The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-10 00:00:00

DUBLIN:

The object of this Bi-11-w-a-s—to enable the company
to extend the time allowed them by their original
Act for taking a lease of the Dublin and Kings-
town Railway—to authorise the alteration of the
existing gauge of the Dublin and Kingstown Rail-
way, and to empower the South Wales Company
to subscribe towards the Waterford, Wexford, and
Wicklow undertaking to the extent of 250,0001.
The Bill was unopposed, and the Committee passed
the preamble.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD.
Ms
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upeartoimonoteorfs of
this Bill,
al-
lowing railway companies to become the proprietors of
steam-vessels. The Chester and Holyhead line was
eighty-four miles in length; it had already involved an
expenditure of three millions, the original estimate being
little more than two !Billions, and its success would de-
pend in a great measure upon the company being allowed
to establish a steam-boat communication between
Holyhead and Dubl The Committee were, no doubt,
aware that the Legisin. lature had sanctioned the construc-
tion of a harbour of refuge at Holyhead, this company
contributing 200,0001, and Government 800,0001 towards
the expense of the work. In the last Parliament a pri-
vate Bill was passed authorising the company to contri-
bute their quota,
which contained a clause ena-
bling the company to become the proprietors of
steam-boats; but the Select Committee appointed
to examine into the merits of the public Bill authoris-
ing the Government to expend 800,0001. of the public
money upon the harbour, by an accident omitted to pass
the clause enabling the Chester and Holyhead Company
to establish a line of steam-boats, and this circumstance
led to the withdrawal of the private Bill. Since then
the proposal had been fully examined by the Board of
Trade, who were agreed that it would be as much for the
interest of the public as for that of the company that
this Bill should pass to empower them to run steam-
boats on their own account between Holyhead and
Kingstown or Dublin.
The evidence taken before the Select Committee last
year having been put in, a gentleman was called to prove
the inconvenience that would result to the public if the
company were not allowed to the Steam
The Bill was opposed by the Steam Shipping Asso-
ciation and several other interests, but the opposition
was adjourned till to-morrow.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
AFTERNOON SI r'FING.
The business transacted at the afternoon sitting yes-
terday was entirely devoid of any general interest, being
confined to the consideration of the organization com-
mittee's report.
Tho Government short-hand writers, Messrs. Bond,
Hughes, and Bennett, still continue their attendance and
take close " notes" of the speeches, although the speeches
have for some days been exceedingly tame and entirely
free from any seditious matter.

FATAL FIRE ARMS ACClDENT.—Yesterday,
Fris-
cilla Fitzpatrick who was accidentally wounded in the
breast by a bullet from a pistol, by her master's son,
Mr. Montague Richard Leverson, of 18 , Queen-square,
expired in the University College Hospital, after eleven
days of intense suffering.
There is a rumour that the Marquis of Lansdowne
Is to be created Duke of Wiltshire.