The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-29 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

Yesterday, to the surprise of both parties, after
an expensive contest of some days, the committee,
of which Mr. Cobbett is the chairman, threw out
both the Mid-Devon and Cornwall and Devon
Central Railway Bills, without assigning any spe-
cific reason beyond the intimation that the pre-
amble of neither bill had been proved to their
satisfaction. The bill of the Great Western Rail-
way Company for a line from Lightmoor to Coal-
brookdale, with a branch to Wednesbury, and
power to take additional lands at Wolverhamp-
ton, for the purchase of the Wellington and Severn
Junction, arrangements with the Wenlock and
Severn Canal, and confirmation of agreements
with the Vale of Llangollen, was also passed in
that committee. The committee on the comp eting
railways in the Eastern Counties districts, of
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eis chairman, concluded its
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Company for
in-
tegrity in preference to the Colne Valley and Hal-
stead Ralitway, and subsequently the other bills
referred to them, consisting of the Bishop Stortford,
Dunmow, and Braintree Railway, for a line of 17
miles between those points at an estimated cost of
£160,000; the Ware., Hadham, and Buntingford
Deviations Bill, and the Lynn and Hunstanton Rail-
way Bill. After hearing Mr. Denison, Q.C., in
favour of the proposed line of the Hereford, Hay, and
Brecon Railway, and Mr. Merewether, Q,C., and Mr.
Venables for the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway,
against it, the committee of which Mr. Scholefield is
chairman, passed the measure giving the Shrews-
bury and Hereford the facilities they required. The
case of the Cleveland Railway, for several small rami-
fying railways in and about the coal and shipping
districts of Guisburgh and the Tees, at a proposed
cost of £120,000, was opened by Mr. Sergeant
Wrangham, and continuous evidence was adduced
in another committee, on new North Eastern Rail-
ways, in favour of the Newcastle, Derwent,i and
and Mr. Holroyd, the secretary, of the London,
were examined dur-
ingWeardale Railway. Lord Sondes, tae chairman,
Chatham, and Dover Railway,.
ex-
pediency of the proposed improvements and devia-
tions and thepromoters of the
m
the day as to the desirableness and public
in their system;
having closed their cases in.
_Mr. In gham's committee,
.
their attention was occupied during the remainder
rival railways between Cork,. Blarney, and I‘, acroo
opened by Mr. Webster, Q called the Lee Valley
of the day with another competing_o plan, which was
project.

PROPOSED ABOLITION OF SUNDAY FUNERALS.—
Yesterday a deputation from the Clergy and ministers of
various denominations, resident in the parish of St. Pan-
cras, waited upon the burial board of that parish, for the
purpose of presenting a memorial, numerously signed,
praying the board to take measures for the abolition of
Sunday funerals at the St. Pancras Cemetery, at Finchley.
Mr. R. F. Brettingham presided, and the deputation con-
sisted of the Rev. Dr. Hamilton, minister of the Scotch
ndw
Presbyterianresmbn
in church,u
eßegent-square; the Rev. C. H.
At
of
St. Luke's, ace. The memorial,
which bore the signature of the Rev. Canon Champneys,
the vicar, and nearly the whole of the district clergy and
dissenting ministers of the parish, set forth that in March,
18G0, a memorial was presented by the undertakers of the
parish, praying for the closing of St. Pancras Cemetery at
Finchley on Sundays, but that a motion to accede to the
prayer of such petition was lost on a show of hands. The
memorialists prayed a reconsideration of the subject, upon
the following grounds :-Ist, That between 2,000 and 3,000
men engaged in the burial of the dead on Sundays, are ex-
iderably recommend it to
I That the closing of the
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; and thirdly, That the
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expenses of funerals on Sundays are very much augmented
ntances, and that the
decision of the board would tend to influence neighbouring
parishes in their decision. After some
questions as to
whether the authorities of the City of London and other
Cemeteries would also close them on Sundays, the board
was ordered to be specially summoned to consider the
subject.

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