The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-09 00:00:00

ROYAL COMMISSION.

The royal assent was given to-day, at four o'clock,
b 7 Commission to the following Bills :—The Appri hen-
mon of Offenders Bill, the Documentary Evidence Bill,
the Granting of Leases Bill, the Outstanding Terms
Bill, the Fees Criminal Proceedings Bill, the Real
Property (No. 2) Bill, the Removal of Paupers
Bill, the Borough and Watch - Rates Bill, the
Games and Wagers Bill, the Merchants Seamen's Bill,
the Commons Inclosure Bill, the County Rates
Bill, the Lunatic Asylum and Pauper Lunatics
Bill, the Slave Trade (Brazil) Bill, the Naval
Medical Supplemental Fund Bill, the Taxing Master's
Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill, the Fisheries
(Ireland) Bill, the Turnpike Roads (Ireland) Bill, the
Municipal Districts (Ireland) Bill, the Lunatics
Asylum (Ireland) all, the Grimsby Dock Bill,
Winchester College Estate Bill, Marsh's Estate Bill,
the Earl of Powis's Estate Bill, Sir R Keith Dick's
Estate Bill, Follett's Estate Bill, Lutwyd4e's Estate Bill,
Bowe's Estate Bill, the Birmingham Blue Coat School
Charity Estate Bill, Severn's Estate Bill, the Duke of
Bridgewater's Trustees Estate Bill, the Archbishop of
York's Estate Bill, Sampson's Estate Bill, the Marquis
of Donegal's Estate Bill, the North Walsham School
Estate Bill, Shouldham's Divorce Bill, Bolteau's Divorce
Bill, and the following Rail way Bills :
London and Croydon Enlargement,
South-Eastirn (Deal Extension),
Bolton and Leigh, Kenyon and Leigh Junction, North
Union, Liverpool and Manchester, and Grand Junction
Railway Companies Amalgamation,
Brighton and Chichester (Portsmouth Extension),
Brighton, Lewes, and rlastings (Hastings, Rye, and
Ashford Extension),
Eastern Counties (Cambridge to Huntingdon).
The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor,
the Earl of Shaftesbury, and the Earl of Dalhousie.
The House then a,!journed during pleasure.

Their Lordship: met again at Five o'clock.
CONSO LID TED FUN I) ( A PPROPRIATION)
BILL AND EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of DALH.OUSIE, these
Bills were severally read a third time and passed.
Their Lordships then adjourned till Twelve o'clock
to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Aug. 8.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at a Quarter before
Four o'clock, when

Sir Augustus Clifford appeared at the bar to command
the attendance of the Speaker in the House of Lords to
hear the royal assent given to numerous public and
private Bills.

The report on the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction
Railway Bill was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be
engrossel

the:Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
agreed to !—The Bristol Parochial Ra►es, the South-
Eastern Railway Branch t) Deal and Extension of the
South-Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate
Railway.
On the SPEAKER'S return, he announced that he
had heard the royal assent given to several private and
public Bills (for which see Lords' report).
BOROUGH OF BELFAST.

A new writ tor this borough was moved for, in the
room of Mr. Emerson Tennent, who has accepted the
stewardship or the Chiltern Hundreds.—Ordered.
BOROUGH OF CIRENCESTER.

A new writ for this borough, in the room of Mr.
Cripps, who has accepted the office of one of the Lords
of the Treasury, was moved for. —Ordered.

LINLITHGOW.
A new writ was ordered to be issued for Linlithgow,
in the room of the Hon. Charles Hope, who has ac-
cepted the office of Governor of the Isle of Man.
BOROUGH OF WARWICK.
A new writ was ordered to be issued for this borough,
in the room of Sir Charles Douglas, who has accepted
the office of Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital.
BOROUGH OF SUNDERLAND.

A new writ for this borough was moved for by Mr.
TUFNELL, in the rcom of Lord Howick, who had been
called to the House of Peers.—Ordered.
POOR REMOVAL BILL.

Mr. BODKIN brought up this Bill, which was read a
first time, and ordered to be printed.

smokE

Mr. MACKINNON gave notice that at an early period
in the ensuing session he would move for leave to bring in
a Bill to prevent the nuisance occasioned by smoke on
railways and in towns, unless the Government should
prevent the necessity of his so doing by introducing a
Bill to remedy the increasing evil.
Mr. FIELD EN was understood to give notice that he
would move for the appointment of a Commission in the
next session to inquire into the mode in which the in-
come-tax was levied.—(This was, as we understood it,
the nature of the Hon. Member's motion.)
SILK WEAVERS' BILL.

Sir G. CLERK moved the third reading of the Silk
Weavers' Bill. The Bill only introduced those amend-
ments and improvements which had been found to work
so well in another branch of manufacture.

Mr. P. BORTHWICK congratulated the House on
the introduction of the Bill. He regretted it was intro-
duced at so late a period of the session.

The Bill was read a third time and passed.
ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS.
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Lord PALMERSTON presented a petition from a
Mr. Copeland, praying that Parliament would interfere
to prevent the use of propelling engines being placed at
the end of railway trains, which had been attended with
so much danger, particularly on the Eastern Counties
Railway. He (Lord Palmerston) concurred in the
prayer of the petitioner, and thought the lives of pas-
sengers much endangered by the practice. He would
recommend directors of railways to have it stated upon
the time tables handed to each passenger whether or no
those propelling engines were used, and in the public
newspapers, as travellers by railways were not in
most instances aware of the fact. The peti-
tioner prayed that the Board of Trade would
interfere in these matters. He (Lord Palmerston) felt
confident that railway directors were themselves in
most cases ignorant of the use of those propelling en-
gines, for to pursue such a course with a knowledge 9f
the hazard attending it would be little less than cri-
minal.—(Hear, hear.)