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London, England, 1846-03-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 24.

The SPFAXER took the Chair at a few minutes to Four.
Mr. LAWSON moved that the fohowing Bills in Group
No. 43—East and West Yorkshire Jusution (York and
Knaresborough), Great North of England k Bedale . Branch),
Great North of England ( Borot4hbridge Branch )—be taken
out of Group No. 43, being unopposed Bills, and referred to
Mr. Greene and the Members introducing such Bills, on the
31st instant, unless petitions against. any of these Bills be pre-
sented on or before Monday next, the 30th instant (inclusive),
in which case such Bill or Bills shall cont.nue as at present
grouped.
After a desultory conversation, in which Mr. Brotherton,
Mr. B. Denison, Mr. Fox Maule, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Greene,
Mr. Craig, Mr. Hudson, Me. Duncombe, Mr. Aldam, Mr.
Collett, and,Col. Wood joined, a division ensued, when these
appeared—
For the motion
Against it
Majority against the motion
ICOYAL ASSENT.

Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod, ap-
peared at the bar of the House, and summoned the attend-
ance of the Commons in the House of Lords, to hear the
royal assent given by commission to several Bills, which have
passed both Houses during the present session.
Mr. THOR NEL Y preseniel a petition against the Gla,gow
Police Bill.
Mr. BOUVERIE presented a petition against the Edin-
burgh and Northern Railway.
Mr. HUME said he would call the attontion of the House to
a circumstance which he knew to be against the rules; be was
at all times unwilling to transgress in that way fur a matter of
small importance, bat this case called ter the interterenee of the
House. The borough of Montrose, which he had the honour to
represent, contained 15,000 inbabitants,and,duringti a former
times of scarcity, a sum of money was Subscribed to purchase
certain grounds for the accommodation and recreation of the
public. One of the numerous railways then under Hies con
sideration of the House, wou!ii in its course interfere with this
grout.-l. The magistrates s,f this borough of course expected
that the railway company wool t be willing to make compen-
sation, by purehaiing as equal amount of ground, and leveling
it. Negotiations to this eff,ct wee in progress, and the
magistrates had every reason to believe, matil a feR days' ago,
that the compensation they expected would be given ; but a
short time since they received an Militia ion that the Company
would have nothing to do with purchasing fresh ground, but
that it was only a case of compensation in the ordinary sense of
the word. The property interfered with was land near the sea
side, and the price of an acre of it would not be the value of a
quarter of an acre elsewhere. The petition teas, therefore, that
they might be heard before the Committee to which this Bill was
referred. He was aware that it watt not usual to send petitions
before Committees after they had come enced their labours ;
and if it was for an individual, he should not make any such
appl:cation, but this was a public question. The magistrates
were merely trustees, and the grounds so given were to remain
for ever for the public use. All he asked, therefore, was that
the petition should be allowed to go before the
,Committee on
the Railway Bill.
Mr. GREENE was extremely sorry to oppose the motion
of the Hon. Member, but he thought that if the House gave
way in the present instance that they would have to give way
in others, and great inconvenience to all parties could not
fail to result. Besides that was not the first time such
a case bad been brought before the Houv, as he could point
out numbers of instances in which parties had so come torward
to complain of similar hardships. The case brought forward
by the lion. Member did not appear to him to justify them in
breaking through the orders which they had adopted for the
regulation of public business.
Mr. T. BARING considered, with the Hon. Member who
had just sat down, that it would be unwise to break through
the rules which they had adopted. As the money was granted
for a public purpose, he should recommend the Hon. Member
to apply to the Treasury, who would no doubt see that the
money so granted was really devoted to the purposes intended.
Mr. HUME said his sole object was that the public interests
should not suffer. The Government undeniably gave 200/.,
and the parties referred to a similar sum, in order to lay out
those grounds for the recreation of the people. But if the
Treasury had aoy power to interfere in the matter,
he thought an application to that quarter would
be the proper course to adopt. With respect to
what had fallen from Mr. Greene, he must say that he enter-
tained as high respect for the rules of the House as he did. He
considered that the case which he advocated was one with
respect to which he thought the House yvould not hesitate to
depart from the established rule.
After a few words from Mr. GREENE, _

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Mr. HUME raid that if the petition were allowA to go
before the Committee he should withdraw h,s motion.

The motion was ~übseguently withdrawn.
NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.

An How. NI icstaxa presented a petition from Jedburgh In
favour of the Carlisle Extension of the North British Railway.
Mr. ESTCOURT brought up the report of the Standing
Orders Committee.