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

worth 28 or 30 years' purchase, may still
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sell for 18 or but they will scarcely again
be knocked down for half the latter amount

so as to pay 10 or 12 per cent. on the purchase
money. We would therefore strenuously recom-
mend those who have money for investment to lose
no time in availing, themselves of opportunities which
if now disregarded may never again return, at least

;0 the same extent as at present. We have seen the

improvement since the spring ; we venture to assert
hat it will continue in an increasing ratio for some
ime to come, and that every delay must be injurious
;o speculators.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.

Traffic—Week ending June 26,18.52 . £12,157 0 5
Traffic—Week ending June 28, 1851 ... 12,598 3 3
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 238,046 19 9
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 243,846 18 4
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
June 26, 1882 ... 70,715
Passengers ... ..a £9,100 6 9
Goods ... „„. 3,056 13 8

Total ... £12,157 0 5
Total miles open, 1852, 17314 ; ditto, 1851, 1731/1.
London Terminus, June 28, 1852.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Amongst the noble
and distinguished individuals honouring the performances at
her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday
evening were the following :—His Excellency the Ameri-
can Minister, Mr. and Mrs. Abbott Lawrence, and the
First Secretary of the American Legation; the Earl of
Lonsdale, the Earl and Countess of Glengall and Lady
Margaret Butler, the Earl Grey, the Earl and Countess of
Stamford and Warrington, the Earl of Shelburne, the
Countess de Flahault and Mademoiselle de Flahault, the
Dowager Countess of Harrington and Lady Blanche St.
Maur Stanhope, the Earl Mountcharles, the Earl of Cardi-
gan, the Dowager Lady Ward, Lord Ward, the Earl of
Lisburne, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Right
Hon. the Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Countess of
11Ialmesbury, the Viscount Cranbourne, the Viscount En-
field, Lady Elizabeth Egerton, Miss Elphinstone, the
Viscount Anson, the Viscount Canterbury, Mrs. Hatton and
the Misses Hatton,.Sir W. Somerville, Bart., M.P., and party,
Lord Adolphus 'itzclarence, Sir George Wombwell, Bart.,
Lord De Grey Wilton, the Viscount Clifden, General the
Hon. H. Cavendish, Lord George Paget, Lord Elphinstone,
Lord William Lennox, Lady Pigot and party, Colonel
Wildman, Captain end Miss De Horsey, Sir John Gerard,
Bait., Sir Henry Webb, Bart, Sir George Armitage, Bart.,
Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart., and Lady Barrett Len-
nerd, Lady Becher and party, Captain and the Hon. Mrs.
Ryder Burton, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, Mr. Sturt, M.P., Mr.
Henry Baring, M.P., Miss Caroline Bellew, Mr. Storer, Mr.
and Mrs. W. H. Palmer, ,the Hon. C. Ilarbord, Mr. Uzielh,
Mrs. Wheeler and party, Mr. Norman Macdonald, Captain
Lyon and party, Mr. Hubert De Burgh, Captain Trelawney
and party, Mr. Franks, Mr. Martin, Mr. Longden, Mr. Par-
kins, Mr. Magan, M.P., Mr. Littledale, Mr. 11. Johnson,
Mr. Rickards, Mr. George Hudson, M.P., and Mrs. and Miss
Hudson, &c.

GERMAN PLAYS.—Her Majesty and his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, his Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, attended
by the Viscountess Canning, Lord Byron, General Buckley,
and Colonel Bowater, honoured the benefit of Mr., Emil
Devrient, at the St. James's Theatre, on Saturday evening,
with their presence. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, the Hon. Mr. and
Mrs. Bruce, and Lord James Murray, also honoured the per-
formance with her presence.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday after-
noon at the Foreign-office, Downing•street. The Ministers
present were—the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl of Lonsdale, the Marquis of Salisbury. Mr. Secretary
Walpole. the Earl of Mahuesbury, Sir John Paklngton, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley,
the Right Ron. J. C. Herries, Lord John Manners, and the
Duke of Northumberland. The Council sat one hour.

TH X CAPE MAILS .—PLY MOUTH, SATEEDAT:--
General Screw Steam Company's packet liellespont, Captain
Watts, sailed thi3 morning for the Cape. She took out a.
" ship-letter mail," and will bring home the return mail to
that conveyed to the colony by the Queen of the South—
which proceeds to India, calling at the Cape On her way pack
to this port.