The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-03 00:00:00

140 N DON, TUESDAY
.E'VEN'ING,

Jg le last ten years
which has threatened to render it impossible
to carry out for the future even the most needful and
promising undertakings. His schemes is. to build a
railway 2,030 miles in length, not only without a shil-
ling of Government money, but also without raising any
contributions from the public, and, when completed, if t
would be the property of the nation,o
the value
whose territorial possessions would also be
incal-
culably augmented. At the same time, the element
of self-interest, the true adjunct of practical philan-
thropy, would operate as the moving causeineverye
stage of the whole affair. From New York to th
Wisconsin border of Lake Michigan, a distance west
of about 1,000 miles, there is already a perfect com-
munication by steamboat and railway, and Mr.
'the line thence to the
Pacific. For
proposes For
grant of thirty
miles of the public lauds on each side of the con-
templated road, and from these, although they are at
tl iis tpurpose o
h e continue
asks a
present without value except in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of the starting point, he would create all the
means
that are necessary. He would, for instance.
commence with ten miles of the road, and then sell
a portion of the lands on each side, which, owing to
their proximity to the advancing rush of popu-
lation, the existing facilities of transit, and the
fact of such an enterprise being undertaken, would at
once realize considerably more than would be requisite.
thus tar to meet the outlay. The point at the end of
these ten miles would then be in nearly the same posi-
tion as that from which he had originally started
andwith
lanotherlhe r
etbeuni
road would advance, and with a steadiness and
tidheoo hr
we es watched
t
rapidity which can only be estimated by those
cheemdigthraetii,n.
riiesistiobrletnee firstffec 800fo intneikgsrtehaet
land is mostly prairie, and fir for instant settlement; and
one of the provisions
of the Bill recommended by the
Committees of Congress wbo have reported upon the
subject is that not more than halt' the quantity granted
on each aide shall be sold in the &at instance, the re-
maining ha f being reserved to complete the work in
those districts where the soil might prove poor. Nut
only. therefore, would each prolongation of the road na-
turally render more certain the completion of the re-
mainder, but it would provide a fund that would place
that result beyond all doubt.
Gigantic as the scheme is, the simple calculations on
which these conclusions are based are familiar to all
who are acquainted with the rise and progress of the
inland cities of America, and in this case the projector
is to stake the reward of all his labours upon their suc-
cess. After the road shall have been completed and in
operation, all the surplus lands or money are, according
to the Bill which has been introduced, to belong to Mr.
Whitney and his heirs; but there is no provision for any
direct remuneration; and consequently, although every
step of the work must benefit the nation, he cannot de-
rive anything except from its float triumph.
The ultimate effects of such a land route between
Europe and Asia, and its influence in still further ming-
ling the productions and races of the world, are to be
regarded with equal interest in England and the United
States. It has been unanimously reported upon by dif-
ferent Committees of the two Houses of Congress at
different sessions, and has also been sanctioned by legis
lative votes in about 20 of the individual States. The
party warfare, however, of last session prevented a final
re-solution from being arrived at. and consequently caused
a delay which, as far as the United States are concerned,
jeopardizes the project. So rapid is the progress of set-
Element iu the west, that the lands in the neighbourhood
of the route are fast filling up, and the contingency pre-
cents itself, that even before Congress will again meet
they may be so far occupied as to put it out of the power
of Gorernment to make the needful grant. Looking at
this possibility, attention has been turned to Canada,
whence a feasible route has long been considered to
exist from Quebec to Vancouver's Island. In the offers
understood to have been made to Mr. Whitney the pos-
sible adoption of the latter course has consequently been
taken into account, the proposal being to furnish him
with the necessary capital for the first 10 miles of the
line (in consideration for a share of the results contin-
gent upon its final completion), whether it may pass
through American or British territory,, supposing a
similar grant of the latter could be obtained. For the
present, it appears be has declined to enter into any ar-
rangement, preferring to wait until the next session of
Congress; but it is satisfactory to believe that his bold
conception is now sufficiently appreciated on both sides
to insure that it will not be suffered to fail for want of
any rational aid that can be afforded to it.—Times' City
Article.

PENINSULA!? AND URI6N lAL STEAM
NAVIGATION COMPANY.
On Saturday the half-yearly meeting of this company
was held at the offici-s in Leadenhall. street, Sir James
Matheson, Bart., M.P., presiding.
The report stated that the shareholders were aware
that the accounts under the deed of settlement were
only presented once a year, but the financial position of
the company seemed very satisfactory, and warranted
the declaration of a dividend for the next six months,
ending 31st March next, of 4 per cent. Arrangement'
had been made for extending the steam communication
with India, China. &c. Considerable attention had been
paid to increasing the speed or the company's vessel.,
and the Hindostan and Oriental now made the voyage
from Suis to Calcutta in eight days less than the time
stipulated in the mail contract. The company intended
to resume the North Coast of China service, by means
of the Pilch& bet even Hong Kong and Shanghai. Va-
rious improvements were intended with regard to the
transit of the mail through Egypt, and the directors
could state, on the authority of a letter from the Pacha.
that be intended to construct a railway through that
country, under the direction of Mr. Scephensoe, M.P.
The Canton, which bad run on an unknown sunken rock
on the coast of China, had, filer being exposed to a sea
for eight weeks which would have destroyed a wooden
vessel, been got off and found to have sustained damage
only which could be repaired at a comparatively trifling
cost. The Sir Charles Forbes had been hired to supply
the place of the Canton. The company had made a fourth
tender to the Government fur the service to Australia,
but no definite reply had yet been received.
The report was adopted, the dividend declared, a vo►.e
of thanks given to the Pacha of Egypt for the interest
he had taken with regard to the communication with
India, Btc., and to the directors for their continued atten-
tion to the interests of the company.

MEETING of the NATIONAL SOCIETY.
It is with no smell gratification that we tied ourselves
enabled to announce to our readers the fact, that at the
meeting of the National Society on Wednesday next, a
resolution will be moved on behalf of the committee by
Lord Redesdale, immediately after the reception of the
report, which is calculated to unite the votes of all the
friends of the society and promoters of Church education,
and which will, we hope, supersede the resolutions and
counter-resolutions of which notice has been given. Lord
Redesdale's resolution expresses regret at the restric-
tions continued to be iusposed by the Committee of
Council on the founders of Church schools, and at the
Sam!) time adverts to the continued co-operation of the
National Society with the Committee of Council, as a
ground of satisfaction. It is not impossible that men
of extreme views, wedded to party strife, may take
exceptions to this resolution, either on the ground
that it identifies the society with the demand for
greater freedom to the founders of Church schools,
or, on the other band, on the ground of its being too
conciliatory towards the Committee of Council. But
sober minded and reflecting men will not regret the het.
that pending the dispute a large portion of the Parlia-
mentary grant has been appropriated to purposes of
Church education, and will deem the recognition by the
society, with the full concurrence of the committee, of
the principle that greater freedom ought to be ac-
corded to the founders of Church schools, more likely to
conduce to the ultimate attainment of that freedom, than
a party victory within the society. The time cannot be
far distant when, with a Government more favourable to
the Church, and a Parlissueutary Committee appointed
to investigate the whole question in all Its bearings, Op
Church will have full justice done her; and with this
prospect before them the members of the society would
act most unwisely if they were to encourage any further
agitation of controverted topics within its own bosom.
We trust that this will be felt by the great majority of
the members present on Wednesday; and that, instead
of the unseemly, though inevitable, a rife which h- is cha-
racterised its annual meetings for the last few years,
there will be a unanimous, or all but unanimous, resolve
to cottbentrate the united strength of its members upon
the vigorous end efficient discharge of the great work
for which the society was originally establistied.—John

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CLAIRVOYANCE EXTRAORDINARY .—On Tuesday,
Epsom races week, a clairvoyante, named Miss Eagle,
some a great
in front of the other, •hall, Chippenham, in the
caused some little prsuunePeelrming at the Town
way
she could see about 30 horses all racing,
her, mateci app;:ti: Perso-s, in answer to some questions put to
behin ', but there was one about a length
er, and its name was Teddington. This
were down to ineetnt-
;easpdeculation amongst believers and sceptics
in clairvoyance
on the following evening some scores
tilt lasiedseeven o'clock train. As it approached
it was heard on
pockets pretty deep.—D4yer!z
many
numerous bets were made. The
had to nip their hands in their
one she's wrong,,, &e, 3 Now tor clairvoyance;
result is known, and
Gazette.REGARDED.—
neD is
DREAMS NOT ALW
furnishes us with a relation of Cicero
ling together, arrived at Mag‘rtaw° Arcadians, who travel-
Athens and Corinth, where one 4 titY "Greece, between
house, and the other at an inn, then' lodged ii a friend's
who lodged at the private house wentsutO'per, the person
asleep dreamed that his friend at the inn :ed. and falling
and begged his assistance, because the appeared ppeearred to him,
to kill him. The man immediately
sot out of was going
frightened at the dream; but recovering himself and famllincah
asleep again, his friend appeared to him a second time, a,,ii"
desired that, as he would not assist Aim in time, he would
take care at least not to let his death go unpunished; that
the innkeeper having murdered him, had thrown his body
in a cart-, and covered it with dung; be therefore begged
that he would be at the city gate in the morning, het„re
the cart was out. Struck with this new dream, he vent
early to the gate, saw the cart, and asked the oriver what
was in it. The driver immediately tied ; the dead body was
taken out of the cart, and the innkeeper apprehended and
exEcuted.

The Durham Advertiser states that the potato
disease has again made its appearance.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL. - .
A person, who stated himself to be a clergyman of the
Clench of England, was brought before the Lord Mayor
upon the charge of having stolen a shilling from the plate
of the church of Allhallows, Barking.
Mr. George Creaton, vestry-clerk of the parish of All-
hallows, Barking, said, I have been desired by the church.
warden of the pariah to charge the prisoner with flaying
abstracted money from the plate u.ed last night at the
lecture in our church. As I was going to Mr. Plummer,
who was holding the plate at one of the doors, to say
that there was no use in staying any longer, the prisoner
went up to the plate, put his hand into it, and took out
something. I immediately seized the prisoner's hand,
and upon opening it found a shilling in it. I then took
him to the vestry-room, and afterwards by the direction
of the churchwarden to the station-house, where he was
charged with the robbery. The collection was for the
benefit of the evening lecture fund. Mr. Plummer is one
of our oldest parishioners, and he was therefore requested
to hold the plate. The prisoner told me that he did not
take any money out of the plate, and that he had placed
sixpence in it. No money was taken from him.
The solicitor for the prisoner—Did you see him take
the money from the plate? Witness—I could not see
what he took out of the plate until I opened his hand.
When I saw him put his hand in the plate I grasped it
immediately. I saw his fingers go ri,lht down upon the
money in the plate.
Mr. John Plummer, of Tower-street, said—l was
holding the plate at the north door of the church, and I
saw the prisoner moving to the plate, and felt a pressure
on the back part of my hand as his -fingers went into the
plate. I saw a sovereign on the plate, and my suspicion
was that the prisoner was attracted by the sovereign.
which was a new one and rather conspicuous. Mr.
Creaton came behind him, and seizing his hand, said,
" Yuu villain, you have taken something from the plate."
The plate is a deep dish, and the fingers went into it.
The prisoner's solicitor—Do you swear that you saw
him take money out instead of putting it in? Witness—
I can only SLAW as to my belief; which was that he took
money out.
Mr. John Silverlook, senior churchwarden of All Hal-
lows, Barking, said—l was holding a plate at the door
of the principal entrance at the south side, and the prie
softer as be was passing put his hand into my plate, and
I think that he took something out. I observed a belt
sovereign In my place, but as I saw that was safe I did
not accuse him, as I did not wish to condemn unjustly.
Mr. Creaton—Your Lordship will observe that when I
took the prisoner 1140 the vestry-room upon the charge
of abstracting from the plate held by Mr. Plummer, Mr.
Silvrrloca directed me, from the b. lief that the prisoner
had robbed his plate, to cause him to be taken to the
station- house.
The Lome MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, do you wish to
make any explanation? Who and what are you? The
prisoner—l have been a clergyman of the Church of
England upwards of 32 years.
The LORD MAYOR—Are you in orders now? The
prisoner—I am. I had one church in Worcestershire
20 years; and I have served in Eye, in Suffolk, during
the absence of the cl-rgy man there. I have two sons in
respectable circumstances in London, and I have letters
which were found upon me, and which your Lordship
can read as evidence or my respectability. I am most
willing and anxious to give every explanation.
The LORD MAYOR—I am willing to give you every op-
portunity°, making the necessary explanation. If you are
innocent, your present position is, indeed, most painful.
The prisoner—I had in my purse, when I went to the
plate held by the witness (Mr. Plummer), a shilling, a
sixpence, and a halfpenny. I pulled out the shilling and
sixpeace tegether, and I put the sixpence into the plate
keeping the shilling in my hand. At that moment ano
they of the witnesses seized my hand, in which my
shilling was. The whole statement made is correct,
with the exception of the point as to taking money out
of the plate, for instead of taking money out I put money
in. I must naturally wish fur the moat searching in-
vestigation into this extraordinary charge. I am the
father of six sons and three daughters, and I never en-
tertained a thought of committing such au offence as
that with which I am charged.
The LORD MAYOR—Where dO you live? The pri-
soner—On Saturday night I slept in a coffee-house in
Bishopsgete- street.
The officer who apprehended the prisoner said—l took
his purse from him, and 1 found a halfpenny in it, as he
states.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you make inquiries at the
coffee-house about him? Officer—I did, my Lord, and
I ascertained that he had slept there; bat the landlord
said he went away in the morning without paying for
his bed or his breakfast, and something was said about
something of the same kind about four years ago.
The prisoner—It was my intention to pay what I
owed at the house in Bishopsgate-street, of course; but
this mistake interferes with my intention.
The LORD MAYOR---It is SO important to the priso-
ner, as well as to the authorities of the parish, that this
matter ahuuld be investigated, that I am resolved to
cause the strictest inquiry to be made into all the state-
ments, and I shall with that view remand the case for
a few days.
The prisoner was then remanded.
The City Police Commissioner waited upon the Lord
Mayor and stated that he bad received a letter from the
secretary to the Ragged School Shoe-black Society,
asking permission to introduce the plan which is now
being adopted in various parts of the metropolis, into
the City, to which he (the Commissioner) had given
his consent, provided the names of the boys and the
places which they were to occupy had his sanction,
subject to the approval of the chief magistrate of the City.
The plan rscrived the cordial approbation of the Lord
Mayor, and arrangements will be immediately made to
carry it into effect.
The. LORD MAYOR said he had extreme gratifica-
tion in stating that he bad received a considerable
number of coutributions for the relief of the self-term
from the Gracechurch-street calamity ; amongst
which were the following limal subscrip-
tions frous the membtrs of the Stock Exchange, per H.
Wilkinson, Esq., 351. 10s. ; the bankers, merchants,
and inhabitants of Alihaleiws, Lombard street, per W.
Has4-1111tili, 1181. 17.. ; Henry Silk, Esq, Hampstead-
road, et ; Mr. Pinches, coaster of the. Commercial School,
George-) ard, near the fallen building, IL, and 41. 12s.
as a voluntary contribution of his pupils; collected by
Mr. G. Wesimacott, £Bl. 15e; ditto. Spink and Son.
91. 2s. Bd.; ditto, J. D. Browning, 31 Ba.; ditto, Glade
well, 51. 25.; date, J. aught and Son, 21. 10s. 6d.;
di to, it. Howell. 9/ Or. 6,1 ; ditto, W. &Dithers. 5/ 19s.
10d.• ditto, W. Jordan, 31 81 ; ditto. G. Beck, 111 84.1
A. 1. 8., half note 78 239. 5/ ; small sums received by
Rsctor of Ethelburgba, 21. 3s. 6d.; Messrs. Fox arid
Barrett. 51.; Mrs. Sapwell, 90, Gracechurch street, in
small donations, Si. 2s. 6d.; it quest of ward of Bi.hops-
gate, balance of account from Mr. Owden, Si. 6s. Id.;
Pnilip Salonsons, Eiq., 51.; J. R. W., Lt. C., 21; and
several smaller sums.
Mr. Bail (of the firm of Bell and Corbett) waited upon
the Lord Mayor with various contributions for the fund
for the permanent benefit of the sufferers, amounting to
261 175., and
The LORD MAYOR expressed his high admiration of
the humane exertions of the two gentlemen, who showed
such deep interest in the deplorable catastrophe, aid
were so warmly met by the public feeling.
LAMBETH.
Mr. Jarman, managing clerk to Mr. Humphries, the
solicitor, with several respectable persons, attended' lie-
fore Mr. Elliott to support a charge of assault, preferred
on a former day, against Mr. or Captain Williams, a
member of the Army and Navy Club, Pall-mall.
The charge against the gallant captain was that &in-
dulging , with several of his companions, the occupants
of a four-in-hand drag, in the aristocratic amusement of
pelting every one who approached them with eggs dur-
ing their homeward progress on the Oaks days. It was
the misfortune of Mr. Jarman, and a party of frieeds in
a carriage, to approach the " swell drag" at Tooting,
and from that place until they bad reached the turvpike-
gate at South- Lambeth a continuous fire of eggs and
other missiles was kept up, so that on reaching the latter
place the party fired at were literally covered and
drenched with egg-snuff, the odour from which was not
of the most pleasing description. At South Lambeth
the offenders-were given into the charge of the police,
but the latter not being in sufficient force at the place to
secure them, the gentlemen were allowed to proceed on
giving their names and addresses. The names and ad-
dresses given were found not to be correct, but the
whereabouts-of Captain Williams was discovered by his
being followed by one of the sufferers to the Army and
Navy Ciub, and a summer's tees taken out aglinst him.
His companions would in all probability have got scot
tree out of the scrape had it not been fir ae incident
that occurred at South Lambeth, and which led to the
disclosure of the names of two others of the parry.
When the gentlemen were given into the custody of the
police, avid the latter were struggling to take them to the
station-house, Mr. Henry Peat, the saddler, in Old Bond-
street, rode up, and being acquainted with the names of
several of them, and also knowing Mr..l armee personally,
be undertook to furnish the latter with their names, and
on this understanding the aggressors were allows i to
proceed. On the summons being called on yesterday
Captain Williams Wall not present, and English, one of
the summoning pacers, deposed that he hart called at the
Army and Navy Club to serve Mr. Williams with the
summons, and was told that he was out. He (English)
.had reason to believe that was not true. It was his im-
pression that the gentleman was at the Club at the time,
and be left the smmaions with the porter in the hall to
give to Mr. Williams.

Mr. Jarman, addressing the Magistrate, said he had
summoned Mr. Peat for the purpose of identifying Mr.
Wilalms as oee of the off-nders, and as Mr. Peat was
then present, and was well acquainted with the persons
of the other delinquents, he hoped his Worship would
call on him to disclose their names, so that he (Mr. Jar-
man) might be enabled to institute proceedings against
them.

Mr. Peat observed that he was placed in rather an
awkward dilemma in the matter. He understood that a
solicitor on the part of those accused bad called on Mr.
Jarman and had 4,ffered to pay for all the damage they
had dune, and any expenses they might have been put
to, provided his Worship consented to the case being so
settled.

Mr. ELLIOTT remarked that ha could not permit an
wised in any such way, and aided that he considered
outrage of so serious a public character to be compro-
Mr. Peat bound to disclose the names of the offenders.
Mr. Peat replied, that in dAerence to his Wiirship's
opinion he should give up the names of two of the parties
.111 the " drag," and these were Messrs. Henry and
Thomas Dimadale, the sons of the banker, who lodged at
10, Bury•street, St. James's.
Mr. Jarman sciid that he had in attendance a poulterer
tiwnfoobr .1-nfaotrieon theof r ;..re.s. Peat
and
from Newgate-market, who sold and delivered at the
eg'gfsh The d4Y
written r
use, 10, Bury• street, a cask containing 800 or 1,000
was then taken and sworn to, and
Mr. ELLIorr granted warranta against Mr. Jarman
Captain Wil•
liana and the Messrs. Dirasdale.

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