The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-17 00:00:00

PENSATION BILL.

Lord STANLEY postponed the second reading of the Irish
Landlords and Tenants Compensation Bill till Tuesday next.
DEATHS BY ACCIDENTS COMPENSATION BILL.

On the motion of the Earl of LYTTELTON, the Death by
Accidents Compensation Bill was read a third time and passed.

DEODANDS ABOLITION BILL.

On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, the Deodands Aboli.
ion Bill was read a third time and passed.
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock.
The report on the Newport and Pontypool Railway Bill
was brought up, and the Bill was ordered to be engrossed.
Shaw's Waterworks Bill was read a third time and passed.
The Manchester and Birmingham Railway Bill ( Ashton
Branch) was reported, and the Bill was ordered to be engrossed.
The North Wales Railway 13111 was reported, and ordered to
be engrossed.

The North Wales (Mineral) Railway Bill was also reported,
and ordered to be engro:sed.
The report on. the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
(Cumnock Branch) Railway was further considered, and the
Bill ordered to be engrossed.
The Battersea Poor Bill was read a third time and passed.
'the North Union and Ribble Navigation Railway Bill was
reported, and the Bill ordered to be engrossed, and re-com-
mitted to Group HH.

The Falmouth Harbour Improvement Bill was reported, and
the Bill was ordered to be engrossed.
The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway Bill was referred
to the Committee on Standing Orders.

The Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway Bill was also
ordered to be referred to the Committee on Standing Orders.
The Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge.,Railway Bill was
read a third time and passed.

The Great Southe;n and Western Railway Bill (Ireland)
was reported, and the Bill was ordered to be referred to the
Committee on Standing Orders.

The North British Insurance Company Bill was read a
third time and passed.
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAYS.
The reports of the London and South-Western Railways,
Nos. I and 2, were brought up and received.
CORNWALL RAILWAY.

The report of this Bill was brought up. On the motion
that it be received,
Captain BERKELEY opposed the motion. He was against
this railway on several grounds. Falmouth was the first port which
ships reached in coming from the westward, and it was neces-
sary that there should be telegraphic communication between
that harbour and London. For such a purpose a railway was
much required. But, according to the route which
it was proposed to take, the present railway having
to cross two rivers, it would be impossible to
preserve at all times the telegraphic communication
entire. This was a serious objection. The line crossed five
navigable rivers, over three of which swivel bridges were to be
erected. When it was high water they would require to be
open ; when it was low water they would have to be shut ; so
that great inconvenience would arise in the traffic of the railway.
All these objections might be avoided by their taking up the
Central Cornwall line. It was true the Boat dof Trade had
reported against: that line, but that was no just reason
why they should not take the subject into their considera-
tion. The central line would save a distance of sixty miles
between Falmouth and London ; it would also save the
time which would now be required to cross the Hamoaze by
the floating bridge, which would be at least twenty minutes.
The Central Railway crossed above the Hamoaze. The pro-
moters of the present Bill talked about making docks at Fal-
mouth. Why they had no power to make docks, neither had
they any money to de so, and they were deceiving the House.
Most of the engineers who had been examined said that it was
not only a roundabout, but a dangerous line, and the railroad,
instead of being a quick communication between Fal-
mouth and London, would be a very slow one. Under
these circumstances he would not detain the House longer,
but would at once move that the report be brought up that
day six months.
Mr. MACAULAY hoped that, as chairman of the Com-
mittee, he might be permitted to say a few words. If the
House did not place confidence in the Committee, or if they
thought that no prima facie ease had been made out, then they
ought to move that the evidence taken before the Committee be
printed.—( Hear, hear.) But he hoped that upon the strength
of a series of assertions by an individual Member
the House would not overturn the deliberate and
unanimous decision if a
.Committee. It was said
that the majority of the engineers examined before
the Committee had stated the line to be dangerous, and that
had been stated by a gentleman who had not heard a syllable of
the evidence. Now, speaking from his recollection of the
evidence, he should be inclined to say that such was
not the case, and he considered it rather too much
for a gentleman to get up and read a printed paper,
put forth by the opponents of the Bill, in opposition to the
report of the Committee, which had carefully examined the
subject. for twenty days—( Cheers)—and who certainly had not
shown themselves the mere tools of the Great Western Com-
pany. Four schemes had been propounded by the Great
Western Company before that Committee. Of those schemes the
Committee 'had reported in favour of one and rejected an-
other, and had postponed the other two.— ( Hear.)
The Committee considered that there were consi-
derable objections to the gradients of the proposed line,
particularly if it were to be worked by locomotive power.
But they thought that the county of Cornwall ought not to be
without a railway ; that it was of the utmost importance to
secure a railway communication between Plymouth and
Falmouth, and that, in fact, this was not a mere
Cornish, but a British question.—(" Hear," and cheers.)
If they rejected this line, what line could they take ?
The plan was brought before the Board of Trade. and re-
ported against by that Board. They examined the