The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-04 00:00:00

RAIL-ROAD TRAVELLING.

Although the whole passage between Liverpool and
Manchester is a series of enchantments, surpassing any in
the Arabian Nights,' because they are realities, not fic-
tions, yet there are certain epochs in the transit which are
peculiarly exciting. These are the startings, the ascents
and descents, the tunnels, the Chat Moss, the meetings.
At the instant of starting, or rather before, the automaton
belches forth an explosion of steam, and seems, for a second
or two, quiescent. But quickly the explosions are reiterated,
with shorter and shorter intervals, till they become too
rapid to be counted, though still distinct. These belchings
or explosions more nearly resemble the pantings of a lion
or tiger, than any sound that has ever vibrated on my ear.
During the ascent, they become slower and slower, till the
automaton actually labours like an animal out of breath,
from the tremendous efforts to gain the highest point of the
elevation. The progression is proportionate ; and before
the said point is gained, the train is not moving faster than
a horse could pace. With the slow motion of the mighty
and animated machine, the breathing becomes more la-
borious, the growl more distinct, till, at length, the animal
appears exhausted, and groans like the tiger when nearly
overpowered in combat by the buffalo.
The moment that the height is reached and the descent
commences, the pantings rapidly increase ; the engine, with
its train, starts off with augmenting velocity ; and in a few
seconds it is flying down the declivity like lightning, and
with a uniform growl or roar, like a continuous discharge
of distant artillery. At this period the whole train is going
at the rate of about thirty-five or forty miles an hour I I
was on the outside, and in front of the first carriage, just
over the engine. The scene was magnificent, I had almost
said terrific. Although it was a dead calm, the wind ap-
peared to be blowing a hurricane, such was the velocity
with which we darted through the air. Yet all was steady :
and there was something in the precision of the machinery
that inspired a degree of confidence over fear—of safety
over danger. A man may travel from the pole to the
equator, from the Straits of Malacca to the Isthmus of
Darien, and he will see nothing so astonishing as this.
The meetings or crossings of the steam trains flying in
opposite directions are scarcely less agitating to the nerves
than their transits through the tunnels. The velocity of
their course, the propinquity or apparent identity of the
iron orbits along which these meteors move, call forth
the involuntary but fearful thought of a possible colli-
sion, with all its horrible consequences. The period of
suspence, however, though exquisitely painful, is but mo-
mentary ; and in a few seconds the object of terror is far
out of sight behind.
Nor is the rapid passage across the Chat Moss un-
worthy of notice. The ingenuity with which two narrow
rods of iron are made to bear whole trains of waggons
laden with many hundred tons of commerce, and bounding
across a wide, semi-fluid morass, previously impassable by
man or beast, is beyond all praise, and deserving of eternal
record. Only conceive a slender bridge of two minute iron
rails, several miles in length, level as Waterloo, elastic as
whalebone, yst firm as adamant ! Along this splendid tri-
umph of human genius—this veritable via triumphalis—the
train of carriages bounds with the velocity of the stricken
deer ; the vibrations of the resilient moss causing the pon-
derous engine and its enormous suite to glide along the
surface of an extensive quagmire as safely as a practised
skater skims the icy mirror of a frozen lake.

Saturday evening the dial of the clock in the pedi-
ment at the east end of St. Paul's church, Covent-garden,
was illuminated, and had an exceedingly good effect, the hours
and even minutes having been distinctly seen from all parts of
the market. The dial by day has also a very handsome ap-
pearance. The expense of this improvement has been defrayed
by his Grace the Duke of Bedford.
EMIGRATION TO AMERlCA.—Saturday afternoon
the large American ship, Louisa, bound to New York, left St.
Katherine's dock with 180 steerage passengers and 20 cabin
passengers, who intend settling in the United States. A great
proportion of them are agriculturists (with their wives and
children). They are chiefly from. the counties near the metro-
polis. There are also several mechanics, and a few tradesmen
of small capital, from the metropolis, among the passengers.
The ship was taken in tow by a steamer, which will accom-
pany her as far as the Downs. There were a great number
of persons collected to witness the departure of the emigrants.
SNo less than thirteen passengers were transferred from the
Louisa to the Mexico, another ship in the same dock which
is chartered to carry out emigrants to America in a few days,
the former vessel not having sufficient room to accommodate
them.

THE LATE MURDER AT WOOLWICH.—It is said
that on washing the body of Mrs. Browning no fewer than
seventeen bayonet wounds were discernable. Five have al-
ready been spoken of as having been inflicted on the right and
left breast ; the majority of the others are on the hands of the
deceased, received no doubt while in the act of defending
herself. One wound is on the upper lip, into which it appears
the bayonet entered, and passed completely through the roof
of the mouth. The remains of the unfortunate woman will
be interred this day in Woolwich church-yard, in the same
grave with her husband, her brother (killed from the kick of a
horse), and a sister, cut off unexpectedly at the age of twenty-
seven. The coffin, which is made of elm, and covered with
black cloth, has merely the following inscription on the plate :
" Elizabeth Browning, aged thirty-eight years, died April 27,
1835." Since Carroll has been confined in Newgate he has
written a letter to Corporal Russell, of the Marines, stating
that if be had taken his advice he should not have committed
the act. He also requests him to preserve some jewellery
which belonged to Mrs. Browning, and to bring him a change
of linen, concluding his letter by stating the visiting days at
the prison.

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NAVAL /INTELLIGENCE.

Hampshire Telegraph.)
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 2.—The Jupiter, 52, Captain
A'Court, is daily expected here. We are told that Lord
Heytesbury will certainly take his passage in her, to as-
sume the Governor-Generalship of India.
The Pique, 36, Hon. Capt. Rous, is ready for sea at
Spithead, but no day is fixed for Lord Amherst's embarka-
tion as Commissioner to Canada.

The Magicienne; 24, and Clio, 18, are ordered not to
enter men until they are sufficiently out of the hands of the
Dock-yard to receive them. The Magicienne is ordered to
be armed with 32 pounders of 39 cwt. each, instead of her
former armament of 49 cwt. each.

The Messenger steamer, is ordered here to tow the late
Excellent of 74 guns, to the River Thames, to be sold fOr
breaking up.
The Meteor steamer, is repairing her boilers in this har-
bour, and when completed she will proceed to the Irish
Channel, to assist Commander Belcher, in his surviry of
that cost. The Firebrand, steamer, is ordered to
Woolwich.

The Rainbow, 28, was off St. Vincent on the 7th of
Marsh ; the North Star, 28, and Goldfinch packet, arrived
at Bahia, the former from Pernambuco, and the latter from
Falmouth, on the I.sth of February. The Forte sailed
from Cape Hayden, for Port-au-Prince, on the 10th of
February ; the Arachne arrived at Vera Cruz, from Tam-
pico, on the 10th of February.
The True Briton, for Madras and Bengal, sailed from
Cowes this morning, having on board General Sir Henry
Fane and Staff, for Bengal. The Thomas Grenville, -for
Madras and Bengal, and the Union, for New York, to take
out emigrants, are hourly expected.
On Friday last, the Duke of Sussex steamer was launched
at Mr. Evans's yard, at Rotherhithe. The head is the
Duke's bust, and the stern is decorated with the Royal Arms
and other devices. The carving does great credit to our old
townsmen, Hellyer and Browning, now of Rotherhithe.
At Spithead.—Pique.
In Harbour.—Victory, Royal George, Excellent, Magi-
cienne, Sapphire, Tweed, Clio, and Speedy cutter, Meteor
steamer.

APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. F. T. Brown, Mr. D. Knight,
Surgeon, Mr. P. Brennan, Assistant-Surgeon, Mr. J. M.
Mitchell, l‘late, Messrs. H. Lloyd and R. McKinley Ri-
chardson, Midshipmen, Mr. W. H. Bulliston, Master's As-
sistant, Mr. W. Jackson, Boatswain, Mr. T. Oliphant,
Gunner, to Clio ; Lieut. J. Bate, to the Tweed;, Mr.
Wheeler, Master, and Mr. James Chimmo, Purser. to the
Pearl ; Mr. William Parker, Master, add Mr. J. S.- Hamp-
ton, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Champion ; Mr. Aleiander
Anderson, Assistant-Surgeon, -to the- 13diiiiik 'Ur. A.
Kidd, Surgeon, Mr. 'l'. Mitchell (b), Assistant-Surgeon,
Messrs. H. Solly and R. Barwell, Mates, Messrs. C. John
Austin, Sydenham Markland, E. J. Brown, A. J. Wood-
ley, H. G. St. John Mildmay, Hon. G. H. Douglas, Mid-
shipmen, to the Magicienne ; Messrs. Sharp and J. E.
Patterson, Mates, Messrs. G. V. Jeffries, W. R. Surridge,
E. Scroggs, Midshipmen, Mr. S. Fisher, Clerk, Mr. P.
Wellington, Second Master, Mr. J. Maddock, Assistant-
Clerk, to Sapphire ; Mr. Peter Johnson, Boatswain of the
San Josef, is appointed Boatswain of Sheerness Dock-yard ;
Mr. Stubbington, Boatswain, Mr. Thomas Ord, Second
Master,.to the Pique ; Messrs. G. Dewes, W. Bailey, W.
Houston, Stewart, Midshipmen, to the Tweed ; Mr. G. B.
Anstruther, Mate, to the Barham ; Mr. H. Giles, Mate,
Messrs. Hugh Kinsman and R. J. St. Aubyn, Midshipmen,
to the Excellent.

PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, APRIL 30. The Champion
is to be manned with a complement of 120 men. The
Messenger, steamer, arrived on Thursday, from Woolwich,
with a detachment of the 72d Regiment, to embark in th
Romney troop-ship, and on Friday started for Pembroke,
with Mr. Walker, the assistant-master• attendant, and a
body of seamen to navigate the Cleopatra from hence to
Sherness. The Firebrand, steamer, arrived on Friday,
from Portsmouth, and started on Sunday for the Isle of
Man, having the Industry, lately fitted up for a floating
chapel, in tow. The Basilisk, ketch, arrived here on
Monday, and will shortly sail for South America. The
Romney, troop-ship, sailed yesterday for Cork, to embark
the 27th Regiment for the Cape of Good Hope.
In the case of the Brazilian slaver, the Marianna, judg-
ment was given yesterday, in the Admiralty Court. She
had been captured by his Majesty's ship Primrose, taken
to Sierra Leone, and adjudged a good and lawful prize by
the Court of Admiralty there ; one-eighth being ordered
to be paid to the officers and crew of the Primrose, and
the other seven-eighths to be considered as droits of Ad-
miralty. But if the latter were not claimed within a cer-
tain time, then the whole was to be paid to the officers and
crew of the Primrose. The money not having been claim-
ed, motion was now made on behalf of the crew, but Sir
John Nichol decided that the proceedings at Sierra Leone
were altogether irregular, and that the parties must esta-
blish their claims in the usual manner.

COURT-MARTIAL. - The sentence upon gunner and
driver Jameison, of the Royal Artillery, who was a few
days since brought here from Jersey, and tried by a court-
martial for loading and cocking his musket, and threaten-
ing to shoot the corporal and guard, when ordered to take
him into custody, is transportation for fourteen years to
New South Wales.

(From the Devonport Telegraph of Saturday.)
Lieut. Fitton, late of the Ordinary of this port, has been
appointed to a vacancy in Greenwich Hospital, occasioned
by the death of Lieut. Taylor.

The Basilisk ketch arrived here on Monday last, on her
way for South America. The Romney, troop-ship sailed
on Wednesday for Cork, to embark troops for the Cape of
Good Hope.
Captain A. L. Cory ; Lieuts. Frederick Hutton, Ky-
naston Corbet, F. Shelity, and J. H. Windham are ap-
pointed to the Barham ; Corn. Wm. Richardson, Com.
High Nurse, and Lieut. Henry Matson, to the Pearl ;
Corn. E. F. Frankland is promoted to the rank of Captain ;
Lieut. James A. Bate to the Tweed ; Lieut. Thomas Cha-
loner, to the Dublin ; Lieut. A. Kortright, to the San
Josef ; Lieut. Benjamin Alpin to the Carron ; Lieut. J.
Binney, to the Star packet ; Lieut James Harvey, to the
Pigeon ; Lieut Henry Byng, to the Sapphire.
ROYAL MARINES.—Second Lieutenant A. J. Moles-
worth, to the Tweed ; First Lieutenant G. Evans Hunt,
to the Sapphire ; Captain Ashmore to the Recruiting Ser-
vice at Gloucester ; Major R. S. Wilkinson, of the Royal
Marines, to be Paymaster of the Ist or Royal Dragoons.
His Majesty's ship Wolf, 18, Commander Stanley, left
the Cape for India on the 13th of February. The Trin-
culo and Thalia were in Ermon's Bay.
The Sapphire will be ready for sea about the 24th of
May, and the Tweed on the 12th of June.
Remaining in Harnoaze.—San Joseph, Champion, Ba-
silisk.

M. DE LAMARTINE'S TRAVELS.-7-WC are re-
quested to state that the new work by this distinguished
author, entitled " A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Syria,
&c.," in 3 vols. small Bvo., with a Portrait of M. De Lamar-
tine, will be published to-morrow, Tuesday, May sth, by
Richard Bentley, publisher in ordinary to his Majesty, New
Burlington-street.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—FoM tile report pub-
lished by the Zoological Society, it appears that the income
derived during the last year, from the admission of visitors to
the gardens, amounted to 7,545/. Is., from 150,911 persons,
and the total from the Museum 771. 3s. from 1,543 persons.
The entire receipts for the year were 18,459 L 9s. 4d., and
the expenditure 12,090/. I Is. 6d.; and the receipts were
about 2,000/. over those of the preceding year, chiefly owing
to the large accession of Fellows ; whilst the garden receipts
from visitors showed a diminution of about 4001.; and the ge-
neral expenditure in the year 1833 was greater than the past
year by about 1701., notwithstanding the extraordinary coot in
the latter year of the animals, and particularly of the rhino-
ceros. During this period the cost of animals was
1,240/. Ss. 6d., and of provisions 1,7041. 6s. 7d. The annual
cost of the rhinoceros alone is about 1501.; this enormous ani
mal principally subsisting upon rice. Although no statement
is made, it appears that the farming establishment at Kingston
has been relinquished, as useless for the purpose for which it
was undertaken. Some satisfactory experiments were made
some time since with the Wapiti deer, which, in addition to
their superior tractability, were found to exceed the speed of
the fleetest horses in draught; twelve or fourteen miles an
hour being attained, and kept up, without apparent inconve-
nience to the animals.

LoNDoN.—A map, yet extant, published in the
reign of Elizabeth, gives us a plan of London as it then
was ; by this it appears that the crowded part of the City was
between the river and Cornhill, Cheapside, and Newgate-
street. Building had not extended much east of the Tower.
Goodman's-fields were pasture grounds ; Whitechapel had
only a few houses ; Houndsditch but a single row; Spital-
fielas, from tha back of the Church, were quite open ; a to-
lerably regular street, with occasional intervening spaces, ex-
tended to Shoreditch Church. In the vicinity of Coleman-
street the population was dense ; but in Finsbury several
windmills exulted in the airiness of their situation. Goswell-
street was called " the Road to St. Alban's." The " Village
of Holborn" joined London, and from Holborn-bridge to
Gray's Inn houses extended, the backs opening into the fields.
The Haymarket was a space hedged on each side. Spring-
gardens were real gardens, extending to the Cockpit and
Tilt-yard, now the Treasury. The space between Piccadilly
and Pall-Mall was unbuilt. Along Bankside to the west
were several theatres and places of public amusement, in one
of which, opposite Queenhithe, Queen Elizabeth beheld the
diversion of bear-baiting.

THE 2,0001. ROBBERY OF JEWELS IN MAN-
CHESTER-SQUARE.—Since the committal of Hall and Martha
Handcox, it is supposed, from inquiries which have been made,
that the sum of money found at Hall's lodgings, which was
under 2001., was the whole prbcceds of the sale of the jewels ;
and that the disposal of the articles, which could not be re-
placed for less than 4,0001., was effected by means of a previ-
ous bargain with one of the City Jew diamond merchants,
who, having obtained his " cue," paid the money to Mall at
his mistress's door, and that then the jewels were given into
his hands.

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