The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.
We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
• received on the principal Railways of Great Britain
for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed
to each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandize s. d. •
Oct. 2. Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,354 18 10
1. Birmingham and Gloucester 2,087 7 4
2. Dundee and Arbroath 249 19 1
3. Eastern Counties
2. GlasgoW and Ayr 1,125 0 10
Ghts,iow, Paisley and Greenock 885 2 a
Sept 25. Grand Junct. & Chester& Crewe 9,489 .• 4 7
Oct -:•4-."Great 'North of England 1,457 14. 6
3. Great Western 13,115 17 6
2. Hull and Selby 1,160 15 3
2. Lancaster and Preston Junction 551 16 3
1. Liverpool and Manchester 5,520 8 10
2. London and Birmingham 17,741 10 10
7. London and- Blackwall 875 11 5
7. London and Brighton
.... Ditto Shoreham Branch
5. 'London and'erOydon
7. London and Greenwich 846 19 6
2. London and Sim th-Western....
Sept. 30. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 6OB 6 5
Oct. 4. Manchester and Birmingham
Sept. 27. Manchester and Leeds 4,854 0 10
Oct. 2. Midland Counties
2. Newcastle and Carlisle 1,752 19 2
3. Northern and Eastern
2. North Midland
1. North Union 1,257 4 3
2. Preston and Wyre 3BB 17 2
3. Ulster lBO 17 7
4. York and North Midland 1,884 16 2

FIRST CATHOLIC APPOINTMENT BY SIR
EDWARD SUGDEN.—The Right lion. the LOH Chancel-
lor has been pleased to appoint Joseph O'Leary, Esq.,
Barrister-at-law, to the office of Secretary for Lunatic
Wards of Chancery.—Register. [Mr. O'Leary is a na-
tive of our city, and nephew to our worthy townsman
John O'Connell (Kerry-hall). We understand he owes
his selection simply to the genuine ability and legal
knowledge evinced in his published works, which at-
tracted the notice of his Lordship ; and we hail this
early indication of patronage bestowed on merit alone,
aloof from all party considerations,]—Southern Reporter.
" A few days ago," says the Journal de Cher,
"a warrant was issued against a young man belonging
to a respectable family at Bourges, upon a charge of
having threatened the lives of several members of his
family. When the Commissary arrived to execute the
warrant, the young man, who was in bed, refused to
obey it, and some gendarmes were sent for, but on their
arrival, the young man had barricaded himself in his
room, and threatened to kill any person who should
attempt to arrest him. To prevent bloodshed the gen-
darmes withdrew, but kept a watch on the house. Shortly
afterwards, however, a crowd collected, and the young
man presented himself at an open window, with a pistol
in his hand, threatening to blow out the brains of the
first person who should enter his room. The Com-
missary of Police, after having in vain exhorted the
young man to surrender himself, quietly ordered the
gendarmes to do their duty, and they accordingly broke
open the doors and entered. The Commandant of the
gendarmerie, who preceded his men, five in
number, urged the infuriated youth to give himself
up, promising that he should not be ill-treated, but, the
latter, addressing one of the gendarmes, who had his
musket pointed at him, said, I will not surrender—
fire.' The gendarme said he would not fire first, upon
which the young man discharged his fowling-piece,
which was loaded with slugs and small shot. One of
the slugs struck the Commandant on the hip, but without
inflicting a serious wound, and another hit one of the
gendarmes under the right eye. The gendarme who
had first pointed his musket now fired it, and the ball
struck the arm of the young man, and came out at his
shoulder. It was at first thought that he was killed,
and one of the gendarmes went up to him. At this
moment, however, he drew out a pistol, and was about
to fire, when he was disarmed and made prisoner. Three
other loaded pistols was found upon him. The wounded
gendarme was taken to the hospital, where the ball that
he had received was extracted, and it was not expected
that any thing serious would ensue. The wound of the
young man is serious, but not mortal."
The General Steam Navigation Com t any's
packet, the Columbine, W. Norwood, from Rotterdam,
arrived off the Custom-house at ten o'clock, A.M., on Sun-
day, with the Dutch mail.
When the peopli of nearly all Europe were
under Church and feudal rules, part belonged to the
Church, part to the Noble Barons, and a very small part
were then free, as the name " freemason" implies the
only portion then possessing any useful knowledge. The
freemasons of the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries
were a most important class of working men, travelling
with their master mason from country to country to
build castles for the nobles, and cathedrals, and churches,
and monasteries for the priests. This is an important
point to bear in mind, for their knowledge only gave
them their liberty—both priests and nc.bles wanted them,
and neither party would consent that they should be-
long to the other : if any of them were taken by the
Barons ,the Church claimed them, and if any of them
were taken by the Church the Barons claimed them—
hence came the associates, and diplomas, and lodges, and
the secret words and signs by which they made known
their title and right as freemasons. They paid no tithes
or taxes whatever, and were supported by their lodges
when on their travel, and this it is necessary to bear in
mind to understand well the social organization of feu-
dalism.—Bread Eaters' Advocate.
THE KIRK.—Sit William Rae has published a
letter, in which he declares he never said that the Min-
ikry had a Bill for the settlement of the Church queE-
tion,lo, propose to Parliament. All he admits that he
prOMised was, that this very difficult subject should be
maturely and earnestly considered by the Government
with which he is connected.
NARROW ESCAPE OF AN lANDIMAN IN THE
RIVER.—On Saturday morning, as the large ship Lon-
don, Capt. Shuttleworth, from Calcutta, with a general
cargo, valued at upwards of 100,000/., was proceeding up
the river for the London Docks, in tow of the Samson
and Don steam tugs, she, by some mismanagement, was
run stem on the ground a little above the Dolphin, near
to the Lower Shadwell entrance of the Docks, and re-
mained fast. She was subsequently safely moored in the
cast basin of the London Dock.

SIGHT AND HEARlNG.—Patronized by their
Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover, and their Royal
Highnesses the late Princess Augusta, the Princess Sophia,
her Serene Highnesg the Princess Esterhazy, the Princesses
Mary and Rosa, her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Bed-
ford, and their Graces the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the
Dukes of Norfolk, Devonshire, Manchester, and Marlborough,
Marquises of Hertford, Londonderry, Sligo, and Thomond, Earls
of Shaftesbury, Tankerville, Harewood, Powis, Bradford, Wick-
low, Verulam, Harrowby, Buckinghamshire, Meath, Somers, Ox
ford, Lisburne, and Ferrers, Bishops of Exeter, Blandford,
Lincoln, Cork, Elphin, and Kildare, Lords Hill, Cowley, &c. &c.
In addition to the above distinguished patronage to the Newly-
Invented Spectacle Lenses and Sound Magnifiers Invisible
Operative Voice Conductor, Means. S. and B. Solomons, 39,
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and 76,
King William.street, City, state that their valuable inventions have
also gained the sanction and unqualified approbation of above four
hundred of the principal members of the medical profession. Imme-
diately these Newly invented Spectacle Lenses are placed before
extremely imperfect vision, that mist and dullness which
appear before the eyes is at once removed, every object be-
comes clear and distinct, so that the most aged imperfect sight be.
comes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its youthful, natural,
and original state. Their Invisible Operative Voice Conductor
Sound Magnifiers for deaf persons, is not the 'cast perceptible nor
uncomfortable ; they give immediate relief to old standing extreme
cases of deafness, and the faintest whisper at a public assembly is
heard with exact distinctness.-39, Albemarle street, opposite the
York Hotel, and 76, King William.street, City.—No connection
with persons of the same name.

MAGNIFICENT COLUMN BSTWEEN ROSS
AND WEXFORD.--General Browne Clayton, of Adling-
ton Hall, near Wigan, who commanded the 12th Light
Dragoons, has erected this column to commemorate the
conquest of Egypt,- under the command of Sir Ralph
Abercromby, 1.8. It stands on the rock of Carrig-a-
Dagon, adjoining the mail-coach road, and presents to
the eye one of the most beautiful and classic ornaments
of which Ireland can boast. It is a fac-simile of the
celebrated Pompey's Pillar at Alexandria, in Egypt,
which presented itself to the gallant army on the day
the brave commander received his mortal wound.—Bol•
ton Free Press.

A war steamer has been just built and com-
pleted for sea at New York, for the Emperor of Russia.
She is 2,468 tons burthen, and is called the Karnschitka ; on trial it was found that under steam only she
made nine knots, and with the aid of some of her can-
vass, thirteen knots an hour; she has 600-horsepower,
her spar deck is ‘,40 feet in length, on which she has
two ten-inch, with two eight-inch hollow shot gun?
(Paixhan's) and ten 36-pounders; she is built wholly of
American wood and metal, at a cost of 400,000 dollars.
NAVAL STATIONS.—Tbere is a report that it
is the intention of the Admiralty to replace the Admirals
on the South American and Cape stations as they for-
merly were ; that is to say, that Admiral Thomas is to
be stationed at Rio Janeiro, and Sir Edward King to
have the Cape and African command as before. Lord
John Hay is to go into the Pacific with a blue broad
pennant in the Warspite. It has long been deemed
proper and right that the West India command should
be divided above all others, as it is far too large for any
one flag officer, extending as it does over fifty degrees of
latitude ! There ought to be a Commodore to super-
intend our South Australian colonies and New Zealand,
&c., more particularly so as the French have a force in
those seas.—Naval and Military Gazette.
Two evenings ago, a man, by his seditious vo-
ciferations, collected a crowd round him in the rue Saint
Martin, and led his auditors to the rue Vertbois and the
rue Saint Appoline, continuing his senseless exclama-
tions, but without being able to excite any sympathy in
his auditprs. At length a police-officer came up, and,
without any opposition, seized the agitator, and took him
before a Commissary. He proved to be an old offender,
who had a sort of mania fur rendering himself notorious,
and had before been in custody for similar proceedings.
YOUNG MEN'S ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIA-
TION.—We are glad to hear of the increasing success of
the above Association. To facilitate the enrolment of
members in all parts of London, the Committee have
determined to organise District Committees, a public
meeting for which purpose will be held at King's-cross,
next Friday evening, to be followed by others in West-
minster, Islington, Southwark, and elsewhere in the
metropolis.

BRIBERY AT ELECTIONE.-(FIOM a Corre•
spondent.)—Sir R. Peel says he will join heartily in any
scheme likely to effect the destruction of bribery and
corruption at elections. Then let him adopt short Par-
liaments. Candidates will not bribe largely for every
short tenure.

The insurrection in Navarre will probably delay
Prince Francisco de Paulo's visit to Madrid.