The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

In the House of Lords on Wednesday the Bridg-
water and Taunton Canal and Bristol and Exeter
(Transfer) Bill was adjourned. The Midland (Ad-
ditional Powers) Bill, to raise £730,000 by shares,
was passed. The Bristol and Portishead Pier and
Railway Bill, to raise £60,000 by shares and
£20,000 by loan, was passed.
In the Ways and Means Committee of the House
of Commons the following bills were passed : —The
West Cork, Cork and Bandon ; the Taaliar, Kit
Hill, and Callington ; the East and West Junction,
to raise £300,000 by shares and £lOO,OOO by loan ;
the Vale of Crickhowell, to raise £198,000 by shares

and £GB,OOO by loan ; the Waterford and Limerick
(Arrangements) ; the East and West Junction
(Southarn Extension), to raise £75,000 by shares
and £25,000 by loan ; the Shrewsbury and Pot-
teries Junction; the East Norfolk, to raise £170,000
by shares and 556,600 by loan ; and the North
Western and Charing-cross (Arrangements). In
group 10 the preamble of the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire (Central Station and Lines) Bill
was proved. In group 16, the preamble of the
Mold and Denbigh Junction (Branches, &c.) Bill
was-proved. In
group 17, the preamble of the Aber-
dare and Central Wales Junction Bill was proved.
The Llantrissant and Taff
Vale Junction, the Og-
more Valley No. 1, and ditto No. 2 bills were ad-
journed. In group 18 the Caledonian and Scottish
North Eastern, the Forth and Clyde Junction and
Caledonian, and the Forth and Clyde Junction and
North British Bills were adjourned. In group 18a
the Caledonian (Edinburgh station), the Cale-
donian (Corstorphine Junction) and the North
British and Edinburgh and Bathgate Bills were
adjourned.or
B.
hlngouP (Glasgow Branches) 19 the preamble of the
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Bill was proved.
In the House of Lords yesterday the following
bills were passed :—The Bridgwater and Taunton
Canal and Bristol and Exeter Railway (Transfer) ;
the Llynvi Valley ,
• and the Hexham and Allendale.
The London and North-Western (New Lines) and
the Uxbridge and Ric kmansworth Bills were ad-
journed.
In group 16 the preamble of the Tenby and Pem-
broke was proved.

Association of Trade Protection Societies,

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sTt
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adyelaetg atthe:
Ifvr oellsati
nit hniassociation
Robert Wells, of Hull, in the chair. Present—
Mr. Bissington and Mr. Johnson, Leeds ; Mr.
Ballgate, Edinburgh; Mr. Whitworth and Mr.
Paa c Il met
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Hotel—Mr.
Pankhurst, Manchester ; Mr. Dixon and Mr. An.
draws, Sheffield; Mr. Hardwick and Mr. Cripps
Liverpool ; Mr. Roberts and Mr. Chamberlain

Leicester ; Mr. Macalister, Glasgow; Mr. Mellons,
Nottingham ; Mr. Norwood, Hull ; Mr. Evarett,
London ; and others. Various matters were
brought under discussion and resolutions to the
following effect were proposed and adopted :
"That the law embodied in the 28th section of 19
and 20 Victoria, cap. 108, ought to be applicable
'to all debts, without reference to the amount,
viz., judgment by default unless defendant gives
six days' notice of his intention to defend. That
all county court judgments of £2 and upwards be
registed, and that the register state if the case was
defended. That the summary procedure upon bills
of exchange and promissory notes conferred upon
county courts by orders in council of the 30th Jan.,
1856, and the 27th July, 1863, ought to apply in
all cases upon bills of exchange and promissory notes
irrespective of the amounts. That the foregoing re-
solutions be embodied by the committee in a peti-
tion to both houses of Parliament, and memorials to
the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney General.
That it is desirable to establish, in connection with
these societies, committees of arbitration for the
settlement of commercial disputes. That in the opi-
nion of this meeting it is desirable that jurisdiction
of the small debts courts in Scotland should be ex-
tended to claims of £5O, and that the petition on the
county courts shall embrace this resolution. That it
is highly desirable that the laws relating to trade and
commerce in the United Kingdom should be assi-
milated, and then consolidated into one code, that
the committee be instructed to petition Parliament
to that effect, and that the royal commission be
addressed thereon. That Mr. Wells (Hull) be elected
president and treasurer for the year 1866-7. That
Mr. Bissington (Leeds) be the vice-president for
the year, and that Mr. R. Mellon be the secretary.
That the committee for the ensuing year consist of
the president, vice-president, secretary of the asso-
ciation, 'and one representative from the London
Association, Bristol, Edinburgh-, Manchiffer, and-
Liverpool, of whom three shall be a quorum, and the
committee shall have power to call a special meet-
ing of the association when and where they may
think fit. That the first resolution of the meeting
held last year as to the association being one of
societies, instead of secretaries, be confirmed, and
the association is hereby formed accordingly. That
the members of the association shall represent the
following places Bristol, Glasgow, Hull, Leices-
ter, Liverpool, Manchester, London, Edinburgh,
Nottingham, Macclesfield, Rochdale, Sheffield,
Torquay, and West Riding (Leeds), &c." It
was also agreed " That the committee, having
considered the suggestion of the Attorney-
General, recommended that the bankrupt be en-
titled to his discharge upon payment of a dividend
of 6s. Bcl. in the pound, or, in case such dividend
be not paid, that the discharge shall be suspended
two years, when the court may grant the same on
application, but that such discharge be obtained
upon his procuring the assent of a majority in num-
ber and value of his creditors in the same manner
as is provided in the 146th section of the 19th and
20th Vict., cap. 79 (the Scottish Bankruptcy Act.)"
The rules of
„the association having been revised,
and some routine business having been gone
through, a vote of thanks was passed to the chair-
man, and the meeting separated.