The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-03 00:00:00

PROJECTED RAILWAYS.

Kotices that application is intended to be made to Parlia-
ment, in the ensuing cession, on behalf of the undermen-
tioned schemes, appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday night :
Buxton, Macclesfield, Congleton, and Crewe—(Buxton,
Macclesfield, and Congleton—Congleton and Crewe).

Buckinghamshire iiailway—Oxford and Bletchley Junc-
tion.

Birmingham and Bristol—(Malvern line).
Derby, Mansfield, Worksop, and Great Grimsby and Shef-
field Junction.

Midland Railway Extension—Newark and Gainsborough
Railway.
Midland Railway—Nottingham and Mansfield branch.
Midland Railway—Burton-upon-Trent to Nuneaton.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
DEPOSITS WITH THE BOARD OF TRADE.

The following are some of the omissions from the List of
Deposits with the Board of Trade, which appeared in cur
paper of yesterday :-
1. Cambridge and Colchester Junction
2. London and Southend
3. Portsmouth, Guildford, and Fareham
4. Gloucester, Abervstwith, and Central Wales
5. Metropolitan Railways Junction
6. Liverpool, Manchester, and .Newcastle-on-Tyne
7. Pontefract, Doncaster, and Mansfield Junction
f. North London Junction
9. Clonmel and Youghal
10. Newry and Carhngford and Docks
11. Great Leinster and Munster-Carlow and Kilkenny
12. Great Leinster and Munster-Kilkenny and Comet
13. Templemore, Nenagh, and Shannon
14. Wexford, Carlow, and Dublin Junction
15. Direct Manchester, Leeds, and York
16. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Edinburgh, and Direct Glasgow
Junction
17. Northumberland Dock and Percy branch
18. Carmarthen Mineral Junction
19. Northampton, Bedford, and Cambridge
20. East and West of England Junction
21. Oxford, Southampton, and Gosport
22. North of Norfolk
23. Dorking, Brighton, and Arundel
24. Windsor and Slough
25. The South Eastern Extension
26. The South Western
27. Reading, Guilding, and Reigate
28. Hull and Holyhead Direct
29. London and Nottingham
30. Canterbury and Herne-bay
31. North London Junction
32. East Coast
33. Manchester and Rugby Direct
34. Birmingham, West Bromwich, Wednesbury, and Walsall
35. Midland, Barnsley, Sheffield, Dewsbury, Leeds, and
Bradford.

LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION RAIL-
WAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In going over the list of the several railway projects,
as published in the Morning Chronicle of to-day, giving the
names of those for which plans, sections, and books of refer-
ence have been deposited at the Board of Trade, I find that
the above undertaking has been omitted.
I shall feel greatly obliged if you will have the goodness
to notice this in a prominent part of your next paper, and to
give it the most positive contradiction, as the documents
before referred to were all safely deposited on Saturday, the
29th ultimo, both at the Boaril of Trade and the several
places requisite to do so, to comply with the standing orders
of Parliament, in order that all parties interested in the
undertaking, and the public generally, may be correctly in-
formed upon this mattcr.—l remain, Sir, your most obedient
servant, W. H. INGRAM, Secretary.

22, Parliament• street, London, Dec. 2, 1845.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—As the dramatic agents of Madlle. Jenny St. Leon,
who was announced to perform at the Strand Theatre last
night, we beg, in justice to that lady, to contradict the asser-
tion that she " disappointed at the last moment." Her
name should not have been inserted in the bills, we having
made known to the management on Saturday morning that
Madlle. Jenny St. Leon would not under any circumstances
appear at the Strand Theatre.—Your obedient servants,
TURNOUR and lIOLLINGSWORTH.
December 3, 1845.

THE LATE MIDLAND RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—The
inquiry into the causes of the death of Police-sergeant
Stubbs, which was adjourned in order to have the evidence
of Walker, the stoker of the pilot-engine, was resumed on
Monday afternoon last, at three o'clock, in the Council-
chamber of the Court-house, Leeds. Walker was in attend-
ance at the time required, havingbeen brought from Brighton,
where he has been residing since his discharge from the ser-
vice of the Midland Company. His evidence of the progress
of the pilot-engine, up to the place where the collision took
place, corresponded in every material particular with his de-
position at the inquest on Mr. Boteler. On that occasion he
stated, that as they were coming up to the mail-train a white
light was seen, and continued to be exhibited up to the time
of the accident taking place. It was afterwards suggested
that this might have been a green light, which at a distance
had the appearance of a white one, and Walker had gathered
his impression respecting it when at a considerable dis-
tance from the mail train. Upon this question he was strictly
examined, at the adjourned inquest on Monday last, by Mr.
Blackburn, the Coroner, but he made a very confused state-
ment as to the use of signals. It was evident that he was, in a
great measure, ignorant of the rules laid down by the Mid-
land Company for the use of signals, and he could scarcely
be expected to be otherwise, for he said he was a very bad
reader, and the rules had never been read over to him. He
was clearly deficient in every important part of his duty, and
grossly incompetent to be entrusted with any portion of the
management of a railway locomotive engine. Ho asserted
that the red lights were seen by him and Wheatley half a
mile distance from the train before them, and from that time
they did everything they could to stop their engine, although
he afterwards admitted that an engine going at their speed
could be stopped in 300 yards. This statement being in itself
a decided contradiction, and his testimony in other respects
so ,very equivocal, the Coroner said he thought himself
scarcely justified in continuing his examination. Eventually
the jur3 decided to dismiss from their minds this man's evi-
dence. Time Coroner then made some suitable observations
upon the evidence; after which the jury consulted together,
and returned a verdict of" Manslaughter" against the driver,
Thomas Wheatley. Sir Isaac Morley and Mr. Houldsworth,
two of the Midland Directors, were present at this adjourn-
ment of the inquest.
PRICE OP GOLD.—The premium on gold at ?aria
is 12 per mills, which, at the English Mint price CZ 3/. 17s.
100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of
25 45 ; and the exchange at Paris on Londea at short being
ce'At. dearer in London
urgh, the price of gold
25 60, it follows that gold is 0.59 per
than in Paris. By advices from
is 4331 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s.
101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange
of 13 9}; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at
short being 13 10, it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent,
dearer in London than in Hamburgh.

Sir Henry Pottinger, whilst her Britannic Ma-
jesty's Plenipotentiary in China, presented a silver cup,
weighing upwards of 130 cameos, to Captain W. Warden,
commanding the East India Company's steam-frigate Queen,
in the Chinese seas, as a special token of his regard and
esteem for his public services at that time. The cup has re-
cently arrived in this country by a ship from Calcutta, and
an application ha,s been made to the Government for its de•
livery free of duty, which has been complied with.