The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-08 00:00:00

RAILWAY NOTICES.

CHESTER AND CREWE RAILWAY.--TIIC Half-
yearly Meeting of this Company was held on Wednes-
day, when the Directors presented a report, giving a
satisfactory account of the progress of the works, and
of the improving prospects of the Company. It was
announced that the line might be expected to be opened
in the early part of August. Hopes were held out
of the proposed continuation to Holyhead being carried
into effect.

PRODUCTIVENESS OE RAILWAY PROPERTY.—..A
very general feeling seems to prevail among many
persons that the palmy time of railways is entirely
past ; that the depreciated condition of the shares
is a consequence of the bubble having burst ; and
that after the infatuated proprietors have com-
pleted the present lines, a complete stop will be
put to the system. We know that this is a be-

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lief prevalent among whole classes of the community,
and productive of much discouragement to those whose
capital is embarked in these shares. So far, however,
are the proprietors from having been deluded by any
hopes not realised, that in the teeth of the increased
expenditure forced upon the engineers by causes
not within their control, the traffic has more than
all , surpassed all previous anticipations, and in
those lines sufficiently advanced dividends have
been declared that are calculated to satisfy the
most distrustful. There is, we arc sure, no branch of
public enterprise of equal magnitude, which in such a
short time has been so successful ; none in which
the prospects are so good. About twenty companies
have already declared dividends, and although in the
very infancy of their existence the bulk of them pay five
per cent. and upwards :—I per cent. and upwards, one
railway ; 3 per cent, and upwards, three railways ; 4 per
cent. and upwards, two railways ; 5 per cent. and up-
wards, four railways ; 6 per cent. and upwards, three
railways ; 8 per cent. and upwards, three railways ; 10
per cant. and upwards, three railways ; 14 per cent.
and upwards, one railway ; 15 per cent. and upwards,
one railway. Of these, above two-thirds pay 5 per
cent. and upwards, and on which the gross amount of
dividends is as follows :-830,000/. at 5 per cent.,
41,500/. ; 460,0001. at 6 per cent., 27,6001. ; 3,000,0001
at 8 per cent., 240,000/. ; 1,340,0001. at 10 per cent.,
134,000/. ; 1,500,0001. at 14 per cent., 210,000/.;
200,0001. at 15 per cent., 30,0001. Thus we find that
on about seven millions and a half of capital, already
more than nine per cent. dividend is paid, and the
amount of railway property paying five per cent. and
upwards will, we doubt not, by the end of the present
year, amount to fifteen millions. Not even the joint-
stock banks beat this. This is an earnest which we
trust will encourage the doubting, and silence the
grumblers.—Railway Magazine.
RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.—The Newcastle and
Carlisle Railway Company are at present engaged in
preparing their inclined plane, extending from the river
at Elswick up the ravine, cast of the Newcastle Sub-
scription Water Company's IVorks.—Xcwcast/c Cla•o-

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nical and Gales/read Observer. On Wednesday week
a trial was made of the first locomotive on the Hull
and Selby Railway ; it came from Hessle to Huil (5
miles) in six minutes.—Yorkshire Gazette. The con-
tractors on the Manchester and Birmingham Railway
are pushing on with the viaduct so as to finish it before
November.—Hull Advertiser. The Preston and Long-
ridge Railway, which is a single line, is to be worked
by horses.—Midland Counties. Herald. A number of
:ncn are at work on the Pscston terminus of the Lan-
caster and Preston Railway. Above a thousand men
are enraged on the various works of the Preston and
Wyre Railway, and in the town of Fleetwood. Among
the works are a magnificent hotel, a long quay, founded
on iron piles, &c.—Liverpool Times. A favourable
report on the proposed Devon and Cornwall Railway
has been drawn up.—Falmouth Express. Every pre-
paration is being made for the opening of the South-
ampton Railway.—Hampshire Independent.
in a very few months it is expected the London
mail, which at present reaches Edinburgh at three in
the morning, will arrive at nine at night, giving us a
farther acceleration of six hours in our post communi-
cation with London. This will be effected by changing
the mail route from the Birmingham and Preston to
the Great Nor.h of England Railway, which will be
opened out as far as Darlington in the course of the
present summer, thus bringing clown the direct line of
railways from London to within about 140 miles of
Edinburgh.

CAMBRIDGE ELECTION.—Our readers may
perhaps remember an account of the sinecures of the Sutton
family, which appeared some months ago in our Journal, bor-
rowed from the Cambridge Advertiser. The following is a
comment on Mr. Sutton, the sinecurist.—Cambridge, it must
be observed, is a strikingly bad case. Of Ludlow, a little
borough recently halt emancipated from the control of the
Pow is family, where new and old interests are struggling for
the mastery, and where the only principle known in the borough
for many years has been that of property, we cannot expect
much ; but Cambridge has a population four times as great as
Ludlow. IL is a town respectable as to size, it is the seat of the
better of our two Universities, the clergy have great influence
there, it is one of the fountain-heads of the national morality
and national religion, whence they flow, carried by the parsons
over all the land ; and here, in a town which might be expected
to be the purest of the pure, and an example to all other
boroughs, the most gross and extensive corruption prevails.
Bribery was boasted of; and the agents in effecting it were the
clergy, or of the clergy. The candidate for whose behoof it was
carried on was the grandson of the late Primate of all England
and the son of the late Speaker of the house of Commons. His
connection with the Church recommended him to Cambridge,
and perhaps hallowed the bribery which Churchmen carried on
for his advantage. From the candidate, as from the place, we
had a right to expect an example worthy of being followed; and
that the grandson of the late Archbishop of Canterbury and
the son of the late Speaker of the House of Commons has been
turned out of his seat, on account of an extensive system of
bribery vnd treating, for the University town of Cambridge,
makes this a ltriking illustration of the system. It is almost or
quite as good an illustration in its way of the effects of the in-
fluence of the clergy as was the appearance of Thom and the
growth of his sect within hail of the Cathedral of Canterbury.
The whole family of the Suttons live on the public money.
The father has a pension, and all the wealth their extravagance
has left them is derived from sinecure offices in the Ecelesiasti-
wsetahrliok;'lo:ets, or from some of the fat things which the fathers of
the Church always shoot into the maws of their offspring.
This makes the case of Cambridge, in our opinion, still more
gly
unbearable.illustrat e
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rally ; and there we find the money extorted from suffering
suitors in courts nicknamed justice, or pressed with as cruel
hand from overworked and over-taxed people, devoted or
reaching the system ibery,by which
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rewarding public virtue or supporting squandered in b •
,the dignity of the mo-
narchy, to forge its, own chains. To use a homely illustration,
the people are roasted like geese in a Dutchman's stew-pan—
in their own fat—and so become savoury morsels for the Sut-
tons of the Church and the aristocracy.—Brighton Guardian.