The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-16 00:00:00

HULL, SEPT. 15.

STOCK DWI/ANC/E.—The 'sales are—Hull and Selby, Half
Shares, 2258—York and North Midland Extension, 294_
Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 10%—Caledonian Exten-
sion, 33/4—Eastern Union Extension, 4%—Lynn and Ely,
7% —North British, 27% ex everything—Armagh, Coleraine,
and Portrueh, 3—Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham,
21. 18s. 6d.—Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 31/2—Derby and
Gainsbomugh, 555. p.—East Lincolnshire, 73/4—East Coast,
31/2—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., 51/2--Graed Union,
s—Great Eastern and. Western, 33/4--Leicester and Bedford,
41/2—Leicester and Birmingham, 3—Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 7—London and Birmingham Extension, 24—
London and York, 61. l ls. 3d.—London and Manchester (Re •
inington's), 41. Ms.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 10
—Manchester, Liverpool, and Great North of England, 575. 6d.
—Newcastle, Durham, and Lancashire, 51A—Nottingham,
Erewash, &c., s—Nottingham, Belvoir, and Grantham, 5
Nottingham and Boston, 3%—Nottingham and Mansfield,
4%—North Western, 7—Rugby and Huntingdon, 354—
Sheffield and Lincolnshire, •914—Shrewsbury and Hereford-
shire, 3—Shrewsbury and Trent Union, 41/2—Tean and Dove
Valley, 34—Trent Villey Continuation, 31/2—Wakefield
and i3radford, 6%—Wakefield and Harrogate, 6%—York-
shire and Glasgow Union, 434.

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SHEFFIELD, SEPT. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Midland, 40/. Shares,
2414—East Lincolnshire, O—Grimsby and Sheffield, 223/4
—Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, 1014—Grand
Union (Nottingham to Lynn), 4/. 1 ls.—Direct Northern,
2A—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, Si. ls. 6d.
p.—North Western, 676—Shrewsbury, Herefordshire, and
North Wales, 44—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, B%—Wake-
field and Harrogate, 51/2 p.

YORK, SEPT. 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union Ex
tension, 4%—Newcastle and Darlington Junction (New
Brandling), 461/2—North British, 31% c. n.—York and
North Midland Extension, 291/2—Caledonian Extension, 3%
—Grand Union, 41. 16s. 6d.—Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Junction, Quarter Shares, 614—Leicester and Bedford, 4%-
-Manchester, Buxton, &c., 101/2—Newcastle, Durham, and
Lancashire, s—North Western, VA—Sheffield and Lincoln-
shire, 9—Welsh Midland, 4%.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
11% TUNBRIDGB WELLS LLNE.—On Saturday General Pasley,
the inspector-general, accompanied by Messrs. Harding and
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414 Browne, Directors, and Mr. Peter Barlow, the resident en-
gineer, made an experimental trip over this line, which runs
from the Tunbridge station of the South-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 himself 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 of
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-
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menced in July, 1844, as a single line, exactly twelve
months before the Act was obtained, and in April, 1845,
it was determined to make it a double line. The cost
to Jenkwood's spring, including land, has been 100,000/., and
the extension into Tunbridge Wells will be 80,000/. more.
The line passes near Lomer-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 London, 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
13% 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 district.
A compromise is said to have been agreed upon detweeu
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.
Nsw LINE FROM WINDSOR TO Lortnox.—A new line
has just been projected to proceed from Windsor to Staines,
_
_ with a branch from Datchet to join the Great Western Rail-
way at Slough. The atmospheric principle is to be adopted.
3% 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.
raltroux 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 COMTANIES.—In addition to the companies already
in existence for the Paris to Lyons line—namely, Laffitte,
Ganneron, Lappinsonniere, Calon, and the South-Past, there
are that of Union, formerly united with the Orleans Com-
pany, but since then with the house of Rothschild, the
Messageries, that got up by the old Directors of the Rosamel
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
certain that the capital will be made up, to call a meeting
of the subscribers, and out of them choose the Board of
Directors. Front the Creil to St. Quentin line there are five
companies in the field, viz., Cysacus, Colbert, and Carette, all
old, and Anions, 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 Meridionale, 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 com-
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-
- mane, both some time formed.
ROUEN TO HAVRE.—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 AND LToNS.—The starting point of this line has
- been decided upon; it will run from the Rue Contrescarpe,
near the Bastille, quitting Paris by Bercy and Charenton,
- and following the Valley of Yeres, will reach as far as Melun,
4 from whence it will take the direction of Montereau. This
2N plan is in accordance with the recommendation of M. Jullien,
engineer in chief.
BOULOGNE AND Amnots.—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
_ between Arles and the Coup Perdu, the limit of Jatres.

FIFTY HOUSES BUENT.—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 houses were thatched, the
flames spread with great rapidity, and were not subdued
until the greater part of Cross-street was consumed, the num-
ber of houses destroyed amounting to about 50, and includ-
ing the premises 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 fire-engines arrived from Exeter.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Committee of the Stock
„Exchange, having had under their consideration the proposal
made by many of the leading brokers for an earlier closing
of the markets, have agreed that an alteration shall be made
in the hours of business on and after the Ist of next month.
The markets will then open at eleven o'clock in the fore-
noon and close at three o'clock in the afternoon. This is the
second alteration that has been made during the last few
months in the hours of dealing, consequent upon the pressure
of business introduced by the late extensive operations in
railway securities. It appears that the brokers have not
found the curtailment of the half hour in the opening and
closing first made sufficient to transact the countinghouse
• part of their business, and have, therefore, agreed among
themselves to shorten " market hours," if possible, to give
them more time for the arrangement of their correspondence
before the Exchange 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 now 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
2% 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 -'1.4..6ge
2% was desired and has been agreed to.—Aflz;grtism
DETERMINED Suitoiou.---Yesterday morning, about
- half-past six o'clock, Mrs. Elizabeth Harley, of No, 6, NOW
Union-street, Moortields, 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
to breakfast, one of her daughters Went tc, her bedrOnnl, but
could not get in until the door was hreltell Allen, Where her
unfortunate parent was fqund suspended by a handkerchief to
the lied-rails, Miss Harley instantly cut her down. 1:a!! she
was quite dead.
THE MURDRE OF Ma. PEACOP.—APPREROsTox
OF THE MURDEREEs.--We have just heR intbmed that four
brickmakers were apprcl4c,pded at Birkenhead last night, on
a charga 4 hayMg been conFerned in the murder of Mr. Pea,
cop, near, TtoClt-ferri,: last winter. It appears that one of the
fellow's concerned m the 'millet.. 70as appears
approver,, and
that upon his informiition Ole priaellecs have been atert.
hended, examinattop, take. place bye the Ames-
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