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PARLIAMENTARY
THURSDAY, A tio.
REPORT FROM THE SELECT C4S-ItlLL:ta,..._
GROUP KK OF RAILON • , .
SOU FHPORT AND LUXTON JUNf %PTA' IRS9ISktkIM
BILL.
Sir Ch arias Lemon reported from the Select Committee on
Grout) KK of Railways, and to whom several petitions :Taiust
the comprised in the said group, together with the re-
port of the Board of Trade thereon, were referred, that in the
case of the Southport and Euston Junction Railway Bill
they had heard counsel in support of one of the said petitions,
and had also heard counsel in favour of tha said Bill, and
that they had examined the allegations contained in the
preamble of the Bill, but the same had not been: proved to
their satisfaction.

RAILWAY C01',1341T TES.
( Y ESTER DAY.)

HOUSE OF 4.:,03EV10N5.
THE LONDON AND YORK SUBSCRIPTION
CONTRACT.
The Select Committee—Mr. Hawes, Chairman, and the
other members present—met at eleven o'clock, and proceeded
with the examination of the persons named in Mr. Bruce's
petition against the validity of the above-named deed.
The passages and lobby leading to the Committee-room were
much crowded throughout the day, and the scene of Wednesday
was repeated with much effect. It does not appear that the
persons against. whom unfounded allegations have been brought
are a whit the less iretignsnt because Bruce has expressed
his regret at the unjust accusations preferred against them.
Mr. J. Theobald's case, or rather the ease of that name,
was then called. It seemed that the gentleman in question is
a mysterious nobody, for his residence has beeri hitherto un-
discoverable, in spite of all the active efforts of the detec-
tive agents to make it out. The name was appended to a
dwelling in Finsbury-square, and inno it had been appro-
priated the sum of 25,000/. for shares in the London and York
Railway.
The Committee decked, as Mr. Theobald affirmed the hy-
pothetical case of Hotspur's spirits, and did not come ,when
they did summon him, that the addreas was fictitious.
The allegations against Mr. Taylor and Mr. Garrett were
then withdrawn by !11r. Bruce, with ample apologies towards
those gentlemen for the injurious and groundless imputations
ofahe petition upon their station and character.
Mr. Shakell, the great railway proprietor, of the Charter-
house, was next examined, and gave his evidence with such -
nairett and coolness as to set the Committee in great good
humour. This gentleman's case has been so often before the
public in various other proceedings of a similar nature, that
it is alinost'nseless to state that he is a retir.al carnet, possess-
ing 261 per annum as the reward of his military services„
50/. or 60/. from the charity or benevolence of the Charter-
house (where he resides when in town) ; a rich brother,
living at fleetly-hall, Maidenhead, Berks; a good reference to
the said hall, whereat he is sometimes a visitor ; and a great
taste for railway speculation. He admitted that be had applied
for shares on the strength of noddy-hal!, and got them ; that
he did not keep any of them, as " he knew better 'than that,"
hut sold them at a moderate premium.
Did he make much money ? asked an Hon. Member. " Not
half as much as lie ought," was the raply.
Has he any interest in the line ?—Not he, indeed.
After a very facetious examination, the Committee decided.
that the gallant officer had, in giving hie brother's residence as
his own, procured for himself a fictitious credit he did not de-
serve.

Mr. C. Brown, of the .'t. James's Chronicle, a 0,5001..
shareholder, was next examined. He was set down in the
petition as residing at 30, lilackfriars-road, whereas his real
residence is at 38. He stated that the indignant owner of No.
30 was near " pommeling " him, on the supposition that the
wrong address had been given on purpose. and that the charac-
ter of his house would be injured by it.
The Committee decided that due diligence had not been
used by the petitioner to ascertain the real address of Mr.
Brown.
Mr. Downes, 3, Tooley-street, 2,5011. ; Mr. Dawes, Dar-
lington-place, Borough, 2,0001. ; and Mr. Hitchcock, 52,
Broad-street, 50,0001 , were then successively examined, and
eroved that the allegations of the Fetition were not well-
founded, inasmuch as their names and places of abode were
not fictitious and false.
Major Sherman, 51, St. Mary-axe, 50,000/. ; Mr. Bryant,
108., Leadenhall-street, I.koo/. ; Mr. Strange, Leadenhell-
street, 1,000/: ; Dr. Hamiltou, 103. Crawford-street, 1,500/. ;
Mr. Dance, East-street., Red Lion-square, 12,5001. ; Mr.
Badcoek, dairyman, Storey's-gate; 5001. ; Mr. Haines, the
Treasury, 1,0001. ; Mr. Monday, warehouseman, Elam-
terraee, Islington, 1,000/. ; Mr. Pitman, 5, Powis-place,
Great Ormond-street, 5,003/. ; Mr. Cox, 7. Dyer's-buildings,
Holborn, 10,0001., went next in order, and occupied the Corn-
mittee up to their adjournment.
Mr. Cox, it was understood, proved refractory, and refused
to answer some questions put to him, whereupon he was warned
of the consequences, and allowed a special act of grace till to-
morrow to reflect upon his conduct, and amend it, if so ad-
vised by his intervening cogitations. In all the other cases it
was understood that the result of the investigation established
the character and position of the persons assailed in the peti-
tion ; that Mr. Bruce made the best amend he could in some of
them ; and that to others various members of the Committee
expressed the regret they felt at seeing gentlemen whose sta-
tion and respectability they themselves could vouch for placed
in so awkward a position.
. Up to five o'clock the witnesses were tolerably quiescent, as
It was expected the Committee would rise at that, the nsnal
hour. However, six o'clock came, but with it no adjourn-
ment. As the persons in attendance were strictly forbidden to
depart without leave, unless they wished to undergo all sorts of
inflictions from Speaker's warrants and Sergean's-at- Arms, it
may be imagined that they were very wrathful, especially these
who were lusting after the flesh-pots at home, or who had dined
early, and saw no prospect of supper. At seven o'clock, there-
fore, there were general signs of mutiny. Grumbles were
heard. The House of Commons in general, and that Select
Committee in particular, were favoured with a sort of notice
not very complimentary or elegant, and several resolute gentle-
men were actually heading a march down stairs, when it was
announced that the Committee had adjourned. " Pray, Sir,
is it till eleven or twelve to-morrow Why they've only
risen to dine ; they meet again at nine o'clock." This was
thought to be a joke, for a few moments, till Honouralle
Members confirmed the sad reality, and at nine o'clock, accord-
ingly, all the witnesses were again assembled in the lobby,
in the worst possible humour. One old gentleman declared
that " they were more like a council of Red Indians than a
Christian House of Commons." Another piteously inquired
" How am I to be up before the Lords to-morrow at eleven
o'clock if I'm kept up this way?" o:hers enlarged upon the
sufferings of their domestic circles at such an unexpected and
unusual absence, and a country witness, when it came to
eleven o'clock, informed his sympathisitig friends that he
never had been up to such an unearthly hour for the last
twenty years.
AS the time wore on the impatience of the witnesses in-
creased, and the above complaints and grievances were in-
creased in vehemence and intensity. Mr. Bruce, Mr. CrouCher,
the railway, the contract deed, everything or body that could
be assailed, was anathematised with hearty good will, until word
was brought out that lion. Members would sit till three or four
o'clock, when the elderly witnesses went off in despair, and, search-
ing for soft spots on the tables and benches of an empty com-
mit;ee-room, formed a kind of railway bivouac, more novel
than picturesque. The more mercurial gentlemen amused
themselves with playing leapfrog, distorting the witnesses'
names as they were summoned in. Mr. Cox ! Fox ! Nos !
&c., wakening the policemen by alarms of tire, and ringing the
division bell with great enerey. liirleed, it is said that such a
scene was never witnessed before in the House of Commons,
and that the records may be searched in vain for any similar
instance of a Committee eittiug beyond midnight. Hon.
Members who serve on railway conernittees must certainly be
provided with the constitution of a eteam- engioe. It was un-
derstood that their li:faqir to-day was not altogether passive, •
but that some very active business took place inside, and the
occasions of doubt and discussiori were certainly not unfrequent,
if one might judge from the number of times the room was
cleared. it was hoped that the Committee could decide upon
the cases before three o'clock, and accordingly the printers
were ordered to be in readiness; but finding, at one o'clock
this morning, that a grew number of witeresres remained to be
examined, they gave in, and ailjeurned at that hour to eleven

o'clock.
A number of refractory witnesses have been specially in.
vited to attend by a :weaket's warrant.

LEEDS AND BitAilEoliD RAIL-
WAY Co AJ Y.
The half-yearly meeting of the Pr,:prietors in this railway
was held kit: the North ;slidl:lnd Railway station, Leeds, at noon,
on Wednesday last. (h-urge Hudson, Esq., Chairman of the
Board of Directors. presided. There was a large attendance
*of shareholders. Great importance attached to the meeting,
owing to the arrangement which has just been entered into be-
tween this Company, the Leeds and Manchester, and the West
Yorkshire and West Riding Junction Companies.
The following report was read by the secretary :—" Since
the last hall-yearly meeting your Directors have obtained
the sanction of Parliament to the Bill for making an exten-
sion of the Leeds and Bradford Bail.vay, from Shipley to
Colne, with a branch to llowerth. The engineer is
now busily engaged in staking out the line, and no time
wiil be lost in obtaining pessessten of the laud. Your Direc-
tors will, in a short time, he prepared to let part of the new
works, and they have already secured the rails and chairs, on
moderate terms. From the neighbourhood of Skipton rail-
ways, in continuation of the extension line, are now projected
in nearly every direction, so that the Leeds and Bradford is
likely to prove a more important trunk railway than was origi-
nally contemplated. The engineer reports favourably as to
the progress of the works on the original line, which your
Directors have every reason to hope wili be completed within
the time fixed by the contracts. The recent Parliamentary
contest between the West Yorkshire and the Leeds and West
Riding Companies has issued in an arrangement on a dif-
ferent basis from that recommended by your Directors. In
that arrangement, however, the right of this Company to the
traffic between Leeds and Bradford is distinctly recognised, and
your Directors have no reason to doubt that this principle wilt
be fully carried out. The subject of a branch line into
Wharf-
dale will be bought before the Shareholders at a future oppor-
tunity—in the meantime, surveys are collig en.
ofthe aced-lint
The SECRETARY then read the statement
Is. 4d.;
Company, up to the .
from which it
oo tl, otfhja
at
nteti.eiBt
405ta.,1we e 1
Idisbursements6l. of the
145.7:10/. tis. 10d., leaving a
and the receipts on calls, &c.,
balancehc epieor from the bankers of 3,604/. 7s. 6d.
u • •s u trtnnously agreed to, and after passing
resolutions of a formal nature, the meeting adjourned.
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report was

RETIREMENT OF SIR EDWARD LEES FROM THE
GENERAL POST-OFFICE.--This ovent. which has been antici-
pated for some time past, otair g to the delicate state of Sir
Edward's health, has at length taken place ; and we need hardly
say that few public servants retire into private life mote univer.
sally respected. To the press, and the inhabitants of Edinburgh
generally, his courtesy and affability have long been well known;
and there are few; if any, who have had occasion to transact
business with him but will bear ample testimony to big zeal and
anxiety in discharging his official I.:titles. Li no case. we be.
lieve, has a complaint been made to Sir Edward Lees of an
irregularity in the dispatch or arrival of mails, &c., but the
most al riot and thorough investigation has taken place to remedy
the evil. Sir Edward Lees it succeeded by Francis Abbott,
Esq., from the Secretary's office in Lendon.—Caledoniern
Mercury.
PREMATURE BIRTH IN A STREET CAlL—Yoster-
day morning, between eleven and twelve o'clock. Mrs. ELza-
betli Seagrave, a married woman, the with of a eabioet-maker,
residing in Dean-street, Oxford-street, havii.g he,. out oit
business fur her husband, at Knightsbridge. was, on Ler return
home, suddenly taken, ill in l'irewhily, and sat doss II on the
step of a door. Findieg herself growitig worse, a cab was
callrd, into which she was put, ace•impanied by a respectable
elderly lady ; but before they arrived ac her residence she was
delivered of a male infant. She was carried into the house,
and immediately put to bed. 'aledieal assistance, as promptly
as possible, was rendered, and the mother and infant are doing
well. •
RISE IN THE PRICE OF P.:?l,sAD,—YPSti,l"ddy the
bakers at the west end of the mel ropnlis, i.:clutling those in the
vieinity of Drury-lane and Clare•market, raised she price of
bread of the second quality to Bd. the 41b. loaf, being an ad-
vance of per 41b. loaf. It is a singular fact that there is
no advance-in price at the cast end, and bread of the same
(parity can be obtained oa the Surrey Bid:: cif the met at 71.
The bent breast is from Sit. 914 qtr loaf.

INSURANCE COMPANIES. ,
Dividend Amount
.N.ll3cie of COmpaly. per of I Faid. Price.
Annum. Share. 1
-- -
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Albion .. .... ... ••• • • 31. 103. 'OO 0 0 50 0 0 73
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 20
Ditto Marine... .. .. 61. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6%
Atlas ......... ..... .. 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 17
British Commercial .. 7ii. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7
4:lericl,Nled. & Gen. Lite -1. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6%
Qoitnty .. ..
..
.. 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0
c 9s. and 1
CrOWn ••••••" • • • • • • i 6/. ss. bs. j 40 0 0 5 0 0 10
Eagle • • .
..
6s. 50 0 0 50 0 5,,1i
Economic Life .• • Lr
&30s. A per
bs.,l
1000 0 0 250 0 0
Eng. & Scot. Law Lifc• • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
European Life •••• • • • • .1% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
I Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • :.1. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Gleba •••• • • • • U. per cent. Stock. - 140
Guaralan
Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. -00 0 0 50 0 0 '235
Imperial Li f.... .. .. • • 125. 100 0 0 10 0 0 163,4'
Indemnity Marine.. • • 1/. sh. & be. 100 0 0 513 1 28%
Law Lin; it. ss. 100 0 01 10 0 0 45%
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 1 2 0 0 6%
Lou.tou Fire ••••• • • .. 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16
Lowlun Ship
114triiie .............. ,l. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10%
Med. [build & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Loan Fund- 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life- -•• • • • 81. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9%
Palla.latin Lific •• . .•• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 21. 2s.
PlltkiliX • • •-• •e.•• . • • • • 3/. p. ct. & bs. - . - 210
Protector I.lle .• . • 51. par cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 2s.
Provident LifC . •
Rock Lire .. .. .. ••- • •
Royal Exchange ... .... -
Sun Fire ....... • • I 6/. 10s. - -
Ditto Life - -
Universal Life ..... • • 1103A1. print. 100 0 615 0 18

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS AFTERNOON.)
HORWICH RACES.—TIIURSDAY.
The Ladies Purse of 3 soya. each, with 15 sot's. added, for
horses that never won previous to the day of entry, Hats,
about (we mile and a half. The winner to be sold for 40/.,
in the usual way.
Mr. S. Dawson's Son of a Saint...(Hon. S. Erskine) 1 dis.
Mr. Palmer's Donkey
Mr. Young's Clifton 3 2 1
Mr. Hobson's Villebecque
Mr. Graham's Harlequin
Mr. Hornby's gr gby Stump
Gr fby Stumps, led ;4.f r, was soon pursued by Son of a
Saint, who won easy. Second heat—Son of a Saint led off..
Villebecque second. Donkey headed him at blue post, and
raced with Son of a Saint in straight run. At distance Son
of a Saint crossed Donkey, and was disqualified in conse-
quence. Third heat—(atton toy k the lead, and was never
headed. Mr. Hobson withdrew from the fourth heat under
protest. Catton walked over.
A Cup, value 50 guineas, the gift of W. S. Standish, Eq., of
Duxbury-park, added to a sweepstakes of five sot's. each.
Mr. Collett's Coranna (Murphy) 1
Mr. A. Johnstone's Sir Henry . 2
The following al.o started :—Susan, Lara, and Flamingo.
Lara went off at a rattling pace, kept it to the turn into
the straight run, where he was headed by Coranna, who
came in an easy winner by at least eight lengths. A good
race for second place between Lara and Sit Henry.
The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 20 soya. added.
Heats, one mile and a half.
Mr. Palmer's Betsy Bird (W. Arthur) 3 1 1
Mr. S. Waring's Saul
S started for the first heat, 6 fur the second, and 5 for the
third.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
LONDON aND HORN.
After examining several parties, the nature of whose evi-
dence did not transpire on account of the air of exclusiveness
which pervaded everything connected with the proceedings, the
Committee then adjourned until to-morrow, when the report
will he presented to the House.

STANDING ORDZIZS COM YU TIME.
LONDON AND Yonz,
This Bill came before the Staading Orders Committee
shor►ly af►er four o'clock this afternoon.
The parties were proved to have complied with the Standing
Orders ►n everything, with the exception of the CON 1 RA CT
DEED, which wss not entered into.
The Committee adjourned until twelve o'clock to-morrow.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,
cap. 32, for the NV eek ending on Saturday, the 2d day of
August, 1845.