The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-23 00:00:00

LEEDS VICARAGE BILL.

On the motion of Mr. BECKETT, the Leeds Vicarage
Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed.
JOINT STOCK BANKS REGULATION BILL.
On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX-
CHEQUER the House went into Committee on the
Joint-Stock Banks Regulation Bill.
Clauses 2,3, 4,5, 6,7, and 8, were agreed to, with
some verbal amendments.
On clause 9 being proposed, which made shareholders
liable in an unlimited degree,
Sir W. CLAY said that the Committee had yester-
day adopted the principle that the liability of share-
holders should be unlimited. They ought to take care
that the liability should not be illusory, but bona fide.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that care should
be taken to remove the difficulty as far as it was practi-
cable. After some further discussion, the clause was
agreed to.
Clause 10 was agreed to, with a few verbal amend-
ments.
Clauses 11, 12, 13, and 14, were agreed to, with some
verbal amendments.

On Clause 15 being proposed,
Mr. P. M. STEWART complained of the expenses of
taking out letters patent for joint-stock banks. The
principle was to charge so much for each name, which,
in the case of a large company, amounted to a very
large sum.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that the subject was under the consideration of his
Right Hon. Friend the President of the Board of Trade.
The clause was then agreed to.
Clauses 16, 17, and 18, were agreed to.
Clause 19 was omitted.
Clause 20 was agreed to.
On clause 21 being proposed, which required the
signature of twe directors to bills and notes,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER explained
that it was proposed to omit the words providing that
bills and notes must be signed by two directors, and to
introduce words enacting that bills and notes may be
signed in any manner provided by the deed of partner-
ship, provided such bills shall be signed by the manager
or one of the directors of such bank.
Mr. P. M. STEWART thought this a great practical
improvement on the original proposition.
The clause, as amended, was then agreed to.
The remainder of the clauses were then agreed to.
The schedules were agreed to.
Some additional clauses were brought up and
agreed to. _

-The House then resumed, and the report was ordered
;o be brought up on Thursday.
JOINT STOCK COMPANIES REGISTRATION

AND REGULATION BILL.
On the order of the day for the bringing up the report
of the Joint Stock Companies Registration and Regula-
tion Bill being read,
Mr. GLADSTONE moved that the report should be
re-committed.

The House then resolved itself into Committee.
Mr. GLADSTONE proposed the insertion of words
in the second clause, to extend the operation of the Act
:o Ireland.

Captain JONES objected to the Bill being extended
to Ireland. He had received communications from Mr.
M‘Niell, of Belfast, and from many respectable firms in
Dublin, complaining of the provisions of the measure
being extended to Ireland without longer notice.
Mr. ROSS bore testimony to the great respectability
of Mr. M'Niell.

Mr. T. B. C. SMITH said that the Bill would scarcely
affect any trading companies in Ireland, except insur-
ance companies. He thought it extremely desirable
that the Bill should be extended to Ireland.

Mr. GLADSTONE thought those firms in Ireland
which had petitioned against the Bill could scarcely be
aware that the measure did not affect existing companies.
It was intended that means should be taken for the regis-
tration of Irish companies in Dublin.
The motion was then agreed to.
The remaining clauses were agreed to, and the House
resumed.

The report was brought up and received, the amend-
ments were agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be
read a third time on Thursday, at twelve o'clock.
RAILWAYS BILL.
On the motion for receiving the report of the Rail-
ways Bill,

Mr. P. M. STEWART said he had understood that one
great object of the Bill was to afford increased accommo-
dation to the poorer classes ; but as the tax of 5 per cent.
pressed unequally on the third class'trains, he conceived
that their object could not be secured, but would rather
be defeated unless that tax were removed.
Mr. GLADSTONE said, that as the Bill now
stood the tax was reduced upon all third class
trains, which might be run in addition to that
which they were compelled to run by law. Under these
circumstances, he hoped the Hon. Gentleman would be
contented to let the question rest for the present.
Mr. ENTWISLE advocated the principle of affording
increased accommodation to the poorer classes.
Mr. THORNELY did not think the interests of the
revenue would suffer much from the remission of the tax.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
the matter was under consideration.

The report was then received, and the third reading
was ordered for Thursday, at Twelve o'Clock.
The House then adjourned until Five o'Clock.

MURDER NEAR STRATFORD-UPON-AVON.—Great
excitement has been caused during the week in Stratford-
upon-Avon by a report of the discovery of a murder com-
mitted more than eighteen months ago, at Binton-bridge,
near Stratford. Thomas Knight, one of the parties con-
cerned, has made a voluntary confession, from which it
appears that three men, named Thomas Careless, Badenham,
and " Sam," had been drinking at a public-house, when a
Jew pedlar was present. On the Jew leaving the house
they followed him to the bridge, knocked him down, and
took away his box. He cried out, and offered them 5L to
spare his life, but they beat him until he was insensible ;
and then, having torn away a large stone from the bridge,
they tied it with a pitch rope round his body, and threw him
into the deep water. Persons have been employed in drag.
ging the river, and it is said that on Friday the drag caught
against a hard substance which it could not bring up, but
that on a man diving to the bottom of the water he found
and brought up a large piece of stone, which, from its ap-
pearance, and its correspondence with the stones on the
bridge, is considered to be that with which the body had
been sunk.—Birmingham Gazette.

PAINFUL ACCIDENT.—A very serious accident
' occurred to the High Sheriff of Carlow county, Sir Robert J.
Paul, on Monday, by which it was considered for a time that
his life was placed in imminent danger. He went to shoot
rabbits at Brown's-hill, where he was on a visit; and after
some time spent in this amusement with a double-barrelled
gun, he was reloading one of the barrels, when the other,
which was loaded, exploded, and lodged the contents in his
right hand, dreadfully shattering two of his fingers. Dr.
Rawson, of Carlow, was in attendance a short time after, and
removed a joint off the thumb, and the entire fore-finger. He
sustained some injury in the cheek, but is entirely out of
danger, and going on well.
CURIOUS DISCOVERY.--A few weeks ago, some
people cutting pestspeatsin Auchintibber Moss, parish of Kilwin-
ning, found imbedded in a mass of turf, four feet below the
surface, a bottle of excellent brandy! The bottle was quite
full and securely corked--that portion of the cork which was
within the neck of the bottle was quite sound, but the piece
protruding was partially decayed. It is thought that it
may have been lost, perhaps a century or two ago, by
some sportsman who had been traversing the heath.—Glas-
gow National.
THE HARVEST.—The harvest commenced on Tues-
day last, in the parish of St. Stephen's, in Branwell, when
Mr. John Brokenshaw reaped a field of wheat; and on the
same day, Mr. Pleming, of St. Clement's, cut some exceed-
ingly fine wheat, yielding 16 Cornish bushels to the acre.
Mr. James Roberts, of Polwheverel, Constantine, began
harvest by cutting nearly the whole of a field of barley on
Monday week. The kerning is very good and the crop much
about an average one.—Deronport Independent.
VORACITY OF A RAT.—A few nights ago, Mr.
Watson, surgeon, Gatehouse, lost a parroquet in a singular
way. The bird was let out of the cage every night, and
having been in the house for ten years, it had become quite
domesticated. In the morning it was found on a table dead,
having been killed by a rat.—Dumfries Herald.
" POACHERS 13EwAuE."—A resident at Appeville-
Annebault, in the Calvados, suspecting his wife, although
fifty-five years of age, of being engaged in a criminal connec-
tion with a man in the neighbourhood, returned one evening
last week, and not finding her, got up into a tree with his
gun, to wttteli her coming. After waiting for three hours, he
perceived her and the man «alking together. He waited
until they drew near, and then fired at the man, and shot
him dead. On the following day he gave himself into cus-
tody.—Galignani's Messenger.....