The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-19 00:00:00

GREAT RAILWAY IN AUSTRIA.

The Ocsterretische Zeitung says :—" The projected
Raab-Semlin Railroad is one of the greatest industrial'
enterprises that has ever been undertaken in Austria.
The railway, which will be about 300 English miles in
'ength, will pass through the most fertile parts of Hun-
gary. The projected line will go by Szony Kis-Ber,
Alor, Stuhlweissenburg, Kalosz, Simontoroya—where
bridge will be thrown across the Sio—Szoles, Mohac4,
Essegg, and Mitrovicze to Senslin. Few difficulties will
present themselves in the construction, as there will be
neither tunnels to build nor dams to make. Some bogs
will, however, have to be filled up, and a long bridge to
be built across the Drave at Essegg. The rough es-
timate is, that the German mile (somewhat less than
five English) will cost 500,00011., and consequently
the whole line 30,000,00011. Almost all the land
through which the railway is to pass belongs to
the founders cf the company, so that the cost of
the terrain will not be groat. Estates belonging, to
Prince, Prince Esterhazy, Count Zichy, and Count Lam-
berg, which have an area of 400,000 acres of land, either
cultivated or capable of cultivation, lie close to the pro-
jected line, so it is probable those nobles will j Sin the
company. The originators of the plan are the Counts
John Wallitein, George Apponyi, Charles Apponyi, and
George Caroly. The first operation of the Austrian
Commercial Bank will be to purchase the Italian rail-
roads, in company with certain English, French, and
Italian houses. M. Pereira greatly desired to have the
railroads in question for the Credit Mobilier, but whey
he last called on Baron Bruck the latter plainly told him
that the parties who established the new Austrian Com-
mercial Bank would also have the Italian railways. Up
to yesterday evening 16,469 persons had applied for
2,077,059 shares in the new institution, so that the nomi-
nal amount subscribed is 415,411,80011. The railroad
from Preran (Northern line) to Troppau and Dielitz is
finished, and will be opened on the 17th of this month."

Report speaks of a return visit on the part of the
Emperor of the French to Turin in the course of the
spring.
The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University has
given notice that Prince Albert's gold medal fur the en-
couragement of English poetry will be given this year to
such resident undergraduate as shall compose the best
poem on " Luther at the Diet of Worms."
His Excellency M. Due, Norwegian Minister of State
at Stockholm, has arrived in London from Paris.
Baron de Brunow, Minister of Russia to the Germanic
Diet, has hired for four years the residence of the late
Baron Charles de Rothschild at Frankfort.
The Duke of Hamilton is expected in town, in a few
days, from Brodick Castle, on his way to Nice, to meet
the Duchess and family.
The Countess Helene Sielmansegge has left the resi-
dence of the Hanoverian Legation, on a visit to the Earl
and Countess Howe, at Gopsal.
Viscountess Palmerston will have a "reception" this
evening. To-morrow, or at latest on Friday, the noble
Premier and her ladyshipwill leave town for Broadlande
for the Christmas recess.
Viscount Balgonie, we regret to learn, continues very
ill. The latest accounts are rather more favourable.
The Lady Margaret De Burgh, eldest unmarried
daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde,
is about to form a matrimonial alliance with Mr. Went-
worth B. Beaumont, M.P., of Bywell Hall, Northum-
berland.
ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.—This evening Mdlle. Cle-
mentine Soullier, who will make her last appearance
this season, takes her benefit at this theatre. The per-
formances will be under the patronage of his Excellency
the Turkish Minister.
The curacy of Coley, near Halifax, conferring a title
at the Bishop of Ripon's Lent ordination, has become
vacant. It is worth 80/. a year, and is in the gift of the
Rev. W. H. Wason, M-A--
On the 12th inst., Sir Hamilton Seymour was received
in special audience by the Emperor of Austria and after-
wards had long interviews with Baron de Beurquency
and the Ottoman Ambassador. In the evening a grand
banquet in honour of the new Ambassador was given
by Prince Paul Eseterhazy, Count Buol being amongst
the guests.
TESTIMONIAL FROM A FOREIGN GOVERNMENT TO A
BRITIBII MERCHANT CAPTAIN.—The Government of the
United States recently forwarded to this country to the
Earl of Clarendon a silver speaking trumpet, for presen-
tation to Captain Boeclet, of the British barque Helen,
in acknowledgment of his services in rescuing the master
and crew of the American ship Pilgrim.
REPRESENTATION OF LINCOLN.—There seems to be
every probability that there will be a strong contest for
the borough of Lincoln, which has become vacant by the
death of Col. Sibthorpe. Sir Montague Colmeley, Bart.,
who unsuccessfully contested the Northern Division of
the county at the last general election, is spoken of as a
candidate. At the last election for the borough the
numbers stood as follows :—Col. Sibthorp, 640 ; Mr. G.
F. Heneage, 661 ; Mr. Charles Seeley, 478.
A skating society, composed of young people of both
sexes, belonging to the first families, has been formed at
Madrid. The fair members of this society have adopted
a very picturesque costume for the occasion consisting
of a Polish pelisse, trimmed with a rich braid ; a short
kerseymere petticoat, plaid trowsers, small beaver hat,
with a plume of feathers, and coloured morocco boots.
The Invalide Busse, of Dec. 9, contains the following :
" On the 14th of last month his August Highness the
Grand Duke Nico'ae Nicolaievitch receiving the blessing
of his mother, her Majesty the Empress Alexandra Feo-
clorovna ; and the consent of the Emperor to his mar-
riage with her Highness the Princess Alexand-ii n,
bourg, eldest daughter of Prince Pierre d'Oldenhourg.
An event so fortunate as this marriage, based upon mu-
tual inclination, cannot fail to soften the grief of the
Imperial family for the cruel loss to which, together with
the whole empire, it was compelled to submit at the be-
ginning of the present year."
MELANCHOLY SlllClDE.—Yesterday, Mr. Wadley e•
ceived information of the following determined suicide,
committed by a female named Wadley, who was living
with her husband in the Polygon, Clarendon-square,
and who precipitated herself the previous day from the
window of the second floor front room, which she occu-
pied. She was seen to get met, and, in her fall, to come
against the balcony of the first floor, when she turned
over and dropped in the street. She was promptly as-
sisted, and was found to have received some serious in-
jury to the brain, as she was in a state of insensibility.
She was at once conveyed to the University College
Hospital, where she was immediately attended to by
some of the medical officers of the institution. The un-
fortunate woman died soon after her admission. She is
stated to have shown, since her confinement a ebort time
ago, occasional indications of a deranged intellect. She
bad only been temporarily left by the person attending
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This evening Mr. J. K. Blackwell will lecture at the
Society of Arts on "The Present Position of the Iron
Industry of Great Britain with reference to that of other
countries." Joseph Glynn, Esq., F.R.S., will preside,
The Rev. Michael Angelo Atkinson, M.A., has been
instituted to the rectory of Fakenham, in Norfolk, on
the presentation of the Master, Fellows, and Scholars of
Trinity College, Cambridge.
THE CHIBCHA ISLANDS.—Accounts from the Chincha
Islands announce that Pieco has been made a pert of
entry. This will effect a coni.iderahle saving of time—
say one month-4n the voyage of vessels loading guano.
There is now no necessity for thorn to proceed to Callao
for license and for clearing papers.--khipping Gazette.
THE BARONESS PLOTHSCHILD.—The children of Baron
L. Rothechild's tenantry and labourers, together with a
number of boys and girls from the Brentford British
Schools, were entertained on Monday, at Gunnersbury,
by the Baroness. About 400 children sat down to dinner,
and were afterwards presented with numerous articles of
clothing, as well as work boxes, writing desks, pencil
cases, books, toys, &c. The mothers, with infants in
large numbers, were then supplied with tea and cake ad
libitum, after which they received supplies of flannel,
shoes, packages of tea and sugar, and sundry other com-
forts, proper to mothers of families.
ACCOUNTS OF MUNICIPAL Bonoucus.—Yesterday was
issued an abstract of the accounts of boroughs in Eng-
land and Wales for the year ended 31st August, 1854.
The total receipts for Eneland amounted to 1,572,7111.
15s, 93/4d., viz., 121,1291. 12s. Old. balance in treasurers'
hands ; 31045 E/. 7s. 11 id. borough rates, and 1,141,4231.
15s. 9id. other receipts. The total expenditure amounted
to 1,505,0061. 163. 3d., viz , 24,8351. is. 41d. due to
treasurers, and 1,480,1741. 14s. 10;d. actually expended.
For Wales the total receipts were 17,893/ , and the ex-
penditure 17,2231. 14s. DA. For England and Wales
together the total receipts were 1,590,609/. 15s. 9d.,
and the expenditure 1,522,2301. 103. 104 d.
DEATH OF DR. W. F. CHAMBERS, LATE PHYSICIAN TO
THE QUEEN.—We regret to announce the death of this
eminent member of the medical profession, which took
place at his residence, Hordle House, near Lymington,
Hants, on the 16th inst. Dr. Chambers was born in
India, in the year 1786, and was the eldest eon of Wm.
Chambers Esq., a gentleman in the civil service of
the East India ompany. The deceased came to Eng-
land when very young, and received his education at
Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he
obtained high honours. On leaving Cambridge he came
to London, and entered at the Windmill-street School
of Medicine, and in due time was admitted a licentiate
in medicine. Dr. Chambers was for many years one of
the physicians of St. George's Hospital, and had, up to
the time of his retirement, in 1818, one of the most
lucrative practices in the metropolis.
THE WEATHER IN THE BALTIC.—MEMEL, Dec. 14.
Weather fine ; wind easterly. The Haff is covered with
thin ice, and no vessels can move without steam power.
Several will be towed out this afternoon. Hamburg,
Dec. 15.—The river is now frez el over as far down as
this harbour; lover down there is much and heavy
floating ice : weather variable, mild, mach snow, and
some frost • temperature last night 5 deg. of frost, with
wind at S.S.W.. Bremen, Dec. 14.—The ice in the
Weser has come to a stand ; weather much milder ;
wind W., with snow.

QUESTIONS FOE TRH WEST-END OF LONDON.—Why in
your families do you see such pallid faces ? Why even in
your healthiest districts is the rose of health unknown ?
Why do you rarely behold in your town-nursed children
that gushing overflow of life, so beautiful to notice in the
innceent, healthy, happy young ? I address myself to
anxious and judicious parents. You have taken care that
your children shoul] constantly obey the laws of exercise
and diet ; you have clothed them judiciously ; y have
thought on the importance of cleanliness; you have sent
them early to rest, have taught them to rise early, have
ventilated their dermitoriea and school rooms, and in every
way studied their health and happiness. Then, why are
they so pale? why t o easily affected by morbific il.fluence- ?
why so liable to headaches, stomach- pains, and other causes
of unhappiness ? Look for your answer to the atmosphere.
Look to the vat ious plague-spots of the metropolis. Look
to the neighbourhood inhabited by your poor. Think
that God is just, as well as wise and loving ; and will
not have his poor the only sufferers, but bids his laws to
spread the poisons generated in vile districts, even into
parks and palaces. Look then to your atmosphere for
the cause of pallid faces. Thiele of the foggy vapours
constantly arising from this vast ill-drained cesspooi'd
area. Think that every particle of floating moisture is
cap: bee of holding in suspension many times it own
volume of gaseous poison, and see the cause of paleness
and general debility in the forced infringement of the
law of respiration.—Hopley's Lectures on Respiration.
EXTENSIVE FIRE.—One of the most serious confla-
grations that has occurred in Bristol for many years took
place yesterday morning. Shortly before 1 o'clock Mr.
Warry, silversmith and jeweller, of St. Augustine's-
parade, was awoke by a smell of burning in his house,
and on getting out of bed he found that a fire had broken
out in the lower part of the premises. The Tames spread
with such rapidity that the escape of Mr. Warry and
his housekeeper (the only inmates of the house) was for
some time doubtful. At last a dragpole belonging to
the Humane Society was procured, and, being raised to
the bedroom, Mr. Warry made his way in safety down it
to the street. The housekeeper, Mary Brown, was not
so fortunate, as, either from fright or some other cause,
she let go her grasp of the pole and fell to the ground,
fracturing both her legs. By 4 o'clock the flames were
subdued, but not until the houses of Messrs. Warry and
Jones had been burnt to the ground, and the valuable
stocks which they each contained either totally destroyed
or considerably damaged. A quantity of gold guard-
chains, bracelets, lockets, brooches, have been re-
covered by the police from the salvage, which is still
under search. The premises occupied by Mr. Warry
were insured in the Imperial, and the stock in the Nor-
wich Union for 8001., which is stated to be about one-
third of its value. he house and stock of Mr. Jones
are covered by an insurance in the Imperial, and those
of Mr. Linter by a policy with the Protestant Dissent.
ers' office.

FRAUD BY A POLICE SUPERINTENDENT.—MC. James
Buglass, the late superintendent of police at South
Shields, was brought up en remand on Monday before
the county magistrates of that town, charged with de-
frauding his late employers, the Watch Committee of the
corporation, to a considerable extent. He had been in-
trusted to receive the fines and fees due to the Town
Council from persons fined under the by-laws, and had
kept a book which he was called upon to produce monthly,
accounting for those fines ; but it seems that the "drunk
and disorderlies" of that town often take second thoughts
often being committed to the " regions below," and
pay the fines and fees inflicted upon them rather
than go to gaol. A number of those persons Buglass
had reparted as "committed," whereas they had paid
the fines and costs, which he had appropriated to his
own use, and his defalcations are serious. The court was
crowded all Friday and to-day while a number of charges
were preferred against him, the disclosures creating no
small amount of sensation among a somewhat turbulent
audience. Some of the charges against the defendant
were of an extraordinary character. A drunken cobbler
had created a row in the police court, and had been put
in distance by order of the magistrates. When sober ho
was dischar sed, and a summons had been isssued against
him, to which he had not answered. He stated in evi-
dence on Friday that he was apprehended on a warrant
afterwards ; but instead of being brought up before a
magistrate, Mr. Buglass sat in judgment upon him, and
told him that if he did not pay 14s. 6d. be must be
sent to Durham Gaol for 21 days. He was removed to
Durham Gaol, where he was confined five days ; his
friends then paid 17s. 63. to Buglass, and he was re-
leased. No portion of this money, nor a farthing of
money _in 26 cases selected by tho Watch Committee,
had ever been paid them by Buglass. Apart from the
defalcations of Buglass, some very unsatisfactory fea-
tures, which do not put the administration of justice by
our local magistrates in a favourable light, came out
during the inquiry ; in all the cases that came under
consideration the proportion of court fees and costs was
as De. to ss. fine ; and it further appeared that for every
case that a policeman brought before the magistrates he
received is. out of the costs of the suit as a sort of
" head money "—a very great inducement to this class
of persons to manufacture trumpery cases, and encou-
rage small offences among the lower and disorderly por-
tion of the seafaring popelation. Buglass was sent
for trial at the Durham Quarter Sessions.

TILE QUOIIN HUNT. —By the death of Sir Richard
Sutton, Bart., the large and well-known hunting estab-
lishment at Quorn, Leicestershire, has been broken up,
and the fine stud of horses, picked packs of hounds, &c.,
have been brought to the hammer. The sale, which taok
place at Quorn on Thursday and Friday last, was at-
tended by some 2,000 persons, including a numerous
proportion of noblemen and gentlemen, masters of
hounds, huntsmen, dealers, &c. The horses, which oc-
cupied their usual stalls in the stables, with the names
inscribed over each, were inspected by many of the com-
pany previous to the sale. They were in admirable con-
dition, the bunting season having barely commenced at
the time of Sir Richard Sutton's death. Several of them
were up to almost any weight ; but the majority were
calculated to carry about 12.4 rders, and none of them
were of large proportions. The bidding for the horses
was extremely spirited. Somerby, whese reputation for
jumping made him eagerly looked for, fetched 360 gns.,
the purchaser being Mr. Murray, of Manchester, and
it was understood that he is to go to the Cheshire
county. Shankton was bought by Lord Ruston for 360
guineas ; Freemason by Mr. R. Sutton, for 340 guineas;
Freney, by Mr. Sutton, for 340 guineas ; Kegworth, by
Sir I'. Whichcute, for 320 guineas ; Malakhoff, by Col.
flood (for Prince Albert), for 310 guineas ; Harkaway,
Nea-m trket, and Bagenal Daly, by Mr. R. Sutton, for
300 guineas each ; Knight of Gwynne, by Mr.R.Sutton,
for 220 guineas ; R ,cket, by Mr. Rousen, for 210
guineas ; Wanderer, by Lord Wilton, for 75 guineas ;
Admiral, by Colonel Hood (for Prince Albert), for 120
guineas ; Talbot, by Mr. Bass, for 100 guineas. The
total sum realised for the 32 horses sold on the first day
was 5,812 guineas ; 13 made an average of 294 guineas.
On Friday six horses that had been used in cub-bunting
fetched 460 guineas ; three backs, 242 guineas ; three
ponies, 100 guineas ; and the rest of the horses, &c.,
393/. The saddles and clothing brought 216 guineas,
and the hound-van 16 guineas. The hounds which were
sold on the first day generally averaged 23 to 234 inches;
the blood being a combination of the Rutland, Beritinck,
Yarborough, Saodbeck, Drake, Beaufort, Sykes, and
Fitzhardinge kennels. The 14 lots, five couples each,
produced 1,806 guineas, the purchasers being the
Earl of Stamford, lot 1, 59 guineas ; Mr. Drake, lot 2,
52 guineas ; Mr. Morrell, lot 3, 210 guineas ; Mr. R.
Sutton, lot 4, 200 guineas ; the Earl of Stamford, lot 5,
61 guineas ; the Earl of Stamford, lot 6, 46 guineas ;
Mr. R. Sutton, lot 7, 100 guineas ; Mr. Mainwaring,
lot 8, 170 guineas ; Mr. Collier, lot 9, 30 guineas ; Mr.
Main waving, Lit 10, 130 guineas ; Mr. R, S tto , lot 11.
360 guineas ; the Earl of Stanford, lot 12, 74 ;
Mr. R. Sutton, lot 13, 260 guineas ; Mr. Collier, lot 14,
105 guineas. This sale was the most important of its
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LATEST NEWS.

TREATY BETWEEN SWEDEN AND
THE WESTERN POWERS.

STOCKHOLM, Dec. 18.
The King has ratified a treaty with England
and France.

The two Allied Powers guarantee the territo-
rial integrity of Sweden, and the latter engages
not to alienate any part of its territory to Russia.
The high contracting parties engage to commu-
nicate, mutually and reciprocally, all propositions
coming from Russia.

BERLIN, DEC. 18.

It is stated that the English Government has
demanded from the Court of Vienna an explana-
tion of the motives which have induced it to re-
duce the Austrian army.
The organisation of the militia will be extended
in the spring to the Polish provinces.

MARSEILLES, DEC. 19, 8.45 A. M.

The Jourdain has arrived with advices from
Constantinople of the 10th, and from the Crimea
of the Bth instant.

Despatches leave at 9 a.m.

Our Constantinople correspondent, writing on
the 10th, says that advices from Erzerouni, of the
27th November, had announced that Kars was to
capitulate on the 28th of November.
General Mouravicff had sent a portion of his
army against Omer Paella.