The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-07 00:00:00

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.
The Earl of Mulgrave,
stree t , from Mulpg
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oCrasea:t in Hyde Clarendon Hotel, Bond-
let, hne near Whitby,
Park-place
Westire
the Countess of tm
•
the Couni tess
Portman
-square,
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Leigh, n run
near Coventry ; Mrs. Wellesley, in Lowndes-street,
Belgrave-square ; Mr. and Miss Trent, at Christie's
Hotel, from Dublin ; Hunter, Esq., and Mrs. Hunter,
at ditto ; Lady and the Misses Gardiner, from Sir R.
Gardiner 's seat, near Esher; Colonel Gore, in Grosve-
nor-street West; Lady Georgiana Fullerton, at Earl
Granville's, Bruton street; Mr. George Rabett, R.N.,
and Lady Louisa Rabett, at the Countess Dowager of
Winterton's, East Villa, Regent's Park, from Brighton;
Le Count de Coulonges, at Cooper's Hotel, Grosvenor-
street ; Colonel Preston, at ditto ; the Earl and
Countess of Seafield and Miss Mansell, at Christie's
Hotel, St. James's-street, from Castle Grant, N.B. ;
Lord and Lady Polwarth, at ditto, from Brighton ;
Stokes, Esq., and Mrs. Stoles, at ditto, from Bath •, the
Mayor of Liverpool Lind Rushton, Esq., at the Bur-
lington Hotel, Cork-street ; Sir Clifford and Lady Con-
stable, in Cunkherland-place ; Miss Leveson Gower, in
Wilton Crescent ; Sir J. W. Drummond, Bart., of Haw-
thornden, at the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, from the
north ; Captain Wilson, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-
street ; Lieut.-General Lord and Lady Keane, in Jer-
myn-street, from their seat, in Hants ; Rev. --Hume
and Mrs. Hume, at Christie's Hotel, St. James's-street ;
the Hon. .Major Keane (37th Regiment), in Mount-
street ; Baron Giordano, at the Brunswick Hotel,
Hall,Jer
myrt-street, from Paris ; Sir J. Hall, Bart., Lady

and family, at ditto, from the Continent ; Sir George.
Talbot and family, in Grosvenor-square, from Paris.

DEPARTURE.
Sir B. and Lady Cunliffe, from Cooper's Hotel, Gros-
venor-street, for Acton .Park, Wrexham; Mr. and Mrs.
Champion, from ditto ; Mr. Henry and Lady Mary
Vynor and family, from Earl De Grey's, St. James's-
square, for Earl Cowper's, Pansanger, Herts ; Hon.
Gardner and family, for Carlton-crescent, Southampton;
Lady William Hotham, on a Continental tour; Major
General and Wrs. Wynyard and family, for Swanage,
Dorsetshire ; Sir Charles Bannerman, from the Bur-
lington Hotel, Cork-street, for his seat in Aberdeenshire;
Sir Francis and. Lady Lawley, from Grosvenor- square,
for Middleton Park, Warwickshire ; Captain Cooter-
from the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street.
CHANGES.

Lord and Lady Milton, from Plymouth, on a cruise
in the Channel in the 'Merlin yacht ; the Dowager
Countess of Hardwicke, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess of Mexborough, at Methley Park, from
Tittenhanger Hall, Herts ; Sir William and Lady
Foster, at Bath, from their seat in Norfolk the
Earl of Oxford, at Bath, from his seat, Brampton Park,
Herefordshire; the Earl of Tyrconnel, from Cowes, on
a cruise in in his yacht, the Intrepid, on the coast of
France; the Hon. Captain and Mrs. Carey, at Bath,
from a tour; the Earl of Leven, at Edinburgh, from
Ba!gowie House, Fifeshire; Lieutenant-General and Sir
Thomas and Lady E. Reynell, at Bath, from their seat,
in Sussex; the Bishop of Salisbury, a.t Bath, from the
Episcopal Palace..

MAGAZINES (CONTINUED).
DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE.
The Portrait Gallery for this month contains a
full- length picture of the late Abraham Collis, who, it
seems, was an eminent surgeon of extensive practice
in Dublin, and who died towards the close of 1848,
in the seventy-first year of his age. We do not
happen ever to have heard of this gentleman, but, ac-
cording to the biographer's account, he was possessed
of first-rate professional ability, and was connected
with more than one medical work in high repute
with the faculty. The upper part of his countenance
is not unlike that of the late Mr. Canning, but the
mouth is singularly large and expressive, apparently,
of feebleness iind indecision of character. The
" Campaign of 1815" is a lengthy notice, accom-
panied by several amusing extracts, of Captain Si-
borne's recently published history of the last cam-
paign in France and Belgium, which closed with the
crowning victory of Waterloo. Of the emaining
articles, the best is the one headed " e„rontineutal
Countries," which gives a minute account of the
present military resources of Prussia.

SPORTING MAGAZINE.
The embellishments to this number are, first, a
sporting sketch, entitled the " Warrener's Dog,"
which exhibits a very spirited and picturesque back
ground, and secondly, a view of the exterior of the
"Newmarket New Subscription Room," which, if
we may judge from the plate, must be a very im-
posing structure. The literary department, is, as
usual, confined exclusively to sporting subjects; and,
inter alia, gives a minute, matter-of-fact account-of
the " Paris Spring Races."

SIMMONDS' COLONIAL MAGAZINE.
A skilfully and carefully digested periodical devoted
for the most part to the consideration of colonial
matters, which are early acquiring greater im-
portance, and more and more engrossing the attention
of the community at large.

JAMAICA MONTHLY MAGAZINE.
This is the first number of a new monthly periodical
published in Kingston, Jamaica; and like tnost first
numbers, it is got up with considerable care, botb is
respects the choice of its subjects, and their variety.
In the first place, there are some clever descriptions
of local scenery, and next, some prose tales just of a
fitting length, to say nothing of divers small pieces of
poesy, one of which, " Lines on a Curlew" deserves a
passing notice for the grace and appositeness of Its
imagery. In the details regarding Jamaica, its
Past and Present State," we find a curious anecdote'
of a monster shark which was caught off that island,
and in whose stomach, on opening the brute, were
found " fifteen asses' hoofs and legs from the knee
downwards, besides other very indigestible materials."

BANKERS' MAGAZINE.
As may be surmised from its title, this magazine is
wholly of a practical, business character, and opens
with some intelligent comments on the " Government
Currency Measure." These are followed by an
article on the "Present State of Banking in Ireland,"
in which occur one or two very sensible and pertinent
suggestions.

BRITISH MAGAZINE.
We have here, in addition to sound, sensible, ori-
ginal communications, connected for the most part
with ecclesiastical matters, a copious monthly register
of religious information, together with various docu-
ments respecting the state of the poor, and the pro•
gress of information.

HISTORY OF CHINA AND INDIA.
This elaborate work has already reached its Se-
venteenth Part, and the interest of the authoress's—
Miss Qorner's—narrative still continues unimpaired.
She has brought a great variety of historical infor-
mation to her task, which she has apparently digested
with scrupulous care, and deserves not less credit for
the uniform impartiality of her statements. Each
part is embellished with two, sometimes more, en-
gravings.

OLD SPORTING MAGAZINE.
The best article in the Number before us, is that
which is very properly placed first ; it is a tale of
country life, entitled " Hillingdon Hall," and is by the
author of " Handley Cross," a novel in three volumes,
which was published at the commencement of . the ,
season. The sketch of the CockneT Squire is very
piquant and accurate in its way. The Number con-
tains two embellishments, both illustrative of sporting
subjects, and executed with very passable ability.

THE FRENCH RAILWAYS.
(From the Railway Record.)
" We have not, for two or three weeks past, adverted
fo the French Railways, because such is the tardiness of
all legislative proceedings in the Chambers, that weeks
apparently, anything being done ;
pfoarssthaewaywithout,Commissions
(Committees) sit with closed doors,
unless they call for " persons and papers" to elucidate
some particular question, or unless some parties inte-
rested demand to be heard before them.
" The chief material fact we have to announce this
week is the triumphant passing of the Bill for the Mont-
pelier and ISlismes Railway, by a very large majority
(190 to 60) in favour of the projet de loi presented by the
Minister of public Works.
" This is a most significant sign of the times,' as re-
gards the other Bills now before the Chambers, and ren-
ders the question of their being passed, and in the shape
presented by the Minister, no longer doubtful.
" ThiS little line is completely finished, at the cost of
the State—the laying and ballasting of the permanent
way entirely done ; and, we believe, even the locomo-
tive power partially provided. It therefore afforded the
most favourable specimen of a line to be wholly in the
hands of the State, ' as an experiment ;' but the proposi-
tion having been negatived in so unequivocal a manner,
is conclusive as to the adoption of the Ministerial projet
with respect to all the other lines now before the Cham-
bers, and for which draft leases are proposed in the pre-
sent session. All will be passed as presented by the
Minister—that's certain.

" The report on the Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux
line was presented on Wednesday last; it is not yet
printed, but it is understood that the only alteration re-
commended by the Commission, in the conditions pro-
posed by the Minister, is to reduce the proposed term
of the lease to forty-one years sixteen days, in accord.
ante with the offer of a company, at the head of which
are persons of well known skill and tried experience in
railway matters. This will be the first Bill to pass this
session, and the pissing of all the others will follow, as
of course. • _ _

..The line from Bordeaux to Toulouse will not be
presented this year, any more than that from Lyons to
Avignon. We may take the opportunity of saying that
it is utterly futile, and s perfect waste of time and troue
ble, to get up companies for railway projects in France
not sanctioned by the Government, or which the Go-
vernment have no present intention of carrying into
effect, or which, attest, must neeessarily be postponed
for a considerable period. Some of them have already
been brought before the public, and others, for aught we
know, may follow,with no better claims to notice. As ase-
neral rule, we advise the railway public to countendhce
only such projects as are presented to then* in an intel-
ligible shape, either as being the subject-epattei of Bills
now actually before the French Legislature, or com-
prised in the great Railway Bill of the 11th of June,
1842, sure to be carried out, sooner or later. Verbunt sdp.
"Before our next publication the Bills for the North
line, and the Lyons line, will have been reported to the
Chamber of Deputies. It is understood in well-informed
circles that the North line will be assimilated to the
other long lines, iii the general terms and conditions ;
and that the opinion of the very slender majority •of one
in the Commission will be but feebly embodied in the
report, and not at all supported in the Chamber. Err,
M. Rothschild will take, and will get the North line."
[The Paris paperLa Presse, differs from the conclusion
here arrived at by the Record, which is usually well-
informed on all that relates to the. French railways; but
then the editor of La Presse is a highly-talented mem-
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possession of all the railways by the State.
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, and out of doors, of the system of short leases, and the
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the Chambers
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loan of 20,000,000 i.
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Government to accept an. offered
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ged
of them in their own ,
I anis but to no purpose. This
l bubble, which never had any real existence, has
sterling to complete
. the railways, keep the working
at
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are invited to receive back their deposits.
bcaootolol,assosoo,
With the numerous demands upon the French Trea•
sury for external, as well as internal objects, just now,
I no more money can be spared for the railways than
what was contemplated in the mixed system of the law
of June, 1842, now about to be carried into effect in the
Bills before the Chambers in the present session. With