The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-08 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LowpcoN, SATURDAY EVENING;

RAILWAY RETURNS

RAILWAY TEAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
Ray s for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

.a
= ~,4 •
Week Last 2.d
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. :,.. iti
O t.
c...) .:4-
---- ----
Nov. & ---------
.£ £
Dec. 1 Aberdeen .. •• • • ..... 767 520
2 Amiens and Boulogne ............. - 1,306 1,088
1 Belfast and Ballymena .....• ........ 438 341
2 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 756 661
2 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y. 376 251
2 Bristol and Exeter •• .. .. . • ..- ..• • .. 3,204 -
25 Caledonian. ........... ............ 6,033 4,288
2 Chester and Holyhead. •• .. •• .• ...... 1,250 1,167
29 Dublin and Drogheda.... .• .•••• •• • • 667 615
4 Dublin and Kingstown •• •••••• • • • • •• 832 929
1 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen • ....... 925 1,604
2 East Anglian.. ..... ••••••••• • • • • • • •• 623 657
1 Edinburgh and Glasgow, •••• • - - - 3,167 3.0.,7
1 Editiltrgb. and Perth •. • • ........ 2,169 1,570
2 Eastern Coun.les and North Eastern.. 13,838 12 668
25 East Lancashire ••••.• • • .. 2,7 a 1 1,522
2 Eastern Union• •••.•.• .. - _ - ...... 1,513 1,237
1 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • •• 2,7138 2,420
1 Glasgow and Greeneck.• •...... .... 970 854
25 Great Northern and E. L........... 2,927 -
1 Great Southern and Western .. ••• • .. 3,685 3.018
2 Great Western, &e • ..... - 16,605 17,316
2 Lancashire and Yorkshire ....
25 Lancaster and Carlisle ........ 2,8;8 1,831
3 Leeds and Think •••••••••• • • • • • • • • 664 -
2 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 75 58
1 Londonderry and EnniskPlen.• - .... 118 105
2 London and North Western, &c•••• • • 37,741 35,5 9
2 London and Blackwall.• •• •••••• • • •• 529 549
1 Londcn and Brighton .• • ...... • ....• 8,U69 7,478
2 London and South Western ......... 8,561 7,653
2 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 4,753 2,611
2 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.. • . 20,049 20,061
2 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • •• 1,154 1,119
1 Monklands .••••••.....• •••• •••••••• 824 833
2 North Brit! h.•..••••--• • • • • • • • •• 3,111 2,274
1 Paris and Rouen. ••• • •• ............ 5,378 5,227
1 Rouen laid llavro •••• •• .. 2,134 2,109
2 Scottish Central .. • ........... •• .. . 1,144 804
1 Scottish Midland ••••.•-• • .. • • • •• 364 268
2 Shrewsbury and Chester ............ 1,431 1,316
2 Shropshire Union ........ •......... 359 --
1 South Eastern and Branches •• • .....• 8,403 7,075
26 Sou..h D evon •.• • • ... ..•
1 Tatr Vale ....... ..... .............. 2,029 1,756
749 729
- Waterford and Limerick....... •••••• - 271
25 Whitehaven Junction ...........•.•. 204 Ms
i 2 York and Newcastle .• • ••- • ....... 12,033 13,827
2 York and North Midland. - •••• .... 6,384 7,029

MINING INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Mining Journal ut this day )
More than an average amount of business has been
trausaett d this tee ek ; the market continues firm, s ith
tendeeey to aelvartce, sellers seekieg ter higher pr c s,
which buyers are unwillieg to conform to; &else quently,
there are several negutistious on the Lapis, h hich are
likely to come off next week.
South Bisset, Condurrow, Trehane, Trelawny, and
West Wheal Jewel, have continued in request.
Mary Ann, South Tamar, and Bedford United share:
have been sought fur, and several transactions t &cud
at advanced prices.
In Tit croft several transactions have taken place.
Chappelt's lode, reported last week to have improved, is
further increased in value, and becomes of vast im-
portance, inasmuch as it is entirely in new ground.
At Wheal B asset account for September and October,
a profit of 1,471/. 9s. 5:!„ was made ; a dividend of 1,920 i.
being 151. per share, was declared, and a balance of 2701.
10e. 4d. carried to next account. The mine is stated to
be in a very productive and prosperous position.
The following mines, under the management of Messrs.
Taylor and Son, have declared dividends within the last
tew days, and all of them are represented to be looking
remarkably well :—Lisburne Mines declared 101 per
share ; Guginan, 5001., or 51. per share ; and the United
Mines, 1,000/., being 51. per share.
At Great Work quarterly account, ending September,
a profit of 7501. was made, Which, added to our balance
left from previous account, allowed a dividend of 71. 103.
per share, carrying to credit of next account 2761.
12s. 2d.
At the Wellington Mine meeting the accounts for the
four months, ending August, showed a balance in hand
of 1631. 16e. Id.
At Ilerudsfoot meeting the liabilities amounted to
1 792/. Os. 10d., which appears principally to have ac-
crued by omissions on the part of the former manage-
ment, in not bringing all the costs forward. 'the
proposition made at the meeting is such that all share-
hoNers will, no doubt, immediately respond to, and
place the mine, now making a profit of 110/, per month,
in a position capable of paying continuous dividends.
At Bwlch Consols meeting, held on the 6th, a new
committee was appointed, and the whole of the new
issue of shares were stated to have been taken up. The
reports from the mine were highly satisfactory.
Wheal Vincent is represented to be in a very satis-
factory and encouraging position. Some splendid spe-
cimens of the tin have been recently received in town,
which affords positive evidence of the richness of the
lode. We kern the mine is now working to a profit.
Camborne Consols is about to sell a few tons of silver
ore, which will enable a fair calculation being made of
the value of the lode. The back of the 20 is still pro-
ducing good silver ore.
The first general meeting of the Tretbevy Consols
(late Caradon Copper) was held on the Ist, when
highly-respectable gentlemen were named as a com-
mittee of management, for effectually carrying out
the objects of the meeting. The reports of
some well-known practical agents, and the opinions of
miners who have recently worked in the mine, were
laid berore the meeting, all agreeing as to the
value and importance of the sett, and measures adopted
for the immediate resumption of operations. Not more
than 50 512th shares remain unappropriated.
Wheal Russell account meeting was held on Monday,
the 3d inst., when Captain Banat, the superintending
agent, assured the shareholders that the call of 10s. per
share would be the lest required from them. The mine
is represented to be in a most gratifying position.
The following shares have changed hands since our
last:—Devon Great Consuls, United Mines, East Wheal
Rose, Treviskey and Barrier, West Wheal Providence,
South Basset, Devon and Courtenay, Bedford United,
West Basset, East Tamar, South Tolgus, Tincrofr,
South Tamar, Daren, West Wheal, Jewel, Stray Park,
Condurrow, Tamar Consols, kleignston Downs, Mary
Ann, Trelawny, Tregorden, lierodsfoJt, Trehane,
Tretbevy, and Belch Consols.
In foreign mines there has been a fair proportion of
business transacted, especially in United Mexican,
3opiapo. St. John del Rey, Imperial Brazkau, Austra-
lian, Linares, North British Australasian, and National
Brazilian shares have also been done.
Cunsiderable business has beon done in the United
Mexican shares this week at advanced prices, arising
from the improved aspect of this property; arid great
hopes crc entertained that the new mine, called Jesus
Maria y Joe, situate.) on the same vein as the mines of
La Luz and San Lucia, now 3 ielding such extraordinary
returns to the adventurers, will e q eel those in produc-
tiveness when feit ly oeetted out

FAST TRAVELLING IN 1752 —We have before us
a copy of our venerable contemporary, the Salisba, y
Journal, of January 20, 1752, in which there is au ad-
vertisement which curit,u,ly courts with the time
bills in the pagrs of Bradshaw. It sacs forth that for the
Letter convenience of gentlemen, travellers, and others,
the Exeter fast coach starts every Alont:ay from the
Siracen's Head, Friday -street, Izindun ''dines at
Egham, lies the same night at Murnll green ; dines on
Tuesday at Sstton, and lies the same night at the
Plume of Feathers in Salisbury ; on Wednesday dines
at B:andford, aid lies nt the King's Arms in Dur-
chesty'. ; and gets into Exeter every Friday at one
o'clock." We are not told where the weary travellers
take their repose on Thursday night. The journey
from London to Exeter by the fast trains on the Great
Western Railway is now, we believe, accomplished in
five hours,—Hants Independent.

NOTES ON IVIETEOROLUGY.
•
Br LIEUTENANT MORRISON, R.N.,
PRESIDENT OF THE METEOROLOGICAL SCCILTY CF LONDON
(Read befcre the Society tt their last met ting.)
in the present highly cultivated state of the sciences,
to excuse can be re quired for introducing for popular
notice the numerous topics which are embraced by
meteorology. Its importance is not surpassed by any
other science, whether we regard it in respect to the
merchant, the navigator, the agriculturist, the astro-
nomer, or the philosopher. To the merchant it is
essential to have the means of forming a judgment of
the probable aft ct of the season on the crops, in the
produce of which he speculates, whether of corn,
fruits, sugars, cottons, oils, di ugs, wines, and a
thousand other substances; the navigator is pro-
verbially dependent on the alternative of fair and
favourable gales, or destruc, ive ar.d di solating storms;
the agriculturist relies on the regularity of the seasons
for his very exist( nee, and w while he pray s for the
" early and latter rains" to instigate the soil for hiS
seed time, he no less earnestly de sires the solar beams
to satisfy his hopes in the harvest. These are
practical men, who with oi.e accord will
declare that to them a foreknowledge of the
stave of tl.e atmosphere tot old be of the highest
value. But not less does the man of science, the
astronomer, look to tha meteorologist for as-
sistance in his tale speculations. The celebrated
Professor Airy, in his recent splendid re-
port on the astronomy of the age, says,
The effi cis of radiation have Leen till lately little
understood, and scarcely recognised among astrono-
n.ers," and he adds, "I think that astronomers
would be glad to receive simple directions for placing
a thermometer so as to indicate correctly the tempe-
rature of the air at the place of observation ;" and he
&,ks, " Does the refractive power of air depend
simply on its density without regard to its tempera-
ture ?" &e. These and other similar questions can
only be answered by the aid of meteorology. As to
the general philosopher, whether he apply himself to
medical investigations, to the multifarious ramifica-
tions of chemistry, to the important problem of the
causes of the tides and their attendant phenomena,
to the nature of radiant heat and all its practical con-
sequences, to the laws of optics, to the mysterious
researches of geology or botany, the wonders of the
animal economy, or the stupendous arcane of electri-
cal science, he finds himself at every step compelled
to consider the numerous phenomena of meteorology.
It we rant on the uses of the atmosphere to
man, we are compelled to admit that tke first
necessary of life is the air! we find health
in the breeze, and pleasure in the varying
scenery of the skies. Without the air were just what
it is all would be dull and insipid, no winds, no
clouds, no rains, not a boat could sail, or a bird could
fly ; not a sound would be transmitted, not a fire
could be maintained, not a vegetable grow, or an
animal exist. It must then be reasonable to study
the nature of a substance so important, so essential to
mankind.