The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-25 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, TRURS DA 1-47,VEN ING, SEPTEMBER, 25 1845.

PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT.
DIRECT SHEFFIELD AND MACCLES-
FIELD RAILWAY,
Forming Junctions with all the great and important Railways in
Great Britain.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 600 COL, In 30,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 21. 2s. per Share.

This important line, commencing at the terminus of the Man-
chester and Sheffield Railway, in the populous manufacturing town
of Sheffield, will proceed in a direct course by or through Hope,
Hathersage, Castleton, Chapel-en-le-Frith, and Whaley (the great
canal-pert of the Potteries), to the terminus of the projected Man-
chester and Macciesileki Railway, at Macclesfield, the total length of
the line being nearly thirty miles.

This junction stands in the very centre of the entire railway sys-
tem of England, and will complete the chain of railway communi-
cation between the river Humber, the towns of Sheffield and Mac-
clesfield, the Staffordshire Potteries, the Salt Wiches of Cheshire, the
City of Chester, Liverpool, and Birkenhead, Bangor-Ferry, and the
Harbour of Holyhead. All the necessary arrangements are in pro-
gress to proceed to Parliament at the ensuing session.
A detailed prospectus, oontaining the names of an influential Pro-
visional Committee, &c., will be published in a few days.
Meantime applications may be made to the Solicitors, Messrs.
lattarns and Fry, 62, 31ark•lane, London ; and G. A. Coleman, Esq.,
New Inn, Strand. By order,
GEORGE F. HIRE, Secretary.

THE TUNBRIDGE WELLS, BRIGHTON,
and HASTINGS JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.
From Tunbridge Wells Direct to Hastings, with a Branch Line from
the same place to join the Brighton line at Lewes.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital, 750,000/., in 30,000 Shares of 251. each.
Deposit, 2/. 12s. 6d. per Share.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. _ _

Thomas Farneombe, Esq., Alderman of London, Director of the

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London and Westminster Bank
John Wheelton, Esq., late Sheriff of London, bfeopham Bank, Tan-
bridge, Director of the London and County Joint-stock Bank, and

of the Leicester and Bedford Railway
Major James Oliver Lindam, New-street, Dorset-square,
Chairman of the Gloucester and Aberystwith and Central Wales
Railway, and Director of the South and 31Idlands Junction Railway
William Cory, Esq., Commercial-road, Lambeth, Director of the

London anilCotuitY Joint-stock Bank
P. Bennett Lucas, Esq., Manchester-street, Manchester-square
Frederick llarrison, Esq., licauloy-terrace, ,Maids Yale, Director of
the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Life Assurance Company
Joseph Barker, Esq., Macclesfield, Cheshire
Alexander Prince, Esq., Lincoln's Inn-fields, Director of the Tring,

Reading, and Basingstoke Railway
Samuel Griffiths, Esq., Wolverhampton, Director of the Shropshire
Mineral, and of the Liverpool and Leeds Direct Railways
William Case, Esq., Brook-street, Grosvenor-square
W,Bulkeley Glasse, Esq., 10, New-square, Lincoln's Inn, and South

Crescent, Bedford-square
The Rev. Lewis Evans, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, South-

wood-terrace, Highgate
Stephen Hutchinson, Esq., Bromley, Kent, Sole Proprietor of the

Bromley Gas Works
The Rev. George Kenrick, Battle, Sussex, and Regent's-square,

London
Captain George Lind, IVaterloo-place, Brighton
R. Ladell, Esq., Director of the London and South Essex Railway
Henry Wardle, Esq., London and Macclesfield, Director of Reming-
ton's Direct London and Manchaster Railway . . .

Thomas Carlisle, Esq., St. Leonard's-on-Sea, and Clifton, Bristol

George Clement, Esq., Hastings
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq., Union-court, Broad-street, and Macclesfield,

Cheshire _
Thomas Robinson Williams, Esq., Director of tho Patent Woollen
Cloth Company

Lewis Rame,EsTi., Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk
Reginald Read, Esq., M.D., St. John's-square, London
The Rev. Samuel Andrew, Wadham College, Oxford, and Highgate

(With power to add to theii.number).
COMMITTEE OP MANAGEMENT IN LONDON.
Thomas Carlisle, Esq. R. Ladell, Esq.
William Case, Esq. ligjor James 0. Lindham, K.H.

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W. Bulkeley Glasse, Esq. Alexander Prince, Esq.
Frederick Harrison, Esq. Henry Wardle, Esq.
ENGINEER IN CHlEF.—Charles Blunt, Esq., C.E.
STANDING COUNSEL—John M`ollbTCy, Esq.

existing or projected, but will Materially add to the traffic of all,
and prove to them a most valuable auxiliary.
Commencing at Leek, it will form an extension of a line already
in course of construction; and, passing through Winster and Ashover,
at or near Mansfield, it will unite with the Sheffield, Newark, and
Boston, the Derby, G'ainsborough, and Great Grimsby, and the
Nottingham and Mansfield Railways ; or, should it be considered
more desirable, the point of junction may be with the Sheffield and
Lincolnshire Railway, at Retford.
Although not possible adequately to appreciate the importance of
this line, a glance at the map will show that it perfects the communi-
cation from Boston to Holyhead, and is called for by public necessity.
At present there is no direct canal nor even an ordinary turnpike
road for the purpose of transit of the various and inexhaustible pro-
ducts of these extensive mineral districts. On the one hand, the bulk
of the cattle and other agricultural produce of Lincolnshire and Not-
tinghamshire, and the large quantities of flour and malt made at and
near to the towns of Mansfield and Newark, find their way to the
western markets by circuitous routes, the cost and delay attending
their transmission being enormous ; and, on the others the products
of the paint manufactories, and of the Barytes works at Ashbourne
and Cromford, and other minerals, are now sent many miles out of
the direct course in order to reach their destination.
From its junction with so many railways, and affording a direct
communication through the country from east to west, it is scarcely
possible to compute the amount of passenger traffic which may be
expected on this comparatively short line.
Power will be taken in the Act to allow interest at the rate of 41.
per centum per annum on the deposit-money, as well as on all calls,
from the date of each payment till the opening of the line, or until a
dividend be declared ; and the liability of subscribers will be limited
by the Act of Parliament to the amount of their respective shares in
the undertaking.
Applications for sharer to be made, the usual form, to P. A.
Burrell, Esq., solicitor, No. 1, White Hart-court, Lombard-street;
and to the following Stock and Sharebrokers viz., in London, to
Messrs. Ilitchens and Harrison, 18, Threadne..dle-street ; Messrs. B.
and M. Boyd, 4, New Bank-buildings ; T. ITzzielli, Esq., 75, Old
Broad-street ; to Messrs. Cuff and Fox, Derby ; Messrs. Chapman
and Elliott, Nottingham ; E. B. Schofield, Esq., Sheffield ; Messrs.
Wellbeloved and Oastler, Leeds; Messrs. Houghland and Leese, Man-
chester ; and Messrs. J. Wills and Co., Liverpool.

THE NORTHERN AND
(.ONNECTING RAILWAY
(Provisionally Registered under 7 and 8 Yid., cap. 110.)
Capital, 900,0001., in 36,000 Shares of 2il. each.
Deposit, 21. 12s. 6d. per Share.
Uniting the London and Birmingham; Great Western; the South-
Western; the London and Brighton ; South-Eastern ; and Northen
and Eastern Railways; and accommodating en route Hertford,
Hatfield, St. Albans, Watford, Rickmansworth, Uxbridge, West
Drayton, Colnbrook, Staines, Egham, Chcrtsey, Weybridge, Lea-
therhead, Dorking, and Reigate.

SOUTHERN

Major Adair

COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.
John King, Esq.
George Laishley, Esq.
D. W. Lucas, Esq.
H. W. Ileteyard, Esq
Edward Scard, Esq.

John Anderson, Esq.
Jasper Capper, Esq.
Jeremiah Clarke, Esq.
Joseph Graham, Esq.
D. T. Johnson, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Rogers, Olding and Co., '‘9, Clement's-lane, London.
The London and County Bank, Lombard-street.
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, Manchester
ENGINEER—Jcseph Gibbs, Esq.

LAND AGENT—Layton Cooke, Esq.
LAND SURVEYORS—W. T. Buckland, Esq 4 and Messrs. Sanderson

and Ryde. • - -
LOCAL sommons.
St. Albans, Herts—Richard Grove Lowe, Esq.
Chertsey, Surrey—Richard Jchn Cole, Esq.
Dorking, Surrey—Messrs Hart and Hart
Hertford—Edward Robert Spence, Em.
Uxbridge, Middlesex—Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge
Wattbrd and Riekmansworth—John Scdgwlck, Esq.
Sommogs—Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47, Eastcheap, London.

Applications for shares to be made to Messrs. Miller and Carr, 47,
Eastcheap, and Messrs. Johnson Longden and Co., Tokenhouse-
yard ; and to the Local Solicitors, Messrs. Hart and liar,, Dorking ;
Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge ; Richard John Cole, Esq.,
Chertsey ; Richard Grove Lowe, Esq., St. Albans ; Edward i7obert
Spence, Esq., Hertford ; John Sedgwick, Esq., Watford ; and also to
Mr. Crewdson, Liverpool; Mr. S. Slater, Manchester; Messrs. Wat-
son, Tootal, and Barff, Leeds ; Messrs. Charles Bell and Co., Leeds ;
Mr. J. Wright, Birmingham ; Mr. J. Bowden, Hull ; Messrs. George
Edwards and Son, Bristol.
Temporary Offices, 47, Eastcheap, London

W. JENKINS, Sec

ST. ALBANS, HATFIELD, and HERTFORD
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
(Provisionally Registered.)
Capital 150,0001., in 7,500 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit 2/. 2s. per share, being 10 per cent., in pursuance of the
existing Standing Orders.
PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF DIRECTION.
WILLIAM BRADLEY, Esq., Manor Oaks, Sheffield, Chairman
Colonel W. C. Lewis Bird, Howland-street, Fitzroy-square
Colonel Henry Dundas Campbell, North-end House, Portsmouth,
Deputy-Lieutenant, Haute
John Downes, Esq., Bedford-place, Russell-square, Director of the
Manchester, Rugby, and Southampton Railway
Joseph Gill, Esq. Leeds
William Wilks Hill, Esq., Beeston Hall, Leeds
John Haigh, Esq., Park-square, Leeds
Major A. Hawkes, Orme-square, Bayswater, Chairman of the Ja-
maica North and South Midland Junction Railway
Peter Morrison, Esq., Princes-street, Bank, Director of the South
and Midlands Junction Railway
Julius Le &lief, Esq., Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square
George Smith, jun., Esq., Leeds
Colonel Sir James Maxwell. Wallace, K.H.
ENGINEER.—Thomas Drane, Esq.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lane, London,
Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds and Bradford.
SOLICITOR.—CharIes Wright, Esq., 27, Essex-street, Strand.
The object of this railway now submitted for public consideration,
is not only to afford accommodation to the country proposed to be
traversed, but also to -form tke first junction out of London of the
London and Birmingham and North Eastern Railways, as well AS
the proposed York line at Hatfield.
A large proportion of the shares having already been engaged by
parties locally interested, applications must be made on or before the
27th instant, to the Solicitor or the Secretary, at the temporary
Office of the Company, 27, Essex-street, Strand ; or Messrs. Sutton,
Gribble, and Sutton 22, Royal Exchange ; Messrs. Seholes and Hors-
fall, shareholders, Liverpool ; Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manches-
ter ; Messrs. Smith, Knowles, and Cooke, Leeds ; or Messrs. Collin-
sou and Flint, Hull ; of whom forms of application may be obtained.
LOUIS MORE, Secretary.
27, Essex-street, Strand, Sept. 18, 1845.

ST. ALBANS, HATFIELD, and HERTFORD
JUNCTION RAILWAY.
Notice is hereby given, that NO APPLICATION for Shares will
be received after the 25th instant from parties in London, and on or
after the 27th instant from Parties in the country.
By order of the Committee,
LOUIS MORE, Secretary.
27, Essex-street, Strand, September 25, 1845.

CAPE of GOOD HOPE GREAT SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.
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(Provisionally Registered.)
It is proposed that this line shall commence at Cape Town, and
proceed to Stellenbosch, through Caledon, and thence to the town
of Swellendam, with further Extensions to Graham's Town and Port
Elizabeth. _

A detailed prospectus, with a list of influential Directors, will be
published in a few days ; in the meantime any application may be
addressed to the solicitors, S. P. Hook, Esq., 11, Tokeuhouse-yard ;
and W. W. Oldershaw, Esq., 7, Tokenhouse-yard, Lothbury.

Mr. Street stated, that he was librarian to the Stock Exchange,
and that on Saturday last Mr. Wetenhall committed the disgusting
assault of spitting upon him seven or eight times. The offence
was perpetrated in Leadenhall.street, at a little after two o'clock,
but how to account for it witness could not at all conjecture.
Mr. Wetenhall at the same time called witness a d—d stuttering
scoundrel.

Policeman 515 said that he heard an altercation between the
gentlemen, and he saw that Mr. Street's (the complainant's) face
and hat had been spat upon ; he did not see any person spit upon
Mr. Street, but he heard Mr. Wetenhall call him a d—d scamp,
or scoundrel.

The LORD MAYOR—Did you hear Mr. Street complain of havirg
been spat upon ? Policeman—l did.

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The LORD MaYoa—llid you hear Mr. Wetenhall deny that he
had spat upon him ? Policeman—l did not.
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The LORD MAYOR—And you heard Mr. Wetcnhall call him a
scamp when he complained? Policeman—l did.
Mr. 'Wetenhall, who exhibited much impatience during this
brief statement of the occurrence, declared that he had never since
the day of his birth, which took place sixty years ago, done such a
thing, or contemplated such a thing, as he bad been accused of.
But the fact was, that the complainant, who called himself libra-
rian to the Stock Exchange, was what was called a " stag,"
nothing but a " stag."—(Laughter.) Now he (defendant) was
publisher of the list called " Wetenhall's List," and he certainly
bad received provocation to use reugh language, and to denounce
the " stag." There were gentlemen present at the time who had
seen and heard more than the officer knew.

The LORD MAYOR—It is in evidence, that instead of denying that
you had spat upon the complainant when you were accused of hav-
ing done so, you called him by an opprobrious name.
Mr. Wetenhaq—My Lord, the officer did not come up at the
commencement.

The Loan MAYOR—No, he did not see you spit upon the com-
plainant, but he heard you aggravate the offence by using abusive
language, instead of indignantly declaring that you had never done
anything of the kind.
Mr. Wetenhall—l now deny that I spat upon him.
,The Loan MAYOR—I have no doubt upon the subject after what
I have heard, and I fine you 105.
Mr. Wetenhall—l thank you, my Lord.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday a respectable-looking woman, named Stunk, resid-
ing at 14, Crown street, was charged with assaulting constable
102 F.

The constable deposed that, at about 11 o'clock, the defendant,
and two other persons, were standing on the foot.way in Crown.
street, engaged in conversation, in consequence of which he re-
quested them to move on. They refused, and witness was pro-
ceeding to compel them, when the assault took place.
The defendant, whose statements were corroborated on oath by
her daughter and another young woman, who were the parties
present, said that she was merely talking to her daughter and the
other witness, opposite her own door, and without causing any
obstruction, when the constable came up and ordered them off,
and almost immediately afterwards pushed her (the defendant)
down. She complained of this ill-treatment to the inspector at the
station, but, upon the representations of the constable, was locked
up all night.
The inspector proved that such complaint was made.
Mr. TWIFORD, after remarking that the case seemed more
serious against the policeman than the defendant, gave the latter
her discharge.