The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-30 00:00:00

CANADA.

The Provincial Parliament was prorogued on the 29th
of March, by Lord Metcalf in person. The following is
his Lordship's speech on the occasion :
" Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and
Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,
"I thank you for your indefatigable attention to the
laborious duties which you have had to perform during
this unusually lor.g session. I trust that the acts which
have been passed will prove beneficial to the province,
and I consider myself justified in especially congratulat-
ing you on those for improving the administration of
justice in Upper Canada, and those relating to education
and municipal institutions in Lower Canada, all of
which are of the highest value, and promise to render
essential service to the community. I regret, at the
same time, to notice that several-important measures
have been unavoidably postponed. On this account I
am reluctant to part with you, for I am loth to lose your
assistance while anything remains to be done which the
good of the country. requires. Nevertheless I am sensible
that your presence is much required at your homes, and
that it would be unreasonable to expect your longer at-
tendance at the present period. Whatever has been
left incomplete will I hope be accomplished at our next
meeting.
" I have had the satisfaction of assenting in' her
Majesty's name to nearly all the enactments which you
have passed, and the few reserved for the decision of her
Majesty's Government have been so dealt with under
circumstances which, from positive instructions or other-
wise, have rendered it imperative on me to pursue that
course. The'Act to amend the Ordnance Act of the
last session of the late Parliament comes necessarily
under that description, as it affects the property 'of the
Crown.

•' I have received authentic information of the passing
of an Act by the Legislature of the United States which
may seriously affect the commercial interests of this
province. I will not fail to submit the subject for the
attention of her Majesty's Government, and I am sure
that it will receive the most earnest consideration.

" Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly,
"I return you my hearty thanks for the liberality
with which you have provided the requisite means for
the due administration of our affairs. I shall anxiously
co operate with you in every measure of economy con-
sistent with the efficiency of the public service. It is
satisfactory to observe that the prosperous condition of
our revenue enables us, after providing for a reduction
of the public debt by commencing the establishment of a
sinking fund for the redemption of the guaranteed loan,
to apply a considerable sum to additional public works
calculated to produce great advantages.
"Honourable' Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and
_ _

Gentlemen of the Legislatfie Assembly,
" You are about to return to your homes to resume
those occupations which in most cases are indispen-
sable for the support of your families, and which are un-
avoidably interrupted with some degree of injury to
yourselves by your attendance on Parliamentary duties.
I earnestly hope that you may be successful in 3 our un-
dertakings, and I beg you to convey to your several
constituencies the assurances that her Majesty's Go-
vernment ardently desires the welfare of this province,
and is anxious that the whole of the inhabitants, with-
out distinction and with perfect equality, may enjoy
all the rights and privileges of a free people, and expe-
rience the prosperity, contentment, and happiness
which are naturally derived from unfettered industry,
prudent enterprise, good fellowship, and brotherly love
And now, gentlemen, with the heartfelt wish that you
may be partakers in these blessings, I will say farewell
until we meet again. I cannot, however, conclude with-
out expressing my warmest thanks for the aid and sup-
port which you have afforded to her Majesty's Govern
ment by your loyal, zealous, and patriotic labours."

A highly influential deputation of the salt trade of
Cheshire and Worcestershire, consisting of Mr. Worth-
ington, Chairman, Mr. Cheshire, Mr. Ashton, Mr. John-
son (Runcorn), Mr. Falk, Mr. Fardon, Mr. Lea, and
Mr. Granshields, attended by the Right Hon. E. J.
Stanley, Mr. George Wilbraham, Mr. Tatton Egerton,
M.P., Mr. G. C. Legh, M.P., Mr. Tollemache, M.P.,
Mr. Ireland Blackburne M.P., Sir Howard Douglas,
Bart., M.P., &c. &c., had a lengthened interview with
the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the East India
Company, at the India House, yesterday, on the subject
of the extension and introduction of British manufac-
tured salt into India.

CURIOUS EFFECT PRODUCED IN RINGING TUE NEW
PEAL OF BELLS IN YORK MINSTER.—An effect has
been produced which was no more anticipated than that
of the whispering-gallery of St. Paes ; being a ma-
terial of ringing hardness, in windy weather they send
forth a sound which at night is heard over the city, of
course particularly in the direction of the wind, and
which is dreary in the extreme, and to those residing
in the vicinity of Minster Yard must ba far from
enlivening ; the melancholy unmusical wail
seems to proceed from some imprisoned ghost
—the spirit of the departed chimes, perhaps, and who as
the storm drives more furiously through the bars of his
cage, raises his ♦oice to a howl which is heard above it.
With a view to obviate this, a piece of stout quartering
has been fixed upright in the middle of each opening,
notched so as to halve the inner bearing of the louvres,
since which the ghostly music has been less loud and
frequent, although not altogether put down ; this, how-
ever, it is confidently expected, will be accomplished.—
The Builder.

DEATH OF LIEUT.-GENERAL R. N. HorKiNs.—
One of the oldest field officers in the army died on Saturday last
' at his house in Gloucester-place, at the advanced age of 88 years.
He formerly served in the 32d Foot, and his commission was dated
as follows :—Ensign, lit Sept. 1773; lieutenant, 29th March,
1776 ; captain, 12th Nov. 1778; major, 12th August, 1793 ;
licut.-cclonel, sth Nov. 1793; colonel, 26th Jan., 1797; major.
general, 25th Sept., 1803 ; and lieut.-general, 25th Oct., 1809.
NOBLE DEFENCE BY CHILDREN.—On Wednesday
night week, a man entered the house of a farmer, near Longton,
in the absence of the occupier, who had not returned from
market, and who had left the house in possession of his several
children, the eldest being twelve years old. The stranger was
about to examine the corner cupboard, when the little band of in.
fantile heroes rose up in arms, and loudly expressed their deter-
mination to slay the robber on the spot. The man, baffled in his
.search for money, was about to enter an inner room, when the
girl nimbly stepped before him, and shut the door, setting her
slender form against his entrance with the resolution of a giant,
and when the intruder introduced his finger into the hole to lift
the latch, the resolute girl inflicted a severe cut upon it
The pain of the wound made him suddenly withdraw the
member, and when the poor girl, unable longer to bear
the separation from the children, made her appearance, the cowardly
ruffian felled her to the earth with the weapon in his hand. When
the children saw their sister lying bleeding, and, as they supposed,
killed outright, they raised such an alarming cry as sent the burglar
with the candle in his hand to the door, to reconnoitre the premises.
The boy of four years, observing this, ran and shut the door, and
In Iding down the latch, called out to the rest for assistance, who
forthwith came and pressed the door fast with a spade, and shut
out the robber. The man next went to the back part of the house,
and endeavoured to force an entrance by a window. The bold
juveniles inside now rushed to defend this new point of attack, and,
each armed with a formidable weapon, such as axe, spade, hook,
&e., loudly defied the robber to his teeth, who, finding himself
foiled in every attempt to obtain money, and fearing the return of
the farmer, withdrew.—Provincial Paper.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, April 29.
ST. ASAPII AND BANGOR.
The Bishop of BANGOR presented a number of petitions
in favour of Earl Potvis' Bill against the union of those Sees.
Lord MONTEAGLE took that opportunity of giving
no-ice that he would, on a future day, move that the second
recommendation of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners should be
adopted instead of the third. The second recommendation
was that the emoluments of the suppressed see should
be applied to increase the incomes of the poor clergy
of the diocese. The third recommendation was that they
should be applied to augment the episcopal fund ; but he con.
sidered such an application of them unnecessary now, as the
episcopal fund bad increased since the report of the Commis-
sioners.

1 he Marquis of CLANRICARDE asked would his Noble
Friend bring forward the motion upon the second reading of
the Noble Earl's (Powis) Bill on Friday ?
Lord MON TEAGLE said that he would take whatever
course the House might deem most convenient.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to suggest
that the motion might be brought forward as an amendment,
and to ask the Noble Duke opposite what course he would
think most convenient.

The Duke of WELLINGTON said that the first question
would be, that the Bill be read a second time; and if that was
affirmed, that the Bill be committed.
Lord IUONTEAGLE asked, whether he might not move
the insertion of his amendment as a clause in the Committee ?
Lord STANLEY said if the Bill were affirmed there would
be two bishoprics, and the proposition of his: Noble Friend
(Lord Monteagle) would fall to the ground, as there would be
no funds to carry it into effect.
Lord CAMPBELL hoped the proposition of his Noble
Friend would be affirmed, in consequence of the extreme
poverty of the Welsh curates.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH considered Wales and England
all one country, and that we should not deal with the question
otherwise than as affecting the whole National Church.
Lord POWIS said that it was for the purpose of placing
the Welsh Church on the footing of the National Church that
he, as a Welshman, had thought it his duty to introduce his
Bill.
Lord BELHAVEN presented several petitions against the
grant to Maynooth.
OATHS DISPENSATION BILL.
Lord DENMAN moved the second reading of this Bill. He
said the Bill was founded on a petition which he
had presented to the House on a former occasion,
from an individual who had refused to take an oath before the
Commissioners of Bankruptcy from conscientious scruples, in
consequence of which he was imprisoned, and had now been in
prison for three years, and might be kept there all his life.
The case, therefore, was one which stood on singular and pecu-
liar grounds. His Noble and Learned Friend on the Wool-
sack thought it a case deserving of attention, and as he (Lord
Denman) had more time to spare after circuit than his Noble
and Learned Friend, he undertook to bring in the gill. The
person to whom he alluded was ready to state all he knew, and
the Commissioners and the creditors thought he was acting
with perfect good faith, and was ready to make every disclo-
sure for the satisfaction of the judge and the creditors, but the
Commissioners had no power to receive his statement till ho

came and made them on oath. From this short statement he
did not think that their Lordships would have any hesitation
in apply ing a remedy. He intended to give the Commissioners
a power of receiving statements without the accompaniment of
an oath, when they were satisfied that the refusal .to take the
oath arose from religious scruples, and not from pretended
scruples, for the purpose of concealing the truth. He intended
that the same penalty should apply to the person who made a
false statement as to the person who was guilty of perjury.
The Earl of DEVON suggested that it would be better to
make provision for the examination of bankrupts by declaration
instead of leaving it to the discretion of the Commissioners to say
whether the objection to the taking of an oath of any person
were conscientious or not.

Lord DENMAN entirely agreed in the suggestion of the
Noble Lord. He thought it was highly desirable that the de-
claration should be substituted for the oath in all bankruptcy
and insolvent courts.

Lord CAMPBELL expressed his concurrence in the otject
of the Noble Lord, and he trusted the House would give its
sanction to the Bill. If the individual who had been alluded
to had declared himself to be a Jew, a Separatist, or one of any
other sect who objected to oaths, his word must have been
taken, and he would have avoided all he had suffered.
The Earl of WICKLOW said that he couli not but express
his objection to the principle of this measure. He thought
that this Bill, which was but a portion of the larger measure,
and it was, if possible, snore objectionable than the larger mea-
sure. The principle was the same, and the more suspicious, as
it was put forward to claim what it might not be unwise
in itself to grant ; but when that was granted, it would
be impossible to resist the larger encroachment. He
had no objection to abolish oaths altogether, and they ought
not to extend this provision to the Courts of Bankruptcy,
and not to other Courts. Why, if the liberty were granted to
declare and not to take oaths before the Commissioners in
Bankruptcy, on what ground was the same privilege to be re-
fused in any other Court? He (the Earl of Wicklow) was
ready to abolish the custom of taking oaths in all cases where
it possibly could be abolished, and not to confine the applica-
tion of the principle to any particular party or sect, and con-
ceiving that the principle as it was then advanced was likely
to be mischievous, he should resist it. It was only the same
principle that the Noble and Learned Lord had brought for-
ward and supported by the same arguments, session after ses-
sion, and without taking the sense of the House upon it. and as
he (the Earl of Wicklow) had opposed the principle of the ge-
neral measure, so he should resist it as it now stood before the
House.

Lord BROUGHAM could assure his Learned Friend that
even the Judges were not prepared to say that even in such a
grave matter as the sanctity of an oath there was not that pro-
tec;ii.n that was necessary, even with the terror of a prosecu-
tion for perjury in prospect. But they were not now discuss-
ing the case of a witness, but one of a rather ano-
malous character, namely, the position of a bank-
rupt in the Bankruptcy Court, under the present
bankruptcy laws, which was the ease of a man called upon to
give evidence against himself for having committed a certain
offence (for bankruptcy was looked upon by the laws as an
()hence), and he was called upon to account for his property,
how much it was, and what had become of it ; therefore it
was an anomaly to subject the bankrupt to the form of an
oath, although he would still be liable to the consequences of
perjury.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said that he wished to sug-
gest that a general declaration should be substituted instead of
the each, and was desirous that the second reading should be
postponed for that purpose.
According to the suggestion of the Nnble Duke, the order of
the day was discharged.
BAIL IN ERROR BILL

On tne motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Bai
in Error Biil was read a second time, and went through Corn.
mittee pro forma.
AUCTION DUTIES BILL.

Earl DALHOUSIE moved the second reading of the Auc
tion Duties Bill.

Upon the question that the Bill be now read a second
time being put,
Lord BROUGHAM said that this was the only part of the
budget that he did not exceedingly approve of. He thought
it a very unwise and ill-considered measure, and that it pro-
ceeled upon an erroneous view of the snbject. Nobody had
objected to the existence of this tax, and nobody felt gratified
for its repeal. The Bill required that the auctioneer should
always have his licence in his pocket, and any Excise officer
might call upon him to produce it, and if he did not immediately
do so or pay 10/., and it might sohappen that hehad not the 101.
either, he would be liable to be sent to prison for a month.
The Bill was still more objectionable in its provisions relating
to distress for rent. The Bill allowed any person to distrain
and sell tha goods by auction, provided the rent was under
201, This remission of the auction duty was one of the re-
liefs which was the consequence of the property-tax, and he
was boond to mention this instance, because it deeply im-
plicated a certain department which he should not mention.
It did not reflect on the Government, but he should hand
them the paper which he held in his hand, in order that
the Government might take the proper notice of it. Ile
should state the circumstance as a warning to the property-
tax commissioners in every part of the country, that Parlia-
ment would visit such gross carelessness as was evinced in this
case with its highest displeasure. The circumstance was
this person went into a chandler's shop to purchase some
trifling article, and when he got home, to his exceeding sur-
prise, he found that it was wrapped up in a piece of
paper on which was written the signed return and statement
of gross amount and the net income of the trade and
profession of a gentleman residing in his own district—a
paper which ought to have been sacred from every e)e except
those of the Commissioners for levying the tax. Ile (Lord
Brougham) conceived this to be an act of such grim careless-
ness, as to amount to malversation of trust—a degree of care-
lessness, which, unless he had seen it, he could not have con-
ceived. With these observations he should hand this paper to
the members of the Government.—Here the Noble Lord
walked up towards the Lord Chancellor and returned to his
place with a paper in his hand, and then, addressing the Noble
Lord opposite, said he hoped his Noble Friend would never be
guilty of a greater irregularity than handing a paper to the
Lord Chancellor, who was the Chairman of the House of
Lords, and if he should, he would be visited accordingly.—
( Laughter.) But with regard to the question now before
their Lordships, he had known an instance of a person who was
about to purchase a villa ; but he was told that the owner had
returned as nothing to the Income-tax Commissioners, and was
about to become bankrupt, and therefore he had better have
nothing to do with it. He knew another instance of a friend
of his, who had lost many thousands a year of his property by
the effects of the war ; but he durst not disclose that, lest he
might be ruined by it. Those were facts which he thought it
would be well to bear in mind, in the event of the renewal of
the income-tax after the expiration of the present period.
Lord STANLEY concurred in much that had fallen from
his Noble Friend opposite; but the observations of his Noble
Friend applied only to one or two particulars of the Bill, and
not to its principle. His Noble and Learned Friend thought
that it would have a tendency to lower the character of the
auctioneer. But that could scarcely be the effect when it
raised the licences of the lower class of auctioneers to 101.
Certainly, if the amount of licence had anything to do with
raising or lowering the character of the auctioneer, the Bill
would have the effect of raising the character. His Noble and
Learned Friend objected also to the clause requiring the auc-
ioneer to produce his licence at any auction, if required, or to
deposit 10/.
Lord BROUGHAM said that he objected to the enforce-
ment.

Lord STANLEY said it could be no more hardship to an
auctioneer than to the sportsman to produce his licence. But
these were details that could be considered in Committee.
The Bill was then read a second time.
On the motion of Lord STANLEY the Colonial Passengers
Bill was also read a second time.
The House then adjourned to Friday.

RAIL WAY IN TELLIGENCE.
REPORT OF THE RAILWAY DEPARTMENT
OF THE BOARD OF TRADE ON SCHEMES
FOR EXTENDING RAILWAY COMMUNICA-
TION IN VARIOUS DISTRICTS.

(Concluded from our Paper of April 23.)

SOUTH DEVON AMENDMEN T AND TAVIS.
TOOK RAILWAY.

This line partakes of the character of the Launceston
and South Devon Railway last described, and with which
it is intended to form a junction : its length is 13 miles
and 35 chains.

Leaving the main line of the South Devon Railway at
three miles eight chains from its terminus at Stonehouse
it takes a northerly course to Tavistock, which is cir-
cuitous, and makes the distance between Plymouth and
Tavistock greater by three miles than it would be if a
more direct course were adopted.
The curves are, some of them, severe. Of the whole
35 there are-
-5 of 15 chains radius.
2of 16 „
16 of 20 „
3 of 25
3or 30 o

1 of 35 chains radius.
2of 40 „
2of 64 „
1 of 65

The gradients also are severe, being at an inclination
of 1 in 30 for 1 mile 3 chains, following 1 in 45 for GO
chains ; 1 in 41 for 1 mile 30 chains ; 1 in 42 for GO
chains ; altogether more than one-half of the line is
stetper than lin 100. There are three tunnels of 1,342
yards aggregate length, and a viaduct of 110 yards, and
58 feet high. There are, besides, cuttings of from 32 to
81 feet in extreme depth, and embankments of from 36
to 80 feet in extreme height.
On the same grounds that are set forth with respect to
the Launceston Railway, and with the like hope of some
means being found for lessening the disadvantages of the
scheme as now proposed, we must express our opinion
that it is desirable, en public grounds, to postpone the
consideration of this scheme also in the present session.
There are five short branches of the South Devon
Railway included in the plans, the aggregate length of
which is 4 miles 49 chains, which partake of the character
of the Tavistock branch as respects their gradients, and
we consider that the delay recommended in the case of
that branch may be desirable as regards these also:—
Darfield to Worsbrough,
Ditto to Elsecar,
Midland Railway branches S Ch °vet to liorbury,
Oakenshaw to Wakefield,
Am be rga t e to Crich.

The first-narred of these branches is five miles six
chains in length. It commences near the Darfield sta-
tion of the North Midland Railway, and at the first
mile approaches the Dearne and Dove Canal, the course
of which it follows to Worsbrough-bridge after once
crossing the canal.

The 'hranch from Darfield to Elsecar is the same as
the former branch for the first half-mile, but then bend-
ing southward it follows the south branch of the Else-
car branch of the Dove and Dearne Canal. Its length
is three miles thirty-five chains.

The branch froin Chevet to Iforbury, three miles
thirty-nine chains in length, beeins in the North Mid-
land Railway, near Walton, and terminates at the Man-
chester and Leeds Railway, near Iforhury.
The branch from Oakenshaw to Wakefield, one mile
and fifty chains long, connects the North Midland with
the Manchester and Leeds Railway, at the stations re-
spectivcly named of the two lines. In the event of the
projected Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole Railway, re-
ceiving Parliamentary sanction, this branch, which is
identical with the Wakefield end of that undertaking,
will be of course unnecessary.
The Ambergate and Crich branch, 2 miles and 25
chains, appears to be intended. for mineral traffic only,
the severity of the gradients being such as to unfit it for
locomotive traction. It will form an extension of au
existing tramway, having gradients of 1 in 6, 1 in sf,
1 in 4, and,l in 31. The proposed branch has gradients
of 1 in 27, and 1 in 13. The object appears to be the
connexion of some limekilns with the limestone quarries.
Its course is northerly.
We are of opinion that, with the exception of the
contingency affecting the Wakefield and Oakenshaw
branch, as before stated, there are not any public rea-

se
' sons which should lead us to recommend to Parliament
to withhold its sanction from these five short branches
of an existing and important railway.
NE I,VCie STLE-UPO N-TYNE and NORTH SHIELDS
RAILWAY—EXTENSION TO TYNEMOUTII
BRANCH TO QUAY AT NEWCASTLE.e
New.
The first of these is a scheme for prolonging
castle and North Shields Railway through the ereestheat
terminus at North Shields, and under a paro nee
town, to a new terminus at the bathing- village of eei y
mouth.
To effect this object a tunnel, 761 yards in length'
must be constructed under circumstances attended
17
some difficulty ; as the line of rails will be only re,
feet to 20 feet 6 inches under the streets
deep to be
Shields. There is also a ravine, 60 feet
filled up. Involving
The length of the extension is one mile. f toe
works such as have been described, the propriety
•ected
scheme would be very doubtful if it had been pro_ by
400,000
by an independent company ; but proposed as 15
the managers of an existing railway, upon which She
pre.
Of
forth
persons are conveyed during the year, it may „ end
sumed that they are adequate judges or the en.see'reele
that they would not propose the ouila.y of a eensi te"" en.
sum of money but with the hope of a profitable re
_e.ees
The branch to the quay at Newcastle has for its °gee
the connexion of the shipping in the River Tyne at Nov.
castle, with the Newcastle and Carlisle, and the
castle and Derlingten Railways, as well as with the lee;
to the north now befere Parliament. This ehiecitjaral
only be accomplished by the construction of arh the
which shall connect the North Shields line Wit ,the
raileays running to the south and west,
protect for carrying a line from Newcastle, north _
tett
to join the North British Railway at Berwick; On not
pensive nature of the work being such that it cool
be justifiably undertaken, except as a part of a roe'reweiss
branch Lure.
siderable undertaking. The sanction of this
consequently be dependent upon the sanction of the eye.,
jest for traversing the town of Newcastle, and cone folds
the other existing railways with the North S-
as a part of
line, with a view to proceeding thence to Berwick. el,
The length of the proposed branch is only 36 ehaTti
more than one half of which (443 yards) consists
tunnel, constructed in a gradient of 1 in 14 for O
the whole of its length, for which reason it muste
worked by means of a stationary engine. It is pr
that the cargoes of vessels at the quay of reevveeee
shall be at once discharged into the railway wage'. yet
and again that goods from those waggons may "`" ese.
directly into the ships ; which would doubtless be will
ductive of economy and convenience. The worktbeir
necessarily be expensive ; but the promoters state re,
conviction that the revenue will furnish an adequate
turn for the outlay. eot
reaneln
We have to express our opinion that there are
public grounds for withholding Parliamentary sane
from these projects. TO TO
NORTH UNION RAILWAY—BRANCH aur,B.
VICTORIA QUAYS ON THE RIVERds
This branch, which is of 64 chains in length, Pree-teee
out of the North Union Railway, near the station law
town of Preston. There do not aear to be any Pub.
grounds of objection to the construction of this bralee,
SHEFFIELD AND ROTHERHAM RAILWATO
BRANCH TO CONNECT THAT LINMte :Alee
THE SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTE
This connecting branch, 32 chains long, oonsietisill
l of
tow
to
part of a tunnel 3G3 yards in length, under the
Sheffield. It is a work of evident utility, and
object
to
not, in our opinion, any public grounds of objectie
the sanctioning of its construction. see,E
WEST LONDON RAILWAY—THAMES ENee
SION—KNIGHTSBRIDGE
EXTENSIC4`forty.e
n'
The first-named of these extensions, one mile ag
three chains in length, proceeding out of the ter basis
ag°
of the West London Railway, near the head of the wen
of the Kensington Canal, and passing along the terms-
side of of the London and "Westminster Cemeteree bore
nates on the bank of the Thames, a short distance a
Battersea- bridge. Lo This railway has passed into the hands of the owed
and Birmingham Railway Company, and the er°l3foe.
branch would in various ways be useful to that Comp
There are not any public reasons which, in our opinion,
should lead to the rejection of this project. nsion,
With regard to the proposed Knightsbridge r4s`e ried
the case is altogether different. It could only be ear_e,
out at an enormous expense, and without offeririt.e4
general benefit as a compensation for this evil. luon
reasons are, in our opinion, sufficient to justifY lieselege
public grounds, in recommending that the Knights'
receive
branch of the West London Railway should not
Parliamentary sanction.
le—
reeoN,
YORK AND SCARBOROUGH DEVe
NEAR THE CITY OF YORK. A oer
The line as sanctioned by Parliament profeesee'l6
crossing the Ouse River, to terminate in a curve ofeh of
chains radius, which, after crossing the coal heraleted
the Great North of England Railway, was to ue unite
it
with the main line of that railway, and to enter ainens
the passenger station common to all the present
railways. elite five
The proposed deviation, which is three pork,
chains in length, is to cross the river Ouse' d for
about a quarter of a mile south of the spot seleete
the crossing originally. It will then proceed in near ma
1A
straight line across both the coal branch and the IL-lb
trunk of the Great North of England Railware" ~d
crossings being on a level— and will join the York
North Midland Railway about 27 chains distant from
the before. men tinned passenger station.
The Directors of the Great North of En land Rail
vral
et to the proposal now made of crossing their line
and branch, on the ground of the interruption whit
would thus be occasioned to their traffic. If the 'fern;
and Scarborough line were carried over the Great Nor'-
of England Railway, which might be done by ineurriabe
additional expense, all difficulty would of course
thereby avoided ; but the crossing on a level having
been proposed by both companies, who only differ as te
the mode of effecting this object, it is therefore Ilec,e9;
sary
03' to examine the matter in order to determine which
of the two methods proposed would be attended by `be
least amount of inconvenience, delay, and danger to
traffic of the companies interested. th
According to the showing of the York and
Midland Company, the point of crossing the Wain r
of the Great North of England Railwayis where tralte.
corning from the north always stop in order to colleee
the passengers' tickets. The point of crossing their cots.
branch is distant about a quarter of a mile from
depots, a space which is never likely to be occupied e?
It does no
any train of coal waggons when at rest.
therefore, appear likely that, with the use of ordinary
caution, any danger or inconvenience could result from
the adoption of the proposed deviation.
The proposal of the Great North of England Cella
pang is, that trains coming from Scarborough Ow'
enter the coal branch, and proceed along it the
to
Con with the main line, when they shall back aloog
the CO
hal,
urlje
latter (till it joins the York and North Midland lint); by
the portion of railway common to bole and leading '0"
their joint station. ins
This plan would require, either that an extra elf 01
shoulds be always awaiting the arrival of the trains 'rem
carborough or that the trains should he pushed fen
behind,seeding
between the coal branch and the station 4Prer;
Reding which would occupy more time, and cause eueee
obstruction to the business of both railways than the
simple mode proposed of crossing the Great North het
England Railway and its branch at, or nearly at, lige--
aneles ; and the same difficulties and delay would for
place in respect to trains leaving the station at Yerk -or
Scarborough.
For there reasons, we consider that the propose Hosea.
ittionis safer
sisan improvement upon the original plan, and -
leavirnagntdhemosrtaetcioohnveant Yorkien
convenient than
anthe misodstetgogf
suggested
delbnig
and
the Great North of England Company.
We are that
therefore of opinion there are not 811
-
public grounds for withholding the sanction of Podia-
mint from thi • s proposed deviation.
In conclusion,
we would draw attention to the Passagee
in the fifth report of the Select Committee on railway
of 1844, in
idwhichbe
it is stated, while recommending that:
reports 'shou made to Parliament e d open'
by this epa
upon railway schemes—
c_:;:rs lila no such report should be held to prejudice th
_ of
_private persons, the examination of which
should be altogether reservedto the houses of the Leg"'
lature."

In submitting to Parliament, in conformity With theg
recommendations of that Committee, the
which we have arrived, with a view to the informsti°s
and assistance of Parliament in forming a judgnielirt
upon the schemes in question, in so far as our repo t
may be available for that purpose, we are anxious °llia
it should be distinctly understood that we have arrive_
at these results solely upon public grounds, and to 0:
exclusion of all considerations how far such result.'
might require to be modified by a due regard for Pry"
Fate rights and interests. results 90

DALHOUSIE.
G. W. PASLEY. G. R. PORTER'
1). O'BRIEN.

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