The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY AIV TICIPA7 lONS.

In a pamphlet on the advantages of railways, pub-
lished by the conductor of this journal some years ago,
in student days, when men's minds were less made up as
to the results of railways than they are now, the writer
closed his remarks on the probable effects of the estab-
lishment of railways with this Bente me—" The length
of our lives, so far as regards the power of acquiring in-
formation and disseminating knowledge, will be doubled,
and the whole world will ultimately become as one great
family, speaking one language, governed in unity and
harmony by like laws, and adoring one God." The
pamphlet was favourably received in all quarters, but
many oven of those who went fully with it demurred at
the closing sentence, as hyperbole and exaggeration,
and, as one intelligent comment :tor wrote, thought that
"when the author had laid down his pen, having
achieved a useful work, some malignant imp had taken
it up and added the closing paragraph, to throw dis-
credit on all that preceded it. It will scarcely be read
so now: such a result appears not merely possible, but
probable. The railway and the electric telegraph are
two of the greatest results before us of the philosophy
taught by Bacon—in opposition to the philosophy taught
by Plato and the other ancients—the philosophy which
seeks to improve the condition of mankind; the science
which deals with things instead of words; which pro-
duces what we need, lessens suffering, shortens life.—
Builder.

RAT.
TALE of
from a kind individual,— friend of ours lately reoeived
lresident in a foreign country, a
package containing
a few bottles of salad oil, of the most
savoury
kind, a present which, apart from viewing it as a
mark of esteem, afforded him unspeakable delight, being an
ardent
admirer of this sort of dainty. The bottles, which
were carefully sealed. were p'sce." en the apartment allotted
for edibles, there to lie comforts ..., and safely, as was sup-
posed, till wanted. A few d-- s after, our fr"iend, being
afflicted with an irrep-essible de,ire to " pree the exotic
`'kitchen," betook himLelf without de'ay to the pantry, when
found,he however, to his svrp.:se and indignation, that a
nice little aperture bad been w.Ue in the bungs of all the
bottles, and a nice little drop.o:' its contents extracted from
each. There was f °met hin g moo
ow nprehensible to him about
the matter. He could understand k a cork might be eaten
through hy a rat or a mouse, but how they could rnanap to
get at the contents was a mystery, the ho'o being too small
to admit the head of either of these beautiful animals.
Determined to ascertain who the delicqueots were, and the
method adopted by them to effect their purpose, he secreted
himself one night in the corner of the room, and soon a fine
glossy rat made its appearance, approached the bottles with
a fortitude unknown to (ir) rational depredators on kindred
,
errands, inserted his tail in one of them, drew it out gently,
cleaned that member with his mouth. and repeated the pro-
cess "over and over again."— Montrose I?eview
Lord and Lady Stafford and Ludy WDonald
arrived at the St. Katherine's Wharf e
the General Steam Navigation y yesterday morning, by
Company's steam-ship Ra-
venabouruee A= Aawerp.

THE TRUE NURSERY FOR SEAMEN.
At this time there are ebout 50,000 British seamen
_n the
maritime employ went of the United S ates.
Why e
these men sailing under a foreign flag ?
Simply because they obtain higher wages than are to
he had in
d the service of their native country. And
while 50,000 of our best men are to spare for a
foreign service, it is proposed to establish an artificial
nursery for seamen by bounties in our North•Ainerie
can provinces- Let the calculation be fairly made of
how much each seamen so raised by the hothouse
system will cost, and then let it be considered whether
at half, or a quarter of the price,
in the shape of more
liberal wages, our own flag might not recover and
retain the services of our own able seamen. Oen'
trous indeed it is that white a fifth of our nautical
population is tempted to desert our shores in con-
sequence of the comparative poorness of our wage''
an artificial nursery for the production of the skill we
so allow to leak from us, is to be established at
lavish expense in North America. While we are
so
running over with the natural nautical production,
we are to set about elaborating a contrivancem for
os!
creating the same by a process at once the
roundabout, the most costly, uncertain in effect, and
vicious in principle. Great Britain, producing 50
many more seamen than she can or will PO
what an insane inconsistency it is to Pro-
pose an artificial supply of the commodity in ex'
cess, in a colony I It is as if a brewer on
the
banks of a copious and pure river were to set up 0
laboratory for the supply of water by chemical cornt
,
binations. The idea rivals, indeed, the project oa
Swift's ingenious gentleman who had contrived
stupendous engine for cutting cabbages with a sue the
little short of the method by hand and knife. .
method of obtaining seamen by hand and wages is 1.11:1
comparably more certain, efficacious, and economic:a
than that by the engine of bounties, however vest etcomplicated the system. And while our Gay
is encouraging the idea of a petty nursery for seam_e4;
on the coast of Caneda at a great cost, what et is '113)0
nursery upon which the Unitad States draw
cost whatever but fair wages ? This countryeeelte.ed
is the nursery of seamen from which the Ueto
States man their ships in the proportion of more tull
a half. Good wages command good men. Our Crowe
indeedc scorns that tradesmanlike resource. when Les
Cr own wants seamen in time of need, and gill e..
the market-price for them, it has resource tothe p07,0t
rogative of stealing the services for which ensile on
consent to pay. And while it places its rfor,
this honest resource, its Ministers favour the
otheriede
sooth, of planting nurseries for seamen on ta be
side of the Atlantic ; jrtst as gipsies Might, e
disposed to approve of the establishment eine_
nursery in their neighbourhood, while WY tete°
ciously adhered to the custom of stealing_itoit
children. Protection is, however, needed--ere
it, fully and heartily—protection to British seaw,.ot.
protection against the ultima ratio of impress!? r
so
Great is the virtue of praying for what you ereate'von
much so, that for its convenience the practice isd
why,
carried on in war in an enemy's country ; sad
not also at home when the Queen wants seam", fair
does not want the means of obtaining them 139,e oe
and liberal wages ? No bounties are needed so'
: ice,
to bolster up nautical nurseries ; nothing but J 11:
the full market price for the seamen's services, I..sabie
quired for an unstinted supply of an incoroPa',,iog
article. In our last paper we edverted to them iswtl‘ries
of the system of bounties in the French fisPe ob•
and upon one remarkable effect we have beeorebot
served in the overmanning. Look at a Frelinhonsee
going to sea, and you perceive at once the
tvo
c
quence of this pernicious system. There are
!Dr
bands where in an English one there would Dei%; Of
and a rope or spar is handled as if it was
00l
gingerbread. There is little to do for each, ans pot
relies on his neighbour for doing it, and no cne Which
till
on his mettle, or called upon for those exertionspo
make the expert and hardy seaman. In Our is pat
manned fishing boats and small craft every rea.n_d an
to all work, and his capacity of resource practisce.os,
reach vessels,
developed to the utmost; not so in the F
eitber bountied or regulated by the State, ia nence
superabundance of bands has for direct conseg
a lamentable deficiency of energy and Ail--
aminer.

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THE COUNTRY MA of
The following is the official statement of irthe"-qh-e in
corn, &c., received in the port of London fr" h
Sept., 1e52,
Essex, from the 3Uth Aug 1852 to the 4t
both inclusive : ptiojirests

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CHELMSFORD, SEPT. 3.—Prices to-day were '--
A. 9. to 525;
Wheat, white, old 46s Od to 54s Od new ..--
0, to 931, ;,
red, old 4C; to 465, new 35s to 40s ; bale'', •I'n. to boo,
chevalier 28s to 33s ; grinding 22s to 283; Melt b 59 t°
PI
chevalier 55s to 58s ; oats 19s to 25s ; peas, partr. 295
to 365; white, 20s to 32s ; boffin.. 33s to 345; dee, 'to 365;
to 35s ; beans, tick, 32s to 34s ; harrow ticks, als
mazagan, 295 to 325. red 8"
COLCHESTER, SErr. 4.--14 heat, white 425 to 525; middle
45s ; oats, 18s to 238 ; beans,
and small 34s to 36s ; peas, white 36s to 386 gre 30,
P
32sKtaKALo ; barley,
r, 30s to
4. 323 per The following are the 4r. :testi°
SEPT.
for new grain :
Wheat. Barley.
First 39$ Od 26s Od mazagan 31s to 32s !,
Second 37s Od 25s 0(1
Third —s Od 223 Od ,
Oatmeal, per bag of 2801bs
HADDINGTON, SEPT. 3.—..'l
grain at our market to-day:—

Oats.
20s Od
,-...5 Od
...-.9 Od

Bed--s
Od
--s od
2890d0(
a are the

res
„A"-
--s
IN II"' f
prie°3

, -
imperial,
a followit

Bescl°'
Old Wheat
45s Od
First 1
289 as r 1 eoyd.
Second 22°5°10'4 346: Od
41s lld 1 26s 6d 1 19s 7c, 33, Od
Third
Total quantity of Old Wheat in market 135 irlmy "ill sold
Do. New do. 232 qrs. I ~A 4 old
Do. Oats do. 313 qrs., old
Barley do. 271 gm, 21i 6
soli
Do.
Do. Beans do. 8 qrs.,

of Coal
esir tonAR Ka
tEtTh•e—CIYOSEeSTIRDAY . . 15s of
Prices •,..
Chester Main of the market .
Davison'sWes 13s 3d Lambton •• :149 Od
143
Wellington Hartley..
15s 6d Lumley ...-- ............. 14s 6d
Holywell
Newcastle Hartley 14s Od Pensher . ............. ...tr. 3d
North Pere tleY• l3s 9d Russell's Lletton . ..... ;J: 9d
New Ta
T nfield ...
y Hartley l4s Od Stewart's .. ... •••• •• 149 Od
Canfield Moor "s
. 1° 6d Whitwell .............. ~d
. 159 ,„'-',4
Tantield M
Ibs v.
West W oor Butes l2s 3C Cassop •••• .............. ad
ylam. 159
Wylam
13s 6d Heugh flail ...........
153 Od
Wall's End, &c.
Gosforth , fielloe ................. 153 pd
Harton ••
14s OC South Hartlepool .... 149 63
14e Od South Selloe ....... ..... i
Hebburn -
liedley ...
............... 14s Od
14s Od Backhouse ........... ....
Lawson ••. 12s 9d
Riddall
Eden WI •
am ....„, .......
14s Od South Durham ..
.. ~ , 9
Belmont
Tees ...... .. io,
14s 3d Claverin .53 sa
Braddyll
15s d CoWPan Li tl 153 6cl
fietton
Haswell..
DaerthYr and
153 9d Nixons .
_._ Us
Keepier Grange
Ships at market, 119 ..... Sod. 85.
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RAILWAY SHARE MARE:EV-4.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 6.
LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market tc.dal WAs.i.aeala:
863/—Ditto,
transactions were as follow :—Lancashire allVwestern,
634—Ditto, Fifths, 37-16—London and Nai.- 04.,
O—The
market v ruled
variation
odnu
in
ill tpor.
ideal;
122543—afd, d .. ,
Dublin and Drogheda, 491/2—Dutch Rhenish, 31 1 Lan ,47 %g—South-Eastern and Pov.eird
MANCHESTER, Sm.'''. 6. was very
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business done to-de _ Tbe
limited, and prices generally had a downward tendellT 0.16
transactions were as follow:—Blackburn (50. PI London
Eastern Counties, 11 5-16—East Lancashire,lB%-- 8634
and North-Western, 1221/2—Lencashire and Yof,ksitilnAvest
—Ditto, Fifths, 31/2 dir Ditto, F Shares, 74. im* idiod,
Riding, 21/2 dis.— South-Elstern and Dover, 21W--
78—Bristol end Exeter, 104.
BIRMINGHAM, SEPT. 6. iln"
STOCK EXI,HANGE. —The share market presented
hadm, ell'
proved appearance to-day, and prices generally 74- til"
dency upward. The sales wer —London and -,°r d
iln
Western, Coventry and Nuoeatcn Stock, 126 --Midi
Stock, 78. - -rm.

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ASSAULT BY A POLICE.. SEA G
stable Sergeant Berry, of the Salisbury force, Went
committed on Friday to take his trial at the next Lop $
sizes, charged with the completion of a criminal assault
am
female who had been taken to the staticri on
a

BIRTHS.
OF A SON. the Wife
On the 25th ult., at the Retreat, near Bideford,
of Frederick Lang, Esq. • o,t 11,
On the 2d inst., at Lordship :efface, Stoke Newil3b
Mrs. Alfred Warner.

OF A IZ.
Oa the Ist inst., at Pixton-park, D.A.I7GRT
tFhe Lad:Y." 11'J good Law
On the 3d inst., at Lower Brook-street, the
Wodehouse. Lady Car°'
Oa the 4th inst., at Upper Harley-street, the
line Gamier.

MARRIED.
On the 2d inst., t T d Church, Ch • t her AndreWs
Girlinea wy or rrs op
—' of Foulshaw, to Love Jeanette, only surviving
daughter et the late Rev. Christopher Spurgeon, rector of
H rpley and Great Bircharn,

DJEI).
On the Ist inst.. at Claughten-hall, Lancashire, George,
the brother of Thome.; Fitzherbert, Esq., of Synnertoa-
park, Staffordshire.
On the 3d inst., Lieutenant-Colonel John Gordon Geddee,
late in command of the 30th Regiment.
At Tonhridge-wells, on the 3d inst., George R. Pater, Esq,
Joint Secretary to the Board of Trade.
aged 75. be '
At Scarborough, on the 3d iust., Phillis, daughter of t
late Rev. Henry Hildvard, of Stokesley, Yorkshire. _
Francis On the 2d inst.,_ atCatherington house, Horndean, Hang
°
s
cils-lAeirtofrogradn,,oEirtle 3d inst., Mary, relict of the ]at
John Alchorne, Esq., aged SG.
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London: Strandrid Published by MIIKDO TOIINut 2
No. 112, Printer, at The Bun Office, No. 11 ,' f
Straw!, in ti -e Precinct of the 5J,,,,.. in the coasts v
Middlesex, Tuesday, September 7,1852