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vision with the least possible interference with the
ordinary progress of Parliamentary business ; and
with this view they conceive that the most convenient
course will be to require that the information neces-
sary to enable them to form a judgment on the Bill
at its different stages should be furnished to them by
the agents at the same times as such information Li
required to be lodged at the Private Bill-office by
the standing orders of the House.
Accordingly my Lords think proper to propose,
in regard to Railway, Bills,
1. That a copy of such filled-up Bill as proposed
to be submitted to the Committee, as 4 deposited in
compliance with the 136th standing order in the
Private Bill-office at or before the time of giving
notice of the Committee, be at the same time de-
posited in the office of the rail Way department of the
Board of Trade.
2. That a printed copy of every Bill as amended
in Committee, except in cases wherein the Committee
shall report the amendments to be merely verbal or
literal, be deposited by the agent for the Bill at the
office of the railway department of the Board of
Trade, three clear days at least before the considera-
tion of the report.
3. That in the case of Railway Bills, where it is
intended to bring up any clause, or to propose any
amendment in the report, or the consideration of the
report, or on the third reading of any Bill, notice
shall be given thereof, and a copy of such clause or
amendment deposited in the office of the railway
.de-
partment of the Board of Trade on the day previous
to such report, or consideration of the report, or third
reading.
4. That in the case of Railway Bills, where amend-
ments made by the House of Lords to any Bill sent
up to them are to be taken into consideration, a copy
of the same be deposited by the agent for the Bill in
the office of the railway department of the Board of
Trade, on the day previous to the same being proposed.
to be taken into consideration.
In fixing the same periods for the deposit of infor-
mation regarding Railway Bills in the railway dt=
partment of the Board of Trade, as is required by the
standing orders of the House in regard to the deposit
of similar information in the Private Bill-office, my
Lords wish, however, to call your attention to the
desirableness of furnishing, in all cases of Railway
Bills, any information respecting them, at the earliest
periods when it may be found practicable.—l am, ike.
(Signed) S. LAING.
CIRCULAR LETTER TO TIIE PROMOTERS Or RAILWAY
SC II EMES.
Railway Department, Board of Trade,
Whitehall, August, 1844.
Sir,—Referring to the recommendation of the Se-
lect Committee on Railways, that a supervision should
be exercised by a department of the Government
over future railway schemes in their earlier stages,
and to the resolutions founded on that recommenda-
tion which have been adopted by the House of Com-
mons—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council for Trade to call your attention to
the functions which this department is about to under-
take with reference to the railway schemes in which
you are interested (as solicitor, agent, chairman of
company, or otherwise, as the case may be).
It will be their Lordships' wish to discharge these
functions so as to incur the smallest possible risk of
obstructing the progress of Railway Bills and under-
takings, by the delay necessary for adequate exa-
mination; and with this view it is obviously desirable
that they should be placed by the promoters of such
schemes in possession of the necessary information at
the earliest possible period. Accordingly, my Lords
request that you will use due diligence in communi-
cating with them from time to time without delay, as
occasion may arise, respecting railway schemes in
contemplation, in which you may be interested as a
promoter or otherwise ; and in due course respecting
the detailed nature of such schemes, and the specific
legal provisions which it is intended to seek from
Parliament.—l am &c.
(Signed)

S. LAING.

TORYISM-CHARTISM.

DEMOLITION- OF MANUFACTURES—EXTINC-
TION OF COMMERCE—EXTIRPATION OF
POPULOUS TOWNS, AND FINAL TRIUMPH
OF FEUDAL BARBARISM.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
beg to hand you the following choice ex-
tracts, if you please, for publication. The spirit of
the contents of ought not to be lost. The co-
incidence and identity of expression is perfectly na-
tural; and, indeed, they tell their own talc too well
to need any explanation of their meaning from me.
They are brief; notwithstanding, however, they
speak volumes. I should have judged both extracts
to have been an emanation from the same guilty or
disordered brain:—
(From the Standard, London Tory Newspaper, May
22, 1844.)
" England would be as great and powerful; and alt
useful Englishmen would be as rich as they are, thbugh
one ruin should engulph all the manufacturing towns
and districts of Great Britain."
(From the Northern Star, Chartist Newspaper, August
10, 1844.)
"Large cities are the curses of civilisation! God
made the country: man made the towns! Oh for some
Titus to pass the ploughshare over them! Oh for some
Cincinnatus to lead us back to nature and the plough!"
There, working men of London, of Birmingham,
of Manchester, of Leeds—of the whole United King-
dom—what think ye now of your boasted leader ?
If you know him not now, take him and hug him to
your bosoms until he has drained your heart's blood!
Never more complain.
I am, Sir, very respectfully,
Birmingham, Aug. 10. JOSEPH LANDER.

MUMMY WHEAT.---A few weeks since, we bad the
pleasure of visiting the grounds of Mr. Reid, nursery
and seedsman, Derry, and feel bound to add our tribute
of admiration to the tasteful manner in which they
are laid. out. In his garden, among other curiosities
wl.ich attracted our attention, we saw a quantity of
Egyptian wheat in full ear, and giving promise of an
abundant harvest, the seed of which was foune in the
folds of a mummy unrolled in 1840. For the benefit of
those unacquainted with the characteristics of this wheat,
we take the following very accurate description of its
peculiarities from our contemporary, the Derry Jour-
nal :—" The specimens of the Egyptian bear a much
larger and weightier ear than our common wheats,
and have a proportionably stronger stem or stalk..
The ear itself is fully six inches long, and is pro-
vided with long awns or beards, like barley; its breadth
taken diagonally, measures, in one direction, more
than an inch, and, in the other, about half an inch ;
it has, therefore, a somewhat quadrangular appearance
from the base till within one-third of its whole length
from the top, from which, till its termination, it re-
sembles the car of barley. But, in our opinion, its dis-
tinguishing peculiarity (which accounts for its great
breadth) consists in the disposition of the greatest por-
tion of the grain in earlets, or small ears, which lie so
compactly and close to the main ear, that their existence,
as separate ears, is detected only by manipulation. The
grain, in size, form, consistency, and colour is similar to
the produce of this country, and, from its being very
prolific, its cultivation will merit the attention of our
best agriculturists."—Northern Whig.
A MEXICAN llonsmitArt.—Few things can be more
complete for all weathers and all seasons, than the outfit
of a Mexican horseman. He has everything that can
contribute to the comfort or necessity of the passing
hour, strapped to some part of his horse or his usual
equipments. First of all, he has his broad-brimmed,
steeple-crowned sombrero, covered with oil-skin ; next,
his short leathern jacket, fancifully embossed with plated
nails, like the old buff coats of the feudal freebooters ;
then, his leather trousers with rows of buttons at the
scam, preventing the chafing of the saddle, and his
leggings to protect his feet and ankles ; in front of
him are his armas de agua, a large skin cut in two
pa ts, the ends of which on one side are fastbned
to Our saddle-bow ; the other two being tied behind
him so that his legs are entirely protected from rain;
be 'ore them, again are strapped his pistols, while passing
beneath his left leg, rests his trusty toledo. From the
peak in front hang his lasso, a long running noose, with
which he catches his horse in the morning; and behind
him is strapped his serape, or blanket-cloak, with a
slit in the middle, which he throws over his head when
it rains or is cold, and protects him from the weather as
by a perfect thatch. Thus mounted on his high-peaked
which is Spanish saddle, with stiff wooden stirrups, over which
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are l long
Spanishears
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to wil;
finely-tempered steel, that strikes • against the long rowels
at every tread of the man or
beast, and rings like a
fairy bell, you have a complete com lof M •
p picture a Mexican
horseman, equipped at every point, and ready for the
road. If he has to fight, he has his weapons; if to feed,
he has his laden mule ; if it rains, he dons his serape and
armis de agua, and rides secure from storm and wind;
and if lie arrives at an Indian hut, after a long and toil-
some journey, and no bed is ready to receive him, he
spreads the skins on the earthen floor—his saddle is his
pillow, and his blanket a counterpane. He is the com-
pendium of a perfect travelling household.—Mayer's
Me.a ico.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT. —On Saturday morning,
about half-past one o'clock, as Mr. William Blackwell,
the proprietor of the Coach and Horses Inn, on the
Great "Western Road, near Isleworth-gate was driving
an omnibus, with which he had been to fetch a private
party from Astley's Theatre, through the town of Old
Brentford, when near the cage a collision, took place be-
tween the omnibus and a cart which was on the wrong
side of the road, by which Mr. Blackwell was thrown
with great violence from his seat, and fell to the ground
head foremost. He was immediately picked up, bleed-
ing profusely from his head, and conveyed in the omnit•us
to his residence, where he was promptly attended by
Mr. Cooper, of New Brentford, and other surgeons,
when, on examination, it was discovered that in addition
to most serious injuries on the head, one of his shoul-
ders was dislocated and his collar-bone broken. 'Fortu-
nately no other person was hurt, but the omnibus was
much damaged, and one of the horses was so injured
that it was found necessary to kill it. The cart .he-
longed to Mr. Lodge, market gardener, Felthttm, Mid-
dlesex, and the driver WAS deep at the moment of ;the
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