The Sun.
London, England, 1853-11-30 00:00:00

MEN OF WAR IN THE CHINA SEAS.

There were 20 men of war of all classes in the China
seas when the last mail left. Of these 10 were British,
including the hospital and store-ships Minden and Alli-
gator. Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Fleetwood Pellew,
C. 8., in his flag-ship Winchester, 50, Captain Fitzgerald,
was in Canton river. Spartan, 26, Captain Sir W.
Hoste, Bart., with the Salamander, 6, Commander Ell-
man ; Hermes, 6, steam-sloop, Captain Fishbourne ;
and Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, were at Shanghai.
Rattler, 6, screw, Commander Mellersh, and Styx,
6, steam-sloop, Commander Woolcombe, were at Hong
Kong. Lily, 12, Commander Sanderson, was at Wham-
_ _ _

- The Americans have eight men of war in the China
seas, three of them steam-vessels. The French have a
sailing frigate and a steam-sloop ; the frigate, Caprici-
euse, has been relieved by the frigate Constantine.
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We believe that the Grecian, 12, Commander the
Hon. H. Keane, has been ordered up to China from the
East Indies, and the Hermes has been ordered to Eng-
land.

The China papers are finding great fault with the
Admiralty agent for delaying the mail packet, and for
sending a boat's crew to pull 70 miles in 26 hours, with
his dispatches, to catch the mail steamer.

BAIL WA Y INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN, MIDLAND,

AND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAYS.

We have on several occasions felt it necessary, for the
information of our railway readers, to expose the sheer
fabrications that have been published by one of our rail-
way contemporaries in reference to alleged movements on
the part of the London and North-Western executive,
in connection with the Midland and Great Western
Companies, such fabrications invariably having for their
object injury to the London and North-Western Com-
pany. Several correspondents have drawn our atten-
tion to the following paragraph, which appeared in the
same railway journal of Saturday last :

" LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN-MIDLAND-GREAT

WBSTERN.

"It is bruited about in well-informed circles,' that the
Marquis of Chandos meditates a coup d'etat. Beginning at
home, Captain Huish and his co-governing friends in the
executive are to be set aside as dictators of the policy of
the company, and peace is to be sought with the Midland
and Great Western, with the latter especially. The first
step is to adopt a suggestion of tha Railway Times, and to
have as little to do as possible in Parliament this session.
It is even said that the new lines just announced will be
withdrawn. A proposition is to be submitted to the Great
Western that the narrow gauge should be laid down in cer-
tain districts, to be defined by treaty, and a traffic arrange-
ment thereafter entered upon between the two great com-
panies. Once again the Midland is to be invited to join
such a confederation, but, should it refuse, then it will
be thrown overboard by the London and North-Western,
and left to make its own terms with the Great Northern."
We can assure our correspondents that the above para-
graph is a pure and simple fabrication. The object of the
paragraph is palpable.—Morning Herald.

RAILWAYS TO OXFORD.—The new lines of railway pro-
posed to be connected with the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton Company are, first the London and
Oxford Railway, to commence at Wolvercot, near Ox-
ford, and to terminate by a junction with the London
and North-Western line, near Harrow, with branches to
Oxford and Aylesbury. A line is also proposed to be
constructed from Blockley, on the Oxford and Worcester
line, to Banbury, with power to run over the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton, and Buckinghamshire
Railways. The Great Western Company propose to
make a lino from their Birmingham and Oxford Junction
line, at Warwick, to the Stratford-on-Avon branch of
the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton line, and
they also propose to meet the London and Oxford Rail-
way scheme by a single line from Wycombe to Oxford,
with a branch to Aylesbury. The London and North-
Western have a rival scheme to this last.

SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.—It is proposed to construct
a trunk line of railway from Sydney to Melbourne, a
distance of 500 miles, passing the great fields of the
southern districts, and near to that of Mount Alexander.
BRISTOL AND BIRMINGHAM—The progress of the
work of laying down the narrow gauge between Glouces-
ter and Birmingham is now drawing towards a comple-
tion. These works were to have been completed by the
month of July last, and the delay has mainly arisen
from the failure of a contractor. When completed, the
Midland narrow gauge will extend to Bristol, and the
break of gauge will be there, instead of at Gloucester, as
at present.
STOCKPORT AND WHALEY-BRIDGE.—It is proposed to
construct a railway from the London and North-Western
Railway at Stockport, passing through Haze-grove,
Disley, and New-mills, to Whaley-bridge. The length
of the line is to be ten miles, and it is stated that four-
fifths of the landowners have agreed to take agricultural
value for the land required for the railway. The capital
is fixed at 150,0001., and the estimated traffic existing
in the district, which is very populous, is stated to be
18,0001. per annum. Allowing 50 per cent. for work-
ing expenses, the promoters anticipate that the net re-
venue will yield a dividend of 6 per cent. on the outlay,
which they assert will not exceed 15,0001. per mile.

BUSINESS.OF THE: PORT OF LONDON.—In the gene-
ral
ll)thnoertli e inward
importation was
a
business of the port of London during the past week
therefruit has_ been considerable activity, particularly in the
ted'lld timber trades. The cumber of vessels re-
ported 303f6,br
ebeingads
tBnsff over v
thereer the
is previousan
increase,week.
total quantity of grainreported b • 58,036
being quar-
ters, including 31 454
there were - ' quarters of wheat while in addition
13,613 barrels and '
bags and 1,037 barrels of
2,150 sacks of flour, 3,170
rice, and 1,309 tons of potatoes.
Of sugar there were
ana reported 1,792 hhds, 904 casks, 296
cases, 17,953 bag 5,11,126 loaves ; coffee, 118 bags ;
tea, 6,154 pkgs. ; and hopsl , 470 bales. The importations
of timber during the present
cedented, and sufficient accommodation season.ti are quite unpre-
cedented,
in the port, so completely full
areaon cannot be found
this moment. The number of vessels the timber docks at
cleared outward
was 113, being 12 less than in the
these, 15 were in ballast, and 11 were destined
week. Of
Australian colonies. The actual exports to
omtehd for the
coin-
nies have considerably diminishsd. The total numberthose
of vessels on the berth loading for Australia and e
Zealand on the 22d inst. was 63, being 23 less thaw onw
the 22d ult. Of those now loading, nine are for Ade-
laide, four for Geelong, five for Hobart Town, four for
Launceston, twelve for Melbourne, three for New Zea-
land, twelve for Port Philip, one for Portland Bay, one
for Fort Beaufort, twelve for Sydney, and two for Swan
River.
ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY OF IRELAND.—We
are informed that this company have succeeded in laying
down from Ballycopeland Bay upwards of three miles of
submarine wire which is securely "buoyed," and the
Albert, with her Majesty's steamer Asp, under the
command of Lieutenant Allridge, R.N. (both now lying
at Donaghadee Pier), intend to connect this line with
the 28 miles of iron wire on board the Albert, and run
across to Port-o'-Spital the first favourable opportunity.
It is gratifying to learn that so great was the perfection
of the coiling that the entire distance was actually payed
out from the hold of the Albert without even the assist-
ance of a single individual.—Belfait Chronicle.