The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-30 00:00:00

TO JEWELLERS. •
WANTED, for a first-rate Establishthent in the
North of England, an experienced, well-educated, and
gentlemanly 'SALESMAN, well acquainted with the Jewellery
Business, and who will be expected to take the lead in that depart-
ment. Salary, with board, from 1201. to 1501. per year.
Apply by letter (post-paid), with real name and address, stating
age and prevießs engagements, td W. B. P., care of Alr. W. H.
Sin'th, 192, Strand, London.

GLAMORGANSHIRE.
Highiclf Important and Very Valitable FREEHOLD ESTATES
FOR SALE.
R. ADAM MURRAY has the honour of
announcing to the Public that he is instructed ty SELL by
AtICTION, at the Mackworth Arms Inn, in the seaport, market
rind borough Town of Swansea, on THURSDAY, the 4th May
next, and following day, in Lots, the first portion of the very Yalu-
abte and highly improveable Estates, exonerated from Land Tax,
and • rates and taxes moderate, containing 4,000 acres of arable,
meadow, pasture, and woodland, together with houses and premises
in the Borough, situattrin the-ioeralparishes of Lanss.tnlet, Swan-
sea, Langefclach, Oystermouth, Bishopstone, Pennard, Ilstone,
Penmain, Lanrhidian, Longhor, and Landilo Tallybor.t; in a fine
pieturesque, and healthy country, surrounded with excellent roads
and good markets, close to lime and coal, and every capability at
hand for the better improvement of the property ; affording the
finest marine situations for building upon, and plenty of good stone-
quarries, where stone may be cut, to any size ; the sea abounding
with fish of all kinds, and land well stocked with game.
Particulars of sale will be ready to deliver on the 20th March
heft, on application to Messrs. Watkins and Hooper, Solicitors,
Sackville-street, London ; Thomas Thomas, Esq., Solicitor, Swan-
ea.; and to Mr. Adam Murray, 47, Parliament-street, London.
Letters to be post-paid.

GLAMORGANS HIRE.
The Highly Important LORDSHIPS, MANORS, and FREE-
HOLD ESTATE of NEATH ABBEY, for SALE,
MR.an ADAM hass
instructed th honour t o
s E
SELL
nouncing to thei Public,Rß MURRAYAthaYt he. is
by AUCTION, at Garraway's Coffee-house, Change-alley, Corn-
London, on MONDAY, the sth of June next, unless an accept-
able offer is made for the same by private contract. This highly
improVable Estate, within the precincts of the Abbey, is exonerated
from tithe, rates and taxes very low, containing 5,696 acres of
good arable, meadow, pasture, and woodland, together with houses
and premises in the villages of Neath Abbey and Cadoxton, exten-
sive copper-works, iron and blast furnaces, manufactory for steam
and other engines, forges, rail-roads, canals, shippina•-wharfs on the
Neath and Swansea rivers, large and extensive veins of the best bitu-
minous coal, iron-stone and fire clay of the best quality, extensive
woods of fine oak timber fit for naval purreses,'situate in the parish
of Cadoxton,;in a fine, healthy, undulating country, surrounded with
excellent roads, good market-towns, and close to lime and coal, and
every capability at hand for the better improvement of the property.
There are many fine situations for building upon, and abundance of
stone quarries for that purpose ; a better and more improvable
Estate was never before offered for sale in South Wales.
Particulars of Sale will be ready to deliver on the 25th of March
next, and, on application to James S Wickens, Esq., Montague-
street, Russell-square ; Thomas Fox, Esq., Beauminster, Dorset ;
and Mr. Adam Murray, 47, Parliament-street, London. Letters
to be post-paid.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
EXTRACTS from PART H.
Of " The Anti-Railroad Journal ; or, Railroad Impositions
Detected."
It is not, therefore, too much to anticipate a similar termination
to the minor Great Western Railway from Bristol to London ; for,
though probably it may reach as far as Bath from Bristol, after hav-
ing, like a mole, explored its way through tunnels, ions, and deep,
the Shareholders who travel by it will be so heartily sick, what with
foul air, smoke, and sulphur, that the very mention of a Railway
be worse than ipecacuanha, especially when the only prospect
they can find the least cheering in the midst of all this derangement
alof their stomachs, will he a granite tramway, actually in operation,
ongside of their own dose of ipecacuanha, ready to follow up the
draught, so as to get rid of every particle of obstruction with
Which the bottoms of their pockets might be otherwise afflicted.
True it is, that though the last 40 miles from Reading to London
will not require quite so much mole-like engineering as through the
first 13 miles in Bath, yet for the gratification of Mr. Brunel, who
may wish to tunnel more successfully for the Great Western Bubble
through dry land, than has hitherto rewarded the ingenuity and
talent of his father through wet land, another field is open to his
skill and dexterity in the shape of viaducts and aqueducts, through
which the; Shareholders will find, as well as Mr. Brunel, solicitors,
and others, of "undoubted talent and activity," that the aqueducts
and viaducts will doubtless form capital ducts to carry off all the
superfluous cash of the Shareholders.
But to be serious—for in a question where so much is to be lost
by one party, and nothing to be gained by another, even ridicule
Must he economised ; since it should ever be borne in mind, that
unless the parties who have concocted the minor Great Western
Railway were conscious that they were putting forth nothing but a
bubble speculation, they ought to be able to show that the whole
line would pay a liberal profit, and not fall short of even one per
cent. nett profit, so as to induce the most cautious capitalist to sub-
scribe, or else they must be willing to labour under the imputation
that they have miscalculated the traffic of the road ; and as such
Miscalculation could not be the result of ignorance if founded, as
they assert, on " Stamp-office returns," it must have been the re-
sult of malice prepense.
Now, to prove that they might, if they would, have arrived at
the truth, it is only necessary to draw attention to the following
facts:—
The total income in the waggon department for the first Great
'Western Line, exclusive of the canal and coasting *rade, besides lot
of oranges and lemons, enough to keep the whole tribe of Israel in
constant motion in Philpot-lane, the grand mart for the Seville
fruits of the civil engineers, is estimated to be ............ £143,515
Deduct for cattle included .................... £35,750
Ditto parcels and posting, ditto ............... -46,428 •
------. 82,178

............. .R. 6133 7
Total for goods alone ...
Consequently the total quantity of goods estimated to
be conveyed
at 4id, per ton per mile, from end to end, will be about
28, 64.
being 8,000 tons more than the whole of the
traffic from Similar
vehicles on the Birmingham Line, though it is
notorious that the
latter is far more productive than the Bristol Line.
But, granting that the projectors have not. over-crited 8,000
tons of goods, still the item for cattle, 35,750, must
bede reduced at
least three-fourths, even assuming it to be possible that graziers
and owners of cattle will, out of compliment to the Bristol Bubble,
throw away their own profits more liberally than they have proved
willing to bestow them on the Manchester and Liverpool Line, after
more than three years trial of that mode of conveyance. fn fact
very few horned-cattle, if any at all, have been carried, and quite
as few sheep, because it is impossible to convey such animals at
rates sufficiently low to pay, for reasons assigned in the estimate for
the Birmingham Line.
Prom the total income, therefore, of 143,5151. will be deducted
26,8131. for cattle over credited, thus reducing the nett income to
116,702/. ; and if 'from this be abated the expenses, in the ratio of
ii per cent. of the income, as on the Manchester Line, say
85,880/„ it leaves a gross profit of not more than 30,822/., which,
'',Pon the estimated earital of 3,000,0001., is about one per cent.
But, as the cost of construction would more likely reach
4,00,0001. the gross profit would not be more than 6-Bths per cent.
But it is not pretended that even this traffic can be obtained
Without superseding every other interest, and bidding defiance to
any velocity or economy equal to what. is now so fully established on
many of our canals ; and notwithstanding there is one water line
(besides canals) by which goods may be brought to London from
Bristol, at a freight butlittle exceeding one penny per ton per mile,
or nearly 300 per cent, cheaper than the Railway, together with
the fact already proved on the Manchester Line, that owners of
goods, not requiring dispatch, prefer the water line in the propor-
tion of ten to one.
How then the bubble makers at Bristol, even sleeping with-one
eye open, as they are said to do, could think of overloading the esti-
mate so prodigiously beyond the just limits, is only to be reconciled
by the fact of their supposing the bubble payers were never awake
even with both eyes open, consequently would never detect the
same over-reaching principle in the coach department.
But let us look at the revenue of the waggon department of the
Minor Great Western, and the sweets will be found still less like
honey to the Shareholders. For, assuming that the.whole quantity
of goods will be one-third, with more than half of the whole dis-
tance cut off in the middle of the line, making the total quantity of
conveyance 9,621 tons, and the gross income about 38,0007, from
which deduct expenses in the ratio of 733 per cent. of the income,
say 28,543/., and the total gross profit will be 10.357/., which, on
capital of 1,500,000/. the least sum requisite for such aline, is about
five-eighths per cent
In the coach department it is notorious, that there is at least one-
third less travelling between London and Bristol, than between
hoendon and Birmingham ; yet the Bristol Committee assert, that
.y shall carry 110,403 passengers in one year more than the Bir-
mirnrii;elir Line, and 208,072 more than the Manchester Line has
ca
an average for the last three years, under the authority
of
udaruetutuenn it rn said to be from the Stamp Office, only taking care not to
as the Birmingham Committee have done. In fact the
blowers of the Great Western Bubble stand
designedly over-credited the annual income with no less a sum than
11074031., on the asserted authority of a return from the Stamp
Office, which never has and never will be obtained.
But, granting the fact to have been proved, are Steam Car-
riages and Canals not to carry any portion of the traffic merely be-
cause they will both condescend to do it many times cheaper,
long
before the Railway opens? Is the Bristol Line, like the Birming-
ham Line, to monopolize all the traffic, even against a saving of 50
per cent. to three-fourths of the cammunity,- to whom money, is
more valuable than time? Yet that saving must be sacrificed alto-
gether, before the Bristol Railway can expect to realize more than
six times the income from passengers alone, than has been made by
the mostfavourable line in the kingdom.
Assuming, therefore, the total income to be 493,833/. for passen-
gers alone, and not 604236/., and deducting the expense in the
ratio of 44j per cent. of the income, say 214,200/., it leaves a gross
profit of 279,633/. ; taking therefore one-half only of this sum as a
lore reasonable share of the road earnings., it brings the income to
8,816/. (without allowing for any additional tax to be in a par
with common road stage coaches), being on a capital of 3,000,000/.
about 4 per cent.per ; or, supposing the capital to be 4,000,000/., 3i
cent. ; snaking, in the latter case, the total profit in both de-
. per edit,
about 4 per cent., or less than one- per cent. net profit
for the whole line, supposing the bubble blowers for the Great
Western Railway to carry 208,072 passengers more in one year than the Manchester and Liverpool Line, the best in the world ! whilst
the petitioners themselves a i st the Birmingham Railway con-
fess, that " without indulging in an extravaga'neexpectations, there
is now every reason to hope that, within no long time, these Steam