The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-07 00:00:00

RICHMOND AND WEST-END
JUNCTION RAILWAY.

A meetinc, of gentlemen interested in the proposed
line of raiaay from the Hungerford Suspension-
bridge to Richmond, was held yesterday at the Hall
of Commerce, Threadneedle-street.

About half-past twelve o'clock, William Pearse,
Esq., took the chair.

After the minutes of the last meeting were read
and agreed to,

The SECRETARY read the following report, which
was agreed to:—
" The prospects of the Company continue to bear the
most favourable aspect. The Hungerford and Lambeth
Suspension-bridge Company, at a recent meeting, adopted
such clauses as would secure to the co-operation of the
Bridge Directors and the privilege of carrying a line
across the Thames to a terminus in Hungerford Market.
A deputation had waited on the South-Western Railway
Company, who announced that they would be ready to
receive the deputation as soon as they had satisfied them-
selves upon the probable cost of the undertaking from
the estimates, valuations, &c. The inhabitants of
Richmond had expressed their entire satisfaction with
the plan of the proposed line, and especially with
the great advantages offered in having the terminus
brought to so central a point as Hungerford-market.
The proprietors of by far the greater part of the
land through which the line is proposed to pass, had
given their sanction to the undertaking, and many were
willing to operate in carrying it out. The following in-
fluential gentlemen have also agreed to contribute their
valuable services, an I their names are now added to the
Provisional Committee :—Sir W. Clay, Bart., M.P. ;
C. F. Whiting, Martin Stutely, Edward Chapman,
William Evans, John Palin LL.II, J. B. Byron, Wm.
Cremer, Henry Smith, W. J. Felton, and W. Fletchney
Black, Esquires. The share list was so rapidly filling
up, that the Committee had reason to believe that it
would be closed at an early day. They had also much
pleasure in stating that the applications for shares were,
for the most part, from persons of undoubted respecta-
bility."

conversational discussion ensued, in which one
or two gentlemen seemed to be of opinion that they
should await the report to be made to the South-
Western Company, before they proceeded further for
the present.
Mr. CHADWICK, the surveyor, stated that already
there had been applications for 16,000 shares, for the
most part from persons of the highest respectability.
On the motion of Mr. P. BLACK, a resolution was
passed authorising the Sub-Committee to persevere
in obtaining the required capital, and to enter into
such arrangements as might be deemed advisable to
secure the co-operation of the South-Western Com-
pany in carrying out this undertaking.
The resolutions will be found in our advertising
columns. _

A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman,
after which the meeting separated.

DIRECT RAILWAY FROM LON-
DON TO YORK.

On Thursday a great sensation was produced in the
railway world, by the announcement that the Direc-
tors of the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Rail-
way, had united with the promoters of the pro-
posed London and York Direct Railway, and that
the latter line, as surveyed by Mr. Locke, would
be brought before Parliament in the ensuing session,
supported by a majority of the House of Com-
mons, and favoured by the Government. A union
with the Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway
will, in fact, be a union with the powerful and
wealthy Manchester, Leeds, and Hull line ; and
it appears that the condition on which the Wake-
field directors have consented to transfer their
subscriptions and coalesce with the London and
York is, that the entire scheme of the
Wakefield, Lincoln, and Boston Railway, both
as to its connexion with the town of Wake-
field and occupation of the Foss and Witham Banks
to Boston, form a part of the undertaking; and that
the line joins the Hull and Selby line at the latter
town, and from thence direct to York, which, they
confidently state, will make the most extended and
complete railway communication presented to the
public, at once bringing the great manufac-
turing and agricultural portions of the kingdom
into railway communication with each other, as well
as with the metropolis, reducing the distance of the
principal towns in Yorkshire and the north from 10
to 35 miles with London, while the natural facilities
for its formation are such as to insure its completion,
at a cost of little more than one-third the amount ex-
pended on existing railways connecting Yorkshire and
the north of England and Scotland with London.
The entire line from London to York will not have
a greater deviation from a dead level than 1 in 800 ;
it will contain neither a tunnel nor a bank, or cut-
ting exceeding 13 feet ; and it is estimated
that in its construction, and in providing
the working stock, the advantage of being
guided by the experience and warned by the errors
of others will be equivalent to a saving of nearly
2,000,000/. The united Companies are determined
to bring into operation upon the new line all the
latest improvements in railway locomotion; the car-
riages, waggons, and engines are all to be of the most
approved construction ; and this, combined with the
favourable gradients, will, it is added, secure a rate
of speed that may be fairly averaged at thirty-five
miles per hour.
These are large promises, and in the case of parties
unknown to the public they might be looked upon
with suspicion ; but the character achieved for
themselves by the leading individuals in the new
alliance, the directors of the Wakefield, Lincoln,
and Boston Railway, seems to set all doubt at rest.
These gentlemen, as we have already stated, are
also the directors of the Manchester, Leeds, and Hull
Railway, which for cheapness of rates, and general
attention to accommodation of all classes, not except-
ing the most humble of the population, stands second
to no similar undertaking in the country. It first set
th
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outtem
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The direct York line will have its terminus at
King's-cross.

against the redoubtable
THE " TOUTING CASES."
TOWN HALL, GRAVESEND.
Yesterday, James e
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case of conviction applied for several summonses
multitude of similar cases, and in every
in a Samuel
Company, Roe, who has been already con-
victedcircumstance
in every one of teman,
has,
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some
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of so many convictions, and of appeals
attention in quarteraxiousi in which the administration of
justice is an
which is y watched over, it being urged as
the ground of appeal.h that the convicting magistrates
latter of whicahs,,
are interested
, of
Staff,
a_ouatreerh.o”lders in the Diamond Com-
pany,When the usual business active agent, or opposed to the Star Company, of the
companiest Mr. Samuel Roe is an
of the court was closed,
Mr. OAKEs
Sun, of the 30th of whom were on the bench Mr.
August,
Spencer) read from The
Staff, Mayor, and
agr ainutlyth,ea animadversionugust, an article
on
the
conduct commenting in
f
and
Spencer, who adjudicated
strong terms
iMnetshsross.e4D'a‘i(es touting cadses," being themselves " noto-
iamond Company," and stating
to adjudicate, inflicting shareholdersr
thatiou sMessrs.ly flagrantly,
Oakes,
Staff, and Spencer, continued so
tgerestdeedreinne
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connected with, the
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in
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with the
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at the same time proposing to judgment on them;
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To which both gentlemen
against them in the
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article that the n
question imputation
was
a conveyedfoul
I umny.
for me,
cases
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tions. I have acted in the
accordance with my duty, withoutses referred to me in
leaning to the
Star or the Diamond Company, •
Mr. OAKES—As
utm either of which I
have no interest whatever.if it be your wish
to take legal notice of this foul calumny, I will make
no objection.
After some further conversation on the subject be-
tween these gentlemen, the ')P
containing the
accusatory article was handed tl3
Mr. Combe, soli-
citor and town-clerk, who (as
understood
we him)
said that he would advise as to
what course ought to
be pursued in reference to the publication of the
calumny in question.

tt accident occurred in the Waterloo Gal-
Aafternoon of Thursday last,
WINDSOR CASTLE.—ACCIDENT IN THE WATERLOO
taken place during the evening of yester-
day, had it
ludGellarAyf°Y7lll at an
YtathileeelYtime the splendid apartment was crowded
with her Majesty's royal and illustrious guests, might
have been attended with the most serious and lamentable
results. Five massive chandeliers of ormolu, and of ex •
quisite vvorlimanship, weighing several hundreds of
pounds each, were suspended from the ceiling, at about
fifteen feet from the floor. These magnificent pieces of
furniture, which, it is said, cost from 2,0001. to 3,0001.
each, are considered to be the most rich and beautiful
specimens in this country. While one of the workmen
in the department
n h oop of
ohfe a
flight of steps, in pre-
paring the nhanflehAr 4t the western end for lighting on
yesterday evening, the whole mass gave way, and fell on
the floor with a tremendous crash, and breaking into a
mountedotttL Lord Chamberlain was engaged,
high
thousand pieces. Of the several circles of cut plate
glass, upon which were elaborately engraved the star,
garter, and motto of the Order of the Garter, not one
escaped—the whole were smashed to atoms. The man
on the steps fortunately escaped. The chandelier, it is
stated, weighed upwards of seven cwt.