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TER TO WOLVERHAMPTON).

Evidence against the Bill was received on behalf of the Stafford-
shire and Worcestershire Canal Company.
Two witnesses were examined to show the injury which would re-
sult to the local traffic from the conversion of the canal.
Mr. Thum, on behalf of Lord Hatherton, then addressed the
Committee in opposition to the line.

GROUP LXIV.
This Committee re-assembled to-day at twelve o'clock, in Room
11; present, Mr. T. S. Duncombe (chairman) and the other Mem-
bers.
XI2,XSH GB. AT WESTERN (PORTA.R..
LXLTGTON TO GALWAY).

said that the other evening when they se'
NAIRMAN Sa— namely, whether Mr. Cock-
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question which arose,
d the - 1 Western RallwaY, had a locus
Cock-
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not decided. The Committee had since determined that
stan.i, w
r kabsurii had not a locus stand! against the preamble of the Bill,
billut. sTioculd be heard against any clause relating to purchase that
might be proposed.
Mr. Sergeant WaexonAm said that he appeared on the part of
the Ifulliugar Company, who opposed the Bill.
Mr. TAYLOR, en the part of the promoters of the Bill, contended
thattha as the clients of his Learned Friend had not petitioned against
preamble of the Bill they could not be heard, and it was the uni-
versal practice of Committees not to entertain objections under these
circumstances.
Mr. Sergeant WaAtiet
llAbt contended that ,the circumetaUeee 9f

these two Bills having been heard before the House of Lords
refuted the assertion of his Learned Friend, and there was no neces-
sity for petitioning against the preamble of the Bill when they were
competing lines, and grouped together.
The CHAIRMAN said it was unnecessary to argue the point.
The Committee, after hearing counsel pro and con., decided that
the Grand Canal Company , under their seal, might be heard against
the preamble of the Bill, and that the other petitioners might be
heard against particular clauses.
The case for the Bill was then resumed.
Mr. Richard Lynch, of Galway, was examined by Mr. TAYLOR,
and stated that they got goods In Galway from London, Liverpool,
and Dublin, and from the latter place that the mode of transit for
part of the way was by canal, and the remainder of the road by
carts. He further stated that the railway propoSed would be of the
greatest advantage not only in bringing goods to Galway, but also
in conveying thence corn, 50,000 tons of which came annually into
the town, and a greater portion of which was sent to Dublin.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY)

HOUSE OF COMMONS,
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
REPORTS.
The reports on the following Bills were then brought up,
and agreed to :—Banffshire Roads ; Belfast and County Down
Railway; Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway; Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway (Darfield Branch) ;
London and Blackwall Railway (Widening); Marquis of
Donegal's Estate; North British Railway (Carlisle Exten-
sion) ; Sir George Dunbar's Estate; Sheffield, Ashton-under-
Lyne, and Manchester Railway (Barnsley Branch ) ; Sheffield,
Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway ( Worsborough
Branch); Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Hud-
dersfield, and Goole Railway; Stockton Gas; Airdrie and
Bathgate Junction Railway; Argyll Canal; Birming-
ham, Lichfield, and Manchester Railway; Blackburn,
Clitheroe, and North Western Junction Railway;
Caledonian Railway (Glasgow Termini and Branches);
Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway; Fleetwood, Pres-
ton, and West Riding Junction Railway ; Glas-
gow Municipal, Police and Statute Labour ; Glasgow,
Airdrie, and Monkland Junction Railway ; Glasgow
Southern Termini Railway ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Gree-
nock Railway (Polloc and Govan Branch) ; Gloucester and
Dean Forest Railway ; Grand Junction Railway (Huyton
to Warrington) ; Grand Junction Railway (Huyton and
Aston, and other Branches); Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Junction Railway and Grimsby Docks Consolidation ; Har-
rogate Waterworks; Huddersfield and Manchester Railway
and Canal (Huddersfield Diversion and Cooper Bridge
Branch); Lesmahagow, Dalserf, and Coatbridge Mineral
Junction Railway ; London and Croydon Railway (Thames
Junction Branch) ; Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway
(Chapel Hall Branch) ; Midland Railway (Burton-on-Trent
to Nuneaton Branch and Ashby Canal Purchase) ; Midland
and Eastern Counties Railway (Cambridge to Weedon) ;
Morecombe Harbour and Railway; Norfolk Railway Ex-
tensions (Yarmouth Extension); Porthury Pier and Rail-
way; Schoolmasters' Widows' Fund ; Sheffield, Ashton
under Lyne, and Manchester Railway (haley Bridge and
Hayfield Branches); South Wales Railway (No. 2) ;Yeovil
Market and Fairs.

SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time :—Midland
Great Western of Ireland Railway (Mullingar to Galway);
Scottish Central and Caledonian Junctioa Railway (by
order).

THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and passed :
Ayrshire, Bridge of Weir, and Port Glasgow Junction
Railway ; Ballochney Railway (Shotts Branch) ;
Bridgwater and Taunton Canal, Railway, and Harbour;
Bristol and Exeter Railway (Crewkerne Branch); Broms-
grove Improvement and Small Tenements (No. 2) ;
Buckingham Railway (Tring to Banbury) ; Edinburgh
Paving -; Great Grimsby Gas ; Leeds and Thirsk
Railway (St. Helen's Branch and Deviation); Leeds
and Thirsk Railway (Knaresborough Branch Extension);
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (North Eastern Extension—
Wath to Hartlepool) ; Leith Paving; London and South
Western Railway (Farnham and Alton Branch); London
and Birmingham Railway (Camden and Euston Stations
Enlargement) ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland Junction
Railway; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland Junc-
tion Railway; Midland Railway (Leicester and Swanning-
ton Alteration and Branches); Midland Railway (Notting-
ham and Mansfield) ; Newcastle-upon. Tyne Improvement;
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway; Scottish Central
Railway (Alloa Branch ); Scottish Central Railway (Perth
Termini and Stations); Sittingbourne Improvement.
RAIL WAYS.
Mr. GREENE moved to repeal the following standing
orders :—The order as agreed to by a resolution of the House,
April 3, 1846,in lieu of standingorder /35 repealed,and to sub-
stitute the following :—" That seven clear days' notice be given
by the Clerk of the Committee of Selection to the clerks in
the Private Bill-office of the day and the hour appointed
for the meeting of the Committee on every private
Bill that shall have been referred to the said Committee,
that in case of Bills not referred to the Committee of Selec-
tion seven days' clear notice, rend in the case of a re- committed
Bill three clear days' notice, shall be given by the agents for
the Bill to the clerks of the Private Bill-office of the day and
the hour appointed for the meeting of the Committee on
every private Bill, and that all the proceedings of any Com-
mittee of which such notice has not been given, shall be void."
—Agreed to.
The standing order /37, and to substitute the
following in lieu thereof :—" That notices in writing
be given by the Clerk of the Committee of Selec-
tion to the clerks in the Private Bill-office of the
postponement of the first meeting of any Committee
on a private Bill, which shall have been referred to such
Committee on the day on which such postponement is made ;
and that in case of Bills not referred to the Committee of
Selection, one clear day's notice shall be given by the agents
of the Bill to the clerks of the Private*Bill-office of the post-
ponement of the first meeting of any Committee on a private
Bill."—Agreed to.
The order made on the 20th day of February last, for
referring the Mold Junction Railway Bill to the Committee
of Selection be read ; that the same order be discharged ; that
the said motion be withdrawn.—Agreed to.
The HON. MEMBFAL then moved that the Committee on
Curtis's Divorce Bill have leave to sit and proceed on Friday,
at three o'clock.—Agreed to.
The HoN. ME/1113ER also moved—That it be an instruction to
the Committee on the Worcester and Portihdynllaen Railway
Bill to entertain all petitions which shall be presented against
the Bill on or before the 11th day of this instant June.—
Agreed to. That the report from the Select Com-
mittee on standing orders, in the case of the Great Munster
Railway Bill, be read, and that the said order be discharged
and the Bill withdrawn.—Agreed to. That the report from the
Select Committee on Standing Orders, in the case of the Ban-
don and Bantry Railway Bill, be read, and that the said order
be discharged and the Bill withdrawn.—Agreed to, That
the report from the Select Committee on Standing Orders,
in the case of the Cork, Macroom, and Killarney Railway
Bill, be read, and that the said order be discharged and the
Bill withdrawn.—Agreed. to.
Mr. SPOONER moved that the Midland Railway (Burton
and Nuneaton Railway and Ashby Canal Purchase) Bill be
re-committed to the former Committee, with leave to sit and
proceed to-morrow, and to report forthwith.—Agreed to.
The Lords' Amendments on the following Bills were then
considered and adopted :
Brighton and Chichester Railway (Steyning Branch);
Brighton and Chichester Railway (Bognor and Little Hamp-
ton Branches) ; Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings Railway De-
viations, and Eastbourne, Hailsham, Seaford, and Newhaven
Branches ; Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway
Amendment and Branches (No. 1); Glasgow, Paisley, Kil-
marnock, and Ayr Railway Amendment and Branches
(No. 2); Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway
Amendment and Branches (No. 3); Midland Railway ( Sys-
ton to Peterborough) ' • Sligo Harbour Improvement.
FREE CHURCH (SCOTLAND).
Mr. FOX MAULE presented several petitions from mem-
bers of the Free Church in Scotland, complaining of the re-
fusal of sites for churches, which they experienced from the
landowners in Scotland. He had to present one hundred and
forty-seven petitions on the subject, signed by twenty-seven
thousand persons.—(Hear,)
THE MILITIA.
Mr. MUNTZ presented several petitions from Birming-
ham, praying against the calling out of the militia, or any-
thing which would have a tendency to induce war.
PUNISHMENT OF DEATH.
Mr. DUNCAN presented several petitions against the pu-
nishment of death. The Hon. Gentleman also presented se-
ral petitions in favour of the members of the Free Church
in Scotland, which alleged that sites for the building of
churches had been refused to them by the landed proprietors
in Scotland. The petitioners prayed that the House would
take some measures to remedy their grievances.
RAILWAY LEGISLATION.
Mr. EVELYN DENISON gave notice, that he should to-
morrow put a question to the First Lord of the Treasury,
whether he was prepared to make any statement on the
subject of railway legislation farther than that already
made ; and whether he would have any difficulty in laying
on the table of the House memorials which had been pre*
seined to Lord Dalhousie on the subject of railways ?
THE DANISH CLAIMS.
On the order of the day being read that the House resolve
itself into Committee, for the purpose of taking into conside-
ration the Danish claims, '
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and
said—Sir, although the. House on a former occasion con-
sented to the motion of my Hon. Friend (Mr. Hawes), that
on the present day we should go into Committee on this
subject, I think there are strong reasons why the
House should not fulfil the object of the vote which
they came to on that day, and I therefore rise
at this early stage of the discussion for the purpose of
moving an amendment to the motion of my Hon. Friend. I
am sensible, sir, that in doing so I labour under very consi-
derable difficulties, because I have always found, upon every
successive occasion when these claims have been brought
before the House, there has been stated in the course of the
debate some new circumstance apparently calculated to in-
fluence the decision of the House adduced at a period when
it is difficult to afford a reply to them—statements are made
for the purpose of inducing the House to support the pro-
positions which are made to them with respect to
these claims, yet on another day those very state.
ments turn out to be altogether void of a jua
foundation, and to be such as should not influence the de.

cision of the House. Now, for instance, on the former OCCEL-
• sion the Hon. Gentleman opposite, in the course of his reply,
adduced an additional argument which we had not heard of
before in support of these claims. He did not fora moment
dispute that there had been a war between Great Britain and
matnhde
Denmark, but he stated that a declarationeewiaav
s madeof war,
same year, which cured the previous declaration
Britain made no attempt to declarew atth
and restored peace to Denmark ; and
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taken during the war.
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The Danish
Government itself issued an order in which it was stated
that during the war certain regulations were to be
observed as to English subjects, express] y nullif-
ing the assertion of the Honourable G
when he wished the House to believe that these entlemany,
capitulations
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' • expressly nullifying
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afterwards, that the Government in seven days
war was then in force,
and that
certain hostile measures with
respect to British sub-
jects were to be taken in consequence of the war. A
new case was adduced by the Hon. Gentleman on the
former occasion, for the purpose of inducing the House to
agree to his propositions. Sir, I have thought
it my duty on various occasions to oppose an
address to the Crown for the purpose of remunerating
the claimants on account of the Danish losses, and I have
done so, Sir; first, upon what I consider to be a most im-
portant constitutional principle; and next, because I do not
admit that there is any justice whatever in the claims
which are submitted to the House. Sir, this House
has very wisely determined that they will not admit
any grant of money, or any remission of duties
due to the Crown, unless it come down to the House, recom-
mended by the respectful suggestion of the Crown ; and
they have done it for the best of all reasons, in order that
the House may not be imposed upon by specious or plausible
statements made in the coarse ,of a debate on An