The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-14 00:00:00

follow :—Great Northern, 10",,,—York, Newcastle, and Ber-
wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 134.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON AND NORTEJ-WESTERN RAIL-
WAY.--INCREASE OF TRAFFIC.
The enortnous rate of increase in the traffic in_this
line, to which we have so often adverted, still con-
tinues to exhibit itself in the weekly returns. The
r-ceipts for the last week are no less than 5,1191. in
excess of those of the corresponding period of 1849
viz., 3,410/. in the passenger and 1,809/. in the goods
traffic. The increase for the twenty-three weeks of
the present year is 63,574/. over the receipts for the
corresponding twenty-threc weeks of 1849; that iy,
at the rate of 2,760/. per week, 012 143,5C01. per an!
num, or nearly equal to 12f- per cent. increase in tie
dividend.

CHESTER AND HOLYHEA.D RAILWAY,
HARI3OUB, AND STEAM-PACKETS.
HOLYHEAD, 'THURSDAY.—The enterprise and out-
lay of capital. being brOught into play at this port are
now exciting considerable interest. Already both
Holyhead and Dublin are beginning to feel the bene-
ficial effects of what has been done. By means of the
express train and the express sea-packets in the
Channel service at the port of Holyhead a passenger
now raps 330 miles from London to Dublin in ii
dozen hours, breakfasting in the former place at nine
A.m., dining by the old city walls of Chester at three,
or on the coast of Holyhead at five, and taking sup-
per, after an expeditious passage, in the centre of
Dublin, at ten o'clock. Holyhead is situated midway
between Liverpool and Dublin and Milford Haven
and port of Greenock, With large inland bays sheltered
by bold sloping coasts, and furnishes an excellent
refuge for vessels. It has always deep water to the
.foot of the cliffs, is safely approachable by vessels day
and night, and it is said that ever since Holyhead
has been a port no vessel has ever been damaged in
making for it. It bas an excellent holding ground.
There is to be ample provision for the berthing of
packets, and a floating dock is to be constructed, so
as to keep the packet service-froth the crowd of corn
mercial shipping.
The operations of deepening the old harbour, o
extending the pier, and enlarging the graving dock,
for the use of the Post-office, Admiralty, and railway
packets, answer all the purposes intended. The
Istaging for the Great Northern Breakwater, of 5,800
feet, is erected; a large amount of deposits have been
made ; and the Eastern Breakwater, of 2,000 feet,
will be commenced so soon as there is sufficient
shelter, as will also the steam-packet pier, upon
which the railway and trains are to be carried
7,500 feet into the sea. The Northern Breakwater
will now proceed rapidly, and at the present time
not less than 250,000 tons of stone have been depo-
sited. The entrance space for steamers and shipping
from the Channel, between the Northern and Eastern
Breakwaters, is now 300 yards. The greatest depth
of water for vessels of all classes to ride in is 47 feet
at the lowest and 60 feet at the highest tide. The
engineers are proceeding rapidly with the extension
of the sea- walls at the Northern Breakwater, and
with the erection of the requisite stages. All the
property required fur the works has been purchased
by the Government. The timber for the packet-pier
is about being creosoted. Upwards of 10,000 cubic
feet of stone are on the ground for commencing the
great sea-wall. Supplies of stone are daily being ob-
tained from a neighbouring lofty eminence that over-
hangs the harbour. - The stone, when tipped over
into the breakwater, forms in layers of from 12 to 50
feet thick. There are about 1,300 men constantly on
the works. The estimated cost of the harbour is
700,0001., of which the Chester and Holyhead Rail-
way Company have undertaken to subscribe 200,0001.
The whole will enclose an area of upwards of 316
acres of sea-room.
The four express steamers, the Anglia, Cambria,l
Hibernia, and Scotia, belong to the railway com-
pany, and have- cost at the rate of 37,0001. each.
They are from 300 to 400 horse power, all of iron,
190 feet in length, 26 feet in breadth, 14 feet deep,
and from 400 tons to 600 tons burden each. The
boats belonging to the Admiralty are the Banshee,
St. Columba, and Llewellyn, the latter only of iron,
the Banshee bring of mahogany. They are from
189 to 199 feet in length, '27 feet in breadth, 15 feet
in depth, from 650 to 670 tons burden, and of 350-
horse power. The Llewellyn and another boat be-
longing to the Admiralty are at present laid pp,
having broken their shafts in mid-channel. The St.
Columba which cost the Admiralty 40,0001., has
beers sold to the City of Dublin Company, it is re-
ported, for 20,0001, though only a two-year-old boat,
and is now working the mail. The Iron Duke, one
of the slow boats, is running the night mail, where
great speed is not so much required. On Monday
the Cambria arrived, at 2 rem , with the express from
Dubin), and went out again with nearly 100 pas-
sengers, with the express from London and other
places, at half-past six, for Dublin, and did the dis-
tance in four hours. Nearly three-fourths of all the
passengers between Holyhead and Dublin go by the
express, and very few by the mail- boats. These
boats have all eecountered the roughest weather in
the Channel, but have usually accomplished the dis-
tance in four hours.—Tintes.
THE MAILS BETWEEN HOLYHEAD AND KINGS..
TOWN.—A correspondent, who dates his communica-
totion, Hollyh says, " That with respect
eanead, Thursday, gement just made by the Government,.
for the conveyance of the mails between Holyhead
and Kingstown, with the City of Dublin Steam Na-
vigation Company, it h looked upon as strange that
the Admiralty, after running their boats in competi-
tion with the railway company, should have trans-
ferred the entire mail service to the City of Dublin
Navigation Company, whose -route was, till now, be-
tween Liverpool and Dublin, thus making the mail
service a divided instead of a uniform service, as soon
as it leaves the railway at Holyhead. Not having
the necessary boats of their own, the City of Dublin
Company have had to borrow boats of the Admiralty
in order to perform the service, while two of the Rail-
way Company's boats, which they built in expecta-
tion of running the mails, are laid by, though they
might be used as cargo boats if they had only a suf-
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ficient depth of hold. The Railway Company lately
offered the Admiralty 8,0004- for the dockyard, but
the City of Dublin Company, it is alleged, obtained it
for 2,000/. The transfer of the service is not liked
here, as it is expected to throw a great number out of
employ—the City of Dublin Company having their
Company had
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EASTERN COUNTIES.
A a special
thepee London
meetingialthis
of
nonap,any was held yester-
day Tavern to consider the draught of a
Bill now before Parliament for extefiding and continu-
ing the powers granted by the Eastern Union and Liar-
wich Railway and Pier Act of 1847, for the purchase of
land and completion of works, and for enabling the Eas-
tern Union Company to dispose of the Harwich Railway.
to the Eastern Counties Company; Mr, E. L. Betts in
the chair.
Mr. Box, complained that ne steps had been taken to
exclude strangers from entering the room, as it was es-
sential that no parties should be present but those who
were bona fide shareholders.
Mr. HONEY, the secretary, said, he would take care
that in suture proper arrangements should be made to
carry out the request (X the proprietors,
The CHAIRMAN stated, that at the time the meeting
was convened A was understood that there were two
permissive clauses in the Eastern Union Bill, relating
to the purchase of the Harwich line, and requiring their
assent, but they had discovered that, since the Bill had
passed the Committee, a thiid clause was introduced
just before the third reading of the Bill in the House
bsetifeoereotfhet hene.—m(oHtiev aers.) which He
of Commons, which entirely altered the ease without the
sanction or knowledge of the- Eastern Counties board.
The directors therefore recommended the shareholders
not to adopt the Bille
now
explanation then entered into an
induced the directors to countenance the line to Harwich,
and to sanction the insertion of permissive clauses in
the Eastern Union Company's Bill to enable the Eastern
Counties Company at some future period, with the con-
sent of the shareholders, to purchase the Harwich Rail-
way and Pier undertaking. If the company at some
future period thought it desirable to obtain such
powers
now
from Parliament they could only be obtained at great
expense, and, perhaps, 'injury to the Eastern Counties
Company in some way--either by reducing the rate of
tolls, or imposing some other condition to the disadvan-
tage of the company; but with such a Clause as that
recently introduced iu the Bill it would not be the in-
terest of the shareholders to give it their sanctivn.
Mr. HONEY then read clause 7 as it originall-
y stood in
the :Bill, and also clause 7 as in the present amended
Bill. The former cause is now numbered Bin the
amended Bill, and provides that from and after the
sale to the Eaqsrn Counties Company the capital of
the Eastern Union Company shall be reduced by the
full amount authorised to be raised by them under
the Eastern Union and Harwich Act, 1847, except so
much as may have been expended by the latter com-
pany ; and authorising the Eastern Counties Company
to apply any capital at their disposal in the completion
of the said railway, pier, and works, but not to relieve
them from any liabilities which they may be under in
respect of such funds to any other purposes. The
clause No. 7 in the present Bill provides that imme-
diately upon the said railway, pier, and works becom-
ing vested in the Eastein Counties Company, all con-
tracts, engagements, agreements, covenants, and in-
demnities made, or entered into, by, or on behalf of the
Eastern Union Company, for the execution of works,

" June 11. Frisk cutter, R. Frankland, Esq., for Ports-
mouth and London.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Merlin, Fair Rosamond; Constance, Resolution, Fairy,
Ermine, Gauntlet, Osprey, Gondola, Elizabeth, Susan.
The following noblemen and gentlemen have been at
the Royal Yacht Station during the week :—The Earl of
Ilchester, Earfor Hardwick, E. N. Harvey. Esq., Wm.
Lyon, Esq., John Davenport, Esq., R. Frankland, Esq.,
Col. W. Markham, Hon. Col. Moreton, Viscount So-
merton, Spencer de Horsey, Biel., John ?etre, Esq., Sir
Rd. B. W. Bulkeley, Bart., Marquis of Hertford,
Evans, Est, Lord Arthur Fitzgerald, Sir Charles
Rowen, Sir W. Montague, James Maxse, Esq , Captain
Yates, R.N., Hay, Esq., W. H. Woodhouse, Esq., and
Wm. Peareth.

There have been a number of fashionable arrivals
during the week. The villas and the lodging- houses
generally are getting ready for the season. Our sum-
mer visitors will find some of them very much improved.
All is bustle amongst the yachtsmen, to got their vessels
ready for sea. The Castle is being embellished; the
Marquis of Anglesey and family are expected to take up
their residence there about the lit of July. The baths
and the bathing is very much improved, and all seem to
Le going a-head with the times..
The South-Western Railway Company have even step-
ped out of their way to put on a train to accommodate vat)
Londoners of a Siturday evening, and the Packet Com-
pany have put on a steamer to meet it; so that they may
run down from London to Cowes in two hours and a
half ! Twelve years ago,it could not be done in a day.

PORTLAND BREAKWATER.
(FROM ♦ CORRESPONDENT.)
Nunquam non paratus.
" This is no job, it stands on its own intrinsic me-
rits."--JouN HARVEY, SEN.
" Perhaps the future safety of the country may depend
on its creation."-SIR JOHN SINCLAIR.
T,

'his celebrated agriculturist long felt a deep inte-
rest in this subject, be was the first who brought over
to this country the plans of the cones of Cherbourg,
and roused the attention of the Government to that im-
portant undertaking.
The source of our national strength and greatness
(the navy) has given us commerce and the sovereignty
of the sea, and created the wealth and the grandeur of
England.

This Go►ernment Breakwater is (1850) pro-
gressing, and has attracted the notice of those whose
interest led them to set a due estimation on the mari-
time concerns of Dorsetsbire, but this is a
very limited consideration when compared with
those national results, which so obviously attach
to this important national subject, and to
which the kingdom at large is daily
growing more alive. The Victoria Harbour of
R.fugo will present a noble specimen of the riches,
the strength, the commerce, and the beauty of every -
thing connected with British seamanship, and thereby
WI/mouth and Portland will be enabled to assert their
title to be ranked among the first maritime stations in
the world, worthy the renown of England, and the
reinewed prQsence of her monarchs.

It is as pleasing task to enumerate some of the im-
portant benefits to be derived from this stupendous
work when completed. It is nearly equi-distant from
Scilly and the Downs, and is opposite to Guernsey
and the Caskets, between which and the Thames are
those dangers and intricacies which have produced
the serious loss of life and property continually
experienced. Indeed the excellence of its central
situation for an asylum from gales, and a general
rendezvous is admitted, and the advantage the com-
merce of the country will derive by protecting it against
south-east winds, is all that is required; it is perfectly
protected by nature from the south- west wind, and only
exposed to a sea raised by the south-east wind in the short
distance of 50 miles. The breakwater abuts on the
land close to the railroad, and the stone is at once de-
posited into the sea, thus avoiding the cost and delay