Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1883-04-21 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

RAILWAY RATES AND FARES.  A conference has been held in the metropolis, of representatives of chambers of agriculture, commerce, and other bodies interested in the question of railway rates and fares, the object being to strengthen the hands of Mr. Samuelson in relation to his motion for making the Railway Commission permanent, and forgiving it extended powers. Mr. Ritellie, M.P., who presided, was supported by several members of Parliament, and representatives of tile ',linters' elub, the Farmors' Alliance, and the Central Chamber of Agriculture. The follow- jug resolutions were passed : That the interests of trade acid agriculture urgently require that the Regulation of Railways Act, 1873, and consisting of three commiseiouers, of whom one shall be of experience in the law and one of experience in the railway business, be made a permanent tribunal, and that its jurisdiction be enlarged in the maLner suggested by the seventh recommendation of the Select Committee on the Railways (Rates and Fares), 1882. That, considering the great practical difficulties in the way of individuals obtaining redress from corporations so wealthy and powerful as the railway companies, it is most expedient Rad a locus standi before the Railway C:r..,:nission should bo conferred upon chamber, of commerce and agricultural and other commercial and agricultural associations. That, in the opinion of this meeting it is desirable that effect be given, by a Standing Order of the House of Commons, to the ,e,simmendatiene of the Select Committee on Railways (Rates and Fares), 1882, that "on application by a railway undertaking for Parliameutary power?, attention should be directed by some public authority to the proposed and, in the case of an existing company, to the existing rates or fares, with a view to their consideration by the committee; and that perso:ls affected by such rates or fates shuoukl have a luaus standi before such committee." A deputation to wait upon the PreAdent of the Board of Trade was appointed, and a petition to the House of Commons was resolved  AL ti ia LiserpOol Pollee-wart on Tuetidsiy, Richard J. Jones, seaman, was committed for trial at the assizes, charged with stealing rum and setting fire to the barque Riltearn on the high seas on the 28th Mt.  An Pa ploF ion of dynamite or gunpowder occurred on Tuebday at Carballeno, in the province of Or, use. Three houses were set on fire, and two pers..us were killed.  The scaffolding of the central building of the Miring Exhibition, which was to have been opened next mouth in the Retiro Park, Madrid, gave way on Tuesday. One workman was killed and [seventeen severoie injured.  Martin McNulty. the young Irishman arrested at Wkfietd uu suspicifin of being a Fenian, was on W,duesday discharged. The Chief Constable stated that the prisoner belonged to the disaffected party, but he had no evidence whioh would sustain a conviction.  Peter Dungan, labourer, who was sentenced to death at the Newcastle Assizes for the murder of his wife, wai on Wednesday reepited. The young woman Read, sentenced to death at Hertford Assizes for the murder of her child, has also been resulted.  The Government has issued a circular to the local auhorities throughout the kingdom impressing on them the importance of exercising vigilant observation with a view to prevent the acquisition by persona for unlawful objects not only of explosives, but of the materials from which such explosives are made. A reward of £lOO is offered for information that will lead to the detection and cotviction of any person engaged in manufacturing explosives intended for a criminal purpose.