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

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY (GREENWICH
TO CHILHAM.) _ _ _

Mr. FREWEN moved that this Bill be read that day
six months. The railway interfered with the public by
crossing an important public road on a level, and the
Metropolitan Commissioners had reported strongly
against it.
Sir E. FILMER said that the motion was quite un-
expected, as no notice had been given. He should cer-
tainly oppose it, as no company had ever tried to do
more for the benefit of the country through which it
passed.
Mr. PROTHEROE said that he regretted that the
Hon. Member who made the motion had not, during
the interval which had elapsed since the last discussion
on this question read, the report of the Highway Com-
missioners. They did not in their report mention a
word of this line. They only spoke of a branch which
was to go to the west-end of the town, and which was
not before the Committee at all.
Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to call the attention of the
House to the state of this particular Bill. It was passed,
it was true, by the casting vote of the Chairman, but still
it was passed. It was re-committed on grounds which
appeared to her Majesty's Government, and to the House
generally, sufficient to justify the recommittal—namely,
the necessity of maintaining unimpaired the obsorvations
made at the Royal Observatory. That object had been
secured, and the Bill now came forward, supported by
the Chairman of the Committee and sanctioned by the
authority of the House. Be would submit to the Hon.
Member that they should not be occupied in a
discussion on which the sense of the House had already
been fully taken.
Mr. FREWEN said that he would not persist against
the sense of the House, and he would therefore with-
draw his motion.

The Bill was then read a third time and passed, as
were also the following Bills :—Belfast Improvement—
Bristol and Birmingham Railway (Gloucester and Stone-
house Junction)—Caledonian Railway (Carlisle De-
viation)—Caledonian Railway (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and
Coatbridge Purchase) Chorley Waterworks —De
Winton's Estate Dundas's Estate Exeter, Yeovil,
and Dorchester Railway Gravesend and Roches-
ter Railway and Canal Sale and Purchase—Great North
of England Railway Purchase—Hull and Selby Railway
Purchase Kennington-lane, &c. Lighting, &c.—Kil-
ecarnock Waterworks—Lancaster and Carlisle Rail-
%ay (Extension to Caledonian Railway and Lan-
caster and Preston Junction Railways Amalgamation—
Leeds and Bradford Railway (alteration of levels in
Bingley)—Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway
(Deviations and Branches)—London and Birmingham
Railway (Birmingham Canal Arrangement)—London
and Birmingham (Leamington Extension and Coventry
and Rugby Stations Enlargement)—London and South-
Western Railway (Basingstoke to Salisbury)—London,
Salisbury, and Yeovil Junction Railway (Basingstoke to
Yeovil)—Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Navigation
and Railway—Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland
(Mullingar to Galway)—Midland Railway (Birmingham
and Gloucester Branches)—Midland Railway (Leicester
and Swannington Railway Vesting)—Newcastle and
Darlington Junction Railway (Durham and Sunderland
Railway and Wearmouth Dock Purchase)—Newcastle
and Darlington Junction Railway (Pontop and South
Shields Railway Purchase)—Richmond Railway (Kew
Branch)—Sheffield New Streets—Shrewsbury and Here-
fordshire Railway—Sligo Ship Canal—South Devon
Railway, No. 2 (Amendment and Branches)—Strathtay
and Breadalbane Railway—Surrey Iron Railway
Company (Dissolving)— Tenby, Saundersfoot, and
South Wales Railway—West Cornwall Railway.