The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-03 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Dec. 27

Arbroath and Forfar
Bristol and Birmingham. • . • • .• . .
Chester and Birkenhead . •
Dublin and Drogheda.. ............
Dublin and Kingstown
Dundee and Arbroath . ... •• • •• • •• • •
Durham and Sunderland ...........
Edinburgh and Glasgow .
Eastern Counties and North Eastern
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
Glecow and Greenock—
Grand Junction • .............
Gravesend and Rochester
Great North of England
Great Western .
Hartlepool
London and Birmingham, &c..•• . •
London and Blackwall. .
London and Brighton ..
London and Croydon . • ..... • • • • • . • .
London and Greenwich
London and South Western . • • ......
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ......
Manchester and Birmingham........
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc..
Midland Counties ... ..........
Newcastle and Darlington • • ........
Newcastle and Carlisle• ............
Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........
Norfolk
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • •
Paris and Rouen ..••.
Preston and Wyre.....• • ...........
Sheffield and Manchester • •
South Eastern.. ..............
Taff Vale
Yarmouth and Norwich
York and North Midland . • • •• •

537
2,372
7,424
1,718
681

17,719

845
31,513

681
3,911
1,384

5,740

867
3,654
5,256
16,058
2,280
1,490

433
1,253
1,525

531
602
698
215
617
2,136
4,305
1,356
678

4,413

404
1,428
5,522
923
574

14,739

5,708

28,573

614
3,136
952

5,464
763
3,269
4,903
12,782
956
1,331
337
247
1,542

4,011
300
656
4,848
721
596

4,298

THE MILITIA.
TO THE EDI7'OR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—At this moment, when numerous industrious
artisans are disturbed with apprehensions arising out of
the proclaimed intentions of the Government, in refer-
ence to the militia to be called out and embodied, it
may not be amiss, perhaps, to suggest a mode of reliev-
ing many of those who may not otherwise be able to
obtain for themselves substitutes; and more particularly,
if its adoption will convert to a " tower of strength"
what is now an incubus upon the country.
It is a fact, the evidence of which may be collected at
any time by the not over-worked rural police, at the
multitudinous nightly gatherings in all the " cadger," or
low lodging-houses, of the kingdom, that there are many
thousands of able-bodied men, neither gentle nor sim-
ple, too idle " to work," but not too proud " to beg," to
say nothing worse of them ; awl to take up whom, by
some forcible persuasion, constraining them to became of
some service to their country, would be to confer a boon
on themselves, raising them from idleness and disgrace
to comparative usefulness and honour, and at the same
time relieve useful members of society from the neces-
sity of leaving their homes and occupations, and meet
equally the necessities of our common fatherland.
I:am, Sir, yours faithfully,
RICHARD HARRISON.

Redditch, Jan. 2, 1846.

MANNING THE NAVY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR„—In your evening paper of yesterday there is an
able article on the subject of manning the navy. Pray
take it into your consideration how desirable it would
be to make use of an enormous, though useless force, at
present in existence—the preventive force. Every Par-
liamentary inquiry has shown the absurdity and impos-
sibility of their preventing smuggling, and they cost the
country,fully one million per annum ; remember, also,
that when the abominable corn laws are gone, the land-
owners will be sure to require the extinction of this
monstrosity.—Your obedient servant,
Jan. 2, 1846. VOX.

CROMART Y A HARBOUR OF
REFUGE.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Public attention being at present directed to
the formation of harbours of refuge for the protection
of our shipping, whilst our fleets should be maintain-
ing our naval superiority on the ocean, and it being
highly desirable, in the event of our being involved in
a war with the United States of America, that our
Government should put forth all its energies to bring
the contest to a speedy and honourable conclusion,
I beg to mention, through the medium of your
valuable paper, that the Bay of Cromarty, the Portus
Salutis of the Romans, and the point to which the
hordes of the Scandinavian race shaped their course
when meditating hostile incursions on the coast of Scot-
land, might eaAily, and at a comparatively small expense,
be made a most important position for the protection
of our mercantile marine, and a point from which we
could destroy the cruisers of the enemy acting against
our commerce; and it would also, from its position
opposite to the Baltic, form an admirable station for
the establishing of dockyards for the building and re-
pairing of ships, and forming magazines of naval stores.
The entrance to the Bay of Cromarty is a narrow
channel of deep water, protected on each side by the
heights of the " Souters of Cromarty." Within this
channel hundreds of ships can ride at anchor in
safety from the severest storms ; and if the heights of
the Souters were fortified, and batteries placed on the
water's edge, the entrance to the Bay would be in-
accessible to an enemy, whilst we could, in less than
two hours, ~;e1).1 f:igates from it to the month of the
Caledonian canal, from whence they would, in less
than two days, find themselves on the coast of Ireland,
to meet our enemies in that quarter; or our fleets of
men-of-war and merchantmen could proceed in an op-