The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-02 00:00:00

PRIVATP ARLIE BILENTLS BROUGHT INTO
AMT WEEK.

THE THAMES IMPROVEMENT COMPANY AND
DRAINAGE NIANURE ASSOCIATION.
Preamble states, that it is expedient and desirable to pre-
serve and render available for agricultural purposes the depo-
sits created by the drainage that now falls into the River
Thames from the public sewers of London, Southwark, Lam-
beth, Westminster, and the vicinity.
And that by so doing, the water of the River Thames will
be freed from its present state of pollution, and the navigation
of the River greatly improved, and the air rendered more pure.
And that the objects aforesaid may be effected by making
tanks and connecting sewers at certain places is or near to
the margin of the said River.
The object of this Bill is to incorporate a Joint Stock Com-
pany for such purposes.
The Bill incorporates certain persons named in the Bill,
and the other subscribers to the undertaking, b' the name of
" The Thames Improvement Company, and Drainage Ma-
nure Association."
The Company is empowered to purchase by consent, or
take on lease " any lands above or below high water mark in
the River Thames and elsewhere," which the Company may
think necessary for the purposes of tho Act, and power is
given to persons under disability to sell lands to the Company.
Upon the lands purchased by the Company, " or used or
ho!cl by them for the purposes of the Act," they are empowered
to erect such tanks, receptacles and other works, upon and
near to the margin of the river Thames, not extending in any
place more than sixty feet beyond tlae margin into the river,
as may be seen to them suitable and necessary for carrying
into effect the purposes of the Act.
They are further empowered to convert, widen, alter, divert,
open, and stop up such sewers, drains, pipes, watercourses,
caannels, and passages for discharging the drainage into such
tanks, and securing- it from polluting the river as the Directors
of the Company for the time being shall think proper and
expedient.
Ifote.—There is no provision for the works being constructed
under the direction of persons interested to protect the
sewers, or the navigation of the river ; nor any provision
for making compensation for temporary damage done by
the Company.
The Company is empowered to raise a capital of 500,0001.,
in shares of 501. each, and further power is given them
(clause 73), by a vote of two successive meetings, from time
to time, to increase the capital by issue of fresh shares, with•
out limit.
They are empowered, so soon as one-half of the capital is
paid up, to borrow 130,000/. on mortgage or bond.
The profis are to be annually divided among the proprie-
tors, power being given to the Directors to set apart, if they
think fit, one eighth part, to accumulate as a guarantee fund to
answer any extraordinary expenses. The amount of the gua-
rantee fund i, limited to one eighth of the capital then paid.
The affairs of the Company are to be managed by twelve
directors and a chairman. The fii st chairman and directors
are named in the Bill : two of the latter being named as ma-
naging directors. The present directors continue in office till
the first general meeting in 1842, when two of the body (not
the managing directors) retire, with capacity for re-election,
and their places are to be supplied by election of the proprie-
tors. Two, iii like manner, retire, and are supplied in every
succeeding year. The qualification is omitted to be stated.
The directors are to cause proper accounts to be kept, and a
statement and report of the affairs of the Company to be made
out half yearly and entered in the books of the Company. Of
this statement a summary or balance sheet is to be made for
theinspection of the proprietors of anv general meeting, "but
at no other time."--( Clause 22 ) It is expressly provided
that no proprietor shall be entitled to inspect the books, ac-
counts, or document; of the Company, except " such as mat
be produced for that purpose at any general meeting."—
( Cause 51.)
The directors are not required to take security from the
treasurer or other officer for keeping the accounts.
The directors are (though not expressly) empowered to fix
their own remuneration unt:l after 1843.—( Clauses 16 and
48.) The future remuneration is to be fixed by the proprie-
tors at any annual meeting after 1843.
No r 'course is in any ca7e given against the treasurer or
other officer of the Company.
A penalty not exceeding 507., besides compensation, is im
posed upon any person wilfully committing an) damage or
nuisance on the Company's works, or molesting or interrupt:
in g the free passage of any person employed on the works, to
be recovered before one Justice, and levied by distress. In
default of sufficient distress, imprisonment not exceeding six
months.

Among the Clauses are found the following :
42, 43. Retirement and election of Directors.
Note._Qualfication of Directors is not -stated, nor mode
of election ; and the clause is arnbiguous as to the retire-
ment of the managing Directors.
51. No Proprietor to inspect b)olts, except at genera.
rneetingi,
Note. —The books then to be inspected are " such es may
he produced for that purpose ;" and see Clause 37.
53, 54. Transfer of shares.
Note. —Previous approval of the Directors is to be obtained.
55, 35. Transmission of shares to representatives.
Note.—The represeat,tive desiring to retain the shares
to obtain the approval of the Directors, and the ra is no pro-
vision hi case of non appr:Nal.
53. Forfeited shares may I-43 cxtinguihed or sold at the
discretion of Directors.
Note.—The conditions of forfeiture are nowhere explicitly

stated.
CHELTENHAM AND GREAT WESTERN UNION
RAIL'..VA V.
The objet t rf this Bill is to empowee the Company, which
was inc•_:.pc,ra!ed by an Art of the Gth of the late king, to
vary a pordee of the line of ihtir Railway, i. e. from Frampten
Coenmon in the parish cf SJpperton, county G:ouccistcr, to
the northern Extremity of Hayley Wood, in the same pads!: ;
ar.d to give theta further power:4.
It. ceteeds the period of cumpulsery purchase the end of
three years from the passing of the Act, and the time limited
for the completion of the undertakiew to the 21st June, 1545.
I: authorises the holding of general meetings, either at
Gloucester, Stroud, Cirencester er Cheltenham, instead ef
Cheltenham only, as required by the former Act.
By the former Act, the Company are empowered, in ease
their capital (750,0001.) shcu'd be found irsufacient for the
purposes, ef the Act, to raise a further sum of 250 000 L, either
by way of mortg:ige, i r by the issuing of additional shares.
The, p-e=ent Bill einpewer, the Company to raise the addi-
tional 250,009. as soon as half tare capital shall have beets
paid up.
The Bill contains a Clause (11) enacting, that "in cal case=
where, br the said rceited Act, the Company are authorised
or empeeer.el, eith.r expressly or by impii.iation, to creel-
upon any Lolls," and the owner refuses to deliver possess:: n,
it shall he ltiveful for the Company to issue their ware art to
the to deliver possession.
Prea-nble states, that it would materially impreve the un-
dertalting, if power were given to the Corepeny-te malre a
deviatiou :n a portion of the line, and to amtnel some of the
powers sod provisions of their Act.
THE NECROPOLIS CEMETERY BILL.
Preamble states that it will be for the benefit of the public
at large that a Cemetery for the burial of the dead, on an
extensive and enlarged scale, 31:oula be established in an open
seuation in the vicini'y of the metropolis; and that the se-
veral persons therein nano, d are willin' at their own costs and
charges to establish such Cemetery.
The object of this Bill is to incorporate a Join'- Stock Ce-
metery Company, with power to construct a Cemetery on
Haversteck-hill, in the parish of St. Pancras.
Tne Bill incorporates the subscribers to the undertaking ureler
the neme of "the Necropolis Cemetery Comp any." It empowers
the Comp .:fly to raise a capital of 150,000/. in shares of 251.
each, and to purchase (by agreement) not exceeding seventy
st:iti.t.i acres of land "at Haverstock-hill,' with a restriction
that no part of the burial-ground is to be situate within 300
yards of any house haling a plantation or ornamental garden,
except by consent.
A Ch,p!ain of the Church of England is to be appointed
by the Company, to be lit ensed by the Bishop of the Diocese,
and subject to his jurisdiction, and removable by him, subject
to an appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Chaplain
is he paid a salary, and removable by the Company.
A Registry of Burials is to be kept by the Chaplain, or
other officers appointed by the Company, which is to be on
the same footing as registers kept by Rectors, Vicars, or Cu-
rates, according to the law of the land.
Provision is made for compensation to the incumbents and
clerks of churches and chapels within ten miles of theCemetry,
in cases where bodies are removed from the parishes or dis-
tricts of such churches or chapels, for interment within the
cemetry. Ms. to the Incumbent", and Is. to the Cleik.
The affairs of the Company are to be conducted by a body
of Directors, of whom six are named in the Bill, to go out by
rotation, two every second year, with capability of re-election.
The Directors for the time being, prior to the first general
half-yearly meeting, have power to appoint a " resident Di-
rector," and also additional Directors, so that the whole num-
ber do not exceed ten.
The resident Director is to continue in office until removed
therefrom, from misconduct, or other reasonable cause.—
Page 35.
The Directors are excepted from personal liability, for their
acts as Directors.
Note.—No recourse is in any case given against the Trea-
surer or other individual Member or Officer of the Company.
" Costs or Expenses" are to be recovered by distress of the
Goods and Chattels of the Company.—Page 49.
DEE BRIDGE ROADS' BILL.
The object of this Bill is to extend the term and enlarge
the powers of an Act of 57 Geo. 111. (which expires in the
present year) for maintaining certain Roads in the County of
Kincardine (Scotland).

SUDDEN DEATH OF A BURGLAR—On Friday
night last the house of Mr. Pozzi, an extensive wadding-
manufacturer, in Coleman-street, Bunhill-row, was forcibly
entered, and a large quantity of wadding and cotton-wool car-
ried off. Serjeant Seal, an active officer of the G division of
police, undertook to trace the thieves, and, in the course of
his inquiries, he received information which induced him to
proceed to a house in Tenter-street, Whitechapel, where he
found the greater part of the property, and obtained further
information, which confirmed his suspicions that an old Irish-
man in the neighbourhood had taken an active part in the bur-
glary. On Sunday evening. he went, in, company with an-
other policeman, to apprehend him, and, on entering the
room, he found between thirty and forty of the lowest class of
Irish engaged in " leaking" a corpse ; and, on inquiring for
his man, he ascertained that he had been cited before a higher
tribunal to answer for his offences, for he had suddenly
dropped doe n dead that morning, and was the subject of the
wild funeral rites performing. The liCti cant has succeeded in
capturing seven other prisoners.