The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY FROM NEWCASTLE

TO BERWICK.

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NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, THURSDAY.—A special meet-
ing of the town council of this borough was held yester-
day in the Guildhall, for the purpose of assenting to,
or dissenting from, the formation of certain railways pro-
posed to pass through the town of Newcast!e. There
was a very full attendance of members.
On the assembling of the council, the Mayor took the
chair, and the Chairman of the Town Improvement Com-
mittee, on whom had been imposed the duty of collecting
information on the subject of railways proposel to pass
through the town, presented a report, entering very fully
into the merits of the respective projects. The line pro-
posed by Mr. Stephenson, the report observes, is called
the Newcastle and Berwick Railway, and it is intended
to cross the river Tyne by a bridge, at an elevation of
upwards of one hundred feet above high-water mark,
and about ninety yards west of the present bridge.
One of the leading features of this line is, that it unites
all this railway stations in one place, near Melville-street,
from whence the traveller may proceed by railway north,
south, east, and west.

The other line is projected by Mr. Brunel. It crosses
the river by a bridge ninety-three feet in height, pro-
ceeds across the Forth to Thornton-street, and thence by
a tunnel, 2,410 yards in length, to the Town-moor, ter-
minating in Jesmond-fields, from whence it takes its
departure northward.
&The Committee recommended Mr. Stephenson's line, as
most desirable for the interests of the town ; they tug-
gested, however, that a clause be inserted in the Act of
Parliament requiring the Company to commence with
the bridge simultaneously with the other works upon
the line, and proceed with all reasonable dispatch in its
completion.
A long discussion followed the reading of the re-
port, which was at length confirmed by a large majo-
rity, so that the corporation of Newcastle have now
pledged themselves to support Mr. Stephenson and Mr.
Hudson's line from Newcastle to Berwick-upon-Tweed,
in opposition to the atmospheric line proposed by Lord
Howick.

SUPPOSED MURDER of MR. MAY.
Yesterday Mr. Baker held an inquest ut the City of
Paris, Bishop Bonner's-fields, Bethnal-green, on the
body of Mr. W. May, aged forty-four, silk manufac-
turer, of King-street, Old Ford-lane. The evidence
condensed showed that the deceased had been missing
since the 9th of last December, and his body was
not found until Thursday night last, when it was
discovered in the Regent's Canal, between Bonner-
hall-bridge and the new union workhouse. When
deceased was seen last alive he had in his possession
several sovereigns—when found he had but one. The
body was found a mile distant from his house, and
in an opposite direction, and his hat and a handker-
chief more than a mile from the canal, and: some
bills belonging to him at a quarter of a mile from his
home. lie usually carried a snuff-box and spectacles in
his pockets, but they were not found on him after death.
The Coroner said that the finding of property belonging
to deceased in such opposite directions, and so far apart,
gave the case a very mysterious complexion. Mr. J.
Salter, a silk manufacturer, who parted with deceased
at the Job's Castle, Norton Folgate, on the night of
the 9th ult., at eleven o'clock, left him in good spirits,
and of sound intellect, and was of opinion that his
death was caused by unfair moans. Mr. Storey, sur-
geoa, of the Mile-end-road, who had examined the
body, found the tongue protruding, several cuts on the
forehead, on the right eyebrow, and beneath the same eye.
Several of the upper teeth were forced from their sockets
and were found loose in the mouth, and there were cuts
inside each lip. The left arm was fractured and so were
several of the ribs. The witness thought, both from ex-
ternal and internal appearances, that deceased had been
immersed in the water during life, but that the severest
of the injuries described had been caused after death,
probably by the bottoms of the barges. He considered
it rather a case of suicide than of death from violence
on the part of others. It having been proved that de-
ceased was a sober, sensible man, in prosperous circum-
stances, the foreman and jury intimated that they could
not come to a conscientious conclusion without further
evidence. They proposed the adjournment of the in-
quest for a week. Adjourned accordingly.

DONCASTER RACES.—The nominations, which close
on the Ist instant, have surpassed, in point of numbers,
the expectations of the most sanguine lovers of the turf;
and opened a prospect for the future of a more attractive
and gratifying character than has been presented on any
former occasion. For the present year, the nominatiwns
for the Champagne are 42; for the Two Year Olds, 47;
Scarborough Stakes, 8; and for the Gascoigne Stakes,
10. For 1846, the nominations for the St. Leger amount
to 153, and the Park Hill, 39. There aro also 9 for the
Two Year Old Produce, and 8 for the Foal Stakes,lsis. 1847;11e
and 28 for the North of England Produce,
nominations for the St. Leger of next year are unprece-
dented in point of numbers; the highest previously, in
1841, being 135. This circumstance is to be attributed
to the recent alterations adopted. The second horse will
receive 300 sovereigns out of the stakes, and the
third 100 sovereigns—an alteration which will induce
a greater number of horses to come to the post than has
been the case since the period when the race was altered
from 25 sous. pp. to 50 h f.—Doncaster Gazette.
HEALTH OF SIR CHARLES METCALFE. The
friends of Sir Charles Metcalfe have contradicted the ac-
rse h
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count of his health given by the Spectator of Saturdayis
last. Letters have been received in England
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THE NEW LAMBETH POLICE-COURTS.—The new
Courts are found to be extremely inconvenient and cold,
and until the necessary alterations can be made Mr.
Henry and Mr. Norton, the magistrates, have deter-
Lined to hold the Court in one of the rooms of the pri-
vate house in frout of the premises in York-row, Ken-
sington-road.

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