The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-17 00:00:00

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YORK, SEPT. 15.
STOCK EXCILINGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union E.
tension, 4%—Newcastle and Darlington Junction (New
2% Brandling), 46i/2--North British, 31% c. n.—York and
2% North Midland Extension, 29Y2—Caledonian Extension, 3%8
- —Grand Union, 41. 16s. 6d.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield
- Junction, Quarter Shares, 614—Leicester and Bedford, 4%-
-Manchester, Buxton,, &C., 104—Newcastle, Durham, and
Lancashire, s—North Western, 714—S3heffield and Lincoln-
- shire, 9—. Welsh Midland, 4%.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
_ -
11% TUNBRIDGE WELLS LENE.-On Saturday General Pasley,
9-0 the inspector-general, accompanied by Messrs. Harding and.
4 % Browne, Directors, 'and Mr. Peter Barlow, the resident en-
-234 gineer, made an experimental trip over thisiine, which rims
from the Tunbridge station of the &nth-Eastern Railway to
- the pleasant summer residence of . Tunbridge Wells,
from
- whence we understand 'it is intended to carry on the line to
-
_ Hastings. General Pasley expressed Itimfelf satisfied with
the stability of the.works, and condition. of_the line. The
length of the branch to the 'proposed permanent station is
: five miles, but it is at present open to the temporary sta-
tion at Jenkwood's spring, situated about a quarter of a mile
-
- from the town. The permanent station will be in the centre
_ of the town, and is approached by. a tunnel, 800 yards long,
__, under a portion of the town. The works to the temporary
station are heavy, there being half a million yards of earth-
- work or cuttings chiefly in rock. There is also a tunnel 0
- a quarter of a mile near Lomer-hill Park, and a brick via-
- duct, 270 yards long and 40 feet high. The line
:was coin-
_
_
menced in July, 1844, as a .single line,
ezt,-ily twelve
months before the 'Act was obtained, AD!" in April, 1845,
-1.- it was determined. to make it a (I'.',',7iVle line. The cost
- to Jenkwood's spring, includigg litnd, has been 100,0004 and
--the extension into Tunbrlfe Wells will be 80,000/. more.
-
- The line passes near Lerner-hill Park, the residence or man-
: sion of James Alexander, Esq., and near Colebroke Park, the
residence of Benjamin Smith, Esq. A most remarkable
- feature connected. with this line is the fact that it will be
-
- opened within a few weeks after the obtainment of the Act,
and that the cuttings intersect the headings of the ancient
-
_ iron works of this country.
- The understanding between the Grand Junction and the
- - Chester and Birkenhead lines is considered-a wise proceeding,
and the talk is that the arrangement is mutually advantage..
ous. The Chester and Birkenhead Company are to work
-
_ their own line between their own termini, and the Grand
Junction' is, on paying a fixed toll, to have the privilege of
_
- running their Lond,n, Crewe, and other trains on it, thus
- securing to themselves . a direct approach to Woodside--a.
- mode of communication of which they purpose abundantly to
-
- avail themselves. The Cheshire Junction is to be worked on
a similar plan. The talk is that as the Holyhead line will
_
_ have to adopt arrangements similar to those agreed to by the
3% Grand Junction, and that as all the new lines approaching
- ' Chester will claim; and no doubt obtain, the same privilege,
- the Chester and Birkenhead Railway will be, by and by, in a
- condition of unwonted prosperity._ Liverpool Chronicle.
-
Several owners and occupiers of land at Windermere and
_
- Grassmere have determined to withhold their consent to
- any line passing through the lake distriet. A compromise is said
,to have been aged upon detweett
the promoters of the Devon and Cornwall, the Darthmouth,
Exeter, and Torbay, and Bideford and Tavistock lines.
, Meetings have just been held of the Directors of the Black-
burn, Chorley, and Liverpool, and Blackburn, Darwen and
Bolton lines, relative, it is rumoured, to an amalgamation
of the two. -
NEW LINE FROM WINDSOR To LONDON.—A. new line
has just been projected.tO proceed. fm Windsor to Staines,
with a branch from Datehet to. join,he Great Western. Rail-
way at. Slough. The atmospheric principle is to be adopted.
,% It is to proceed from a terminus near Windsor- bridge, cross-
ing• a portion of the Thames to an island in the centre of the
stream, and thence over the remaining portion of the river to
Datchet and Staines.

- CONTINENTAL LINES.
FAMPOUX -TO HAZEBRUCK.—The O'Neill Company has
given orders to have this line staked out immediately, and
it is expected that the works will be completed by the end of
1846.

5% NEW COMPANIES.—In addition to the companies already
in existence for the Paris to Lyons line—namely, Laffitte,
-- Ganneron, Lappinsonniere, Calon, and the South-East, there _ are that of Union, formerly united with the Orleans Co-
_rn pang, but since then :with the house of Rothschild, the
_ Messageries, that got up by the old Directors of the Rosaniel
Company for ' the North ;• the old Company Deccan, for the
North ; And
.the Vertant. The plan of the latter is to get a
number of persons to subscribe, and then, when it appears
7 certain that the capital will be made up, to call a meeting
of the subscribers, and out of them choose the Board of
_.— Directors. From the Civil to St. Quentin line there are five
companies in the field, viz., Cysacus, Colbert, and Carette, all
old, and Arnous, and Antoine, new. The Arnous Company
= has made up its capital; of the latter but little is known, as
= its prospectus is not yet out. For the. Lyons to Avignon
line there are Talabot, Lecointe, and the Meridiouale, all old;
- and that at the head of which is General Friant, the King's—
aide-de-camp and an Anglo-French Company. For the Tours
to Nantes line there are six companies, viz., Mackenzie,
_
Carette, Drouillard, O'Neill, and Lefebre, all old,
and the coin-
pany Reigecourt just! constituted, formerly under the presi-
dentship of'Count de Sparre, since deceased. For the Great
_
Western of France (from Paris to Rennes) there are three
companies in the field; :that formed. by the junction of the
two Versailles companies ; another formed by the Duke de la
-
- Force, and a third, of which but little is known, called the
_ Company Antoine, the same as that mentioned for the Cecil
and St. Quentin line. For Paris to Caen Railway there are
two, that of Lafitte, Blount, and Co. ; and the other, Dela-
- marre, both some time formed.
ROUEN TO HAVEE.--The report of the Prefect of the
_ Department of the Lower Seine confirms all that has been
said upon the satisfactory progress of the works on this
- line, and states confidently that it will be opened in May
next. - ; • • .
PARIS Al.tD LYONS.—The starting point of this line has
been decided upon ;it will run from the Rue Contrescarpe,
- near the Bkstille, quitting Paris by Bercy and Charenton,
and following the Valley of Yeres, will reach as far as Melun,
—41,,,i from whence it will take the direction of Montereau. This
2% plan is in accordance with the recommendation of M. Jullien,
_ engineer in 'chief.
BOULOGNE AND Aumrs.--The important question relative
_
_ to the spot for the principal station of this line at Boulogne
has been decided. Two plans have been proposed, one by M.
Love, engineer, and the other by M. Bazaine. That by the
-
- latter has been preferred. The station is to be fixed upon an
unoccupied !spot near Capecure, called Le Champ de Ma-
_
_ nceuvres. This spot has many recommendations for a station,
and affords an easy access to the most important part of the
town and quay.
The Publicateur of Arles states that the works upon the
railway at that place are being carried on with the greatest
rapidity. Between Durance and Sarascon all the rails have
_
_ been laid down, and between the latter place and Arles half
the rails are now laid. At the viaduct of Arles, one of the
most difficult and important works, fifteen piers have been
founded, twelve are in a very advanced state, and three of the
..: arches are completed. There will be in all thirty-one arches.
Within two months 24,000 metres of rails have been placed
_ betweea Arles and the Coup Perdu, the limit of Jatres.

FIFTY IOUSES BURNT.—Soon after Midnight, on
Saturday morning last, a fire broke out in a bakehouse at
Moretonhampstead (a small town situate about 12 miles from
Exeter), and as nearly all the hotises were thatched, the
flames spread with great rapidity, and were not subdued
until the grater part of Cross-street was consumed, the num-
ber of houses destroyed amounting to about 50, and includ-
ing the prethises of Mr;.Bidder, a builder • Messrs. Nix and
Co., drapers and the Golden Lion- Inn. The greater part of
the property, however, was not of- a valuable kind, and the
loss, therefOre, is not so extensive as the number of houses
burnt would seem to indicate, though much distress will be
occasioned to many poor families. The town engine was:not in
a working state, so that the Only available means of stopping
the'progress:of the fire was by pulling down some houses, until
effective fird-engines arrived from EXeter. •
Exchange, Ravin had under their consideration the ter
STOCK: Committee of the
proposal Stock
elosing
made by miny of the leading brokers for al
Ist of next month.
in the hours of business on and theat eleven
o'clock in the fore-
of the mark ts, have agreed that an alteration shall be made
The market will then open a
second alteration that has .
consequent upon the pressure
noon and close at three occibeocekninmtadheeaftdeunritnoogn.thTe This
last
the
of business iiitroduceextensive operations in
bydears that, the brokers
ltihneg,late
have not
railway few
securities' It
appears
half hour •
months in the hours
dof
((m lid the curtailment o the in the opening and
closing first blade sufficient to transact , the counting-house
tof theiribusiness, and have, therefore, agreed among
themselves shorten "market hours," if . possible, to give
them more time for the arrangement of their correspondence .
before the Eitchange opens and-after it shuts. - The enormous
increase of orders produced by the extent of speculation in
the provinceS,as well as in the metropolis, has so multiplied
business, that' many of the brokers new receive and dispatch
between 300 and 400. letters per diem. It is, therefore, essen.
tial that they should be allowed a little extra time to arrange
their orderS for. sale or 'purchase in the morning, and also to
advise their correspondents of the success or failure of their.
operations. ,Under these circumstances it is that the change
was desired and has been agreed to.—Advertiser.
DETERMINED StiiclDE:'--Monday morning, about
half-past sit o'clock, Mts. Eliiabeth Harley, of No. 6, New
Union-street, Moorfields, committed suicide. During Sunday
nothing particular was observed in her manner; she supped with her daughters, and about ten o'clock retired to bed as
was supposed, without making any remark. Yesterday morn-
ing, the time having long passed when she should have been
tobreakfast,. one of.her daughters went to her bedroom, but could not•get in until the door was broken 'open, where her unfortunate parent was found suspended by a
,handkerchief to
the bed-rails, Miss Harley instantly 'cut her down, but ;she
was quite deAti.
Tn MURDER or. MR. PEACOP.— PPRERENSION
OF THE MURDERRRS,--We have just been informed that four
brickmakers were apprehended at Birkenhead last night, on
a clArga of haying been concerned in the murder of Mr. Pea-
cop, near Rock-ferry, last winter. .It appears that one of the
fellovis Concerned in the murder has turned approver, and
that upon his. information the prisoners have been. appre-
lienaed; An bxamination Will 'take place before the magis-
trates ef Birkenhead to-day.—Liverpool

-.7•••••=1.•
ham, and Exmouth (Daws' line), % p.-Ditto (Head's). %
p.-Cornwall, 35/-Eastern Counties, 20-Newark, Sheffield,
and Boston, 6-North.Devon, 2 p.
HUDDERSFIELD, SEPT. 15.
STOCK ExcHANGF...-The 'stiles are-LGreat Eastern and
'Western' 265. P.-Grand Union, 41/2-Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction, 22-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 51/2-Manches •
ter; Birmingham, and Welsh Junction,'3%-Nottingham and
Mansfield, 08-4--Trent Valley Continuation, 31. 9s.
• .HULL, SEPT. l5.
Srocar Excrfkkto.-The sales are=-hull and Selby, Half
t. Shares, 22V—Yoi•k and North Midlaint- Extension, 2914-
Blackburn, Damen, and Bolton, lug-Caledonian Exten-
sion; 314--Easteni 'Union Extensien„ 4—Lynn and Ely,
7YB-.-North British, 271/6 ex everything-Armagh, Coleraine,
- and Portruela,, 3-Boston, Stamford,: and Birmingham,
21 21. 18s. 6d.-43overitty, Nuneaton, 814i-„3IA-Derby and
Gainsborough, Ms. p.-East Lincolnshir_,e .7_347,-East Coast,
6% 31/2-Goole, Doncaster, Sheffiar, 51A-Grand Union,
5-Great Eastern and Western,-3Leicester and Bedford, 41A-Leicester and *Birrtiingliam, 3-Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 7---London and Birmingham Extension, 21/Ti•-
_
London and York, 61. 11s. &L-London and Manchester'( Re •
- tnington's), 4/. 11s.-Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 10
- -Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England, 575. 6d.
-Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 54-Nottingham,
Erewash, Esc.; 5-Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 5-
.
N ottingham and Boston, 3A';-Nottinghain and Mansfield,
4%-North Western,l. 7.---Rugby and Huntingdon, 3%_.
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 94
shi Shrews bur y and Hereford-
,re, 3-ShrewsbUryind -Trent "Union, 41•--lean and Dove
alle% 3 4-Trent -Valley .Continuation, -3%-Wakefield
and Bradford, 61-Wakefield and Harrogate; t.14-York-
shire and-Glasgow Union, 4-%.
• - SHE'FFIELD, SEPT. 15.
244SrooK Exc MANGE.-The sales are-Midland, 401. Shares,
-East Lincolnshire, 63,1-Grimsby and Sheffield, 9964
-Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, 101/.-Grand
Union (Nottingham to Lynn), -4/. I -Direct 10%-Grand
Union
Midland; and Great Gritnsby, 5/. Is. 6d.
p.-North 'Western, 6%-Shrewsbury, Herefordshire, and
North Wales, 41,4-•-ShelliehLand _Lincolnshire, 8)6-Wake-
field and Harrogate, 51A p.