The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-26 00:00:00

EXCURSION TRAINS.

The excursion system is by no means absorbed this
season, as might have been anticipated, in metropolitan
excursions. On the contrary, the provincial excursions
to and fro are swelling., extraordinarily, both in number
and in magnitude. Think of a single train with 3,000
excursionists! Such a 'train, comprising ninety-eight
carriages, the other day conveyed the poor, hard-work-
ing, dust-breathing, close-confined cotton-spinners from
nine or ten mills at Preston on a life-giving trip, through
the fields and villages, to Liverpool, by Bamberbridge
and Loslock. The driving of 3,000 nails into us many
coffins was doubtless thereby postponed, at least for a
few days longer. "The day was spent joyfully:" who
can doubt it? and what life-giving medicine can com-
pete with a light heart is puro air—could it only be
taken in adequate doses regularly once or twice a day
with a little nourishing food? A contemporary an-
nounces it as rather a strange and unlooked-for fact
that one of the recent " monster excursion trains" which
have been spinning along from cotton mills and other
workshops, and scouring across the country hither and
thither, consisted of 800 members and friends of a re-
spictai:le corporation at Hastings, called the " Burial
Society," who started thence in twenty-six carriages,
drawn by two engines, for a day's recreation, "amid the
cheers of a large party of spectators." It is clear that
the Hastings " Burial Soci, ty" not only have sufficient
life and spirit for such an undertaking, but that they are
long-headed fellows,who know how to reduce the expenses,
and thereby increase the funds and promote the pros-
perity of their provident corporation. There can be
nothing' more appropriate than the sagacious patronage
of the excursion system by burial societies.—Builder.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE HIGH ESTIMATION IN
WHICH HOLLOWAY'S PILLS ARE HELD TOR THE CURE or
INDIGESTION, &C.—ln a letter, written by Mr. J. H. Bell, of
Geelong, to the agent for the sale of Holloway's Pills and
Ointmet at Melbourne, Port Phillip, be says : —" Gratitude
obliges me to publish the great benefft my wife has received
from the use of these unparalleled pills. We arrived in Mel-
bourne about nine years ago, when she was attacked with in-
digestion and constipation of the bowels. After going to con-
siderable expense for other medicine, without relief, she tried
Holloway's Pills, and, by continuing to take them for a short
time, she is perfectly cured, and is now enjoying the best of
health."—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's
Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
VORACITY OF THE PIKE. "While a sportsman of
Longsleddale was out shooting upon the forest, near Skeg-
gles-water, on the 15th inst., he shot a fine moorcock, which
tell into the water. No sooner had the bird fallen than a
pike, the lord of this miniature lake, made his appearance
on the surface, and eventually carried off the prize au fond,
to the no small astonishment of our hero, who hastened
home IN ith a heavy heart to make his sad misfortune known.
" 0 Mary.'," says he, " I hey hed sick luck as nivver fellow
had, Ithink. I shot a bird, en it fell into Skeggles-water,
en a pike has swallowed it 1" " Why, hes they?" says Mary.
" Yes, for sure, hes ther," says our hero. The servant man
not being far distant—being a wily lad, and having a good
store of trini pike-lines, hastened to the scene of action;
placed his lines, well bated and in proper order, and then
stole quietly home next morning, ere chanticleer began to
proclaim the dawn. Harry made the best of his way to take
up his lines, and after taking three unsuccessful ones up,
and coming to the fourth, h. e observed a Jerking of the line,
which put him in great spirits. He pulled out the line,
when lo and behold there was the gorged pike which had
swallowed the bird ! In a few minutes it was stretched on
the turf, and the bird taken from its stomach.— Westmore-
land Gazette.
Annette Meyers, who shot the guardsman in
Birdcage-walk, and whose case excited so much commise-
ration in England, has arrived, pursuant to her commuted
sentence, in the Emma Eugenia.—Colonial (Van Diemen's
Laud) Times.