18 JULY 1868, Page 3

A Bill, introduced to enable trustees to invest the moneys

in their -charge in the guaranteed shares of Indian Railways, was lost on Wednesday. Serjeant Gaselee said it ought to have been treated as a private bill, and moved its rejection, and it was rejected by 133 to 16. What in the world was Mr. Crawford about not to keep a better House together than that? The Bill would have -added 5 per cent., or 400,000/. in all, to the property of the Indian _Railway stockholders, whose chosen and usually most efficient representative is the Member for London.