The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

on the 3d. instant, -left this port on the 7th for
Gibraltar and England. She has been four years
in commission, and will be paid off on her arrival
home.
On leaving port the Superb was cheered by the
soldiers in the Fort St. Elmo, which cheers were
responded to from on board. This vessel is nowin
a state of most efficient discipline, and has a crew
so firmly united, and so zealous, that she rnay safely
be classed as ons of the best organised vessels in th•
service.

OCTOBER 14, Tivo P.m.—The mails by French
steamer from the Levant are about to close, and up
to the present moment the Indian ma,il is not sig-
nalled.

Corfu having put itself into communication with
Greece, vessels from that place are subjected, on ar-
rival here, to quarantine. The Antelope, arrived
yesterday, is refused pratique.

itAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. -
BAVARIAN RAILWAYS.—A letter from Munich
states that the dine from Neuwark to Hof has just
been terminated. This line, which at Hof forsthx a
junction with the railway from that city to the fr. n-
tier of Saxony, and opens communication with Pl‘.l er,
is of the length of thirty-two leagues, which
been repeatedly run over in two hours and'it4-41f. _
In order to accustom the men to the line expeme atal
trips will continue until the first of next month, when
it will be opened to the public.
EAST AND WEST YORSHIRE.—An adjourned meet-
ing of this company was held at Knareshorough ?pi
Friday last, to receive the report of a dent.tatiqn
which had been appointed to wait upon Mr. litddsoti,
the chairman of the York and North Midland, the
York and Newcastle, and other railway cbrapanies,
to see if he would not lease the East and West York.
shire line, or make some arrangement for working it,
in consequence of the Leeds and Think Railway
having refused to carry into effect the arrugement
they had made for leasing the line. Mr. J. Dent pre-
sided. After the deputation had presented their re-
port, some discussion took place, and it was agreed
that, in accordance with his offer to the deputation,
Mr. Hudson should be allowed to work the line for
some time, in order that he may be the better able 10
see what it will produce. The line will be opened on
Monday next from Hay-park, near linaresborough,
to the junction with the York and Newcastle Rail-
way, a short distance north of York ; and three trains
will euvl each way daily between York and Knares-
Wrung... A correct account of everything is to be
kept, and to be open to the inspection of the directors
of the East and West Yorkshire Company; and if
they are dissatisfied with the working Of the line the
agreement may be terminated at the expiration of
three months' notice. It was also determined at the
meeting to enforce the payment of the calls in arrear
as promptly as possible, and to endeavour by every
means to obtain from the Leeds and Thirsk Cempany
the payment of 6,0001., due from them for the Joint
work done on the Nidd viaduct contract, which money
has already been paid by the East and West York-
shire Company.
The completion and opening of the Scottish Mid-
land Junction enables goods to be conveyed without
change of vehicle from London to the north of
Scotland. Goods are also deliverable, without
transhipment on the journey, between Montrose,
Brechin, Forfar, and Glasgow, on the afternoon of
the same day. Scotch cattle are also conveyed unin-
terruptedly to the Edinburgh and Glasgow, and Liver-
pool and Manchester markets.
THE RAILWAY TO RTE.--This work is feat
progressing toward: the town from Ashford, and in
the course of a few weeks the ballasting engines and
waggons will reach to the Channel, close to the town,
where a swing-bridge is being erected to bring the
railway over the Rother to the foot of Rye-hill, where
the road will be intersected by the railway. At this
point some difficulty may probably be experienced,
because of the bridge required to be erected to carry
the turnpike-road over the railway.—Sussex Express.
GRIMSBY. -- The railway between Hull and
Grimsby, belonging to the Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire Company, is proving already one of the
best schemes which has been projected in Lincoln--
shire. The traffic continues to increase to an unpre-
cedented extent ; and since the entire line of com-
munication by railway between Hull and London
has been effected, there is every probability, front
even a few days' experience, that the London por-
tion will be a very material feeder to the line
between Hull and Grimsby. The excursion trains
during the fine weather have been exceedingly well
patronised by the towns through which the lino bad
been made; and the prospect for next summer n.ust
is one of a very cheering character, 10-.' t-He so rle
Manchester, Sheffield, and Linco:_. , -
the East Lincolnshire and Great .NorCe,i n Compe)..i,s
The East Lincolnshire directory, however, have %cry
unwisely adopted a partial d.y-ticket system betv.e..-a
the Louth and Waltham stations, a distance of three .
miles from Grimsby, and to Grimsby it has been
denied; while the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colshire Company have as wisely acted the reverse
between Grimsby and Hull, and the result has proved
completely successful.—Sheffield Times.
GRANTHAM.—TIII3 A MI3ERG ATE TUNNEL.-- On
Saturday morning last, an accident occurred which
providentially was unattended by any fatal result.
About the centre, under the obserw.tory, the miners
had prepared a length of lour and a hall feet for the
brick kyerb. When they had finished their work,
about a dozen of them being. in flit e tvit v, the. earth
811ove irltr ,-vartii.-nz thorn that it wa. aisout to
deseen,i• .114- i prr,”,4 Wert= shivr-rad to splinters,
anti tilt. 1.-,r their lives, but all fortu-
nately escaped. The thickness of earth fallen is in
the centre said to be about thirty feet. Should
the ground above keep its position, the disaster may
be remedied in a few weeks.—Lincoln liferckry.
VALI OF NEATH RAILWAY.—We are glad to be
informed that two additional contracts on this line
have been let to highly respectable contractors. It
appears the directors are very desirous to complete
the line up to Hirwain by the time the South
\Vales Railway will be completed to Swansea, so as
to accommodate our visiting friends of Merthyr. The
active chairman of this line (Lord Villiers) has recently
attended two meetings of the directors at Neath, and
went ever part of the works on the line. We hear that
Mr. Sharpe is proceeding rapidly with his contract near
Merthyr, and Messrs. William Hopkins and Evan Bevan
are now making some show in the lower part of the
vale.—Cambrian.

OXFORD AND RUGDY.—The works on this northward
extension of the Great Western, of 50 miles in length,
hare been stopped during the past week. The men bare
been discharged, and it is not probable that operations
will be resumed before_the commencement of spring.

WATERFORD AND KILICENNY.—We undersiand-that
Mr. Radcliffe, the solicitor of the Waterford and Kil-
kenny Railway Company, accompanied by Capt. Moor-
sow, the engineer-in-chict; is again in this city, endea-
vouring to make arrangements for the completion of the
third contract on the line to Knockwilliam, near Bally-
hale. —Adkenny Moderator.
THE FIRST RAILWAY IN SPAIN.—Tho first railway
in Spain, from Barcelona to Mattaro,
.bas just been
opened. It is five leagues long,

THE 17TH REGIMENT, OCT. 23.—This regiment,
stationed at Chatham, had its half-yearlyinspection,
the square at the barracks, by Major-General Brown,
C.B. and K.H , Deputy Adjutant-General. The regi-
ment, consisting of ten companies under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel John Stoyte, assembled in heavy
marching order. The Major-General examined very
minutely the men of each company, and afterwards re-
paired to the barrack-rooms and inspected several of the
men's kits, and then went and examined the books of the
regiment in the orderly-room, and expressed himself
highly gratified to Colonel Stoyte with the appearance
of the men under arms and the interior economy of the
corps. This regiment returned to England in July,
1547, from India, where it formed part of the, army un-
der the late Lord Keane, and was prr,ent at the first
storming and capture of Ghtmnee, and afterwards
formed part of the army under General Sir C. Nippier.
Major-General Brown, at the conclusion of his inspec-
tion, visited the commandant, Colonel Simpson. The
following has been addressed to the regiment:—" Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Stoyte has much pleasure in notifying
the approbation of Major-General Brown respecting the
appearance and interior economy of the regiment, and
trusts that his approval on this occasion will stimulate
the officers and non-commissioned officers and men to
continue their exertions to sustain the character for
good order and regularity which the Major-General bits
been pleased to say exists in the regiment.
MISHAPS IN RAILWAY CONTRACT WORX.s.—That
terrible antagonist to railway contract works, the ruin,
appears to be playing havoc amongst viaducts and
arches, as if, in place of having the )I::,fittition of a
brlek, their frmework were that of a flee lady, whose
frail organism would he likely to be injured even fiv the
evening tiers, far less be capable of withstanding the
undermining hiroad, of the rain. \)w that the Leielk.r
mercies of summer have departed, we begin to renew our
almost weekly record of " unfortunate accidents"—un-
fortunate, indeed, for everything seems to be dependent
on chance, and nothing on foresight or design. The
fatalities, too, have begun upon the wholesale system:
one arch follows the example of another, and all come
tumbling down by the dozer,, just, as we have said, like
rectu'ts in the tumble-down rank and file of "Prussian
Exercir e." If competition will corapel the continuance
of " close cutting" contracts, without a willing allowance
even for chances of failure, at least the aid of some
skilful professor of the calcuiation of chances ought to be
got, so that the " close cutting" may no longer prove to
be quite so suicidal as it but too often must have been.
—The Builder.
EARTHQUAKE ENGLAND.--A correspondent
from Dover informs us that on Friday morning, about
seven o'clock, a slight shock of an earthquake was ob-
served at that town. It was felt in various parts of the
town and as far as the second turnpike on the London
road. A young lady describes the sensation to have
been such as might have been produced had the bed on
which she was lying taken a sudden leap and thou been
• somewhat Yiolently shaken.

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