The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-11 00:00:00

Standing Orders of the House of Commons.

The Standing Orders of the House of Commons'.
have just been issued from the Queen's Printing-
office, and consist of a Pat Hamel' Lary paper occupying
89 pages, the majority of which refer to Standing
Orders relative to private bills. As heretofore these
contemplate the appointment of one or more offi-
cers of the house to be called " the Examiners of
Petitions for Private Bills" and of the committees,
one to consist of eleven members, and to be called
" the Select Committee on Standing Orders ;" the
second to consist of the chairman of the above
committee and five other members, and to be
called " the Committee of Selection ;" and the
third to be designated " the General Committee
on Railway and Canal Bills," of which three shall
be a quorum. Private bills are divided into two
classes, the first of which includes all matters re-
lating to burial-grounds, charters and corporations,
churches and chapels, cities and towns, companies,
county rates, courthouses, Crown, Church, or cor-
poration property, ferries, fisheries, gaols, the en-
closing and draining of land, letters-patent, local
courts, market-places, police, poor-rates, powers to
sue and be sued, and the payment of stipendiary
magistrates. The second class relates to all mat-
ters connected with aqueducts, archways, bridges,
canals, cuts, docks, drainage, embankments for re-
claiming land from the sea, harbours, navigation,
piers, ports, railways, reservoirs, sewers, streets,
street tramways, tunnels, turnpike or other public
carriage roads, and waterworks. The standing
orders, compliance with which is to be proved before
the examiners of petitions for private bills, are
divided into five sections—viz., notices by adver-
tisement, notices, and applications to owners,
lessees, and occupiers of lands and houses, documents
required to be deposited, and the times and places of
deposit, forms in which plans, books of reference,
sections, and cross sections shall be prepared, and
estimates and deposit of money, and declarations
in certain cases. The proceedings of examiners,
of the Chairman of Committee of Ways and
Means, and of committees are explained in detail,
as well as the order regulating the practice of the
house with regard to private bills, and also the
orders regulating the practice in the Private Bill
Office. There are three appendices, consisting of
a form of application to owners, lessees, and occu-
piers, an act to compel clerks of the peace and others
to receive documents required to be deposited with
them, and an act providing for the custody of
moneys paid in puruance of the standing orders.
The paper also contains the standing orders relative
to public matter, and the table of fees tobe charged
at the House of Commons.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

BRISTOL--THURSDAY.

On our market to-day there was a short supply of Eng-
lish wheat, which was taken readily by millers at an ad-
vance of from 3s to 4s per qr. In foreign wheat, which
met only a moderate sale, prices were fully 3s dearer.
Malting barley sold freely at is per qr over the rates of
last market ; grinding very scarce, and higher currencies
were realised. Oats in dull demand, and prices is over
previous tales. Beans and Indian corn also is up.