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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY
„ETENING, JUNE 16, 1846.

GENERAL TERMINUS AND GLASGOW HARBOUR RAILWAY.
O ;B. ORUAGNI
CI
HE XDTIVI SAIT%; )N.
The promoters bad complied with the standing orders.
).
LEEDS AND THIRSK (NORTH EASTERN EXTENSION,
LELEEDESDSANADNDTHTIIRIsRKSK(s(rK.
HELEN'SAR ESB
WATH TO HARTLEPOOL).
These three Bills, for branches from the Leeds and Think Railway,
were " tried in the balance," and were not " found wanting."
READING, GUILDFORD, AND REIGATE.
Standing orders comptied with.
BUCKINGHAMSHIRE (THING TO BANBURY).
A portion of the necessary evidence having been omitted yesterday
was supplied to-day, and the Bill was finally disposed of, the stand-
ing oriters being declared complied with.
The Rye and Derwent Drainage Bill and the South Leith Church
Bill were also passed.
Their Lordships then resolved themselves into a Select Committee
on Merits, in which they disposed of two estate Bills, which occu-
pied thorn up to four o'clock. The list included ten Bills, of which
four were railway and five estate Bills The remaining Bill was
the Hamilton New Gas.
The proceedings were of no public interest.
The Committee rose at four o'clock.

to himself and to the other members of the Committee. The
Hon. Gentleman the Member for Renfrewshire (Mr. P.
Stewart), whom he saw in his place, had thought it tight, at
a public meeting of the Caledonian Company, to cast very
grave imputations on the Members composing that
Committee. He had thought proper to state that
the report of the Committee was unjust, and that
if the House confirmed the report of the Committee,
that the public would withdraw all their confidence in its deci-
sions, and that no property would be secure while the House
was sitting, but that there was a House of Lords where the
opinions of certain Noble Dukes and Marquises would be
taken at their intrinsic value, and where, no doubt, the
decision of the Committee would be reversed. He regretted
that the Hon. Member had so far forgotten himself as to make
such an observation, because the Members of that House had
most arduous and important duties to discharge, involving
immense interests, and it was not right that they should be
rendered more anxious and annoyed by any such painful im-
putations cast upon them, and especially when they did not
deserve them. But if there was wanted any fresh
proof of the extreme inconvenience of dis-
cussions on the decisions to which Committees of the
House had arrived, that proof he held in his hand in the shape
of a map, sent by the Caledonian Company to the members of
the Committee, in the hope of endeavouring then to reverse
their decision. This was a document which na one should
have dared to present to a Committee of the House of Com-
mons, as it was wrong in various particulars, as it made
the Solway Firth terminate at Dumfries instead of going up
to it, and in addition to other misrepresentations set forth
that the line through Nithsdale Ras not a shorter line from
Carlisle to Glasgow than the Caledonian, whereas the
real distance from Carlisle to Glasgow by the Cale-
donian line was 151, whilst the Nithsdale was
only 1251, and even by a short line passed this
year, the distance would be reduced to 116 miles. The ques .
lion they had to consider was, whether they should be pre-
vented from acceding to the construction of a railway on local
grounds, because the Caledonian Railway had expended capital
in constructing a line only' accommodating aportion of the distrie.
There were no dissentient landowners to the Nithsdale project,
and it would intersect great mineral, agricultural, and com-
mercial districts; and whether they were to refuse to sanction
lines required by the wants of districts, simply because lines
which had been sanctioned by Parliament, but which did not
offer that accommodation, wished to have no competition. The
Caledonian Railway completely broke down with respect to
their through traffic. The Nithsdale would interfere with it.
The Committee sat for fourteen days, and after the most care-
ful and anxious consideration of the whole evidence, they una-
nimously came to the conclusion on the subject that the line
was required for the wants of the district. He would only
further add that the promoters of the line had completely made
out a strong case of local traffic, and that it did not interfere
with the Caledonian line. He would leave the matter in the
hands of the House, with the firm impression that they would
see the propriety of not interfering with the decision of the
Committee.
Mr. P. M. STEWART wished to make a few observations
in explanation of the question before the House, and in refer-
ence to what he had said at a meeting of the shareholders a
fortnight ago, and about which there was some misunderstanding.
What he stated was rather a compliment to the Committee
and the House than otherwise. He stated that he was sur-
prised at the decision of the Committee, and that if the Com-
mittee and the House understood the real state of the question
they would not agree with the decision which had been some
to. All the Caledonian Company wanted was fair play, a
thing which every Englishman required. The decision which
the Committee had come to in June this year was precisely
different to the decision in July, 1845, when the two
lines underwent an investigation for six weeks, ending
in the approval of the Caledonian Company, and he
rejection of the other. He stated at the meeting that he was
sure the Committee were not aware of the merits of the case,
else they would not have come to such an unjust decision.
He stated also that there was still the report to be considered
when the House of Commons could be appealed to on the sub-
ject ; and if such reports were not to be considered in a bona
fide manner, to bring them before the House under that name
would be a mockery. If this consideration was not successful,
reversing the decision, he said they had then the House
of Lords to apply to, where any aristocratic witnesses
that might be taken would only be estimated at the intrinsic
value of their evidence. He stated this, because one Noble
Duke, who was adverse to :the Dumfries line last year gave
evidence in its favour this year. He said then that if justice
was to be done, this decision must be reversed. When the
Committee met, they seemed to have been under the impres-
sion that they were proceeding to a new trial of an old subject,
and, accordingly, the other party moved for the evidence of
last year.
An Host. Maseaaa here rose to explain, but was called to
order.

namely, the evidence given before the Committee last year ;
that ppOication lvid not been grated.—( Hear, hear.)
From a report which he held in his hand, it appeared
that Mr. Sergeant Wranghain made this application, for
some reason unknown to him. That evidence had not
been received. If the House concurred in the decision of the
Committee, the effect would be to deprive the half of Scotland
of a trunk line. H. hoped, therefore, that Hon. Members
would exercise that power vested in them of revising the de-
cisions of their Committees. If the House consented to aban-
dont its right to do so, there was an end to the matter. He en-
treated the House to take it into their serious consideration.
He thought if such a decision was to be deed on, it would
risk the carrying out of the railway system throughout Scot-
land, and materially interfere with the application of ca-
pital.

An Hon. Member whose name we could not learn, spoke
in favour of the decision of the Committee, on the Netherdale
line, would open an important mineral and agricultural dis-
trict, which-at present looked from the absence of railways.
The mineral riches of Ayrshire at present were eel), great,
there being 34 iron furnaces in Oast, and the connection with
Dumfries.hire would be a great service in bringing the coal
and iron of the former country to the latter, and in taking back
agricultural predue to the manufacturing districts of the west.
Sir EDWARD COL EBROK E said that on the present
question it was important that they should have before them
the grounds of the first decision, on the merits of the two lines.
He did not wish to consider the question as a shareholder, but on
public grounds, and he appealed to the Chairman of the Committee
of last year, when the whole question was fully considered, to
state whether the inquiry went to show that the
country was too poor to support the two lines of rail-
way. If tee fact were so, no alteration, he pre-
sumed, had taken place since last year to justify another
decision. They must, if the joint decision was the right one,
and if the Caledonian was the best to supply the general
wants of the country, support it, and reject the Netherdale
scheme.
Mr. PARKER, as he had been appealed to, rose
to explain. It was not Lis intention to have
spoken on the question, but after having been so pointedly ap-
pealed to, he felt it to be his duty to rise and offer
an explanation as to the proceedings of last year.
It was perfectly true that the Committee of last year were
divided on this subject. The four Members for Winchester,
Cheshire, and Barnstaple joined with him (Mr. Parker) in
the opinion, that for the general purposes of Scotland, that was
to say for local traffic—( Hear, hear)—they considered, and he
saw no reason why he should now change his opinion, that as
a national line, and one calculated to accommodate all parts of
the north of Scotland, the Caledonian was the bes.., trunk
line.—( Hear, hear.) If, therefore, there was to be a
Caledonian line, then they had to consider what
was to become of that most important population situate in the
mineral district in the west of Scotland, a line for which dis-
trict should, in point of fact, be considered with respect to
Dumfries. He was sorry to be forced to say that last year the
Committee came to the conclusion that these two lines could
not exist together.—( Hear, hear.) He was bound under the
present circumstances to state the reasons of that decision.
The Committee thought that they were called upon to sanction
the Caledonian and reject the other, as they did not
consider it as well adapted for the traffic of the district through
which it would pass. The Noble Lord the member for Ply-
mouth was of a different opinion ; he thought that both lines
could exist at the same time. The Committee, therefore, with
the view of leaving the whole matter to another decision, con-
cluded that die decision on the branch to Dumfries should be
postponed. They did not wish to sanction a scheme
that should be incompatible with the interests of the public
and the companies concerned. Now these were the simple
conclusions at which they had arrived. And the Hon. Mem-
ber opposite would hear in mind that, in the first instance, the
Caledonian was considered to be the best for Scotland at large,
and they left the question as to the best railway accommodation
for the western district to a future decision. They were de-
cidedly of opinion that that district should be immediately pro-
vided with railway accommodation. He had felt himself called
upon to lay this short statement of facts before the House.
, Mr. ESTCOURT rose, but was almost inaudible in the
gallery, but we understood him to say that he was glad he had
heard the opinions of the Chairman of the Committee
last year. He begged the House to recollect that that Com-
mittee had given its decision on evidence such as was laid
before them, and the facts as they were there stated no doubt
appeared to justify that decision. Both schemes went into
Committee, and that Committee it seemed paeferred one of
them on the grounds then laid down. But that evi-
dence was also introduced, no doubt, by the Niths-
dale Company, and that was the time when the Caledonian
ought to have opposed it ; now to come in and oppose it,
bow ever good a line it might be, however convenient for the
country was too much. All that had been done by the com-
mittee of this year, was that they disallowed our expression
used in the decision of last year's committee, "that there was
not sufficient traffic for both lines," and gave it as their opinion
on the decision they had come to, that there was traffic enough
for both lines.
Mr. AINSWORTH said that an impression seemed to have
been made on several Members of the House that the Com-
mittees of this year refused to hear evidence; such seemed to
be the impression made on the Hon. Member for Perth.
What had been said in that Committee was simply that they
were ready to receive all information that might be offered on
the merits of the line, but they had nothing to say with
ought that had been done by a Committee of last year.
They listened with the greatest attention to the whole of the
immense quantity of evidence adduced before them in order that
they might come to a just decision on the merits of the Bill. It
had been stated that the Caledonian and Nithdale were rival lines
but this was not so, and he considered the distinction drawn by
the Hon. Member for Oxford was a fsir one. The Caledonian
was given last year as a direct line to the north, and without
the slightest regard to affording railway communication to the
eastern and western districts of Scotland; it was not granted with
.any view to intersect those rich mineral and agricultural dis.
tricts. They had the evidence of parties from Kilmarnock
and from the mineral districts, and of every landed
proprietor, all of whom were praying that the Nithsdale
line might be made, as it would promote the interests of
the country at large ; in short, they had the evidence,
it seemed. of the whole population,_ whose prayer was to the
same effect, and the country from Dumfries up to Kilmarnock
had been illumninated by the decision of the Committee.—
( Hear, hear.) And there could be no doubt that it would be a
very great benefit to the whole country at large. It appeared to
him that that the Committee last year looked forward to this
Caledonian line as connecting the South with the North of
Scotland, and the Committee this year viewed it in this light
when they refused to pass the Nortu British Railway, as
they cLrisidered it would :compete with the Cale-
&llion Railway; but they could not take that view of the
Dumfriesshire line, as no reason was adduced why the im-
portant districts of Dumfriesshire, Kilmarnock, and Ayrshire,
should not have communication with the Dumfries line.—
(Loud cries of " Divide, divide.")
Mr. LOCKHART considered that the Committee were
justified in passing the Dumfriesshire project, but that they
were not justified in cutting off branches projected by the
Caledonian, w birth in the aggregate amounted to seventy miles.
Mr. EWART said, as he represented the district which the
Nithsdale railway was proposed to traverse (Dumfriesshire), ho
wished to state that upon its success depended in a great mea-
sure the prosperity of those large districts. He would not say
one word more, except to express his hope, that after
the unanimous opinion of the House and of the Honour-
able Member for Oxford in favour of the' project,
that the Hon. Member (Mr. H. Johnstone) would not per-
severe in his motion. ( The Hon. Gentleman sat down amidst
loud cries of " Divide, divide.")
Sir R. FERGUSON wished to ask the Hon. Member for
Renfrewshire, whether he was a reader of the Edinbur9h. Ad-
rtr;iser.—(Cries of "Divide, divide.") He wished to ask
the Honourable Member this question, because he thought it a
most unbecoming thing for any Hon. Gentleman to go to a
public meeting and say that the decision of the Committee
was a partial one, for that was what the remarks of the Hon.
Gentleman amounted to. He stated that the Sommittee had

THE LONDON GAZETTE'.

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 12, 1846.

Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Keppel Robert Edward
Foote, Esq., In the room of Charles Pettingal, Esq., deceased, to be
Arbitrator on the part of her Majesty in the Mixed British and Por-
tuguese Commission established at Boa Vista, in the Cape Verde
Islands, under the treaty of the 3d of Jane, 1842, between Great
Britain and Portugal for the Suppression of the Slave Trade.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 12.

Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint Thomas Crowley Weston,
Esq., in the room of Charles Brooke Bidwell, Esq., deceased, to be
Registrar to the several Courts of Mixed Commission established at
Sierra Leone, under treaties with Foreign Powers for the Suppres-
sion of the Slave Trade.

Mr. P. M. STEWART continued to say that he had his in-
, formation from those who were better acquainted with the de-
tails than himself, and he certainly was informed that counsel
—he thought Mr. Cockburn—applied for the evidence of last
year, but it was refused by the Committee. What, then,
he asked, were those facts which had affected the decision of the
Committee of last year ? There were two schemes proposing
to iroceed into Scotland by Carlisle ; these two were brought
before the public—Commissioners were appointed by the Board
of Trade to investigate both of them—the very same schemes
as were now before the House. These Commissioners
having made their investigation, gave their decision in favour
of the Caledonian, as the best of the two schemes. That Com-
mission was appointed in 1841, but it was not till 1844 that
subscriptions could beget up sufficient for the company pro-
ceeding with their operltions. Here he claimed the help of the
Board of Trade, for they had interfered in a most obvious
manner. The Board gave their decision in favour of the Ca-
ledonian, because, in their opinion, there was not traffic suffi-
cient for both lines. Both schemes, however, were now
brought before the House. He would not mention the sums
expended in the eontest, for he thought it would cast a slur on
that House, that public undertakings must be burdened with
so great a cost. The Caledonian passed both Houses last year,
and on the 31st July it received the royal assent. Since
then contracts had been entered into, as many as 10,000
men were employed on the line, and as much as
200,000!. had been laid out. Although the other scheme had
been put forward as not being a competing line ; but the
chairman of the Nithsdale Company said at a meeting of that
company, that they might rejoice, for they had broken the
back of the Caledonian at last. The map was faith-
fully drawn as regarded the districts through which this line
was proposed to pass. Was there anything, he would ask
the Hon. Member, required in a map, beyond showing dis-
tinctly the juxta-position of the railroad ?—(Hear, hear.)
And as regarded the, traversing of the country, and the juxta-
position of the railroad, he would maintain that
the map was sufficient for every purpose of that nature. It was
alleged that it represented the line as too near Dumfres, and
too far from Carlisle. The original plan of the Caledonian
was laid down by Mr. Locke, the engineer, and Annan was in-
cluded in it. The Board of Trade ordered him to draw it out
in its present shape. It was proposed that there should be,
instead of one branch as originally proposed, a south branch
springing from the main trunk line at Carlisle, and a north
branch near Glasgow. But what had they done'? They had
awarded the construction of those branches to their opponents.
Now he would ask the House to consider this most impor-
tant expenditure of 2,000,000/. on the construction of one
line. It had been plainly stated that there was traffic only for
one line, and that the Caledonian line was merely a 5 per cent.
line with all its expenditure. The Committee appeared to have
acted in a most anti-Caledonian spirit,—a spirit for which he
could not account. For a length of seventy miles there was a
strictly Caledonian line. By this fell swoop of the Committee
they had refused to give the Caledonian, for a length of seventy
miles, one single branch.—( Hear.) It had been reported by
the Board of Trade that there was traffic only for
one line. The Caledonian had faithfully discharged
their duties. Wy were they not permitted to go
on and finish h
their work. And if they did not
properly carry out the spirit of their undertaking, let Parlia-
ment visit them with all the vengeance they could exercise, but
let them not pretend to say that this line was not a competitor.
He would ask them to say whether between 300,0001. and
400,000/. had been expended by the Caledonian Company ? He
asked whether that was the way to dispose of the public money
without any reasons being assigned. He asserted that he was
not interested in this matter, further than being a director of
the Caledonian Company, and he was glad to be able to afford
that information to his Hon. Friend, who appeared to feel no
sympathy for him. He had no interest in it beyond that. His
constituents and friends were strongly in favour of the line, and
last session he presented a petition from them in favour of the
Bill, but after the Legislature had given its decision in
favour of the Caledonian, all the constituents on
earth should induce him to play so foul a part, to turn round
against those who, under the sanction of Parliament, had em-
barked their capital in the undertaking, and support their old
had been lying in the grass for
the present Bill was the same
e House in the last session of
astch emt
the
Parliament, only it was under a different name, but he trusted
one
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whichm who,.ntchasm. likee abl
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snake,
the House would not allow it to pass, and at the same time
require the Caledonian proprietors to complete the task which
they authorised them to take in the last session of Parliament.
11r. HUME wished to ask whether the Committee were
unanimous or not ?

been dazzled by the case attempted to be made out
by the promoters.—(Loud cries of "Divide, divide.")
He did think there was something very im-
proper, and indeed something very unfair, in the
remarks made against the chairman of that Committee. He
. .

did not care one -farthing whether they set aside the decision
of the Committee _or not, he did not care in the

slightest degree whether or not they respect the vote
of the Committee, but he would say what was
the use of sending Bids before a Committee when
the decision of that Committee was to be opposed in that
House by Hon. Members, for no other reason than that they
differed from that decision. All the Scotch Members in that
House were up in arms against the decision of the
Committee.—(Great confusion.) He believed that there was a
Gentleman who had just entered the House who expressed
himself very strongly at a public meeting against the decision
of the Committee, and he believed that the Hon. .Member
went so far as to say that the decision of the Committee was
not a fair one. He would not allow any ote to say that he had
been influenced by any but the most impartial motives
in voting in that Committee, and he would take the
first opportunity of fully condradicting that imputation when
he met that gentleman in private. He thought such conduct
was most unprecedented and unworthy. He wished to know
if kihe Hon. Member had read the report of that meeting in
the Edinburgh Adertiser. He would hand the paper to the Hon.
Member for his perusal.—( Loud cries of " Divide, divide,"
during which the Hon. Member handed the paper to Mr. P.
Stuart.) The Hon. Member proceeded amidst great confusion.
Hon. Members ought not to go to public meetings were all
were on one side, and there attack a Committee who could not
be present to dany or contravent what was stated.—(Hear. )
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but the division
had not taken place when our repert left.

Sir W. CLAY was understood to reply that they were per
rectly so. _

Lard JAMES STEWART said it was not his intention to
have addressed the House, but after what had fallen from his
Hon. Friend the Member for ltenfrewshire, who appeared
anxious to support a huge monopoly, he felt it indispensibly
necessary to trouble the House with a few observations upon
this important Bill. His Hon. Friend hid told the
House that the Committee upon the Caledonian Bill
sat for six week, and that at the end of that
period, after carefully considering the matter, the Committee
came to the decision that the preamble to the Bill had been
proved; but his Hon. Friend carefully avoided stating that
the Committee was not unanimous in that opinion. He did not
tell the House that the Noble Lord the Member for Plymouth
wa s opposed to the decision of the Committee. Now, with
regard to the merits of the Bill itself, let him remind the
House, that Ayr was one of the most important counties in
Scotland,—a county which abounded in rich minerals that were
rapidly and daily becoming more and more developed; and he
had no doubt the knowledge of this fact weighed with the Com-
mitteee in coming to this decision. The line, too, passed thraugh
the whole of the important towns of the district who had peti-
tioned strongly in favour of the line. Most of the principal
landed proprietors were favourable to the line, and to show the
estimation in which it was held, he might mention on its being
made known that the Bill had passed it was made the subject
of a general rejoicing.
Mr. FOX MAULE said, before the House divided, he
must be allowed to say a few words upon this important
subject. He was connected with neither company,
and was only interested in obtaining the best trunk
line from England to the North of Scotland.
In 1839, it would be remembered, a Commission was ap-
pointed by Government to examine the county, with a view of
discovering the best trunk line from England to Scotland.
The Commission discovered, after a very careful investigation,
that the county was exceedingly poor, and that any line of
railway running through it must depend upon the through
traffic to Edinburgh and Glasgow. They were, therefore, in-
clined to think that only one line could be maintained, and they
reported what they thought would be the best and proper line.
In 1841, the line laid down by the commissioners was adopted
by a company who enrolled themselves under the name or title
of the Caledonian Company, and in the course of time ano-
ther company presented itself to the country under the name
or title of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway. Both
these schemes were considered first of all by the Board of
Trade, who came to the same opinion as the commissioners,
that the country would not afford a sufficiency of
traffic to maintain two great trunk lines ; and they
decided that the line which ought to be selected
and adopted by Parliament was the Caledonian railway.
The Committee, after sitting for six weeks, and taking the
most voluminous evidence, came to the decision that the Cale-
donian was a right and proper trunk line to be given to Scot-
land.i They rejected the preambles of the other Bills, because
m attained itt ee otfhei thatr
they found that the country would not admit of two railways.
In the year 1845. after great expente and a contest of six
weeks n h m
Bill.n e hheey
werecould snaeywheozplloonyg. elsewhere—they.ing 10,000 men on their works ; they had entered into
nogagernents for a million of money in their "con-
tracts, and there was also a large - stun for which
they were engaged. The present Company was one not ori-
ginating in wild speculation. It was a bona fide Company,
acting upon the faith of Parliament, entering upon their works,
and carrrying them on with the greatest possible speed. The
Caledonian Company negociated to be allowed to broduce be-
fore the Committee evidence of the best possible nature,

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The Earl of SHAFTESBCRY, in the absence of the Lord
Chancellor, took his seat upon the Woolsack, at ten minutes
before five o'clock.
Messengers from the House of Commons brought up several
Bills, and praying their Lordship's concurrence.
On the motion of Lord LYTTLE'FON, the Bill for Abo-
lishing the Office of Superintendent of Convicts to Bermuda
and other Llands, was read a second time.
HARBOURS OF PORT PATRICK AND DONA-
GHADEE.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY pursuant to a notice he
gave on a former evening moved for the production of al re.
ports and documents connected with the harbours at Port
Patrick and Donaghadee, especially Sir J. Rennie's last report
041 Captain Evan's rudiments, which have been
placcd before the Admiralty. When he had last men-
tioned the subject he had stated that this was the
best communication, and that it. had been approved of
by the Board of Admiralty of that time. It had also been ap-
proved of by the Trinity Board in 1819. In 1823 a Committee
of their Lordships' House had come to the same decision
In 1830 a Comnaitteee of the House of Commons had said the
same thing, and in 1843 the Admiralty had again approved of
it. The whole expense of this establishment appeared to be
8001. a-year ; this money was spent simply to
direct the expenditure of a few thousands; last year
the sum voted was 5,000. of which only 3,000/.
were spent, so that 8004 were spent to direct the expenditure
of 3,0,;0/. if he could show that there were better harbours
and better means of communication, he should assign a suffi-
cient reason for the retrenchment of the expense.
Sir
They had the opinions of Captain Leonard,
John Rennie, and Captain Evans, in the r
cost,
by which it appeared that the present harbours Nagem,nt,
y
with their attendant expenses for steamers and management,
21,9001. a year ; while the harbours of Port rat,reicrk. and Do-
naghadee would be an expense of only 1,800/. a year.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH said he
-e prepared
s no able
to d
to teol I
withth
Noble Marquis what the:7te best eo
oivern
thing the railwaym companies
respect to the harbour.
interested in it was to make some distinct representation upon
the subject.
PUBLIC HOUSES (SCOTLAND.)
r v
-
The Earl of SELKIRK presenteds
of theevera
Ipesttiatitoert of sr°ln a
rious persons in Scotland, complaining
public-
houses in Scotland, and the save of spiritous liquors on the
Sabbath. .

THE GAUGE QUESTION.
Lord LITTLETON presented teveral petitions from various
persons
complaining of the report of the Gauge Cornmis-
sioners, and praying the flouie to take the report into further
consideration.
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE RAILWAY.
Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from a person of