The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-19 00:00:00

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

Males
Females..

Total .

1,573

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND WEST KENT.—A meeting of landowners
and residents of Maidstone and its neighbourhood was
held yesterday at the Star Hotel, Maidstone, for the
purpose of considering the outline of a project for the
formation of a railway from Sydenham to Bromley, by
Ilford to Maidstone, with branches to Lewisham, Green-
wich, Eltham, and Newington Causeway, for local and
suburban traffic, and with duplicate lines and indepen-
dent termini for Crystal Palame traffic. The Right Hon.
Lord Homesdale was called to the chair, and after some
discussion, in which Sir Charles Fox took a part, Mr.
P. Cator proposed, and Mr. Simmons seconded, a reso-
lution to the effect that the projected railway was de-
serving of the best support of the landowners and inha-
bitants of Maidstone and its neighbourhood, and that a
committee be formed to assist in carrying it into effect.
The resolution was carried unanimously, and some other
business having been disposed of, a vote of thanks was
passed to the chairman, and the proceedings terminated.

PROPOSED NEW LINE FROM LONDON TO SOUTHAMPTON.
—Surveys, it is stated, are being made for a line from
the Dideot station of the Great 'Western Railway, near
Oxford, to Southampton and Newbury.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.---At a meeting just held
tit Hornea,stle, resolutions were passed in favour of the
formation of a line from Horncastle to the Kirkstead
station of the Great Northern Railway, seven miles in
length.

RAILWAY FROM CHEADLE TO CRESSWELL.—At a public
meeting of the inhabitants of Cheadle and the neighbour-
hood, held at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, Cheadle, on Satur-
day last, resolutions were passed declaring the necessity
and expediency of constructing a railway from Cheadle
to Cresswell, on the North Staffordshire Railway. Seve•
ral parties put down their names for shares in the under-
taking.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN ktAlLWAY.—Traffic re•
turn for tho week ending Oct. 15, 1853 £19,012 1 11
Corresponding week last year 18,530 13 4

Increase in 1853 £4Bl 8 7
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Oct. 15,
1853
£13,623 14 5
Corresponding week last year
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 244,951 15 7
Total of the half-year to this date, 1852 222,602 910
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Traffio re •
burn for the week ending Oct. 15,1853 £;,712 11 1
corresponding week last year 4,267 5 0
Increase in 1853 £445 6 1

GREAT SALE OP LIVE STOCK ON HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS
PRINCE ALBERT'S FARMS, AT WlNDSOR.—Yesterday,
the annual selection of live stock, the property of his
Royal Highness the Prince Consort, was sold by
auction,, at Norfolk Farm, by Messrs. Buckland and
Son, and attracted a large attendance of butchers,
graziers, and others. First in the order of sale
were the pigs, which realised very high prices, com-
paratively small hogs making from 51. to Si. each.
A young boar of the Windsor breed was knocked down
for 41. Bs. One or two breeding sows also fetched
5/. 17s. 6d. each. The pigs made altogether nearly 2001.,
the principal purchasers being Messrs. Agar, Rubie, and
Hale, of Windsor. The sheep consisted of 420 fat South-
downs, 230 home-bred ewes and lambs, with several
rams. The whole were disposed of at good but not ex-
orbitant prices, the principal purchasers being Mr. Mins
ton, of Windsor, end the leading butchers of the neigh-
bourhood. The cattle consisted of a remarkably fine
Hereford ox, intended for the Smithfield show ; 81 supe-
rior fat oxen and heifers, 80 fine short-horns (fit for stall-
ing), 19 steers and heifers, 6 short-horned heifers and
cows, and 2 pure-bred young bulls. The dairy cows
ranged from 141. 15s. to 161. 10s. ; the fat cows and
heifers from 15/. to reallys The Hereford ox (fed on
cake and meal) was y a splendid animal, and realised
the large sum of 461,, Mr. Ratcliffe, butcher, of Hilling-
den, being the purchaser. The fat short-horned oxen.
varied from 181. 10s. to 281. each ; the five-year old,
Scots, from 151. to 171. ; the fonr-year-olds, from 101.
to 12/, 10s. The fat Devons ranged from 171. to 241.105.
A two-year-old short-horned bull was knocked down to
John Hercy, Esq., for 25/. ; an Alderney bull of the
same age fetched about half the money. The total pro-
ceeds of the sale were about 4,000/. We might
add,
that, ;since last year, great improvements have been
made in the yards and premises attached to Norfolk
farm, and the arrangements for the accommodation of
the company were
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nowned vocalists appearing before a Hull audience,
should, we think, have secured a far better attendance.
sr u ple, however, by no means discouraged by this
lack of patronage, has given us, during this week, an
equally rich treat, though of a totally different kind, in
the appearance of the celebrated comic actor, Mr.
Wright, in some of his favourite characters. In the farce
of My Precious Betsy, he was particularly droll, keeping
the audience in one continual roar of laughter by his
representation of that eccentric, original, but somewhat
jealous individual, Mr. Wagtail. There is a fund of
genial humour about this gentleman, which is most re-
freabing, and while he repeatedly excites the risible
faculties of his hearers, till their sides ache again, be
never in the least degree offends by any indecorous or
vulgar allusion. The house has been exceedingly well
filled.—Hull Packet.
PURITY OF THE MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.—A Cor-
respondent of the Times, writing under the name
" Wide Awake," says :—" Agreeing with your corre-
spondent, " A Thirsty Soul," .bat the Middlesex magis-
tracy all over England, are but fallible and weak mor-
tals, like other people, and that therefore irresponsible
powers of jobbing ought not to be any longer vested
in their hands, I would call his attention to what was
happening at the Session-house, Clerkenwell, yesterday
—the very day on
which his letter respecting the mal-
w with regard to music licenses
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appeared in your
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sided ; and, after some other business had been trans,
acted, Mr. F. H. Pownall was elected by voting to the
office of county surveyor."