The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-22 00:00:00

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN
for the week ended Jan. 22, 1866, made up from the Returns of II 0
Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Weis
per Imperial Quarter.
WVEAT. ) BAXLEY. ) OATS. ATE. AN.. ride.
59,4 d 45s 71 23s 41 I 405 2d 40s 51 39s fid

TAE THROUGH BOOKING SYSTEM BE
TWEEN EUROPE AND AMERICA.

In our last number we announced that a sys-
tem had been organised, by which passengers,
whether first, second, or third classes, can be con-
veyed from most of the principal ports of Europe
to any part of Canada, or to the leading cities of
the United States. We are now in a condition to
state the exact arrangements which have been
made for effecting this purpose. They seem
to be of the simplest, yet of the most complete,
character. We will take the case of an emigrant,
who, having arrived at his port of embarkation,
has decided upon taking his passage to Quebec,
and thence proceeding by the Grand Trunk Rail-
way to his destination in the Far West, which for
the present we will assume to be Chicago. The
agent of the ship will, for one payment, issue him
a ticket, in which will be included the passage-
money across the Atlantic and the railway fare to
his destination. One-half of the ticket will be given
up to the captain or purser of the ship
before he lands, and on presenting the other to the
passenger and emigration agent of the Grand Trunk
Railway at Quebec, who will be waiting on his
arrival, it will be exchanged for a railway ticket.
By arrangements made with about 30 railway com-
panies, that ticket will pass the holder to any place
on the American continent to which he has paid
his fare.

To enable the passenger and emigration agent at
Quebec to know what passengers he may expect,
the agents at the different European outports are,
as soon as each vessel sails, to advise the central
office of the Grand Trunk Railway Company in
London of the names of the passengers in her wlio
have through tickets, their class, and the destina-
tion of each person. These particulars having been
registered in the London office will be despatched
to Quebec by the weekly steamer, so that the agent
will not only know, much in advance of the ship's
arrival, the exact number of passengers he may
expect by her, but will have also bad ample time
to prepare their railway tickets. He and his staff
will personally superintend their landing and the
clearing of their luggage at the Custom House.
This accomplished, they will be conducted to the
railway station which is alongside the landing jetty
at Quebec. There the passengers will find refresh-
ment rooms provided, with every accommodation
and description of food suited for each class, and
those of the emigrant class will be protected from
the extortion and villanies to which they are now
subjected at every landing port on the American
continent.

The railway distance between Quebec and Mon-
treal is 168 miles. There will be one intermediate
stoppage of an hour's duration, for refreshment, a
similar one at Montreal, and the same at distances
varying from 100 to 120 miles throughout the
entire journey. Including these stoppages, the
running time of the emigrant trains is fixed
at 20 miles an hour, and as the distance between
Quebec and Chicago is about 1,007 miles, the time
occupied in the journey will be less than 2i days.
Last year emigrants could not have completed one-
fourth of that journey in the same time by the St.
Lawrence steam-boats.

The Canadian system of railways ceases at De-
troit, 730 miles from Quebec. When the Victoria
Bridge is completed the same cars (each capable of
comfortably accommodating 80 passengers, and
each fitted with a female waiting-room) will unin-
terruptedly traverse that distance. Until that
period arrives, the connection between the opposite
banks of the St. Lawrence at Montreal will be
maintained by powerful steam ferry boats.
On reaching Detroit the passengers will be con-
wigned by the emigration officer of the Grand Trunk
Company (who will have had previous intimation
of their coming, by telegraph) to the Central Mi-
chigan Railway Company, which leads direct from
Detroit to Chicago, through the state of Michigan
in the United States. At Chicago they will be met
by another agent of the Grand Trunk Company,
specially appointed for the purpose, who will for-
ward all those persona whose tickets entitle them
to go to St. Louis or to the other important towns
on the Mississippi.
It must be remembered that all these arrange-
ments are carried out on the responsibility of the
Grand Trunk Company, which affords a protection
that emigrants have never had a chance of obtain-
ing up to the present time.
The fare of the emigrant passenger between
Quebec and Chicago will be 11.175. sterling. Each
adult is allowed 1501 b. of luggage free, and for all
surplus there is a very reduced scale of charge.
Children under twelve pay half fares, and have an
allowance of 751bs of luggage free. Children under
three, in company with their parents, travel free.
Precisely the same arrangements have been estab-
lished for emigrants and others who make the sea
passage to Portland or to Boston. The former city
is one of the termini of the Grand Trunk Railway.
It is 292 miles from Montreal, and is consequently
124 miles further from Chicago than Quebec.
Boston is 105 miles from Portland, with which it is
connected by railway and an extremely well con-
ducted line of steam ships. As both these ports
are open during the winter emigration can be as
actively carried on, if desired, at that period of the
year, by means of these ports and by the Grand
Trunk Railway, as during the open navigation of
the St. Lawrence.

It may be as well to state that Mr. Webster is
the emigration agent of the Grand Trunk Railway
Company at Quebec, Mr. Miller of Portland, and
Mr. Brooks, at Boston.—Canadian News, Jan. 1.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.
BANK AMALGAMATION.

Tie Tipperary Free Press of yesterday announces
that by the authority of Government the Carrick-
on-Suir, Clonmel, Thurles, and Cashel National
Banks of Ireland have now been amalgamated with
the National Bank, so that those establishments
have merged into and become identical with that
society, and all the customers of those branches
will now have the security of the capital and the
liability of the National Bank for all their engage-
ments.

REVERSE OF FORTUNE.
A paragragh under this bead, which appeared a
few weeks since, has had the effect of obtaining a
small appointment for poor Mr. F. P. Dwyer, for-
merly private secretary to the late Daniel O'Con-
nell. The salary is, indeed, trifling, but sufficient
to save him from the disgrace and misery of spend-
ing the remnant of his life as an inmate of one of
the Dublin workhouses.