The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-21 00:00:00

YOUGHAL.

Two other votes were decided for the sitting Member, and
Mr. PoLtocx, on the part of the petitioners stated that it
was now considered hopeless to proceed further in impugning
the votes of the sitting Member, and to save the time of the
Cbmmittoo and expence to both parties, he withdrew his case.
The Committee resolved that Mr. Howard was duly elected.

PRIVATE BUSINESS OF PARLIA-

MENT.-(YESTERDAY.)

(From our Second Edition of last night. )
SUB-COMMITTEE ON PETITIONS(No.2.)
Mr. ROBERT PALMER in the Chair.

Southampton Dock3.—Petition fcr Bill, from the Dock
Ccutpany, read, to extend the time for the purchase of land,
granted by the old Act ; notices proved ; unopposed ; S:and-
orders complied with.
Tramore (Waterford) Drainage.—Petition from solicitor
for leave to petition for Bill—read. The petition stated that
the solicitor had been under a mistake as regar3ed the time
limited for presenting such petitions. The prayer of petitioner
now was that leave be granted. Leave granted accordingly.
Moy Navigation.—Petition from Navigation Company for
leave to go on with a Bill formerly petitioned for, and in
ilich they were staid upon a point of Standing Orders.
The CHAIRMAN stated that, in his opinion, this Committee
l:ad no power to report to the effect " thit the parties be
permitted to proceed with their Bill,"—which was the prayer
of the present petitioners. That was, he thought, a point
for the consideration of the House, not for the Committee on
p titions.
After a conversation pro. and con., between the Chairman
and the Agent for the petition, the former withdrew, to consult
with the Speaker, as to the usage in such cases. On his re-
turn he stated that the Speaker agreed with him in opinion ;
that the Committee did not possess the power of reporting ac-
cording to prayer of the petitioners. Ultimately it was decided
atilt a special report should be made to the House of the
circumstances of the case, when it would be open to any
Ni:mnber to move " that the parties be permitted to proceed
with their Bill." _ _

Belfast Water-works (No. 1), and Belfast Water-works
( No. 2).—Petition of the President and Assistants of the Bel-
fast Water-works Company read, for Bill for a more adequate
oupply of water to the town of Belfast.
Petition against the Bill read, from the Lord of the Manor
of Belfast, complaining that the Standing Orders had not
been complied with.
The question of notices was gone into. Notices proved.
It was then objected that the Standing Order, No. 2, page
22, .kad not been complied with. That order directs " that
the 'plan' shall describe the brooks and streams to be
directly diverted into such intended cut, canal, re-
servoir, aqueduct or navigation, or into such variation,
extension, or enlargement, for supplying the same with water,
and the section still specify the levels of both banks of such
cur, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, and describe
the same by feet and inches."
A very lengthened argument ensued upon these points, and
particularly as to the level of tke reservoir, which it was con-
tended the section did not specify.
Mr Cubitt, the builder and engineer, was then exa-
mined, from whose evidence it appeared that the sec-
tion did not specify the level of the reservoir, accord-
ing to the Standing Orders, and although cross-exa-
mined by the Surveyor of the Belfast waterworks, he
confirmed his opinion by various scientific illustrations ;
and further that it did not show the surface of the ground
marked upon the plan :—and that such an alleged specifica-
tion as this of the parties for the Bill could not be considered
sufficient to satisfy any proprietors whose land the reservoir
was intended to occupy.
The room was then cleared, when it was decided that the
Standing Order had not been complied with on the section as
to the level of the reservoir.

The Committee then adjourned until to-morrow at one
o'clock.

COMMITTEE ON BILL—(MIDDLESEX LIST.)
Necropolis Cemetery.—There not being sufficient Mem-
b Ts to form a Committee, this case was adjourned to this day
week.

STEAM NAVIGATION OF THE
ATLANTIC.

The experiment of a steam voyage from England to Ame-
rica is now on the very eve of a trial, although not by any of
the competitors who have been so long in the field. It is an-
nounced that the Sirius, a steamer which, we believe, has
been for some time on the station between Bristol and Cork,
will take her departure for New York from the port of London
at the latter end of the present month, proceeding in the first
instance for Cork, from whence she will start for her final
destination on the second of April ; and so confident are her
owners that her voyage, which they expect will be completed
in fifteen days, will prove a short one, that they already an-
nounce her setting out from New York for the return-voyage
on " the Ist of May." The Sirius is a vessel of 700 tons,
with engines of 320-horse power, and it does not appear that
he is to be prepared in any very peculiar manner for a voyage
so mush longer than she has ever been accustomed to take, and
which is even looked upon by some " learned Thebans" in
much the same light, in point of practicability, as a trip to the
moon The idea cannot, however, be more completely ridi-
culed than was that of a voyage up the Niger in an iron-steam
vessel—yet that was accomplished without difficulty ; and,
perhaps, some confidence in the present plan may be inspired
by the fact that the agency (not the command) of the Sirius
is intrusted to Mr. Macgregor Laird, the commander of the
expedition in which an iron steamer was first used in Africa.
Although the Sirius bids fair to carry off the honour of showing
the way, the _numerous other steam-vessels which have been
for some time building expressly for the purpose of navigating
the Atlantic, will not be far in her wake. The Victoria, now
on the stocks at L'lackwall, is in a very forward state : she is
acid to be the largest steamer ever built; her length is 270
feet, and she has been constructed with the utmost possible
attention to solidity, as well as to that scarcely less important
point, the comfort of her passengers. The Bristol vessel, the
Great Western, is of course in a much more forward con-
dition, as she only came round to the river to ship her en-
gines, after the shipwrights had completed their work at her
native port. She is now chiefly detained for her fittings-up,
which are intended to be on a scale of splendour surpassing
even that of the " New York Liners," (sailing vessels), which
have hitherto been looked upon as models of the superb style
in pasleuger ships. Some idea may be formed of the spirit
with w;iich this object is pursued from the fact that Mr. Par-
;ris, the artist of the panorama of London at the Colosseum,
snd of the " Flowers of Loveliness," and other popular collee-
tieo,s, is busily engaged in decorating the saloons with exqui-
sitelr finisheti paintings from his own original designs. Be-
s'ides these slii7s from London to Bristol, there are at least two
preparing for
iron
game purpose at Liverpool, one built en-
tirely of cast ; and the whole are expected to be ready for
the voyage before the spring is far advanced. Nor is Brother
Jonathan idle
(although farther in the back ground than cus-
tomary, like Liverpool, which had to take a lesson on this sub-
ject from her usually dilatory rival, Bristol ;)—au immense
steamer for the voyage to Europe has been for some time in
preparation at New York, and is to be fitted with engines on a
new construction, which, according to their inventor, are
quickly to supersede all that are now in use.--Mechanws
Magazine.

TEMPERANCE SOCIETy.—On Monday, the 12th
; Infant, a meeting of the New Temperance or Total Absti-
n lice Society, was held at the Shire Hall. The meeting we.;
MOI lit numerously attended than any before held on the subject,
in th is neighbourhood, the County Ball Room being filled ;
a great • portion of the assembly were ladies, but many of the
working '•classes were also present. —Essex Herald.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF COMMONS, MARCH 20.

In consequence of the Ballots for the Kerry and Newry
elections, the gallery did not open till after half-past Four
o'clock.
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YOUGHAL ELECTION.

Colonel LYG ON appeared at the bar and stated that the
Committee, appointed to try the merits of the petition against
the return for the borough of Youghal, had determined that
the sitting Member, F. J. Howard, Esq., had been duly
returned, and that the petition, or the opposition to it, was
neither frivolous or vexatious. The Committee also reported
that they had altered the poll by striking off the names of
several of the voters.

DENNISTOUN presented a petition against certain
clauses of the Glasgow Waterworks Bill.
KERRY ELECTION.

The Clerk of Committees appeared at the Bar with the re-
duced list of the Kerry Election Committee, which contained
the following names :—John Pembei ton Plumptre, W. Battie
Wrightson, Sir John Mordaunt, W. Pinney, W. Goodenough
Hayter, John Philpott, Lord Viscount Melgund, Joseph
Cripps, Aaron Chapman, Thomas Mackenzie, Joseph Pease.