The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-24 00:00:00

INDIAN RAILWAYS.

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The following, it is understoood, are the conditions
upon which the Board of Control and the Directors of
the East India Company have at length decided upon
giving their sanction to the introduction of railway
communication into British India .-
1. The Direct Trunk, or East India line, is adopted.
2. This line (which connects Calcutta with the North-
west Provinces) is to be constructed in sections.
3. The Government guarantee 4 per cent. to the
shareholders.

4. The amount guaranteed is fixed at 3,000,000. to
commence with.

5. The section out of Calcutta to be first executed.
6. The guarantee to extend over fifteen years.
7. The rates of payment 'to be made by the Govern-
ment for transport of mails, troops, stores, &c., to be
agreed upon hereafter.
8. The interest to be received either in India or in
London, at the option of the shareholders, as soon as
500,000/. is paid into the India House.
9. The land to be obtained by the Government for the
railway company.
10. Government to have the privilege of purchasing
the railway after thirty years from the date of its com-
pletion, at the then fair market value of the property.
11. No limitation is to be fixed to the profits of the
company, but the rates of charges are to be redueed
when the returns admit or it.
12. It is also understood that no rates or tolls will be
assessed upon the railway company, and that the import
duties on the stock and materials for the railway will be
remitted.

13. The company to be incorporated by an act of the
Legislative Council as well as by charter.

WILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENT AT CROSBY
HALL.--The series of seven entertainments on the songs
of Scotland, which Mr. Wilson announced at Crosby
Hall, came to a conclusion on Tuesday night, when he
was honoured with a brilliant and crowded room, and as
usual the audience were highly delighted, and very en-
thusiastic. Mr. Wilson was in excellent voice and sung
with great effect in all his styles, pathetic, humorou.,
and heroic. The programme contained a great variety
of songs ; among those that were not Scotch, the " Sol-
dier's llt eam " produced a great effect—in fact, it was
as fine a piece of musical declamation as we ever listened
to. Many of the songs were encored, and in addition to
those in the programme, Mr. Wilson sang " The Lass
o'Gowrie," and the excellent song of " Tullochgorum."
At the eud of the performance Scotia's own minstrel
was much cheered, and gave delight to his friends by
announcing that be would resume his entertainments in
London in April. In the meantime Mr. Wilson visits
Dublin, and several of the provincial towns of England
and Scotland.

PAROCHIAL MEDICAL NEGLECT:44IIg evening
Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Clerkenwell Work-
house, Coppice-row, on the body of Ann Wright, aged
16, a servant. It appeared that on Wednesday' last,
about one o'clock, deceased returned ill from her situ,
tion to her mother, who resiles near the workhouse.
Deceased complained of severe pain in the chest, and
in an hour after her return her mother obtained an
order for medical relief at the workhouse. The order
was on Mr. Gill, ooe of the parish medical officers, and
the mother took it without delay to his house, at which
she knocked and rang for a quarter of an hour, without
receiving en answer. The house appeared to her as if
shut up. She returned to the workhouse and reported
her ill success. She was told to go back to Mr. Gill's, and
knock until she was answered. She did so about four
o'clock, and saw Mrs. Gill, to whom she delivered the
order. That lady told her that her husband was seri-
ously ill, and could not attend, but that her son should
as soon as he came home, which would be at five o'clock.
The mother returned to her daughter, who was still
suffering severe pain, and seven o'clock arriving, with•
out the attendance of Mr. Gill, jun. she returned
'
tttoeelrlinhogisnhehrhoatuhviagelt: and he prescribed for her daugh-
gif her symptoms mentioned to him,
any change for the worse took place,
to come °me to him again at ten o clock, but if not, ho would
call and see her at twelve o'clock the following day.
She administered the remedies prescribed by Mr. Gill,
jun., and no change taking place in her daughter she
did not go and see him again that night. Next morning
her daughter was able to get up, but afterwards went to
and twelve o'clock having struck, and Mr.
not coming, deceased expressed anxiety and
tianinand died at a quarter to one o'clock,
that gentleman not having seen .
her at
all. Dr. Quain,
who had made a post modem examination of the body,
d that the cause of death was inflammation of the
state
heart, of recent s • lining membrane of the tending. Mr.
bed Gill
disappointment,g)
Gill, jun., said that he did not understand from the
mother that her daughter's case was an urgent one. She
gave him a history of it, and from the symptoms he con-
sidered that the girl was suffering from influenza. Ver-
dict—" Natural death from the effects of pericarditis;"
the jury adding, "we do not consider that the deceased
bad received that efficient and prompt medical aid which
her case required."

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY”—The unfavourable state of
the weather prevented Her Majesty and Prince Albert
leaving the Castle this morning. The same cause pre-
vented also the Royal Family taking their usual walking
exercise.

Loid and Lady John Russell, and the lion. Miss
Lister, took their departure from the Castle, to-day, for
town.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederic of
Hesse, honoured the performance of the French plays
with their presence, yesterday evening.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Gloucester, yesterday, at Gloucester
House.

On Monday and Tuesday last, her Majesty's royal
bounty was distributed to upwards of 1,000 poor and
aged persons; each receiving a crown, according to an-
cient usage at this inclement season of the year. Upon
this occasion the applications for relief were more thah
usually numerous, and the Venerable Archbishop of York,
assisted by the Sub-Almoner, the Rev. Dr. Jeff, extended
the bo•inty to meet the exigency. The distributions
were made by Joseph Hanby, Esq., his Grace's Secre-
tary as d Yeomah of her Majesty's Alnionary in ordinary.
Dispatches were sent MI last evening from the Colo-
nial Office for the Governor of Sierra Leone.
Lord and Lady John Russell, accompanied by the
Hon. Miss Lister, returned to their residence in Cheshatn-
place yesterday morning from Windsor Castle. In the
afternoon Lord and Lady John Russell left town for
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, on a visit to the Duke of
Bee ford.