The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-10 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.

PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.
The Rev. John Cunninghame CaHand Bennett Pot-
kln Hawkins, Clerk, M.A., to the Vicarage of Rams-
bury, Wilts, void by the cession of J. W. D. Daral,:s,
Clerk, on the presentation of the Queen.
The living of Wylye, Wilts, vacant by the decease
of Mr. Baker, has been presented to the Rev. J. S
Stockwell, Rector of Wilton. The Hon. and Rev.
Mr. Harris, a son of the Earl of Malmesbury, (at pre-
sent officiating at Shaftesbury), succeeds Mr. Stockwell
at Wilton.

The Rev. James Cottle, late of Catharine Hall,
Cambr'dge, Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Taunton, to
be one of the domestic (.;haplains of Lord Ashburton.
Tne Rev. T. Pierce Maurice. late Curate of Peters-
field, to the Rectory of Michaelmersh, Hants, vacant by
the death of the Rev. Dr. Woodcock.

The Rev. J. Nussey, M.A., Recto; of Poughill De-
von, has been appointed by Lord Blaney his Lordship's
domestic Chaplain.

EXTRAORDINARY RAILWAY
TRAIN.

Notwithstanding the answer given by the Chairman
of the North Midland Railway Company to the ques-
tion put at the half-yearly meeting on Wednesday in
last week, as to whether any inducement had been held
out by the Directors to encourage Sunday travelling,
there was an immense train of passengers despatched
from Leeds to Sheffield, at reduced fares, on Sunday
morning. We understand that before the annual me( t-
ing it had been agreed with the heads of three or four
large firms in the town to place at their disposal a num-
ber of tickets which, for the small charge of 35., should
guarantee the conveyance of a person from Leeds to
Sheffield and back on the Sunday. These tickets were
2,400 in number, and they had nearly all been said
when the half-yearly meeting took place. Of course
the parties attended at the station on Sunday morning,
and some of them threatened to pull down the station-
house if they were not sent on according to contract.
The vast number of persons occasioned considerable de-
lay in the starting of the train. Three o'clock was the
hour appointed, but they did not get off till full half-
past nine. The train consisted of sixty-three carriages,
which were drawn by four engines. It reached Shef-
field about twelve o'clock, and started on its return about
a quarter before seven. On account of the approaching
darkness, and an additional number of carriages having
been appended, the progress of the train on its return
was not so rapid ; and on its arrival near the Woodles-,
ford station, about five miles from Lees, it was de-
tained nearly an hour, on account of the want of water
in the engines. In order to procure a supply they were
obliged to leave the passenger carriages, and come to
Leeds, and then return to bring them forward. This
delayed the arrival of the train at Leeds till nearly
eleven o'clock. We are happy, however, to say that
the day passed over without accident. Before the train
started in the morning one person was robbed of his
watch whilst standing in the booking-office of the sta-
tion. We copy from the Sheffeld Iris the following
account of the visit to that town :—" The morning-
train consisted of sixty-three carriages driven by four
engines, and the back train had ten additional carriages
and an additional engine. Throughout the whole day, but
particularly about the time of the arrival and departure of
the colossal train, the Wicker was very nsuch crowded both
by the travellers, as well as townspeople, who went from
curiosity. Some of the innkeepers, awake to the demand
for substantials which such an influx of hungry visitors
would cause, had provided dinner at their houses for
as many as they could accommodate comfortably ; and
had their servants in attendance at the station with
cards intimating the same, and their prudent arrange-
ments were duly appreciated. From five to six o'clock
the immense current of people proceeding in the direction
of the Wicker, and beyond there to places contiguous to
the line, had a most stirring and extraordinary appear-
ance. Every s'reet on the way poured in during that
time its constant stream of pedestrians. After waiting
about an hour and a half anxiously for the onward move-
ments of the steamers, experiencing very much the same
kind of feeling as the good people of this town have fre-
quently done on announced balloon ascents, at length
the train did start in good earnest at twenty minutes
to 7, and such a sight was then presented as must have
astonished and gratified every sight-seer. First pro-
ceeded the five engines, not heralded by " musical
cheers," but apparently striving to outdo each other in
horrid screams. Then followed the 73 carriages, con-
taining a living and moving mass of apparently happy
human beings. Cheers were given by them as they
passed on. The train could not be less than half a
mile in extent, and, as seen from the bend of the road
in Brightside-lane, had the appearance of a mag-
nificent bow encircling the landscape. At this place
a number of carriages from Sheffield took their sta-
tion. The concourse of people must have amounted
to many thousands ; all seemed pleased with the
sight, and the conduct of the crowd was, as far
as we observed, exceedingly good and orderly. We
have not heard that a single accident occurred during
the whole day, and we are not aware that the morals
of the people have been in any way injured by so
many enjoying the rich treat and the fresh air which are
to be met with on the North Midland Railway. We
understand a return trip will take place from Sheffield
to Leeds probably next Monday, but if not then, on
that day fortnight, in consequence of Doncaster races
falling on the intervening Monday, when, we doubt not,
the train on that occasion will be equally magnificent.
We should have been glad to see our neighbours from
Leeds yesterday instead of Sunday, but we are informed
there was no alternative but either to choose Sunday
or shut up all the mills on Monday, which latter step
would have thrown thousands out of employment, who
could not afford to lose that day. The case is different
at Sheffield, consequently a Monday is fixed on."—Leeds
Intelligencer.

MAN U FACTURES OF BELGIUM.

GHENT, AUG. 30.—1 t is high time, however, that
the veil which obscures the real position of the conti-
nental manufacturing towns should be removed, and
that the people of Great Britain should no longer go
on idly imagining, on the faith of Dr. APCulloch's as-
surances, that Europe has been asleep during the last
quarter of a century, and that the supremacy which
England so long possessed as a manufacturing country
over all her neighbours, is still the same, and not likely
to be disturbed. In order to dispel this mistaken idea,
it would be well if those who, at the end of each busy
session of Parliament, amuse and recreate themselves
by a trip to Belgium, the Prussian provinces of the
Rhine, or other foreign parts, would make it a part of
their occupation to examine into, and, if' occasion serves,
report upon the state of the manufactures in those
countries which they visit. As a proof that Ido not
recommend a course which I am not ready to follow,
I will shortly and concisely state what I have seen
during a recent visit to Ghent, whence I new write.
I was led through a series of populous and well
built streets to a large factory placed on the brow of St.
Peter's-hill,which overlooks the railroad station for Ghent,
and also the river Scheldt,which flows below. The director
of the establishment, on being made acquainted with the
object of our visit, very politely offered to conduct us
over his premises, having previously ascertained, by a
question not meant to catch my car, that I was not a
manufacturer, but simply a curious traveller. On en-
tering I found it was a linen-spinning factory, newly es-
tablished and partly at work, and which, when in full
operation, would set in motion 6,500 spindles, manufac-
turing linen threads of the fineness of from 1 to 200 de-
grees. I had supposed the machines for spinning flax
were almost wholly confined to Great Britain, knowing
t►tat there is an imperative prohibition against the ex-
portation of machinery of this nature from our ports ;
but I was altogether mistaken in the notion ; for on fur-
ther inquiry 1 ascertained that the factory which I visited
was only one of ten that already existed at Ghent, and
that new establishments of a similar description were
daily rising up. The number of flax spindles now at
work in the city exceeds 70,000, whilst there are no less
than forty cotton spinning factories, comprising upwards
of 200,000 spindles, and consuming from 1,000 to 1,200
bales of cotton per week.

Curious to know how so many large machines had
been constructed within so short a space of time—for
eight years ago there was not one in the city—l made
some inquiries of my cicerone, who, in reply, conducted
me to an establishment called " The Phoenix," where,
on entering, a similar offer to that above mentioned was
made and accepted. We mounted three stories high to
a vast workshop, where some hundreds of English work-
men were busily engaged in constructing machinery of
every kind and description, and it was here 1 found that
the mechanism for spinningflax, which I had just quitted
had been wholly made. The Phwnix foundry and iron-
works is the property of a company, and the number of
men constantly employed there, most of them being Eng-
lish, exceeds 600, the direction of the works being con-
fided to a Scotch engineer, of the name, I believe, of
Winser. At the moment of my visit, the men were engaged
in constructing another linen spinning machine, which was
expected to be finished and erected within the space of
eight months. All the operations connected with the
construction of this complicated and vast machinery
were carried on within the walls of the foundry.
One or two inventions secured by patents, and the
result of the ingenuity of persons employed in this
foundry, were pointed out to me with great pride by
the gentleman who conducted us. One of these was a
highly ingenious machine for combing flax, invented by
a Mr. Gamier, and another was a machine for cutting
the serrated edges of a species of cog wheel, which was
set in motion by the same engine that drives all the
lathes, and thus sales a tedious manual operation.—
Correspondent of the Morning Herald.

Daly,
DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—Yesterday morning
Thomas
one of the workmen employed in repairing
St. Bride's Church, Fleet-street, in proceeding up a lad-
der, carrying a pot of boiling lead, slipped, and fell to the
ground from a height of 15 feet. He was taken up per.
fectly insensible, and conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital. Besides having received many contusions, he was
dreadfully scalded by.the splashes from the boiling lead.
His recovery is almost hopeless.