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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY)

Sub-Committee No. 2.

ZDINDURGH, GLASGOW, AND DUMBAR-

TONSHIRE.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

The rosin was then cleared, and on our re-admission,
The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee were of opinion
that In this case the standing orders had not been complied with.
There was another petition from Mr. James Derry, a burgess
of Dunmbarton, complaining generally of non-compliance with the
standing orders.
T mo allegations were heard which were not sustained.
The Committee then found that the standing orders had not been
complied with by the promoters of the bill.
This was the fourth (lay occupied by this case.
The next case on the list was then called, but the witnesses not
being in attendance, the Committee adjourned shortly after three
o'clock till twelve o'clock to-morrow, when none but unopposed
eases are to be taken.

Sub-Committee No. 3.
THE WELSH MIDLAND.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
The next petition was sustained, inasmuch as the extreme depth of
cutting was not marked upon', the plans, as was also anoiher'alleg-
log that the extreme height of an etnuankment was not shown.
The nicety of the standing orders about tritles was exemplified in
the Committee declaring a non.cotnpliancelwith them, because a
distance had been put in chains, whereas the standing orders
requ re that it should have been put in furlongs and chains—a split-
ting-of-hair kia boundsstruction, which the Honourable Chairman
said they were to respect. A number of petitions upon the
g round of non-compliance with the standing orders were
proved, and the case was closed so far as the standing ordersdeclared were
concerned.
The CHAIRMAN said that upon the whole case the November depo•
sits were totally inaccurate, as were also a number of the 31st Decent
ber deposits ; but for ascertaining how many of the standing orders
had ot been complied with, the agents on both sides should confer
withn the shorthand writer, and arrange the matter before the Com-
mittee submitted their report to the House.
At the close of the proceedings,
Mr. VENam.xs said that it; had been alleged that many of the in-
accuracies in the deposits had occurred through the illness of 34r.
Hall, the engineer, but he had been instructed to say, that although
the Company were in difficulties about what they had in hand, they
had employed their forces in surveying a new line thirty miles in
length intended to run front Quaker's-yard to Pontypool.
Mr. Hall and Mr. Gibbs were asked a number of questions, but
nothing was elicited to show that anything but Mr. Hall's illness had
occasioned the inaccuracles.
Mr.:Hall declared that 'his illness was the sole cause, and that he
had never before failed to succeed in complyiug with the stand-
ing • orders, although he had been a surveyor of public works for
some years. He and his men had worked until they could scarcely
stand, and it was hardly fair to charge him with negligence, or a
desire to conceal anything, or state what was not strictly true.
The CHAIRMAN said that there was not the slightest imputation
either en the character of Mr. Hall or any other engineer employed
upon the line.
It was intimated that a special case upon the standing orders
would be gone into in the morning.

LYNN AND ELY (EXTENSION TO
SPALDING).

This is a line of railway proposed to be constructed between Wis-
beach and Spalding, with a branch to liolbeach, the cost of which
was estimated at 185,0001. Parliamentary agents, Dyson and Hall ;
engineer, Mr. J. S. Valentine.
There is a petition against the Bill, but the usual formal proofs
were accepted, and the consideration of the petition against the pro-
ject was postponed.
The Committee then adjourned until the usual time to-morrow
morning.

Sub-Committee No. 5,

The Committee met at the usual hour (twelve o'clock) ; the Mem-
bers!! iu attendance were Mr. Home Drummond (Chairman), Mr. F.
Mackenzie, the O'Conor Don, Mr. Tattoo Egerton, Mr. Phillips,
and Mr. Compton.
FURNESS AND WINDERMERE.
This case, which was before the Committee on Friday last, was
again renewed this morning. The omission from the book of re-
ference of the name of 31 r. James Michel, over whose property a
portion of the line is proposed to pass, was then examined into, and
the Committee decided, after hearing the witnesses on both sides, that
the Standing Orders were complied with.
The next allegation was, that there was no description of the surface
of the road in the cross sections 7 and 8, the property proposed to
be altered in the parish of Windermere.
The Committee geeided the levels were marked but not described.
The next allegation was, that no estimate of the expense of the al-
ternative line had been made and signed by the parties competent to
do so. The evidence went to show that an estimate was lodged at
the Private Bill-office, but had been lost or mislaid, and the par-
ties could not produce a copy. Mr. Harris, the engineer to the Bill,
to meet this occurrence, drew up another estimate, which he handed
to the opposing agent.
Mr. VEINABLES, on the part of the opposing petitioners here objected
and said it was not in time, and that the estimate now handed in
gave no details of the description of the line which was proposed
to be constructed. The objection of the petitioners was, that the
estimate lodged at the Private Bill-office was not sufficient or correct
estimate according to what was required by the standing orders.
The Committee adjourned the farther consideration of this point
until Friday next, in order to give time to the agents for the Bill to
nen; to the country for a true copy of the original estimate.
74' AN CHESTER: AND POOLE (LUGGERS—
HALT., SA.I.ISEURY, AND POOLE).

The object of the promoters of this line is to construct a railway
from Cheltenham, by Luggershall, to Salisbury, and thence to Poole,
constructing by their plan a continuous line from the manufacturing
districts to the town and port of /Poole. The length was 44 miles,
and the estimated cost 700,0001. Engineers, Messrs. Stephenson,
Bidder, and Routh ; Parliamentary Agents, Messrs. Dorington,
Ellicombe, and Co. ; solicitors, Messrs. Wheeler, Manchester; James,
Basinghall•street, London ; and I)eaco❑ and Long, Southampton.
A petition from Mr. Robert Scott Stoble, complaining of non-
compliance with the standing orders, was then entered into.
The. petitioner was represented by Mr. Coates, who said that
his objection was of a preliminary nature, as to whether
the notices to Parliament of the intended railway were suf-
ficiently explicit. inasmuch as that there was an amend-
ment on the Bill to empower the Midland Counties Railway
Company to subscribe to the proposed work to be executed;
and his objection was that there had been published separate notices
of these amendments, whereas it had been ruled last year by the
Parliamentary Committees that cumulative notices cduld not be
given in evidence, but that the notices depended on should contain
all the matter in connexion with the Bill. On this point, he sub-
mitted that the original notices could not be received by the Com-
mittee, who stated they would nut give their decision for the present.
IVIACCLESFXELD AND LICHFIELD.

The petitioners in this case sought for leave to construct a line of
railway from Macclesfield, by Leek Cheadle and Abbots Bromley,
to the Trent Valley Railway at Lichfield. The length of the line
proposed is forty•five miles two furlongs ; estimated cost, 1,000,000/. ;
subscribed capital, 1,2.50,0001. Engineer, Mr. J. Locke ; I'arlia-.
mentary agents, Messrs. Gregory and Co. ; solicitors, Messrs.
Gregory, Faulkner, and Co., and 31r. Wm. Challoner, of Leek.
Mr. Joins Crusoe and Mr. John Smith were petitioners against
the proposed line. There were various allegations contained in the
petitions, the first of which was, that certain lands situate in the
parish of l'resbury, county of Chester, and vested in one of the peti-
tioners for the children of Mr. John Smith, of Daintery, were not
returned correctly in the book or reference, which was overruled. A
similar allegation contained in the petition of Mr. lloubury was next
taken, when Mr. Oldacres, the occupying tenant, was examined, who
proved that the property belonged to Mr. Horbury. Objection con-
sidered
The next petition was from the owners of the Trent and Mersey
Navigation Company.
Their first allegation was, that by the 59th clause of the proposed
Act, the Manchester and Birmingham Railway Company were to
have the power of purchasing and lea-sing the intended railway, and
that thQy should have published accordingly in certain newspapers
in the adjoining counties.
he Committee postponed their decision until to-morrow, at twelve
o'clock, and then adjourned.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEES.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
This Committee resumed its labours at Twelve o'Clock this day.
CLONMEL AND TH LIMES RAILWAY.
The two witnesses required to complete the evidence on this line
being produced, the Committee declared the standing orders had been
cams lied. The length of the line is twenty-nine miles, with a branch
to the collieries of Sleivardogh of ten nines and a half, and will form
a junction between the Great. Southern and Western and Waterford
and Limerick Railways.
The estimated cost is 400,000/. ; engineer, Sir John 111`Neil ; solici-
tors, Messrs. Labarte and Anderson, and Barrington and Co.
THE TEMPLEMORE AND NENAGH RAILWAY.
The Committee reported that the Colavany had complied with the
standing orders in this case.
THE WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DURLIN
RAILWAY.
The Committee reported that in this case the Company had also
complied with the standing orders.
The Committee thee. adjourned at four o'clock to Thursday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
WEIR DOCK RAILWAY.

Allowed to proceed.
LYNN AND ELY, AND ELY AND HUNTINGDON RAILWAY.
Donnington, agent. In this case it was decided that the standing
orders should not be dispensed with.
BEERS AND HANTS RAILWAY (HUNGERFORD
EXTENSION).
Burke and Co., agents. Not allowed to be proceeded with.
COVENTRY AND NUNEATON RAILWAY.
Dyson and Co., agents. Standing orders dispensed with.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS.
Derrington, agent. Allowed to proceed.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.
Venables, agent. Allowed to go on.
The Committee then adjourned till Friday next.

COURSE OF EXCH./
Amsterdam ......C.F. 12 9
Ditte, at sight • • .... 12 5%
Rotterdam ...... 2 U. 12 10
Antwerp 26 15
llamburgh 13 1431
A1t0na........ ...
Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 75

,NGE.-- (THIS DAY.)
Gibra1tar..............
Leghorn .... .... ••.. • • 30 75
(knot •......... •... 26 10
3lilan .. • • . ;.... • • • • • •
Venice.. . .
Naples .. ••.... • • 391%
Palermo, per oz. 119%
Lisbon ... ..... 52
Oporto ..
Rio Janeiro .. .... • . 24%
Bahia
Buenos Ayres —
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia ..

Ditto, 3 months...... 26
Marseilles ....... 26 10
13ourdeanx..... .
Frankfort on Maine.... 122%
Petershurgh, 3 Cs
Berlin ...
Vienna, efree. fib
Trieste, ditto
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Barcelona ..
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PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 3 17 h
New Doubloons . ..... 0 0 0
New Dollars ••..• • • • 0 4 9h3
Silver in bars ...... • • 0 4 11 4

THE LONDON GAZETTF.
(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Mancif 3.
The Queen has be
Edward Bowater, lallensed to appoint Major-General Sir
ing in Ordinary her iito be one of the Grooms in Wait-
to
Hon. Arthur Duncombe, ~,V(AItY, in the room of Captain the
WIIITEHALe Royal Navy, resigned.
The Queen has been pleasedL, Maitcn 2.
pissed under the Great 'ealto direct letters patent to be
Vi-count Canning, Alexander lait'Pointing Charles John
Alexander Gore, Esq , commonlymae, Esq., and Charles
Charles Alexander Gore, to be Comrnsalled the Honourable
Woods, Forests, Land Revenues,
wozoners of her Majesty's
FiIEIGN-OFFICE, MAltag2Buildings.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to an. poi
Stephens, Esq., now British Consul at Samsoon et
Richard
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Majesty. Consul at Tabreez.
The .Queen has also been 'graciously pleased to appoint
Benjamin Barrie, Esq., now British Consular Assistant at
Madrid, to bo her M*sty's Consul at Alicante.
CROWN-OFFICE, MAncii 2.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PA RUA MENT.
County of Gloucester, Eastern Division—The Hon. Henry
Charles Fitzroy Somerset, commonly called Marquis of Wor-
cester, in the room of the Hon. Francis Charteris, who has
accepted the office of Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern
Hundreds.
County of Nottingham.— Son t hem Division.—Thomas
Blackborne Thorston Hildyard, Esq., in the room of Henry
Pelham Fynes Clinton, commonly called Earl of Lincoln,
who has accepted the office of Chief Secretary to the Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland.
Commissions signed by the Queen.
Bedfordshire Militia—Captain T. J. Smith to be Adjutant,
Feb. 7, 1846.
West Suffolk Militia—J. M`Gregor, Gent.,to be Adjutant,
Jan. 24, 1846.
Flintshire Militia—Lieut. F. R. M‘Gregor Dawson to be
Adjutant, vice Roberts, resigned, Feb. 3, 1846.
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