The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-18 00:00:00

lingsgate, that the delay which has taken place in
the formation of a railway connecting Harwich with
the metropolis, is not only of serious injury to
your petitioners, and all others concerned in
the North Sea fisheries, but is also becoming ex-
tremely detrimental to the public interests, in conse-
quence of the decline of this best nursery of seamen,
end North Sea pilots." To pleasure-seekers the
boon, too, would be most welcome, as opening a new
region, presenting many surpassing scenes of pictu-
resque beauty in the vicinity of Harwich ; such, for in-
stance, as that afforded from the northern bank of the
Stour at high water, which the railway passenger
contemplates after leaving Manningtree, with admira-
tion of the southern bank, wooded down to almost
the Water's edge; end to sea bathers a facile communi-
cation would be opened with Walton-on-the-Naze, in
Essex, and Felilstow, in Suffolk, to both which
towns, only distant by water six miles from Harwich,
a steamer would be started on the arrival of the
trains. Looking at it from whatever point of view,
the advantages of the plan are manifest, both

as regards the town, which might then be desig-
nated the Southampton of the eastern coast, and
the shareholders of the Eastern Counties Company.
The 10,0001. per annum, which would be the outside
amount of the sum requisite to pay for the construc-
tion of the line, would be money providently and
prudentially expended. Its completion would, in
fact, as Mr. WADDINGTON observed, bring them an
additional profit cf 1001. a week, and make their line
the highway to a most important portion of the Euro-
pean coast, besides bringing into profitable activity
the great resources of Harwich, and instituting, what
may be legitimately pronounced no unimportant na-
tional benefit.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton this week have rather exceeded
20,000 bales at Liverpool, and at full *,I. per lb. decline.
This being Good Friday is a strict holiday, and all
places of public resort are closed.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon were
higher.

COURSE OF EXCH.
Ara3ter 121.111 :1 id
threemonths.. 11 1734
:soturilarn .......... 11 174
23 27%
25 2734
Eambargh 13 BIA
Altona•• •• •• •..••• •• ••
Paris, 8 days'aight .. • • 25 734
Ditto, 8 months .... 25 2734
Marseilles •• •• •• •••• •• 25 30
Bourdeaux•• •••• • • • •
rrankforton 11934
Lter1in............
Vienna, effec. fib •. •• •• 13 22
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... .3 '24
Petersburg,h, Rble 3734
Madrid • • .. •• 5034
Cadiz • • •• ............ 503{
Barcelona ............
5evi11e................

I.NGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.... ..........
Leghorn ........•• .. •• 30 65
Getioa.. —•• .......... 25 55

Milan
Venice. .
••• .••• •••....

Naples •• •••• • • • • •••• 414
Palermo, peros•• •• •• •• 12434
Messina •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 124%
LIsbor1•• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 63%
Oporto.. •• •• •. •• •• 53%
Rio Janeiro.• .......•
Buenos Ayres
New York,6odays'eight
Philadelphia•..... --

PHICUS OP BULLION, PEE OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin • . 0 0 0
13panish Doubloons .. 0 0 0

New Dollars .... •• 0 4 11%
Silver in bars ........ 0 5 1%

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
SDI ITEEPIELD
This being what is :armed the Great Lamb Market,
the supply of Beasts m offer was small, and in very mid-
ling condition. All breeds were dull in sale, at about
Monday's quotations. Although the number of Sheep
was very moderate, the Mutton trade ruled heavy, but
we have no further decline to notice in prices. The
primest old Downs, out of the wool, sold at 3s 10d per
Sibs. About an average supply of Lambs was brought
forward. Oa the whole, the Lamb trade was somewhat
brisk, except for inferior qualities, which were very dull],
and the currencies were a shade higher. Calves and
Pigs moved off heavily at late rates. Mulch Cows were
nominal in value.

Per Blbs. to si
s. d. to B. d. s. d. to s.d
Inferior Beasts-- 2 E 2 8 Inferior Sheep .. .• 3 2 3 6
Second quality •• ••2 1C 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 8 310
Primo large Oxen.. 3 2 3 4 Caarse-weolledditto4 0 4 4
?rime Scots •.•. •• 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wether 4 4 4 6
Large coarse Calves 3 2 3 6 Ditto cut of the wool 0 0 0 0
. rime small ditto .. 3 8 4 0 Large Hogs .. •• •• 3 0 3 6
;uckllns Calves .. 0 C 0 0 Small Porkers .... 3 8 310
Lambs .......... 5 2 6 2 Quarter old Pigs .. 0 0 0 0
TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I
Sin".
I Calves. I Plgt
35 6, 120 200
SCOTCH.
Beasts. I Sheepo. I Calves. I PlBB.
3
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I
rigs.
40 .30

Ink the offal.

•
INTEVZGATE AND X.EADEPTILAXaM4
Lamb cimmanded a steady sale, at very full prices.
In other kinds of Meat very little was doing.
At per stone 14, the Carcase.
s. d.to s. S. d. to s. d.
geef,lnfericr...... 3? 2 4 Mutton, inferior .. 2 6 2 8
- middling •• Z G 2 8 --- middling.. 210 3 4
primelarge .. 210 3 0 prima •• .. 3 6 3 8
- prune small.. 3 2 3 4 Pork, large .... .. 2 6 3 4
V 3.11.• •• •• • . - small •••• •• 3 6 310
Limb, 4s 10d to 6s 02.

THE OVERLAND MAIL.—The overland mail ex-
presses by electric telegraph from Trieste have not been
lately made with accuracy. In two instances during the
last and current months the telegraphic communication has
been in a minor degree inaccurate. The express of the Feb..
ruary mail contained an erroneous quotation of the Calcutta
money-market, seriously affecting, for the time, the value of
Indian bills of exchange at home. The express of Monday
last from Trieste alluded to the absence of any arrivals from
China, whereas the usual monthly mail from China was due
and has arrived. The China dispatches, with the exception
of a portion of them which are transferred to a Bombay
steamer at Ceylon, are carried the whole distance on the
homeward voyage by sea, while the Indian mails proper are
landed at Suez, thence taken on to Alexandria, where they
are put on board an express steamer and proceeded with to
Malta and Marseilles. These particulars, not being generally
known, may serve to guide such parties as are interested in
the arrival of the Indian and China mails.

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent
to postpone the recompensing of one until it be in your
power to remunerate all, otherwise you will make more ene-
mies by what you give than by what you withhold.—Eliza
Cook's Journal.

PUFFING IN FILANCE.—A curious specimen of
what may be called the mceurs litteraires of this country was
exposed a few days ago before a court of justice in the course
of some squabble between two tradesmen. Leon Gozlan,
well known to the public as a dramatist, lately received a
commission for the feuilleton of one of the daily newspapers.
He immediately drew up a detailed account of the plot he
intended to employ, with descriptions of the principal scenes
and incidents. Ho then charged an advertising agent to
carry this doeument round to the principal tradesmen, and in
his name to propose to them (of course for a consideration)
to introduce their names and addresses, with puffs on their
wares in particular places. • His prospectus ran somewhat in
this way :—" Chapter I.—Marriage of the hero and heroine.
(Here the author can introduce the name and address of the
former's tailor and of the latter's milliner, with a glowing de-
scriptionea(Neaemi
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here.)
l.undertaker)
)1 thed icee. excellence ellen c e Of the garmen,s.) Chapter 2'.
The husband having obtained proof of his wife's guilt rushes
is,
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our street." In short,
of i puff. Opinions" not propose to make the vehicle
vialue of this line of nomv7, perhaps, differ as to the literary
in admitting that it Is acb
bold
driting ; but at least all will agree
art of advertising.—porof and daring advance in the nob!e
Gazette. s Correspondent of the Literary

So considerable of late has been the encroachment
of the sea on the Worthing and Lancing-road, near the
former place as to render it almost impassable. The mail
has lor.Several days gone round by the old bridge, involving
the necessity of making up the bags here and at Littlehamp-
ton three-quarters of an hour earlier. The trustees of the
road are about to groin the beach on a different principle to
that now in use.

I for all Northern and Central Europe. According to
. ,
the evidence given by Captain WASHINGTON, RN.,
before a Committee of the Hcuse of Commons, and
impossible to be gainsayed, letters dispatched from
the General Post-office would be delivered in less than
three hours on board the mail steamer, which, at all
weathers and at all times of tide, would be clear out
at sea in less than a quarter of an hour, and sixty
miles a head of those dispatched at the same time
from London, which would probably make the differ-
ence of a whole tide in arriving off the Bruelle or
other bar harbours ; while in north-easterly gales and
fogs steamers from Harwich would often complete
their passage before those starting from the metro-
polis could get clear off the shoals and currents
of the gulf which forms the estuary of the Thames.
How far the traffic which would be commanded
by a line of powerful steamers plying to the ports on
the continental coast from Hamburgh to Dunkirk
would be beneficial, not alone to the town of Har-
wich, but to the Eastern Counties and Eastern Union
Railways, may be judged of from the simple fact, that
with but a single steamboat plying between Lowes-
toft and Hjerting, an increase of 1001. a week has
already accrued to the receipts of the former line.
Harwich is, in short, eminently qualified to be the
mail-packet station of the east of England, from the
excellence of the port, its accessibility in all weathers,
and the ample depth of water for the largest vessels
at all states of the tide, whilst the saving of time which
would be effected by the adoption of the proposed
measure would be in its favour, as compared with
the passages from London direct by steam, as regards
Hamburgh 30 hours ; Antwerp, 13- ; Ostend, 7i- ;
and Dunkirk, 7 hours. This, too, is calculated only
as the average in the fine season and in ordinary
weather, whilst during the winter months and in bad
weather the difference would frequently be immense.
The once valuable fishery of that port would be re-
vived, which used to give employment to the crews of
vessels whose tonnage was estimated at 3,000 tons,
and Billingsgate would be supplied regularly and
expeditiously from the great fishing grounds of the
North Sea. It has been justly complained in a peti-
tion to Parliament, signed by every factor in Bil-