The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-03 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—l thank you most heartily for the very great
service you have done the railway interest; and par-
ticularly.do I thank you for your leading article in
to-day's paper. You have thrashed the "Bears,"
and every man and woman in this great country who
can rend, and who understands what you mean in
that article, will assuredly feel grateful for your able
services.—l am, Sir, yours most respectfully,
ANDREW MACK.

Pditiey, Nov. 1, 1848.

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FURTHER DETENTION :OF THE MAIL FOR NEW
SOUTH WALBs.—Yesterday notice was issued at the
General Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, that the Co-
lumbus, with the mail for Sydney, New South Wales,
Van Diemen's Land, South Australia, and New Zealand,
of the evening of the 31st ultimo, was detained. Letters,
&c., in time this evening, the 3d inst.
TESTIMONIAL TO THE RIGHT How. E. STRUTT.—
Arrangements have been made for a magnificent ban-
quet to bo given to the Right Hon. Edward Strutt in the
Athenmum, at Derby, on Tuesday, the 7th instant. A
service of plate is to be presented to the Right Hon.
Gentleman, in testimony of the esteem of the electors,
and as a return for his services in Parliament during
several successive sessions. Amongst the persons who
have undertaken to be present are the Hon. Leveson
Gower, Mr. Bass, M.P., Mr. L. Hayworth, M.P., the
Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., and Mr. Macauley.
PROPOSED VISIT OF THE FRENCH NATIONAL
GUARD TO MANCHESTER.—it is stated that several of
this gallant body of moo (about 1,400, principally from
Paris), who have been in London during the last few
days, made many inquiries about Manchester, its people,
its factories, and above all, the Free-trade-hall, which
they expressed a strong desire to see. A deputation
waited on the London and North-Western Railway
Company, in order to ascertain upon what terms a
number of the National Guard could be taken to and re-
turned from Manchester. Moderate terms were offered,
and it is anticipated that a detachment of the 3d Legion,
which is about to visit England in a short time will spend
a day or two in this city.—Manchester Guardian.

Mrs. Margaret Wilson, of Seedhills, Paisley, Scot-
land, and sister of the late Alexander Wilson, the great
ornithologist of America, died at the house of her ne-
phew, Alexander Wright, Esq., of Lowell, on Thuisday,
26th of September, at the age of sixty-eight years.

WINDSOR, UESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert took alking exer-
cise this morning on the Eastern Terrace and Slopes.
The Royal Family took ss alking and pony exer-
cise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle.
Prince Albert hunted this forenoon, attended by
Lord Cumoys, Sir Edward Bowater, and Colonel
Bouverie.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, attended by the
Lady in Waiting to the Duchess (the Baroness de
Bose), and the Gentleman in Waiting to the Duke
(Mr. Edmond Mildmay), arrived at the Castle this
afternoon on a visit to the Queen.
The Earl of Auckland is expected to arrive at the
Castle this evening, on a visit to her .13dajesty.
The Queen's private band performed the following
pieces yesterday evening, in the Castle :
Overture—" Gustave" .
Selection, No. 3—"Il Seraglio" Mozart.
Adagio and Rondo . Hummel.
Amalien Walzer
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will
include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary, their Serene
Highnesses the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg
and the Princess Eliza, Lady Anna Maria Dawson,
Baroness de Bose, Baroness de Speth, the Earl of
Auckland, Mr. G. E. Anson, Lieutenant-Colonel the
Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir George Couper, and Mr.
Edmond Mildmay.
The band of the Coldstream Guards attend during
dinner, and perform the following pieces :
Grand Fantasia from " Don Carlos" Costa.

Waltz, " Les Beautees de Vienne"... 1 H. H. Prince
R. Metternich.
Adelaide—" Lied" .
Duo•—" Beaute divine enchanteresse"

(Les Huguenots) . .
Original Schottische.. ..... Jullien.
Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend
in the Castle.

The Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg and the
Ptincess Eliza, attended by Sir George Couper,
arrived in town yesterday morning. Their Serene
Highnesses visited the Duchess of Gloucester. The
Duke of Cambridge also visited the Royal Duchess,
at Gloucester House. His Royal Highness after-
wards left town, attended by Mr. Edmond blildmay,
for Windsor Castle. The Princess of Hohenlohe
Langenburg and the Princess Eliza returned to
Windsor Castle in the afternoon.
The Lord Mayor Elect and the Sheriff's of London
and Middlesex, accompanied by the Remembrancer
and other City Officers, paid visits yesterday to several
of the Cabinet Ministers.

KING'S LYNN.
The following is a copy of a requisition most nume-
rously signed by the electors of this borough, to the Hon.
E. H. Stanley, the eldest son of Lord Stanley, requesting
him to come forward as a candidate to represent that
place in Parliament, in the place of the late Lord George
Bentinck.

" October 25, 1848.
"We, the undersigned electors of the borough of
King's Lynn, do hereby earnestly request that you will
allow yourself to be put in nomination as a candidate to
supply the vacancy in the representation of this borough
caused by the lamented death of the late Lord George
Bentinck, and in the event of your acceding to this re-
quest, we pledge ourselves t) give you our most
strenuous support, with a view to secure your return to
Parliament.

" To the Hon. Edward Henry Stanley."
To this requisition the names e f 187 electors for the
borough are annexed. The following communication
from Lord Stanley has been addeessed t. the gentlemen
who signed this paper:—
" St. James's square, October 30, 1848.
" Gentlemen—l regret that, not having returned to
London until late on Saturday evening, I was unable, by
return of post, to express my grateful sense of the high
compliment you have been pleased to pay my son, in for-
warding to him, through me, a requisition signed by
nearly two hundred electors, inviting him to become a
candidate for the seat unhappily vacant by the untimely
death of your late admirable rcplcsentative, and my
dear and valued friend, Lord George Bentinck. The
satisfaction which I naturally feel that one bearing my
name, and in whom I take so deep an interest, should be
thought by you worthy of so high an honour, is greatly
increased by perceiving that the requisition is signed
indiscriminately by electors of all shades of opinion
in that great Conservative party which recent events
have unfortunately divided, but whose harmony and
combined action, as far as may be found practicable,
appear to me to be all important to the best interests of
the country. You are aware that my son is absent on
a distant tour, which will make it impossible for me to
communicate with him on the subject, or for him person-
ally to pay his respects and explain his views to the
constituency of Lynn ; but while I regret the circum-
stance on this account, I am sure you will not blame •
young man who, with no immediate prospect of being
called into public life, seeks to add to his stock of infor-
mation by making himself personally acquainted with
the condition of our North American colonies, and of
those great and rising states which are connected with
us by so many ties of mutual interest, of common origin,
and even of civil and political institutions. Of my son's
opinions, so far as he had an opportunity of forming,
them, on public affairs, I confidently believe that on all
essential points they coincide with mine ; but it would
be unjust alike to him and to you were I, in his absence,
to bind him by specific pledges, on particular questions
which may arise ; and I think I am right in assuming
that the constituency of Lynn is too wise, even were he
present, to desire so to fetter the judgment of their re-
presentative. Should you, on further reflection, be sa-
tisfied to overlook the accident of his absence (which,
however, the knowledge of your kind intentions will, I
sin persuaded, lead him to curtail as much as possible),
and to take him upon trust as the candidate of your
selection, I may venture, in his name, gratefully to ac-
cept the honour you propose to confer en him ; and to
promise, on his part, not indeed that he will adequately
replace him whom you have lost, but that he will at least
endeavour to show his sense of the confidence you repose
in him by emulating the sedulous attention to public
business, and the anxiety to promote the local interests
of his constituents, which eminently distinguished him
by whom you were so long and so ably represented.
" I have the honour to be, gentlemen,
" Your obliged and faithful servant,
" STANLEY."

THE RAILWAY CONFERENCES.
The conferences which have been going on for some
time past between the chairmen of the North-Western,
the Great Western, and the South-Western Railway
Companies, have, we are glad to hear, been brought to a
successful termination. The conclusion which has been
come to is, that it is desirable, with reference both to
the interests of the public and of the shareholders, to
put an end to the wasteful expenditure which the com-
petition of these companies has led them to incur, by a
union. With a view to this object, we have reason to
believe that notice will be given, on an early day, of an
application to be made to Parliament, in the course of

the next session, for a Bill to sanction an amalgamation
of the three companies, provided that, after a mutual in..'
vestigation of the affairs and prospects of each, the direc-
tors are enabled to agree upon an estimate of the relative
value of the several lines. The scope of the Bill will,
we understand, be permissive merely; and it will, there-
fore,
rest with the shareholders to determine whether
they choosa to avail themselves of i:s provisions or
not. Accordingly the first step taken will be, to con-
vene a general meeting of the proprietors of each com-
pany, with a view to lay before them the draft of the
Bill, and to give them an opportunity of expressing their
opinions thereon. And as we believe that the share-
holders of each have, in general, but a limited know-
ledge of the actual state and prospects of the other two
it will clearly be the duty of the directors to allow atnpl
time and information for enabling them to form a cor-
rect judgment on a matter of such deep importance to
their respective interests. To the shareholders the pro-
posed arrangement presents obvious advantages, by
enabling the companies to curtail or postpone all un-
necessary expenditure; and in these beneficial results,
as well as in those which may be expected to arise im-
mediately from a diminution of the pressure on the
money market, and ultimately from the introduction of a
uniform system of management, the public also will
have its share. On the other hand, the prospective
amalgamation of three such powerful companies is not
altogether without danger to the interests of the public;
but we are satisfied that, if the Bill should eventually
come before Parliament, due precautions will be taken
to prevent those interests from being prejudiced by an
arrangement which, properly guarded, must prove con-
ducive to the general benefit.

BOMBAT OCT. 3.—The Bight Honourable the
Governor, Lord Falkland, was expected to have quitted
the Deccan yesterday ,'and to have been here to-morrow,
but the arrangement seems for the present to have been
broken through; he may be expected at the Presidency
in the course of the week. Captain Harrison, of her
Majesty's 10th Hussars, has resigned his appointment as
Aide-de-Camp, and will, it is said, bo succeeded by
Captain Murray, of the same corps. Lieutenant Henry,
late Aide-de-Camp to the Governor, goes as extra Aide-
de. Camp to General Auchmuty; he will be succeeded
by Captain Fyfo, of the 22d Native Infantry. Captain
M‘Mabon, who after proceeding to join his corps (the
14th Dragoons, now at Lahore) was permitted to return
to his appointment as Aide•de-Camp, is now with her
Majesty's 32d before Moultan. The Commander-in-
Chief and General Auchmuty were expected at the
Presidency on Friday or Saturday; they continue in the
Deccan; no time appears at present to be fixed for their
departure for Bombay. Major Brooke, military secre-
tary to his Excellency Sir W. Cotton, has cbtained
the rank of lieutenant-colonel by the death of Colonel
Pattoun, and now commands her Majest)'s 32d; h is not
supposed that he will resume hie appointment on the
Commander-in-Chief's staff. Doctors Patch and Burns
have taken their seats i❑ the Medical Board as second
and third members respectively. We mentioned in our
issue of the 15th ultimo, that we had been assured that
the report that Colonel Woodburn proposed joining ti• e
invalids was wholly without foundation; we have since
heard that nothing could snore have astonished the gal.
lent officer himself than the rumour in question, scarcely
anything in the world being farther from his thoughts.
It has, we learn, been determined to have a monument
erected by public subscription to the memory of the late
Colonel Sutherland; and there are assuredly few who
more deserve or leas require a memorial to be remem-
bered by.

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