The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-29 00:00:00

AND MIDLAND JUNC.

TION RAILWAY.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

John Wilson resided near Chesterfield, and was a timber mer.
chant. Great quantities of oak and other timber were grown at
Dronfield, and he sent at least 900 tons to Manchester and Liver.
pool every year, He paid by the present defective railway com-
munication 3 per ton per mile, and he lost, comparing it with the
present projected line at the same rate of ,carriage, 9... 3d. per ton.
Theodore Walsh, captain and farmer near Dronfield, said,
that in the article of lime alone the projected line would save him
ss. per ton.

Mr. Sykes, of Sheffield, proved that the projected line would
lower the price of the Dronfield and Unston coal at least 2s. 6d.
per ton, and that in that case it would be used by the gas com-
pany to the extent of 200 tons a week. The general feeling of the
town of Sheffield was in favour of this line, and they had passed
resolutions in its favour at a public meeting.

Mr. Ritchie, engineer, would prefer the Dronfield coal to any
other, if got for Gs. 6d. per ton.

Benjamin Fox, steel refiner, Sheffield, would prefer Dronfield
coal to all others, if he could get it at an equally low price.
William Butcher, steel manufacturer, corroborated the last
evidence.

Mr. Hawksworth also spoke to the superior quality of the Un-
ston and Dronfield coke, and added thM if the carriage were better,
a greater quantity would be used in the Sheffield market.

Isaac Scholefield put in a return of the coal and coke used in
Sheffield, the greater part of which would come from the Dronfield
pits. The total amount was of coal, per annum, 530,178 tons;
coke, 100 tons.
The Committe adjourned till to.morrow.

Group K.
LONDON AND NORWICI! DIRECT LINE.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

Charles Beard, cross-examined by Mr. CHAMBERS, on the part of
the landowners on the line—There is no wholesale warehouse in Bury,
nor any extensive factory, txcept a willow-plait manufactory, in
which about 100 hands are employed. About 3-Stbs of the grocery
goods, and 1-4th of the iron-ware come from Ipswich : the
cost for carriage is on an average 10s. per ton, ex.
elusive of wharfage and sufferance, payable by the
purchaser. One-half the goods brought to Bury, or shipped
from It, arc also liable to cartage charges. The estimate made by
the railways for conveying goods is, for bar iron I4d. per mile.
Holds shares in the Direct Norwich Railway, and consequently has
considerable interest in its success.
John Meadows Rodwell.—ls a large farmer of Suffolk.
The Phingoe union, including Bury, comprises 30,500
inhabitants, and 90,000 acres, of which 18,000 acres
are pasture and wooded, and 8 per cent., or 5,760 acres,
waste, leaving 66,240 acres for arable purposes. Of this he
reckons 16,560 acres would be devoted to the growth of wheat,
and calculating each acre to produce six coombs, the total amount
of .the grain grown would be 99,360 coombs ; deducting two
bushels per acre for seed, or 8,280 coombs, and two
coombs per soul for 30,500 inhabitants, or 61.000
combs, the total quantity for home consumption would
be 69,280 coombs, leaving a surplus of 30,050 coombs for
exportation. Allowing 16,560 acres for the growth of barley, and
nine coombs as the produce per acre, the total yield would be
149,040 coombs. Deducting three bushels per acre for seed, or
12,420 coombs, and for the consumption of 7,625 families,
at two coombs each, 14,250 coombs, the total home
consumption would be 27,670, leaving 121,370 surplus
coombe for exportation. Allowing 8,290 acres for peas and
beans, and seven coombs as the yeld per acre, or 58,030
coombs, and deducting 6,218 coombs for seed, and 4,500 coombs
for the use of the population, making a total for local consumption
of 10,718 coombs, there would remain for exportation 47,312
surplus coombs. The seeds would also give 1,507 coombs for ex-
portation. The whole amount of this produce, requiring a means
of transit for exportation, would be, in weight, 19,796 tons. For
this, he considers no line hitherto projected offers equal advan-
tages with the Direct Norwich line.
The Speaker having been at this juncture announced at prayers,
the Committee adjourned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
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Birchin-lane, stated that on the 22d instant, at about three
o'clock in the afternoon, a Mr. Dickenson called upon him and
asked him to take charge of the bill of exchange produced for
261. Bs. 6d., purporting to be the acceptance of a Mr. Baker,
which had been dishonoured, and to receive the money for him
in case any one should call to pay it. Witness consented, and
at six o'clock in the evening the prisoner, whom he had never
seen before, called and said, " You hare a bill lying here
for payment of 261. odd." Witness replied in the affirmative,
and the prisoner said he would pay the money, and produced at
the same time same bank notes, and said in a hesitating
manner, " 26/. how much ?" Witness informed him of the
particulars, holding the bill in both hands, when the prisoner
snatched it suddenly from him, and he seized hold of the hand
and held it firmly until a policeman, whose interference was re-
quested, arrived. Witness and the prisoner got into the Court
struggling for the bill, and the latter, upon being called upon
to give up the instrument, said, " I am d-- if you shall have
either the bill or the money." At length the policeman se-
cured him and the bill.
Mr. William 111. Dickinson, who stated that lie resided at
Hackney, and was a wine merchant, deposed that he dis-
counted the bill for a man of the name of Living, and that it
had been dishonoured as described, and he had requested Mr.
Percival to receive the payment if it should be tendered.
In his cress-examination by Mr. Humphreys, who defended
the prisoner, the witness said that Living, for whom ho had
discounted this bill, was an agent in matters of this kind.
Did not know the exact amount he gave for it. Did not
know the exact discount agreed to between them, but thought
it was about thirty per cent., and paid Living in cash, notes,
and gold. Had no stores, but had wine in the St. Catherins
Docks, and a little in the London Docks.
Mr. HUMPHREYS said, that as the Lord Mayor had men-
tioned his determination to commit the prisoner to the Central
Criminal Court, upon the former examination, he did not intend
to apply for his client's discharge. His object in addressing the
Bench was to show that there was not, by any means, evi-
dence strong enough to justify the refusal to receive bail.
There had been nothing whatever proved, to show that the
prisoner had seized the bill with a felonious intention, as the
Bench would learn from his own lips.
The Loan MAYOR—What defence has he to make ?—The
Prisoner—l had given the bill to a man named Williams to
get it discounted, and in my presence it was handed by him to
a man named Living, who said they were perfectly satisfied
with it, and that I should have the cash in the course of the
week, and I never received one farthing. A story was told
that the bill was accidentally consumed in a house that was
on fire, and I was told that I should have indemnity for
the bill.
In answer to questions put by the Lord Mayor and Sir John
Pirie, Mr. Dickinson stated that he had not entered the trans-
aetion in any bcok, neither had he paid with a cheque.
Mr. HUMPHREY s contended that although his client had cer-
tainly committed an assault and trespass, certainly there was
nothing felonious in the attempt to recover the bill, which was
his own property, for which he had not received to the value
of a farthing. It was not meant for a moment to deny that
the force had been used to obtain restitution, and, under all
the circumstances, it was submitted that it was but
treasonbl
to suppose that bail for the prisoner's appearance at Central
Criminal Court would be accepted.
In answer to a question trom the Lord Mayor, as to the
motive of the prisoner in drawing the bill on Mr. Baker,
prisoner said that the acceptor had been in the habit of obtain-
ing small sums of money from him, which that gentleman met
on the days his pension became due.
The Loan MAYOR and Sir JOHN PIRIE, after having
consulted for some time, said that they were satisfied to accept
two respectable bail to the amount of 100/. each, and the pri-
soner's own security for 2001. more, that he should appear at
the next session of the Central Criminal Court, to answer the
charge. They could not help saying that the transaction was
one of very suspicious appearance.
The witnesses were then bound over, and the prisoner im-
mediately produced competent security for his appearance.