The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY TERMINI IN THE CITY.

Mr. R. L. JONES brought up the report of the improve-
ment Committee in relation to the London and Birmingham
Railway Company, and the Direct Londots and Manchester
Railway Company, having abandoned their proceedings, in
the present session of Parliament, relative to proposed rail-
way termini within the City
The report was agreed to without discussion.
WARD SCHOOLS.
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A discussion took place upon the report of the Coal, earn,
and Finance Committee, recommending the granting of 5001.
for the expenses of the ball and concert, for the benefit of
the Ward Schools, and the report was carried by a very large
majority.

THE RAILWAY _MANIA,
Mr. Lorr brought forward, on the last court day, a motion
to the effect that no member who had any. interest on rail-
way speculations should be eligible to Committees in the
Court on the subject of making railway termini within the
City. He considered that it was necessary, in order to main-
tain in purity and integrity the acts of the Court as a delibe-
rative assembly, that their conduct should be placed above
suspicion. They had the example of the great council of
the nation for passing a self-denying ordinance. He trusted
that, for the power and dignity of the Court, they would pass
the resolution.
Mr. BURN seconded the resolution.
The resolation, afler a short discussion, was passed by a
large majority.

CITY F RUIT- METERS.
Mr. PRIOR brought up the report of the Coal;
Finance Committe upon the subject of fruit-meterpf Eke'
City of London. The office of fruit-meter has hitherto, liter
purchasable, but without alienation. A vacancy haying.
recently occurred by the death of one of those offi'ceis,''the
eatject was referred to the Committee, which, in its report,.
recommended that the Court should fill up the vacant offict,
by electing a proper person at a salary of 250/. per annum.
who should be obliged to give security in 5001., to pay the
amount received by hint fur metage into the. Chamber, and
that the sum thus received by the elected meter should ha
employed by the Common Council or Committee ti•r the
relief of trade.. The Corporation h•d no power over the
amount received, by The other three meters, as they have
purchased their offices, ith the right to the.ptofits. The in-
come received by each of the four meters, according to the
report, was 1,2881. 10s. 10id. per annum. •
Mr. Bowxrt condemned the practice of demanding a tax
upon l fruit and vegetables 'adopted by the City of Loudon.
:Mr. Paton said the matter had already occupied the atten-
tion of the Coinmitt e.

Mr. HARRISON particularly detailed the advantages de-
rivable from the labours of the Committee.
'The report was then agreed to.

AGRICULTURAL FACTS —lt wfini i appear from what
is passing around us in the district of Bassetlaw, that the sari-
culturists here are not much alarmed at the great and compre-
hensive scheme of, Sir Robert Peel. At a sale of the land be-
longing to the late Mr. Robert Draper, of Laneham, most of
the grass land sold for 100/. per acre and upwards, and the
arable land, which was not fit st-rate, realised from 601. to 65'.
per acre. At another sale recently held at Edwinstowe, of
poor forest land, valued at 26/. per acre, the buldings rose up
to 43/. per acre, at which sum the whole was sold. At the
sale of farming stockithe property of Richard Ali'ward, Esq. at
Babworth, on Tuesday leer, nineteen cart horses realized an
average of 30'. 12s. each.--Doncaster Gazette.
ROBBERIPS ON CIRCUIT.—A great many r-bberie,,,
it is said no less than eleven, have !eeri committed at the
assize town of Dorchester. during the stay of the judges there.
One.person lost his seals, a second his watch, a constable of
Swanage had his pocket picked of above 3/ ; a traveller of
the name of Kennison, who resides at Sherborne, was robbed
by two women of 40/. in cheques and cash ; and the clerk of
Mr. Hodges, barrister, had his packet picked on Monday
night shortly after the rising of the Crown Court, of 39/. 10s.,
18/. of which was his own manes. - The vigilant police of
the town have not yet succeeded in detecting any of the
offenders.
FOREIGN PoTATOES.—Several parcels of potatoes from
the Azores have just been introduced into the London market both
for food and seed, for the latter of which they seem very eligible, as
this is nearly the only p rt of
mthe wood where the disease has not
appeared. Some of these were introduced last spring, as early ..ew
potatoes, and so successful were the samples that a large quantity of
the best kinds for propagation were sent over from this country to
Ireland to introduce Into cultivation there. A cargo of these potatoes,
along with sixty tots of maize. is daily expected in/London, and
an equal quantity of each has been consigned to Cork, so that each
may have a fair trial. These islands have, since the commencement
of the potato disease, been the chief source of supply for seed to the
American markets, by which their prices have been raised as high as
60s. and 70s. per ten. Potato, s for a similar purpose have been
raised at the Bermudas, and ate expected home by the next steamer
and sailing vessels.