The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
TE K S ING' CROSS TERMINUS OF THE
must proceed and be disposedof,
plated. Upon this matterthe re
wriiacshaitsuwita,s wn'ohpice,h
Hi
GREAT NORTHERN, I would be effected in November. The directors had
The directors of the Great Northern Railway
e • company
ofi) a somenowla Land d forbe been
realised,. , andwhenassets
the of
f
ber, for the public opening of this station, which is of Mr. Clarke and his trustee was disposed of
claimthe
the
Company have appointed Monday, the 20th S Ptem
accounts of the undertaking could be finally wound
now rapidly drawing near completion.
King's-cross has a north-western frontage, and is to the 31st of July, 1852, showed the amount re-
The grand entrance to this handsome terminus at up. The general statement cf receipts and payments
composed entirely of brick, faced with stone. The ceived on account of capital and interest as 21,364/
area of land which it covers is estimated at about 2s. 41., and the payments as 16,7181. 14s. 10!, leav-
thirty acres, making, with the land now occupied ing a balance in the banker's hands of 4,6451. 78. 6d
by the temporary terminus, warehouses, engine
houses, and other necessary buildings, about seventy-
five or eighty acres. The building is upwards of
seventy feet in height, and about 805 feet in length.
Its centre compartment contains the pay-office and
avenues leading to the departure platform. The
pay-office, which has a rich panelled ceiling, is in
height about 40 feet, 98 feet long, and 40 feet wide.
On the eastern side of the pay-office is erected a hand-
some stone gallery, supported upon numerous elegant
iron brackets, and a light railing of a gothic design,
the purpose of which is to connect together the busi-
ness offices of the company. The board-room, which
is 50 feet in length and 30 in width, is also reached
by this gallery ; the basement affording accommoda-
tion for warehousing merchandise, &c. The various
waiting-rooms, most comfortably fitted up, adjoin the
pay-office,
On the eastern side of the pay-office is the depar-
ture platform, which is covered in by one of two
glass transepts, which, as already stated,
are built
after the fashion of the one at the Great Exhibition.
The departure sheds, which are 110 feet in width, are
to contain seven lines of rails, and in order to deaden
the sound workmen are now engaged in laying down
wooden pavement upon a bed of concrete, and upon
this operation being completed the rails will be fixed.
The glass roofs are, we understand, the largest of the
kind ever attempted, being 105 feet in span, the
lower part on either side being panelled. The ex-
treme height of the roofs of the arrival and departure
sheds, from the level of the rails to the centre of the
arches, is about 80 feet, and the arrival shed is sup-
ported upon 40 pillars of large dimensions. The de-
parture platform is 25 feet wide and 800 long.
The south front of the terminus is surmounted by
the handsome clock tower now completed, and pos-
sesses a frontage of 253 feet, including the width of
the grand entrance on the north-western side, which
is 58 feet, and a gross frontage abutting on the St.
Pancras-road of 311 feet. At the basement of the
stupendous arches—the largest ever turned in brick—
forming the southern faciade of the arrival and de-
parture sheds, or terminus, are six openings for six
pairs of gates, through which it is intended that the
mails and carriages to travel by the line shall enter.
The clock tower, which is 112 feet in height, is 22
feet across at the base and 16 across above the level
of the roof from which it springs. Workmen are
now engaged in fitting it with Dent's clock, which
was shown at the late Great Exhibition. It is in-
tended that at night the clock shall be lighted up by
electric lights.
The houses in front of the station aro all to come
down, the proper notices having been served upon the
inhabitants for some time past.

SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.
The half-yearly meeting of this railway was held
at Lichfield yesterday. Captain Dyott, the deputy •
chairman of the board of directors, presided.
Mr. BUCKTON read a report, of which the following
is an extract :

" The total expenditure on capital account is 915,6171.
to the 31st ult. The low rate of interest prevailing dur-
ing the past half-year has enabled the board to reduce
the annual charge from an average of 4/. 78. 9d. per cent.
to 41. 2s. sd. per cent. per annum on the total amount of
the company's bonds. Ihe works for the Tipton branch
have been advantageously let, and will very shortly be
finished, thereby connecting the Stour Valley Railway
with your line. The directors congratulate you on their
successful opposition to the various schemes brought into
Parliament during the last session prejudicial to this
company, and on the promotion of other ?measures bene-
ficial thereto. The Bill brought in by this company for
a branch to Burton-on-Trent was withdrawn in Parlia-
ment, under an arrangement with the Midland Railway
Company, satisfactory to the lessee, whereby passengers
are conveyed to and from your line to theirs by every
train of this company, which superseded the necessity of
that measure, and from which the public have materially
benefited. The directors trust that the public, equally
with the shareholders, have reason to be satisfied with
the management of the lessee. The dividend warrants
will be issued on the Ist proximo, being at the same
rate as last half.- year, namely, 3s. Bd. per share, or
181.8 s. I Id. per 100 shares, after deducting the income-
tax."

NORTH BRITISH.-Mr. Rowbot ham (formerly in
the service of the Lancashire and YorkEhire Railway
Company as goods manager) has been appointed
manager of the North British Railway.—Aorth
British Mail.

The North and South-Western junction line will,
it is expected, he opened about the 7th of next month.
Thus there will be a direct communication from
Scotland, Liverpool, and Manchester, to the Waterloo
station and Southampton, without a break of guage
along the whole distance.
CALEDONIAN.-Mr. Ferguson, formerly the com-
pany's accountant, has been appointed to the office of
treasurer, a selection which will give general satis-
faction.

THE THIRD AND THE FOURTH ESTATES.
The relative extent of the demand for the Liberal and
the Tory newspapers of the country, is a better clue to
the true complexion of the national mind than the poli-
tical character of " the representation of tho people."
The constituencies form but a fraction (if a large one)
principle and conviction, guide their decisions.
forfotmhe community; and a variety of influencem, apart
Newspapers, despite the jealous restraints insposed upon
them by fiscal laws, are read by the unenfranchised as
well as by the enfranchised; and the market demand for
h
a Liberal or a Tory journal is a spontaneous act. The
supply of the ono description of newspaper or the other,
is an exact measure of the public mind—an infallible in-
dicator of the tastes and tendencies of the popular mind.
theWe shallable in-
fallible proof—that the Parliament of England is not repre-
sentative of the people. The number of stamped sheets
twhichbe fully w jou sg tii vfie e d
below t h e r , eore,
of—a clear aa a w
p roen we appeal to
issued to the Liberal and Conservative newspaper offices
of each county, in the year 1850, is stated on the au-
thority of the most recent list of a respectable ondon
giving the results of the late elections
news agent. In g
in the several counties, the table follows the Morning
Chronicle, in the main, in distributing the Members
under the three now-fashionable heads of " Liberal,"
"Ministerial." and " Liberal Conservative."
counties. I LIBERAL.

.--j--V
- Counties. -----------1----.IRERAL. TORY. M. L. L. C.
. -42,00011 -----. - -
-_________ none 1 1 2 1
Bedfordshire • -
242,700 90,500 4 4 0
Berkshire ... -
66,000 38,500 6 5 0
Bucks ... ............. 139,150 105,100 6 0 1
Cambridge ............
Cheshire - 1965552,,,051000000
832 563 021
Cornwall ...... . ........
Devon ............ ......
Cumberland ............
419965:205050
305,500104000
84
115 03
104,000 94,900 6 7 1
295,500 41,000 3 7 0
Durham ...............
*Essex ... ............... none 70,000 10 0 0
501 150 400,700 4 9 0
DD
oe
rr
sh
eyt
..
..
.. ..
..
..........................
Gloucester ...... • ,
203,500 60,000 4 3 0
Hants .................. I 271,000 140,500 6 9 4
Hereford ...... .........
llerts .................... 33,500 36,000 3 2 0
t Huntingdon ......... none none 4 0 0
Kent . • 783,950 158,100 13 4 1
Lancashire ............ 3,476,035
,82,5 C 0 27,500 3 0 0
801,500 6 19 1
Leicester ............... 92,175 51,500 4 2 0
Lincoln .................. 627,000 112,375 11 1 1
Middlesex ............ 35,515,875 6,062,287 1 13 0
Monmouth ............
Norfolk 1183102705!
205,600 176,750 7 3 9
89,000 90,000 4 4 0
Northampton
377,200 144,815 4 6 0
sNorthumberland .. •
Notts ..... ...-....
64,400 134,050 5 3 1
Oxford
tßutland
§Shropshire
Somerset
Stafford none 89,500 4 12 1
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Warwick
Westmoreland 44,000 39,350 2 1 0
Wilts 33,000 74,000 8 6 4
Worcester 87,480 85,000 6 6 1
§ Yorkshire I 1,097,155 632,500 8 23 7
----- - -
----
Total 56,463,455 11,219,887 212 208 45

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a bn yd
The circulation of Liberal as compared with Tory
newspapers, is as five to one. The representation of the
England.
But take Middlesex. There the newspaper issues are
pLeiolaperlealiissma.
the
l
nearly six to one. Is there any disparity in the election
b o
Thisu t eq ui
sa dgi ve iudeerda between
result
presentedTo
returns? If there be, it is not in favour of Toryism—
the constituencies of the metropolitan county returning
thirteen Liberal representatives, and but one Tory. The
explanation is obvious. The great body of the people
of this country are Liberal, and from the higher value
of house-property in London, the household-franchise is
more generally enjoyed, there, than in the provinces.
We aro not enamoured of a system of representation
based on mere numbers. We would not have the country
mapped out into electoral squares, each returning repre-
sentatives in proportion to its number of inhabitants.
Much to be preferred is the ancient plan of town and
county representation—the towns sending their bur-
gesses to Parliament, and the shires their knights. But
all our paltry nomination boroughs should be absorbed
in the counties, and some general rule should be laid
down, giving every town of a certain population, so
long as it possesses that amount of population, one or
more representatives. Our towns would then come into,
and pass out of, Parliamentary existence, by a natural
process of increase and decay.—Gateshead Observer.
* The county of " the Conservative ten" has no Liberal
newspaper. Probably the Liberal inhabitants derive their
surplies from the neighbouring metropolis, lust as, on the
other side of Middlesex, the Tories of Surrey are dependent
on London for their weekly and daily journals.
t lluntingdon—where, it is said, an annual sermon is
still preached against witchcraft—is (in common with Rut-
land) destitute of home-grown newspaper literature, and
equally destitute of Liberal representatives. What a para-
dise of Toryism would England be, if the Press were " put
down !" Is there no statesman to take the Huntingdon
hint?

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re-
port, said that inasmuch as their line was worked
under a contract, the directors were not required, and,
indeed, were not able, to communicate to the share-
holders any very important information more than
they could gather from the report. They had, in-
deed, little to report. Their main business was to
keep their capital account as low as possible, and that
the shareholders might rest assured would ever be
their great object. There was one item in the report
which required some explanation, and which he
should be happy to afford. Among their receipts
would be seen a large item of 89,400/. upon bonds.
This had occurred in consequence of the altered value
of money. They had, owing to this circumstance,
borrowed 50,000/. at 31 per cent., and by that means
bad paid off obligations for which they were allowing
a larger amount of interest, and had afterwards a ba-
lance of 20,000/. in the hands of their bankers.—
(Hear, hear.) They might rely upon it, however,
that they should allow it to remain at their bankers
as short a time as possible, as they should be able to
deal with it to a greater advantage. The report
congratulated the shareholders upon the successful
brought into Parliament during
opposition which they had given
the last session,
and which the directors deemed prejudicial to
the South Staffordshire Company. In that paragraph
they mainly referred to an attempt which had been
made by the Great Western Company to introduce
to various schemes
upon their (the South Staffordshire line) the broad
gauge between Wednesbury and Dudley. In that
the Great Western were unsuccessful. Another
pat-
tempt had been made to establish a line (as we under-
stood) from Walsall to Cannock. They (the South
Staffordshire) opposed that ro ect as the thought
that it was an interference withj the, territoryy assigned
to them by Parliament. They had not made such s
line themselves, but if it was deemed necessary to
make it, the duty would devolve upon the South
Staffordshire Company. The Bill which they intro-
duced into Parliament for making a line to
.Burton
was abandoned, because an arrangement was wade
with the Mldland which was satisfactory to their
lessee. They had, therefore, he (the chairman) con-
tended been successful with regard to the schemes
brought into Parliament affecting themselves, and he
hoped the shareholders would entertain the borne
opinion. Something
was said at their last meeting
with regard to certain proposed arrangements with
the London and North-Western Company- .Nothing
much further had transpired upon that subject
but he believed the North-Western Company werie
Willing to conclude an agreement with them.
would be recollected that the London and
Western proposed, at the close of their (the South
Staffordshire) lease, to take to the line and pay to the
shareholders of the South Staffordshire at the rate of
four-fifths of their own dividend. That proposal was
not acceded to. The only progress which had since
been made was, that the London and North-Western
now proposed four-fifths of their dividend, with
a
guarantee that the dividend to the South Stafford-
shire shareholders should never be less than four per
such
cent., if North-
arrangements were carried out.—
(He
not aware that there was anything
e London and North-Western Company w e.!f was
ling to carry such arrangements into effect. 1-I,.eefnace
out.—
(Hear, hear.) He believed, as he had said before,thial-t
the
con-
of the report which required explanatiov, buti
directors
elusion he might be allowed to say that the
were most anxious to give a straightforward
n
exposi-
tion of the whole of the affairs of the eh
e m 13
seu cyt; They had nothing to do but to lay before
tWeimth the
a report as they had presented that daY., 4 He
receipts of the lessee they hadnothing 0. °• - .
performed his
duty with perfect satisfaction to the
board of directors. The Chairman concludedby
moving the reception and adoption of the report..
upon the in; rovement more on ii
Mr. FORSTER, M.P , in seconding the motion, re-
markedwhich had taken
place in the value of thep line. Twelve months ago it
the spirited conduct and mans
was at 3 per cent. die. ; and now their
nearlyshares were
at par. He attributed this improvement to
arrangements
and expressed his belief that in any
which might be made with the London and North-
Westerngement of the lessee,
ar-
rangements might be—the intermediate interests of
Company—and however desirable. those
the lessee would be consulted and protected. He
believed that the directors would not take any steps
which were not satisfactory to that gentleman.
The motion was carried unanimously, and a divi-
dend
shares, the meeting broke up.
of 3s. Bd. per share, or 181. 85. 11d. per hundred

The supplies of the Newcastle Courant are not included.
The news-agent classes our contemporary among the
" Neutrals."

§ Cempare the newspaper circulation of Shropshire with
the election returns! The one is as six to five, the other is
eleven to one. There was a time when Shropshire did not
return even one Liberal Member; and the Tories of the
county then profanely boasted of their " I waive Apostles."
We need not say what name they now apply to the solitary
Liberal.

The election returns give Yorkshire thirty-eight repre-
sentatives, one more than her statute gives her. This arises
from the triple return for Knaresborough.

NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Subjoined istl;oTic; to mariners, lately signed by
the hydrographic department at Madrid, respecting
some new lighthouses established on the north coast of
Spain :

(Translation.)
Hydrographie Department, Madrid, July 17, 1852.

LIGHT HOUSES ON THE NORTH COAST OF SPAIN.

IST. LIGHT ON THE POINT OF MACHICHACO, PRO-
VINCE OF BISCAY.—From the 21st of August a new
lighthouse will be lighted every night, established on the
Point of Cape Machichaco on the north coast of Spain,
from the setting to the rising of the sun. This light-
house is situated 14 miles east of the Point of Fuerte
do la Galoa, lat. 43 deg. 28 min. N., and long. 3 deg. 22
min. 50 secs. E. of the Observatory of San Fernando
(Cadiz). The apparatus is of the Ist catadioptric order
of Fresnol's system, with fixed lights, and flashes at in•
tervals of four minutes. This light, which is of the
natural colour, is at an elevation of 285 Castillian feet
above the level of the Equinoctial high tides, and pro-
duces a tangent of 18,8 milee.
2ND. LIGHT ON THE POINT OF THE FOERTE DE
LA GALEA, PROVINCE Or BISCAY.—This lighthouse
established on the coast to she east of the Bay (Concha)
of Portugalote, is situated 14 miles west of Cape
Machichaco, in lat. 43 deg. 22 min. 26 secs. N., and long.
3 deg. 8 min. 14 sees. E. of the Oservatory of San Fer-
nando. Its apparatus is of the 4th catadioptrie order;
the light fixed, and of the natural colour, at a height of
416 Castillian feet above the sea in the Equinoctial high
tides, and is distant 5,200 feet of the same measure from
the Punta de la Gales. This light in strictness produces
a tangent of 22,66 miles; but it canonly be distinguished
at this or even at a less distance under favourable con-
ditions of the atmosphere.
3RD. LIGHT CAPE PENAS, PROVINCE OF °VIDEO...—
It is situated in lat. 43 deg. 42 min. 20 sees. N., and
long. 22 rain. 28 secs. E. of the Observatory of San Fer-
nando. The height of the luminous focus above the
level of the sea is 370 Castillian feet, and its apparatus
which is of Ist catadioptric order of Fresnel, produces a
light with eclipses which follow each other at intervals
of 30 seconds, with a tangent in clear weather of 20
miles. This light will be first illuminated on the 15th
August.

HEROIC ACTION.--As the Fife boat reached Dun-
dee from Newport, at twelve o'clock on Tuesday, a boy about
fourteen years of age, who was bathing, had got beyond his
depth into an eddy, where he was rapidly sinking. So soon
as his danger was perceived, Captain Hariot Maitland
Dougall, R.N., of Scotscraig, who had just landed from the
steamer, at once leaped from the pier, a height of about
fifteen feet, into the water, and, having got hold of the boy,
swam with him in his arms to the shore. It was low tide
at the time, and from the height of his leap we were sorry
to observe that the gallant gentleman appeared to have
done himself some injury.
INAUGURATION OF THE STATUE OF SIB, ROBEE,T
PEE L AT MONTROSE.—This event, which excited much in-
terest in the town and neighbourhood, took place on Sa-
turday afternoon in the presence of a large concourse of
people. The statue was erected by the subscriptionsSf_.9e.
inhabitants, and, after a very able address from.
jAa ysh`i'p
Foote, was delivered over in their name to the guardianship
of the magistrates and Town Council, who
Itandyside
the occasion. The statue was executed by fine work
Ritchie, of Edinburgh, and is considered a Y
ITtre the house
wereg
of art. It stands in the High-street, 0 P_
of Pantrose.
up_4rresent ou
once belonging to the famous Marquis
Togs' COURT.—
SITTINGS OF THE INSOLVENT 1:1"'in on Monday next
The Insolvent Debtors' Court will sit ngealy notice persons tin
for bail cases and motions. By this
itra..,
b 0 and thereby save
custody can provide themselve
Thesiltiearing of cases will be
some weeks' imprisonment, . •
shortly resumed before Mr. Commissioner
Wants have been disco-
The bodies of two more 1
Law.
which has such a
vered in the vicinity of Nottingham,
bad e
children,
nlinence for the cencealmeut or murder of new-born

PORTB
of this
The twelfth half-yearly AND RAILWAY.
UR--------Y PIER
be held at Bristol on Monday,
theo s.h.AahraeheodleedelerrismenswtfeoirrfecßonmeontwPray
thef hour appointed, however,general
meetin a sufficient number
cIPatlY, which it is intended to wind up under the
Abandonment of Railways Act, was ertised to
. meeting
present to constitute a
the 23d
. inst: At
making of edsiirxecmtoornstwhsasalllaoiwd
allowed
dpboyn
aban-
donment of
July last,
the table,
fivAhierhepsotarttefdrothmattlatiiii
8 AC!, 1850, for the
pensation in respect of da-
mage alleged to be sustained by reason
. of the
the undertaking, expired on. the 24th of
Mr. Thompson, the surviving trustee. of a Mr. Clarke,
claiming. 2,0001. for the injury sustained by
.the trust
and that the only claim sent in was one by
estate in the event of the purchase not being cow-