The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-09 00:00:00

INVASION OF IRELAND.

Lord BROUGHAM said that, seeing his Noble Friend the
Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster in his place, he would
ask him was there any truth in the report that an invasion
of Ireland was anticipated.—(Hear, hear.) There was a
report abroad that such was the case which he believed
was founded upon the fact of two cavalry regiments being
sent over to the country yesterday. He wished to know
was there any truth in the report?
Lord CAMPBELL—As the report has nothing whatever
to do with the county palatinate of the Duchy of Lan-
caster, I am not awate of such having been the fact.
Lord BROUGHAM—I apprehend that the Chancellor of
the Duchy of Lancaster has something to do with it,
as the embarkation is reported:to have taken place at Liver-
pool, which is within the palatinate—(Laughter)—but as
the Noble Lord does not know anything about it, there must
be no truth in the report.
Several other petitions were then presented, and their
Lordships adjourned at half-past Five o'clock till to-morrow.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
Room A.
IMPORTANT DECISION.
ZEONIELHA.GONIT, DAMSERP, AND COAT,
BRIDGE IVEINER.A.X. JUNCTION.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

On the completion of the promoters' case,
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY, on the part of the petitioning land•
owner, Mr. Holmesworth, addressed the Committee at con-
siderable length, and, on the conclusion of his speech, the
Committee, without calling upon him to give any evidence,
ordered the room to be cleared, and after a consultation of
about a quarter of an hour allowed the parties to be re-
admitted.

The CHAIRMAN then said, I have to announce to the
counsel that the Committee have determined to report to the
House that it is not expedient to carry the proceedings in this
case any further.

Having given this decision, the Committee rose at abou
ten minutes to four o'clock.

Room B.

CALEDONIAN (GLASGOW TERMINI AND
BRANCHES).
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

The evidence on the part of the petitioners occupied the
Committee the whole of the remaining part of the day, and
H as not concluded at four o'clock, when the Committee rose,
adjourning the further consideration of the case till to-
morrow.

GROUP C.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
POR,TBITRY RAILWAY AND PIER.

Mr. TALBOT opened the case for the promoters, and stated
that this was a short line of eight miles in length, from the
Bristol and Exeter line to Portbury, and was projected to
obviate the inconvenience of the navigation of the river
Avon, which forms the water communication between Bristol
and the Bristol Channel. From being a tidal river, the navi-
gation of it is often interrupted, and when it is recollected that
as many as 2,500 steam-vessels visited the port of Bristol every
year, the saving of the inconvenience, to which he had alluded,
would appear of not little importance. In addition to the
railway it was proposed to construct a pier at Portbury, with
a sort of breakwater, consisting of three iron-vessels of 300
feet length each, which would be so placed as to render
their surface longer or shorter as the case may re-
quire. These vessels also, it was proposed, to form so
as to give stewage for water and other necessaries,
for sea-going ships. The vessels frequenting Portbury would
be subject to the port dues of Bristol, and one object to be
served was the reduction of those dues. To this he believed
there was no objection on the part of the proprietary, but
the trustees of the port consisted of twenty-seven members
each, a third of whom were elected by different bodies, and
there was consequently a difficulty in coming to a decision.
There was no opposition to the preamble, but there was to
the clause. _ _ _ _ _

A gentleman from Bristol, one of the petitioners against
the reduction clause, here requested that the case might be
postponed tHI to-morrow, when counsel would appear to speak
upon this clause for reduction of the dues, but it was agreed
that the preamble should be gone into, and that the clause
should be left till to-morrow.

Mr. Brunel was then called, and he proved the facts stated
bs- Mr. Talbot, adding further, that the Great Britain ,and
the other transatlantic steamers had been removed to Liver-
pool, in consequence of the difficulty of the navigation of the
Avon. 'rule capital to be raised is 200,0001., with power to
borrow 66,0001. _ _ _

To the Earl of LIVERPOOL, Mr. Brunel replied that every
one in Bristol would have been too happy to improve the
navigation of the Avon, but at low water the river was dry,
and the influx of the tide came with a sixty feet rise, and if
the obviation of this difficulty was not quite impracticable, it
was the next thing to it.
Mr. Moms then put in the formal proofs, and their Lord-
ships adjourned till to-morrow.