The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-24 00:00:00

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM, SHREWSBURY AND
CHESTER, AND GREAT WESTERN COMPANIES -- We
have just been informed that the Great Western Com-
pany are about to propose an agreement with the
Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Shrewsbury and
Chester Compa❑ies, which would be tantamount to a
lease of the two latter by the former company. The
proposed terms, after paying interest on debenture debt
and preference shares, are-
-3 per cent. in the year 1852;
3 per cent. i❑ the year 1853;
3 per cent. in the year 1854; and either
3 or 4 per c,-nt. in the year 1855; and, if the former,
4 per cent. in the year 1856.
The three companies to be amalgamated from the Ist of
January, 1856, or 1857, into one company, receiving
stock in the amalgamated company for their shares on
the basis of their proportionate net earnings during the
year 1855 or 1856, after payment of all fixed charges,
including interest on debentures and preference shares.
The above objects to be carried out by Act of Par-
liament.

THE SAMBRE AND MEUSE RAILWAY:We under-
stand that the directors of this company are in the daily
expectation of receiving a concession from the Belgian
Government, which will place the line on a very different
footing from what it has hitherto stood on.
STAFFORDSHIRE AND SHROPSHIRE RAILWAY.—Hig
Honour Master Richards has deferred judgment in Mr.
Archibald's case, in this matter, to give that gentleman
an opportunity of proving, by the production of wit-
nesses, that he had authority from the board of directors
to remove the funds from the Commercial Bank.
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS.—The London and North.
Western, Chester and Holyhead, South-Eastern, and
other railways, are petitioning to be heard in Committee
against the proposed submarine telegraphs, on the
ground, it is understood, that the latter propose in their
Bills to obtain exclusive privileges along the railways of
the kingdom.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of
Traffic for the week ending April 20 :--
Passengers. parcels, &c. £25,564 3 0
Merchandise 16,540 2 11
Cattle ... ... 749 4 3

Total ... £42,853 10 2
Corresponding week last year 43,:,;;2 12 5

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Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the
traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, North
Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and
Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor-
tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North
Staffordshire Company.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 miles
open.)— Traffic for week ending April 20...£16,672 2 9
Corresponding week in last year, (224
miles open) ....E12,622 13 1
EASTERN COUNTIES AND NORFOLK RAILWAY..--Traffic
return tor the week ending April 20:—
Passengers, parcels, &c. £14,707 8 8
Corresponding week of IESO ... 14,176 6 3

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.•-•
(Miles open, 173i)—Traffic for the week ending April 19 :
Passengers ... te-,600 4 7
Goods ... ... 2,261 10 6

Total ... ... ...X10,864 15 1
Corresponding week last year... 5,032 2 2

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. (Miles open, 1120—
Return of traffic for the week ending April 13 :
Railway and canal . £4,966 '0 0
Corresponding week last year ... 4,317 0 0
Note. The above is exclusive of the receipts available
under the agreement with the London and North-Western
Railway Company.

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CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY..-.Traffie for the
week ending April 20:—

MAIN LINN.

Passengers ..—. ... £1,219 11 4
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... 64 4 9
Goods, cattle, &c ... 445 19 6
Mails ... 575 0 0

Total .. £2,304 15 7
MOLD.

Passengers .£4l 911
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... 1 18 10
Goods, cattle, &c. ... 103 0 5

Total •••

... £146 9 2

STEABI-BOATO.

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Passengers ••• ••. •• • £ 127 14 0
Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ... 12 3 8

Total

£139 17 8

ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE EAR.—
The annual meeting of the friends of this charity was held
yesterday afternoon at the institution, Dean-street, Soho, the
Hon. and Rev. W. H. Legge in the chair. The report of
the committee stated that the institution had now been in
Oh. L.VidEET ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH operation upwards of thirty years, and during that time it
AND MATURITY. had become justly celebrated as an institution which had
With Plain Directions for their Prevention and Cure.
FIFTY COLOURED ENGRAVINGS 11N '4TEEL. been the means of restoring an important faculty to thou-
rust published, in French, English, German, Dutch, Spanish, and sands whO would otherwise have been disqualified from fol.
Italian, in a Seafood Envelope, 2s. 6d., or post-tree, from the lowing their daily vocations. During the past year 976
Author,
-PRESERVATION; a were relieved, and 266 remained under treatment. Th for forty-two Stamps, patients had been received, of whom 550 were cured, 160
SELFe pa-
Medical Treatise on the Physiology of Marriage, and on tients consisted generally of clerks, needlewomen, domestic
servanis artisans, distressed foreigners, sailors, soldiers, and
the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity,
molly acquired at an early period of life, which destroy i•
po ice. 'The chief causes
.of loss of hearing were'
living in
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural '
confined or damp localities, intemperance, want of cleanli-
feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practical
3brervations on the certain Prevention and successful Treatment of ness, and out-of-door exercise, insufficient or adulterated
tiervous Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, Syphilis, food, wet feet or clothing, and sleeping in damp beds or
itecture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Imes- rooms. While these causes of disease remained in operation
station, as adopted by Lallemand, Ricord, and other eminent mem- . •
it was impossible for the medical man to do more than miti-
bers of the facgate the symptoms. No class of disease seemed
of emreeddmeatefodnibeesses,mwaoenrrdee
uly
illustrating the t&dumm y, rhysiology, and Diseases of in France. With Fifty coloured Engravings,
the Tie-
productive productive Organs, explaining their struettires, uses, and functions, subject to quackery and empiricismthantha
and the various injaries that are produced in them by solitary a variety of inefficient operations and absurd
habits, excesses, and #nfeetictu. suggested for the relief of those whose cure depended entirely
Memberina of
oths pei ta l Medical University
oflgciln-
BY SAMUEL LA'MERT, M.D.. upon a regular and scientific course of treatment. In no one
at BEDFORD-SQUARE. LONDON.
sittrbiacrulaofttedheinstaece had the treatment adopted at the institution pro-
results, even where it had failed to restore
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Member f B Society,
hearing.
duced injurious
In concluding their report the committee earnestly
0 the unterian
Medical Society of Edinburgh, ke., &c.
solicited the aid of the public to maintain this valuable
pfurethrho,flltediorcinery%
This work contains a plain and complete description of the ana. charit and to extend its sphere of ope-ations. On the
tomy and
ph) siology of the reproductive organ; and of their relative y,
conditions in health and disease. The author, who has taken the motion of Mr. Burt, seconded by Dr. Richards, the report
highest medical honour*, as evidenced by the diplomas and testirno-
was adopted, and the meeting separated after thanking the
nials inserted in the work, is the only legally qualified medical man chairman.
who has exclusively, and for many years, devoted his studies to
treatment of these complaints. lie may be consulted with ad_
SHEERNESS CHURCH ON FIRE—Oa Sunday morn-
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by all those whose constitutions may have become debili-
tated through secret practices acquired il
uyaouth, or by the excesses Minster churchyard, discovered the roof of the church to be
htg, during service, two men who were walking through
marred, the objects on fire. They instantly made an alarm, and prompt assis-
e itself rendered a term of un- , to •
nee being given by many of the congregation, in a short
ofof
mlaatrreriaygeoarsfrus,
I time little damage being
ceasing misery and regret. pleasures
amistenc of f are
had of J. Gilbert. 49, Pater- the fire was extinguished, very
wheribytred, anthde
Published by the Author, and may be
Ti hbo
The a portion of
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poster-row;
Haymarket; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street ; Mann, 23, Cornhill, soot from a fhnnel chimney being blown off and lodging
or free by post for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence, woo against the lead c,,vering of one of the hips, which resulted
may be consulted on these disorders personally, or by letter,day, , su the ignition of one of thesmall portion of
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rein to till two, and from alz till 412 t. , .