The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-26 00:00:00

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in the toil, has participated in the trials, is stimu-
lated to fresh exertions by thd,knowledge that the
efforts to which he contributed have been spoken
of at "home." But the grant of 1001. a year to
Gan. HANELOCK, representing the Brigade, will
disgust these gallant soldiers. Why not give him
a Peerage and a pension, or even the Grand Cross
of the Bath ? How oftan have they been given
for less important services ? But something more
should be given than mere honorary tokens. Why
not give him the command of a regiment—of the
Bth Highlanders, for instance, who would hail
with delight such a colonel t It is true that there
is no vacancy just at present. But the PRINCIS
CONSORT is colonel of the Grenadier Guards and
of the 60th Rifles, and one of these might be re-

linquished for a time—not the Grenadier Guard;
the pay of which was made treble the ordi-
nary amount as the reward for extraordinary
services. We scarcely expect an act so graceful
and so conscientious, which might be recorded in

the same columns that announced the sums given
by Income-tax defaulters to the Treasury as ex-
piations for the wrongs they had committed.
Bat some effort should be made, something
done, to show that the avengers of the Cawnpore
massacre are not forgotten, and that there is still
a feeling at home for those who, by almost super-
human exertions, have vindicated the honour of
the British name 1

A very important meeting takes place this day.
The Autocrat and the Emperor ALEXANDBI and
Loma N.trolmox fraternise at Stuttgardt, under
the auspices of that respectable Gentleman Usher,
the King of WURTEMBERG. The interview may
be one of a very common-place character, or it

may be fraught with consequences of vital im-
portance to the peace and tranquillity of Europe.
It may be a mere recognition of the recent impor-
tation into " tha family of sovereigns," who a few
years since was not deemed a suitable match for
one having blue blood in her veins--a distant
relative of one of the German despots.

Times have, however, changed; and England is
now to be snubbed, not France. We have proved
impracticable, and would not accept a share
of " the sick man's" assets, however liberally
tendered, and therefore, according to the
policy of PETER, another attempt must be
made—one, too, in a totally different direc-
tion. England and Austria at present stop
the way, and we know not which vehicle may
be ordered to move on by the imperial police-
men. Ws may probably expect the first notice,
for there is the Indian difficulty, which might in-
duce the belief that we could not vindicate our
own position in a case of emergency. The
parties may, however, reckon without their
host, should they attempt to act on such a notion.
Notwithstanding the Indian Rebellion, we can
still find men and money, all the personnel and
material of war, by land and sea, on any adequate

rather more than nine and one half millions of

tons. Railways carried last year the enormous

total, in round numbers, of SIXTY-FITS MILLIONS

OP TONS of merchandise of all kinds, be-

sides the large amount of nearly 10,500,000

head of live stock ! The saving of interest on

money from the rapid delivery of goods, also from
its not being necessary to keep over-large stocks
when goods can be so quickly transferred, must
be a great economy of capital ; but even in regard

,o mere amount of tonnage, the railways of Eng-

.and now far outvie her commercial navy. The

receipts under this head alone were more than

13,000,0001. during the year.
It would be satisfactory to know that those at
whose cost this vast engine for commerce, and for

pleasure too, was constructed, were receiving a

'air remuneration for their outlay. This, how-

ever, as we have already stated, is far enough
from being the case. Preference shareholders, of

course, have no reason to complain ; but the ordi-
nary shareholders in perhaps the largest com-

mercial concern in the country do not get the pre-

sent interest of Consols for their money. There

seems, however a fair prospect of some improve-
ment in this respect. Not only is the manage-
ment of Joint-Stock Companies attracting greater

attention, and becoming better looked to, but the
sources of Railway profit are increasing and ex-
penses are diminishing. The report gives ample
details, from which we gather that, omitting
unimportant fractions, while the number of
miles open has increased. four per cent.,
the receipts for goods traffic have increased
eight per cent. ; the receipts for passenger
traffic have also increased seven per cent. ; the
increase of passengers carried has been eight per
cent. Concurrently with this increase of receipts,
the working expenses, as compared with them, have
diminished one per cent. as compared with the pre-
vious year. These facts seem to indicate that the
lowest point of depression has been reached, and
that more careful management, combined with in-
creased traffic and receipts, will soon materially
improve the prospects of railways. The Report
observes, that " the steady increase in the net re-
ceipts, in a greater ratio than the increase of the
capital invested, is evidence of sound progress."
Some curious facts, illustrative of the effect of
raising or diminishing fares, are stated by Capt.
GALTON. Both in England and Scotland a dimi-
nution is the first-class fares, has been followed
by an increase in receipts from first-class passen-
gers. The raising of second-class fares has been
followed by little variation in the receipts; which
must indicate, of course, fewer second class pas-
sengers, they having been probably attracted by
the lower first class fares. They may, however,
have resorted to the third class; since the average
fares for that class have also been diminished,
with a large increase in the tt ceipts ; this in•
eludes, however, excursion trains.
It would appear, therefore, on the whole, that
increase of fares has not increased revenue, while
lowered fares have been followed by a corre-
sponding advance in the receipts. This is en-
couraging, because the wider the basis of support,
even were the net revenue the same, the less
liable would it be to fluctuation. There is per-
haps an apparent partial exception in Scotland.
Third class fares have been raised there, and the
third class receipts have risen also. But from
this must be deducted a diminution of the receipts
per mile for second class passengers ; probably,
therefore, the effect of raising the Scotch third
class fares has been a loss of what might have been
gained from the working classes by lower charges.
' The aggregate receipts from all sources of railway
traffic are about equal to the receipts for the Cus-
toms of the -United Kingdom ; both are in round
numbers 23,000,0001. I The coincidence is cer-
tainly a singular one. The railways have by just
35,0001. the advantage of the Customs. The re-
ceipts from goods traffic are now 2,858,0001. in
excess of those for passengers.
We see very plainly from the report how much
wemust have sacrificed to mismanagement or haste
in the construction of our railways, and probably
more than by anything to the interested Parlia-
mentary opposition, and the avarice of landholders.
The cost per mile of the English railways is much
the highest ; but the average cost of all has been
35,4591. per mile for the railways open. The
average cost of the independent lines of railway
for which acts have been obtained since 1848, and
which are now open has been only 9,5681. per
mile—little above one-fourth of the former sum 1
To the landed aristocracy of the country we owe
the larger part of the extra cost of railways. We
see in Mr. Sam's' Life of STEPHENSON, that iu
January, 1856, out of 286,000,0001. invested
in railway property, 70,000,000/. or about one-
fourth had gone to the landholders ! How this
went, a single fact may explain. For the Lon-
don and Birmingham Railway the fairly estimated
value of the land was 250,0001. The amount
paid, after the first bill had been thrown out by
the House of Lords, at a cost of 32,0001. to the
company, was about 750,0001. I Perhaps in uo
chapter of their history do landlords cut a sadder
figure than in their opposition to railways. They
not only opposed them in Parliament, at a ruinous
cost to the promoters, not only compelled them to
make detours involving costly cuttings and tun-
nels, causing a gratuitous waste of millions, but
even after an enormous price had been obtained
for laud on the ground of injury to the property,
if the companies wanted more of the same laud
they were frequently charged an advanced price
on account of the increased value given it by the
railways. Of all parties benefited by railways
the landlords have the largest share. Besides re-
ceiving as a body the value Of the laud in the
increased value of their property, they and their
lawyers have probably received in hard cash a
sum of not less than SEVENTY-SEVEN MILLIONS
sterling.

WYLD'S GREAT GLOBE, LEICESTER-
SQUARE.

DIORAMA OF DELHI.

Mr. Wyld, who, in his capacity of chief national car-
tographer, has issued several maps of extreme utility and
fiaish, illustrating the arena of the stupendous struggle
no ,v being waged in our Indian territories, has further-
more produced at his celebrated estlblishment in Leices
ter-square, a splendid pictorial representation of the
head-quarters of the great rebellion. Delhi, the imperia'
city of Mahomedan tyranny in Hindostan, is presented
on the canvass in the vivid hues of reality, and the spec-
tator is enabled, by this admirable work of art, to rea-
lise the position and the peculiar features of a Owe of
such painful celebrity, the very name of which, at the
present moment, excites the most intense sensations in
every British breast. The principal view is taken
from the cantonments of our army overlooking the city,
and affords a perfect idea of its great fortified
strength. We see the red granite wall by which
it is surrounded, forty feet in height ; the famous
seven gates facing to the different provinces of the once
Mahomedan empire. of India ; the Grand Canal run-
ning through the city ; the Jumna River ; the Musjeed ;
the English Church, and Magazine (the scene of young
Willoughby's heroic act) ; Roshur-ud-Dowlah, or Nadir
Shah's Mosque ; the ruins of temples and grand tombs,
thickly strewn ; and the decaying palaces and castles of
ancient Delhi. Views are likewise afforded of the
Ceaudin Chouk, or thriving main street of the modern
town, with its shops and bazaars ; and of the King's
Palace, with its famous marble hall, together with the
Salimghur, or fort ; the river Jumna, and the bridge of
boats, since destroyed by the rebate ; in fact, an aggre-
gate of all the salient characteristics of this important
fortress city. A. museum of the people of the East,
with figures, life siz,, in origiaal castumea, arms, &c.,
tends to complete this most valuable and interesting
illustration of the Great Mutiny, which, both while
traitors man the walls of Delhi, and after they (Shall
have been held once more by British supremacy after
this most critical and fearful phase of war, must, with-
out doubt, prove to be one of the most attractive exh
bitions ever opened in the metropolis.

RELIEF FOR THE INDIAN SUFFERERS,

MANSION-HOUSE (THIS DAY.)
At a meeting of tlp committee, held this day, the
following resolutions were unanimously adopted :

1. That the object of this committee is to relieve, as far
as may be practicable and necessary, the distress caused
by the mutinies in India.
2. In so doing, care should be taken not to supersede the
the assistance which ought to be given by the Government,
by the established Widows' and Orphans' Funds, or by
the relations of the sufferers; but to supplement it to the
extent to which it falls short of a just measure of relief.
3. Compensation for losses as such, will in no case be
given.
4. Subject to time preceding conditions, the efforts of the
Committee will be specially directed.
Ist. To enable the sufferers to live with frugality in
their respective states of life until other means are
available.

2d. To provide for the maintenance and education of
children in cases in which it has been interrupted by
casualties arising out of the mutiny, aad in which it can-
not be provided for from other sources.
3d. To assist the sufferers to come to this country or to
go to India, when the circumstances render it proper that
they should do so, an I the means of paying for their pas-
sage cannot be obtained trom any other source.
4th. To afford reasonable aid, by loan or otherwise, to
Lacers and others who have lost their equipments, furni-
ture, or other properly, by the necessity of sudden flight
from their stations or the destruction of their dwellings,
when, without such aid, they would be involved in pecu-
niary embarrassments.
sth. That relief according to these principles be given,
without distinction of religion or nationality, to every
parson of whatever rani who has a just claim upon the
sympathy and assistance of the British poople.

MUSIC ON THE CONTINENT.

(FllOll A. COARESPONDEAT
WIESBADEN, SEPT. 23,

The administration of the gambling society at these
baths, discreetly resolved that Apollo, Terpsichore,
Thespie, and Diana, should be celled in to assist Flutus
on the season's wane, and announced their intention
of celebrating the last week in this month, by what they
chose, in deference to Anglo-Saxon example and phra-
seology, to term a grand festival, consist.ng of a con-
cert, a ball, a theatrical representation of Wagner's
•‘ Tannhauser,': and a sort of Epping hunt. The first
of these attractive gaities came off most successfully last
night, when Felicien David conducted in person well
selected portions of his much admired compositions " La
Desert" and "Christophe Culomb." Herr Steger and
Fraulein Storek severally distinguished themselves by
the chaste and classical Manner in which they sang acre
from the " Zsuberflote " and " Fidelie ;" and Felix
Godefroid excited general admiration by his clever per•
formauce on that difficult instrument, the harp.
flandel's great hallelujah chorus was also exceedingly
well given by the Cecilia and Matwergesang
a4suciations of the town ; although, of course, the result
was nut comparable to the 'stupendous effect at the
Handel Festival in the Crystal Palace.
But the great star of the evening was Servais, the
Emperor of violoncello players, who executed two pieces
of his own composition, a fantasia on Sclavonic melo-
dies, and a caprice on DonizeLi's " La Figlia del Reg-
girneeto," with a brilliancy of instrumentation, which
drew down thunders of applause from the large and
critical German audience, that " madethe welkin ring."
It is hard to properly deFeeribe the various super-excel-
lent merits of this eminent artist, who should be often
beard by the best judges to be appreciated as he de-
serves. His playing combined all that is possible to
imagine to be within the scope of the highest musicel
genius and the most indomitable perseverance to accom-
plish on his instrument. The purity of his intonation,
and the power, rapidity, and expression of his bowing and
execution, are not to be surpassed. At one time you might
to the grand tones of the
solemn
Y
epmonor:atinr6;.6aft laisnteetnhienrg, to the dulcet breathing of a
flute ; and at a third, to the hand of Tbalberg, or a
Liszt, disentangling the intricacies of a most complicated
passage on the psinoforte.
Everything is done with wonderful ease and precision,
and neither effort nor labour are perceptible. In short,
to listen to this most finished artist, is a treat of the very
highest order to all true lovers of music, and it is much
to be regretted that he has not been induced to revisit
England, subsequent to his astonishing progress and
perfection since his last appearance in Loudon mall
years ago. I sincerely trust he may be tempted to agalu
favour the British isles with his presence. The autumnal
weather still continues marvellously fine, yet the Ger-
man waterin,g places are now thinning fast, and at the
close of this Wiesbaden Festival, Paris, and the English
metropolis may look to the speedy advent of the children
of Albion for the winter.