The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-18 00:00:00

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.

Traffic—Week ending Aug. 16,1851 ... £15,630 310
Traffic—Week ending Aug. 17, 1850 ... 13,166 210
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 106,034 17 4
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1850 ... 4'3,119 17 10
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
Aug. 16, 1811 ... 115,636
Passengers ... £13,637 2 11
Goods „.. 1,993 0 11

Total ... £15,630 3 10
Total miles open, 1851, 173E4 ; ditto, 1850, 17114.
London Terminus, Aug. 18, 1851.

Sir George Grey is so much better as to be able
to take a short cruise, when it is hoped that the sea breeze
and rest from his very onerous duties may restore him to his
usual health.

THE GREENWICH RAILWAY AND ITS REGULATIONS.
—ln consequence of the decision of Mr. Seeker in Lord
Ranelagh's case, the following notice has been posted up, by
order of the directors of the South-Eastern Railway- Com-
pany, at the London and Greenwich stations:—" Notice.—
To prevent contusion, tickets are available only for trains in
which there is room, which is to be determined by the com-
pany's officers."
VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO MANCHESTER.—It li
stated in Manchester, on authority, that it is the intention of
her Majesty to pay a visit to the Earl of Ellesmere, at Wore-
ley Hall, en her return from Scotland. This purposed visit
is, it is said, connected with the opening of St. George's
Hall, in Liverpool. This will be the first visit of her
Majesty to the capital of the manufacturing districts.
ST. JAMES'S PARR.—The water in the enclosure
of St. James's Park is almost in a putrid state, green and
thick as if it were a common pond, and it is said that at
night a very nasty smell arises from it. The water is sup-
plied from the Chelsea Water Works, but in consequence of
the enclosure being upwards of five feet lower than the
Thames at high water, it is very difficult to let it out but
at very low tides.
THE CONDEMNED CONVICT AT IPSWICH. —Maria
Cage, who was left for execution at the late assizes for
poisoning her husband, at Stonham Aspal, will not undergo
the extreme penalty of the law until to-morrow. it was
arranged to have taken place to-day, but Calcraft having an
engagement of the same nature at Norwich, the high sheriff
elayed the execution, in order that that functionary might
officiate. We have not heard that she has made any confes-
sion of her guilt.

APPROPRIATION OP THE FUNDS Or THE GREAT
EXHIBITION,—The gossip of the transept on Saturday ran
upon a tumour which will probably take the public by sur-
prise. The calculation at present is that the receipts of the
Exhibition by the time it closes will amount to about
400,0001. Of this immense sum, one-half, it is calculated,
will defray all the charges connected with the building, and
the Government say to this sum only have the Commis-
sioners any claim, and that the surplus belongs to them.
The precedent of Mr. Pitt, who, when hard pressed during
the war, appropriated without ceremony some 80,0 i sub•
scribed by the Custom-house and Excise clerks, for a super-
annuation fund, has, it is said, been brought forward in sup-
port of this arrangement, which it is urged will have the
further advantage of setting at rest the vexed question of
what is to be done with the surplus. It would probably
puzzle the legal authorities to say to whom the balance
really belongs, but we doubt whether the country would be
quite satisfied with this method of cutting the Gordian knot.
—Advertiser. - -

Lord and Lady Palmerston entertained at din-
ner on Saturday, at Carlton-gardens, the French Ambas-
sador and the Countess Walewskr, DI. Leon Faucher (Mi-
nister of the Interior of the French Republic), and
Madame Leon Faucher, the Luchess of Bedford, the Earl
of Clarendon, the Baron de Cetto, the Earl and Countess of
Shaftesbury, Lord and Lady Jocelyn, Mr. and the Hon.
Mrs. Monckton Milnes, the lion. Mr. Craven, and Dr.
Holland. Lady Palmerston received a select party in the
evening.
VISITORS TO WOOLWICH DOCKYARD..--The fol-
lowing is a return of the number of foreigners who visited
Woolwich Dockyard in the week ending August 16, 1851:
—French, 357; I.'russians, 199; Belgian, 100; Netherlands,
21; Bavarian., 26 ; Hanoverians, 18 ; Austrians, 22 ;
Saxons, 22; Vienues, 19; Swiss, 14; Wurtemburg, 10;
Germans, 2; Sardinians, 15; and Americans, 6—making a
total of 831. The number of British subjects who have
visited the dockyard from the let to the 16th of August was
27,398 ; and including the foreigners, giving an average of
upwards of 2,000 visitors daily. It is said that Sir Culling
Eardley Smith, of Belvedere Hoube, Erith, has invited a
great number of foreigners to view his fine collection of
paintings and beautiful grounds.

At the Marylebone vestry, on Saturday, a vote of
thanks was unanimcusly passed to Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart.,
and Lord Dudley Stuart, the representatives of the borough,
thanking them for the zealous discharge of their duties dur-
ing the past session of Parliament.
THE LATE CASE OF KIDNAPPING A CHILD AT
PLYMOUTH.-The Rev. G. Hadow, whose name was at-
tached to the handbill relating to the abstraction of the child
of Mrs. Jerningham from St. Andrew's Chapel, Plymouth,
has received the following from Mr. Jerningham :—" Sir, I
have seen a handbill, the object of which I can well under-
stand, with regard to the missing of a boy from your church
at Plymouth on Sunday last. I beg leave to inform you
that a little boy with the name inserted in the bill, and an-
swering exactly the description, is at present with me, and
that inasmuch as he is my son I intend to keep him.—l am,
sir, your Obedient servant, FEED. jr,rzircuum,"

LONDON,

INDIA AND CHINA.

(From the Times.)
We have received our usual letters and papers by
the overland mail. The dates of this intelligence
are—Hong Kong, June 23; Singapore, July 1 ;
Calcutta, July 2 ; Bombay, July 5 ; and Madras,
July 9.
The following is the letter from our correspondent
at Bombay :
" The event of the fortnight has been the unex-
pected arrival on the 2d of July of the mails which
left London on the evening of the 7th of June;
allowing for difference of longitude, the passage of
the mails only occupied 24 days and 20 hours. This
is the quickest that has been made as yet, but it is
still a great deal slower than it might be, and pro-
bably will be a few years hence. Sea-going steamers
are now built on the Dublin and Holyhead line, for
example, to keep up an average speed in all weathers
of more than double that of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company's contract. Had we steamers like
the Banshee between Trieste and Alexandria, and
between Suez and Bombay, were the Egyptian rail-
way completed, and the land transit on the Trieste
route as much accelerated as it is capable of being,
there is little doubt that the mails might be carried
from London to Bombay in 16 days.
" The Hon, Company's steamer Sesostris, which
left Bombay with the English mails on the 7th of
June, was, owing to her old and ricketty state, unable
to make head against the monsoon. She put back, and
when last heard of was at the Point de Galle, in Cey-
lon ! The mails she carries will be a month overdue
on their arrival in England. The Peninsula and
Oriental Company are about to run steamers from
Bombay to Suez on alternate months. This will be
a great accommodation to us, the freight and passage
money charged by the Government steamers being
greatly more, and the accommodation infinitely
worse, than is the case with the Peninsula and Orien-
tal Company's steamers.
" Letters from the Northern Punjaub state that
the passes to Cashmere are closed, and that a dis-
turbance and extensive mutiny of troops are reported
to have taken place in Gholah Singh's dominions, in
which four British officers have lost their lives. The
latter portion of this report is considered highly im-
probable. A terrible accident occurred on the 14th
of June at Gobindpore, 70 prisoners en route to Ha-
zarebang had been halted there and chained together
in a hut for the night ; the hut accidentally took fire,
and five only are stated to have escaped with life.
With the numerous instances the Government have
before them of men being burnt to death under simi-
lar circumstances, there ought to be rules laid down
for securing prisoners under such circumstances in a
manner that would allow them a chance of life in
case of fire.

" One of the two prisoners charged with having
set fire to the late ship Ariel has been found guilty,
but is not yet sentenced ; it is to be regretted that
the case is one of circumstantial evidence only, and
that the evidence appears scarcely sufficient to jus-
tify the judge in making so severe an example of
the convict as the frequency of the crime renders
desirable.

" The ship Parsee Merchant was lost on the coast
of Orissa on the 19th of June. The crew were all
saved by a pilot brig, which was luckily close to her
when she struck. On the 13th of June the Belgian
ship Philomene was totally lost in the Hooghly. The
crew were saved by the Andrew Henderson. The
ship Chebar also was lost off the coast of Batavia on
the 12th of May.
The commander of the East India Company's
late steamer Falkland has been tried by court-martial
for her loss, and fully acquitted. _ _

" Accounts from the Nizam's territories state that
the Arabs have been of late committing murders
by wholesale ; there is nothing unusual in the
cause or manner of these occurrences, nor of their
consequences, for the Nizam is powerless, and the
Arabs enjoy their usurped possessions without mo-
lestation.' Gang-robberies are increasing in fre-
quency all over the country. It is generally re-
ported that orders from the Court of Directors to
the Governor-General have been at last received by
the Resident at Hyderabad, Deccan, to take and keep
possession of certain parts of the Nizam's dominions
unless he repays at once the moneys due to the Go-
vernment of India, amounting to upwards of 80 lacs
of rupees, with interest at 6 per cent. The districts
of country about to be absorbed are, it is said, all
those on the other side of the kishna river, Bachore,
and Neildroog, besides Berar. The first will be under
the superintendence of Captain Taylor, the second
under Captain Bullock, and the last under Mr. Digh-
ton, who once managed the Warrungal districts.
Should the Nizam not pay down the money, which it
is said he has the means of doing, we may take it for
granted that the districts mentioned will be held for
some time at least; and in the meantime no doubt
there will be some very active employment for a part
of the cavalry and infantry branches of the service.
" Mr. F. Ayrton, late of the Bombay Artillery,
has been appointed secretary to the Pacha of Egypt.
" The Bombay criminal sessions commence to-day.
The calendar is very heavy. The monsoon promises
to be an unusually favourable one—most of the tanks
are already full. Lord Falkland and the Commander-
in-Chief are at Poonah with their respective follow-
ings."rhe New Small Cause Act is about to come
into operation. Business is very dull, as is usually
the case during the monsoon."