The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-10 00:00:00

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Great North of England (Clarence and Hartlepool Junction)
Railway.

The I;,llowing Bills were referred to the Select Committee
on Petition. s f)r Private Bills :
Newpert and Ponty Pool Railway.
Brighton, I.::wes, and Hastings Railway (Hastings, Rye,and
Ashford Extension).

The Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, and Caine Extension
Railway Bill was read a third time and passed.

NOTICE s GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
Tnuttsi)Ay, MAY 8.
Bristol and Exeter Railway Branches,—Committee on Bill,
adjourned till Monday, May 19, at twelve.
FRIDAY, MAY 9.
Whitehaven and Furness Railway,—Select Committee on
project, Tuesday, May 20, at one.
White haven and Furness Railway,—Second reading,
Thursday, May 15.
Yarmouth and Norwich Railway,—Committee on Bill,
Monday, May 26, at twelve.
Eastein Uaion and Bury St. Edmund's Railway (No. 2),
—Committee on Bill, Monday, May 96, at half after twelve.
Lowestoft Harbour and Railway,—Committee on Bill,
Monday, May 26, at half after twelve.
Diss and Colchester Railway,—Committee on Bill, Mon-
day, May 26, at half after twelve.
Norwich and Bran,lon Railway (Diss and Dereham
Branched),—Committee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at half
after twelve.

North Woolwich Railway,—Committee on Bill, Wednes-
day, May 27, at one.
South Eastern (Maidstone to Rochester) Railway,—Com-
mittee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twelve.
South Eastern (Branch to Deal and Extension of the
South Eastern Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate) Rail-
way,—Committee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twelve.
South Eastern (Ashford to liamings) Railway,—Commit-
tee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twelve.
South Eastern ( Widening and Extension of the London
and Greenwich Railway),---2onunittee on Bill, Monday, May
26, at twelve. _

South Eastern (Tunbridge to Tunbridge Wells) Railway,
—Committee on Bill, Monday, May 26, at twelve.
South Eastern (Hungerford-brhke to Chilham, with
Branches) Railway,—Select Committee on project, Monday,
May 26, at twelve.
South Eastern (Lewisham to Tunbridge and Paddock
Wood) Railway,—Select Committee on project, Monday,
May 26, at twelve.
Liverpool and Manchester Railway,—Committee on Bill,
Monday, May 26, at twelve.
Blackburn and Preston Railway,—Committee on Bill,
Tuesday, May 27, at twelve. •
Aberdare Railway,— Report, Thursday, May 15.
Grand Junction Railway (Dudley Branch),—Report, Thurs-
day, May 15.
Manchester and Leeds (Burnley Branch and Oldham and.
Heywood Extension),—Report on re committed Bill, Thurs-
day, May 15.
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction Railway,—
Report, Thursday, May 15.
Trent Valley Railway,—Report, Thursday, May 15.
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth Railway,—Select Committee
on project, Monday, May 26, at half after twelve.
Cork and Bandon Railway,—Committee on Bill, Wednes-
day, May 28, at half after twelve.
Waterford and Kilkenny Railway,—Committee on Bill,
Tuesday, May 27, at half after twelve.
Liverpool, 'Ormskirk, and Preston. Railway,-,-Select Com-
mittee on project, Monday, May 26, at one.
Preston and Wyre Railway (Lytham and Blackpool
Branches),—Committee on Bill, Tuesday, May 27, at twelve.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Worcester Davis-
tion),—Second reading, Thursday, May 15.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (Wolverhampton
Line), Second reading, Thursday, May 15.
Great Western (Ireland) Railway (Dublin to Mullingar
and Athlone),—Second reading, Thursday, May 15.
Brighton, Lewes, and llastings Railway (Hastings and
Ashford Branch),- Committee on petition, Tuesday, May 20.
Liverpool and Bury Railway (Bolton, Wigan, and Liver-
pool Railway, and Bury Extension),—Committee on Bill,
Monday, May 26, at one.
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway,—Second reading,
Thursday, May 15.
North \Vales Railway,—Committee on Bill, Monday, May
19, at twelve.
London and Croydon Railway (Enlargement),—Second
reading, Thursday, May 15.
London and Croydon Railway (Chatham and Gravesend,
—Second reading, Thursday, May 15.
London and Croydon Railway (Maidstone, Ashford, and
Tunbridge),—Second reading, Thursday, May 15.
London and Croydon Railway (Orpington Branch),—Se-
cond reading, Thursday, May 15.
London and Croydon Railway (Chatham to Chilham),—
Second reading, Thursday, May 15.
Bills°n petition, 'Wednesday,
or projects comprised
May
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itiCommitteeßailway,—Committee
on Railway
in Group DD., adjourned till Friday, May 16, at twelve.
Select Committee on Railway Bills or projects comprised
in Group 13., adjourned till Monday, May 19, at twelve.
omitt ee
Select Committee on Railway Bills or projects comprised
in Group N., adjourned till Tuesday, May 20, at twelve.
Select Committee on Railway Bills or projects comprised in
Group Q., adjourned till Monday, May 26, at twelve.
Select Committee on Railway Bills or projects comprised
in Group X., adjourned till Friday, May 16, at twelve.

RAILWAYS.
Select Committee on Group CC. postponed from Wednes-
day 28th till Thursday, May 29, at half after twelve o'clock.
Select Committee on Group NN. postponed from Wednes-
day 28th till 'Thursday, May 29. at one o'clock.
Select Committee on Group A. •
Lord Harry Vane discharged from attendance on the Com-
mittee.
The Hon. W. S. Lascelles appointed Chairman.
Sir Arthur Brooke (Fermanagh County),
Mr. Roche (Cork County),
selected, and added to the Committee.
Select Committee on Group SS.
Mr. David Dundas discharged from attendance on the
Committee.
Lord Harry Vane (South Durham),
selected, and appointed chairman of the Committee.
Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale Railway Bill,—Order
referring the Bill to Group B. discharged.
North Wales Mineral Railway Bill,—Committed for Mon-
day, May 26, at twelve o'clock.
The Committee of Selection have appointed the Select
Committees on the Groups I'., Z., GG., and LL. to meet in
the week commencing Monday, June 2.

Memorandum—The Committee of Selection will meet on
Friday, May 16, at twelve o'clock.

Tun MORNING MAILS.—III consequence of the
numerous railways that are now established throughour the
United Kingdom, the Postmaster. General, the Right Hon. the
Earl of Lonsdale, has taken advantage of this public benefit by the
facility thus afforded for the transmission of morning as well as
evening, snails to nearly every town in Great Britain, Scotland,
and Ireland. The following is the official list of post towns to
which letters and newspapers can now be forwarded by the morn-
ing mails, issued yesterday ; —Abingdon, Accrington, Alnwick,
Andover.road, Appleby, A.lfford, Banbury, Bangor, Bath, Barns.
ley, Basingstoke, Battle, Beaumaris, Bedford, Belper, Berwick,
Berkhampstead, Bilstone, Birmingham, Bishops.Stortford, Black.
burn, Bolton, Bradford (Yorkshire), Brackley, Brampton, Bridge-
water, Bristol, Brighton, Brough, Buckingham, Burnley, Burton
NV., Bury (Suffolk), Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, Carnarvon,
Chatham, Cht pstow, Cheltenham, Chester, Chester-le-street, Ches-
ter field, Chippenhana,Cirencester, Clitheroe, Cockermouth,Conway,
Coventry, Cowes, Cranbrook, Cuck field, Thrlington, Dartford, Da.
re ntry, Derby,Dorking, Dover, Dunmow, Durham, Durslcy,Exeter,
Fairham, Fairford, Farringdon, Felton, Fenny Stratford, Fever.
sham, Folkestone, Gateshead, Gudalming, Gloucester, Gosport,
Grantham, Gravesend, Guildford, Guernsey, Halifax, Hastings,
Haydon.bridge, Hemel Hempstead, Hertford, Iligham, Highwortb,
Hoddesdon, Holyhead, Holywell, Huddersfield, Hurst green, Ilyth,
Jersey, Kendal, Lancaster, Leeds, Leamington, Leicester, Lech-
dale, Leighton-Buzzard, Lewes, Liverpool, Loughborough, Maiden.
head, Maidstone, Manchester, Margate, ytaryport, Melton Mowbray,
Miltithorpe, Mold (Monmouth), Mowed), Newcastle-on-Tyne,
Newmarket, Newport (Isle of Wight), Newport-Pagnel, North.
atripton, North Shields, Nottingham, Northallerton, Oxford, Penk.
ridge, Peurith, Portsmouth, Preston, Preston Brook, Pwllhell,
Ramsgate, Reading, Reigate, Riekmansworth, Ripon, Rochdale,
Rochester, Rotherham, Rugby, Ityde, Saffron Walden, Sevenoake,
Sheffield, shlthsell, Sittingbourre, Shoreham, Shrewsbury, Slough,
Sunderland, South Shields, Southampton,
Staplehurst, St. Asaph,
St. Antes's, St, Leonard's, Staffbrd, Stockport, Stockton, Stone,
Stroud, Stony Stratford, Stratford-on-Avon, Swinton, Taunton,
Tetbury, Thirsk, Towcester, Tring, Tunbridge, Tunbridge Well.,
Ulverstone, Uxbridge, Wakeeew, Wallingford, Walsall, Ware,
Warrington, Warwick, Watford, Wednesbury, Weedon, West
Bromwich, Wellington (Salop), Wellington (Sosnersetshire), White.
haven, Wigan, Wigton, Winchester,
Windsor, Wolverhampton,
Wooton-under Edge, Workington, Wortley, York ; all Scotland
and Ireland. For all the above places the letter-boxes at the re-
ceiving-houses will be open from 7 e as. for newspapers, and 8 a.m.,
for letters ; and those at the branch offices, Charing-cross, Old
Cavendish-street, and the Borough, for the reception of news-
papers, until half-past 7 A.M., and for letters until 8 a.m. At the
General Post.ollice, St. Marti:es-le-Grand, and the Branch-office in
Lombard-street, the boxes will close for newspapers at 45 minutes
alter 7 a M. and for letters at 30 minutes after 8 A.M.
POOR-LAW COMMISSION.—A vacancy has oc-
curred in the number of Assistant Poor_law Commissioners by the
death of Mr. Gilbert, which event took place on Wednesday at his
residence in Rostrevor, county Down. His decease, caused by a
fever of ten days' duration, Is stated to have been most unexpected.
Esq., and John William Miles, Esq., the
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WILL or A MILLIONAIRE.—The will and codicil
of Philip John Miles, Esq., late of Bgri(sti,hbigatriseksetra,mhoauvnetjutostwbheiecis,
bequeaths
to his sons (eight in
proved in Doetors'wleCsh,oonts,nasvoctis,,w
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an additional sum
several godsons 200/,
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each ; to neices and many other relatives legacies varying from
1001. to 3,0001.; to his two solicitors 2001. Each, and legacies to
three of his confidential clerks; to each of hi, banking partners
legacies varying from 100/. to 3001. He observes that he has pro-
videdea for leis three
1,0001. each, and directs his collection of pictures and
best service of plate to go with his mansions in the nature of heir.
looms. Ho gives to the Herefordshire Infirmary 2001; to the
qu. themsith three eldest daughters, on their marriage, and be.
of March to the)pooTr
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'2OO/. ; to the Bristol Infirmary, 5001.;
to the Bristol
Dispensary, 501.; to tt e Lying-in Institution at Bristol, 501, ;
and to the " three Dorcas Societies," 50/. each. He
directs sufficient money to be invested to pr( duce the suns of 701.
e is given to his
sons and executors. The will is dated in
1842, and is of great
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Custom Steam I 'ORNIEaooII
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board 27 oxen and one cow, 43 packages of fish of different de-
quantity
scriptions, about 590 packages of butter, 700 of cheese, besides a
manufacture. The Tourist, reported the same day from Calais, had
10 packages of French poultry ; and the Rainbow, which arrived
at the St. Katharine's Steani_whai f, had nearly 100 packages of
eggs on board, besides a full cargo of merchandise, and a large
number of passengers (rein Havre,
.atler a very quick passage.
The American line.of.packet ship IN estinitister also brought from
New York 136 tierces of beef, 150 barrels of pork. and about 2,100
packages of cheese, besides a large c..rgo of every other description
of American produce. '
the importation of foreign provisions bat
lately increased to a very great extent.
It is with deop regret we state that Vincent
Stuckey, Esq., the eminent banker, died suddenly in his library,
at his seat in Langport, on the night of the Bth inst. He was in
his 74th year. The deceased was most deservedly respected by all
with whom his extensive mercantile transactions brought him ac-
quainted.—Somersel County Herald:
The fleet of the Royal Cork Yacht Club for the
ensuing season musters 39 vessels, including the Thetis, 43 tons,
O'Grady, and the Caroline, 49, Colonel Vandeleur. A regatta is
determined on,