The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-31 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)

Mr. Joseph Ninch. of Fleet-4reet, paper-hanger, ap-
peared this day before Mr. Twyford for final examina-
tion upon a ehargeof forging a receipt for the purpose of
defrauding Mr. Fitzpatrick, a solicitor.
The evidence has already appeared in the columns
of The Sun.

The case had been adjourned from this day fortnight,
at the prisoner's own wish, in order that the statement
of another witness might be heard, and that he might not
be taken by surprise at the sessions, but as Mr. Fitz-
patrick had determined not to call this witness, the
prisoner was now committed to take his trial.
Mr. TWYFOBD took bail for the prisoner's appearance
at the sessions.

SHREWSBURY and BIRMINGHAM

RAILWAY COMPANY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—We have by many parties had our attention
called to a report in your paper of a meeting of the
shareholders, in Manchester, of the Dudley and Madeley
Company,' in which the Secretary of the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham Company is represented to have made
various statements without a correct knowledge of the
facts to which he was speaking.
We should be wanting in our duty to the shareholders
in the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and South Stafford-
shire Junction Company, whom we represent, did we not
endeavour to prevent the public being misled by that
want of information on his part.
He, in the first place, is reported to have stated that the
line proposed and introduced into the House of Commons
last year, and lost on standing orders, was only a
branch of tho Grand Junction Company when that rail-
way was proposed by the Grand Junction Company.
The offer they made to the inhabitants of Shrewsbury
was, that they might take the whole of the shares tor
raising the required capital, and that the Grand Junc-
tion Company would take a lease of the line, guarantee-
ing 4 per cent. on the outlay, with an equal division of
the profit afterwards, or that they might take what pro-
portion of such shares they might think fit, the remain-
der to be offered to the public generally, and if not by
them taken, they, the Grand Junction Company, would,
as a Company, retain them. Such arrangement was
acted upon, and more than half the shares were taken in
Shrewsbury, and by the public generally ; the remainder
were taken by the Grand Junction Company.
In the latter part of last year it was pro-
posed to the Grand Junction Company that the
Shrewsbury Company should be remodelled, and that
Company, with the greatest liberality, placed in the
hands of the committee the whole of the shares retained
by them in the former Company, and which shares were
distributed with scrupulous care to parties locally in-
terested in the line (now caled the Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, and South Staffordshire Junction Company),
not one being given to the Oxford, Worcester, and W ol
hampton Railway Company, to the South Staffordshire
Junction Company, or to the Grand Junction Company,
as stated by the secretary of the Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham Railway Company. It is also necessary for us
to state that the three Companies named, as holding so
large a portion of the capital of the Shrewsbury, Wolver-
hampton, and South Staffordshire Junction Company are
in no other way connected with it than by runnlng into
the same station at Wolverhampton, which station is to
be erected at the joint expense of the four Companies.
We also avail ourselves of this opportunity of contra-
dicting another statement—viz., that the Shrewsbury
and Birmingham Company had .the support of the
London and Birmingham Railway Company. We can
confidently say that such is not the case, either directly
or indirectly.—Your obedient servants,

CHARLES CORSER,
JAMES WHITNEY,
Secretaries to the Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton,
and South Staffordshire Junction Company,
38, Parliament-street, Jan. 30,

LORDS' COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY BILLS.—In the
UWASe of Lords, on Thursday, the following Peers were
appointed to form a Committee "to consider the mode in
which the House shall deal with the railway Bills proposed to
he submitted to the House during the present session," viz. :
The Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal, the
Duke of Richmond, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earls Devon,
Shaftesbury, home,Clarendon, Grey, and St. Germains ;
Polwarth, Ponsonby, Redesdale, Dalhousie, Col-
chester, Somerhill, Brougham, Stanley, Ashburton, and
Mouteagle.

SUGAR DUTIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS. dip
Sin,—As there exists is strong probability that the
e_
ferential pertion of the duty on sugars will, with all othot;
of a like evil character, be speedily swept away, it i 9 °
charitable to suggest how this great a teration can be L
fected in the best manner—that is, with justice to. I's
West India proprietors, the sugar consumers, and, sloe
same time, to the safety of the revenue. It is a matter
of notoriety to those who frequent the sugar market
s
the bulk of the quantity imported from the West 1110i7j
is much inferior to the various kinds which are prochrj,
in other quarters of the world, being the result ;
of tif
long enjoyed monopoly ; in fact, the British West
ee
possess the unenviable fame of producing, with the
ception of Peru, sugars of the lowest description s.
l to
This is not attributable to climate or soil, becsuier
French islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe haltads
actly the same, and the sugar produced in those is be
is comparatively of good quality ; it is, therefore, leop"
•
manufacture of the article that our colonists fail.
uniform rate of duty has hitherto been imposed Oboe
British Muscovado sugar—of late that rate bits foirif
14s. per cwt. ; this arrangement has operated ec, to
on some of the producers, while it has been prefita.!J,
others ; for example, the sugars manufactured let_pn
maica, St. Vincent, and Barbadoes, have all alongoTel,
very superior to those sent to Europe from themor
West India colonies: the amount of duty ought!' oast.
quently, to be apportioned to the worth of the leis
During the many ages the West India colonists we_rej
the enjoyment of a pernicious monopoly no person
to draw public attention to these inequalites--i,astihat ttl;
verbally considered to be a black job altogether
West Indians were classed as one favoured h°42lY,
rest of the world ; but now that they are abeil`,"°,sitit
the protection of their monopoly, and to comPe7,otber
all other producers of sugar, the affair assumes 641 000
aspect, and a distinction ought to be made in —before
amongst them in imposing the duty, which, it hacms ssde'
been stated, is 14s. per cwt. on good and bad Mel,. tie
Now, what is Muscovado ? Can any person de'pgst,
term beyond telling us that it is a n3ixture of 5,0
treacle, and dirt ? But in what exact proportions 'ior
are the one to the other no one can pretend to ll'
less the sugar be analysed, and then that preevrosj
only indicate the one sort tested, all the other kilwitooef
contain very various proportions. A sughthieb
buys, in his estimation the Muscovado sugar, Ist usP
the least quantity of treacle and dirt; but even is fry
as he is to the appearance and taste of the artivie,boot
quently deceived: it follows, then, that the 'welt, gso
method of assessing the duty would be to tax
at 50 per cent. ad valorem, which closely aPPrclitesashl
the present rate, letting the' purchasers pay the dr Oct
of their want of judgment; but then comes the (1-,eivitV
how is an ad valorem duty to be carried into effef'lt
out subjecting the revenue to considerable risith'n" verte
true there may be a juggle between seller and...Ambc
the injury of the revenue, if the sale be effect'hui
vale contract; but if all sugars are sold at Pu":,,pper
tion that chance ceases, for it is impossible te
that two or three hundred buyers -would eccj"
defraud! The Government should, therefore, woo
that all sugars should be sold at auction; the tor
this mode be anything new to the practice a 'ai.odf;
kets, for many sales are made in such a mannerso so
for instance, nearly all the Barbadoes sego! jfit'it
sold, a large proportion of the sugars from °l•foreir
the Mauritius, the East Indies, and (NM ear
settlements, are in a like way put up to Publican°
petition ; in fact, the sale of sugar bl,eeliptiT
Aissthe general rule—the private sale the e-be
the trouble of apportioning the duff t°
would occasion some expense at the ustobrootlis
that expense might be defrayed by a small stellbreliefi
original catalogue—the one on which the eell'efeteb
marks down the prices which the vrrious lase,
meant; this, after the sale has closed, might he asPee'
and transmitted to the Customs for the officers gels!"
rs
and then returned to the broker. Under such ti„
hufe
uo fraud could occur through a collusion betare,c-aptv,A
and sellers; moreover, a public sale at the eritiv'isour
would benefit the producers, inasmuch as tuelarefill'
have to pay commission on the value of the segh•, ate
instead of paying them, as they now do,. ell figr
paid price. The difference will actually be a `rpeg's;
thex, and obviate the necessity of their being., e 5
bered with the payment of the duty Which fisir,°°
desirable in more ways than one. As the it-nrocar,
present managed, should the purchaser fail thel. OK;
not only becomes a creditor for the value of 0" 04
the
but for the amount of the duty also; best es, et/el4
first transaction made on his account establish
to his consignee, on which he is charged 5 Per,fb-stsciks".
terest, in some caves more. It would not be i,11.1,-; es do'
with the purport of this letter to expatiate ei"rbea.,,gr
proneness. of mankind to increase their debts -„tra,-„is
ice ts once broken, and the reluctance of cc' 'vof
debts is once overcome; or whether it is fair 084
of persons, who are, or should be, far from the:de:oin,
action, so to enthral them. This, however, is kn".,"tbe,,,
teat many West Indians have been ruined eln,tote;
quity of the system forced upon them by the rieines.
hail
of the market, and they ought to with 1i.`6:0 ,"•
alteration by which they may- be re.ieved.--4 S.
your obedient servant,

DREADFUL EX PLOS 1°14;f01;1
Yesterday afternoon an accident of a fribie:,
painful nature took place at the house No. 14, 4, je.o!"
Lambeth-walk, by which two fine young men we'''brie .bis
deprived of life, and four other persons so severe'poo4,
that the lives of three of them are in the grestesl9 yeir
danger. It appears that William Kenyon, aged 0,00;
had been in the employment of Mr. Darby, the sor
co
maker in Regent-street, Lambeth, and that his n3fA,
having sufficient space on his premises to perforrnht of?
had allowed him to take about two hundred Weigs° 'Y , 6
position home with him to manufacture into ' s_„„opie°ol
house No. 14, King-street, Lambeth-walk, is o`"'4,,,foe_a,
the father and mother of Kenyon, where they eil';;;oo,7J,
to
ofar.4
laundry business, and the place selected by him
ture the " stars" was a small back cellar, the ceilingre tot
geld
was very low, and in this place he kept a stront . ,
e,
purpose of drying his work as he finished it. Se 0 dot
of his acquaintance were in the habit of calling teas
sof,
his work, and at the time of the fatal occurrenee;ro S ty
three young men there, named Holmes, Snlitb,e 49,
Of these the two latter were frightfully in:Jur PA':
of 'sor $ll
other, Holmes, shared the melancholy fate P f . 0
At a few minutes before two o'clock the mother olio 10
to
proceeded from the front parlour to the top of t doOpyi
stairs to call her son to his dinner, and on looking colo
stairs she observed a dense smoke and a peettli/rlO 0
flames issuing from within. She endeavoured iv itn ill
alarm, but the vapour ascending was so strongL„ritis
nated with sulphur as, for a few moments, nearly 0°3009
of life, and it prevented her calling out. 11,-11 re 0194
however, soon given, and in a few minutes, ptetbee, if°
Thomas Misser, L 39, was on the spot. It i'n'opet e;
that the cellar was on fire, end the sulphurous o.er P:A01
still so strong that there existed considerable rholottO6r
proaching the place. At length the flames were
subdued to enable the persons to enter, when tag Is.:00
ful spectacle presented itself. Kenyon and "DT; ferP:sit
together with their clothes, with the exception 0' ~rts tbv
burut off; their flesh peeling off, and in manYl3-04A
removed from the flesh in large patches. Stml"Tnoire:o4
were is another part of the cellar, fortunately teLab .7,ev
where the great body of flame was, groaning "" re°:,dar
and severely scorched and injured. They bey Olin
without loss of time to Guy's Hospital, where 096
main in a very precarious state. A young 1/°111;,, tbetl°l
Sarah Hales, in the service of Mrs. Kenyon, Was ~7 0 10% oil
when the fire took place, with a child nearly ',fly-01A
age in her arms. The instant she saw the ,—„f ale it
ignite,:she with great presence of mind rushed 00'000 e
but before she could do so the flames caught lief 09 11
face, and she was severely burnt. The child 10%re et/
scorched about the face and aims, and both fiv el
Lambeth Workhouse, where they were pronlP''''of P.,,,-,
by Mr. Duke, the parish surgeon. The bodie',Alt ''
and Holmes were also removed in shells to Logi"-
house to await the coroner's inquest.
„ci Ot
(ay-- Jd

ANOTHER ACCOUNT. r,
FURTHER PARTICULARS.—ADDITIOZiIv- .011(a_A
LIFE.—(THIS DAY.) a gosetit
Upon inquiries this morning at St. Thonlas'' Stal_ei' 'frig
regret to say that the two unfortunate raeTheyl74V:
The young woman who escaped through
Kenyon, have died from the severe injuries n100r.L096,'
the totV'tlg'
alive, and attended by Mr. Duke, surgeon to the tooled'
but very little hopes are entertained of her &tit test
The poor little boy Ainger still lingers in the the
and his dissolution is hourly expected. „tea ;got)
Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, has aPPsAIifsPIS
.„11
quest to take place on the bodies of Holmes AO
Tuesday. Of*
This is the fifth explosion, attended with loss'ony
has occurred in Lambeth within the last six Yes
raercOccoos
OFFICIAL HOUSES AND BUILDINGS.--"lttee 811 h,614
turn, procured by Mr. Hawes, was printed, frivlvitk.'or
of offices, official residences, with the nZa'" fain p 061,1,
officers residing in the same, as also an accoall,%-to via Si
made in lieu of residences. The return exten7,o64%-of
and in the list 16 establishments are meen-ch 5";139,,r,"
Mint 25 officers have residences, some of W'-",iter 0r,,,
value of 175/. a year, others of 100/., and the_gt°§, ,har
lowest being 10/. Numerous other offices, ae7 ()two
intendence of the Commissioners of Woods arl-ropertioero 'of
set forth ; some of the residences are not the ,P to °dote t,
Crown, and in five cases allowances are made the rdepsro
lieu of residences. Ma. J. H. Ley, the Clerk eoisrs'm of he
Commons, has an allowance of 500/. In thereidela,
ment of the Admiralty the First Lord has 8,.a. of
rooms, which are estimated at a early va',.„°""titof .4100,e1
highest sum in the return. The Lord Lieat'' .6h IP P
will or- cl
has the Vice-Regal Lodge for his residence, LAt t
41 bedrooms, and the value of the whole is 600.,..a5ije0 resr
the Post-office. St. Martin's-le-Grand, the -ri:o hs prey.
Vice-President in the inland office and 10 decor- the Pi:
dences, which are Worth to each about sol s 'with
rt 0001;
ously to the consolidation of the Foreign-elceer dePaehiS t.ll
land-office, the parties were officers of the form 'vior At
and in that capacity were allowed apartalough f't la fro
building, which are still enjoyed by them, tuartitreao cjero
not be continued to their successors. An stroe of the". rforti
same establishment appropriated for the _ ret 4
in waitins!, one of whom always sleeps on tternFs. ond
110Wkeeper and 14 servants occupy 16 r° esideonl re„,54
gives the names of the parties holdingthe r of olotcho 00;i4
those to whom allowances are made in lieu And
dences, with the declared value of the aalraticers
respectively granted to the non-resident
vreetrrof
United Kingdom. 0, the h.i
INFANTICIDE AT BRIGIITON.--"Dt:lntits churc'olietje
bodies of two infants have been found In y 105.0
St. Nicholas, Brighton. The first discrt-O take cb-he
Friday morning, by the beadle einploYeu._ the Pidentib.).4
burial-ground. It was some distance fir.oing slog
and but for the circumstance of the headietied v
to the spot, it would probably hevebo loner'`"'
to
rem
gr ~id,114--i
undiscovered. On examining the oe;
lot
surgeon, found that it was that of a fah .6;1 assist.,T,ioh had,
had evidently been born without the ti!la_ head, oftid
there was a mark of a violent blow on the sorgeo,llstiout;o
fractured the parietal bone, and which tl,-Iv3 olaiMn bod
no doubt caused death. On a post moranhe cbtlubeeo
appearances were such as to indicate,qll_ %Lot bite!, 001Tost
born alive and healthy. A coroneeby!L„inat ago on
on the body, and the adjourned inqui,Q;;l Afurarifotoi
"hled was the clay night, with an open verdict of
some person unknown." The secon,Ymr Nogg' was'
Thursday, near the same spot;
tbflt 51/1 Dr
born, no inquest was held in this case. fact , sarjr,
are ire u
THE is " grdeierdS een)oere t
farmers (who occupy under good 'saw they
surgeon, having expressed an opinion_that the el'
a shilling (if one at all) better off no_or tais orletib'
years ago. Is Use corn-law, then, f