The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-04-29 00:00:00

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Sir. R. PEEL regretted that Sir R. Inglis should have
n objection. He considered this measure
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ing on his part to conduct it to a successful termination.
The Committee was ultimately fixed for Wednesday.
The Customs (Import Duties) Bill was, after some dis-
cussion, read a third time and passed, and the House ad-
journed.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY.

Several petitions were presented against the proposed
grant to Maynooth, and one or two in favour of it.
The Earl of Powas stated that it was his intention on
Tuesday next to move the second reading of the bill at pre-
sent lying on the table, relative to the St. Asaph and Ban-
gor dioceses ; but he should reserve to himself the power
of making such alterations andaFiendments in the bill as

the circumstances of the 13.11 might require.
Upon Lord DALHOUSIE'S moving the third reading of
the Land Clauses Consolidation Bill,
Lord BROUGHAM renewed, at much length, the objec-
tions he bad so often urged to the constitution of the hail-

way Department of the Board of Trade, which, as he con-
tended, had frustrated any advantage which might have
been expected from the establishment of such a tribunal,
and increased and exaggerated all the evils it was intended
to prevent. He complained, too, of the undue favour
shown by Parliament to railway speculations; and would
hould, as in France, have taken the

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whole subject into its hands, and greatly restricted the
number of railroads to be undertaken, instead of affording,
by measures like that at present before the house, every
possible facility to railway legislation, end removing every
difficulty by which the exercise of the extreme powers of
companies against individuals had been hithertoobstructed.
He gave some instances of the hardships to which small
proprietors were exposed, and announced his intention of
proposing a clause by which some of the " systematized
injustice lately introduced would be obviated.
Lord DALHOUSIE declined to enter again upon a dis-
cussion of the constitution of the Railway Board, or the
amount, or the evils of railway speculation ; and contented
himself with giving a positive contradiction to most of the
allegations with which Lord Brougham's speech had
abounded. The reports of the railway committees would
prove whether those of the board were useless or not. He
contended that it was absolutely necessary for the forma-
tion of railways, that such powers as the present bill be-
stowed of taking compulsory possession of land for the
sake of materials, and of deviating from the intended line
where it was found expedient that it should be granted ;
and denied that there was not ample security against op-
pression, and sufficient means of recovering the fullest
compensation. The power of making deviations was es-
pecially necessary, as companies were not allowed pre-
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some observations from Lord Ashburton, the
Duke of Beaufort, the Earl of Wioclielsea, and Lord
Campbell, the bill was read a third time and passed, as
were also the Scottish Land Clauses Bill.
The house adjourned at a quarter before nine until

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HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TUESDAY

I by Mr. Hume and Mr. Bright,
e oaths and his seat for Greenock, in the room

Mr. Baine was introduce

of Mr. Wallace.
A number of p

ions in favour of and against several

railway bills were presented.
The Bradford Gas Bill was read a third time and passed.
Mr. GRERINE moced that the time for reading the fol
lowing bills a first time be extended till Monday, the
28th day of April :—The South Eastern Railway (London
and Greenwich Widening and Extension) Bill ; the South
Eastern Railway (Tonbridge to Tonbridge Wells) Bill;
i Eastern Railway (Branch to Deal, and Ex ten-
Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate Railway)
ailway (Maids-one to Roches.
Eastern Railway (Ashford to

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14e Bill

.sented, praying the house to
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