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

STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE.

The following Resolutions were reported from the above
Committee :

I. That in the case of the Caledonian Railway (Extension
of Motherwell Branch of Clydesdale Junction Railway to
Auchinh4ath Mineral Field with Branches to the Wishaw
and Coltness Railway, Canderside, and Hamilton) petition,
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on the inser-
tion of a Clause restraining them from taking a house and
garden adjoining numbers 8.5 and 86, in the parish of
Hamilton.

2. That in the case of the Caledonian Railway (Branches
from the Clydesdale Junction Railway to the Douglas and
Lesmahagow 'Mineral Fields and to Strathavon) petition,
the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on the inser-
tion of Clauses restraining them from taking any part of a
small piece of land between Number 8 and a road excluded
from the limits of deviation, at the corner of a field, Number
6, in the parish of Blantyre; and also any part of a field
between a road, Number 14, and a field, Number 10, in the
parish of Dalserf ; and also the part of Numbers 23, 2, 23,
in the parish of Stonehouse, adjoining the occupation road
Number 19; and obliging them to prolong the road Number
202, in the parish of Lesmahar;ow, and to carry the same
under the Railway by an arch of legal dimensions, if required
so to do by the Trustees of the said Road.
3. That in the case of the Newry and Enniskillen Railway
petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :
That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on
forthwith giving such Notices, and depositing such Plans and
Sections with reference to any proposed new works as are re-
quired by the standing orders for Bills of the second clas.i.

4. That in the case of the Newmarket and Chesterford
Railway (Extension to Bury St. Edmund's, with a Branch
to Ely) petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed
with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their
Bill, on making the Plan deposited in the Private Bill-oflice
agree with the Book of Reference, by inserting on the Plan
the Number 6 b, in the parish of Gazeley, and Number 5, in
the parish of Westley; and on striking out of the Book of
Reference Number 55, in the parish of Sham ; Number 5 a,
Number 25, and Number 27, in the parish of the Holy
Trinity, Ely ; Number 12, in the parish of Kenford ; and
Number 6 a, in the parish of Gazeley ; and on the insertion
of such Clauses with respect to the height and span of the
arch over the river Ouse, as the Commissioners of the Ouss
Navigation may consider necessary.
That the Committees on the tour preceding l3ills do exa-
mine, in the first place, how far such orders have been com-
plied with ; and do report the same to the House on the re-
port of the Bills.—Resolutions agreed to.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.
The following 'Railway Bill is appointed to be read a
second time on Wednesday, Feb. 24 :
Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and
Goole (Partial Alteration of Levels, &c.).
THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

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cargo. The small number of passengers she has brought,
and the want of any cargo, is to be ascribed to the circum-
stance of her Majesty's steam-vessel Hermes bringing the
mails from Jamaica, not having accommodation fir
Heil latest dates are—Jamaica, 23d January; Trinidad,
22d January; Demerara, 21st January; Barbadoes, 26th
January; Grenada, 27th January; St. Thomas's, 31st
January; La Guayra, 21st January; Fayal, 13th February.
The Royal Mail Company's ships were as follows :—Eagle,
at St. Thomas's on the 31st .January; Reindeer, at Barba-
does on the 26th January; Tweed, at Grenada, en route to
Jamaica, 27th January; Tay, at Grenada, en route to Trini-
dad, 27th January; Thames, on Spanish Maine route, 23d
January; Medway, in the Gulph ; Severn, sailed from Ja-
maica for England, 16th January; Larne, at Grenada, en
route for La Guayra, 27th January.
MEN or WA n.—Her Majesty's steam-sloop Hermes, Com-
mander Carr, arrived at t. Thomas's with the mails from
Jamaica, on the 30th January, and was to sail on her return
on the 2d February. The Salamander, Captain Harnand,
arrived at Antigua, disabled, in January, where she would
wait the disposal of the Commander in Chief. The Vesuvius
was also at Antigua in January.
VESSEL SPOKEN WITIL—On the 10th February, in lat. 34
30 N., long. 38 30 W., passed an English ship; she signalised
from Canton to Cork, requesting to be reported. The number
shown at first was the first distinguishing pennant over 4,251.
Afterwards she hoisted the second distinguishing flag over
109, signifying "Affiance." Wind at the time from the
eastward, and apparently had been set in from that quarter
for several days.
(From the Jamaica Times of Jan. 23.)
The state of the colony, generally, still continues un -
usually depressed ; and little or no confidence exists between
either the banks or the merchants, and the agricultural
interest. Instead of nearly doubling our last year's crop of
sugar, as many were led to expect, considering the extraor-
dinary favourableness of the season, we shall do well if we
succeed in increasing it by even 10,000 or 12,000 lffide. This,
with the concurrent increase which is expected is nearly
every other sugar producing country, must necessarily re-
duce the price very considerably unless the resolution is at
once passed, admitting our sugar and molasses into the
breweries and distilleries. This concession granted, and the
duty on tea reduced, thereby increasing the consumption, and
by a necessary consequence the demand for sugar; and we
may yet hope to obtain a remunerating price for our produce.
If Government, on the other hand, refuses to open up these
additional channels of consumption, the enormous supply
which must flow in, as well from the free as the slave states,
will inevitably have the effect of reducing prices much be-
low what we can afford to receive ; and thus consummate the
ruin of the remaining sugar producers in these colonies. With
a suitable command of labour both as to quantity and quality
we have little fear of yet being able to drive the slave-holder
out of the market; but to attain this end two things are es-
sential, first, that we should have additional labourers from
the coast of Africa ; secondly, that the slave-trade should po-
sitively cease. It is in the power of Great Britain to effect
both of these objects. If she do not, she can never hope to see
free labour prosper in her own colonies, or become the choice
of any other Government.
(Irom Decordova's Mercantile Intelligence). of Jan. 23.)
There has not been any change in our markets since our
last worthy of particular notice. The active demand for con-
sumption has decreased the stocks of most articles, without
advancing prises. The arrivals during the past fortnight have
been rather heavy—especially of the articles of flour and
codfish, which have undergone a decline, in consequence of
the abundant supply. There does not appear to be much
speculative demand.

A collection of remarkably fine Italian sculpture
is to be sold by auction, on Wednesday and Thursday next,
at the Mart. It embraces numberless rare specimens of the
sculptor's art, copied from all the most renowned models in
the various galleries, which, as objects of decoration, cannot
fail to please the most fastidious. The collection is rich in
beautiful figures, and the marble tazzas and vases are well
calculated to adorn the mansions of our nobility.
The freehold estates in Texas which have been
sometime announced in our columns for sale by auction, by
Mr. Robins, seem to offer strong temptations to the emi-
grant, indeed, far greater than those in the more northern
part of America. The climate, soil, and water communica-
tion, with steam navigation, present great inducements for
the employment of capital in this almost new countrw, whilst
the various estates to be sold are in immediate proximity to
several large and thriving towns. The distance, also, from
the point of landing is trifling, which to the emigrant is fre-
quently a serious loss and evil, but which is happily here not
to be encountered.
ALARMING OCCURRENCE.—The Coburg (Canada)
Star has a letter from Grafton Steam Mills, Grafton Harbour,
Jan. 9, which states that a most singular phenomenon oc-
curred at that place on the afternoon of the Bth, about three
o'clock. The lake was calm and the wind in the north,
when suddenly the lake receded from the shore in one im-
mense wave, upwards of 350 feet, leaving the beach per-
fectly dry for that distance; it seemed to gather itself into a
vast cone, and immediately returned in one unbroken wave,
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four feet higher than it usually i', burying the wharf corn -
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decreasing in violence until the lake re-
le papers on Texas in
consequence of
DEATH OF MR. CHARLES HOOTON.—We regret to
announce the death (at his father's house in Nottingham) of
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doses of opium and morphia. On i\londay
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mistake, took an over-dose of morphia,
existence, in the 36th year of his age.
Major-General T. Cunningham,
the corps of Royal Engineers, died on the 17th intant, at
his residence in the metropolis. H e entered the service