The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-04 00:00:00

No. 16,678. LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING SUN,

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
Lectures on CHEMISTRY, with Brilliant Experiments,
by Dr. Ryan, daily at Half-past Three, and on the Evenings of
Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at Nine o'Cleck. During
Lent a series et LECTURES on ASTRONOMY, by Dr. Bachhoffmr
on the Mornings and Evenings of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri-
days, illustrated by a beautiful DISSOLVING ORRERY, accoom-
pai,ied by Dr. Wallace on Grove's Melodian, a new Musical
Instrumeot, and on Draby's CALOTONE. A daily LEC-
TURE on the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY, illustrated by a
Working Model carrying Visitors. A New and Powerful Working'
Model of COLEMAN'S PATENT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE, which
ascends and descends Inclined Planes with one or more passengers.
The PHYSIOSCOPE, OPA.QVE MICROSCOPE, DISSOLVING
VIEWS, CHROM kTROPE, &c. Experiments with the DIVING
BELL and DIVER. Open from Eleven to Half-past Five, aul
front seven to Half-past Ten in the Evening.
Admittance, One Shilling. Schools, Half-price.

GENERAL THOM THUMB will arrive and
commence his Day and Evening LEVEES at the EGYPTIAN
HALL, Piccadilly, on MONDAY, the 9th March, for a short time
only, it being POSITIVELY THE LAST TIME that he can
EVER appear in London, as he is about to return to America and
relinquish his public exhibitions. The little General is perfectly
symmetrical in an his proportions, Is very active and intelligent, 25
inches in height, and WEIGHS ONLY FIFTEEN POUNDS, being
smaller than any infant that ever walked alone, and considerably
less than one fourth the weight of any dwarf ever seen in England.
The General has had the distinguished honour of appearing, THREE
times before her Majesty rnd the Court, and has been patronised by
all the principal Crowned Heads of Europe. He will appear in all
his extraordinary Performances and New Costumes. The magnifi-
cent PRESENTS which he has received from HER MAJESTY and
the principal Sovereigns of Europe w;11 be 'exhibited. Hours from
11 to 1;3to 5 ; and 7 to 9 o'clock. Admission Is. Children under
ten years, half-price.
The General will be in Oxford the 4th, sth, 6th, and 7th, of

The General's Miniature Equipage w ill promenade the streets daily

rrHE HUMAN TRIPOD, or the THREE-
LEGGED_a_ CHILD and FIRST BIDE NIS EIDER SEEN or
HEARD OF.

The nobility and gentry, and the lovers of natural sciences, are re-
spectfully invited to view the following unprecedented phenomenon
of a Male Child, Six Menthe old, by name JOHN BAPTIST DOS
SANTO-, a native of Portugal, having THREE LEGS and
TWENTY TOES, and being otherwise a very line, well-made,
healthy, and lively boy. He is a bipenis as well as a trisceles, and
the causes of this extraordinary gemination or limbs and organs. and
the probabilities of their future growth and development, may well
afford ample fold for the speculations of the learned.
Exhibited every day (Sunday excepted) from Eleven to Five,
and from Seven io Nine o'clock, at No. 56, QUADRANT, REGENT-
STREET.

• u, Ainnissionflialf-a-Crown. •
The Child will be shown privately at thereddencarofsll • nobility
and gentry, bY applying to Antonit Dos Santos, at the same address.

%.VILL.—Any Person whoctn afford Information
Ni
with reference to the preparation, or present custody of,
THE WILL OF THE LA fE MAJOR JAMES HADDEN,
formerly of the 3d Dragoon Guards, of Harpenden, Hefts, and of the
Junior United Service Club, will greatly oblige his Family by commu-
nicating with us on their behalf. It is confidently believed that the
deceased made a Will, and any expression of his intentions to a
friend may possibly lead to its discovery.
RICHARDSON, SMITH, and SADLER,
March 2, 1846. 28, Golden-square.

VALLSEND COALS BY RAIL WAY
TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

nut—We beg, through the medium of your paper, to inform the
public that the METROPOLITAN is the only Coal Company who
deliver the Best Screened Sunderland Warsend at 255. per full ton,
unmixed with inferior sorts ; Prime Newcastle, commonly sold for
hest, 235. screened ; Coke, 17s. Delivered free of extra charge
within five wiles.— Tour obedient servants,
279, High Holborn.

H. BEIRDSWORTH and CO.

NICOLL'S PALETOT of LLAMA CLOTH.
Registered Gth and 7th 'Victoria, cap. 65.
Patronised by the Prince Consort, I'rince George of Cambridge, &c.
" In its appearance there is a ge itlemanly neatness, and an ab-
sence of all unsightly vulgarity. lz has met with the highest appro-
bation in the Court circle." - (See Moraine* Pc -t.)
This invention is an ever-coat, adapted for a variable climate,
composed of the purest Llar. weed. The fleece of this singular
animal is naturally repsllent el' water, ye'. is amply porous to admit
a due escape of bodily heat, and is allowed to Le lighter, softer, more
durable, and more elastic, than any other devription of cloth.
Registered Paletets or this fabric, in colours black, blue, brown,
olive, Oxford grey, &c., are to be had of their recognised agents in
the country, and iu London only at the extensive ware-rooms of
the Patentees, who are tailors to the Court, and makers of the most
fas.lionalyie plain dress garments, with Foreign and British diplo-
matic aid tnelital unicorns. Iti these the same spirit for mo-
derate prices is maiatained as exemplified by the Registered Paletot.
The patronage so generally bestowed on this patented invention,
has induced some unprincipled persons an attempt the fraudulent
imposition assuming a simifalty of name; being an attempt to
deceive the public wiih some trashy substitute. A reward of Fifty
Pounds is ofered .Or the actual detection o? an Infringement.
Messrs. Nicoll think it due to their own reputation thus respect-
fully to citation the Public, and to request a close observance of the
address, and that each Registered Paletot is distinctly marked on the
inside, 11. I. and D. NICOLL, 114. Regent-street, London.

PATRONISED by his IMPERIAL MAJESTY
the KING of the FRENCH.

The ORIGINAL METALLIC TABLET STROP, with four sides, In-
vented by Mr. GEORGE SAUNDERS, of New York. This article has
been in general use for the last 30 years, and has been patronised by the
first cutlers of Europe and America, by all of whom it is pronounced
to be the only article that will give to the razor a keen and srsoothe
edge, and make shaving a luxury. The American Institute for the
Encouravtment of Science awarded to the inventor of this article a
silver medal in token of their approval of the invention. This strop
may lee obtained of the principal cutlers in London and Pats.
Manufactory, 25, Strand.

TALES OF ♦ GRANDIATUER.—PPOPLE'S EDITION.
This day, Number One and Part One, of
TALES of a GRANDFATHER, being the
HISTORY OF SCOTLAND,
By Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bart.
The POETRY of Sir WALTER SCOTT, People's Edition, is now
in course of Publication in Numbers and Parts. Both Issues will be
completed in November.
R. Cadell, Edinburgh ; Houliton and Stoneman, London.

Elegant Pocket Edition, price Is., by post Is. 6d.
DR. CULVERWELL ON MARRIAGE,
its HINDRANCES and OBLIGATIONS.
" To be or not to be, that is the question."—Shakseeare.
Contents:—On Matrimonial Eligibility and Unlibiess—Laws
Paternity—Phenomena of Gestation—On Maternal Influence—On
infelicitous and unproductive Unions--Curiosities of Medical Experi-
ence, Cases, &c. &c.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
28, CORNHTLL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both t* Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr,w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of hi, interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The success and increasing prowearity 01 the Society has enabled
the ✓irectors, at tie last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from 3tt to 75 or cent. on the prextituns paid on
each Polley effected on the ProAt scale.
E XAMPLIii S.

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> en 4,1 Beam lianas in fl, C; N .114,,i4
r, ; i Premium. 4 1 adds& Cash. g 4 g &2- u g
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601000 x 4 si dl.
11883387 £116931
1133 :1487 13 5413 17 1 4395 11 1
74 13 10 11 8 6 846 2 3
1839 138 13 61 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 4
1540 89 001 41 13 4 69 0 247 4 5

The d•afaion of profits is annual, and the next will be made in Ist
cc►nher of the present year.

F. FERGUSON CAMEO OZ. Sea.

iRGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY'
39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK.
EMPOWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT,
b and 6 Will. IV., c. 76.
THOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
WILLIAM LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
Richard E. Arden, Esq. John llumphery. Esq., Alderman,
William Banbury, Esq. M.P.
Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman.
Thomas Cam plin, Esq. Jeremiah Filcher, Esq.
James Chit, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Esq.
Rupert Ingleby, Esq.
PHYSICIAN—Dr. Jeaffreson, i Finsbury-square.
SURGEON—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—Professor Hall, of King's College.
LOW RATES OF PREMIUM.
Iu addition to the subscribed Capital of 300,0001., the Assured have
the security o: the Company's rapidly increasing income, and an
accumulating Assurance Fund invested in Government and other
available securities, of considerably larger amount than the esti-
mated liabilities of the Company.
The rates of premium are reduced to the lowest scale compatible
,with .the security of—ahs Assured, and tho otability of the Company,
thereby, in effect, giving to every Policy Holder an immediate and
certain Bonus without risk, in lieu of the deterred and frequently
delusive prospect of a periodical division of Profits.
ANNUAL PREMIUM TO ASSUAN £lOO.

For One Year. 1 For Seven Years.

Age.
20 £0 11 3
30 1 1 II
40 1 i 0
SO 1 14 1
60 3 2 4

£0 19 1
1 2 7
1 6
119 !0
3 7 0

Vaole Term.

£1 11 10
2 0 7
2 14 10
4 0 11
6 0 10

One-third of the " Whois Term" l'remiorn may remrin u”pold at
5 per cent. compound interest, as a debt upon the policy for life. or
way be paid of.' at any rime without notice.

In Assurances for Advances oe Money, as security for debts, of
as a provisioa for a family, where the least present outlay is desirable,
the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus Office will be found
to be particularly favourable to the Assured.
The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Cleck.
EDWARD BATES, Resident Director.
♦ liberal Commission to Solicitors rnd Agents.

LONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, London.
RICHARD SPOONER. Esc,- M.P., Chairman.
RENJAMIY IFILL, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
The indisputability of the policies granted by this Company—
he obligation to pay the sum assured, although thedeht for which
the policy was taken out may have been paid before the claim arises—
Whole world policies not confined to the limits of Europe—
Option of half-premium payment for the first seven years—
These form a combination of advantages which can be obtained
only 7..0rn the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Company.
The success which has attended the system of Assurance pursued
by this Company is illustrated by the fact, that at the General Court,
held en the 9th day or. July Ift,t, there was declared
A. REDUCTION OF 25 PER CENT.
on the current year's premiums o: all participating policies opened on
or liefore the 9th day of February, 1841.
Thus, a person aged ,!0, who opened a policy for 1,0001.
in Feb nary, 1841, et an annual premium of •• .. £32 10 0
Is called r ion to pay Vl's year only •••• • • • • 24 7 6
Amid if this abatement be applied to pay the first year's
premium of an additional policy, the party will he
further assured to the extent of ........ • -• • .... 215 9 4
Prooortionate benefits accrue to policies .n all ages.
Copies of :be last repot containing a full exposition of the princi-
ples and practice of the Society, may be obtained by applying at
the head ottice, or any of the agencies.
ALF XANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

UNITED KIN GDOr.I LIFE ASSZj RANCE
COMPANY,
1, WATERLOO-PL A CE, PA L- A.LL, LONDON..
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
DIVISION OF PROFITS A MOS(1 THE ASSURED.
DIaECTORS.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman
lIANA.NEL DC CASTRO, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
lib'amuel Anderson, Esq. Charles Graham, Esq.
Hamilton B. Avarne, Esq. F. Charles Maitland, Esq.
Edward Loyd, Esq., Resident William Railton, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Assistant- John Ritchie, Esq.
Resident I F. li. Thomson, Esq.
Charles Downes, Esq.
Surgeon—F. Hale Thomson, Esq., 48, Berners-street.
This Company, established by Act of Pat liPpent, affords the most
perfect security hi a large paid-up Capital, and in the grer Y success
which has attended it since its cc.mmercemeut in 1834, its ANNUAL
INCOME being UPWARDS of 82.000/.
In 1841 the Company added a Bonus of 2/. per cent, per annum
en the Sum Insured to all Polict.a of the Participating Class from
the time they were effected.
The Bonus added to Policies from March, 1834, to December 31,
1840, is as follows :
Sum Time Sum added Sum Time Suns Added
Assured. Assured. to Policy. !Assured. Assured. to Policy.
£5OOO 6 yea. 10 mths. £683 6 C £5OOO 4 years .V.OO
5000 6 years 600 0 0 5000 2 years 200
The Premiums, nevertheless, at a on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid ;or the first Five Years, where Die Insu-
rance is for Life.
Every Wormation will be afforded •.1 opplicat;on to the Resident
Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq.. and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No 0,
Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, Loudon.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COM PANT.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Zmpowered by special Act of Parliament, 4th Yiet., cap. 9.
ADVANTAGES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
MUTUAL AIIIII3IANCE SAAN4III.
Complete tesurity afforded to the Assured by means of an ample
subscribed capital, and tke large funds accumulated from the pre-
mi.ims on upwards of 6,000 policies.
Half the s.moaat only of the annual premium required during the
first five years, the remaining half premiums being paid eat o' the
profits, which, after Ave years, will be annually divided among the
Assared.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)
Sub-Committee No. S.
The Committee met to-day shortly After twelve o'clock
There were present Sir J. Y. Buller (Chairman), Messrs. Bell,
Kemble, and liramston.
EDINDUR.GII, GLASGOW, AND DVIVIIIAR-
TONSEINSI.
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The consideration of the remaining allegations in the petition,
which were not entered iuto yesterday, was resumed.
The first allegation taken was, that there was an inaccuracy at
the datum point of the railway at the river Clyde, the surface o.
which was marked on the plans and sections as 104 feet, whereas it
should have been 111 feet 9 inches.
Mr. Lauglin was examined—Surveyed the levels of this line.
Levelled all the way to ilellensburgh. The point alluded to should
have been marked 116 feet instead of 94, which was the case on the
plans and sections. The difference between the two measurements
(his and the engineer's for the promoters of the Bill) at the canal at
llielpatrick, was 22 feet.
Mr. rain' said that he conceived that his friend had put himself
out of court. He alleged in the petition that the error in question
was 17 feet mid he make his witness prove it to be over 20 feet.
Mr. GRAHAM considered that the present was not the time to make
this objection.
The CHAIRMAM considered that the examination might be pursued.
Witness re-examined—His 'earls were correct.
The CHAIRMAN (to the witnesi)—Tou ought to put inyour books to
show that correctness. The other party might say that they
were correet, and it was only by examination of their documents that
they could arrive at a satisfactory conclusion in the case of conflict-
ing evidence.
Witness cross-examined—He took his surveys from the surface of
the water, not the bank of the river.
Other evidence of a similar character was adduced to support the
allegation, which corroborated the testimt,ny of the preceding
witness.
Mr. Gasioad said that this was the case he had to submit to the
Committee.
Mr. Pam, in support of the Bill, cal ed
Mr. Bly, en,dneer, who stated, that in peint of fact the discrepancy
between the plan and what was stated in the allegation, was only
three inches. There was no height to mark from it the way which
was required in the terms of the petition, and that the bank of the
river was the proper surface from which to level.
The CHAIRMAN said that the Committee were of opinion that the
allegation was not sustained, but that the standing orders had not '
been complied with, inasmuch as it appeared from the evidence that
the vertical height at the change of gradients was inaccurately
marked, being 100 feet, instead et 108 feet.
Mr. GRAHAM said he would not press the other allegation.
The next petition consider strom tillr James Colquhoun,
various inaccuracies in= A,ajid sections deposited with
the Sheritnhofilver Inr,Atankatt rereeetnes to. tato town
of Heleusbufgh.
The first instance of the general allegation stated, that in section
marked 35 in one of the streets of the said town, which was to be
crossed by the railway, the height and span of the arch were not given,
and that there was no cross section.
Evidence in support of this allegation was adduced, to show that
the street in question was in actual existence at present, which was
denied, and that it was crossed by the road, which was also denied.
The room 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 Perry, a burgess
of Dumnbarton, complaining generally of non-compliance with the
standing orders.
TWO allegations were heard which were not sustained.
The Committee then found that the standing orders had not been
compliedTtiiswas
itthheb fourththe pdraoymot
occupieders ot'y
the bill.t 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
cases are to be taken.

Sub-Committee, No. 3.
This Committee met at the usual hour this morning, Mr. Aglionby
in the chair.

TEE WELSE MIDLAND.

The Committee resumed the hearing of the ease, and nearly the
whole of the day was occupied in settling what •bjections to the
31st of December plans should be admitted or aban-
dccied. A large number of the allegations were admitted
by Mr. Baxter, who appeared for the promoters of the Bill, while a
no less number were withdrawn by the opponents of the scheme,
who were represented by Messrs. Burke, I'ritt, and 'enables.
Some of the allegations involved important and extensive defects
. .

in the plans and sections, but the majority were of a trivil character.
The Committee were occupied for two hours in the consideration
of petitions, which ultimately were found to have been fully dis-
eased on Friday, and afterwards some reserved points
left over from Friday were disposed of. Most of them were of a
very trivial nature, and summarily disposed of by the Committee.
The petition of Mr. Coke was entertained at some length. It ap-
peared that no application had been made to him for the possession
of some land in which lie had an interest, nor had any implication
been made to Mr Powell, who had a life estate in tke same land.
Mr. Powell was examined, and stated that the land was, upon his
marriage, conveyed to Mr. Coke, as trustee, to be held upon certain
uses not yet satisfied.
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The Committee decided that all the parties who had any interest
in the land ought to have had notice, and that the standing orders
had not been complied with in this instance.

The next petition was sustained, inasmuch as tke extreme depth of
cutting was not marked upon the plans, as was also another alleg-
ing that the extreme height of an em a.tikment was not shown.
The nicety of -the standing orders about trifles was exemplified in
the Committee declaring a non-compliance with them, because a
distance had been put in chains, whereas the standing orders
require that it should have been put in fbrlongs and chains—a split-
ting-of-hair kilt i of instruction, which the Honourable Chairman
/aid they were bound to respect. A number of petitions upon the
ground of non-compliance with the standing orders were declared
proved, and the case was closed so far as the standing orders were
concerned.

The CHAIRMAN said that upon tie 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 not been complied with, the agents on both sides should confer
with the shorthand writer, and arrange the matter before the Com-
mittee submitted their report to the House.
At the close of the proceedings,

Mr. VENABLIS said that it had been alleged that many of the in-
accuracies in the deposits had occurred through the illness of Air.
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 from 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 inaccuracies.

Mr. Hall declared that his illness was the sole cause, and that he
had never before failed to succeed in complying 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 0 conceal anything, or state what was not strictly true.
The CUASEMAN 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 ELT (EXTENSION TO
SPALDING).
This is a line of railway proposed to be constructed between Wis-
beach and Spalding, with a branch to Holbeach, 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 proof*
were accepted, and the consideration of the petition against the pro-
ject was pestponed.
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 in attendance were Mr. Home Drummond (C! airman), Mr. F.
Mackenzie, the O'Conor Don, Mr. Tattoo Egerton, Mr. Phillips,
and Mr. Contpton.

FURNESS AND WINDERMERE.
This case, which was betbre the Committee on Friday last, was
again renewed this morning. Iha omission from the book of re-
ference of the name of Al r. James Michel, over whose property a
portion of the line is proposed to pees, was then examined into, and
the Committee decided, after hearing tho 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 MSS sections 7 and 8, the property proposed to
be altered in the parish of Windermere.
The Committee slecided 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. VENTABLES, on tne 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 a 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
send to the country for a true copy of the original estimate.
WAN CHESTER AND POOLE (zuGGERs-
SAL'S/JUICY, 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 Deacon 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 could not be
given in evidence, but that the notices depended en 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
Railway at Lichfield. The length of the line
Com-
mittee, who stated Ihey would net give their decision for the present.
MACCLESFIELD AND LICHFIELD,
The petitionei s in this case sought for leave to construct a line of
railway from Macclesfield, by Leck Cheadle and Abbots Bromley,
proposedto
oestimated cost, 1,000,000/.
subscribed capital, 1,250,0001. Engineer, Mr. J. Locke; Parlia-.
t e Tirse
fortynt Valleyve
mentary agents, Messrs. Gregory and Co. ; solicitors, 3lessrs.
Gregory, Faulkner, and Co., and 31r. Win. Challoner, of Leek.
Mr. John Crusoe and Mr. John Smith were petitioners against
the proposed line. There were various allegations contained in the
miles two furlongs
petitions, the first of which was, that certain lands situate in the
county of Chester, and vested in one
parish of %resbury, of the t J g
peti-
tioners for the children of 3r. n mith, of Daintery, were not
returned correctly in the book of' referenceoh , which was overruled. A
similar allegation contained in the petition of Mr. Horbury was next
taken, when Mr. Oldacres, the occupying tenant, was examined, who
belonged to Mr. Horbury. proved that the property Objection con-
sidered invalid.
was from the owners of the Trent and
The next petition Mersey
Navigation Company.
Their first allegation was, that by the 59th clause of the proposed
Manchester and way Company were to
Act, the
have the power of purchasing and leasing the intended railway, and
that they 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.

LORDS,
COMMITTEES.
This Twelve o'clock this day.
ON 1 LE RAlLWAYlabours at
.
The two witnesses required to complete the evidence on this line
being produced, the Committee declared the standing orders had been
complied with. The length of the line is twenty-nine miles, with a
branch to the collieries of SieD ardogh of ten miles and a half, and will
form a junction between the Great Southern and Western and Water-
ford and Limerick Railways.
The estimated cost is 400,0007. ; en' i
4-neer, Sir John Nl`Neil ; solici-
tors, Messrs. Labarte and Anderson, and Barrington and Co.
THE TEM PLE3IOR E AND NENA.GII RAILWAY.
The Committee reported that the Couli'an3' had complied with the
'landing orders In this case.
iHE WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN
RAILWAY.
The Committee reported that in this case the Company had also
complied with the standing orders.
The Committee then adjourned at four o'clock to Thursday next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The Committee met this day at one o'clock. The following Bills
were disposed of:—
LEICESTER AND BEDFORD RAILWAY.
dispensed with. Burke and Co.,
uents orders in this case
NORFOLK RAILWAY (STOWMARKET, WYMONDHAM AND
Standing
ATTLEBOROUGH BRANCH).
Burke and Cn.. agents. Allowed to be proceeded with.
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY (POTTERIES LINE).
Burke and Co., agents. Allowed to be proceeded with.
EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DOUCHE:6I'ER RAILWAY.
Burke and Co., agents.
After hearing the agents fur the promoters and the opposition,