The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-01 00:00:00

FRAME-WORK KNITTERS.

Sir HENRY HALFORI) said that on to-day he
should move that the House resolve itself into Com-
mittee to consider the alterations necessary to be made
in the Act 5 Geo. IV. cap. 6, with the view of benefiting
the frame-work knitters.

ALLEGED MISCONDUCT AT TIIE BOARD OF
ORDNANCE.

Mr. HAWES moved the following Select Committee
on the South-Eastern Railway petition :—Mr. Hawes,
Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Roebuck, Lord Worsley, Mr. llayt,r,
Mr. Tancred, Mr. T. Duncomhe, Lord Ashley, Mr.
Pakington, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Tatton
Egerton, Sir R. 11. Inglis, Mr. Liddell, and Sir Charlss
Douglas.
Sir G. CLERK requested (as we understood) that the
request of the Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for
Oxford, that his name might be erased, and that of Col.
Wood substituted.—Agreed to.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Twenty minutes past One.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES

(YESTERD AY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
LEEDS AND THIRSIE LINE.

The Committee, consisting of the Duke of Grafton, Lord Col_
borne, the Bishop of Rochester, the Marquis of Ormonde, and Lord
de Lisle and Dudley, met at eleven o'clock, Lord Colborne in the
chair.

This line met with strong opposition before the Committee of
the House of Commons, P. M. Stewart. Esq., M.P., in the chair,
It was before the same Committee, and in opposition to this line,
that the Ripon and Harrogate line was brought under considera-
tion, and which, after many days' investigation, was suddenly with.
drawn one morning, to the surmise of the Committee, who
found that their time had been occupied for several days
in a most useless manner. The subject was subsequently brought
under the notice of the House of Commons, and it was alleged that
there was some gambling connected with it of no creditable cha-
racter.

The principle opponents in the Commons to the Leeds and Thirsk
line were the Ripon and Harrogate line, already mentioned, the
Earl of Cardigan, and Mr. Dynely.
Lord Cardigan's opposition was in consequence of the line passing
so near a beautiful old ruin, Kirkatall Abbey, on his property, and
which his Lordphip has taken the pains of an antiquarian to pre-
serve. The promoters of the line, however, diverted it, so as to
render its proximity to the abbey as little disadvantageous as
possible to the picturesqueness of the scenery. . .

_ . . .
There were some landowners in opposition to the scheme, but
their mouths were stopped with gold. The only remaining oppo.
nents were the agents of Mr. Dynely, who were again in opposi.
tion to-day.

Mr. Dynely is a lunatic under the guardianship of the CoLet of
Chancery. It was by the Lord Chancellor's directions that Mr.
Whitehurst, Q.C., appeared in opposition to the line at the Corn.
mons and before their Lordships to-day. His opposition is
grounded on this fact. The line passes contiguous to the village of
liramhope, siz. mils. from Leeds, and. would, it was alleged, de..
stroy some valuable springs with which that town Is supplied with
water.

Mr. BAINER, Q C., offered to insert clauses in the Bill guarantee.
ing an ample supply of water to the town in case the excavations
from the line interfered with the springs in question. The terms
offered were not considered satisfactory, and hence the appearance
before their Lordships.
These facts having been stated, the Noble CHAIRMAN said he
really thought it would be much better if the parties would with.
draw and arrange the matter privately, as it was more a matter of
private arrangement than for judicial interference.

The Counsel agreed that this would be the most desirable course,
and withdrew to confer.

It may be mentioned that the line will connect some of the most
important towns of the north of England—Wigan, Bolton, Itoch.
dale, and others of the same rank; It passes through one of the
most fertile coal beds in that district, and if the traffic tables laid
before the Commons' Committee were at all accurate, these can be
no doubt but the line will be a most useful and successful specu-
lation.

The investigation of the line before the Commons' Committee
occupied ten days, when the preamble was at length declared proved.
Upon returning to the room counsel seemed as far from agree-
ment as ever, and two hours more were occupied in wrangling
about guarantees for a proper supply of water to Bramhope.
The Noble CHAIRMAN suggested that the whole matter might
be settled by constituting the Recorder of Leeds as arbitrator
whenever a difference should arise between the directors of the
railway and the trustees of Mr. Dynely in regard to a deth.,e,:cy
in the supply of water to the town.
After another hour spent in disputing upon speculative contin-
gencies, the Committee ordered the room to be cleared.
After the lapse of a few minutes the doors were opened, and
The CHAIRMAN declared that the Committee were of opinion that
the guarantee offered by the promoters of the Bill was a fair one,
and that the clauses they proposed to insert in the Bill were of a
satisfactory character.
The Committee then went through the clauses pro formd, and
broke up.