The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1846.

MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS.

Sir ROBERT PEEL arrived in town at an early
hour this morning from Drayton Manor, Stafford-
shire.

Lord ABERDEEN arrived in town this forenoon, and
also all the other Ministers, with the exception of the
Duke of BUCCLEUCH (Lord President), who remains
in Bedfordshire.

Sir ROBERT and his colleagues proceeded early to
Buckingham Palace, those having se2ls of office deli-
vering them to the QUEEN.

Lord JoiiN RUSSELL and his colleagues will then
assemble at Buckingham Palace, and will take the
customary oaths on appointment to their respective
offices.

Lord COTTENHAM will also receive the Great Seal;
Lord 'MINT°, the Privy Seal ; Sir GEORGE GREY,
Lord PALMERSTON, and Lord GREY, the seals of
Secretaries of State; and Mr, CHARLES WOOD, the
seals of Chancellor of the Exchequer.

It is expected that the new Ministers, immediately
after the Privy Council, will attend at their different
offices and commence their official duties, the mem-
bers of the late Administration having all removed
from their respective offices.

The following appointments have been made since
our last publication :
Master of the Horse..... The Duke of NORFOLK.

[We understand that the Duke of DEVONSHIRE and
the Duke of BEDFORD declined this appointment.]
Earls FORTESCUE and SPENCER have, we believe,
accepted offices in the household, the former that of
Lord High Steward.
Vice President of the

Board of Trade.. Mr. M. GIBSON.
[This office was, we believe, offered to and declined
by Mr. CHARLES VILLIERS.]

Solicitor-General Mr. J. JERVIS.

Judge-Advocate
Lords of Admiralty
Hon. F. BERKELEY,
Hon. Wm. COWPER.
Joint Secretaries of Trea- 5 Mr. J. PARKER, Mr. IL
sury
Secretaries of, Board of 5 Right Hon. G. S. BYNG,
Control 1 Mr. T. WYSE.
Under-Secretaries of State Foreign—Rt. lion. E. J.
STANLEY.
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VILLE.

Colonies—Mr.B.HAwEs.
Board of Ordnance Clerk—llon. Colonel
ANSON.

Surveyor—Col. C. Fox,
Secretary—Lord CLA•
FENCE PAGET.

Under Secretary for Ire-
land . . .

We have heard with great satisfaction a rumour
that Sir IlowanD ELPIIINSTONE IS likely to have an
appointment under the new Government.

pounds have been already collected in Manchester as
a testimony to RICHARD COBDEN that his deeds are
already having their fruition in the national
heart, and that his extraordinary labours cannot
easily be forgotten. Something like this was neces-
sary under all circumstances ; it was necessary to
prove to the antagonists of the Ministerial policy
that the people were really in earnest in their
anxiety for the removal of all restrictions
upon commerce, and it was necessary, also,
to signalise in a remarkable manner the ability, the
enthusiasm, the eloquence, and the bodily fatigue un-
dergone solely for the advantage of the multitude by
a large-minded, honest-hearted, plain-spoken cotton-
printer of Manchester. When we bear in
recollection the marvellous facilities of com-
munication which have been co-existent
with the agitating movements of Mr. COBDEN, when
we estimate the hundreds of miles by railway, the
voluminous correspondence, the hours of public exhor-
tation, the activity of mind and the bodily drudgery
which were all required from him, day after day, night
after night, month after month, and year after year, it
neither becomes surprising that he should be solicitous
of quietude, now that the triumph is assured, or that
the people for wham he has thus laboured, and the
people for whom he has thus conquered; should
he equally solicitous to tender him some unmistakeable
mark of their gratitude. RICHARD COBDEN will now
retire for a period from the turmoils of public and
especially of political life, but he will retire with the
respect of a whole country, and that country the
country of his birth. After a sojourn of twelve
months abroad, let us hope that he will return alto-
gether renovated in health, and prepared to assume
that position in our legislative system which would
inevitably cast lustre upon himself and advantage
upon the community. Great Britain is in need of its
RICHARD CODDENS.

The report of the Commissioners appointed to in-
vestigate and report upon the various railway pro-
jects of which the termini are proposed to be esta-
blished within, or in the immediate vicinity of, the
metropolis, have published their report at considerable
length, which appeared in The Sun of Thursday last.
The great importance of the report of the Select Com-
mittee of the House of Lords, to which we called the
public attention on Thursday and Friday last, and the
intense public interest excited by the change of Minis-
try during the past week, prevented us from devoting
our attention at an early period to this report,
although it is on a subject which must command the
attention of every inhabitant of this great city, all of
whom must feel more or less interested in the result
of these inquiries. The Commissioners have devoted
their attention to no less than nineteen different
projects, which it was proposed to extend
within the limits of their inquiry ; of these no less
than fifteen contemplated termini north of the Thames,
and the remaining four to the south thereof.
The chief point for consideration manifestly is
whether the extension of these railways into the
centre of the metropolis is calculated to afford such
additional convenience to the public as will com•
pensate for the sacrifice of property, the interruption
of important thoroughfares, and the interference with
plans of improvement already suggested. They
think that a considerable distinction exists as to the
projects north and south of the river. The more
convenient points for the southern railways they
conceive to be the vicinities either of Waterloo
or Hungerford-bridge for the West-end, and of
London-bridge for the City, which are attainable
with much less disturbance of house property
than would be caused by bringing the northern rail-
ways
to points of comparatively equal convenience on
the north side of the Thames. The property to be
disturbed is less valuable, and the thoroughfares to be
crossed are less important, and fewer in number, on
the south side. Nor are there any plans for street
improvements suggested on that side which would
be interfered with by the projected lines. The ordi-
nary traffic, too, would be less interfered with ; it is
not so great as on the northern side, and runs through
wider and more convenient channels, so that the addi-
tional traffic to be created by railway termini could
more easily be accommodated. A greater number of
the public would be accommodated by the southern
extensions ; and the Legislature has alr..ax..nctioned
a line from the Ni-- the York-road, near
s memo- breage, and the construction of a terminus
at the latter point. For all these reasons the Com-
missioners look upon the close approach of the
iouthern railways to the eastern and western bridges
of the metropolis in a more favourable light than
that in which they view the proposed extension of
the northern lines into the City, or other thickly in-
habited districts of London. These reasons appear
sufficiently cogent to warrant the conclusion at which
the Commissioners have arrived, and we think they
are such as, when maturely considered, must com-
mand general assent.
It appears from the statistical inquiries made by
the Commissioners, that the distribution of passengers
from the various railway stations in London* are in
the proportion of nine to the west, and four to the
east of a line drawn north and south through
Temple-bar. They think that the accommodation
to be derived from such extension is greatly over-
rated. It is by the passengers, who constitute the
short traffic on lines entering London, and who are
in the daily habit of using a metropolitan railway,
that the advantage of carrying the lines as far as
possible into town would be most sensibly felt. The
average distance which is travelled by passengers
stopping at the Euston-square terminus is sixty-four
miles. To persons who travel this distance, and
who may be assumed to use the railway less
frequently, the saving of a mile or two cannot be
of so great importance either in time or money,
and they do not think the accommodation would
warrant the expenditure or sacrifice of property
which must result from the extension. Should it
be necessary to offer to passengers a conveyance to
more points than one, they think it might be effected
with greater advantage-by branches skirting the town,
and terminating at points without the line described
in their instructions. As to merchandise, they think
a line skirting the metropolis on the north, at such a
distance as to avoid interference with populous dis -
tricts and thronged thoroughfares, and connecting the
goods stations of the various railways from west to
east with each other, terminating at some convenient
point on the Thames, or within the docks, would
more surely attain an easy, unbroken, and economical
communication between the northern railways and
the docks. This line they think should cross
the river to the west of the metropolis, to connect
itself with the South-Western, South-Eastern, and
any other lines that may approach the town on that side,
and they think also that it would be of greater public
value in a military point of view. Each of the other
points for consideration—viz., as to the sacrifice of
property, the interruption of important thoroughfares,
and the interference with plans of improvement already
suggested—furnish the strongest objections to the
extensions on the north sides, which they specify in
detail, and they have submitted the following recom-
mendations, with which we fully coincide, viz :
" 1. That on the north of the Thames no railway now
before Parliament, or projected, be permitted to come within
the limits described in our instructions.
"2. That if at any time hereafter it should be deemed
advisable to admit railways within those limits, this should
be done in conformity with some uniform plan, carefully laid
down under the authority of your Majesty's Government,
and sanctioned by the wisdom of Parliament; and that under
no circumstances should the thoroughfares of the metropolis,
and the property and comfort of its inhabitants, be surren-
dereddg e; or that the South-Eastern Railway
to separate schemes brought forward at different times,
and without reference to each other.
"3. That on the south of the Thames, either the North
Kent Railway be permitted to have its terminus in Union-
street, and to join the terminus of the South-Western
way at Waterloo-bri
be permitted to extend to Waterloo-bridge; accordingly as
one or other of these lines may, upon a comparison of their
general merits, receive the sanction of Parliament, and sub.
ject, in either case, to the conditions which we have pointed
out in this report.
" 4. That the extension of the South-Western Railway to
London-bridge be
permitted, subject to the conditions pointed
out in this report.
"5. That a communication between the railways ap-
proaching London on the north and south sides of the river,
and a connexion between them and the doi ks being desirable,
this should be effected by a railway encircling the metropolis,
crossing the Thames at some point west of Vauxhall-bridge,
and not coming within the limits of our inquiry on the north
side of the river."

Russia has, it is said, demanded that TTSSOWSKI,
,"--
the ex-Dictator of Cracow, shall be given up.
Neither Prussia nor Austria wish him to be detained.
He will proceed
to Trieste with a Saxon passport,
and an Austrian safe conduct, and from thence he will
embark for the United States. . _ _

In Hungary great ;larm has been excited in conse
quence of the prevalence of incendiary fires.

DlAirld papas of the 28th have 1)0011 Melva

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN'G, JULY 6, 1846.