The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-04 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Week
ending

Last
week.

Amiens and Boulogne .•• ••• • •• • •
Belfast and Ballymena • • • • •• ••
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y.
Bristol and Exeter • • . • • ••• • . •
Ca1ed0nian............. . • • • • •• • •
Chester and Holyhead.— ..........
Dublin and Droglieda• • • . • • .•• • • ....
Dublin and Kingstown .• ••• • •• •• • •
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen • • • • •• ••
East Anglian.— • • •••••• • • • • ••
Edinburgh and Glasgow . ••
Edinburgh and Northern.. ••
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
East Lthicashire ..
Laster') Union •• •••••• • • •••• • • ••
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
Glasgow and Greenock• • •• •• • •• ••
Great Northern and E. L.... ••
Great Southern and Western • .......
Great Western, Br,c • • • • - • • •• ••
Kendal and Windermere• •
Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............
Lancaster and Carlisle • - •• ••
Liverpool, Crosby; and Southport
Londonderry and Enidskiden ......
London and North Western, &c.
London and Blackwell .•
London and Brighton • .• • •
London and South Western..
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham..
.bildland Great Western (Irish) ......
Monklituds • —••••••••••••••
Newcastle and 'Carlisle • • ••
North British ..
Paris and Rouen ..... ........
itotien and Ilavre .. • ........
Scottish Central • •
Shrewsbury and Chester_
South Eastern and Branches ........
South Dev0n........ .•
Wateriord and Limerick.— .• • ..•
Wintehaven Junction ...............
iork and Newcastle . •.............
York and North rlidlami. .. • •

662
:,4 S 3
C 44

422
4,611
6,042
2,312
r3l
1,216
1,264

725
3,927
2,492
15,825
3,5 r,3
1,720
3,235
1,252
2,385
3,610
21,857

229
14,396
2,600

167
47,770
1,020
11,797
12,663
5,639
22,721
1,122

:84
1,394
554
:333
278

4,431
1,460

3,649
6,699
2,64 ti
1,443
1.530
1,920
2,012
952

775
1,173
1,333

634
3,768
1,913
16, 79
1,172
1,335
2,603
1,439

4,847
21,836

204
11,926
2,113

163
48,916
1,244
14,454
10,964
3,200
23,498
861

2 15
12,334
8,4/4

2,911
4,638
1;937

G5l
12,090
1,7 8
,969
748

175
13,336
9.421

THE POTATO.-It is most gladdening to hear such
goon accounts of the potato crop. lhn old routmlduch
t
) t
which—say what we will—,he are a
at-
tached as the Irish—without, however, depending on it
as the staple article of sus enance—seems about to be
restored to us in its ancient plenty and quality. Instead
of the country being patched, as in the last three years,
with the brown and black evidences of rotting•haulms—
as if the simoom had *wept across our fields—we now see
by the side of the golden corn, and near the labourers'
cottages, breadths and plots of clink green potato lest-
age—features which we began to tear were to be en-
tirely lost to the English lainiscape. Cause of great re-
juicing will this be to the great mass 01 our country-
men; to the poor for the welcome help which the potato
is likely to afford to their simple meals, and to " the
better-to-do " classes for the restoration of an appen-
dage of their dinner-tables, which, though not an abso-
lute necessary,-has become almost so—like tea—t rum
long usage. Truth to say, John Buil has come to look
on the potato as quite as natural cn adjunct to his bet f
as horse-radish and mustard; an-1 all the proposed sub • ,
stitutes, such as rice, parsnips, harocot beans, &c., even
when he has had the resolution to adopt them, havo
been " put up with " in a sprit of most uneasy resigna-
tion. In sober seriousneas, the present appearance of
tGhoeareoitt a
atoll crop isnacersese; for heartfelt gratitude to the
the plentiful in -gathering which and i
is sn
otwo bi
ne
prospect,hoped that
i
it should be made, will nut be taken without the ex-
pression of national thankfulness to Him with whom
alone rests the control of the earth's productioas,—Bath
Chronicle.

ADVANTAGES OF STEAM.—The Glasgow and Ayr
Railway Company now run a cheep train fr..m Glasgow
to Ay s
r every Saturday afternoon, to give the working
classe a cheap excursion. The train, last Saturday,
consisted of thirty-six carriages, conveying above 1,100
passengers, and was drawn by two powerful engines. At
Ayr the party enjoyed themselves for three hours and a
hal f—bathing, viviting the birth-place of Burns,
Ano.
way's auld haunted kirk," &c.—and reached Glasgow,
on their return, at eleven o'clock at night. The whole
distance travelled by train was eighty miles, and the n.re
was only half-a-crown by the first-class, and eighteen
pet ce by the third ! This is one of the advantages of
railways.

-Where education has been entirely neglected or
improperly managed, we see the worst pitsions ruling
with uncontrolled and incessant sway.
into
sense de-
generates into craft, and auger rankles malignity.
Restraint, which is thought most salutary, comes too late,
and the most judicious adm3eitions are urged in vain.—
Eliza Cook's Journal.
THE CONVICTS AT WOOLWICH.—The convict who
escaped from the dockyard a few nays ago his nut bt-en
heard of, and is the same whose associates tried to favour
his escape about eighc months ago, by surroundipg Mr.
Cope in Newgrste. The convicts are now allowed to weir
their hair any length they choose, and many of them
wear large whiskers without restriction, which would
render it a difficult task fur qv; police-cunstahles to dis-
tinguish them from the dockyard mechanics if thew
attempted to escape in working men's clothes. The
convicts have also many other indulgences which cause
the blame of any successful att.
mpts to escape to be
attributed more to the systi m than to the parties placed
in charge, over them, (A- the cuust,bies who have the
charge of the dockyard getra.