The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-29 00:00:00

RAILWAY STANDING ORDERS.

Lord G. SOMERSET rose to move that the following
clauses be added to the Standing Orders :—To follow Standing
Order 101 ;—A declaration, in writing, signed by the agent
for the proposed Bill (or some one of such agents), shall be
annexed to such petition, stating to which of the three classes of
Bills such Bill in his judgment belongs ; and if the proposed
Bills shall give power to effect any of the fol-
lowing objects, that is to say—power to take any
lands or houses compulsorily, or to extend the time
granted by any former Act, fcr that purpose. Power to levy
tolls, rates, or duties, or to alter any existing tolls, rates or
duties ; or to confer, vary, or extinguish any exemption from
payment of tolls, rates, or duties, or any other right or privilege.
Power to interfere with any Crown, Church, or Corporation
property, held in trust for public or charitable purposes.
Power to make a burial-ground. Power to relinquish
any part of a work authorised by a former Act.
power to divert into any intended cut, canal, reservoir, aque-
duct, or navigation, or into any intended variation, extension,
or enlargement thereof respectively, any water from any ex-
isting cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation, whether
directly or derivatively, and whether under any agree-
ment with the proprietors thereof, or otherwise ;
power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge any cut, canal, re-
servoir, aqueduct, or navigation ; power to make, vary,
extend, or enlarge any railway. The said declaration
shall state which of such powers are given by the Bill, and
shall indicate in which clauses of the Bill (referring to them
by their number,) such powers are given, and shall further
state that the Bill does not give power to effect any of the ob-
jects enumerated in this order, other than those stated in the
declaration. If the proposed Bill shall not give power to effect
any of the objects enumerated in the preceding order, the said
declaration shall state that the Bill does not give power to effect
any such object. Amend standing orders 103 and 128.
Sir G. CLERK also moved the following addition to Stand-
ing Order 23 a :—Together with the line of the projected rail-
way, laid down on a map nut less than that of the ordnanoe map
os England ; and also a written statement, setting forth the
course of the railway, its capital, its maximum fares and
charges, and generally all the principal provisions of the pro.
posed Bill.
Lord G. SGMERSET explained that the principal altera-
tion would be the increasing the deposits on all railways, ex-
cepting those which had been considered in the House in the
past session, from 5 to 10 per cent.
Sir R. FERGUSON objected to this part of the motion,
which would have the effect of raising the deposits. He con-
sidered this would operate mast injuriously on those lines that
were already projected.
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET said that some step of
the kind was necessary to protect the public from the crude
speculations that were before it.
Mr. J. S. WORTLEY supported the same view of the
question.
Dr. BOWRING said that it would be greatly in favour of
those railroads which were already in existence, and against
those which were only as yet in a state of projection; and he
thought it was a needless imposition on this pecies of property.
Mr. E. B. DENISON said that the institution of this order
would be an unjust, if not a tyrannical oppression on those who
had signed the share list under the faith of the existing standing
orders, and who calculated on the payment of a certoin sum,
and now were called urn to pay one much larger.
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET said that the exemp-
tions to the evil effects of the order would be so numerous that
it was not worth while to consider those whose interests might
be affected.

Mr. GREEN said that the objection might be obviated by
exempting all signed and registered shareholders who had
already paid their deposits.
Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET said that if the general
feeling of the House was against him, he must give way, but
he would do so entirely contrary to his own opinion and in-
clination.

Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and on our return
to the gallery we found that the amendment was negatived
without a division.

(LEFT BITTING.)

MRS. HOFLAND.—The will of the late Mrs. Bar-
bara Hofland, of Richmond, Surrey, widow of Mr. Thomas Chris-
topher Hofland, landscape painter, was proved on the 12th instant,
and granted to Miss Ann Hurdis, the sole executrix, according to
the tenour of the will, she being directed therein to arrange her
little property, which the testator has disposed of in small pecu-
niary bequests to her relatives, together with some specific bequests
of plate and other articles. Her library of books (and amongst
them are some scarce volumes of which only a limited number of
copies were printed), she has particularised in a separate list, and
left the undermentioned persons, viz. :—Mr. Francis Hoole, Miss
Hoole, Mr. and Mrs. Barr, Miss B. Dixon, Mrs. Wreath, and
others; and to Mr. T. R. Hofland she has left all the works of art,
and half the profit arising from the " British Angler's Manuel,"
written by her father. One hundred pounds, in the hands of the
Earl of Egremont, she leaves to the four children of Mrs. Birk.
Leaves to her kind friend, Sir John Phillipart, the bust of her late
husband. Her servant to be rewarded by her executrix. She
leaves an estate, consisting of several cottages, to the son of her
late husband. Her personal estate sworn under 800/. The will is
in her own handwriting, dated December 9, 1843, but as the sig-
nature was not at the end of the will, but at the conclusion of the
list of books annexed to the will, the opinion of the Court was
taken. She died on the 9th of November last.

THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE RIVER.-
Yesterday Mr. Carter held an inquest at the Hero of Waterloo
Inn, Waterloo-road, on the body of Ann Lockyer, aged 36 yeurs,
who with her husband, Edward Lockyer, were unfortunately
drowned on the afternoon of Tuesday last. The particulars of the
occurrence appeared in our journal a few days since. The body of
Edward Lockyer was picked up on the same afternoon near the spot
where the accident occurred, and at the inquest held before the
same coroner at the Red House, Battersea, after a full investiga.
tion of the facts, a verdict of, accidental death was returned.
The body of the deceased Mrs. Ann Lockyer was not found until
Saturday last, when it was discovered floating off Waterloo-bridge.
In this case a similar verdict was returned.

ROYAL CALEDONIAN CURLING CLUB.—The annual
general meeting of this club was held in the Royal Exchange
Coffie.house yesterday. There was a large attendance of mem-
bers of the representative committee. Mr. Campbell, of Boquhan,
senior Vice-President, in the chair. About ten uew clubs were
admitted to the Royal Club ; and the secretary reported a very
prosperous state of the funds. The Royal Club now comprehends
144 local clubs, consisting in all of 7,000 members. A large
number of members of the Royal Club afterwards dined together
in the Royal Exchange Coffee.house, Mr. Durham Weir, of Bog-
head, In the chair, supported by Captain 0. Dalgleish, Rev. Mr.
Ramsay, of Gladsmuir, Mr. Brown, of Redhall, Dr. Arnott, of
Artery, Mr. Hogarth, banker, Cupar, &c.; Mr. Williamson,
banker, Kingston, croupier. The party passed the evening with all
the usual good fellowship of a meeting of keen curlers.—Edinburgh
Evening Post of Saturday.
BAIT FOR A CROCODILE.—It IS not long since,
said the katsheff, that a man from Berber settled here, and was
well known to all of us. One morning he led his horse to the
Nile to water, and fastened the rope by which he held it round his
arm, and while the animal was quenching his thirst he knelt down
to prayer. At the moment when he was lying with his face upon
the ground a crocodile attacked the unhappy man, swept him into
the water with his tail, and swallowed him. The terrified horse
exerted all its strength to run away, and as the rope, which was at-
tached to the arm of his dead master, in the stomach of the croco
dile, did not snap, and he could not disengage himself from it, the
affrighted animal not only pulled the crocodile out of the river, but
dragged it over the sand to the door of its own stable, where it was
soon killed by the family, who hurried to the spot, and afterwards
found the dead body of the victim entire in the belly of the mon-
ster.—Egypt under Mehemet Ali.
Last week, William M. Macdonald, Esq., of St.
Martin's and Garth estates, Perthshire, and recent purchaser of the
beautiful and extensive property of Rossie, in the parish of Craig,
in the neighbourhood of Montrose, paid his first visit to his new
domain. On the occasion numerous flags were displayed in the
village of Ferryden, and the parishioners rejoice in the prospect of
seeing, ere long, the splendid castle tenanted once more, and that
by a gentleman having such a high character.—Perthshire Courier.
GREAT PEDESTRIAN MATCH FOR 100/.—A novel
match has been made at the White Hart, Drury-lane, in which
Molloy (the well-known pedestrian), and his son are backed
against Powell and his son (also celebrated men), to walk for
twelve hours continuously, the distance covered by father and son
on the one side to be calculated against the ground travelled over
by the competitors on the other aide; and whichever accomplishes
the greater distance to be the winners.
OLD HUNDRETII.—The music in harmony of four
parts of this venerable church tune was composed by Claude
Goudimel, about the year 1544. The composer, who was chapel
master at Lyons, France, died in 1572, a victim to religious opi-
nion. The harmony of this hymn has since been altered, as may
be seen by comparing the same, as arranged in the present collec-
tions of church music, with the original. It is a popular tnusico-
historical error, that Luther was the composer of this choral.—
Musical World.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Yesterday the mar-
rriage of the Lady Mary Agar, only daughter of the Earl of Nor.
mental), with the Earl Nelson, waa solemnised at St. George's
Church, Hanover-square.
His Royal highness the Duke of Cambridge's
visit to Mr. Sloane Stanley, at Paultons, near Romsey, was for
the purpose Of taking the usual oaths and other formalities on his
appointment as Lord Warden of the New Forest, in the room of
the late Right Hon. Sturges Bourne.
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BATTERSEA FAlR.—Notwithstanding the applica-
tion to the magistrates on Saturday, at 'Wandsworth, to prevent
a fair being held in Battersea.fields, the proprietors of exhibitions,
booths, &c., were in no way dismayed, and the sports at twelve
o'clock yesterday commenced, which will be continued for the
three following days. The attendance of persons was considerably
greater than was anticipated, the proceedings before the magistrates
having eared the purpose of an advertisement.

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