The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-18 00:00:00

RHYMNEY.

This company is about to make some important ex-
tensions of its railway connexion. Branches are to be
male to Caerphilly and at Cardiff from the Taff Vale
Railway to the Bute Docks ; also an extension to corn-
inunicate with the Newport, Abergavenny, and Here-
ford lino.

DURSLEY AND MIDLAND JUNCTION.
A line is projected from the town of Dursley to the
`•lidland Railway (Bristol and Birmingham bro.ncl,),
from which it is distant three to four miles.

INVERNESS AND ELG IN JUINCTIO
RAILWAY.

It will he seen by our advertising columns that the
prom,ters of this undertaking now give the northern
public full opportunity to insure railway communica-
tion from Invernes to Elgin by an extension from
Nairn to the latter place, in continuation of the In-
.fcrneas and Nairn Railway. Tic scheme &so em-
braces a branch from Forres to Findhorn, so that the
southern coast of the Moray Firth will be freely
communicated with throughout the whole distance,
and the opposing shores of Ross and Sutherland
shires be invited, with a choice of points for di:blr-
kation to a foretaste of the vast benefits of an iron
roadway. The Parliamentary machinery is all being
prepared under auspices of great promise. It i f or the
community to set it in motion. If they let slip the iic-
civien the fault will be their own. From the negotia-

tions had by the provisions) committee, it tray be re-
cAved as a fact, though circaingances forbid the use
of names for the present, that the cost at which the
works will be contracted for and completed is a point
precisely ascertained, and that a third of that sum will
be taken payment of in stock—in other words, that
about 50,000/. of the capital has already been condi-
tionally subscribed. About an equal sum, or not much
more, will enable to go to Parliament. Is it too much
to expect that the counties of Inverness, Nairn, and
Moray, with help from their neighbours and aid from
the south, will be found able and willing forthwith to
engage to contribute this sum among them, and there-
after what inure may be needed, payable within the next
three years, for an otject of such vast importance, and
as a speculation which is confessedly as safe and substan-
tial an investinet.t as can be found I It is understood
that Morayshire has as much wealth in the shape of bank
deposits alone as would make the line three times over.
Less than a tithe of these funds will serve as the quota

from that quarter. It were a reflection on public ;pint
in the north to anticipate any difficulty in a matter
which holds out no illusory promise of an ample re-
turn to capitalists, while producing inestimable social
advantages to the public. A cotemporary, while
cordially expressing its good opinion of the enter-
pribe in a mercantile point of view, acknowledging it to
be the interest of the people of Elgin to encourage in-
creased railway communication from whatever quarter
it came, and complimenting the energy and public spirit
shown in Inverness on this matter as deserving of every
encouragement and support, confesses that it would pre-
fer " seeing a determined effort being first made to carry
the Great North from Huntly to Elgin." It is also
'hinted by the same authority, that their Nairn and
Inverness friends " should have at once said to the
Great North Company, We are prepared to carry
the line from Nairn to Spey, if you bring up yours
from Huntley to the same river."' A word in ex-
planation and a plea in advocacy are due in reply.
The Great North of Scotland Company have indi-
cated Elgin as their limit of extension. It is so natu-
rally. The traffic shed is literally at Elgin. It would
as ill become parties connected with the locality be-
tween Inverness and Elgin to intrude pretensions to
any portion of the district beyond Elgin, as it would
our friends in Aberdeen to persist in forcing their man-
agement of the carrying. trade of the north country on
this side of that town. Then let our Elgin friends re-
flect, that, in first completing the communication with
Inverness, they are but helping to gather ou this side
the momentum which the works of the Great North of
Scotland give on the other, for combined effort for
overleaping the rapid Spey— the point, too, of crossing
which is, we believe, a matter undecided in the counsels
of the promoters of the extension of the Great North of
Scotland. The naturally greater interest of some of
the people of Elgin to get railway communication with
the south is identical with the present movement ; and,
therefore, they are one and all called upon to help to
put this round to the ladder that they may the more
readily accomplish the other. United effort is needed ;
and united effort—a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull
altogether, we doubt not, the enterprise will have from
all parties, of every grade and degree, west of the
Spey.—liiverness Advertiser.

STATE OF TRADE.

( From, the Maneheeter Guardian, of this day.)

MANCHESTER, Nov. 17.—Our market still droops
under the unfavourable influences which are pressing upon
it. In several departments, stocks are accumulating ;
and various articles, lately well engaged, are now fill-
ling out of contract. The indisposition of buyers to give
out any orders increases, and for what they do want they
offer lower prices. Prices, in fact, are receding. This
statement applies to both yarns and goods. There are
some exceptions, as, for instance, most counts of extra
hard twist, which are still scarce, and in request for the
Mediterranean and Levant markets. Goods for India
and China are rapidly approaching the lowest prices of
1846 ; and the greater cost of the raw material causes a
relative disadvantage to the manufacturer of somewhere
about 142 d. per lb, as compared with that period of de-
pression.
LEICESTER, Nov. 16.—There is no improvement in
the market tb.is week, and work is slackening. Worsted
yarns have receded a halfpenny per lb. The wool market
is about the same ; growers hold their wools with great
t enacity. _ _

This very brief general statement appears to compre-
hend all that can be said of our market.
The American advices are increasingly favourable as
to the supply of cotton. _

BRADFORD, Thursday, Nov. 16.—Wools--There is a
very limited business doing in all kinds of combing
wools. The holders are more disposed to sell, and sales
are made at prices in favour of the buyer. Neils and
brokes command good prices, the quantity making being
so very small. Yarns—We cannot report any improve-
in this branch. Spinners are curtailing their produc-
tion as the daylight decreases, in addition to their un-
employed machinery. Current prices of yarns entail a
certain loss, and none are disposed to produce without
actual orders. Pieces—The supply coming to market is
very limited, and the purchases of the same character_
there is nothing but what is of a gloomy character.

ERAL GOLDIN.-- Bri-
gadier-GeneralGoldie had been
nearly TBhtßohlGArtß-eGigithli
e. Ho served principally in the
60th Regiment, with wsaervice, having entered it as En-
sign zoßrly 30 years in
nvijaluE of 5
June
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which he saw a good deal of
believe the first occasion when he was-engaged in hostile
but the !present war was wo
service in the colonies;
to the Crimea
• which he accompanied
57th Regiment,
the battle of
days after
operations. Brigadier Goldie was Lieut. Colonel of the
ftrhoemAClmoraf.u, arriving there a few
hands of the
A GLEN TILT CASE.—We have heard that there is a
likelihood of some business falling into the
the neighbourhood of Perth. This __ .
can lawyers, by the attempted shutting urpeao,fi
Tilt case, and
re-
collect, and we wonder, after the Glen
to the public as far back as the oldest inhabitant
ah
na
so ihde been aodp open
n
i
the many cases of a similar nature that havefavourof the
recently
been decided by the Court of Session in .
public, that any person would entertain the idea of being
able to shut up an old highway.— Caledonian Mercury. THE ZouavEs.—Who and what are the Zimaves . ? Are they Africans or Frenchmen, and when were their
corps first organised ?-101CORAMuS. [The Zouavezi are
natives of the French provinces of Algiers, dic,plincd
and exercised by French officers, All,l no v forming a
part a the Frenei eontingrit scup loved in toe Clinics
and the siege of Sebastopol. They hold exactly the
same relation to the French army that the Sepoys in
India have to the regular British troopel—Notes and
QuOria,