The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-17 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Amiens and Boulogne ......
Arbroath and Forfar • ......
Chester and Birkenhead.....
Dublin and Drogheda...—.
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee and Arbroath
Edinburgh and Glasgow ,
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
East Lancashire
Eastern Union .• • • • • ............
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .. • • • •
Glasgow and Greenock..
Gravesend and Rochester....
Great Southern and Western ........
Great Western, &c • •
Ipswich and Bury ..... ..............
Lancaster and Carlisle.. .... ........
London and Nerth Western, &c -
London and 81ackwa11....... ......
London and Brighton
London and South Western .........
Manchester, Leeds. and Hull Assoc..
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
Newcastle and Carlisle..
Newcastle, Berwick, and North Shields
North British .. •
Paris and Rouen . •
Preston and Wyre •
Rouen and Havre . .......
Shrewsbury and Chester ............
South Eastern and Branches ........
South Devon • • • • • .
Ulster .
Whitehaven Junction
York and Newcastle .............„
York and North Midland .

362
3,497
11,035

522
2,407
1,164

1,55$
19,8n1

429
1,178
42,321

987
6,764
7,927
7,727
1,995

645
19,843
2,191

.7GB
1,877
1,707
7,964

g)4 •
Fl:il
ts .
c., .5

649
2,476

2,476

27S
3,179
8,363

2,054
915

47S
8,149
1,361
1,471

19,568

42,269
1,118
5,774
7,745
8,163
1,661

400
16,824
1,786

199
7,079
6,050

510
1,206

6,011
618

7.139

1,305
623

6,561
5,120

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY.—The sup-
Flies of alt grain continue limited. The high prices aimed
or wheat checked the demand, and only a moderate business
was transacted, at an advance of 88. per quarter on all de-
scriptions. Barley also sold slowly, at about 2s. more money.
Beans easy sale, and 28. to 3s. per quarter dearer. Oats 1/2d.
per stone, and shilling 3s. to 45. per load higher. Malt sold
at an improvement of 2s. per load.
BREAD RIOTS AT COLLUMPTON.—lnformation has
been received in Bristol this morning (Friday) of some
serious rioting having taken place at Collumpton, neat
Exeter, arising out of the present high prices of corn and
other articles of food, and the consequent depression of every
description of trade. As we learn, a gathering took place at
a village near the town of the woolcombers, operative
weavers, and labourers of the place, upon the present high
prices of every article of food. The meeting, having been
addressed by several persons as to the distressed condition
of the people, separated. Immediately after which many
hundreds of the mob proceeded to some warehouses in which
it was said wheat and other grain had been hoarded, and
attempted to set fire to them; these attempts were, how-
ever, unsuccessful. The residences of several persons at
Collumpton, who were obnoxious to the people in conse •
quence of their being supposed to be largely engaged in
corn speculations, were then surrounded and attacked, the
windows were broken, and at one of them many valuable
articles of furniture were destroyed, The letters which bring
this intelligence state that the rioters had all of them escaped
without detection, although the magistrates took steps for
preventing further outrages. The rumour in Collumpton
market this morning was, that bread riots had occurred in
the lower parts of Somersetahire, but we have not yet beat
able to learn the particulars.
EPSOM RAILWAY.—The facilities of transit afforded
by the newly opened line of railway to Epsom will no doubt
have the effect of attracting many thousand visitors to the
Downs during the ensuing week, who, but for the accommo-
dation thus afforded, would never have left London. The
directors of the Brighton Railway, under whose management
the Epsom branch is conductel, have made arrangements to
run trains at such frequent intervals each day as will amply
provide for all contingencies. Special trains, without stop-
ping, will leave London-bridge for Epsom four times on
Tuesday, Wednesday
; Thursday ry
, and Friday, commencing at
5 o'clock in the morning in addition to which 13 ordinary
trains will be dispatched during the forenoon. For the re-
turn journey trains are to be dispatched from Epsom every
en minutes.
The " liandelian Operatic Concerts," announced
by Mr. Rophino Lacy for next week are aWady making
some stir among the numerous llandelian devotees in, and
out of, the musical world. They certainly hold forth the
attraction of novelty ; for half the world are ignorant of
Handel having written Italian operas at all. We, how-
ever, remember two beautiful specimens which were adapted
to sacred words, though originally love song., viz. :—" Lord
remember David," and " Holy, hol v.
he following is a cir-
"
THE PRESENT DISTRESS.—T
cular signed by a great number of the Nobility and Gentry,
relative to the present existing distress:" We, the under-
signed, deeply impressed with the distress which prevails
among a great number of our fellow countrymen, in Great
Britain and Ireland, from the want of necessary subsistence,
and observing that the prices of food are rising, think it our
duty to pledge ourselves to reduce in our families, as far as
may be practicable, the consumption of bread and flour; and
we invite the co-operation of all those who may concur with
us in our estimate of the present emergency." This docu-
ment is signed by the Dukes of Bedford, Grafton, Norfolk,
and Rutland; Marquis of Exeter; Earls Fortescue, Spencer,
Zetland. Clarendon Fitzwilliam, and Radnor; Viscount
Falkland; Lords L'yttelton De Manley, Brougham, aall
Clinton ; Dr. Stephen Lushillgton, Sir R. Price, Sir R. Harry
Inglis, &c., &c.