The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-14 00:00:00

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL TILE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COVNTRY CIRCVLATIpN at ONE CITIARGE.

LEICESTER AND BEDFORD RAILWAY.
No further applications for Shares will be received after
SATURDAY, the 14th instant, except from parties locally Interested,
to whom the period is extended to WEDNESDAY, the 18th instant.
L'y order, B. F. SCOTT, Secretary.
11, Old Jewry Chambers, June 4, 1845.

LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY.
ALTERATION and ARRANGEMENT of TRAINS for the
SUMMER SEASON, commencing on MONDAY, Jane 16, 1845:

FROM LONDON-BRIDGE-STATION TO BRIGHTON.

740 Morning •• • • First, Second, and Third Class in 2% hours.
9 30 2 9 First and Second Class • • • • • in 2 „
10 30 First Class in i% „

12 0 Noon
First and Second Class .• • • .... in 2 „
2 0 Afternoon
210 First and Second Class ....in•••• 2y „
PI
3 0 First and Second Class • • in 2 „
5 0 First Class .......... .......... in 1 5 „
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6 30
19 First Second, and Third Class .. in 23l ~

ON SUNDAYS.

715 Morning .. .. First, Second, and Third Class ••in 2% „
815 99 First, Second, and Third Class .. In 2IA „
10 45 •• First, Second, and Third Class ••in 2W „
630 Afternoon • • First, Second, and Third Class ••in 2% „
FROM BRIGHTON TO LONDON.

7 0 Morning.... First, Second, and Third Class • • in 2% hours,
8 45 Pt First C1a55.......

10 0
~
First and Second Class . • • • • • • • • • in 2 „
11 30 f f Pirst and Second Class . • • • • • • • • in 2 „
1 45 Afternoon.'" First and Second Class . • • • • • • • • in 2 „
2 0 fII First and Second Class .•••••• • • In 2% „
3 30 II First and Second Class . • . . ..... In 2 ii
630 tl First, Second, and Third Class ••in 2% „
740 PP First Class
ON SUNDAYS.

7 45 Morning.. • . First, Second, and Third Class .. in 2% hours.
230 Afternoon... First, Second, and Third Class .. in 2% „
6 3') Pt First, Second, and Third Class .. in 2 „
640 tO First, Second, and Third Class .. in 234 „
On Saturdays an additional 1% hour express train leaves London
at 4 0 p.m., and returns from Brighton on Mondays at 9 30 a.m.,
calling at Three Bridges at 5 3 p.m. down, and 10 0 a.m. up.
Excursion Tickets will be issued at London, New Cross, and
Croydon, on Sundays, by the 715 and 815 a.m. Down Trains, en-
titling the passengers to return by the 6 30 p.m. Up Train; also at
Brighton, Hassock's-gate, Burgess-hill, and Hayward's-heath by the
7 45 a.m. Up Train, to return by the 6 30 p.m. Down Train, at
125., Bs., and ss. for the respective classes. Each Monday in June
and July, Excursion Tickets will be issued at these fares, at London,
New Cross, and Croydon, by the Train leaving London at 7 40 a.m.,
to return by the 6 30 p.m. Train from Brighton.
By order, C. B. MACKENZIE, Secretary.
London-bridge, June 5, 1845.

DIRECT LONDON, LIVERPOOL, AND
BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY,
Commencing at the southerly end of Liverpool and Birkenhead,
passing through Eastham, Ellesmere, Frodsham, Runcorn, Preston,
Brook, Northwich, Middlewich, to Bandbach, thence by the North
Staffordshire, Trent Varity, and London and Birmingham line, will
not only form the most direct line, but will pass through a local
traffic that will secure an ample dividend.
Prospectuses and plans will be issued in a few days.

ALTO DOURO RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Directors of this Company are proceeding with the allot-
mint of Shares as rapidly as can be done, commensurate with the
unprecedently large number of applications.
By order,
9S, Graceehurch-street. T. M. RUSSELL, Secretary.

EXETER, YEOVIL, and DORCHESTER
RAILWAY.

Notice is hereby given, that as the Parliamentary Contract may
now be executed in conformity with the Standing Orders, all parties
to whom Shares have been allotted may exchange the Bankers' re-
ceipts for scrip certificates on payment of the residue of deposit, arid
executing the Parliamentary contract and subscribers' agreement,
which will lie for signature at the Company's Offices, No. • 13, Bed-
ford-circus, Exeter, on and after WEDNESDAY, the 11th June.
Further notice will be given when the deeds will lie for signature
in Landon and other places to meet the convenience of the subscribers.
By order of the Previsional Committee,
Exeter, June 6, 1845. JOHN CLENCH, secretary.

TIIE LATE THOMAS HOOD.
This distinguished writer, who has for upwards of twenty
years entertained the public with a constant succession of comic
and humoristic works, in the whole range of which not a
single lino of immoral tendency, or calculated to pain an
individual, can be pointed out—whose poems and serious writings
rank among the noblest modern contributions to our national
literature, and whose pen was ever the ready and efficient advocate
of the unfortunate and the oppressed (as recently, for instance,
in the admirable "Song of the Shirt," which gave so remark-
able an impulse to the movement on behalf of the distressed
neediewomen), has left a widow and two children in straitened
and precarious circumstances, with no other means of subsistence
than a small pension, terminable on the failure of the widow's
life, barely sufficient to supply a family of three with com-
mon necessaries, and totally inadequate for the education and
advancement of the orphan children. Even this scanty resource has
been, of necessity, forestalled to a considerable extent during the last
five months, in order to meet the heavy sick room and funeral ex-
penses. Under these circumstances a SUBSCRIPTION for the
finally has been set on foot. The admirers of Thomas Hood
throughout the country will, it is hoped, take this opportunity of
publicly testifying their recognition of his genius, and their sense of
his personal worth.

COMM]

ITTEL.

Marquis of Northampton -
Marquis of Normanby
Sir E. Buiwer Lytton, Bart.
Sir John Hanmer, M.P.
IL Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P.
David Salomons, Esq.
W.. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq.
R. A. Slaney, Esq.
Dr. William Elliot
Joseph Toynbee, Esq.
Thomas Reselgh, Esq.

Lord Francis Egerton, M.P.
Lord John Manners, M.P.
Baron M. de Rothschild
Mr. Sergeant Taifourd
John Roll, Esq.
A. Spottiswoode, Esq.
John Britton, Esq.
Samuel Phillips, Esq.
T. Landscer, Esq.
William Ilarvey, Esq.
F. 0. Ward, Esq.
PTIONS.

SUBSCR
Already advertised £593 13 0
Charles Dickens, Esq. •...........
The Box. Mrs. Norton .................... 2 0 0
Lewis Novell, E5q............... •••.•. •. 10 0 0
Illustrated London News ........ ••••• • .• • ... • • 5 5 0
Edward Scholfleld, M.D.
An Admirer
Andrew Beatie, Esq •.......
11. L. Morgan, Esq. •
T. Cubitt, Esq. . •
Rev. T. W. Mackie, Christ Church, Oxford
C. R. Fripp, Esq. I 1 0
D. T. S. 0 5 0
J. S. Morier, Esq. 5 0 0
T. Longman, Esq. .••• . • • ..... ••.••••• • • • • • , • • 2 2 0
J. Armfleld, Esq.• ••••••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1 0 0
Horace Smith, Esq.• • • ....... •••••.••• • , • • • • • • • 3 3 0
Rev. D. T. M. Hubbard, for the " Song of the
Shirt".• .......................•
T. IL May, Esq. • 2 0 0
C. Beevor, Esq. • 2 2 0
Granville Mansell, Esq. ..... ..........• •••• • • • • 5 0 0
Richard Summers, Esq. .• ••••• • • • • ...... •••• • • • 5 0 0
11. T. Gadsden, Esq. . •....• . •
T. Yardman, Esq. •••••••••••••• • • " • • ' • • • • • • • 1 1 0
A Friend • • • ... 2 0 0
T. H. Bethamley, Esq•
T. S. Gosset, Esq. •, .. ••.•••••••• • .. • • • • • • • • 10 0 0
T. W. Forbes, ............................1• • 1 1 0
George Peel, Esq. ...• •• • • ...• •• .... —••.. • . 2 0 0
A few Friends .... .. 2 0 0
Rowland Hill, Esq. .... . .. . .
William Imrie, Esq.
Anon. (Warrington) ...• ............. .
Mrs. Oldfield
From the "Bridge of Sighs," by J. Toynbeo, Esq. 2 0 0
C. W. M•
R. Peyton, Esq. 1 1 0
Miss Wright •• .
Mr. J. Harlow 0 2 6
H. F. 0 5 0

Subscriptions received by any member of the Committee, or may
be paid to the account of David Salemons, Esq. (who has kindly con-
sented to act as Treasurer), at the London and Westminster Bank, or
any of its branches.

F. 0. WARD, lion. Sec.

12, Cork-street, Burlington-gardens.

IV IL S 0 N'S SCOTTISH ENTERTAIN
At the MUSIC-lIALT,, STORE-STREET, BEDFORD-SQUARE,
On MONDAY EVENING. JUNE 16, at Eight o'clock,
Mr. WILSON will give a Selection of the favourite
SONGS OF SCOTLAND.

PART I.—My Rill Fireside—Saw ye rny Wee Thing?—Auld Robin
Gray—The Laird o' Cockpen—Lizzie Lindsay—Scots wha ha'e wt
Wallace bled —Mary Morison—Get up and bar the door.
PART IL—Farewell to Lockaber—My Boy Tammy—My Nannle's
awn—Allister M'Allister—There's nae luck aboot the house.

Plane-forte--Mr. LAND,

Tickets, 2s. Reserved Seats, 2s.tci. —Frivate Boxes for SI; Ibl4
for Eight persons, 11.
Mr. WILSON will give his last Morning Entertainment but one
for the season, at the lIANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS, on WEDNES-
DAY, Juno 18, at Two o'clock.

SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER.
COLOURS.
The FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL EXHIBITION is NOW OPEN, at
their Gallery. 5, PALL-MALL EAST, each day, from Nine till Dusk.
Admittance One Shilling. Catalogue, Sixpence.
J. W. WRIGHT, Secretary.

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY of LONDON
EXHIBITIONS at the GARDEN.
The Second Meeting will take place on SATURDAY, the 21st of
June; subjects for Exhibition must be at this office on Friday,
the 20th ; or at the Garden before half-past eight o'clock, A.M., on
the day of Exhibition.

The sates will bo open to visitors at One, P.M. Tickets are issued
to Fellows at this oflice, price bs. each; or at the Ganlen,
in the afternoon of the days of Exhibition, at 7s. 6d. cask ; but then
only to orders from Fellows of the Society.
N.li. No Tickets will be Issued in Regent-street ou the day of
Exhibition.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The CENOTAPH of GALEN,
_in which the PORTLAND
VATE was discbvered, a fidr-itted Cast, 'finely executed. The AT-
MOSPHERIC RAILWAY, working Model, with a power to carry
visitors. A Curious MECHANICAL HAND. Dr. Ryaa's
LECTURES on the Chemistry of Domestics Lift daily, and
en Wednesday and Friday Evenings. Professor Bachhoffner's varied
Lectures. Mr. J. Russell's Lectures on Character, accompanied
by Dr. Wallis en the Piano-forte, on the Evenings of Monday,
Tuesday, and Thursday. New and beautiful Objects in the CHRO-
MATROPE, riIYSIOSCOPE, PROTEOSCOPE, &c. New DIS-
SOLVING VIEWS. Submarine Experiments by the DIVER and
DIVING BELL. Working Models described daily.
Admission, Is. ; Schools, Half-price.

SELLING OFF, at 379, STRAND, the entire
STOCK of SHEFFIELD PLATED DISH COVERS, corner
dishes, soup tureens, epergnes, tea urns and kettles, branches, candle-
sticks, &c., at an enormous reduction in price, in consequence of the
proprietor leaving the business. The following prices of some of the
leading articles arc stated to convince the public of the advantages
they may gain by purchasing at his establishment. Patent electro-
plated goods, on white metal, warranted—table forks, fiddle pattern,
265. per dozen ; table spoons, 265.; dessert forks, 205.; dessert
spoons, 20s. ; tea spoons, 10s. 6d. ; soup ladles, 13s. each ; ivory
balance-handle table knives, Ids. per doz. ; dessert knives, Bs.;
carvers, 3s. 3d. per pair ; and every other article equally low.
At W. CRAMBROOKE'S, 379, Strand.

BETTS'S PATENT BRANDY CAPSULED,
sold at 3s. 6d., bottle included, by the most respectable
dealers in town and country. Lists obtained at.the Distillery, where
quantities of two gallons, and above, are supplied in bulk, at 18e. per
gallon, and bottled, bottles and cases included, at 20s. Attention is
especially requested to the security afforded by the Patent ME-
TALLIC CAPSULES, embossed " Betts's Patent Brandy, 7, Smith-
field-bars."

S OUTH STAFFORD S HIRE JUNCTION
RAILWAY,
Connecting LICHFIELD, WALSALL, WOLVERHAMPTON, DUD-
LEY, &c., with DERRY and the NORTH MIDLAND COUNTIES.
Provisionally registered, pursnant to 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 110.
Capital, 500,0001., in 20,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 1/. Is. Gd. per share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

Charles Smith Forster. Esq., Ilampstead-hall, near Walsall, High.

Sheriff of Staffordshire
The Mayor of Lichfield
?iajor llajendie, Pipe Grange, near Lichfield

Richard Croft Chassner, Esq., Wall, Magistrate for Lichfield

John George Norbury, Esq., direat Cumberland-street, Regent's-park,
and Maneetter House, Atherstone, Director of the Leicester and
Birmingham Railway
William Horatio Harrison, Esq.. London, Director of the Stafford-
shire and Shropshire Junction Railway
John Neville, Esq., Hasolour Hall, near Lichfield
Jelin Mott, Esq., The Close, Magistrate for Lichfield
John Delane Griffiths, Esq., Whittington, near Lichfield
William Stanhope Sawtell, Esq., 51, Lombard-street
William Tozer, Esq., London
The Mayor of Walsall

Henry Ilox, Esq., Magistrate for Walsall
Howard Fletcher, Esq., Walsall
Charles Foster Cotterill, Esq., Magistrate for Walsall
Thomas George Lomax, Esq., Magistrate for Lichfield
John James, Esq., Walsall

, .
John Forster, Esq., , the Terrace, Walsall
Richard James, Esq., Magistrate far Walsall

Charles Greatrex, Esq., Magistrate for Walsall
John Whltgreave, Esq., Magistrate for Walsall
Arthur Adams, Esq., Magistrate for Walsall
Henry Crane, Esq., Wolverhampton
_ .

Joseph Walker, Esq., Wolverhampton
John Perks. Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Oxford, Worces-
ter, and Wolverhampton Railway
Samuel Haines, Esq., Chad House, near Edgebaston, Director of the
Leicester and Birmingham Railway
(With power to add to their number.)
ENGINEER—John R. 3l'Clean, Esq., 31.1.C.E.L.
SOLICITOR-7Edwin Smith, Esq.,Gray's-inn.

LOCAL SOLICITORS—Messrs. Dyott and Son, 'Lichfield ; Horatio
Barnett, Esq., Walsall ; Charles Corser, Eeq., Wolverhampton ;
Messrs. Bennet and Bowen, Stafford.
BANKEas—London, Messrs. Spooner, Attwoods,, and Co., Grace-
church-street ; Messrs. Rogers, Olding and Co., Clement's-lane ; Lich-
field, Messrs. Palmer and Greene ; Walsall, Messrs. Charles Forster
and Sons; Dudley, the Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Com-
pany; Wolverhampton, Messrs. R. and W. F. Fryer; Stafford, the
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank. . _ .

This short but important :railway will commence by forming a
junction at the viaduct over the river Trent, near Airewas, on the
Birmingham and Derby Railway, and proceed in nearly a straight
line to Dudley, being a distance of about twenty-one miles, forming
a direct and unbroken railway communication between Derby and the
North Midland Counties and Worcestershire, Herefordshire. and the
other South-Western Counties of England.
This railway includes in its course the city of Lichfield and the
large and rapidly increasing town of Walsall ; leaving which it will
fall into the Grand Junction Railway at the Walsall Station (Bescot
Bridge), and continuing thence through the manufacturing and
mining districts of Wednesbury and Tipton, will join the projected
railway along the banks of the Birmingham Canal, and proceed on
to its terminus at Dudley, where It will unite with the railways
connecting Stourbridge, Kidderminster, Steurport, Worcester, and
the South West.

The shortest and most direct line will thus be formed for the
transit of manufactured iron, &c. from the centre of the vast
mineral and manufacturing districts of South Staffordshire, to Gains-
borough, Hull, Sneffield, and the other great markets of the North.
The ironstone and other produce of the Derbyshire mines will also
he brought by means of this railway direct to the furnaces of Stafford-
shire, and the coal from Cannock Chase and Brownhills (the best for
domestic purposes), will be conveyed at a small cost to supply the
towns of Walsall and Dudley, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham.
The Hay Head lime, and that of Rushall, the former considered
the best for hydraulic works, and the latter for agricultural purposes
and for the manufacture of iron, together with the blue bricks and
tiles of Walsall Wood, at present so* much in demand, but nearly
excluded for want of railway access, will all be brought directly
into the proper markets. and will form an immense traffic for this
railway. _ _

Sortie estimate of the Passenger Traffic may be formed when it is
stated that the population of the towns embraced by this undertaking
amounts to nearly three hundred thousand; and when the enormous
traffic which must result from opening up the most favoured district
in England is considered, there can be no doubt that the constractien
of this railway, besides the great benefit arising to the public, will
prove, as an investment, amply remunerative to the Shareholders.
Preliminary surveys have been made, and the line is favourable both
as regards gradients, economy of construction, and ffitnre working.
There are no expensive earth works or engineering difficulties, and
the estimate is under. the usual average per mile; and the line Is so
laid out as not to interfere with any ornamental property.

In the allotment of shares a preference will be given to parties
locally interested in the line.
Applications for shares may be made, in the form appended, to
any of the solicitors, or to ➢fessrs. Aston and Scott, stock and share-
brokers, 32, Throgmorton-street, London; but no application will be
attended to, unless accompanied by a satisfactory reference.

credit. It seemed that they set out on the idea that the duty
would be taken off brandy, and in consequence went the round of
the trade, merchants, importers, and brokers, and purchased
largely, the presumption being, that if the duty were removed,
there would be a rise in prices. That speculation failing, they
then began obtaining advances on the warrants, which they did by
going to bill.brokers and other persons, whose assistance increased
the false credit. In this manner they went on till their bankruptcy
took place. It was unfortunate, but nevertheless true, that in
consequence of the position the bankrupts obtained, they became
connected with and received assistance from parties who, by rea.
son of the profit apparently accruing from such transactions, did
not hesitate to engage in what could not be called a legit.ilnate
course of business. The enormous commission they paid for as-
sistance seemed to have been a temptation for highly respectable
firms to connect themselves with them in business. It was
found, on looking over the accounts, that a Mr. Godsell, who was
in a large way ef businesc, had received for commission during one
year on such transactions about 1,0001. The commission of a
broker was ss. per puncheon, and this was allowed Mr. Godsell
on the sale or purchase of brandies. In the course of the 4} years
the bankrupts had been in business their losses were about
136,0001., and their expenses 12,0001. On the last exa.
mination it was required that the bankrupts should give the
detail of the warrants, the date of exchanges that had been
made, and other particulars connected with these claims, in order
that the assignees might test them for their own satisfaction,
which request must be deemed reasonable enough, when it ap-
peared the accounts for the unsecured credits would not produce
more than two shillings in the pound. The assignees did not wish
to press severely on the bankrupts. Wkat the assignees particu-
larly required explanation of was the dates of deposit, exchange
of warrants, and qualities and description of goods, for in these
respects the accounts furnished little or no explapapon whatever.
The bankrupt Currie said the Learned Counsel who had assailed
them on the part of the assignees was misinstructed. Their ac.
counts were very correct, and, he believed, perfectly satisfactory.
They bad got into debt, as men in business without capital
would. That was the real case. They bad not traded upon fic-
titious credit; it was misfortune that had overwhelmed them. All
their books were accurately kept, and showed the MI extent of
their dealings.

The bankrupt Seignette said it was true they had only been in
business four and a half years, as regarded partnership; but Mr.
Currie had been previously in business for thirty years, and he him.
self for forty.five years; they were friends doing business, and
they then joined each other. With respect to the statement of
capital, that could be explained. When Mr. Currie and himself
entered into partnership, they did not take an accurate estimate of
stock which each brought into the business, The 1,500/. was only
the residue derived from sales, in consequence of the depressed state
of the market. As far as purchases were concerned, he could only
say that the principal persons from whom the house had purchased
were Mends; and the foreigners who were said to have been de-
ceived by their transactions were among the foremost of those who
bad pressed them to purchase, the assurance being that, if they did
so, they must realise large profits. The partnership did not admit
the claims made by Mr. Godsell and others to the extent stated.
He would willingly consent or submit to an adjournment, if his
consent or submission were required, but he really thought no
better accounts could be furnished than those which were before
the Court.

The official assignee said he was bound to say that the books and
accounts appeared to have been kept In a most accurate manner,
and the balance sheet was drawn out as well as could be.

Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said he should order an adjour.
ment, without at present expressing any opinion upon the merits of
the case. He thought the assignees were justified, after what he
had heard, in asking time for examination. He always made it a
rule, when be found very large bill transactions, and larger pledges
of goods, to give creditors the opportunity of making very minute
investigation.

Seignette said it was impossible to give the dates of exchange.
• Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUB—Do not persist in that, as it wil'
go very much against you when you apply for your certificate.
An adjournment was then made, the bankrupts to have the ad.
vantage of the accounts.