The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND.—It appears from a
circular addressed to the shar‘holdcrs of this company
by Mr. Parke, of Whitby, that by creating a 31 per
cent, perpetual debenture stout( to take the place cf
the present debenture debt, a stivicg would on effected
to the extent of 19,1661. per annum, and by creating a
4 ptr cent, perpetual preference stock, and paying off
the flull and Selby and the 44 per cunt. prefert-nce
sharw, a further sum of 12,2031 would bo saved, mak-
ing together the sum of 31,6591. per annum. This
sum, in addition to the amount of net receipt real;zEd in
1831 would enable the company to pay 24 per cent. on
the original shares.

►SHREWSBURY AND WORCESTER.—It is proposed to
construct a railway from the Madeley branch of the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway at Madeley,
passing along the valley of the Severn, near Broseley,
Much-Wenlock, Bridgenorth, Bewdley, and Stourport,
to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rail-
way. The length of the proposed lice ie 26 ruffles, and
it is estimated that the cost will not exceed 13,4001.
per mile, or 350,000/.
SHREWSBURY AND ABERYSTWITII.—A company is
in course of formation for constructing a line of rail-
way from the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway near
Shrewsbury, passing through Newtown and Machvalleth
to Aberystwith with branches to Welchpool and Llapid-
hoes. It is stated that the line as proposed to bs carried
out can be constructed for 10,0001 per mile, and that the
landowners are favourable to the project. Should the
Undertaking receive the support anticipated, it is intended
to extend the line round by the coast from Aberystwith
to Cardigan and Milford Haven.
IslxwatanxxT.—lt al pears that arrangements have
been mads for the extension of this company's line from
Newmarket to Bury St. Edmund's, a distance of fourtccn
311113) and the works have loteu commenced.

HATS.
lan cork
of the Examiner,isiation in one of its excellent notices
taus
Exhibition now open in the chief city
of
ff MthuelasolteToci._ us justly;reprobates the villanons fashion
.. We mucT,pale held-dress :
pre,inletthe many makers of hats, metropoli-
tan and
, who so well occupy a large space
itribertabi:hticrrtenPi;litwould produce something asnatigst
ennifortable, and rid us of the peculiarly stiff, un-
whiab
custom
e,,u_r,ger!%eeful style of head - piece
dare. -uoanimnurt:ala us at present to
public are and have
en-
long linen in their coeviaitehe
present hat, which by 0. and evens groans at oar
and happy combination,
unites almost the extreme and
yvveight, ungainliness, and
frd,gility, it still seems liltei
live. :Once it was
fetidly hopfgf that the Great Exhibition might have to-
corded its doom, hut oa the
eiatriiry it seemed to
have rather giVen it a Lew
bu_ charter and nanniment
of existence.; Truly ' w hen
luckily in that resrct the Pre7eit)g. Juno (only
not happen to be of the " melting resent month does
.) waves it red
flag' one feels aimost inclined to folloj:l: example of
Byron's Sardanapalus, who casts his 1
than have
some gether, and rushes thrth bsrebesded rather away alto-
fitting
his brow encumbered with its ponderous st
Certainly the exhibitor who shall . contrive
substitute would well deserve of his country tr,e
e appro-
priate tribute of a laurel crown."

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DEATH OF HOWARD _ PJohn-oward
Payne, the noted American actor and dramatist, died lately
at the Consulate at Tunis, in his 60th year. Re Was born
at New York, in 1792. From childhood he WAS a Prodigy
even in that region of precocious intellect. In his 13th year
he was a writer for the press, and editor of the Thespian
_Mirror. At 16, the youthful Roscius appeared as Young Nor-
val, in Douglas, at the Park Theatre, New York. At Boston,
be appeared, among other characters, in those of Hastings,
Rolla, Edgar, and Hamlet. In 1812 he came to England,
and made his clibut: at Drury-lane, in his 21st year. West,
the painter, was a kind patron in those days. In 1826 he
edited a London dramatic paper called The Opera Glass.
A great number of dramas were prepared by him when on
the London stage, chiefly adaptations from the French.
Charles Kemble appeared in some of these, as in Charles IT.
The now cosmopolitan air of " Home, Sweet Home," first
bppeared in Howard Payne's Clari, the Maid of Milan. In
the latter years of his life he occupied the post of Consul of
the United States at Tunis.

COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITU-
TION.— The usual half-yearly general meeting of the gover-
nors and subscribers to this charity, founded for 'the purpose
of granting annuities to. aged and decayed members of the
above community,. which was advertised to take place on
Saturday, at the City of London Tavern, Bishopegate-street,
was adjourned, there not being sufficient members present at
the hour appointed to form a_quorum. The report to have
been submitted to the meeting Stated that the receipts
for the half-year had amounted to 118/. IBs. 6d., making
the total amount received from the commencement of the
institution to the present time, 9511. ss. The disbursements
during the same period hail been 316/. 15s. &1., leaving
balance in the hands of the bankers of 5541.9 s 4d. The re-
port, after noticing the eLtablisliment of a new branch at
Bristol, concluded by urging the neecks:ty or active and per-
severing efforts
being made, it being the intention of the
committee to have an election at Christmas next. The meet-
iag WAS then adjourned for a week.
A deputation from the Canada Nova Scotia, and New
Bromwich itsilway Company n`ad an interview with
Sir John Pakington on Saturday at the Colonial. office.
The deputation consisted of Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir
Richard Brown, Mt. Thomas Alere Huhu, Mr. B
Boothby, Mr. Thomas Bonfield, and Mr. C. IL Collette.
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demo, Roilliiend.

FRANCE.

When the Chamber, on Saturday, voted the diffe-
rent clauses of the budget, and the President ar-
rived at the chapter relative to the registry dues, M.
de Montalembert rose and said that he was happy to
state that the Assembly had not been a party to the
decrees of the 22d of January, which had despoiled a
family—decrees which the Government, no doubt, had
a right to issue, but which the country had witnessed
with pain, more iu the interest of the Government itself
than in the interest of the pereons affected thereby.
The President, interrupting M. de Montalembert,
observed that those decrees were now laws of the
land, and besides were not under discussion. That
chapter and the following, with the exception of the
three last, were subsequently voted without further
opposition. The Chamber afterwards adjourned at
40f.p3st six o'clock.
It is stated that the property of the Duke d'Aumale,
which he inherited from the
.Prince of Conde, is to
be forthwith placed under sequestration, pending the
proceedings commenced by the parties in whose
favour the yearly sum of 100,000 f. was left to found
a beneficent establishment at Econen. Advertise
neheen Dtsu •
inaethe papers from the agents of
unting the sale on the 4th
the
have
d,aApupemaarieed ~no
and 512 of July next of portions of the Chantilly
domain.
The annual religious service in commemoration of
the death in the streets of Paris of M. Affre, late
Archbishop, was celebrated on Saturday morning in
the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Tie Archbishop of
Paris pronounced the absolution. Their Eminences
Cardinals Mathieu, Archbishop of
Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, together with the
Bishop of Algiers, and several other dignitaries of
the Church,
were present at the office for the dead.
Amongst the laymen present were General Piat and
Viscount Alphonse Ricard, who accompanied the il-
lustrious martyr to the barricades.
It appears that the visit of the President of the
Republic to the southern departments will not take
place so soon as had been expected; and that he has
promised Cardinal Donnet to see him at Bordeaux in
the beginning of September next.
The Prince President has, according to the Siecle,
purchased a property, Villeneuve l'Etang, adjoining
the park of St. Cloud, for a sum equivalent to
44,000/. sterling. The Prince has also agreed to
purchase the hotel of the late Marshal Sebastiani,
which adjoins the Elysee, for sake of making an
addition to the palace. A Bill has been introduced
for authorising an exchange for this property of the
old Foreign Office on the Boulevard de Capucines,
to which some objection is felt, on account of the
estimated greater value of the latter.