The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-26 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

The inauguration of that stupendous work, the
railway which connects St. Petersburgh and Moscow,
took place on the Ist.
His MAJESTY, accompanied by the EMPRESS, the
principal members of the Imperial family, several
foreign princes, and attended by the high officers of
state and a numerous suite, quitted St. Petersburgh
at six o'clock in the morning and arrived at Moscow
at half-past eight in the evening.
At the terminus they were received by the civic
authorities, the regiment of the Guards, and a
splendid staff, at the head of which the EMPEROR
went into the city amid the firing of guns and the
acclamations of the people. Early the next morn-
ing the Imperial party, accompanied by their guests
and suite, went in state to the cathedral, where a
solemn thanksgiving was offered. The CZAR after-
wards held a grand levee, and in the afternoon re-
viewed the Life Guards.

The E3IPEROR has addressed the following rescript
to the chief director of roads, highways, and public
works, General Count KLEINMICLIEL
" Count Metre AudrEzewitsch,—When the eonstruc•
tion of the Peter burgh and Moscow Railway was de-
cided upon, eight yenta ago, I confided to you the car-
rying out of the undertaking projected by LEI e , under
the conviction that the v.,al which you had always dis-
played in my service was a guarantee tor the result.
With heartfelt pleasure I now see my wishes realised;
and although the work is not yet completed, it is, never-
theless, so far advanced that, as a first trial, a large di-
vision of the Guards was transported by it, and I and

my whole family have accomplished the journey from
Petersburgh to Moscow.
" On this occasion I have seen with the highest satis•
faction the immonse—in short, the astoundingly stupen-
dous works which combine all the essentials of perfect
taste and suitability. It is impossible for me to refrain
from acknowledging that it is by your laudable and ex-
traordinary zeal and energy alcno that this important
Government scheme, which will confer the most essen-
tial and important benefits upon the country, has been
carried out with such great rapidity. While I thus do
full justice to your active and untiring energy, it is at
the same time highly agreeable to myself to express
again my sincere and cordial acknowledgments for your
laudable services. Experience of your zeal assures me
that the Petorsburgh-Moscow line will be completed by
the 13th of November ❑ext, and thus throw open to the
public a more rapid, and at the same time easier mode of
communication in the empire.
" I remain your sincere wellwisher,
" Moscow, Sept. 3." " NICHOLAS.

We understand there is no truth in the report that
Dr. 111‘11ale is expected to preach in St. George's Catholic
Church next Sunday morning.

.
Lord Cranworth and Vice-Chancellor Knight
Bruce will be Lords Justices in the Court of Appeal under
the new Act. Their successors as Vice-Chancellors are not
yet named.

Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., and other Protestant
gentlemen, acted as collectors at the Roman Catholic chapel
of Bangor, near Belfast, on the occasion of that edifice being
consecrated by Dr. Denoir, a few days ago.

PARISH OF ST. DUNSTAN, ClTY.—Yesterday after-
noon a general meeting of the inhabitants assembled in the
vestry-room, for the purpose of appointing an overseer, in the
place of Mr. Mills, deceased, when Mr. Dalby, of Fleet-street,
was unanimously elected to that office.

INFLUX OF SHlPPlNG.—Yesterday the 1013 g con-
tinued easterly wind shifted round to the south-west, and
enabled the homeward-bound vessels, who have been beating
about the Chops of the Channel for some weeks past, to bear
up for port, the Downs is completely filled with merchant-
men, and upwards of 200 vessels were reported yesterday at
Gravesend. The greatest activity was yesterday observable
in the docks and river quays.
A WHALE IN A Fix.—On Friday forenoon, as
Mr. Lamb, of Greenock, was rowing along in a small boat,
with two lads, near the mouth of Garelock, they discovered
a whale grounded on the shore, when they immediately
rowed towards it, and, after a vigorous struggle of two
hours, succeeded in dispatching it with a boathook, when
it proved to be a whale of the bottle-nose species, measuring
22 feet in length. It was towed to Greenock, and exhibited
to the public on Saturday. We believe the carcase was sold
for the sum of 401. The appearance of this monster of the
deep in our waters caused considerable excitement among
the denizens of the coast; and before the monster was
secured numerous boats put out to sea in chase, armed with
pitchforks, spades, boathooks, rusty swords, and every
offensive weapon that could be laid hold of. Atter it had
taken the ground and before it was killed it created a dread-
ful commotion in the water, blowing and lashing the sea into
foam, and sending the spray from twenty to thirty feet into
the air. The huge fish measured between six and seven feet
in diameter, and the tail was six feet broad.—Daily Mail.
THE LATE RAILWAY CATASTROPHE AT BICESTFR.
—At the meeting of the directors of the Buckinghamshire
Railway Company, held a few days since, it was resolved
that the directors of the London and North-Western Rail-
way Company, the lessees of the Buckinghamshire line, be
urged to adopt the recommendations of the jury of the in.
quest held at Bicester on view of the persons killed by the
late accident. It is believed that the directors of the Lon-
don and North-Western Company will adopt the sugges-
tions. They have issued a notice for all trains to halt on
passing Bicester, and also one to the engine-drivers, requir-
ing them to pass every station carefully. The sufferers at
Bicester have this week been visited by Mr. Hester, of Ox-
ford, in co-operation with Messrs. Dawson and Woodward,
the resident medical attendants. The patients are all de-
scribed as progressing favourably. On Saturday they were
visited by Sir H. Verney, M P., and his lady, and on Tuesday
by Major Dewes, and on Wednesday by the above Baronet
again. It is said that Mr. Porter, the company's representa-
tive, has compromised with about fifty of the passengers for
losses and injuries sustained by them; but that none of those
seriously injured have received more than a supply of cash
where needed for immediate use.

SCHOONER. SUNK.—On Wednesday night, between
eight and nine o'clock, a very serious accident occurred on
the Mersey. As the Tranmere steamer Fanny was crossing
the river from the landing•stage, when off Monk's Ferry she
came in violent contact with a schooner at anchor, which
soon afterwards sank; the persons on board the latter having
barely time to save their lives in the schooner's boat, and
the steamer with difficulty being disengaged from the sinking
vessel. The accident is attributed to the darkness of the
night and the want of sufficient signals to denote vessels at
anchor in the route of steamers. The schooner was the
Dove, of Amllwch, from Runcorn to Dungarvon, laden with
salt; and on the salt melting the schooner floated, and
drifted out with the ebb tide as far as the Formby light ship.
The steamer Britannia, of Tranmere, went to her assist-
ance, towed her:in, and moored her at.Birkenhead. —Liverpool
Chronicle.

KOSSIITII.—Mr. Gilpin has given the following
notice of motion in the Court of Common Council :—" That
this court do present an address of congratulation to Louis
Kossuth, on his liberation from captivity, and arrival in this
country, and that the said address be presented in open
court."

THE LATE MURDER AT ANNAS.---CONDUCT OP THE
PEASANTRY.—On Sunday, the 13th September, about two
hundred men assembled on the lands of Ednagreena, be-
side Annas, where the boy M'lntaggart was murdered,
and cut down and made up the corn of Mrs. M'Quillan,
the sister of the murdered boy, who came forward for the
defence, and gave such extraordinary evidence on the late
trial. It will be recollected that her husband, who was,
it is said, somewhat implicated in the late barbarous mur-
der, left the country for America before the late trial.
The stewards selected to stand over the two hundred
men and see them work were Kieran and Hamill, the fa-
thers of the two men charged with the murder, and those
two fathers held the position of bailiffs over the reapers,
amidst the cheers of two hundred Sabbath desecrators.—
Newry Examiner.

SCOTCH TURNlPS.—Raising of turnips in the
neigbonrhood of Edinburgh is an important branch of agri-
cultural operations, and the prices obtained are looked to
with interest. Sales of this season began rather earlier than
usual, and in several cases the appearance of the crop was
not very favourable. Still the prices ;obtained are generally
considered good. 12/. to 161. per acre, according to kind,
and quality, and locality, have been readily obtained, and
some realised as high as 191. per acre, though three miles
from Edinburgh; showing, although much has been said
about the ravages from pleura, that the demand for food for
mulch cows in this district continues as great as at any for-
mer period.—Scotsnion.
ACCIDENT TO ONB OF EARL FITZHARDINGB'S HUNTS.
MEN.—A few days since, one of the Noble Earl's huntsmen,
known to the field as " Kit," met with a serious accident,
which, it is feared, will disable him for life. While riding
out with some young hounds, two of them got into a pool,
where they were in danger of being drowned. In order to
reach them, Kit, who was on an old horse, rode at a high fence,
which the animal refused twice; the third time, however,
he rose to his leap, but striking the fence, he threw his rider,
and fell over with all his weight upon him. Kit was taken
up insensible, having received severe internal bruises.
Cheltenham Examiner. •

ARRANGEMENTS OF THE COURT.—We understand
that her Majesty and the Prince Consort, with their illus-
trious children, will leave Balmoral Castle early on the morn-
ing of the 7th of October, for the south, and that her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent and suite will leave Aber-
geldie on the following day, for Frogmore House. The Earl
of Aberdeen arrived on a visit to her Majesty, on 'luesday.
from Haddo House, Meldrum.
FAILURES IN DUNDEE.—The same causes which
have operated upon business during the last three weeks
have been, since our last report, increased in intensity by the
failure of two other flax-spinning and manufacturing firms,
with liabilities to the amount of quite 9. ,000/. ; fortunately,
however, and in contrast with the previous failures, both
estates, it is understood, will produce fair dividends to their
creditors —Dundee Advertiser.

A man named Bernadec, of Prayols, near Pols,
died three days ago, aged 108. He preserved his faculties
to the last, and his death was caused by his being knocked
down by a cow.
DISCOVERY OF ROMAN COINS AND POTTERY IN
CANNON-STREET, ClTY.—Yesterday afternoon as the work-
men were digging a foundation for a new house, at the ear-
ner of Lawrence Poulteney-lane, Cannon-street, City, they
discovered, at the depth of twenty feet, several ancient
Roman coins, in good preservation, as well as Roman pot-
tery of an early date, which was most carefully preserved
by Mr. William Stewart, foreman of the moo, residing in
King-street, Long-acre, as well as several other interesting
relics belonging to the Romans.

CITY OF LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE
CassT.—The quarterly meeting of the board of manage-
ment of this institution took place on Wednesday, at the
Hospital, Liverpool-street; Mr. Henry Waite in the chair.
From the medical report which was then presented, it appears
that 2,096 patients have been admitted to the benefits of the
charity since the 31st December last; the weekly attendance
at the present time averaging 505 ; and the total number re-
lieved since the first establishment of the hospital in ►B4B,
amounting to 9,585. Considerable interest was manifested
in the progress now making in the erection of the new hos-
pital at the Victoria Park, which was commenced in June
last, under the distinguished auspices of bis Royal Highness
Prince Albert. The works, it was stated, are rapidly ad-
vancing, and the committee have appealed to the public for
further aid, in order that the building may be completed for
the reception of in-patients as early as possible. Other bu-
siness was then transacted, and the meeting adjourned.

The Earl and Countess of Bective, who have been
on a visit to Mr. Alderrman Thompson, M.P., at Underley
Hall, Westmoreland, have gone to Headfort House, Ireland.

The Earl of Cardigan, who arrived in Portman-
square early in the week, from his shooting-quarters at
Foyers, Inverness-shire, has since left town for Deane Park,
Northamptonshire, where the Noble and Gallant Lord will
receive company during the shooting season.
The Earl Ducie is recovering from his recent
severe indisposition, at Tortworth, Cornwall.
WORCESTER, SEPT. 23.—As yet we have but a
moderate supply of new hops at market; there were about
900 pockets in at the fair, and 200 or 300 more on Saturday,
and we are sorry to find that our worst fears as to the da-
maging effects of the wind and cold the last week in August
have been fully realised, the quality being very various;
and although there are some choice samples, a large quan-
tity of those already shown are very inferior, which 'will
cause an extreme difference in price, perhaps equal to 31. or
41. per cwt. Most of the hops brought in have been sold at
prices varying from 5/. 12s. to 71. 7s. The duty is declining,
owing to reports of the hops coming down light, and is now
called from 17,0001. to 18,000/.

FIRE.—On the 12th inst. a destructive fire took
place at Baughurst, near Wolverton, Hants, the property of
his Grace the Duke of Wellington, by which a barn and its
contents were totally destroyed. This is another instance of
the dangerous use oflucifer matches in the hands of children,
as the above disaster was caused by a boy six years old rub-
bing one against the wall, and letting it fall among the
straw. The property was insured in the Liverpool and Lon-
don Fire and Life-office.

THE EDINBURGH ANNUITY TAX.—We understand
(says the Scotsman) that, at a private meeting of the town
council on Tuesday, the first practical step in the way of
legislating for the settlement of the annuity-tax was taken.
The draft of a Bill to be introduced into the House of Com-
mons next session was laid before the council for their re-
visal. In this work, we believe, they proceeded some
length, and with an unanimity which augurs well for the
satisfactory adjustment of the measure.