The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-23 00:00:00

BLACKBURNE.

The Committee have struck off a few votes on each side, So
that the hostile parties yet continue in the same relative situa-
tions. The Court was a good deal occupied pith arguments
on the law of occupation.

PARLIAMENTARY DI VISIONS.
HOUSE OF LORDS.-APRIL 19.
MINORITY IN FAVOUR OF LORD MELBOURNE'S
RESOLUTION FOR A FIXED DUTY ON CORN.
PRESENT
EARLS,

DUKES.
Norfolk
Somerset
Sutherland

Rosebery
Scarborough
Uxbridge
Zetland
VISCOUNTS.
Duncannon
Melbourne
LORDS.
Brougham and Vaux
Campbell
Camoys
Carew
Clonrurry
Colborne
Cottenham
De Freyne
Denman
Dinorben
PROXIES.
EARLS.

LORDA.
Godolphin
Hatherton
Kinnaird
Li ford
Lovat
Lyttleton
Yionteagle
Poltimore
Portman
Stratford
Vivian
Wenlock
Wrottesley

mArtQulssEs.
Anglesey
Clanricarde
Lansdowne
Normaliby
EARLS.

Bruce
Charlemont
Clarendon
Cowper

Fitz villiain
Fortescue
Lovelace
Radnor

Deny, Bishop o
Durham, Bishop
Elv, Bishop
Worcester, Bishop

H. R. H. the Duke
of Sussex

EARLS.
Albemai le
Camperdown
Carlisle
Cra y. n
Fitzhardinge
(Joann d
Hun.ingdon

Leitrim
Minto
Sefton

LORDS.
De M a uley
Dormer
F6ley
I eigh
Methuen

VISCOUNT,
Torrington
LORDS.

Suddey

B iternan
Berner s
Clifford

Hereford, Bishop

PAIRS.

Earl of Ki:
Cornwallis
Carnarvon
Lord Reay
De Lisle

nnoull

Lord Langdale
Stanley of A Iderley
Sari of Suffolk
Lord Montfort
Earl of Erroll

(Frosa the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 2
PEFORiII (}P PAR[
'MINORITY of Sixty. nine (Tellers inc'
Air. Sharman Craisford's
Fielden, J.
Gibson, 'l'. 111.
Ganger, T. C.
Hall, Sir B.
Johrstone, A.
Leader, J. T.
Muntz, G. F.
111u2phy, F. S.
Napier, sir Charles
Norreys, Sir D. J.
O'Brien, Cornelius
O'Brien, J.
O'Connell, D.
O'Connell, M.
O'Connell, M. J.
O'Connell, J.
Paget, Lord W."
Pechell, Captain
Phillpotts,
Plumridge, Captain
Powell, Caleb
Protheroe, Edward
Rennie, George

Aglionby, H. A
A rmstror e, Andrew
Bernal, italp h
Blake, Mar c
Blake, M., .
Blake, Sirs'.
Blewitt, Reginald
bodkin, John James
Bowring, 1)r.
Bridgman, Hewitt
Brotherton, J.
Browne, R. D.
But.leild, William
,:obden, Richard
Collins, William
Currie, !Lakes
Dennistoun, J.
Duke, Sir James
Duncombe, T. S.
Ellice, E.
Elphinstone, Howard
Esmonde, Sir 'l'. ,
Ewart, W.
Ferguson, Colonel

IMF NT.
luded) who voted for
Awn :
Roche, Sir D.
Roche, E. it
Roebuck, J. A.
Rundle, J.
Scholelleld, J.
Scott, R.
Smith, 13.
Somers, J. P.
Somerville, Sir W,
Strickland, Sir G.
Tancred, H. W.
Thornely, Thomas
Turner, Edmund
Villiers, Charles f.
Wakley, Thomas
Walker, R.
Ward, H. 0.
Williams, W.
Wood, B.
Yorke, Hon. E. T.

TELLERS
Crawford, W S.
Wallace, R

LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER
RA IL AY.—IM PORTANT MEETING.
general meeting of the Pro-
prietorsOn We
and Directors
recltaOrt a special
s of this Company mpany was held in the Cotton
Sales-room, Liverpool, to consider the propriety of adopting a
Report of the Directors, recommending and empowering them
to adopt the plan proposed for carrying on the line to Hunt's-
bank, in Manchester and thus forming a junction with the
Alanchester and Leeds, and the Manchester and Birmingham,
and also with the Manchester and Sheffield lines.
Mr. C. LAWRENCE was in the Chair ; and, after the notes
calling the meeting had been read, the Treasurer of the Com-
mittee read the Report of the Directors, which recommended
the adoption of the following resolution, after stating that
the cost of the proposed line will not exceed 225,0001., and
alluding to the difficulties they had had to encounter in their
endeavour to carry into effect a line to ex:end to Store-street.
in Manchester:—" That the Directors be hereby empowered
to proceed with the negotiations and arrangements now
pending with other Companies and parties interested, and to
take the necessary steps, by application to Parliament, in the
present session for an extension of time for the purchase of
land, should such a course be deemed expedient ; and to enter
into such contracts, and do all such other matters and things
as may be necessary or expedient for carrying into full effect
and operation the formation and completion of the proposed
Hunt's-bank junction line, in conformity with the Report now
received and approved by the meeting."
The CHAIRMAN then said, the Directors were fully aware of
the great importance of the question before the meeting, and
it was, therefore, with regret that they did not on the pre-
sent occasion appear before the Proprietors as a united body.
The Report which had been read, although nominally the re-
port of the whole Board, was only that of a majority, and
that not a large one ; and it was duo to those gentlemen form-
ing the minority to state that fact. He felt it necessary to in-
form the meeting, as the Board were now of a different opinion
to what they were at the last meeting, that the reason of that
change was expediency. They had no chance of succeeding in
obtaining an Act for carrying out the most desirable plan with
such influential and powerful interests as the Manchester and
Leeds Company against them, and it was therefore advisable
to carry out that now proposed, for if they did no: he felt convinced
that it would place the Manchester and Liverpool Company in
a position of great danger, and jeopardize the property of the
concern altogether.
Air. Moss, one of the Directors of the Company, proposed
the resolution quoted above.
Mr. R. BENSON moved an amendment to the effect that
a junction of the railways on the south side of the Manchester,
via Store-street, would be more advantageous to the public,
arid would conduce snore to the interests of the Liver-
pcol and Manchester Company. After giving
several reasons
for this proposition, it went on to state " that this Com-
pany have, consistently with their own interests, always
been anxious to consult the convenience of the public, and
therefore, if the Leeds Company should, after having refused
the proposion to leave the whole question at issue to an
unexceptionable reference, and in consequence of the deter-
mination of the Company not to make the junction through
Salford, conclude themselves to execute that line, that this
Company
i facility t y will engage
a
them every accommodation
a junction with their
a
Mr. D. Honcsow spoke against the original resolutions:
railway."
w a their p o to r
w afford
fo
great length.
Mr. H. EARLE seconded the original motion, and supported
it at considerable length. The adoption of the line would at
once effect a communication between the seaport of Liverpool
and the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire.—(Cheers.)
Mr. SAUNDERS and Mr. CROPPER also supported the origi-
nal motion. . _

Alr. ALSTON moved, that the question be deferred for one
month, and this amendment was seconded by the Rev. Mr
FORMBY.
A long discussion ensued on this, in the course of which it
was stated, that out of five lines to Manchester it was already
determined to carry four of them to Hunt's-bank, and thus a
complete communication would be formed between the east
and west coasts, the formation of such a union of Railways
being considered most important for the interests of trade
generally.
The CHAIRMAN at length put Mr. Alston's amendment to
the meeting, which was lost, after which the amendment pro-
posed by Air. Benton was withdrawn.
The eriginal resolution was then carried by a considerable
majority, and the meeting separated.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPESRANCE.—Capt. Isaac Sten-
fore, late of the Russian ship Olga, who was, with his crew,
waiting at Stromness for a passage home to Russia, left his
lodgings on the morning of the 11th inst., and having been ob-
served to walk in the direction of the Black Crag, a precipice
overhanging the sea, about two miles, Stromness, he has
not since been heard of. Captain Stenfors was a man of mild
and gentlemanly manners ; but, since the loss of his vessel (fol-
lowed as it was, by the loss of a beioved brother, master of an-
other large ship, from the same port, lately towed, bottom up,
into Galway), he has suffered much from nervous excitement,
head. ache, and want of sleep, which had doubtless upset his
mind.— Scotch Paper.
THE TOWER.— The number of persons who paid
for admission to view the ruins of the small armouries and the
regalia in the Tower, during the week ending on Saturday last,
was—to the former, 834 ; az to the latter 832.