The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-24 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, eon sis tlng of new and e.egant assort-
ment of VASEB,Flgures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &0., in Italian,
Alabaster, Parian, Marble. Bronze, Derbyshire Spar. dm.
Imported and manufactured by JAM FtS TENNANT, Mine-
ralwist to her alaJesty, 149, 'Strand, W.C., London.

Mr. Tennant arrangea elementary colieetione of ROCKS,
INERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY.
and can be had at 2. 6, 10, 20, 60, to 500 guineas eaoh.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION In or.oLoor and MINE-
RALOGY is given by Mr.TENNANAP.O.s.. at 149. Strand.

(1 RE AT WESTEMN • RAILWAY.—
AX THROUGH. COMAIUNICATION with
A.ND.—The Great Western Railway Compiny give
Notice that Passengers eau now be booked through be-
tween-7.

LONDON, • - •
Bath, Birmingham,
Cheltenham, Gloucester,
Reading, .
lIEDEFORD,
and other principal Stations on their System, and
KINGSTOWN and DUBLIN

Via Shrewsbury, \We".,Cii;;;;,anaLiolyhead.
Single 'rickets to Kingstown are available for the day
Of issue and the following day, and the Return Tickets (to
Kingstown) for ONE Movrtr, entitling tho holder to break
the journey at Birmingham, Shrewsbury, Chester Con-
way,
_Bangor,' Holyhead, and Dublin. The Tickets to
Dublin entitle the holders to break the journey at Chester
or Holyhaad. Passengers are -also booked through be-
tween— LONDON,

. BIRMINGHAM,
and tho following Stations on the Midland Great Western
Railway of Ireland, via Kingston or Dublin (North Wall)—
' Athonry, -Athlone,
. Balybanuis, Ballinasloo,
Ballymote, Boyle,
Carrick-on-Shannon, Castlebar,
Castlerea, - Cavan,
.
' Claremorris, Galway,
Longford, Iltillinl;ar,
Roscommon, Sligo,
T liam, Westport,
And the following Stations on the-Great Southern and
Western, and Waterford and Limerick Railways :
- ; KILLAOI4kEY;
:Athlone, • A thy,
Carlow, - Clonmel,
' CORK,
Fermin Kilkenny,
' Limerick Junction, Limerick-,
Mallow, Maryborough,
Nenagh, Parsonstown,
Portarlington, . Roscrea,
Templemore, Thurles,
Tipperary, - - Tralee,
Tullamoro, Waterford.
Passengers travelling to Kingstown, or Stations in the
interior of ix-eland via Kingstown, are conveyed by the
MAIL PACKETS between Holyhead and Kingstown—
the sea passage is performed in about 31 hours.
The Single Tickets via KINGSTOWN are available for
FIVE DAYS, and tho Return Tickets for ONE MONTI', en-
titling the holders to break the journey at Birmingham,
Shrewsbury, Chester, Bangor, Conway, Holyhead, and
Dublin.
The Single Tickets via Dublin (North Wall) are avail-
able for Five Days, and the Return Tickets for One Montb,
and permit the holders to break the journey at Chester,
Holyhead, or Dublin.
For Service of. Trains, Fares, and other information, see
the Company's published Time Bills.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager..
Paddington Station, AugUst, 1866..

•
GBEAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—
. THROUGH COMMUNICATION with IRE-
LAND via MILFORD HAVEN and WATERFORD.
Passengers are booked
LOND throughON between—
,
BRISTOL,
Carmarthen, . Cardiff,
Gloucester, Cheltenham,
Merthyr, Llanelly,
Neath, Newport,
Oxford, Reading,
SWANSEA,
And the undermentioned Stations on the Waterford and
Limerick and Waterford and Kilkenny Railways, viz.—
Cahir, Clonmel,
• Kilkenny, Limerick Junction,
Limerick, Tipperary.
The Single Journey Tickets aro available for FIVE
DAYS with the privilege of breaking the journey at either
Gloucester or New Milford, and Waterford or Clonmel, as
also at Cahir and Tipperary.
The Return Tickets aro available for ONE MONTH, and
entitle the holders to break the journey at many places of
interest on the route both going and returning.
For Service. of Trains, Fares, and other information, see
the Company's published Time Bills.
J. GRIERSON, General Manager.
Paddington Station, August, 1866.

iaREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
'VI THROUGH COMMUNICATION with IRELAND
via HOLYHEAD and KINGSTOWN or MILFORD
HAVEN and WATERFORD.
TOURIST TICKETS.
FOR THE
LAKES OF KILLARNEY,
AVAILABLE FOR ONE MONTH.
Are now issued at j

Loudon, . ji.x.forj,
Binuingham, ---gloucester,
Worcester,
Bath, Bristol,
nAt,nlitihwe,ont3ll:;eierkeptislurciaip,n‘doiSylLiletaioa and K
Stations on `the
st o are Great V
Kingstown available
by the Irish Mail Trains between Chester and Holyhead,
and by the Mail Packets between Holyhead and Kings-
town,
and entitle the holders to remain as long as conve-
nient to themselves at Chester, Bangor, Holyhead, Dublin,
Limerick Junction, Mallow, Cork and Killarney, provided
they return to the Station in England at which they took
their Tickets not later than One Calendar Month from the
date of their departure therefrom. The Tickets via Mil-
ford entitle the holders to break the journey at various
places of attraction on the Great Western Railway, as also
at Waterford, Tipperary, Limerick Junction, or Mallow,
either going or returning ; but the Waterford and Killar-
ney portion of the route must be performed within Thirteen
Days from the date of departure from Waterford.
Tourist Tickets are also issued to Dublin (North Wall)
from all the principal Stations on the Great Western Rail-
way, entitling the holders to break the journey at any Sta-
tion between Shrewsbury and Chester inclu.sive, and also
at any Station on the Chester and Holyhead Line, both
going and returning.
Tourist Tickets for the Connemara Tours are issued at
Loudon and Birmingham.
For Fares and other particulars see Tourist Programme,
to be obtained at any
of the
J. GIIIERSON, General Manager.
August, 180. Company's Stations or Offices.

M. E.EILLy AND Co.,
E. GUN AND RIFLE lIANUF.VCTURERS,
tO2, New Oxford-street, London,
Have a:ways an Extensive Assortment of MUZZLE and
MUECU-LOADING GUNS, on the most approved sys-
tems, from £lO Ms. upwards. Improved " CENTRAL
FIRE" IMEECII-LOADERS, in cases complete. from 23
guineas. Cartridge Cases from 30s. per 1,000. Several first-
c,asii Second-hard Muzzle and Breech-loading" GuLs at mo-
derate prices. Revolvers, Air Canes, &e. Double Rifles for
Africa, India, dc., from 12 guineas.

Metropolitan Railways.

Though in this country the battle of the gauges
was fought to the death, in the sister island it re-
sulted in the adoption of a medium width, which
has been found to answer well, and is generally known
as the Irish gauge. The less fierce dispute about the
comparative merits of the inner and the outer circles
as systems of railway communication between the
various points of the metropolis appears to have re-
sulted in a compromise the advantages of which will
be experienced extensively in another year or two.
At the present time the Metropolitan Railway, better
known as " the Underground," commencing at
Bishop's-road, Paddington, and running under the
Marylebone-road, and so on to King's-cross, passes
by Bagnigge Wells-road to Farringdon-street, and
under Old Smithfield to Aldgate and Moorgate-
streets, thus forming an irregular half-circle within
the town. It is now proposed, by extensions at either
end of the underground line, and by a new line, to
be called the " Metropolitan District Railway," to
complete what will form pretty nearly an inner circle,
but will also throw outbranches to connect itself with
the suburban systems north and south of the Thames
—so that when the entire scheme is in working order
we shall have something like a combination of the
two circles—the inner and the outer—as a thorough
system for the metropolis. in a westerly direction
the Metropolitan Railway is to be extended through
Paddington, or by Bayswater and Notting-hill, to
Kensington and Brampton. At both these latter
points it will join the Metropolitan District line,
which, becoming a continuation of the extension at a
spot near the Horticultural Society's gardens and
Cromwell-road, will pass through Pimlico, along the
worst 'part of Westminster, in a direction parallel
with Victoria-street, under the roadway between
Westminster Hospital and the Abbey, through the
Thames Embankment, and by Earl-street to Can-
non-street, and in that direction to the Tower, where
it will connect itself with the eastern extension of
the existing underground line. This extension,
commencing from Moorgate-street, will pass by
Finsbury-circus, and on through Aldgate, and so
round to the point of contact with the Metro-
politan District line. The Act authorising the con-
struction of' the District Company's works was ob-
tained in 1864, but the company was not completely
organised till February in last year. A special
clause was inserted in the Act, requiring that six
months' notice should be given before the compul-
sory powers for obtaining land could be exercised,
and this, of course, delayed to some extent the ope-
rations of the engineers and the contractors. But a
very considerable portion of the ground required
between Westminster and Kensington has been pur-
chased ; and though little has been heard about the
undertaking since it received a Parliamentary sane-
. tion, 2,000 men, 20Q.korfiCili end 58 engines hAve fox