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London, England, 1844-07-18 00:00:00

Sir J. .GRAHAM was understood to say that th•
amount was to be taken out of theproceeds of the trusts.
Mr. lIUME, on that statement, would withdraw all
opposition to the Bill.—(llear, hear.) He hoped to ewe
the day when all turnpike trusts would be abolished,
and the roads made a county charge.
The report was then received. •
METItOPOLITAN- BUILPINGS BILL.

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The House then went into Committee on this Bill.
The various clauses were then rapidly gone through.
. On arriving at the schedule,
Mr. HAWES complained of the manner in which
public business was hurried on. He thought the Noble
Lord might have postponed the Bill without any great
stretch of courtesy, knowing that he (Mr. Hawes) had
several amendents to propose. Everything was pressed
on with a degree of reckless precipitancy quite unbe-
coming the. dignity of Parliament and unworthy of a
Government. • He should give the Bill all the opposition
he could in its future stages.
The Earl of LINCOLN said the objections of the Hon.
Member were vague and uncalled for. The greater part
of the provisions of the Bill had been agreed to. The ob-
jections to the Bill were confined to few individuals. It
was the Hon. Member's fault if he was not in the House,
and he had no right to blame the Government for the effecta
of his absence. The Bill had been fully discussed out of
that House, and had received mature consideration in
Parliament. He the (Earl of Lincoln) should consider
himself as guilty of a deviation from his line of duty if
he further postponed the Bill.
On schedule C being proposed,
Mr. HAWES moved that the words •" district sur-
vey4"-be inserted instead of "official referee."
The Committee divided, when there appeared—
For
the amendment lO
Against it
Majority against the amendment —l5
On the question that schedule C stand part of the Bill,
Mr. HAWES moved that it be omitted, and the Com-
mittee again divided, when there appeared—
For the schedule 29
Against it.
Majority in favour of the schedule —24
Sir J. GRAHAM suggested that the Chairman should
now report progress.
The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained
leave to sit again.
• Mr. HAWES defended the course he had adopted in
taking the sense of the Committee upon schedule C of
this Bill.. It: provided that no man should erect such a
paltry building as a green-house within fifteen miles of
the metropolis, without coming to Whitehall-place, in
order to have the plan submitted to an official referee.
This, he contended, was vexatious.
The Earl of LINCOLN said the provision was not
compulsory in all cases.
The House again went into Committee, and the
schedules were proceeded with.
Mr., Alderman HOIPH ERY objected to the para-
graph defining the duties of official referees as to the
style of the construction of greenhouses and other
buildings. Such a power was most inquisitorial, and
ought never to have been thought of.
Mr. HAVES said he would certainly divide the
House against that paragraph of the schedule.
,Mr. DARBY thought the power ought only to exist
as to public buildings and places of public amusement.
The Earl of LINCOLN saidhe was anxious to meet the

llL:.Gentleman (Mr. Hawes) fairly, and he would,
therefore, consent to the omission of the paragraph alto-
gether on the bringing up of the report.--(Hear.)
Several other schedules were then agreed to, with
some slight modifications.
On schedule K being proposed,
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY objected to the pay-
ment of the surveyors by fees. Th surveyors under the
old Act had make 1,500 L a year, wl4cl' :was a great deal
too much.
The Earl of LINCOLN said the emoluments of the dis-
trict surveyors from fees were varioßaßryiiig from 7001.
to 501. per annum. The average was nit mare than 2001.
per annum, and the present Bill ratlie'r,Opished than
increased their fees.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY it. would be
better to give each district surveyor :,t5O/, a year, and
make him pay his fees int the Exchekler:
The remaining schedulo es were• agreed' tol, and the
House resumed. • .
The Earl of LINCOLN moved that the report should
be brought up at twelve o'clock to-morrow (this day).
After a few words from Mr. HAWES,
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERY said that, unless the
Noble Lord would consent to delay the bringing up of
the report until Monday, so as to give the parties in-
terested an opportunity of making themselves acquainted
with the contents, he should divide. It was too bad to
attempt to• pass such a measure in a House of fifteen
Members, at ten o'clock at night.
The Earl of LINCOLN was determined the Bill should
not be fixed for Monday; and, if the Hon. Member for
Southwark chose, he migt persevere in his division, and
count out the House by that means, in which case the
Bill would come up to-morrow as a dropped order, and
then lie (Lord Lincoln) would state when he proposed
to take it.
Alderman HUMPHERY suggested that the Bill
should be again brought before the House on Saturday.
He did not think the Noble Lord had any right to taunt
him ; he had a right to oppose the Bill at the first or at
the eleventh hour. He would persevere in his motion.
It was an obnoxious Bill.
The Earl of LINCOLN said he would give the Hon.
Member the unfair advantage be had taken, and fix the
reception of 'the report for Friday or Saturday, at twelve
o'clock.
After some' further observations, the motion was with-
drawn, and it was agreed that the report be received on
Friday next, at twelve o'clock.
The Earl of LINCOLN announced his intention' of
abandoning the Damage by Fire Metropolis Bill for
the present session, with the intention of making in-
quiries ; and if the result proved favourable, bringing
it on early in the ensuing session. .
The Church Endowment Bill was then read a second
time, and ordered to be committed. The report to be
brought up on Friday next.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL moved the consideration of
the , petition of Sir John E. Honeywood (presented lith
July). He gave notice that, in the next session of Par•
lianient, he would move for a Bill to explain and amend
the Act for the Commutation of Tithes.
The petition was then ordered to be printed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at Half-past Ten o'clock.

ANNIVERSARY of the STORMING
OF THE BASTILE.
The sixth' commemoration in London of the above
event—one which has been always honoured by such re-
unions in every town in France—took place at the
Crown and Anchor Tavern, on Monday, 15th July.
The meeting, which was in the large room, and nu-
merously attended, was remarkable for the perfect har-
mony which subsisted, in an assembly composed of such
various elements as the natives of different European na-
tions thus brought together. A new and peculiar cha-
racteristic was exhibited by this festival, in the cordia•
lity and fraternity of sentiment displayed by the natives
of nations but recently considering themselves enemies.
A gratifying and unanswerable proof was thus exhibited,
that a people who are guided solely by their genuine
feelings, and alive to their true interests, have no diffi-
culty in understanding one another, in effacing the pre-
judices which have separated them, and which govern-
ments have basely endeavoured to perpetuate among
theM.
The numerous patriotic addresses pronounced in the
principal European languages, and especially those sen-
timents which invoked the union of all nations in the
same bond of morality and fraternity, were received
with the highest enthusiasm and reiterated plaudits.
Patriotic songs and hymns were also sung, in which all
present joined in chorus. So many working-men—the
repregentatives, it may be said, of the chief Continental
nations—thus united, as it were, in one family meeting,
and in whom amity and cordiality were displayed no less
in words than in looks, tones, and gestures, formed a
truly delightful and exhilarating spectacle. The evening's
proceedings redound to the honour of those true
cosmopolitans, who have too much good sense and
humanity to permit their governments and a corrupt
press to foment strives and jealousies among them, and
who have shown evidences of a universality of feeling,
which appeared to make the natives of each particular
country think he had found his home. It was an evi-
dence of no ordinary liberality and delicacy of senti.
ment, that the president, elected by the conductors of the
meeting—themselves 'Frenchmen, and assembled on a
French anniversary—was a native of another nation.
A collection was made in the course of the evening for
the Spanish refugees.
It was also unanimously decided that an association be
formed for the assistance of foreigners in distress in all
countries.—Movetnetet.

N DEW-STORM AT ROC HD A LE. About nine
o'clock on Monday morning this town and neighbour..
hood was visited with a dreadful thunder-storm. which
lasted upwards of an hour. The rain descended it
torrents, intermixed with -pieces of ice as large a;
marbles. • Loud peals of thunder followed each
other in rapid succession, and the lightnin.
was brilliant and dazzling. The heavens op.
peered wrapped in darkness. Fur a short timt
some of the streets had almost the appear
ance of a river ; and everything threatened a retur.
of the 4th of July, 1838, when so many buildings wer •
swept away at Spotland-bridge. The lower part .
the town was quickly flooded. Some little property
the new wall was spoiled, from the water • rushitk'.
in. The lightning was awful and grand. Th •
electric fluid struck the counting-house chimps
of Messrs. Petrie, iroufounders, Mount Pleasant, 81
ran down the roof, breaking the blue slates and passe
along the roof by a connecting; rod iron, and entered ti
• ntoulder's shop, where a number" of men were at wort
They describe the place as filled with tire, rclling lik
waves: The men rushed out, thinking the building wr;
falling down, so dreadful was the shock ; and man
.complained. of feeling smart shocks as if they had bet
electrified. The electric fluid then passed to the plat
ning room, where Mr. William Petrie was standing
conversation with one of the men. It played upon
polished wheel and the planing machine, and passe
out of the room without doing any injury.—illanchest
Guardian.
FESTIVAL OF THE SOCI ET,T- OF UNITED BROTHER
—On Tuesday evening the.above- mentioned Society cel
brated their thirty-fifth anniversary at Mr. Hinton s, Wig)
Wry-barn Tavern, Islington, when the majority of the men
bers, with their wives and the elder branches of their fain
lies, sat down to a splendid dinner. After the cloth was r
moved, the President (Mr. Walter Mason) gave the usa
loyal toast of Queen," which he introduced by
neat speech, alai was drank with three titnes three, aft.
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which singing was coonhenced with "God Save the Queen
During the evening the report of the last. ten -years tl
Society's Ftinds was read' by the Secretary (Mr.- Wallis
Itom which it appears the Society is in a very liotuishi4
condition. The company separated at three o'clock, w
pleased with their entertainment. z