The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

p-ARwicti DOCKS, AND BIRMINGHAM
AND CENTRAL ENGLAND RAILWAY.

(Provisionally Registered.)
Offices, No. 1, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-street,
Capital, 1,400,0001., in 70,000 Shares of 201. each.
Deposit, 21. 2s per Shar e.

App:ications for shares may be made to the Secretary, at the
oft. es of the Company, No. 1, Guildhall Chambers, Basinghall-
street : to the Solicitors ; Messrs. Lyons, Barnes, and Ellis,
7, Spring-gardens; Messrs. George and Charles Pollock, 19,
Great George-street, Westminster; Messrs. Fyson and Co.,
3, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry : or to the following Stock
and Sharebrokers, from whom copies of the prospectus and map
may be obtained :—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Threadneedle-
street; Messrs. Backhouse and Co., 4, Angel-court, Throgmorton-
street ; Messrs. Ewart and Bell, 3, Copthall Chambers, London;
Messrs. Bra.lley, Ford, and Parker, Manchester; H. Davies and
Co., Liverpool ; Messrs. Chantrell and Boyes, Leeds ; Messrs.
Wilitinsoa and Earle, Hull; Mr. James Hervey, Halifax; Messrs.
Buchanan and Aitken, Glasgow; and Messrs. Labertouch and
Stafford, Dublin

W. SCOTT, Secretary.

ATHER TRADE.-TRAVELLER.
A A first-rate Howe requires au able representative. Apply
to A. It. (per letter only), care of Mr. Asb, stationer, London-bridge.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, OCT. 24.—There are
fair supplies of all grain this week. The Wheat trade was
steady to-day, and in prices of good qualities bothof new and
old no alteration can be quoted. Barley better supply, but
not fit, n-eit -:,ale:as before. Beane, old English, rather dearer.
Oafs, !id. to leid. per stone higher, and Shelling advanced
13. to 2s. per load. Malt in great request at more money.
LONDON AND BRIGHTON AND LONDON AND CROY-
DON COMPANIE.—The negotiations which have been pending
for some (lays past between the Brighton and Croydon Com-
panies have at length been brought to a satisfactory con-
clusion. The directors of the two lines, after long and
anxietuf deliberation, have finally agreed on an amalgama-
tion, the shares to l'e consolidated into stock, and to rank
tihereite Brighton at and Croydon at 18/. 10s. This
arrangement. is of course subject to the approval of the re•
speetive proprietaries, but there can be no doubt that the
ratification will be cheerfully awarded, as the prosperity of
both lines Inuit be materially enhanced in consequence.
EXPENIMENTS IN WOOLWICH MARSHES, OCT. 24.
Colonel Lacy, Director of the carriage department in the
Royal Arsenal, Lieutenant-Colonel Dansey, C. 8., Lieut.-
Colonel Dundas, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Chalmer, Assis-
tant Director-General of Artillery. Lieutenant-Colonel Har-
dinge, K.II , Lieutenant-Colonel Colquboun and Captain
Palliser, of the Royal Artillery; Lieutenant-Colonel Barney,
Commandant of the Royal Engineers; Brigade-Major Sand-
ham and Captain Wynne, Royal Engineers, assembled in
the Marshes at two o'clock, P.M., to witness experiments with
a newly. erected one-gun battery, constrncted, under the
superintendence of Lieutenant-Colonel Barney, on a principle
suggested b' Colonel Abbot. The battery was made 10
feet in thickness, by about 21 feet in front, and 8 feet high,
with the embrasure faced with stone inside, into which was
-.fixed an iron bolt attaching a traversing platform 16 feet
'long, on which an 8-inch gun on a ship or garri,on carriage
was mounted. The base of the embrasure is very high, on
Colonel Abbott's principle, being within half an inch of the
under part of the gun when run out for firing, and directed
against an object about six feet high at e5O yards' range. The
siring took,place with hollow S inch shells, weighing 4elb. and
Sell., end the charges of powder were in the first instances
811 e, and afterwards 101 b. to each round, and the last shell
fired burst from the effect of the large charge, although it did
not contain any explosive meterials inside the metal of which
it was formed. 17 rounds were fired into the mound, anti
the shortest recoil of the gun and carriage on the platform
was 6 feet 1 inch, the whole giving an average recoil of 7 feet
fl} inches. The masonry of the embrasure appeared to
answer very well and proved very secure. The wheels
of the traversing platform are supported on circular pieces of
iron screwed down upon wood imbedded in the earth, similar
to railway sleepers and about the same dimensions. The
other parts of the ground are left in the usual state, with a
small quantity of sand and gravel packed upon it to render
it dry.
The experiments were concluded for the day at four
o'clock,
NEW UNIVERSITY MOVEMENT —We hear that an
influential body of noblemen and
gentlemen, among whom '
are Lords Ashley, Sandon, and ie. Grosvenor • Sir T.
Acland, Bart.; lessrs.A Gladstone, Glynne, Vernon Smith,p
ALP., and others, are about to memorialise the authoities,
of Oxford and Cambridge, suggesting additional departments
to the existing colleges, or the foundation of new collegiate
bodies, to provide increased facilities of University educa-
tion on a more economical scale than has hitherto prevailed.
.--Church and Slate Gazette.