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 competing
railways in the Eastern Counties districts, of
which Mr. Mowbray is chairman, concluded its
labours by passing the bill of the Eastern Counties
Railway Company for sundry extensions in its in-
it.
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errirt
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tno preference,
sitsotiit3ghe Colne Valley and Hal-
stead Railway, and subsequently the other bills
,Bfios
rh oap
lineS t o r toff° rldi,
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 Biil. 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. Seholefield 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
iNoV
anotherr an g ham,
committee,an d
wevidenceorth Elaa,
Rail-
ways, in favour of the Newcastle, Der went, and
Weardale Railway. Lord Sondes, the chairman,
as
ts ern adduced
R a i
-
and Mr. Holroyd, the secretary, of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway, were examined dur-
pinegditehoeoydaoyf
tashotpo
rtohpeosdesirableness
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tions in their system ; and the promoters of the
rival railways between Cork, Blarney, and Macroom
having closed their cases in Mr. Insham's committee,
their attention was occupied daring the remainder
Mr. Webster, Q.C., called the Lee Valley
oopf
etnheedday with another competing plan, which was
by
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
Presbyterian church, Regent-square ; the Rev. C. H.
Andrews, incumbent of St. Luke's: &c. The memorial,
which bore the signature of the Rev. Canon Champnoys,
the vicar, and nearly the whale of the district clergy and
dissenting ministers of the parish, set forth that in March,
1860, a memorial was presented by the undertakers of the
St. Pancras Cemetery at
fa
motion to accede to the
prayerpFainr cshili eopyfr onasy Sundays,
such
enhg petitionf orthe
but t closing
was ha
lostot n
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-
cluded from religious worship; 2d, That the closing of the
cemetery on Sundays would considerably recommend it to
the patronage of the parishioners; and thirdly, That the
expenses of funerals on Sundays are very much augmented
by the extra refreshments of acquaintances, 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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