The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-27 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND I3LACKWALL RAILWAY.-Amount Oi
revenue for the week ending October 22:-Passengers,
35,796; amount, 632/. 4s. 4d.; goods, 33/, 6d.; totul,
6651. 103. 41--Corresponding week of last year: Pas-
sengers, 51.564; amount, 8391. 6s. Id.
Sourn Devox RAILWAY.-Traffic for the week end-
ing Oct. 20 :-Passengers and parcels, 11,393; amount,
2,225/. 13e. sd. Great Western Railway, 837/. 135. 11d.
South Devon Railway, passengers, 1,3871. 19s. 6d.;
goods, 176/.os. Id. Total, South Devon, 1,5631. 19s. 7d.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAILWAY.-Traffic for
week endinv Oct 22 :-Passengers, Ist class, 1471.95. 2d.;
2d class, 3571. Bs, 7d.; 3d class, 771. 10s. 91-582 L 86.6 d.;
parcels, horses, &c., 28/. 16s. Id.; merchandise, minerals,
and live stock, 7291. 65. Id.; total, 1,3401. 10s. Cor-
responding week last year : Passengers, parcels, &c ,
284/. 6s. 5d.; merchandise, and live stock, 318/. Is. 2d.;
total, 6021. 7s. 7d. Increase, 738/. 3s. ld.
On Saturday evening last there was considerable ex-
citement in the neighbourhood of Laiva, owing to the
exercise of some disputed rights of property in a very
awkward manner for the railway company, by Mr; Al-
derman Johnson, the late Lord Mayor of London: The
company had commenced the formation of a double line
of railway from Crabtree towards Mitley,:and as it has to
pass the Dartmoor Railway, of which Mr. Alderman
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Johnson is mortgagee in possession, that gentlemahn
makes claim for a certain amount of compensation, which
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his solicitor, he caused some large blocks of granieeof company, and and by his representative, Mr. Filmer,t to
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placed on the new line of railway that is inscourhs
Company, was on the spot, _
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and most
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ceededopposing parties, in
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present, they •
in their work of obstruction, which, for
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most industry. At Pennycomequick the builders having
Nearer Plymouth the works are proceeding with the ut-
ad• The
across the Saltash-ro • excavations have now
prepared the material, have begun to throw the arch
reached the road running abreast of the Five Field,
though there is still much work to be done in levelling
them. The masons are engaged in turning the arch
which runs across King-street, and the road is filled in
nearly through Beadle's nursery-grounds to Union-road.
Here the masons are actively engaged in erecting the
buttresses, &c., for the arch that is to be thrown across
Union-street. The works at the terminus in the field at
the back of the Union Baths, are also rapidly developing
themselves. Very much of the timber and masonry work
is erected, so that the buildings begin to assume some-
thing like a fixed character. .
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were turned adrift. Deficiency of funds is stated to be
the reason.-Liverpool Times.
MAIDEN NEWTON.-The works on the Wilts, Somer-
set, and Weymouth Railway are entirely suspended in
this neighbourhood, and are not likely to be resumed be-
fore the next year.-Slserborne Journal.
The Directors of the South Devon Railway, on Tues-
day week, passed a resolution,, reducing the salaries of
all the employes on their line. The porters and police-
men will have 14s. instead of 15s. weekly, and those of a
higher grade will be reduced about twenty per cent, •
besides which, a reduction in the number of porters,
policemen, and clerks is also contemplated.-Devonshire
Chronicle.

AMERDEEN.—A meeting of the contractors on this
railway was held on Thursday, at Stonehaven, convened
in consequence of certain orders having been gi►en to
them, by the Directors of the Aberdeen Railway Com-
pany, to suspend their works entirely, and in consequence,
also, of certain misunderstandings in regard to the com.
pany's engineers and the referee for the contractors.
The meeting was attended by almost all the contractors.
The chair was filled by Mr. Forbes. The meeting were
unanimous in their resolution to disregard the company's
order to suspend the works, and resolved to apply to the
court for authority to finish their respective contracts,
under the inspection of the original referee, Mr. Gibb.—
Scots n.

NATIONAL GUARDS. VISIT TO TUB lIRAD
QUARTERS OF TUE ARTILLERY COMPANY.-011 Thurs,
day evening about sixty of the National Guards of
Paris, headed by Brigade• Majors Chobier and Nalf,
Captains Tarry, Barroir,- Ribancourt, Perrelle, and
several other officers, visited thie ancient corps, and wit-
nessed the drill, under the direction of Sergeant-Major
Hunle, of the Coldstream Guards ; afterwards a dis-
play of fencing, single stick, and, as a wind-up, a little
English boxieua with the gloves ; at all of which
they expressed themselves much pleased. Owing
to the shortness of the notice of their intention
to visit the Armoury House there had been no
time to prepare uny entertainment for them, bat, under
the orders of Major Barnard, a supper was hastily pro-
vided, at which several toasts, all tending to the most
friendly and cordial feeling between the two nations,
were drunk. That of the Queen was proposed in ele-
gaiit language by Major Chobier, and responded to with
the greatest enthusiasm. A most cordial invitation was
given to the corps to return the visit at Paris, and the
meeting broke up with mutual feelings of satisfaction and
pleasure.