The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-22 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The following notice to Parliamentary agents relative
to the lodgment of deposits has just been issued:—" The
Speaker will give orders at any time for the deposit of
money, on a written-application in the usual frm, sent
by post, to C. E. Lefroy,lEsq., Ewshotillouse, Farnham,
Surrey. The order for depositing the money may be
bad, with the following words added to the usual order,
in two, three, four, or five several instalments of £

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each,' by which means the money may be deposited by
instalments, but under one order as before.—(Signed),
C. E. LEFROY, See., House of Commons, Dec. 19, 1845.'
LONDON AND YORK.—A committee consisting of se-
veral members of the Lincoln Town-council has been ap •
pointed to confer with the London and York Company
recpecling the state of the bridges in that town. The
Council eon.ider that the Company ought to improve
them.

DOVER AND BRISTOL.—This Company did not com-
ply with the standing orders of the House of Commons,
and the liabilities which they have incurred are stated
to exceed 4,0004 We are informed that it is the inten-
tion of the members, of the Provisional Committee to
discharge this amountavithout calling on the shareholders
to contribute any portion of it.
YORKSHIRE AND GLASGOW UNION, AND YORK AND
CARLISLE--It is understood that the proposed York-
shire and t;lasgow Uhion will be united with the Great
North of England by the intended branch from the
Northallerton station to Bedale, from which place it will
proceed by the way •cor Middleham, Leyburn, Hawes, in
a north-west direction, and fall into the Lancaster and
Carlisle Railway at or near Clifton. The York and
Carlisle is also intended to commence at a point on the
Great North of England, near Northallerton, and pro-
ceed to the north west by a different route, by way of
Richmond, Barnard' Castle Brough, and Appleby, to
join the Lanca,ter arid Carlisle at or near Clifton.
TUNNEL UNDER TRENT.—At the last meeting of
the Committee of Management of the Manchester, Hud-
dersfield, and Great 'Grimsby Direct, the engineer of the
line stated that the proof bearings had been made, and
that the strata was particularly favourable for the con-
struction of the proposed tunnel. After he had minutely
described the nature of the works, and submitted plans
of the sections, the Committee expressed themselves
perfectly satisfied of the practicability of the under-
taking. The expense will be much less than was anti-
cipated. The roof-above the tunnel to the bed of the
river will be nearly thirty feet, and the gradient will be
extremely easy.
BURY CENTRAL STATION.—A meeting of the Council
of this borough was b4d this day, to take into consideration
a report of the Terminus Committee. The report detailed
the correspondence with the various companies, the upshot
of which was, that all had declared their inability to bring
the terminus to the west of St. Andrew's-street, except the
London and Bury Direct, and the Ely line, which had
intimated its intention to do so, but in its plans and sec-
tions stopped short at the Northgate. The Committee,
therefore, recommend that mea,nres he adopted to op-
pose every line not "proposing to make its terminus in
conformity with the' resolutions of the Council and the
publie meeting of the town. A long discussion took
place, in which severil councillors urged the impracti-
cability of accomplishing the desired object, and the ex-
pense of opposing the Bills ; and the north side of Ris-
bygate-street was suggested as practicable for a terminus,
but, ultimately the report of the Committee was adopted,
and it was agreed that the whole Council should meet in
committee on Saturday.—Bury Post.

NEW TELEnaam.;—Our attention has been drawn to
an exceedingly ingenious application of electro-magnet-
ism to the purpose of a telegraph, which bids fair to super-
sede all similar plans at present in use upon railways.
The apparatus in question is the invention of Mr. George
Smith, Garden-lane, Red-bank, Manchester, who, it ap-
pears, has been long directing his inquiries as to the most
eligible means of carping out his object. The chief advan-
tages which his plan possesses over the contrivances at
present in use, are, the economy of construction, sim-
plicity, and consequent probability of continuing in
working order, and; above all, the rapid manner in
which intelligence is capable of being conveyed. In
order to accomplish this latter object, all arbitrary
signs for the purpose of indicating letters have been
discarded, each letter of the alphabet being repre-
sented upon the dial plate, and pointed out
with a rtpidity and precision which certainly,
astonished us; and, all the time, with so much sim-
plicity that, although we were seeing the invention for
the first time, we were enabled to read the intelligence it
conveyed with as much ease, and nearly as much ra-
pidity, as if an ortlinary book had been before us. This
latter advantage appears to us to be a very decided one
over the telegraphs 'now in use. As the invention, we
believe, is not yet patented, we are of course usable to
disclose anything further of the principle upen which
Mr. Smith has fornied his exceedingly ingenious appa-
ratus; but it is our.firm conviction that its merits cannot
fail to recommend it to the notice of railway companies
and others, upon the score of simplicity, durability, and
economy.—Mqnchester Courier.
WINDING-UP.—We learn that the Provisonal Com-
mittee of the Sanquhar and Muirkirk Junction Railway
have resolved to call in the claims against the Company,
for the purpose of liquidating them, and then dividing the
deposit amongst the scripholders, minus these necessary
expenses. The reasons which have led to the resolution
are, we behave, that the chances of success in the ensuing
session of Parliament are not such as to justify further
empenditure ; and' the Directors have resolved to return
the money to fructify in the pockets of the public rather
than keep it lying at bank interest far an indefinite period.
This course we considered to be an honest and straight-
forward one, and creditable to the gentlemen at the
head of this project. It is earnestly to be hoped that it
may have its effect, lay urging a similar course on the
directors of other reeentfry formed railway companies,
whose prospects of; Parliamentary success are not the
brightest; and it must be remembered, too, that the present
unsettled aspect of the political world has lessened the
likelihood of remuneration from several of the new rail-
way plans, at leag for a time. The decision of the San-
quhar and Muirkirk Junction directors contrasts most
favourably with the dead lock system of some of the En-
glish companies which have recently been figuring before
the Lord Mayor at the Mansion-house, and the officials
connected with which seem neither prepared to go to
Parliament nor to return any of' the deposit money which
they have received from the allottees.—Glasgow Herald.
LUBECK AND SCHWERIN.—HAMBURG, DEC. s.—The
news arrived by express to-day that the States of Meck-
lenburg hid refused to grant the law of appropriation
for the•projected- railway between Lubeck and Schwerin.
In consequence, the scrip of the Hagenow, Schwerin, and
Rostock, which might have been bought at 87 yesterday,
rose immediately, to 91, but fell again at the close of the
Exchange to 89. In my opininn the accomplishment of
the line between Lubeck and Schwerin would operate
score in favour than to the disadvantage of the other
Mecklenburg line, as the joint use of a town like Lu-
beck, and all the localities between that town and this,
would have contributed a great deal to the traffic of the
whole net, without injuring Rostock and Wisinar. The
refusal is a severe blow to Lubeck, and it falls heavily
on one part of Mecklenburg.
CASSEL AND HANOYER.—It is now certain that the
negotiations with Hanover, on the subject of this line,
have been brought to a favourable termination. The
Conamisioner from Cassel, Herr Schwedes (upper min-
ing director), is
..expected to return in a few days, and
there is some grotind for believing that the presence of
his Royal Highness the Crown Prince and Co-Regent in
Hanover has done much towards softening down the
difficulties. These negotiations were more on the sub-
ject of the Minden and Hanover line ; but it is believed
that, in the many leisure hours of the two commis-
sioners, the Hanover and Cassel line was brought on the
i lapis, and the: question of its terminus at Cassel dis
cussed. That would be of great importance to. Frede-
rick William's northern line, as no decision on the direc.
Con of the' line in the circle of Cassel can be arrived
at previously. 'The works Lift the whole of the rest of
Ithe line, from the Prussian boundary at the Diemel to
the Saxon andVburingian line, will be allotted on the
sth of January; in the coming year, to the several con-
tractors, so that. the works on the whole of the line will
be, at- one and-the same time, in operation in the year
1 1846. The works for the tunnel* will be continued dur-
ing the winter,