The Sun.
London, England, 1836-12-20 00:00:00

684,587 17 8

Deduct expenses (on scale of Liverpool
and Manchester Railway)

Net Revenue
Or, 131. 17s. per cent. on a cal
7. TABLE OF GRADIENTS, DISTA

pital of
.MCES,

.X 347,008 11 0
2,500,0001.
AND LEVELS.

Greatest
Distance Distance interme. Level Incli,ia.
from from diate dis-
above tion in the
London Bristol tances. London interm
Depot. Depot. Depot. diate
distances.
—..----- ----- ----..--
Miles. Miles. Miles. Feet. Ft. In.
London Depot ll7l
Maidenhead Ditto
Reading Ditto
Junction with Oxford
Branch . 52 65/ 171 ... 3 6
Oxford Bye Branch.. 62 751 10 ... 4 0
Summit Level at Le-
vindon
Chippenham 93 241 164 ... 60.
Bath
Bristol ll7l ••• 111 / 22i t 4 0
below S
_ -
* Exclusive of two inclined planes.
S_ Tabe amine. which will be occupied in travelling

8. Table orTinze, which wi
between London and Bristol,
near to the railway, at the it
per hour :

o inclined planes.
ill be occupied in travelling
and the principal towns on or
zininiuni velocity of 2.5 miles

M. M.

Slough .
Maidenhead 1 0
Reading
Oxford, by a branch of 10
miles 225
-- without ditto 4 20
Wantage 2 30
Swindon 3 0
_

Is. M.
Cirencester ... about 3 30
Stroud .. 4 0
Wotton Bassett
_ ._

• • -
Chippenham
Melksham, by a branch of
5 miles 4 0

Trowbridge, or Bradford,
by a branch of 9 miles... 4 15
Bath
Bristol 4 40
will be 30 miles per hour ]

Gloucester, by a branch of
28 miles
[lt is believed the minimu?

The foregoing article must be interesting alike to the
public and the proprietors.
One thing is quite clear that that the great Western line
is unassailable by competing lines, in consequence of its situa-
tion and almost perfect level.
If there be any line whose traffic has been under-rated, it
is this, one. The passenger-traffic, which experience now
shows to be increased at feast four fold, and, in some cases,
twenty to thirty fold, as compared with previous modes of
travelling, is here taken at only two fold, and all travelling
(immense in amount) less than 15 miles from London, is
omitted altogether.
There is an important feeture in this line, not sufficiently
considered by those who seek investments, that its revenue
will commence in the autumn of the coming year, 1837,
and that by the following May more than half the entire
revenue will be accruing, that is, on the traffic in the first
place from London to Maidenhead, and, at the second pe-
riod, to Reading and from Bath to Bristol.
We believe the public, and even those generally inte-
rested in railways, are so little in the habit of close investi-
gation, that they will be surprised to learn, what we are
able to prove is the fact, that there are upwards of 90
coaches up, and 90 back, daily, between Maidenhead and
London, and nearly as many on to Reading and back ; that
there are 34 coaches from Bath to Bristol, and the same num-
ber returning, performing altogether 72 journeys daily, be-
tween the two latter cities. This is on nearly half the en-
tire line from Bristol to London, and exclusive of all private
carriages and other conveyances. There is nothing like it
besides in the united kingdom.
The coaches on the road between Liverpool and Man-
chester, before the opening of that-railway, only amounted
to 25. The latter railway cost upwards of 40,0001. per
mile ; and it is now ascertained that the " Great Western"
will not exceed an average cost of 23,0001. per mile, in-
cluding all extras. It is also ascertained that the deduction
made in Parliament for the annual expenses is full one-
third more than will be incurred, owing to improvements,
to the amended levels, and the adoption of a wider guage
for the rails. It must, then, be clear to any person who
will investigate the foregoing details, resorting to simple
arithmetical calculation, that this line will return a very
large profit from the day of its opening to Maidenhead in
September next.

Messrs. Bochsa and Ole Bull, in conjunction with
Mrs. Wood, are to have a concert to-morrow, at the Town-

Hall, Leicester.
The Supreme Sanitory Magistrate of Sicily, having
learned that many vessels from Naples had arrived at
Malta, has subjected articles from the latter island to a
quarantine of 14 days for vessels, and 31 for merchandise.
In other order, all vessels from France and England with
cotton are prohibited, unless they have elsewhere performed
quarantine ; and according to rules prescribed, the admis-
sion of arrivals from the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom,
from Illyria and Dalmatia, was prohibited ; and those from
Austrian ports on the Adriatic were subject to a quarantine
of 30 to 40 days.
THE LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY.—
Curiosity has drawn a vast number of persons to make the
experiment of a trip by this new conveyance, since it was
opened by the Lord Mayor on Wednesday last. Six en-
gines, or tenders, are now in constant use, going backwards
and forwards every half hour, and oftener, as circumstances
may require. The trains to Deptford go on the right-hand
rail, and those coming from thence on the left. They ge-
nerally
stop, going and coming, to put down and take up
passengers at the Bermondsey-road. The carriages are of
various constructions, some being close omnibuses, for which
the fare is ls. Other carriages open at the sides, but close
at each end—the fare 9d. ; and others open all round, for
which the faro is 6d. The carriages are accompanied by
guards, in livery of the Company—dark green cloth, with a
section of the railway on the button. The distance from
Tooley-street to Deptford is generally accomplished in less
than ten minutes, including stoppages, and the necessity of
starting and coming in at an easy rate. A part of the jour-
ney is, however, done at the rate of 25 miles an hour—
proof that in going long distances without interruption the
speed may be easily increased. At present the train take
about 200 each trip, but the carriages may be increased
according to the demand, but one engine may take 12,000
per diem. The Deptford end, from the establishment of
the manufactories there, is at present the depot for the ex-
tra engines, and they there undergo frequent and minute
inspection, a large arched shed, with a cast iron roof, having
been raised to shelter the passengers coming and going.
The. interview between Prince Polignac and his
lady is said to have been extremely affecting, on her arri-
val from Paris on Sunday evening, it being their first meet-
ing since his liberation from the fortress of Ham, where
the Princess resided nearly, six years. She is accompanied
by two of her children, the eldest about three years of age.
The populous and extensive parishes of St. Luke,
Chelsea, and St. Mary Abbots, Kensington, are to be forth-
with united, under an order of the Poor Law Commissioners,
with the appellation of " The Kensington Union." The
order takes effect from the 9th of next month. The num-
ber of guardians for Chelsea is to be eleven, and for Ken-
sington ten: The poor-rate expenditure for this extensive
district during the past year exceeded 17,0001.
THE CORN LAWS.—The miserable old times are
returning. We have been afflicted with a bad harvest,
and the Corn Laws shut gut the prospect of any supplies
from abroad. But, alas, the evils of the Corn Laws do
not end here. Foreign countries have so long ceased to
look to this country (owing to these laws) to carry off their
surplus, that now they have no surplus for us ; so that not
only is there want before us, but no means of averting it.
It is very plain that we have before us a winter of misery
and soup societies. We hope, however, that there will be
such an outcry against the Corn Laws, so many petitions
to Parliament, so much agitation, that the question will be
taken up by the Reform Members of Parliament, and settled
for ever. If so, we shall not have had a scarcity in vain.—
Liverpool Chronicle.