The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-28 00:00:00

THE GRAND HEAT.

Oxford University ................

,St. George's Club • • .. • ...... • .. .. • •

Royal academy

Thetis

The Thetis went off with the mthe,rs, but stopped directly after-
war+s, we preSume tower an impression that it was a false start.
The Oxford University drew an ay ait h the lead, and maintained it,
winning in gllant style. The St. George'•, who had shifted tom
u:riggcr, in which they with difficulty came in second in the pre-
vious heat, into their old boat of Searle's, shortly rowed ahead of the
Academy, and came in two boat lengths astern of Oxford.
A number eft gentlemen then manned five boat+ (eights) for a
scratch, to male a wind-up Their return in procession was very
pretty, and elicited mucb applause.
At a little after aim, the committee, who had bad some consulta-
tion on the subject of the champion prize race, repaired to Finch's,
where the Claspm s were presented with the prize.
The colours of the different winners were duly hoisted, through the
politeness of Mr. Chessman, the Secretary of the Putney-bridge Com-
mittee, on a pole in the centre of the bridge.

THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE.—We regret to say
that accounts have been rec. ivc from Brighton conveying the in-
formation that the Noble Duke Is suffering from the " hay river," a
complaint his Grace Is always subject to at this season of the year,
which obliges him to repair to the sea-side.
The prospectus of the " Great Indian Peninsular
Railway Company" contains a statement that " the registrar
of joint-stock companies is satisfied that the company is not
within the operation of the 7th and Bth Victoria, c. 110, and
therefore does not require to be registered." The doubt which
has existed as to the application of the statute in this case seems
to have arisen from the fact that the railroad, though in India,
does not necesarily come under the head of foreign railways„
since it is formed with a distinct class of English shareholders,
and a committee and funds separa:e from the foreign arrange-
ments. It having been settled, however, that the Act does not
apply, the limit of ss. per share as a dep isit is avoided, and
104. is expressed in the prospectus.
VESSELs TO NORTH AMERICA .—With reference
to a communication received by the Customs' authorities from
Mr. Cardwell, one of the Secretaries to the Lords of the Trea-
sury, dated the 23d of April last, containing the directions of
their Lordships with regard to relieving vessels carrying pis-
sengers to North America, from the obligation of carrying a
surgeon on board as part of the ship's complement, a further
letter has been received by the Commissioners from Mr. Card_
well, stating that the directions of their Lordships contained in
the former one were issued in anticipation of the Act (Bth Vic.,
cap. 14), which has since received the royal assent, and that
it is not their Lordships' intention that these directions should
be carried beyond the provisions of tl e said Act.
DE TER MINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—About seven
o clock, on Sunday morning, Mr. John Commerie, setter up
of lace machines, New Sneinten, Nottingham, was dis-
covered leaning over a pipkin in the cellar underneath his
!sense, bleeding from numerous wounds in various parts of his
body ; he was in a state of extreme exhaustion, in consequence
of the great quantity of •blood which had flowed from his
wounds. It appeared that Commerie ha for some time been
distressed in mind, arising from family troubles, and his intel-
lect has been so much affect d as to occasionally produce the
appearances of insanity. He had in the middle of the night
arisen from his bed, gone into the cellar, leaned across the
pipkin sn as to let the blood sun into it, and with a razor cut
his neck ni ally round, and inflicted several gashes on his
head, temples, face, and small of his arms. Mr. Burrows,
of West-street, surgeon, having been ca;led in, found that
between thirty arid torty wounds had been made by the hand
of the unhappy man himself. Having taken up the arteries
which had been severest, and dressed the wounds, Mr. Bur-
roves left the unhappy man with but faint hopes of recovery,
although every attention has been paid to him.
SfsoNTA.N sults I.2omEsesTioN Wednesday
morning, bet wren two and three o'clock, a fire, which at
first threatened great destruction of property, broke out in the
premises belonging to Mr. W. Fetcher. cab master and stable-
keeper, 14, John-street, Bentonville. The discovery was made
by the proprietor, who was suddenly awoke from his sleep by a
loud crackling of wood undesgmne the process of combustion.
Upon getting up and opening his bedroom door, he found the
end of the workshops near his own chamber in flames. Hiving
r i,sed a,• alarm the police and neighbours ha-timed to his assis-
tense, inn( by discharging a number of buckets of water upon
the flames, their further progress was arrested. Engines of
the parish, with two from the London establi-hment and the
one belonging to the West of England Company, promptly
attended, but fortunately their services were not required, the
neighbours and police having extinguished the fire in the
ietesine The damage is confined to the destruction of
nart of
:he r,,:f of the wo.kslisee, aed
vessels, and the scorching of a cabriolet. The overheating of
a cask of lamp-black was the cause of the outbreak.

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(I' ESTE DA Y.)

U 1( !J LOItI3S.
tip' t'sT RXXIIIIV 37.117CTX07.q rtaxxivonir.'
liIIPt/lITANT DECISION.
The Select Committee to whom the above railway has been re.
ferred re-assembled so- n after eleven o'clock this morning. 04
resumed their inquiry into the merits of the scheme.
Mr. aLBOT commenced the day 'a proceedings by replying to the
case for the opponents. He dispatched the opposition of Mile
Walker, the proprietor of Shebden Hall, with h simple offer on the
part of the promoters of the proposed line to do all that roasonablf
could be required of them to satisfy the wishes and meet the views
of that lady or her committee, and then proceeded to comment
upon what he termed the dog-in-the.rnanger opposition • ofd
gr•
Serjeant Talfourd and his learned coadjutors. He explaine
himself by reminding their Lordships that the opponent' ealn t
e
forward, not in the capacity of promoters of a competing scheme, but
as parties who sought for unnecessary delay, with no other oPParen.,
object but that of defeating the West Riding Junction line. They di°
not suggest a better line, nor did they say a line for supplYfeg the
district with railway communication could follow any other route
than that marked out by the promotets of the West Riding Jen'''.
tion scheme. He was, therefore, justified in complaining that they
would not make the line themselves, nor would they permit ether,
to do it for them. He met the objections urged against the gravity
of the West Riding Junction line by declaring that it would involve
an outlay of 123,000/. to obtain more favourable gradients betteen
Iraowmoor and Bradford, remarking that neither the antioi=
t
of working
fficbet ween the two places, nor the probable saying in reer—..t
expenses, could justify the expenditure. The Le,ar7,7,,
ounsel, after pledging his clients to complete iraraedietel the
proposed junction with the Leeds and Bradford Valley line in
event of their Lordships sanctioning the scheme before them,
e
eluded with a somewhat violent and unhandsome attack upon °L.'
George Parker Bidder, one of the engineers of the alternative hwo
MOt io%
whose evidence he pronounced to be grossly fallacious, If
pudently untrue, and wound up an address,
hours, by calling upon their Lordships to treat the Bill AS 51)
opposed measure. remained
The room was then cleared, and the Committee having raw.
in deliberation for about ten minutes, strangers were rearbrlttreus
when extending over setss
The Noble CHAIRMAN said, before he informed the Perti°
rtg tDs
htthe
result to which the Committee had come, perhaps be
allowed to state the extreme difficulty in Witch node
Committee had found themselves in this in Wit
was
he might aid, lengthened investigation; but 'wroth.
tb
and
sure the parties on both sides would agree with him that
out the investigation the Committee had given their fiord!,
most anxious consideration to the whole case. Henet amid
state that the members of Committee of the House of their
ahave no partiality for either party ; but, on the e°,,,lharri ther
nxious desire was to do justice to both pude, a.,:hi• flat large-
though t would beget conducive to the interest of we v—ic
Taking all these things into consideration, and thinking
important that the public should have the best line
sibly he laid down its this part of the country, "d c°n.,i,a,e6geig Yeke
little or no injury would result from a postponerneet. treniell
ie to the
only, of the present measure, the Committee had
resolution that the preamble to the Bill was not Pre"'"
that cc:old
tp;:ar.;

CA L D ONIAN RtAr. consider
This Committee met to day in the Chanceryll
Court tO
t. coo,
this important line of railway communication. Itielgher_e",w Lord
mitteeice present, Lord Radnor, chairman, Marquis of der,
,:tyron, Lord Dufferin, Lord Walsingham. • ters or
. Cocitauax opened the case on behalf of the prone
'.-^".. which it
the line, and pointed out at great length the advansa-- • ... it
would confer on both England and Scotland, constituting.kros.
would, the great line of communication between the 2, bid.
choems s. He then commented on the engineering pecidign"-:eha-
rart•tarted, with one exception, to be generally of a favourah
but
Some of the gradients he admi•ted to be rather seedeP;c7th
reecreeenct.t experience had shown that they could be scolllt, which
their. speed and safety. He oext alluded to the opPolt'''__ —ffi-
denailway had met with, which he was satisfied was far iNnior7-"
mtattoton warrant the reection of such an important
There waif a rival line to this, but con-
after t u given
sitiidfeartatio.ns of their respective merits, dscisions bad bee to coo.
which vour of the Caledonian and against the other. The 11:Yois line,
ere and Board of Trade had given the preferatice t
tee of tile
House
decision had been confirmed by the recent Ctolaulsweratiort•
Thetoluws eaLytos•
a,fr:ChedoowmGimnegonnttisheamatftaaenir a long, at' t, and carers:. __....
to
ries!
the Caledonian rine, proCi drawing a Poe
~,,,wies on 1.--
his case. e eidence
Mr. •
. Smith. of Deanston, was the first called, who gay sed. The
laisnteothe nature of the country through which thence Plieocastle
and commenced at Carlisle, having a junction wthe
..
crosed,
Fr Carlisle Railway. It went on to the Sark, which ii.,,/ xernic
to om thence it passed on to Ecelefecban and yell
oint, was .
__
Beatock. The country, •up to this P
fine. From Beatoek it pssed over the sunnoit levet:
st,°';
e2t:thdeeerldeatdopi ucgalellndt.hieoP°twarilteglae..ni_lben...ga:ti....:ilavreeeousrmw.olf
throughol Douglas, to the point of divergence to Edinb,ueluntre•
Thasgow, near to Lanark, through a rather bleak past°r""
The two diverging lines to their respective termini
very valuable tracts of country. The country on the . and
branch especially was very rich in minerals, coal, ironstone;
op
lime. The'railway would be of incalculable benefit in tni/
tori
went
otthorogoug:
riage of those minerals, as they might be carried at 0 .... uo
their present rate. He had seen the traffic
ed upon veil fair
by Mr. Pare, and he considered
they were found
tables, drell" .29
data—rather under than overstated. The witness flg/e °__otber,,, r
dente of a similar character, the leading points have air co'', a
peared in reports of the Commons' .
Mr. Croatour and Mr. Piper, coach-proprietors,Committee of EdinbUrh.b,--"Ii'g81."
general evidence as to the traffic between that city and tho,te-•
nus of the line at Carlisle. tog
Mr. Kinneir and Mr. Easton, of Glasgow, gave evidence...he
similar effect, as to the traffic from Glasgow, along the route. ot "'
line. were
Mr. Steel, of Carlisle, and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh • ~,
severally examined as to the very great traffic and amount of•PO;
lation that would be accommodated by the construction of
the tes e.'
way; and also as to thefeeling of the inhabitants, which was
‘ep-
sented as generally favourable.
The witnesses were subjected to cross.examinations et sows
scheme. length by counsel on behalf of the Glasgow, Dumfries, and C3r'i e
but no point of material importance was elicited.
The Committee then adjourned. -
. _

NEWCASTLE AND BE .WICK E.AXIAI7;
The Committee re-assembled this morning at the 1.0°31 ircid,
in the Lord Chancellor's Court, and proceeded with the gue.;„ ;
of investigation of the scheme which had been submitted to
t.hdoce
the Earl of Stradbroke in the chair. The engineering e'ne gr.
was gene into, when Mr. It Stephenson, Mr. Harrison, Aerof
G. Stephenson, the eminent civil engineers, were 6c.`ro Ito
examined in detail as to the course of the proposed line, 'entire
engineering capabilities. No new point W.2S raised, th
i
andration of
evidence adduced by those gentlemen was merely a recap tu more"
the statements which have already appeared in the mostmostof the
hensive manner before the public in the reports publisheuoo'e of
proceednigs of the Committee on this railway in the
Commons. t't ee ad.
After other evidence of a similar character the COugol
journed until to-morrow.

STAND r-; 1G tO S•
three °
The Standing Orders' Committee met this day at
Shaltesbury, chairman, rini•
The folnyviog R ,wy Bils were set down for it° the
The Manelie,ter andai Biraminghaml Railway (Ashton BringC;ilirol
Lynn and Et,reham Railway, the London and 13,Igh„tfievalf
(Horsham Branch), the Londonderry and Enniskillen D' sireeit'
North Wales Nlineral Railway, the Chester and
itotrt.
head R,ilway Extension, the Cornwall' Railway, the(Ardwiet
Staleybrdge, Liverpool Juncon Railway the
%iv„teral
and Gu,ide_hridgeand Branches), the Ulstetir Railway E%terol°e
Manchester South Junc ion and Alrrincham liailWals th
uailW
Cord and Limerick Railway, and the Bristol and Exeter '
Branches. ;,.„, it 'VI
.I'he Committee having proceeded with their igtl-4001"
declared that in the cases of the Cornwall Railway, the 14:ncheiter
and Birmingham Railway (Ashton Branch), the l‘t. of
South Junction, and Altrincham hallway, that the btal3divg
0
had been complied with. soghtop
The Lynn and Dereham Railway, the London '
Railway (Horsham Branch), the Londonderry aid 0. (otse°
1'
Rai'w to
ay, the Ashton, Sta e)bridge, and Liverpool Itatisvh-c. in
wick and Guide-bridge Brarches) were declared
cordance with the standing orders.

H 0 USE OF coMMON •
GROUP A.
IVO-2TH :TZMI,XT X.XINTS.
The Chairman took his seat this morning at tWelv° crs the
in consequence of the absence of two of the lion. xeioe
bu'iness of the Committee could not proceed. 9
"Well hii
The CHAIRMAN explained that Mr. .',l'Cicachy
but 01
unable to attend; Mr. Roche was accitientally absent'
arrival the business of he Committee would proceed. t liner
j‘e
On the arrivdl of Mr Roche
Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM, on the pert of the So,— 2,1e...-'t_
ace, th.
said that in reference to the resolution of the Conlin'
evening, he proposed to put in evidence of the authentlclaJi dot.o
letter from the Board of Ordnance, and also to rern°,l,,,:oolPanf
on the minds of the Committee as to the integrity et `"-
nol
which he had the honour to represent. ;„„v tat°
The CHAIRMAN said that he did not think allY

btem cast on the North Kent Company. 00
Mr. Sereant RANCIAM then called ooliet°
Mr. Bigtagni, SecW retaryl to :.1,-; B. and of Ordnance,who -• .vg their
authenticity of a letter from the Board of Ordnance 131° 06,00
consent to the passing of the railway tinder the common 0° General
conditions, and put in in evidence a minute of the Meter,-irections
of the Board referring to it. Mr. Hignet hail received 'lig sort!'
from him to draw up clauses to be inserted in the Bill ef hist oft",
Kent Compail, and to bind them to comply with the ~,ri
Board. These Manses were to be submitted to the gssterii"r of
of the Board, :Ind then to be sent to Mr. Stevens, the '..,°
rao nr,
end enclosed in the letter put in in evidence on
the North Kent Company. They had accordingly been "
Wednesd3l.clanSe°
On cross-examination, Mr. Bigham stated Ott the,erd before
ought to have been submitted to the Master of the Board bli
they hail be sent to the North Kent Company, but this 'letter i
not been submitted to the Master of the Board, and the d.
which it was inclosed had not been approved ..lbY the, l, Lady 33111"'
Mr. WIIATELEY then opened the case on the Pat °: ipinalt/
ley, and of the trustees of Lord Darnley, now in
"'-
against the
..„r 014°
Azr
LOIVDON, CROYDON, CLIATIII"'—' 0
PINGTON LINE. froi CO'
(Consisting of line from Sydenham to Chatham, line tom)
h‘un to Chilham, and project of a branch to Orping ~,, th.
be dolle_ri
Mr. FORSTER spoke to the injury which would
the
raidenceeiegoo,
proposed line to Cobham Hall and Park,
Darnley, and also to the beauty of ille country in tlia °
hood. ~e,nsoll, 69°.1
Mr. Berkley, all engineer and assistant to Mr. SUP"' so Atli'
to the accuracy of a plan handed in by Mr. WhateAll:ondon
contaired and contrasted sections of the Prop",c.,h show
Croydon and cf the South-Eastern lines, and wr'''"
superiority of the gradients on the latter. rt oftite
Mr. WIItTELEY then addressed the Committee on the Pa
petitioner,:

the 1055 _ ,
,i,
o.
An consequence of the absence of Mr. M4GeacbY,
The CI:AIRMAN proposed that the Committee rn till
WM: s:lll:rit.abv3e.l4E tie, ontto
uost.jieic,
jtuerdyotn. theiis
clients.ground shoUll adinn
g of tWO dal°
ThQ CHAIRMAN ,aid that the loss wouldthabte rernaining
part of this day, as in any case the Coutinttee would n°
morrow.
After some discussion it was agreed that the Committee...ole t-
adjourn bit Monday, but that, it Mr. M`Geachy was Ain i,
attend, the business should proceed in his absence. ,
The Committee then adjourned shortly after two o'clock
ohnoldn

GROUP K. vtiZZD°°
"•• -.ADDIUND's C.llO--
naxICAITALY. sif-P3't
of Air. Braithwaite, the engineer, who,e direct evidence ('
The
tli an
mark! ation ways.
te
This ():c:tcnkes sa Committee
oc'nl this
m railway
us i nmees
yester. ay.
owcceurit,y.thruu public roads to be crossed upon the line aod New,
et had ra'sed the value of the land to more than
ti);isthile'°crr'o'isislea:aol7nl.B.ictie°ll4,
The paddocks in the neighbourhood or
in answer to Mr. Girtocx, stated that thereor:i
1,00
ae
tvoci
ehs
:blurt htt
limitsugh he
'eheduleite,
a few of these had been put in t
hed bY the,d
r expemive or 111,531-e•
p..n
th:4 thr tloret level erosings reclWr
op
The CliatamAN stated that a very erroneous opiniOn