The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.

The following Resolutions were reported from the above
Committee:—

1. That the Committee having considered the special
report made by the Examiners on the Kilmarnock and Ayr
Direct Railway petition, are of opinion that, with reference
to the facts therein stated, the standing orders have been
complied with ; and that with reference to the non-com-
pliance stated inithegreport of the said Examiners, they are
of opinion that the standing orders ought to be dispensed
with, and that the parties be permitted to proceed with their
Bill, with the exception of that part which enables them to
make a Branch of about two furlongs in length, in order to
effect a junction between the Main Line and the proposed
Glasgow and Belfast Union Railway, and on the insertion of
a Clause, restraining them from taking, for the purposes of
the Branch Line to the Harbour of Ayr, the properties
numbered 120, 122, and 123, in the parish of Newton-upon-
Ayr, and also from interfering with the roads numbered 119
and 121 in the same pariah, without the consent of all parties
interested therein respectively.
2. That in the case of the Dublin Improvement petition,
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, with the ex-
ception of those parts which enable them to purchase or take
by compulsion, either the property comprised in Schedule
(E) annexed to the Bill, or any property for the improve-
ment of any of the existing streets, lanes, or passages within
the borough of Dublin, or to vest, by compulsion, the Dublin
Royal Exchange, together with the powers, duties, rights,
and liabilities of the trustees thereof, in the Corporation of
Dublin.

3. That in the case of the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow,
and Dublin Railway (Repeal of Act) petition, the standing
orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be
permitted to proceed with their Bill on inserting the notices
for three successive weeks in sonic newspaper published in
the county of Kilkenny.
That the Committees on the three preceding Bills do exa-
mine, in the first place, how far such orders have been com-
plied with ; and do reportthe same to the House on the re-
port of the Bill.
4. That in the case of the Waterford and Limerick Rail-
way petition fur leave to read the Bill a second time, the
sessional order ought to be dispensed with : —That the par-
ties be permitted to read their Bill a second time on giving
due notice thereof in the Private Bill-office.
5. That in the case of the Edinburgh and Northern Rail-
way (Branch from Burntisland to Dunfermline Branch, &c.
—No. 2) 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 a petition for a Bill to enable
the Edinburgh and Northern Railway Company to make a
deviation and extension of their Branch Railway to Dun-
fermline, to make another Railway from their Strathearn
Deviation Railway to the Scottish Central Railway, and to
make an alteration in the manner of constructing the said
Branch and Strathearn Deviation across certain roads and
the Halbeath Railway.
6. That in the case of the Edinburgh and Glasgow, Monk-
land and Kirkintillock, Ballocimey and Slamannan Railways
Amalgamation, Sale, or Lease petition, to read the Bill a
second time, the sessional order ought to be dispensed with :
—That the parties be permitted to read their Bill a second
time on giving due notice thereof in the Private Bill-office.
7. That in the case of the Gravesend Cemetery petition, for
leave to deposit a petition for a Bill, the standing orders ought
not to be dispensed with.
8. That in the case of the Great Western Railway
(Branch to join the West London Railway, Widening and
Enlargement of the West London Railway, and Branches to
Hammersmith, and to join the London and South-Western
Railway near Lambeth) petition, for additional provision,
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill.
First, second, third, fourth, fifth, ,ixth, and eighth resolu-
tions agreed to.—Report to lie on the table.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
The following Railway Bill is appointed to be read a
second time on Wednesday, March 17 :
York and Newcastle (Main Line Improvement, &c.)

DEATH of COLONEL GORE LANG-

TON, M.P. FOR EAST SOMERSE rsniftE
We have to record the decease of Colonel Gore Langton,
one of the oldest as well as one of the most distinguished
Members of the House of Commons. He expired on Sunday
last, at his residence in Grosvenor-square, in the 88th year
of his age, and after service as a legislator since the year
1815. This gentleman's name has been familiar in political
circles owing to his determined opposition to the corn-laws.
Though one of the largest landed proprietors in the kingdom,
he was the greatest enemy of protection, which he considered
to be as detrimental to the cause of agriculture as to that of
commerce. Though suffering from extreme bodily debility
during the greater part of last session, he went down to the
llouse, or rather he was carried there, to vote for the second
reading of Sir Robert Peel's free-trade measures. lie ob-
served on the occasion, that " Ile would give his vote though
he should die in the lobby." Colonel Langton was also a
prominent supporter of the Reform Bill, the Roman Catho-
lic Relief Bill, and other measures of a liberal tendency. The
deceased gentleman has died one of the wealthiest commoners
in England. He was the eldest son of William Gore Lang-
ton, Esq., of Newtown Park, who assumed the name and
arms of Langton, in addition to those of Gore, on his mar-
riage with Miss Langton. He was twice married, and had
four children. He is succeeded by his grandson, Mr. Lang-
ton, who married, a short time since, Lady Anne Grenville,
daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Buckingham. Colonel
Langton for many years held the command of the Oxford
Militia.

The works on the Avignon to Marseilles Railway
are approaching their termination. The long tunnel of the
Nerthe is so far advanced that the opening of the line may
be looked for in November. The execution of the immense
works on this line will render, it is said, a loan necessary.
MENDICANCY IN BELGIUM.—In consequence of
the overwhelming influx of mendicants from Flanders into
Brussels, the government came to the resolution of removing
them all back to their respective communes. The Brussels
journals of the 6th present a mournful picture of this opera-
tion. At six in the morning of that day upwards of 1,00()
of these poor creatures were marched out by the gate lead-
ing to Halle, escorted by gendarmes and other policemen,
the sick and infirm being put into three large waggons. The
crowd assembled to view this sad procession were painfully
affected by the sight of so many wretched beings, among
whom were feeble men in the last stage of life, women and
young children incapable of helping themselves.
SINBAD zro SAILOR.—We are every day disproving
the wisdom of the ancients ; whatever Sinbad might have
been in the "Arabian Nights," he is evidently no sailor in
these days. The crew of the Sinbad, provision vessel, en-
gaged in distributing biscuit on the Irish coast, have made
a report to the admiral of the station that their Sinbad is no
sailor—indeed, is hardly sea-worthy with the quantity of
biscuit she has on board, dealing in rolls as she does on her
own private account. They confess that she labours hard in
the service in which she is engaged, but she allows her feel-
ings to be almost too much for her, indulging in them to a
terrible pitch now and then, indeed being quite ungoverna-
ble. Again, some of the ctcw are fearful that in some of her
antics they shall leave her in the lurch, by rolling overboard.
We have heard that the Sinbad is one of Sir Wiliam Sy-
mond's build. (Query?) Would it not be well to staid for
the "surveyor" to Ireland to survey the vessel—and the
biscuit?—Nautical Standard.

WATElthoo.—" What did you think of Waterloo ?"
I inquired of an old fellow I tOund one morning digging in
my garden, where he had. been hired to assist by the lazy
head gardener. " Think of it, said the old crab, stopping
and leaning upon his spade, " I thought it hell upon
earth. I was utterly deaf with the continued roar of
artillery ou one side or the other, and the sound of
the musketry of the men beside me. I could not see
my companion's face for one minute (as he stood next me)
for the thick
_smoke; and the next I found him choking,
retching, and vomiting in the agonies of death,
and clutching my very feet. Sometimes a shot went
tearing through our ranks, and almost shaking the part of
the square where I had been for some hours standing, seem-
ing to loosen our files as it knocked the poor fellow's head
over heels, like nine-pins on a bowling green; and then we
heard the familiar tones of the old colonel, to prepare for
cavalry, as those devilish Cuirassiers poured upon us, and we
were wedged together into a wall of iron again to receive
them. That is all I know about my feelings, Sir," said the
old soldier. "It was a terrible sight and awful to look upon.
It was hell upon earth," he muttered, as he resumed his
spade, and commenced with fearful energy.— United
Serriae Mayarinet