The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

SECOND REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAIL-
WAY BILLS CLASSIFICATION. .
The Select Committee appointed to consider which of the pending
Railway Bills shall be deemed competing Bills, according to the reso-
utions, agreed to by the House, have agreed to the following Re-
port :
Your Committee having considered the oases of the following
Railway Bills, viz.:—
Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liver- Manchester and Leeds "(Bury
pool Junction, Branch),
Barnsley Junction, Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale,
Blackburn and Preston, Manchester and Leeds and Hull
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings, Associated,
Colchester and Harwich (No. 1), Maryport and Carlisle,
Croydon and Epsom, Monkland (Nos. 1 and 2),
Delabole and Rock, Newbury, Basingstoke, London,
Eastern Union, and Southampton,
Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, Newbury and Great Western
Epsom and South Western, (Valley of the Kennet),
Garnkirk, Glasgow, & Coatbridge, Newquay,
Gravesend, North British,
Gravesend,Rochester,andChatham North Wales Mineral,
Harrogate and Knaresborough, Pontop and South Shields,
Leeds and Bradford, Sheffield and Chesterfield Junction,
Leeds and Selby, Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and
London and South Western, Manchester,
(No. 2.) South Eastern and Hastings,
Manchester and Birmingham Stratford (Eastern Counties) and
(Macclesfield and Poynton Thames Junction,
Branches) (No. 2), Whitehaven and Maryport,
Manchester and Leeds (Bradfosd York and Scarborough,
Branch),
are of opinion, that, of the said Bills, the following are Bills to au-
thorise the construction of new Lines of Railway respectively com-
peting with one another, viz. :
Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liverpool Junction, with Sheffield, Ashton-
under-Lyne, and Manchester,
Brighton, Lewes, and Hastings, with South Eastern and Hastings,
Croydon and Epsom, with Epsom and South Western,
Gravesend, with Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham,
Manchester and Leeds (Bury Branch), with Manchester, Bury, and
Rossendale,
Newbury, Basingstoke, London and Southampton, with Newbury and
Great Western (Valley of the Kennet),
and that the following are Bills to authorise the construction of new
Lines of Railway which will compete with existing Railways, viz. :
Barnsley Junction,
Garnkirk, Glasgow, and Coatbridge,
Sheffield and Chesterfield Junction.

Covent- Garden Theatre is now under the hands of
the Committee for the O'Connell dinner, on Tuesday
next, and great preparations are being made for the
occasion. Every attention is being paid to enlarge
the area to its fullest extent, so as, if possible, to ac-
commodate a larger number of persons than originally
contemplated. The Stewards have come to the reso-
lution of giving up their own tickets to the public,
rather than allow the great disappointment that would
have ensued, from not being able to find places for
the dinner. The lighting of the house is entrusted
to Air. Gye, whose talents in this way are well
known. The military band will be full and com-
plete. Harper has the control of the trumpets ; and
neither pains nor expense have been spared to make
the tout ensemble worthy of the occasion. The Peers
and Members of Parliament are to sit on a raised plat-
form ; and the plan of the dinner tables, which we have
seen, appears complete and perfect in all parts. The
influx of strangers is great merely to attend this
dinner; and a large number of eminent Irishmen
have come over for the express purpose of witnessing
—what it will certainly be—one of the most inter-
esting occurrences of our times.

Meyerbeer's opera, the Huguenots,
which has been
performed for many years at the- theatre at Wurzburg, 'has
just been interdicted, upon representation of the clerical
authorities of that city.
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