The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-31 00:00:00

{West Yorkshire will be enabled to convey
-.their corn
cattle, and agricultural produce to market with double
the rapidity and at half the usual cost. The line has
cost between 200,000/. and 300,0001. Its chief works
are, a funnel under a portion of the town of KnareF-
borough, and i viaduct in the castellated style of archi-
tecture, to correspond with the neighbourbig castle at
Knaresberough, over the river Nidd, 300 feet long and
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80 feet above the river. Me,. Hudson has undertakea the working management of the line, to ascertain its
probable income, prior to entering upon an expected
leasing possession.
The Newcastle and Carlisle have declared a dividend
of three per cent. for the hall year.
VALE OF NEATu.—Lord Villiers, the chairman of
this line, which is to run for two-and-twenty miles
tdheesitriomuesthoaft (trePSjoeutitnhgW their lines toales Railway
through the county of Glamorgan, has, with the engi-
neers and officers, been over the works in progress during
the past week. Additional contracts have been let, the
iccseormeteapmianpnfyeoticbidis to b
etingy:Swansea, and thus accommodate visitors
to Merthyr.
LONORIDGE RAILWAY !MEETING.—The general half-
‘f yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Longridge Rail-
way was held at the Fleetwood, Preston, and West
Riding Junction Railway Company's offices, on Thurs-
day last; T. B, Addison, Esq., in the chair. The busi-
ness transacted was merely of a formal character. A.
dividend of 12s, per share, clear of income-tax, was de-
clared.—Preston Chronicle.
EAST LANCASHlRE.—The.directors of the East Lan-
cashire Railway Company are now prepared to contract
for the-gxtension of their line from Farington to Pres-
ton, involving the erection of,another bridge across the
Ribble:=Preston ChiOnicle.

'A isikiv, RAILWAY.—A correspondent informs us that
surveyors are at present engaged in surveying for a lino
of railway from Fleetwood to Lancaster, to pass a little
to the west of Garstang.—Preston Chronicle.
CANTERBURY BRANCH.—The interruption to the
traffic on the branch between this city and Chilham, oc-
casioned by the excessive floods last week,-which broke
down a culvert intended for the purpose of carrying off
surplus water, has now ceased, as a footway has been
carried across. The works for replacing the culvert are
proceeding, and will shortly be completed.—Canterbury
Journal.

THE ABERDEEN.-It 18 BOW our pleasing duty to
congratulate the shareholders of this concern, as well as
the community at large, on the final adjustment of ar-
rangements by which the completion of the Aberdeen
Railway to the south bank of the Dee has been secured,
The works will be resumed immediately with the ut-
most activity, and we believe it is expected that the line
will be opened to the public about the middle of next
year. We are quite satisfied that neither the Edin-
burgh and Northern, nor either of the other com-
panies, who are understood to be parties to this agree-
ment, will have any reason to repent of it.—Aberdecn
Herald.
THE RAILWAY AND CANAL COMPANIES.—WO are in-
formed that amicable arrangements have this week been
come to between the Lancaster and Preston Railway
Company and the Lancaster Canal Company, so that
now there is little doubt that the long pending suit with
the Lancaster and Carlisle Company will be shortly
settled also.—Lancaster Gazette.

THE PEACE MOVEMENT.
DEPUTATION TO THE PREMIER.
Yesterday morning a . special deputation from the
Peace Congress, which sat at Brussels on the 20th, 21st,
and 22d of September last, waited upon Lord John
Russell, according to appointment, at one o'clock.
The deputation consisted of M. Visschers, a gentleman
well known for his philanthropic sentiments, and a dis-
tinguished member of the Belgian Government, who
acted as President of the Congress; Mr. William Ewart,
M.P., vice-president for England; Elihu• Burritt, vice-
president for the United States; the Rev. Henry Richard,
secretary of the Peace Society, representing M. Francois
Bouret, vice-president for France, and member of the
French National Assembly; and Mr. John Scoble, of
the committe of arrangements, representing M. Baron
Suringar, vice-president for Holland.
Mr. EWART introduced the deputation, and stated to
his Lordship the general character of the Congress, the
objects they had in view, and the means by which they
proposed to attain them. He stated that the object of
the deputation in seeking an interview with his Lord-
ship was to present an address from the Congress to
him, as the Prime Minister of the British Government.
M. VISSCHERS read the address in French, and his
Lordship listened with attention, occasionally making an
observation.
Mr. Emau BURRITT described the efforts that .were
made by the friends of peace in the United States to in-
doctrinate the public mind with peace sentiments, and
the policy of kindness and friendship, which were gra-
dually but surely increasing towards the parent country.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who received the deputation
with courtesy, expressed the deep interest which he, in
common with every member of the British Government,
felt in the preservation of peace, and his ready belief that
such meetings as those recently held at Brussels might
be well calculated to produce a temper of moderation and
kindness amongst the various nations of the world. His
Lordship then adverted at considerable length to tha
propositions adopted by the Congress, entering into some
of them with great energy. Whilst to the full extent he
admitted the desirableness of universal peace, he ap-
peared to doubt whether in the present circumstances of
society, end whilst men's passions remained as they
were, such an end would be easily attainable.
The deputation withdrew, much gratified with the
interview.
It may be added that the plan of holding a peace
congress at Brussels arose out of a proposition made by
Mr. Elihu Burritt early in August last, for holding
some such a convention at Paris. On visiting the capi-
tal of France, however, that gentleman was compelled
to yield to the conviction that, owing to the great poli-
tical excitement which then prevailed in that city,
especially on the question of Italy, it would not be pru-
dent or practicable to hold the convention there. An
interview was subsequently sought with M. Rogier, the
Belgian Prime Minister, who afforded every encourage-
ment to the deputation, and there the congress was ac-
cordingly ultimately holden.

THE SERPEN TINE.
TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN.
SlR,—Your extract from the Lancet, about the
Serpentine, is very impressive; and I have no doubt
the state of it could be remedied at a moderate cost
for such a purpose, ,by drawing water from the
Thames, near Chiswick, and driving it through a
sixteen or twenty•inch pipe, which might run con-
tinually, and the cascade, or waterfall again be
brought into play ; which was indeed pretty while
it lasted ; but the worst of these things is, that they
are made the vehicles for jobs in some pet engineer's
hands, to do or undo.

THE SEA SERPENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMER.
SlR,—Your correspondent " Zjetetes " evidently
has never " rolled " the voyage from the Cape of St.
Helena, and does not understand the drift of the
remarks of " W. El."

Latitude 24 (kg. 44 min. south, and longitude
9 deg. 22 min. east, give a position within the range
of the south .east trade ; and few instances are to be
found of homeward- bound vessels close hauled in that
lccality—outward-bound vessels for the same reason
are seldcm, if ever to be met with there. But her
Majesty's ship Daedalus is not the only exception to
the rule.

In the Robarts, on the homeward voyage from
Calcutta between the IGth and 20th of August; 1838,
for nearly four successive days we had a dead head
wind, between latitude 26 deg. and 23 deg. south,
and longitude 8 deg: and 2 deg. east. I have not
been able to find the journal of the voyage so as tO
give the exact particulars, but I have left' at your
office a rough manuscript chart of our course, which
all on board looked on at the time as a vexatious
uriosity...

A peCuliarity of the voyage, which it may be worth
while at the same time to communicate was, that,
after an unusually rapid run for the season from the
Sand-heads to the Cape, we were in hopes, of round-
ing it on the 6th of July, 1848, with a fair and
strong breeze on the quarter—about E.S.E. I should
think : but as soon as the ship's head was round
L'Agulhas heavy gales came on from the N.W.
Those who trace the courses of.storms may like to
haie this fact in connexion with the other, which
it seems worth while to offer to " W. H." and
" Zjetetes ;" and it may interest the officers of the
Dredalus and your readers in general, some of whom
may not be aware of the rule by which " W. H."
has tested the credibility of the story of the sea
serpent; nor that marvellous or otherwise, there is a
second exception at all events to that rule.

Your obedient servant. •
Q. E. D

We are authorised to state, with reference to the
increase of chides on woollen and silk goods recently
imposed by the States forming the•Zollverein, the, pend-
ing the decision of the question by the several states,
orders are. about to be transmitted by the Prussian Go-
vernment to their Custom-house authorities to take the
same measures in respect cif goods of British or;gin as
have been agreed upon with regard to Belgium produce;
and which are, to keep a particular account of such
gcods as may be furnished with the requisite certificates,
soas•to facilitate a reimbursement of the duties already
paid, if eventually, and as there is reason to expect, a
reimbursement should ba decided upon.—Times.—We
have the satisfaction to state, with reference to the above
paragraph respecting the increase of duties in the Zoll-
verene that the States of the Zoliverein have now con-
sented to the admission of British goods free from the
additional duties, provided they are accompanied by
certificates of origin. The Prussian Government has
also intimated an intention of reimbursing the addi-
tional duties already paid on British merchandise im-
ported with proper certificates, and of invitieg the other
States of the Zollvereiri to adopt the same course.
The successful patentee of the celebrated Welling-
ton sl; tk•ut whose ingenuity to decorate the outward'man
so porous
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has anticipated and provided for the comforts and;wants of
the public by introducing another sew coat for winter.
The Royal Siberian Over-coat, brought out by Mr.
4' Foriger of Conduit-street,_ Regent-street, is
that a candle may be blown out through t, yet the
wearer can be kept perfectly dry although. exposed to
twenty-four hours incessant rain; is light, warm,
pliant, and comfortable as fur. This coat possessing so
many qualities is likely to become a great favourite.
The moderate price at which it is to be sold, v;z.. fifty
shillings, is sure to cause a general and almost universal
demand.