The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-20 00:00:00

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PETITIONS ON PRIVATE BILLS,
110U6E OF COMMONS.—(THIS—DAY.)
Committee Room No. 22, before Mr. Eximiner SMITA,
and Mr. Assistant-Examiner FRERE.)
GLASGOW, DUMFRIES, AND CARLISLE, AND
GLASGOW, PAISLEY, KILMARNOCK, ADD Ant
RAILWAY.
The allegations of the Caledonian Company against the
petition were resumed._ _ An importtait allegation.was kistainel,..impugoing the ac 7
curacy of the calculations which the engineer of the line
had made for ascertaining the levels. Itrpoint of fact it-was
proved by Mr. Bly►h, the engineer of the memorialists' line,
that the levels had not been accurate'y ascertained.
Mr. PEtrr, the agent of- the•petitioners, reluctantly ad •
mitted that there was a discrepancy of two teet in the levels,
but he urged the Examiner not to report the circumstance
as a non-compliance, as -1t might-pre -fatal to the BilL
Besides the point, -was raised by a-iival 'company, and-no
private individual could be injured by the omission.
The EXAMINER tOOk time to-consider the point.
(Room 23, before Mr. Examiner_ MAY and Mr., Assistant-
Examiner GUNNELL. )
" iJNOPPOsSD LIST.
The customary formal proofs having been put: in the
standing orders in respect of the following petitions were
declared to have been complied with.
Wakefield New Gas Company.
Ipswich and Bury St. Edmonds Railway Extension to
Yarmouth.
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway Acts Amendment
(Deviation of line in the parishes of Blackburn and Bolton-
in-the-Moors.)
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway
Deviation of main line and Chester branch, new branches to
London and North-Western, and to the Birkenhead Docks
for station at Birkenhead, and to divert a public road in the
parish of Runcorn.
Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway Extension to
Wakefield, and Junction at Methley with the Wakefield,
Pontefract, and Goole, and York and North Midland Rail-
ways.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Branch at
Burysworth, to join the Peak Forest Canal Tramway, and
amendment of Acts.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Station
Approach in Manchester.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Station
at Sheffield, and a Branch to Sheffield Canal.
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway,
and Chester and Birkenhead Railway
_Purchase and Amal-
gamation.
Newbury Cemetry. - • •
East Lincolnshire Railway Deviation at Boston, and
Branch to Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction Railway at
Grimsby.
This closed Mr. Examiner May's list for to-day.

COURT OF REVIEW:7(TiItS DAY.)

IN RE RIDGWAY AND CO.

This was the petition of a trustee to the bankrupts,
praying for an order in reference to certain moneys in his
hands. The bankrupts were joined in the firm of Gaskell
and Ridgway, who carried on business at Pernambuco, and
shortly after the fiat was issued, a meeting of their creditors
was held at Manchester, and two trustees were appointed.
In the interim, some specie, which had been consigned by
the partners at Pernambuco, who were solvent, was seized at
Liverpool, but subsequently they paid the amount of the im-
port duty and sold the goods. Payments were then made to
some of the creditors, but a misunderstanding had arisen in
reference to this duty which had been paid, the consignors
contending that it should be returned to them.
His HONOUR said it was difficult to come to a correct
judgment on the case without knowing the state of the ac-
counts between all the parties ; but as they were agreed in
desiring him to make an order, he would direct that the
money in the hands of the trustee should be paid to the
assignees, under the fiat of one of the partners (Johnson)
without prejudice to the demand of the deceased.

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COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAN.)
The Court was engaged to-day with the demurrer paper,
in which there was no case brought under the consideration
of their Lordships of any interest, except to the parties
concerned.

SECONDARIES'-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary JAmEs.)

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PALMER V. JAMES.
This was an action brought to recover the sum of 31.105.
for a quarter's rent.
The defendant lives in Canal-place, Camberwell, and held
the house under an apeement, and pleaded that he was not
indebted. The agreement was proved, and when Mr. Thomas,
who appeared as counsel for the defendant, examined it, he
said he could not sustain the defence. The agreement was
not stamped, and it appeared that the defendant relied on
the terms as requiring no stamp.
RUSSELL AND WRIGHT V. MOODY.
The plaintiffs in this action are the successors to the well-
known Mr. Warren, the blacking merchant, in the Strand;
the defendant is a grocer at Castle Carey, Somersetshire.
The action was brought to recover the value of twenty
half-boxes of blacking, alleged to have been supplied by the
defendant's order.

Mr. l'itomas called the plaintiff's traveller, who spoke to
obtaining the order in the usual course, and the transmission
of the goods per order.
Mr. PARRY appeared for the defendant, and cross-examined
the witness, with an endeavour to .how that only six boxes
had been ordered, and that the goods had been returned, but
he did not elicit any answers to bear out the defence, and
submitted to a verdict.

WEST V. KEASLEY.
This was an action to recover the value of coals supplied
to defendant, who pleaded in abatement that he was not
solely liable, but that at the time of the goods being deli-
vered other persons were in partnership with him. The case
was not completed, depending on the question as to when
the partnership terminated, and was not of public im-
portance.

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BANKRUPTCI .—(THIS DAY.)
THE: FLORES EXPEDITION.—IN RE WILCOX SLEIGH.
This insolvent, who described himself as of Somerset-street,
Portman-square, a Captain in the naval service of Spain,
came up this day for his interim order.
The insolvent's name has lately been prominently brought
bofore the public in connexion with the Flores expedition."
His debts amounted to 370/. ; property "nothing."
He was supported by Mr. Buchanan, solicitor, of Basing-
hall-street, and opposed on behalf of Mrs. Cumberland, the
landlady of a furnished house occupied by him in Brompton.
row, Brompton, for which he paid a rent of 1201. a year. He
underwent a strict examination as to his means of payment
at the time he took the house. He said he had saved money
from his services in Spain and Portugal, and also as Assistant-
Commissioner of Police at Manchester, and expected a re-
appointment from the Home-office.
The COMMISSIONER—How came you to give up the ap-
pointment? Captain Sleigh—l did not resign; the appoint-
ment depended on an Act of Parliament which existed only
for three years, being passed for the suppression of the dis-
turbances in the north. He had also received 1001. from Sir
J. Kirkland, an advance on his patent for a sea barrier and
breakwater. He had made a proposition to his creditors to
avoid these proceedings.
The COMMISSIONER—What proposition can you make now ?
—I cannot make any at present, persecution has pre-
vented me.

The insolvent admitted that "hope" was on the " Home-
office," an " appointment" under the British Government,
and his expectation under the " Flores Expedition"; and
His HONOUR did not consider there had been any miscon-
duct on the part of the insolvent to prevent a day for the
final order, the appointment of assignee being adjourned, the
opposing creditor might have in the interim the opportunity
of obtaining full information.
Interim order granted.

TEMPLEMORE AND NENAGH
RAILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The first general meeting of this company was held at
their office, Gresham Rooms, Gresham-street.
W. R. Cot.errr, Esq., M.P., took the chair shortly after one
o'clock, and after the advertisement had been read, said the
circumstances under which this meeting had been called were
not at all of a gratifying description ; but when he stated what
had taken place since they had obtained their Act of
Parliament, he had no doubt that they would feel satisfied
that the directors had done their duty. The report which
would be read to them explained the particular reasons why
the directors had refrained from prosecuting the line. The
principal reason was, that the Great Southern and Western
Railway, of which he was a director, had hesitated to com-
plete the arrangement, and the promise which they had for-
merly made,namely, that they would render this company their
assistance either by the advance of money or by leasing the
line. That company found, however, that they had now so
much to do, amid the distressing circumstances of the
country, to open their own line to Cork, and the leading
gentry of Tipperary had felt themselves compelled to wila:
hold the advancement of money for the same reasetodul:
directors, therefore, in these circumstance:, _ref
proceed: further, and determined to liquidate itzthetoliathbie-
lities of the company, and to pay back the d
that this was the
pbeensenes,onbtoaintwietdhl
shareholders. He thought,t,h
cheapest Act of Parl
the engineering
he was proud of it, just that
standing that they hadw a
double contest to fight in the
Committee, and
was low, as
weriec the however,l
law dyeext
might show how unnecessary heavy expenses
iwtere.ffe said the line, of twenty-seven miles in length,
had been surveyed, and cost, together with law expenses, ad-
vertising, kc., 6,1161.95. 7d., which included all the liabi-
lities of the company. This having been paid off left them
with a balance in hand of 6,0871. 2s. 6d., or 15s. 9d. a share,
which had been returned to the shareholders. The Hon.
Gentleman then enlarged on the superior prospects of the
company, whose line would be greatly enhanced in value by
the opening of the line from Dublin to Templemore,
passing, as it did, through a rich agricultural
and mineral district. He said the directors hoped to be con-
tinued in office still further, with the command of 3001. per
annum, in order that they might continue the negotiations
of Government. As to the intentions of Government, he
would not, and indeed could not, speak with confidence, but
it had been stated last night in the House that they would
lay out money only on reproductive works, and he hoped
therefrom that Goi ernment might be induced to advance
one-halt the capital, and then, no doubt, the shareholders
would advance the other.
The report was then read and adopted.
The directors, auditors, and secretary were re-appointed,
and, after thanks to the chairman, the meeting broke up.

GENERAL NEWSPAPER AND ADVERTISING OFFICE,
75, WORCESTER-STREET, BIII3IINGIIAM, JAN. 19. The Sun
was received at this office (exclusively) before seven o'clock
this evening, containing the Queen's Speech.
EXTRAORDINARY DISPATCH.—Her Majesty did
not reach the House of Lords yesterday to open Parliament
till nearly two o'clock; and at four we received at our office
a copy of The Sun, containing the Royal Speech. The
Standard, with the Speech, did not reach Brighton till half-
past five.—Brighton Guardian.

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leans, an the Robert, '..Jarlitroni, from Chaileston,- arrived e,-"1' i
at this port to-day, atter being in contact ;
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over the barthls. mOtnink; grounded_ cn 'the Ohl ~ 0
is likely to be got off next tide.
Li4NELLY, JAN. . 18.—The Ethelbert, for London, got on
shore this morning in this river, in consequence of her tow-
rope
parting, and it is feared will beconie a wreck.
KIRKCUDBRIGHT, JAN.l7.—The Rob Roy. Mitchell, from
Cumberland, which was driien on the Rocks at St. Mary!e
Point Bth blatant-, has been got off and brought to the beach. .-
The Druid, of Dlaryport, which ran on the sands in-the river
the same day has been floated.
LYNN, -JAN. 19.—The .WhitwelL Grange, M`Donald, from
St. Andrew's, is onshore on a' sand bank in the Ly`fin Chan-
nel, but expected off with the flood.

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