The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-21 00:00:00

SOUTH DiVON RAILWAY.

The work for this railway is making considerable
progress in St. Thomas by the contractors, Messrs.
Carpenter and Co., who have the first six miles in
hand. The Alphington-road will be crossed at the
turnpike by a skew-bridge, the width of which will
be 13 feet in the clear, the parapet walls will be three
feet in height, and each 18 inches in thickness, giving
an entire breadth of 16 feet. The public roadway
under the main arch (which is to be 26 feet 'wide)
will have an altitude of 16i feet, and there is to be
a footpath seven feet in the clear. The viaduct
by • which the railway is to be carried over
the Old Okehampton-road and Cowick-street, which
is fast approaching completion, will be of similar
breadth and parapets as well as altitude with
the Skew-bridge ; and the line of railway will
occupy a clear width of 13 feet. A further and larger
portion of the cliff at Dawlish has been removed by
means of gunpowder. Mr. Brunel came down to
superintend the operation, and many gentlemen,
directors, engineers, &e., connected with the South
Devon Railway, were present. The charge was the
enormous quantity of 1,6001b5. of gunpowder, and
the operation is stated to have been complete, an im-
mense portion of the cliff yielding to the power thus
applied, and falling in minute fragments.
The sea wall at the east end of Dawlish beach is
now in course of construction.

On the night of Tuesday all the trench executed
for the foundations, which vary from 8 to 10 feet
below the surface of the beach, was filled up.
It is stated that the South Devon Company have
consented to take 1,000 shares in the Plymouth and
Tavistock line ; and also that hopes were held out to
the Launceston deputation that their application
would be favourably entertained. There can be
little doubt that the object in view in these proceed-
ings have been to give encouragement to the line
from Launceston to Plymouth via Tavistock, as the
South Devon Railway thereby expect to "obtain a
" feeder," and the formation of the Plymouth and
Falmouth line simultaneously with the Plymouth and
Launceston line, will make Plymouth the centre of
the termini of all these railways.—Plymouth

NORTH DEVON RAILROAD,
via TIVERTON.
(Abridged from the Second Edition of the Western
Times.)
An important meeting of the gentry of Tiverton
and its neighbourhood, as well as the leading trades-
men of the town, was held at the Guildhall, Tiverton,
Friday, October 18.
The meeting was convened by requisition to the
Worshipful the Mayor, W. H. Gamlen, Esq., "to
consider the propriety of co-operating with the towns
of Southmolton and Barnstaple for the purpose of
extending the railway from Tiverton to the North of
Devon, via Southmolton, and for taking such other
means as might be necessary for endeavouring to
secure to the country between Tiverton and Barn-
staple the advantages of railway communication."
The meeting was most respectably attended.
Among the gentlemen present we observed :—J.
Heathcoat, Esq., M.P., W. Hole, F. Hole, H. Duns-
ford, A. Brewin, Rev. Carew, of Collipriest,
Toms, J. Barne, F. 0. Patch, Bendel], W. U.
Tripp, J. Loosemoore, Carew, Jun., Esqrs.; Messrs.
Besley, Trix, Ellerton, Parkhouse, Paine, and indeed
all the leading tradesmen of the town.
The Worshipful the Mayor, W. H. Gamlen, Esq.
having taken the Chair,
Mr. HEATHCOTE, moved the adoption of the
following resolution :—" That it is the opinion of this
meeting that in the event of a railway being extended
from the Bristol and Exeter line of railway to Barn-
staple and ~the North of Devon, the most desirable
line in a mercantile, agricultural, and general point of
view, is by the way of Tiverton and Southmolton, and
that a memorial, expressing the opinion of this meet-
ing, be signed by the Mayor on its behalf, and imme-
diately forwarded to the Directors of the Bristol and
Exeter Railway Company."
The memorial was subsequently signed on behalf
of the meeting by W. H. Gamlen, Esq., Mayor.
Mr. F. 0. PATCH had great pleasure in seconding
the resolution and the memorial, which were carried
unanimously.
A Committee was then appointed for the purpose
of co-operating with the Committees at Barnstaple
and Southmolton, in the furthering of this object.
Colonel HARDING moved, and Mr. Alderman QUICK
seconded, a vote of thanks to the Mayor, which was
cordially carried.
The MAYOR, in acknowledging the compliment,
said it was the most influential, as well as nume-
rous meeting, which he had been called upon to
preside over.

NEWARK AND SHEFFIELD, OR SHERWOOD FOREST
RAILWAY.-NEWARK, OCT. 12.—The railway mania has
extended itself to this place, and a new line is projected.
A railway meeting was held at Mansfield on the 4th
instant, for the formation of a railway from Sheffield, at
which place a junction is to be made with the Sheffield
and Manchester Railway, and at Ashton and Staley-
bridge, with the Leeds and Manchester Railway, arid
thence by Chesterfield and Manchester, to join the pro-
jected London and York Railway at Mansfield, and to
be designated the Newark and Sheffield. or Sherwood
Forest Railway. The gentlemen constituting the pro-
visional committee are both numerous and respectable.
13,0001. worth of shares were taken in the room.—Leeds
Times.

DREADFUL SHIEWRECK.—We understand that an-
other steamer has just gone down in the North Sea.
She had only one boat, which was swamped by the des-
perate passengers crowding into her. We lament to
state that among them were one Royal Duke, three
Peers, and half-a-dozen Members of Parliament, with
their wives and families. A later Account.—We are
happy to state that there is no truth in the above para-
graph ; but when there shall be—when Dukes, and
Peers, and Members of Parliament, go to the bottom
with common people then—and it would seem not until
then—will there be an Act compelling shipowners to
carry boats of sufficient size to contain the crew and pas •
se n gers.—Pune
'I'IIE BEST INCOME-TAX.—Dean Swift proposed to
tax female beaut 3, and to leave every lady to rate her
own charms. Re said the tax would be cheerfully paid,
and very productive to a certainty. ' -