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

GREAT RAILWAY IN AUSTRIA.

The Oesterralsclie Zeitung says :—" The projected
Raab-Semli❑ Railroad is one of the greatest `industrial'
enterprises that has ever been undertaken in Austria.
The railway, which will be about 300 E❑glish miles in
length, will pass through the most fertile parts of Hun-
gary. The projected line will go by Szony Kis-Ber,
Mor, Stuhlweissenburg, Kalosz, Simontornya—where a
bridge will be thrown across the Sio—Szoles, Mohacs,
Essegg►, and Mitrovicze to Semlin. 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 500,0000., and consequently
the whole line 20,000,0001 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 great. 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 wil► join the
company. The originators of the plan are the Counts
John Waldstein, 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 hoases. M. Pereira greatly desired to have the
railroads in question for the Credit Mobilier, but when
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 parsons had applied fur
3,07 7, 059 shares in the new institution. AO that the nomi-
nal amount subscribed is 415,411,8000. The railroad
from Preran (Northern line) to Troppau and Bielitz 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 for 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, Dlinister of Russia to the Germanic
Diet, has hired for four years the residence of the late
Baron Charles de Rothschild at Frankfort.

The HatPilton 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 Kielmansegge has loft 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 ladyship will leave town for Broadlaude
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, Au., of Bywell Hall, Northum-
berland.
ASTLEY'S AMPHITAEATRE.—This evening Mdlle. Cle-
mentine Soupier,who will make her last appearance
this season, takes her benefit at this theatre. The per-
formances will he under the patrocage 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 801. a year, and is in the gift of the
Rev. W, H. Mason, 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 Bourqueecy
and the Ottoman Ambassador. In the evening a grand
banquet in honour of the new Ambassador was given
by Prince Paul Easterhazy, Count Buol being amongst
the guests.
TESTIMONIAL PROM A FOREIGN GOYERN3IENT TO A
BRITISH 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 Bosdet, of the British barque Helen,
in acknowledgment of his services in rescuing the master
and crew of the American chip 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, 840 ; 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, cmsistiug
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 Ilusse, of Dec. 9, contains the following
"On the 14th of last month his August Highness the
Grand Duke Nicolas Nicolaievitch receiving the blessing,
of his mother, her Majesty the Empress Alexandra Foo-
dorovna ; and the consent of the Emperor to his mar-
riage with hor Highness the Princess Alexa.ndeiad'Olden-
bourg, eldest daughter of Prince Pierre d'Oldenbourg.
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 SUlClDE.—Yesterday, Mr. Waaley re-
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 out, 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 hia,in, 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 womae died soon after her admission. She is
stated to bare shown, since her confinement a short time
ago, occasional indications of a deranged intellect. She
had only been temporarily left by the person attending
her, when she took the opportunity of committing the I
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