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London, England, 1847-05-01 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
FRIDAY, APRIL 30.
STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.

The following Resolutions were reported from the above
Committee
1. That in the case of the Great Western Railway (Amend-
ment and Extension) petition, for additional provision, the
standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to introduce such additional provision,
if the Committee on the Bill shall think fit.
2. That in the case of the Liverpool Fire and Life Insur-
ance Company petition, for leave to deposit a petition for a
Bill, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That
the parties be permitted to deposit their petition accordingly.
3. That in the case of the Huddersfield and Manchester
Railway (Deviations and Alterations in Oldham Branch,
&c.) petition, for additional provision, the standing orders
ought not to be dispensed with.
First and second resolutions agreed to.—Report to lie on
the table.

NOTICES GIVEN AT TilE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.

RAILWAYS.

The Committee of Selection have nominated the following
Select Committees on Railway Groups:—
A Committee consisting of—Mr. Bernal (Chairman). Mr.
S. Crawford, Captain Boldero, Marquis of Worcester, and
Captain Pechell, to whom they have referred the Bills com-
prised in Group No. 15, viz. :
Eastern Counties (Cambridge to Bedford, &c )
Eastern Counties (Cambridge, Royston, and Ware. &c )
Royston and Ilitchin Railway Act Amendment (Extension
from Royston to Cambridge, &c.)
Royston and Hitchin Railway Act Amendment (Sale or
Lease of Line),
Eastern Counties (Somersham to Ramsay).
The Select Committee to meet on Monday, May 10, at 12.
A Committee consisting of J. B. East (Chairman),
Lord F. Hallyburton, Hon. G. R. Trevor, Mr. Du Pre, and
Mr. Hurst., to whom they have referred the Bills comprised
in Group No. 17, viz.:—
London and North'-Western (Newport Pagnel, Olney, and
Wellingborough),
Midland (Extension from near Leicester to Hitchin, &c.)
Midland (Leicester and Swannington Widening, &c.)
Midland (Syston and Peterborough Deviations, he.)
Great Northern (Deviations between London and Grantham),
Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bbston and Eastern Junction.
. The Select Committee to meet, on Monday, May 10, at half-
past twelve.

A Committee consisting of—Mr. Dennistoun (Chairman),
Mr. Finch, Mr. M. Gore Mr. Forbes, and Mr. Talbot, to
whom they have referred'the *Bills coal' prised in Group No.
19, viz. :
Buckingham and Brackley Junction and Oxford and Bletch-
ley Junction Companies Amalgamation, &C.
Northampton and Banbury (Blisworth to Banbury),
London and North-Western (Coventry and Nuneaton
Branch),
London and North. Western (Atherstone and Whitacre
Branch),
Coventry, Nuneaton, and Birmingham and Leicester (power
to purchase to the London and North-Western Company,
and Midland Railway Company Purchase),
Coventry, Banbury, and Oxford Junction.
The Select Committee to meet on Monday, May 10, at one.

ROYAL MATERNITY CHARITY

FESTIVAL.
The ninetieth anniversary of this excellent charity, which
was instituted in the year 1757, for the purpose of affording
medical assistance to poor married women during their lying-
in at their own habitations, was celebrated on Thursday at
the London Tavern ; Sir George Larpent, Bart. ,in the chair.
Upwards of 200 gentlemen sat down at six o'clock to an
excellent dinner, which was served up in the best style of
those admirable caterers, Messrs. Bathe and Breache. The
musical arrangements were under the direction of Mr. Tur-
ner, and during the course of the evening several songs and
glees were admirably given by Miss Thornton, and Messrs.
Young, Turner, Sporle, F. Smith, and G. Buckland. Mr.
Farquharson Smith presided at the pianoforte, Mr. Harker
officiated as toast-master.
The usual loyal and national toasts having been drunk.
The CumastAsi rose to propose the health of the Duke of
Wellington, the President of the Society.—(Cheers.) The
Duke bad, on two occasions, presided at their anniversary
festivals, and as a proof of the interest which his Grace took
in the society he would mention, that he at that moment held
in his hand an autograph of the Dake of Wellington, being
a recommendation which his Grace had written within the
last five days for a poor woman as a patient of the ao-
ciety.—(Cheers.)
Drank with three times three.
Quartette—" See the Conquering Hero Comes."
The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the toast of the
evening. "Prosperity to the Royal Maternity Charity."—
(Cheers.) This society vr la peculiarly worthy of public
support, inasmuch as its object was to administer to the
necessities of the most interesting part of the creation, at the
most interestinis period of their existence ; and it had this
especial and distink.uishing characteristic, that it relieved
the sufferings of the poor without depriving them of the
comforts of home.—(Hear, hear.) It did not separate
husband and wife—(Cheers)—it did not deprive the children
of the poor man of the presence of their mother.--(Re_
newed cheering. It had greatly increased its sphere
ersons
of usefulness. During the first year of its
exist-
ence it had afforded relief
h to thirty_fiy,
during the last year t e number of persons who
had been relieved by the society, amounted to 3,100.
Since its institution, 360,000 persons had been relieved by
the society, and since January last, the
f es
number
otohfpe were
inhabitants amounted to 900, and the
majority res
inhabitants of the poorest districts of the meteropolis, each as
Spitalfields,Houndsditch, Bethnal Green, Shoreditch, South-
wark, and Bermond.ffseey.in
tHhee
fundsregre ottefdthtoe"soy society during
hatthre
file been a great falling
past year, but the committee, notwithstanding, had de-
termined to enlarge the sphere of its usefulness, by extend •
ing its limits to the whole district included within the town
delivery of the General Post. On these grounds he urged
the friends of the charity to be liberal in their subscriptions,
and concluding by calling upon all present to drink " Pros-
perity to the the Royal Maternity Charity."
Drank with three times.three.
Son "Now or Never '—Mr. Sporle.
The SECRETARY then read the list of subscriptions, which
included the names of Sir G. Larpent, 20/. ; the Lord Mayor.
101 ; Earl Uncle, 10/.1. Lord Robert Grosvenor, 10/. ; the Duke
of Buccleuch, 251. ; L. L. Goldamid, 5 guineas. The
subscriptions amounted altogether to a. considerable sum.
Several other toasts were drunk, and the company separated
at about eleven o'clock.
Among those present we observed the Turkish Consul-
General, Alfred Since, Esq., F.R.S., Dr. Blundell, Dr. Davis,
Saunders, Eqi., Comptroller of the City ; Francis Om-
many, Esq. ; Greenway, Esq. (who returned thanks for
the Vice-Presidents); Rev. Mr. Johnson, and several other
gentlemen of great eminence in the City. The Lord Mayor
had promised to honour the festival by his presence, but his
Lordship was prevented from attending in consequence of
the sitting of the Court of Common Council.

Dispatches were sent off last. evening from the Colonial.
d th
ice for the Governor of Van emen'a Land.