The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-06 00:00:00

BRITISH.

Aberdeen ..... .....

Belfast and
Belfast and County Down..
Blri,enhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Blackburn, and West York ..
Bristol and Exeter • • .... • •
Caledonian.— ......... .........

Chester and llolyhead.• • .. •
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage .....
Dublin and Belfast Junction ......
Dublin and Drogneda• • • • • • . • . •• • • .

Dublin and Kingstown . • • • •
Dundee and Arbroath ..•• •......

Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk and Enniskillen. • .. • • • • • •
East

East Lancashire......,.

Eastern Counties and I,.iorfolli
Eastern Union ...... .............

Edinburgh and Glanow
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee....

Exeter and Crediton„ ...... ,

Furness Railway ... ......

Glmgow, and South-Western
Great Northern and E. L. .
Great Southern and Western (Ireland'
Great Western •• • •

1 Irish South Eastern .... _ ..........
Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............
Leeds and Thirsk • • .......u........
• Crosby
Liverpool, ,
and ,ou or
' rth Western... • .....
I London and :N0_..........
ILondon and Blackwall
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Lancaster and Carlisle: ..... .. ..... .
London, Brighton,
London and South Western. • • • • • • • •
Londonderry and Enniskillen •• • .....
-tlock, &c.
Manchester, Buxton, and X.,
Manchester, Sheffield, andlincoLnslaire
Manchester and South Janction•• • • • •
and South Coast..
and Carlisle • • • • • • ' • • • • • .•
Midland . . •••••
Midland Grea—t R.'"e•s•t•e•ni• • (Irish) • • • • • •
31fonklands ...
Newcastle and Ca • • ••
• • • •
North British ..
North Stallordshii; • : • • • • • • • • • • • • •"
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North-Western .•., • •
Scottish Central . :: •
•••••• • • • • " Scottish M . .idland .. :•:•• • • • •
• • •
Shrewsbury and BirniiilL.h•a•ni •
• •
• • • • • •'
Shrewsbury and Chester
.: • ••
• • •
Shropshire Union .. .... ..." • •• • • •
South 11ev0n....... • •••• • •

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South
Eastern ••
• • •
South Wales • • • • • • •• •
South York., Doncaster, and" Gooie- •
Taff Vale • ••• • • ......... '
Ulster. - ..
•
•
•
Waterford and Limerick • •
West Cornwall . • • • •
.....
Whitehaven Junction ...... .
•• • . ..... York and Newcastle, and Berwick .
York and North Midland • •• •• • .....

FOREIGN.
Central of France .. . .
Dutch Rhenish " • • *..
aria Antonia
ontercau sod Troyes
Northern of France
Orleans and Bordeaux
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen . .............,
Paris and Strasburgh
Rouen and Havre
Tours and Nantes ..... ........

768
19,200

11,450
7,924
5,319
7,603
2,106

OFFICERS OF THE GUARDS.

The West-end of London is at present ringing with the
scandals of the younger officers of one of the regiments
of the Guards. This one has " bolted" over head and
ears in debt; that one has followed him to see if affairs
are quite as bad as rumour alleges; Lord This is in for
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be found; a fifth is actually in gaol, and another off to
America. In short, there is a sort of civil war raging
between the Guards and the Jews, and about, it is re-
ported, nothing
less than 70,0001. of bills of exchange.
Here is fresh food for the scandal raised by the case of
the Alleynes and the D'Arcys; and here is reason why
that scandal should not be allowed to die away before
some steps are taken by the military authorities to
strike at the root of the evil systemiwhich bears such fruit.
Are not these young men, who claim to be of the best
blood of England, the victims of the Horse Guards,
its follies and absurdities. It first puts them into a false
position, then treats them as special and favoured per-
sons; holds them forth to the world as men of unbounded
wealth; affords them all the opportunities of a great
metropolis, with nothing to do in it but compass their
own destruction; and as ono batch is ruined by racing,
dicing, gambling, credit, and—what the late Mr. Crock-
ford told a Parliamentary committee did it all—" opera
boxes and women," the Horse Guards repeat the opera-
tion—as if the Household Troops were a model school
of virtue and propriety. And these metropolitan jregi-
ments, the tone of their morality, the ordinary character
of their pursuits, and the practices they resort to, in
their turn become a sort of standard to officers of similar
ages in every other regiment in the empire.
" Here lies Laziness the Mother of all the Vices!"
was the inscription a French wit proposed for the tomb
of the mother of the Regent Orleans; and at the root of
all these scandals in the army is the want of occupation.
Young men, having nothing to do, cannot be kept out
of mischief when congregated together; and there they
are, lounging about garrison towns and depipts nearly
all the day; thankful for anything to occupy their at-
tention, be it a pretty face in a bonnet shop, or two
straws running down a gutter. The consequence is in-
evitable. They bet, they race, they play; at first a
little, gradually that little increases, until, as in the case
of Mr. Kennedy, one mere boy will bet half his fortune
on a single event, and another will defraud him out of it.
All young men in the army are not such fools or such
knaves as the two we have named. Some have rational
occupations, others turn out excellent officers, but that
extreme case discloses the logical tendency of the pre-
sent military system of England.—Daily Aews.