The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-25 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

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Aberdeen
Amiens and Boulogne . ..............
Belfast and Ballymena
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Chester and Holyhead. ..........
Cockermouth and Workington.—
Dublin and Drogheda• • .........
Dublin and Kingstown ............ ••
Dundee, Perth, and A berdeen ... • •
East Anglian.... .• • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh and Northern
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
East Lancashire ..
Eastern Union • •
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ......
Glasgow and Greenock .........
Great Southern and Western •• • .
Great Western, &c..... ..... ........
Kendal and Windermere"...
Lancashire and Yorkshire .
Lancaster and Carlisle ........
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
Londonderry and r niiiskillen.. • • ....
London and North Western, &c.
Loudon and
London and Brighton
London and South We5tern.........
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
Maryport and Carlisle • • •
Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham....
Midland Great Western (Irish)
Monklands .•.-•• • • .• .• -••.. • • ....
Newcastle and Carlisle • • . •
North British .. • • • • • • • • • •
Paris and Rouen . • • • • • • •
Rouen suld Ilavre .. • • • • • ...
Scottish Central • • •
Shrewsbury and Chester
South Eastern and Branches
South Dev0n.........................
Ulster .•Waterford and Limerick..
Whitehaven Junction
Wishaw and C01tne55...........„
York and Newcastle . • • ••••• • • ..
York and North Midland,.

1,531

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4,62 U
1,1'25
178
673
654

716
3,402
2,002
13,125
1,522
1,227
2,407

834
3,136
17,625

Ha
10,128
2,179

136
38,216

564
7,682
8,359
'2,739

18,690
1,302
836

019

3,383

614
12,350

'2,423
1,003
1,820
16,808

.8,730
1,364

113
38,209
655
7,469
7,150
2,105

18,489
841

2,065
6,863
2,739

515
7,820

1,822
739

224

10,924
7,142

THE WEST RIDING ELECTION.
(From the Liverpool Mercury of yesterday.)
The explanations of Mr. Corbett, at the Leeds meet-
ing, on the occasion of Mr. Fitzwilliam making his pub-
lic debut as candidate for the West Riding, serve to con -
firm the grounds on which we have already ventured to
censure the actings of the Liberal Executive Committee
in this business. Their grand error consisted in making
the admission, which Mr. Carbutt did not hesitate, in
their name, to repeat and avow, of the right of the
agricultural party to have the nomination of one
representative, and the manufacturing interest that of
another." Now, the principle of such concession is
essentially false, on the hypothesis either of these
interests being identical or of their being op-
posed. If they are identical, the concession is
needless ; and, if opposed, it is prejudicial to the
majority, whose suffrage rights are thus bargained
away. But, when for " agricultural party," we
read the aristocratic or landed section of the Libe-
rals; and for "manufacturing interest," the great body
of middle-class voters, the transaction stands out in still
clearer relief. What the Executive Committee should
have done, when the Whig aristocracy approached them
for the purpose of making terms, was, to let it be dis
tinctly understood they would enter into no paction
except that the candidate for their suffrages should be
a man of tried political virtue, character, and ability.
In place of this, however, on a vague and loose under-
standing with respect to the candidate's orthodoxy on
the four points, they consented to delegate the right of
initiation to the House of Fitzwilliam. We cannot
think that the Executive Committee do well to be angry,
now that they have been baulked in their expectations.
It is all very fine for Mr. Carbutt to talk of Mr. Fits-
william having bidden " defiance " to the Normanton
meeting. Speaking for the Executive Committee, he
ought to have been prepared to say that the landed sec-
tion of the Liberals had broken faith by starting such a
candidate. But this he is unable to do, simply because
the Executive Committee were not careful to have the
terms of the "compromise" clearly defined and accu-
rately guarded. In the most favourable view, the "com-
promise" would have been an error. But things standing
as they do, it is an enormous bungle. With the Ex-
ecutive Committee alone will rest the blame of the
West Riding being inefficiently and injuriously repre-
sented.
Since the above was written, we have learned that
Mr. Fitzwilliam has retired, and that the delegates at the
Normanton meeting, on Wednesday, being divided be-
tween Mr. Roebuck and Sir Culling Smith, the English
Agnew, a bitter and norrow•minded bigot, decided, by a
small majority, in favour of the latter personage. This
is the doing of Mr. Edward Baines. Pity that that gen-
tleman should contrive to spoil every pie into which he
puts his finger! The electors have only to choose Sir
Culling to make themselves the laughing-stock of
Europe.

FRANCE.
We read in the new journal called Le credit :
" Numerous deputations are coming from the depart-
ments to gain information as t 9 the personal charac-
ters, the guarantees for order, and a good and pros-
perous administration, presented by each of the
candidates for the Presidency of the Republic. We
are assured that at several conferences on this subject
between these deputations and the President of the
Council, the latter has expressed himself in the most
categorical manner on the suspicions calumniously
propagated lately as to the entrance of MM. Dufaure
and Vivien into the Cabinet. M. Cavaignac declared, in
language full of candour and energy, that it was ab-
solutely impossible for any man of heart and sense,
after the pledges for order which he bad given in
the month of June, and of his respect for majorities
by the composition of the Ministry, to become un-
faithful to the line of politics which these two acts
have designated. The persons who were present at
these communications retired fully impressed with
the truth and frankness of the declarations made
to them."

Nine representatives of the department of the
Vosges have decided, says the Moniteur du lair,
upon supporting the eandidateship of General Ca-
vaignac, and 4o make public this resolution in the
department.