The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1852.

FOREIGN —Floating cargoes of Foreign Sugar are
much reqtlr2d, and the rates offered are rather above
last Tuesday, but supply is not adequate for the wants
of exporters or home trade buyers. Yellow Havannah
is wanted at 21s 6d to 24s 6d for Nos 11 to 16, brown at
20s 6d to 21s for 9 to 10k, whi,:e 28s to 295, and Brazil
20s to 23s per cwt. Since Saturday a large business has
been concluded in duty paid parcels, and in floating car-
goes of Foreign Sugar at rather higher rates. Nons has
been offered at auction.
MOLASSES.—Previous improved rates are well sus-
tained for West India, and several parcels have sold,
Demerara 13s, Barbadoes 15s, Antigua 14s 6d to 15s,
and St. Vincents 14a to 14s 61 per cwt.
COFFEE.—There has been less activity in the market
for Native Ceylon, yet merchants have confidence, and
the home trade demand has been good. Operations
since Tuesday last have been 9,000 bags, and the latest
rates paid were 465. 6d. to 475. for good, and 475. 6d.
for very good ordinary. Mocha is much wanted, and
there is a further rise of ls. to 2s. per cwt. At auction
82 bales 254 hf•do 101 frzls. and 58 brls. were mostly
sold, good to fine clean garbled at 81s. to 89s. 63., mid-
dling 765. to 80s., and triage 44a. to 645. In Foreign
Coffee business is much in'erferred with by a scanty and
inciiff-rent supply at market ; at previous rates there
are several buyers. This afternoon there was a
roluctlne3a to operate is Native Ceylon, and
previous terms were not to be obtained. At
auction 350 CE is's and 230 bags were chiefly
disposed of, middling to good at 58s to 633, low middling,
553 to 575, fine to fine fine ordinary at 503 to 245, low 48s
to 495, and triage 44s to 4Ss. Mocha being held for
a further advance checked business. At auc-
tion 180 bls and 308 hf-do were nearly all t sken in, fine
clean garbled at 955, and ungarbled 7 ss. Of Bahia a
small part only of the sound of 1,300 bgs sold at 37s to
44s for ordinary to fine ordinary ; but 50 bgs washed
Rio realized 475. Of other East India sorts a part only
or 430 cases found buyers owing to the stiff rates de-
manded ; Tellicherry went at 60s. to 90s, triage 45s to
565, and good ordinary Malabar 4Ss por cwt.
CCCOA.—Tc-day at public sale 200 bags Bahia and St.
Domingo sold at 24s to 255, these are moderate rates.
INDIGO.—Since the termination of the quarterly sales
all sorts of East India have been operated in with caution
both for shipping and home trade purposes ; in some
cases rather lower rates have been accepted. Stock is
4,600 chts lower than last year, and deliveries are 7,000
larger.
Ores —A good demand prevails for Seal, and prices
have upward tendency; pale realising 341 10s to 351,
straw 321 lOs to 331 10s, yelluw and brown 311 lOs to
321 10s. Cod has been operated in with more readiness,
and cannot be obtained under 321 10s. Southern is in
limited supply, and wanted at 321 103 to 351103 for low
to fine. Sperm attracts more attention, and holders are
firmer. Olive finds a more ready sale, and the downward
movement has ceased; Gallipoli is 541 to 551, and other
sorts 521 to 531.
To-day Lindseed Oil was in brisk demand at 283 3d on
,ho spot, and at 275. 9d to 283 per cwt for delivery.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY—OcT. 25.
(Before Mr. domraissioncr Goulburn.)
COSTS IN SUMMONS CASES.
Mr. Kearsey applied for the plaintiff's costs in an un-
defended trader debtor summons, in which the defendant
had signed the admission of the debt.
Mr. Neale resisted the application.
His Honour said the defendant having made no resist-
ance to the process of the court, and the plaintiff having
obtained what he sought for, he did not think the appli-
cation ought to be acceded to. The plaintiff, had now,
so to speak insured himself. If the debtor, having signed
the admission, did not pay, secure, or compound the debt
to the satisfaction of the creditor within seven days, he
committed an act of bankruptcy. The costs must be
refused.

MANSION HOUSE. —A. Campbell was charged with
haring robbed Michael Barry, a young Irish tailor, of
five shillings, the first money ever urned by the indus-
trious boy in this country, in which he has been a very
recent importation.
The prosecutor said—The prisoner, who is a tailor as
well as myself, lodged in the same room, and before I
went to bed about three months ago, he pressed me to
lend him the money I had, but as I wanted it myself I
refused him, and I put it for safety under my head. In
the morning I found that my money and my cap were
gone, and that the prisoner, who had never got into his
bed at all, was off along with them.
The landlord of the house in which the prosecutor and
the prisoner lodged said—l hoard the prisoner ask the
lad for the loan of money, and as I knew the poor boy
wished to keep his first earnings in England, for good
lack, I told my wife to lend Mr. Campbell a shilling,
which she did. In the morning we found that the rob-
bery had been committed, and I was told by the magis-
trate to give the thief into custody whenever I saw him.
We never laid eyes on him since till yesterday, and then
he was charged, and bad the impudence to deny that he
was a rogue.
The prisoner said there was not a word of truth in
the statement that he had either wanted to borrow or to
steal, and that the whole charge was mere spite against
him because he refused to stay in the noisy quarter in
hich he had lately resided.
Alderman Hooper—And what did you do with the
boi 'a cap ?
The prisoner—That was not worth a bawbee. I don't
know what became of it.
Alderman Hooper (to the prosecutor)—What was the
cap worth ?
The prosecutor—A shilling your honour.
Alderman Hooper—We have the prisoner's own ac-
knowledgment that he stole the cap.
The prisoner—No your lordship ; I only clapped it
on my head for fear of catching cold, as I was leaving
the room. (Laughter.)
Alderman Hooper—There is no doubt at all that you
robbed this poor lad, and if you do not return him the
money and pay him for the cap, you shall go to prison
for seven days.
The prisoner—lt's very hard upon me to have to pay
for what I did'nt ever receive. I've no objections to
pay for the cap, but not the money.
Alperman Hooper—Young man, I dare say he will
procure the money you have lost ; and if so, it shall be
sent to you,
The prisoner was then locked up.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.—Oct. 25.

OLD COURT.
CHARGE OF MANSLAUGHTER.

Richard Perry, 54, was indicted for the manslaughter
of June Perry.
Mr. Clarkson conducted the pTcroeution.
It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses
that the prisoner and the deceased, who was his wife, oc-
cupied a room in one of the houses iu Broad-street, Lam-
beth, i❑ which there were several other lodgers. The
deceased woman was very much addicted to habits of
intemperance, a❑d about 12 o'clock at night on the 18th
September she came home very drunk, accompanied by
the prisoner, who, it appeared, was sober, and very soon
after they got into their own room a woma❑ named Mit-
chell, who occupied a room with her husband directly
under that of the prisoner and his wife, heard them
quarreling and abusing each other, and very foul lan-
guage was made use of by both the deceased and the
prisoner. After a short interval this witness heard a fall
with great violence upon the floor of the prisoner's room,
and after that, as she expressed herself, there was a
"shocking" silence. Very soon afterwards the prisoner
alarmed the lodgers in the house, and exclaimed that
his wife was insensible, and upon a light being brought
the unfortunate woman was found lying at the foot of
the staircase leading from the prisoner's room quite dead.
Mr. Thompson, a surgeon, who was called in upon the
occasion, said that upon examining the body of the
deceased he found a number of severe bruises upon the
face and other parts of the body. Toe immediate cause
of death was concussion of the brain, which appeared to
have resulted from a blow upon the forehead.
The Recorder asked the surgeon whether he was able
to express an opinion as to the injuries that appeared
upon the body of the deceased having been occasioned by
blows or falls.

MAR LBO ROUGH-STREET.—ABoTTLE OF SmoLE.
—Mr. Henry Lloyd, who described himself as a retired
tradesman, of No. 11, Ship-street, Brighton, summoned
Inspector Lister of the C division and two police-con-
stables before Mr. Broughton, and charged them with
the following offences :—lnspector Lister was charged
with having fraudulently kept back a sum of 301. from a
sum of 5151. taken from Mr. Lloyd when brought to the
station-house on a charge of drunkenness. Police-con-
stable C 133, was charged with perjury, and another
constable, C 101, was charged with an assault.
Mr. Herring appeared for the complainant, and a very,
long discussion took place as to the charges being enter-
tained by the Court.
The circumstances which led to the present proceed-
ings were'these:—A few days ago, Mr. Lloyd was found
at an early hour in the morning in the company of
several prostitutes, and apparently not sober. He was
taken to the Vine-street station-house, and detained for
some hours. Before being placed in the cell, he gave into
the inspector's bands all the money in his possession,
which, on being counted up by the inspector, was
stated to amount to 4851. in notes and 41. in gold.
Mr. Lloyd was taken before Mr. Bingham, and on the
evidence of police-constable C 133 and the inspector fined
ss. for being drunk. His money was tendered to him as
4851.; he refused the amount, alleging that tho sum in
bank notes was 5151., and not 4851. Some short time
after this, the whole sum of 5151. in notes, was handed
over to him. Feeling himself aggrieved at the decision
of the magistrate, as he asserted that he was not intoxi-
cated, and at the conduct of the police, Mr. Lloyd laid
a series of complaints before the Commissioners, who
referred the case to this court, and accordingly the three
charges of attempted fraud, perjury, and assault, were
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already
deoided by
Mr. Broughton said, with respect to the denial of in-
another magistrate, and be should therefore refuse to
re-open the evidence.

Mr. Thompson said he was unable to form any satis-
factory conclusion upon this point; and, indeed, he was '1
outatwhen
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before the prisoner could be convicted upon the
charge of manslaughter. In the first place, it appeared
to be very doubtful whether the injuries which caused
the death of the deceased might not have been caused by
herself', by falling about while drunk, and even suppos-
ing they were the result of blows, there was no evidence
whatever to show that the prisoner had inflicted a single
blow upon the deceased.
The jury at once returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
HOUSEBREAKING.
William Rex was indicted for feloniously breaking
and entering the dwelling-house of Mary Lamb, and
stealing five coats and other articles, her property.
The prosecutrix was a widow, and resided in a cot-
tage at Twickenham. In the evening of Sunday, the
17 th inst., she went out, leaving no one in charge of her
cottage, and upon her returning shortly afterwards,
she was very much astonished at seeing a light in her
bedroom.. She gave an alarm to her neighbours, and
some of them stationed themselves at the front door,
and others at the back, and in a short time an attempt
was made by some persons inside to open the front door.
The people on the outside held the door fast, and an
endeavour was made to force it open with a poker from
the inside, and finding they could not succeed in doing
so, there was a cry of " - your eyes, shoot,
This had the effect of intimidating the personsa d ton the
outside, and they retreated a short distance, nwof
men, one of whom was the prisoner, then rushed out of
the house. A man named M'Cree laid hold of the pri-
soner, who immediately struck him on the arm with a
crow-bar, and he succeeded in getting away a short
distance, when he was secured, but his companion suc-
ceeded ia effecting his escape. Upon going into the
cottage the bedroom of the prosecutrix was found in
a state of great disorder, all her drawers having been
ransacked, and the contents strewed about, and several
skeleton keys were picked up iu different parts of the
premises.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and ho was sea-
. tented to be transported for ten years.

COURSE OF EXC.

.ANGE.—Tliis DAY.

Amsterdam ...... •• •• 11 18%
Ditto, three months.. 11 19%
RDtterclam •• . 11 193%
Antwerp • • ............ 25 45
Brussels • • • . 25 45
Li trnburgh .. •••• .. • • 13 73%
Altona
Paris, 3 daysinght 25 173

Gibralte.r•• ••••••••••••
Legh0rn........•• .... 30 674
Genoa ...• ••......•• .. 25 60

iMilan .. •••••••••••• ••

Venice.. •••• ••
Naples 41 ki
123
Messina ...•..••••••.. 12334.
6
Oporto•• .• •• .......... SaN,
gio Janeiro •• ........
rAtellOS Ayres ••
New York,6odaya'sight

Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold inbars.. X 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin • 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
Now Dollars .•..•• 0 0 0
311verin bars ........ 0 5 0%

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complainant's was requested to count the notes, which,
having dune, the sum of 515/., and not 4851., was found.
As the constable Sayes had sworn that the sum taken
from him at the station-house was 4851., Mr. Lloyd had
charged the constable with perjury ; and as the in-
spector bad only given up the whole sum when he found
Mr. Lloyd was determined to make a stir about the
matter, Mr. Lloyd had felt himself justified in preferring
the present charge.
The Superintendent of the division (gr. Otway) said
a few words from the inspector in the way of explana-
tion would set the whole matter right.
Mr. Lloyd said he felt satisfied that had he not for-
tunately taken the numbers of the notes, and given the
inspector to understand that he had done so, he should
never have seen his 301
After a good deal of evidence as to what took place
in court, and befora the magistrate, had been gone
through,
Inspector Lister said this was the explanation he had
to offer. That .the notes were in two parcels, one of
which appeared to be a parcel of twelve 5/. notes. He
had reckoned this last parcel as 601., but when the notes
were counted by Mr. Lloyd's friend it was discovered
that only six of the notes were 5/. notes, and the re-
maining six notes were 101. notes. It was the mis-
take on his part in counting notes as 51, which were
10/., that made the difference of 30/. But the whole of
the notes, 20 in number, bad been tendered to Mr. Lloyd,
in the belief that the total sum was 4851., instead of
5151.
Mr. Broughton.—Then, although you would have
been satisfied with a receipt for 4851. yet Mr. Lloyd
would actually have received 3151 ?
"'lnspector Lister.—Yes, your worship.
tt°tios inspector.
which might have happened
Thu witness who had found out the mistake, and Mr.
Herring, the complainant's solicitor,
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to any one, and there was no pretence to charge the
inspector with fraud. He dismissed the complaint, and
the inspector would leave the Court without a stain
upon his character. As for the charge of perjury, no-
thing could be more trumpery than the evidence to sus-
tain it. The constable had seen the notes counted, had
heard the inspector name the sum, and had sworn to
the sum named by the inspector. He dismissed the
charge at once. The other charge of assault had refer-
ence to the charge decided by his coadjutor, and ho
should therefore not entertain it.
Thu charges were all dismissed. •

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NEW COURT.
(Before the Common Serjeant.)
BIGAMY.
William Henry Powey, 30, gardener, was indicted for
feloniously marrying Isabella Graham, his wife being
then alive.
The first marriage was proved to have taken place on
the 30:h of June, 1839, at St. Mary's, Crawford street,
Portman-square.
weeks previo
Jane Sleamun,Etdhienbwuirrgeho a ropemaker, residing in
sstately d )t, h
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23d of August, 1851 (having been on a
after
u a
few days with them, and
living together as man and wife, sailed for England.
stating
They were married by the Rev. Mr. Reed, minister of
the United Presbyterian Congregation in the Lothian-
road. They were married in witness's house: it is the
custom in Scotland, and witness had heard that the
banns had been proclaimed in the usual way.
Cross-examiuod—l was married in a private house.
It is the custom. The banns were proclaimed when I
was married. My sister's was a regular marriage. I
know the Rev. Mr. Reed to be a minister. I attend his
church.
The clerk to the magistrates of Edgeware produced a
copy of the record of the marriage of the prisoner with
the second wife.
Mr. Parry asked him where he got it from.
The witness said he obtained it from the sessions
clerk.
Mr. Parry objected to the admission of the document,
contending that it could not be admitted as evidenee
unless accompanied by a proper certificate of its being
legal, and in conformity with the Scottish statutes.
The Common Serjeant said that he could not admit
such a document as evidence of the marriage.
The constable who took the prisoner said that when
he told him what he was charged with, prisoner an-
swered, '`l fully expected it."
Mr. Dearsly said that was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Parry then, at some length, argued that there was
proof whatever of a second marriage.
no
rho
Common Z-;erjeant said it was a case for the jury.
lle was found Guilty; sentence postponed.

LAM BETH.—John Chamberlain, conductor of one of
Balls' Norwood omnibuses, was charged with plundering
his master.
Mr. Balls, jun., deposed that on the evening of that
day week he was at the Elephant and Castle when one
of his omnibuses drove up froth Gracechurch-street, and
he noticed it was quite full. He knew this fact from a
person applying to the prisoner for an inside seat, and
his saying that it was quite full inside and out; the
person so applying getting on the monkey board, while
the prisoner himself stood on the back step; and this
would make twenty-two passengers, the fares of whom
would amount to at least 16a. In the return made for
this journey by the prisoner the passengers were made
out at 93. 6d., and only this amount was paid to Mr.
Balls, so that by this journey alone the prisoner must
have pocketed at least 6s.
In his cross-examination Mr. Balls said that the pay-
ment to drivers in his employment was one guinea a
week, and ti conductors eighteen shillings. Besides
this, however, they were allowed the boot and the par-
cels, which averaged from 3s. to 4s. a day.
Sergeant Somers declared that on taking the prisoner
into custody on Saturday night ho told him that it was
for robbing his master of half-a-crown (that being the
sum which Mr. Balls was in a condition to prove, be-
yond which he paid in.) The prisoner then admitted
that he had taken one Norwood passenger for which he
had not accounted, but said it was his wife. He subse-
quently denied that the passenger was his wife, and said
he unfortunately forgot to make a return for an addi-
tional shilling.
The attorney who appeared for the defence admitted
his fears that his client was driven in the moment of
temptation to make free with his master's money. Lie
then wont on to say that there was not an omnibus pro-
prietor in the metropolis who was not perfectly well
aware that the paltry pittance which they allowed their
conductors-18 shillings a-week—was not sufficient to
keep themselves and families passably decent, and that
therefore they were conscious they must make use of
some of their money.
aetwo Mr. Bills declared that he for one never entertained
money
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to o
such an idea, and if he had, such conductor should not
long be a servant of his. Mr. Balls also denied in a moat
ofsauctiliicieuga
a the conductor,
out
of togiv passenger
asugr much
emphatic manner that he ever winked at or countenanced
th
threeepr
driver.

Elliott remarked that if money had been given by
the conductors to their drivers, it must be for the pur-
pose of shutting their mouths, and preventing their dis-
closing their dishonest practices. There could be no
doubt whatever that the prisoner had been carrying on
a wholesale system of robbery, and ho should therefore
send him for trial.

George Wells, another conductor in the service of Mr.
Balls, was also charged with robbing his master.
The prisoner acknowledged that he had omitted en-
tering is shilling on one of the up journeys on Wednes-
day lust, but it was satisfactorily shown he had not only
omitted one, but several, and the extent to which his
robberies and those of the last prisoner were carried,
must have been most ruinous to their employer.
The defence in this case, as in the last, was the small-
ness of wages, and the prisoner being obliged to give his
coachman u certain allowance daily.
Buell
!dr. Balls again denied his knowledge of any

practice, when the prisoner appealed to several persons
in the body of the court, and asked if it was not so.
Three or four voices were heard. Ono exclaimed, " I
allowed my coachman, when I was in work, half-a-crown
a day;" " And I," said another, "allowed mine three shil-
lings ;" while a third doclarekthat his allowance to his
driver averaged 3s. 6 i. a-day.
At the request of the prisoner 'a solicitor, the case was
adjourned for a week, and the prisoner remanded.

QUARTZ CRUSHING IN CALIFORNIA.

By the last advices from San Francisco, bearing date
the 31st August, it appears that the most remarkable
feature at present to be fonnd in the gold-producing
interests of that country is the great and constantly in-
creasing use of quartz-crushing engines. So short a
time has elapsed since gold was first discovered in such
hitherto unknown quantities, that it is easy to recal to
mind the various slow and progressive steps of science
in aiding the unpractised efforts of the miner in these
remote but fortunate regions. At first the roughest and
most common implements wore employed in the reduc-
tion of the rock ; afterwards came the use of quick-
silver ; then the amalgamator, wherein this motel was
applied upon now principles ; and, lastly, great
crushing-mills have been brought into operation ;
which have considerably increased the yield of
gold. Some of the largest of these are endowed with
an energy which enables them to reduee to powder from
40 to 45 tons of rock per diem. Machines of this size
commonly employ from 20 to 24 men. The largest to
be met with are about Nevada, in which region, when
fortune is occasionally propitious, the amounts of gold
extracted are almost incredible. On one cccasion, after
a 48 hours' trial, one of these mills turned out an
amount of gold equal in value to 6,400 dole. This re-
sult was said to have been a larger yield than the mill
had before given, though it had been worked on the
same spot over six weeks ; and it was partly due to the
crushing power of the mill itself, and partly to the use
of a new amalgamator, numbers of which have been In-
vented lately, and have attained a high pitch of per-
fection. It is impossible to read these accounts from
California without feeling that even now we are
only on the threshold of that mine of wealth which
will presently be developed under further and more
improved appearances of scieuee. The quantity of
rock crushed by the mills above described is defi-
nitely stated, but the number of horse-power employed in
the operation is not named. We are only able to form
a rough idea of the power from the context; and the
fact that they are spoken of as " great" crushing mills,
and that one of the "largest" reduces to powder from 40
to 45 tons of rock per diem, induces us to suppose them
of no ordinary size, averaging, perhaps, from 20 to 60
horses. Such ponderous and expensive machinery as
this cannot long hold possession of the gold districts;
they must soon give way before more portable and effec-
tive contrivance. In a trial made a few days since with
one of Bsgg's new patent steam-stamps (and upon the
accuracy of our statement our readers may rely), no less
than 40 tons of coarse metal were crushed by a small
4-horse engine in 12 hours, though the steam entering
the cylinder was considerably less than the power of two
horses; 26 tons out of this quantity were reduced to a fine
powder, and carried at once to the calcining furnaces;
the remaining 14 tons were broken by the engine into
pieces, the size of a walnut, and were passed
through a pair of rolls, in order to afford a com-
parison of effect. Although the rolls were work-
ing with a power of six horses, and that the metal
was half crushed when delivered to them, they were
unable to dispose of the 14 tons within the same period
of time-12 hours ! These facts speak for themselves,
and will, doubtless, have an eff.,ct upon those who are
now expending large sums in the purchase of crushing
machinery of a more antiquated and less effective cha-
racter. One of the principal gold companies. who have
recently adopted the new patent stamps, will effect, ac-
cording to their own calculation, a saving of many thou-
sand pounus per annum, in dispensing entirely with the
enormous amount of hand labour now required for re-
ducing the large blocks of quartz to a sin sufficiently
small for the ordinary stamp heads.
We also observe that ono of Dlr. Baggs's engines is
advertised in another column for forthcoming exhibition
in London; and the fact that it is to be erected and
brought into practical operation at the new reduction
works of Messrs. Johnson and Matthey, at Millwall,
would seem to afford proof of the estimation in which
its capabilities and usefulness aro regarded by men of
the highest practical standing in the mining %aid.
In addition to these improvements for reducing the
rock to powder, we happen to be ourselves cognizant of
a new and most effective invention for the extraction of
the gold therefrom, the particulars of which will in due
time be made publ.c. What effect these advances in
science will exercise upon the gold-producing districts of
California and Australia it is no very difficult matter to
prognosticate.—Mining Journal of Saturday.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

NEW RAILWAY PROJECTS.

STROOD, CANTERBURY, AND DOVER.—This scheme is
promoted by several landowners on the intended line,
which is proposed to join the North Kent line at Strood,
and pass through Rochester, Chatham, Brampton, and
Gillingham, and continue by Raisham and Newington
to Milton and Sittinghourne, end thence by Faversham
and Canterbury to Dover. Branches to Maidstone,
Faversham-quays, and Chilham are proposed, and also
running powers over the South-eastern lines from Lon-
don to Strood, from Canterbury to Ramsgate, Margate,
and Deal, and from Cnilham to Ashford. The length of
the proposed line from Strood to Dover would be 44
and from Stroud to Maidstone 11 miles. The
promoters state that it would effect a saving of 22 mil .ts
in the distance from London to Canterbury, Ramsgate,
Diargate, and Deal, and of 14 miles to Dover and Maid-
stone. The total length of the proposed rail way is about
60 miles. The estimated cost is 1,500,0001, or about
25,000/. per mile.
MID-KENT AND LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN,—

This proposed line is intended to cot:emetic') by a
junction with the London and South Western Rail-
way at a point between the Nine Elms and Wandsworth
stations, and to proceed by Clapham-rise, Brixton-hill,
Herne-hill, and Dulwich ; and after crossing the
Brighton Railway near Syclenharn, to proceed direct to
Bromley, Farnborough, Chelsfield, Halstead, and Shore-
ham to o,fard, and thence by Wrotham, Mailing, and
Allington to Maidstone, and by a branch from Otford to
Riverhead, Sevenoaks, and Tunbridge. It is stated that
this line would shorten the distance from London to
Maidstone by 21 miles, or from 56 miles to 35 miles ;
and also shorten the distance from London to Hastings;
Tnnbridge-wells, Canterbury, Ramsgate, Folkestone,
and Dover by 12 miles. The length of the line is 45
miles, and the estimated cost 1,000,0001. The traffic is
estimated at 156,4551. per annum, being calculated at
the same rate per mile as the receipts on the South-
Eastern Railway, and after deducting 45 per cent. for
working expenses, the promoters state that it would
give a dividend of 8i per coat on the proposed capital.
STAINES AND WORKINGMAN AND WOKING JIINC•
TlON.—This projected line is intended to commence by
a junction with the South-Western Railway at Staines,
and pass through or near Egham, Virginia Water,
Sunning hill, Bagshot, Ascot-heath, and Warfield, ter-
minating at Wokingham by a junction with the Guild-
ford, Reading, and Reigate Railway, with a branch
from the main line at Longcross to the London and
South-Western at Woking. The estimated expense is
13,0001. per mile for a double line, or 300,0001. The
traffic receipts are estimated at 56,305/ per ennum, and
the expenses at 50 per cent., leaving 26,6521., or about
9 per cent on the proposed capital. The traffic receipts
aro estimated by the promoters at 2,423/. per mile per
annum. It is stated that
.the undertaking is supporte d
by the principal landowners and inhabitants resident in
the district through which the line is proposed to pass.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—Mr. Baird, has been
elected chairman of the Caledonian Railway, in the room
of Mr. Duncan, who lately retired.
GREAT NORTH OF SCOTLAND RAlLWAY.—Arrange-
meats for cutting the first turf of the Great North Rail-
way lino have been at length completed, and operations
in this important undertaking will positively commence
in about ten days hence. A single line of rails from
Aberdeen to Keith is all that is at first contemplated.
CLAIM OF DAMAGES FOR DEPRECIATION OF PRO-
PERTY.—A case of this description was tried yesterday
in the Outer House before Mr. Sheriff Gordon and a
special jury. Mr. John Hay, farmer, Half!Area, in the
parish of Borthwick, and county of Edinburgh, made a
claim against the North British Railway Company for
5741. 19s. 6d., as the value of stock which had been &-
stroyed by the operations of the railway company prior.
to November, 1847. The claim formed part of a con-
joined action against the company on the part of Mr
Hay, and was considered before the Lords of the Inner
House, who ordered the pursuer, on the 4th of June,
1852, to lodge a minute stating in what manner, and to
what extent, the stock had been injured by the opera-
tions of the railway. The minute was lodged on the
18th June, 1852, and their lordships then allowed the
claim to be tried by a special jury. The trial accord-
ingly took place in the Outer House before Mr. Sheriff
Gordon, and occupied the whole of Thursday and Friday.
The jury brought in a verdict disallowing the claim in
toto, and of course finding for the railway company.—
Scotsman.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.
Traffic—Week ending Oct. 23, 1852 ... £12,795 5 5
Traffic—Week ending Oct. 25, 1851 ... 11,390 4 8
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 235,397' 15 3
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 248,5b8 15 7
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
Oct. 16, 1612 ... 73,646
£9 900 2 2
Passengers
***
2'845 3 3
Goods ... "''

Total... £12,705 5 5
Total miles open, 1852, 173 ; ditto, 1851, 1731%.
London Terminus. Oct. 25, 1852.
6OUTII-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending Oct. 23,
£16,766 4 10
1852
13,426 5 5
Ditto, Oct. 25, 1851 ...

Increase in 1852 ...
London Terminus, Oct. 25,1852.

... £3,339 19 5

CLAIRVOYANCE IN DUMFRIES.--A Mr Barnard()
Eagle has created some sensation in Dumfries, by ex-
hibiting. his daughter, who appears to possess the powers
of a clairvoyant to a wouderlul extent. Tho Dumfries
Standard expresse3 some surprise that any one, after
hearing her responses while in a mesmeric state, should
be still so credulous as to think that the whole affair was
a piece of deoeptiou.