The Select Committee of the Commons has imported on the
expenditure of certain sums entered under the head of "Parliamentary Expenses " by the In- The Select Committee of the Commons has imported on the expenditure of certain sums entered under the head of "Parliamentary Expenses " by the In- vestigation Committee of the Eastern Conntiee The• Committee report that the sums in question, amounting to 7,6001., were paid to de- fray certain expenses of advertising, printing; law, loss tes shares, etc., incurred by the Sise Lane Committee. That body originated with Mr. La'Mert, who de- seebed himself as " a speculator in shares and a medical man "; it comprised se- veral shareholders Of the Eastern Counties Railway Company, including Mr. Cash, Chairman of the Investigation Committee—who must have known all about these payments; and the object of the Committee was to conduct some irregular man- oeuvre in furtherance of an amalgamation scheme. The "Parliamentary" cha- racter given to the payment was a baseless mystification ; the " other parties' who were to be protected by the mystery being only the very members of the Sise Lana Committee.
The Dublin Commission of Oyer and Terminer was opened on Thursday, and the familiar name of Charles Gavan Daffy was not among those on the calendar. It is presumed that the Government has resolved to "draw" the battle it has so long unsuccessfully waged with him.
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