The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London Gazette of Last Night.)
RAILWAY DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF i BADE
Whitehall, Jan. 14, 1845.
Notice is hereby given, that the Board constituted by
the Minute of the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade, of the 24th of August, 1844, for the
transaction of railway business, having had under con-
aideration the following schemes for extending railway
eN4tunication to Portsmouth, viz.:—
The Brighton and Chichester—Portsmouth Extension,
The Direct London and Portsmouth,
The Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Fareham
Branch,
The London and Portsmouth, with Branches to Shore-
ham-bridge, Fareham, and Reigate,
Have decided on reporting to Parliament in f,vour of
the Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth, and Farcham
trancla ;
And against the
gaton and Chichester—Portsmouth Extension,
Direct London and Portsmouth,
London and Portsmouth, with Branches to Shoreham-
bridge, Fareham, and Reigate;
And the Board having further had under consideration
the following schemes for extending railway commu-
nication in the Metropolitan district, viz.,
P,
The
„ Epsom and Dorking,
the Grosvenor Railway,
TheLoThe Great Western, Uxbridge, and Staines Junction,
ndon and Brighton—Wands,. orth Branch,
The
hLondon and Croydon Dorking Branch,
e London and Brighton Dorking Branch.
The London and South-Western Epsom Branch.
The Metropolitan Central Junction.
The Metropolitan Extension of the London and South-
Western,
Thy Richmond and West-End Junction,
The South London and Windsor,
The South Eastern Branch to Reigate and Dorking,
The Staines and Richmond,
it...110e decided on reporting to Parliament in 11 your of the
Ltl'oPolitan Extension of the London and South-
-81 atern,
anu West-End Junction,
'4'43 and Richmond ;
Against the
t*rearenor Railway.
teat Western, Uxbridge, and Staines Junction,
London and Brighton—Wandsworth Branch,
,!M
~endon and South Western—Epsom Branch,
etropolitan Central Junction,
South London and Windsor.
Aud recommending the postponement until a future
Period of the
Epsom. and Dorking,
lidon and Croydon—Dorking Branch,
B°uth-
London and Brighton—Dorking Branch,
Eastern Branch—Reigate to Dorking.

DALHOUSIE.
C, PASLEY. G. R. PORTER.
b. O'BRIEN, S. L A ING.

Shit
is stated upon authority. that the Cheshire and
Junction Railway
0, ruPshire Junction Railway is eithdrawn, and that the
Shropshire
Oswestry, and Chestersitton.
Wij,l go into Parliament without oppo
RAILWAY. —The
WATERFORD AND LIMERICK
l ted. In Carrick-
tlection of Directors has been
e°ll.Suir district the votes werecoamsPfoellows for a single
'aive Glen Lodge, 1,224 ; Mr. E.
e, tor :—Mr. Galwey,
tt4",°Wer, Mount- Richard, 530. The following. is the res.ult. of
eesretarns from the various districts :—Waterford—
ars. Meagher, Strangman, Milward, Simon Newport,
rituld John Power. Clonrael--Messrs. Davis and Riall.
abete--illr. Bianconi. Cal rick-on-Suir—Mr. Galwey.
44astrick—Messrs. Gearey, Monsell, and P. Gabbett.
WICST LONDON RAILWAY.—On Monday a special
rieral meeting of the proprietors of this Company was
aeld at the offices, in Abchureh-lane, Mr. 11. Grounds
presiding, to consider the terms of a proposed agreement
With the London and Birmingham Railway Company,
for leasing the West London
line. The Directors' Port entered entered at length into the embarrassed condition
;
t_f the Company. The debts and liabilities
amounted
Lei 60000/ ,an execution was upon the line, and the property seized was advertised for sale. Four
pdgments had been entered against the Company, the
ankers' account was overdrawn, and the line being
trorkted at a loss of 501. per week. Under these eircum-
Meeaces the railway was closed, and an offer subsequentl)
Maio to the London and Birmingham Company, who,
on the payment by them of 60,000/. in liqui-
dation of the liabilities of the West London, are
to take a lease of the railway. The Directors now'
retotnrnend the ratification of this agreement,
ttnd suggestedu that the adjustment of the various in-
terest the shareholders should be left to the ai bitra-
tion of Mr. Glyn, the Chairman of the Birtninghem Com-
Pany, Mr. Hudson, Chairman of the Midland lieiiwaY
,e,,ompany, and Mr. Robert Stel4terion, the engineer.
~he Company was established ten years ago, with the
'IeW of furnishing a west-end terminus for the Lordou
'•'• tilt' lairmingham and Great We,tern Companies. The
plotlittaking failed to meet with support from those
%,,411)ttnies, and the works continued in abeyance until
44 and allalf ago, when they were constructed by
• lit
tkiht art Stephenson, and the line thrown open to the
St' A protracted discussion, in which. Mr. Whit-
•floy "t' Ar• White, Mr. limiting, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr.
kiitecickik *part
conclude
esued. Ultimately, the report was
'44 ' and the Directors were empowered to
keßotiations.
a -.4, s wEs —Sir James Dowling, Chief
i
esti, °tent AL •
En land to re-
eee f
41:11irs' INevv South Wales,
dis returning to g .
has been granted leave o
ereit or two years, an
Yea,p,.heath . is
of Mr. Jus
removal
.418 H. • labours were unremitting for 16
see /1„' and in consequence
and his
kir, tirton to Madras, thebeforeoftheacrrhiiveafl
telly
„e eXtra duties thrown on the succes-
beeh'eteaining coadjutor, Judge btephens,
J(u)fsthicies
Judge, was ex-
tetteetlec". Mr. Dickenson, the new he completely
, • . r -lilt in October ; and Mr. A'Becket, the Solicitor-
ileetle4l, has been appointed to act as third judge until
;nrn of Sir James.
b OA?
4-kyv. ,--' CART ACCIDENT.—On Monday, M
the I,7eaeld an inquost at St. Bartholomew's Hospital
llein-lY of Phebe Osborne, aged 48,
wife of a shoemaker
r'Won.
iTu„,g 14 nall's-place, St. Luke's. It appeared that on
tItZrY erening last deceased's husband took her home
t
tee it"'iested, and placed her in bed. In his absence a
4%e/tit" afterwards she arose, and was proceeding
vekeeroninonger-row,in quest of more liqtior, h` Pick.
folee'eidentally knocked down by one of Messrs.
NW s tilted carts, heavily laden, and the near wheel
I, "d over her head and a portion of her body. . She
as preenkiptly conveyed to the hospital, in which she died,
lure oft.etribeeis,house-s r eon said, from the effects of frac •
TH skull. Vuergdict,'" Accidental Death."
lit SUICIDE AT WATERLOO-BRlDGE.—Monday%v
teri W. Carter resumed, at the Hero of Waterloo,
tali of r NW, the adjourned inquiry respecting the d
e'ese,inta.! Meyers, alias Emily Ashburnham, aged 21
4 - Pr
the testimony of numerous witnesses it
hjeared that the deceased, who was in great distress,
in 18idedr for two or three days at a house of ill-fame,.
it ottekls-buildin Lambeth. On the morning of
es. oed ay
;;...... last a companion of hers, named Page, left hera
0 :gear-street, Leicester-square, in the company.
lots
dieelleg,rean, named Parker, and several females ?t loose Wee icLer• About eight o'clock the same morning s,
tole feria'
lying upon the sands at the bottom of NN a
4°abridge.
Although she was dead her body was
velirne• There was a large wound on the right side,
%we" kr. Layers, a surgeon, who had opened the body,
forvi„/%18 caused by some bones being fractured, and
hatlied7g themselves through the muscles and skin, no
ha t the result of deceased falling a great height. The
cause of death was fractured ribs, which had
seti.ol4'ed the right lung, thereby creating a. large extrava-
diet tlinf blood into the right cavity of the chest. Ver-
dri,,ll ' TeMporary insanity, the result of ex essive
, .41 and poverty."
„ oub-e,
•rn..- "'•"t AT THE RESIDENCE of SIR HENRY
-e-clt4
Thu 4104—0 n Monday, an inquest, adjourned from
T. ipohy last, was resume d, aid c‘ included, before Ntr.
ben Iggs, on the body of Benjamin Payne, aged 40, late
t 4
wiil to Sir Henry Pottinger, some particulars relative
l'ettibeh_ aPPeared in this journal on Friday. Sir Henry
ley
stg.er deposed—The deceased has not been long in
stepeir! ee, but I have noticed him to be peculiarly
A 'h I" t rnihdi-tr ordrn, anti a very absent man.
ins 0„ . re mimeo ettemson, had tiequeittl. cp,iien Lu
dp::::1:11his :tbsence of .mt-in'cl, which he thought arose from
hit, w before I left London, a short time since, I gave
that cat:fling, telling him that he did not suit tee. From
end fre'e he had been constantly shut up in his room,
the raZ,cluently complaieed of a violent head uclee On
hPreeiourPing he committed the act, only ten minutes
amo, 81, he came into my study, and see' he wished
d C:" an apology. His eyes were then red, as if he
euit
rile, en drinking largely. I told him that he did not
1,,,,,,, but that I should pay him his wages and board
t4-117:,3 UP to the 6th of next milith. He asked me fur
brie, e`'°' get up his plate, which I granted. On the morn-
ia, ',!_e cot:omitted the act, he told me he had been drink.isi. TY wine and brandy, but he would make it good
04:2°114 helpt sudden discharge caused him to commit
Co 2°ll
I khe drank to great excess. Lieutenant-
et,i!aet Malcolm said he had frequent opportunities of
rie, ug the deceased, and he appeared to he a man COM-
eelelY out of his senses through drink. Verdict—
MEDICAL Insanity.
kb,.EATPI FROM " FARCY."--IMPORTANT TO THE
‘,...-...1nA,1, , ,
.4%d P"°FLastoN.—A policeman died in the Itieh-
teerib,teloss.pital, a few days since, from the effects of this
rtk_ ..; nisease, after five days' illness. It is supposed
I;tiT ease was communicated to him by drinking water
itril__ a bucket which a carman had been. supplying t.,of
sat
e• After some hours, the disease began to :; ant. Ei
~..ariel the unfortunate man wa on% eyed to Rich-
imll4 u"spital
Turin a state of gr. at span. ': he Mt eleal
hiesll did not. etn time, understand the nature of
tidedlamPisint, but as th
Vibeon • , e syinptoms became more de •
patierigid inquiry they Caine to the
i_, nt had "nonce farce " and '
conclusion that
weir opinions a horse was inoculated' in
Qorder to prove died" taken from a •d "h
some
of
t
_ There was ' Pustule,
an in. a short time he
4744,1 b... _ . a post marten* examination held on the
Prehef an eminent surgeon of this city, who was so ap-
tsith"ell'e of disease that he f'd I- •
tit gloves on•Frightful•per urine- Le operation
mphHfOrt • as the external appearance of
toy;a, tinate mans body was, the internal eas still
flocking ; the stomach, Martand I'v , bin
tier,. 44 with ulcers, and all in ,a
h'staate of' iet 1.11 ' a
tvilieb This is amongst the very few . ' • ) "Via
autoentleated acts
• ...re__ Prove that the disease •
"nu?l'. ItSe 18 colllllll2lllcabit to luau.-
1 ,lourna.,