The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-05 00:00:00

Length of Gradient.
1 mile 7 furlongs.
2 „ 14 „
8 „ 52 „
5 77 36 f ,
4 , 58 „
2„ 3 „
5 „ 61 „
1 „ 31 „
1„ 6 „
2 „ 11 „
4 „ 16 „

Descending.
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Level.
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j 2 ;', 51 -,', Descending.
2 „ 65 ~ Ascending.
0 , 49 „ Ditto.
fre have receive from Mr. Char
tary to the Great Western, the fol

tion :

Rate of Inclination.
4.60 feet per mile.
4.48 „
136 „
6.56 „
&48 „

840
2.56
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2'16
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14.00
11-52
12-00
.les Saunders, secre•
[lowing communica•

" London Terminus, Paddington, Jan. 3.
" Sir,—The Directors of this Company have received
' from their superintendent of the locomotive department
a report on the experiments which have been recently
made on the Great North of England Railway, and con-
sidering it of the utmost importance to the public and to
the interests of this Company that the circumstances
under which the experiments have been made, and the
cause of the unfortunate accident on that line should be
correctly reported, which accident may otherwise have
a serious tendency to create apprehension of danger from
speed on the express trains on the Great Western Rail-
way, I am desirous to transmit a copy of that report,
with a request that you will be kind enough to publish
it.—l am, Sir, your very obedient servant,
" CHARLES A. SAUNDERS, Secretary."
Mr. Saunders, and those he represents, will admit that
it would be a breach of fairness to publish, in the present
crisis of the question, saythilig that has not the imprima-
tur of our reporter, who was sent down on this special
mission, more particularly, as from perusal we perceive
that there is an exparte tone about the document. Irre-
spective of the coloured portions of the composition, it is
corroborative in main statements, and circumstantial de.
tails of the accounts given before and above. Our ob-
servations and tables of mean practical resalts are coin-
cident, within some seconds, of the results given in
another journal, and both combine, with the account we
have received, in their statements to show that the
oscillation was the origo malorum of the matter, coupled
with a casualty beyond the control of the experimenters,
the fracture of a faulty chair. The document, without
questioning either its truth or its correctness, is written b
disparagingly, and apparently with prepossessions, ear-
inn', as indeed it states, "on the interest of the Great
Western," and it would be both a breach of fairness and
bad taste to give currency, unless as an advertisement, to
any such apocryphal reports.—Chronicle.

GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN.
WORCESTER, SATURDAY NIGHT.—This evening a
meeting of the Shareholders in this undertaking took
place at the Guildhall in this city for the purpose of re-
ceiving a reply to the memorial addressed by them to
the Acting Committee a few weeks ago, requesting them
to close the accounts in consequence of the failure of the
Company to make the requisite deposits with the Board
of Trade on the 30th of November, with the view of dis-
solving the Company. J. Lilly, Esq., one of the Pro-
visional Committee, and late Mayor of Worcester, took
the chair.
The CHAIRMAN read the following reply to the
memorial addressed to the Board, and which he said had
been resolved upon at the meeting of the Board in
London on the previous day (Friday).
"London, Jan. 2, 1846.
" The Acting Committee of the Great Eastern and
Western Railway Company received, on the 19th of
December, a memorial from Worcester, stating that in
consequence of the incomplete state of the plans and
sections, the Proprietors considered that there was no
possibility of the Company succeeding in its application
to Parliament in the ensuing session, and that they
therefore felt themselves entitled to call upon the Com-
mittee to abstain from incurring any unnecessary ex •
penses, and to submit at once a statement of the Com-
pany's liabilities and future prospects to a general meeting
of the shareholders.
Vi" The Committee, in replying to this memorial, have
great pleasure in assuring the Proprietors that they find
that the defects existing in the plans and sections origi-
nally deposited were greatly exaggerated, and do not
exceed in reality those minor inaccuracies which com
panics have generally been allowed to rectify in all en-
terprises of acknowledged public utility.
" They beg to remind the memorialists that, in the
advertisement of the 4th of December, two courses were
recommended : first, to hold Mr. Gravatt responsible for
the failure in the deposit of the plans and sections ; and,
secondly, to make provision for opposing, in standing
orders, the competing lines, in order to keep the ground
open for a scheme in which they expressed and still re-
tain unabated confidence. •
" On the 7th of December, two days before the meet.
ing at Worcester was held, they received the opinion of
a very eminent counsel as to the course which it was
necessary for them to take in order to carry out their
two objects ; and the Board being convinced that they
could neither test Mr. Gravatt's liability, nor resist any
claim which he might bring against them, unless
damage was proved before the proper tribunal, viz., the
Committee in standing orders, gave instructions to their
solicitor for preparing the Parliamentary notices and the
December deposits at an expense which they do not
think will exceed 4,0001. up to the time when their case
is brought before Parliament.
" All the arrangements for this were made, and a large
proportion of the outlay actually incurred, before the
Worcester memorial was transmitted to them, and with
every desire to pay the most respectful attention to its
contents, the Committee cannot regret the decision then
come to. Looking to the improvement resulting from it
in their present prospects, for the number of railways
that will come before Parliament in the ensuing session
being not likely now much to exceed that adjudicated
upon in the last, there is no reason to suppose the stand- '
ing orders will be enforced more stringently, in which
case there are abundant precedents to show that an en-
terprise of a thoroughly bona fide character will not be
thrown out by a delay by which no one has, in fact, been
damnified, as the deposits of the Great Eastern and
Western line were in every instance effected before the
offices of the Clerks of the Peace were opened for busi-
ness on the Monday morning.
" It is clearly Mr. Gravatt's interest to prove, as the
Committee are now given to understand was the case,
that severe illness alone incapacitated him from the more
punctual discharge of his duties.
"The Committee have taken advantage of the course
recommended to them, carefully to revise their original
plans, and following the example of the Welsh Midland
Company, they have made fresh deposits, in which they
feel the fullest reliance. If the course taken in the one case
be sanctioned by the Standing Orders Committee, it must
be so in the other. The Acting Committee entertain a
very sanguine hope that both prospects will now ba
heard upon merits ; they feel, therefore, they should not
be doing their duty to the shareholders, with whose in-
terests their own are identified, if they were now to
shrink from a course which they believe to be indispen-
sablo. They have given, and will still continue to give,
their mostanxious attention to the interests of the Corn-
pany. They pledge themselves to enforce the most rigid
economy in the management during the short period
that must elapse before the fate of their application to
Parliament is decided, and in the event of its failure
they will immediately call a meeting of the Proprietors,
and leave the future polity of the Company entirely and
absolutely to their own decision.
" H. G. WARD, Chairman."
A long discussion followed the reading of the report,
and much dissatisfaction was expressed at the non-pro-
duction of the accounts. At length the resolution was
carried unanimously.
Mr. MILES then moved a resolution for adjourning the
meeting to Saturday, the 17th instant, for the purpose of
receiving the accounts from the Acting Committee, which
was carried nem eon.

THE WORCESTER RAILWAYS,
The notices required by Parliament have been com-
pleted for the following lines :
MIDLAND AND EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. --A
line proposed to connect Cambridge with Worcester.
THE GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN.—A line from
Worcester into South Wales. This Company has made
a fresh deposit of plans with the Board of Trade.
RUGBY, WARWICK, AND WORCESTER.—A proposi-
tion for affording railway accommodation to the above
towns. The competing " Worcester, Warwick, and
Rugby" has, it will be remembered, failed to make the
deposits with the Board of Trade in Itffielent time.
OakewnB
itoesitias UNION.—A line from Worcester to
Shrewsbury', with a diverging line from Broseley to
thisw cAitityw.aitee: aitnlidbswala_ll}t branches for convenience near
the ‘. Rugby, Warwick,
WORCESTER.—A competing line with
is expected the latteirck6
satisfactory to both aides,
and Worcester," but in which it
will make an arrange-
mentWaawicicsurau AND LO'ND.
pro-
posed lines to bring Warwickshire and thr
Worcester-
shire in connexion with the London e
Birmingham
line at Weedon. This line commences at w
eedon, and
runs direct to Worcester, having branches to Aleester
and Droitwieb.
WELSH MIDLAND.—A line from Warwickshire to
Worcester, and thence vid Malvern, to communicate
with South Wales. This line is proposed to intersect the
very middle of the Landromest-street, in Worcester
(Foregate-street).
WORCESTER, TENBUILY, AND LIIDLOW.—A direct line
between these towns of about thirty miles in length.
WORCESTER AND LEO3IINSTER.—A line proposed to
form at Worcester a junction with some of the War-
wickshire lines, and thus to afford through traffic to
Leominster yid Bromyard. The shares in this under-
taking have not yet been allotted.
WORCESTER, HE aFY ORD, Ross, AND GLOUCESTER.—
A proposal for au
with
the
Oxford, entirely new line forming a junction
Worcester, and Wolverhampton line at
Worcester, and acct
caster. Malvern, ommodating
the following towns and
GI ester. maavernLedbury, Ross, Hereford, and
WORCESTER AND SOUTH WALES JUNCTION. —A com-
peting line with the last named
where it is proposed to join from Worcester to Ross,
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WORCESTER AND PORT DYN
forming a junction with the OrioArEdN.—Another line
Worcester, and
Wolverhampton line at Worcester, Lid proposing to
pass hence through Tenbury and Ludlow, and so -
through Shropshire, Montgomeryshire, and Caernarvon-
shire, shire, to Port Dynnlaen, on the North Wales coast. .
The following lines, proposed to come to Worcester,
have stopped proceedings, having failed to effect the ne-
cessary deposits with the Board of Trade, on the 30th of

November :
The Birmingham and Worcester Direct—a proposal
for partially converting the Worcester and Birmingham
Canal into a railway.
k and
i_ Worcester, Warwick, and Rugby—a competing line,
VlNVawic
niir cixion with the Eastern and Western, with the
Worcester," and "Rugby, Warwick, and
Woree
8t"" lines.