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of times to ho kept by every company. 61. The com-
panies are to appoint an officer at every station to keep
such register. 62. The officer is to keep the register of
each week suspended at his station for public inspection
for such period as the Commissioners shall direct. 63.
The officer at the end of each week is to transmit to the
Commissioners a copy of the register for as many pre-
ceding days as they shall direct, 64. The penalty for
neglecting to appoint a registrar of times is 201 for every
day the neglect shall continue. 65. Every company
shall pay a penalty of 101. for each default of every
registrar, and the officer himself a penalty of 5/. 66.
The Commissioners shall report once every year to
Parliament on the punctuality (or want of it) of rail-
way companies, and on any matters connected therewith.
11. CHEAP TRAINS (Clauses 67 to 73).-67, The
Commissioners may limit the time of stoppage of cheap
trains and regulate the times of their arrival at termini
common to two or more railways. CS. Companies
failing to conform to the Commissioner' orders on
these matters to forfeit 201. for every day the de-
fault continues. 69. The; Commissioners may fix the
number of passengers to be conveyed in every carriage
of a cheap train, and that number is to be marked on
each in legible characters. 70. Every cheap train car-
riage to have a light fixed in every separate division,
between one hour after sunset and one hour before sun-
rise. 71. The regulations of cheap trains are to be hung
up at stations. 72. The penalty for contravening these
regulations respecting cheap trains is 201. for every
offence. 73. In computing the tolls, &c., of cheap trains,
no fraction of a mile less than one-half is to be taken
into account, and for any greater fraction not more than
half the toll, &c., on a mile.

12.—CONVEYANCE OF NAVAL, MILITARY, AND POLICE
FORCES, STORES, AND AMMUNITION.—(CIRUSCS 74 to
78.) 74. Repeals so much of the Acts 5 and 6 Vie.,
c. 55, and 7 and 8 Vict., c. 85. as relates to these mat-
ters. 75. On the production to the clerk at any station
of a route or order for march, transport, or removal of
stores, the following rates of charge to be made:—For
every commissioned officer two-thirds of the fare
charged for the time being; for every sailor, soldier,
marine, private of militia, or police-constable,
or tho wife, widow, or child of twelve years
of age or upwards of such, two-thirds, and for
every child, if three years and upwards and below
12, one-third of the cheap train fare, and no charge for
children under three years of age; for every ton of bag-
gage, stores, &c. (gunpowder excepted), twopence per
mile, the assistance of the military, &c.. being given in
loading or unloading; for gunpowder and other combus-
tible matters, such reasonable sum as shall be demanded
by the company, or approved of by the Commissioners.
Commissioned efficers may travel by any train, in any
carriage they please, add shall be allowed the usual
quantity of luggage, not less than 1 cwt.; the privates,
&c., shall travel in cheap train carriages, secure from
the weather, and shall be allowed cwt. of luggage for
every grown person and child of 12 years or upwards,
and cwt. for every child of 3 years and upwards, and
under 12. 77. If the order bear that the troops or
stores are to be forwarded forthwith, a special train is
to be provided; if not, they are to go by the first or any
subsequent train in the option of the officer in command.
78. The penalty for non-compliance with these enact-
ments is 1001., and 1001. additional for every day the de-
fault is continued.

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companies
and 6 Vic.,
having
13. DISPUTES BETWEEN RAILWAY COMPANIES HAY-
ING CONTERMINOUS LINES-(Clausen 79 to 81.) 79.
} 1 es
pp Ile at
el ss
o much of
between Cc.o nstse'r ma si
n roeulsa tl
lines,
etso
di
matters. 80. The Commissioners are to settle
and to make such orders respecting the number •
of trains
to be run, their times, &c., as may conduce
safety, 81. The
is 201. for every day it is persisted in.
14. POWER OF COMMISSIONERS To CALL FOR
82
FROM RAILWAY COMPANIES-(Clauses to
86.)-82.
RETURNS
Repeals as much of 3 and 4 Vic., c. 97, as relate
matter. 83. Repeals as much of 5 and 6 Vic., c. 55,
to t
as
is
relates to this matter. 84. Empowers the Commissioners
to call for returns from railway companies in relation to
fares, charges, receipts, and expenditure ; to numbers,
kinds, and salaries of officers ; to rules for the govern-
ment ; to accidents ; and to other matters connected
with accounts, management, and concerns of the com-
panies. 85. The Commissioners may cause the com-
panies' books, &c., to be inspected in order to test the
accuracy of returns. 86. The penalty for non-compliance
is 201. for each refusal or neglect, and 20/. per diem
during its continuance.
15. EXERCISE OF THE COMMISSIONERS' POWERS OF
INSPECTION AND INQUIRY--(Clauses 87 to 97.-
87. The Commissioners may make regulations to guide
themselves or officers in inspections and inquiries. 88.
The officers of Commissioners are to be conveyed on rail-
ways free of charge : the company refusing to carry an
dicker to forfeit 20/. 89. The Commissioners em-
powered to summon witnesses. 90. The Commissioners
and their officers may administer oaths to witnesses, and
any person giving false evidence before them is liable to
the penalties of perjury. 91. The penalty for refusing
to produce documents called for by the Commissioners
is 201. 92. Witnesses duly summoned and failing to ap-
pear to forfeit 5/. 93. The Commissioners may direct
the reasonable expenses of witnesses on survey, inspec-
tion, or inquiry to bo paid by the promoters or pro-
prietors of the railway ; out of a deposit if such have
been made, or otherwise to be recovered, as after
provided. 94. The expellees of the Commissioners and
their efficers, or other persons employed by them, to be
paid by the promoters or proprietors of the railway ;
the debt to be considered due to the Crown, and
the Commissioners' certificate to be conclusive
evidence in all Courts. 95. " Inspector-general
of railways" in the Acts recited in the pre-
sent to be construed as meaning any inspector.
96. The appointments, orders, &c., of the Commissioners,
are te be signed by their secretary, or some officer ap-
pointed by them, and thus signed, they are to be re-
ceived in evidence in all courts. 97. Orders, notices,
&c., shall be deemed served on any railway company, if
delivered to the secretary, or any clerk, at one of their
offices, or put into the p sst office addressed to the com-
pany or their secretary, at one of their offices.
16. BYE-LAWS ON RAILWAY COMPANIES.-(Clauses
98 to 104.)-98. Repeals so much of 3 and 4 Vic., c. 97,
as relates to this matter. 99. Railway companies are
to send copies of their bye-laws to Commissioners when
required. 100. Failure to comply subjects to a penalty
of 201., and the like sum for every week that the default
is wilfully continued. 101. No new bye-laws, after the
passing of this Act, are to have force till allowed by the
Commissioners. 102. The Commissioners are to allow
or disallow bye-laws sent to them as soon as possible.
103. The allowance of bye-laws is to be testified under
hand and seal of the Commissioners; and all bye-laws so
allowed are to be binding on all persons, and received as
evidence in all courts. 104. The Commissioners may
disallow existing bye-laws,
17. POLICE NEAR RAILWAYS DURING THE MAKING
THEREOF.-(Clauses 105 to 109).-1,05. Repeals as
much of 1 and 2 Vic., c. 80, as relates to this matter.
106. The Commissioners, on the application of two jus-
tices, may order any company to pay the expenses of
the necessary police near the line while it is making.
107. Any two justices may appoint special constables (in
number not exceeding that mentioned in the Commis-
sioners' order) along the line, or within two miles of the
same. 108. Any two justices may dismiss such consta-
bles, and appoint others in theirstead. 109. Every such
constable is to receive from the company such reasonable
salary as the justices may appoint, and thd salary is to
recoverable by distress.
18. RECOVERY OF FORFEITURES AND PENALTIES.-
(Clauses 110 to 118).-110. All penalties and forfeitures
made under this Act are to be sued for and recovered as
debts due to the Crown; and when incurred by more per-
sons than one each shall be deemed due from all and each
severally. 111. The penalties not being forfeitures to
the crown may be recovered by summary proceedings
before two justices in England and Ireland, and the
Sheriff in Scotland. 112. Prescribes the fermi of the
summary proceedings for recovery. 113. Immediately
on adjudication the amount of the penalty and costs
is
to be levied by distress and sale in England and Ireland,
by poinding and sale in Scotland. 114. When the ap-
plication of penalties is not otherwise provided for
ver.one-
half is to go to the informer, and one-half to the,
over-
seers be
seers of the parish poor. 115. The conviction!.
drawn according to a form contained in a schedule
this Act
ap-
pended to the Act. 116. Proceedings under
removed by
are not to be quashed for want of form or
ourts.
certiorari or otherwise into any of the superiordc
d or re-
-19-(Clause 117).-This Act may beamen e
led this session.

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DIABOLICAL ATTEMPX.-011 Thursday night last,
about nine o'clock, as the city watchman, along with the
private watchman, was examining the new school premises
in Elmbank-place, they went into a room where the private
watchman had been in the habit of kindling a fire, which
is enclosed round with bricks. On taking out the ashes
from the fire-place, he found a large piece of clay which hp
took up and broke, and found under the coating of clay
gllowpehdonithahtetheadpebrepeen-
bcinereted lead fort he pur-
an earthenware ginger-beer bottle was concealed,
which he broke in pieces, and to his astonishment
Punished, as such
discovered that it hades,
been filled with gunpow-
der. Had the man, as he commonly does, kindled the fire
without taking out the ashes, short time the bottle
would have exploded, and most likely have killei.ih_niitlnTaloihlnm
the spot. Who the perpetrator of the attetaonofndnctehwreess.pcoenort.
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d.ilaesgfltiuwAnLpddrsoleoosautu.tthTanirb,dyFEth
man's life was, cannot be guessed ; but he cannot account for
it otherwise than by supposing it to have been the work of
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died Parker Bushe,
of the late
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Abell-hanger,
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w ,in that capi-
tal on the sth instant of fever.
in Pork-
ber of the same famly to which the late Chief Justice Bushe
Gsrvase Bushe, Esq., of Kilkenny, Ireland, and was a mem-
belonged.
tothe British Embassy at regret to state that M. IG,ieernvnaase
OSIVESTRY.—SIIOCKING DEATH IN TIIB SNOW: A
ins c ol!leirl el edr, in bay sutra nkdeen fen c e ,
ington Park; his right leg was broken, and the features dis-
figured by vermin. He had not been seen since Monday
night, the Bth inst., and, as is supposed, had taken a near
cut across the park, and, in leaping the fence, broken his
lee, and perished through the inclemency of the Weather.--
Ecidoices' Shrewsbury Journal.
JOINT-STOCK PROVISION COMPANY IN V
.L.I.GIN.
A proposal has been issued in Elgin for the establishment of
a working-men's provision association, the capital to be
1,0001., in shares of 20s. By purchasing for cash in the
best markets, the promoters expect to supply.
meal, wheat,
bread, and groceries at lower than current prices. A baking
establishment is included in the proposal. A public meet-
big, held on Wednesday week, appointed a committze to
draw up the basis of the society. blinder associations have
been successfully carried on in the south-western counties of
Scotland,—Ross-shire Advertiser.