The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-21 00:00:00

THE MEDITERRANEAN.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Bentinck, Captain A. Kellock, arrived at
Southampton
yesterday at five p.m., and landed the mails in charge of
Lieutenant Ellerman, Admiralty agent. Daring the
homeward voyage of the Bentinck she experienced mo
derate winds and fine weather. The Bentinck would
have been here early this morning, but unfortunately
grounded in a dense fog about five miles below Cowes
while under charge of the pilot.. The greatest exer-
tions are used by the company to prevent delayin the
delivery of the mails, and a small steamer is regularly
dispatched to await the arrival of their steam-ships
with the. India and China mails, and, as usual, the Duke
of Buccleuch steamer was lying below Cowes all night,
but the weather being so thick, she saw nothing of the
Bentinck, although when she grounded they could not
have been but a short distance apart. The spot where
the Bentinek grounded being a soft bottom, it is be-
lieved she has sustained little or no injury.
Her dates of sailing were—Alexandria, October 7,
10.15 e.m. ; Malta, 10th, 11.45 p.m. ; Gibraltar, 15th,
1.30 p.m. The freight of the Bentinek consists of 753
bales of silk, 39 bundles of elephants' tusks, 901 cases
of shawls, 23 bales of wool, 122 cases of silk piece
goods, 101 packages sundries.
Ships Observed on the Voyage.—October 15, passed,
off Tangier, a squadron of tnree frigates and one steam
sloop, under Dutch colours, an admiral's flag at the
mizen ; their names were the Doggerbank, Prince of
Orange, Sumatra, steam-sloop GC3aleh. They were
steering to the westward.
Stations of her Majesty's Ships.—Malta :—;The Cey-
lon, Resistance, trooper, Spiteful, steam-sloop ; and
Triton, Merlin, and Medina steamers. Gibraltar: An- •

telope steamer.
Stations of Vessels of War of Foreign States.—Alex-
andria: French steam frigate Magellan and brig Fabert,
Austrian brig Triton. - ,

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

THE RAILWAY PROJECT.

The Mid-Kent and London and South-Western Junc-
tion Railways are about to be formed under influential
patronage. The Mid-Kent line is to commence at a
point upon the Brighton Railway, between the New
Cross and Forest-hill stations, or by a junction with the
South-Eastern North Kent line, near Lewisham, as may
be hereafter determined upon, and to proceed direct to
Bromley, Farnborough, and the head of the Cray Val-
ley, Chelsfield, Halshead, and Shoreham to Oxford ;
thence by Keming, Seal, Wortham, Mailing, and All-
inglon, to Maidstone. A branch is also to run from At-
ford to Riverhead, Sevenoaks, and Tunbridge. The
South-Western Junction Railway is intended to com-
mence at a point between the Nine Elms and Wands-
worth stations of the London and South-Western Rail-
way, and to proceed to Clapham rise, Brixton-hill,
Herne-hill, and Dulwich; and, after crossing the Lon-
don, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway by a bridge,
to fall into the Mid-Kent line, near Sydenham, forming
also a junction with the London, Brighton, and South-
Coast Railway. This junction, it is stated, has also been
laid out so as to form a convenient West-end railway to
the Crystal Palace. The capital required is a million
starling in 201. shares. The preliminary announcement
has also been made of the West-London Junction Rail-
way, to be incorporated with the proposed Mid-Kent
and North-Kent Extension Railways. The line is pro-
jected to cross the Thames from Pimlico to Vauxhall,
then through Stockwell, Clapham, Brixton, Streatham,
Dulwich, Camberwell, Peckham, to Now Cross and
Lewisham, thence through Bromley to Sevenoaks, Tun-
bridge, Maidstone, Rochester, Chatham, Sittingbourne,
Faversham, Canterbury, and Dover. The whole length
of this line would be 110 miles. There appears at pre-
sent to be a great deal of competition for the new home
lines. It is probable that only a few of them will be
able to secure the sanction of Parliament.

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BRAZILIAN RAlLWAY.—Proposals for a Brazilian
railway, with a guaranteed minimum dividend of 5 per
cent., are expected shortly to be brought forward. The
line, however, will bo in the province of Pernambuco,
and not in Rio do Janeiro, although negotiations, which
are likely soon to bo completed, aro also in progress for
a similar undertaking in that quarter. The plan of the
route extends from the city of Pernambuco to a point of
the river San Francisco, above the great falls of Paulo
AffJnco, and its entire length will be 300 miles. This
distance is to be divided into three sections, for the first
of which, 75 miles in length, and terminating at the
village of Apia Prete, the present concession has been
granted.

LONDON AND NORTE.WESTERN AND MIDLAND RAIL-
WAY COMPANIES.—ProposaIs for the amalgamation of
the London and North-Western and Midland Railway
Companies will be submitted to the shareholders of both
companies on the 3d of November, at special general
meetings.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—This
company is disposing of several of the locomotive en-
gines that have lately been running its passenger trains ,
to make room for as many new ones, recently construct-
ed on an improved principle, of greater speed.
RAILWAY CONTROL.—An imrrtant decision, upon
a point never beiore settled in England, was given in the
County Court of Yorkshire, held in this town yesterday
(Thursday), before Mr. Thompson, the deputy judge.
The plaintiff was Mr. Raikes, the hanker, and the de-
fendants were the York and North Midland Railway
Company, one of whose trains being a " heavy" one--
that is, unusually full of passengers—had arrived at
Milford Junction half an hour too late for the Great
Northern quick train for London. The jury gave 51.
datnages.—Hull Packet.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.
Traffic—Week ending Oct. 16, 1852 ... £12,627 6 0
Traffic—Week ending Oct. 18, 1851 11,857 5 6
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 222,602 910
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 237,178 10 11
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
Oct. 16, 1852 ... 71,148
Passengers ... £9,905 19 11
Goods ••• 2,721 6 1

Total... .. .£12,627 6 0
Total miles open, 1852, 1734; ditto, 1851, 1.73%.
London Terminus. Oct. 18, 1852.

SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.
Gross traffic receipts for passengers
and goods, week ending Oct. 16,
1852 X 18,530 13 4
Ditto, Oct. 18, 1851
16487 17_9

(2,0412 15 7

Decrease in 1852 .
London Terminus, Oct. 18,1852. -
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY....TraIO for the
week ending Oct. 17:—

RAI LwAtr.
Passengers, parcels, &c.
Goods ... ... •••

£2,800 19 1
927 2

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TATTERSALL'S.-THIS EVENING.

Six o'CLccx.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE,
3 to i agst Btrbetto
5 to 1 agst Azle!.
AR to 1 ugst Weatherglgt).
12 to 1 t,gst Ephesus.
15 to 4gst Convulsion (taken).
15 to 1 agst Hyacinth.
20 to 1 agst Hobbie Noble.
20 to 1 agst Knight of the Shire.
25 to 1 agfit Hungerford.
40 to 1 agst Masnifold.
CRITERION.
2 to 1 agst Filbert—taken.

RICHMOND RACES.—THURSDAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
The ?night Stakeg.

HateheW...
IritaAlen—

Radalphus
Farmer's Boy

Five ran.
The Gold Cup.

SPORTING NOTES.

No. CCCXXXI.

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CAMBRIDGESHIRE WAIFS AND STRAYS,"
WITH THE PROBABLE WINNER.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUI.

have al:heady dotted down all that has come
within range of my aural and optical senses with regard
to the heavy
weights that I have thought worth report-
ing, therefore, I now proc,z• d with the middle and light
wo4t division.
Grief i 3 coming from Warwick to do something or
other, but not to win I take it. He is in capital condi-
tion at the present time.

Two starters will go from Saunders' stable, Hobble
New—who is in excellent form, but considered a little
t o heavily weighted—and Le Juif, who is in first-rate
Tattle also, and not troubled with a burdensome weight.
The chance of the latter horse is not thought, however,
to be anything like so good for this race as it was the
Oesozewitch; and in this particular I agree.
Slr. T. Parr seems pretty nearly es confident of taking
theipstakes as he did those of the Cesarewitch, and with
Weathergage too, B4rdolph being of no account. I think
though, he will fiat] himself mistaken this time, the
weight being, in my opinion, an effectual stopper. It
mast be remembered that when he won the Goodwood
Stakes, he only carried sst 61b. He afterwards ran
several races with but indifferent success, winning only
one (ne Wolverhampton Sakes) out of five, carrying in
the lasing races 6st 131 b, Bst 21b, 6it 71b, and 7st 2lb
respectively. He then won the Chatsworth Stakes at
Derby, carrying 7st s:b, and the Innkeeper's Plate at
the same place (with Bst 31b up), beating a lot of rub-
bish; whiah last race cannot be considered any criterion
by which to judge. He has since won the Cesarewitch,
carrying Est I llb, and is now required to carry Tat 9lb
—nut to be done I calculate: he is, however, not to be
betted against recklessiy, being a remarkably fine horse.
The- following discription of him by a contemporary is
tinge to the letter. He is described as " a strong and
Vramelly compact horse; and from his large bone, strong
posterior, and gnat mu calar development in his arms
and *highs, would hardly look blood•like but for his fine
head; which, together with the neck, is well and grace-
fully sat on. His shoulders are rather upriant, but clean
and 'a:macular ; he is deep in the brisket, has long back
rib., ehort powerful bank, wide hips, quarters rather
ahoit, but displaying great power, and well let down ;
altogether giving ind;ettions of great strength. He has
tine sweeping action, end his height is fifteen hands, two
Inches.

The High Sheriff i 3 said to be Job Mason's horse:
he is in good condition, but cannot possess more than au
extvrne outside chLr.ce.

Father Thames will represent John Day's stable, and
give epem a ch4cce of
_repettinz their mysterious; New-
maalts.t bandicep move. He is all right; and at Est Sib
cannot be oveiweighted. It must be born in mind that
he finished at Longbow's bead in the race for the
Gratwieleii stakes.

Merry man's running, notwithstanding his light weight
(No 131 b) for au aged horse, was so execrable, in the
race for the Cesarewitch, that his trainer could not boast
of his being any other than the worst horse that started.
I presume his owner will not run him for the Cam-
bridgeshire.
Gladidle's winning of the A. F. Plate last week, at
6st 101 b was anything but a brilliant performance, as
Garforth, who was second, same age, was weighted
to give her 201bs ; and Father Thames, who finished
seventh, had to concede her the difference in age (two
yeprs) and 4k133. I believe she does not run.
-Billy Bar, who—though a four years' old—is handi-
capped to carry no more than sst 121 b, is said at New-
market to be of no use for this race, the distance being
ii Tauter of a mile too far, and the severity of the course
too great, for him.

John Scott's hopes are centred in Hyacinth. It is
evident to him thac the steeple chaser, La Gana Ladr9,
and the glow-rayed Ammonia can have no chance (a
victory in a me like this; att.] Kilquade, alias the Third
of May, is, at the best of timcs, but a very inferior
animal.

Altod the Great is said to be no go.
Ploris fzncied 1... t head quarters ; they are afraid,
however, that the course will prove too severe for her.
The paatizan's of Stevens' stable assert that they have
the winner in Azael; while the admirers of Babette are
equality confident thlst they possess the lucky animal.
Betting men are, for the most part, fatalists; and as
the second and third horses in the Ceoarewitch have
several times carried off tke Cambridgeshire, they now
argae that the Inight of the Shire's chance is wonder-
fully increased for the latter, by having run third in
the former race.

A select circle of the knowing ones fancy the race=
will end to convulsions of lauzliter on their part, as the
adage has it, " let LI-lose laugh rho win;" Mejor Ihr-
tyr's son of Alarm boing the elfish cause of their merri-
ment.

The flak!, a, far as I can ascertain at the pre3ent mo-
malt, will consist of Lady Evelyn, Ephesus, Hobbit.
Ilungerford, Grief, the Cutler, We4thergage, Le
Lady Amyott, Kiladijah, Maxi fold, Fatir,,,r Thane,
Evadne, Misa l'opnoy, Ph!egru, C..)nvulsien, Knight 01
the Shire, Azle', llyacir.th, Ilex, Puritan, Plot, Rubef ,
Babette, tra.savn, Braun, High Sheriff, Paecske, and Cor-
noini. To which list may be added five or six of the
follotv-ing doubtful:,:—Turnus, Glauca, Kingston, Sir
Charles, Chit Baron Niehohion, Ilooketn Snivey.
Bard,,lpb, Kate, i-lioor, Alfred the Great,
Bar,lseacocir, and ',lain.
:::king eve* item of intormation I have received con-
c2rcii,%g this ulee into duo consideration, I have come to
the conclusion that the winrinr a iii be a three year-old,
most prolekbly, CONVULSION; Babette, although
She crack, being anything but attractive in my opinion.
I expect that thoe everlasting runner 3, Evadne and
*lani‘s, will puforni more thaa creditably. Father
Thames and 112. tel will forward.—l am,
84c. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.
October 21st.