The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-11 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
THURSDAY, APRIL 10. . _

The following Bills were pre'sented and read a first time :
Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway.
Preston and Wyre Railway Branches.
Grand Junction Railway.
Chester and Holyhead Railway (No. 2) (Mold Branch and
Purchase of Chester and Birkenhead Railway).
Exeter and Crediton Railway.
Monmouth and Hereford Railway.
Runcorn and Preston Brook Railway and Docks.

The following Bills were referred to the Select Committee
on Petitions for Private Bills :
Portarling-ton and Tullamore Railway.
Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier (No. 2).

London and Worcester and South Staffordshire Railway,—
Petition for Bill reported, report referred to the Select Com-
mittee on Standing Orders.
Cork and Bandon Railway,—Report from Select Committee
on Standing Orders read ; Bill ordered to be brought in by
Vi,,count Bernard and Mr. Sergeant Murphy.
Great North of England (Clarence and Hartlepool Junction)
Railway,—Report from Select Committee on Standing
Orders read ; Bill ordered to be brought in by Mr. Bowes
and Lord Harry Vane.

Newry and Enniskillen Railway,—Report from Select
Committee on Standing Orders read; Bill ordered to be
brought in by the Earl of Hillsborough, Viscount Newry,
and Colonel Rawdon.

Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction Railway,—Report
from Select Committee on Standing Orders read; ordered
to be brought in by Mr. William Collett., Ceptain Hatton,
Mr. Grogan, and Colonel Bruen.

Standing Orders Committee,—Resolutions reported;
1. " That, in the case of the Newry and Enniskillen
Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed
with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed with their
Bill."

2. " That, in the case of the Cork and Bandon Railway
petition, the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :
That the parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill."
3. " That, in the case of the Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin
Junction Railway petition, the Standing Orders ought to be
dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to proceed
with their Bill."

4. " Th at, in the case of the North Wales Railway petition,
the Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on marking
upon the section deposited in the Private Bill Office the dis-
tances in furlongs ; and that the Committee on the Bill do
examine, in the first place, how far such Order has been
complied with, and do report the same to the House on the
report of the Bill."
5. " That, in the case of the Great North of England
(Clarence and Hartlepool Junction) Railway petition, the
Standing Orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the
parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill."
6. " That, in the case of the Kingston-on-Hull Docks Bill,
amendment proposed on consideration of the report, the
amendment is of such a nature as to justify the House in en-
tertaining it without the recommitment of the Bill."
Resolutions agreed to.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Southport and Euxton Junctionßailway,—Second reading,
Monday, April 14.
Glasgow Harbour Union Railway,—Committee on petition,
Monday, April 21.
Glasgow Junction Railway,—Second reading, Monday,
April 14.
Yarmouth and Norwich Railway,—Second reading, Mon-
day, April 14.
Midland Railway Branches,—Committee on petition, Mott-
day, April 14.
Liverpool and Manchester Railway,— Committee on peti-
tion, Monday, April 21.
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway,—Committee
on petition, Monday, April 21.
Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston Railway (Skelmersdale
Branch),—Committee on petition, Monday, April 21.
Eastern Union and Harwich Railway and Pier (No. 2),—
Committee on petition, Monday, April 21.

TIIE IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY

MEETINGS.

BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY.—The usual Birmingham quar-
terly meeting of the ironmasters of the midland districts was
held in the Town-ball this day, and was unusually well at-
tended. It has already been announced that at a prelimi-
nary meeting, held at Wolverhampton, this day fortnight. it
was determined to make another advance of 2/. per ton,
making bar iron about 12/., and hoops about 12/. 10s. Shrop-
shire pig-iron is said to have advanced from 61. ss. to 61. 10s.
This extraordinary price of all descriptions of iron was main-
tained at the meeting at Walsall on Tuesday, at Wolver-
hampton yesterday, and again at the present meeting in Bir-
mingham this day. At the meeting at Wolverhampton
matters assumed a somewhat dull and heavy appearance;
there was by no means the same degree of buoyancy so con-
spicuously exhibited at the meeting a fortnight since.
To-day in answer to questions upon the subject several of
the most extensive and influential ironmasters, replied—
" There was no intention to attempt a further advance—they
were perfectly content with the present prices, if they could be
maintained."lt could not, however, be doubted, we think, from
the general complexion of the meeting, that some misgivings,
as to the long continuance of the present prices, have come
over the minds of some of the great masters. The de-
feat or abandonment of many of the projected lines of rail-
way—foreign competition, already sensibly felt in the market
—and the great injury which the high price of iron has
already inflicted upon the hardware trade it is thought, of
necessity, will cause a reduction. Another more powerful
reason may be given for the probability of this result. The
large speculators in iron—men who, for the last four or six
months, have been hoarding up stocks with a view to a high
price—seem to imagine that it has reached the maximum,
and are beginning to bring it into the market. This was
stated at the meeting to-day.
Persons deeply interested in the iron trade of this neigh-
bourhood generally think that there was much truth in the
few observations which fell from Lord Ashburton in the
House of Lords, on Monday evening. Should a fall take
place only half as suddenly as the recent rise, the mischief
done to the working population of the mining districts will
ba incalculable. No doubt, many of the ironmasters, in the
course of a short time, will have amassed immense fortunes,
but vast numbers of the work people, whose increase of
wages has not been in proportion to the employers' increase
of profits, will be thrown out of work, and unlike the
masters, when the evil day arrives, without the means of
maintenance.

At present, however, beyond the stand at the present
prices, to which I have alluded, there does not appear any
slackness of employment. The furnaces are in full work,
awl the men employed at the advanced wages conceded to
them a few weeks ago. It is to be hoped that now the fever
of speculation has somewhat abated, this state of things
may continue, that supply and demand may correspond, and
that steadiness of paying crisis be the result of present ex-
citement and uncertainty.
. _

The last of the quarterly meetings is to be held at Dud-
ley on Saturday night. At the meetings on former occasions,
some of the great iron proprietors have dissented from the
prices agreed upon at Wolverhampton and Birmingham.
This proceeding, as a matter of course, has tended to throw
doubt and distrust upon all general agreements of the trade,
for such is the magnitude and influence of the houses alluded
to, that a fall by them would, of necessity, cause a general
fall by other smaller competing firms.. What may be the
course pursued on Saturday cannot yet be anticipated.

HER MAJESTY'S RIVER YACHT FAIRY..—ThiS fine
little vessel went down the river on a fifth experimental trip,
at the early hour of six o'clock A.M. on Saturday, under the
charge of Commander Smith, with a crew of the Black Eagle,
and the Marines of the William and Mary yacht. Mr. Lloyd,
chief engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, and Mr. Penn, who
constructed the engines of the vessel, proceeded in her at the
same time, to ascertain the speed and working of the engines.
On this occasion the speed was found to exceed any of the
former trials, being 13,308 nautical miles, of nearly one-fourth
of a knot more than she had previously attained. The vessel
proceeded to sea, and is reported to have stood remarkably
stiff in the water, when off Whitstable, although there was a
strong sea running, and the wind blowing a breeze. The trial
gave great satisfaction, and afforded good earnest of the ca-
pabilities of this handsome vessel for the use of her Majesty,
reflecting great credit on all engaged in her construction.
The Fairy been taken into the Last India Dock at Black-
wall, to be fitted for her Majesty's use, and will be ready in
a few weeks.

TAWELL'S CLOTIIES.—We are told by the Morning
Post that " a gentleman" went to Aylesbury the night be-
fore the execution to make a bargain with the hangman for
the suit of black in which Tawell was to suffer. Anxious
not " to lose one shred of that immortal man," the gentle-
man offered 251. for the black coat and trousers and silk
vest which, being worn by a murderer in his death-struggle,
had, of course, " magic in their web." It is a pity for the
healthy moral tone of society that the gentleman was dia.
appointed in his mission, the precious apparel being con-
signed to the consuming earth. "It was hinted that the
clothes were required as an additional attraction for a cer-
tain public exhibition in the metropolis." We have no
doubt that they would have made, according to play-bill
flourish, " a tremendous hit." how gentlemen, and tender,
delicatethe“n
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woolsey contrasted with the super-saxony of John Tawell.
The murderer's raiment would have been interesting, curious
as the skin of some newly-discovered snit:Ohl; some terrible
novelty of the carnivora. We would have had him exhi-
bited with a phial in either hand : in one vessel, prussic acid ;
and in the other Mr. Fitzroy Kelly's tears,. preserved—as
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Cockletop avouches of the tear of Cleopatra—in spirits. It
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may after this seem spiteful in us to rejoice at the disap-
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subjects of attraction, we should like to have a rival show, in
which should be exhibited resemblances of only the most vir-
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tuous of the earth. But no ; small chance
of success would
John Howard have against John Tawell. Mere virtue is un-
salted water-gruel ; now, crime has in it a fine, fruity flavour.
—Punch.

Tim Box TUNNEL.—The public, especially those
in the habit of travelling on the Great Western Line, are in-
volved in fearful apprehensions in consequence of the falling
of some of the mason work from the roof of the Box Tunnel.
The first fall was of an enormous block of stone on Sunday
se'nnight, when the engine was on its return to Box ; and
the obstruction occasioned threw the engine violently off the
line, and the engine-driver was much injured by the shock.
Immediate attention was paid to the defective part, but
while the workmen were engaged in its repair, two other
masses of stone fell, one of them weighing nearly a ton, and
the other about 12 cwt. The down mail was, luckily, timely.
delayed. Under these circumstances it will of course be ne-
cessary to have the tunnel more effectually surveyed. Had
any one stone fallen it would have been comparatively trifling ;
but, when the work is found giving way in more than one
place, the feeling of insecurity is truly fearful. —Kcene's
Both Journal.
LINCOLN'S INN NEW GARDEN.—The projected
improvements in the New-square, noticed in our paper of
Wednesday last, as in course of progress, have been some-
what suddenly suspended by order of the authorities of the
Honattrable Society, in consequence of the petition or pro-
test of several of the owners and occupiers of chambers
having been presented to the Benchers respecting the pro-
posed alterations. A large proportion of the chambers in
the square immediately adjacent to the proposed encloeures
are held under almost every form of tenure, by different
individuals, who are more or less interested—thus yr!_lia.ve
freeholders, copyholders, leaseholders, tenants, at will,ill,
Amongst some of these gentlemen, it appears that diversity
of opinion has existed respecting the necessity or propti_ ty
of the Society carrying out the proposed -enclosure puma,
which was briskly proceeded with up to the last day or two
likely until the matter
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discussed and decided upon sn the Council
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fully
Chamber next term.