The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-13 00:00:00

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.

A circular will be immediately issued 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
sharehotders, 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 100/.
purporting to have been drawn by Mr. John Lome, another
farmer of the same place, and payable at the Joint-Stock
Bank at Kingsbridge. This bill turned out to be a forgery.
We hear that Hewett had previously defrauded his creditors,
and that a short time since he was arrested on a bill for 70/.,
and was on his route to Exeter, but when he reached
Totnea he managed to effect his escape from the sheriff's
fficer,and subsequently the bad bill was paid. He then drove
away all his cattle, and it may very readily be 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,
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Cole and a police officer from King,•bridge. 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 Breakwater, 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 four 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 off, when they
thought it best to leave her, as they-were now several miles
out at sea, in a small open boat, and they began to be any-
thing but pleased with their position. Whilst they were
alongside the ship, the younger -Hewett must have signalled
his father, for they at last saw the bcat that was coming
from the Rame Head turn back again, and the officers then
used all possible despatch to reach the shore, and soon gained
upon the flying party. Hewett, who was in the boat, evi-
dently became alarmed, and the boat was pulled in under
Penlee Point, and Hewett and his youngest son were a
moment after seen scrambling up the rocks, which, says our
informant, appeared as steep as a house. By the time the
officers had reached the shore, Hewett had got 10 or 15 mi-
nutes advantage of them. The police, accompanied by one
boatman, having left another in charge of the two boats,
made all the haste they could up the rocks, but when they
reached the heights not a soul was to be seen besides them-
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 runaways' trail across It
couple of fields, but there he lost it, as they had taken to a
grass field, and left no further sign of their progress. The
ship of course sailed without them, and we would not give
much for Mr. Hewett's chance of escape.---Plymouth Journal.
DEATH OF THE HON. LADY DALLAS.—Thin lady,
widow of Sir George Dallas, Bart., and mother of the present
Baronet, died on Sunday last. The.
deceased lady was
youngest daughter and only surviving issue of Sir John
'Blackwood, Baronet, and Baroness Dufferin, and married the
late Sir George Dallas in June, 1788.
SEAMEN IN THE PORT OF LONDON —SO antive 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 was 10, whilst on no previous
night of the week did they average more than six, the ma-
jority of whom were invalids or completely destitute.