The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-10 00:00:00

THE BLACKWALL RAILWAY.

Preparations are now making by the Directors of the
London and Blackmail Railway Company for the car-
riage of goods upon that line. Warehouses for the re
ception of the goods are in progress, and a contract to
be completed on the Ist of January next has been en-
tered into for the hoisting and lowering, apparatus. The
operations are to be confined in the first instance to the
conveyance of heavy merchandise from the West India
Docks—the great emporium of such commodities—to
London ; subsequent arrangements will extend through-
out the whole line, namely, from the Brunswick wharf
at Blackwell to the terminus in Fenchurch-street. It
is proposed to attach one or more loaded waggons to
every passenger train (which, as our readers are aware,
run every quarter of an hour throughout the day), and
arrangements have been made which will obviate the
possibility of delay from this cause. The goods will be
delivered at the door of the consignee in the same vehi-
cle az will be used on the railway, the vehicle being
lowered into the road so as to render unloading and
reloading unnecessary. It is calculated that at least
2001. per week will thus be added to the Company's
revenue—an estimate which we do not think is by any
L means overrated, when it is considered that no extra
power will be required, and consequently no further ex-
pense incurred, except incidentally.
With respect to the passenger traffic, although it is
yet far from being what it was expected to be, and what
we are convinced it ultimately will be, the gradual and
steady improvement which it has experienced, augurs
well for its future results. The following arc the re-
turns for three months in the past and present years:-
1840. 1841.
July £2,351 ...... £4,294
August ....... 3,640
September

Total ...... £9,027 £14,208
Thus exhibiting an increase of about a 0 per cent.—a
proportion which it is believed will be kept up during
the ensuing winter months. The number of passen-
gers conveyed during the last four months has been az
follows :

July
August 252,044
September
October
The total number of passengers carried on the rail-
way in the sixteen months that have elapsed since its
opening, has been upwards of 2,700,000, and this with-
out loss of life or limb, or any serious accident whatever.
The number of passengers embarked at the Bruns-
wick Wharf, Blackwell, during the fifteen months end-
ing in September last was not less than 780,000. We
have no doubt that next year even this large number
will be greatly increased.—Railway Times.

ADDITIONAL NEWS FROM THE
AMERICAN PAPERS.
LATEST FROM TEXAS.—Yesterday morning, says
the New Orleans Picayune, the steam-packet Kingston,
Captain Boylan, arrived from Galveston, bringing us
dates to the 10th instant.
The election returns are not yet complete, but as far
as heard from, the vote for President stands 3,151
majority for Houston over Burnet ; and for Vice-Pre-
sident, as far as received, Burleson's majority over
Hunt is 829. There is not the least doubt of the suc-
cess of Houston and Burleson.
The Austin Gazette says that some Shawnee traders
had arrived at the settlement on Red River, and state
that a " large body of white men had fought the In-
dians on the Upper Brazos for three successive days,
and defeated them." This body is supposed to be the
Santa Fe troops.
The Gazette of August 25 has the following :
" The schooner of war Campechana arrived at Gal-
veston on the 2d ult., with Colonel Peraza, as Envoy
Extraordinary from the Government of Yucatan to
the Government of Texas, with proposals to furnish
200,000$ for the immediate equipment of the squadron
to co-operate with tbem against the Centralists. Colonel
Paraza had gone to Austin.
A proclamation has been issued by Arista, for all the
male inhabitants of 14 years and upwards to assemble
at Monelova, for the purpose of forming an army for
the invasion of Texas early in October.
This information has been imparted to the Govern-
ment at Austin under affidavit.
The cities of Houston and Galveston still remain
healthy.
A duel was fought at Galveston on the sth ult., be-
tween Dr. Garden and Lieut. Lansing, both of the
navy, in which the latter was severely wounded. They
fought with pistols at five paces. The clothes of each
were repeatedly pierced with balls, and on the sixth fire
Lieut. Lansing was wounded in the right thigh.
Gen. Houston is elected, according to the Houston
Star, by a large majority.
LATER FROM MEXICO.
By the bark Ann Louisa, Capt. Clifford, we have
Vera Crus papers to the 14th ult.
The Censor of the 10th contains a spirited commu-
nication from General Santa Anna, dated the Bth, to
the Governor of the Department, in the nature of a
manifesto, in which he denounces the acts of President
Bustamente, and declares his cordial adhesion to the
" plan" of General Paredes and Valencia.
The Censor of the 14th contains a still longer com-
munication from General Santa Anna to General
Almonte (Bustamente's right hand man), dated Fort
Perote, September 9th, complaining particularly of the
course of the President in declaring the capital in a
state of siege, placing himself personally at° the
head of the army, and subjecting the civil power to
the military. He concludes by saying, " I accuse
you and his Excellency General Bustamente, of having
violated the Constitution in the matters spoken of ;
and in consequence thereof, 1 no longer acknowledge
the authority of said General, either as the head of the
army, or as President of the Republic ; nor do I ac-
knowledge you as the legitimate organ of the Govern-
ment for communications relative to the Ministry
of War."

The " plan of Paredos," aq it is called, i. e. the re-
volutionary project broached by that General in the
latter part of August, finds many adherents. The de-
partments of Vera Cruz, Guanaxuato, Queretaro,
Zacatecas, &c., are represented to have pronounced in
favour of the movement. General Paredes, by the
last accounts, was in Guanaxuato, at the head of 4,000
men, in connection with General Costazar. There
were rumours that Tampico had pronounced, but this
is doubtlu!.
The city of Mexico has been the scone of some dis-
turbanccs—a part of the garrison having revolted—but
the Government maintained its position. The extra-
ordinary powers of Bustamente were concerted, or as-
sumed, in consequence of the revolutionary movements ;
but the assumption of such powers seems to have in-
creased the opposition to his administration.
A pc,blic meeting was hell at Vera Cruz, Sept.
11th, at which resolutions were adopted having in view
the formation of a Provisional Government for the Re-
public, in lieu of that of President Bustamente.
The Censor, of Sept. 13th, states that the Dictator
ordered the publication of all the newspapers in the
capital to be suspended, except the Boletin, which was
issued for his own purposes.
A Matamoros paper informs us that they cotton crop
in the neighbourhood of that city will amount the pre-
sent year to about a thousand quintals, and will sell,
according to current prices, for $24,000.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY MURDERERS AC-
QUITTED.—A letter from Judge Ford, dated Oregon
C:ty, Illinois, Sept. 27th, to the Editor of the Peoria
Register, says—" The persons who had a hand in the
Driaea.,l murder last summer, have been indicted and
tried at the recent term of the Circuit Court of Ogle
county. One hundred and twenty persons were indicted,
and all acquitted by the jury.

NEW WORK ON THE EAST.—The present
momentous condition of our eastern 'possessions makes
every particle of intelligence respecting India of more
than usual importance, and the new work, entitled
" Five Years in India," by henry Edward Fane, Esq.,
late Aide-de-Camp to the Commander-in-Chief in
India, is looked for with a proportionate degree of expec-
tation and curiosity by all interested in Indian affairs.
Mr. Fane, during the long period comprised in his work,
had unusual opportunities of acquiring correct informa-
tion respecting almost every topic in which English
readers would desire to be acquainted, and the recent
character of his information will much enhance its value.
Mr. Fane's Account of the storming of Ghuzni is said to
contain a greater amount of interesting matter than has
yet been made public ; and the part of his work relating
to 114inieet Sing is understood to present many new and
striking particulars respecting the Court. &c., of that
celebrated chieftain.
FERRERS, A ROMANCE OF THE REIGN OF
GEORGE ll.—The scene of this new work of fiction,
which exhibits the events that characterised the life of
Lawrence, Earl Ferrero, from his accession to title until
his miserable end,
is partly in London during the me-
morable earthquakes, and partly at Stanton llarold, the
family seat in Leicestershire. In incident and adven-
ture the forthcoming romance is understood to be un-
usually rich, while, among the dramatis persona', are in-
troduced the celebrated Selina, Countess of Huntingdon,
George Whitfield, the great preacher of the Methodists,
and Lady Suffolk, the favourite of George ll.—per-
personages entirely new in historical novels.
CONNECTION BETWEEN ABUNDANCE OF
FOOD AND MORTALITY. BY M. 'MELIER.—In this me-
moir, which was read at the Academy of Medicine of
Paris, on the 7th of September, the author established,
by numerous documents drawn from the histories of
various countries, that the number of deaths always cor-
responds with the price of food. " Wherever there's a
loaf added, there's a man born," said an economist ; and
nothing is more true than this metaphorical expression.
If we represent the variations of the general mortality
and those of the price of bread at different times, by
two curved lines which rise and fall with all the fluctua-
tions of these particulars, we shall find all their curva-
tures exactly, and with the most perfect regularity, cor-
responding. The constant increase of the population !of
France, for a certain number of years, is tasily ex-
plained by the progress of agriculture, the modifica-
tions which the laws relating to corn have undergone,
and especially by the introduction of potatoes. The in-
fluence of the dearness- of food, however, is observed
more distinctly in the year next following than in that
in which it has occurred.—Gazette Medicale.