The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-13 00:00:00

Sub .Committee No. 6.

Captain Jtnes took the chair at twelve O'clock ; the-e were
also present Lord Ebrington, Mr. Deedes, and Mr. Pakington.
ST. ALBAN'S, zu.rari, AND DUSST,II3I67I.

The object of this Bill is the construction of a line (.f
railways that shall commence from the -Landon and York
Railway at Hatfield, and join the London and Birmingham
Railway at Dunstable.
The length is nearly twenty miles, and the estimated cost
350,0001.

The engineer is W. Cubitt, Esq. ; the Parliament try agents,
Messrs. Hall, Dyson, and -Co. ; and the solicitors, Messrs.
Baxter, Rose, and Norton.
Standing orders complied with.
GUILDPORD, CHICHESTER. LAND
PORTSMOUTH.

This is a re-introduced Bill; it parsed the standing orders
last session, but was stopped in the Lords.
The promoters seek to consi:ruct.lines of railway from
Guildford to Gods Truing, and from Farcham Portsmouth.
The total length is twelve miles, the estimated cost 500,000/.,
and the amount subscribed 375,000/.

The engineer is J. Locke, Esq. ; Parliamentary agents,
Messrs. . Dorrington and Co. ; and the solicitors, Mas.r,-,.
Buchan and Co.

The standing orders were declared to have been complied
with.

NORTE OX' NOIEVOLX.

The object of this Bill is to connect Aylsham and North
Walsham with the city of Norwich.
The length of the main line is 133/ miles, and of the North
Wal,ham Branch 6 miles.

The estimated cost is 220,0001., and the amount subscribed
165,000/.

Engineer, M. A. Bortbwick, Esq ; Parliamentary- agent,
Coppock, Esq. ; the solicitors, Messrs. Tiliett and Mend-
ham, Nu'

The Committee decided that ths promoters had complied
with the standing orders.
EDXNBURGH, xinrrn, AND GRANTON

AIIIENIDIVLELTT.

The object of this Bill is the amendment of the former
Acts, and to enable the Company to raise a further sum of
money.

Tl;e Parliamentary agents are Messrs. Graham and Weems
Standing orders complied with.

STANDIN G ORDERS' COMMITTEES.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
This Committee resumed its sittings as usual this morn-
ing at one o'clock, in No. 9 room.
The Members present were Mr. Estcourt (Chairman), Sir
W. Heathcote, Mr. Ord, Mr. 11. Drummond, Mr. Pendarves,
Mr. Bruce, Mr. W. Patten, and Mr. Agiionby.
The following Bills were allowed to be proceeded with
GLASGOW, STRATHAVEN, AND LESMAHAGOW
DIRECT RAILWAY.
GLASGOW, BARRIIEAD, AND NEILSTON RAIL-
WAY,
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK (BRIDGE
OF WEIR BRANCH).
WISHAW AND COLTNESS RAILWAY,
WHITEHAVEN AND FURNESS RAILWAY.
CHESTER AND MANCHESTER DIRECT.
The Committee was of opinion, in the above case, that the
standing orders ought not to be dispensed with.

REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.
The following is the text of the great measure which is
destined to have so important an influence upon both the
agricultural and manufacturing interests of England:—

A BILL TO AMEND TRE LAWS RELATING TO THg 111

PORTATION OF CORN•

Whereas an Act was passed in the session of Parliament
held in the fifth and sixth years of the reign of her present
Majesty, intituled " An Act to amend the Laws for the Im-
portation of Corn."

And whereas it is expedient that the duties now payable
upon the importation and entry for home consumption in
the United Kingdom and in the Isle of Man respectively, of
corn, grain, meal, and fl ur, should be altered, and that the
Act hereinbefore recited should be amended as hereinafter is
expressed ;
Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's most excellent
Majes'y, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords,
spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Par-
liament assembled, and by the authority of the .same,
that from and after the passing of this Act, in lieu of the
duties now payable upon the entry for home consump-
tion in the United Kingdom, and upon the importation
into the Isle of Man, of corn, grain, meal, and flour, there
shall be levied and paid unto her Majesty, her heirs and succes-
sors, on all corn, grain, meal, and flour, already or hereafter
to be imported into the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man
from parts beyond the seas, and entered for home consump-
tion alter the passing of this Act, the duties set forth in the
schedule to this Act annexed, until the Ist day of February,
which will be in the year of our Lord 1849, and on, from,
and after the said Ist day of February, 1849, the following
duties, viz.:—

Upon all wheat, barley, beer or bigg, oats, rye, peace, and
beans, for every quarter, is., anti so in proportion for a less
quantity.
Upon all wheat meal anti flour, barley mea!, oat meal, rye
meal, and flour, pea meal and bean meal—fur every cwt. 41d.,
and so in proportion for a less quantity.
And be it enacted, that the several duties hereby imposed
and leviable in the United Kingdom, shall be levied, col-
lected, paid, and applied in such and the same manner in all
respects as that in which the duties imposed by an Act passed
in the session of Parliament, held in the eighth and ninth
years of the reign of her present Majesty, iutituled, " An
Act for granting Duties of Customs,"are directed to be levied,
collected, paid, anti applied.
And be it enacted, that the several duties hereby imposed
and leviable in the Isle of Man shall be levied, collected, paid,
and applied in such and the same manner, in all respects, as
that in which the duties imposed by an Act passed in the
session of Parliament, held in the eighth and ninth years of
the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act for
Regulating the Trade with the Isle of Man," are directed to
be levied, collected, paid, and applied.
And be it enacted, that the average prices, both weekly
and aggregate, of all British corn, shall continue to be made
up, computed, and published, anti the certificates of the
aggregate average prices shall continue to be transmitted at
the times and in the manner required by the said herein-
before-recited Act for amending the laws for the importation
of corn; and the rate and amount of the duties set forth in
the schedule to this Act shall be regulated and governed,
according to the scale in the said schedule contained, by the
aggregate average prices so to be made up, computed, pub-
lished, and transmitted, in the same manner as the rate and
amount of the duties imposed by the said hereinbefore-re-
cited Act are by that Act directed to be regulated and
governed; and at each of the several ports in the United
Kingdom ai,d in the Isle of Man, the aggregate average
prices, the certificate of which shall have been last received
previously to the passing of this Act by the collector or other
chief officer of Custcms at such port as by the said herein-
before-recited Act is directed, shall be taken to be the aggre-
gate average price by which the duties hereby imposed shall
be governed and regulated at such port, until the certificate
of some other aggregate average price shall have been re-
ceived by the collector or other chief officer of Customs at
such port.
And be it enacted, that so much of the said Act herein-
before recited as prohibits the importation into the United
Kingdom for consumption there of any corn ground, shall be
repealed.

.And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended or re.
pealed by any Act to be passed in the present session of Par.
liament.

SCHEDULE TO WHICH THIS ACT REFERS.
If imported from any foreign country,
Wheat.—Whenever the average price of wheat, made up and
published in the manner required by law, shall be, for
every quarter s. d.
under 485., the duty shall be, forevery quarter 10 0
48e. and under 495. ▪ ... 9 0
49i. and under 50s. 8 0
50s. and under 51s. ... ... •• • ... 7 0
51s. and under 525. 6 0
525. and under 535. ... • ... 5 0
535. and upwards ... 4 0
Barley, Beer, or Bigg,,.—Whenever the average price of
Barley, made up and published in the manner required by
law, shall be, for every quarter
under 265., the duty shall be for every quarter 5 0
265. and under 275. ... . 4 6
275. and under 28s.
... 4 0
28s and under 295.
... 3 6
293. and under 30s. •
... 3 0
30s. and under 31s. ... 2 6
• 31s. and upwards ...
... 2 0
Oats.—Whenever the average price of oats, made up and
published in the manner required by law, shall be, for
every quarter
under 18s., the duty shall be for every quarter 4 0
18s. and under 19s. ... 3 6
193. and under 20s. ... 3 0
20s. and tinder 21s. ... ... 2 6
21S. and under 225. 2 0
225. and upwards 1 6
Rye, Pease, and Beans.—For every quarter a duty equal in
amount to the duty payable on a quarter of barley.
Wheat- Meal. and Flour.—For every barrel, being 196 lb.,
a duty equal in amount to the duty payable on 381/2 gallons
of wheat.

Barley Meal.—For every quantity of 2171 z lbs., a duty
equal in amount to the duty payable on a quarter of barley.
Oatmeal and Groats.—For every quantity of 1.81% lb., .a
duty equal in amount to the duty payable on a quarter of
oats.

Rye Meal and Flour.—For every barrel, being 196 lb., a
duty equal in amount to the duty payable upon 40 gallons of
rye.
Pea Meal and Bean Meal.—For every quantity of 272 lb..
a duty equal in amount to the duty payable on a quarter of
pease or beans.
If the produce of and imported from any British posses-
sion out of Europe :—Wheat, barley, beer or bigg, oats, rye,
pease and beans, the duty shall be for every quarter, le.
Wheat meal, barley meal, oat meal, rye meal, pea meal, and
bean meal, the duty shall be for every cwt., 4id.

Lord Brougham entertained at dinner last eveninz at
his mansion in Grafton-street, the Marquis of Douro, Lord Gleneig,
Lady Charlotte Lindsay, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Mr. and Mrs. A.
Montgomery, Mr. Edmonds' and Mr. W. Brougham. We under-
stand that Lady Brougham Is not expected to return to this country
until after Easter. His Lordship will shortly leave town fur Parish,
older to accompany her Ladyship to Entland. _ _

THE FOREIGN NIA -POST• OFF ICE NOTIC E. —Ye s-
terJay the following notice of the departure of the foreign nialls was
posted at the chief otice, St. Martin's-le-Grand:—lndia, &c.—The
next mails for Gibra:tar, Greece, lonian Isles, Malta, Egypt, Ceylon,
India, and China, rid Southmpton, will be dispatched on the 20th
instant. For Lisbon, INfade.tr.l,„ Spain, and Gibraltar, 27th install!.

. ,
F. Buenos
For Madeira, Brazils, and Bnos Ayres, 17th instant, from Fal-
mouth, by the Paella. (From August to January the Paella touches
at Pernambuco and Bahia on her outward passage to Rio Janeiro,
and the other six months on her homeward.) Sydney, New South
Wales, mails will be dispatched (newspapers tree) by her HaJesty's
ship Carysfort, expected to sail from Portsmouth this day. West
Indies—The Tay sails from Southampton on the morning of the 17th.
America—The Caledonia, front Liverpool, on the 3d of April.
The 10th Hussars, who were to have succeeded the
17th Lancers at Brighton, are to go out to India. The 17th Lancers
have been suddenly called away from our cavalry barracks to Not-
tingham, and we believe will go to Ireland in a few, days, prepara-
tory to their embarkation for Canada. Their heavy baggage is left
at Brighton. It is said that Prince George of Cambridge will accom-
pany his regiment to Ireland. A company of the Grenadier Guards
under the command of Colonel Thornton, arrived here on Monday,
for the purpose of taking the Palace duty. As soon as it became
known here that the 10th Husgars were ordered to India, no less
than 20 applications were made at our cavalry barracks by young
men desirous of enlisting in that regiment. It would seem, there-
fore, that there will be no great duuctuty iu procuring recruits,—
,Vrighcon Gazette,