The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the louse of Commons.)
MONDAY, FEB. 8.
The following Railway• light' were press atadg =seata first
time, and ordered to be read a second time:— -
Salisbury and Yeovil—" to enable the London and South-
Western Railway Company to make a Railway from Salis-
bury to Yeovil, with Branches to Shaftesbury and Wincan-
ton, and to the Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, and Wilts,
Somerset, and Weymouth Railways, and to purchase or lease
the said Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway."
London and North-Western (Ormskirk and Rainford
Branch, &c.)—" to empower the London and North-Western
Railway Company to make divers Branch Railways in the
county of Lancaster, and for other purposes."
London and North-Western (Bescot and Wolverhampton
Branch, &c.)--" to empower the London and North-Western
Railway Company to make a Branch Railway from Bescot
to Wolverhampton, and for other purposes.
Great Northern (Isle of Axholme Extension)—" to enable
the Great Northern:Railway Company to make an Extension
of their Railway fromithe parish of Saundby, in Nottingham-
shire, to the Askern Branch of the Wakefield, Pontefract, and
Goole Railway, in the parish of Owston, in the West Riding
of Yorkshire, with a Branch to rejoin the Great Northern
Railway, in the parish of Snaith, in the said West Riding.
Eastern Counties (Cambridge, Royston, and Ware Line,
&c.)—" to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to
make a Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway, near
Cambridge, to the Hertford and Ware Branch of the Northern
and Eastern Railway, with Branches.
Eastern Counties Extension (Cambridge to Bedford, &c.)—
" to enable the Eastern Counties Railway Company to make a
Railway from the Eastern Counties Railway, near Cam-
bridge, to the Bedford and Bletchley :Railway, at or near
Bedford, with Branches. _ _

The following Railway Bills were read a second time, com-
mitted, and referred to the Committee of Selection :
Midland (Syston and Peterborough Railway, Deviations, and
Approach to Manton Station).
Aberdeen (Brechin Branch Deviation).
Aberdeen and Great North of Scotland (Amalgamation or
Leasing).
Arbroath and Forfar and Scottish Midland Junction Con-

necting Railway.
Manchester and Leeds (Branches, Extensions, Deviations,
Alterations of Levels, and other Works).
Clarence and Leeds and Think Amalgamation.
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr (No. 5).
Midland (Extension from near Leicester. via' Bedford, to
Hitchiu, and to Northampton and Huntingdon, and En-
largement of the Leicester Station).
Midland (Leicester and Swannington, Widening, Deviations,
and Branches, Enlargement of Leicester Station, and ex-
tending powers as to Ibstock Branch).
Gloucester and Dean Forest (Construction of Docks).
West Cornwall (Branches to St. Ives and Norwayman's
Wharf, and Construction and Enlargement of Quays at
Hayle).
Eastern Unien (Blanch from Manningtree to Harwich).
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's (No. 2—Extension from
Bury St. Edmund's to Newmarket and Ely).
Huddersfield and Manchester (Deviation and Alterations
in Oldham Branch, &e.).
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal (Branch
from Oldham to Ashton and Guide Bridge).
Manchester and Leeds (Branch from the Huddersfield and
Sheffield Junction to Barnsley, and Extension of Holm-

firth Branch).
Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction (Burnley and
Colliery Branches).
London and North-Western ( Lease and Purchase of the
Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, and the
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway).
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway and Branch.
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, and Glasgow, Paisley, Kil-
marnock, and Avr (No. 1).
South-Eastern (Widening of the Greenwich Railway, and
Arrangement and Enlargement of the London-bridge
Station).
South-Eastern (London-bridge Station Arrangement and
Enlargement).
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester (Extension to Wakefield,
and Junction at Methley with the Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole, and the York and North Midland).
Manchester and Leeds (Ateration of Levels of Brighouse
Branch of the West Riding Union, and new Line into
Leeds).
Buckingham and Brackley Junction, and Oxford and Bletch-
ley Junction Railway Companies Amalgamation and Ex-
tension of Lines.
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway and Branches.
Southampton and Dorchester (New Forest Deviation and

Brances).
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth (No. 2).
Caledonian and Gla►gow, Paisley, and Greenock Arcalga-

mation.
Caledonian (Lease or Purchase of the Glasgow, Barrhead,
and Neilston Direct, and the Glasgow, Strathaven, and
Lesmahagow Railways),
Glasgow' Paisley, and Greenock (Amendment and Branches
to the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, the Glas-
gow, Barrhead, and Neilston, and the Glasgow, Strath-
aven, and Lesmahagow, and to Haugh Pits).

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE•
The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a
second time on Friday, Feb..l2 :
Southampton and Dorchester (Blandford Branch).
Midland (Masbrough and Normanton Stations Eulargetuent).
Manchester and Southport Railway and Branches.
London and South-Western (Widening, &c.)

IMPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES.
_The York-
shire, from New York, Sarah, from New Orleans, and
Thomas Bennett and George G. Hopley, from Charleston,
which were reported at Liverpool on the 6th instant, bring
4,508 barrels flour, 4,846 sacks and 13,220 bushels Indian
corn, 500 barrels Indian corn meal, and 991 packages rice.
DINNER TO ALDERMAN JOHNSON.—On Thursday
last an entertainment was given at the Albion, Aldersgate-
his retirement from office and public life,
street, to Mr. Alderman Johnson, the late Lord Mayor, on
(John Taylor, Esq.) and Wardens of the Ancient Company
of Fanmakera. The arrangements were on a scale of great
liberality, and the dinner was served in a style highly crei
ditable to the proprietors of the Albion. Au effective musica
corps was in attendance, and the evening was spent in the
highest enjoyment by the party assembled to do honour to
the occasion. by the Master
The Right lion. Mary Anne Katherine, Baroness
Coleraine, who died on the 27th of December last, coeds
her will only three days before her death,
divideleivig thei
estates, real and personal, to her executors,
same into two equal parts, one moiety to be held° in
use, the
the lady residing with her, and for her separate
present on the
other moiety for the husband of the lady, at rust for
continent. On Saturday
EXTENSIVE FIRE IN NORWICH.
3.
night the anti-friction grease manufactory of_sM!_sosrrvi.linittore
entirely destroyed by fireoif
and Locket, near the Foundry Bridge fire
N
L it was not
ascertained, but suspicions are entertained t
accidental.
; formation was forwarded
BURGLARY.—Yesterday,.n-
to the various police-stations of
16, Lascow
ne-terrace, Caledo-
r En
:nt
burglary
ue r
notes,
o!I ratr
y originatedha'ayi
a lgs Norwich,
is wasene several
_t_i
operty stolen consisted of five
watches,o t
ker
articles,
to
tne brooches,
value
of
101. and three 51. Bank
rfneeicsati-derdeonacdo, betweenlosflini I
Islington.
nxj.. andivTo
hregei eight o'c 1 o c n hemornin g , a t t h e
the gross
POLICE.—The annual gold-mountedfinan-
cial
valuable gold
pine, andriug
rings,
silveraod
politan Police Establishment for
elletav3hBigl'as9b3atiaanncde in hand,
about 150/.
f
504n,66r8a1ie-warrants issued
'r Li
accounts
ETofßotnreoL: Jo
tArNo
as appropriated to office
the year 1846 have been published pursuant to Act of Par-
liament. The gross total receipts on account of the service 1
&focr.c;e "12,339/. to
Of the receipts,
2oot
ofBnt6tat:hh,l e7e 6disbursements
listametropolitansof
December
derivedecpetomol
from
bre
soee
r2na6lBll
,ra:9oseo:tcus,4enlli
.o.pt,
t:,,
the remaining itemstibleeiAnige
during the year 1846,
neous ones of comparatively trilling amount. Of the amount
of of the
concurrently expended,
expenses, including the salaries of two commissioners at
1,2004 a year each ; 1,705/. to law charges ; 281,4531. to the
2:090,3415.
2tlo.
urse..
the expenses of police-stations and station-houses
pay,med medical
ec
al clothing, t h ing,
expenses;and 7 equipment,29o i•
to of
horses,the police
vans,
to fuel and light; and 1,073/. to miscellaneous charges. The
Policet ota l
Courtsreceipts
amounted account ofto the 4 service7,96ol
10,646/.
derived from fees and penalties, levied at the aforesaid ‘l7l
courts, and paid over to the receiver, in pursuanse of the Act
'2 and 3 Victoria, chap. 76; whilst the concurrent dish° Act
ments amounted to 47,208/., of which 33,656/. was swallowed
up by the salaries of magistrates, clerks, and others.
are 22 police magistrates, each of whom receives There
1,000/., and one who receives 1,200/. The total a salary of
number of
persons belonging to the metropolitan police force on
of January, 1847, amounted to 4,792, of who the Ist
superintendents, 114 inspectors, 493 m 18 were
constables. sergeants, and 4,166
THE FORGERY AT GURNEY'S BANE, r
NORFOLK.—John Church, who was formerly ' AKENIIIM,
Bradenham, Norfolk, and who has been described a surgeon at
and Cry for some weeks past, was, in the Hue
on Saturday
appre-
hended at a tavern in the neighbourhood of last,
by Sergeant Grey, of the Detective Force Regent-street,
Super-
intendent Pegler, of the Norfolk Constabulary,
by
immediately to Fakenhain, charged witahrY, and conveyed
above bank of 1261., by means of a forged
cheque.refrauding the
prisoner's person was found several of the On the
paid to him by the cashier, and his endeavouringtinroipsoceliltlaan.
notes which were
change for one of them led to his apprehension.
to
procure