The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-05 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH STREET.

Mr. Abraham Simmons, landlord of the Surrey
Coal-hole, Blackfriars-road, was sumtnoned befor-.
Mr. Hardwick, to show cause against an order of
affiliation applied for against him by Alice Hughes,
who alleged that he was the father of her illegitimate
child.

Alice Hughes, who stated that she was a single
woman, but had pa•sed at one time as a marrif-d
woman, swore that an intercourse had formerly sub-
siAted between the defendant and herself' the result
of which was the infant she then had in her arms.

Mr. Clarkson, who attended for the defendant,
c.o~s.examined the complainant, and elicited several
discrepancies in her evidence.
The complainant-ealled a woman ntmcd Reynolds
to prove that the defendant had admitted intercourse
on one oecasiJn, but the witness denied that any
such admission bad been made by the defendant
to her.
Mr. HARDWICK dismissed the case.

The complainant, who appeared half distracted at
this ded,ion, swore that she would destroy herself
and .the infant also. She had no means of supportir,g
herself, and with the tie of the child it was iulpossiblu
she could get either work or a situation.
Th►e complainant then suddenly precipitated herself
~n the defendant and seized him by the hair, struck
him violently several times about the head, de•clarirg
she would do him some mischief, for he well knew
he was the father of hei 'child, and if any further
proof were wanting it was only necessary to look
at the infant's features to see the Jew lineaments of
the father. _ _ _

The complainant was put out of the court, and
Mr. Simmons waited a short time, and then left. Hr
came back almost instantly and compl lined that ne
had again been assaulted, and now he asked for pro-
tection. He waf, the Either of a family, and the
complbinant threatened to come and annoy him in his
business.

Mr. Clarkson said his client must have protection
from the violence and threats of the woman. He must
ohs..rve he was prepared with Evidence not only to
prove who was not the father of the child, but who
was the fieber.

Mr. HARDWICK would be ready to afford the de
feudant any protection he might need, in case the
violence was repeated.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE

The 28th half-yearly meeting of this company was
held at Manchester 'yesterday. There was a large
attendance of proprietors. Mr. Henry Houldsworth
presided.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business e f the
meeting, said he felt that there could at the present
meeting be but one question upon which any con-
siderable difference of opinion could exist, and he had
such a viviti recollection of the circumstances of !he
last meeting, when considerable irregularity took
place, that he should, so far as he could as chairman,
insist upon a greater-degree of order being kept.
Mr. I)UNSTAN, the secretary, then reed the report,
which sts'ed that the amount received on calls to ,he
30th of June was 7.558,362/. ; 6 per cent. ereferenee
stock, 793 265/. ; hems covered by shares, 1,299,945/, ;
loans not covered by shares, 1,575 6101 : total re-
ceived, 11,227.1831. ; calls in sneer, 293,683/. The
amount or capital expended and chargeable to re-
venue on the 30th of June was 9,700,000/., being no
increase of 1,000,690/. during the past six months.
The total receipts on revenue account during the
half-year amounted to 330,9171, and the disburse-
ments to 146,192/e including. 10,9101. for rates and
taxes. The effect of the opening of ceew branches, in
increasing temporarily the proportion of working ex-
pubses to receipts, adverted to in the last report, still
operates to some extent, but will diminish in the course
of next year; and the advance in rater, Authorised by the
Act of Parliament obtained in the last session, will all
tend to lessen the proportion of working expenses for
the future. The directors are glad to report that the
Bill which they introduced into Parliament for an in.
crease of rates has received the Royal assent. When
the company decided, in 1844, to promote and take
part in those extensions which occupied so much of
their time and attention in subsequent sessions of Par-
Lament, they proceeded on the uuderatanding derived
front the reports of Mr. Gladstone's Committee of
that year, that the Legislature would act on the prin-
ciple therein recommended, of discouraging the outlay
of double capital for one and the same object, tiv
which course the traffic would haye been less subdi-
vided, and the then exeviiig companies enabled,
through the concentration of the business on a smaller
number of lines, to work at lower Cates. But since
the wise suegestions of the Committee, and the en-
larged views of the Board of Trade, under Lord Del-
housie, were altogether disregarded by Pertiament,
and the undue multiplication of pas allel lines has not
only restricted, but in ton many cases swept assay
profit, the directors thought they could appeal
with justice to Parliament to rectify, to FOllO ex-
tent at least, by a partial restoration of rates, the
error committed. In this hope, notwithstanding the
adverse report of the R dlway Commissioners, they
have not been disappointed, and they feel satisfaction
at the result, not alone because of the benefit the pro-
prietors [nee, derive front the measure, hut also be-
cause it may be taken as an evidence that Parliament
at all events is no longer of opinien that so great and
euccesstul a system of intercouununication, costing
hundred of millions of money, altogether the result
of private enterprise, and far surpassing the united
public works of all preceding times, should continue
unremunerative through restrictions imposed under
erroneous views of what the railway system could
afford. The great desideratum towards closing the
capital account—viz., the completion of the works
in progress—is nearly arrived at, the whole of the
works which the company had in hand, with the ex-
ception of about two and a half miles between Halifax
and Sowerby- bridge, being now open for traffic. The
portion of unfinished line alluded to, together with a
diversion of two and a half miles of the Preston and
Wyre line, now making by the London and North-
Western Company and. this company at Fleetwood,
comprise all that now remains to be opened, and
will be completed within the present year. Under
these circumstances, i- is proposed, that from the
present time the total capital shown to have been ex
pended at the commencement of each half-year shall
be Wien as the cepital.chatgeable against the revenue
of such half-year. Thus the amount of capital for
which the revenue of the current helf-year will have
to provide, will be 11,122.000/. Tne length of line,
constructed exclusively with funds now included in
the capital, will be
.198 miles ; company's proportion
of guaranteed leased lines, 44i
.miles; making to-
gether 242} miles. The weekly published traffic for
the future will include the gross receipts of the ',hove
242 k miles, and two-fifths ef the reeeipts of the Bel-
-1 ton, Blackburrean.l Clithero fiat, 25i mil, a in lei gtl~,
on which the colepeoy receives 40 per cent. of the
gross receipts fur working the same, lOi; toking in
all 2521 miles. The balance of revenue for tee past
half-year applicable to dividend and iteerest, mounts
to 177,2291. 'Fite directors recommenil the. t a divi -
I dead at the rate of 2/. per cent, eer nee urn, less
inCOUle•tiX, to be o,c:hired, which will leave a
1 balance of 18,8281. to be carried forward to the next