The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-12 00:00:00

FOREIGN AFFAIRS,

The Earl of HARDWICKE gave notice that on Friday
the noble earl, the Foreign Secretary, hoped to be able to
make a statement to the house relative to foreign affairs.
The house adjourned at 10 minutes to eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTERDAY.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

The following bills were read a third time and passed :
Hertford, Luton, and Dunstable Railway; Kingston-upon-
Thames Gas • Purdy's Disabilities Removal; South Wales,
Pembroke, and Tenby Junction Railway, and the Tweed
Fisheries.
The following bills were considered, and ordered for
third reading :—Caterham Railway ' • Hampstead Junction
Railway; London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway;
Maybole and Girvan Railway; and the Wear Navigation
and Sunderland Docks.
On the motion of Mr. FITZROY, the following were
agreed to :-1. That the promoters of every private bill
which has been introduced into this house, or brought from
the House of Lords in the present session of Parliament,
shall have leave to suspend any further proceeding there-
upon, in order to proceed with the same bill in the next
session of Parliament. 2. That the promoters of every
such bill shall give notice in the Private Bill-office, not
later than the day prior to the close of the present session,
of theirintention to suspend any further proceedings thereon;
or, in the case of bills which shall have been suspended on
the report of a committee, or which having passed this
house shall then be pending in the House of Lords,
of their intention to proceed with the same bill in this
house in the next session. 3. That an alphabetical
list of all such bills, with a statement of the stage
at which the same were suspended, shall be prepared by
the Private Bill-office and printed. 4. That, not later
than three clear days after the next meeting of Parliament,
every bill which has been introduced into this house shall
be deposited in the Private Bill office, in the form required
by standing order No. 166, with a declaration signed by
the agent annexed thereto, stating that the bill is the same,
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in every respect, as the bill with respect to which proceed-
ings have been so suspended, at the last stage of its pro-
ceeding in the house, in the present session; and, where
any sum of money has been deposited, that such deposit
has not been withdrawn, together with a certificate
of that fact from the proper officer of the Court of
Chancery in England or Ireland, or the Court
of Exchequer in Scotland, as the case may be.
5. That such bills, endorsed by one of the clerks in the Pri-
vate Bill-office, as having been duly deposited with such
declarations and certificates annexed, be laid by one of the
clerks of that office upon ths table of the house, in the next
session of Parliament, in the order in which they shall stand
upon such list, but not exceeding 50 bills on any one day.
6. That in respect of every bill so laid upon the table, the
petition for the bill, and the order of leave to bring in the
same in the present session shall be read, and thereupon
such bill shall be read a first time ; and a second time (if
the bill shall have been read a second time previously to its
being suspended) ; and if such bill shall have been reported
by any committee in the present session, the order for re
ferring the bill to a committee shall be dispensed
with, and the bill ordered to lie on the table,
or to be read a third time, as the case may be.
7. That in case any bill brought from the House of Lords
in the present session, upon which the proceedings shall
have been suspended in this house, shall be brought from
the House of Lords in the next session of Parliament, the
agent for such bill shall deposit in the Private Bill-office,
prior to the first reading thereof, a declaration, stating that
the bill is the same in every respect, as the bill which was

brought from the House of Lords in the present session;
and where any sum of money has been deposited, that such
deposit has not been withdrawn, together with a certificate
of that fact from the proper officer ; and so soon as one of
the clerks in the Private Bill-office has certified that such
deposit has been duly made, the bill shall be read a first
time, and be further proceeded with in the same manner as
bills introduced into this house during the present session.
8. That all petitions presented in the present session against
private bills, and which stood referred to the committees on
such bills, shall stand referred to the .committees on the
same bills, in the next session of Parliament. 9. That no
petitioners shall be heard before the committee on such bill,
unless their petition shall have been presented within the
time limited in the present session. 10. That in case the
time limited for presenting petitions against any such
bill, shall not have expired at the close of the pre-
sent session, petitioners may be heard before the
committee on such bill, provided their petition be
presented previous to, or not later than, seven clear days
after the second reading thereof in the next session. 11.
That all instructions to committees on private bills in the
present session, which shall be suspended previously to
their being reported by any committee, be instructions to
the committee on the same bills in the next session. 12.
That the said orders be standing orders of this house.

RAILWAY BILLS.
Mr. FITZROY moved the repeal of Standing Order 130,
and in lieu thereof to substitute the following :—The com-
mittees on railway bills shall direct their attention especially
to the following heads of inquiry, and shall require evidence
from the promoters thereon, namely :-1. The financial
arrangements made or proposed by the. company formed
for the execution of the railway ; the number and amount
of shares, if any, actually subscribed for or agreed to be
taken ; the amount of share capital and of loans proposed
to be authorised ; and the sufficiency of the estimate for the
works. 2. The merits, in an engineering point of view, of
the proposed railway ; the character of the gradients and
curves ; the number and extent of the tunnels, if any ; the
planes, if any, to be worked by assistant engines ; the
crossings, if any, of public roads on the level; and any
peculiar engineering difficulties, with the modes proposed
for overcoming them. 3. The degree of favour
or objection with which the project is regarded
by the landowners and others in the neighbourhood of the
proposed railway. Every committee on a railway bill shall
report specially to the house, whether any report from the
Board of Trade in regard to the bill, or the objects thereof,
has been referred by the house to the committee, and, if
so, in what manner the several recommendations contained
in such report have been dealt with by the committee ;
whether it be intended that the railway shall cross on a
level any turnpike road or highway ; and any other circum-
stances which, in the opinion of the committee, it is desi-
rable that the house should be informed of.—Agreed to.
THE BOARD OF ADMIRALTY.
Sir B. HALL gave notice that to-morrow he would ask
the First Lord of the Admiralty whether he had any objec-
tion to state to the house the circumstances under which
Captain Carnegie had resigned his office as one of the Lords
of the Admiralty, and whether Admiral Dundas had also
retired, and who were appointed succesors to those gen-
tlemen ?