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ceeding with the Health Towns Bill, instead of taking
it on Monday next.
Mr. CARDWELL had understood it to have been
arranged in the early part of the evening, that the
Health of Towns Bill should not be taken until the large
towns had had an opportunity of considering its pro-
visions. ':"''a • ;
Lord MORPETH said his Nolde Friend (Lord J.
Russell) had no been in the House when that arrange-
ment was made, but he entirely concurred in it, and the
Bill would accorling'y not be taken on Friday next—
probably not until Friday week.—(Hear, hear.)
DISTILLING FROM SUGAR BILL.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX-
CHEQUER, the House went into Committee upon this
Bill.
Mr. P. MILES took some objection to the Bill, but
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER depre-
cated discussion on this stage, and recommended the
opposition should be reserved for the third reading.
Mr. KERSHAW complained that Members could not
understand what was going on.—(Laughter.) There
was a sort of conversation across the table, and suspi
cions were begotten that all was not quite straightfor-
ward.—(Renewed laughter.)
The Bill passed through Committee and was ordered
to be reported. The House resumed.
ELECTION RECOGNIZANCES BILL.
Mr. S. \VORTLEY moved the third reading of this
Bill.
Mr. ELLIOT—I move as an amendment that it be
read a third time this day six months.
The House divided, when there appeared—
Ayes
Noes
Majority —44
On our return to the House,
Mr. WAWN was speaking. He said he opposed the
Bill upon this principle, that Members petitioned against
had canvassed other Members to vote upon this Bill.—
(Laughter.) It was a fact that could not be disputed,
and as an independent Member he mast enter a strong
protest against a Bill carried by such means.
The Bill was then read a third time and passed.
SOUTH SHIELDS PETITION.
Mr. WAWN moved that the petition of the inhabit.
ants of South Shields on the subject of custom-house
facilities, &c. (presented 31st March) be printed with the
votes; but the motion having been opposed by Mr.
Thornely on the ground that the Committee on public
petitions had ordered it to be printed, was put and ne-
gatived.
WOODS AND FORESTS AND LAND
REVENUES.
On the motion of Viscount DUNCAN a Select Com
tnittee was nominated on woods, forests, and land reve-
nues:—Viscount Duncan, Viscount Morpeth, Mr. Pusey
Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir B. Hall, Mr. Langston, Viscount
Jocelyn, Mr. Trelawny, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. H. Drum-
mond, the Earl of Lincoln, Mr. Gibson Craig, Mr. J.
Wilson, Mr. Monsell, and Mr. J. Locke.
ELECTION OATHS.
Mr. BERESFORD moved, " That it be referred to
the Committee on Election Oaths to inquire into the le-
gality of oaths, otherwise than those authorised in such
cases which have been sworn to by Protestant Members
of this House, on taking their oaths ;" observing that
the Member for Cork (Mr. E. B. Roche), who was a
Protestant, had taken the oath prescribed for Roman
Catholics.
Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL thought the motion badly
worded and almost inexplicable, and hoped that in the
absence of the Hon. Member for Cork it would not be
pressed.
After a few words from Sir G. GREY, objecting to
the vagueness of the motion, it was withdrawn.
The House adjourned at One o'clock.

RAILWAY IN rIE LLIGENCE.

BIRMINGHAM AND OXFORD JUNCTION.

The meeting adjourned from Liverpool on Thursday
week took place at Birmingham on Saturday. As on
the former occasion, not a single member of the Great
Western directory was present. Mr. P. H. Muntz oc-
cupied the chair, and at the commencement of the
proceedings a letter from Messrs. Hunt, of Whitehall,
solicitors to the Great Western Company, was read to
the meeting. The letter chiQtly referred to technical
differences between the solicitors of the two companies,
and was intended to defend the Great Western Company
from alleged aspersions contained in Mr, Dobie's report,
in which a hope was expressed that it may not yet be
too late to accommodate matters.

Mr. DOBIE begged to state, with regard to certain
disputed points, that when the two counsel met it was
undersood that all propositions made were without pre-
judice. After the meeting at which the negotiations
between Sir F. Kelly and Mr. Molt were discussed, he
(Mr. I)obie) felt it to be his duty to see Sir Fitzroy, and
he (Mr. Dobie) then asked aim, " Have the Birming-
ham and Oxford Company drawn back or failed to
perform any engagement into which they have entered
through you as their representative ?" Sir Fitzroy
replied most distinctly " No," adding " I entered into no
engagement, and, in agreeing to propose the secret ar-
ticle, I told Mr. Holt, that although I felt convinced of
the good faith of Mr. Mozley and other principal share-
holders, it was no use shutting our eyes to the fact that
the North-Western, the Hudson lines,' and, in fact, all
the important lines in the north of kEngland, will con-
tinue to oppose the broad gauge wedge getting into that
part of the country."
The CHAIRMAN stated that he had been in communi-
tion with the directors of the Great Western Railway
Company, and they assured him that they were anxious
to carry out the agreement in all its integrity, and he
fully believed that such were their wishes and
intentions. There was no doubt that the
coupons were to be given independent of the con-
tingencies with respect to the obtainment of the broad
gauge, but it was impossible to forget the means which
had been adopted to defeat that which was the known
object of the Great Western Company in purchasing
the line.

A long and desultory conversation ensued upon the
terms and effect of the agreement of 1846. There was
nothing new in the argument; all parties expressed a
wish for its literal fulfilment, but still no nearer approach
was made to an amicable arrangement.
Ma. NEWDERY (of Manchester) asked—Suppose the
Great Western Company obtain an Act for confirming
the sale of the Birmingham and Oxford line, but fail in
obtaining the broad guage clause, will they, notwith-
standing, issue the coupons ?
The CHAIRMAN entertained no doubt upon the subject.
Mr. MOZLEY suggested that the coupons pending the
Bills now before Parliament and present negotiations,
should be placed in the hands of a third honourable
party, to be delivered upon the completion of the agree-
ment.

This view was supported by Mr. ALSTON ; and ulti.
mately, a petition having been read, resolutions upon the
motion of Mr. Mozley were adopted, for petitioning both
Houses against the Bill for conferring additional powers
on the Great Western Railway Company with reference
to an agreement of the 12th day of November, 1846, for
the purchase by them of the Birmingham and
Oxford Junction and Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and Dudley Railways against the Bill for
enabling the Great Western Railway Company to
construct a loop line from the Birmingham and Oxford
Junction Railway through Leamington, and for other
purposes, and to withdraw certain words in the sth, 6th,
12th, and 14th clauses of the Birmingham and Oxford
Junction Railway Bill, relating to the Great Western
Company, and their claim to become purchasers of the
said junction railway, and authorizing Messrs. Dobie,
Colemore, and Beale to appear as agents on behalf of
this company before the committees.
It is almost unnecessary to say that the chairman
refused to put the resolution, and they were consequently
submitted by Mr. Mozley, and by him declared to be
carried.
This, as well as the special meeting was then adjourned
until the 11th of April.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The market to-day has been very
dull, and prices continue to manifest a declining tendency.
The sales are-Chester and Holyhead, 14s. lid. ex int.-
Cornwall, 2s. 1-10 d. ex int. -Eastern Counties, Perpetual 5
per cent., No. 2,3 s. 4d. ex int.-Newcastle and Carlisle,
60s. ex div.-Ditto, Quarters, 15s. ex div.-Ditto, New
Quarters (black), 153. ex div.-Ditto, New 1001. Shares
(black), 60s. ex div.-Ditto, New 1001. Shares (red), 3s.
101,4 d. ex div.-Scottish Midland, 7s. 10d.-Ditto, New, 4s.
-Belfast and County Down, 4s. ld. ex int.-Londonderry
and Coleraine, 13s. 7d. ex int.-Londonderry and Ennis-
killen, 3s. 2d. ex int.-Midland Great Western, 13s. 7d. ex
int.-Ditto, Halves, 3s. ex int.-Waterford and Kilkenny,
ss. 3d. ex int.-Demerara, 2s. 7d. ex int.-Sambre and
Meuse, ss. 10d. ex int.
MANCHESTER, APRIL 3.

Srocic ExcularGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6 9.16 dis.—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 321. Shares, 71,4, dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union),
n. dis.—London and North-Western (Manchester and
Birmingham), Quarters (C), 21/s p.—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, Eighths, b dis.—North British, Thirds,
1% dis —North Staffordshire, 2y dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, No 4,3% dis.

BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 3.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales ars—Ambergate, Notting-
ham, and Boston, Ms. 3d. dis.—North Staffordshire, 48s. 9d.
di.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 4N3 dis.--Ditto,
(B), 61s. 3d. dis.
BRISTOL, APRIL 3.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market at present appears to
have no sign of improvement. The sales were—Great
Western, Quarters,2l/2 dis.—Ditto, 17V. Shares, 134 dis.

MRS. ARMYTAGE ; OR, FEMALE DOMINATION.—
tChOislbu clever
rn's
Mrs. Gore, in her preface to the new edition o,f,
work, which has just been published, in
Standard Novels," states, that the Duchesse de Praslin
was reading " Mrs. Armytage" on the night of her as-
sassination, and that the volume stained with her blood
was put in evidence at the Chamber of Peers, and assumes
that the affecting incident may have served to revive an
interest in favour of the book; but, as the Examiner
justly observes, " it needed nothing to revive its interest
but the recollection of its early admirers, and the greater
accessibility of the form in which it now appears. It is
a book with an excellent purpose, most discreetly worked
out." The Quarterly Review, just published, we observe,
also alludes to the Prar,lin incident, and to the book as
" that delicate specimen of Mrs. Gore's skill." The
husbands of England certainly ought to raise a monu-
ment to the writer.

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