The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

the whole intricate system of railway management
might ultimately be conducted with the precision and
regularity of clockwork.

• THE - Visrroas' LIST.--Thenks to the enterprise of
one of our most indefatigable journalists, the editor not only
of the Critic, but of the Journal of Me Exhibition, a fly-
sheet Ins just been issued from the press at a merely nominal!
price, end of a singularly useful character. .Its title is that
of our paragraph. In it are periodically published the names
and addresses of the various— trangers visiting our metropolis.
Those foreigners who have nut yet been announced in its
columns as among the recent arrivals in I.ondon, we would
recommend at once to transmit theirnames to the publisher
as a matter to them of very obvious convenience. Besides
this interesting catalogue of visitor, the paper comprises an
admirable guide to the sights and amusements of the day,
lucidly' arranged, and containing every particular of any in-
terest whatsoever. The Visitors' List will be found alto-
getbe. to be one of the most excellent publications yet offered
to the foreigners arriving amongst us fur the purpose of
witnessing the Exhibition. -

REUNION DES ARTS.—Last night this Society
opened' its :Second Soiree at the Private Rboms, 27, Queen
Anne-street, with a crowded and most select company.
We must give great credit to the comm.ttee for the good
selection and arrangement of the !noble, which was most
admirably ex cited by some of our beet vocal and instru-
mental artistes. Miss Rummel, Mies Magner, Madame
L,maitre, Miss Lavinia, Miss Day, ltladame Gdfin, Mr.
Day, Mr. Goodban, Herr Schiniiit, Herr Rummel, Herr
Goftrie, Mr. Freuerick Chatterton, &c. The lower apart-
ments were ornamented with some fine pictures by English
and foreign artists, and where, durirg the interval of the
musical performance, the company retired to partake of some
coffee provided for them by the committee, spending a
most pleasant and social evening, which was prolonged to a
late hour.

ROMAN CATHOLIC HIERARCHT.—An addres3, to
which 255,766 signatures were attached, and which was pre-
sented to her Majesty from her Majesty's Roman Catholic
subjects in England, disclaiming any intention of trenching
upon the royal prerogative in the recent appointment of a
Roman Catholic hierarchy, has been printed by order of the
House of Commons.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—Amongst the
recent deposits at this valuable establishment may be seen a
machine for making nets, the invention of Mr. William
Mullen, United States, which accomplishes that which not
long since was deemed an impossibility, viz., tying a knot in
the centre of two straight curds; and the knot formed by this
arrangement, strange to say, is the same precisely as that
made by the fishermen in ~hich the needle is passed com-
pletely through the mesh. Certainly these triumphs of me-
chanical ingenuity lead us to wh...t so frequently appears in
the present day, to believe that nothing is really impossible;
for we find that which to-day seems absurd to attempt, to-
morrow is a mere commonplace. matter. We understand
that by this contrivance wits of all kinds may be produced at
a merely nominal advance upon the raw material as at pre-
sent procured.

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WELSH LABOURER% 11. IRISH NAVVIES.--One
last week, a body of Irish navvies, numbering about forty or
kitty, were engaged by Mr. ITCormack, contractor, of Bir-
kenhead, to proeeed to Bangor, for the purpose of excavat
lug and forming a line of railway to connect that town
with
Carnarvon. The Irishmen were duly landed, and were
making preparations to commence their work, but the intel-
ligence soon spread among the Welsh stone-quarriers and
others. The navvies were looked upon as a species of in-
vaders, and the Welshmen instantly assembled to the num-
ber of upwards of 200, surrounded the Irishmen, and with-
out a blow being struck, drove them in a mass on board a
steamboat. The navvies seeing they had no chance against
such overwhelming numbers, quietly submitted, and were
landed in a few hours afterwards at this port. The Welsh-
men effected their purpose notwithstanding the remon-
strances of the Bangor magistrates. The expulsion of the
Irishmen had the effect of suspending for a time the excava-
tion of tho railwitY...hiverpool Mercury.