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13 St'N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING-, OCTertElt 22, 1.845.

sham, and Exmouth (Dave's line), 3,42 p.—Ditto (Head's),
p.—Central Cornwall and Devon, V 2 p.—Taw Vale Ex-
tension, % p.--South Wale., 7—Eastern Counties, 24.:

CE AI. CITY
T II I N

RUDDERSFIELD, OCT. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE .—The sales are—Essex and Suffolk, 2
—Grand Union, 3L 2s. 6d.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Pre,:
ton, 71. 15s.—Nottingham and Mansfield, 51. 16a. 6d. —York-
shire and Glasgow, 5.

LETTERS FROM CHARLES rzAftsos, ESQ.- TO W. IL ASIIURST,

ESQ., MEMBER OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON, AND

HULL, OCT. 20.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties,
New, 9%—Preston and Wyre, 43—York and North Midland
Extension, 29—Great Grimsby and Sheffield, Quarter Shares,
6%—North British, Carlisles, 44—Axholme, 425. 6d. p.—
Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 5%—Cambridge and Lin-
-coln. 53/4—Derby and Gainsborough, 2/. 19s. 6d.—Dudley,
Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 355. p.—East Coast, 2%—Grand
Utiion, 3—Great Eastern and Western, 3%—Great North
and South Wales and Worcester, 3% p.—Great North of
Scotland, 3% - Hull and Barnsley Junction, 3 p.—Leicester
and Bedford, 3%—Lincoln and Wainfleet, 21s. p.—London
and Birmingham Extension, —Loudon and York, 5g
Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge, 12s. 6d. p.—Notting-
ham, Erewash, &c., 65.4—Nottingham and Boston, 4/. :3s.
9d.—Nottingham and Mansfield. 51. 16s. 3d.--Rugbv and
Huntingdon, 23/4—Sheffield and Macclesfield, 10s. p.-ITean
and Dove Valley, 23/4—York and Carlisle, 4%—Yorkshire
and Glasgow Union, 4%. _ _ _

CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF CITY LANDS; AND

FROM AIR. ASHURST TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CORPO-

RATION OF LONDON, AND OTHERS CONNECTED WITH

TRADE IN THE CITY OF LONDON, ON THE IMPORTANCE
Cr A CENTRAL CITY TERMINUS TO THE CITIZENS AND

TO THE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL TRADE OF THE CITY.
W. H. ASHURST, ESQ.,
Member of the Corporation of London, Chairman of the Com-
mittee of City Lands, and Solicitor of the Direct London
and Manchester Railway Company.
London, September 30, 1815.
My Dear many of the most wealthy and
influential of the citizens and corporator of London have em-
barked their capital, and lent the weight and influence of
their character and station to support the numerous gigantic
measures of public improvement which are now afloat,
not a single Company exists to direct the stream
of capital and enterprise in furtherance of any
local improvement within the City of London ;
nay more—amid the mighty changes which are now taking
place in the metropolis of the empire, so far from promoting
the local interests of the City (the source of their wealth and
influence), we find the names of many of our most esteemed
citizens engaged in speculations, having for their avowed ob-
ject, to divert into other channels many of the advantages,
which as the great centre of communication, the City of
London has hitherto exclusively, or at .least principally
enjoyed.
By some of these speculations it is proposed to expend mil-
lions in constructing great central railroad termini (as they
are somewhat oddly designated) in the suburbs of the City;
Hungerford-market, Lambeth, Southwark, Nine Elms, Cam-
den Town Battle-bridge, Finsbury. and other places are va-
riously talked of far this purpose. Other projectors have pro-
posed to connect the various existing and intended lines by
railways round the outskirts of London; and yet, amid the
countless schemes which the newspapersare daily advertising,
there is not in existence, I believe, a single company which
contemplates the bringing of railway traffic into the City ;
although, as the principal seat of all the great banking, mer-
cantile, and trading establishments of the kingdom, the City
is the common point to which the greater portion of metro-
politan railway traffic would seem naturally to tend.
The evil consequences to the City of this vast expenditure
of capital in the suburbs may not at present be perceived by
those even who are, like yourself, deeply interested in it( wel-
fare, but we may assure ourselves, that " where the honey is
there the bees arc found." The localities in which these im-
provements take place will (if the City do not provide itself
with .similar accommodation) speedily draw around them
business establishments of every description, and will ulti-
mately drain from the City a large portion of the trade,
'which, if it be allowed a fair start in the race of improvement,
its central situation and existing commercial pre-eminence
will infallibly secure.
The reasons which surveyors and others engaged in these
new undertakings have assigned for excluding the City from
all their contemplated plans, is, that the Corporation upon
former occasions resisted the introduction of railroads into
the City with so much vigour and pertinacity, that specu-
lators are afraid to peril the success of their projects by en-
countering so serious an opposition.
This objection has within the last few days been broadly
stated by one of. the active Directors of your Manchester
line ; lie informs me that the Company would gladly make
their terminus in Farringdon-street, if they could obtain the
sanction of the City.
• You, Mr. Ashnrst, as an influential member of the Common
Council; have much to answer for, if you, as solicitor of
the Company, -being acquainted with the existence of
.this feeling do not test the existing opinion of the Corpora-
tion on this subject, by bringing the subject under the serious
consideration of the court
When, as guardians of the public interest; the Common
Ceuncil thought • fit to discountenance. the introduction of
railroads into the City, the subject was novel and but imper-
fectly understood. . Danger from fire, and annoyance from
smoke and noise were apprehended from the use of loco-
motive engines in a crowded city : besides which, it was
anticipated, if one railroad were permitted to penetrate into
the heart of the City, it would be difficult to exclude others,
and our principal streets might he intersected in all directions
by a confluence of railroads on viaducts concentrating every
description of confusion and neise.
As an officer of the Corporation I should perhaps act more
erudently if I preserved silence, allowed "1 !issez !lire"
to be my motto, confined my labours to the discharge of my
official duties, pocketed my salary, and left the City and its
interests to take care of themselves. I cannot however per-
suade myself to be prudent upon such terms ; and even at the
risk of being set down as a meddler in matters which in my
official position concern me not, I have deteraiined to open
my mind to you upon this all-important subject, with the
`rankness and freedom of former times. Bello; placed in a
situation in which /cannot act as I would do were I again
a member of the Court of Common Council in which I spent
so many years, I charge you by the responsibility you owe
to the public (from the high station you hold in the Corpo-
ration) to arouse the citizens from their apathy, that they
may not be deprived by foreign speculators of the trading
advantages of situation they have hitherto possessed, and
which by a little exertion they may continue to retain..
In thus addressing you, you will of course understand that
I do but repo esent my own individual opinions ;—I do not
write as City Solicitor ;—I have no authority directly or indi-
rectly from the Corporation, or either of its Committees, or
from any individual member, to communicate with you or
with any other person ule al the subject. I, however, am by
no means desirous to shrink from any personal responsibility
which the expression of these opinions may create; you arc
therefore at perfect liberty to deal with this letter as you
may think proper. I have kept a copy, and shall consider
myself entitled to make it public, if circumstances should
hereafter render it necessary to show that I am neither in-
sensible of, nor indifferent to, the serious injury which the
the best interests of our city will suffer, if the present golden
opportunity is lest, of effecting those local improvements
which are absolutely essential to enable it to compete in com-
mercial facilities with the surrounding districts.
I do not desire to excite your attention, and leave your
mind distracted by idle speculations or, vague generalities.
I shall lay befre you therefore a specific plan of improve-
ment within the City, which, for public utility and private
profit, need not, in my opinien, fear competition with any of
the great projects of the day.
First. —I propose that a railroad shall be constructed, from
Battle-bridge to Farringdon-street, for the use of such
of the Neeth,-rn, the North-Eastern, and North-
Western lines, as shall desire to have a terminus in the
centre of the City, and shall be willing fairly to contri-
bute to Ihe'cost of-construction, either by payment of a
due proportl-n of-the first charge, or by a fixed or fluc-
tuating rent as may he agreed, by the Company making,
and the Companies tieing, the lines.
Explanation.—lt is presumed that this great undertaking
May be more effectually, speedily, and economically exe-
cuted by one of the existing Companies, who a-e prepared
with adequate capital, machinery, and staff to carry it ont.,•
,r it may be carried into execution by a Company formed
For the purpose out of members of the other lines.
If the Railroad Companies know their own true interests,
they will avoid all foolish jealousies, and avail themselves of
the manifold advantages which a combined- capital and an
united plan of operations will afford, in obtaining for all who
desire the centre of the City as the resting place of their
traffic, a great trunk line, and a grand central terminus, equal
in capacity to all their wants. The union of the several
termini at one central spot Will prove equally convenient to
the public and beneficial to the shareholders. The railroad
nay at once be made wide enough for all its customers pre
sent and future : capital will thus be eeonomiaed, costly law
and Parliamentary contests will be avoided, and the expense
I,lel annoyance will be saved of piece-meal patching and
bit by bit reform." Let the originally defective arrange.
meats of the Greenwich, South-Eastern, Brighton and Croy- .
lon lines teach wisdom to those who desire like them to stop
A the same vote • • • • • •
The plan here suggested will, I expect, remove one of the
principal objections formerly raised against the introduction
of railroads into the City.
The' dedication of one spot to the accommodation of half a
dozen railroads is very different frown a proposal to introduce
them to half a dozen different termini, by half a dozen dif-
!erent routes.
iecondly.—For the purpose of showing the line proposed,
have laid it down roughly upon a copy of Horwood's
map which I send herewith;--I do riot mean to pretend
that this is the precise line which it will be found ulti,
mately expedient to adopt; that will depend upon the
adjustment of the gradients by competent engineers,
when the levels are taken, and the longitudinal and cross
sections are laid down upon an actual survey of the line.
It will be perceived that the line pursues (with slight de-
viations) the low ground which anciently formed the
valley of the Fleet River.
Explanation.—Besides the other advantages of carrying
the railroad in this valley, which will be presently enume-
rated, it will have the effect of uprooting the haunts of
wretchedness, squalor, and disease, which infest the valley,
arid are, it is admitted on all hands, a standing reproach to
die wealthy capital of the richest nation in the world. Any
and the eLegislature.na nle t the
other) t i
wig part
well-defined plan, capable of efloctuatly removing this-nui-
,ance, will undoubtedly receive the support of the GOvern-
n
whicho n
would
YPl6islt ce r In4d
i w epresently -
aid any Bili through Parliament. If, iii addition to -the
intrinsic merits of their own line (of which I know nothing)
no train,timferoini: a extrinsic mtshteamuncseesi
veas-otthees
merit
oribt eofused abolishingin an
the "Direct Manchester" and the " Direct York'' want to
inn-a:cat icnigr°tiol
apprehended Parliamentary struge/le, I advise them to lose
an evil, which Sanatory Commissions and Parliamentary
Committees have in vain denounced.
rhirdiy.—lt is proposed that the railroad
shall
be worked by
atmospheric pewer.
Explanation.—Whon I suggested this project seven years
ago, 1 theug,lit of working the line by means of a stationary
Ateine and an endless rope. The actual success of atmospheric
pressure as a motive power to railroad carriages may Low
perhaps, be considered as sufficiently established to warrant
its adoption, without waiting for any further proof. This in-
vention may he equally applied to all carriages to be brought
to a proposed general rendezvous at Battle-bridge by the
various lines, whether worked by locomotive or atmospheric
power; and, by a proper disposition of the rails, it is equally
available Tor carriages running either on the bread or narrow
gauge. Besides working with steeper gradients and sharper
turves, the use of atmospheric power will be attended with
aeculiar advantagee'in this case. It will remove the other
;Teat objection to the introduction of railroads within the
-ontinee of the Ciiy ; all the dagger and almost all the noise
which locomotive engines produce will of course be avoided
by the emp!oyment of this invention.
Fourthly.—'or the reasons which will presently be
explained,' the railroped ie to be constructed in an area ie
or covered way, with eyelets at gated distances in the
roof, and with cuttings or open spaces at into:vals in the
cen,re or the sides, so as to Omit Pf Sufficient light and
• ventilation.:
Explanation.—The covered way here proposed must not be
confounded with an ordinary tunnel, to which in all its ob-
jectionable features it bears no resemblance. Tunnels are
(lark, damp, unventilated, acd unwholesome. The proyosed
covered way will possess none of-tip:se-properties; it will be
lofty, light, and dry, and as airy and cheerful as the West-
end arcades, . • .
iisfihly.—The width of the arcade will be deteeinined b3ethe
number of rails it may be found expedient .to lay (Vivi,
for the accornmodation of the various line's. It must at
any rate be yf sufficient width, and its roof of sufficient
strength, to admit of the upper surface being used as a
street tom the kuommodatiort and transit of foot pas-
sengere, carriages, and carts.
By placing , the railroad in the valley, and by slightly
raising imd depressing the line where necessary, suffi-
cient headwa7y. fOl., life ;Owe), pqrriagee will be pre-
served ; and, at the same tiro: ' by a
of the side streets, easy leyels.for
..the cross trafide
,over
the rief of the covered way may be readily obtained.
Explanation.—This, in a public point Of view, is one of
the most important features of the whole plan, and might

YORK, Ocr. 20.
STocx Exammix.—The sales are—lpswich and Bury,
41/2 —Newcastle and Darlington Junction, New. (Brand-
ling), 551 —North British, Carlisles, 41/2—York and North
Midland Extension, 291/2—Cambridge and Lincoln, 53—
Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester,
Direct Northern, 3%—Grand Union, 3/. 3s. 6d.—Lei,:ester
and BedfOrd, 3%—London and York, 6—Newcastle and
Berwick, 1834—North Kent and Direct Dover, 4%—Welsh
Midlands, 41. Is.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
WOOLWICH, Ocr. 20.—The paying off of the Growler
steam-frigate, Commander F. IL Buckle, has been postponed
for a few days, in consequence of the pay-books not being
ready. A silver medal, a gratuity of 71., aiid a pension of
201. 12s. a year have been awarded to William Hoskins,
sailmaker; and a silver medal, with a gratuity of 154 to
Oflour- Sergeant Eduard Burns, of the Woolwich division of
Royal Marines, serving on board the vessel. George M'Grath,
captain of the forecastle; is tcs be transferred to the Excel-
lent gunnery-ship, at. Portsmouth, to be promoted as gunner,
for his excellent conduct on the coast of Africa.
The Ardent steam-vessel, Commander John Russell (b),
recently returned from Service on the coast of Africa, is to be
paid off on Thursday, the 23d inst. The whole of the
officers and crew of this vessel are in excellent health, and
were sometime onshore at the Island of Ascension, the vessel
having to undergo considerable repairs, in consequence of the
long period (upwards of four years) she had beQn in commis-
sion, before she could return home. A portion of the crew
and engineers of the Ardent are in the Ringdove, 16, on her
way to England from the coast of Africa, to be paid off.
The Meteor steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander George
BuTtler, will leave Woolwich to-day for Greenhithe, to have
her compasses adjusted by Captain Johnson„ and then pro-
ceed to Plymouth, to he paid wages in advance.
The Avon steam-vessel, Commander Denham, F.S.A., will
leave Woolwich on Tuesday or Wednesday for Greenhithe,
to have her compasses adjusted, and will be paid advance of
wages at Plymouth. Lieutenant. Frederick D. Yonge (1845)
is appointed to her, vice Cooke ; and Lieutenant William
Rowlett (1838) is ordered a Pamage in her to the coast, to
join the Penelope steam-frigate at that station.
Lieutenant James B..Westand Mr. William T. Meinprise,
master, are appointed to study steam at the factory at Wool
wick Dockyard.
Messrs. William - Chambers, Robert Moore, and Eneas
Vaughan are appointed acting inspectors of shipwrights in
the Dockyard here.
Mr. Robert Pringle, clerk in the Royal Arsenal, Wool-
wich, is appointed Ordnance and Deputy-Storekeeper and
Acting Barrack-master at Enniskillen, Ireland, vice Gid-
dings, deceased.
The Java freight-ship-was owed down the' river on Satur-
day from Deptford- by two hired—steamer, on her way to
Corfu, with detachments of 'troops to join their regiments on
Mediterranean stations, and with a supply c f 'stores.
It is 0-ratifying to' be it'de to' 'state, that the „dicers and
crew of the (growler stem-frigate are now all quite well, and
there is no restriction. whatever.on their movemnits:'' Some
of the officers have gone to London to-day, and the paybeoks
have been transmitted to the Admiralty, and on their return
in the course of the week the vessel will be paid off. It was
hitherto a general belief amongst the officers and meet serving
on the coast of Africa, that the fever was not of a contagious
natue, but consequent on serving at particular stations, as
sea-sickness is consequent on going to sea ; but the death of
Mr. Saunders, who piloted the Eclair, to Standgate-creek,
has caused a different belief amongst many, who now think
1 the fever is contagious.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sru,—Will you oblige me with your opinion On the fol!ow-
ing points:— '
" If a person take shares in any new rai:way- scheme, and
sign the Parliamentary- Contract, how does he get released
from liability in the event of his selling such shires?
"Is a deposit of 51. per share required to be paid to the
Receiver-Gereral of the Court of Chancery prior to the ap-
plication to Parliament for the Bill?—and if 5.), by what
.time is such deposit to be paid ?" '
--
Devizes; Oct. 20, 1840; Your obedient servant,
, A SUBSCRIBER.
[We believe that it is the general opinion among lawyers
that the person who signs the' Parliamentary contract
cannot release himself from his liability even in the
event of his selling the scrip, and that should the holder of
2% the scrip at any time fail in making his payments to the
Company before they have procured their Act, they can come
upon the original subscriber to the Parliamentary contract.
When once 'the Act is obtained the scrip is called in, and the
=I then holder of the scrip is registered as a shareholder.
When this registration of shares takes place, and n.n, until
then, is the subscriber of the Parliamentary contract re-
- leased from his liability.
With regard to the second question, the standing orders
of the House of Commons require that ten per cent. of the
proposed capital Shall he deposited with the receiver-general
some time -in the month of November, or partks will not be
enabled to introdUcelheir pill in the ensuing session.—ED
, Sun. j

ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.—On Mon-
day, the quarterly general court of the governors and members of
the Royal Naval Incorporated Society was held at the Thatched
Moose Tavern, Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, president, in the chair.
The muster of officers was unusually numerous. Commander
Dickson, the secretary, read the receipts and disbursements for the
quarter. The fornier amounted to 1,6071. 135., and the latter
figured 7281. 16s. I Id. The financial account further stated that
the sum of 5501. was apportioned for distribution amongst eighty
applicants for relief, amongst whom sums varying from Si. to 251.
were distributed. fair Charles Malcolm was elected vic2-president,
in the room of Sir Edward Rowley, deceased. At the close of the
proceedings the gallant chairman, who came up purposely from
Portsmouth to attend the court, made a strong appe..l on behalf el
the objects for whoie benefit the society is furmed. In conclusion,
he gave the following state nent of the numbers relieved and sums
granted them, froM 1791 to 1844, via, 53 flag-officers' widows
and orphans, 1,3251, 17s ; 1,142 captains, their widows and or-
phans, 12,094/. 2s 6d. ; 3,294 lieutenants, their widows and or-
phans, 28,3101. 17;r. 6d. ; 1,433 masters, their widows and or-
phans, 10,255/. 16$. ; 848 surgeons, their widows and orphans,
6,5401. Is.; 1,498 pursers, their widows and orphans, 11 9531. 95.;
and 24 chaplains, their widows and orphans, 2071. ss. Total num-
ber of officers and families relieved, 8272. Gross sum granted to
them, 70,6771. 17s. Thanks having been voted to the kia.lant ad-
mrel, the court broke up.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A CONCERT SINGER.—Late
on Saturday evening Mr. William Payne held an inquest
at
the Crown Tavern, .13gisingliall-street, City, on the body of
John Conolly, aged., thirty-Live years,, a well-known singer,
lately residing 4 No. 4, Caurch-alley, Rzinghall-street.
The deceased went on Friday evening to a tavern, where
lie
sang several songs, after which he returned home in good
health and went to bed, He was quite sober and did nor
make any complaint.. About half-past five o'clock on Satur-
day morning a companion, who slept in the same bed, was
awoke by hearing the deceased make a gurgling noise in the
throat as if he was suffocating. His friend jumped out
bed and beldhim and called for the landlord, who iininediatel
sent fur a surgeon, but he died soon after. The surgeon attri-
buted death to the rupture of a blood-vessel of the heart or
in its immediate vicinity. The deceased was a very fro
drinker. The jury returned a verdict of "Natural death."
FATAL ACCIDENT ON .THE NORTH BRITISH RAIL-
WAY.—On Wednesday morning, about eight o'clock, a young
man, named Henry Scooner, a waggon driver, unfortunately lost
his life on the line of the North British Railway, nearly opposite
the gate of Parson's-green. He was taking two empty waggons
down a slight incline at a rapid pace, when they came into violent
collision with some others that were being filled at the bottom,
and Scooner was instantly crushed to death between the two he
had in charge. He was a young man, and unmarried.—Glasgow
Courier.
COLLISION ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
—On Saturday evening, between six and seven o'clock, one of the
long trains was coming in, and, on arriving a few hundred yard,
from the terminus, the train stopped for the tickets to be taken
from the passengers. While this was being done by the guards,
the engine was detached from the front, and taken round and
placed in the rear of the train for the purpose of propelling it to
the terminus. The consequence was, that the light, which on the
journey had been exhibited, was covered, and the train with its
passengers came in without any signal. While this was taking
place on the lower portion of the platform, an engine, which wets
about to be attached to the down train, and under the control of
the driver, a man named Lawrence, moved from one line to the
other, and during the transit the engine and train met. The first
intim3tion of their proximity was a violent concussion, followed by
cries for assistance from the up-train. The collision happening
nearly under the platform, aid was soon rendered, and upon the
officers going to the carriage in advance, they found all the occu-
pants flung from their seats, several besplattered with blood, but
which, upon examivation, proved to come from two gentlemen, One
of whom had received a centusion over the eye, the other a bloody
nose. With these exceptions, no other injury took place. Yester-
day it was understood than an inquiry was instituted into the cause
of the collision, when it was stated that Lawrence declared that he
did not expect the up.train in for four or live minutes, and while
removing the engine from one curve to the other, he considered he
had sufficient time to get out of the way of the up-train; that
the first intimation he had of its being near him was from the
concussion.

INSPECTION OF THE NEW PIER AT BLACKFRIARS
BRIDGE.—On Monday the Chairman of the Navigation Committee,
Mr. Deputy Bedford, Mr. Deputy Peacock, Messrs. Charles,
Joyce, and a majority of the most active members of the Corn-
:nittee, attended by the Water Bailiff, W. Woodthorpe, Esq , and
other civic functionaries proceeded in the City navigation barge to
inspect the piers and landing places presented at the several recent '
Courts of Conservancy. The principal object of the Committee
era, however, the inspection of, the new pier at Blacktriars- bridge,
previous to issuing their authority for its being opened for the use
of public this day. On the arrival of the Committee shortly after
one o'clock, they were received by the newly-appointed pier-master,
Mr. Robert Ware, as also the clerk and overseers of the works.
I'he Chairman and Committee then proceeded to examine the
various appointments and erections that had been made fur the
safety and convenience of the public, and expressed their entire
satisfaction of the whole arrangements, and the capabilities of the
structure fully answering the purposts for which it had been
erected. Mr. Woodthorpe stated that several of the companies
whose boats had been the habit of plying at the various piers,
had not as yet signed the contrast an 4 consented to the regulations,
and that, therefore, of course, those companies' boats would not be
allowed to call. Directions were then given by the authority of time
Committee to the pier-master, and those acting under him, to see
that the regulations and instructions for the conduct 'and manage.
.sent of the pier should be strictly enforced. 7 -
[ADvEttitslimENT.]—A CERTAIN CURE FOR SCRO-
k LILA OR KING'S EVIL, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINT-
H.ENT.—A FRIGHTFUL CASE —A young man named Bowman,
!carlociteidousfruolmee r<:ll,cLo'vhe3rrng vwithari
% shoemaker, living in James .street, Manchester, had been
,ther sufferings,
; yet, extraordinary to relate, this
outhsepamrtozsott mhiasligbonaanyt; kbireidsideo:
erg
they had deprived him of ilia:- u4e of his left
:ad all the ulcers soundly healed, but hp.aoso Ir.' ee swe has
regainedn o otuil,ye
lomplete use of his limbs by
medicines. Sold at Professor tion.fwatie.sse wonderful
.
:44,. Strand (where advice may be had gr2l,), wnd
All respectable vendors of medicine throughout the 'cilistiesdt
vi
„mad. •

perhaps be appropriately called its other wing, if the next in i They were attended by their engineer, Mr. Rastriek, who '...
order did not claim the preference. At present it can hardly informed the Board that some years Twee:l°ll,ly he had been I I
be said that there is one continuous inlet from the northward over the whole of the ground with Mr, Pearson, u lien that
into the City between St. John's-strset and Gray's Inn-road. gentleman had the same plan in contemplatien ; end although : .
By the formation of the proposed street, there will be one lie had not had the site actually sury.eytel end levelled. he
long, wide, uninterrupted lints o,f communication from the had acquainted himself with the print Ales of the plan and :
Obelisk, Blaekfriars, to Battle-bridge, intersecting the metro- the fhattires of the ground through winch the lee-, would pass,
polls in the centre, and uniting the City and the suburbs and had commimicated
.with the surveyor of the Finebery
north and south, both to each other, and each to itself. To sewers, so as to enable Mot to say that the preject was per-
provide means for a cross communication between the dis- fectly practicable, and there would be no engineering diffi-
tricts on each si :le of the proposed street is a matter almost culties to impede its execution.
as important to the public convenience as the construction of In consequence of this information, several of the Directors
the proposed principal street from north to south. The with Mr. Rastrick, waited upon Mr. Pearson and obtained
awkwarc', irregular, and defective state of Back-hill, Mutton- from him some further details. After the interview, Mr.
hill,
.Saffron-hill, and other cross streets, tocether, with the Rastrick directed his assistant to accompany Mr. Pearson
horrible nuisances which now fill up the valley of the Fleet, early in the ensuing morning over the line from the confines
Present a serious imprdirrient to a free communication be- of the City to
it would be requisite to have an accurate to Battle-bridge, so as to ascertain the precise
tween the adjoining districts; and. until these nuisances are ground of
removed by some great undertaking of this nature, it is im- and minute plan and section, for the London and Manchester
possible that any effectual improvement in the locality, or in Company.
the condition of the inhabitants, can ever take place. If, on A petition by the Direct London and Manchester Railway
the other hand, this great object is accomplished, private Company to the Court of Common Grimed for leave to
speculation will follow in the wake of public enterprise: by purchase Farringdon-market for a terminus, has been by
uprooting the wretched haunts at. the bottom of the valley, them referred to the Improvement Committee to examine
and by the formation of a treat central street, the surround- and report; and a petition for the site of the Fleet Prison
inn. property Of every description will speedily increase in has also been presented by the London and Birmingham
value, and those houses which are not touched by the line I f Company, and is referred *to the same Committee for the
the improvement will be soon raised to the level of the pro- same purpose.
perty to which thee' adjoin. The site and structure of Farringdon-market cost, upwards
Sixthly.—ln a public point of view, one of the most im. of sixteen years since, more than 250,0001. Although, as I
portant parts of my plan remains to be explained. I believe the market has been in every respect prudently and
protease to carry the railroad in the covered way across economically managed, foom that period to the present its re-
Holborn-bridge. se as to provide stations for every line ceipts have not defrayed the rates, taxes, and cost of repair
using the railroad in Farringdon-market and on the and management, so that estimating the value of money at
north-eastern side of Farringelon-etreee only four per cent., the loss of principal and compound irate-
Explanation.—By this plan the valley between the bottom rest of the original outlay amounts in 1845 to upwards of
of Helborn-hill and the bottom of skinner-street will be half a million.
raised twelve or fourteen feet; and by this means we shall he Mr. Pearson has in his I-. tter treated of the great. benefits
enabled to adjust the levels from the crown of Holborn-hill which the public will incidentally derive from the improve-
to the summit of Skinner-street; so that instead of leaving in ment of the district through which this line will pass. Of
this age of improvement one of the main avenues to the heart course lam not insensible to the importance of such an im-
of the City dangerous and almost inaccessible to heavy traffic, provement in a moral point of view, but the Company to
we shall obtain what may be termed a good trotting road which lam solicitor will naturally be led to consider its corn-
from Hatton•garden to the Old Bailey, rising in no part mercial advantages as a pecuniary speculation.
more than one foot in forty feet, and being little more than The Directors of that Company will have to determine
the rise in Fleet-street, which is one in forty-one. At the whether, as a mere commerciel question, it is better to stop
present moment the fall in a portion of Holborn-hill is one in at Battle bridge and leave their trade and passenger-traffic to •
seventeen feet ; and from the west. of Hatton-garden to Field- get to the City, the great emporium of trade, as best they may,
lane it is one in twenty; and the average of Skinner-street or whether it is an all-important consideration for them
is one in twenty-five. to economise the time and money of their customers by estab-
Some years after I had suggested my plan for bringing the listing their terminus in the centre of the metropolis in
northern railroads into Farringdon-street by means of a co- the manner Mr. Pearson has proposed. From a consultation
vered way, an eminent surveyor was employed by the iota- with their engineers, and front their own reflections as men
bitants of the locality to devise a scheme for removing the of business, they have had but little difficulty in determining
dangers and difficulties of Holborn-hill and Skinner street, the question.
T
without resorting to a viaduct which was then in contempla-
ne Corporation of London will, I trust, see it to be right
tion to carry the traffic from one summit to the other. , to sell upon reasonable terms the site of a building which has
After a careful survey, and a close and minute calculation hitherto been a profitless outlay, provided in giving encourage-
of the expense, this gentleman reported that this important ment to this undertaking it can be made apparent to them
improvement might be effected for 80.0001., which would be that it will promote the public convenience, the interests of
required to defray the cost of taking down and rebuilding trade, and the consequent prosperity of the citizens of Lon-
some of the houses, and altering and adjusting such others don, whom they represent.
in Skinner-street, Holborn-hill, and Farringdon-street, as Several members of the Common Council, in the recent
would be affected by the altered levels of tie road. No discussion upon the petition, stated in detail, as practical men
method at that time presented itself for providing the money, and as representatives of the traders of the City, the injury
and the project, fell to the ground ; the case is now mate- which they actually experienced, and which they apprehended
rially altered. The Manchester Direct Line, the York Direct would to a still greater extent arise from the establishment
Line, the Tottenham Extension Line, all want to come of railroad termini in the outskirts of the metropolis: inns,
to Farrington street; and the Birmingham and Great hotels, lodging-houses, shops, are naturally attracted to the
Western in spite of themselves must come also, or they localities where railroad stations are established, • and the
will be distanced in the race for public favour in which ready money which would be expended in the City upon oh-
competition will compel them to engage. jects of use and fashion is thus diverted into other channels.
Farringolon market and a portion of the wretched pro- To wholesale dealers a City terminus to the northern rail-
perty at the northern end of Farringdon-street would afford, roads is in this age of commercial competition an object of
at a comparatively moderate expense, sites amply sufficient paramount importance. In addressing men of business, I
for the termini of all the Northern and North-Eastern, and need hardly say that the City of London is the great central
North-Western lines ; stations mieht be made there twice, or mart of not only the cotton and linen, but the silk, woollen,
if required even six times the size of the terminus which hosiery, and hardware trades. To bring these bulky and
now accommodates the : Brighton, Soetle-Eastern, and weighty goods from the manufacturing districts into the City
Croydon lines. The spot chosen for this purpese is in the by rail, instead of discharging them into waggons and vans
exact centre of the Metropolis; it is near to the Thames eit in the outskirts of Lowlier', is not merely desirable, but essen-
abuts on one of the widest and most important thoroughfares tial to the interests of those who are engaged in these branches
in the kingdom, opening into streets intersecting the City in of trade;
all directions, and leading by direct channels of communica- The cost of cartage to the rail at Manchester and from the
tion to any part of the metropolis, and thence to every quer- terminus in the. outskirts to the City, amounts to more than
ter of the globe. one-sixth of the charge for the whole one hundred and
In detailing the advantages which the public at large, and ninety seven miles. Upon goods from manufacturing towns
the citizens of London in particular, will derive from a plan nearer to London, the proportionate expense of cartage of
that opens out so many improved means of intercommumca course tells with still greater effect.
tion, and brings the elements of increased trade to their very As London is the great mart for the interchange of goods,
doors, I must not forget that lam addressing a man of busi- it is of course the great place of resort for those who buy and
news, professionally enraged in promoting a great public un- sell. The economy of time is to a man of business as im-
dertaking, in which those who have embarked their capital portant as the saving of expense in the transit of the goods in
naturally and properly expect a remunerating return. The which he deals. Bankers, merchants, wholesale deal, rs, and
Directors may perhaps admire nay project as a measure of other persons engaged in business, who -have occasion to
nubile utility; but, witheut mature reflection and without travel on the railroads to which the proposed trunk line will
consultation with their able engineers and surveyors (to whom lead, will estimate at its true value the saving of time and
considerations of this nature more appropriately belong) the increased convenience it will afford them.
they may think its cost will more than counterbalance the It is a matter of universal observation, that from the dis-
Profits which as a railway company they could derive from tang of the stations in the outskirts of London and the time
the undertaking. I have carefully examined the. line of the consumed by stoppages in the streets and other accidental
Junction Railway, as proposed in 1936. and also the line laid causes, this comparatively insignificant journey takes more
down on the map as a contemplated line for the use of your time and causes more trouble than travelling on the railroad
Company. and I have no hesitation in saying, that the site for thirty or forty miles.
of the line I have proposed can be procured for a much less The London and Manchester Direct Railway Company,
sum than that which is described in either of those projects ; impressed with the importance of carrying out the sugges,
of this fact, however, you can easily assure yourself, by em- tione contained in these pages intend, if permitted, to carry
nloying competent surveyor,: to examine the property. their line to Farringlon- street.
Upon the comparative expense of a viaduct and a covered I haye thought it right to give these explanations. that
way your engineer will speak ; the saving of expense which members of the C.orperetioe and the public may be full:-
will be effected by combining in one line several railroasis acquainted with all the facts.-1 am, Gentlemen, your most
for the several companies, instead of their all laying down obedient servant, W. H. ASHURST.
lines for themselves, is too obvious to need a word of corn- London, October, 1845.
mentary.
In speaking of the comparative cost of two modes of con-
structing a railroad in a populous district, I ought not to
Omit mentioning an important distisguishing feature of 'my
plan. To all eersons who have been engaged in these ope-
rations it is known, that where you have to deal with inter-
mixe ty property in crowded situations, it is impossible to ob-
tain the ground von actually need, without purchasing what
as far as the railroad is concerned is of no use; the surplus
property is usually sold; but, being close to a railroad via-
duct, it is of little or no value; by my plan, however, it will
have a frontage to a wide and level street, and every foot
of ground will acquire a large additional value from the
generally improved state of the neighbourhood, as well as
from the improved value of the other property to which it
will adjoin. I
It would be out of my province to state what would be the I
return in the shape of ground rents for building sites on each
side of the new street from Battle-bridge to Farringdon-
street ; your surveyor will readily supply you with this cal-
culation.. These ground rents, which will amount to a very
large sum of money, will be sold to defray a portion of the
cost; the Corporation has sold the ground rents of the houses
adjoining their new streets in the City at upwards of thirty
years' purchase. This very high rate would probably not
now be maintained, but lam confident your surveyors will
report to you that the building sites of the new street which.
expense I ought to ob-
serNew Farringdon-
this project will call into existence will yield a very large
return towards the coat of its construction.
While
ve,
writing
when
firstuponl the
projected subject
thisof
plan
street had not been commenced, and since that time some
that
houses towards the northern extremity of. the line have been
erected ;: these alterations are however of but little moment,
and will not create much additional expense. It. will not,
fortunately, be - neces.sary to take down the newly-built
houses on the eastern side of New Farringdon•street ; by
•convertingthefiret floors into shops they will be brought level
with the carriage-road and pavement of the intended street over
the covered way ;from I be increased traffic which will be brough t
to that spot, they will in all probability be increased in value
Ito a greater extent than the cost of the alteration. As your
Committee, like men of business, will be disposed to scruti-
nise the project with great caution, I think it right to meet
an anticipated objection by observing that an eminent en-
gineer has looked at the site in reference to the sewers, the
gas and water-pipes, &c. along the line, and of er examinine
the map of the sewers with the levels -floured upon it, and
after a conference with one of the intelligent officers of the
sewers in the Finsbury district, he isformed me that he
should on this head experience no difficulties in making the
line that could not be readily overcome.
I shall now bring this lengthy epistle to a close. Ido not
know that I have omitted to state any fact connected with the
subject which is-a-Milli my knowledge, neither am I sensible
Di haying written a sentence calculated to mislead those who
. may peruse my letter for the purpose of forming a sound judg-
ment upon the subject of its eeritents; of course, being
neither a surveyor nor an engineer, I cannot expect or desire
that your friends should adopt such an important scheme
with,ut first receiving the fullest satisfaction from the able
Men by:whose advice in those matters you will be guided.
In times past I coormanniceted with several professional men
upon the subject, tied I Wee:, twee heard. &cm one of them
any objection which did not after a little discussion fall to
',the ground.
• Your engineer will of course find, both in the planning and
the execution of the measure, some difficulties to avoid and
some to overcome ; they., will, however, be such only as are
inseparable from every great undertaking, if your Company
think proper to dityct their engineers and survey-ere to pre-
pere a plan and- section of the !ine, the simplicity of the
Man and the facility of its execution will excite surprise ;
there will be no engineering difficulties to demand the exer-
cise of any extraordinary skill. Capital is all that will br
required ; and although the first outlay will be large, lem
quite sure it will he reported to you as less than would be
required to obtain a City terminus by eny other method.
When from this sum is deducted the return the sale of ground
rents will eleld, and when the balance is compared with the
money value of the immense traffic which the railway will
be capable of conducting, Lam. quite confident it will be found
;me of the most profitable projects which the plethora of ca
pital hats called into existence:
" Now or never," trust be the motto of this plan. When
the existing spirit of enterprise enbeides, a feng interval of
euiesceoce will ensue. If the -plan be now taken up by men,
of influence and capital, it is certain to succeed; pass it
over, arid it can never be revived. If not now taken up, be-
fore another era of enterprising speculation shall return, the
power ot effecting the improvement will have passed away. Un-
less some step in the riglit direction be immediately taken, the
projected street from nolbornbridge to CG-ikenwell will be
continued upon the low level on which it is now commenced.
A viaduct at Holborn, from summit to summit, i-, I see, for
the fiftieth time again proposed, and iney perhaps be built
nay mote, an overwhelming necessity for a City terminus to
a northern railroad play induce the Corporation to consent
to one or more railings upon viaducts over the streets. Should
either of these measures be adopted, the evils which my plan
is destined to remove will be made perpetual; an effectual
barrier 'to improvement will be interposed ; and instead of
uprootirig a mass of wretched habitations, and lifting their
sites to '.the influence of light And air, we shall in effect con-
detain them' to Continue in a state of endless, hopeless, reme-
diless debasement.—l am, my dear Sir, your obedient servant,
CHARLES PEARSON, -
A citizen of London, and for many years an active
member of the Comnion Council.

LA W INTELLIGENCE.
COVRT OF B INKRUPTCY. at. 20.
(Before Mr. Commi,sioner SHEPHERD.)
IN RE DODMAN.

The insolvent in this ease, an engraver at Norwich,
came up to-day for his final order.
He was supported by Mr. Sturgeon, and opposed by
Mr. Bagley, who said that he wished to direct tne atten-
tion of the Court to the first page of the schedule,
wherein the " excepted articles" are stated. There was
a long inventory of articles, the value of which was stated
ut 191. 7s. Ile (Mr. Begley) submitted that the value
..f fach article ought to be annexed thereto, that the
Court had iv, power to grant an adjournment for the
amendment of the schedule, and that the petition must
be disrai,sed.

Mr. Sturgeon said this was the first time he had
heard an objection of this description taken, and tint
the Court bad the power to grant an adjournment for the
amendment of the schedule, if it were required.
Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD considered that an ad-
journmPnt must take place to amend the schedule.
After some further conversation, the final order was
adjourned.

TO CiT4P LES cgAII.SQN, ESQ.
117; Cheapside.
Dear Sir—l ackuowle lge the receipt of your letter of the
30qi uhirno:
It w is pi:rbaps natural fo7 you to address me al Chairman
of the City Lands Cornin'ttel, and looking to the fact that I
happen to holl the appointment of solittuor to the London
and Manchester Direct itaiiroad Compa,;y, to seize the oct.-
sion to hring into disco sion the cqnsiderations 7ou have sug-
;..ested as to a Ceniral City Terminus,
You have placed me in a difficulty by doing so, and you
must therefore allow me to take the best way out of it by
publishing your letter, together with one which I shall ad-
dress to t'!e mentbors of the Corporation and to those con-
nected With the trade of the City of London.
It beipg addressed to me as the Chairman of one of the
Committees, I think it right that every member of the Cor-
por4itiorlshpuN see i I • dear Sir, yqurs truly,
Ai, •
W. U. ASHURST.

• t
TO TIE MEMB 6F-,TtIECORPOR..kTION OF
THE CITY OF LONDON.
Gentlemen,— Having received from Air. Charles Pcars
an able eon-ununication upon the subject of a grand Centr
Tennir.tis in the heart c•f the City for the accommodation
the Dieect London add Manchester Railroad, and uthe:
northern. north-western, and north-eastern lines, I think is
rlght,'-a4 acjilresnd tpm as Cilairtpun foe of you..
Committers, to lay it I,e> you.
I, of tiurse, submitted it to the Directors of the Meet
London and Manchester Railway Company, who immediately
considered the proposed plan. '

Mr. L')cke appeared for the rimecution, and Mr.
Charneek on !)ehalf of the pri,;':ee. s
From th.., stament of Mr. Locke:, a' the; viii race,
suppm-t cf the charge. it appear• d th..t tl [Le
bef:innir.R. el. the lust month, he prisoner and his wire
tv.o apartments hem the proseentrix, who kept.
a tious lodgi.rs, in Nunhi ad-lane, Peckham, rye, at
4 sum of 7s. per week. The p: boner, wt o at the
time ;:utf. iHng from di.,,tres_,. was unable to illy it renr.
fur the first week. He, however, gave the protecutrix
three small sums, amounting to half a-crown. On the
15th of September (the prisoner and 11. s wVe having
been thirteen days in the holse) the prosecutrix made
an excuse for entering the sleeping apartment, but she
had scarcely done so when the prisoner and his wife ran
out of the house and proceeded towards Peckham-rye.
Information was instantly given to the police, and both
were taken into custody. Oa the pr;soner being asltcd
why he was running away, he said that he had l.e. n
robbing re,dy furnished lodeings, and that he intended
to release s otl the rece7p, ef some teoney which
he was expecting. Ori examining the loom the pro,veu
trix found that the article, nb-ve described had been
taken away. They were traced to a neighbourii.g ~[twit
broker's, and were found to have been pledged by the
prison( r. at diff,rent dates. The duplicates of the blanket
and counterpane were found on his pe,son, and he ad
mitted having sold thos,t of- the sheets. The prisoner
also said that. he %.,ould them when he r• eeived
sonic money fr,,m hi. fo.her.
The evidence having been g rne
Mr. CIIARNOCK addre,ed Cie jury on ih,• pert of t.'-e
prisoner, and after alluding to the .srei!hed state fthieh
poverty and irregular;ty had r a -ers.;rl who
ought. to h., a:. respectable, d opinion
that the intent of ihe pris,:ne, on takitnz the arti,les was
not to steal them. therefore hoptl Oa!: the jury
would take the most int reit'ul i.irw case?.

A verdict, of Guilty WAS itrurediqt,l.7 rtAtn:,, ti.
liorsford, a MendNity th,t, Aitered tin:. wit-
ttes-box, and stated that in 1837 and 1844, tne prism,er
had been charged with obtaining money through begging
letters. but on b.,th occasions had been discharged.

During the present year, at Queen-square Police-coiirt,
he was charged mith illegally pawning some good=, and
received a !now h'A itupri,onment.
rtie CHAIaMAN, in passing sentence, t,lhervcd. that if
th°se who had opportunitie, ~f bei g resp«..-lible, like
the prisoner, chose to degrade tht mselvt s, they must ex-
pect to be degraded. Altht,tigh a elergpusn, he (the
Chairman) would treat him iu the same manner as he
would the meanest person brought before him. The
sentence. therefore, on the prisont,r was, that he be im-
pri-oned in the House of Correction for six months, and
kept to hard labour.

GRAVESEND BOROUGH
SESsIoNS.

On Monday, George Tornlinen?, was charged by Mrs.
Mary Chippenfi,-11, with violently assaulting her on
Saturday night last.
It. appeared from the evidence of the complainant,
e- rroborated by that of a man of the name of William
Tarling, that the defendant (who was brought np on a
warrant), had, with two other men, entered the com-
plainant's kitchen on the night in question, and asked
wheth:r he could be provided with a bed. Complainant
declined letting him have one, but acceded to the ri•quest.
of the other men to provide them with beds. The de-
fendant began to abuse her, and she insisted on his
quitting the house, when, with a heavy stick. he had in
his han (and which was produced in Court), he struck
her a stunning blow on the head, and then rushing to
the door, broke the latch, and ran off. lie was subse-
quently taken on a warrant for the assault.
The defendant said that he neither abused the com-
plainant, nor struck her.
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Oakes) said that the assault,
being an aggravated one, the prisoner was fined 10s. and
costs.

Dvfenclant—But suppose I have not a shilling?
Mr. OAKES —Thvn you will go to the House of Cor-
rection, with hard labour, for 14 days.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONR.

D.. Hare, M.D., ri.sidint; at No. 9 A, Langham-place.
attended before Mr. Rawlinson, on a summons obtained
against him by Abraham Allision, driver of the cal,
2,261, for the recovery of 2s. 6d., alleged to be due to
hi:n, the said c,implainant,

The cabman stated, that on Saturday, the 11th instant,
he took up, in Southampton-row, the defendant, who
agta,ed to give him ss. to take him, first, to Cunning
ham-place, 87. John's-wood, afterwards to the Acacia-
r: cad, and I rum thence the Seven Siso-rs, Holloway.
Ile was convey•al ,o the severed places named, and so,tlc
time etft.•r he had aligh,ell at Holloway, h- (the eahinan)
was told that if he would take him to Langham-place
would give him 6,1. more. He was informed that tha.
was not sufficient, when, without any more being th.p
said, he gut into the vehicle, and was convey ed to his
resi&nce. Oct altghtint,4 he gave only 6d. in addition t,
the 55., notwithstaffiliog he was told that the fare b.tel,
from Holloway was 3a. He (the cabman) bad therefor.:
stt;Atur,oeti him for the extra half-cr•-,wo.

Dr. flute, in answer to the charge, said that nothing
11:4tever was mentioned about 5s ,an that he had paid
very amply the cabman, whom be had engagtd by
" time," and not " distance."
The cabman asserted that there was no understanding
at all regarding payment by "time," and he called a
witnt sa (the water►nan), who corroborated his stat,
Men t n Oat particular.

Mr. RAWLINSON decided the case by adjml4ing that
Dr Hare should pay 2s. 6d , the fare claimed, togetnel
with 3s. for the cabman's two attendances at the Court.
and an additional 2i., the expense of the summons,
making in the whole, 7s. 6d.
Colonel Henry Buthur,t, 83, Gloucester-place, at-
tendel to prefer a chargB against William Spice, driver
and proprietor of alcab, for refusing to take a fare when
called upon to do so.
The Colonel stated that on Wednesday last his ser-
vant called defendant from the Paddington-street rank,
and on his driving up to the door, he (the Colonel) and
two friends entered the vehicle, desiring to be taken to
the ZoologiLial-gardens, Regent's Tack. Defendant then
alighted from his box, and, opening the door, told them
in an insolent tone and manntr that as there were three
of them hs must have 61 more than the legal fare if he
took them at all. Re (the Colonel) ordered him to
,irite on, telling him that he should hare what was his
fire, and nothing more. Re refused to convey them,
and they were therefore under the necessity of gettini
out and going in doors, after paying defendant 81..
which he demanded t'or being called off the stand. Ili
tried to force his way into the hall, and would have dont
so had not he (Colonel Bathurst) pushed him away and
caused the door to be shut in his face.

Defendant denied most positively that he ever went
nearer to the hall-door than by just getting upon
the step,
Mr. RAWLINSON said that defendant was not bound to
take three persons in his cab, and dismissed the cons
plaint against him.