§ Bill reported specially from the Select Committee, without amendment.
The Marquess of Clanricardemoved that the Bill be recommitted, for the purpose of having duly investigated before it the objections to the Bill, which a Mr. Mourilyan, by his petition, prayed to be heard in substantiation of, but which the Select Committee had, according to his statement, refused to attend to. Those objections, the petition set forth, were to the contract deed, to the traffic tables, and to the direction of the line itself, the peritioner being prepared to suggest a much better one in all respects.
§ Lord Redesdalesaid, that the Committee had taken into its consideration the objections started by the petitioner, and found them altogether frivolous and vexatious.
The Earl of Shaftesbury, on the part of the Standing Orders' Committee, fully corroborated the noble Lord's statement as to the frivolous nature of the objections made by the petitioner.
The Marquess of Clanricardewithdrew his original Amendment, but moved that the evidence taken before the Select Committee on the Bill be printed.
§ Their Lordships divided:—Content 1; Not-content 37: Majority 36.