The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-10 00:00:00

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GREAT NORTHERN COAL TRADE.

The mar gers of the Great Northern Railway
Company ere taking most effective measures to de-
velop this traffic to ite utternioet extent. The arrange-
ments made by Ms. Coles Child, the manager of the
coal traffic, are such that, it London will buy the coals,
the Great Northern Railway Company can supply them
at a greatly reduced price, and ,with the utmost faci-
lity. With the view of supplying the London public
with as much of the black diamonds as they can be
expected to consume, Mr. Coles Child contrived the
following arrangements :—At the Maiden-lane
station, which will remain as the goods station of the
Great Northern Company, there is a long range of
store-houses fur coals. The coal trucks run into
these stores, and deposit their burdens in them in the
twiekling of an eye, by apertures made in the
bottoms of the trucks; through these apertures the
coals drop iota the stores immediately beneath, be-
tween the rails. From these stores the sacks of the
consumers are filled by allowing the coals to run down
over a sieve, by which means a sack is filled with coals
in an astonishingly short space of time, and the opera-
tion of screening is thoroughly well performed. The
time and labour thus saved not only enabled the con-
sumer to have his waggon filled almost in the space or
time formerly spent in filling a single sack, but the
expense of the operation is materially reduced. By
the above-mentioned means the Great Northern could
!apply the London public with 2,500 tons of coal per
day—if they should ever want as much. The stores
will hold 2,500 tow at a time, and the coal trucks
above them will hold 750 tons in addition. As
many as fifty gangs of men could be at work
Int the same time, attending the operation
performed by the machinery of storing, screen-
ing, and sacking the coals, a force equal to dis-
posing of full 2,500 toas in a day. In the meantime,
that is, while the coal trade amounts to much less than
2,500 tons per day, the expense can be nearly. appor-
tioned to the extent of business done. They need not
have a man more than they require. At present the
whole coal trade of the Great Northern amounts to
about 1,2001. a week, the gross sum which the com-
pany receive for the carriage of each ton being a little
under Is. ; the charge for >conveyance is about id.
per mile per ton. If the London trade alone should
ever amount to 2,500 tons per day, the gross receipts
per annum would be about four times as much as the
whole of the present coal traffic. 2,500 tons a day
would be productive of a gross receipt of about
263,000/. a year, half of which would probably be
profit to the company. But to speak our own mind,
we must say we are not sanguine enough to expect
results from the coal traffic so large as this.—Herepath.

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —Traffic for
he week ending September 6, 1851:--
Number of passengers (25,426),
goods and parcels, horses and
carriages ... £4,377 12 9
Corresponding week in last year
for Glasgow and Ayr, and
Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle Railways ... £3,707 0 10
Glasgow, September 8.

STATE OF FARM BUILDINGS.—In the courae of our
practice we were led, some time since, to give more than
ordinary attention to the arrangement and construction of
Farm Buildings, an interesting sul,j2ct fur inquiry which has
not been pursued to the extent it deserves, and in gcing over
a number of farms for informatim, were astonished at the
miserable condition in which the treater number of them
were found. The buildings are ruinous • ill contrived; placed
without any regard to convenience, stilt less symmetry; and
erected in most cases regardless of known expedients for les-
sening labour and saving expense in the I:mg run. Even
where there has been a willingness wisely to invest money
in erecting new buildings or improving old ones, incompetent
persons have in many cases been employed, and the result is
very unsatisfactory.—Builder.

A FARMER'S HELPMATE.—A young lady who,
perhaps, is better acquainted with French than farming, and
is more attentive to her piano than her dairy, was recently
married to a farmer. In examining her new domains she
one day visited the byre, when she thus interrogated her
milkmaid :—" By the bye, Mary, which of the cows is it that
gives the buttermilk ?"—• Montreal courier.
ALLEGED ATTEMPT TO POISON A MOTHER.—On
Wednesday a young man, named Daniel Richardson, was
taken before R. Fitzjohn, Esq., a., Baldock, charged with at-
tempting to poison his mother with Spanish flies. The pri-
soner is a man of notoriously bad character. Several years
ago he was transparted for a felony, sent to Gibraltar, and
afterwards to Miilbauk Prison, where he remained fifteen
months, when his sentence was commuted. The very day
of his release he went to Baldock, and during the night en-
tered Messrs. Hog; and Lindsell's bank by the chimney;
for this offence he was tried at the Hertford assizes, and sen-
tenced to twelve months' imprisonment. He had not been
out of prison many days when the criminal attempt with
which he is now charged was made. The prisoner had been
to London, and upon his return was heard doing something
in the kitchen, from whence he returned into his mother's
living room. She was at the time looking over some papers,
and had a glass of porter by her side. The prisoner bent
over her for a minute, and on his mother immediately after
taking up the poner to drink she found something clinging
to her lips, and on looking into the glass detected something
green: fl.,ating on the top. Something of the same kind also
adhered to her lips. On examination, the foreign substance
proved to be Spanish flies. The mother, afraid of her life,
lave information to police-constable Hawkes after the lapse
of some days, and at that time the constable found parts of
two flies in his waistcoat pocket. The prisoner was com-
mitted to the assizes for trial.—Hertford Mercury. •

TIIE MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 9.—The
Royal Mail steam-ship Severn, Captain W. Vincent, took
her departure this afternoon with the usual mails for Lisbon,
the Brazils, and the River Plate, in charge of Lieutenant
Strover, Admiralty agent. The Severn took out 57 pas-
sengers, a very large cargo, and specie value 73,0001. sterling.
The next Brazil mails will be brought by the Teviot, Captain
Revett, which vessel will be the first homeward arrival
under the new arrangements, and will be due here on the
16th inst. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company's ship Madrid, Captain John Weeks, sailed on
Monday with the mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, and
Gibraltar. She had a large number of passengers, a full
cargo, specie value 2,500/., and 17 bottles of quicksilver on
freight. The Iberia, with the next homeward mails, from
the same ports,,is due here on Sunday next, the 14th inst.
The United States mail steam-ship Washington, Captain G.
W. Floyd, will leave Southampton on Wednesday (this day)
at 2 rovr. She will take about 160 passengers and about 200
tons measurement goods on freight, the latter principally
from Germany and France.
MURDER. About eleven o'clo'k on Saturday
night the inhabitants residing in the Tontine-close were
alarmed by the cries of murder proceeding from the house of
a tailor named Jack, who lives in that locality. The police
having entered the house, found that Jack had been abusing
his wife in a dreadful manner, and they took him into cus-
tody. In about an hour and a half afterwards word was
brought to the Central Police-office that the poor woman
had died in consequence of the injuries she had received.
Dr. Easton was immediately in attendance, and made a par-
tial exami,,ation of the body, but no injuries of a serious
nature were apparent. From the statement of a little boy
who was in the house it appears that Jack and his wife had
quarrelled, and that he had attacked her with his fists, and
knocked her down, and while on the floor had seized her by
the throat. A post mortenz examination will, we uuderstano,
he made, when the cause of death will probably be arrived at.
Jack was apparently not drunk when taken to the office,
and the victim of his cruel rage was, as far as we can learn,
previously enjoying good health. Jack denies having ill-
treated his wife, but states that she was taken unwell, and
while he was engaged feeling her pulse she died. The
statement of the police officers, again, is, that the poor wu-
man was alive when they took the husband into custody.
Both Jack and his wife are advanced in years.—North
Bri-
fish Daily Mail.
HARLOW-BUSH CATTLE FA IE, SEPT. 9.—This
fair immediately succeeds that of Barnet. The supply was
equal to any former occasion, and the prices, generally, for
store beasts, from the large Lincoln to the tiny Scot, were
much the same as at the great fair at Barnet, which, to
mine extent, regulates the price cf live stock. The much
and in-calf cows of the Yorkshire breed made rather more
money, the cow jobbers buying several large lots at from
151. to -201. each for the London markets. The polled Suf-
' folks made from 121. to 16/. each, a long price for a Suffolk,
but they were some very choice animals. The horse-fair,
heretofore a very celebrated and still an important one for
the sale of cart colts and horses, was abundantly supplied.
The best 5-year-old cart-horses, suitable for London work,
very readily made 50 guineas each, and in some instances
very choice animals reached 6.) guineas ; middling size, for
agricultural purposes, 30 to 35 guineas each; cart colts, 2
years old, were in great demand, making 18 to 25, and 3
years old 30 to 35 guineas each, several large lots being
bought by the farmers and dealers tram Kent, Surrey, and
Sussex, who invariably attend this fair.

A TEA DRINRER.—HaZiitt, the celebrated writer
and critic, usu fly rose at from one to two o'clock in the day
—scarcely ever before twelve ; and if he had no work in
hand, he would sit over his breakfast (of excessively strong
black tea, and a toasted French rob) till four or five in the
afternoon - silent, motionless, and self-absorbed, like a Turk
over his opium pouch ; for tea served him in this capacity.
It was the only stimulant he ever took, and at the same
time the only luxury; the delicate state of his digestive
organs prevented him from tasting any fermented liquors,
or touching any food but beef, mutton, poultry, or game,
dressed with perfect plainness. He never touched any but
black tea, and was very particular about the quality of that,
always using the most expensive that could be got; and he
used, when living alone, to consume nearly a pound in a
week. A cup of Hazlitt's tea (if you happened to come in
for the first brewage of it) was a peculiar thing; I have
never tasted anything like it. He always made it for him-
self; half filling the teapot with tea, pouring the boiling
water on ita and then almost immediately pouring it out,
using with it a great quantity of sugar and cream. To judge
from its occasional effect upon myself, I should say that the
quantity llazlitt drank of this tea produced ultimately a
most injurious effect upon him, and in all probability hastened
his death, which took place from disease of the digestive
organs. But its immediate effect was agreeable, even to a
degree of fascination ; and not feeling any subsequent re-
action from it, he persevered in its use to the very last, not-
withstanding two or three attacks similar to that which ter-
minated his life.—Douglas Jerrold.
AN EDITOR'S VINDICATION OF A FRIEND.•••••AII
editor, in vindicating the private character of a friend, who
had been nailed for the crime of sheep-stealing, thus de-
fended him :—" We have known Mr. Thomas for twelve
years. Our acauaintance commenced with that great equi-
noctial storm which blew down our grandfather's barn. At
that time he was a young man in the prime of life, and
we think raised the best marrowfat peas we ever ate. He
was a good mathematician, kind to the poor, and troubled
with fits. In all the relation of a husband, father, uncle, and
trustee of common lands, be has followed the direct stan-
dard of duty. Mr. Thomas is at this time forty-three years
of a,e, slightly marked with the small-pox, an estimable
citizen, a Church member, and a man of known integrity
for ten years. And as to sheep-stealing, what he would
have done if he could get an opportunity is without founda-
tion in point of fact. Mr. Thomas could have stolen our
lead.peucil several times, but didn't do it."
FULL DRESS French naval officer of distinc-
tion, lately returned from a cruise in the Pacific, brought
with him, as a present to his sister, the complete costume of
an Indian princess, on one of the Society Islands. It con-
sisted of a necklace !