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

ROYAL COMMISSION.

The royal assent was given to-day, at four o'clock,
by Commission to the following Bills :—The Apprehen-
sion of Offenders Bill, the Documentary Evidence Bill,

th' Grantine. of Leases Bill, the Enlargement of Terms
Bill, the Fees Criminal Proceedings Bill, the Real
Property (No. 1) Bill, the Removal of Paupers
Bill, the Borough and Watch - Rates Bill, the
Games and Wagers Bill, the Merchant Seamen's Bill,
the Commons Inclosure Bill, the County Rates
Bill, the Lunatic Asylums 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 (Irelanri) Bill, the Grimsby Dock Bill,
Winchester Cetlege Estate Bill, Marsh's Estate Bill,
the Earl of Powis's Estate. Bill, Sir R Keith Dick's
Estate Bill, Follett's Estate Bill, Lutwydge'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, Sampson's Estate
Bill, the Marquis of Donegal's Estate Bill, the North
Walaham 6chool Estate Bill, Shuldham's Divorce Bill,
Boileau's Divorce Bill, and the following Railway Bills :
London and Croydon Enlargement,
South-Eastern (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 dastings (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 adjourned during pleasure.

Their Lordships met again at Five o'eloek.
CONSOLIDATED FUND (APPROPRIATION)
' BILL AND EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL.
On the motion of the Earl of DALHOUSIE, 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
engrossed.
The:Lords' amendments to the following Bills were
agreed to :—The Bristol Parochial Rates, the South-
Eastern Railway Branch to Deal and Extension of the
South-Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate
Railway.
On the SPEAKER'S return, he announced that he
bad heard the royal assent given to several private and
public Bills (for which see Lords' report).
BOROUGH OF BELFAST.

A new writ for this borough was moved for, in the
room of Mr. Emerson Tenuent, who has aece-pted the
stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds.—Ordered.
BOROUGH OF CIRENCESTER.

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

iiew writ was ordered to be issued for Linlithgow,
in the room of the Hon. Charles Hope, who has Ise-
cepOd the offiJe of Governor of the Isle of Man.
BOROUGH OF WARWICK.

.21 new writ was ordered to be issued for this borough,
in room of Sir Charles Douglas, who has accepted
the of 'ice of Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital.
BOROUGH OF SUNDERLAND.
_ _ _

A new writ for this borough was moved for by Mr.
TUFNELL, io the room of Lord Howiek, 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 It he ensuing session he would move fur leave to bring in
a Oil 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. .
Arr. FIELDEN was understood to give notice that he
I.vould move for the appointment of a Commia,ion in the
rit•xt session to inquire into the mode in which the in-
con,,e- 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 readi:ir 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. BORTH WICK congratulated the Reuse on
the introduction of the Bill. He regretted it was intro-
ducezt at so late a period of the session.
The Bill was read a third time and passed.
ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS.

Lord PALMERSTON presented a petition from a
Mr. Copeland, praying that Parliament would interfere
-to or,vent 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-
xengers much endangered by the practice. He would
recommend directors of railways to have it stated upon
the time tables banded to each passenger whether or no
those propelling engines were used, and ia the public
newspapers, as travellers by railways were not in
miost instances aware of the fact. The peti-
tioner prayed that the Board of Trade would
interfere in these matters. He (Lord Palmerston) felt
coatident that railway directors were themselves in
most :saes ignorant of the use of those propelling en-
gines.. itn. to pursue such a course with a knowledge of
the hazard attending it would be little less than cri-
mia4l.—(Hear, hear.)