The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-27 00:00:00

MIDLAND RAILWAY.

DERBY, TUESDAY, HALF-PAST THREE, P.M.—This
afternoon a special general meeting of the Proprietors of
the above railway was held in the large room over the
booking-offices at the railway station in this town, for
the purpose of agreeing to a lease, in conjunction with
the Manchester and Birmingham Company, of the Shef-
field, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Manchester Railway.
There was an extremely large attendance of Shareholders,
the room being completely filled.
G. HUDSON, Esq., Chairman of the Directors, took the
chair, and stated the terms of the proposed lease. The
lease was to be for thirty years, to be terminable by either
party at the end of either ten or twenty years, upon a
notice of three years being given. The lease to com-
mence in six months after the completion of the live.
The lease was to be subject to the payment by the lessees
of seven and a half per cent. on 144,0001., as a guaran •
tee stock, during the period that that portion of the
Sheffield and Manchester capital was entitled to that
high rate of interest, being up to the 26th of September,
1853. The remainder of the share capital was to be
guaranteed to five per cent„ the capital not exceeding
756,0001., the interest to increase by half per cent. for
every 250/. per week increase in the traffic, until the
rental reached ten per cent. The weekly receipt to
commence at 2,8001. The chairman, in the course of
his observations, said that this step had been caused by
the course which the Manchester and Leeds Company
had taken with'reference to the London and York Com-
pany, and it was in self-deferce that the Midland Com-
pany had determined upon entering upon their lease, in
order that they might have an independent terminus in
Manchester. He regretted that any difference should
exist between the two companies, and he would be glad
to submit to any personal sacrifice to put an end to them.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and thanks
having been voted to the chairman, the meeting separated.

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DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE HON. SIR
R. L. DuNnAs, K.C.B, ANOTHER HERO OF THE PENIN.
suLL.—We have to record the death of Lieutenant..
General the Hon. Sir Robert Laurence Dundas, which
took place on Saturday afternoon the 23d inst., at Loftus,
near Gisborough, Yorkshire. This gallant officer's ser-
vices extended over a period of forty-seven years, and
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hashis deathl
held
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thelon ellsctyh ofo thef
June,
usn9et,hlßegiment, whic
becomeh
vacant. Sir Robert Dundas entered the army on the
Ist of December, 1797, and as a second-lieutenant served
of August, 10th and 19th September, and 2d
as an engineer officer in North Holland, at the actions of
2671ithOctober* 1799. He became lieutenant on the
1800, and in the subsequent year served in the
Egyptiany' campaign, and was present in the action of the
of March. On the Gth of August, 1802, he was
And obtained his majority on the 14th of
he was ordered to the Peninsula, where
July, 1804. In the year ensuing he served in the north
of Germany with the Royal Staff Corps. In the be-
Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the
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from that time, with the RgoiyoarlioSstaofffeTotiagiasv,
Niveihit tbe Nive,
,os hnaorre,d in the
Salamanca,
and Toulouse. S'r Robert attained
the rank of lieutetiant-pnlonel on the 11th of April, 1811,
full colonel on the 19th July, iAei n:
--, Illiinr-general 22d
leunptntaensdd
joy, 1830, and lieutenant-general 23d November, 1841
—the last brevet, in honour of the birth:of the Prince of
Wales. For his diatingiii§hecl services he received a
cross and three clasps, and was made a knight com-
mander of the Bath. The deceased was brother to the
lot;; and uncle to the present Earl of Zetland.
Terstßelmlit4 SOCIETIES IN POLANID.---EOLISII
FRONTIERS, NM/. 11.-1711 P P4145e pf Ole temperance so-
cieties him rivoivad a severe blow in the lanolin of
Poland. They had boon particularly successful In those
parts of the kingdom which border on the republic of
Cracow and in Upper Silesia, where the country people,
following the exhortation of the clergy, renounced in a
iiotii 'ait, hlsp of brandy. But the Government has lately
interfered to •clieck %no ;pope:men,' societies, and has
published .a ' circular prohibiting ' turn, and corLiddiog
the clergy, to-promote by addresses from the pulpit an
object which was so beneficial to the country-people.—
Rumba, gh Papers.