The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-13 00:00:00

vies to have their station close to the City, they had,
Mu! the Great Western and Birmingham, been con-
demned to drop their passengers at those distant stations,
it cannot be matter of doubt or speculation, but is matter
of certainty, that, instead of one-fifth, all the five-fifths
of the passengers for the City would have been obliged
to finish their journey in an omnibus or other vehicle,
and the narrow approach over London bridge would have
been encumbered with five times as many vehicles from
the stations as now pass over it.

The erroneous opinion which prevails as to the amount
of ♦ehicles from tho railway stations is largely due to the
fact that a vast number of omnibuses have displayed, in
conspicuous parts, the name of some railway, as if they
were engaged in conveying passengers to and from the
stations, whereas they do but pass by the stations in
their passage to and from their own resting and starting
places in the various parts of the suburbs of the metro-
polis : for example, there are 160 omnibuses, which go
from Chelsea, Islington, and other places, and make a
resting place at the Greenwich station ; "Brighton,
Dover, and Greenwich Railway," is conspicuously dis-
played on the omnibuses, but so little have they to do
with the railway, that upon an average of three days the
whole number of persons conveyed to or from the station
by those omnibuses has not averaged two passengers
each, and they bare been almost entirely persons going
from the station to the west-end of the town.
Every omnibus to the Brighton, Dover, Croydon, &c.,
station, goes to and from the west-end of the town ; they
are solely required for the accommodation of other than
City passengers. The same may be said of the Blackwall
station ; the omnibuses from Chelsea, &c., rendezvous
there precisely the same as five hundred omnibuses a day
to and from Paddington rendezvous at the corner of
Princes-street, Lothbury. It is an incontrovertible fact
that the amount of the passenger traffic in cabs and
omnibuses bears scarcely an appreciable proportion to
the whole amount of the City traffic by similar vehicles ;
and it is a fact equally capable of proof, that (what little
increase railroads furnish is almost entirely supplied
from the distant termini.

From every train, there is a vast number of persons
who have to come to the great City establishments to
transact their business and return to the country on
the same day ; by the same token there is a vast num-
ber of citizens who make equally short visits to the pro-
vinces. A carpet bag is the full extent of their equip-
ment, and to and from the Brighton and Dover station
they may be always seen walking over the bridge, but to
or from Paddington or Euston-square they are obliged
to cab it, racing through the streets of the City to a
great waste of time and money ; if my plan be adopted
they may walk from their place of business to or from
the station in Farringdon-street without encumbering
the streets, and each passenger may save half an hour
in time, and half-a-crown in money e4ch trip—objects,
which in this age of competion, are not to be despised.
When last before the commissioners, I ventured to
point out the serious interruption to the business of the
City, which was occasioned by the opening of large
establishments in our confined streets, for the reception
and distribution of goods carried by the railways. I
have since that time pursued that branch of inquiry to
a great extent, and the information I have obtained
does far more than confirm the statement I before ven-
tured to make.

In consequence of the desertion of the old inn-yards
by the coaches and waggons, which are now superseded
by railroads, many of them have been taken as receiv-
ing houses by the great railway concerns. These
houses and yards are chiefly in the very narrowest and
most confined streets ; they answered well enough when
the arrivals of coaches and waggons were few and far
between ; but now when they are converted into suction
pipes, drawing together the whole trade of the
City to the stations, in carts and waggons, they
create the most serious interruption to regular trade.
These establishments are being magnified and multiplied
in our narrow streets, and the leviathan waggons and
vans of the proprietors are daily to be teen in all direc-
tions canvassing for business, sometimes creeping about
the streets, having a few articles at the bottom of the
waggons with their names as "carriers by railway " dis-
played upon the vehicle, as if by way of advertisement ;
and at other times they may be seen with loads over-
hanging on each side the foot-pavement of the narrow
streets and lanes through which they pass.
I earnestly hope the commissioners will not lose sight
of the fact, that the most inconvenient and expensive
system of conducting the goods department of the rail-
way business is entirely called into action by the great
railway establishments having their goods stations at too
great a distance from the seat of trade to enable parties
to take their goods to the terminus at once. By the ex.
isting practice, the goods, whether taken by the carriers
or by private parties to the receiving warehouses or
yards, have to traverse the streets twice; and generally
speaking have to be twice removed before they are placed
in the railroad carriages. If the goods station for the
northern railways were north of Holborn-bridge, where
I propose it should be, once passing through the streets
aril one removal would suffice, thus economy of time
and labour would be happily blended with a greatly in-
creased convenience to the public. Goods of every de-
scription would be less exposed to danger by removals,
and they would reach their place of ultimate destina
tion frequently before, under the existing system, they
can be placed upon the railway truck.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, JANUARY 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 9 p.-
Ambergate and Eastern Junction, 3s. 9d. p.-Birkenhead,
Lancashire, and Cheshire, 1% p. ex int.-Birmingham and
Dudley, 61/, p.-Birmingham and Oxford Junction, 107,4
p.-Buckinghamshire, 7i4 p.-Chester and Birkenhead, 491/2
--Chester and Holyhead, IN dis.-East Lincolnshire, 21a p.
ex int.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, New, VA p.-Great
Northern (Nos. 108,001 and upwards), sp. ex int.-Hud-
dersfield Canal and Railway, 4 p.-Leeds and Thirsk, 1%
dis. ex int.-London and North- Western, 197-Ditto, New
Quarters, 12% p.-Ditto, Fifths, 171 p.-London,; Man-
chester, and Birmingham, Quarters, (II), 7% p.-Direct
Northern, A p.- Manchester and Leeds, 30 p.-Ditto, Fifths,
61,4 p. -Ditto, Halves (late L. and B.), 5N p.-Manchester
and Southampton, is. 3d. dis.-Midland, 129-Ditto, New,
p.-Newport, Hereford, and Abergavenny, 11/ dis.-
North Union (A), 223-North-Western, % p.-Sheffield, Ro-
therham, and Doncaster, % p. -Shrewsbury and Hereford,
61. 3d. dis.-Shrewsbury and Chester, New, is. 3d. p.-
Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 2 p.-Ditto (B), X; p.-
Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 6s. 3d. dis.-South-
Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Thirds, 2 p.-West Riding
Union, 435. 9d. p.-York and Newcastle, New, 7 p.-Dutch
Rhenish, 1% dis. -Paris and Lyons, par.
MANCHESTER, JANUARY 12.
STocn.- EXCHANGE. -The sales are-Ambergate, Not-
tingham, and Boston, % p.-Birmingham, Wolverhamp-
ton, and Stour Valley, 334 p,-Buckinghamshire, %
Caledonian, Halves, 7-16 p.-East Lancashire, 3% p.-Ditto,
(London and York), p.-Ditto. Registered, % p.-Ditto,
p.-Glasgow and Dumfries, 114 p.-Great Northern
Extension (scrip), 14 P.-Liverpool, Manchester, and New-
castle Junction, 1-16 dis.-London and North-Western New,
12.7 g p.-London Manchester, and Birmingham, 76-Man-
che rp.-Manchester, Shef-
field, and dis.-Manchester and
Southampton,nLdi n
dis.-North Staffordshire, 3 13-16
Nor th-Western, 11-16 p.-Northern Counties Union, 3/i dis.
-Oldham Alliance, 11-16 P.-South-Eastern and Dover,
and
il s
Leeds,sn te, tt
Eighths,eion, l 79:1166
401,4-South Staffordshire, 1
% 13.-West Riding Union,
2 3216 p.-Wharfdale (late North-Eastern), % dis.-York and
Newcastle, Preference, 5% p.
LEEDS, JANUARY 12.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Ambergate, Notting-
New Shares, 3% p.-Ditto, New Scrip,
ham, and Boston, 4s. IL-Birmingham and Oxford June-
West Yorkshire, 4s. dis.-Glasgow and
dis.-Ditto, New, 2s. 6d. p.-
floc, 111% n. p.-East Lancashire (Blackburn and Preston),
D3luil.upin.r:FePsE7alBs/81:iti:.,tnId Great Northern (late London and York),
dis.-Ditto,
and Drifeld Junction, 295. C. p.-
12s. 6d. p-Huddersfield and Manchester, 0/1, n. p.-Leeds
p.-Ditto, ExtensionP Ditto, Pre-
Leeds Extensions, 1% -.-
(scDriirtt)o: Exten-
sionl7s. 6d.
G.), p.-Midland, Preference, 4%
Thirds, 234 p.-
p.-North British,
faise Manchester
Pre-
ference,
(late
si
tr
xes‘krv,
apak.l:.
Ditto, Quarters (late
p Northern Counties Union, 153. dis.-North-Western, 13s.
n. -Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 12s. 6d. p.-Wharf-
Carlisle Branch), 2%
6d. dis.--York and North Midland, Pre•
dale Junction, Bs.
ference, 11 p.-Leeds, Wakefield, and Midland, Ss. 6d. dis.
-Leicester and Bedford, 2s. 6d. dis.-West Riding Union,
4/. 6s. and Leeds
and

2N p...-Ambergate, Nottingham, Boston,
NULL, JANUARY 12.
2% p.-Great Grimsby
STOCK EXCHANOK. -The sales are-Hull and Selby (10
in2ocosl.ndsihs.i-reGreat Northern (London
per cent. guar.), 107-Leeds and Bradford, 77-North
Land Thirsk, Preference, 28s. p.-
British, Quarters, 705.-Ditto, Extension (scrip), 17s. 6cl. p.
--Ditto, Thirds,
dis. scrip-Derby, Staffordshire, &c.,
ljesAaNrueA-RGYrle2a.t Northern (late
and
dd,
Is 2,
n/n.
re
klffi6)
es, .13d614d LE Extension,eaesdta
Shropshire Union, IA
16s. new scrip.
p.-South Yorkshire, Doncaster,
Dsa9
Direct Northern), 75. p.-Ditto (late London and York), %
p.-Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, 1% n.--
STOCK EXCHASNIIGEEF. -F rirEb Le
Manchester Grimsby, and Sheffield, 121. 10s. shares, 14
dis.-North-Western, 14s.
and Goole, Bs. p.
GLASGOW, JANUARY 11.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 251,4-Ayr
and Galloway, 465.-Caledonian, New, 595.-Caledonian and
Dumbartonshire, 445. 6d, ex int.-Direct Northern (scrip),
605.-Dundee and Arbroath, New, No. 3,551-Dundee and
Perth, New, 141A-Dunblane, Doune, and Ca lender, 878.-
East of Fife, 545. 6d.-East Lothian Central, 561. 6d.-Edin-
burgh and Perth, 575.-Glasgow, Barrhead, and Neilston
Direct, New, 71.-Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 693%-
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 6/. 145.-Glasgow, Kilmar-
nock, and Ardrossan, 4:0-Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monkland
Junction, 778.-Great orth of Scotland, 575.-Great No
(Direct Northern Reg.), 855*-Kilmarnock and Ayr
Direct, 61x.-Manchester and Southampton, 388. 6d.-North
British, New Quarters (scrip),
325. 6d.-Scottish Central,
2134-Scottish Grand Junction, 295.-York and Newcastle,
Preference, 7%.

A Lasso,.---A parson, 's'ho could better preach of
was patience than practise it,
found
ns m
heavheisgrany son tdchildren inhis always
irorinteateddaywhoennehoef
these little children was standing
by his mother's side,
and she was speaking to him of heaven. " Ma," said
he, "I don't want to
zo to heaven." "Don't want to go
to
64 No, ma, I'm sure I don't."
" Welljnst
`l„,`
oWn,htyhnoo?t,,,my,,
\svonhy?:;es,,,lvvhiolypeghraenwdpilal.7ill be there,
as soon as he tees us, ho will come scolding along, and
say, ' Whew, whew ! what are these boys here for ? '
I dent want to go to heaven if grandpa is going to be
tht,tr,"

STORNOWAY, DEc. 31._WTithin the last fourteen
days three cargoes of oatmeal, and two of Indian corn
meal, have arrived at this port. The former is retailing
at the quay at 245. 4d. per boll of 140 lbs., and out of
the, stores at 255. ; the latter at 18s. per boll. The
above, with the largo importations still expected, will
dissipate all fears of a scarcity of food in this island
during the winter and spring, though, no doubt, many
of the poorer classes will find considerable difficulty in
procuring a sufficient supply for the support of their
families.—Ross-shire Advertiser.
PIG IRON MARKET.--GLASGOW, JAN. 9, 1847.—
The market has been quiet this week, but prices have
gradually stiffened—sales having been done during the
week at 765. to 765. 6d. for three-fifths No. 1, and two-
fths No. 3. We q_uote the market firm at 772. 6d. cash
for mixed ;N-08,—Glasgew Argus.