The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-06 00:00:00

THE NAVIG.ATION OF THE MURRAY

BITER.

The navigation of the Murray river seems, according
to the last accounts from South Australia, to have been
carried on with most satisfactory results. Although
the water had been lower than for many years, Captain
Cadell had again steamed in the Lady Augusta 2,000
miles from its mouth, and within 20 miles of the town
of Albury in New South Wales, which he would have
visited but for the river being impeded with snags.
The steamers at present employed by the Murray
River Navigation Company are the Lady Augusta
and the Sir Henry, and these, with four barges, have
been actively engaged during the present season in
carrying supplies to the farm stations along the banks,
and in bringing down large quantities of return arti-
cles, such as wool, sheepskins, tallow, &c. In this
way, the three colonies of South Australia, Victoria,
and New South Wales, are now furnished with an out-
let for the produce of inexhaustible lands, which are
likely in a short time to become rapidly peopled. Al-
together seven trips had been performed by the two
steamers with their barges, and in the last the quantity
of wool brought down was 793 bales. Meanwhile, the
Government committee, appointed to examine the en-
trance to the river from the sea, which until recently
was always considered impracticable, had arrived at the
conclusion that by an outlay of 1,500/. for buoys, &c.,
the passage may be-made perfectly safe for vessels of a
certain draught. This outlay had consequently been
agreed to. It was likewise expected that two new
Scotch steamers, the Albury and Gundagai, lately con-
structed on the Clyde, together with four iron barges
from England, would soon arrive, and thus furnish the
Navigation Company with ample tonnage for all the
existing traffic. From the explorations he has already
male, Captain Cadell, it is said, has arrived at the con-
eluion that, instead of Australia being a riverless con-
tiuent, as hitherto represented, her internal navigation
is such as few other large tracts of territory can excel.

IZAILIV A Y INTELLIGENCE.

ARDENNES.

A concession has been granted by the French Govern-
ment for this railway, which comprises a line from
Rheims on the Strasburg Railway to Mezieres and
Charleville, with a branch to Sedan ; length 65 miles. 2.
An extension of this line from Charleville to the Belgian
frontier (length about 35 miles), to be constructed by the
State and handed over to the company under the law of
1842, by which the company have only to provide rails
and rolling stock, thus acquiring the line for two-fifths
of its actual cost. 3. A line from Creil on the Northern
Railway to Beauvais ; length 22 miles. 4. A preferen-
tial right of constructing a line front Rheims. by Soissons
to Cot-111124,m0 on the Northern Railway. The total au-
thorised capital (exclusive of the prospective lines, and
of the line to be constructed by Government), accord-
ing to the estimates of the Government engineers,
is 29,600,000 f., or 1,181,0001., making the ave-
rage cost about 13,5001. per mile for a single line,
with land and works of art for a double line. This
comprises interest at 4 per cent. on the amount paid
upon the shares during the period of construction. The
main lino from Rhei ns to Mezieres and the Belgian
frontier, foirnieg part of the system of principal railways
projected by the State in 1842, establishes a new North-
Eastern trunk line intermediate betweenlt
er
the Northern
and the Eastern (Strasburg) Railway.
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departments of the Marne and Ardennes, and passes
through several conesdidaenr,abalnedtcowhanrsi,
as such
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the Belgian s
n frontier renders it, as d,,eascnriabwedliinnethnef
'France and irnedpeoprtenodfetnlite
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gium," connecting the French railway system with the
coal wnd iron district of the Meuse, and at Namur join-
ing the leading lines of railway to Brussels Liege, Aix-
la-Cliar,elle, and Germany. The branch from Creil
throught the valley of Therein to Beauvais, the chief
town of the department of the Oise, will, it is asserted,
command a large local traffic, being the only railway in
the district between the Northern and Rouen Railway,
and that it can be easily extended to Rouen.

RAILWAY RILLS ON STANDING ORDERS.
NORTH YORKSHIRE AND CLEVELAND.—The select
committee of the House of Commons have decided that
the standing orders may be dispensed with in the case of
this company's bill, and that the parties may be per-
mitted to proceed with it.
WEST SOMERSET MINERAL.--The committee have
given a similar decision in the case of this company's
bill.

LEEDS, BRADFORD, AVD HALIFAX JIINCTION.—The
committee in this case have decided that the parties be
permitted to proceed, Provided notice be given to every
shareholder before the 7th of February.
Yesterday the examiners of the House of Commons
declared tho standing orders complied with in the fol-
lowing cases :

LONDON AND BLACKWALL.— For widening the line
from Fenchurch-street to Rhodeswell, near the Bow
Junction of the Eastern Counties, at an estimated cost
of 160,000/.
SOUTH WALIZS MINERAL—For power to lease the
line.

GREAT NORTHERN.—To authorize the company to
erect and endow a church and schools at Doncaster, at
a cost of 6,0001,

A.dvices from different parts of Canada express
strong fears that the unusual mildness of the season and
the absence of snow will have an injurious effect upon
the autumn-sown grain. At St. Catherine's business
was very dull, and robberies quite frequent.
" One of the heaviest produce houses in New Orleans
failed on Monday, owing to the suspension of Page,
Bacon, and others. The liabilities of those houses which
failed on Saturday are estimated at 2,500,000 dollar,.
Their assets, however, exceed that sum, and it is
thought they will all resume business.
Failures were apprehended in Cincinnati and Louis.
ville, in consequence of those which have taken place in
New Orleans.
" Our telegraphic despatches mention the recent
failure of three heavy banking houses at St. Louis, a
similar establishment at New Orleans, and afirm engaged
in the cotton trade at th• same place, likewise the sus-
pension of a prominent commission house at Lousville.
" When it was announced in St. Louis that the doors
of the banking-house of Page and Bacon were closed,
there was a sudden upheaving in all the ramifications of
finance and trade, and business men run to and fro with
utter amazement pictured upon every countenance.
" The barque Howling Wind, Captain Porter, sailed
from Philadelphia on the 18th for Londonderry, with a
full cargo of grain. The next day, having passed the
Capes of the Delaware, it was discovered that the vessel
leaked badly. Notwithstanding every exertion to keep
the skip free by pumping and throwing overboard a por-
tion of the cargo, the leak gained so fast that Captain
Porter deemed it advisable to make for the nearest port.
On Saturday, about dark, she was fallen in with by the
pilot-boat Antony B. Neilson, of this port. The ship
being completely waterlogged and the pumps choked by
grain, she was abandoned, all hands going on board the
pilot-boat, which reached this city last night."

COIIIIiERCIA.L.

NEW YORK, Jan. 24.

For some weeks past sterling bills at 60 days hare
ranged as low as 71 to 8 ; within a few days the rates
have advanced, and remittances of bankers' bills for to•
morrow's steamer are made as 9 to 9.1.
FOREIGN EXCHANGES. 1,013(1011, 1081 to 1091 ;
Paris, 5171 to 5131; Amsterdam, 41 to 41i ; Ham-
burgh, 363 to 361 ; Bremen, 78 to 78h.
The money market has essentially improved during
the past week ; the banks having extended their dis-
count line, and the rates at the bill brokers having de-
clined from 12 to 15 to 8 to 10 per cent, on first-class
paper. Loans on call 7 per cent.
The western rivers continue very low, and thus the
shipments of cotton and produce are much delayed, and
the supply of bills on Europe from the south is more
limited than usual.

CoTrox.--The business doing is on the basis of 8/c.
for middling uplands, and 9 to 91c. for New Orleans.
Our latest advices from Mobile and New Orleans are per
telegraph as follows :-" Mobile, January 19-Sales of
the week, 9,000 bales; middling, 7 c. ; freight, 11-S2ds ;
deficit in receipts, 83,000 bales ; stock, 42,500 bales.'
" New Orleans, January 19-Sales, 7,500 bales ; mid-
dling, Sic. ; stock, 150,000 bales ; excess in receipts,
27,000 bales ; freight to Liverpool, 7-16 d."
ASHES.-The sales have been moderate at $6 68/ for
pots, and $7 25 per 1001 b. for pearl ashes.
HOPS.-Sales of western were made to moderate ex-
tent at 28 to 30.
NAVAL STORES.-The market is quiet. Sales of
spisits of turpentine are made at 400. Rough turpea•
tine $3 25 to 3 75. Common rosin $1 75 to 1 85.
PROVISIONS.-Old mess pork was a little firmer, with
sales of some 300 to 400 barrels from $l2 37i to 12 50.
Old prime there is none in market. New mess $l4 12i
to 14 50.
FRIZIGHTS.-There was snore offering to-day, and
several worn made. We quote :-To Liverpool-Cot.
ton, square bales, per lb, 5-32 d. ; flour, per brl., le. 9a.;
rosin, is. 9d. to 2s. ; heavy goods, cheese, &c., per ton,
17s. 6d. to 225. 6d. ; grain, per bushel, Gd. ; beef, per
tree., 3s. to 3s. 6d. To London-Tobacco, per hhd.,
225. Gd, ; flour, per brl., 2s. 6d. ; rosin and turpentine,
per 280 lbs., 2s. 9d. to 3s. ; furs and skins, per ton, 255.
to 308. ; heavy goods, oils, &c., per ton, 252. to 30s. ;
beef, per tree, 4s. Gd. to ss. 6d. ; pork, 3s. 6d. per brl.;
ashes, ss. ; bacon, 275. 6d. ; oil cake, per ton, 255. To
Havre-Cotton' square bales, per lb.. jo. ; ashes, per
ton, $6 to $7; whalebone, &c., per lb., /o.; heavy
goods, ic. to ie. ; flour, per brl., 50c.; provisions, 80o.;
grain, per bushel, Bc. To Glasgow-Grain, Gad. To
San Francisco (by clippers)-Measurement goods, per
foot, 255. to 35c. ; heavy goods, per ton, $l5 to $2O.

PROGRESS OF PURIFYING TIIZ

Since active measures have been put into operation
daring the last few months in order to abate the smoke
nuisance, not only has the air been cleared with asto-
nishing rapidity, which was hitherto considered almost
impossible, but those measures to effect it have proved
as eminently successful and satisfactory, and it is stated
by the inhabitants of some of the worst -manufacturing
districts of the metropolis that they now not only daily
see the improved appearance of the atmosphere, but feel
the beneficial effects of the charge upon their constitu-
tions ; and, in consequence of this success, a number of
appliances are being suggested by various parties in order
to meet the requirements of those furnaces which at
present are exempt from the provisions of the Smoke
Act, such as potteries, glass works, smiths' forges, &c.,
it being notorious that the most inveterate smokers now
are those existing in the Lambeth pottery district.
And moreover, as it has been stated by Mr. Wright,
C.E., Government inspector of smoke nuisance, that
upwards of 3,000,000 tons of coal are annually imported
into London, and that only 1,000,000 tons of this quan-
tity is consumed for manufacturing purposes, and the
smoke arising from which is conveyed into the air by
6,000 tall chimneys, ranging from 25 to 200 feet high,
it is, therefore, obvious that fully two-thirds or 2,000,000
tons of coals are annually consumed by the 390,000
reeking dwelling houses of the metropolis, and that a
single stack, consisting of ten or twelve house chimneys
during the winter months, will give out quite as much
smoke as those manufacturing chimneys ranging from
25 to 60 feet high, which class proportionately comprises
by far the greatest number of 6,000 shafts who are obliged
by the clauses of the Smoke Act to consume their own
smoke, hence it is evident that by far the largest amount
of smoke created in the metropolis is that emitted from the
immense number of dwelling-houses ; and in sight of this
state of things a variety of plans are being further pro-
posed, not only to annihilate smoke arising from every
drawing-room fire, but, in fact, that no particle of smoke
be allowed to escape into the air, by which means also
chimney-stacks and chimney-pots, with an infinite
variety of ugly and dangerous cowls and deformed pipes,
may be dispensed with, that are now distorting in every
kind of formidable shape the appearance of our private
dwellings, and threaten at no distant day in some disas-
trous gale of wind to fall down, and commit fatal depre-
dations amongst unsuspectinr,
icTpedes4rians. These ob-
jects, therefe, once attained, houses in London will
assume the olean and neat appearance of those in Eastern
countries, and the British capital become comparatively
as free from the pollution of smoke as a country village..

IMPORTANT LIBRL CASR.—ARBITRATION.—DAVIS v.
num—This libel ease against the publisher of the
Pritigt Ba2I7ICP is postponed from this day (Tuesday)
till Thursday next, when Mr. Ballantine will reply on
the whole ease for the plaintiff, in the Bolls Court,,
Westminster.

ABOLITION OP INTERMENTS IN CHURCH VAIIILTS.-011
Friday the first step was taken tawards the abolition of
interments in the vaults of churches. With a view to
obtain information upon the subject, Dr. Sutherland
was instructed by the Home-office to inspect the vaults
and catscambs of all the churches and chapels of St.
Pancras. After having gone
whichgonotlirtohneghcotmhenswhwoelereopfitihed
the
togetherburYiug like
-Plae2 in some
egg-boxes, Dr. Sutherland came to the
conclusion that the system ought to be discontinued.
GREAT SNOW-STORM.—Since the memorable winter of
1814 Dublin has not, in one night, been visited by such
a snow-storm as that which, commencing at an early
hour on Saturday morning, in an incredibly short time
covered the ground to the uniform depth of half-a.foot.
While writing, the snow in still descending in small but
close heavy flakes, with every appearance of long con-
tinuance. The streets are well-nigh impassable for pe-
destrians, and as for quadrupeds and vehicles they era
not to be seen. The wind is blowing a bitter blast from
due east, and altogether it is doubtful whether the wea-
ther can be much more severe in the Crimea than .it is
at the present moment in the Irish metropolis.
Mus. FAXETT KIMBLE'.
—The incomparable Fanny
TheL
igahuttie Dream,
reeam assembled.
read is
Exeter-hall,last night,the
Midsummert o
a crowded
Non-
don public are so f*miliar with the delineation of our
reputation. poet by Mrs. Ramble, that it were useless to point out
those particular beauties which have already won
with the finest poetic susoepti-
bility, she almost:rises to a level with her author, never
missing a point already traditioned, and occasionally
thheart, a
deeply
ypermbued Suffice it, then, to say
creating others which bear the true impress of highgeniva.
Mrs. Kemble never loses her hold upon an audience,
but keeps their attention unflagging to the last. Never
was this better exemplified than last night. Her por-
traiture, even of the most delicate nuances of character,
was rewarded by her auditory with. a liberality of ap-
plause which showed that they perfectly entered into
the thought and intention of the fair reader. Having
said so much, it were unjust not to mention that Men-
delssohn's magnificent music was never better rendered
than by M. Benedict, who directed upon this occasion.

ROYAL. LYCEUM TiIEATRE.

Under the Management of Madame Vettris..
TIM EVENING, FEB. G,

Win be performed AGGRAVATING SAM. Principal charaete
by Mr. C. Mathews.
After which will be produced the new and original Fairy Extra
Vaffenze. eatitled PRINCE I'RETTYPET and TIIE BUTTERFLY
To be followed by TWO IIEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE.
Box-onioe ogee from 10 until G.
sole agent for Private Boxes Mr. Ailerons 15, New-Bond-street.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELPI:II.
proprietor, Mr. B. Webstor.—Directress, Madame Celeste.
THIS EVENING. FEB. 6.
Will be performed a new and ( rlginal Drama, preceded by a Pro
logue, and called JANET PRIDE.
To be followed by a New Grand DIVERTISSEMENT.
After which, BONA FIDE TRAVELLERS.
To which will bo added the Farce entitled TUE RAILWAY
BE L LE.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee and `imager, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, FEE. 6,
Will be presented the new enniedietta, called TIT FOR TAT i
Which Messrs. F. Robso A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will apPearn.
After wh, a new Fairy Extravaganza entitled THE YELLOW
DWARF. AND THE ICING CF THE GOLD MINES. Charact,rs
by yr.?. Robson, Miss Julia St. George, Miss E. Ormonde, Miss
Marstost, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Fitzallan.
To oonelude with A WIFE'S JOURNAL.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isattc3.

THIS EVENING
WUI be performed the popular Barletta, OUR NEUT. Principal
character, Miss Rebecca Isaacs.
After which, a new Operatic Burlesque, entitled, ALONZO THE
BRAVE.
To conclude with the Farce of the TUBER PAIR OF LOVERS.

ASTLEY'S ROYAL VIPIIITHEATRE.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. ceoko.
THIS EVENING,
93d Representation of the glorious Spectacle, the BATTLE of the
ALMA, the tremendous success of which has placed it among the
'wonderful phenomena of the day.
Atter 'which. the unique SCENES in the CIRCLE, invented by Mr.
William Cooke.
To conclude with the Equestrian Comic Pantomime of GULLIVER
and the LILLIPUTIANS ; or, Harlequin and Britannia.
Boa-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
W est. Acting Manger. 3P r. W. H, Cooke, Equestrian Director,
Mr. W. Cooke, jun.

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