The Sun.
London, England, 1864-01-21 00:00:00

KINGS3RIDGE.

An influential meeting was held at the Town-hall, Kings-
bridge (South Devon) on Tuesday, the Earl of Devon in
the chair, to adopt measures with reference to a proposed
railway from the South Devon Railway to that town.
Mr. SIIORTLAND moved a resolution to the effect that,
in the opinion of the meeting, it was highly desirable that
the advantages of railway communication should be afforded
to the town of Kingsbridge.
Mr. NV. R. ILBERT, in seconding the resolution, said he
should take shares to the amount of £5OO.
The motion was carried.

Mr. W. B. FoßzEscuN moved a resolution approving the
proposed railway to connect Kingsbridge with the South
Brent station of the South Devon Railway, stating that
it deserved the support of the district, as being the shortest
and most feasible route.

Mr. N. PITTS seconded the resolution, which was carried.
A committee was then appointed, and upwards of £6,000
in shares was subscribed in the room.

BUCKFASTLEIGH, TOTNES, AND SOUTH
DEVON•

A public meeting was held at Buckfastleigh on Tuesday,
to promote a railway to that town; Mr. J. Michelmore pre-
sided. On the motion of Mr. Barnes, seconded by Mr. J.
Furneaux, it was unanimously resolved that the proposed
line, via Staverton, would be the most beneficial for the town
of Buckfastleigh, and its neighbourhood; and, on the
motion of Mr. J. Symons, seconded by Mr. Kierman, a re•
solution was passed pledging the meeting to support the
proposed line.

ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN.
The traffic returns on 302 miles of this line for the month
of December show that the receipts for passengers, mails,
&c,, amounted to 46,600 &Is, and for freight to 154,336 dols.
—total, 200,936 dols., against 50,791 dols. received on 127
miles open in December, 1862. The total receipts fur the
past year amounted on an average length of 210 miles to
1,327,695 dole. or 6,322 dole. per mile ; and for the year
1862, on an average length pf 71 miles, to 257,327 dole., or
3,624 dole. per mile.

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday, before the Examiner of the House of Com-
mons, the following bills for new railways were declared to
have complied with the standing orders of both Houses of
Parliament :
NETROPOLITAN.—To enable the company to extend their
railway from Finsbury-circus to Trinity-square, Tower-
hill, at an estimated cost of £730,000, with power to borrow
£233,000. And also another bill b extend the Metropolitan
Railway from Spring-street and Conduit-street,Paddington,
to Notting-hill, Kensington, and Brompton, and raise for
the purpose £1,200,000 and borrow £400,000.
LONDON AND SOUTII-WEST/RN,—To make an exten-
sion from Kensington to Richmond and junction lines com-
municating with the Hammersmith and City Railway, and
the North and South Western Junction, and to raise for the
purpose £330,000 and borrow £llO,OOO.
MIDLAND.—For the construction of new railways and
works at Normanton, Burron.os-Trent, and West-Riding,
and to raise £160,000 new capital and borrow £58,600 ; also
for new lines from the Bristol and Birmingham to the city
of Bath and Thornburg ; to raise £236,000 and borrow
NEWCIT'AY AND CORNWALL —For a line near B n
L 78,600.
ToFf°l3aoos,yoBotoernand borrow £lOO,OOO. gul-
low to the St. Denis branch of the Newquay Railway ncar
Hindra ; to raise £27,000 and torrow £9,000.
of railways in Flintshire at
anFLel4a.sitNismoTis:eit?titeßFEs AND YORIiSHIRE.—For branches between
Blackburn,loo oo and
WATErt,—pro
cs.THF, -
Horwich, and Wigan ; power to raise
1
GRBAT NORTHEUN and Leeds, Bradford, and Halifax
2, Ch
to or
bloeyrr, 0wx70,000.
Amalgamation.
BounToN-
pceed extension to
Cheltenham; additional Capital, £400,000 and £133,000 on

Disraeli with materials for four amusing
be-
come silent in our day, or at least they are
" The quarrels of authors," whic2l furnished the elder
volumes, have
much decorum as to have lost the piquancy waged with so
attracted public interest. The quarrels of wh2ch formerly
"tray
sellers"
an almost equally irritabile genus—seem to be taking their
place. An explorer of unknown regions now-a-daylq:
after returning in safety from the multitudinous perils of
flood and field, has scarcely time to receive the
he
accuracy
ouri
if is called
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the
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conclusions,
stgniooidnn dialecticasel,
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congratulations of his friends and admirers before
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LORD LYNDHURSTS COLLECTION OF PICTURES hthimeoa fsintako
endurance
his
I ii
alshnl e 1 odoo sPf
source, which, perhaps, have been the chief causes of his
February. The most
visalutoabblee pictures in yin athectciolillecitinon are those painted by his success. Our latest African travellers, whose exploits have
,a"ndotherreflected so much glory on their country, are no exception
father, J. S. Copley, R.A. of Which the chief is "The
Death of Major Pierson, Jersey," vehicle it is hoped will be
Group," representing
with their mother, father,
pictures (more particu- to the general lot. All who take an interest in these sub-
jects are aware that the claim of Captain Speke and Captain
purchased for the National Gallery* There is likely to be
Grant to have solved the geographical mystery of ages has
been warmly challenged, and among the first to deny they
Lord Lyndhurst
kiaineredi ny
his
competition
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wi
lyhfeoGnr
had discovered the true source of the Nile was Dr. Beke,
and grandfather), and an attempt will be made to secure himself a Nilo explorer of long date and considerable expe-
rience. Last night the learned doctor explained his views
them for America.
rivaevf
soundiabl
lungs, at length in a lecture delivered before a crowded audience
ADVERTISEMENT.I—Avoid medicines : they always aura-
chronic complaints, but Du. Barry's Delicious Health in the theatre of the London Institution. Mr. T. Baring,
Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty times M,P., the president of the institution, was in the chair, and
Y cures them, restoring among those present were the hon. sec., Mr. Tite, M.P.,
healthy liver, Mr. Gassiot, F.R,S., Dr. A. Smee, and the Rev. 'f . Binney.
- e extract a few out
tional regularity, iptus
e perfectbstl
blood,
,eos tt hi digestion, strong
refreshingrsetmr
oensdp;lieei:s
Bleep,
,tyi 1 c .
and energy Dr. Beke, at the outset, emphatically asserted that Captain
to the most disordered or enfeebled Ttr
Speke and his companions had not hit upon the true head
Marchioness de . -
of
660 h
a,
nOO, OP
,Paris,
iusr, eos
f: —a ot the Nile, and while allowing them a certain amount of
away for seven
years, debility, with a nervous Palpitation all over, bad success in tracing the course of the river northwards, claimed
agitation,
and sleeplessness, the most intolerable nervous to have pointed out many years ago the region in which the
agitation, and dreadfully low spirited.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord river takes its ciao. As most people are aware, Captain
Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' Speke's theory is that the Nile flows from the northern end
spitting of blood, liver ders.nge•
"Fifty years indescribable agony of the Victoria Nyanza, but Dr. Bake will no more admit
dyspepsia.—No. 49,C8Liu3v2r
from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation,
Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth this than that the river Rhone has its source in the Lake of
flatulency, spasms,
—Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, oeyrimicy, Surrey,' of Geneva, because it happens to flow through it. The true
"Niliaei fontes," Dr. Beke maintains, are to be found in the
Mountains of the Moon, which, basing himself on the cole-
m e thirtyat,
andyear; 'a
rdiseased a
flauensgss.,_
Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low grated passage of Ptolemy, ho contends form a meridional
spirits, and nervous fancies.-Cure No. 54,816. The Rev. Jas, and not an equatorial, range. Eighteen years ago Dr. Bee
T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpl- said ho had commmunicated to the Royal Geographical So-
por the liver, which had resistei all medical treatment." ciety a paper on the Nile and its tributaries, in which he
In tins, 1 lb., 2.5. 9d. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., lls. ; 121 b., 225. ; 41b .
had developed this theory ;but unfortunately the expedition
405.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;
sent out to verify it by actual observation had failed,
also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Chemists is
from causes which had never been adequately explained.
every town of the United Kingdora.
[ADvEnnsEetENT.I-11olloway's Pills.—Hysteric and
These Mountains of the Moon, Dr. Beke, in the map which
t the most beneficial inflocnce he exhibited in the room, makes to run from north to south,
other Pits.—These Pills eyes
arallel, but at some distance from the eastern coast, and the
over the brain and nerves, and, therefore, are the safest
•p
and surest remedies for all disorders of those vital organs, mountains laid down in Capt. Speke's map at the north end
of Lake Tyganyika ho declared have no existence whatever
Few diseases wore more unmanageable than hysterics.
except on paper. By the removal of this range the learned
f
convulsions, and similar fits, until trial was reetide of Hol-
loway's Pills, which proved able at once to ,coutrol the doctorb rusin fldthe inNclulde Lake Taganyika within the ltimittos
io.s
morbid irritation, and very rarely failed to ee'rrY the et,h.oanadideoef-en
aallow
isit
impossible
contrib
',fie thea
streams. Withoutto explain
nips it
patient steadily on to health and strength. Epi.:.et-7 h'bited last
the doctor'shypothesis
fully ; but if those ex • .
seizures, springing from scrofulous taints, are especially
, ght were correctly drawn, the basin of the Nile as he
tree-
amenable to this treatment, which eradicates their cause. he. • it closely with the
and drew in 1849 corresponds very
The Pills should be taken in doses calculated to act eller- Olen
•ed by the expedition of Bai ton and Spek analS•s9
getieically on the bowels—the diet should be digestible, limits detu.*7 dit, Dr
Pfly the results of former expe . .. .
nutritious, and plainly cooked. Pastry and spirits should After tracing bi .
- ' Speke and Grant, and while allowing
be altogether avoided. Beke came to that of ~

loan.
RitymiiEv,—For extension from Cardiff to Caerphilly
and other places; £45,000 new Capital and £15,000 loan,
COWES AND NEWPORT.—For branches in the Isle of
Wight, and to raise £14,000.
HOYLAILE.—To extend the line from Hoylake to Mostyn
i
te or s r.aftie:d£stooo,eonoloarge premises in Ilanchester
rslANcunsT-Elt, SITEEEIELD) AND LINCOLNSIIIIIE.--For
and borrow £166,000.
nadditional pr eo
w;
—to raise £150,000.
SCOTTISH CENTRAL-10 improve and extend the Dun-
dee and Newtyle Railway, and to raise £60,000.