The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-26 00:00:00

TEAN & DOVE VALLEY RAILWAY,
AND CITURNET VA LLEY RAILWAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE .UN.

SI in common with many others, have been consider
ably amused by the efforts which a certain officious individual
has recently been making, not only to divert the attention of
the public from the merits of the projected Tean and Dove
Valley Railway, but also to puff and brinain into notice the
Old Churnet Valley line, a scheme which though once neteri
ous is now almost forgotten by all but its unfortunate share-
holders. The gentleman to whom I allude, has been industri-
ously dancing attendance upon the editors of several provincial
papers, with a capfull of articles manufactured by himself, and
aiming at the two objects I have mentioned. The whole of these
articles, it may be observed, are anonymous, and although some
of them bear a suspicious resemblance to editorial articles, yet
the secret of their authorship peeps out from all, yes, verily,
" The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of
Esau." Now, Mr. Editor, I know that:it is your disposition to
afford fair play to all parties who may have occasion to trouble
you, and I am sure you will allow me to make a few remark,
by way of reply to our friend of the Churnet Valley.
In the first place, then, I must beg to tell him that, however
necessary the North Staffordshire Line (i. e. from Macclesfield
the Potteries to Colwick) may be to the important district
which it embraces, it is rather too much to expect that the Lon-
don and Manchester traffic is to be dragged along so circuitous
a route. A glance at the map will convince the public that
the North Staffordshire line is not and never will be a London
and Manchester line.

The other portion of the North Staffordshire scheme (i.e.
from Alacclesfleld to Wellington,) does not profess to be a
London and Manchester line, and it may fairly be questioned
whether one and the same company can have any serious inten-
tion of making the two lines, running as they do parallel and
within a few miles of each other nearly the whole of the distance.
That the North Staffordshire Company may intend to apply
for an Act for constructing both lines, no one who is at all con-
versant with railway tactics can doubt. The obtaining of an
Act for that purpose would give them absolute possession of the
ground, and keep their opponents at bay; but the:antual making
of both lines is another and very different matter, and is an idea
which, to my certain knowledge, many influential parties con-
nected with the Potteries portion of the North Staffordshire
scheme consider themselves privileged to laugh at. But, sup-
posing on the other hand, and for the sake of argument, that
there really exists on the part of the North Staffordshire Com-
pany an intention of carry ing out the whole of their scheme,
what then?

The whole, be it remembered, is at present only a project,
and if the Tears and Dove Company can offer a much better
and more profitable line than the Churnet Valley portion of the
North Staffordshire project, what earthly: reason is there to
prevent it? Are we to be gravely told, that because the North
Staffordshire Company think fit to projeet a line of railway in
a certain direction, that the Tean and Dove are precluded from
projecting a better line, simply because it will traverse a por-
tion of the same country ? Surely, Mr. Editor, you are
sufficiently:acquainted with these matters to know that the time
has gone by in which such nonsense might have been insisted
upon. The country is now in a situation to make choice of
the best line, and the simple business-like question to be asked
and answered is, which possesses the greatest merits, the
Tean and Dove, or the Churnet ? The advocate of the latter
harps a good deal upon the fact of the Board of Trade having
already reported in its favour, but " as tkings go," the Report
of the Board of Trade upon a railway project, is a " rather dis-
cordant string to play upon." " The light of other days is
faded," with reference to the decisions of that unfortunate
board. In short, Mr. Editor, you are well aware that the
Railway Department of the Board of Trade has been regularly
cashiered by Sir Robert Peel.
You will think, Sir, that I am scribbling on to a most in-
convenient length, but there is one little fact connected with
so m
the Churnet and the Board of Trade, which deserves to be re-
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is to be attached to the Report of the Board of Trade. Under
what circumstances, then, was that vaunted report made ?
Was it when theghurnet was in its present "mongrel and sense-
less shape?" Certainly not. That report was made when the
Churnet was a London and Manchester line, which it has now
voluntarily, and to suit its own selfish purposes, ceased to be.
So much then for the Churnet Valley and the Board of Trade.
Now for the Tean and Dove Valley scheme. This is a
London and Manchester line, and (as compared with the North
Staffordshire line), will effect a saving of seven miles of actual
distance. Whilst doing so it will embrace the important
towns of Leek, Cheadle, Tean, Uttoxeter, and Burton-
upon-Trent (in respect of which latter town alone
it is computed that 50,000/. per annum". is paid for
carriage), and it will also (to adopt the language of
its prospectus), open the rich and extensive coal-fields of Bid-
dulph, Poynton, Adlington, Cheadle, Gresly, Swadlincote,
and Moria to the whole kingdom.
Such, then, are some of the merits of the Tean and Dove
Valley scheme, and of its claims upon public attention and
support.
If our Churnet Valley friend wishes for further discussion,
I am prepared to afford it him when and where he likes.
In the meantime I can assure him that, notwithstanding the
various guises in which he has appeared, I am well acquainted
with his real position as to the old Churnet Valley line, and
will, in conclusion, give bins the benefit of an anecdote, the
application of whichf I will leave to himself and his coascience.
Coleridge takes up the old idea that the Jews have a peculiar
odour, and may be known by it, just as Cobbett affirmed that
he could scent a black man at the distance of a mile. " Once,"
says Coleridge, " I sat in a coach opposite to a Jew— a sym-
bol of old clothes bags—an Isaiah of Holywell-street. He
would close the window, I opened it. He closed it again •
upon which, in a very solemn tone, I said to him, ' Son Of
Abraham, thou smellest ; son of Isaac, thou art offensive ;
son of Jacob, thou hast a bad odour ! See the man in the
moon, he is holding his nose at thee at that distance? Dost
thou think that I, sitting here, can endure it any longer ?' M
Jew was astounded, opened the window forthwith himself,
and said he was sorry he did not know before I was so great a
gentleman." I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
A SUPPORTER OF THE TEAN AND DOVE

VALLEY RAILWAY.

FRIDAY NIGIIT'S GAZETTE.
WAR-OFFICE, JULY 25, 1845.•
25th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant M. Barbauld, from the
55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice \Verge, who exchanges,
July 25.
31st Foot—E. B. S. Carver, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Cure, appointed to the 55th Regiment, July 25.
41st Foot—Captain G. Bagot, from the 51st Foot, to be
Captain, vice Anderson, who exchanges, July 25.
44th Foot—Lieutenant A. Cary to be Captain, by purchase,
vice Woolhouse, who retires ; Ensign J. S. Howard to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Cary; W. H. Hotham, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Howard, July 25.
45th Foot—Trevor Goff, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Grant, appointed to the 58th Foot, July 25.
48th Foot-11. R. M. O'Sullivan, Gent., to he Ensign,
without purchase, vice Harman, deceased, July 25.
51st Foot—Major C. Teulon, from half-pay of the 42d Re-
giment of Foot, to be Major, vice W. Austin, who exchanges,
receiving the difference ; Captain A. C. Errington to be Major,
by purchase, vice Teulon, who retires ; Captain W. H. H.
Anderson, from the 41st Foot, to be Captain, vice Bagot, who
exchanges ; Lieutenant the Hon. D. Erskine to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Errington; Ensign J. G. D. Marshall, from the
55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Erskine, July 25.
55th Foot—Lieutenant H. R. \Verge, from the 25th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Barbauld. who exchanges; Ensign A.
C. Cure, from the 31st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Marshall,
promoted in the slst Foot, July 25.
58th Foot—Ensign T. J. Grant from the 45th Foot, to be
Ensign, vices Alain, who retires, July 25.
67th Foot—Ensign J. M'Donagh to be Lieutenant, without
purchase, vice Sinclair, who resigns; E. Barnes, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice M‘Donagh, July 25.
74th Foot—Lieut. the Hon. F. W. H. Fame to be Adjutant,
vice Walsh, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, July 25.
91st Foot—Ensign H. C. Metcalfe to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Racket, who retires ; C. Lloyd, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Metcalfe, July 25.
3d West India Regiment—Captain W. M. Mills to be Major,
by purchase, vice Jackson, who retires ; Lieutenant A. O.
Creighton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mills; Ensign
R. Webster, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Creighton, July 25.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant J. Brannan, from the Royal
Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Captain, without purchase,
July 25.
BREVET.—Major C. Teulon, of the 51st Foot, to be Lien.
tenant-Colonel in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837.
MEMORANDUM.—The appointment of J. A. Long, to be
Staff Assistant- Surgeon, as stated in the Gazette of the 22d
July, 1845, has been cancelled.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 24.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Brevet-Major M. A. Waters to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Marshall, retired on full-pay ;
Second Captain Charles Oldershaw to be captain, vice Waters;
First Lieutenant A. Beatty to be Second Captain, vice Older-
shaw; Second Lieutenant V. T. Mairis to be First Lieutenant,
vice Beatty, July 12.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire.

D. P. Peploe, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant.
WHITEHALL, JULY 22, J 845.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Granville Leveson Gower
Ward, of the city of Durham, Lient., to be Master Extraor-
dinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, JULY 23.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed George William Harris,
of Halstead, in the county of Essex, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS.

Edward Philip Harding, hosier, Gravesend, to surrender
Aug. 1, at half-past twelve, and Sept. ii, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Oldershaw,
King's Arms-yard, Ctileman-street.
John Nevill Dumbrill,: jun., baker, Eastbourne, Sussex,
August 5, at half-past, one, and September p, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom. official assignee, Abchurch-
lane, London ; White, Chancery-lane.
George Jaques, painter, Tuthill-street, Westminster, July
30, at half-past two, and September 2, at one. at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry ; Leigh, George-street, Mansion-house.
Aug. 1.), at ten, and Sept. 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham
official
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se. James, draper, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire ,
District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Moger,
Paternoster-row, London ; Bartleet, Birmingham.
Richard Nicholson, bookseller, Stockton, Durham, Aug. 6,
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corno-factor,
Sept. 2, at eleven, .
official assignee, Bristol ; Malpas and Co., Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry ; Salmon, Bristol.
Thomas Valentineaftiotlhmeesh
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,fanning Allen, butcher, St. Helen's, Lancashire, Aug. 6
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Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row,
London ; Cireen, Brunswick-buildings, Liverpool.
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