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were the principles on which they defended protection; they
were not narrow and mean, and upon those principles they
claimed to go to the country. He would again report, that it
was on a great general principle that they defended
protection, and not on any principle of compensation.
Why, they repudiated the term, and if they did not so repudiate
it, they would say the terms were too mean, too paltry.
for their acceptance. And again he would say, adopting the
words of his Right Hon. Friend at the head of the Govern-
ment, that this was a question which must be settled by the
voice of the nation.—( Hear, hear.) But the vo:ce of the
nation was not heard in that House upon that question.
The House then resumed, the Chairman reported progriss,
and obtained leave to sit again on Monday, the 9th day of
February.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Twelve o'clock.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Pt oeeedings Qf the House of Commons.)

MONDAY, JAN. 26.
The following Petitions for Railway Bills ►ere presented,
and ordered to lie on the table :
Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon Railway.
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway.
London and Brighton Railway (Dorking Branch).
London and Brighton Railway (East Grinstead Brandi).
North Kent Railway (City Extension).
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway.
Waverey Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway.
Taw Vale Railway Extension.
Blackburn and Preston Railway.
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway.
Edinburgh and Leith Atmcspheric Railway.
North British Railway.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Newport Railway and
St. Andrew's Branch).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Kinross, Woodmill,
and Newburgh Branches).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Lochgelly and Leslie
Extensions).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Dunfermline Branch).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Strathearn
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Branches from the
Dundee and Arbroath Railway and Tay Ferry Improvement).
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Pettycur and Perth
Harbour Branches and Deviations).

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
MONDAY, JAN. 26.
North British Railway (No. I)—Committee on Petition,
Friday, Feb. 6.
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway—Committee on
Petition, Friday, Feb. 6.
Ashburton, Newton, and South Devon Railway—Commit-
ee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Edinburgh Land Leith Atmospheric Railway—Committee
on Petition, Friday, Feb. 6.
Ayrshire, Bridge of Weir and Port Glasgow Junction
Railway—Committee on Petition, Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Stirling and Dunfermline Railway—Committee on Petition,
Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Ayrshire and Galloway Railway—Committee on Petitien,
Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rosstrevor Railway—Committee
on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Belfast :and County Down Railway—Committee on Peti-
tion, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Ballymena and Ballymoney Railway—Committee on Peti-
tion, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Irish Great Western Railway Committee on Petition,
Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Waveney Valley and Great Yarmouth Railway—Commit-
tee on tetition, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Taw Vale Railway Extension—Committee en Petition,
Tuesday, Feb. 3.
London and Brighton Railway (East Grinstead Branch)—
Committee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
North Kent City Extension Railway—Committee on Peti-
tion, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
London and Brighton Railway (Dorking Branch)—Com-
mittee on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway—Committee on
Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Blackburn, Chorley, and Liverpool Railway—Committee
on Petition, Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Blackburn and Preston Railway—Committee on Petition,
Tuesday, Feb. 3.

The following Members were appointed a Select Committee
to consider the mode in which the House shall deal with
he Railway Bills proposed to be submitted to the House
during the present session":—Lord Granville Somerset, Sir
George Grey, Mr. Strutt, Mr. Labonchere, Mr. Estcourt, Mr.
Greene, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Colquhoun, Mr. Hodgson Hinde, Mr.
Pakington, Sir George Clerk, Mr. Baring, The O'Conor Don,
Lord Harry Vane, and Mr. Shaw :—Power to send for per-
sons, papers, and records; Five to be the quorum.