The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-13 00:00:00

40 50 40 80

10 20 30 50
20 30 GO 80

Total •• • 173 330 150 370
Previous week's arrival.. .. .. 200 590 140 440

Difference since onr last .... 27 260 SO 70
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.
On the whole, the plantation accounts continue favourable, and it
is very evident picking will be commenced much earlier than in the
general run of years. Our market is in a very inactive state. at
barely last week's quotations. The duty is backed from 135,0001. to
140,0001. Sussex Pockets, 51 to 6/ Gs per cwt. ; Kent ditto, 515 s to
GE lOs ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 616+ to Si 15s.
BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
The supplies of new potatoea are almost daily on the Increase, yet
the demand is firm, at from 69 t, 12s per cwt. The reports respect-
ing the appearance of the crops are satisfactory.
WOOL.
The imports of wool during the past week have consisted of 3,200
hales from Sydney, 250 ditto from South America, 246 ditto from
Hamburgh, 110 ditto from Smyrna, 255 ditto from St. Petersburgh,
and 124 ditto from the Cape. The public sales are still In progress,
but they are going off heavily, at in some instances, improved cur-
rencies. By private treaty next to nothing is doing.
TALLOW.
This market is steady both on the spot and for forward delivery.
Town Tallow 40s to 40s 6d net cash.

RAILWAY C MMITT EES

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room B.

The Committee met this morning at eleven ; present, the
Earl of Lonsdale (in the chair), Lord Hawarden, the Earl of
Warwick, Lord Ellenborough, and the Duke of Grafton.

LEICESTER AND BEDFORD.

Mr. Sergeant Wrangham and others were retained for the
promoters of the Bill, and Mr. Austin, Q.C., Mr. llildyard,
Q.C., and Mr. Hope, on the part of the inhabitants of North-
ampton and the London and Birmingham Railway, opposing.
hergeant WRANGITAM, in opening the case for the pro -
moters, said, the length of the line was 63 miles, to be con-
structed at an estimated cost of 1,500,000/. ; and was in-
tended to connect not merely Leicester and Bedford, as the
designation might imply, but passed 16 miles to the south
of Bedford on to Hitchin. The number of those in the
neighbourhood of the line who would immediately en-
joy the accommodation was about 200,000; but that which
was the great object of the promoters of the Bill was, the
line opened the London market to a large fertile
agricultural district, and would carry coal into that district
at a reduction of 10s. per ton. The line would form a junction
with the Leicester and Swannington Railway at Leicester;
and though a petition had been sent up by the last company
against the Bill, because a Bill was in their Lordship's House
forming a junction between the Leicester and Swannington
and the Midlands line, a Bill which had been delayed there
till the fate of the present Bill should be known, the Learned
Sergeant contended for the superiority of this junction over
the other, and proceeded to call evidence to satisfy their
Lordships.
Mr. Packe, Member for South Leicestershire, said, on his
examination, that being well acquainted with the district
through which the line passed he believed it would be of great
advantage, as giving the farmers a transit to the south for
their produce, and opening the Derby and Leicester coal-
fields to Bedford, Northampton, and Hertfordshire. He had
presented petitions to the House of Commons in favour of the
line from those who owned about sixty thousand acres in
the district.

Mr. HILDYARD was proceeding to cross-examine the
witness, on behalf of the South Midland project, which was
thrown out in the House of Commons in favour of this Bill,
when

Sergeant WRANGHAM objected to his being heard.
Mr. AUSTIN contended that precedent concurred with the
common sense view of the jurisdiction of their Lordships'
House, that a project, though rejected by the House of Com-
mons, ought to be permitted to appear before their Lord-
ships, otherwise they must judge only of such lines as the
Commons chose to select.

Sergeant IVRANGitam having replied, the room was ordered
to be cleared.

Parties, on being re-admitted, were told that the Commit-
tee considered the project to be a competing line, and that
Mr. Hildyard might, therefore, proceed with his examination.
Cross •examlned by Mr. lIILDYAItD —Mr. Packe recolleted
that Parliament, in 1836, ordered the Midlands Company to
suspend their Bill for the line between Leicester and Rugby,
in case there might be a direct line from Rugby to North-
ampton.
Mr. Paget, f3rmerly Member for Leicester, corroborated
the last witness.