The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

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GROUP 11.
The Committee on this group met st the usual hour,
Mr. Blackstone in the chair.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN-
SHIRE.
The case of the Humber Ferries Improvement Bill
occupied the attention of the Committee the whole day.

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GROUP IV.
The Committee on this group met at the usual hour,
Mr. Walpole in the chair. T:
Tofrit-hWisEBSiTLIEZN.
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and was adjoued. resumed,
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GROUP V.
The Committee on this group met at the usual hour,
Sir Robert Peel in the chair.
SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.
5 per cent. interest on loans, instead of
The object of this Bill is to enable the above corn.
were empowered to do under the
P4:ll):ftrhinetcogenCPAtao3csit.amis rrtheEys considered that the provisions of
the Bill would infringe the 24th of the new standing
orders, and resolved that the preamble was not proved.

GROUP IX.
This group met for the first time this morning.
LONDON AND COLERAINE.
This Bill is to enable the company to make several
deviations in their line, and amend their existing Acts.
The Bill is opposed by several landholders, but the
opposition will not be gone into till Thursday.

GROUP 111.
The Committee on this group met at the usual hour,
Mr. Fitzroy in the chair.
EDINBURGH AN)) NORTHERN.
The Committee passed the Bill for making the Bos-
cobie, Keltyhead, and Glencraig Branch, and agreed to
the clauses.
-., .4D,IIPURGH AND GtASGOW ' ' "•,`
Tbe-sibie,,o pc
„siliilpr iilV-iraTo-iiiit *Vie-Edinburer
and Glasgow Company. to m'a'ke sivdral` britches, and
to raise a faragr,cmicikrof3oo,o:l9/. for tbegenstalpur-
poses of the, line,
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BRISTOL AND EXETER.
The case for the Castle Cary Branch, and the oppo-
sition to the subscription contracts was further gone
into, and further adjourned.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
',Sittings at Nisi Prins, before the CHIEF BARON and a
Special Jury.)
ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. YIIiNAN.

This was an information filed by the Attorney-
General against Sarah Firman, to obtain the condemna-
tion of 625 gallons of sweet spirits of nitre, and 93
carboys in which it was contained.
The Solicitor-Gentral conducted the case for the
Crown, and Mr. Martin appeared for the defendant.
It appeared that the spirit in question was manu-
factured by a person of the name of Bailey, who kept a
distillery in Globe-road, which in 1845 was entered by
the Excise officers, and the spirits and apparatus seized,
in consequence of the distillery not haying been properly
entered at the Excise-office. Subsequently the defend-
ant's house was entered, and the 625 gallons of spirit
and thei 93 carboys were also seized. The main ques-
tion n the case was whether sweet spirits of nitre was a
spirit within the meaning of the law and liable to a duty.
The JUDGZ told the jury that he was of opinion that
sweet spirits of nitre was entirely an article of commerce,
perfectly well known and distinguishable from spirits,
and treated as such by several enactments; but he left
it to them to say whether it was in their opinion a
mechanical mixture or a chemical combination. If they
were of opinion that the spirit was in an uncombined
state they would find for the Crown, but if they were
not satisfied on that point their verdict ought to be for
the defendant. _

The jury found for the defendant.
A bill of exception• was tendered by the Crown.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 16, 1848.