The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-28 00:00:00

levelling, so that the cost per mile, instead of
being 20,0001. as it is on the railways now in
use, will be only 5,0001. According to the pro-
posed plan, a horse, walking at the rate of two
miles and a half an hour over a distance of only
one hundred yards, will be able to draw a light
carriage, containing four persons, a (balance of
more than sixteen hundred yards within the
same period of time as that occupied by the
animal in performing its own distance. The
carriage, on arriving at the end of a mile, will
be carried by mechanism from the truck on
which it is placed to another truck in waiting
to receive it, and the same will be done from
mile to mile to the end of the journey, each
succeeding carriage being drawn in a similar
manner to the first until the whole train shall
have paned over the railway.
As far as we could judge from the perform-
ance of the model, there can be no doubt of the
practicability of the plan, when brought into
operation on a large scale, and this is also the
opinion of persons who understand the thing
much better than we pretend to do. Nearly
twenty eminent engineers have subscribed to-
' wards a fund for laying down a quarter of a mile
of railway, in order to test the discovery, and it
is probable that in the course of two or three
months some of our readers may have an oppor-
tunity of witnessing the experiment on a scale
which will he decisive as to its practicability.
Should the plan prove successful, a material
change must take place in our mode of commu-
nication with distant places. An outlay of less
than a million sterling would defray the cost of
a railway from London to Brighton, and from
Dieppe to Paris; and by putting a powerful
steamer on the Brighton station, the journey
from London to Paris would be performed in
15 hours, so that a man might breakfast in one
capital, and sup in the other ; and a merchant
writing his letters after supper in London might
rely upon their being delivered in Paris on the
following evening.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S

The settling for the Derby and Oaks Stakes takes place this
day ; till that is over the Great St. Leger betting will be slight.
Although the room was crowded, the only horses mentioned
were those given underneath, and in these business was dull.
We give the closing prices :-
6 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Muley Moloch (taken)
9 to 1 agst Mr. Watts's Belshazzar (taken)
10 to I agst Mr. Watts's Rockingham
16 to 1 agst Mr. Walker's Ilussulrnan
21) to 1 agst Colonel Crawford's The Mole (taken)
20 to 1 agst Lord Warwick's Trepidation (taken)
211 to I agst Mr. Walker's Anne
20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Scott's Connoisseur

NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, 1833.
Nomination for tie Claret Stake. ot 200 s.tvs. each.
Mr. Gully's Frankenstein. Duke •f Rutland's Shylock.
Mr Houldsworth's Titus. Lord Exeter's Cactus.
Mr. Hunter's Forester. Mr. Itidsdale's Glaucus.
The 13... t Sakes of 100 t.ov.:. each.
Mr. Rawlinson's Revenge. Mr. Forth's Embar.
Mr. Houldsworth's Despot. Mr. Cookes's Tarantella.
Lord Exeter's Sir Robert. Lord Jersey's Ishmael.
Lord Orford's Clearwell. D. of Cleveland's MuleyMoloch,
Lord Verulam's Little Casseno. Sir S. Graham's Jason.
Mr. Stonehewer's Chantilly. Mr. Greville's Whale.
Mr. Batson's Revelry Mr. Sowerby's Catalonian.
Mr. Walker's Mussulman.
Th.. Ale Stakes n
Mr. Houldsworth's Ostric.
Duke of Portland's c. by I
Mr. Payne's ch. c. by Wra

,f 100 toys. each.

Atery—Pledge.
Igler—Whiteboy's dam.

ASCOT HEATH RAC.
Acceptances tui
Lueetta, aged, 941. 71b.
Protocol, syrs. est. 91b.
Hawker, 4yrs. Bst. 31b.
Dalura, 4yrs. Bst. 21b.
Two decht

ES.--(NEXT WEEK.)
r the 0 ,tlrind,
Byzantium, 4yrs. 7st. tub.
Ernest, 4yrs. 7st. Mb.
Lazarone, 4yrs. 7st.
Typhon, 4yrs. Tat. 41b.
red to!feit.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, T WEL VE 0' CL 0 CK.

In consequence of there being no arrivals of the bast
consequence, we are destitute of all political infor-
ms:ion. The public and speculators are anxiously wai.-
ing the arrival of the Batavia from Holland, with the
ratification of the Dutch treaty, which is known, by the
private- letters received yesterday from Holland, to have
been sanctioned by his Dutch Majesty ; therefore we may
hourly expect the arrival of this important event.
The dehatem at the meeting of the West India mer-
chants, which took place yesterday, engrosses the attention
of that community ; indeed we may say that all the parties
are greatly puzzled to know how to remedy that evil. For
a length of time, we have not had a Ministry so entangled
with so many serious and complicated events.

Consol., which left off yesterday at 89-i for the Ac-
count, opened at 891 buyers, at which price they are at
present.

In the Foreign market, all securities are on the im-
provement.

HALF-PAST ONE.

We are still without any news or reports ; and we do
not yet hear of the arrival of the Batavia. As the King
of Holland was only to hold his Council yesterday after.
noon for the Ratification, the above vessel c innot be ex-
pected to arrive until to-morrow, or tate this evening.
Consols have improved to 139i1i
In the Foreign Market all securities have improved,
with the exception of Brazil Stock, which has receded
since Saturday about four per cent.

THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for the Account, 8914 %

CLOSING PRICES.-FOUR O'CLOCK

Bank Stock 1981
3 per Cent. Red SS
3 pc? Cent. Cons *4
34 per Cent. 951
:i1 per Cent. Red 9l
New 31 per Cent 96
4 per Cent W.!
Long. Ann. to expire
Jan. 1860 17 1-16
Oct. I 559 Iti 15-16
Tan. 186) 17 5.16

India Stock 935
Ditto Bonds 29 pm.
South Sea stock 97i
Ditto Old Ann 86

Ditto New Ann.
Ex. Bills, 10-1 / 52 pm.
Ditto 5.!0/ 52 pm.
Ditto Small 52 pm.
Bank St. for Acc 198. i
Consols for Ace 8
India S. for Ace .....
FUNDS.

FOREIGI
Austrian, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 9O
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 24
Chilian, 6 per cen,. Zit
Columbian, 6 per cent l6
Ditto, 1824 lBl
D.inisli 7:4
Greek, 5 per cent. ,826 39
Mexican, 5 per cent.
Ditto, ~ per rent
t 4
Peruvian, 6 per cent.

Portuguese, 5 per cent..., 59
Ditto, Beg. Scrip Vi
Prussian. 5 per c,int.
Russian Bonds, 5 per cent lO4
Ditto, Metallic 99
Spanish, 5 per cent l9l
Ditto, IHx3 l7i
French 5 per Cent.... 1031. 50c.
Exchange
French 3 per Cent 79.. 60c.
Dutch, 4i per cent. 49
Ditto, 5 per cent b9

We have just seen a likeness of the late
~.itbrated Actor Mr. KEAN, %chiCh is published by
Mr. PORTEUS. The reeembl ince is very accurate, and
will, no doubt, become a favourite with the lovers of the
drama.

POWERS OF STEAM.—One pound of cot-
ton, which fortn,rly could only be spun into a thread of
17'
0 yartia lone, can now, by the application of steam to
the same obp'ct, produce a thread of 167 miles in length.
—Gf,rdon's Lectures at the London Lit, and Scientif.
Inslit.

The hay harvest has commenced in the neigh-
bourhood of Rochdale.—Hui far Express.

The thermometer, in a sheltered situation,
sank on Sunday night to 48 degrees.

A keen north wind, accompanied by clouds
of dust, had the effect, on Sunday, of clearing Hyde Paik
of the greater portion of its visiters.

A man with a wooden leg has recently been
committed to Bedford gaol for refusing to maintain hi.;
family. To prevent " leg the offievre took off the
unnatural limb. This bothered the delinquent, and made
hi• caption secure.—Northampton Mercury.

It would seem," says a German paper,
that even the insect world his f.ecorne impregnated
with revolutionary ideas; for, on the 14th in.tant, the
inhabitants of Heidelberg were invaded by myriads of tri
coloured cockchafers, all being striped with black, red,
and gold. The good citizens of Heidelberg will no doubt
take all due measures to rid thenuelves of these radicals."
—.Prem.!' .Paper.