The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-08 00:00:00

(LEFT SITTING.)

SECOND REPORT from the SELECT
COMMITTEE on RAILWAY BILLS.
The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the state
and progress of the several railway Bills now before Parlia-
ment, and to consider and report their opinion as to what
measures should be adopted by the House, in order to facili
tate the re introduction, and to prevent expense and delay-
in the progress through Parliament in the next session, of
such Railway Bills as it may be found impossible to pass into
laws from want of time for their proper investigation during
the present session, have further considered the matters re-
ferred to them, and agreed to the following report :
Your Committee have considered the resolutions adopted
by a Committee of the House of Lords, appointed for the pur-
pose of a similar inquiry, and which appear to have the same
general object contemplated in the former report of your
Committee ; but as there is reason to believe that some ob-
jection is entertained to a Bill being passed on the subject,
and as the same end may to a great degree be obtained by
the concurrence of the two Houses without an Act of Par-
liament, your Committee have agreed to the following reso-
lutions, which will, in their opinion, if adopted by the House,
relieve the parties affected by them from great expense and
delay to which they would otherwise be subjected in the next
session of Parliament.
1. Resolved, That owing to the peculiar circumstances of the
prese..t session of Parliament, the Committee is of opinion that
special privileges should be granted to parties wishing to re-intro-
duce, in the next session, railway Bills which, having been ad-
vanced to a certain stage, it may be tound impossible to pass into
laws during the present session, from want of time for their proper
investigation.
2. Resolved, That such privileges be limited to the case of such
Bills as shall have been ordered to be engrossed by this House
during the present session.
3. Resolved, That the promoters of such „pills shall give notice
by advertisement for six successive weeks in the months of
October and November next in the London, Edinburgh, or
Dublin Gazette, as the case may be, and in the local paper or
papers which may be usually in circulation in the part of the
country through which the line of railway is proposed to pass, of
their intention to present a petition for the re-introduction of any
such Bill.
4. Resolved, That upon any petition for leave to bring in a
railway Bill which shall be presented to the House during the
next session of Parliament, and referred to the Committee on
petitions, the Committee do examine whether the said petition be
the same in substance as any petition for the same purpose and
from the same parties which was presented in this session of Par.
!lament, and in that case, whether any Bill brought lido the
House in pursuance of such petition in this session, was pond
ing in either House of Parliament on the termination of this
session, and if so, whether a subscription contract, as required
by the standing orders, binding in the usual way the subscribers to
the undertaking, has been entered into, and is valid at the time
of such inquiry, and whether the deposit of 5/. per cent. upon such
subscription is lodged in the manner required by the standing
orders.

. Resolved, That in such case, and on proof of such notice
having been given as aforesaid, and in case it should appear that
such Bill had, at the end of this session, been pending in the House
of Lords, or if pending in the House of Commons, had been or-
dered to be engrossed, the standing orders with respect to any such
Bill shall be held to have been complied with.
6. Resolved, That the time between the second reading of any
such Bill which shall be brought in in the next session and the
meeting of the Committee thereon, be shortened to three days, the
parties giving the regular notices in the Private Bill Office.
7. Resolved, That the Committee on any such Bill do examine
whether the Bill be in every respect the same as such former Bill at
the last stage of its proceeding in this House in the present session,
and that in such case no evidence shall be received by such Com-
mittee ; but that on the reception and adoption by the House of a
report from such Committee that the Bill referred to them is in
every respect the same as such former Bill at the last stage of its
proceeding in this House in the present session, such Bill may be
ordered to be engrossed without any further proceeding ill respect
thereof.
July 4,1845.

THE THUNDER STORM YESTERDAY MORNING.—
About twenty minutes to four o'clock yesterday morning the town
of Erith was visited by a rain and hail storm, accompanied by
thunder, which, while it lasted, greatly alarmed the inhabitants.
The thunder was heard at a distance, and as it approached was ac-
companied with large drops of rain. In the course of a few seconds
a shower of hailstones descended, which continued from five to ten
minutes, and was immediately followed by showers of rain, which
came down in torrents for about five minutes more. The hail-
stones in some places were the size of marbles, and did an immense
deal of damage amongst the hot and green-houses. At one place,
Lord Saye and Sele's grounds, there were upwards of 4,000 or
5,000 panes of glass broken, which will cost from 2001. to 3001.
to repair, and the fruit damaged. The most extraordinary part of
the affair is, that over the strawberry beds thick mats were placed,
through which the hailstones beat as well as through the glass.
BOROUGH VOTERS.—AII occupiers in boroughs will
do well not to forget, that unless they pay all the poor-rates and
assessed taxes that were due from them on the 6th of April last
before the 30th of the present month, they will lose their right to
be registered as Parliamentary electors for the next year.
SURREY SESSIONS.—The adjourned Surrey Ses-
sions for the trial of prisoners commenced at the Court-house,
Newington, yesterday, before Mr. Puckle and a bench of magis-
trates, but no case of interest was tried.
THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL Mr. Fitzroy Kelly,
the new Solicitor-General, left town last night for Cambridge, to
prepare for his reelection, of which there is little doubt.
DEATH OF GENERAL SIR ARTHUR DILLON, BART.
—We have to announce the demise of the above gallant and vene-
rable Baronet, at his residence in Dublin, on Thursday last, in his
74th year. Sir Arthur was the second son of the first Baronet, by
the daughter of R. Drake, Esq., of Fern Hill, Berkshire; married,
1814, second daughter of the late W. Knox, Esq. ; succeeded his
brother in the Baronetcy, 1840 ; served in Ireland during the re.
hellion of 1798 ; was a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire ; and is
succeeded in his title and his estate by his brother, now Sir William
Henry Dillon, Bart.
The New York Tribune records the marriage of
a widow aged only thirteen years and a half, who was united to her
!Int spouse in her eleventh year,