The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-20 00:00:00

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After a short conversation, the clause, as amended,
was agreed to.
On clause 31, compelling the local board to send maps
of the sewers to the general board, !Ain proposed,
Mr. HENLEY thought that the clause would be use-
less, because the local board could send up plans which
they knew would be rejected by the general board. He
thought it would be better to lea►e out the clause alto-
gether.
Lord MORPETH consented to the introduction of
words which would not make it compulsory on the local
boards to send plans.

-The clause was then agreed to, as were the clauses up
to 30.
On clause 39, requiring the report of the surveyor with
respect to the sewers when a new house is to be built,
being proposed,
Mr. GRANGER thought it would create confusion
to require the party to have the report of the surveyor
after his plan had been approved of.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL did not think they
should allow the party building the house to be the
judge of the sufficiency of the sewer.
Mr. HENLEY hoped that the surveyor was not to
receive payment for making his report.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL raid that the local
board might discharge the surveyor if he made any
charge.
The clause was they agreed to.
Clauses 40 to 49 were agreed to, with verbal amend-
ments.
On clause 50 (relating to smoke consumption),
Mr. FOLEY moved to exempt from the operation of
the clause " mines and works for the manufacture of
bricks and other articles of clay."
Dr. BO WRING supported the amendmeut.
Mr. THOBNELY said it was also very important that
iron works should be excluded.
Captain PECHELL hoped public baths would be
forced to consume tkeir own smoke.
Mr. SLANEY said that their object was to get rid of
nuisances arising from smoke, but he hoped colleries
would be exempted from its operation, as in any other
rulhdell3eioduClegßhi ttsPtEoopTme Hrsaktsieoa inda. any exemptions from the opera-
case the'owx!ers would set their faces against that Bill
he had had much doubt who-
attihnoeL°dnriof this clause ; hut as a general law was said by
practical men not to be practicable, he thought he had
better make some concession. He could not, however,
make any exemption in cases of premises worked by
gteam.engines ; but in the case of the mines and works
alludedlto ho should be happy to meet the Hon. Mem-
ber's views.
After some conversation,
Sir J. WALMSLEY expressed his hope, that how-
ever stringent the clause might be made as regarded
towns, it would be more lenient as regarded rural dis-
tricts. The Noble Lord was not perhaps aware that a
large quantity of coals was consumed in what was called
open burning, and if these were operated upon by the
clause a great quantity of coals must be destroyed. He
(Sir J. Walmsley) had had several communications
from Staifordshire on the subject, all deprecating the
clause. He trusted that the Noble Lord would give it
some further consideration.

Mr. BAILEY thought that there would be great diffi-
culty in carrying out the clause in many districts. He
consumed 1,100 tons of coals per day, and employed
10,000 men, and he feared that these extensive trans-
actions would be greatly impeded by the shortness of
the notice.

Mr. HUTT hoped that Sanderland would be ex-
empted from the operation of the Bill. In its present
form the measure would wholly destroy the manufacture
of coke.

Lord MORPETH consented to postpone the clause,
and in the meantime would give the suggestions of Hon.
Members the fullest consideration.

Clauses .51 to 56 inclusive were agreed to; upon which,
The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained
leave to sit again on Monday.
LUNATIC ASYLUMS (SCOTLAND).
The LORD ADVOCATE moved that the Select
Committee on the Lunatic Asylums (Scotland) Bill do
consist of twenty-one Members, and that the following
Members be the Committee :—The Lord Advocate, Lord
Ashley, Sir J. Graham, the Secretary-at-War, Mr.
Traill, Mr. Charteris. Mr. Solicitor-General for Scot-
land, Colonel Mure, Mr. J. Loch, Sir G. Clerk, Viscount
Melgund, Mr. E. Ellice, Mr. S. Wortley, Mr. G. Craig,
Viscount Drumlanrig, Mr. Bouverie, Mr. Home Drum-
mond, Mr. C. Howard, Mr. Fergus, Mr. Smollett, and
Mr. Fordyce.
On the motion of Mr. FORBES, Mr. M'Neill's name
was substituted for that of the Solicitor-General for
Scotland, and the motiun agreed to in that form.
The House adjourned at Half past Twelve.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

FRIDAY, MAT 19.
The following Bills are ordered to he read a third
time on Monday, May. 22 :

Aberdare Railway Act Amendment (Lease of Lime and
Works to the Taff Railway Company).
Barrow Harbour.

Chester Cemetery.
Forth and Clyde Navigation and Airdrie and Coat-
bridge Water.
Heneage's Divorce.
Leeds and Thirsk Railway (Alteration of Levels of
Leeds and Hartlepool Railway in Eaglescliffe, Pres-
ton, and Stockton, ace.)
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Shef-
field Canal Purchase).
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Ash-
ton Canal Purchase).
Midland Rail way (Alteration of the Line and Branches
near Wellingborough, and Approach to the Welling-
borough Station).
North British Railway (No. l—lncrease and Division
of Capital).
Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (late York and
Newcastle Railway Main Line Improvement, &c.)

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
The Committee of Selection have nominated the fol-
lowing Select Committees on Groups of Railway and
other Private Bills:

A Committee consisting of—Mr. Packe (Chairman),
Mr. John Neeld, Mr. Osman Ricardo, the O'Gorman
Mahon, and Sir Alexander Hood, to whom they have
referred the Bills comprised in Group No. 13 (Rail-
ways), vis.:7
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (Re-
vision of Maximum Tolls and Charges on the Glas-
gow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railways).
Caledonian Railway (Purchase or Lease of Wishaw and
Coltness Railway).
Wishaw and Coltness Railway (Deviation, Connecting
Branch, and Improvement).
Caledonian Railway (Branches connecting the Clydes-
dale Junction and Wishaw and Coltness Railways, Scc.)
The Committee to meet on Tuesday, May 30, at one.
A Committee consisting of—the Right Hon. T. Milner
Gibson (Chairman), the Earl of Shelburne, Sir Arthur
Brooke, Mr. Farrar, and Mr. W. M. Bunbury, to whom
they have referred the Bills comprised in Group No. 7
(Railways), viz.:—
Royston and Hitchin Railway (Extension to Cambridge
and Branches).
Direct London and Portsmouth Railway.
London and Blackwall Railway (Connecting Branch, &c.)
Eastern Counties Railway (Enlargement of London and
Stratford Stations, and Amendment of Acts), Amend-
ment of Act.

The Committee to meet on Tuesday, Mav 30, at one.
A Committee consisting of—Viscount Barrington
(Chairman), Mr. J. L. Ricardo, Hon. G. W. Fitz william,
Colonel Reid, and Mr. Stephenson, to whom they have
referred the Bills comprised in Group No. 11 (Private
Bills not being Railways), via, :__.
New Grand Canal (Ireland).
Newry Navigation.
The Committee to meet on Thursday, June 1, at one.
Select Committee on Group No. 10 (Railways).
Mr. Manners Sutton discharged; Viscount Galway
selected and added to the Committee.

Panel No. 6.
The following is the Panel from which Members will
be selected to serve on the Select Committees on Groups
Nos. 1 and 11 (Railways), which will commence their
sittings in the week beginning Monday, June 5, during
which week the Members on the Panel will be required
to be in attendance:—

Bailey, Joseph, un. Farnham, Edward B.
Baring, Henry B. Fox, Richard 1.1.
Ben tinck, Lord Henry Goring, Charles
Blackall, Samuel W. Lewis, Sir T. Frank
Brooke, Sir Arthur Pigot, Sir Robert
Caulfeild, James M. Talbot, J. Hyacinth
Cholmeley, Sir M. Tennent, Robert J.
D'Eyncourt, C. T.

THE TEMTERATURE.--TH$ WEATHER.—For the
last fortnight we hare had weather unusually warm for
the first two weeks of May. Indeed, for the last seven
days the thermometer has daily reached 70 degrees
and upwards Fahrenheit. The first time it stood
at 70 degrees was on Wednesday, the 3d instant;
on the 4th and sth it reacked 72 degrees; then
followed four cooler days, but on Wednesday the
10th, it again reached 72 degrees; on the 1 lth. 76
degrees; on the 12th, 74 degrees, and on Saturday
last, its maximum this season, of 77 degrees.
On Saturday evening and Sunday there was a
cool breeze, with occasionally a few small drops
of rain, and on Sunday the thermometer
tnhoetrehiwgehreer
otnlalar f
n esuervednetyy-etwino
Mayde when the mercurygrees. On Monday,
and again yesterday, it reached 74 degrees. Last year
reached 70 degrees; and the maximum temperature
of that month was 75 degrees, on the 28th. In
June, 1847, there were only five days on which
the temperature exceeded 70 degrees ; and the
maximum of that month was 76 degrees, oft the 3d.
From Saturday afternoon to last evening the sky pre-
sented appearances which led to a general expectation of
rain, which is now very much wanted in the country, both
for garden and field produce,—vegetation beginning
to suffer from the drought, and the land in places very
much cracked. The glass continued falling, and
eadth i last
"Filing shortly after five o'clock, the parchern
this neighbourhood was refreshed with gentle showers
of rain, which continued during the greater part of
the evening,totbhuintkwthitaht ltihttisleawgrineedafbrloemchtahng
eweeisnt:thWe ewaerae
disposed .
ther is not merely local; for we find at seven o clock on
Monday
morning, at Liverpool. the wind was s
ou outh, and
the sky cloudy ; at Hull, south-west, end cldy ; and
at Edinburgh, oast-earth-east, with slight fog, though
in Manchester, the wind was east, and the weather fine.
Yesterday morning the telegraphic returns were only
made from Newcastle (south, with clear fine weather),
sod. Glasgow, where there was strong breeze, from the
south-went.—Metschester Guardian.