The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-16 00:00:00

SPECIAL HOLIDAY TRAINS.

Within the last fortnight the following spf•cial
holiday trains have been conveyed along the Midland
Railway, and others immediately connected with it :
A train of nearly 4,000 children, belonging to
Sunday schools of the Established Church, from
Sheffield to York and back. Scholars, Is. each;
teachers, 2s. each ; there and back.
A train of 4,000 children, belonging to the Lan-
casterian School, foul Sheffield to Hull and back.
Children, is. 6d. each; teachers, 3s. each ; there and
back.

A train of the same number, belonging to the
Wesleyan Methodists, from Sheffield to York. Chil-
dren, ls. each; teachers, 2s. ; there and back.
A train of about s,soo—men, women, and children
—from Sheffield to Hull and back. Grown people,
3s. 6d. each, there and back.

A train of about 2,500, and another of about 1,000,
From Sheffield and Rotherham to York.

A train of 6,500, men, women, and children, from
Leeds to Hull ; the latter trains at proportionately
the same low fares.

By way of experiment, some months since the
Directors of the Chester and Birkenhead directed
that double tickets should be issued, so that passen-
gers might go from Birkenhead to Chester by a train
at twenty minutes past ten o'clock each morning, and
return in the evening of the same day at half-past
eight o'clock ; the fare there and back being only one
shilling more than the usual fare one way.
Some weeks after the same plan was adopted from
Chester to Birkenhead and back, and at the same
fares. The results have far exceeded anything that
was expected.—Railway Chronicle,

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals.—Vixen, Heppcnstall, from Mauritius, at
Cowes, sailed May 12, St. Helena July 6 ; Watkins,
Whiteside, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed March 18,
St. Helene. July 6 ; Euphrates, Christmas, from Ceylon,
in the Downs, sailed May 4, St. Helena July 8 ; Active
Reliant, from Bombay, in the Downs, sailed May 11,
Mauritius June 10, St. Helena July 23 ; Narwhall,
Baker, from New Zealand, in tho Downs, sailed April
12 ; Orpheus, Digby, from Ceylon, in the Downs, sailed
April 14, St. Helena July 8 ; James Matheson, Cushing,
from China, at Liverpool, sailed April 25, Ascension
Aug. 1 ; Susan Crisp, Cocks, from Ichaboe, off Fal-
mouth, sailed June 28, St. Helena July 21.
Arrivals at Sydney.—Augustus, from Adelaide ;
Achilles, April 21, from London ; Sultana, 28th, from
Otaheite ; United Kingdom, 29th, from Liverpool
Elizabeth, from Cork ; Ganges, from London ; Tenas
.serim, 30th, from Calcutta.
Departures from Sydney—Gannett, April 24, to
London ; Arad-me, to Newee,itle, to load, for London.
Arrivals at Port Philip—Sea Queen, April 15, from
Cork ; Johnstone, from Liverpool ; Arab, 25th, from
London.
Departures from Port Philip—Hawk, April 25, to
Adelaide; Tyne, 26th, to London; the Gilmore was to
clear April 29, for London.
Arrival at Port Nicholson—Governor, from London.
Arivals at St. Helena—Bombay, July 12, from Cochin
and sailed 14th to Marseilles; Highlander, 14th, from
Ichaboe; Favourite, from Ichaboe, and sailed 20th to
Cork; Salopian, 18th, from China, and sailed 19th to
Liverpool; Lord Lyndoch, 19th, from Cochin, and sailed
22d to London; Maid of Alicante, 21st, from London;
North Pole; Wave and Fortitude, from Ichaboe; Anne
Laing, 23a, from Ichaboe.
Departures from St. Helena—Britannia, JUly 7, to l
Falmouth; Sylvia, Bth; Amiens, 18th, to Cork.