The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-12 00:00:00

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

CHRONlCLE.—lnactitity still pervades the Stock-Ex-
change, and the Fund, continue almost stationary, but Consols
for the opeitug have improvcd a shade. •
We have heard from undoubted authOrty that the money
for payment of the next dividends on the l'ortuguese Stock is
ready in deposit, and on the expected ratificai ion of the con-
tract by the Cortes on the 3d or 4th instant, the funds were
to be transferred to the financial agency in
POST.—The i:..formation from Frankfort holds out but a
gloomy prospect for the holders of the Danube and Nia'n Ca-
nal shares, issued some years since by the house of Rothschild
and Co. Those shares h.tve for a long period been at a dis-
count of nearly fitly per cent. on the cost, or money sub-
scribed; and we now learn that the dividends due on the Kt It
instant, an:.! 15th of December next, fixed at 10 francs (or
16s. to 17•.) per share, are I,kely to he paired down (tierces)
to 7 1.181105 40 cents. (or ltts. to 135.) per share. '1 he pub-
lic at Frankfort were looking with grt at anxiety for some com-
munication upon the subject from the Bavarian Government
which might be relied upon as authentic.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
RAILWAY.
(From the Edinburgh Cow ant.)
We had much pleasure in visiting, a short time ago. wee
of the principal works in the line of the Edinburgh and Crlts-
gow Railway, and particularly to obsi rye the rapid progress
which was then making in every part towards the completion of
this great undertaking. Our visit going eastward commenced
with the great bridge Lear Falkirkfer the purpose of carry-
ing the railway across the Union Canal at the Locks near
No. 16. Owing to the line of railway crossing the Canal
at en oblique angle, and to the necessity imposed upon the
Company of crossing both the Locks and the carrisge-vi ay
with a single arch, the span has been extended to tin less than
130 feet, which is ec,uai to that of the celebrated bridge over
the Deriburn, at Aberdeen. Not bring, however, qui•e so
elevated above the springing, the strain en the abutmetas is
greater, and the material also, though of excellent qua-
lity, being brought from the well-known quarry of Alilifield,
or Kingo.rdie, near Dundee, is still softer than the gra-
nite, so that the work is altogether one of greater difficulty, awl
requiring much caution and skill, both in the design and exe-
cution. This great arch, when we saw it, was jusecompleted,
and the workmen were engaged slacking the centre, which has
been since taken out, and everything presents the appearance
of strength and stability. the arch stones are five feet deep at
the abutments, and three feet at the crown; and there are in
the arch alone about 20,000 cubic feet of atone, or upwards ef
1,500 tons, the whole of which was laid in about ten days.
To all appearance, the works here will very soon be completed,
and ready for the laying of the rails. The next work of im-
portance is the Cadandes Tunnel, 830 yards in length. and
passing ur.dcr Callender Wood, at the depth of 130 feet.
The whole of this was nearly completed; at out 80 yards
only in the length of the tunnel remaining to be executed,
and upwards of 20 yards have been since finished. At
the east end, the tunnel opens into a vast excavation
75 feet in depth,—and when the slopes are completed round and
round, it will have the appearance from the east of a great am-
phitheatre. To the east of the tunnel, and between it and
Linlithgow, a considerable part of the permanent rails are lad
dawn, and this all important part of the undertaking aetears to
be executed with every regard to strength, solidity, and accu-
racy. The strength of the rails is 75Ihs weight to each yard,
and they are supported at every four feet mo-tly by substantial
whin-stone blocks, two feet square, weighing five or six ewt.
On the embankments the reds are supported by strong larch
sleepers. Between the -tunnel and Linlithgow a considera-
ble portion of cutting and embankment stilt remains to be
executed ; but, to facilitate this, we observed a beautiful loco-
motive engine, made by Feldiegton of Glaegow, ou its way to
the rails, tar conveying tie stuff from the cutting forwent to
the embankments, and this engine is now actively employed
ia its work. Wherever the permanent rails sr laid down, and
the stuff requires to be conveyed a great distance, a. in ;he
present instance, the saving of expense, aed, still more, of time
in executing the work, is very material, as the engine is ativsys
capable of conveying the stuff for miles in distance as fast or
faster than human labour is able to fill and empty the vaggons,
and it was calculated that witn activity and long hours work,
the contractors, with this engii.e, would be enabled to heap up
upon the embankments nearly 1,500 tons of stuff dails. The
next
eeetnerkver otfhe importancefthir valle e Almond,
the line is thst great
which,
number and regularity of the arch- d their b • • and
ss, air be• lofty apt earance amid the fine scenery around, will, indsed be
a magnificent structure. It consistsof 20
Our Paris Correspondent sends us the following anec-
arches each, 50 feet span, and the central dote :
ones rising nearly 100 feet above the valley below. •.
There is a story current here, which is by no means
. with small 1 arches besides at the eastern extremity The three
%Nors, which was executingcalculated to •ain esteem for Sir Robert Peel in the
i_
by Mr. Lorimer, was pYr.oceen. &fthe highestthe lowest,
avail rein to
eilitated by the ingenious ing with great aetivity. much a- minds cl men ale...
isdayi
availed himself, and use of maehinery of which he has respect what Sir Robert every endeavouring to
the regular endtheparvenu is in bail
the system by which disavow. The aristocracy of
the :tones are brought suet f '
places on the arches. 'the e,i u rly forward, and laid in their odour in France, and the people cannot understand
whole of the piers were built, and how a man who has been enriched by trade should
twelve of the large arches on the
three smaller arches in the easternwe
s abutment;
thrown, besides the find honour from any class of persons in England,
been recently tini ping at the rate of f,,, and as th-y have
when he disavows the origin from which his present
there is no doubt that a very short time seslirt bring
per month, • • • derived.
position is
But to the story : It aapears that
the whole to completion ; and we understand th:t since our'rugsome years ago, there was living in Paris a lady named
more have been thrown The great diffieult vi-iti six arches ,
the near relative of Sir Robert Peel, who was
procure materials for such vast masses of masonry, f-
as been .to 1 ----t .
mi sonry, which at Mitt time a .
'liner in London, and much esteemed
require contributions from various differentquarries• 1 Princess, This Mrs. P. had a flourishing Ini-
every availebie source. To the eastward ,ft awl by a Ro) a
want
of capital to enable her to carry
duct the permanent railway is nearly all laid .•
via- siness, but was in _ .
~
to Ludt h- 'Robert, 0-en Mr. Peel, was, it is said, :tweed
gow, where some cutting is still ping on "-th • it on. Sir -
• e views and to on the subject by the Princess, as the friend and pro.
scenery on this part of the line are extremely inte •
ing, including the ate lent Palace and the lake, wheelle't. tectress of Mrs. 1-'s, "but time answer was unfavourable.
slightly into view on the east of the town. The next works comesof In communicating it her Royal Highat ss said, " I
importance are the vast clay and rocky excavations in the jam ashamed of the Peels. They tiirget that they made
neighbourhood of Winehburgh, extending ia one continued I their -fortune by the spinning' jenny, and are now
cut of four miles in :ength ;in some parts fifty feet deep, and ashamed that a relation of theirs should be in what
including the tunnel and, r winehhergh ridge itself, 360 yards they consider a humble trade. It you will give up
in length. The tunnel has been for some time conyletcd, vet business and reside abroad, they wid, I have no doubt.
the cuttings are far advanced ; but there slid remains mach to enable you to do so; but do Lot expect anything froie
be done in this part of the line, for which, however, the fines: them to enable yourpresent p•irsuit- '
you to carry on
part of the semen To facilitate the has now opened up. re- . ller itetyal highness was right. The milliner was got
inoval of the cuttings. and the fitting up of the embankmentsout
of the way and an income was secured to her by
in the valley of Almond, on the east side as well as on the the clubb' l''
ine• o the purses of the Peel family for her re-
West of the great viaduct, two locomotive engines have been ,
~,, . el
employed by the eminent and spirited contractors, Mes,rs. "nen— in France.
Gibb and Son, with the aid of which the cuttings on each This story has been frequently told in Paris, but at
side, with the filling up of the valley of the Almond, were this moment it is quite the talk of the salons. It may
proceeding with extraordinary rapidity. By these engines be untrue, but the quarter in which I heard it makes
we were informed there are conve}ed upwards of a mile, me regard it as, ;.n its main points, correct. Judge,
and deposited on the embankments, at least 2,500 tons of . then, of the effect which it must produce in a country
earth and rock every twenty-four hours—the work pro- where the nobleman, instead of considering that he is
ending, as it has always done, night and day. To give some disgraced by his father's hiving been a manufacturer,
oweer, of the extent, of the embairkments, we ma
y thinks he has • • •
no true position in society unless he has
mention that the one at the west end of the viaduct requites „me a •
ctive pursuit himself. And what must be the
about 1,300 tens of material to advance it forward one yard. effect u
Pon the bourgeoisie, for which Sir Robert Peel
On one of the locomotive en gin, s proceeding forward with its
, professes so much ' • .
contempt ! Does he imagine that
train of waggons, we were conveyed,ea•twards from the tunnel, I the French, • -hatredofequality
the with a knowledge of his
rind :had .the-plt pleasure of witnessing what will be the effect of' 1
the tr irs here coming from the west, the whole of the beau- and liberal institutions, are to be caught by a few honied
nett' valley of the Almond, with the Pentland Hills in froet„ words ? If he does he will find himself much deceived.
opening suddenly to view; and, then, as we adrancn. the low l [We do not believe the story. Sir It. reel has rather '
centsary eastwards, as far as City, the well known "0... d ; roe t boel.,sted of thc origin of his • Luanne. To be sure a uatei
minsnt 014 c's of which, Arthur's Seat. the Castle, and 1 owner sounds better QUA:- •J. millinerliu ears polini:;4lee ,
cshers, beecraing immediately visit4e, the Zee+, on the i Gloiie.
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rotherton. J —,alford
Tuck, L W.—North DevonsLi
Charles Lt,kead
W.—Brauf,,rd

b:il, Sir Jowl— iZnburgh
Carew, R. S.—Waterfo d
Chil.l2rs, John \V —:tlalton
Curry, Hon. 1-1. 1..—T% lone Co.
Ca meny, Lord—Stirling
kerg.,../.,N, it A —lAoiiiondeiry
Gout urn, Right Hon. H.—Cain-

micge t-n.ver I y
Grat am, Right Hun. Sir J. R G

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rey. i I,e,rge—Devonport
cl est, J. J.—Merts-.)r I ydvil
liaitte, Archibald—Pat ley
Corothwatte John—Pc-

tersfiild
Hers le-. Rt. Hon. J. C.—Harwict,
H t I ouse, Right Hon. Sir J. C.—
Nottluz,oana
Ho. on- C. Henj.—Rochester
Hoskins, K.—Herefordshire
Howaro, P. H.—Carlisle
owa:d, C. W. G.—Cumberland
Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry—

Tattil ton _
Listowell, Lord—St. Alban's
Lushipst.dn, Itt lion. S—Towe,
Hamicts