The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMIIIIIIEES.
(YES PEIIDAY.)

1 G ROL: l' No. 3. ---S ORM STA FFORDfoII IE P.—The Com-
mittee passed the al.ove co makingmpanY's Bill for a
deviation to Wehii:gton upon their consenting to pay
an opposing landholder 6,0001. for the privilege of passing
through his park, and paying for the land at a valuation.
The Committee also passed the same company's Bill for
making the it Ashbourne branch and an approach to the
Congleton station.
GROUP No. 4. —BIRMINGIIAX AND OXFORD.---The
Committee were engaged all day in receiving evidence
as to the expediency and practicability of laying down a
mixed gauge from Oxford to Wolverhampton.
GREAT :I,' ESTERN. —The Eton Boys' opposition to
the Great Western Branch to Windsor was heard, Mr.
HOPE acting as their mouthpiece.
GROUP No. 7. —ROYSTON AND HITCHEN.—The ob-
ject of this Bill is to enable the Great North Com-
pany to extend the above line to Cambridge, so as to
establish a competing railway to the Eastern Counties.
The length of the extension will be 11 miles, and the
cost is estimated at 240,0001. Case opened, and evi-
dence heard in its favour.
GROUP No. B.—LONDON AND SOUTH- W ESTERN.
The whole day was occupied with evidence in favour of
the above company's Bill for purchasing the Taw Vale
and other undertakings.
GROUP No. 10.— DUNDEE AND PERTH.—The Com-
mittee passed this company's Bill for making a junction
line to the Dundee and Arbroath Railway, but deferred
the clauses.
GROUP No. 13.—CALEDONIAN.—Case opened for the
above company's Bill, to lease or purchase the Wishaw
and Coltness Railway, and evidence taken in its favour.
GROUP No. 14.—PAISLEY, BkitattEAD, AND Rust-
LET. The Committee in passing this Bill, agreed
to the following resolution :----‘ The Committee are
of opinion that there was a bona fide intention
in this case to complete the works, and that
the means are sufficient for the purpose, but it
was proied to the Committee that several of the
subscribers to the contract deed have signed other
contract deeds in the years 1845, 1846, and 1847, to
enormous amounts beyond their means of payment,
and that the evidence showed a recklessness which
implies the act of signing the subscription contract
deed was merely formal, and binding only in respect to
the Payment of expenses in the event of the application
to Parliament being unsuccessful."

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)
LE.
The evidence of bribery E STER
was resumed. Several free-
men proved that they received sums varying
from 73.
to 1Z for performing the duties of runner, but actuall3,
for voting for the two sitting Members. The sums were
6.. d:
paid at the Reform-office in Leicester, and when the
bargain was struck with the voter be was
at once carried
off to a polling-booth in the custody of two agents who
had since managed to get out of the way.—Adjourned.
DUBLIN.
The whole day was occupied with technical arguments
relative to the reception of the poll book.
The Committee then adjourned.

HUN GERFORD MA RKE T COM-
PANY.
A special meeting and a half-yearly meeting of the
proprietors of this company were held yesterday, at the
Company's offices, Villiers-street, Strand.
At the former meeting, Robert Biddulph, Esq., was
elected a director in the place of Lord Ashburton, de-
ceased.
The report of the directors to the half yearly meeting
gave a satisfactory statement of the company's affairs,
arid the same was received and adopted by the meeting.
The five directors and auditor going out of office,
by rotation, were unanimously re-elected, and after
passing a cordial vote of thanks to the chairman and di-
rectors, the meeting adjourned.

THE AMIENS AND BOULOGNE

RAILWAY.

A meeting of shareholders in this company was held
yesterday afternoon, at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-
bridge, to receive the report of the committee of share-
holders appointed on the 27th of February, 1847; James
Macgregor, Esq. in the chair.
The report stated that under the present state of affairs
the committee did not think it necessary to make any
further inquiries into the management of the company,
especially as a meeting had been called by the directors
for to-morrow for the purpose of taking into considers-
tion the terms offered by the French Government for con-
fiscated railway property.
The CHAIRMAN made a few observations, in the csurse
of which ho expressed an opinion that the terms offered
by the French Government were most unfair and
unreasonable; but said, individually, he had no objec-
tion to this absorption of railway property, provided the
French Government would indemnify the proprietors in
an equitable and liberal manner.

Mr: ROYLE, a shareholder, condemned the proposed con-
fication of railways, which, he said, would have the ef-
fect of reducing shares in French undertakings to the
level of Pennsylvania bonds, and would exclude English
capital from France, by the means of which capital a
very great portion of the French railways had been con-
structed.

The meeting consequently broke up without coming
to any resolution.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1848.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 286
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ••• ... ... 43
Turbercular Diseases... ••• ••• •... ... 185
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 124
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... ... 28
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... ... ... ••• —. as
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... 49
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ••• ••• ••• 7
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... ... 5
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 9
Diseases of the Skin, &c. ... ... ••• ... 1
Malformations... ... ••• ••• ••• ... 1
Premature Birth ... ••• •• •••
... 32
Atrophy ... ••• ••• ••• ... ... 30
Old Age ••• ... ••• ••• ••• ... 32
Sudden ... ••• ••• •• ••• ••• ... 7
Violence, Privation, Cold, or I
... • ••
..ntemperance ... 51
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Causes not specified ... . 4
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