The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

ENGLISH VISITORS IN IRELAND.

About 1,300 persons have crossed from Holyhead to Kings-
town, by the Chester and Holyhead Company's express boat,
during the last fortnight. The two mail boats have also
brought over large numbers within the same period. About
330' tourist tickets" have been issued since the 17th of May,
have
when the system came into operation. The holders are
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these tickets are issued.
It is satisfactory and encouraging to be able to state that
the tourists are unanimous in their admiration of the lovely
and picturesque scenery they have witnessed, and they are
equally gratified at the cordiality they experience from all
persons with whom they come into communication. They
state that they are immediately recognised as strangers by
having the "Green Book" constantly in their hands, and
that the sight of it is at once a passport to kindness, atten-
tion, and good feeling from every one. Those tourists who
have hitherto been accustomed to take their summer trips on
the Continent are loud in their praise of the liberty, freedom,
and good-humoured pleasantry they enjoy here among their
own fellow-subjects, as compared with the annoyances t°
which they are perpetually subjected in foreign countries,
from passports, Custom-house officers, and espionage--to sat
nothing of the comfort of being in a land where one's own'
language is the only one that it is necessary to import into
the country.
The favourable impression already formed of Ireland, its
scenery, and its inhabitants will, no doubt, largely increase
the stream of pleasure traffic as the summer advances."'
Saunders' News Letter.

• BRITISH ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY'. ---
, Yesterday, in the Standing Orders Committee, consisting
of Lord Redesdale, chairman, and several other Noble
Lords, the standing orders were declared not complied
with, and that the Bill was not to proceed. It was un-
derstood that their Lordships (who sat with closed
doors), came to this decision in conformity with the I76th
standing order of their Lordships' House, known as Lord
t
Lauderdale's Standing Order (originally
Bills for bubble companies), and which Provides that
ki to limit
tradir, companies, with certain exceptions, s
should have three-
the liability of individual shareholders,_intendede t() ntes%
the substance and
the hands of trustees, as a gunrelnr e
Lordships found that this
should not recommend
they
yecided that the orders were
bfoounratfihsdeosfotfhtehireccaopmitpaal
company
b deposit
t e odf in the funds, or in
not
ts
compliedthe
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ins
and
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It is said to be the • ' of
intention
them to be dispensed with.
Bill to apply to their Lordships' House,
the promoters of the
order.
to waive the particular
, Robert, Esq., and -
Th
,8 Hirronnoluz. e Duchess of Rich-
mondßATTY uthe3atti° Ttni;
Lord Charrington and familx, the Countess of Scarborough and family,
family►
have honoured this popular place of amusement during the
week with their presence. Since set
past
had
la the attendancebeen excellent, and the perform-
ances have all proved •highly successful. Blons. Franconi,
Lord Ferrers,
and
antes. Ellsler and Valentine, deserve especial corn'
ruendn.
DIRECT ROUTE TO' SWITZERLAND.—The Paris
and Strasburg Railroad was travelled throughout its entire
length by an experimental train on the 10th instant. Oa
some sections of the line the temporary plates have to be re-
placed by rails of a permanent character, and a few statioaS
A
have also to be finished. T
is, however, expected that the
entire line will be open to trade in the month of August.
The Swiss, especially hotel keepers, may congratulate them-
selves on the approaching completion of this undertaking,
and so may also our countrymen who propose a visit to the
Alps, since, instead of having to choose between the circui-
tous and hackneyed routes of Cologne and the Rhine, and
the torments of the Strasburg diligence, they will shortlY,
be able to travel from London to Basle by a direct line c
railway, interrupted only by two hours' run of the steameit!
across the Channel.
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DIED
At Haleswortb, on the 18th inst., Priscilla, the wife ?f
Andrew Johnston, Esq., and eldest daughter of the late Sir
T.
At Po n,well Buxto Bart., of Northrepps-hall, Norfolk.
Cambridge, on the 18th in st., aged 79, P. Thackeray.
Esq., M. D.
On the 11th inst., at the Downs, Dartford, Ellen, Youl3gebt
daughter of William Heyward, Esq. in,nnedf,
On the 18th inst., Elizabeth Helena, wife of F. P--
Esq., Hereford-road, Wettbourne-grove, Ilayswat
----o°, f
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