The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-03 00:00:00

THE GREAT COUNTY DOWN,
BELFAST, NEWRY, and WARRENPOINT RAILWAY.
The Promoters of the Great County Down RaUway do not consider
it necessary to notice anonymous misrepresentations proceeding from
interested parties. In reference, however, to a publication of this
nature which has appeared in this morning's papers, they feel called
up na to st ate, injustice to the pubiic and to the distinguished Noble-
men and Gentlemefl on their Provisional Committee, representing at
least three-fourths of the entire rental of Downshire, that there is not
on that Committee a single name for which a distinct and positive
authority bee not been received ; and, further, that all the requisites
of the Joint-Stock Companies' Registration Act have been duly com-
plied with.

Signed, on behalf of the Promoters,
. 3farland and Nelson,
Frazer and Mitchel, 18011dt-ors.
B. B. Todd,
F. W. M'Blaln, Secretary in London.
London, July 1, 1845.

THE ALTO DOUItO RAILWAY
COMPANY.
The OPORTO AND SPANISH FRONTIER RAILWAY COM-
PANY, formed in Portugal under great influence and the highest
auspices; has this day boen amalgamated with the Alto Douro Rail-
way Company. JAMES lIAXELL,I Secretaries.
T. M. RUSSELL,
95, Gracechurch-street, and 29, Threadneedle-street,
Juno 23, 1845.

TILE AL TO -D-OU.KO RAILWAY.
COMPANY FROM OPORTO to the SPANISH FRONTIER.
The new Prospectus will be Issued immeiliately. Forms of appli-
cation for Shares, in the meantime, may be obtained at the Offices of
the Company. A re-allotment of Shares must necessarily take
place, but a preference will be given to previous applicants.
By order,
JAMES HAXELL
T. M. RUSSELL, 'I
See retaries.
29, Threadneedle. street, and 95, Graceellurch-street,
Juxe 30, 1845.

LEICESTER and COVENTRY JUNCTION
RAILWAY.

The provisional Committee beg to announce to the shareholders
that, in consequence of strongly expressed local opinion, and with a
view to secure the valuable support of the Leicester and Swanning-
ton Railway Company, the provisional Committee have determined
on deposi•ing plans and sections for an alternative line, to form a
junction with the Leicester and Swannington Railway at Desford,
about six miles from Leicester.

This junction will afford an equally short communication with
Leicester, and save the expense of several miles of new line, and
will at the same time, by means of projected communications,
branches, extensions, and improvements of the Leicester and Swan-
nington Railway, give direct access to Ashby and Burton-on-Trent
to the North, and to the Syston and Peterborough Railway, or East,
affording a direct line of communication from Cheltenham, Warwick,
Leumingtou, and Coventry, to Melton, Peterborough, Cambridge,
and Lincoln.

By order, HENRY CASSIN, Secretary.
3, Church-court, Old Jewry, July 2, 1845.

STEAM TO NEW YORK.
THE GREAT WES CERN STEAM-SHIP
COMPANY'S STEAM-SHIPS,
The GREAT WESTERN, 1,700 Tons, 450 Horses power, B. R.
MATHEWS, Esq., Commander;
The GREAT BRITAIN, 3,500 Tons, 1,000 Horses power, Lieutenant
JAMES HOSKEN, R.N., Commander,
are intended to sail as follows :
GREAT WESTERN.
From Liverpool. From New York.
Saturday, July 15, 845. Thursday, July 31, 1845.
Saturday, August 23. Thursday, Sept. 18.
Saturday, Oct. 11. Thursday, Nov. 6.
GREAT RITAIN.
From Liverpool. From New York.
Saturday, July 26, 1845. • Saturday, August 30, 1845*
Saturday, Sept. 27. Saturday, Oct. 25.
Saturday, Nov. 22. _ Saturday, Dec. 20.
FARES, per GREAT WESTERN, THIRTY' GUINEAS, and One

THE NEWRY, ARMAGH, and LONDON-
DERRY JUNCTION RAILWAY, from ARMAGH to
OMAGH.
ProTisionally Registered, pursuant to 7 and 8 Victoria cap. 110.
Capital 400,0001., in 16,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, IL 17s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.

The Right Honourable theiaiioi6llariemonT, Lord-Lieutenant and
Custos Rotulorum of the County of Tyrone
Lord Claude Hamilton, M.P. for County Tyrone
Colonel Verner, M.P. for County Armagh, Deputy-Lieutenant County
Tyrone
Colonel Ravvdon, M.P. for the City of Armagh
Sir Jame! Bunbury, Bart., D.L., Augher Castle, County Tyrone
Charles Powell Leslie, Esq., M.P., Glaslough
Robert Waring Maxwell, Esq., J.P., and Deputy-Lieutenant, County
Tyrone, Killyfaddy, Clogher
The Rev. Francis Gervais, J.P., Cecil, Clogher, County Tyrone
Charles Fox, Esq., Rutland-square, Dublin, Deputy-Lieutenant of
the County Armagh
W. W. Algeo, Esq., J.P., Armagh
Colonel Kairnes, K.H., Portstewatt
Rowley 31111er, Esq., J.P., Moneymore
Colonel Nicoll, Portatewart j Directors of the Armagh, Cole-
Griffin Curtis Galt, Esq., Coleraine j raine, and Pertrush Railway.
J. Rowley Miller, Esq., J.P., Moneymore
Edward Moore, Esq., J.P., Bawn, Aughnacloy
William Paton, Esq., J.P. Armagh
Lee M'Kinstry, Esq., J.P.' Armagh
The Rev. P. S. Henry, D' .D. Armagh, Commissioner of Education
and Charitable Bequests in Ireland
Thomas Eyre, Esq., J.P„ Benburb, county Tyrone
Hugh Daizell, Esq., Newry Directors of the Newry and Ennis-
Francis Carville, Esq., Newry
killer ldailway Company
John Hancock, Esq., Newry
James Fiddes, Esq., Aughnacloy
John M'Aforran, sq., Newry
Robert 31'131111n, Esq., Newry
George Scott, Esq., Armagh, Director of the Ulster Railway
Company
Adam Armstrong, Esq., Ballygawley, county Tyrone
David Ross, Esq., M.D., Warrenpoint
Morgan W. Jellett, Esq., Clogher
James M'Lanahan, Esq., Clogher
George Armstrong, Esq. Armagh
Samuel Gardner, Esq., Armagh
George Barnes, Esq., Armagh
Hugh Boyle, Esq., Armagh
Joseph Mathews, Esq., Armagh
Richard C. Vogan, Esq., Armagh
Robert Gilmore, Esq. Armagh

Thomas King, Esq.', Newry -
Thomas M'Clelland, Esq., Newry

William Villiers Ryan, k;q., Glas- slough

. With power to add to their number.
ENGINEER—Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.
ACTING ENGINEER—H. L. Lindsay, ESQ., C.E.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Frazer and Mitchell, and John Canting, Esq., Armagh, and
Robert Ross Todd, Newry. I 12, Hardwicke-place, Dublin.
Messrs. Ogle, and Co., 4, Great Winchester-street, London.
SECRETARIES—Robert Medill, Esq., Newry ; George Cairnes, Esq.,
Beresford-place, Armagh ; John Murray, Esq., 110, Grafton-street,
Dublin.
OFFICES OF THE Couremr—Newry : Sugar Island. Armagh: 1,

,
Beresford-place. Dublin : 116, Grafton-street. London : 53,
Charing-cross, pro tern.
The proposed railway is intended to connect the assize town of
Omagh with the important city of Armagh, now the centre of all the
railways in the north of Ireland.
The line will commence at Omagh, and, passing through or near
to Ballygawley, Fintona,- Cloglier, and Augher, Auchnacloy, one of
the best market towns in the north; Caledon, celebrated for its corn
and flour mills; and Killylea, terminates at Armagh, where it will
form a junction with the Ulster Railway to Belfast, the Inland Line
to Dublin, the Newry and Enniskillen, and also the Armagh, Cole-
raine, and Portrush Railways.
At Omagh it will connect itself with the Londonderry and Ennis-
killen station at that town, by means of which those two important
places will be brought into the most direct communication with all
the cities and towns already mentioned.
By this line of railway, the inhabitants of the counties of Tyrone,
Monaghan, Fermanagh, Derry, and Don-gal, will be afforded the
most direct and expeditious mode of access to Armagh, Newry, and
Belfast ; and as the distance between Omagh and Dublin will be by
the line twenty miles shorter than that proposed by any other com-
pany now volected, the whole goods and passenger traffic from the
north-western awl north-midland parts of Ireland In the direction of
the metropolis will pass over this railway.
It is almost uaneceseavy to state that the country to be traversed
by this line may, in respect of pupaiation, wealth, and enterprise, be
put in competition with any other in Ireland.
To those acquainted with the county of Tyrone, and the ordinary
course of its traffic to Belfast and Newry, it must be obvious that

this railway will afford facilities for the transit of goods and pas-
sengers, which must be at once a great accommodation to the public
and most remunerative to shareholders;, while the resources of the
adjacent , counties and surrounding districts will be most advan-
tageotully opened up and developed.
The entire lengh of the line will be about 35 'statute miles, and as

there are no engineering difficulties of any importance to be encoun-
tered, the cost of construction will be under the average; while,
from the support which has been vouchsafed by the landed pro-
prietors along the line, and the spirit with which they have entered
into the undertaking, the purchase of the land will be comparatively
moderate.

The present trail,: has been carefully taken by competent persons,
whose returns justify the expectation that the Shareholders in the
present undertaking will derive at least 8 per cent. Interest on their
capital for the present, with every prospect of a progressive increase
from the Improved traffic which railway communication invariably
produces. Every arrangement is in course of preparation for the
purpose of bringing this project before Parliament during the next
session.

Power will be taken to all w interest at 4 per cent. per annum on
the deposits and calls till the line be opened.
Applications for Shares may be made in the subjoined form, to the
Solicitors and Secretaries, at their respective offices, and to the fol-
lowing Brokers :—Messrs. Bruce and Symes, Dublin ; A. Mont-
gomery, Esq., Liverpool ; Messrs. Munro and Co., 44, Geerge-street,
Edinburgh; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester; It. I'. Clark,
Esq., Bristol; Jas. Jamieson, Esq., Leeds ; and R. Mortimer, Esq.,
Throgmorton-street, London.

...
FORM OF APPLICATION.
To the Provisional Directors of the Newry, Armagh, and London-
derry Junction Railway.

Gentlemen,—l request you to allot me shares of 201.
each in the above undertaking; and I hereby agree to accept the
same, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and to pay the
deposit thereon, and sign the Parliamentary contract and subscribers'
agreement when required.
Name, in full .. • • • . • . • • • . ......
Profession or Business ..... .
Date• ••• • • • ...... • • • • •• • • •
Name and Address of Reference

PURSUANT to an ORDER of the lIIGH
COURT of CHANCERY, made In a Cause ELLIOTT v. EL-
LIOTT, the NEXT-OF-KIN of MARY SOPIIIA ELLIOTT, late of
Brighton, in the county of Sussex, spinster, the daughter of Charles
Elliott, late of the same place, Esq., deceased (and which Mary Sophia
Elliott died in the month of July, 1843), living at her death, or the
personal representative, or representatives of any of them who have
since died, are by their solicitors, on or before the 30th day of July,
1845, to come in and prove their kindred, and make out their claims,
before Sir (lIFFIN WiLsox, Knight, one of the Masters of the said
Court, at his Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane,
London ; or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily exuded
the benefit of the said order.

BRIDGES and MASON, solicitors, Red Lion•square.

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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(Prom the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2.
LUNACY (SALARIES AND EXPENSES),
Resolution reported ;—" That provision be made for issuing, out
of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the sums that maybe required for defraying the Salaries
and other expenses of the Commissioners of Lunacy, and of such
Persons as may be employed by them."

Motion male, and Question proposed, " That the said Resolution
be now read a second time:—Amendment proposed, to leave out
from the words " That the" to the end of the Question, in order to
add the words, " Report to be taken into further Consideration upon
this day six mouths," instead thereof:—Question put, " That the
words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House
divided :

MAJORITY—AYES, 117.
Acheson, Viscount Egerton, W. T. Mangles, R. D.
Aldain, William Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Maule, Fox
Arkwright, George Ellice, Edward Meynell, Captain
Arundel, Earl of Ent wisle, William Morris, David
Austen, Colonel Estcourt, T. G. B. Neville, Ralph
Baird, William Farnham, E. B. Nicholl, John
Bannerman, A. Fuller, A. E. O'Connell, 31. J.
Baring, F. T. Gill, Thomas Ogle, S. C.
Baring, W. B. Gordon, Captain Paget, Colonel -
Barnard, E. G. Greene, Thomas Palmer, Robert
Berkeley, Grantley Grogan, Edward Patten, J. W.
Bernal, Ralph Guest, Sir J. Peel, Jonathan
Bouverie, E. P. Belford, Sir H. Philips, G. R.
Bowes, John Hamilton, C. J. B. Philips, Mark
Brotherton, Joseph Hamilton, J. H. Protheroe, Edward
Browne, W. Hamilton, George A. Russell, Charles
Buck, W. L. Ilampden, Renn Scott, Frances
Buller, Charles Harris, Captain Seymour, Lord
Buller, Edward Hawes, B. Sheridan, R. B.
Buller, Sir J. Y. Hayes, Sir Edmund Shirley, E. J.
Busfeild, William Heatheoat, John Smith, Vernon
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Carew, W. H. P. Henley, J. J.W. Somerset, Lord G.
Charteris, Francis Hill, Lord M. Spooner, Richard
Childers, J. W. Hope, Sir John Stansileld, W. It. C.
Christie, W. D. Hussey, Ambrose Sutton, 11. M.
Christopher, It. A. Inglis, Sir X. 11. Tancred, II.:W.
Clive, Viscount Jermyn, Earl Thornhill, George
Colborne, W. U. Jolliffe, Sir W. Trelawny, J. S.
Colebrooke, Sir T. Kelly, Fitzroy Trench, Sir F. W.
Collett, W. R. Labouchere, Henry Trotter, John
Courtenay, Lord Lambton, H. Vane, Lord H.
Cowper, W. I'. Lascelles, W. S. Winnington, Sir T.
Cripps, William Lefroy, Anthony Wall. C. B.
Dalmeny, Lord Legh, G. C. Warburton, 11.
Darby, George Liddell, 11. T. Wemyss, Captain
Divett, Edward Lincoln, Earl Wortley, John S.
Douglas, Sir C. Lowther, Colonel Yorke, Henry R.
Duncan, George Mackenzie, T. __TELLERS.
Dundas, Admiral Mackenzie, W. F Ashley, Lord
East, James B. - Mahon, Viscount Cardwell, Edward

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The LORD MAYOR, in returning thanks, said that he
felt high gratification in being surrounded by such a
company, and it made no sligtet addition to his.hap-
piness to have so many of the fair sex amongst his
guests.—(Cheers.)
When the health of the Lady hfayoress was proposed,
the mover said he hoped most fervently that the ex-
cellent example set by the Lord Mayor, in inviting the
ladies of the members of the Court of Common Council,
would be followed by other Chief Magistrates. Such a
course would . tend more than anything else to establish
an amicable understanding between the two Courts, and
put an end for ever to the incessant snarling with which
the members of the one met the members of the other.—
(Cheers.) The company separated highly delighted.
The next of the series of dinners will take place oa
Friday.

EXTRAORDINARY EXHUMATION

A discovery of an extraordinary nature was made a
few days ago in Moor-street, Birmingham, by some int.n
in the employ of Mr. William Smith, surveyor, who
were at the time engaged on the prernies at the back of
the public office. The occurrence has supplied food for
much curious speculation. The workmen were excavat-
in4 the ground in the yard for the purpose of making a
well ; and when some four or five feet below the surface
of the earth, one of them came in contact with something
which he thought to be a stone, but which, on being
lifted up with the shovel, proved to be a human head.
This naturally made them more careful in their werk.
On further examination, they found the skeleton
of a large dog, whose skin and hair were as
perfi ct as though they had only been buried a
week, though the body was completely gone. A foot
Lelow this were the remains of a coffin in which the bones
of a human being were discovered, to which the head
first thrown up had belonged. The bones were at once
taken out, and most of them waified, and Dr. Skerritt,
who was passing by at the time, having his attention
called thereto, conceived that they were either the bones
of a female, or of a youth not more than twenty-five
years of age. The skull was in tolerably good preserva-
tion. The teeth on one side were sound, though decayed
on the other side. On the forehead above the left eye
there was a round indentation, as if made by a blew
from a hammer or other blunt instrument, giving evi-
dence all but conclusive of a deed of murder. The
length of the skeleton was five feet nine or ten inches.
The coffin, as the remains testified, was an open one; but
decay had worn it down to the thickness of cambric
paper. It was fastened together with oak pins instead
of nails, which had evidently been dipped in grease or
paint (the ancients not usiug Ryan's patent), as they
were not decayed. This would appear to fix the
burial as taking place not less than 250 years ago, as
about that time we understand coffin nails came into use.
On the lid of the coffin was found a porcelain tebacco
pipe of peculiar construction. It had a heart engraved
upon it, with the initials in old English, W.S. The bowl
of the pipe was not more than three-eighths of an inch
wide. The core of tobacco therein was as fresh as when

discovered, as though it had been laid down by some
living being who had just been smoking. The discovery
of the pipe and tobacco certainly fixes the date of the
murder less than three centuries ago. A thick stake had
evidently been driven through the dog, if not through the
coffin, as the marks thereof were clear, though the stake
on coining in contact with the air fell to powder. This
fact suggests a scene of no common occurrence. In
all probability, the poor dog, for faithfulness to his mur •
dered master, was doomed to die and be buried with
him there. A month or six weeks ago, the same indi-
viduals, when working also for the same surveyor, found
some human remains in Oxford street, at the ack of
Mr. Allday's, the butcher. In that instance every bone
was broken, the skull was cracked, and the legs were
turned upwards on the breast, as though the body had
been doubled up. An old-fashioned stone bottle was found
between the abdomen and the legs, filled with black li-
quor. This relic might have been preserved, but the
son of Hibernia, who was engaged in the work, ex-
claimed the moment he saw it, " Och, there's some of
the ra'al crature—here goes fur a drop I" and striking
it with a shovel to break the neck off, dashed it into
innumerable pieces. A Mr. Salmons, who remem-
bers the neighbourhood for eighty years, says he re-
collects that part of the town being a park or plea-
sure ground of " Lord de Burlington," which ex-
tended from Moor-street to the river Rea. Tim-
ber trees of immense size were growing there within his
recollection. There is, too, an individual now living,
whose grandfather superintended the building of Aston
Park-wall, who related the following facts to his son,
the father of the present relator. They are, therefore,
the traditions of two generations:—" On the left hand
of I)igbeth was the Duck Pool, or 'Duck' Bath, be-
longing to Lord de Burlington, where a beautiful spring
arose, that since supplied a great part of the town
with water. From its name arose Duckbath,' since
corrupted into Digbath or Digheth." Ile says, too,
66 that at the top of Bordesley was formerly the park-
keeper's house, fur the protection of the deer, where the
grazing pasture ended; and thence (not from a corrup-
tion of Dirty•end') arose the name Deer-end," Deer-
endton," Derington,' ant Deritend.' " If this tradi-
tion be true, the two bodies are connected with some
deed of darkness in the baronial ages; but we have heard
of another means of accounting for the marvel, which
we will lay before our readers as we received it. It is
as follows:—" The place where the body and dog were
found is supposed to be the part called Loft Croft, ad-
joining the former park of Lord de Burlington' would
seem-to room-8 tho-garden belonging to the house (now
the Court of Requests) in which the rich Humphrey
Jennings lived, who bequeathed an immense property,
long subject to litigation. It is supposed that the body
found is that of Robert, one of the four sons of the said
Humphrey, to whom a large portion of the property was
bequeathed, and of whose death no account has been
given; but it was supposed at the time (about the year
1700, when he was missing) that he had been made
away with. The descendants of the family who now
claim the property have found the register of his birth,
and his name in the will, but have never been able to
obtain any tidings of his death." If the body found in
the public-office yard was that of Robert Jennings, the
pipe evidently did not bear his initials.—Birmingham
Advertiser.

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