The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-17 00:00:00

GROUP LXV.

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This Committee met this morning at the usual hour, Dr. Bowring
In the chair.

GREAT LEINSTER AND MUNSTER (No. 2
RILRENNY TO CLONMEL).

The Committee having adjourned yesterday to enable the opposing
landowners to come to some arrangement with the promoters as to
compensation for the injury their respective properties would sustain
from the formation of the line,
Mr. TorrENnam, on the part of Sir Edward Kearney, one of the
opposing landowners, proposed, after some discu.s.on, to accede to
Um offer made on Monday last, which had been then rejected, viz.,
4,0001. as compensation.
Mr. TAYLOR., on behalf of the promoters, said that in consequence
of the repudiation of the offer he was not prepared to renew that
offer, but he was prepared to refer the case to arbitration or to a
jury, and to give 20 per cent. over the award.
After a protracted desultory discussion. it was eventually agreed
upon to leave the amount to the Committee.
The room was then cleared, and on our re-admission,
The CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee was unanimously of
opinion that the promoters should pay Sir E. Kearney 3,750/.
With regard to Mr. Aylward's property, it was also decided by the
Committee that the compensation should be left to a special jury,
and that the promoters should pay 10 per cent. over that valuation.
In consequence of Mr. Redmond. one of the directors of the com-
pany, objecting to sign the agreement to pay Sir Edward Kearney
the award made by the Committee,

The CHAIRMAN said the Committee would not then pass the pre•
amble of the Bill till that agreement was officially signed by the
Company.

The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow, to give time for
that agreement to be ratified, and if this were not done, they inti-
mated they would not pass the preamble.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
This Committees net in Room 1 (House of Lords) at one o'clock
this afternoon, Lord Shaftesbury in the chair, and present the Duke
of Richmond, the Marquis of Winchester, and Lord Hawarden.
There were on the list twenty-two Bills, of which eighteen were
railway Bills. Oa these decisions were made in the following cases:—
STIRLING AND DUNFERMLINE.
Standing orders complied with.
In the cases of the Gorbals Graviation Water Company Bill, end
the Aston Rates Bill, the standing orders were complied with.
LONDON AND BRIGHTON (WA.NDSWORTH BRANCH).
Standing orders complied with.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM (CAMDEN AND EUSTON
STATIONS ENLARGEMENT).
The promoters of this Bill had else complied with the standing
orders.
GENERAL TERMINUS AND GLASGOW HARBOUR RAILWAY.
The promoters had complied with the standing orders.
LEEDS AND THIRSK (KNARESBOAOUGH EXTENSION).
LEEDS AND THIRSK (ST. HELEN'S BRANCH DEVIATION).
LEEDS AND THIRSK (NORTH EASTERN EXTENSION,
WATH TO HARTLEPOOL).
These three Bills, for branches from the Leeds andThirskßailway,
were " tried in the balance," and were not " found wanting."
READING, GUILDFQRD, AND REIGATE.
Standing orders complied with.
BUCKINGBAMSHIBE (TRIM; TO BANBURY).
A portion of the necessary evidence having been omitted yesterday
was supplied to-day, and the Bill was finally disposed of, the stand-
ing orders being declared complied with.
The Rye and Derweut brainage Bill and the Sou th Leith Church
Bill were also passed.
Their Lordships then resolved themselves into a Select Committee:
on. Merits, in which they disposed of two estate Bills, which occu-
pied them up to Tour o'clock. The list-inclided ten Bills, of which
four were railway and five estate Bills The remaining Bill was
the Hamilton New Gas.
The proceedings were of no public interest.
The Committee rose at four o'clock.

CORONER'S INQUEST.—MYSTERIOUS AND ALLEGED
SUIcIDS or A Boy.—On Monday forenoon. at ten o'clock, a length•
awed Inquiry, which was begun on Friday last, was continued and
concluded at the Plough, Lordship-lane, Dulwich, before Mr. Carter,
to investigate the cause of the death of George James Benwell, aged
16, in the service of Mr. G. W. Evans, a manufacturer of Piqua tea,
which took place under the following mysterious circumstances :--
Mr. Thomas Roberta, shoemaker, Lordship-lane, said that on Tues-
day night, between nine and ten o'clock, Mr. Evans called upon him,
stating that he and his son had been out for an hoar and a hall; and
that when he returned he found the house fastened. After he got in
he observed written on the door of the bedstead, in chalk, "George
Benwell is in the pond behind the house. Give my love to all my
friends." When he saw that, he procured a pitchfork, with which
he searched the pond, but discovered nothing except a piece
of quartering about three feet long, on which was written '
in chalk, "George Benwell." Mr. Evans took off a portion
of his clothes to go into the water, when he observed that he was In
a great perspiration. He then sent his son for a boy to dis ein the
pond. Deceased was rolled about upon the grass, Mr. Evans urging
them to do so, observing that he had known persons to be restf red
e c
etstepmother
asked
,
N after having been two hours in the water. When deceased Was
taken up it was found th.tt his hands wer • tied, and thata
o cif tla
prtueir. fastened round
deceased his
hadbeen neck.
dead three or four hours
cid
tipyno
:fir.as e Ray, surgeon,
0 u ths deceased'sa go
when he saw the body. In his opinion di owning was the cause of
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statedw thatfus
her etewh i cehmsshs,
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dHeaattehh.em.Heaarrialetht
atßaetifNevwellm,
would rather do if she were tired of her life,
She thought deceased had Blade away poison or drown herself ?
with the writing on them were rod with himself. (The boards
that they were in his h d P need.) It was witness'sopinion
an writing•
has occasionally slept at her h .•
Since this occurrence Mr. Evans
morning, about three o'clock QIIISe.
He came on Thursday or Friday
Deceased was at. a d , saying that he could not sleep at home.
and the jury returned all temper. Some other witnesses were exa-
mined,
Wiled a verdict "That the deceased drowned
himself in a state of
RoyAi, „temporary insanity."
Th OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL, CITARING-crtoss.—
e 29th annual meeting of the subscribers to this charity was held
on Monday, at the hospital. In the absence of the president, his Grace
the Duke of Wellington, the chair was occupied by his a thebeen
relieved n
Duke of Richmond. According to the report 4,187
persons;,4 86 hadhad been
relieved by operation, Sec., during the past year,
the numbers of the
and
restored to sight, being an increase of 581 on
in-patients, the average
preceding year. Of the whole 221 were
number of the same in the house
to earn day during the year being 20;
since the opening in 1817 down
of the
'1 Ist instant, no less than 61,635
persons had availed themselvesthe benefits of the charity. he
.
695/ Is. ed., and the expenditure, it is to
be regretted, exceeded that
sum
by
10,ow
381. The funded property amounts
to 2,8001., but the rum of .
will be required to fully carry out
the views of the committee.
SALE OF THE LIBRARY AND COLLECTION OF AUTO-
GRAPHS OF THE LATE W. UPCOTT, ESQ.—On Monday the sale of the
extensive library and collection of manuscripts, autographs, and
state papers of the late W. Upcott, Esq., formerly librarian to the
London
Institution, was commenced at Messrs. Evans's Auction-
roomsin
New Bond-street; Bowden's " Memoirs of J. P. Kemble,"
in 1825,
published in 2 vols., at I guinea, yesterday sold for 4
guineas, in consequence of its - being extensively illustrated with
scene prints, play-bills, and newspaper cuttings referring to Kemble.
The same author's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons and Mrs. Inchbal4,
similarly illustrated, sold for 31. 12s. and 41. 15s. Lord llyrorfs
" English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," published in 1810 at about
10s" sold yesterday for 4/. 45., from its containing portraits and au.
tograph letters of Charles Lamb, S. Rogers, Wordsworth, Sydney
Smith, &c., Icon Basilike, the portraiture of his Sacred Majesty
Charles 1., Richard Evelyn's copy, sold for 21. 13s. The other lets
sold yesterday consisted principally of old catalogues of book sales,
which fetched large prices, and broadsides relating to balloons, news.
paper cuttings, &c.

- HEATH OF THE HON. COL. BUTLER, M.P.—We regret
to announce the sudden death of the Hon. Colonel Plerse Butler,
M.P. for the county of Kilkenny, which took place at his apartments
la York-street. 01l Saturday evening last. The deceased gentlemaa
was next btether of the Earl of Kilkenny. and has reKetitUtt..4 the
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