The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-24 00:00:00

lAMB OF RAILWAY.

15 Arbroath and Forfar •••••••• • • • • • • •
Bristol and Birmingham .•••••• • • • • • •
14 Chester and Birkenhead
13 Dublin and Drogheda •••••-•• • • • • • • • •
18 Dublin and Kingstown ••••-•• • • • • • • •
.6 Dundee and Arbroath. •. • ......... • •
[5 Durham and Sunderland... •.•.• . • • • •
15 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • • •••• • • • •
16 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • •
l6Eastern Union.... . • • • • • • • • • •
15 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • •
15 Glasgow and Greenock.. •••• • ..
15 Gravesend and Rochester.• •••••• • • ••
16 Great Western .••• • ••
15 Hartlepool ...... • •
15 London and North Western, &c..
16 London and 81ackwa11..............
15 London and Brighton •••
Londoa and Croydon .
16 London and South Western. •••••• ••
16 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ......
Manchester and Birmingham
15 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc. •
15 Midland Counties ...
15 Newcastle and Darlington • • •. • •
15 Newcastle and Carlisle
18 Newcastle and North Shields.• •••• ••
15 North British .. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • •
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans. .
17 Paris and Rouen .• • •
15 Preston and Wyre.... • •• • •
15 Sheffield and Manchester •••• • •
15 South Eastern •• . . ...
14 South Devon •••.••...••• • • • • • • • • • • •
15 Taff Vale .• ....... ...........

Ulster .
York and North Midland . •. • • • • • • ..

934
1,142
417
607
4,735
8,984

398
2,261
1,241

339
20,453

902
46,284
1,496
9,830

8,181
1,239

7,784
20,902
3,437
2,227
539
1,575
2,127

S3O
1,130

378
400
3,221
6,248

2,002
1,228

283
20,033

8,129
1,419

1,931
10,168
1,145
1,247

748
7,478

589
42,804
1,244
8,593

8,564
1,022

7,G54
17,629
2,948
1,798
569

6,632
7,410
848

1,305
8,246

1,203

593
6,339

HER MAJESTY'S MARINE

EXCURSION.
THURSDAY.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert left Wey-
mouth at six A.M., and proceeded to sea, kept along the
coast, laying-to off Lyme Regis, Sidmouth, Babacomb
Bay, passing through Torbay, and round to Dartmouth, her
Majesty passing the night at anchor in the River Dart.
The royal yacht anchored at a quarter after three .at.
The weather was very wet,And there was a good deal of wind.
FRIDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert left Dartmouth
at six o'clock A.M., and arrived at Plymouth at half-past
nine o'clock.
The Admiral, the Commander of the Forces, and all the
principal naval and military authorities, went on board the
Royal Victoria and Albert yacht, and paid their respects to
her Majesty.
The Countess of Mount Edgecumbe also went off to the
royal yacht, to pay her respects to her Majesty.
The Queen will take an excursion up the town on board
the Fairy, and will be present late in the afternoon at the
launch of the Thetis.

CITY OF LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION.—On
Monday night an interesting lecture was delivered to the
members of this institution in their lecturing hall, Gould-
square, Crutchedfriars, by H. W. Dempsey, Esq., chemical
teacher at the City of Westminster Literary and Scientific
Institution. The subject chosen by the lecturer was carbon,
the properties and combinations of which were illustrated
by numerous brilliant experiments. The lecturer com-
menced by remarking that in almost every case one-half of
the solid substances of the animal and vegetable kingdom is
composed of carbon. This element is seldom found in a
state of parity, and then only in one form, that of the
"diamond,' and no doubt it appeared strange that this
beautiful sparkling gem was the same in chemical compo•
sition as the black porous mass known as charcoal. The
diamond was found capable of being burned, by concen-
trating the sun's rays upon it, as early as the year 1694, but
the real nature of its combustion was not known till
Lavoiser burned a diamond in a vessel of oxygen gas, when
carbonic acid gas was produced in weight exactly equal to
the consumed diamond. The lecturer remarked that the
most common form in which we find carbon is that of char-
coal. Carbon may also be obtained from bones, by burning
them in close vessels, which produce what is called "ivory
black." Another form of carbon is coke. The lecturer then
went into the various combinations of carbon, illustrating his
observations by experiments—alarming his audience with an
occasional explosion, similar in kind, but differing in degree,
to those which take place in mines, through the escape and
ignition of gases, into whose composition carbon largely
enters. The " Davy Lamp" was described, and other inte-
resting matters gone into, illustrating the various properties
of carbon under the different forms and combinations in
which it is presented to us. The whole went off remarkably
well—the lecturer receiving at the conclusion the well-
merited plaudits of his audience.
HoP INTELLIGENCE.--FARNHAM, AUGUST2I.--Should
the weather prove favourable, hop picking will commence
on Monday next in some of the most forward plantations
around this place. Several growers, we are told, anticipate
a crop of twenty to twenty-five cwt. per acre. At Hale, near
Farnham, the hops are generally very good. At Crondall
they are not so tall on the poles, which is accounted for by
the land not being so rich nor of so deep a soil as about
Farnham ; but still many plantations look exceedingly pro-
mising compared with their appearance in the early part of
July last. At Bentley the hops look exceedingly well, if we
except two or three spots or gardens, such till recently were
condemned as not likely to be worth picking, yet now are
very much altered for the better. At Froyle Sir Thomas
Miller has some excellent plantations of hops, expected to
yield double the quantity produced from the same number
of acres last year ; picking is expected to begin next Monday.
At Wennell, near Alton, there are some very fine plantations
only waiting for fine weather to enable the pickers to begin
work. The duty is laid at Farnham, and also at Alton; from
160,000/. to 170,0001., and the produce around is expected to
exceed that of the famed year 1836.
Scincrri OF FRIIIT.—We believe the price now
paid for good ripe fruit is much above what it has been
during the last twenty years. The following comparative
statement shows how scarce and dear good apples, pears, and
stone fruit are :--

1845. 1846.
Pears per p0t...75. Od. to Bs. Od. 28s. Od. to 30s. Od.
Plums ditto ...4s. Od. to ss. Od. 18s. Od. to 225. Od.
Damsons ditto .4s. Od. to ss. Od. 255. Od. to 40s. Od.
Apricots a doz. Os. 4d. to Is. Od. is. 6d. to 3s. Od.
Peaches ditto...ls. Od. to Is. 6d. . 2s. Od. to 3s. 6d.
And so on with other fruits in like proportion.
DARING BURGLARY.-011 Friday information was
circulated among the metropolitan and City police of the
following burglary in Cheapside :—lt appears that be-
tween two and three o'clock on the morning of Monday,
the 17th instant, two individuals were perceived about
Queen-street and other streets adjacent to Cheapside, but
nothing at that particular time was observed in them cal-
culated to arouse suspicion. A few minutes before three
o'clock, however, a noise was heard at the premises of
Messrs. Keates and Leg in &
Leger, hatters, a, No. 74 Cheapside,
situate in a narrow court Soper-lane, Queen-street, and it
was discovered that some persons had effected their escape
therefrom. Upon examination it was ascertained that the
counting-house had been entered, the locks and desks forced
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