The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-30 00:00:00

(LEFT SITTING.)

ETON COLLEGE.—George EQq., M.P. for
Shrewsbury, and the son of the late Bishop of Winchester, who was
educated at Eton, liaS just announced his intention of founding an
annual mathematical prize at }ton College. Mr. Towline has pre-
sented Ithe sum of I,OEIOI. to the Provost and Fellows, the interest of
which is to ho appropriated to the purpose contemplated by the
liberal donor.

RAILWAYS (METROPOLIS).
A " Copy of the Commission, and Instruct
ns to the C,om.
missioners, on Railways having or proVosing to make
'io

Stations in the Illetropo-lis."
COPY OF THE COMMISSION.
of
Victoria, by the grace of with, to
God of the United Ki. °lll
Great Britain and Ireland Queen, Defender of the
nc
our right trusty and well-beloved cousin and con.
Charles John Viscount Canning, our right trusty and
well-beloved cousin and councillor James Anurew Ears
illuore.
Dalhousie, our right trusty and well-beloved John Johnsc
Lord Mayor of our city of London, our right trusty an I,
well-beloved councillor John Charles Herries, and our trusty
and well-beloved Sir John Mark Frederic Smith, Knight,
Lieutenant-Colonel in our corps of engineers, greeting:
Whereas an humble address has been presented to us by the
knights, citizens, and burgesses, And commissioners of shires
and burghs in Parliament assembled, humbly praying that
we would be pleased to give elrecth.ms for the appointment
of a commission to invNtigate and
~ort upon toned too
variobe
us
railway projects of which the termini w. pro
ofthe metro-
established within or in the immediate vicim:v
polls: Now know ye, that we, reposing gremk.•-list and and conp-
tidence in your zeal and ability, have author*, /!. t you..
pointed, and do by these presents authorise and apirt.-'n 4-rew
the said Charles John Viscount Canning, James 40, Id
Earl of Dalhousie, John Johnson, John Charles Herries, .14^
Sir John Mark Frederic Smith, or any three or more of yon.``
to be our commissioners for the purpose aforesaid: and for
the purpose of enabling you our commissioners to form a
,outid judgment on the premises, we do hereby authorise and
empower you, or any three or more of you, to call before you
all such persons as you may judge most competent, by reason
of their situation, knowledge, or experience, to afford you
correct information on the subjects of this inquiry: And also
to require the production of all books, documents, papers, and
returns which may appear to you, or any thee or more of
you, calcula,ed to assist your researches in the execution of
the trust hereby reposed in you: And we do alai) ive and
grant unto you, or any three or more of you, full power and
authority, when the same shall appear to be requisite, to
administer an oath or oaths to any person or persons wNat;
soever, to be examined before you, or any three or more .01
you, touching or concerning the premises : And we do com-
mand and require you to report to us, in writing, under your
hands and seals, as soon as the same can reasonably be, your
several proceedings by virtue of this our commission, toge-
ther with your opinion on the matter-which you are hereby
required to take into your consideration : And we will and
command that this our commission shall continue in full
orce and virtue, and that you our said commissioners, or any
three or more of you, may from time to time proceed in the
execution thereof, and of every matter and thing therein
contained, although the same be not continued from time to
time by adjournment : And we do hereby command all and
singular our justices of the peace, sheriffs, mayors, bailiffs,
constables, officers, ministers, and all our loving suijecte
whatsoever, as well within liberties as without, that they be
assistant to you and each of you in execution of these pre—
sents. In witness whereof we have caused these our letters
to be made patent. Witness, ourself at Westminster, the
second day of April, in the ninth year of our reign.
L. EDMUNDS, Clerk of the Crown.
Crown-office, April 18, 1846.

COPY OF THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE
COMMISSIONERS.
To the Commissioners for Inquiring into the various Railway
Projects of which the Termini are proposed to be estab-
lished in or near the Metropolis.

Whitehall, April 8, 1846.
My Lords and Gentlemen,—Her Majesty having been
pleased to appoint you commissioners for the purpose of in-
vestigating and reporting upon the various railway projects,
the proposed termini of which, according to the schemes now
before Parliament, would be situate within or in the imme-
diate vicinity of the metropolis, I am commanded to signify
to you her Majesty's further pleasure, that you direct your
attention to such portions of the several projects or Bills now
before Parliament, fur railways within the limits hereinafter
described.

. It will be your especial duty to consider whether the ex-
tension (f railways into the centre of the metropolis is cal-
culated to afford such additional convenience or benefit to
the public as will compensate for the sacrifice of property, the
interruption of important thoroughfares, and the interference
with plAns of improvement already suggested, which may
probably result from such extension.
The limits to which the attention of the commission should
be confined may be thus specified, viz. :—The Edgware-road
from Oxford-street to the intersection of the New-road; the
New-road and City-road to Finsbury-squitre; Bishopsgate-
street ; London-bridge; High-street, Borough; Blackman-
street ; Borough-road ; Lambeth-road ; Vauxhall-road ;
Vauxhall-bridge ; Vauxhall-bridge-road, Grosvenor-place,
and Park-lane.—l have, &c.,
(Signed)

J. B. G. GRAHAM.

RAILWAY LEGISLATION.
The following protest against the new sessional orders h
been entered by Lord Radnor upon the journals of the House
of Lords :
"DISSENTIENT.
" 1. Because I think it is unseemly, impolitic, and of bad
example, that the House should, to meet the supposed emer-
gency of? a particular case, alter by ex-post-facto resolutions
its own established regulations and thus enable certain par-
ties to violate engagements which others had entered into
with them on the faith of those regulations.
"2. Because such a proceeding impairs (if it does not
totally destroy) the confidence which should be reposed on
the regulations of this House.
" 3. Because the real purport and ultimate effect of these
resolutions are not to bring about any public or national ob-
ject, connected with the construction of the proposed rail-
ways, but gratuitously to relieve parties (whether companies
or private individuals) from engagements which they have
wantonly and heedlessly contracted.
" 4. Because if it were expedient to put an end to these
engagements, the responsibility and onus of taking the neces-
sary steps for that purpose should be left to the parties them-
selves, and not be undertaken by the House.
" 5. Because the House thus grads out of its way to inter-
pose in, and intermeddle with, the affairs of private parties.
" 6. Because, in truth, the parties intended thus to be re-
lieved have in many cases incurred their responsibilities
without any view to the public good, but merely in the spirit
of reckless gambling, for their own private gain, and have,
theretbre, no claim to so unusual an interposition on their
behalf.

•' 7. Because the House thus holds out an expectation
that on future similar occasions it may be induced to afford
similar relief; and thus, if it does not directly encourage
such a spirit, it does not discourage it, or throw such a
stigma on it as according to every principle of sound policy
and good morals it is bound to do.

"8. Because this unprecedented and mischievous proceed-
ing appears to me the more uncalled for, even in the view of
its supporters, as there is now before the House a Bill which
will enable the persons to whom these resolutions apply to
effect the same object directly for themselves, and there is no
reason to anticipate that it will not pass into a law."

JEHSEY.