The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-04 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

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26
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28
28
29
28
22
28
28
28
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Amiens and Boulogne . .....• • • •• • •
Arbroath and Fortar ....... •••• " ••
Chester and Birkenhead . ..... '
Dublin and Drogheda.. ....... •
Dublin and Kingstown ... • • • '• •
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen • • • • '• ..
Edinburgh and Glasgow ... • ..... • •
Eastern Counties and North Eastern'•
East Lancashire ............. ...... •
Eastern Union ..... .• • • "

Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr •• •• ••
Glasgow and Greenock.....• •• • • • ••
Great Southern and Western • • • *****
Great Western, &c....

Ipswich and Bury..
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and North Western, itc•••• • •
London and Blackwall.... • • • • • • " • •
London and Brighton . • • ••• • "
London and South Western. • • •• " • •
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc••
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Maryport and Carlisle ..... • • • • • • • •
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham • • • •
Midland Great Western (Irish) • • • • • •
Newcastle and Carlisle.... • • • • • • " • •
Newcastle, Berwick, and North SNorfolk hields
. . ...• •• •• •••

North British ......•..... •
Paris and Rouen •• •• •

Preston and wyre...... • • .. • • •
Rouen and Havre • • • • • • • • • • • •
ShroVsbury and Chester ...... •
South Eastern and Branches • • •
South Devon • ....• .•••• • • " •
'rat! Vale . • • • • • • • • • •

1,697
46,677

11,284
10,251
10,076
3,043

718
23,524
1,6,9
2,642

2,201
2,904
8,840

3,147

726
.975
1,443

568
12,039
1,833

546
4,379
9.180

530
2,422
1,421

20,678

45,825
1,486
10,240
7,977
9,661
1,998

Ulster . • _
Whitehaven Junction • • • • • • • • • • • • • ..
York and Newcastle • •• • • •• • • • •
York and North Midland .

627
20,407

2,243

1,826
2,050
8,319

11,289
1,351
1,412
654

TIIE " VAPOUR-WINGED" IRON HORSE AND HIS
~ MAD " ORIGINATons.—The railway is the marvel of
opfozzin:low, from a
our day. The rise and progress of the system within
our own memory, its present position, surprising re-
cannota probable effects on society all over the world,
be paralleled, and offer. matter for consideration
steam as a
laughed-at idea, the p
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moving power became an establishedfact, and the means
of using it were changed and improved by succeeding
miLds, is indeed a wonderful story, almost passing belief,
of paramount and increoasss
and which cannot be read without he.advante The alleged
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fore-seer of steam in its usefulneEs, in beginning of
the seventeenth century, was imprisoned and made in-
sane. The idea was realised, but succeeding prophets
met with little better reception And when in our own
century, only a score of years ago, Thomas Gray, a
t as his best f •
crotchetty enthusias , t friends called him,
suggested that a general siysem of iron railways might
be and ought to be laid down, whereon locomotives
should run, and devoted his whole mind and heart to
making clear the practicability of the scheme, and the
great advantages that would result to the nation from it,
a leading review merely expressed the general opinion
when it said, that "Gray was a madman, and ought to
be put into liedlam.-7'he Builder.
FORGERY OF BANK NOYES.—Seven Polish Jews
have been arrested on a eharge of having been concerned
iu forging Russian and Prussian bank notes. It appears
that these men, being sharply pressed at Hamburgh and
elsewhere, sought an asylum at Paris, hoping there to
escape detection, notwithstanding the recent arrest of
Knapp and Romanzoff, their accomplices. A great
number of articles tending to prove their guilt were
seized in their possession, and amongst the rest a
voluminous correspondence in Hebrew. An investiga-
tion was at once instituted, and it appears that it has
teen found necessary to send examining commissions to
llamburgh, Leipzic, Cologne, Konigsberg, and even
Senegal. from which two of the prisoners have lately
returned. One of the witnesses against them is the
money-changer Meyer Speillman, whose nephew was
lately murdered. Forged n refused, sof the Russian bank had
been presented to him,