The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-09 00:00:00

OPENING OF RAILWAY.

Monday next will be a memorable day in the an-
nals of Railway enterprise. The Southampton will be
opened the whole distance ; the North Mhfland be
opened all the way to Sheffield and York ; the London
and Brighton, in a state of great forwardness, will
open its branch to Shoreham. We witnessed an
experimental trip on this branch the other day,
when the distance, six miles, was accomplished in about
ten minutes. The fires on this line are very low, and
we have no doubt the Proprietors will reap the advan-
ttge of this wise dee;sion on the part of the Directors.
If the fares on other lines were more moderate,

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the number of passengers would soon be doubled.
Extortion is a blind calculator, nhich eventually defeats

its purpo-ic by stirring,' up competition. The Directors
of Railways should look to this, and they will find their
reward in the gratitude of the public.

We lately took occasion to introduce to our
readers a little'velume from the pen of Mr. Shoberl, the well-
known Editor of " The Fo..get- me-Not," entitled " Prince
Albert and the House of Saxony." So highly has this produc-
tiers been appreciated by his Royal Htgliness's uncle, the King
of Belgium, that his Majesty has transmitted to the author a
valuable gold snuff-box, "in token of his high satisfaction and
Royal favour"— En temoiynage de sa haute satisfaction, et de
sa royale bienveillance, to use the very words of the official let-
ter from the intent:ant of the King's Civil List, which accom•
panied this present. The lid of the box has a border of richly
enchased arabesque scrollwork, within which is another border
of diamonds, enclosing his Majest)'s cipher, surmounted by a
crown, both set in diamonds.
Mrs. Peel and her daughters are still suffering
from their bruises, which, Ise are happy to say, are not so seri-
ous as was at first conjectured. Sir George Rubinson's frac-
ture is a bad one ; the wound and swelling are both large, and
until the latter is reduced the leg cannot be set. Lady Robin-
son arrived in town, by mail, on Monday night; Sir George is
attended by Mr. Co rtes; his spirits are good, and, although ex-
periencing much pain, his general health has not suffered. The
coachman and guard are doing well.
DINNER AT THE MANSION HOUSE.—A
grand ent,rtainment was given by the Lord Mayor in the
Egyptian Hall, on 'Thursday, to celebrate the anniversary of
the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
There were present on the occasion, the Archbishops of Can-
terbury and Armagh, fourteen Bishops, five Venerable Arch-
deacons, six Re,erend Doctors in Divinity, besides a number of
other clergy, the Duke of Buccleuch, Sir Robert Inglis,
' several Aldermen, and the two Sheriffs. The dinner was on a
grand scale, and a number of speeches were made in praise of
the Society. The on'y speech worth quoting is the following,
by the Rector of the parish of Bishopsgate Without
Rev. Dr. Russell took occasion to state that he had not vio-
lated the secret with which he had been intrusted—the dona-
tion of the 5,0001. to the Society. He had received strict in-
junctions not to state that fact, which was intended to have been
communicated in the usual course; but as some other individual
had acted prematurely in giving the information, he, as one of
the Committee, thought it necessary to allude to the circum-
stance. It was true that five notes of 1,0001. each had
passed through his hands to the Society. It was also true that
in one week donations to the amount of 8,0001. had been re-
ceived, and that on that day there had been put into his hands
1,0001. for the benefit of the Society.—(Loud cheers.)
MURDER OF JOHN TEMPLEMAN.—We ex-
tract the following from the Gazette of last evening :—" White-
hall, May 7, 1540. —Whereas i' hath been kumbly represented
auto the Queen that, on the night of Monday the 16th, or morn-
ing of Tuesday, the 17th day of March 1840, Mr. John Tern-
pleman, of Pocock's-fields, Islington, in the county of Middle-
sex, was barbarously murdered at his residence, by some evil
disposed person or persons unknown. —Her Majesty, for the better
apprehending and bringing to justice the persons concerned
in the murder before-mentioned, is hereby pleased to pro-
mise her most gracious pardon to any one of them (except the
person who actually committed the same) who shall discover
his accomplice or accomplices therein, so that he, she, or they
may be apprehended and convicted thereof. And, as a fur-
ther encoeragement, a reward of Two Hundred Pounds
is hereby cffered by the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's
Treasure, to any Person (except as aforesaid) who shall dis-
cover the said offender or offenders, so that he, she, or they
may be apprehended and convicted of the said tffence.—

INORMANISY•
This morning, the following notice was exhibited
at all the Police Stations in the Metropolis :—"Man Docs.
All persons allowing any ferocious dog to be in the public
streets unmuzzled, are liable to a penalty of five pounds ; and
all constables have strict orders to destroy all dogs found not
properly secured, and the owners to be prosecuted. By order
of the Commissioners of Police."
Fideiio was repeated last night at the Princes
Thew re. There is a difference of opinion by no means un-
common in the critical by profession on the merits of Sehwzrtz-
bock's Leonora. i his lady, though iniertor of course to Ala-
libran, is generally rated as equal, or very nearly so, to the
celebrated Devrient.
A SMALL SKIN.—It is stated that there has
been recently presented to the Musuem of the Asiatic Society
of I3engal, the skin of a boa, which measured twenty feet in
When shot, the boa measured twenty-one feet !
" It tiad swallowed a spotted deer, which was taken out Of the
inside not too much decomposed for the spots in the skin to be
Where the deer was the skin measured three
quite distinct.
F,'•et one inch across."
The obsequies of the lamented Lord William
Russell svill take place at the au msoleum of the Russell family,
at Chenics, in Bucks, of which place his Lordship's nephew
I Lord Wriothesley Rufieil, is ItCet9r,