The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-11 00:00:00

REPO It.T.

The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
State of Communication by Railways, and who were
empowered to report their Observations, together
with the Minutes of Evidence taken before them from
time to time, to the House ;—Have further consi-
dered the Matters to them referred, and have to
Report :

That they have taken into their consideration the
following clause, which has been referred to them by
the House :

" And be it enacted, that no bridge or tunnel, or ap-
proaches to the same, for carrying a turnpike-road ever
br under any part of a railway or canal shall be made
or constructed of less width between the fences, walls,
or parapets thereof than 21 feet ; nor, shall any bridge
or tunnel, or approaches to the same for carrying any
other public carriage-road over or under any part of a
railway or canal be made or constructed of less width
between the fences, walls, or parapets thereof than 16
feet ; nor in any case less than so much greater width,
not exceeding 30 feet, as may be the average width of
the turnpike or other public carriage-road for 100 yards
on each side of that part of the railway or canal where
any bridge or tunnel is intended to be made or con-
structed."

Your Committee have upon this subject examined
Mr. Park, the legal adviser of the Chitritrui of the
Committees in the House of Lords, and it appears
from his evidence, that about the end of the year '
1836 complaints were made to the Cnairman of the
Committees, and he introduced clauses into all subse-
quent Railway Bills, containing the provisions here an-
nexed, and which your Committee will now proceed to
compare with the clause referred for their consideration.
The rule, which since that period has, with few ex-
ceptions, been adopted by the Chairman of Committees
in the House of Lords, provides that the width of turn-
pike-roads passing under bridges or tunnels should be
25 feet, and the width of highways passing under
bridges or tunnels should be 15 feet.
The Clause referred to your Committee for their
consideration provides, that no bridge or tunnel for
carrying a turnpike-road under any part of a rail-road
or canal shall be constructed of less width than 21 feet,
and no bridge or tunnel for carrying any public carriage-
road under any part of a railway or canal shall be con-
structed of less width than 16 feet.

It will be perceived, therefore, that as regards a
turnpike-road, the clause referred to your Committee
requires a less width by four feet t ban has been required
by the rule adopted in the House of Lords, while, as
regards a highway or public carriage-road, an additional
wi'lth of one foot is required more than has been
deemed necessary by the regulations of the House of
Lords. These regulations further provide, that the
height of a bridge or tunnel passing under a railway
should be 16 feet. This appears to your Committee
to be also an important regulation. It will be found in
the evidence annexed to the Second Report of the Com-
mittee on Railways in the last Session, that it has been
especially provided that the bridges or tunnels for carry-
ing turnpike-roads under the Brighton railway shall be
18 feet in height, and it is stated that this height was
insisted upon for the convenience of the farmers and
hop.growers in that district. The rule of the House
of Lords also requires that the width of a turnpike-
road upon a bridge passing over a railway must be '25
feet, and the width of a public carriage-way 15 feet,
with a parapet-wall in each case four feet high. A
reference to the Analytical Table in the Appendix
to the Second Report of the Railway Committee of
last Session will show that these regulations have been
introduced into all the Railway Acts since the year 1836.

Your Committee would now recommend to the
House that in all original Railway Acts, and in all
Railway Acts authorizing new works in the present
session of Parliament, the rules of the House of Lords
should be adopted as to works to be carried into execu-
tion under the provisions of those Acts respectively,
with this addition, that in every bridge or tunnel the
arches should spring from abutments of not less height
than 10 feet. Your Committee would also recommend
that in all Railway Acts authorizing further works,
pissed in any future session of Parliament, the rule
shall be as follows, with respect to works to be carried
into execution under the provisions of those Acts re-
spectively:

Whenever a turnpike-road passes under a railway,
the width of the bridge or tunnel shall in no case be
less than 30 feet, and there shall be on each side foot-
ways of 2il- feet in width. Whenever a public carriage-
road passes under a railway, the width of the bridge or
tunnel shall be not less than 20 feet, and there shall be
on each side footways of 18 inches wide ; the height of
the bridge or tunnel shall in no case be less than 16
feet, and the arches shall spring from abutments of not
less than 10 feet in height.
Similar provisions might also, with advantage, be
mac applicable to all Canal Bills which shall in future
be introduced into Parliament.

REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.

ADDRESS OF THE METROPOLITAN ANTI-

CORN-LAW ASSOCIATION.
FELLOW CITIZENS—FELLOW COUNTRYMEN—Of what-
soever class, order, orsect, we invoke your aid and co-ope-
ration in our cause, which is neither that " of party nor of
!action, nor of any individual," but truly and impressively
" that of every man in Britain."
The baneful effects of ;he Corn-laws, which restrict the
supply of the first and imperative necessaries of life, are
daily assuming a more frightful and alarming character;
By depressing our commerce—by deranging the cur-
rency and monetary affairs of the country:
By paralysing our manufactures at home, and creating
rivals abroad:
B: diminishing and rendering uncertain and fluctuating
the demand for labour:
By reducing wages at the time provisions are dearest—
creating poverty and destitution to a frightful magnitude
increasing pauperism and crime—and lowering the l
physical and moral condition of the whole labouring
classes:
By sowing the seeds of anarchy and discontent, which
ripen into deeds of open violence against the law, render-
ing life and property insecure :
By exciting animosity and jealousy between the most
important leading classes of the community, whose true
and lasting interests are inseparable—and finally,
By exposing to frequent and violent fluctuations the
whole economy of society and industry, destroying all re-
liance and security on the future, and thus weakening the
greatest moral tie which Providence has linked to our
nature.
With these views we appeal to the whole of our fellow-
countryrn.'n—we invoke the aid of all, because we are
persuaded there exists no one whose true interests would
not be consulted by the removal of these crying evils • but
more especially, we call upon our fellow.citrzens of' this

Lord Hill has a grand dinner on Saturday next
at his Mansion Belgrave-square.

The Dowager Countess of Listoweit gave bar
first ball. in Eaton-square, on Monday evening. The ball-
room and the two saloons on the drawing-room floor were
brilliantly illuminated. and dancing commenced at eleven, and
the spirit of the scene was kept up until four yesterday morn-
ing. There were present some of the foreign Ministers, and
their ladies ; Countesses of A-shburnam, Essex, and De Sills ;
the Ladies Colchester, A. Capel (Essex), Antrobus Ptiller
Vivian ; Lords Castlereagh, Blantyre ; Lady Burghersb, Mr.
and Mrs. Hedworth Lambton, Lord and Lady Li &well.
The Marquis of Camden gave a grand dinner, on
Monday evening, to a distinguished circle at his manaion in
Belgrave-square.