§ MR. RICHARD HODGSONsaid, he wished to ask the Chairman of the General Committee on Railway and Canal Bills, Whether the Committee will meet to consider the Clauses referred to them on the 26th day of April last by the House, so 102 that any Clauses which the Committee may recommend may be inserted in Bills of the present Session to which they are applicable?
LORD STANLEYsaid, in reply, that the clauses had been referred to the General Committee, with the intention that they should Report to the House whether they ought or ought not to be adopted. That inquiry would take place, but they understood that it was likely that objections would be taken to those clauses by parties interested in railways, and it would not be just, therefore, that a decision should be come to without allowing those parties to appear before the Committee.