The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-22 00:00:00

AUGUST.

Ripon
Belford
North Staffordshire 3
Brighton
Br ghton Club
tomes
Wolverhampton
Reading ll9 i

SEPTE.

Derby
Cardiff . 2
Warwick
Doncaster 14
Leicester 22

OCT(
Chester Autumn 5
Richmond 7
Wrexham 7
Newmarket S 0 ll

NOVEMBER.
Worcester Autumn
Liverpool Autumn

Irish Racing Fixtures for 1858.
APRIL.
Howth and Baldoyle I Curragh 2O
Spring

JUNE.
Curragh 22 I Tramore 29
JULY.
Bellewatown 7 I Wicklow 27
Down Royal Corp 2O

A lIGITSE
Huth of Maryboro'
Roscommon 10

SEPTEMBER.
Kilkes
Curragh 7 I Johnstown 2B
Jenkinstovrn Park 2l •

OCTOBER.
Curragh 12 Limerick 2l
I
Down Royal Corp l9

OTAGO, N3CW ZEALAND.—On Wednesday last the A 1
ship Three Bells. 649 register, loft the Clyde for this co-
lony with upwards of 270 emigrants. Besides a large
body of suitable agricelturists, a considerable number of
mechanics have had assisted pa,sages granted to them.
Two teachers of high qualifications also proceed to the
colony.

A New FIELD FOR EMIGRANTS.—The fine ship Gipsy
Bride, of 1,457 tons, being the first vessel despatched
from this country with ernigrante under the auspices of
the colonists of the Cape of Good Hope, sailed from the
Mersey, for Cape Town, on Saturday, with upwards of
400 Sootch emigrants from the pastoral districts.
ADVERTISING IN AMERIOA.—Our Yankee cousins ap-
pear to understand the art, r or puffing adver-
tisements. We find in the New York Times of the 6th
of Match an entire page devoted to one single advertise-
ment, which is printed in a square form, alternately, so
as to snake the breed sheet resemble a chess-board. The
sub.tanoe of the advertisement thus "damnably itertred”
is to the following effect :—" Every one is reading
Cobb's new story in the New York Ledger."
The Governors of Dulwich Gallery, with a view o'
reedering the classification of pictures and their cata-
loguing more instructive, have commissioned Mr. Red-
grave, R.A., to report upon the present state of the
Gallery, and to make suggestions for the more effici-nt
display of the pictures. At the last meeting of the
governors, it was determined that the Gallery should be
opened for six days in each week without the necessity
of obtaining tickets.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We are siorry_ to atate,
upon good tb•rw viii sthnr+ I, ha
curtailments in the rail way establishment at Swindon.
It will be in the recollection of many of our readels that
in Sept. last, the operatives engaged at the works were
reduced front the full complement (1,600 bands) to 1,200
workmen, the number at present employed ; and owing
to the continued depression in the company's affairs, we
regret to find that there exists the necessity for limiting
still further the working expenses of the line. Under
these circumstances the workmen at the Swindon works
will be reduced in number almost immediately, and the
remainder will in all probability be placed on short time
e., working four or five days weekly—Gloucester-
Aire Standard.
SCOTTISH NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—The
half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Friday,
at A berdeeu—Mr. Stirling, of Kippendavie, the chairman
of the company presiding. The report for the half-year
deemed that the revenue fund amounted to 93,738/., and
the expenditure to 45,3371., leaving a balance of 48,4001
divisible as follows :—To Aberdeen to revenue account,
33,800/.; to Scottish Midland revenue account, 14,g201.
After deducting interest and all preference charges, the
balance available for dividend in Aberdeen capital stock
for the half-year is, with a former surplus, 12,9031. ; and
after giving dividends due on the 6 and 3i per cent.
stocks respectively, a balance is carried to next half-year
of 8,1001. The report states that the half-year's revenue
shows an increase over the corresponding half-year of
3,8541, and that the surplus on the half-year applicable as
dividend on Scottish Midland stock is 11,9011. The chair-
man this was the most satisfactory report they had ever
presented to their shareholders. The time bad now come,
though it had been long in coming, when they were able
to pay 4 per cent.. on the Scottish Midland stock, and he
hoped they would go on to increase. So far as the Aber•
dent shareholders' stock was concerned, it was gratify-
irg to be able to announce that they were in a position
to pay the whole of the preference dividend from this
time forward. They were justified in making this an-
nouncement from the gradual increase of traffic on their
own line, and the prospect of a speedy opening of rail-
way communication through to Inverness. The chairman
concluded by movingresolutions approving of the report
and providing for the payment of dividends—namely,
at the rate of 4 percent. per annum on the Scottish Mid-
land stock, and C per cent. and 31 per cent, on two
classes of Aberdeen stock. Major Christie seconded the
resolutions, which were passed. The meeting then re-
solved itself into a special meeting, when the
chairman moved a resolution to the effect that fr'm awl
after this date the sums owing for arrears of interest un
the Aberdeen 7 per cent, preference capital stock,
amounting to 63,6501.. be converted into a preference
st. ck, to be called Aberdeen 31 per cent. preference
ca ,iial steck No. 2, such at .oe to entitle -he holders o
interest thereon after Feb. 1, 1860, at the above rate.
The resolution was seconded by Mi. Nicol, and agreed
to. A vote of thanks to the chairman terminated the
nosiness.
RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The traffic returns of railways
in the United Kingdom for the week ending March 13,
amounted t i 345,8591., and for the corresponding week
of last year to 330,6401., showing t deer-ase of 34,790/,
The gross receipts of the eieht railways having their ter-
mtni in the metrop lie amounted for the week ending as
above to 142 0051.. and for the corresponding week of
last year, 161,298/., showing a decreaee of 19,2931. The
decrease on the Eastern Counties Railway amounted to
1,9931.; on the Great Northern to 5,4361.; on the Great
Western to 3,0591.; on the London and orth-Western
to 4,9711.; on the Landon and Blackwell to 941.; on the
Loudon, Brighten, and South Coat to 1,4411.; on the
London and South-Western to 1,0701.; and on the
South-Eastern to 1,2291.; total, as above, 19,2931. ree

receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom
amounted t 203,8451., and for the correspobding
perio of 1857 to 219,342/., showing a decrease of

j 5,4971. in the receipts f tip Helloes, which, added to the
decrease on the metrop Titan lines, makes the total &-
crease 34,7901., as compared with the corresponding
week of 1857.
HISTORY IN WORDS.—The history of words is the
history of trade and commerce. Our very apparel is a
dictionary. We are told of the "bayonet," that it was
first made in Bayonne; " caulbrics," that they came from
Cambray ; "damask," from Damascus; "arras," from i
the city cf the same name; " cordwine," or cordc-
Yen," from Cordova; "currants, from Corinth ; the
"guinea," that it was originally coined of gold brought
from the African coast so called ; " carnlet," that it was
woven, at least in part, of camels' hair. Such has been I
the manufacturing progress, that we now and then send
calicoes and muslins to India and the East, and yet the
words give standing witness that we once imported these
from thence; for "calicos " is from Calcut, and "mug.
lin " is from Aionsul, a city in Asiatic Turkey.
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