the London and Birmingham
and Dudley Amalgamation Bill, said that it was agreed that the first
Bill taken should be

THE LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM Git.a.ND
JUNCTION, AND MANCHESTER AND BIR-
MINGHAM RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.
But the parties could not at once proceed, as neither Mr. Austin
nor Mr. Talbot was present. Those gentlemen had been sent for.
Mr. TALBOT, having arrived, stated that it would not be neces-
sary to occupy the Committee at any length, as there was no opposi-
tion to the preamble of the Bill, the object of which was to place
the several lines set forth In the title of the Bill under one manage-
ment by Parliamentary sanction, as they had been for some time
past, in fact. There had been misunderstanding and a degree of
bad feeling between the management of thosea differenteouside ralbinleea; but
such feelings had subsided, and the parties themselves, as well as
the public, would be greatly benefited by the unity of management.
There would be a greater accommodation, and reduc-
tion
of the rates.

Captain lluish, manager of 'the Grand Junction Railway traffic,
was called, and gave evidence to the effect that the arrangements
which the proposed Bill was intended to sanction had been found to
operate beneficially to the public as well as to the parties concerned
in the three companies.

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The Committee ultimately postponed their decision upon the Pre-
amble until to-morrow, in order to consult the Board of Trade lu the
meantime.

The other Bills in the group
same view. were also postponed with the

DEATH OF THE HON. E. ROBERT rLUNICETT.-WC!
regret to learn that letters have been received from the Earl
and Countess of Fingal!, in Italy, which convey the distress-
ing intelligence of the death of the Hon. E. R. Plunkett, their
second son, who died at Milan on the 2;th ult. The hon.
deceased was in his 26th year, having been born in November
1820. He entered the army in the 60th Rifles, but the service
being not according to his habits he retired after a fern years.
The Hon. Gentleman was attached to the British Erribsuisy at
Vienna, and had only left the Austrian capital a %lir month*
to meet his relatives 111