The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING,_ DECEMBER 22, 1865.

company, and in winding up the affairs of the com-
pany with as little delay as possible.

him, he refused to meddle with it. When the crops
were dead ripe, however, overtures were made by the
incoming tenant to the offgoing tenant for the crops
to be gathered and sold, and the proceeds invested ATLANTIC AND GREAT WESTERN.
The traffic receipts on this company's lines, 490
in the joint names in some bank, to await the issue
miles in length, for the month of November,
of legal proceedings, but this, for some reason or
amounted for passengers to $180,428, and for
other, the offgoing tenant refused to accede
goods, &c., to $550,842—t0ta1, $731,270, against
to, and thus the crops were left to waste,
and as food for the birds of the air. When we saw $381,810 on 322 miles in November, 1864, showing
an increase of 168 miles and $349,460 in the re-
the crops the other day, one of the fields, contain-
ceipts. The total receipts from the Ist of January
ing about eight acres, seemed to stand excellently
to the end of November amounted to $6,042,594,
well, especially round hedges, which were a protec-
against $3,352,414 for the corresponding period of
tion from the wind, but the birds had apparently
taken nearly every grain out of the ears, and hun- last year, showing an increase of $2,690,180.
dreds of birds—nay thousands—were busily feed-
ing upon the remnant. On observing the second
field, containing five acres, situated some distance
from the first, around the hedges the corn, or rather
straw, stood well for the birds, but the centre of the
field was as fiat as if it had been rolled, and pre-
sented the appearance of a young onion bed, the
grain having commenced rapidly to shoot forth,
some to the extent of several inches. The third
field, containing about 11 acres, was somewhat
similar to the second, and all of them, we were in-
formed, were excellent crops; in fact, as forward
and, as we stated before, as good as any in the
parish. Seeing several pear trees in the centre and
in the hedges of the fields, we inquired how their
crops had been gathered, and were told that the
fruit had been gathered and carried over the wheat
in the same manner as if no wheat crops were on
the land. A few days ago about 14 poor women
belonging to the parish entered one of the fields, and
commenced cutting the best of corn off at the ears,
leaving the straw ; and on being asked who in-
-1 strutted them to do it, said the Queen had sent
them a letter instructing them to do it. The crops
at maturity were reckoned to yield about 10 bags
L to the acre, making a total of 240 bags.—Manches-
ter Guardian.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—STAFFORD, Dec. 21.

(Before Mr. Justice Keating.)
THE TRIAL FOR MURDER.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT NORTTERN.
The new locomotive engines specially constructed
for working the local traffic of this company's rail-
way have now been running between Hatfield and
the Farringdon Station of the Metropolitan Rail-
way for about two months. The great object in
the construction of those engines which Mr. Stur-
rock, the locomotive engineer of the Great Northern
Company, had in view was to dispense with a sepa-
rate tender and to obtain as much tractive power as

possible, together with the facility of running safely
on the steep curves and steep-gradients of the
Metropolitan and the London, Chatham, and Dover
(Metropolitan) lines. It was also considered ne-
cessary that the engine should run equally well
backward as forward, carrying its fuel and water,
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so that the -weight on the driving-wheels should
also remain about the same, whether the tank por-

tion be full or nearly empty ; and it appears that
all these requirementshave been successfully accom-
plished. The new engine is well proportioned and
compact, having six wheels, two under the tank and
fuel portion, and four under the engine and boiler
portion, being placed between the firebox and the
smokebox. The latter are the driving-wheels, the
axles of which are about 7ft. 6in. from centre to
centre, and are coupled together by side rods in the
usual way. The aide of the other pair of wheels
for carrying the tender portion of the enginebehind
the fire-box is placed at a distance of about 12ft.
from the nearest axle of the driving wheels, making
a total wheel bearing of 19ft. Gin. The four driving
wheels act together ; bnt the two end wheels under
the tank portion of the engine are worked on the
radial system patented by Mr. W. Bridges Adams,
having a lateral self-acting motion, which instantly
adapts the position of the wheels to the curves,
passing smoothly round them, keeping the engine
steadily on the track, and allowing the driving
wheels to exert freely their full power in propelling
the engine and train forward. The lateral play of
a few inches from side to side of the radial axle boxes

attached to the separate pair of wheels being on
a transverse curve, has the effect of moving the axle
in a line with a radius of any curve of the rails along
which the engine is at that moment passing, and of
course always keeping those pair of wheels parallel
to the line of rails, and consequently safe from get-
ting off the line. The wheels or the engine there-
fore run with great freedom from flange friction,
avoid the usual obstructions in that respect, and
prevent a deal of wear and tear as compared with
other engines. The arrangement of these radial
axles is very ingenious, simple, and effective. The
cylinders of the engine are 16iin. in diameter, the
tank holds 1,000 gallons of water, equivalent to a
supply for a run of 30 miles. The engines run freely
round the sharpest curves, for which they are de-
signed, and the weight upon each pair of wheels is
13 tons. The chief difficulty with tank engines
hitherto has been the lessening of the adhesion of or
weight on the driving wheels, by the gradual con-
sumption of the water from the tank, but in the ar-
rangement of those engines the difference of weight
on the driving wheels is estimated at only about a
quarter of a ton out of 26 tons. These engines run
every working day to and from Farringdon Station
' and places on the Great Northern line. Mr. Stur-
i. reports that the patent radial axles of Mr.
Adams answers admirably, both at high and low
speed, the engine running perfectly steady at above
1 50 miles an hour, and that the new engine therefore
has given entire satisfaction.