The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-11 00:00:00

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SOUTH-EASTERN AND HASTINGS
RAIAYILL.
PETITION OF PARTIES LATELY ENGAGED
IN PROMOTING THE SAME.
The humble petition of the undersigned parties, lately en- •
gaged in promoting a railway from the South-Eastern Railway
near Headeorn, to the harbours of Rye and llastings,
Showetli,—That your petitioners lately introduced a Bill
into your Honourable House for making the above-mentioned
railway, which Bill was referred to a Select Committee as a
competing line with a projected railway from the London
and Brighton Railway to Hastings.
That the said Committee, in their report to your Honour-
able House, has stated that they have negatived the pre-
amble of the Bill so introduced by your petitioners, but that
as a considerable amount of the traffic anticipated on the line
thereby contemplated, and on the said other line, might be
expected to pass on the intermediate portion of those lines, or
cross them in the direction of Chichester and Portsmouth In
the one case, and of that of Maidstone, and places on the
northern and eastern coast of Kent, in the other, they might
have been disposed to give their sanction to both lines, had
the estimated amount of traffic appeared sufficient for 'the
support of two such extensive undertakings, and had they
been convinced that the proposed line by Ifeadcom bad been
deliberately adopted as the best that could be selected in an
engineering point of view, and also in regard to the accom-
modation of the town of Hastings.
That your petitioners have reason to believe that the por-
tion of the said last-mentioned line to which the said report
refers as not having been deliberately adopted, is that which
lies between Rye and Hastings, and that had the Bill intro-
duced by your petitioners been for the making a railway to
the harbour of Rye alone they would have succeeded in esta-
blishing, to the satisfaction of the said Committee, that the
same should have been allowed to pass into a law.
That a considerable portion of the traffic which was antici-
pated on the said projected line, and of the public benefit de-
rivable from the formation thereof, was wholly irrespective of
the town of Hastings, and it would be of the greatest local
and public advantage if the said line were formed as far as
the port of Rye only, which will in no way participate in the
benefits expected. to result from the competing line from the
London and Brighten Railway to Hastings, which has been
sanctioned by the said Committee.
That, as evidence of the extent of such anticipated traffic,
and as security that such line from:the South-Eastern Rail
way to Rye, would be efficiently worked and maintained,
your petitioners beg to add that the South-Eastern Railway
Company are willing to become the lessees thereof at a rent,
remunerative to the projectors, and they humbly hope, there*
fore, that the great expense which has been incurred by them
in bringing the said Bill before Parliament may not be lost,
by the total rejection of the measure thereby contemplated.
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your Honourable
House, that the said Bill for making a railway from the
South-Eastern Railway -near Headcorn to the Harbour of
Rye and Hastings, may be re -committed to the former Com-
mittee to whom the said Bill was referred, and that it be an
instruction to such Committee that they have power, if they
see fit, to rescind their former decision on the preamble of the
said Bill, and to consider and report on the expediency of.
allowing the said Bill to pass for making a railway to the
town and harbour of Rye only.

JOS. BAXENDALE,
C. TREEDALE,
LEWIS CUBITT,
GEORGE HANKEY,
RICHD. DAVIS,
11. L. S3IALE.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A LADT.—An inquest was held
yesterday at the Fountain, Jamaica-street, Commercial-road,,
before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, on the body of Rachael Bel-
lamy, aged twenty-two. Matilda Hethington, of No. 46,
Green-street, said that on Tuesday last the deceased and Mr.
Bellamy, who was a retired surgeon, came from the country
and engaged lodgingsat her house. Deceased then appeared
in the enjoyment of excellent health, and in the evening
went to the Pavilion Theatre. The next morning Mr. Bel-
lamy sent for a black draught, and deceased was sick all day
long, and kept her bed. She was better on Thursday last,
but on Friday her husband told witness she was again ill.
Witness went into her room and saw her in bed, gasping for '
breath, and quite insensible. In a quarter of an hour she
died. Her husband said that a short time before her death
he gave her a dose of salts. Porter, the constable, said, that
since the death of the deceased her husband had removed the
phials which had contained the medicine he gave her, and
instead of giving the clothes she died in, according to the
usual custom, to the woman by whom she was attended in
her illness, carried them out of the house. The Coroner said
that the case was not without some suspicion, and that it"
would be necessary to have the cause of death determined by.
a post mortem examination. The inquest was then adjourned,!
and Mr. Garrat, surgeon, received instructions to open and
examine the body. ,
GUANO.—Yesterday the first public sales of Guano,'
imported direct from Ichaboe, on the west coast of Africa,,
took place in the large hall of the New Corn Exchange.
Hotel, Mark-lane. The attendance was numerous, but chiefly.
confined to colonial brokers, there being only three or fouf.
farmers present.
AN OLD CAT.—There is now in the possession of a
lady of this town a cat which has been in the family twenty
years, and a few days ago she had two very fine kittens.—.
Cambridge Chronicle.
Melancholy, even love melancholy, is not so deeply
seated, at least in minds of a manly and elastic character, as
the soft enthusiasts who suffer under it are fond of believing.
It yields to unexpected and striking impressions upon the.
senses, to change of place, to such scenes as create new.
trains of association, and to the influence of the busy hum:
of mankind.—Sir Walter Scott.

CIIATHArd, JUNE 10.—On Saturday afternoon, the
Bth inst., several detachments of regiments serving in India,
arrived in vans from Gravesend at the Invalid Depot, Case-
ment Barracks, Brompton, consisting of one corporal, four'
privates, of the 3d Buffs • two sergeants, one corporal, and
25 privates of the 9th foot ; one private of the 10th; and
three sergeants, two corporals, one drummer, 16 privates,
with the Quarter-master Sergeant Leighton, of the 31st, with
eight women and 17 children. These corps, in charge of
Lieutenant Trevor, 3d Dragoons, embarked at Calcutta on,
the sth of February, on board the ship Earl of Hardwicke,
Captain llenning, and put in at the Cape of Good hope, re;
maining there seven days, and sailed again on the Ist of
April. On the ship's arrival opposite to the Island of St.
Ilelena, on the 21st of April, they hove to to take in dis-
patches for England, and after a very excellent passage of
122 days arrived off Gravesend on the 7th inst. Several pas-
sengers embarked at Calcutta, among them were General
Nott anti his lady, with two daughters; Lieutenant Burille,
of the 50th Regiment; Captain Edmunds of the 9th Foot;
this officer was coming home for the benefit of his health.
He, however, died a day after the ship had passed the Bay
of Bengal. At the Cape General Nott, lady and family, dis-
embarked, and were left there when the ship sailed. Most
of the soldiers that have come home have been in India up-
wards of twenty years, some of them happened to be on board
the Kent Indiaman when she took fire in the Bay of Biscay,
in the year 1825. The troops are healthy. In the British
Channel the Earl of Hardwicke spoke the Queen and the
Prince of Wales; both these vessels have troops on board,
and also the ship Maidstone, having on board Major-General
Sir G. Napier, late Governor of the Cape of .Good Hope.
The late Sergeant-Major, William Neelance, of the 'l2th.
Lancers, from the care and attention paid to him since in
hospital by the medical authorities of Fort Pitt, is mtich
better. Colonel Sampson Stawell has written for him to re;
turn to his regiment, which will be allowed as soon as he is
capable of bearing the journey.
SutcxpE wnmsr DREAMING.—On Sunday even-
ing last, a young man, named William Sexton, son of the
landlord of the White Hart, Commercial Inn, Ampthill,
Bedfordshire, died from the effects of a wound in his throat,
inflicted by himself, under the following singular circum-
stances. For some time past the deceased had suffered from
asthma, and at times was rather delirious. On Wednesday
night, the 22d ult., he went to bed at the usual time, appa-
rently much better in health than for some days previous.
Between one and two o'clock the. following morning he
walked to his sister's room and woke her up. She inquired
who was there, but receiving no answer, went to the door
and found the deceased. She asked him what he wanted,
but he only answered by pointing to his throat; and on
putting her hand to the spot, she found that he was bleeding
from a wound in it. Assistance was procured as soon as pos-
sible, and the wound was dressed. On rallying, the deceased
wrote upon a piece of paper the cause which prompted him
to inflict the wound. He stated that during his sleep he
dreamed that a policeman said lie would put him in the
stocks, and he replied that, rather than he should do so
lie would cut his throat. The policeman attempted to do so,
and he then got up and took his penknife out of his pocket
and inflicted the wound. The pain caused him to awake, and
he then walked to his sister's room, as stated above. kifor-
mation of the deceased's death was forwarded yesterday to
Mr. Green, the Coroner for the Honour of Ampthill, and
the inquest will be held at the White Hart on Wednesday.. •
LUNATIC ASYLUMS.—Yesterday, at the close of
an inquest held in Coldbath-fields House of Correction, a long
discussion took place between Mr. Sergeant Adams, Mr:
Wakley, and the medical gentlemen present, respecting the
condition of lunatics, and the necessity that there existed for
the erection of a new county lunatic asylum. Mr. Wakley
said that when lie visited the Hanwell Asylum he found in
it sixteen paupers from the St. Pancras Workhouse, and that
upon inquiry at the latter place he ascertained there were
eleven other pauper lunatics in it waiting for admission into
the asylum. Mr. Sergeant Adams said that in the Hanwell
Asylum there were nearly 600 inmates, of whom only twenty
appeared curable, and there were 450 lunatics whose friends
were anxious to get them admitted, but for whom there was
no room. He deprecated the proposition to raise the asylum
another story. Nothing short of a new asylum, built upon
an extensive plan, and free from iron bars or any appearance
of restraint, would meet the exigency. The mild treatment
in the Hanwell Asylum worked most beneficially, as was
proved from the fact that, while the deaths in private asy-
lums were ninety per cent., they were only twenty-two in
the Hanwell.

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SUICIDE OF A POST-OFFICE CLERK.-- x eaterclay,
Mr. Higgs held an inquest on the body of Henry Liddell
Davis, a clerk in the General Post-office, aged twenty-one,
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and that on Saturday morning deceased's mother called him
(witness) upstairs. He responded to the call, and going up
into deceased's bed-room he found him lying dead prostrate
on the floor, in a pool of blood that had issued from. a wound
in the throat, dividing the wind-pipe and carotid artery, and
which was six inches long and two deep. Two razors, with
one of which he had inflicted the fatal wound, were king on
a chair close to the body. Deceased always appeared to him
in a desponding state. Mr. Bloxam, a surgeon, of 59, Ebury-
street, said he had attended deceased professionally, off and
on, for the last two years. Just a year ago he had an attack
of yellow jaundice, which, with the remedies used, left him so
much debilitated, that he had been in a state of mental
prostration ever since. In October, in consequence of symp-
toms of great excitement he exhibited, Dr. Sutherland was
consulted, and ho was placed in that gentleman's asylum at
Chelsea, but after the expiration of a month, becoming calm
and rational, he was allowed to come home. He suffered
from religious delusion, fancying himself unfit to receive
salvation in the world to come. Verdict, " Temporary
insanity."
We understand, on the authority of a gentlennyt
now in his 82d year, and an observer of the weather, that the
present
season has not been equalled in dryness since the year
1785, which is a lapse of 59 years. The meteorologists have
as yet assigned no cause for this unusual phenomenon.—
Berkshire Chronicle.
THE POLITICAL MARTYRS OF 1793-4.--After much
(el iy a monument is at last in course of erection. The situa-
tion of the monument is on the Calton-hill, a little way east
from Burns's monument, and on the same side of the London-
road. In consequence of a place on Calton-hill having been
obtained, the London Committee have contributed 300/. more
to the Edinburgh testimonial. The Calton-hill of Edinburgh
is decidedly the most appropriate place for a monument to
the martyrs of 1793. Edinburgh was the'scene of their per-
secution; at Edinburgh should be the monument to their
memory.

LAUNCH OF A NEW • STEAMER.—Ordets have been
received from the Admiralty for the launching of the Porcu-
pine steam•packet, on Monday next, from the dock-yard,
Deptford.

The celebrated clarionette player, Signor Ernesto
Cavalliui, has just arrived in this country. - • •