The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON ANDNORTH-WESTERN AND GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAYS.—We are authorised to state—and we do so
with very sincere regret—that all negotiations between
the London and North-Western and Great Western
Railway Boards are at an end, and are not likely to be
renewed.—Railway Record.
MIDLAND RAILWAY COMPANY.--'The half-yearly
meeting of this company was lately held at Derby, for ,
the transaction of general business. George Hudson, 1
Esq., M.P., presided on the occasion. The report,
which was of great length, included those of Mr. Burton,
the resident engineer, and of Mr. Kirtley, the super-
intendent of locomotives and carriages, and contained the
following passages:—" The balance in hand, after pay-
ing, in addition to the former payments, the fixed inte-
rest on the Leicester and Swannington Reilway Stock,
and the rent due to the Leeds and Bradford Railway
Company, will enable you to declare a dividend of
3Z 101. upon each 100/. of the Midland Consolidated
Stock; of 31, 10s. upon each 1002 of the Consolidated
Preferential Stock, and after the same rate of 71. per
cent. per annum for five months, upon 101. of each of
the 40/. shares; of 21. 16s. 3d. upon each 100/. of the
Birmingham and Derby Consolidated Stock, and leave
a balance in hand of 13,040/. Bs. Id. The increase in
the gross receipts from traffic, over the corresponding
half of last year, from various sources specified (in
eluding 29,480/. 9s. 6d. from passengers) amounted in
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the gross to 55,898/. 2s. 10d. The Chairman gave a
most elaborate detail of the proceedings, and the report
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from New.astle to Morpeth
of the (guaranteed) shares in that railway, a surplus of
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and it was further resolved that interest at 5/.
month's notice of its opening will be forthwith given to
the Board of Trade. The report was unanimously
cent. per annum be paid on the 16th day of February
instant to the holders of shares in this company in re-
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SOUTH-EASTERN NORTH KENT LINES.—The Morn-
ing Herald states—" We are informed that the last con-
tract for the construction of the North Kent line was
(iv (Tuesday) let by the directors of South-
Eastern Railway Company to Mr. John Brogden, jun.
Eastern Ba _ _
This contract extends from the Grand Surrey Canal to
from thence to Rochester the line had been pre-
portiowneroedontoe .
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includingthefilling of the canal and widen-
ing contracted for—viz.,
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to Messrs. F.
railway, to Mr. Brogden, jun. There is little
ing of the
that the entire Hee from London to Rochester will
doubt
be opened for public traffic within a year. We under-
hat there has been great competition among the
stand t
c rectors for these works, which are under the super-
Rochester,
inotnetndence of Mr. Robert Stephenson and Mr. George
Bidder. We hear that, a few
days ago, an order was issued from Mr. Macgregor to
the effect that, should a passenger
r take out a day-ticket
for (say) the third-class, and on his return, at any part
be driven by stress of weather, or any
of his journey,
superior class, the charge is to be, not
other cause, into a
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between the classes or eup train,
Souls EASTERN RAILWAY.—We
the added increase
s—going and returning.--
AND MIDLAND RAILWAY
LEEDS, WAKEFIELD,
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, Esq.,
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COMPANY.—On Thursday Cockburn
into the above pro-
Court House, Wakefield, to examine
the Aire and
ject, so far as it interfered
with
attended on Calderbehalf
surveying officer from the Admiralty, attended at the
Navigation Company. Mr. Webster
proceedings occupied
the Navigation Company. The h
• been
having come
but a very short time, an arrangementsettle any differences
of the Railway, and Mr. John Hope Shaw on behalf of
to between the two solicitors to
the decision of Mr.
any given point, then to leave it to
Curtis.—Leeds Mercury.
RAILWAY.—As the high
between themselves ; but if they could not agree upon
FARES ON THE MIDLAND
fares on the Midland Railway have been often and justly
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complained of, it is right to state that at the beginning of
the present year the fares were greatly reduced. The
first-class fare to London, which was formerly 470., is
now 40s. 6d.—Leeds Mercury:________

Cnun-sTEALlNG.—Thursday afternoon, as a little
girl named Ann Edwards was nursing . a female infant
three months old, the daughter of Mr. Laidlaw, of No. 4e,
dressedWellb in ank-street,mDover-road,
ho, after inquiring the child'sSouthwark, when opposite St.
George's Church she was accosted by a tall lady-like female
name and address, took it from her arms to nurse it, and
walked towards London-bridge. On passing a confectioner's
shop she asked the girl to partake of some pastry, and
they both entered the shop. The lady tendered a sovereign
HI payment, saying to the girl that she would walk on to-
wards the church, and she was to overtake her with the
change. Some time elapsed in procuring it; when the girl
reached the appointed place no trace of the lady was to be
discovered, and it was ascertained that a lady answering
the description was seen to enter a cab with an infant which
was driven towards Westminster-bridge.
An operation, preceded by the inhalation of ether
was performed on Saturday, at the military hospital of the
Val-de-Gthce, on a non-commissioned officer, named Geffine'
who conducted himself with so much bravery in Africa,
taking, a standard, although wounded in several places, and
offering his own horse to a dismounted officer. The amputa-
tion of an arm having become necessary, the ether was ad-
ministered. He uttered plaintive cries during the opera-
tion, but declared when it was over that he had felt no pain.
e had, he said, been dreaming that he was about to be
amputated, but had felt no sensation except something like
a scratching. (This was the action of the saw.) Geffinewas
for several hours after the operation under the effect of the
ether, like a man who had become intoxicated by drinking.
On the following
day he complainedof a violent headache.