The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-10 00:00:00

CONTINENTAL LINES.

MARSEILLES AND AVIGNON.—It appears by the re-
port of the directors, presented at the late meeting, that
the works of this undertaking are going on satisfacto-
rily. Notwithstanding the many heavy works of art re-
quisite on this line, there appears every reason for fixing
the opening of at least five-sixths of it by the close of
the present year—a period of eighteen months earlier
than was stipulated by the original statutes of the
company.

ViEiZorr.—The works on this line advance rapidly.
The Minister of the Interior is occupied in organising
the staff of surveillance, and everything denotes an early
completion of the undertaking.
ROUEN AND RUEIMS.—A commission of inquiry has
lately been opened upon the subject of establishing a
railway as above, passing by Beauvais, Compiegne, and
Soissons.
BAYAUIAN LINES.—The section of the Northern and
Southern line, extending towards Kauf buren, will most
probably be opened in the spring of the ensuing year.
The section as far as Lindell will not be completed for
four or five years, in consequence of the immense diffi-
culties presented by the earth on this side. The por-
tion from Donauwerth as far as Nuremburg will he com-
menced next year.
VIENNA.—The Austrian Government has determined
that a line shall be promptly commenced between that
capital and Salzburg. The Bavarian Government has
also decided that a railway communication shall be
effected between Munich and Salzburgh. This determi-
nation on the part of the Governments has produced con-
siderable enthusiasm amongst the people. Engineers
from the Austrian capital have lately visited England, in
order td report upon the efficacy of the atmospheric prin-
ciple ; their decision having been in its favour, the Em-
peror has decided on its usage being applied to a line
which is to be constructed between the village of Sim-
mering and Brock.
HAMDURGH.—On the line between this city and Ber-
lin, the number of workmen has been increased from
8,000 to 10,000. The works are continued without
ceasing day and night, as the undertaking ought to be
completed by December next. The workmen are stimu-
lated by higher wages than they have been accustomed
to in their own country.

GROSS IMPOSTURE.—A negro, who at Boston
called himself by the name of Fred. Douglas, and at
Louth, Curtis, has been imposing upon the philanthro-
pic feeling of a number of well-disposed individuals in
' those towns. We last week inserted a paragraph giving
an account of a lecture in the Mansion-house, Louth ;
and in the Town-hall at Boston, on Friday evening, a
crowded meeting, got up at very short notice, listened
to soul-harrowing statements of the sufferings and wrongs
of American slaves. On Saturday evening a still larger
crowd attended, and great interest was felt on behalf of
the supposed Fred. Douglas. Some discrepancies be-
tween his statements and the published account of
" F. Douglas" in Chambers's Journal, together with
other circumstances, excited suspicion that all was
not right and on Sunday morning, the Rev. R. G.
Mason, who had come to Boston to attend the great
temperance festival, seeing the pretender, at once said
he was an impostor, as he had conversed with the real
Frederick Douglas, and heard him speak in Covent-
, garden theatre, at the great demonstration of the
World's Temperance Convention. Still he persisted
that he was F. D. ; but on Monday morning he de-
, camped, taking the Sleaford-road, and it is said lectured
, on Monday night at Heckington. At Barton he said
' his name was John Adams, and that he was born in
Liverpool, of black parents ; in his lectures at Boston
he gave his native place as South Africa, where he was
sold by his parents at twelve years of age. He is a true
African, with the flat nose, thick lips, and woolly hair
of that race, is about five feet six inches high, slen-
derly made, had on a blue cloth cap, rusty surtout, and
dark trousers.—Cambridge Advertiser.
SYDNEY.—The intermediate accounts from Sydney,
state, that the inhabitants in the interior had been vi-
sited by a bushranger, named Wilson, and a gang of
six associates, whose exploits had rendered them quite
notorions. One of their excursions to a place called
Darling Downs is thus degeribed in the letters re-
ceived from Moreton Bay :—" They visited a station,
formerly occupied by a Mr. Gordon, but now taken
up by the Messrs. Hay. The party inside
the dwelling-house, who were just finishing dinner at
dusk, were taken all a-back by seeing half a dozen mus-
kets and pistols presented at their heads, with a polite
request from the gentlemen of the road to sit still until
they performed a few necessary operations in their line.
To the credit of the fellows, they conducted themselves
in a quiet orderly manner, taking the gentlemen's word
of honour that none of the desks or boxes contained
money. One of the gentlemen (Mr. Leslie) had his
watch returned, and his horse was politely placed at his
service. After remaining some hours at the house, and
handing a glass of grog round, they went off, taking
with them a small supply of rations, which they weighed
out, some double-barrelled fowlingpieces, and three
horses, leaving a couple of fowlingpieces behind them.
Singular to say, Wilson handed over to Mr. Leslie 331.,
which he stated he had taken from a poor man in the
New England district, and giving his reasons for having
taken that sum from the man, merely said he had
refused him a feed when he called at his hut.
I need not say the mounted police are on their track ;
but from the known game qualities of the fellows, I
fear they will not submit to be taken quietly. Their
proceedings since coming into the Downs have the com-
plete air of romance, being conducted quite in the Claude
du Val style of marauders. They threatened, while at
the Messrs. Hay's station, to visit one or two gentlemen
for the purpose of punishing them for some particular
acts which had not met with their approbation; but from
the hue and cry raised, little danger is apprehended from
their visit, parties being prepared for their contemplated
attack."

A MISERABLE END.—Mrs. Harriet Pounder was
on Sunday found dead in her own house, lying on three
chairs. lice husband, a pilot, was sitting near the body,
with his head resting on a table asleep. They had both
been seen during the afternoon drunk, and it is sup-
posed she died from suffocation. About eight o'clock
their son entered the house, and found his parents in the
ease described.—Gateshead Observer.