The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-27 00:00:00

OPENINGS OF RAILWAYS.

JUNE.-26/13, Lancaster and Preston (throughout) .;;.-
30th, Midland Counties (the remaining part).
Jr,LY.—lst or 2d, Prestos► and Wyre t Hull and Selby.
—lst, Great Western, to Farringdon ; Eastern Counties,
to Beentwood, 18 mile? ; North Midland (throughout);
York and North Midland, from South Milford to Oken•
shaw.-6th, Glasgow and Ayr, from Glasgow to Paisley ;
London and Blackmail (throughout).
AUGUST.—Chester and Birkenhead, and Cheater and
Crewe.

AtiGI'ST OR SEPTEMBER.—Northern and Eastern to
fleddesdon, 16 miles.

The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway was opened
on Thursday last, from Bromsgrove to Cheltenham.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The returns of tha Companies go
on increasing at an unprecedented rate. The returns of-
this week are—for the Birmingham, 17,6001, ; Grand
Junction, 9,4001.: Great Western, 7,700/ ; South Wes-
tern, 6,150/ —Railway .111a9azine.

ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE —The new comedy
called Ins and Outs, l ercormed at this theatre last evenings
is written, we believe, by Mr Mark Leman, well known for his
little spirited pieces. It has all the characteristic of his pecu-
liar style—simple contrivance, bustling incident, and clever
dialogue. The plot turns upon the " in; and outs" and "•upg
and downs of life" which convert a palish beadle into a Lord
Mayor, and a merry-hearted Irish fortune-huntino-
ioto a military suitor of the Lord Alayor's daughter. fortune-hunting swindler
Th • MO-
man is encouraged by the Lady Alayoress, who is puffed"UP
with her new dignity, to the exclusion of an honourable young
tradesman, to whom the daughter is really attached. Au old
" friend of the family," however, brings justice about, makes
the young tradesman elope with the daughter, saves the Lord
Mayor from becoming a binkrupt when his mayoralty is up,
and hands the Irishman over to the authorities of the 10;
The whole humour of the piece consists in the wit of Paddy and
the excellent situations into which the characters are occasion"
ally thrown. Par example, when the Lady Mayuress st her
first entertainment has to receive an upholsterer, of whom 00
contemplates ordering goods, and a 3linister, with whom she
would curry favour, cue mistakes the one for the other, Po
asks the Minister if he is not in the cabinet way, ate! the up
bolsterer what is doinThiu the House; and so on to the very
death and discovery of equieogue. The little dramatic trifle
drew down shouts of laughter,. and was announced for nightly-
repetition. Mr Brougham represented Paddy well, end it:es
almost needlese,teesay that Mrs. Orgee was every inch, .a, Lady
Mayoress.
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BRITISH SEAMAN —" You have been
prisoner but a Month," he resumed, " and I have been so for
thirty-three years. Yes, my friend, lam a prisoner to the sea:,
it confines me on every side ; waves, nothing but waves : I See
nothing else,. I .hear nothing else. My hair has grown gall
amidst their foam, and my back become somewhat bent ahead,
under their spray. I have spent so little time in England thst
I know it only by the map. My country is an ideal being's
which I have merely had a glimpse of, but which I serve like's
slave, and which treats me with the more severity the move
need it has of me."—Napier's Military Life.
EXTRAORDINARY SPEED ON A RAILWAY.*
—The first trip made by the new locomotive engine of Messrs.
Laird, Kitson, and Co., with passengers, on the North Mid-
land Railway, proved the power and speed of the engine. It
travelled on Friday week from Rather ham to Derby, taking
very heavy train of passengers—the latter part of the distance
no less than five hundred—most of whom were going to Derby
Fair ; and the journey, which is upwards of 39 miles, was'Pet"
formed in an hour and twenty-five minutes. In returning, the
engine, with only the tender attached, ran ten miles in eight
minutes between Belper and Clay Cross Tunnel, being st:te
rate of seventy-five miles per hour.
SCHOOL OF DESIGN.—The annual
tion of the premiums took place yesterday in the old Exhibition`
Room at Somerset House. The Right Hon. H. Laboueheree
M.P., acted as chairman, and a number of Members of Para
liament and artists (among others, Sir D. Wilkie, Mr.
Cockerell, and Mr. Eastlak) were present. Some of the;drawings are very excellent, and it is said that the rooms will
be open to the public, by tickets, for two or three days the:
tn
week ensuing, to allow them to be inspected.
UNPARALLELED PRECOCITY.—', Isn't be, la
fine child ?" said a young mother to a visitor, as she proudly
exhibited her first-born. " The handsomest boy as I ever
saw," was, of course, the instant reply of the old bachelor ,to
whom the appeal was made. Yes ; bless his little heart !" ex-
claimed the better-half author of the little bantling ; and
very forward of his age, don't you think ?" Ireryf'orward,
said the echo. And, as the young matron removed the car
from her Babby's head, the inexperienced bachelor continue°,
in evident amazement, Bless me, he is forward ! I never
before saw a person baldheaded so soon !" •
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—M-adame Grist
took her benefit on Thu .sday, and the occasion was memorable/
being the last of the performance of 11 Barbiere. This, tilled'
as it has been by Grisi, Rubini, Lablache, and Tamburini.e,
been one of the most perfect and successful pieces of the sea-'
son, and will doubtless be regretted by the ft equenters of the
Opeia. Always a favourite, it has been peculiarly interestint
this year from the circumstance of Lablache taking the part o
Dr. liattolo. A selection from Donizt...tti's L' Elisir, follow-ear
and the beautiful ballet of L' Oinbre concluded the evening
The house was crowded to overflow.
PROPOSED NEW LIBRARY.—On WedrfeS'"
day a public meeting was held to adopt means for the este'''.
biishment of a new public library in London, consisting of am
extensive and valuable collection of works in general literatecet
the subscribers to which shall have the privilege of :,sorrowing'
books from the institution for the purpose of reading them
at home. It had been announced that Lord Clarendon would-
preside .
preside on the occasion, but in consequence of his Lordship*
absence, Lord Eliot was voted into the chair. Mr. Carly"!
Mr. Millman, Mr. Cornwall Lewis, Mr. R. M. Manes; Lot!
Monteagle, and other gentlemen attended ; but the number of
persons present was not very guest, though the room in which
the meeting took place, being small, was filled. The Noble
Chairman having in a few words stated the object for which the
meeting had been convened, 'Lord Monteaglet and other
Gentlemen addressed the assembly, stronAly urging ill
necessity of the establishment of the proposed library ;
several of them stated that they knew, from their own Mr
rience, that the want of such an institution was much felt.
The new institution is intended to occupy a middle
between the present circulating libraries and the library of the`
British Museum, combining the advantages of both. Like the'
latter it will contain au extensive collection of really goo"isal
useful works, which, in imitation of the
plan of the formers!
will be circulated among the subscribers to be read at their ossm
residences. A resolution declaratory of the necessity of est_i_l;
blishing the proposed library was put, and immediately aseesne-
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to by the meeting and it was next resolved that the institutiow
should be located in some central situation, such as-Charing:-
cross, and that the subscription thereto should be moderate is
amount. A Committee was appoieted to carry the resol.etion
into effect. The meeting, having voted thanks tothe Noble
Chairman; then separated. position',
THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE "-SABEATir
QITESTION.—Perhaps the most contemptible emong the petty'
tyrannies inflicted upon the working classes by their superiors,-
aud one which tends still further to viiden the breach now e%-'
•
isting between the upper and under classes of. society; 0 the
conduct of the wealthy in regard to what may be termed "se e
Sabbath question." The numerous attempts made at the Prt,•
sent day to render poor Feople religious by denying them heal''
thy recreation and enjnyment, and shutting them out from they
contemplation of the works of nature and art,
on the orekr
day of the week in which they can enjoy them, is
worthyonly of a heathen ago and a priest-ridden Prsore.
Look at the position of the working classes
cif this.
country. For six days of the week their lot is al—
most incessant toil—unremitting, unhealthy, and too often'.
unprofitahle toil. Late and early, summer and win".
ter, through youth and old age, are they
chained like galley
slaves, to the car; tugging hard against the stream of poverty
which ever threatens to engulph them. Within the last fey'
weeks, it has been decided by the proprietors of bo'h the Shef-
field and Liverpool Botanic Gardens that these places of resort
should be closed to the public on Sundays. The same resolu-
tion has long ago been come to by the proprietors of the Leeds;
Zoological Gardens; as well as by those of several other large
towns in the north of England. And what is the operation of
this er.actment ? Why, that thousands of working
Teen en'f
their families are virtually excluded from these places
of resort en the only day of the week on which they
have any respite from toil and labour. To the poor
day-drudges, who press out of town on, that day
to inhale a breath of fresh air, after the unhealthy and irksome
occupations of the week, it is wanton privation and insult. But
the pretence of " religion" is put forward ; and a partieularcare'
is expressed for the preservation of the morals of the poor !
Anil
this glaring fraud is actually vended in the face of the undoubte"
fact that the inevitable effect of the exclusion is to drive people
into beer- shops, public houses, and other place% of resort,
where
the recreation is of a ch less innocent nature than that en-
joyed the Botanic the Zoological Ge.rdens.—Leeds Times
JUDGES OF FORMER DAYS.—" Sir Robert
Hyde was a cousin of Lord Clarendon, and presided over the
King's Beech only from October, 1663, to his death by apoplexy
in May, 1665, having previously:sat as a Pusine Judge of 61" Common P eas from the Restoration, In the five years during
which h, thus held the judicial office he sufficiently si`rna;
lised his high prerogative zeal, but he ettablished' no fella'''.
reputation. .His royalism was expressed with extraordinaryt
vehemence this same year in trying one Twyn for printing et
seditious book, of which it appeared the poor man had never
yead,a word ; when, after be had _sentenced their prisoner to'
suffer, in all 'its horrible details, the death of a traitor, in'
answer to his humble supplication that he would remember his
condition, with three small children, and innocent of any evil t
intention, and intercede for him with hii-Majesty, he replied*'
I would not intercede for my own father in this ewe, if kw
were alive.' This was taking a strong view of the matte A'
cert tinly. With an instinctive foreknowledge of his rr,an,
Chief Justice Hyde was a great patron of my Lord. Kesepee
North in the commencement of his forensic course. Neerth's
brother Roger says, This Judge was industriously fav eurablet
to his Lordship, calling him cousin in open court, w.eich was' a eeclaration that he would take it for respect to 'flia.,„ie to
bring him causes, and that is the best account that zit) be givers
of a favourite.' But Hyde is chiefly:famous 'es the 'Judge of
Assize who tried, on the Western Circu t, shat ie called the
case of the Campden murder, in which, three persons were-
convicted of and hanged for the murder of a man whose dead
body had not been found, and who afterwards turned out to be
alive."—Knight's English Coultas Celebres.
LUDICROUS OCCURRENCE.—As the Rob Roy
steamer was lately passing through the Crinan Canal at niP'at,
two of the passengers had lain down to sleep close by the bow
of the vessel. As is the custom the Captain.
unship the head of " Bob," which is fastened by W
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et es to give
greater facility for so doing. Of course the h-,.adhan s down
on the deck. One of the passenger, aeralinz ginvoluntarily
put his hands, when they came in
(tor'act ,of the figure. He they cautiously ' with the cold face
.
gave orders to
felt the rest of the body all
over—when the horrid idea 'sit-tick his mind that his cons-•
panion was a corpse. Wifia a voice as loud as fear could pitch.'
it, he exclaimed.,
she's in ray :ieb "I.!.leurder, Teevil Almighty, Tonald's dead, aus
t three banbees—she parconed was me to yo
hasetro fare.''ni
shed Bythis
Duncan,
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and the
all
tihmesisre ngerste•
reasoningere
hsuadrrtoounbdeinvildthi:
sCe°,lo.auur
requisition to convince him of his error.—Scotch
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Isisca!blaeGtllastit.CLGainel
George's
the Earl and Countess of Cawdor, to Sir. P Ire e'%d.:ahHuguahrr
,tsocd,vreaoryi
a .ur, sun of the
late Gen. Balfour. The ceremony
took place precisely at sise'
ii'clock, his Grace the Archbishop of York cffieiating,
CAUTION TO TRAVELLERS. few da
ys :ago
a respectable female, who came fr OMWorcester via floe Great
Western Railway, as coach assenger, on aching Ole inns
felt for het' Purse in order to r. •,e the
whets to her surprise she found it coachman ki,s 'usual fee,
was gone. On further ob-
servation she found her cloak,
and the Purse abstracted, dress, &e.., were cut through,
, evidently by one of th
gentry. 4 ight- fingered
S bees
DANIEL LA milErtT. --
March., lall,
t ;vele° months old, of the Dunkertenßichard
'slieu. Bath, has a boy, only
nine inches in following dimensions :—Tivo feet
height me feet one inch round the breast; two
feet four inches erotead the stomach;
one foot three inches
round the tl ; twelve inches
round the
tion calf; head propor-
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ately large, and rather well formed.
The child walke by:
itself at six months old. •
the boy man persons have of late been tod seer