The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, CRAMAM, AND DOVER.
This company's bill came before a committee of
the House of Lords yesterday. The committee 'con-
sisted of Lord Lifford, chairman ; the Earl of
Shrewsbury, and Lords Bolton, Dunsany,• and
Scarsdale. Mr. Venables, Q.U., and Mr. Bound
appeared in support of the bill. Mr. Merewether,
Q.C., Mr. Hope Scott, Q.C., Mr. Sergeant Sargood,
Mr. Ilerbert Saunders, Mr. Fitzjames Stephens,
Mr. Littler, Mr. Brilge, Mr. Boult, Mr. Hem-
ming, Mr. Ferrers, Mr. Everitt, and Mr. Gadsden
appeared in support of petitions against the Bill.
Mr. Hope Scot, Mr. Denison, Mr. Rolwell, Mr.
Fry, and Mr. Littler also appeared to watch the
bill on behalt of various petitioners who bad opposed
the bill in the house of Commons, but who are
satisfied with it in its present state, and desirous
that it may be passed without alteration.

Mr. VEXABLES, Q.C., opened the case for
the promoters, and said that the bill might be
described, in the language of Lord Justice Giffard,
as intended to cut a knot which it was impossible
to untie. It was the main object of the bill to
remove from the Court of Chancery the liti-
gation which had been so long in progress, and to
refer the various points at issue to the Marquis of
Salisbury and Lord Cairnn as arbitrators, conferring
upon them ample and unusual powers, inasmuch as
it was proposed that the arbitrator should determine
what was fit, just, and expedient for the interests of
of all parties, irrespective of what might be legal.
The arbitrators would be able to sit daily, and would
have no other judicial business before them to create
delay, and if they were appointed as proposed, they
could effect what could not be done by the Court of
Chancery. The learned counsel narrated the course
of litigation and legislation on the affairs of the
company during the years 1866, 1867, and 1868,
and urged that the Board of Directors were the
only parties who had power to represent the com-
pany in promoting the bill. The great question of
priority with reference to the different classes of
claims upon the company had already been before
the Court of Chancery, and the arbitrators would
avail themselves of the proceedings of that Court
without going over the same ground again. M'
Venables proceeded so state that out of £16,000,000
of shares and debenture capital, only £33,000
worth of share capital and £55,000 worth of de-
benture capital were represented by the petitioners
against the bill. The directors had the support of
one half of the debenture capital, and the petitions
against the bill were very few. After going minutely
through the clauses of the bill and explaining them
to the committee, Mr. Venables stated the purport
of the several petitions, which were 15 in number'
Among the petitioners were the Sevenoaks, Maid;
stone, and Tunbridge Railway ; Lord Sondes, Lord
Harris, and others, formerly directors of the com-
pany ; the Credit Foncier ; the Liverpool, London,
and Globe Assurance Company ; Mr. Harrison,
claiming to represent the Metropolitan Extension
shareholders; Mr. Hartridge and another, claiming
to represent the shareholders in the general ander'
taking ; Mr. Gardiner and others, trustees of the
rolling stock; Messrs. Lucas, the contractors, tk''.
The petitions of Mr. Hartridge and Mr. Gar
diner alone opposed the preamble. The other
petitions applied for clauses to protect par-
ticular interests, while the Western Extension
shareholders, certain mortgagees, the Kent Coast
Railway Company, the General Credit Com-
pany, and the Imperial Mercantile Credit Com-
pany petitioned that the bill might be passed with-
out alteration. The learned counsel said he hoped
to satisfy their lordships that it would be to the
interest of all parties to adopt the bill in order to
cut the knot and terminate litigation.
• Mr. Hodgkinson, the chairman of the company,
was then examined generally, by Mr. Venables, on
the history and position of the comi- any, and cross-
examined by Mr. Bridge, Mr. Littler, and Mr.
Sergeant Sargood, on behalf of several petitioners.
The committee then adjourned till this day.

RAILWAY ITEMS.—The passenger travel on Cie
Pacific Railway continnes very heavy. Pullman is rur-1,-
uing two and sometimes three palace sleeping cars on earn
train, which are al ways full.—The question having been
rais rd whether the Baltimore and Ohio Piailway 0311 P tni
was liable under the revenue laws to make return of the
interest p ,id by them to the City of Baltimore, on a debt due
by them to that city, the Attorney-General has written Lb
long opinion adverse t) the claim of the Revenue Bureau,
in the c.ise.—Of the 33,000 shares into which the stock et
the Hartford and New Haven Railroa 1 is divided, Cosi-
mod ve Vanderbilt owns .5,033. The r. 20.1 estate own dby
the corporation is set down at 6131,497, more thin ha'
of which is held in the limits of Massachusetts, theeol
only six of its 74} miles of line are in that State.
NAVAL ITEMS.—Despatches have been reeetv
• ed
at Washington from Rear-Admiral Turner, commanding'
the Pacific Squadron, dated Valparaiso, May 1. The raw-
hattan was at that port, having recently returned from
Talcaltuana. The Dakota was on the way to Cegilimb°
from Callao. The Nyack was at Callao. The liearssrge
sailed from Talcahuana on the 17th of April for the 31" r:
quesas, Society, Friendly, and Fejee Islands, Australia
and Now Zealand, and thence back to the South America',
coast. The Tuscarora arrived at Valparaiso on the 2d ell
April from Callao. She was preparing to sail for the Gs
of Mexico to join the North Atlantic Squadron. The Ole
ward was at Valparaiso. The ironclads of the United
States are being called into service both on the Alla°to
and Pacific coasts. Orders bad been received at San Fran:
cisco to put the ironclads Monadnock and Camanehel°
readiness for immediate use. At the same time the ''"."„ci
hongo has been put out of commission and officers ordered
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BIRTHS.
HEADLANI On the 22d inst., at 24, Norfolk-square, IlYclg:
park, the wife of Edward liendlatn, Esq., of daug
ter.
MILDRED—On the 22d inst., at Reigate, the wife of `Ara
Mildred, Esq., of a daughter.

MARRIAGES.
Low—Moont —on the 23d inst., at Debenham, Alfred, the
second son of Robert Low Esq., 21 Bedford-squf",t''
London, to Margaret Caroline, young:3r daughter of C.
Moore, Esq., of Crown Hall, Debenham, Suffolk.
SHARP —U'omaiss—On the 22d inst.. at Notting hill, Win'
txrannille Sha,p Esq., Madras Staff Corps, to Ellen,
the daughter of 13. Tomkins, Esq., of 29, Laaroke-
square.

DEATES.
ELLIOT—On the 23d last., at Gatton-point, Red-hill, Will.

Elliot, M.D., aged 72.
JOSSELYN— On the 22d inst., at Sproughton, near Ipswich,
John JossQlyu, Esq., aged 66.
KELSALL —On the 21st inst., Robert Krlsall, Esq., late of
Deeplish Hall, Rochdale, aged 40.

London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDB,EWS,
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in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Alicidle6er--
Thuroday, June 24, 18e3.