The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-20 00:00:00

New Railways in the North of London,

The Hampstead Junction on the North London Railway
and the new Hammersmith line have done much to supply
the want of railway communicadon on this side of the me
tropolis, but they contribute but a small part of what is
really required by the public. The Midland Railway, from
Bedford to St. Pancras, will perhaps do much for the hard-
worked citizens who like resorting at night to a home far
removed from the smoke and noise of Cockneydom. A still
greater boon to them may also be the branch which is now
being rapidly proceeded with from the Great Northern Rail-
way at the Seven Sisters-road to the town of Edgware. It is
nine miles long, and traverses a district of remarkably attrac-
tive features,which only wants a railway to render it available
for building purposes. This is the Edgware, Highgate
and London Railway. Starting front the Seven Sisters-
road Station it goes by Mount-pleasant, Hornsey, and
Crouch-end, to Highgate—that famous and quiet rural spot
which it is so difficult to reach even by omnibus—then it
passes to Crouch-end, Finchley, East-end, Finchley, Mill-
hill, near Hendon, and so on to Edgware. The whole
works are being carried on with great energy. Two tun-
nels at Highgate are completed, and some large cuttings
and embankments are in a very advanced state of progress.
Most of the bridges have either been finished or
are rapidly approaching completion. The works are also
being actively prosecuted at Church-end, Finchley, and
down as far as East-end. At this point the line passes
on a viaduct GO feet high over the Valley of the Brent.
The whole piers of the viaduct have been built, and some of
the arches are now being turned. This is a structure of
considerable magnitude for a local line near London, and
will form a striking object in the surrounding pleasant
scenery. The railway is being constructed by an inde-
pendent company, but the Great Northern have contributed
one-third of the capital. There is to be a branch from the
Highgate Station to Alexandra Park of about a mile long.
The bill for it was obtained last session. The works have
been let, and the land is in course of being purchased. Mr
John Fowler and Mr Brydone are the engineers of both
these railways, which before long will be in full operation.
—.Railway News.

A riot lately took place among the prisoners
confined in the prison of Stein, in Austria. The outbreak
had been planned for some time, and a baker's son, who
had been condemned to several years' imprisonment for
incendiarism, was chosen as the leader. At last, when
about 200 of the prisoners were assembled in the central
workshop, one of the jailors entered the place bringing the
breakfast. Some of the men began to murmur "We do
not like the food I Death to the jailor 1 " and at the same
time the turnkey was knocked down and the breakfast
thrown about. The rest of the prisoners, thinking that
the moment bad come for the proposed outbreak,
tore down the doors, broke the windows, and
wrenched the iron bars out. Eight of the men,
laying hold of a large bench, used it as a battering
ram, with which they beat down a part of the wall, and ob-
tained access to the passage leading to the outer wall.
Here, however, their progress was stopped, for an alarm
having been given, a picket of soldiers arrived, and the rio-
ters retreated in disorder uttering violent threats. When
order was restored, all the prisoners were ordered to stand
up in the courtyard, and 100 of the most violent were:picked
out and sentenced to receive the bastinado, 25 to 30 bluws
being given to each. One of the men named Kramer, who
had during the riot endeavoured to set fire to the building,
was in addition condemned to imprisonment in irons for five
weeks. The other prisoners were all sentenced to punish-
ments of various kinds.

IMPORTANT GAME CASE.—At Lincoln, on Friday,
Mr William Rawding, farmer, at Swinderby, was
summoned by Mr Gale, supervisor of excise at Newmark,
for killing a pheasant, on the 19th of September last, with-
out having taken out a licence. From the evidence it ap-
peared that on the morning of Sept. 19, Henry Walker, a
gamekeeper in the employ of Mr Grahame, while going his
rounds, saw a trap on the defendant's land, in which was a
young cock pheasant. He ordered a person named Munt
to watch the trap, and about nine o'clock the defendant was
seen to go up to it, take out the pheasant, and walk home
with it. The defendant said he sprung the trap and let the
pheasant go. A very curious point of law was raised by
the magistrates' clerk, Mr Burton, as to whether the case
came within the provisions of the 4th section of the 23d and
24th Vic. cap. 9v, by reason of the pheasant having been
killed out of season, when even a certificate would have been
of no avail. The Bench advised the supervisor to acquaint
the Board of Revenue with the poirt raised, and ask them
to obtain opinion of counsel upon it. The case was ad-
journed.
THE DANISH COLONIES IN THE WEST INDIES.—
On the lst of January next and thenceforward letters trans-
mitted between the United Kingdom and the Danish West
India Colonies—viz., St. Thomas and St. Croix, posted un-
paid, will be charged on delivery with an additional rate of
Is. each letter, besides the usual postage, and letters posted
insufficiently prepaid will also be charged the amount de-
ficient, and Is. additional.
A later from Toulon says :—" The rough weather
which has prevailed on our coast during the last
few days has caused numerous disasters, Contrary to
1 what is seen in the Mediterranean, the sea roes above
the level of the quay; but this phenomenon, which
takes place every five or six years, has not occasioned any
damage, and merely impeded the communications between
the vessels and the town. The coasts of the Adriatic have
been visited by fearful tempests. The Eldorado, steam
frigate, which left this port for Alexandria with 1,000 pas-
gers on board for China, was obliged to return to Messina
after having endeavoured is vain to croes the mouth, of the
Adriatic,