The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-29 00:00:00

JULY 29, 1846.

PR ICE SD.

Mr. ELGiE, the solicitor, said he was known to many in
the meeting, and as an honest man he was prepared, and
even desirous, to have the accounts investigated before the
taxing master.
Mr. BODENUAM, (Hereford), adopted bfr. Elgie's language
in reference to his own accounts.
Mr. BAKER moved, and Mr. W. T.A.mott seconded, the
testilution that the Company should be dissolved.
The motion was put and carried unanimously.
The CILAIRMAIN moved that this dissolution be without an
act of bankruptcy:
This was put to the meeting and carried also unanimously.
Mr; Ross moved a vote of thanks to the chairman.
Air. CAntittxbu seconded the motion, which was passed
with acclamation.
Sir RGBERT PRICE reittrad his acknowledgment of the
honour and the kindness, and then adjourned the meeting,
which throughout was certainly not One of the quietest or
most orderly.

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GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
On Saturday the first gencial meeting of this incorporation,
under which the London and York and Direct Northern are
incorporated and included, met at the Hall of Commerce.
Mr. W. Astell, M.P.. in the chair.
Mr. Mowarr, the secretary, read the reperf. It referred
to a struggle in which the company had been engaged in
both Houses of Pailiament, and to the triumph whien had,
after two years' conflict, crowned their exertions. The ex-,
penses of so keen atld protracted a contest had necessarily
been great. Those of the London and York had exceeded
200,000/., while the expenses of•-the Direct Northern, with
whieh the London . and York had amalgamated, amounted
to upwards of 00,0001. Still, between the Joint capital of
the two amalgamated sehemeti, they had a balance in their
bankers' hands of upteardS of 400,0001., which is
mailable for the purposes of the company. With
that sum In hand, to commence operations with,
they did nut Mean to make any call on the share-
holders till March next j and in the meantime four per cent.
interest, payable in October ne±t, would be allowed on all
the deposits: while on all future Calls; or on Kitts paid in ad-
vance, five per cent, would be allowed. The report then pro-
ceeded to refer to various other matters of minor importance
connected with the Company. Among its recommendations
were the appointment of a managing director, with a salary
of 2,000/. a-year, it being an express regulation with the
party to ho so engaged that he shotild devote his entire time
and undivided energies to the interests of the Great Northern
Railway. The report further recommended that the number
of directors should be thirty. Both recommendations, after
a brief discussion, were adopted. The adoption of the part
of the report which recommended that the number of direc-
tors should be thirty, was followed by the unanimous adop-
tion of a resolution that the sum to be annually paid to the
directors for their services should be 3,500/, to be divided
among thernselVes as they should think fit.
Mr. BECKETT DENI3OII, in moving one of the formal
resolutions, addressed the meeting at some length on the
position and prospects of the Great Northern. He began by
adverting to the unprecedented obstructions which had been
thrown in their way in carrying forward their project, and
congratulated the ahateholders on the success which had
crowned their exertions. With regard to the future, he
begged to inform the shareholdei'S that respectable contractors
had come forward, who were ready to undertake the con-
struction of the line at less than the estimate of Mr. Cubist,
the distinguished engineer.-40heers.) The gentlemen to
whom he referred bad also expressed their willingnen to
begin without requiring any money to be adVaneed to them.
They were willing to go a considerable length on credit for
the faith they had in the directors and the Company.- As
had been stated in the report, they did not mean to make
any call till next spring. The rapidity with which the
works could be executed would depend on the manner
in which the calls would be responded to. About 200 miles
out of the 320 miles of the line were on a dead level, and
would be very easy of construction. Some slight deviations
and alterations would be made in parts of the line, and at the
recommendation of their engineer; but these would not inter-
fere with the progress of the works. He had no doubt the line,
when made, would be a good paying line, and in that opinion
he was borne out by the opinions of others, in whose know-
ledge of railway matters he had greater confidence than
in his own. The shareholders might rely on it, that every
inch of the line would be made. It would be constructed in
all its integrity.
In answer to a question, it was stated by one of the di-
rectors, that if the shareholders responded in aproper manner
to the calls, the line might be opened throughout by the be-
ginning of 1850.
Several other gentlemen addressed the meeting; and the
various resolutions—among which was one appointing Mr.
Mowatt secretary, with a salary of 8001. per annum—were
passed.

THE LATE CASE OF MILITARY

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FLOGGING.
Lieutenant-Colonel Whyte, commanding the ith Hussars
at Hounslow, has had interviews with the Duke of Welling-
ton, Mr. Fox Maule, Secretary at War, and the Marquis of
Anglesey, the former Colonel-in-Chief of the regiment, on
the subject of the unfortunate occurrence, The officer in
question was engaged, we understand, %Mit the Marquis of
Anglesey up to a late hour on Wednesday night last,. and in
the subsequent part of the week was engaged with tbt com-
mander-in-Chief.

In erder that the public may be enabled to arrive at a
proper conclusion, and form opinions as to the innocent and
guilty parties in the transactions, the following particulars
relative to military law, as well as to some of the circum-
stances of the case, are added. Before proceeding further, it
may be well to state that Colonel Whyte is not the Colonel
of the regiment, but Lieutenant-Colonel, or Commanding
officer, or in other words acting Colonel, as agreeably to army
usages the Colonel-in Chief of a corps never accompanies it;
and also, that although the Coroner has already had two
long inquiries, at neither were two most important docu-
ments produced—the one being the minutes of the proceed-
ings of the court• martial by which the prisoner was sen-
tenced, and the other the list of officers who composed the
same. As stated some time since, the charge preferred against
the deceased was violence towards a non-commissioned officer.
Ye was tried by a district or garrison court-martial, which,
agreeably to the 9th Article of War, consisted of seven commis-
sioned officers. Of this tribunal Captain Shirley, the senior
captain of the regiment, acted as president. The evidence
was taken on oath, and, on the guilt of the prisoner being
established and sentence passed, the finding and sentence
were forwarded to the Horse Guards for confirmation. It is a
mistake to suppose that the court had not power to inflict
any other sentence than one of corporal punishment, as the
words of the article run thus :—" And the court may sentence
any soldier to imprisonment, with or without hard labour,
and may also direct that such offender shall be kept in soli-
tary confinement for any portion or portions of such impri-
sonment, not exceeding 28 days at a time, nor 84 days in
any year, with intervals between the periods of solitary
confinement of not less duration than such periods of solitary
confinement ; or may sentence any soldier to corporal punish-
mein, not extending to life or limb, for immorality, mis-
behaviour, or neglect of duty. And such court may, in ad-
dition to either of the said punishments, sentence a soldier to
forfeiture of all advantages as to additional pay, and to pen-
sion, or discharge, which might have otherwise accrued from
the length of his former service," &c.
The clause in the Queen's orders and regulations for the
army relative to the infliction of capital punishment is to
the following effect :—The award by a general court-martial
is restricted to 200 lashes; by a district or garrison court-
martial to 150 lashes; and by a regimental court-martial to
100 lashes. The deceased Frederick White, it will therefore
be observed, received the highest penalty in the power of the
court to award, as did the private Matthewson, who re-
ceived 10Q lashes by order of a regimental court-martial, for
insolence to a sergeant.
In the army regulations also appear regulations to the fol-
lowing effect :
Just discrimination is to be used by the Court in applying
the quantum of punishment, whether corporal or other, to the
nature and degree of the crime, so that its award may be
final, and carried into effect, it being indisputable that crimes
are more effectually prevented by the certainty than by the
severity of punishment, &c.
* Submissive, quiet, orderly conduct, and proof of contrition
while undergoing punishment, are, unless the crime has been
of a very aggravated character, to be favourably considered.
In the case of district court-martial, the commanding
officer may, if he should see reason, recommend a partial re-
mission of the punishment to the general officer who ap-
proved the sentence. In the case of regimental courts-
martial, approved by himself, he has the power of using his
own discretion.
Sentence must be inflicted in the presence of the sur-
geon or the assistant-surgeon, who have the power of stop-
ping the punishment when the culprit can no longer bear
Zacc-
A lefts r, published in a provincial paper, states that the
deceased, Frederick White, was the son of a very respect-
able man, who, some years since, held a responsible situa-
tion in the General Post-office, and who subsquently acted
as postmaster at Nottingham. It adds, that through the
change in his parent's circumstances, and consequent dis-
tress, the deceased enlisted into the 2d Life Guards, which
he left owing to a hurt, but subsequently entered the 7th.
The colonel of the regiment, Sir William Tuyll, who was
appointed a few months since, in the room of the late Sir
James Kearney, is, we believe, on the Continent. The
Margin s of Anglesey was colonel up to 1842, when he re-
ceived the command of the Blues.

FREITCH PLAYS.—We regret to announce that the
sudden and severe indisposition of the great actress, Aldlle. Rachel,
prevented her appearing on Monday as Roxalane, in the tragedy of
Bajazet. iVe sincerely hope that her health will he quickly restored,
avel that we shall soon again enjoy her transcendent impersonations
of the heroines of the French classic drama.
DEATH OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE HEINRICH
OF l'itussia.—lntelligence reached town on Monday of the demise of
his Ltoyal Highness Prince Heinrich of Prussia, who died at Rome,
after a short illness, oa the 11th list. The deceased Prince was
born an the 30th December, 1781, and had been residing for upwards
of twenty-five years In that vicinity. His mortal remains arc to be
removed to Berlin for Interment, in the mausoleum of the Royal
Family of Prussia.
DEATH OF LADY BARING.—We regret to hear that
Lady Ba ring, wife of Sir Thomas Baring, and mother of the Right
Hon. Francis Thornhill Baring, ekpired on Sunday morning
last at Stratton Park, the family seat, hear Winchester. Her Lady-
ship had been in declining health for some months past. She was
eldest (laughter of Mr. Charles Sealy, of Calcutta, and married in
1794 ;Sir Thomas Baring, by whom she leaves Issue four sons and
three tlatkghters. The families of Lord and Lady Ashburton, the
Right ,Hov. Francis and Lady Arabella Baring, Mr. Thomas Baring,
m.p., the Hon. William B. and Lady Harriet Baring, Mr. 11. B.
and L ady Augusta Baring, and several families of rank are placed
in mot truing by her Ladyship's lamented demise.
FA TAL CART ACCIDENT AT BATTLE-BRIDGE.—On
Mond: ty Mr. William Carter held an inquest at the Duke of Welling-
ton Tavern, Newington-causeway, on the body of Samuel Burt, aged
forty-ilve years, a carpenter, lately residing at No. 9, Thomas-street,
Newii igton. The deceased was in the employ of Messrs. Piper and
Co., 'No. 173, Bishopagate-street Without, builders. On Thursday
last he went, in company with other workmen, to make some altera-
tions at the Mill-hill Grammar School, Hendon, and while on his
way home in his employer's cart, near the Small-pox Hospital. at
Battle.brid;e, he overbalanced himself, and fell over the end of the
cart into the carriage-way. He was raised up by his friends and
carried to a surgeon's, but ho refused to go in, and was consequently
taken home with all speed, where he was placed under the care of
/Kr. Thom as, surgeon, of No. 68, London-road. There appeared no
eaCernal lnarks of violence, excepting a contusion on the scalp from
the falj, Symptoms of Inflammation of the brain subsequently came
whicih terminated fatally on Friday morning last. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidental death."
Accr DENT FROM MACHINERY.—On Monday a distress-
ing aeoldunt occurred to a man named Robert 'larding, aged twenty-
eight years, a paper maker. residing at Carshalton, Kent. He was
in the en `Ploy of Mr. Muggeridge, proprietor of the paper mills, at
Carshaltoi.', and while walking up a ladder to a platform with a
heavy load of wet rags, it gave way, and his leg got into one of the
cogwheels, and before it could be extricated his left leg was literally
, crushed to pieces. Ile was seen by a surgeon, who recommended
hiS rernaVal`lo•h.l.4llo2,4,B'4 -4 UesilitAlt Whij4ter:,,,ll6:, gas taken in a
cart. The injuries' he had sustained were of such a character that It
• was deemed necessiu7 to resort to amputation. The poor fellow is
going 011 AS well as 944 blaTSCIed.

Charle".s Cold, jun., and Trio
James Tlis:Amas and Charles Wood ford .. . ...... ellow,
James White :..kud James Woodford (Pink) 0
The distance inigs from a boat moored opposite the Swan,
round a boat moor:.'d opposite Cremorne House, down the
Middlesex shore, round .7. boat opposite the British Flag, and
back to the Cricketers.
They
v quarter, the winners
were all away at the s:tne mornent, and at the first
turning-point were upon one anotl,er
leading. They maintained it, and AN'9ll py two and a half
lengths.

Second Heat. -. ...(81ue) 1
ffilliam Cole and John Prime .
.(Red) 2
George. Brown and Henry Gaybard •••
John Thomas and William Woodford (sorlet) 0
Distance same as before, only finishing at the or et)
A smart start was succeeded by red taking the h
a;
holding it until they neared Cremorne Gardens, where• and
.plue
overhauled them. Won by two lengths.
Grand Heat.
Blue
Blue took the lead, closely followed by green, until round-
ing the boat at the British Flag, when the former went away
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and won by six lengths.
FULHAM REGATTA.
This highly respectable aquatic contest, got up under .the
management of two gentlemen, named Watford and Chase-
more, for a purse of sovereigns, liberally sultscribed by the
nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood, including the very
efficient managers, came off on Monday. It was a double-
scull contest, in three heats, with ten competitors. -..

First Heat. _
John Phelps and Stephen Knight (ROO I
John Kelly and William Hill (Pinl;.-) 2
John Powell and Jacob Hawkins
The distance was from Putney Bridge up to the Cr'b
Tree, down round a boat moored off Broom House, and up'
through the centre arch of Putney Bridge.
Red went away with the lead, kept it, and won easily..-.

Second Heat:
John Kelly, jun., and John Freeman 1
John Hawkins and Joseph Powell (Blue) 2
They kept togetbet until off Searle's, and then yellow took
the lead, kept it, and won by four lengths.
Grand Heat.
This was started downwards from the Bridge to Broom
House, up to the Crab Tree, and back to the bridge.
Yellow
It was a very tine met throughout. Red took the lead,
followed by yellow flown to the station boat, where -yellow
tapped red on the wrong qaartet-ss they were rounOin.
threw them head downwarkls, &lila cut them off, getting to the
shore first. Red pressed ther...l close, up and down, and c4tlne
in with their nose upon yellow's SCUII.
GREENWICH gSGATTA.
The second regatta of the presei:t season at Greenwich,
on Monday, boasted the patronage of tie Dowager Countess of
Buckinghamshire, Earl Fitzhardinge, .Lord Haddo, Lord
Alfred Paget, Admiral Sir H. Stopford, 'and others of the
nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood. The race, which
was in five heats, with six seullers, was very attractive,
thousands having taken a trip to this popular p.'ace of sum-
mer resort by rail and by the various steam-boats. The
sport was, however, but mediocre.
First Heat.
John Roe (Yellow) 1 I Thomas Doust (R'ed) 2
John Stanley: (Pink) 3
The distance extended the whole river front, and- was
twice rowed round in each heat. A very good start, and
when off the hospital yellow took tha lead, and won by three
lengths.