The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-24 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

The Committee of Selection have nominated the following
Select Committees on Railway Groups :
A Committee consisting of—Lord G. Somerset (Chairman),
Hon. W. 0. Stanley, Marquis of Chandos, Mr. Bannerman,
and Mr. Hildyard, to whom they have referred the Bills com-
prised in Group No. 1, viz. :
South-Eastern (Mid Kent and direct Tunbridge), Lewisham
to Tunbridge.
London and Brighton and South Coast (Kent Railway to
Maidstone, Canterbury, and Tunbridge).
South-Eastern (Lewisham to Croydon, with Branch to
Bromley).
South-Eastern (Maidstone to Great Chart).
South-Eastern (Strood to Maidstone).
South-Eastern (North Kent Line).
Herne Bay and Canterbury Junction.
The Select Committee to meet on Friday, March 5, at 12.

A Committee consisting of—Hon. W. Lascelles (Chair-
man), Mr. E. P. Shirley, Sir W. Molesworth, Admiral
Bowles, and Sir John Guest, to whom they have referred the
Bills comprised in Group No. 12, viz.:—
Norfolk (Branch from Thetford, to join the Ipswich and Bury
St. Edmund's Railway, near Bury St. Edmund's).
Lynn and Ely (Extension to Bury).
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (No 2—Newmarket and
El.
Newmy)arket and Chesterford (Extension to Bury St. Ed-
m uad'r24c.)
Newmarket and Chesterford (Extension to Thetford).
Newmarket and Chesterford Railway Act Amendment (Re-
peal of Provisions, &c.)
Ipswich and Bury (No. 3).
The Select Committee to meet on Friday, March 5, at
half- past 12.
The Committee of Selection have postponed the meeting
of the Select Committees on the Groups Nos. 5 and 6, till
the week commencing Monday, March 8. The Select Com-
mittee on Group No. 9 is also appointed to meet in the same
week. Wednesday, March 10, will be the earliest day in the
week on which any of' the above-named Committees will
hold their first meeting.
The following is the List from which Members will be
selected to serve on the Select Committees on the Groups
appointed to meet in the week commencing Monday, blarch 8 :
Viscount Acheson Sir W . Jolliffe
Colonel Austen Mr. Kemble
Mr. Broadley Mr Lefroy
Mr. S. Browarigg Colonel J. Lindsay
Mr. Disraeli Mr. M. J. O'Connell
Mr. Dodd Mr. Plumptre
Sir P. G. Egerton Viscount Sandon
Right Hon. E. Ellice Sir W. Verner
Mr. Entwisle Mr. Warburton
Mr. W. Evans Mr. Wilshere.
Hon. C. W. Howard

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.;

TUESDAY, FEB. 23.
REGISTRATION OF VOTERS.

Motion made, and Question put, " That leave be given to
bring in a Bill to repeal so much of an Act passed in the
reign of William the Fourtb, intituled, 4 An Act to amend
the representation of the people in England and Wales," as
makes the right to Registration in Cities and Boroughs con-
ditional on the payment of Poor-rates and Assessed Taxes."
The House divided:—

MINORITY—AYES, 38.
Barnard, Edward G. Gisborne, Thomas Ricardo, J. L.
Blake, M. J. Hall, Sir Benjamin Roebuck, J. A.
Bewring, Dr. Hume, Joseph Scott, Robert
Bright, John llumphery, Ald. Thornely, T.
Brotherton, Joseph Marsland,:Henry Turner, Edmund
Christie, W. D. Mitchell, T. A. Villiers, Charles
Collins, William Moffatt, George Wakley, Thomas
Crawford, W. S. Molesworth, Sir W. Warburton, H.
D'Eyncourt, C. T. IdorrislDavid: Williams, W.
Duncan, Viscount Napier, Sir Charles Yorke, Henry R.
Duncan, George O'Brien, W. S.
Duncannon, Lord O'Connell, M. J. TELLERS.
Escott, Bickham Pechell, Captain Duncombe, T.
Fielden, John Plumridge, Captain Evans, Sir De Lacy

MAJORITY-NOES, 58.
Acland, T. D. Hawes, Benj. Polhill, F.
Anson, Colonel Henley, J. W. Rich, Henry
Arundel, Earl of Hervey, Lord A. Russell, Lord J.
Bailey, J., jun. Hobheuse, Sir J. Rutherford, A.
Baring, F. T. Howard, P. H. Bandon, ;Viscount
Bentinck, Lord G. Johnstone, Sir J. Shaw, F.
Boldero, H. G. Labouchere, Henry Somerville, Sir W.
Borthwick, P. Lygon, General Spooner, Richard
Butler, I'. S. Macaulay, T. B. Stewart, John
Copeland, Ald. Mainwaring, T. Stuart, V.
Craig, W. G. Mangles, R. D. Tolleruache, J.
Dick, Q. Manners, Lord J. Vesey, Hon. T.
Dundas, Admiral Maule, Fox Vyse, R. H. R. H.
Forbes, William Morpeth, Viscount Winnington, Sir T.
Fox, .R. O'Brien, C. Wood, Colonel T.
Gibson, Thomas M. O'Conor, Don Wyse, Thomas
Gore, Robert Paget, Lord A.
Graham, Sir James Pakington, Sir J. TELLERS.
Greene, Thomas Palmerston, Viscount Hill, Lord M.
Grey, Sir G. Parker, John Tufnell, IL
Harcourt, G. G. Plumptre, J. P.

FRENCH VINEGAR.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Upton-upon-Severn, Feb. 22, 1847.
Stn,—We note that a paragraph has been going the round
of the papers, and among others was inserted in your publi-
cation, to the effect that 400 casks of French Vinegar bad
been recently imported from France, being the largest im
portation yet brought from that country. In justice to our-
selves, we think it right to state, that since the reduction of
the duty in 1844, we have each year imported Wine Vinegar
of first quality from France to a greater extent. We inclose
you particulars of two several arrivals, which were, inde-
pendent of others, of less important extent. Your notice, and
that of other papers in which the before-named paragraph
appeared, will oblige
Your constant subscribers,

W. and J. KENT and SONS.
[The paragraph was copied from a Morning Contemporary
D. Sun.]

MILAN.—At the Scala the only two operas yet
given have been Attila and Prova dun Opera Seria, neither
of which has pleased very much. In the ballet we have had
Fanny Elssler and the inimitable Perrot. The theatre is
crowded whenever they appear. At Genoa, Mr. Jones, the
basso, has created a furore in Attila, which is the more flat-
tering to him, as the music generally does not please. Mr.
Leati, an Englishman, has made his first appearance at Pavia,
as Don Carlo, inmEa'rnn ani, with the greatest possible success.
He has a magnificent baritone voice.
SOLAR SPOTS.—For a week past several groups
of solar spots, in different declinations, and successively va-
rying their appearance, have presented a singular aspect en
the sun's disc. Three of these Now exhibit individual spots, on
their western sides, of between thirty-five and forty thousand
miles in diameter. Of these, the first, in about one degree of
south declination, resembles a large parallelogram, with its
long side westward, and nearly within one digit of the sun's
western limb. The second, in about two degrees of north de-
clination, has its largest spot nearly round, which is followed,
at regular intervals, by two others, varying from two-thirds to
one-third of its size, this group being now about two digits
from the sun's western limb. The third group, in the high
declination of four digits, north, has its largest spots, now also
nearly round, within twe and a half digits of the sun's western
limb. The fourth group, composed of smaller spot, is nearly
on the sun's equator, and within three and a half digits of his
western limb. Besides these now mentioned, one large spot
has just made its appearance on the sun's eastern limb, thus
showing us that the sun's inhabitants, whose existence is in-
ferred by analogy, are not deprived of the means of studying
be done by viewing the celestial
astronomy, which can only
bodies through the clear sky afforded to them by means of
those solar spots, which often remain for four, five, or more
weeks, with little change, over the same opaque territories.
NORFOLIE—The lambing season has commenced
in the eastern counties with a good promise of productiveness,
though in some districts thumber of
hostweockver, that ewes is not
equal to the usual average. It ins feared, there
will be a scarcity of food for the flocks as the spring ad-
vances. The turnips were affected by the severe frosts that
them;ocurred when there was complaints sno on the ground to protect
e and there are now amongst the farmers,
the particularly in Norfolk, that the crop is rotting. Sim-
' the thaw, the state of they oung wheats has excited much
attention; but it is the opinion of the best practical men in
that district that they have not been seriously injured by the
severe winter.