The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-16 00:00:00

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GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.— Traffic for
the Week ending July 12, 1851:
Passengers (.1,130), Goods, &c.,
and Horses and Carriages ... £3,979 11 8
Corresponding week in last year
fur Glasgow and Ayr and Glas-
gow, Dumfries, and Carlisle
Railways ... £3,208 16 1
Glasgow, July 14, 1851.

TILE PACHA or EGYPT.—As an acknowledgment
of the readiness which the Pacha of Egyp has shown to
comply, with the wishes of her Majesty's Government in re-
gard to the construction of a railway from Alexandria to
Cairo, the Lords of the Treasury have given directions that
Nubar Bey, who bee been sent to this country by the Pacha,
be all .wed to receive his baggage duty lee.
LAUNCH (Jr THE PARANA.—SAITHAMPTON, JULY
15.—The West India mail seam-ship Parana, of 2,250 tons,
was launched shortly after noon to-day from the building-
yard of Messrs. Wigram and Sons, at Northam, near South-
ampton. A description of this fine ship is unnecessary, inas-
much as she resembles in every respect, both in size and
pewe., the three steam-ships Oronoco, Amazon, and Magda-
lena, rt cently launched in the Thames. The Royal atail
:.tram Packet Company have now tour out of five of their
new steam fleet in the water. The last ship, the Demerara,
bu !ding at Bristol, will shortly be sent oft the stocks. The
Parana will be copp, red in the Southampton Graving Docks,
and is to be afterwards towed round to Greenock to receive
her engines and boilers, which are being constructed by
Messrs. Caird and Co., of that place.
THE TONVIrE OF LONDON MUCH MORE TO SIGHT-
SEERS THAN MERE ARMOUR AND lIEGALIA. Every Melt of
the 'Cower walls is tied to a story—is an evidence in history.
If its Roman connexion be fabulous, here, at all events, was
a Saxon stronghold, and here is a Norman castle. At
sight of these architecturally much-abused walls what names
and recollections rise! this palace, prison, and fortress,
" the very germ of London," as Charles Knight calls it, is, in
truth, the earl) history of England, written on stone, and in-
terspersed, may we say, with many " cuts on wood." Visitors
should not forget Traitors' Gate-
-" that gate misnamed, through which before
Went Sidney, Russell, Raleigh, Cranmer, More;"
or the little Church of St. Peter ad Vincula, where lies Anne
Boleyn, with many other noble sufferers; or the Beauchamp
Tower, with its singularly interesting records of some who
were imprisoned there, cut in the stone walls. This latter
will be seen on the west side of the open space beside the
keep, or what used to be called "the Green beside the
Chapel within the Tower," and is now the officers' mess-
room. To view this permission must be obtained, but this
will not be found difficult. Many of the inscriptions are
full of interest, none more so to us than the simple word
" JANE," which, if not written by the unto turtate Lady Jane
Grey herself, probably was by her husband, Guilford. The
present mess-master is apt and obliging in describing the
must important of these " trivial thou records,,,
but he is in
error in pointing out the date to the inscription signed
" William Tvrrel," as " 1241, the earliest inscription here."
It is 1541.-17+e Builder.
TsE BALLOON ASCENT FROM THE CHINESE JUNK
THAT DID "NOT" TAKE PLACE.—An amusing hoax was on
Mondas night played, tfon thesight-seeing at dwondet-loving
citizens of Cockaigne. Fur some
adpayp,asrepui.ttbsiyt
rleairgildptladoeihsaatrei
announced for that night a balloon ascent from the Chinese
Junk, lying in the river, with the further tempting novelty,
as the bilk, had it, of "Aladdin's Aerial Pelee ,"
' played from the car. From an early hour in the evening
both Waterloo and Blackfriars bridges, and every. availat le
spot from which a view of the junk could be obtained, were
to be dia-
-1 with eager expectants, who bore the piercing of a
strong north-easterly wind tar hours with most exemplary
ititc e of
of
foAt
me i raewtni adt rai di
momentary
patience. A few minutes before eight o'clock, however, the
top of the balloon, which had been visiole
aboveaov the each:-
sure around the junkudsi,elffitishai:
under a mimic salute of cannon, it rose above the boards for
t
a second or two, for being How
greater portien of the gas,
could be draw, n
duration, as it immediately desc;ufsdoperidejia(njitiidasnfteihilialsttinantotut.he river,
but so close to the junk that, it der the
boardiag without any difficult}. PaestPeaes.a.crees ladlet'riwaanl:Pa
was lnlly realized,
peered altogether. were enter-
tained tabled by Lot a few, first .
would prove but a
a. duly one 0
and that the whole riffs ir o . . those harnil, se jokes
. castle built in the air,"
that choleric Englishmen are
ll soinetirms inclined to desig-
natethe homely, out wafet, understood term of "a hoax."
by
The bridges were soot* :r relieved of the hutictrsds by
which they had been crowded, and the whale affair was
passed
off in tolerable good humour.
FATAL BOMNAMBULkM —OH 11,1ordly Mr. fl. M.
Wekley held an it quest in the University College Hospital
on Samuel Shilton, eget( forty-eights It appealed from the
evidence that deceased, who was in the habit or wslkieg in
his sleep, 51,(1 was ensteged mowing for Mr. Daniel How,
of Edgewa,e, had. with other moo+ rs, gone, see r Mg to
their custom, to sirep on a rick twenty test high. During
the tight he got up it Lis sleep, arid before his tato-
pardons could roop loin he walked to the edge of the rick,
whence be fell to the ground, breaking his heck. Verdict—
" Accidental death."

GLAtGOW, JULY 12 —Cotton.—There has twen a
fair inquiry for cot ton.wool from the trade this week, but
prices are about I. per lb. lower, and the tendency is *till
d wnward. In goods and yarn little is doing, and prices are
uttchattped,
Iron.—The pig iron market cont mut s very
qu et, bu* prices keep steady. No. 1, g.in.b, 39s 6d. ;
Ni,. 95.; Gotsherrie scarce and cannot Le had under
41s. 3d. ter No. 1. Freights, from the small demand, are
low, both for foreign and home porte.