The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-20 00:00:00

GLASGOW, Fxszuway 17.

STOCK Excaet.fos. —The sales are—Caledonlan, New, 478. 6d.—
Dirset Northern Scrip, 535. U.—Dundee and Arbroath, 444—Ditto,
New, No. 2, 3!l.—Ditto, New, No. 3, 51.—Dundee and Perth, 33►4
—Dunblane, Donne, and Callender, 30e.—East of Fife, 625. 6d.—East
Indian, 9s.—East Lothian Central, 423. 6d.—Edinburgh and Perth.
New, 14s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, No. 2, 91. 2s.—
Glasgow and Garnkirk, 391.—Kilmarnock and Ayr Direct, 425. 6d.
—Scottish Central, 2174—York and Newcastle, Preference, 81. 16s. 6d.

THE ~NO HOUSE" ON THURSDAY.
The following Members were present when the House was
counted out (27) :
Mr. Thornely
Sir A. Hay
Sir C. Napier
Sir It. Inglis
Mr. Greene
Major Macnamara
Dr. Bowring
Captain Layard
Mr. R. Currie
Mr. Brotherton
Mr. M. Forster
Mr. Barnard
Mr. Nluntt
Mr. C. O'Brien

Mr. Stansfield
Mr. B. Escott
Mr. Plumptre
Mr. Grimsditch
Mr. Spooner
Mr. S. Crawford
Mr. W. Patten
Captain Lindsay
Mr. Finch
Mr. M. Milnes
Mr. R. Trevor
Lord Sandon
Sir John Hope.

PARLIAMEI TARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the HUUSt, of Comninn,)
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.

THU ILSDAY, FEB. 18.
The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
second time :

HONDAY, rns. 22.
Lynn and Ely (Lynn and \ ormegay Navigation).
Lynn and Ely (Deviation and Lynn Docks).
Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Amendment and Deviation.
Portadown and Dungannon.
Sheffield, Rotherham, and Doncaster Junction (Masbrough
to Doncaster).

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 24.

Eastern Union and Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Amal.

gamation.
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Branch to Wisbech
Harbour and Wisbech Harbour Improvement).
Eastern Counties (Hertford to Hitchin).
Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham (Wiebech to Sutton
Bridge, is );
TBURSDAT, FZB. 25.

St. Helen's Canal and Railway (Warrington and Blackbrook
Branches, &c.)
Great Northern (Branches to Sleaford).
Great Northern (Extension to Leeds and Wakefield, Deviation
of Methley Branch of Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole
Railway).
Great Northern (Purchase of Ambergate, .Nottingham, and
Boston and Eastern Junction, &c.)

PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS.
;HOUSE OF COMMONS.
(Room 22, before Mr. Examiner Smut.)
UNOPPOSED LIST.
In the following unopposed cases, the Standing Orders
were completed :
Great Western Railway (Amendment and Extension).
Eastern Counties Railway (Somersham to Ramsay).
Lagan Navigation (Powers to make new Towing-paths
and other Works, to borrow Money, to alter Tolls, and to ex-
tend Time for purchasing Lands, and to amend Acts).
Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales Drainage and In-
closure Company's Incorporation.
Taw Vale Railway and Dock.
Commercial Gas Light and Coke Company (Tower Hamlets
and London).
Guildford Extension, and Portsmouth and Fareham, and
London and South-Western Railways Acts Amendment, and
New Lines, Branches. Deviations, and Extensions (Lines from
Godalming toChichester, and to Cosham, near Portsmouth,with
Branches to Bognor,Chichester Harbour,and Ernsworth, and to
join the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, near
Chichester, with Deviation at Godalming. and Extensions at
Portsmouth, to be called the Surrey, Sussex, and Hants
Railway).
Royston and Hitchin Railway Act Amendment (Exten-
sion from Royston to Cambridge, and power to sell or lease
the same to the Great Northern Railway Company).
Royston and Hitchin Railway Act Amendment (Sale or
Lease of Line).
Duffryn, Lynvi, and Porth Cawl Railway Company ; and
Lynvi Valley Railway Company Amalgamation.
OPPOSED LIST.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY (BRANCH TO HORN-
CASTLE AND TO BRAYFORD MERE, LINCOLN).
In the above opposed case the standing orders were found
not to be complied with.
This closed the list for to-day.
(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner MAY).
UNOPPOSED UST.
In the following unopposed cases the customary formal
proofs were put in, and the standing orders oomplied with :
Ewell Rates.
Saffron Walden Rates.
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway
(Extension Railway to Melford, Lavenliam, anti Clare).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, anti Ilals:e,id Railway
(Extension Railway from Lavenbam to Bury Si. Edmund's).
Colchester, Stour Valley, Sudbury, and Halstead Railway
( Lease to the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Railway
Company).
Eastern Union and Hadleigh Junction (Sale to the
Eastern Union Railway Company).
Clandge's Patent Asphalte Company.
Legal Quays (London)..
Warkworth Harbour.
Payne's Patents Assignment.
Ryde Esplanade and Pier Street Improvement.
King's Norton, Northfield, Beoley, Edgbaston, and liar-
borne Rates Bill.

OPPOSED LIST.
Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Branch from Burnt-
island to Dunfermline Branch ; Deviation and Extension
of Dunfermline Branch ; Branch from the Strathearn
Deviation to the Scottish Central Railway; Great North
Road Crossing (Strathearn Deviation), and Road Crossing,
and Dalkeith Railway Crossing. Dunfermline Branch).
The hearing of the allegations in the above case was then
resumed ; but the inquiry had not closed when the Examiner
adjourned.

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.
The Committee met at the usual hour for the dispatch of
public business. The decisions on the different schemes sub-
mitted to the consideration of the Committee were the fol-
lowing:—
EDINBURGH, LEITII, AND GRANTON RAILWAY.
Allowed to prcceed.
SOWEIIBY BRIDGE IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Standing orders not complied with.
GREAT NORTHERN (DEVIATIONS BETWEEN
GRANTON AND YORK).
AllowedoN A
to proceed.
NORTH-WESTERN (BIRMINGHAM
LONDON
AND LICHFIELD BRANCHES).
Allowed to proceed.

SAMPLING AT TUE OUTPORTS.—The Lords of the
Treasury having had under their consideration a memorial
from a firm of high respectability at the port of Leith, re-
questing that the bottles used for sampling wine and spirits
in bond at the outports miy be of the slime size as ti'-se
slowed in London, Mr. Parker, one of their Lordships' Se-
cntaries, has intimated to the Customs' Board that be h:i6
b.eu commanded to convey to them their Lordships' autho-
rity for allowing the same quantity of wine and spirits to be
taken as samples at the outports as in London.

The Leander, 50, is being rapidly proceeded with, and
is fast approaching completion.
The Arrogant, 46, steam-frigate, with auxiliary
screw, building by Mr. Fincham, the master-shipwright
is nearly completed. The ways are being laid for launch-
ing her.

Great progress has been made in forwarding the
Royal Frederick, of 110 guns. A great number of
workmen are employed on her, and if they are not
removed she will be ready for launching in July or
August next.
The Penelope, steam-frigate, Captain Giffard, arrived
at Madeira from this port on the IGth of January, and
left on the 20th for Ascension, to take the broad pen-
dant of Commodore Sir Charles Hotham, the.
Commander-in Chief on the West Coast of Africa.
station. A letter from her dated the 19th ult. reports
" All well on board."
The Vernon, 50, Captain Fitzgerald, flag of Rear-
Admiral Inglefield, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope
en route to the East Indies and China, from the River
Plate, on the 17th of December. The Acorn, 16, Cora-
mand,r Bingham, also arrived on the same day front
Monte Video. Both remained at the Cape on the 20th
of D..e, mber.

The Pr,sideat, 50, Captain Stanivy, Hag
,of Rear-Ad-
miral Dacres, Commander-in-Chiet on the Cape of Good
Hope station, was :It Simon'A Bay on the 20th of De-
cember, as also were the Thunderbolt stem-sloop, Com-
mander Boyle, and the Cleopatra, 26, Captain Wyvill,
about to sail for Englanii to be paid off.
The Ditto, 20, Captain Maxwell, arrivt d at Table Bay
from Simon's Bay on the 16th of December, and was in
port there on the 19th, about to proceed to the East
India and China station.

Tht. Conway, 26. Captain Kelly, arrived at the Mau-
ritius from the Cape on the 22d of November.
The Snake, 16, Captain Brown, arrived at the Mau-
ritius on the 25:h of November from Cosmeled, and
sailed on the 29th for the coast and the Cape.
The America, SO, Captain Sir Thomas Maitland, from
Corunna, and the Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington, joined
Sir William Parker's squadron off Lisbon on the 9th
inst. The latter grounded on entering the harbour, and
remained ashore two hours. She, however, got off with-
out damage.
A letter received this morning from the mother of a
seaman of the Wanderer, 16, Commander Somerville,
on the coast of Africa station, states that she was at the
Pongas at the date of the letter, and the coast fever was
raging awfully on board. _

WOOLWICH, FEB. 18.—The Odin steam-frigate, Cap-
tain. Williams, of the Amphion, having taken on board a
quantity of provisions at Deptford for conveyance to
Ireland, went down the river this afternoon to Green-
hithe to have her compasses adjusted, and will then pro-
ceed tit her destination,

The Lightning steam-vessel brought down the Kite
steam-vessel from Deptford to Woolwich yesterday, and
the former steam-vessel has been placed under orders to
proceed to Liverpool to serve as a packet for some time
at chat station.

The Wildfire steam-vessel, Second Master George
Brockm4n commanding, left Woolwich yesterday for
Sheerness.

The Charon steam-vessel, formerly a Dover packet, is
ordered from Woolwich to Chatham.
The Cuckoo steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander
Abraham Perks, has returned to her station in Leith-
roads, from the north coast of Scotland, having been
emplo-ed in conveying troops to Speymouth, Burghead,
Cromarty, and other places in that quarter, on account
of the riots which have taken place in consequence of
the shipment of grain at those ports. The Crown agent
for Scotland, since the return of Lieutenant Parks, has
presented to him a handsome gold snuff-box, weighing
upwards of filar ounces, as a mark of esteem and appro-
bation of his services.
The Terrible steam frigate was taken out of dock yes-
terday afterncon, and the labourers were afterwards
employed to clean out the dock, as is usual on such oc-
casions. One of the party, named Charles Donoghue,
accidentally fell off the steps into the water in the dock,
and was drowned. His body was recovered within about
four minutes, and taken to Dr. Suther's surgery, and
proper remedies applied, but life was extinct.