The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-10 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Mr. HUME moved, that in case of Bills for the formation
or improvement of harbours, docks, piers, railways, bridget,
weirs, and for all works and inclosuree on tidal lands within
the ordinary spring tides ; and also of Bills for bridges over or
tunnels under navigable rivers, a copy of all plans, sections,
and bocke of reference, required by the orders of the
House to be deposed in the office of any clerk of
the peace, or sheriff clerk, on or before the 30th
day of November immediately preceding the session of
Parliament in which application for the Bill shall be made,
together with a published map, to a scale of not less than half
an inch to a mile, with the lines of such docks, piers, and other
works, intended to be executed under the Bill, delineated
thereon, so as to blow the general situation and extent of such
intended works or alterations therein, shall, on or before
the same day, be deposited in the Office of Board of Admiralty.
He did so, because, under the old system, whenever parties
proposed to obstruct navigable rivers in any way whatever, by
the erection of public works, the fact seldom or never came to
the knowledge of the Board of Admiralty until after the Bill
authorising the construction of such works had been read a
second time.
Mr. B. HAWES considered that it would be a very useful
addition to their standing orders, and he therefore fully con.
curred in the observations which bad fallen from Mr.
Hume.
Mr. GREEN had frequently complained of the course adopted
by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, they never sent
in the amended clauses until the last moment, and parties who
had Bills requiring their assent, consequently experienced the
greatest delay and inconvenience.
After a few words from Admiral DUNDAS,
Mr. HUME said that this motion was only to carry out in
fact the provisions of the Act of last session. That Act gave
the Admiralty the power of interfering with any railway
works within the range of the spring tides. All that he required
that notice of such interference should be given before the
30th of November.
Mr. R. HODGSON made a few observations which were
inaudible in the gallery.
After a few words from Mr. PARKER and Mr. LABOUCHERE
desiring the Hon. Member to delay his motion for a day or
two, in order to allow time for inquiry,
Mr. HUME consented to withdraw his motion till Thurs-
day next.—The motion was accordingly withdrawn.
THE CHARTIST CONVICTS.
Captain PECIIELL presented a petition from the West
Riding of Yorkshire, signed by 530 persons, praying her Ala-
jesty would be pleased to grant a free pardon to the convicts
Frost, Williams., and Jor:cs.
The Hon. CRAVEN BERKELEY presented a petition
with a similar prayer, and hoped it would be done in the same
way that Daniel O'Connell and others were liberated in Ireland.
—( A laugh.)
PROTECTION.
Lord JOCELYN presented a petition from Dorsetshire,
signed by a number of farmers, agricultural labourers, and
others, in favour of the Government propositions, and ex-
pressing their belief that protective duties tended to limit our
commerce to the injury of the country at large.
THE CHARTIST CONVICTS.
Sir W. MOLES WORTH presented a petition from South-
wark in favour (as we understood of the remission of the
J sentence on Frost, Williams, and ones. Be regretted that
he could not support the prayer of the petition.
Petitions to the same effect were presented by Mr. COBDEN
and Mr. AINSWORTII signed by 1,600 persons.
POOR-LAWS.
Mr. BANKES wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet the
Secretary of State, on what day it was the intention of the Go-
vernment to lay on the table of the House the Bill relative to
the settlement of the poor, and for the other matters relative t

the alteration of the poor-laws, as embodied in the Ministerial
propositions ?
Sir R. PEEL— On Monday next.
THE ARMY IN INDIA. _ _ _

Mr. AGLIONBY said he was sorry he did not see the Hight
lion. Gentleman the Secretary-at-War in his place, because
he bad intended askin_g him with respect to a paragraph which
had appeared in the United Service Gazette of the Bth inst.,
to the effect that the 7th Dragoons had been ordered for Ire-
land. He had, however, seen the Right Hon. Gentleman on
the previous day, when he informed him (Mr. Aglionby)
that there was no no truth in the paragraph in question. The
reason, therefore, why he spoke of the subject now, was to give
the public the earliest information of the inaccuracy of the
statement