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 froust•
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 sea
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 " on tilt,
In short whate'er of interest there may be.
Our little Journal in Department " two,"
Will be entirely of a homely hue,
Filled with reports on matters strictly tru.e--
Not gossip, mind, for that would never do.
Should space permit, there'll be besides the News'
A corner open to the Railway Muse.
Next, Humerous Sketches, Stories, Essays brief/
To cheer the heart, and give the mind relief d 011'4'
From "Ups" and Downs," and special rates an pols•
And " Ins" and " Outs," dogs, horses, fish, and

FRENCH FORTIFICATIONS IN THE Cm" elate
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The French Emperor has issued an order for tho /01-44
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fortification of the Chausey Islands. These iscl.l—ro,att
most of our readers must be aware, lie between ,`-^,;"
and St. Malo on the one hand, and Jersey on t'h'io°ll r
They are little more than mere rocks, some of ,w-tieg -of
entirely submerged at high water, and offer no oc:itute,t
any living thing. The principal one is totally tle!'",,,ligin;
all vegetation except the sparest herbage. There 'Bl,yee
houseupon it, which is useful to the small craft eruPaiat°e'
the oyster fishery. The present importance of the„. as
Islands consists in the shelter which their lee atferu,"a the'l
anchorage in gales of wind. As affording such e1e,',,"0-jtaai,lie;
were of immense use to the British cruisers e:"Frati, in
Granville and St. Malo, during the late war wi!').,atea
No doubt, therefore, their being fortified has erlgicii Pr';
the prospective contingency of a not distant war wo.ltess,
land. With our own works at Alderney in pro!?
rope,
have, however, no right to complain of the French
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FOUNDERING OF THE BLENHEM—un
ship the news reached Lloyd's of the loss of the fine thefil
heim, Capt. Headley, in the Bay of Bengal, an r 013" t Of
by drowning of her commander, the second °wee' flee' 0
of her crew. The Blenheim was one of the fie°d soty
Indiamen owned by Messrs. Duncan Dunbar 511,03(i bhe
of Limehouse. She was on her return voYaQ 16th
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Akyab on the 7th of June for Calcutta. 031 t to 1950 c,
encountered a fearful gale, which caused the sea to
foall If
over her, and it becoming apparent that she wellip,„, sew:o°o
the capt,in and crew took to the bo,ts. and h 'codeclA
of
done so when the ship went down. They sue • 14
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sighting laud, and one boat reached shore oh 7 thot,ot'
Rawree ; the other, however, was sw,atePed alwatei v;f00
which swept the beach, and the captain, second mita
swain cook, and nine men perished. The Bien
about '7OO tons register.

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