§ Mr. JAMES WILLIAM LOWTHER informed the House that, the Committee on Group 8 of Railway Bills not being appointed to meet until Thursday next, the parties promoting the Motherwell and Bellshill Railway Bill [Lords], which was set down for consideration upon the first day of the meeting of the Committee, had appeared before him and proved that the evidence of John Marshall, boiler-maker, Motherwell, and of David Henderson Macdonald, bridge-builder, Motherwell, was essential to their case, and that their attendance could not be procured without the intervention of the House.
391§ Ordered, That the said John Marshall and David Henderson Macdonald do attend the Committee on Group 8 of Railway Bills on Thursday next, at half-past Eleven of the clock.—(Mr. James William Lowther.)