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

WESTMIA STER.

A case of a very extraordinary character was brought
under the cognizance af the magistrate on Thursday and
Saturday. The public may be aware that of late a
number of private soldiers have, in consequence of a
recently-discovered defect in their enlistment—that, we
believe, of being enlisted in one county, and attested in
another—claimed their discharge, and many in the
Guards have been within the last few days re-enlisted.
On Wednesday last, Francis Bowen, a private of the
Grenadier Guards, received the enlisting money (a
shilling), and on the following day was brought by the
sergeant-major to this Court, and was attested ; but at
the time of his attestation he expressed his dissent whilst
before the magistrate, and tendered the " smart," as it
is termed, claiming his right to be discharged. The
sergeant-major objected to take the smart, but the
recruit continued to dissent under the 37th clause of the
Mutiny Act.
The sergeant-major objected to take the money ten-
dered as above, as it was one of the regulations of the
military that, having government property in his posses-
sion (firelock, belt, &c.), it should be delivered up at the
barracks
to the proper authorities. After some conver-
sation it was arranged that, as Good Friday is a dies xon,
the recruit should come before the magistrate on Saturday
without prejudice to his right as regarded time topay the
" smart." The soldier applied for the sergeant-major
on that morning for him to attend with him before the
magistrate, but the sergeant-major said he could not
come at all without an order from the Commander-in-
Chief, and the soldier or recruit attended at half-past
one alone, and asked his discharge. Mr. Burrell re-
commended that he should wait till two o'clock, at which
hour a sergeant and an escort made their appearance,
and the former said that he had received orders from the
commanding officer to take the man back to barracks,
his first enlistment being good.
Mr. BURRELL said that he had nothing whatever to
do with the first enlistment. The recruit had done all
that was required under the Mutiny Act, if prepared to
pay the money claimed (smart and keep).
The recruit, who was in the uniform of the regiment,
produced the money. and again claimed his discharge.
The sergeant refused to take the money. His instruc-
tions only were to take the man to barracks.
The recruit having paid 11. 4s. into the hands of Mr.
Taylor, the chief clerk, as smart and charges since,
Mr. BURRELL discharged him from the second enlist-
ment, but he was immediately taken into custody by the

escort.
At the close of the court, the soldier or recruit's wife
complained that her husband was confined in barracks,
and that they would not allow her to see him.
Mr. BURRELL said he could not assist her in any way.
He had no power to interfere.
THAMES.
William Frazer, a man of rather respectable appear-
ance, was charged with fraudulently obtaining a quan-
tity of cutlery, the property of Messrs. Hems and Son,
cutlers, 37, High-street, Whitechapel.
According to the evidence of Mr. William Hems, and
his shopman, Henry Gough, the prisoner went about
half-past seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, and
stated that he wanted some articles of cutlery, as he
had taken the Nag's Head public-house, in Hounsditch,
and desired to see some knives and forks, some to be used
in the taproom, and others of a superior quality for the
parlour. The purchase was made to the amount of
3/. 10s., and the prisoner desired that they should
be sent with a bill to the Nag's Head, when the
amount would be immediately paid. Gough accordingly
took the articles to the Nag's Head, and inquired for the
prisoner, who came from the parlour, without his hat,
with the perfect air and manner of one who was master
of the house. He invited Gough into the parlour, and
having given him a glass of ale, said, "I suppose Mr.
Hems would have no objection to take one pound in
copper, which was agreed to, and the prisoner went out
as if to get the money, taking the articles with him. It
is needless to say that the prisoner, who had nothing to
do with the Nag's Head, disappeared with the property.
He was subsequently traced by a police-constable to a
house in White Lion-street, and taken into custody, but
no portion of the property could be discovered.
He was fully committed for trial.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF
SUICIDE.
(From the Dublin Evening Post of Thursday).
Last night, at nine o'clock, James Kirwan, Esq., City
Coroner, held an inquest at Abbott's Hotel, Prince's-
street, on view of the body of Robert Heinekey, Esq.,
proprietor to the Bilton Hotel, Sackville-street, who
came by his death by taking a large dose of laudanum.
Isaac Newton, the porter in Abbott's Hotel, stated
that deceased came to the house after six o'clock in the
morning and engaged a room, and told witness to bring
him up hot water ; he asked far a quiet room ; brought
up the water, and deceased locked the door, telling wit-
ness not to call or disturb him.
Mathew Doyle, head-waiter in the hotel, stated that
he knocked at the door between three and four o'clock,
and heard the deceased snore deeply; the door was
locked
witness,
with a sergeant of police,
and into the room ; went to the bed,
Ai
r. inside,
Thomas, a nd
went
and saw deceased very pale, and his chest was heaving
or drawing very heavy ; he was in a dead slumber, not
able to speak ; saw three bottles, which had " laudanum
poison" marked on them ; there was a letter directed
to Mr. Bunn, and also some papers relative to a will got
on the table with a watch and lls.; Mr. Abbott came
up at once and sent for a doctor. Here the following
letter directed to Mr. Bunn was read:—
"Bilton Hotel, Dublin, April 5, 1846.
"Dear Friend,—Many, many thanks for all your
kindness, Forgive your poor friend—but life has be-
come insupportable, and 'ere you view this his trouble
and anxiety will be at an end. Let me be interred at
Howth as quietly as possible. Continue your kind
friendship to my poor wife. I see no prospect of being
anything but a trouble to her, and after a time I hope
my loss will be her gain; she is harassed in mind and
body. Matters cannot go on as they are, and it is
better I should be out of the way as I am only a con-
tinued source of anxiety and trouble to all in connexion
with me. My unfortunate constitution of mind is the
only cause, but this I cannot overcome, and though it
must be felt severely at first I shall soon be forgotten;
ma
ifseewrabslheorlitfeyeoar plrswacie me in a lunatic asylum, a stillll' or even months, must end my
greater burden to my family. Pity and forgive your
poor weak-minded friend, and the best and last good
wishes of your unfortunate friend are for your happiness
and prosperity. "R. HEINEKEY.
" • Who can administer to a mind diseased ?' I have
struggled in vain, and cannot endure a lingering death.
" See Gresham as soon as you view this."
The Coroner read a letter directed to himself from
deceased, as follows :

" Sir—This is probably the first note you ever re-
ceived from one on whose body you were likely to hold
an inquest on. My object in addressing you is, to save
you and the jury all unnecessary trouble. The cause of
my death is two or three ounces of laudanum,
administered by my own hand, and the only reason
I can give for the cowardly act is, the mise-
rable state of mind I have been in for some time
past. Neither you or the jury can form an idea of the
horrid nervous feelings I have in vain struggled
against. I hare been a trouble and constant anxiety
to all around me ; although I have had no real cause,
and feel, in my present state of mind, that
al- arse
my death will be for the advantage of my dear wife and
life
d
i and such
sef
family. I shall soon be forgotten; but if I live, my
own incapacity to manage even the most trifling con-
cernspt
roo
ainjure
.
my
and, perhaps, end in great loss No ono can conceive
my
of
horriblefeelivnagitiLable business,
Although I
have no right to hope, I do trust in a merciful Creator to
forgive me. My dear wife and family are affectionate
and kind, and no blame can be attached to any of them.
My own morbid constitution of mind and nervous ex-
citement makes me dread the approach of each day, and
I can endure it no longer. May the Almighty forgive
his wretched creature. *

“RoBT. HEINEKEY.
"Howth, 6th April, '46.—To the Coroner.”
After the examination of some medical gentlemen, the
jury found a verdict that "Death was caused by de-
ceased having taken a very large quantity of laudanum,
while in a state of temporary derangement."

EXECUTION of SAMUEL YARHAM,
THE YARMOUTH MURDERER.
NORWICH, SATIIIIDAY.—ProbabIy no culprit has ex-
piated his dreadful offence on the scaffold, and has
created so much sensation from the peculiar circum-
stances attending the commission of the crime, as the
wretched man Samuel Yarhana, who suffered the ex-
treme penalty of the law, for the murder of Harriett
f theu l character,wretched 1
eaaned
Candler, at Yarmouth, at noon this day, on the drop
at the castle of the city.
At twelve o'clock Yarham made his appearance on the
stood which
en continued
th e
gau
foefirs
scaffold. The yell of the ulace was of a most fright-
bolt was drawn and the unhappy
into eternity. His sufferings were very groat. .
We were credibly informed that the culprit has given
a full confession of his guilt in writing, which he desired
might 110$ be mule known luau throe days igtor 145
cloths ,wt the
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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
SPECULATION IN 1845.

A curious document came to light on Saturday in the
shape of a report from the Registrar-General of Joint-
stock Companies, to the Privy Council for Trade for
1845. It forms a gigantic index of upwards of fifty fo-
lios to the doings in railway speculation for the past
year, and can be likened, in its length and curious dis-
closures, to nothing else. but the ramifications of a
Welsh pedigree or Homer's catalogue of ships. An in-
teresting biography or book upon bubbles might be
wrought out of it in the hands of a judicious selector. It
is, moreover, a mirror of that memorable period of na-
tional hallucination when every bubble was invested
with a value, as the true offspring of the joint-stock
genius of England, by the then reigning epidemic of
speculative cupidity and caprice. In the return every
scheme is impaled as nicely as ephemera in the folios
of a naturalist. Each scheme is accurately named and
numbered, so that all whom it concerns may take notice
and see how the multiplied schemes that came out
starred with premiums have given up the ghost of a
moonshine existence, and found a place in the catalogue
of all defunct things. This list is an eloquent eloge of
the. wild spirit of project and speculation that charac-
terised the past, and will be highly useful to the pos-
terity of speculators and projectors in all time to come.
The report is but a record of the establishment of the
evil of a plethoric speculation, without at all unveiling
the disastrous and uucalculating consequences that fol-
lowed the most puissant period of speculation in the
world's history; consequences that can only be ade-
quately arrived at by diving into the depths of woe and
Whitecross-street, which is said to be half peopled
with speculators and projectors, who had a chief
hand in the late railway game of hazard. The
list consists of fifty -three pages, and contains
the titles and specifications of 1,520 schemes, the off
spring of 1845, the majority being for railways, .water-
companies, banks, insurances, mines, and an immensity
of other joint-stock corporation. The year opened with
a mere handful, but as the days rolled on and the fever
became fiercer, they doubled, trebled, and quadrupled
in quantity, until, in September, October, and Novem-
ber, they came thickly thundering on, at the rate of
from 100 to 300 and 500 a month, and an average in
September—the most prolific of months—of from 16 to
46 each day, or 457 in the month, as will be seen by
the following analysis of the return. In December,
when the panic rang the tocsin of alarm, and the excite-
ment was gradually subsiding, the climacteric was 31.
The following shows the number of projects registered
each month, with the aggregate totals for the same :
Number registered. Total.
In January l 6
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December ..... 31

Total schemes registered from January to
December
The period, it is well known, gave rise to the most
whimsical and Quixotic scheming&' and we select from
the one thousand five hundred and twenty! some of the
most amusing anomalies and nondescripts.
The People's Colliery Company.
Melides Anglo-Franceza Mining Company.
Biographical Dictionary Society.
St. Marylebone and Paddington Joint-stock Building
and Trading Company.
Agriculturist Cattle Insurance Company.
White Knights Improvement Company, now called
White Knights Estate Company.
Tehuantepec Colonization and Canal Company.
Greenwich Bath Company.
York-street Flax-spinning Mill Company.
Bury Athenreum Company.
Lancashire and Yorkshire North-Eastern Railway
Company.
Patent Concentrated Tea Company.
Wigton Joint-stock Brewery Company.
Tollesbury Oyster Company.
National Land-draining Company.
Patent Fuel Company.
Rotherham and Masb9rough Public Bath Company.

Wilder's Burton Brewery Company.
Hull Cotton-mill Company, now called Kingston Cotton-
mill Company.
Victoria Dock and Grand Union Railway Company.
National Joint-stock, Loan and Discount Company.
Bristol and South Wales Junction Railway Extension
Line to Monmouth Company.
Quartertown Cotton Joint-stock Company.
Economic Draining Tile and Brick Company.
General Oceanic Telegraphic Company.
Catholic Law and General Life Assurance Company.
Northern Loan Association.
Church of England Cemetery Company.
National Land Drainage Company.
Highbridge Market-house Company.
Lancashire One Hundred Pounds Money Company.
Drapers' Fire Insurance Company.
Ocean Mutual Marine Assurance Institution.
New Protecting Society.
Norfolk and Sutiblk Ramoneur Association.
Australian, Sydney, Paramatta, Liverpool, Richmond,
and Windsor Junction Railway Company.
Mercantile Bill of Exchange, Discount, and Loan Com-
pany.
National Widows' and General Life Annuity and As-
surance Society, now called Widows' National and
General Life Annuity and Assurance Society.
Fidelity Guarantee Society.
London and Aberdeen Granite Company.
Patent India Paper Manufacturing Company.
Marine Glue Company.
Weriham Lake Ice Company.
Tehuantepec Ship Canal and Colonization Company.
Patent Cork-Cutting Company.
Harwich Pier and Docks and Birmingham and Central
England Grand Junction Railway Company, now
called Harwich Docks and Birmingham and Central
England Railway.
Hull Worsted Mill Company.
Wylain's Steam Fuel Company.
Practicable, General, and Invalid Assurance Company.
Dacca Sugar Company.
Burnley Cotton Twist Company.
Defender Company, now called Property Protection and
Insurance Company against Fraud and Robbery.
Great Hibernian Central Junction Railway Company.
Universal Guarantee Society, now called Surety society.
Craig Ddu Slate Company.
Patent Timber Company.
Great British Advertising Company.
Railway Club House, Chambers, and General Goods
Depot Company, now called Bank Approaches Im-
provement Company.
British Class Journal Company.
National Glass Company of Ireland.
General Commercial Telegraph Company.
National and General Harbours Company, by the ado p•
tion of Sleigh's Patent buoyant Sea-barrier or artiti-

ficial Beach.
Railway Carriage Bantling Company.
Great British Railway Company.
Great British Extension Railway Company.
Hinckley Union Mill Company.
Prosser's Patent Wooden Railway Guide-Wheel Com

pany.
Dudley, Wolverhampton, Tamworth, Syston, and
Leicester Railway Company, now called Dudley, Wol-
verhampton, Walsall, and Tamworth Railway Com-
pany.
British and Colonial Provident Life Assurance Annuity
Endowment, and Freehold Investment Company.
Liverpool Joint-stock Railway Bank Company.,
Thames and Scheldt Steam Navigation Company.
Burnley Building Company.
Manchester Auxiliary Investment Company.
Bridlington Quay and Public Rooms Company.
Wolverhampton, Wallsall, Stamford, Peterborough, and
Norwich Junction Railway Company, now called
Wolverhampton, Walsall, Leicester, Peterborough,
Norwich, and Great Yarmouth Junction Railway
Company. d'
Burnley, Bradford, Leeds, York, and Hull Direct
• Union Railway Company, now called Ribble and
Humber Junction, or Preston, Blackburn, Burnley,
Bradford, Leeds, York, and Hull Direct Union Rail-
way Company.
Mutual Investment Society.
Fitzroy Investment Association.
Hull Sugar Refining Company.
Great British Railway Company.
Royal Irish Glass Company.
New Share and Stock Exchange Company.
London Railway Company.
Royal Grand Junction Railway Company, uniting tho
London and South-Eastern, the London and Brighton,
the London and South-Western, and the Great
Western Railways.
Westminster and Charing-cross Building Company.
London and Liverpool Direct Railway Company.
Cooke's National Railway Company.
Chorley's Cotton Twist Company.
General Canal Steam Haulage Company.
Philadelphia Steel Works Company.
Metropolitan and Brighton Sea-Water Conveyance
Company.
Provincial Sewage Manure Company.
Great City Shambles Company.
Midland Counties Coal-Fields Railway Company.
Nova Scotia and New Brunswick Transit and Coloniza-
tion Company.
Universal Railway Contracting Company.
Joint-stock Newspaper Company.
Ulster Irish Centralization Railway Company.
London Circles Railway Company.
Railway and General Gas Com Company
London and Harrow-on-the-Hill Direct Railway Com-
pany.
Railway Land Investment Company.
London Concentral Exchange and Junction Railway

Company.
Victoria Aqueduct Company.
Inland Ports and Sea Ports Ship Railway and Goods
Traffic Company.
Isthmus of Darien, Atlantic, and Pacific Junction Rail-
way, Harbour and Dock, and steam Packet Company,
now called Isthmus of Darien, Atlantic, and Pacific
Junction Railway Harbours, Docks, Canal and Steam
Packet Company.
Northampton General Cemetery Company.
Metropolitan Necropoli, or Grand Eastern and Western
Cemeteries Company, now called Metropolitan Necro-
poles, or Grand Eastern and Western Cemeteries Com-
pany.
Sheffield Coal Consumers' Company.
Bradford Sanatory Building Company.
Metropolitan and Great Western Junction Railways of
Canada Company, from Toronto to London (Canada),
now called Extension of the Great Western Rainy ,
of Co* tomtt, distriot of Edon to Taut%

Direct City South Union Atmospheric ,Railway Co-
-

pant'.
Thames Tunnel and Metropolitan Suburban Junction
Rail way Company.
Manchester District Circle and Lancashire and Cheshire
Junction Railway Company.
Atmospheric Rapid Mail Conveyance Company.
Great Independent London, Birmingham, Manchester
and Liverpool Direct Railway Company. ,
United Iron and Railway Extension Company.
Paddington and Saint Albans Railway Company.
Dublin Coal Ship Company.
Railway Contracts Company,
Royal Irish Railroad Carriage Company.
East of England Locomotive Engine Building Com-
pany.
Patriot Association.
Mall, bar and Coram andel Coasts Junction Railway Com-
pany.
Somersetshire Lighting Company.
Devonshire Lighting Company.
Law Chambers Society of Ireland.
Norwich Church of England Burial Ground Company.
British Patent Naphtha Company.
Union Joint stock Building Company.
Hibernian Coal and Peat Consumers' Company.
Liverpool Stock-Exchange Building Company.
Draining and Flooring Tile Pottery and Brick Manufac-
turing Company.
Great Metropolitan Artesian Water Company.
England Life and Invalid Hazard Assurance Company.
Grand European Mining and Manufacturing Iron Com-
pany.
Miniature World, or Grand National Association.
Grand National Association for the Profitable Employ.
ment of Capital, Skill, and Labour in Trade, Com-
merce, and Agriculture.
Dublin Omnibus Conveyance Company.
South London NewFpaper Company.
Patent Fibre Manufacturing Company.
National Investment and Benevolent Land Association,
for the Encouragement of Agricultural Labourers and
Small Farmers.
Adelaide Railway Company.
West Kent Hop Company.
Central Union to the North of England Railway Com-
pany.
Hereford Cottage Association.
Litherland Land Company.
National Philanthropic Investment Company.
Senator's Screw Ship Company.
This disposes of section No. 1, of companies "pro-
visionally" registered in 1845—amounting to 1,520.
Section 2 professes to give a list of companies, 57 in
number, " completely " registered during the same
period, and amongst these figure
The Manchester Bonding Warehousing Company.
The Ipswich Paper Mills Company.
The Victoria Park Cemetery.
The Patent Fuel Company.

The Patent Cork-cutting Company.
Section 3 informs us that there have been no cases
during the year in which application has been made for
the enforcement of penalties for failure to register, and
result of the proceedings thereon.
Section 4 gives a list of those provisionally, but not
completely registered during 1'45. It is principally a
recapitulation of the previous list, and gives a total of
1,484. Amongst its originalities are:—The Provincial
and Foreign Water Company, the British National
Brewing Company, the Tollesbury Oyster Company, the.
General Post-office and Great Metropolitan Junction,
the Great European Railways Company, the Great Bri-
tish Advertising Company.
Sect. 5 affirms that no change has been made during
the year in the return of the regulations made by the
Committee of the t'rivy Council for Trade with regard to
the returns required to be made by companies.
Sect. 6 consists of a return of persons appointed to the
office of registrar of joint-stock companies, and other
officers and clerks, with their salaries, &C., 1845. From
this it appears that there is-1. George Taylor, for-
merly first clerk, appointed assistant-registrar, " with a
salary the same as formerly returned." 2. George Craw-
ford, appointed assistant-registrar for Ireland, in the
room of Ponsonby Arthur Moore, resigned at a salary
of 2001. 3. Stephen Pritchlrd, appointed clerk in the
room of John Young Jameson, deceased, at a salary
of 801.
Sect. 8 furnishes a return of the amount of all fees paid
at the offices for the Registration of Joint-stock Com-
panies, pursuant to the Act 7 and 8 Vic., c. 110, during
the year 1845. It is as follows :