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

RAILWAYS IN IRELAND.

Mr. VESEY presented a petition from the board of
guardians of Queen's Coun►y, praying that the House
would make such advances to those railways in progress
of construction as would afford employment for the poor
in their neighb•turhood.
THE RAJA OF SATTARA.
Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition praying the
House to grant to the Raja of Sattara an opportunity
of examining the charges brought against him, and the
evidence adduced thereon.
LIGHT DUES.

Mr. FORSTER presented a petition from the mer-
chants and shipowners of Kirkakly against the light
dues, and also another petition to the same effect from
the shipowners and merchants of Caernarvon.
Mr. AINSWORTH presented a petition from the
borough of Bolton, signed by numerous members of
the Temperance Society, praying that the House would
put a stop to the manufacture of all intoxicating drinks,
in order that the corn used in their manufacture might
be used as food for the people.
Mr. WILSON PAT'LEN presented a petition from
Chorlev, in Lancashire, praying the House to appoint a
Select 'Committee to inquire into the causes which
checked the growth of cotton in India.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTS.
Dr. BOWJUNG postponed the resolution on this
subject be had on the paper till this day fortnight.
BOAVISTA FEVER.
On the motion of Dr.`BOWRING, Dr. Mac William's
report on the Boavista fever was ordered to be laid on
the table.
UNION WORKHOUSES.
Mr. BOND CABBELL moved for returns of the
union workhouses in England and Wales, and the num-
ber of the poor, and the cost of maintaining them in
each union ; and the number of the poor, and the amount
given for outdoor relikl by each union, during the years
1843, 1844, 1845, and 1846 respectively, classified
according to age and infirmity ; of the number of
children separated from their parents in each of the
union workhouses in England and Wailes, distinguish.
ing their sexes, and stating it any and what
other classification exists; and a report of their school
instru.:tion, and the number of deaths of infants, in each
year, from the sear 1834 to the end of the bear 1846
respectively; also, to move for a return showing the
amount paid to the medical attendants of the union
workhouses, and the number of the poor, and the num-
ber of the sick in each union, and the number of the
poor each attendant has under his care, and the number
of the poor relieved by orders from medical men for
extra nutriment, during convalescence, in each union,
during the years 1844, 1845, and 1846, respectively.
Agreed to.

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railway proprietors-or shareholders. These petition, rs—
the parties before them who were in truth inter,sted in
the question were—on the one hand the Great North-
Western Railway, and on the other hand, the Great
IVestern Railway Company. The petstioners in this
case were the shareholders in the Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway, and they held shares long before the
GRAND JURY OATH.
passing of the Act, and they were consequently not
open to any of the charges which had been Mr. LABOUCHERE presented a petition from
brought against other shareholders. There were the Protestant grand jurors of Limerick, signed by
some facts upon which he did not think that Lord Adare' Sir Vere de Vere, the Knight of Glyn,
there was any dispute. In the first instance, the and Wm. Monsell, Esq., of Tervoe, &c., praying for an
Birmingham and Oxford line, which was the subject of alteration in the oath, because some parts of it were
so much discussion, was a line 'contemplated by the offensive to their Catholic fellow jurors.
Grand Junction and the Birmingham and Liverpool RATING ELECTORAL DISTRICTS.
Railways. The Great Western, at the time of that The HON. MEMBER also presented petitions from
union, was in rivalry, and he might say in hostility to
owners and occupiers of land in Antrim, Armagh, and
the London and Birmingham Company, who were the Down, complaining of the system of rating electoral
original promoters of the line. That company, districts, and praying for an alteration in it.
however, ceased to be a promoter of the POOR-LAW (IRELAND).
line, and withdrew from the management of Lord R. GROSVENOR presented a petition from
it, and established an arrangement by which the
London and Birmingham formed a union as the Great enact a poor-law for Ireland.
Northern and Western. The Birmingham and Oxford certain persons at Limehouse, praying the House to
EX RAJA OF SATTARA.
then obtained a Bill as an independent line, subject to a Mr. P. BORTH WICK presented a petition from the
provision that the Great Western Railway Company
. should have the right to purchase the line; and in the the claims of the ex-Raja of Sattara.
event of no agreement being come to by the proprietors city of Westminster, praying the House would consider
WELLINGTON STATUE AND NELSON
and directors of the two companies, they were to have MONUMENT.
the right to make use of it, without purchase, Mr. COLLETT said, as he saw the Noble Lord the
subject to any agreement that could be made. Commissioner of Woods anti Forests in his place, he wished
At the time for passing this Bill, the directors of the to put a question to him. The Noble Lord had been
Birmingham and Oxford were in the interest of the reported to have said last night that the Wellington statue
Great Western Company, and they entered into was to come down; but the Noble Lord bad not stated
arrangements to make over the Birmingham and Ox- where it was to be removed to, or at whose expense. He
ford, and acontinuous line, the Birmingham, Wol. (Mr. Collett) certainly hoped it would not be removed at
verhampton, and Dudley, to the Great Western the public expense; but he begged to ask the Noble
Company. The nee ly formed shareholders had Lord what site the statue was to occupy, and at whose
not been permitted the privilege of voting in con- expense it eas to be removed to it? He hoped the
sequence of the lateness of the period at which the Noble Lord could inform the House also when the
certificates were issued, while original shareholders, Nelson monument would be finished ?—(Laughter.)
who bad no longer any interest in the companies, ex- Lord MOIIPETH said he must state to the House
ercised a right of voting. The result of the arrange- what he had stated before, that the site for the Welling-
ment with the Great Western Company was, that the ton statue would be in Waterloo-place, whither it must
shares of these companies rose, and the directors, taking be removed at the expense of the sub-committee, at
advantage of the market, sold out 3,000 out (If whose expense the statue had been first put up. As for
their 4,000 shares at a premium of 10 per can t. the Nelson monument, he said fresh instructions_ had
The proprietors of the Birmingham and Oxford Cone- been given for the execution of the bas reliefs, and for
pany, many of whom, he did not conceal from their putting them in their place.
Lordships, were also connected with the Gran a Mr. COLLETT—When ?—(Loud laughter.) '
Junction Company, being dissatisfied with thusthusThe Earl of LINCOLN made a remark across the
arrangement, and having received another offer table, which was not heard in the gallery.
which they considered more advantageous, they Sir DE LACY EVANS wished to know whether any
protested against the transfer of the line to tin measures had been taken to admit the public to the new
Houses of Parliament, and whether any compensation
Great Western Company. What the Grand Junction,
was to be made for the loss sustained by the inhabitants
or rather the North-Western Company, proposed to dc ,
of the contemplated new streets in Westminster ?
was this—they did not seek to set aside, and had not
b Lord MORPETH had been in communication with
sought to set aside the right of the Great Western t. e architect of the New Palace at Westminste, and in
to purchase the Birmingham and Oxford line, if
ee der to enable him to redeem his pledge, it was neces-
they could do so with the consent of the .w-
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