The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

... £124 6 2

£193 6 1
14 15 4

Total ... £2OB 1 5
CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—(I6O miles opened .)—Return of
traffic for the week ending May 11:—
Passengers, &c. £2,493 9 4i
Goods, &c. ... 4,0.53 1 5

Totals' £6,551 10 9i
Corresponding week last year ... 6,114 15 5
Including Wishaw and Coltness, now in charge of a
fActor.

AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE.FIINERA-1. SERMON'.
—On Sunday evening a sermon was preached at the Wes-
leyan chapel, Tunbridge Wells, by the Rev. Jain Skidmore,
on the occasion of the deaths of Henry and Cherie .s Godomark,
aged respectively eighteen and nineteen years. They were
the only children of their parents, both were edt tatted in the
Wesleyan Sunday school, after which they were both elected
teachers, and subsequently both entered the Ni 'esleyan So-
ciety, the eldest in 1549, and the
yonngest in 18: O. For se-
veral months past both were afflicted with a pnsumption ;
they died within a few hours of each other, at id both were
buried in one day in one grave. Their moral chs racters were
blameles, and their end was peace.—Kentish hide pendent.
THE EAGLE AND THE GRAVE-DIGGER..--On Mon-
day afternoon last, about half-past three o'clock, the sexton
of St. Nicholas's Church, Nottingham, Was preparing the
last earthly home of a person recently deceased, when he
heard a sound, a little distance overheard, as of huge wings
battling with the breeze, and on casting his eyes upwards he
perceived a majestic eagle soaring in the air, being evidently
about to alight in the churchyard. The bliel-kirg took a
gallant swoop, .and then settled on a mound o f green turf
near the wonder. struck sexton, who, in a fit o f desperate
courage, resolved, if possible, to effect a capture ,of the noble
bird. The feathered giant peered keenly at his civilised op-
ponent, and drooped his wings lie a game
the tug of war. They advanced towards cock preparing for
each_c:t,xhetiri,e closedstruggled, and the contest had commenced. T
manu-
facture soon gave way before the rapid attacks
by the eagle's hard beak and sharp but e '
lade upon it
. talons, t htheartephreeswenas-
tative of the man tribe was determined to show
one of " the lords of the creation," and resolved etoceoednq tuoe ar
or perish in the attempt. His coat sleeve was I'du
thing of shreds, but still the battle was vigorously
tained, now the bird and anon the man appes ring to. h
the advantage. At length, however, by a coup, de twain the
sexton floored the monarch of the feathered tribe , and having
rendered him powerless by pinioning his wings, he bore him
away in triumph. This circumstance might astceund the or-
nithological world, were it not stated that the eaigle,
though
It certainly alarmed the sexton, was afterwards ascertained
to be " the living sign" of Mr. Raynor's, the Sp] .t ad Eagle,
Long-row, Nottingham. It had slipped its chain that after-
noon and escaped.--/Vofts Guardian.

UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION.—Yesterday, Sir
R. T. Murchison delivered, at this institution. one of a
aeries of lectures on select points of Natural philosophy, in
which Major Adams and Colonel Hamiltcn Smith have
already taken part. Sir Roderick's subject on this occa-
sion was the Formation of Mountain Ranges. This process
he illustrated by reference to the Alps, whose configuration
and glacial phenomena he described by reference to dia-
grams. The lecture excited great interest, and the speaker
was frequently applauded.
THE CRYPT AT THE GUILDHALL.—A vast; number
oft he metropolitan visitors have been within the last fort-
night to see the Guildhall. The crypt under p art of the
great hall in which the civic entertainments are given has
been completely clsaned, and the splendid columns• have
been to a certain extent polished, and the arches, whi ch are
considered specimens of first-rate skill, have been comp letely
developed. There is in the middle of the crypt a larg e red
granites bowl of enormous weight, which has attracted nraich
Sitrionity.