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GROUP LXIX.

JUNCTION.
This was the nextilill proceeded with.
The Committee adjourned at four o'clock until twelve to-morrow,

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEE.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Their Lordships met at two o'clock, Lord Shaftesbury in the chair.
Present, Lords Itedesdale and Hawarden.
There were six Bills on the list, of which four were Railway Bills.
CALEDON lAN (GLASGOW, GA !INK IRK, AND COATBRIDGE
RAILWAY PURCHASE).
Standing orders complied with.
SOUTH STAFFORDSIIIRE JUNCTION (WITH BRANCHES).
Their Lordships declared the standing orders complied with.
The same decision was made in respect of the Bridgehouse Sewer-
age, Drainage, and Lighting.
SELECT COMMITTEE ON MERITS.
On their Lordships assuming this form, thirteen Bllls out of a list
of twenty-five were proceeded with ; ten of these were Railway Bills.
MANCHESTER AND LEEDS EXTENSIONS.
Their Lordships decided that the promoters of this Bill had proved
their preamble.
TRENT VALLEY MIDLANDS AND GRAND JUNCTION.
Their decision in this case also was favourable. A clause was
inserted for the erection of lodges at all level crossings.
STRATHTAY AND BREADALBANE.
Preamble proved.
WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH.
Preamble proved.
MANCHESTER, BOLTON, AND BURY CANAL NAVIGATION.
The preamble of this *ill was also declared proved.
EDINBURGH AND BATHGATE.
A similar decision was made in this case, and also in that of the
Forth and Clyde Navigation and Bowling Bay Improvement Bill, and
of the Plymouth Great Western Docks.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAII (BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION).
A favourable decision was made in this case also.
SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM.
The promoters of this Bill proved their preamble to the satisfaction
of the Committee.
BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON AND DUDLEY.
The same applies to this 8111.
LIVERPOOL AND BURY.
This Bill also was passed.
All the Bills passed on their merits were' ordered to be reported.
Being unopposed they will pass through the House as a matter of
course, and will then only watt the Royal Assent, except in the
cases of those Bills which have been amended in the Committee,
which of course must return to the Commons.
Their Lordships rose at a late llonr, and adjourned till to-morrow
at one.
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TERSALL'S-THIS EVENING

SIX O'CLOCK

GOODWOOD STA/Kra.
7 to 1 agst The Hero
7 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild—taken
8 to 1 agst Camera Obscura
12 to 1 agst Connaught Ranger
25 to 1 agst Newcourt
25 to 1 agst Giantess
25 to 1 agst Morello filly
25 to 1 agst Petitioner
35 to 1 agst Akbar
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MPERIAL PARLIAMENT
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The Earl of SHA.FTESIIIIRY, in the absence of the
Lord Chancellor, took his seat on the woolsack at a
Quarter to Five o'Clock.
Messages from the Commons brought up several Bills,
which were read a first time.
Lord REDESDALE presented 16 petitions, signed
by 900 persons, complaining of the break of gauge at
Gloucester.

GLASGOW TERMINI BILL.
Lord COLCHESTER moved that this Bill be read a
third time.
The Earl of RADNOR moved as an amendment that
the third reading be postponed for a few days.
After a few words from Lord COLCHESTER and the
Earl of SHAFTESBURY,
A conversation ensued, when a complaint being made
that there was nothing going on,
The Earl of SHAFTESBUY and Lord BEAUMONT
stated that there was a great deal going on.
Lord BROUGHAM thought the House ought to be
satisfied.
Earl R►nuoa and "Lord Ba.t.unowr explained that
there was a motion for the adjournment of the debate.
Lord BROUGHAM thought that there was no harm
in the adjournment.
On the motion being put the third reading was ad-
journed till Thursday night.
REFUSAL OF SITES FOR THE FREE
CHURCHES.

The Marquis of BREADALBANE gave notice that
he was intrusted with several petitions on this subject,
which he should present to-morrow.
BISHOPRICK OF ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR.

Earl POWIS rose to present several petitions against
the consolidation of these two sees, and he begged leave
to move that that petition lie on the table, and the second
reading of the St. Asaph and Bangor Bills. In making
this motion, he should refrain from entering into very
long statements. He had addressed their Lordships
too often on this subject, to pass any other subjects which
had immediate relevance to the matter in hand. Their
Lordships were aware that in 1834 a Commission was
issued for ascertaining the position of the Established
Church. In the report of that Commission there
was a proposition that a bishopric of Manchester
and this bishopric was to be supported by the consolida-
tion of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. But to effect
this it was necessary to hold out some inducement to
yield their rights. That inducement was the formation
of a bishopric in the rich and populous agricultural dis-
tricts of Lancashire. The Bishops of these sees were, in
the extreme, popular, and it was necessary to hold
out some bonus to the inhabitants of the princi-
pality, and that bonus was the advantage he
had just mentioned, of providing spiritual juris-
diction for a district but very inefficiently supplied.
He was happy he had the opportunity of appealing to
the Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) and the Noble and
Learned Lord on the Woolsack to do juttice to the coun-
try in this matter. He appealed to the Noble Marquis
whether, if the present were a case in private lite, if
certain property had come into his power, he would
refuse to appropriate that property to the purpose for
which he had received it. He made a like appeal to the
Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack. He
hoped, that considering the poverty of the country,
in which these two sees were, there Lordships would
allow the Bill to pass. His Lordship, in support of what
he said, referred their Lordships to a petition presented
to their lordbilipe UMW) from peopieiu One of We ,

This Committee met for the first time to-day, at One o'clock, in
Room 23, Grand Corridor.
The following is a list of the Bills referred to them :
Eastern Counties (Wisbech to Spalding).
Stamford and Spalding.
Wisbech, St. Ives, and Cambridge Junction.
The first Bill taken was the
STAMFORD AND SPALDING.

The objects of which having been briefly opened by the Hon. Mr.
Talbot, Q. C., evidence was tendered in favour of it.
The preamble was declared to be proved, and the clauses agreed to.
WISBECH, ST. IVES, AND CAMBRIDGE

GROUP LXX.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
DITI3ZIN AND ENNISKILLEN.
This Bill was next taken.
Mr. ArsriN, Q.C,, having 'explained the objects of the Bill, &c.,
and stated that the estimated cost of the line was 340,0001., said that
a portion of the shareholders had petitioned against the Bill, on the
ground that the Bill no longer contained the entire project which was
originally submitted to the House of Lords, and for which they said
they had subscribed; but it was quite clear that those petitioners
could not be heard, because at the tune that they signed the docu-
ment which bound them as partners in the undertaking,
they authorised the directors, as a matter of course, to
proceed to Parliament, either for the whole line, or for
parts of the line, or to make any such alterations as they in
their judgment might deem fit. The Irish North Midland Company
(who had been defeated in the House of Lords), and the Belfast
Junction Company were also petitioners against the Bill, the latter
with respect to the Company's proposed line between Navan and
Kells. He had, no doubt however, that the Committee would decide
that these petitioners had no good grounds of objection, and that the
Bill should be permitted to pass.
Evidence was then tendered on behalf of the Bill, and at four
o'clock the Committee adjourned until twelve to-morrow.