The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

yours will delineate the incidents of a thirty hours'
journey from the metropolis to Detroit. Such are
the movements and the progresses in support of
which all may unite, and which mark a busy day.—
New York Courier and Inquirer.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, lAar: 19.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Sh'are Market to-day has been
steady, and, with the exception of London and North-Wes-
tern Stock, prices are better. The sales are—Caledonian, 36
—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, par—Ditto, Halves
(late L. and B.), 9 dis.—London and North-Western, 1521/2
Manchester, Sl,4field, and Lincolnshire, Preference, vs p„...
Midland, 114—Ditto, 401. Shares, 44 c.—Ditto, New Halves,
1114 c. dis.—North British, New Quarters (Scrip), par—
North Staffordshire, IA4 c. p.—Shrewsbury and Chester, 10/.
Preference, 2% p. —Seuth-Eastern and Dover, N 0.4, 1%
dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase),
13/4 p.—York and North Midland, East and West Riding
Extension, 3538.
MANCHESTER, Jam. 19.

STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—East Lancashire,
New, 3% dis.—Ditto. New Quarters, c. dis.—Liverpool,
Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 21A dis.—London and
North-Western ( Manchester and Birmingham), 601/ c.—
Ditto, Quarters (B), 4 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire, Preference, 1-16 p.—North Staffordshire, par—
South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 1 11-16 die.—York, New-
castle, and Berwick, Extensions, No. 2,2%.
LEEDS, JAN. 19.
STOCK ExcitAxou.—The sales are—East Lancashire, New,
3 n. dis.—East and West Yorkshire, 6 dis.—Leeds and
Thirsk, 1531 n. dis.—Manchester, Buxton, Matlock, and
Midland, 2% dis.—North British, Halves, 12!g—Ditto,
Thirds, 2s. n. p.—Ditto, Extension, Is. dia.—North Stafford-
shire, 2s. p.—Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 4IA dis.
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Preference, 13/4 p.—Ditto,
No. 2 (New Berwieks),2li p.
BIRMINGHAM, JAN. 19.

STOCK EiCHANOIS.—The sales are—York and North
Midland, Preference, 7 p. ex int.—North Staffordshire, 1,4 p.
—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A.), dis. ex int.—Ditto
(B), 435. 9d. dis. ex int,—Shropshire Union, 2I dis. ex int.
YORK, JAN. 18.

STOCK EXCHANGIL—The sales are—Great Northern, 4%—.
North British, Halves, 12—Ditto, Quarters, 4/. Bs. 6d.—
York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original Newcastle and Ber-
wick), 311,4—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 9%.
GLASGOW, JAN. 17.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Clydesdale Junc-
tion, 5934—Glasgow, Kilmarnock. and Ayr, 10014—Ditto,
401. Shares, 40%—Ditto, Half Shares, No. 1, 714—Glasgow
and Garnkirk, Quarters, 9—Glasgow and Greenock, 16%—
North British, Thirds, 39—Ditto, New Quarters (Scrip),
10s. 9d.—York and North Midland,9%.

THE OVERLAND INDIA MAIL.
The two routes now adopted, either to or from
India, are, by Southampton direct, by the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's packets,
on the 3d and 20th of each month, to Gibraltar,
Malta, and Alexandria; or through France, on the
7th and 24th of each month, to Marseilles, and
thence to Egypt. The Outward Route—First line—
From England to Aden, Bombay, Ceylon, Madras, and
Calcutta; Penang, Singapore, and Hong Kong
on the 20th of every month. The company's
steamers (vessels of about 1,500 tons and 450 horse
power), start from Southampton at two P.M., and
after calling at Gibraltar and Malta, and receiving at
the latter place the mail of the 24th from England,
brought from Marseilles to Malta by her Majesty's
steamers, arrive at Alexandria in about 16 days from
Southampton. Passengers are conveyed through
Egypt by the Transit Administration of his Highness
the Pacha of Egypt. The mode of transit is as
follows :-Ist. Alexandria to Atfeh, a distance of 48
miles, by the MahmoudiehCanal, in large track boats,
towed by a steam-tug of 67-horse power. 2d.
From Atfeh, at the junction of the canal with
the Nile to Boulac (the port of Cairo), a distance
of 120 miles, by the river Nile in steamers. 3d.
Cairo to Suez, a distance of about 70 miles across the
desert, performed in carriages and omnibuses, &c.
The entire journey from Alexandria to Suez is per-
formed with ease in about 60 hours, including a
night's rest at Cairo, and a sufficient time for re-
freshment and repose at the central station between
Cairo and Suez. The passengers there embark on
board one of the Company's steamers for Ceylon,
Madras, and Calcutta (vessels of about 1,800 tons,
500-horse power) which start from Suez about the
10th of every month, calling first at Aden where
they coal and transfer passengers and mails for Born-.
hay to the Hon. East India Company's steamers.
The steamer then proceeds to Ceylon, arriving there
in about 17 days, at Madras in about 22 days, and
at Calcutta in about 27 days from Suez, including all
stoppages. Passengers for Penang, Singapore, and
Hong Kong leave the main line at Ceylon, and there
embark in one of the company's steamers for Ceylon,
Madras, and Calcutta (vessels of about 1,800 tons
and 500-horse power), which arrive at Penang in
about six days, at Singapore in nine days, and Hong
Kong in about 16 days from Ceylon, including all
stoppages. The length of time, therefore, of the
voyage to India and China by the overland route is
as follows :—England to Bombay, 35 days ; Ceylon,
40 ; Madras, 45 ; Calcutta, 48 ; Penang, 46 ; Singa-
pore, ,49 • and Hong-Kong, 56 days. Second line—
England to Aden and Bombay.—A second line of the
Company's steamers leave Southampton on the 3d of
every month for Gibraltar and Malta, where the pas-
sengers and mails are transferred to their steamer
Ariel for Alexandria. On arriving at Suez passen-
gers embark on board the Hon. East India Company's
steamers for Bombay, making 35 days from England
to Bombay. Third line—Through France via Mar-
seilles.—The following are the distances to the dif-
ferent ports :—To Leghorn,2s7 miles; Civita Vecchia,
380 ; Naples, 543; Malta, 897 ; Syra, 1,456 ; Athens,
1,531; Smyrna, 1,618 ; Dardanelles, 1,771 ; Con-
stantinople, 1,921 ' • Alexandria, 1,943 miles. The
mails to Gibraltar, Egypt, India, &c., via Southamp-
ton, were made up this morning, the 20th instant,
via Southampton and on the evening of the 24th
instant, via Marseilles.

MURDEROUS ATTACK NEAR W1GAN....•011 Friday
night last a most daring robbery, accompanied with vio-
lence of a desperate character, was perpetrated at Dean-
lock, on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, about four miles
from Wigan. From the information we have received,
at a little past midnight three men attacked the watch-
man (whose name, we believe, is Richard Molyneux) in
charge of the office and lock, and who also, at the time,
had under his care a considerable sum of money. For
some time he fought with them in a most determined
manner, and so far succeeded as to cause a rather hasty
retreat before the office drawers and desk could be care-
fully examined. The thieves having taken possession
of a bag of money, were leaving the office, when the
watchman foll,%ed the m out, armed with a poker. One
of the party here seized an axe, and another cried out—
" Cleave his skull," or words to that effect, when the
watchman boldly faced and disarmed the villain ; the
other two, however, coming to his assistance, Moly-
neux was overpowered and much beaten, and he was
afterwards thrown into the canal, in a deep part, near
the mouth of the lock; and had he not fortunately been
a good swimmer, must have been drowned. The villains
then escaped, and Molyneux after swimming some dis-
tance, got out of the water. We understand that the
thieves, in their hurry out of the office, left behind them
a bag of gold of more value than the one taken, and
which, had a careful search been made, could not have
escaped observation. A boat had passed the lock only
about five minutes previous to the attack; the parties in
charge of it heard a noise, but conceiving it, as they said,
to arise from a man and his wife quarrelling, they pro-
ceeded without tak R. any notice. No clue has, we be-
lieve, been had to the thieves.—Liverpool Mercury.
FREE TRADE DEMONSTRATION AT MANCHESTER.
—The arrangements for the free trade banquet are being
proceeded with in the most spirited manner, the demand
for tickets and the promises of presence on the part of
distinguished free-traders being alike such as to give
assurance that the gathering will go off with the greatest
edit. In addition to the free-trade Members of Parlia-
ment already announced, the names of John Williams,
Esq., M.P. for Macclesfield, and of Arthur Anderson.
Esq., M.P. for Orkney and Shetland (the " Ultima
Thule" of the British empire), have been sent in to the
committee. The stewards are to be ballotted for on
Saturday evening.
DECREASE OF CRISIE AT OLDHAM.—Notwithstand-
ing the extremely distressed state of the labouring
classes, there has been of late a remarkable decrease in
the number of police cases at the petit sessions. The
state of crime was scarcely ever known to be so light.—
Manchester Examiner.

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