The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-03 00:00:00

if fair play were given, and railway communication
equally distributed, would form the proper port of the
south-eastern district, and the grand concentrating
point with reference to South Wales, Southern Eng-
land, the Great Western to Bristol, and the Midland
Counties via Gloucester. Such is the natural situa-
tion of this maritime city, that it must either fall into
utter insignificance, or rise to very great eminence.
The country requiring supplies lies principally
behind and not around it ; and there is therefore
a long inland carriage, causing facilities in
this respect to be of vital importance, and,
when given exclusively elsewhere, rendering
the balance against it insurmountable ; but
it possesses from this very circumstance a harbour
unrivalled for its capabilities, and a position relatively
with England and Wales which must make it of
primary importance, so soon as these facilities shall
have been granted. The applicants have, however, a
peculiarly strong claim on the attention of Govern-
ment, inasmuch as but for a clause introduced into
the Act of Incort.oration before the Committee of the
House of Commons, contrary to the wish of the
proprietors interested in the south-eastern portion,
and despite their most strenuous opposition, obliging
the company to commence at the Limerick end, they
would probably now be in the enjoyment of ample
railway communication from Waterford to the centre
of Ireland.

These are matters of national, independent of poli-
tical interests, upon which, as on neutral ground,
general upholders of antagonistic principles may
amicably and cordially meet ; and, however we may
feel ourselves constrained for the most part to oppose
the views maintained as a legislator by the Earl of
GLENGALL, we cheerfully concede to him the merit of
a sincere anxiety to promote the substantial interests
of his country. As chairman of the company, in
whose ultimate success we feel profoundly interested,
for the sake of a magnificent district in Ireland, the
destinies of which are now at stake, he commands our
best wishes in his exertions to consummate a work
calculated to confer a vast and permanent benefit
upon one of the fairest portions of Munster—to yield
certain and increasing Frofit to its shareholders, and
to redound to the advantage and commendation of the
British Government.

CRIMINAL COURT (THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)
Ellen Rullivan, a young woman about twenty years of age,
was indicted on two charges of uttering counterfeit money.
It appeared that on the morning of the 22d of June two
wamen, one of whom was sworn to have been the prisoner,
went into the Waterman's Arms public-house at 'Wapping,
and asked for a pint of porter, which they gut,
and for which the prisoner tendered half-a-crown, and
received the change. Edward Walker, the owner of
the public-house, shortly afterwards found that the half-
crown which had been given him by the prisoner was a
bad one; and he afterwards identified her at the statio*-
house. She was also charged with offering another counter-
feit half-crown to Amelia Sanipscn, at the Fox and Goose
public-house on the same evening, in payment of a half.
quartern of gin.
The prisoner denied that she was the person who had
tendered the bad money in either case.
The jury found her Guilty ; and
The COMMON SERGEANT sentenced her to six months ha-
prisonment with hard labour. in the House of Correction,

MIDDLES EX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Sergeant WITHAM and a bench of Magistrates.)
The July general sessions were commenced this morning
at the Court House, Clerkenwell-green. In the absence of
the Assistant-Judge, Mr. Sergeant Witham presided. The
calendar is rather heavy, there being (inclusive of bail cases)
about one hundred indictments.
The grand jury having been sworn, the Learned Sergeant
addressed them with the usual charge.
The cases disposed of this morning were unimportant.

CITY OF LONDON ELECTION.
(THIS DAY.)

STATE OF THE POLL.

NINE O'CLOCK.

Rothschild
Manners

... 609
... 135

~• ••_ ..•
TEN O'CLOCK.

Rothschild
Manners

... 1,666
.. 482

ELEVEN O'CLOCK.

Rothschili
Manners

... 2,850
... 1,222

TWELVE, O'CLOCK.

Rothschild
lianncra

... 3,529
... 1,790

••• ••• •••
ONE O'CLOCK.

Rothschild
Manners

... 4,264
.. 2,191

••• ••• •••
TWO O'CLOCK.

Rothschild
Manners

... 4,965
„, 2,487