The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

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PROPOSED POST-OFFICE AT THE LONDON-BRIDGE
RAILWAYS.—A memorial to the Postmaster-G'reneral is
now being numerously signed for permission to establish
a district post-office at the London-bridge Railway
Arcade, for the accommodation of the passengers, now
calculated to amount to upwards of ten millions per
annum. The directors of the railway companies are
understood to support the proposal.
MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY OF IRELAND.
—The engineer's estimate for constructing the proposed
Longford Deviation and Cavan Branch lines, to abandon
part of the line to Longford, and to transfer the liabili-
ties of the trustees of the New Royal Canal Company
to the railway company, is 300,0001.; and this the direc-
to rs propose todefray out of a surplus in hand:of 468,000/.,
and which slim will remain unexpended after the exe-
cution of all authorised works, out of their original
capital share and loan of 2,596,6661.
ABBOTT'S WOOD AND STOKE RAILWAY.—This ex-
tension loop line is at length ready for opening, and the
Government inspector goes over it to-day.
NORWEGIAN RAILWAY.—It appears that the first sec-
tion of this line, from Christiana to Lake Oiiron, a dis-
tance of fourteen miles, will be opened for traffio in the
course of two months, and a further distance of thirty
miles is to be completed in about thirteen months.

INFANTRY FIRING. MUSKET BALLS. Marsha,
Saxe computed that, in a battle, only one ball of eighty-five
takes effect. Others, that only one in forty strikes, and no
more than one in four hundred is fatal. At the battle of
Tournay, in Flanders, fought on the 22d of May, 1794, it is
calculated that two hundred and thirty-six musket shots
were expended in disabling each soldier who suffered.—. Notes
and Queries. '
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—Contents of the Observer,
Sunday Morning, January 11—Four columns and a half of
the four days' lunacy case of Mrs. Catherine Cumming; six
columns of the loss of the Amazon steamer, including edi-
torial remarks; four columns and a half of the latest French
affairs; three columns and a half of the engineers' and their
employers' strike; two columns and a half of St. Pancras
and St. Marylebone vestry meetings ; six columns of useful
advertisements; and thirteen columns of miscellaneous news
—in all, forty of the Observer folio columns for 6d. Mon-
day's Observer, best for the country and abroad, at four
o'clock Monday afternoon.
APPREHENDED FALL OF THE GRAND TERMINUS
OF THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—Within the last
two or three days considerable apprehension has been ex-
cited amongst the authorities, architects, engineers, and
contractors for the construction of the stupendous works in
progress, as the grand terminus of the Great Northern
Railway, at King's Cross, that unless some efficient remedy
be applied, that portion intended as the outgoing and in-
coming station for the trains will fall. With a view to pre-
vent suds a catastrophe taking place shorings have been put
up so as to support the large arches, which are designed in
imitation of the transept of the Crystal Palace, vs alsoh to
strengthen the stanchions and walls upon which t
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ne the
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rest. It is stated by practical men that in proi oref
t the ten.
e
tion to the span of an arch, more especially h
such a bow as those in course of erection a w
stanchions
minus of the Great Northern Railway,
re the
or supporters, should be increased in thickne.
quent strength, and the failure in the psent isi
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circumstance that the outer walls, or stanchions
eonnewtheifchsutfaho.
arches at the Great Northern terminus rest, ar
cient thickness to bear the superincumneidnvtituhgperer way sessuurles
towardsoisf thethat
immense arches resting upon them, . a
symptoms have been perceived of their g
the base. With a view, prevent the
cph immense work I :
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a t
if possible, to
likely to result from the falling of.sa
d and • building,-s! or
osM r.oJwasa-,the contractor
even the:labour and expense of pulping
largo bodies of men in the einp oy
1 Cubitt, the architect
under the direction of Mr. Lewisi
beentect and
Company, have
engineer of the Great Northeern_
foundations of the em-
ployed in strengthening t
theh calibre of the wallsupporters,
and otherwise adding to
heir efforts will be s, and it is
hoped and believed that their f successful in
further
sustaining the arches without fear o settlement of
the foundation.
0 t and, on Monday
The establishnssn last, the formal
at Wolverhampton
opening of the Exchang
iiestricts) constitute (really the me-
tropolis of the iron (. a characteristic of
the present period. Wolverhampton is the principal resort
for the '
on matters of business. ironmasters of South Statlord-
shire ; and the erection of so splendid and convenient a struc-
ture as that now occupied by the merchants and manufac-
turers of the neighbourhood. is highly creditable, as we hope
it will be equally profitable, to the enterprising
of that town.
on Saturday the Metropolitan Typographical
widow, Orphan, or Nominee Fund Society held their second
annual meeting, at the School-room, Harp-alley, Fleet-
street, Air. R. Hartwell in the chair. The reportas read
by the secretary, Mr. Longman, from which • that
it appeared
the claims on the funds during the past year
had been for
sixteen deceased members, making in all, the first year
of the society, twenty-two deaths, at 201. each death, 140/.
The funds were in a flourishing state, but members had not,
during the last year, so much increase in numbers as might
was
have been expected. A letter'
also received from Luke
Hansard
, Esq., informing the society of his still retaining
the office of trustee. Several fresh committee-men were
elected, the treasurer and secretary re-elected, and thanks
voted to the chairman, after which the meeting separated.