The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-02 00:00:00

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.

The following resolutions were reported from this Committee :--
1. That, in the case of the South Yorkshire Coal Railway and
Canal petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—Tbal,
the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill.
2. That, in the case of the Goole and Doncaster Railway petition,
the standing orders ought to he dispensed with :—That the parties be
permitted to proceed with their Bill.
3. That, in the case of the Clyde Dock
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tion of those proposed to Clauses 27 and 34.
4. That, in the case of the Furness Railway Extensions petition.
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the partici; be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on procuring additional Sub-
scriptions under Contract to the amount of 3,3001. athneatexurcee:
5. That, in the case of the Exeter Great Western Railway petition.
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be
permitted to proceed with their Bill on either procuring additional
Subscriptions under Contract, to the amount of 162,5001., making A
total Subscription Contract of 487,5001., being three-fourths of the
amount of the estimate, after deducting the amount stated in the
declaration of the Great Western Railway Company, or on their de-
positing an amended declaration to the amount of 866,666/. 13s. 4d.,
which sum, when deducted from the amount of the estimate, will
leave 433,333/. 6s. Bd.. of which three-fourths have been subscribed
under the present contract ; and that the parties shall introduce in
their Bill provisions rendering it com:nilsory on the Great Westeri!
Railway Company to contribute the amount stated in their original
declaration, or in their amende i declaration, as the case shall be;
and that the Committees on this and the preceding Bill do examine
in the first place how far such orders have been complied with, au"
do report the same to the House on the report of the Bill.
First, second, fourth, and fifth resolutions agreed to.—Report to lie
on the table.

RAILWAYS.
Select Committee on Group No. 18.
Lord Hotham discharged; Mr. It. H. Yorke selected, and added to
the Committee.
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Select Committee on Group No. 23.
Sir J. Hope discharged; Lord Hotham selected, and added to th
Committee.

Select Committee on Group No. 26.
Dr. Bowring discharged ; Sir J. Hope selected, and added to the
Committee.

DEATH OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR HOWARD ELP110:
szoNE, BART., C.B.—The death of this gallant officer took place O"
Tuesday evening, at Ore Place, Sussex, at the seat of the fainiiP.
near Hastings. The deceased Major-General was the youngest Qt
eight sons of Capt. J. Elphinstone, subsequently an Admiral in Ow
Russian navy, by Miss Warburton, daughter of Mr. J. Warburtoni
He Ras born in 1773, and married in 1803 his first cousin, eldest
daughter of Mr. J. Warburton. The gallant General had been or:
wards of fifty years the army, as his commission as second Lie:
tenant in the Royal Engineers is dated April, 1793. Sir Howard yid
present at the taking of the Cape of Good Hope, in 1795 and 11
1801 he served fis Egypt in the Indian army, tinder the command 0
General sir David naird when he was officer Trnmanding the en"
gineers. In 1806, he was entrusted with a mission to Portugal'
tie subsequently proceeded, under General Whitelocke, with the
expeditionengineer.
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wdiassplasyq.deroenlythwa°t he was rewarded with the decoration of a medal. Sir Howard served in the Peninsula from 1812 to the conclusion of the war, and WL
commanding engineer at the passage of the Adour, and the bloat.%
of, and sortie from Bayonne. For his services in Egypt, he had
..„`"3 ceived a medal, and a medal and two clasps for Roleia, Nivelle, z"0",, Nive. In 1816 he was created a Baronet of the United Kingto;
and was nominated a Commander of the Bath. The deceased
Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Royal Engineers, and his e°,';;
mission was dated as annexed :—Second Lieutenant, April 24; 17 t..
First Lieutenant, Feb. 5, 1796; Captain, July 1, 1800; Breve
Major, Jan. 1, 1812; Regimental Lieutenant-Colonel, July 21, Ito,
Regimental Colonel, Dec. 2, 1824 ; and Major-General, Jan. 10,
The gallant deceased is succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest 70
Mr. Howard Elphinstone, M.l'. for Lewes. The present Baronet _er
born
in 1804, and married in 1829 Miss Curteis, youngest datigl're
of Mr. E. J. Curteis. He entered the House of Commons as rel:Rei
sentative of Hastings, from 1835 to 1837, and at the general eleito.
in 1841 he was returned for Lewes, in conjunction with the
Henry Fitzroy.
Complaints are unceasingly made of the irregultr;
transmission of newspapers by the Post-office to different 10-riojecs
the country. From a heap of letters on the subject, we can ctot
three separate methods of going wrong which seem to be in con!ner.
practice. The first plan is to send in the evening the newsP7 t
iS,
which are ordered to be sent in the morning ; the effect of
that they leave St. Martin's-le-Grand a few hours after the fi_oo
con'
plan, they should have reached their place of destination. ?Lon'
plan, which far surpasses the first in the magnitude of ot.
venience occasioned, consists in keeping the newspapers fer_- `,,,,ant!
three days, and then sending them at leisure. Here, we are the
to observe, the strictest impartiality is shown, and
are
papers are sent in the morning or in the evening, they 4n, roool
subjected to this delay. One might imagine that there was,_ eyed,
for another plan, and that these two methods would inchtneLeelic
species of irregularity. But they are nothing in point - Thu-4,e
to the third, which consists in not sending the papers at au ▪ get
we have three several descriptions of complaints—those7,Z 041
their papers too late, those who get them at irregular interval
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those who never get them. There is certainly somettu
wants mending here.—Tinfes. vailt
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woman and six children, and were in charge of Lieutenant °n
Ogilvey, of the same corps The above detachment
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the 9th of January last, at Cannanore, and duringgec
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109 days, they lost by death three soldiers. This d t proyY-'‘,
prism all young men, who are sent home on account of inu_uir
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sent to '" place some in the hospital; the greater part were
constitutions, and on medical inspection it was found • mar/
Barracks, then to await for their discharge.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.
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er.IDLAND..
DUI3LIN AND ENNISKILLEN.
The Committee to wham these Bills were referred, met this after-
Iluon at three o'clock, in Abingdou-street. Present—The Marquis of
Salisbury, (in the chair,) Earl of Jersey, Lord Charleville, and the
Blishop of Oxford.
.Mr. AUSTIN* (who appeared on behalf of the Dublin and Belfast,
against which the Committee have reported) said he under-
stood that the Committee passed a resolution yesterday,
recommding the Dublin and Be:fast Company to take advantage
of their p esent Bill to form a junction with the Navan and Drogheda
Railway. Now he considered that their Lordships had, in coming to
that decision, laboured under some misapprehension, inasmuch as
that Company had virtually no Bill before their Lordships. • The
Bill to which he presumed their Lordships referred was the
" Belfast Junction Extension," which was quite a distinct railway
to the one for which he appeared.
The CHAIRMAN—There was no mistake at all. We thought our
decision, so far as the junction was concerned, would facil tate your
own interests.
Mr. Aunts; said it was impossible that it could do so, because the
recommendation of the Committee was simply that they should
make three furlongs of railway, in order to join the Kells and Drog-
heda and Navan Branch.
After some discussion, Mr. AUSTIN expressed his anxiety to know
the Intention of the Committee on the subject.
The CHAIRMAN said the view of the Committee was certainly to
put the Dublin and Enniskillen in possession of that line which here-
after might be required for the public convenience.
Mr. AUSTIN proposed that their Lordships should adopt their Bill
to this extent, that they should have power to make the line frem
Kells to Navan, if it was not made by the other parties within a
specified time.

The CHAIRMAN said that they could not do so. The Committee
Were of opinion that the circumstances of the country did not war-
rant the construction of any new line south of Navan.
After considerable discussion, the Committee agreed to the follow-
ing-preamble to the ri solution which was passed yesterday :—" That
it is the opinion of the Committee that it is expedint to put the Dublin
and Enniskillen Company in possession of the line between Bells and
Navan, in order that, if hereafter the traffic of the Company is found
to require a line between Navan and Dublin, that Company may be
in a position to apply to Parliament to form such a line, but at
present they cannot sanction a line south of Navan,"
Mr. AUSTIN—Then, my Lords, your chairman announced that our
preamble was rejected. I don't apply to your Lordships to rescind it.

am sorry for it, but cannot helpli:
The Committee then proceeded with the clauses.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP IV.

THE GREAT NORTH or SCOTLAND.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
mr. Gibb next underwent a very searching cross-examination,
With a view of showing that his estimates were deficient. The price
of-labour, he said, in the districts of this railway, he estimated
ttzus :—Labourers, 2s. per day ; masons, 2s. 6d. ; and carpenters, from
13s. to 15s. per week. His total estimate for viaducts, bridges, &c.,
• was 133,3341.; for land and stations, 269,6691. ; for rails, &c.,
9-5,5,0001. The cross-examination, so far as it went, was
effective, but it was abandoned, on a promise being given
that the details of the gross estimates should be torth-
cohaing to-morrow. The Great North of Scotland Canal,
the witness admitted, ran parallel with the railway, which it
was proposed to shut up. It was to be purchased by the railway
company, but he did not know at what price. The lowest he had
heard named was 15,0001., and the highest 36,0001. He had left this
to be met by ,the Ten per Cent. Contingent Fund. He never heard
of an arrangement to pay Lord Fife's trustees 20001., nor had he
included that sum in his estimate. The house land of Aberdeen was
not provided for, except through the Contingency Fund. The line
Passed under Union-street, but no inconvenience would arise to the
inhabitants from the progress of the locomotive along this part of tne
line. The line entered Elgin on the south side of the town in a man-
ner no way objectionable.
The witness was also cross-examined by Mr. Fonsrru on behalf
of the Perth and Inverness Company. The Great North of Scotland
line was to be amalgamated with the Aberdeen Company, so that
there would be one continuous line tram Perth to Inverness; other-
Wise the passengers going from or to those places would have to be
carried by four distinct Companies.
The Committee adjourned shortly after four o'clock till Monday,
At twelve o'clock.

GROUP VII

EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN (STRA..
THEARNE DEVIATION).

The further consideration of the proposed clause stood over, and
Wine other clauses being approved of, leave was given to insert them ;
AM the Committee proceeded to the case of the

EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN (DUN-
rEnasLx.*z BRANCH).

,This case was next called on, and Mr. Lees, one of the directors,
was called to give the evidence, and put ix the papers required by
Mr. Duncombe's resolutions. He stated that there were but six
directors, who were liable for the whole of the amount
of capital required, for the construction of the line.
They were also liable for five other branches of the Edinburgh and
Northern line. The capital of this line was 18,7951., the whole of
Which had been paid up.
Mr. WAKELY, on the part of several petitioners against the Bill,
cross-examined the witness, and addressed the Committee at great
length, with a view to show that the directors of these branches had
incurred a responsibility greater than they could sustain.
Mr. Lees, in his cross-examination, repeated the statements he had
previously made, and further stated that the amount of capital
above-mentioned had been subscribed. That the whole of that
amount had been paid up and that it was still in hand. There had
been no expenditure as the whole of the expenses had been paid out
of the funds of the Edinburgh and Northern Company.
The CHAIRMAN undertook to prepare a report setting forth the
facts which Mr. Wakely appeared so anxious to make prominent.
After a long and desultory conversation, which occupied the Com-
mittee up to four o'clock, they adjourned until Monday.