The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-11 00:00:00

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.

A circular will be immediately ;;;d from the Joint-
Stock Companies Registration-office, addressed to the
several provisionally registered railway companies,
stating that it is the intention of her Majesty's Govern-
ment, immediately after Easter, to propose to Parliament
a Bill to enable any railway company which at the time
of the passing of the Bill shall not have obtained its Act
of Parliament to dissolve itself. By the Bill it is in-
tended to provide for the calling of a meeting of the
shareholders, either by the managing body or by a given
number of shareholders, at which meeting it is intended
that the holders of a majority of the shares in the com-
pany, or the holders of three.fif►hs of the shares belong-
ing to those present or represented by proxy at the
meeting. shall have the power to determine upon the dis-
solution of the company.
Due provision will be made for a sufficient public
notice being given of the time and place of meeting, and
of the mode in which absent shareholders are to be re-
presented by proxy.
Upon the dissolution being carried at the meeting the
property of the company is to become forthwith vested
in certain persons to be appointed for the purpose of
winding up the concern, and, after discharging the liabi-
lities, for distributing the surplus.
The actual holders of scrip are to be taken as share-
holders, entitled by themselves or their proxies to attend
the meetings.

FORGERY.—A curious case arising out of a charge
of forgery has just occurred at Plymouth. A Mr. Jarvis
Hewett, a farmer, lately residing at Frittiscombe, in the
neighbourhood of Kingsbridge, had given a bill for 1001.
purporting to have been drawn by Mr. John Lome, another
duf
rdooenmd
ahtbihs:
the
creditors,i
sfherer7itrot,.s
farmer of the same place, and payable at the Joint-Stock
TaW,
:det
nhtehesaa
that
be
eh
short
omanagedrt
tiHewetttn e hadtsoi
nc eeffect.hpreviously Bank at Kingsbridge. This bill turned out to be a forgery.
washis a
escape r rdeesftrea
and was on his route to Exeter, but when he reached
cfneer, and subsequently the bad bill was paid. Ho then drove
away all his cattle, and it may very readily bo imagined that
his creditors did not greatly benefit by the transaction.
This he did 'with the intention of going to America in a ship
that was to sail from this port on Tuesday last. On Sunday,
however, Mr. Inspector Cole received information of the
case, and, on making m.nute inquiries, he found that Hewett
had taken a passage for himself and his two sons in one of
the ships that was to sail on Tuesday afternoon. Inspector
Cole and a police officer from Kingsbridge, named Stear,
therefore, went on board the vessel before she left the
harbour, but finding only Hewett's eldest son there,
they remained, thinking that Hewett would join the
ship. The vessel, however, went a considerable distance
beyond the Dltakwater, when the captain called the roll,
and Hewett's absence was confirmed. This led the officers
to believe he would still make his appearance, and they hung
on as long as possible, and went out tour or five miles beyond
the Breakwater, till they at last perceived a boat heaving to
under the Rame Head. The officers hugged the vessel as
long as they could, till they found her making fr
o.,when the
thought it best to leave her, as they were now several milesr
out at sea, in a small open boat, and they began to be an
thing but pleased with their position. Whilst they we .
alongside the ship, the younger Hewett must have signallede
his father, for they at last saw the boat that wsts
from the Rame head turn back again, and the officers
used all possible despatch to reach the shore, and so rs then
upon the flying party. Hewett, who was in the boat,on gained
evi-
dently became alarmed, and the boat was pulled Penlee Point, and Hewett and his in under
youngest
moment after seen scrambling up the rocks, which, son
were a
informant, appeared as steep as a house. Byt says our
officers bad reached the shore, Hewett bad gowhe time the
nutes advantage of them. The police,
aceointpanior 15 mi-
boatman, having left another in charge of the twoed by
one
made all the haste they could up the rocks, but w
reached the heights not a
when they
soul was to be seen besides tnehn7
selveS, for Hewett and his son had got clear off. Mr Cole
who has the keen eye of a Mohawk, albeit he may be slightly ,
deficient in the scent, traced the
it,
trail across
, couple of fields, but there he lost it, as they had taken to aa
grass field, and left no further sign of their progress. The
ship of course sailed without them, and we would not
I give
much for Mr. Hewett's ehauce of escape.—inm
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AS.outh Journal.
OF THE HON. LAM' )ALL
DEATH o —This I (IN
widow of Sir George Pallas, Bart. and mother a •:,
' of the present
Baronet, died on Sunday last. The deceased lady was
youngest daughter and only surviving issue
of Sir John
Blackwood, Baronet, aI3
nd aroess Dutlerin, and married the
late Sir George Dallaa in June,n 1788.
SEAMEN IN THE PoRT OF LONDON —SO ttiAlVe is the
demand for seamen, both in the mercantile marine and the
navy, that yesterday the whole number of inmates at the
Destitute Sailors' Asylum waslo,wlst on no previous
night of the week did averagetbey_ . morehi than six, the ma-
jloco of whom were jovial& or compietel, destitute.
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