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

EXCURSION TRAINS.

The excursion syst, m 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 oth• r 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 drunk of 3,000 nals into as many
coffins was doubtless !thereby postponed, at least for a
few days long-r. " The day was spent joyfully:" who
can doubt i T and what life-giving medicine can com-
pete with a light heart in pure air—could it only be
taken in ad. (pate doses regularly once or twice a thy
with a li.tle nourishing fuu.l? A contemporary an-
nounces it as rather a strange and unlooked for fact
that w:e of the recent " monster excursion trains" which
have been spinning along frem cotton mills and other
workshops, and curing across the country hither and
thither, co!..sisted of 800 members and friends of a re-
spectable corporation at Hastings, called the " Burial
Society," who ',tarn d 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 Society" not only have sufficient
life and spirit for such an undertaking, btv thAt they are
lonti-head• d tello ws, who know how to reduce the expenses,
and thereby increase the funds and promote the pros-
perity of their provid lit corporation. There can be
nothing more appropriate than the sagacious patronage
(.1 the excursion system by burial societies.—Builder.

[ADVERTISFMFNT.]—THE HIGH ESTIMATION IN
WHICH HOLLOWAY'S PILLS ARE HELD TOR THE CURE OF
IrtnicitsTiorr, &c.—ln a letter, written by Mr. J. H. Bell, of
Geelong, to the agent for the sale of Holloway's Pills and
Ointment at Melbourne, Port Phillip, 'se says —" Gratitude
obliges me to publish the great beneffc 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 Pad, ,
to the no small astonishment of our hero, who hastened
home with a heavy heart to make his sad misfortune known.
" 0 Mary," s•ys he, " I hey hed sick luck as nivver fellow
had, I think. I shot a bird, en it fell into Skeggles-water,
en a pike has small twed it!" " Why, hes ther ?" says Mary.
o 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 trim pike-lines, hastened to the scene of action;
placed his lines, well bated and in proper order, and then
....tole quietly home next morning, ere chanticleer hegan to
proclaim the damp Harry made the best of his way to take
up his lines, and atter taking three unsuccessful ones up,
and coming to the fourth, he 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 Dird taken from its stomach.— Westnzore-
land Gazette.
Annette Movers, who shot the guardsman in
Birdcage-walk, and whose case excited so much commiss-
has arrived, purAiant to her commuted
ration in England,
sentence, in the Emma Eugenia.—Colonial (Van Diemen's
Land) Times.