The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-16 00:00:00

GMOUCESTER. AND DEAN FOREST.

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The object of this Bill is to connect Gloucester with the
mineral district of the Forest of Dean. The length of the
proposed line is about fifteen miles. and the cost is estimated
at 320,0001. Mr. Brunel is the engineer, and Mr. Dornngton
the Parliamentary agent. The solicitors to the Bill are
Messrs. Whitcom be, Phelps, and Co.
This case having been partly gone into, was postponed till
to-morrow, on account as we understood of the absence of
the solicitors.

Sub. Committee, No. 6.
This newly-appointed Sub-Committee on standing orders
assembled for the first time this morning, in room -No. 14.
The Committee consisted of Captain Jones (Chairmaii),k,Mr.
Pakington, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Horsman, Lord
Worsley, and Mr. Childers.
The members who attended this morning ►ere, the Chair-
man, Mr. Horsman, and Mr. Deedes.
CARNWATH AND WEST MINTON.
The first petition brought before the Committee was
that of the Carnwath and West Linton Railway Company, for
leave to bring in a Bill to make a railway, so as to connect
the Caledonian Railway at the divergence of the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow branches, near Carnwath, in the county
of Lanark, with the Edinburgh and Peebles Railway at
Leadbrim. near Pennybank, in the county of Edinburgh.
The line, which is twenty miles and one furlong in length,
has been laid out by Mr. James Leslie, who estimates its cost
at 185,000/.
The customary formal proofs having been put in, the
standing orders were declared to have been complied with.

STANDING ORDERS' COMMITTEES IN THE HOUSE

OF LORDS.
FRIDAY, FRB. 20.
Irish Great Western Railway.
Belfast and County Down Railway.
Newry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor Railway.
Dublin and Enniskillen Railway.
Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway.
MONDAY, FEB. 23.

Great Munster.
Bandon and Bantry.
Cork, Macroom, and Killarney.
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow and Dublin.
Dublin and Kingstown Extension.
Great County Down.
Galway and'Kilkenny.
Cork and Waterford.
Carlow Extension.
Sligo and Shannon.
Dublin, Dundrum, and Enniskerry.
Lame, Belfast, and Ballymena.
Ballymena and Ballymoney.
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Mullingar to Galway).
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Liffey Branch and Loog.
ford Deviation).
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Longford to Sligo).
Eastern Counties (Tottenham to Farringden-street branch:
Ditto (March and Lincoln Extension).
Ditto (Lincoln to Milford).
Ditto (Tottenham to Barnet).
Ditto (Hertford to Huntingdon).
Ditto (Cambridge to Lincoln).
These Bills were all read a first time on Friday last.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.;
NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE.

SATURDAY, FEB. 14.
(Notices omitted in the Yates of Thursday.)
The following Committees on Railway Petitions were adjourned
till Tuesday, Feb. 17 :
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield..
Nottingham, Mansfield, and Midland Junction.
London and South-Western (Salisbury Junction).
London and South-Western (Basingstoke and Salisbury Extension).

Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby Junction Railway—
Committee oa Petition postponed frva Monday 16 till Tuesday,Feb. 17
Belfast and Holywood Atmospterie Railway—Committee on Peti
tion postponed from Tuesday PI till Wednesday, Feb. 18.

SECOND READINGS OF RAILWAY BILLS.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18.
South• Eastern (Np. I—Waterloo-road to Greenwich).
South-Eastern (No. 2—Greenwich to Chilham, with Branches).
South-Eastern (No. 3—Greenwich Railway to Chart, near Ashford,
with Branches to Tunbridge and Riverhead).
Direct London and Portsmouth.
Kirkintilloch and Kilsyth.
Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne Junction.
London and Brighton (Wandsworth Branch).
Brighton and Chichester (Steyning Branch).
Brighton and Chichester (Bognor and Littlehampton Branches).
North British (No. 4—Gretna Branch).
York and North Midland (Leeds Extension).
York and North Midland (East Riding Branches—No. 1).
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (Durham and Sunderladd Rail
way and Wearmouth Dock Purchase and Branches).
York and North Midland (Widening and Enlargement).
Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction.
FRIDAY, FEB. 20.

Mold Junction.
London and Brighton (Dorking Branch).
North and South Junction.
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Vidland Junction.

COMMITTEES ON PETITIONS FOR RAILWAY BILLS.

MONDAY, FEB. 23.
Scottish Central and Caledontan junction.
Edinburgh and Hamilton Direect.
Lesmahagow, Daiserf, at;el (Xiatbridge Mineral Junction.
Scottish Southern. - -
East of Fife.
Paisley, Barrheact, and Hurlet.
Hamilton and F.Aritthaven.
Banffshire.
Dublin, Cr;ternine, and Belfast Junction.
Omagh, Dungannon, Armagh, and Belfast Junction.
Preston 'And Wyre Railway, Harbour and Docks (New Dock and
itailway).
IsTezth Gravesend.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT
MURDER.—(THIS MORNING.)
This morning, about seven o'clock, the utmost excitement
prevailed in the neighbourhood of Great Wild-street, Drury-
lane, by the discovery of a most deliberate attempt at murder,
very similar in its character to that recently committed at
Newington ; and which, like that, is most likely to terminate
fatally.
The following particulars have been obtained from the
brother of the victim ; and, no doubt, can be relied on :
A Mr. James Bostock, a brass-founder, has a workshop
at No. 4, Pitt-place, Great Wild-street, and resided
in the house. It was usual for one of the ap-
prentices to call him up in a morning, and
this was done by one of them, Cox, it is supposed, irf,the
morning at the time above stated. Mr. Bostock came down
in his shh.t, sleeves and apron, having been in the act of
shaving, and a candle in his hand. He had no sooner
Teacbed the door than the report of a pistol was head; and
upon a man, named Goodwin, going to the passage, he found
Mr. Bostock lying on the floor in a pool of blood, which had
issued from a wound under -the right ear. He was insensible,
and conveyed to King's College Hospital, where he lies in a
very dangerous state.
The pistol was supposed to have- been loaded with slugs,
as one wrs got out of the panel of the door, and is now in the
hands of the police.
A. lad named Cox purchased some powder at an oil-
shop on Saturday, and has not been seen since.
It is stated that Mr. Bostock missed eight shillings last
week, which he deducted from Cox's wages on Saturday,
and thus it is that he is strongly supposed to have some
connexion with the diaboliical act.
At one o'clock little bopei were entertained of Mr. Bostock's
recovery, nor was any one• in custody. Crowds were assem-
near the spot.

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ninny LANE THEAT3 LE.—W e have seldom seen so
crowded an audience as the one assembled here on Saturday
last, to witness Macfairen's-popular opera of Don Quixote, and
the very successful and delightful ballet of The Island Nymph.
Mdlle. Maria has confirmed the impression she created on
the first night; and assisted by Mdlle. Neodot and M. Des-
places, the effect was complete. Drury Lane is completely
the fashion, and most happy are we to record it.
Davizetti has left Paris, in care of his Physician, for
Nice. No hopes are eutertainefi of his recovery.