The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-30 00:00:00

OPPOSED BILLS.

Salisbury and YeoviLßailway Lines, from the London and
South-Western Railway at Salisbury to Yeovil, with branches
to Shaftesbury and Wincanton, and to join the Wilts, Somer-
set, and Weymouth Railway at Yeovil, and the proposed
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway, at Berwick, in
the county of Somerset.
The petition was opposed by 21 memorialists, but the alle-
gations sustained to-day were of no immediate importance.
The case was adjourned.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The Committee on Standing Orders met yesterday at 12
o'itock.
GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE, AND GLAS-
GOW, PAISLEY, AND KILMARNOCK RAILWAY
(No. 3).
GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE RAIL-
WAY (No. 1).
In each of these cases the Committee decided that the
standing orders ought not to be dispensed with.
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND KILMARNOCK RAILWAY
(No. 5).
WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH (No. 2).
REGENT'S CANAL AND RAILWAY.
LEEDS AND DEWSBURY RAILWAY.
The Committee decided in these cases that the standing
orders ought to be dispensed with, and the parties allowed to
proceed.
The Committee then adjourned.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From lait night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, for
the Week ending on Saturday, the 23d day of January, 1847.
ISSUE DICPAILTSIENT.
X.
Sotes issued- • • .. 26,7G6,260

Government debt .. 11,015,100
Other securities .... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bullion 11,091,751
Silver bullion . • 1,674_509

X 26,766,260

Dated the 28th day of January,

£ 26,766,2G0
I
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
, 1847.
.EPAIITAIEN T.

BANKING D

X
Proprietors' capital .. 14,553,000
Rest .... .. 3,560,665
Public deposits (in-
eluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Sav-
ings-banks, and Di-

Government securi z.
-
ties (including Dead
Weight Annuity).. 12,757,326
Other securities .• • • 14,489,657
Notes .. .... • • • • • 6,167,170
Gold and silver coin.. 676,620

vidend accounts).. 4,668,489
Dther deposits •• •• • • 10,355.935
seven day and other

bills.. 952,784

X 31,090,773

Dated the 28th day of January,

431,n90,
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. 7 73
1847.

MR. WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENT
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POOR HIGH-
LANDERS.
On Tuesday, Mr. Wilson gave an entertainment for
the benefit of the poor Highlanders, and it is our grati-
fying duty to announce that Mr. Wilson will be enabled
to hand uvtr 851. 19s. Gd. as the proceeds of the enter-
tain:flint to the fund for the bandit of his destitute fel-
low, countrymen. The sum includes a cheque for 25/.,
which was sent to Mr. Wilson by that noble-hearted
man, Sir Charles Forbes, and which was acc,impanied by
a note in these words:—" To Mr. Wilson, in support of
• his praiseworthy exertions in favour of the pur High-
landers, from—Sir CHARLES FORBES."

THE POTATO ROT.
The potato disease has Fe-appeared. We have this
moment received the following communication from Mr.
Elphinstone, gardener to the Right Hon. the Speaker,
at Ileelefield; and we entreat alt who wish well to their
country to consider it well. It requires no comment.
The plants are diseased exactly as in January, 1846:
"I herewith forward you for your inspection some of
our walnut leaf kidney potatoes, grown in pots, every
one of which within the last three weeks has been at-
tacked with the disease. The above potatoes were
planted singly in 16-sized pots on the 24th November last.
Every tuber came up well, and was going on as well as
could be wishei. The number of pots was 80. One
part of the pots was placed in a vinery that I commenced
forcing at the time, and certainly never from the above
day has the temperature been under 50 deg. The
other portion of the pots was placed in a new pit heated
by hot water, and the temperature has ranged from 55
deg. to 60 deg. The potatoes at taking-up time were
of the very best quality, ar.d were laid out to green—a
practice which I have followed for upwards of twelve
yrars without a single failure. When taken into the
seed room, they were laid on a boarded flour until the
time of planting. I have been very minute in examin-
ing the haulm, and not a s'ingle aphis have I been able
to detect."—Jan. 18.—(Gardene'rs Chronicle.)

THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.—The following new
works are published this day by Mr. Coburn, and may be
had of all booksellers:-1. An Overland ourney to Lisbon,
with a Picture of the Present State of
Spain and Portugal
By T. M. Hughes, Esq., Author of Revelations of Spain. r-
-2 vols., 21s. bound.-2. Vols. 3 and 4of General Montho
lon s History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena,
completing the work.-3. Part 2of the Re-Issue of Burke's
History of the Landed Gentry, to be completed in 10 Monthly
Parts, price ss. each.-4. Vol. 6of 'Tiers' History of the
Consulate and Empire. Translated by D. Forbes Camp-
bell, Esq., with the Sanction of the Author. Price only 5.5.
—5. Vol. 7 of Ma lame D'Arblay's Diary and Letters, com-
pleting the work.-6. Canada and the Canadians in 1846.
By Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Bonnycastle. 2 vole.,
20s. bound.