The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-23 00:00:00

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VICE CHANCER.V.—( THIS
THE GREAT N RTHERN RAILWAY coMBAN 1 'i, THE EArrT
AND WEST INDIA DUCKS AND BIRMINGHAM aL.I.NCTI N
tila Eim.ur Vice-t.,n.o.eeli•o l'Att.wd,a up o ralog
his sett this natiruit,g, ineef eded to give ju,iern,iit in
this case, whtch he sta.« d was a mo ten it,r au ihjabeti,4l
to restrain the defendants from intern- ring .ith tr,e
Dlaintiff, in ttikiag a juneiton from the Great Northern
Rail.ay to th raw oi 'be 0..,e,,tiur,t., ,ec,rdit.g to a
plan, prepared by Mr. Cobi,,, ,Ifid p'..itiAll .ngin..er, or
n2eorrling to some other fit awl proper plan for tha ,
Purpose, and to restrain the defendants from withhold- t .
int; from the plaintiffs all proper facilities fur effecting
such junction. It was argued by the Learned Counsel
. for the defendants, that the lane belonging to then,, aI.
though small in his., was of great value, and it would
be Unjust to allow the plaintiff's to make use of it, not
Only • for a illECtiOli, but for side fines,oil_
sod that without compensation, and with()nte
Aaiun
to the powers given to the Great Northern,,.,4o__li
Railway Company. On the other hand, Mr. Bothell
that contended that the right of the plaintiff.. to the jut was . ed
a condition upon which the de eu(tants had obtained
their Act, -. and that with a full knowledge of the cokenedi-.
..or,ris up,,n which parti„roo.nt had allowed it to lebt,
the
Rl3 L10rt..1311, ..f.er going through h
facts of the case, stated his opinion to
be,i4whole be
that
t'ffi mast give e,,mpensati,n for the i w
the plait,-
i,eeds be, to deposit the it qui6iie
securityfrom offering any
opposition
taken, and if
fur that purpose.
The defendants were to be restrained
Oppcisitiol3 to the taking of the laud repuirtien b
d efor.rfe7sdianyg
tho junction, and the case to c,,nwe
on g .
nest, the engineers of the two. compan,es to agree in the
Meantime to a plan, and if not to agree to appoint •an
cropire.—Judgnient aceordinglY•

:vi A ttL B ittY-ST ILE l'--( 1 HIS DAY.)
ASSAULT BY A SOLDIER. —Jusenk Brown a private
soldier, beloogtog to the Scow,' Fu.ib-er Guards, was
Placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, charged with
violeni4y assultieg police-constable Amur, 232 A., while
in the ebtecution of his duty.
'The constable, whose eyes were much swollen anti
bruis;,d, deposed that about half-past nine o'clock on the
Previous night be was on duty in Hyde-park, and herd
two women in charge for annoying gentlemen in the
Park, when the prisoner came up and attempted to rescue
them from his custody. C taiplainaut resisted, and a 4
length the prisoner eumerded to rescuing one of the
Women, who ran away. Witness followed her aid
took her again, when the prisoner came up
to him again and said, " On, d— you, give
fair play,' and attempted to kick him on the
,lower part of his person. Witness fortunately
ayoided the contemplated injury, and told the
Pris9ber be was a p tike-constable, and on duty. Pri
strucka err'plied he did not care a who he was, and
him a fearful blow between the eyes, which felled
bito to the ground. Prisoner then tried to take off his
heft to strike him, but was prevented by witness knock-
' ing him down with his (witness's) staff. Complainant
then
to ep--_g
an his-rattle, and other constables having come
hisr a,si.iance, the prisoner, who offered great resist
atio,', was lodged in the station.
The sergeant of the company to which prisoner be-
longed, said prisoner was quiet enough when sober, but
(prisoner)
be was drunk he was exceedingly violent. He
%Prisoner) received ten days' imprisonment for the like
°lrene() a short time since.
Ir. HARDWICK, in consideration of the punishment
. Prisoner had already received from the constable's trun-
eh"; Committed him for ten days.

afICRADD'SLITERATURE lIISTORY OF THE env-
844DEs. Translated from the French by W.
Robson. Vol. 1.1". Routledge.
This volume contains accounts of the fourth, fifth,
sixth, and seventh crusades. It is very desirable for
11111ny to possess a history of those important wars in
the English language, and thus these volumes will
;13oubtless prove very acceptable. It is to be regretted,
owever, as the tran-lator remarks, that the cele-
brated author allows petty jealousy to interfere with
the records of universal history. Notwithstanding
these drawbacks, a very good general idea of the
eruiades may be formed from this publication.
• 4 Z

LFE OF MARLBOROUGH. By C. Mac-
farlane. Ruutledge.
In this little volume we meet with the account of
the life and deeds of Marlborough, in a condensed
ni which it is preowned will be acceptable to the
present busy generation. It is advantageouP, cer-
tainly, for many to gain a knowledge, howev-r
of the career of ro dioinguisheti a men. It
is easy to purchase and to peru.e a work like the
present, while a Lirge folio deters the greater number
°f the community from attemptinz its study.

THEP
The subjoined
ANAMA RAILWAY.
the Panama Raild'*eriP
Alexauder W he ion of a visit to the works on
atesmer Tret ty• s been furnished to us by Mr.
chief-engineer of the Royal Mail
Ou the 19th It th sitortp.,. u -..0
Pt4in and officers of the Trent
been kindly furnished with free tickets by Mt.
uenter, vice-
ratlivey as tarpreide" °f d3FI , proceeded along the
mike
the
woiks
in t wag finished, and afterwards walked
mile of the point where to within three quarters of a
The bridge
tested in the e the river Chagres is to be crossed.
uh,a.s already been built, and its strength
Jib d States and ia now on the way to its
•
Wnen it is ere
d.4ti"tion-
erected, which it is expected to
be in about five
Miles beyoud G months, the line will be opened two
river
orgona, thus entirely dip,-naing with the
navigation. The Atlantic terminus of this rail-
way is Placed on Mat zanilia Island, in Navy Bay, and
separatedt from the mainland by a narrow w chant el, h 10 feet depth of water in it. The trains
art from the wharfs where the steamearsvy.bliea,y,anteo
Gatun
every da. From the wharfs,
in N
ftccy a distance of seven miles; the country through
which,
'a the railway passes is a complete swamp, present.
g, in that climate especially, the most formidable diffi-
copies, and rendering it nece:sary to pile every foot of
. the road. This work was performed by steam pile-
drivers at the rate of 250 feet a day in the easiest parts,
while at other places, where longer piles were required,
not more than 58 or 60 feet forward could be done in the
same time. Above Gatun, where the first view of the
river is obtained, the ground becomes of a more solid
description, consisting principally of a clayey red loam,
Which is carried down daily in large quantities by the
ballast engines fur the purpose of filling up the road
between the piles. The worst parts have already been
Made good, and in less than a year banks of this earth.
which the heavy rains only render more compact, will
have superseded the pilet, which may be termed the
pioneers 'of the line. Further along the road free.
stone of an excellent quality is seen in abundance,
and is now being largely u.ed in the construction of
culverts, and it is intended to replace
the bridges
over the numerous gullies with this
atone, wood hav-
ing been used in the first instance for the sake of ex-
pedition. The whole l
asses through the
wild primeval forest, with all thePand luxurious
vegetation of the tropics. It is re rankio how few of
o pa
t:rthoalcitbu
sel
treei serviceable
the trees which have been cut down
timber, as it is only here and there
really solid, the majority of the palas tribes. beinisg seenf
and the large trees nearly all hollow. This is to be not
ticed more especially in the swampy districts_ Near
Tavernilla, the present terminus of the line, the native
trees are being converted into sleepers. The rails, 641 b.
to the yard, are laid on cross sleepers, without longue.
dinal balks, a construction which admits of the sleepers
being replaced, laid closer together, or lifted without at
all disturbing the road.
" There is at present only one line of rails, but the
:• laying down of ate end or teird lin-, which the grew,
traffic across the isthmus will and übtedly soon I.( quire,
Will be as easy as the first was dia.:air. The principtl
difficulties have been triumphantly overcome, and the
work, when finished, will be a listing monument to
Colonel Se•ton, the engineer-in.chiet, and the other
. brave men connected with him, who have laid down
this great engine of civiltz 'Lion through forests
hitherto untrod by the foot of man, tenanted only by
the tiger, rattlesnake, and iguana, and this, too, in e
climate proverbially fatal to Europeans. A contract
has be, n entered into for the compl. tion of the line
through to Panama by the Ist of August, 1853; ...no
When it is c,nsidered that no more than twenty months
have elapsed since the commencetn-ot of the work, there
can be little doubt that this -stupend sus undertaking, nr
. such universal interest, will by that time have connected
the Atlantic and Pacific Oc-tins. The speed at present
obtained on the li ,e, ihriugh at times rising to 25 milem
an hour, does not average throughout above 10 or 12
The total rise on the line does not appear to be very
great, as at Tavernilla the height above the river is not
more. than 50 feet. The gauge is five feet. There is
only one class of carriages, on the American plan, hay-
ing a communication from each carriage to the driver
by means of a check-string runt& g si ,ng the roof. The
tare to Tavernilla, a distance of 21 miles, is 7i dollars.
' and the earnings of the railway are stated at 30,000 dolls.
a month, and the great California and Pacific tr.,ffic now
passing over confirms t', is statement. Passengers' 11.1 -
. Rage to any amount is checked, taken charge of; and de-
livered on the production of the checks given with the
greatest promptitude and regularity."

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THE WINE TRADE.—Top remonstrance of several
proprietors of vineyards in Xeres and elsewhere, to which
we made allusion some while since, egeinst the mixing of
wines so universally practised in this country not having
had its desired effect, a most decided step appears to have
been taken to reme ty the alleged grievance. An associa
tion has been formed under the title of the Wine Me chants,
. Company, and the whole •of the -extensive area 01 the late
Cross K-ys Inn, in Gracechurcb-street, has already been
appn.priated as a depot for wines arriving direct. It is ad-
Mitted on all hands that this is a bold experiment to set
aside the intermediate dealer, but it is equally conceded that
the'extent to which "blending" and "wedding" has been
car Vied, imperatively demanded some Practlcal cheek, inas-
much as the honour of the growers was daily becoming the
More and more compromised.— Morning Paper.
R.IYAL ORTHOPEDIC hOBl-ITAL, BLOOMSBURY.
Was held in the
• SQUARE.—On Thursday afternoon a meeting
boardroom of the above charity. The ho.pital was esiab-
lished in 1.8,9 for the cure of club-foot, lateral curvatures of
the spine, and all other contractions and deformities. The
, ‘ institute n originated in the discovery of a new and simple
mode of cure and treatment in such cases; and •in the cirry-
,.
i. ing out of that important discovery the charity has been the
." means of restoring the crippled limbs of nn less than 11,000
destitute individuals. The mode of treatment alluded to
consists of dividing the tendons, and was origin ,lty discovered
by Delpvch, ~f
Stromyer, . f 1.1
Little. The number of
—allover, aPud it,trauced into England by Dr.
Writ eller; afterwar 8 arried out by
between seven and eight Undted,
cienis now under treatment is
the greater portion being
out-patients, as the accommodation of the wards is by far
too limited even to receive an adequats P
more severe cases. The, the buuka waning their tu. proportion cat the
ear indeed, no- less than 300 on
as soon as the funds will permit, it is the intention of the
committee to increase th netk in-dour acconitnoth sou; and,
----e rturaber of beds.