The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-06 00:00:00

CORNWALL RAILWAY.

Sir J. Y. BULLER presented certain petitions against the
Cornwall Railway, which were ordered to be referred to the
Select Committee.
STANDING ORDERS.

Mr. GREENE brought up the report of the Standing
Orders Committee
ABERDEEN RAILWAY.

Mr. F. BARING brought up the report of the Aberdeen
Railway Committee.
KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY.
The Kendal and Windermere Railway Bill was read a third
time and passed.
AGRICULTURAL BANK OF IRELAND.
Mr. MORISON brought up the report on the Agricultural
Bank of Ireland Bill.
NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY BILL.
On the order of the day for the further consideration of the
report on the Newcastle and Darlington Railway Bill,
Lord HOWICK called the attention of the House to the
facts of the case. The Bill eliab:ed the Newcastle and
Darlington Railway Company to purchase the Brandling
Junction Railway. That purchase was not detrimental to the
public, but it had taken place in September, and the Bill
was brought forward in June to sanction it. Now, these purchases
ought not to be effected before the House had sanctioned them.
In this case no harm had been done, but this very company had
recently effected a bargain and sale which would very much
militate against the public interest. It was known that before
long it would be necessary to have a direct line to York, which
line would be iuueh interfered with if the parties interested in
keeping up the circuitous line to York were permitted to be-
come possessors of the independent line north of York. He
thouzht those sales ought not to he permitted to take place un-
til Parliament or the Board of Trade should have had an oppor-
tunity of considering the terms agreed on.
Sir G. CLERK admitted the importance of the subject to
which the Noble Lord had directed the attention of the
House; but it should be remembered that those bargains to
which the Nuble Lord had alluded were merely preliminary,

and that if they did not receive the sanction of the House, they
were of no effect whatever.
Mr. STUART WORTLEY—When they came to a sanc-
tion of that kind. he hoped the Parliament would interfere.
Mr. L ABOUCHERE said that the Right Hon. Gentleman
the Vice-President of the Board of Trade had expressed an
opinion quite in coincidence with that of his Noble Friend.
The same thing of which he had complained occurred in the
Committees last year, and he thought that some means should
be taken to obviate the loss which arose from the custom of
amalgamation.
After a few words from Mr. B. DENtsoN and Sir GEORGE
STRICKLAND,
Lord G. SOMERSET said, that if the House would look
back to the railway Bills of former years, they would find
that no power of leasing was given, and it was only
of late years that this power had been obtainer!. There was
no doubt that the system of leasing had worked well, and
many railways had been brought into existence, and had
proved great conveniences to the public, which would, if this
power had not existed, never have been made. There was,
therefore, not that objection to the plan which might at first
sight appear.
The amendments were then rut, when
Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from Mr. Brandling►,
of the county of Northumberland, complaining that he had
not had a fair hearing before the Committee, and requesting
that a certain clause might be inserted for the government of the
raih.vay in the neighbourhood of his property. This gentle-
man was a constituent of his, anti he felt it so just a case, that
he should move that the petition be referred to the Standing
Orders Committee.
After a few words from Lord WORSLEY on this motion,
the petition was referred accordingly.
NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY.

On the motion that the Newcastle and Berwick Railway
Bill be read a second time,
Mr. MORISON suggested that a clause should be intro
duced into all railway Bills for the modification of the charge
for tolls on the several classes of passengers.
Lord WORSLEY said, that having been chairman of the
Committee on this Bill, he had given it his closest attention.
The Committee had spent something like an hour and half to
two hours on this very point, and they had not found that any
Bill had been passed to which the toll had been less than that
stated in the clauses of the Bill, and he did not think that any
less charge would be remunerative.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said that there was one clause to
which his attention had been particularly drawn. It provided
that the provisional Committee should appoint two directors,
but did not say whether they should be shareholders or not.
He wished to know on what grounds these directors were to be
appointed.
Lord WORSLEY said that the attention of the Committee
had likewise been drawn to this circumstance, and they had
searched for a precedent, and had found that a Bill had been
passed in which the Duke of Northumberland was interested,
with a similar clause, and they had consequently been relieved
from all difficulty respecting the clause.
The Bill w as then read a second time.
The reports of the railway Committees were then brought
up on the Preston and Wyre Railway, the Blackburn and
Preston, and the London and Enniskillen Railway.