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London, England, 1846-02-14 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, SATUR DAY - EVENING, FEBRITARI 14; 1846.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS:
(From ow,,Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of Commons.)
FRIDAY, FEB. 13.
The following Petitions for Railways were reported, and the Bills
ordered to be brought in V the undernamed Hon. Members : •
Wilsontown, Morning:side, and Coltness (Improvement and Branches)
—Mr. Oswald and Mr. Forbes.
Wilsontown Morningside, and Coltness (Knewton Branch)—Mr.
Oswald and Mr. Forbes.
Slam:intim) (Bathgate and Jawcraig Branches)—Mr. Forbes and
Mr. Oswald.

Celtness-:-Mr. OsWald and Mr. Forbes.
Ea,ste,n Union and Hadleigh Junctitn—Captain Gladstone, Mr. L
Fox, and Lord Rendlesham.
London, Hounslow, and Western—Mr. Byng, Colonel T. Wood, and
Mr. H. Berkeley.
South Midland (Huntingdon Branch)—Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Currie,
and Captain Polhill.
London and Birmingham (St. Alban's and Luton Branch)—Colonel
Anson and Mr. Ryder.
Louden and Birmingham (Newport Pagnell Branch) —Mr. Dupre
and Mr. Mangles.
Slannuman axd Barrowstowness—rMr. Forbes and Mr. Oswald.
Taw Yale Extension—Mr. Divett, Mr. F. Hodgson, and Mr. M. Gore.
Norfolk Extensicn (Derehatn, Wells, and Blakeney Branch)—Mr.
Wodehouse and Mr. Burroughs.
North-Western—Mr. Patten, Mr. Greene,-and Mr. Beckett.
East and West Yorkshire Junction—Sir J. Lowther and Mr. Lawson.
South Midland (Northampton. and Bedford Lines)—Mr. V. Smith,
Mr. Currie, and Captain Polhill.
Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth—Lord Courtenay and Sir T.Acland.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (Amendment and Branches
—No. 2)—Lord J. Stuart and Mr. Oswald.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (Amendment and Branches
—No. 3)—Lord J. Stuart and Mr. Oswald.
South-Eastern (Chislet to Margate) —Sir E. Filmer and Mr. S.
Douglas. - • „ • Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Amendment and Branches
(No. I)—Lord J. Stuart and Mr. Oswald.
Ayrshire, Bridge of Weir, and Port Glasgow Junction—Mr: Bouverie
and Mr. Hastie.
South-Eastern (Maidstone to Strood, near Rochester)—Mr. W.
Bodkin and Mr. Dodd.
North British (Carlisle Extension)—Mr. F. Scott and Mr. P. Howard.
North British (Hawick Branches)--Mr. F. Scott, Sir H. Campbell,
and Mr. F. Afackeniie. -
Ipswich and Bury St. gdmund's (Norwich Extension)---Captain
Gladstone, Lord Rendleiham, and the Marquis of Douro:
North British—Sir H. Campbell and Mr. Craig.
Perth and Crieff Direct—SirJ. Hope and Mr. Drummond.
Exeter and Exmoudi—Colonel Baillie and Mr. Hussey. •
South-Eastern (Branch from Reigate to Dorking)—Mr. Fuller, Mr.
Curteis, and Mr. Dodd.
South-Eastern (Rye and Rye Harbour)—Mr. Fuller and Mr. Curteis.
South-Eastern (Tunbridge Wells to Hastings and Rye)—Mr. Faller,
Mr. Curteis, and Mr. Dodd.
South-Eastern (Godstone , Station to East Grinstead)—Sir E. Filmer
and Mr. Dodd.
South-Eastern (Canterbury to Dover)—Mr. Plumptre, Sir E. Filmer,
and Mr. Douglas:
St. Helen's Canal and Railway—Mr. Patten and Mr. Legh

The following Railway Bills were presented, read a first time, and
ordered to be read a second time :
York and North Midland (Leeds Extension)—" for enabling the
York and North Midland Railway Company to make a more direct
Line of Railway between York and Leeds."
Windsor, Slough, and Staines Atmospheric—" for making a Rail-
way from the town of New Windsor, in the county of }Jerks, to the
Great Western Railway at Slough, in the county of Buckingham,
with a Branch or Diverging Railway therefrom to Staines, in the
county of Middlesex, to be called The Windsor, Slough, and Staines
Atmospheric Railway.'"
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction—" for
making a Railway from the Manchester and Birmingham Railway
at Cheadle, in the county of Chester, to or near to the Ambergate
Station of the Midlands Railway, in the, county of Derby, to be
called ' The Manchester, Btixton, Matlock, and Midlands Junction
Railway.' "
South-Eastern (No. 1) from the Waterloo-road, near Hungerford-

bridge, to the Greenwich Railway—"to enable the South-Eastern
Railway Company to make a Railway from the south-west side of
the Waterloo-road, near to the York-road, in the parish of Lambeth;
to the London and Greenwich Railway."
South-Eastern (No. 2—Greenwich Railway to Chilli= near Can-
terbury,- with Branches)—" to enable the South-Eastern Railway
Company to make a Railway from London and Greenwich Railway
to join the South-Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate and Margate Rail-
way, in the parish of Chilliam, in the county of Kent, with a diverg-
ing Line to Dartford, and with Branches to Sheerness and Faversham
Creek."

Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheric—" for making a Railway from
the City of Edinburgh to the town, pier, harbour, and docks of Leith,
to be called The Edinburgh and Lath Atmospheric Railway.' "
Stirling and Dunfermline—" for making a Railway from Stirling to
Dunfermline, withßranches to Kinross, to Tillicoultry, and to Alloa
Harbour, to be called' The Stirling and Dunfermline Railway.'"
General Terminus and Glasgow Harbour—" for making a Railway
from the Polloc and Govan Railway to the river Clyde and Harbour
of Glasgow, with Branches, to be called ' The General Terminus and
Glasgow Harbour Railway.' "
Mold Junction—" for making a Railway from Mold, in the county
of Flint, to the Hooton Station of the Chester and Birkenhead Rail-
way, to be called ' The Mold Junction "
North and SOuth Junction—" for making a Railway from Halifax
to Keighley, in the West Riding of the county of York, to be called
' The North and South Junction Railway."
York and North Midland (East Riding Branches—No. 1)—" for
enabling the York and North Midland Railway Company to make
certain Branch Railways in the East Riding of the county of York,
and for other purposes."
. • •

Aylesbury and Tlihme Junctien—" for making a Railway from the
Aylesbury Rail Way at Aylesbury to Thame."
Kirkiatilloch and Kilsyth —" for making a Railway from the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway near Kirkintilloch to Kilsyth."
London and Brighton (Dorking Branch)—" for making a Branch
Railway from the London and Brighton Railway to or near to the
town of Dorking; in the county of Sarre} ."
Brighton and Chichester (Bognor and Littlehampton Branches)—
" for making Branch Railways from the Brighton and Chichester
Railway to the towns of Bognor and Littlehampton, both in the
county of Sussex."

Brighton and Chichester (Steyning Branch)—" for making a Branch
Railway from the Brighton and Chichester Railway to the town of
Steyning, in the county of Sussex."
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction—" for
making a railway from the Richmond Branch of the Great North of
England Railway to Preston with Branches, to be called ' The Li-
verpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction Railway."
North British (No. 4 —Gretna Branch)— "to empower the North
British Railway Company to construct a Branch Railway from the
proposed extension of the Edinburgh and Irawick Railway, to join
the Caledonian Railway, at or near Springfield."
Direct London and Portsmouth —" for making a Railway from the
Croydon and Epsom Railway, at Epsom, to the town of Portsmouth,
to be entitled The Direct London and Portsmouth Railway.'"
London and Brighton (Wandsworth Branch) —" for making a
Branch Railway from the London and Brighton Railway, in the
parish of-Croydon, to join the South-Western Railway, in the parish
of Wandsworth, in the cotintY'of Surrey."

York and North Midland Railway (Whitby and Pickering)—Second
reading, Monday, Feb. 16.
Blackburn, Chorley, and LiverpoOl Railway— Second reading,
Monday, Feb. 16.
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway—Second reading, Mon-
day, Feb. 16.

Blackburn and Preston Railway—Second Reading, Monday,
Feb. 16.
Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon Railway—Second reading,
Monday, Feb. 16.
North Staffordshire Railway (Harecastle and Sandbae,h Line)—
Second reading, Monday, Feb. 16.
North Staffordshire Railway (Churnet Valley Line)—Second read-
ing, Monday, Feb. 16.
East Lincolnshire Railway—Second reading, Monday, Feb. 16.
Epsom and Dorkingßallway—Second reading, Monday, Feb. 16.
North Kent Railway—Second readlag, Monday, Feb. 16.
North Kent Railway (City Extension)—Second reading, Monday,
Feb. 16.

London and South-Western Railway (Hampton Court Branch)—
Second reading, Monday, Feb. 16.

London andSouth-Western Railway (London Bridge Extension)—
Second reading, Monday, Feb. 16.
London and South. Western Railway (Chertsey and Egham Branch)
—Second reading, Monday, Feb. 16.
Staines and Richmond Junction Railway—Second reading, Mon-
day, Feb. 16.

Landon and South-Western Railway (Epsom Branch)—Seeend
reading, Monday, Feb. 16.

Great Junction Railway (Buyton and Warrington Branch)—Se-
cond reading, Monday, Feb. 16.
• Manchester and Birmingham Railway—Second reading, Monday,
Feb. 16.

SPECIAL REPORT.
EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DORCHESTER RAILWAY.
Mr. Strutt reported from the Select Committee on Petitions for
Privatb Bills, to whom several petitions complaining of non-compli-
ance with the standing orders in the case of the petition for
the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Bill were referred,
that it appeared that the said petitions " had not the name or short
title by which such Bill is entered in the Votes written at the
beginning thereof, nor was it there stated whether such petitions
were iu favour or against the Bill, or relating to the non-compliance
with the standing orders" as required by standing order, No. 11l a.
That the said standing order, No. II l a, Is not one of the standing
orders relating specially to the duties of the Select Committee on
Petitions for Private Bills, but is one of those relating to the practice
of the House ; but as the attention of the Committee has been called
to the point in r question by the petition of Edward Woolmer, which
has been specially referred to this Committee, the Committee con-
sider it their duty to submit the point for the consideration of the
House.

COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR RAILWAY; BILLS
FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.
MONDAY, FEB. 16.

Leicester and Bedford.
London and South Essex
Staines and Henley.
'

Rugby and Stamford.
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union.
Great Western and' Wycombe.
Rugby and Huntingdon.
Tenby, Saundersfoot, and South Wales,
Grand. Union.

Leeds and Bradford (Guiseley Branch).
Leeds and Bradford (Junction Line at Bradford).
Gloucester and Dean Forest.
Lancashire and North Yorkshire.
York And Carlisle. .

Hull and Selby Purchase.
Cornwall.
Shrewsbury and Hereford.
Shropshire Union Railways and- Canal (Newton to Crewe with
Branches).
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Shrewsbury and Stalford).
Shropshire Union Railways and Canal (Chester and Wolverhampton
Line).

LOlll4Oll, Warwick, Leamington, and Kidderminster.
Lincoln, Wainfleet Haven, and Boston Railway.
NOrth Staffordshire (Potteries Line).
Carnwath and West Linton.
Ballochney (Shotta Branch).
Monkland and Kirkintilloch (Chapel Hall Branch).
Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction. •
Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltuess (Bathgate Branch).
Wilsontown, Morningside, and Coltness (Caledonian Junction).
Killarney Junction.
Limerick, Ennis, and Killaloe.
Mountmellick Junction.
Great Southern and. Western (Cork Extension).
Cambridge and Lincoln Extension.
Enfield and Edmonton.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Carlisle Branch.
Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway and Tyne Dock.
Oldham District.
Maldon, Witham, and Brandon.
. Midland and Eastern Counties (Cambridge to Weedon).
Bristol and Exeter (Crewkeme Branch).
London and Blackwall (Widening).
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Extension (No. 3).
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Extension (No. 2).
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Extension (No. 1).
East Lancashire (Deviation and Branches).
Dundee and Arbroath Extension.
Dundee and Perth Amendment.
East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction.
Mitcham and' South Western.
Newmarket and Chesterford
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction (Basingstoke to Yeovil).
Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby Junction.
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Huddersfield Dl-
version and Cooper Bridge Branch).
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction.
Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct (Branches to Thornliebank,
Househlll, and Hurlet)..
Qlasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston Direct (Branches to Paisley).
GlasgowiTaialey, and. Greenock (Polloc and Govan Branch).
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Harbour Branch).
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock (Bridge of Weir Branch.)
Dartmouth, Brixham, Torbay, and Exeter.
Richmond (Kew Branch).
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Dukinfield, Wors-
borough, and Glossop Branches, and Sheffield Station).
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Barnsley branch).
sikeffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Aekton Canal and
purchase).
sherlleld, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Oldham Branch).
Huddersfield And Manchester Railway and Canal (Bradford Branch).
Glasgow, Stratheam, and Lesmaliagow.
Scottish Midland Junction Branches.
Scottish Midland Junction (South Inch of Perth Branch).
Glasgow Harbour Grand Junction Terminus.
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan.
Macclesfield and Lichfield.
Liverpool and Prest, n and ..Manchester and Southport.
Liverpool and Leeds Directs I
Northumberland And Lancashire.
Tring, Readhig,nand Basingttoke.
Hertford and Hatfield.
Great North and South Wales.
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bolafa.
Kent Atmospheric.
Great Grinisby and Sheffield Junction (Humber Ferries).
Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway and Grimsby Docks
Consolidation.
Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford.
Derby, Gainsborough, and Great Grimsby.
Chester and Manchester Direct,
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheater Junction, Extensions and Devia-
• Hons.
North Wales M'neral Deviations and Branches.
Manchester and Leeds Extensions.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction.
Lynn and Ely and Ely and Huntingdon, and Lynu and Dereham
Railway Companies Amalgamation.
Bridgwater aid ,TAUntOn Canal.ltailway and Harbour.

Farness and Windermere.
Birmingham, Lichfield, and Manchester.
Manchester and Poole (Luggershall, Salisbury, and Poole).
Whitehaven and Furness Junction (Whitehaven Extension and
Kirksanton Deviation).
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction.
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield and Nottingham (Grantham Junction).
Llynvi Valley.
Ely and But y.
Ely and Huntingdon (Bedford Extensions).
Cockerruouth and Workington Extension.
Lynn and Ely (Extension to Spalding).
Lynn and Ely (Extension to to March).
South Union.
Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, Dewsbury, Leads, and Bradford.
Manchester, Huddersfield, and Great Grimsby.
Dover and Deal.
Doncaster, Wakefield, and Leeds.
•
Stamford and Spalding.
Monmouthshire.
Huntingdon and Wisbeach.
Wear Dock.
Derby and Crewe Junction.
West Lancashire.
Congletou and Crewe.
Glasgow and Belfast Union.
Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway and Port of Goole.
Oxford, Witney, Cheltenham, and Gloucester.
Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction.
British and Irish Union. •
•
Monmouth and Hereford
Eastern Counties, Hertford to Huntingdon.
Bedford and Cambridge Extension.
EaStern Counties (March to Lincoln),
Eastern' Counties (Epping Extension).
Exeter Great Western.
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth,
Midland (Claycross to Newark).
Midland (Nottingham to Mansfield).
Eastern Counties (Tottenham to Barnet).
West Cornwall,
Grand Trunk and Peterborough,
West Loudon Improvement and Extension.
Norfolk Extensions (Thetford and Needham Branches).
Taff Vale.
London and Brighton and London and Croydon Consolidation.
Midland (Burton to Nuneaton). • -
Worcester, He'reford, Ross, and Gloucester..
Midland (Leicester to Swannington).
Midland (Darfield to Elsecar).
Chichester, Portsmouth, and Fareham.
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (Stour Valley Line)
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley (Birmingham, Wol-
verhampton, and Dudley Line).
Eastern Counties (Cambridge to Lincoln).
Eastern Counties Stations Enlargement.
Eastern Union (Ardleigh to Colchester).
Midland (Swinton to Lincoln).
Midland (Newark to Gaineborough).
Midland (Purchase of Oakham Canal)
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Extension.
South Wales (No. 2).
South-Eastern (No. 7—Ashford Stations Enlargement).
,i,Shrewsbury and Birmingham.
Staines and Henley (No. 2).
Worcester and Porthdynllaen.
Vale of Neath.
Great Eastern and Western.
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton. '
Eastern Counties (Tottenham and Farringdon-street Extension).
Eastern Counties (Thames Junction Branches).
Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley.
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (Ely Extension with Branches there-
from).
Monkland and Kirkintilloch.
Gravesend arid Rochester Railway and Canal.
Lowestoft and Beccles.
Midland (Erewash Valley Extension).
Midland (Erewash Valley Branches).
South Wales
Great Western.
London and Birmingham, and Birmingham Canal Arrangement
Birmingham and Oxford (Birmingham Extension).
Birmingham and Oxford Junetion.
Hu ldersfield and. Sheffield and Manchester and Leeds Railway
Companies Amalgamation.
Southampton and Dorchester.
Trent Valley (Alrewas Branch).
Liverpool and Bury and Manchester and Leeds Amalgamation.
Chard Canal.
Preston and Wyre Railway, Harbour, and Dock Company.
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway.
Cornwall and Devon Central (Hale, Lelant, Saint Austell, and Bod
min Branches).
Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction.
Liverpool and Prestos, and Manchester and Southport.
London and South Western Railway Acts Amendment.
Trent Valley Midlands and Grand Juncton.
Liverpool and Bury.
Warwick and Worcester.
Runcorn and Preston Brook.
Northern and Southern Connecting.
Cornwall and Devon Central.
Direct Birmingham and Leicester.
Thetford. Bury St. Edmund a, and Newmarket.
Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth.
London and Birmingham Extension (Northampton, Daventry, Leam.
ington, and Warwick).
Rochdale Canal and Manchester and Leeds Railway.
Shrewsbury and Herefordshire.
North Union (Horwich Branch).
Leeds, York, and Midland Junction.
Bradford, Wakefield, and Midland.
Manchester and Hyde Railway.
Bristol' and Birmingham and Midlands Railway.
Buckingham Railway (Tring to Banbury).
Bristol and Birmingham Railway (Bath Line).
Bristol anti Birmingham Railway (Ashchurch, Tewkesbury, and
Malvern Line).
Bristol and Gloucester and Birmingham and Gloucester Railways.
Bristol and Gloucester (Gloucester and Storehouse Junction).
Chester and Birkenhead Railway.
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway.
Newcastle and Darlington Junction Railway (Pontop and South
Shields Railway Purchase).
Lsndnn and Birmingham Railway (Birmingham Extension).
London and Birmingham Railway (Coventry and Nuneaton).
South Devon Railway (No. 2).
Leicester and Birmingham Railway.
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway (Stamford to Wisbsch).
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction (Salisbury to Yeovil).
Hull and Barnsley Junction Railway.
East Coast Railway.
London and Windsor Railway.
Hull and Lincoln Railway.
Leeds, Wakefield, and 3lidiand Junction Railway.
Teals and Dove and Eastern and Western Junction Railway.
Haleswerth and Norwich Railway.
Manchester, Bolton; and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway, and
Manchester and Leeds Railway Amalgamation.
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek Potteries, and Crewe Railway.
Whitehaven and Furness Railway.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction and North Wales
Mineral Railway Amalgamation.
London, Bristol, and South Wales Direct Railway.
Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Railway.
Northampton and Banbury. Railway.
Ipswich, Norvitch, and Yarmouth Railway.
Furness Railway Extensions.
Northampton and Bedford Railway.
Manchester, Bo:ton, and Bury Canal Navigation and Railway
Extensions.
Buckinghamshire (Oxford and Bletchley Junction) Railway.
Bristol and Birmingham (King's Norton to Halesowen) Railway.
London and Birmingham (Weedon and Northampton Branch).
London and Birmingham (Leamington Extension, Coventry and
Rugby Stations Enlargement) Railway.
London and Birmingham Railway (Aylesbury Railway Purchase).
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway Company.
Midland Railways (Birmingham Extension).
London and Birmingham Grand Junction, and Manchester and Bir-
mingham Railways Amalgamation.
Warwickshire and London (Hampton and Banbury Line) Railway.
Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction Railway.
Warwickshire and London (Worcester and Weedon Line) Railway.
Bideford and Tavistock Railway.
North Wales Railway. /MOM=
..•••=l.
Manchester and Leeds and Leeds and Bradford Arnalgatilation.
Moreconnbe Harbour and Railway.
Leeds Central Railway Station.
Blackburn, Clitheroe, and North 'Western Junctioa Railway.
Blackburn, Darren, and Bolton Railway.
Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction (Darffeld Branch) Railway.
Shrewsbury,Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshire Railway (No. 1).
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Staffordshirm Railway (No. 2).
Clitheroe Junction Railway.
Exeter, Yeovil, aad Dorchester Railway.
Norfolk Extension, (Stowmarket and WyMondharn) Railway
Colchester and Stour. Valley Railway.

TUESDAY, FEB. 17.
Great County Down Railway.
Clonmel and Thurles Railway.
Belfast and Holywood Atmospheric Railway.
Dublin and Enniskillen Railway.
Londonderry and Inniskillen Railway.
Portbury Pier and Railway.
Inniskillen and Sligo Railway.
Newry, Armagh, and Londonderry Junction Railway.
Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway.
Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway.
Glasgow Southern Terminal Railway.
Scottish Midland Extension Railway.
Lanarkshire and Lothians Railway.
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway.
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway.
Irish North Midland Railway.
Great Southern and Western Railway.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, Monkland and Kirkintillocb, Ballochney,
and Slamannan Railway.
Edinburgh and Glasgow and Wishaw and Coltness Railways Amal-

gamation. -
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway and Forth and Clyde Navigation
Amalgamation.
Morayshire Railway.
Arbroath and Forfar Railway.
Caledonian, Polloc, and Govan and Clydesdale Junction Railways
Amalgamation.
Scottish Central (Alloa Branch) Railway.
Scottlih Central (Crieff Branch) Railway.
Scottish Central (Denny Branch) Railway.
Caledonian Extension Railways.
Polloc and Govan and Clydesdale Junction Railways Amalgamation
Caledonian Railway (Clydesdale Junction Railway) Deviation.
Caledonian Railway (Carlisle Deviation).
Caledonian (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Branch).
Caledonian (Glasgow Termini and Branches).
Caledonian (Langholm Branch).
Caledonian (Mid Lothian Branches).
Caledonian (Leith Junction).
Caledonian (Dumfries Branches).
Caledonian (Dundyvan Branch).
Caledonian (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Railway Purchase).
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway Extension and Branches.
Helenaburgh Railway Extension and Police.
Stirlingshire Midland Junction.
Strathtay and Breadalbane.
Scottish Grand Junction.
Caledonian Northern Direct.
Perth and Inverness.
Inverness and Elgin.
Ayrshire and Caledonian Junction.
Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge Extension.
Scottish Central (Perth Termini and Stations).
Forth and Clyde Junction.
Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct.
St. Alban's, Luton, and Dunstable.
Kihnarnock and Troon.
Goole and Doncaster Railway.
South Yorkshire Coal Railway.
Templemore and Nenagh Railway.
Great Leinster and Munster Railway (No. l).
Great Leinster and Munster Railway (No. 2).
York and Lancaster Railway.
North of Norfolk Railway.
East Dereham and Norwich Railway.
Wilts, Somerset, and Southampton Railway.
Chichester and Bognor Railway.
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway Amendment.
Dunblane, Donne, and Callander Railway.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinborgh, and Direct Glasgow Railway.
Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lincoln, and Midland Junction.
Oxford, Coventry, and,Burton-on-Trent Railway.
Launceston and South Devon Railway (No. 2).
Eastern Counties (Lincoln to Milford Railway.
Leeds and Thirsk (St. Helen's Branch Deviation),
Leeds and Thirsk (North Eastern Extension, Wath to Hartlepool).
Leeds and Thirsk (Knaresborough Branch Extension).
Edinburgh and Glasgow and Scottish Central Amalgamation.
Mallow and Fermoy.
Monkland and Kirkintilloch.
East and West of England Junction.
Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin.
Manchester and Southampton.
Alford Valley.
Great North of Scotland.
Great North of Scotland (Eastern Extension).
East Lothian Central and Tyne Valley Junction.
Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway and Chesterfield and Gains-
borough Canal.
Harwich and Eastern Counties.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester (Peak Forest and
Macclesfield Canal Purchase).
Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier.
Rugby, Leamington, and Warwick.
Airdrie and Bathgate Junction.
Leicester and Tamworth Junction.
Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester.
Leeds and York.
London and Oxford.
Direct London and Manchester.
Edinburgh and Glasgow and Dumbartonshire Junction.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway and Branches (N 0,6).
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage Railway.
Axholme, Gainsi>orough, Goole and York, and North Midland Junc-
tion Railway.
Midland Junction Railwa; .
South Staffordshire Junction Railway and Branches (No. I).
South Staffordshire Junction (Bilston and Priestfield Branch—No. 2).
South Staffordshire Junction (Showlfill and Portobello Branch—
No. 3).
South Staffordshire Junction (Wlllenhall and Bloxwich) (No. 4).
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18.
Carlow Fxtension Railway.
Cork and Passage Railway.
Dublin, Duindrum, and Enniskerry Railway.
Cork and Waterford Railway.
Sligo and Shannon Railway.
Galway and Maim; Railway.

Midland Great Western of Ireland (Mullingar to Galway).
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Longford and Sligo).
Midland. Great Western of Ireland (Liffey Branch and Longn)rd
Deviation).
Cork, Bandon, and Kinsale Railway.
Horbury Bridge and Calder Railway.
Birkenhead and Llangollen Railway.
Warwickshire and London (Hampton and Aslichurch Line).
Glasgow and Dundee Junction Railway.
Cameron's Coalbrook Steam Coal and Swansea and Loughor.
Derbyshire, Staffordshirc, and Worcestershire Railway.
Band-on and Bantry Railway.
Cork, Macroom, and Killarney Railway.
Great Munster Railway.
North Devon Railway.
Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester (Whaley Bridge and
Hayfield Branch).
Dublin and Kingstown Railway Extensions.
Chehnsford and Bury Railway.
Slimersetshire Midland Railway.
THUSDAY, FD. 19.
Wexford, Waterford, and Vaßlencia RElwaiay.
Surrey Grand Junction Railway,
Cork, Passage, and Kinsale Railway.
Oldham, 'Manchester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead Railway.
Midland Railway (Birmingham and Gloucester Branches).
Guildford, Chichester, and Portsmouth Railway.

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Dublin and Sandomount FR
(AIDAY, .
tmosph) Ra2oilway

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE

FR F EB. 13.
Derbyshire. Staffordshire,lD
aAYnd , Worcestershire Junction Railway—
Coinmittee on Petition, postponed Irons Monday 16 till Wednesday,
Feb, 18.
Bandon and Bantry Railway—Committee on Petition, postponed
from Tuesday 17 till Wednesday, Feb. 18.
poseteprokn,eltalfarcorioon
Tinu, and
eTuesdayu
KintailrAevyedlinaeisldssa•ayy, ay—Committee on Petition,
Great Munster Railway—Committee on Petition, postponed front
' Tuesday 17 till Wednesday, Feb. 18.
North Devon Railway—Committee on Petition, postponed from
Monday 16 till Wednesday, Feb. 18. —CFebo.ml
- Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Whaley
Bridge and Hayfield Branches) —Committee on Petition, postponed
front Monday 16 till Wednesday, Feb. 18.
Dublin and KingstoWn Extension Railway—Committee on Peti-
tion, postponed from Monday 16 till Wednesday, Feb. 18.
Direct Northern Railway—Conunittee ox Petitioa adj urned till
Friday, Feb. 27. • a •
Welsh Midland' Railway—Committee on Petition adjourned till
Tuesday, Feb. 24.
Newcastle and. Darlington Junction Railway—Second reading,
Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway and Ferry—Second
re .ding, Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction Railway—Second reading,
Tuesday, Feb. 17.

Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (Extension to Caledonian Railway)
and Lancaster and Preston Junction Ra iway Amalgamation— Second
reading, Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Newcastle and Berwick Railway—Second reading, Tuesday
Feb. 17.

North Union Railway— Second reading, Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Grand Junction Railway—(Pluyton and Aston, Huyton, Prescot,
and St. Helen's, Warrington and Kenyon, Warrington and Parkside,
Showhill and Portobello, and Hedgebill and Huyton Branches)—
Second reading, Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Leeds, De.vsbury, and Manchester Railway Deviations and
Branches —Second reading; Tuesday, Feb. 17.
London and South-Western Railway (Farnham and Alton Branch)
—Second reading, Thursday, Feb. 19.
March and Sheffield and Midland Junction Railway—Second read-
ing, Thursday, Feb. 19.

-Ma:each, St.lves, and Cambridge Junction Ila!lway—Second read,
Eng, Thursday, Feb. 19.

Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway Deviations —Second read.
ig, Thursday, Feb. I!. _

hasthourne,Hallthani, Seaford, and Newhaven Branches—Second
reading, Thursday, Feb. 19.

London and Brighton Railway (East Grinstend Branclies)—Second
reading, Thursday, Feb. 19.

MORE RESIGN ATIONS.
We have reason to believe that Admiral Sir George Cockburn has
resigned his seat at the Board of Admiralty. It would be difficult to
calculate the loss that the Government must suffer from this retire-
ment, as Sir George has been, for all professional and practical pur-
poses, the mainstay of the Naval Department. Virtually he was
the First Lord of the Admiralty.
It is further understood that Lord Forester has resigned the post
he held in the Royal Household as Captain of the Honourable Corps
of Gentlemen-at-Arms.

Some short time ago we stated that the Earl Delawarr had ten-
dered his resignation of the high office of Lord Chamberlain of her
Majesty's Ilowehold, but that, on the urgent request of an illustrious
personage, he had consented to retain the appointment. We are
now assured, however, that his Lordship has actually resigned.
Thus has the persistence of Sir Robert Peel, in he attempt to drag
his supporters through the dirt, deprived the country of one of its
ablest executive officers, and the Court of two noblemen whose cha-
racter and bearing added dignity to the offices with the duties of
which, in better days, they had been entrusted by their Sovereign.
—Post.

It is currently rumoured that Sir George Cockburn and Rear-
Admiral Bowles have resigned their seats at the Board of Admiralty.
The appointment of Captain Roes is the reason assigned for these
resignations.—Citron icle.

SOUTH NOTTINGIIA3I ELECTION
NOTTINGHAM, FRIDAY.—Both the candidates are canvassing with
much assiduity among the townspeople of this place and the adjacent
farmers : both express themselves most sanguine of the result. Mr.
T. B. T. Ililtlyard is only twenty-five years of age, with a moderate
paternal estate, and but little known in connexion with local
politics. Lord ncoln's address is acknowledged on all hands to
have been most able.

There are six polling stations for the election of Members to re-
present the southern division of the county, viz., Newark, South-
well, Bingham, Lowdham, East Leake, and Sutton-upon-Trent.
The number of voters for this division on the register of the present
year is about 3,400.
As to Lord Lincoln's present success, we find that out of one
hundred county voters in Nottingham and.Sneinton who were can-
vassed his Lordship only met with four refusals, the other ninety-
six promising to vote for him.
Wednesday, the 25th instant, will, however, show which party
will come off victorious.

ONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

ITY, FG.
TIMES.—It was a prevalent notion.o
here forRIDAY
a day EVEN
or twoIN
after
the amount of the railway deposits was disclosed, that matters would
soon revert into the ordinary channel, and the subject lose all its
importance; but this does not appear to be the case. They become,
on the contrary, a subject of constant and increasing uneasiness. At
the Stock Exchange prices of all kinds seem almost wholly under
the influence of the broker for the Court of Chancery ; the bankers
and discount-brokers avoid all transactions for distant dates, the
most useful and necessary of all for the trading interest, because
they are uncertain what assistance they may receive from the
Bank of England ; and the Bank itself is, In Its turn,
kept in a similar degree of suspense, because they are en-
titled to no notice whatever when the railroad money is
wanted for investment, and hold theSe large funds in
fact at absolute call. It is not easy to perqeive by what .means thi,
great weight is to be removed, for being subject to so many species
of control, there Is no gone power which can act upon it. Dependence
is now chiefly placed upon the r ommittees of Parliament, and espe-
cially upon that Committee to which it is referred to place the lines
in groups, where any decision upon one must dispose of several
others, and thus set free a large portion of the capital locked up. At
present all managers of companies are placed under the greatest diffi-
culty how to act with the funds they hold in trust. Luckily the
Bank is at present affording assistance most liberally, and the opera-
tions there take a much wider range than fonnerly, by assimilating
the facilities to those of the private bankers, and dispensing with
many of the old forms ; but still there are large classes not in the
position, as already intimated, to obtain this relief, and who are com-
pelled to pay far more dearly in the open market than they would do
if these funds were properly distributed.
It has been remarked wills respect to the influence on the funds of
the purchases by the Accountant-General, that it was hardly fair to
impute to the members of the Stock Exchange any preconcert to raise
or depress prices as the broker of the Court was supposed to be a
buyer or a seller. The real Influence is that of a scarcity of means,
such as existed some years back, for effecting large operations. As
there is very little floating stock, so the jobbers keep less money at
disposal to carry on their bargains with, and when a sudden demand
arises either way there is no power to meet it. A sudden demand
for stock, for example, to supply the Chancry broker, puts the jobbers
upon the inquiry where it is to be found ; and in this way, and not
by any concert among them, the market is influenced. During the
great loan-transactions of the war, and for many years afterwards,
the case was different, but the Stock Exchange has since undergone
a great revolution. The greater portion by far of Government stock
is locked up in trusts and endowments, es held by great public com-
panies who never think of moving it.
The present state of things has thrown a great increase of power
into the hands of the Bank of England, which probably never stood
in so high a position, or possessed so great relative importance
towards the rest of the banking and trading community.
Money has been in much demand during the day, independently
of the Stock-Exchange.
The arrival of the India Mall has proved a most seasonable relief
to the public mind, as the attempts to account for se singular and
unusual a delay have led to the circulation for some days past of the
most disastrous
dispelled, but the causes of that detention, which are now made
rumours in the City. Ail these are now happily
known, are commented upon in terms of great indignation. That
any public officer should take upon himself at so critical a period
to detain Government dispatches at Alexandria, of the importance
of which he could not but be aware, for six sr seven days, is
deemed at present perfectly unaccm.ntable. The whole depends
upon whether the Consul had any intimation that it was
designed to send a second steam-vessel from Bombay with the results
of the late battle. Still the delay, even under that supposition, far
exceeded what was requisite and proper. For the letters through
France the delay is a serious one, but far more so for those which are
to come by Malta and Southampton, which can now hardly be ex-
pected to reach England before the middle of next week, and that
portion of the bi-monthly mail which is to come by the Marseilles
route will follow close upon it. One false step in such a machinery as
that of the India mail has a tendency'to throw all the rest into con-
ffision ; and this is what the merchants would desire to see-impressed
upon all public officers who manage it in its transit. As regards the
Consul at Alexandria, or whoever gave the order for the present de-
tention, it is but right before condemnation that his explanation
should be heard. The commanders of the British steam-packets have
no voice in such a proceeding, as they are under the direction of an
Admiralty agent, who is plaeed on board for that purpose.

IMPERIAL PARLIAM

HOUSE OF LORDS, Friday, Feb. 13.
At Fire o'clock, neither the Lord Chancellor nor the
I Earl of Shaftesbury being in attendance,
Lord' BROUGHANI inquired if there was any ob-
jection to Lord Denman officiating instead?
No objection being tal:en by their Lordships,
Lord DeacuAN took his seat on the Woolsack.
PROTECTION TO AGRICULTURE.,
Earl SOMEItS presented two petitions from occupiers
of land, and other persons residing in the county of Here-
ford, against the proposed withdrawal of agricultural
protector. The petitioners stated they were apprehen-
sive that great evils would, in consequence, fall not only
on the agricultural interest, but on all classes of her
Majesty's subjects.
ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
The order of the day was then read for going into
Committee on the Administration of Criminal Justice Bill.
The Bill then passed through Committee, and the
report was brought up and agreed to.

RAILWAYS.
The Earl of REDESDALE presented a petition,
complaining that several names were attached to raja.:
way schemes which were not sanctioned by the parties
whose mints were thus attached. He considered that
in a matter of such vast importance the standing
orders in Committees ought to be carefully attended to
and enforced by their Lordships. He (Lord Redesdale)
would sugge,t that where names were attached to
any such scheme; security shoull be given that the
Parties had actually given their consent to such pro-
positions.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE then rose to move the
adoption of the resolutions contained in the second
report of the Lords' Counnittt e on Railways. He had
to move that certain alterations should be made
in the standing orders 219, 220, and 224, in order to
facilitate the passing of certain Bills, which were to
originate in that Howe during the present session.
The Noble Earl then entered into a detail of the altera-
tions intended. (These have been already given in
the resolutions inserted in oar Thursday's paper.)—
Agreed to.

The Earl of CLARENDON wished to ask his Noble
Friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he
would have any objectio•i to lay on the table any
correspondence between himself and the Spanish Govern-
ment on the subject of Cuba sugar?
The Earl of ABERDEEN said that he could not
have any objection to produce the correspondence re-
ferred to.

Their Lordships then adjourned until Monday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Friday, Feb. 13.
The SPEAKER. took the Chair at a few minutes before
Four o'clock.

PETITION FROM THE CITY—CORN-LAWS.
The Sheriffs of London, Messrs. Chaplin and Laurie,
appeared at the bar, clothed in their insignia of office,
and presented a petition from the Lord Mayor, aldermen,
and citizens of London, in Common Council assemblcd,
in which, after stating their approbation of the general
policy pursued by her Majesty's Ministers with respect
to the commercial interests of England, regretted that
the total repeal of the corn-laws was to be delayed for a
period of three years.

+-savage affray which had taken place at Penrith, in the
county of Cumberland, between a number of Irish
labourers, who were armed with knives, sticks, and other
weapons; and to such an extent hal this been carried,
that it had been difficult, with the assistance of the
yeomanry cavalry, to preserve the peace of the district.
Sir J. GRAHAM said he had received no official
information on the subject.
Mr. EWART wished to ask the Right lion. Gentle-
man the President of the Board of Trade, whether he
had taken into his considerath n the necessity of obliging
railway companies to make some provision to prevent
the recurrence of such acts, and thus to protect the
public against the injuries likely to be sustained by
having some hundreds of these labourers scattered over
the country.
Sit G. CLERK made a remark across the table,
which was inaudible in the gallery.
WESTMINSTER- BRIDGE.
Sir R. INGLIS said he had given notice of his inten-
tion to put certain questions relative to Westminster-
bridge and the new Palace at Westminster. At the
close of the last session of Parliament he put several
questions upon these subjects. The Right Hon. Gentle •
man the First Lord of the Treasury then said he had
received certain communications en this subject. He now
wished to aekiv hether those communications com prised the
amount of money which had been expended in therepairs
of the bridge, if such a word could be applied to such
an object; and whether the Government sere prepared
to appoint a Committee, or object to the appointment of
a Committee, upon the subject?
Mr. CARDWELL said that the subject had been
carefully and fully considered by the Right Ho•
nourable Gentleman at the head of her Majes-
ty's Government, and after considering the report
of the Commissioners who had the care of Westmin-
ster- bridge, he did not think that there was sufficient
reason for building a new bridge. Instructions, however,
were given to the Commissioners to inquire into the
state of the bridge with respect to its security. The re- :
port of the Commissioners did not recommend any alter--
ation in the bridge, nor did it recommend any further
steps to be taken. Under these circumstances, seeing that
ample care had been taken with reference to the safety of
the public, he (Mr. Cardwell) hoped the Hon. Bart.
would not think it necessary to move for a Committee.
Sir R. H. INGLIS was not at liberty to say more
than that he thought the answer most unsatisfactory.
He would now, however, ask when it was likely that the
New Houses of Parliament w ould be ready to be occu-
pied ? He did not mean the room only in which
the Legislature was to meet, but the committee-rooms
end the other parts of the building. lie wished
to know when they would be able to
have their accommodation in the new Houses
of Parliament—nut merely into the room where they
were to sit, but also when the other apart-
inents w uld be in a state of readiness ;
if the expectation which had been held out, that
the new Ilouses would be ready at the commence-
ment of the session of 1837, would not be realised? He
would also wish to know whether her Majesty's Govern-
ment would consent to appoint a Committee to ascertain
the cause of the delay?
Mr. CARDWELL—I have some reason to entertain
a doubt that the expectations with regard to the readi-
ness of the new Houses at the conenencetnent of the
session of 1847 may possibly not be realised.—
(Laughter.) I am aware that some causes of delay
have occurred with regard to them, and in consequence
of those causes some pestponement may take place, but
I can assure the Honourable Gentleman that every
exertion will be made to bring the works
to a completion without any unnecessary delay.
And I hope, in answer to the last part of the Hoe. Gen-
tleman's question, that should :the :Houses not be in a
state of readiness at - the expected time, he will not ape
poiet the Committee to which he refereed.
Mr. COLLETT begged to ask the Right lion. Baronet
the Secretary of State for the 11,-,me Department if the
statements which had lately appeared in the public
Papers in reference to an alleged loss which the revenue
had sustained by a flaw discovered in the recent Corn
Act were true, and if so, what course the Crown in-
tended to adopt in reference to the parties concerned ?
Sir J. GRAHAM said that different constructions
had been put on the Act in question. The first decision
was in favour of the Crown. The parties afterwards
appealed from that decision, and by the judgment of
the Judges in the Court of Excite quer, that decision
was revers( d. Now, whether the case would proceed
further he was not prepared to say ; but the case, as
stated in the newspapers, was considerably exaggerated.
It was then agreed that the House at its rising,
should stand adjourned till Monday.
CORN-LAWS.
• Lord MORPETH presented a petition, numerously
signed, in favour of a total and immediate repeal of the
corn-laws.

Mr. RAIKES CURRIE preFenttd a petition from
Northamptonshire in favour of a tctal and immediate
r,-peal of the corn-laws.

Mr. SPOONER presented a petition against the
abolition of the corn-laws.
Mr. HUME presented several petitions from dif-
ferent places, one of which was front the limn manu-
facturers of Reading, praying for a total and immediate
(Teal of the corn-laws. The petitioners stated that
tl..e Legislature afforded no protection to their trade,
and they, therefore, did not think it was just to protect
agriculture.

Mr. L ABOUCHERE presented a petition to a similar
effect.
Mr. B. SMITH presented a petition from the city ot
Norwich to the same t fFect.

Sir J. APTAGGART presented a petition to the
same t Get.

An MN. MEMBER presented twelve petitions from
Hampshire in favour of protection to agriculture.
Sir W. IIEATHCOTE presented a petition, pray-
ing for total and immediate repeal of the corn-laws.

AGLIONBY presented a numerously signed pe-
tition from the inhabitants of Cockermoutli, in which
the petitioners stated that, although the proposal of Go
vurnment was in many respects defective, yet as
a whole they looked upon it us a good measure, and they
theteiere prayed the House to pass it into a law. He
had also another petition from the inhabitants of Egre-
mont, in Cumberland, praying for a total and immediate
reveal of the corn-laws.

Mr. E. BARRINGTON presented a petition in favour
of agricultural protection.
Mr. G. BANKES said he had a petition to present
frorn the inhabitants of the county of Dorset. That
petition was egreed to at a public meeting of that
county, regularly convened after a long notice, and the
meeting was of so extensive a nature, that no hall in the
county-town, or street in that county-town, was capable
to contain the number of those who attended.—(Minis-
terial cheers.) The consequence was, that they ad-
journed to a plain without the town, and at that meet-
ing the petition which he was
.about to present was
agreed to.
Mr. POULETT SCROPE presented several petitions
in favour of a total repeal of the corn-laws.
Mr. B. ESCOTT presented several petitions from
Suffolk in support of the Government measure, with the
exception that they prayed the repeal of the corn-laws
might be-immediate.
Sir A. BROOKE presented a petition from Lanark in
favour of a repeal of the corn-laws.

Mr. PHILIP MILES presented a petition from the
county of Devon against the commercial policy of the
Government, and stating that the present corn-laws had
entirely answered the end for which they were pro-
posed, and praying that no alteration be made in them.
Mr. BRIGHT presented petitions from the county of
Durham and Wiltshire in favour of a repeal of the
corn-laws.

Sir R. PEEL presented a petition in favour of the
Government measure, from Sunninghill ; also one from
Fiteshire, for a total repeal of the corn-laws.
ADJOURNED DEBATE.

On the order of the day for the adjourned Debate
being read,

the head of her
Sir HOiVARD DOUGLAS said that he was sure
the Right Honourable Gentleman at _
his
objec-
tion
Majesty's Government would understand
was his intention to vote against the measure
to the measure now before the House. It
for the purpose of protecting agriculture. The present
combination of parties was a significant circumstance.
He had uniformly voted against a repeal of the corn-
laws in the House, and he (Sir Howard Douglas) had no
r ason to regret his having done so, although he had
re-considered all he had said and bean! stated on that
measure. He had nothing to regret, except that he could
only imperfectly speak his sentiments on that subject, to
which he bad given his most dispassionate considera-
tion. He could not, in consequence, concur in the
measure of the Right Hon. Baronet, on which he would
take leave to make a few observations. It was true
there was a stop put to the exportation of
British and Irish produce in the year 1844.
The period which the Right Hon. Baronet had taken
was that of the lowest depression, he meant the year
1842. It was very material to inquire what were the
causes of that depression. He believed that the solution
would be found in the system which prevailed in their
manufactures, and the extension of mechanical
power ; but with respect to the corn-laws the
Right Hon. Baronet had himself admitted that no
alteration of the corn-laws would remedy evils in-
separable from the commercial system he had already
referred to. Thus, he admitted that the cora-
laws were not the cause of the depression. In
1844 the exportation to foreign countries was not
so great as in many years. With respect, for
instance, to Russia, it was greater in 1837, and
as regarded France, the case was nearly similar.
He should be sorry to attempt the repeal of protection,
or the relaxation of restrictive duties. When he first
appeared in Liverpool, and avowed the principle of pro-
tection, he admitted his readiness to alter and
modify it so as to make it of advantage to the
general interest, and as litt:e hurtful as pf s-
sible to individual rights; but he was now called
upon not to modify or surrender protection, but abso-
lutely to extinguish it. Protection had never been de
voted to the interests of any particular class of persons,
and far less had it been devoted to the interest of
any class which he had the honour to represent.
It was his principle to protect all classes of
artizans without distinwion—to protect labour when
the labour market was in that state of severe de-
pression which it sa frequently experienced. Wliet7,
he perceived the Government about to rush in
a measure by which native industry, unprotected.
was made to compete with the
to protect it, 1
foreign states, without even
much capital
He was i
he felt it necessary to enter h
his
was indeed any j
protectied industry of
not going to discuss the relation—ifo,_and t
I price oflabour.
irieel a he would leave the
perfectlyl cunvincctl
wouldtion— bneobtveteankethuepprinicuecohrtimel
question abler
corn-law would displace the produc-
that a repeal of the co
British manufactures in every market
lions of
in hands, but he was
in the world to which the British merchant had access.
lie found another remarkable deduction from the paper
to which he had referred, and that was an unlimited
importation of corn dal not by any means

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iroduce a cotemporaneous exportatinn Or manufacturci.,
The fact, then, was, that it would be quite apparent
from this statement that the troth of the axiom, that
England was England's best customer, forced itself upon .
their minds, and that the great, cause of their recent
prosperity was the activity of the home markets.
He would now say a few words upon the dis-
advantageous position in which free-trade laws would
place this country. He would ask would the position
of the country be such as the Hon. Member opposite
had depicted ? Would it alter their position in respect
to France or Germany or the United States ?
They had often evinced a disposition towards
France to relax the English tariff, but the result
was only to make France enforce her protection
with a still more stringent hand. The United States
would do the same, for he would contend for it that every
President of the United States, from Washington down,
had evinced a. disposition for protection ; and Mr.
Polk's last Message stated that he would be prepared
to recommend a reasonable amount of protection.
Ile thought, it was necessary to take every precaution
' before they made this great alteration—to make ev..ry
trial for improving the condition of the country before
they made this plunge. For what were they about to
do ? They were about to enter into a competition with
hostile tariffs—not with hostile tariff.., tor, indeed,
no tariffs could be hostile—but with rival tariff,.
And the effect of that competition would he to reduce
the products of British industry and British labour,
which was the chief component in the value of those
projects, not to the level, but above the level, of hireign
articles. TheJiberality was to be all on this sldc• of the
water, for it could hardly t e supposed th3t foreigners
would purchase articles of British production its their
own markets, at a higher price than those of their own
manufactures, when of equal quality. If, instead of the
scheme now laid before the House, and which he could
designate in no other way than ,to say the least of it. as
the height of imprudence, they hadtloeked to the unlimited
resources offered to them in immense variety and exten-
sion of our foreign possessions, they would have im-
proved and extended the mark., t without depre-
ciating its value. But now, by entering into this
cotup,tition, they would only prove success •
ful by rendering British labour • cheaper than
it now was. It was evident that by this reduction of
the import duties they would he reducing. the revenue of
the country, and they couldlonly restore the r quilibi iota
of its finance be annual grants. lie contended that it
was not of the slightest interest to lay heavy duties on
articles of importation when foreign tariffs acted in a
similar way towards British - exportations. What
was the adventage he wished to know ? lie
agreed with an observation which fell -last night from the
Noble Lord who represented the West Riding of Yorkshire, that it was necessary to provide food for an increasing
population. The population was increasing to a great ex.
tent, and the question then naturally arose how they
were to be fed. —( Hear.) His (Sir . Howard Douglas)
l conviction was that if agriculture continued to be protected
there would be no difficulty in satisfying the wants of even an
increasing population, for he was satisfied that any reduction
in the price would be followed by a corresponding reduction in
the price of wages and provisions. There was a species of free-
t r sde which might be introduced with great advantage amongst
ourselves.—( Hear, hear.) When he voted for the Canada
Corn Bill, he imagined that the -principle on which that Bill
was founded would be carried out with respect to other articles
produced in our colonies, from which he believed the people of
this country would derive great advantage. The inhabitants of
the colonies might also derive great advantages, from which they
were now shut out, by being a market in wich they could sell
their produce at the best price it could realise. He believed
that Australian cairn ought to be admitted on the same prin-
ciple as the Canada corn ; and he considered that even the
Canada Corn Bill should be carried out to a greater extent—it
ought to have included Prince Edward's Island.—( Hear,
hear.) That Bill (the Canada Corn Bill) was a
solemn compact made between this country and Canada,
and when the measures proposed by her Majesty's Govern-
ment should be passed, it would have the effect of im-
mediately abolishing that solemn compact; and not only
would it act thus towards Canada, hut it would also
extinguish the colonial system itself. —(Hear. ) The colonial
system is nothing more than a system of protection. The mo-
ment you abolish the differential duties you release the
colonies from the necessity of dealing with the producer of
British goods, and also of our dealing with them in return.
Their glorious flag might still fly—there might be those who
would wish to die under that flag in support of their country's
rights—that flag under which their ancestors had fallen,
but he (Sir H. Douglas) would tell them that their
ships might guard their colonial coasts, and their troops
might garrison the country, but their colonies would
be useless to them. This country would no longer have
any right to regulate the commerce of the colonies.
Mr. Iluskisson's Acts were not free-trade Acts. They had
for their object rather the protection of agriculture. He
found the colonial trade in a state of monopoly, and he
then brought forward his Acts of 1824, for the regulation
of colonial trade. The object of his measures
was to allow the Colonies to have free-trade with other
countries that were independent States, but all free-trade
intercourse with the mother country, either circular or
direct, was prevented, except that of the coasting trade.
They had taken off the timber duties here.—( Hear.) New,
the American colonies laid a tax upon the West Indian produce
—they had a perfect system of free trade amongst themselves ;
and the German States had also a free trade amongst themselves,
but by a compact they had a protection against the foreign im-
ports. It could not be denied that the German States pros-
pered by the protection they had fenced themselves
with. We had introduced our cotton manufactures
into .India, and by so doing we had ruined the
native manufact urea of that country.— ( Hear, hear. )
The manufacturers of this country had superseded the manu-
facturers of India, and thereby rendered the price cf manufac-
tured
articles in that country much cheaper.—(Opposition
cheers.) Mr. Huskisson,in a Speech which he delivered in that
House on the Bth April,, 1826, clearly pointed out the gre.t
dangers which this coon try would render itself liable to by
inakiog itself dependent upon foreigners for the supply of ecru,
The Hon. Gentleman here read an extract from the speech
in question to the foregoing effect, stating that from 17ti5
up to the period of the war, we had been to a considerable
extent dependent on foreigners for the supply of food—that
ee had paid sixty millions of money for a scanty supply o f
corn ; and yet, though we had parted with our gold and silver
currencies, Europe had shut its ports against this country,
and America laid an embargo on its produce, and went to war.
The statesman to whom he (Sir H. Douglas) alluded, further
stated, that if this country was made to depend for food on
foreign nations, improvements would stand still, inferior lands
would go to waste, and the nation be subjected to general de-
cline. He ( Sir H. Douglas) considered they should
platted the colonies so as to provide for their safety
and defence. Honourable Members should never
listen to the theory which would put an end to colonial protec-
tion, on which depended the safety and commercial ascendancy
of Great Britain ; and least of all should they listen to repre-
sentations evincing disregard to the nation's security and
peace, and maritime ascendancy in war.---( Hear, hear.)
He alluded not to what other nations were now doing.
He believed they had a sincere desire to cultivate the relations
1 of peace ; still he was sure that those powers, 'though they had
I no immediate intention of going to war with thii country, had
an intention, whenever a a favourable opportunity occurred in
the future, of giving it a stab, their ultimate object being
to deprive Great Britain of the dominion of the sea,
He felt that he had trespassed long upon the House—( Cheers,
and cries of " No, no")—but he hoped and expected that his
Right Hon. Friend, who was as devoted to the interests of the
country as his judgment and his experience enabled him to be,
' would see grounds for changing his opinion.—( Hear, hear.)
Sincerely did Le hope that the opinions which he
(Sir Howard Douglas) professed might turn out to
be erroneous, but under the strong conviction that this measure
cannot be carried out with advantage to the British labourer,
arid that agriculture will be injured, and that manufactures or
commerce would not be improved, he would give his vote
against the measure.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) In some
respects be (Sir H. Douglas), reluctantly opposed the Bill ;
but, on the whole, he gaNa confident, conscientious, and con-
sistent vote against it, for it appeared to him that the measurei
was an unnecessary and dangerous experiment. It appears
on
was a movement from which there was no retreatnig, and o
prosperity, the wealth, the
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on that occasion it was his to express his views as
Lord VILLIERS said, that on
intention appearing. House
as possible.— ( Hear. )
" that protection would always remain a subject
House aware
briefly
of contention, and could he conscientiously support a principle
of that character ? He would be bound to say, that whatever
opinions he had entertained upon this question at a former
period had been completely changed by the experience of the
last few years.—( Hear, hear, ironical cheers, and cries of
.. cm, oh.") He would repeat that the experience of the last
few years had established beyond a doubt that this law was no
longer necessary to the prosperity of the country. He was
opposed to the opinions advanced on the last night by the
Honourable Baronet the Member for Rutlandshire,
that the prosperity of the last few years and the
abundance of capital, originated not in the measures
of the Right Honourable Baronet, but in the good
harvest and the employment afforded by railways. He (Lord
Villiers) contended that railways had not given birth to
capital, but that capital had given rise to railways. He con-
tended further that the reduction of taxation did not
necessarily imply a fall in the revenue. They had seen the
country rise from a condition pregnant with ' difficulty to a
1 state of comparative prosperity. He should give his most cor-
dial support to the measure.—(Cheers.)
Mr. F. SCOTT said, that when this measure was first
brought forward by her Majesty's Government, he had come
down to the House with the hope that he might have
been enabled to afford it his fullest support—
( Hear.) He had always given his voice and his vote
to the measures of the Right Honourable Baronet,
He regretted that he was now compelled to do otherwise, in
justice to his own principles and the inferred understanding
with his constituents. Although he had not given any
distinct pledges to them, his principles in the year
1846 would be the very same as those he had avowed
when he stood an unsuccessful candidate in the year 1834.
In 1841, he addressed them with more success, and be obtained
their support. When he again entered that House he main-
tained the same course from a firm conviction of its rectitude,
and a belief that he could not fellow a safer leader than the
Right Honourable Baronet, whose opinions and ideas
on the subject he knew from his childhood, and
whom he had always regarded with respect and
admi-
ration. Those feelings had increased the stunning
effect
which he had felt when he heard that his friend had turned
round on all his former opinions, and had deserted the men who
had placed him in his high position.—(Hear, hear.) He (the
felt it his duty, and had
Right Hon. Baronet) had no doubt
On
him, to 'change his • a firm conviction that it was incumbent
course, and to hoist another gag. He (Mr. Scott) had, how-
his own course should
ever, felt it his duty to deliberate what
very miserable when
he
be. He felt that, although appeared . . -
Baronet in intelligence or siga-
compared to the Right Hon. .
his perception of his
o man in
hewould yield to n
city, yet
to the country His conscience
was his guide. He had no
to guide him in his look to but himself political
one to
course.
He gave the Right Hon. Baronet great credit
for the sincerity of his conviction in his former opinions, and
I
lie gave
him equal credit for the sincerity of his convictions
now. It would be impossible for him, in three days, or in
,
three weeks, to take a retrospect of the last three years ; and
it
would be hard for him to obliterate from his memory all that
lie had read and heard during the last 30 years. He would not
attempt to enter into the labyrinth of past circumstances. He
would, with the permission of the House, give an instance very
apposi...e to the present occasion. A gentleman possessed of
extensive estates in the kingdom of England, and having large
property in the South of Scotland, was engaged with a commer-
cial firm on the continent, with which he disagreed. He
entered into a law-suit. and engaged the most
able and distinguished counsel, both in the Courts
1 of Chancery and at Common Lawi, to defend his case.
The claim set up on the continent was, that, as they shared
largely in his profits, therefore they desired to become partners
in his firm. Counsel were engaged, and although the plea was
acknowledged to be untenable, the question was argued before
ia special jury ; it also had a hearing in the House of
Lords. The gentleman in question went down to his seats