The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-06 00:00:00

Th© Marquis

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RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND NORTTPMESTERN RAILWAY.—Rettan Of
Traffic for the week ending May 2
Passengers, parcels, mails, &c. £27,303 18 10
Merchandise ... 18,001 14 4
Cattle ... ... 1,030 10 11

Total ••• £46,336 4
Corresponding week last year
... 49,214 17 4
Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the
traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, Nellb
Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and
Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor!
tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North
Staffordshire Company.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of traffic 4 for the
week ending May 2 ••• £18,141 9
Corresponding week last year... 18,595 5 6
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
open.)—Traffic tor week ending May 2 ...C15,790 17 3
Corresponding week in last year (260
miles open) ..• ....Z15,332 6
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.---AMOIIIIt Of
Traffic for the week ending May 2 :
Passengers ... 4E8,067 17 9
Goods 2,583 12 lit
Total ... £10,651 9 10i
Corresponding week last year... 10,514 17
THE GRZAT NORTHERN RAILWAY. (Miles in work, 2231)
—Return of Traffic for the Week ending April 25, 1852
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
ehrocrhsaesn,dteand minerals
dogs,and mails £6,738 3 11
Merchandise 5
Cattle 1 1 6
99 169
108
Total .. ....£13,055 0 5
Corresponding week, 1851 (236 miles) :
... £5,849 8 6
Passengers. parcels, &c.
Merchandise, Cattle,&c. 3,c01 9

Total ... £9,750 17 7
NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.— (Miles open, 1120
Return of traffic for the week ending April 25 :
Railway and canal .- 0 0
Corresponding week last year ... 5,246 0 0
Note. The above is exclusive of the receipts sysilabi
under the agreement with the London and North-Westeris
Railway Company.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY.....TrRffiC reeiPtil
for the week ending May 2 :
Passengers, &c. ••• ... £603 2 3
Merchandise, mineral!, &c. 1,105 16 6

Total .. „, £1,773 18 9
Corresponding week last year 1,749 411
H
CHESTER • ANDHOLYHEAD RAILWAY. Traffic fa the
week ending May 2 :

MAIN LINN.

... £1,251 9 8
... 100 3 4
••• 665 10 11
*** ... 576 0 0

Passengers
Parcels, H. C. and D.
Goode, cattle, &T.
Mails

Total ..

MOLD.

... £2,495 3 11

Passengers ... £33 15 7
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... 16 2
Goode, cattle, &C. ... 105 6 5

Total £l4O 18
STEAM-BOATS.

„• . £221 1 4
24 9 0

Passengers
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ...

Total „. ,g.IO 4
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.— (189;1 miles opened.)—Rettgn °
traffic tor the week ending April 25 :
Passengers, &c. ... £3,205 19 10i
Goods, &c„ ... 4,484 7 0
Total .• ... £7,650 6 10i
Corresponding week last year ... 7.265 14 1
SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAILWAY.—Traffic for the We°
ending May 2, 1852 :
Passengers (9,894), parcels, horses,
and carriages ... ... £l6 0 5
,04
18 7
Goods, cattle, &c. 965

Total .. 2,0 al9 0
Corresponding week ill Imt year... 1,795 15 9
r Lipy 1§52.

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THE QUARTERLIES.
E EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. C.XCIV.
Althofigh there are no''l,ss than ten c,ntributions
io the curretit'numbr of .the Erlilikurgh, we doubt
ranch Whether a single article amongst them will.
attain eVerk a temporary amount cf popularity. Not
that the,..pakrs in the April .insteltneet are altogether
devoid of talent, or that they 5.,3 without being suf,
Niel:all...diversified,. but that thelalent displayed is
throughout for the most pirt) dull and scholastic,
tedioue-and dogmatical. Suggested by toe Nati-
belles Coithes' C dem, the.npeoing article, is a kind
Of biographical Sketch cf " Tronson du Ceulray,"
whose nainevie should "rather have seen among the
Uneucc?s,,ful Great- .11er," who ere cklebrated
in such. a ..very ; congenial spirit by Pro-
fessor Creasy.;. The, argument upon -o.Nationel
Educatitst - which --fillows is a dry and:
didactic' 4epetition- of facts already again and
again reiteraterdna the- laborious volume of Mr.
down to
her Maksty'a Ainbaasader to Greece,
, to the most recent number of some of our pro-
:40041 contemporaries. To- site`e.!ent, "however,
n this ticle We can fOrgiee the repetition for the sue
O', the philanthropy, by which it is no less glaringly
A
rstinguished. A review of " Parini's Stato ltomano,,
nAI e"
;I°ll°Wiirl by, a chanter 0n..`." Athenian Architecture, '
this,again, -by, ,he most important contribution
in the Present ntindrer of the h dinburgh—the paper
°n " Investments fcr the Working Classes." The
introductory sentences -of the article here particu-
larized, are, unhappily, of almost universal applica-
tion
" WO:have often had occasion to remark on the ob-
stacles and perplexities, the hidden perils, the opposing
ricks, the -surprising and unforeseen dilemmas, which
beset the path of active beneficence, especialy when
attempted. on a great scale. The difficulty of doing good
is at least equal to its luxury. To the conscientious and
the thoughttul the path of philanthropy is one of briers
and thane .- On the one hand lies tan shame and reO
roach of witnessing a vast accumulation of misery
without an effort to relieve it: on the other the danger
.--eyen,niorp. clearly apprehended in proportion as our
_
experinCe ,wide and our inquiries deep—of aggra-
vating'jge eilf we attempt to mitigite. On the one aide
lies the'sip of the who looks upon the wounded and
bleeding victim, and passes by, either in shrinking sensi-
bility or in sheer despair: on the other lies the risk,
from ignorance or incaution, of pouring is oitavhich shall
muse the.rounds to fester, and wine which shall stimu-
late thefeine._ It is no easy matter to steer between
Scylla:aua asrybdis•' and we should deal gently whh
the pilot-:if only he be cautious and modst—who, in
shunning one peril, incurs shipwreCk fromthe other."
Poor
Pette,gus O'Cunner's -involvment.with reference
to
his scheme, is, -iu the course of the argument,
accounted for in a. manner which is clear, without, of
course,: being satisfactory. After an estimate of
"John- Koox's Liturgy," tomes a 'criticism of M.
17raitycoeufusi:isbiOgraphy.af .41 Mallet du Pan." Strangely
the opening of what, at a first glance, seems
1° be very drily suggestive, namely, the review of
“Roelittek'S Whig Ministry of 1830? In the course.
of theSe Preliminary remarks to a political review it
'a exquisitely said, in reference to the respect and gra-
titude
in which the venerable Samuel Rogers
(decidedly
rare avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno,
inasmuch as he is both a Poet and a Banker)-s-is
41d hrthe. public up to this very moment—" It
indeed, have been extraordinary if the poet of
Should not live in our recollections." A
'rnice -Uf " Squiet's Nicaragua" is succeeded by a
1,34,1,3er.0n ".Lord Derby's Ministry and Protection"—
uneapket. unquestionably 'free. trade, but also unques-
-na4le Whig--as Whig as might have.been expected
bOder the livery of buff and blue. And so the num-
er af
.the Edinburgh- is brought to a conclusion.

-LITERATURE.
TAE
JESUIT IN INDIA. One Volume. Burns
and Lambert.
0 chrism; volume, in some respects really extra-
It 14rY, in its revelations, is the one here published.
re"nnte the progress made by the Jesuit mission
beta !Southern e 4 lndia during the last few years,
b„ ;writer— i
evidently a man of singular ntelligence—
ng
;qualifiedalified himself for the task of inditing the
iirstive: by four years spent in the midst of the
;it ure he enumerates. Sir Harcourt Lees is dead,
~.(Y
la trttei" but we have still amongst us men interested
Watching the movements nearer house than the
soadera tu• •
1,0
..lasion of the disciples of St. Ignatius de
NJ, Aisefeed, the development of the Society of
reee,,...113 in England is amongst the number of those
events which arrest, by the force of
tthioe:ll;rvk;rb.yle
Singularity and importance, the atten-
°` the most indifferent spectator. During
_veral years
the Jesuits have extended,
It"hserved, it may be, but none the less securely
on that acce`unt, the wondrous ieflaence exercised by
th:rn now-a-days scarcely less effectually amongst
the People of_these islands than amongst any other of
otie various races of Christendom. It behoves every
()fel therefore, really solicitous to forward the cause
_4truth in religion to scrutinize keenly the course
P rsukd by this unassuming but dominant association.
Spr a
l„,;ezt mg their ranks over the whole of the habitable
egions of the globe, the Jesuits are every where ac•
lawn
by the same motives, swayed by the same
it's struggliog towards the same achievements.
."'eY are differently clad, it is true, in different re-
rain"s) BPeskicg in those different regions a different
ti-quage, and adopting towards their different inhabi-
_.n. te very different kinds of demeanour. But in all
here and
the Jesuit is still the Jssuit, nothing
rarid nothing less than the Jesuit, be he in
t •
College of
the of his General at Rome, be he a resident at
Stony burst, be he in the streets of
.Laris,-nr in the solitudes of Hindostan, floating over
'lke oriental seas, or threading the forests of America,
I:lBvesing under the luxuriant. foliage" of the south or
ser the sterility of the northern snows. It is, con-
"elitlY, not waste of toil to pore over the pages
svhi e •
eu let us into the secret movements of the Society,
even *hen these movements are so far removed from
ligr; awn' observation as - the southern portions of the
r%—it'le continent. We remember the almost awe-
inspiring effect of that scene in the Juif Errant, in
sshi, 1, •
em Logene Sue described M. Rodin as bending
over
globe representing the earth, the surface of
track was marked in red dotted lines, with the
Jesuit
of the footsteps of these übiquitous
vol missionaries.- Here, at any rate, is a
.pirection,
f 41:33e which enables us to trace those
dire Ps somewhat
namely, more comprehensibly in one
into the' southern quarters of our
tudiau territory. The scene of the missionary la-
2urs there, described by the anonymous traveller,
zelbracea part of the Carnatic, the province of Tan-
Jere, and the country down to Cape Comorin, com
id)risillg, in fact, the southernmost extremity of Hin-
„llstee, and being designated the Vicariate of Madura.
situated at from about 7.51 to 11.50 north latitude,
the climate is very relaxing, from the perpetual heat
teaching sometimes 100 Fahrenheit in the day time,
and falling only 12 degrees by midnight—cholera
prevalent, and almost invariably in its most dan-
gerous intensity, by reason of the previous exhaus-
tion. -Here it is that the missionaries are described as
battling wi.h an idolatry believing not merely in
Om, or the Trintouti—Brahraa the Creator, Vishnou
the Preserver, and Siva, or Sieben", the Destroyer—
but, besides Be'the wor,hippieg
the symbols
Destroyer—
selected by the most grovelling fetichism.
Sometimes, as in the instance of the petrified shell
called Sslagranan, this idolatry descends even to the
deification of the freaks of Nature, branching off
into a mythology altogether so intricate,igastilfitocarVbeyr
all other mythologies numerically
in
compitison. According to the account given by this
little volume., tha temptations to advinture upon the
labours of Christianizing the Hincloos—fer the Mus-
Suitt:len, in the present state of things seem to .be
hopeless no anything but persuasive in a worldly
"nee; the dwelling"" of the adventurer
amprued.
31t, thatched witho palm leaves, hismat a
ad
4 planks his food rice, occasional] beda bung y
accompaniesl,4
the flesh poultry. Yet,.by
el some lean and tough
it'eaos such as these, is de, Jared that upwards of
1550,000 idolaters in that quarter of
in Christianity.
of the globe alone
ire been redeemed to a belief
wever the matter here considered is one demand-tug the serious attention of the pohne—aiding them,
d
0, in their effort
tie statements cannot
fail to.
"%reprehend the progress of the Jesuit party in
;„elLlled by watching the movements of their brethren
ottelndostan.

4,-EARiIIoUSE. No. 111. By Charles Dickens.
,as
Iltlitared and mellowed in style, Boz" is as fresh .
.
t,7r
.onginality.
t 0471 two Bleak House, which seemed to
first numbers to commence in a. subdued
)11Z,, such as 'even filled our mind with dtsapPoitlt-
spu—' has already in the third number developed it-
de with vigour and rapidity that promise to rep.;
novelist_ not Unworthy of the pen of our incompara.y
c,lll,i'st---one who, without extravagance, may.
b
darei_" the. Le Sage of his generation. Exercising
ebt ug his lifetime an influence that Le Sage never
—relict by thousands and thousands almo't
tne ;
4:93ttuat of publication—his green nuoite.s
-"„g simultaneously on the tables of the artinn end
the PatriDian---we exult to.find a genius possessing
Power in sorne respects so very solemn in its re-
Donsitii• - • •
th, Icy; always displaying itself in the ineulca.
4
h,or the worship of the good', the gentle, and the
4tittli• Seldom has the large heart of Charles
t "sens revealed this tendency more conspienottsly
szto in the Alay invtalment of his new fiction.
kith" becomes more loveable than ever (uncon-
Rra °tisly to hertelp in the Writing of her eutobio.
th Mr• ITUye d e hitnFelf, capital fellow
,e
1„Ag". 18, with his perpetual terror of the, etc
s'ad'hia Unininfortable liability to be "floored
n's,p," has his nose put out of joint by his friend
former school-fellow, Lawrence Boythorn, who
erally bursts into the narrative, takes the reader'e
Peer
of thebeing or:
storm, and gives promise • of
tt. most glorious creations of the author, to whom
world is already indebted for such beings as Old
,v,:( eller, and Tom Pinch, and Captain Cuttle, and
xraliles, and John Willett, and AID ,Nantellini, And