The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-02 00:00:00

No. 16,834. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING SUN, SEPTEMBER 2, 1840.

CONTRACT for the SUPPLY OF WOOD
for Lighting Fires at the following BARRACKS, in and near
London —Croydon; Hounslow and Hampton Court ; Hyde Park and
Kensington; Regent's Park, Portman Street, and St. John's Wood;
Tower ; Wellington, St. George's, and Horse Guards ; Woolwich.
Sealed Tenders, addressed to " The Secretary to the Board of Ord-
nance, Pall-mall," will be received at this Office until Thursday the
3rd Sept. next, :rom such persons as may be willing to contract for
the supply of Split, Dry, Sound, Fir Wood, or Cif Split Birch,
Ash, and Hazel, mixed, made up into bundles of one and a half, and
three pounds weight, and nine inches long ; to be firmly bound with
Rope Yarn, and delivered free of every expense (except the Contract
price) into the Barrack Stores, at the respective Stations, at such
times and in such quantities as the Barrack Masters may require,
from the Ist October, 1846. to the 30th September, 1849.
Blank forms of the Tender, and other information relating to the
Contract, may be had on application at the Barrack Offica, 83, Pall-
Mall, or to the respective Barrack Masters.

The Terms for each station are to be stated separately.
It is to be clearly understood that the Board of Ordnance reserve
to themselves the power of accepting or rejecting any of the Tenders,
without assigning any reason or entering into any correspondence on
the subject.

By Order of the Board of Ordnance,
It. BYIIAM, Secretary.

Office of Ordnance, 19th August, 1S4(1,

NATIONAL SECURITY BANK.
Established under the Statute ith and Bth Victoria, cap. 113,
and to be incorporated under Letters Patent.
Temporary Office, No. 163, Fenchurch-street, London.
CAPITAL, 500,0001.,
With power to increase it, if necessary, in FIVE THOUSAND
SHA RES of 1001.—First Deposit 101., to be increased to 501. per
share, as required by the Act before commencing business.
Should the Letters of Incorporation not be obtained, the amount
subscribed will be returned to the shareholders without any deduc-
am whatever.

DIRECTORS.
Barkly, Henry, Esq., M.P., No. 3, Fenchurch-buildings.
Cadogan, William Hodgson, Esq., No. 15, St. James's-place.
Cockburn, W. T., Esq.,-No. 27, Davies-street, Berkeley-square.
Deffell, Henry, Esq., No. 14, Mincing-lane.
Denny,..George,.Esq., No. G 4, Cornhill, and 21, Austin Friars.
Hampden, Rcnn, Esq., M.P., Marlow House, Little Marlow, Bucks.
Hodgson, Richard, Esq., DIP., No. 13 Upper Brook-street, Gros-
venor-Square. • - • • • -
Kirkpatritk,'Sir CharlesS., BarLAMAnnersinith.
Stokes, Henry Graham, Esq., No. 2, Great Knight-rider-street, Doc-
tors' Commons.
Upton, Hon. Edward, No. 7, Eaton-terrace, Eaton-square.
Wright, Augustus, Esq., North Bank Cottage, Regent's-park.
. .

With Tower to add to their number.
GENERAL MANAGER—CharIes Twlgg, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Henry Bruce, Esq., Mincing-lane.
Robert Roscoe, Esq., Torrington-square.
William Tucker, Esq., Cornhill.
SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Sutton, Ewens, Ornman;eytildPrudence, No. 6, Basingball-

street.
Messrs. Capron, Weld, Dawson and Brabant, Saville-place, New
Burlington-street.

BROKERS.
Messrs. Sutton, Gribhle and Sutton, Royal Exchange.
Messrs. Cardwell and Sons, Manchester.
Messrs. Dowling and Howden, Edinburgh.
This Pank will combine the advantages of complete security to
shareholders, depositors, and others, with an ample return upon the
capital invested in the undertaking. This will be accomplished in the
following manner:—

All the funds of the Bank, with the exception of those required for
current purposes, will be invested in Exchequer Bills, India Bonds,
or the Public Funds, and in no other securities whatever.

The various branches of business transacted by other banks will be
undertaken by this Establishment, with the exception of discounts;
but accommodation in this respect will be procurable on the most
favourable terms, through the agency of this Bank.
Advances will be made solely upon the securities specified above,
and no person will be allowed to overdraw his account.

Interest, at the rate of 1 per cent., will be allowed upon Special
Deposits, and the dexter halves of Exchequer Bills, or India Bonds,
of a corresponding amount, will be given, if required, to the depo-
sitor; such deposits, if under 10,0001., may be withdrawn without
node? ; and it amounting to 10,0001., and upwards, at One day's
notice.

With a view to assure the shareholders and depositors of the con-
stant management of the Bank under the rules laid down, and to
keep them at all times acquainted with its condition and security,
there will be three auditors, whose duty it will be at least once in
every month, and as much oftener as they may think proper, to in-
spect the accounts and securities in the Bank, and who will have a
discretionary power to call a special general meeting of the proprie-
tors, at any time they may think such a measure advisable.

A preliminary account has been opened with the Bank of England,
in the names of six of the directors above-mentioned.
The unequalled security which this Establishment will afford to all
classes associated with it, is perhaps a sufficient guarantee for the
patronage of the public, and its consequent success.
. .

The shareholders will find in it a perfectly safe, and at the same
time a more profitable investment than that presented by any Esta-
blishment subject to the well known general risks of the Banking
business, since it will be free from those losses which operate in
other cases as a drawback on the dividend.

Depositors will have, in their own possession, indisputable proof
of the safety of their property, and other persons employing this
Establishment will find all the conveniences attending private or
Joint-Stock Banks.

The outline which has been given will convey a general idea of the
plan. In the prospectus will be found the fullest information, and
an address in which is discussed the system of Banking now in opera-
tion, and the necessity for the introduction of a new system, con-
forming itself to the regulations of the above-mentioned Act of Par-
liament, for the purpose of affording greater security than could
hitherto be obtained, the want of which has been manifested by the
heavy losses which many Joint-Stock Banks have sustained.
Applications for shares, in the annexed Form, may be addressed to
the Secretary, at the Office of the National Security Bank, No. 163,
Fenchurch-street ; to the above Solicitors and Stockbrokers of the
Company; and to the following Solicitors in the country, of whom
copies of the Prospectus aril any information may be obtained :—An-
dover, 11. Footner, Esq. ; Bath, Messrs. Taylor, Kemp and Co., and
Messrs. Crutwell ; Berwick, R. B. Weatherhead, Esq.; :Birmingham,
Messrs. W. and E. S. Palmer ; Bideford, Arthur Ley, Esq.; Boston,
Messrs. Hollway and Harwood ; Brighton, Messrs. G. and 1,1. Faithful ;
Cheltenham, Messrs. Newman, Gwinnett and Ticehurst ; Dublin,
F. T. Mostyn, Esq.; Edinburgh, Messrs. Anderson and Trotter;
Fakenhatn, I. I. Overton, Esq. ; G'asgow, R. Sword, Esq.; Grant-
ham, Messrs. Manners and Son; Halstead, G. P. Arden, Esq.;
Haverfordwest, G. Parry, Esq. ; Holt, W. Withers, Esq. ; Kettering,
Messrs. Lamb and Nettleship ; Mansfield, W. Woodcock, Esq.;
Newcastle, Messrs. J. Adamson and Sons; Newport, (I. of W.)
Messrs. Griffiths and Soils ; Preston, Messrs. Grimshaw ; Ross, W.
P. Hooper, Esq. ; Salisbury, J. Cobb, Esq.; Stoke, J. 11. Jardine,
Esq. ; Stratford, J . Otway, Esq. ; Stroud, G. Edwards, Esq. ; Sudbury,
Messrs. Ransom and Tiffin ; Tamworth, I. B. B. Stevens, Esq. ;
Teignmouth, Messrs. Tozer and Mackenzie ; Ware, J. F. Green,
Esq. ; Weymouth, R. C. Phillips, Esq.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SIIARES.
To the Directors of the National Security Bank.
I desire to subscribe for shares in the National Security
Bank ; and I hereby engage to pay the deposit of 101. per share on
such number of shares as may be granted to me, and to sign the
deed of settlement.

I am, &c.

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RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
FATE OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE LINES.
In December last we published a list of the thirty-nine
Lincolnshire lines (projected)for which applications were
to be made to Parliament; Row that the session is over,
and the warfare closed, the result of the contest will be
interesting.

Of these thirty-nine lines, twenty-two were intended
to come to or through Lincoln; out of these, seven lines
have been passed, and the branch of No. 12, and of these
three lines only come to the city.
GROUP I.
No. 1. The London and York.—Passed in its in-
tegrity. Loop included. The SheffieM and Wakefield
Branches (separate Bills) were rejected.
No. 2. The Direct Northern.—The shares amalga-
mated with the London and York. The line itself aban-
doned.

No. 3. The Cambridge and Lincoln.—Rejected in
Committee of House of Commons.

No. 4. Eastern Counties.—Extension from Cambridge
to York, rejected with No. 3.
No. 5. Eastern Counties.—Zxtension from Lincoln to
York, rejected with No. 3.
No. 6. Eastern Counties.—March and Lincoln Exten-
sion.—Terms made with the Wisbech and St. Ives.
No. 23, line passed from March to Spalding.
GROUP II
.

No. 7. Lincoln and Hull Line.—The money was not
deposited. Dropped through.
No. 8. Hull and Lincoln.--preamble declared not
proved in the Commons. 17s. 6d. per share has been re-
turned on deposit (2/. 25.).
No. 9. Great Grimsby and Sheffield Extension from
Lincoln to Market Rasen.—Passed. This line commu-
nicates at Market Rasen with the Great Grimsby and
Sbeflield lbw, passed. lest year. -It gislea.a4kgeustiiiia,
from Hull to Lincoln, and running into the Nottingham
and Lincoln station there, with the Midland Counties
and the 'West of England. It will join the Loop line of
the London and York, about six miles east of Lincoln,
and thus give a direct line from Hull to London.
No. 10. The Great Grimsby, Louth, Horncastle, Lin-
coln, and Midlands Junctions.—Dissolved before going
into Committee. 1/. ls. per share has been returned on
the deposit (2/. 25.), and 10s. 6d. more is expected.
GROUP 111.

No. 11. The Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction line,
from Lincoln, through East Retford and Worksop to the
station of the Sheffield and Manchester line at Sheffield,
with a branch from Retford to Gainsborough, there join-
ing the Great Grimsby and Sheffield line. Passed.
This line gives a direct communication from Lin-
coln to Sheffield, Rotherham, Manchester, and
Liverpool, and the branch to Gainsborough gives
the same advantage to North Lincolnshire, Great
Grimsby and Hull. The Great Grimsby and
Sheffield Junction passed last year was somewhat mis-
named, being, in fact, only a line from Gainsborough
to Great Grimsby, with one branch northwards to New
Holland, and another southward to Market Rasen.
The Sheffield and Lincoln line now passed gives the
junction with Sheffield and the west, and it is expected
that the Sheffield and Manchester, the Sheffield and
Lincoln, and the Great Grimsby and Sheffield will be
shortly amalgamated into one company.
No. 12. The Manchester and Lincoln Union. This
was an opposing line with the Sheffield and Lincoln,
over exactly the same ground, with the addition of a
branch from Worksop to Chesterfield. This branch (by
arrangement with the Sheffield and Lincoln) is passed.
The line itself abandoned.

No. 13. The Direct Lincoln, East Retford, and
Sheffield did not collect sufficient funds to make the
deposit.
No. 14. The Lincoln, Wainfleet, and Boston Haven.
The plans were found to be very defective, and the line
never went before Standing Orders' Committee.
21. Is. 6d. per share of the deposit (2/. 12s. 6d.) has
been returned.

great works, that is, the viaducts at Mereville, Barentin,
and Malaunay, are on the eve of completion. Indeed,
the latter is entirely finished, and the rumours spread
abroad of its defectiveness happily proved to be un-
founded. For several days back it has been subjected
to a very severe test; a dead weight consisting of a
quantity of ballasting, estimated at several times the
weight of the heaviest train that will ever pass over it,
has been laid on the top, and over that again trains have
been passed. Hitherto no symptoms of sinking has been
observed. It is reported also that the interests of the
Rouen and Havre and Paris and Rouen lines will shortly
be amalgamated. Those persons who are interested in
either of these lines will be glad to learn that measures
are about to be taken that must secure to the Havre line
nearly all the traffic between that town and Paris. The
Rouen people have succeeded at length in obtaining a
Government grant for improving the bed of the Seiae, to
enable them to compete with the railway in the carriage
of merchandise. To contend against this rival, the rail-
way company have commenced erecting in the vicinity of
the Havre station, and parallel with the rails, an immense
pile of warehouses, which are intended to serve as a grand
entrepot for merchandise of every description, whether
going to or returning from Rouen to Paris. On the
opposite side of the rails, and adjoining the Bassen
Vauban, a series of dry docks will also be prepared, so
that vessels with wine, spirits, &c., may land their car-
goes into the railway warehouses, where they will be
ready for transmission into the interior. We believe an
association, in connexion with the railway company, is
about to be formed for the purpose of carrying out this
object; and, independent of the beneficial consequences
that are likely to result from it in a commercial sense, it
will meet with encouragement by the people of Havre
from the fact that it will be the means of conferring a
jastiug benefit on the town, by removing to a distance
-the danger of destructive fires. There at* few if any
sea ports in Europe so inconveniently and dangerously
crowded, or as it were conglomerated together; so
much so, that should a fire of any extent unhappily
break out in the vicinity of the docks, it would, in all
probability share the fate of Hamburgh.—.Brighten
Guardian.

RETURN TICKETS ON THE GREAT WESTERN.—AS an
erroneous idea prevails respecting the new regulation on
the Great Western Railway, which came into operation
yesterday, relative to return tickets, it is necessary to
caution the public that they will only be available for a
distance not exceeding 50 miles on the same day, except
those issued for this distance on Saturday, which are
available for the return journey on Monday ; not ex-
ceeding 100 miles on the same or the next day (Sunday
not being counted) ; exceeding 100 miles on the same
day, or either of the next two days (Sunday not being
counted):; and then subject to the following conditions

—viz., the ticket is not -transferable. It is to be shown
at the end of the first journey, to be marked by the
ticket collector, and upon the return journey it must be
shown to the clerk at the station, to have it restamped ;
otherwise the person will be liable to pay the full fare
back. The rate charged for return tickets is one-third
less than the full fare for the double journey, and they
are only allowed to first and second-class passengers.

EASTERN UNION RAILWAY.
Irswrca, MONDAY EVENING.—The half-yearly meet-
ing of the shareholders of this Company was held this
afternoon, at the company's offices, in Brook-street. The
meeting was also made special to confirm the purchase
of the Hadleigh Junction Railway, to authorise the
directors to call in the old Harwich line scrip, and to
reissue new scrip in such a manner as might be deemed
expedient ; to sanction an application to Parliament for
powers to construct a branch line to Harwich from Man-
ningtree, and to raise 20,0001. by issuing new shares.
Mr. J. C. Cobbold took the chair.

Mr. J. F. SAtiiinEns, the secretary, read the report.
It stated the Eastern Union line was opened for traffic
on the 15th of June, and the results hitherto have ex-
ceeded the expectations which your directors enter-
tained of the first receipts upon it. With only three
engines the returns have varied, since the first week,
between 4001. and 4751. A slight re-action in pas-
senger traffic occurred during the operations of the
harvest ; but such has Anvariably been found to be
the case in agricultural districts, and naturally ex-
plains itself. In the last week for which the returns
have been made, namely, to 23d August, the receipts are
again 478/. 15s. 7d., and in the week just concluded, at
your own stations they have still further increased, and
the through trains have been better than any since the
line opened. The traffic, although large (for it now
exceeds 1,4501. per mile annually), is limited much by
the want of locomotive power ; and your directors have
been subjected to delays in procuring it which were be-
yond their control. The works of Messrs. Hawthorn
and Co., from whom they were to receive, in July, three
engines, were destroyed by fire; but from that establish-
ment, and from Messrs. Sharp, Brothers, and Co., six
other engines are expected in a very short time. The
opening of the line to Bury, and successively to Diss
(to which point the works are comparatively easy), and
onwards to Norwich, justifies them in expressing a con-
fident opinion that, with the traffic fully developed, the
seventeen miles of line will give the proprietors
as large a dividend as any railway in England.
Economy will be practised, and the working ex-
penses kept down as much as possible, consistent
always with the observance of regularity, and with the
perfect safety of the public. Up to this period not an
accident, or even misfortune, has happened between
Ipswich and Colchester, and a solitary instance only
has been reported of a train being behind time
on arriving at Colchester. Those details will
not be deemed by the proprietors trivial and
unnecessary, as the directors are desirous that the
arrangements, which really do credit to the engineer
of your Company, and to the superintendence of the
traffic and stations, should be known to the public.
The directors have the means of assuring you
that the contracts for making the line from the junction
of the present line at Haughley to Norwich, have been
determined upon by the Ipswich and Bury Company,
that the ceremony of turning the first sod at the Nor-
wich end is fixed for an early day, and further, that the
whole undertaking will be prosecuted with undiminished
vigour into the city of Norwich, where an excellent
station will necessarily command the largest and best
portion of the through traffic.
The CHAIRMAN said, since the opening of the line
50,000 persons had travelled by it, giving an average
of 5,000 weekly. With a view of developing the
merits of the line and the ports of Ipswich and Har-
wich, experiments had been made to the opposite coast,
which, as they would be aware, proved the most satis-
factory, and in the course of next year an arrange-
ment would be made that would give the shareholders
the benefit of those experiments. He now wished
to allude to two memorials which had been pre-
sented to the directors, soliciting the withdrawal of all
trains that arrived in or departed from the town on
Sunday. They were signed by many clergymen and
gentlemen of much weight in the neighbourhood. He
could assure them that the board of directors were
anxious to pay every observance to the Lord's day;
but, after giving the matter every consideration, they
found they could not consent to the prayer of the
memorialists. There were only two trains that ar-
rived and departed in the course of the day; and they
were so arranged that they did not run during the
periods of Divine service. To effect that alteration they
were obliged to apply to the directors of the Eastern
Counties Railway to change the time of one of the
trains, who met their desire in the most honourable

way, and acceded to the proposition, notwithstand-
ing they would and had received a practical loss in
income. There were a great many parties who,
being closely confined during the week, had only
the Sabbath to visit their friends or enjoy the pure air
of heaven, and now that the ordinary means of travelling
had been removed by the construction of the railway, he
did not think that they ought to close the only con-
veyance left them, and that on a day on which only they
could avail themselves of it.—(Hear.) Therefore, in
justice to the public and the poorer and industrious
classes, the directors could not accede to the suggestions
contained in the memorials. He for one did not think

that they ought to prevent the poor from breathing pure
air even on a Lord's day.
Mr. JOHNSON, of Ilalesworth, regretted the determi-
nation the directors had come to. They were reaping
the fruits of Sunday trading, a traffic which created
drunkenness and many other abominations on the Sab-
bath. He intreated the board to reconsider the subject,
and use their influence to stop the trains running on that
sacred day.
The Rev. Mr. SMYTUERS, of Colchester, approved of
the course the directors had taken. The making re-
ligion a bugbear did more harm than good. It was
monstrous to curtail the enjoyments of the poorer classes
on the Sabbath, the only day they could recruit their
strength by breathing the fresh air of the country.
After some further discussion on the matter, nearly all
persons coneurring in the conduct of the directors, the
report was adopted.
The resolution confirming the purchase of the Had-
leigh Junction was then put and carried, as also those
for creating 20,0001. by new shares, and the sanctioning
of another appeal to Parliament for leave to construct a
branch to Harwich.

MAN CHESTER and SOUTHAMPTON

RAILWAY.

ANDOVER, MONDAY.—A large and influential meet-
ing of the clergy, gentry, and other respectable in-
habitants of this borough and neighbourhood, interested
in this line, was held in the Town-hall this day, con-
vened by requisition to the mayor. The requisitionists
haaing heard with regret that the Bill recently before
Parliament, fur making a railway communication between
Manchester and Southampton through Andover, had
been thrown out by the Committee of the House of
Lords, and feeling the great advantages that would arise
to the town and neighbourhood, and to the public
generally, if such an undertaking were carried out, con-
sidered it advisable to urge the directors of the under-
taking to renew their application to Parliament in the
next session. The disappointment, says our corre-
spondent, in this borough among the shareholders and
inhabitants generally, scarcely knew bounds on its first
becoming known that the Committee of the Lords had
rejected the Bill, as not only Andover, but Whitchurch,
Stockbridge, Marlborough, and other important towns,
are yet without railway communication, much to the
pecuniary injury of every tradesman, it costing at the
, present time more for the transmission of heavy goods

from the station to Anedcrver (ten miles) than it does for
the whole of the other- distance, either from London or
Southampton—to the great deterioration of trade
generally—as the price of articles, such as groceries,
coals, building materials, &c., have to be kept up in price
in this borough, so that t. he retailers or tradesmen may
get a profit, or compete w ith tradesmen at Winchester,
and other towns on the lbw.

henry Earle, Esq., was voted to the chair.
Mr. HENRY MARSH, of Hatherden, stated the benefits
that must be derived by this line passing through
Andover. Were not all the inns half shut up? There
was nothing to bring people to Andover at the present
time without railway ; therefore the more they had
through the town the beCer it would be ; therefore he
said persevere, and you t oust eventually prosper.
Mr. B. HammNs, draper, seconded the resolution.
I All the opposition had be en withdrawn or overcome, but
from the Great Western, and they, it appears, had in-
fluence sufficient with five of the Lords to cause the re-
jection of this measure. Fle concluded by expressing a
hope that the second attempt would be more successful
than the first.—(Applause.)
Mr. HENRY LOSCOMBE, solicitor, proposed as an
amendment, " That the meeting should not bind them-
selves to any particular lino of country." His opinion
was, that a line by way of Didcot would be more direct
and of greater advantage than through Marlborough.
Mr. FOWLE thought not, as the present proposed
line went more into the heart of the iron and other
large manufacturing districts.
Mr. W. H. HEATH, banker, expressed himself in
favour of the original plan.
After some further discussion the amendment was
withdrawn.

Mr. JOHN POORE, spirit merchant, proposed the
second resolution. He feared some under speculation
.eceatributed to getting it thrs_wjakiii—CCleers)—while
such noblemen as the Earl orApTinr-s, supported and
approved of the line, he thought they had but little to
fear. When he heard that a Russell was the chief op-
ponent, and had the greater share in getting this Bill
rejected, he at first thought it was the present Prime
Minister.

Mr. FOWLE, of the firm of Tasker and Fowle, large
iron-founders, seconded the resolution.
Mr. SANDERS proposed an amendment to the follow-
ing effect :—That this should be a free and independent
line, unconnected with the Great Western or the South
Western Companies, which was ultimately negatived.
The following resolution was passed unanimously :
" That the inhabitants of this town, having learnt with
deep regret that the Manchester and Southampton Rail-
way Bill has been rejected by a committee of the House
of Lords, upon the opposition principally of the Great
Western Railway Company, and not from any deficiency
of its merits or want of proof of its necessity or im-
portance to the district through which it was intended
to pass, and being fully convinced of the immense utility
and advantage such a line of railway, if made, would
prove to the public generally, and to this town and
neighbourhood in particular, do earnestly request the
committee of management and directors of the Man-
chester and South-Western Railway Company to renew
their application to Parliament in the ensuing session,
for an Act for making the same, and in that case do
engage to give their cordial support to such applica-
tion."—(Cheers.)

EFFECTS OF RAILWAYS ON

AGRICULTURE.
The advantages which have accrued to agricultural pro-
duce from the facilities afforded by railway communication
of conveying their produce to market, as well as the reci-
procal advantages derived by the consumer, have been
rendered apparent wherever the railway system has been
adopted. In the neighbourhood of large cities, such as
London, Paris, and New York, the fact is particularly re-
markable. it has been proved that since the opening of
the London and Birmingham, the Great Western, the
South-Western, and the Eastern Counties lines, the
metropolis has been better supplied with milk, butter,
cheese, poultry, and the general articles of farm produce,
than at any former period. Nor has it been only with re-
spect to the quantity supplied that the advantages of
rapid communication have been demonstrated. The
quality, too, of the articles referred to has undergone pro-
portionate improvement, and it is well known with respect
to milk, that that article as now sold in the metropolis,
is no longer of a quality so artificial that it might be
doubted whether, in strict propriety of language, the
name milk could be applied to it. From the means of
transport which are now so abundantly within their
reach, the farmers of Essex, Warwickshire, Oxford-
shire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Hampshire find
a n ady market in the metropolis for articles which
they formerly never dreamed of ssnding thither. In
former times London was chiefly supplied with arti-
cles of a perishable nature from a circuit comprehending
parts of Middlesex, Essex, Kent, and Surrey, with a
radius of not more than three or four miles. The speed
of railway conveyance being seven or eight times that
by cart or waggon (in the times referred to the means
of conveyance) the consequence has been, that such
articles are now supplied to the metropolis from
a circuit seven or eight times the length of
that which formerly supplied them ; consequently
the land now available for the metropolitan markets
is from forty-nine to sixty-four times its former
extent. The profits accruing to dairy farmers from
their sale of milk have increased 300 or 400 per
cent., and the number of cows now reared for the
purposes of the dairy, are eight to one what they
were formerly. Equal encouragement has arisen
from the same cause for the cultivation of vege-
tables of every denomination. But the advantages
of railways to farmers are almost more remarkably
evinced in the superior supply which now exists
of animal food to the metropolis. Before the com-
mencement of the railway system, the animal food
supplied to the London market was not only defective
in quantity, but unwholesome in quality—comparatively,
at least, with what it might have been had the tract from
which it could have been supplied been rendered more ex-
tensive. Formerly, cattle from a long distance were always
driven to Smithfield ; now they are conveyed in railway
carriages adapted for the especial purpose. More or less
injury was always sustained by the animals from the
fatigues of the journey, and their value was considerably
lessened owing to the inferior quality of the meat from
being slaughtered in a diseased state. But it was not
merely the fatigue of travelling which injured the
animal, but also the absence from its accustomed pasture.
The transport of calves and lambs from a greater dis-
tance than 30 miles was formerly altogether impractic-
able. Now, however, these and other live cattle are
brought from all parts to London, in as many hours as
they formerly took days to travel. To convey cattle
without injury, not only speed, but evenness of motion is
indispensable, which two requisites are answered by
railway communication. The same results have
been shown in connexion with the lines which now
diverge from different parts of Paris. A French-
man consumes, on an average, triple the quantity of
milk consumed by an Englishman ; and from the
facilities which the farmer, to a distance of 40 or 50 miles
from Paris, now enjoys of conveying his produce thither,
Parisians are supplied with abundance of their favourite
article. Fruit and all kinds of vegetables, grown at a
distance, also find a new market in Paris ; while the
increase which has taken place within the last two
years, in the French capital, in the consumption of
butcher's meat, also forms a no less interesting subject
of observation as springing from the same cause. Cattle
are now brought to the Parisian market from Brittany
and Normandy by railway, as also from all other loca-
lities with which the same means of communication
exist. A New York paper makes known the fact, that
the factitious value which tracts of land immediately
surrounding that city maintained previous to the esta-
blishment of railways, has been since moderated, and a
portion of their advantages transferred to the more re-
mote districts ; thus equalising the value of agricultural
property, and rendering it, in a great measure, inde-
pendent of local circumstances.

SUMMER CHOLERA—ITS CAUSES
There is a much more efficient and much more proba-
ble cause than either pickled salmon or plums. Under
the streets of our best-drained towns and cities there is a
widely
extended magazine of miasmata. That magazine
is hidden from our view, yet it is übiquitous. It enters
every court and alley, and during the heat of summer it
is put into fearful activity, and night and day evolves
many thousand cubit inches of foul air; and that foul air
is often imperceptible to the senses. Nobody suspects it
is evolved and ascends from every gully-hole, until pre-
viously to or during rain, when it is held in solution in
the aqueous vapour of the atmosphere, and becomes per-
ceptible to the sense of smell. People will answer you,
if you inquire the condition of their house drainage,
" Oh, it is very good ; the drain in the back kitchen
never smells except against rain ; it is very sweet in-
deed." Yet night and day a miasmis ascending from
the cess-pool called the sweet drain, through the sink-
hole in that " sweet back kitchen," and infecting the air
of the whole house. But whether it stinks or not it is
of very little consequence ; it may have no smell, or no
unpleasant smell, and yet be a deadly poison. There is
no smell in pure carbonic acid gas, and it is only an in-
nocent odour of rgarlie that characterises the fumes of
arsenic ; yet both these are deadly things. What is
offensive to the sense of smell is injurious to the system,
or some part of it ; that is generally true ; but the
reverse is not true ; you cannot say that what is
inoffensive to the sense of smell is not injurious. I
hold it, then, as an established principle, that
the malaria arising from the abominable sewers,
especially in the metropolis, where water-closets and
crowded churchyards abound, is the fruitful source of our
summer epidemics ; and you may rely upon this, that
wherever you have cholera or typhus epidemic, there you
have a source of malaria. I always inquire into this
matter, and I always give the sufferer or sufferers a
practical lesson in hygiene, whether they be poor or rich.
You find a family suffering froea cholera or fever, and
there is a filthy drain close by. You say to the head of
that family, " Would you like to know why you all have
the cholera? It is that abominable drain." The answer
will be, " It is really most nauseous, sir, but our landlord
will do nothing." " Well, thee," answer, " pay a pound
or two a-year more rent, in a healthier spot, where the
landlord will do something ; you will more than save the
sum in escaping sickness." Now, this is a way of effect-
ing sanitory reform without an Act of Parliament, and a
very effectual way too.—Medical Gazette : Dr. Lay-
, cock's Lectures.