The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-16 00:00:00

OUR RAILWAY JOURNAL.

(From the Great Northern Railway Journal.)
" The story of our lives from year to year,"
Has prompted me before you to appear ;
Not, mark, of Dickens' serial do I speak,
Nor of its hopeful rival " Once a Week,"
Nor of the Railway Times, or Times diurnal,
But of our newborn " G. N. Railway Journal
The little stranger that's just come to town,
Whose fragile form would wither at your frown'
If you but smile, because of recent birth,
And warmly greet his advent to the earth;
If you forgive his faults, and kindly try
His failings to regard with lenient eye;
Full soon he'll thrive, and every week you'll see
A stouter, wiser, better child is he.
From week to week, our Journal will enshrine
All News important " in the Railway line."
The price of shares, the meetings, and I, on dit,"
In short whate'er of interest there may be.
Our little Journal in Department " two,"
Will be entirely of a homely huo,
Filled with reports on matters strictly true--
Not gossip, mind, for that would never do.
Should space permit, there'll be besides the Nascs'
A corner open to the Railway Muse.
Next, numerous Sketches, Stories, Essays brief'
To cheer the heart, and give the mind relief d
From " Ups " and Downs," and special rates an, ,o ills.
And " Ins" and " Outs," dogs, horses, fish, and D.

FRENCH F

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_ FORTIFICATIONS IN THE ClTAl4l%,„erlie
.
The French Emperor has issued an order for the
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fortification of the Chausey Islands. These WO ;AP
most of our readers must be aware, lie between Grfuther,'
and St. Maio on the one hand, and Jersey on thheih are
They are little more than mere rocks, some of v''''-.6
entirely submerged at high water, and offer no footl 0 0
any living thing. The principal one is totally de,tinglimt.
all vegetation except the sparest herbage. There 18'"ved
h ouseupon it, which is useful to the small craft eniPplinase,i
the oyster fishery. The present importance of the Las
Islands consists in the shelter which their lee affer"'r they
d
anchorage in gales of wind. As affording such elte,
were of immense use to the British cruisers bloelace•
Granville and St. Melo, during the late war with -r,,t'e,j,io
No doubt, therefore, their being fortified has origtci pg:„
the prospective contingency of a not distant war vav Na
land. With our own works at Alderney in prOcetifyaw
have, however, no right to complain of the French f
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FOUNDERING
Star. 1
OP THE BLENHEIM.—On s,Avra ~
the news reached Lloyd's of the loss of the fine sib tang heim, Capt. Headley, in the Bay of Bengal, and Ana "f
by drowning of her commander, the second officer' fleet
of her crew. The Blenheim was one of the fined Sol
Indiamen owned by Messrs. Duncan Dunbar entld
of Limehouse. She was on her return voyage! 16th e'';
thau brce
Akyab on the 7th of June for Calcutta. On
encountered a fearful gale, which caused the "Idfolio- if
over her, and it becoming apparent that she won seerceo
the captain and, crew took to the boats, and a
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done so when the ship went down. They sec wand ri
the
the snt, sighting land, and one boat reached shore on
Etawree ; the other, however, was swamped in ate, bcd'op
which swept the beach, and the captain, second 112 „vp
swain, cook, and nine men perished. The Blennow
about 700 tons register.

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