The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-10 00:00:00

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TOTNES TORY DINNER.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE.

PRICE 5d

THERMOMETER, ALL BUT ZERO.
The Tories found out that they would have a small Dinner,
so, to console themselves they made a new song—and sung
out lustily too, to keep themselves warm—
" TO LITTLE DINNERS TROTTING OFF."
A NEW TORY SONG.
We Tories now are all afloat ;
We speak, we sing, we spout, we quote;
We heed not frost, nor snowy nights;
Nor Reaumur dire, nor Fahrenheilz;
Nor stumbling steeds, nor ghost-like Knights
But still we go, with sneeze and cough,
To little Dinners trotting off.
Oh I What care we for platters hot !
Frost we knew was " in the pot,"—
Frosted soup and " giant" leaf,
Frosted goose, and frosted beef,
And tarts, that broke out all our teeth:
But still we go, with sneeze and cough,
To little Dinners trotting off.
To dine on ice in dog-days hot
Is luxury we've rarely got !
And, precious fun, to see the rose,
And icy drop, on Fulford's nose,
George Farwell's bib,---and Adams' toes—
And still we'll fly, with sneeze and cough,
To little Dinners trotting off,

PRIVATE BUSINESS OF PARLIA

Sia,—l observe in your Paper of the 28th January, that a
Correspondent congratulates the public on your promulgating
the knowledge of the Private Business of Parliament.
He instances the Severn Navigation Improvement Bill, as
one which was rejected last Session from deficient intelligence
or personal opposition.
Now, Sir, it is rather a curious circumstance that your mea-
sure should thus afford a double confidence—as I have also
been congratulating my friends, who have properties affected
by that projected undertaking, on the practice you have adopted.
For we have also been apprehensive lest this Bill, like many
others, might have been smuggled rapidly through its early
stages before the breviates were printed and duly circulated.
If the Severn Navigation Company are sincere in their de-
sire to profit by your system of eliciting truth, and thus afford-
ing satisfactory security to all parties—good. The public, I
am certain, will not only be much indebted to Mr. Poulett
Thompson for his motion on that subject—but to your Paper
also, as the first which has originated the diffusion of a peculiar
information, greatly desired by the country at large, and snore
particularly so at a period so fruitful for ingenious and some-
times useful speculations.—l am, Sir, &c.
Jan. 31, 1838. A CONSTANT READER.

PRIVATE BUSINESS OF PARLIA-

(Continued from our First -Edition of yesterday. )
TORQUAY ROADS.—This was an adjourned hearing on the
petition of Mr. Dendy against this Bill. Petition read com-
plaining of injury to petitioner's property, and of many defi-
ciencies and discrepancies in the plans and sections. Decided
that the Standing Orders had not been complied with as to
that case ; but the Committee could report that there was no
intention to deceive by the variations that appeared.
An objection having been taken on the variations between the
plan lodged at the Private Bill Office and with the Clerk of
the Peace, and the same having been brought forward by a
tracing, which was opposed as not being evidence, the plan
with the Clerk of the Peace was sent for, which confirmed the
tracing. The question then was, which party was to pay the
expenses. The Committee cleared the room, and decided
that the promoters of the Bill should pay the expenses.
The next objection was to the insufficiency of the estimate,
which amounted to upwards of 24,300/. ; objected that the es-
timate of 6001. for a floating bridge over the river Dart was
too small. Committee decided that such objection ought to be
made before the Comnittee on the Bill ; Sub-Committee on
petitions not the competent tribunal to examine into them.
The next objection was that the contemplated tolls were not
sufficient to pay the expense'—present roads in debt in 1836
near 16,000/., which with 24,350/. would make 40,000/. Com-
mittee decided that under the Bth standing order, as the clerk
of the existing roads had not certified that the trustees had
funds in their hands for making this road, the standing orders
had not been complied with. An appeal having been
made that this decision would form a precedent, and
would affect many other Road Bills, it was earnestly urged that
the subject should come before the whole forty-two Members
of the Committee. The Chairman and other Members said it
Lad been discussed by them, and they had come to the same
decision—that sufficient reason must be shown for making or
improving roads, before the Standing Orders could be con-
sidered to have been complied with.