The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

crosses the Mottrana and Hyde turnpike. The Etherow
viaduct is an erection of three lofty and beautiful arches,
with stone piers, crossing the river Mersey. The centre
arch is of 150 feet span, and the other two are of 120
feet each, The gradients on this line, though the rail-
way passes through a country offering many natural ob-
stacles, and where it might be imagined that consider-
able inclines could not be avoided, are very favourable,
the greatest inclination being 1 in 100, or less than the
principal one on the Manchester and Liverpool line—(the
Sutton incline being 1 in 89)—and this incline is only
64 chains in length, the other gradients between Man-
chester and Godley being respectively 1 in 132, 1 in 330,
1 in 176, 1 in 193, 1 in 140, and 1 in 511, while some
portion of the line runs on a dead level.
The carriages and locomotives, we understand, are in
course of delivery on the line, so that the working de-
partment is almost in complete readiness. The loco-
motives are said to be of a very powerful description,
and well fitted for the heavy trains which may be ex-
pected to traverse the line. The carriages will be of
three classes, evincing the disposition of the Directors
to afford every possible accommodation to the working
classes who may be disposed to make use of this mode
of conveyance, and whose time is, of course, at all pe-
riods a consideration to them ; as well as to the middle
classes, who have the means of paying for the comforts
of a second class, or the luxuries of a first class carriage.
The first class carriages are of the same construction as
those used on the Grand Junction Railway ; the second
are of a description which have not yet been introduced
into this part of the country, and known only to our
'northern travellers who may have traversed the Glas-
gow and Greenock Railway. The third class are " stand-
ups," of similar construction to those used by the Man-
chester and Birmingham, and now running between this
town and Stockport.
e are not prepared to give a list of the tolls, but we
believe they are to be very low, and that the public will
not have to be dissatisfied on this head.
As we have before stated, the present station in Tra-
vis-street,"erected by the Manchester and Birmingham
Company, is only for temporary use ; the extensive
erections for stations extending thence over Travis-street
to Piccadilly, and thus approaching the heart of the
town, being in rapid progress. This continuation of the
line consists of upwards of thirty arches ; the buildings
intended for the booking and other offices' have so far
advanced as to give an idea of the design. The progress
of the works here has been temporarily retarded by the
misunderstanding between the contractor and masons ;
but there are a vast number of workmen employed upon
the erection, and the works exhibit a scene of bus-
t'e and activity which gives promise of rapid progress.
This station, when completed, will be one of the finest
and most extensive in the kingdom.

DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGE AT
BRUSSELS.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
BRUSSELS, OCT. 21.—Much indignation has been
excited among the inhabitants of Brussels the last few
days by the perpetration of a very disgraceful outrage,
in which there is much reason to fear the junior mem-
bers of a highly respectable English family residing here
are implicated. Considerable improvements have lately
taken place in the public gardens and other parts of the
town bordering on the Palace, and a number of beau-
tiful and costly statues have been erected in those situ-
ations, where they would prove most ornamental. Dur-
ing one night last week the rails of the gardens were
scaled by a party of half-drunken young men (for the
gates are closed at eight) bearing each a pot of red or
black paint, and with considerable trouble and inge-
nuity they contrived to bedaub all these new works,
giving Venus a black eye, painting the beautiful statue
of Diana a deep red, and many of the others black, and
marking them all most indecently. Not contented with
their labours in the gardens they proceeded through
the principal streets in the town, defacing all the
sign-boards, and covering some of the newly-constructed
buildings with the rough outline of figures in most in-
decent positions.
Unused to such Waterford pranks in this peaceable
neighbourhood, the police lost no time in endeavouring to
trace the perpetrators of this wantonly mischievous out-
rage, and succeeded in capturing the son of a certain
English Captain here, at whose house some of the paint
pots were found. He has been ever since closely con-
fined, and although he does not deny the charge himself,
yet obstinately refuses to name his companions in this
work of folly.
It ;s currently reported here he will be kept in prison
until he names the parties who were with him, and then
tried ; and if the case is clearly proved, fined five thou-
sand francs and imprisoned for two or three years. Al-
though such a sentence may seem severe, yet it will check
a recurrence of such wanton and discreditable conduct
most effectually, and it would be well if our Police Ma-
gistrates had the power to act with equal severity in
cases where public or private property was defaced in a
manner so cool and premeditated. A floe of .5/., which
often atones for a most gross and flagrant outrage, is to
many no punishment at all, as the loss of such a sum is
no inconvenience. Let us follow the example of the
Police Allgistaates of Brussele, and such scenes as are
nightly perpetrated in London by members of the Wa-
terford fraternity, will be of as rare occurrence there as
they are among our Belgian neighbours.

RAPID TRAVELLING ON THE
GU AND JUNCTION AND TUE LONDON AND

BIR TIAM RAILROAD.

As the Caledonia would, it was expected, be the
bearer of important intelligence from the United States
and Canada, and as the Britannia had been delayed
to give Government an opportunity of receiving
and answering despatches, the Postmaster-Ge-
neral ordered Mr. Banning, our respected Post-
mnster, to send the letter-bags by an express
train, should they reach the Post-office after
the departure of an ordinary mail train, so that not a
moment might be lost in the time of their reaching
London. On Tuesday night the bags were placed in a
railway carriage at the Edge-hill Station. All being
ready, the train, consisting of the engine and one carriage
only, which boretwo gentlemen, one of whom had come by
the Caledonia, a messenger for the Times, and the Post-
office guard, star ted at 10h. 45m., and reached Birming-
ham at lb. 35 min., having completed the distance, 97
miles, in in. 50m. From this time must be deducted
15m. lost in waiting until a luggage train was moved
off the line ; so that, including stuppages to ta'•.ce
in coke and orate:, the journey was accomplished
in two hours, thirty-five minutes. The train left Bir-
mingham at 2h. 5m., and reached the Euston Station,
London, at sh. 30m., thus completing the distance, 112
miles, in 3h. 35a., including the time lost in reple •
nishing coke aad water. The whole journey from Liver-
pool to London was thus accomplished in less than srx
HOURS, at an average speed of THIRTY-FIVE MILES per
hour, though, on certain parts of the line, the sped
must have been, at least, SIXTY MILES in the hour!
The news, conveyed so rapidly by this express, was
printed at full length in the Times,copies of which were
in Uverpool by seven o'clock on Wednesday evening,
just twenty hours from the time the news was despatched
from the Edge-hill Station !—Liverpool Albion.