The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-27 00:00:00

MIDLAND RAILWAY.

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DERBY, TUESDAY, HALF-PAST THREE, P.M.—This
afternoon a special general meeting of the Proprietors of
the above railway was held in the largo room over the
booking-offices at the railway station in this town, for
the purpose of agreeing to a lease, in conjunction with
the Manchester and Birmingham Company, of the Shef-
field, Asliton-under-Lynn, and Manchester Railway.
There was an extremely large attendance of Shareholders,
the room being completely filled.
G. HUDSON, Esq., Chairman of the Directors, took the
chair, and stated the terms of the proposed lease. The
lease was to be for thirty years, to be terminable by either
party at the end of either ten or twenty years, upon a
notice of three years being given. The lease to com-
mence in six months after the-completion of the line.
The lease was to be subject to the
payment by the lessees
of seven and a half per cent. on 144,0001., as a guaran-
tee stock, during the period that that portion of the
Sheffield and Manchester capital was entitled to that
high rate of interest, being up to the 26th of September,
1853. The remainder of the share capital was to be
guaranteed to five per cent„ the capital not exceeding
756,0001., the interest to increase by half per cent. for
every 250/. per wcek increase in the traffic, until the
rental reached ten per cent. The weekly receipt to
commence at 2,8004 The chairman, in the course of
his observations, said that this step bad been caused by
the: course which the Manchester and Leeds Company
had taken with reference to the London and York Com-
pany, and it was in self-defence that the Midland Com-
pany had determined upon entering upon their lease, in
order that they might have an independent terminus in
Manchester. He regretted that any difference should
exist between the two companies, and he would be glad
to submit to any personal sacrifice to put an end to them.
The resolutions were unanimously adopted, and thanks
having been voted to the chairman, the meeting separated. 11

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL THE HON. SrR
R. L. DUNDAS, K.C.B, ANOTHER HERO OF THE PENIN..
suLA.—We have to record the death of Lieutenant-
General the Hon. Sir Robert Laurence Dundas, which
took place on Saturday afternoon the 23d inst., at Loftus,
near Gisborough, Yorkshire. This gallant officer's ser-
vices extended over a period of forty-seven years, and
by his death the colonelcy of the 59th Regiment, which
he has held since the 15th of June, 1840, has become
vacant. Sir Robert Dundas entered the army on the
Ist of December, 1797, and as a second-lieutenant served
as an engineer officer in North Holland, at the actions of
the 27th of August, 10th and 19th September, and 2d
and 6th October, 1799. He became lieutenant on the
2d May, 1800, and in the subsequent year served in the
Egyptian campaign, and was present in the action of the
21st of March. On the 6th of August, 1802, he was
made a captain, and obtained his majority on the 14th of
July, 1804. In the year ensuing he served in the north
of Germany with the Royal Staff Corps. In the be-
ginning of 1807 ho was ordered to the Peninsula, where
from that time, with the Royal Staff Corps, he was pre-
sent and shared in the glories of Talavera, Busaco,
Fuentes d'Onor, Salamanca, 'Vittoria, the Pyrenees, the
Nivelle, the Nive, and Toulouse. S!r Robert attained
the rank of lieutenant-colonel on the 11th of April, 1811,
full colonel on the 19th July, 1821, major-general 22d
July, 1830, and lieutenant-general 23d November, 1841
—the last brevet, in honour of the birth:of the Prince of
Wales. For his distinguished services he received a
cross and three clasps, and was made a Knight Com-
mander of the Bath. The deceased was brother to the
late and uncle to the present Earl of Zetland.
TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES IN POLAND.--POLISH
FRONTIERS, Nov. 11.—The cause of the temperance so-
cieties has meoived a severe blow in the kingdom of
Poland. They had been particularly successful in those
parts of the kingdom which border on the republic of
Cracow and in Upper Silesia, where the country people,
following the exhortation of the clergy, renounced in a
body the use of brandy. But the Government has lately
interfered to check the temperance societies, and has
published a circular prohibiting them, and forbidding
the clergy to promote by addresses from the pulpit an
object which was so beneficial to the country-people._
Hamburgh Papers.