The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

either of transportation or of imprisonment, nor one free
pardon. The return was made by the Lord Advocate,
and was received with peculiar interest.
NARROW ESCAPE.—On Wednesday last a carriage and
pair. containing three ladies, was waiting at the railway
station at Rugby, whilst the coachman went to make in-

alarmed at ti

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noise of the numerous engines that are
constantly passing backwards and forwards at this point,
turned round and started off at a rapid rate towards the
town. A man engaged in mending the road, alarmed at
the approach of the carriage, removed his barrow, but
dared not attempt to stop the horses ; a young man, how-
ever, who lives at tire crown, seeing the dangerous posi-
tion in which the ladies were placed, gallantly ran towards
the horses, and succeeded in obtaining possession of the
reins, and also in checking the progress of the spirited
animals, after being dragged a distance of nearly 30 yards.
It was almost miraculous that the parties in the carriage
escaped without injury, as the road along which the horses
ran is nearly at all times thronged with carriages of dif-

ferent descriptions passing to mid from the station to th
The ladies in the carriage, to show the estimation

in whim they hem the courageous conduct of the young
man, by whose intervention their lives were most proba•
bly saved, presented him with the munificent sum of 6d.
PARLIAMENTARY FEES IN RESPECT OF PRIVATE BILLS

arced on all private bills of whicl

the operation is to be immediate. .£5 is to be paid on the
deposit of the petition, or any other document, in the
private bill office ; and £6 for every day occupied by the
examiners into compliance with the standing orders. As
to proceedings in the house, £5 is to be paid on the pre-
sentation of the petition, and £l5 for each of the following
stages, these fees to be increased according to the money
to be raised or expended undo the authority of the bill,
in conformity with a scale. By this scale, which is gra-
duating, if the sum be £50,000, and under £lOO,OOO, the
fees are to be doubled ; if the sum is one million and a
half, and less than two millions, the fees must be multi-

half million up to hve nrulhons, and for every additional
million beyond five millions. For every day promoters

appear before any committee by counsel, £IU; and if
without counsel £6 is to be charged. Opponents are to
pay £1 on the deposit of every memorial complaining of
non-compliance with the standing orders • £2 on the pre-
sentation of every petition to the house ; 13 for every day
on which the examiners inquire into the memorial com-
plaining of non-compliance with the standing orders; £5
if they appear by counsel before any committee, and £3 if
they appear without. The general fees it is unnecessary

to ;pee* here. The fees to be taken—bytheshorilianil
writer remain unaltered ; and any bill for the particular

interest of any person or persons, whether brought in upon
Petition, motion, or report from a committee, or brought
from the lords, is to be deemed a private bill within the
meaning of this table of fees,