It is stated in the Morning Post, that the Committee
Of Standing Orders gave permission for the introduction of a bill for the Manchester and Birmingham Extension Railway, by a majority of one, obtaued wider time following circumstances- " Four members oh the Committee voted against the application, and five in favour of it, the fifth being a worthy AblerManic Baronet, one of the Whig- Radical Representatives of the City. Our correspondent adds, that a very Short time previous to the- decision of the Committee, the promoters of the measure had retained the son of the worthy Alderman as counsel in favour of the bill in its future stages; and that tins decision of the Committee will put full WOE into the pockets of the said counsel in the shape of fees, none of
Which would have been forthcoming had the decision been against the appli- cation."
". Absolute Wisdom !"—We have heard before that the hope of se- curing the father's vote on a Committee has procured many fees for the
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