The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-04 00:00:00

NAME OF RAILWAY.

Week
ending

Sept. 27

Arbroath and Forfar •• • ••••• • • • ••
Bristol And Birmingham . • • • • • • • • • .
Chester and Birkenhead. • • • • • . • • • •
Dublin and Drogheda. • • • • • .• • • • • • •
Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • •

27
28
27
30

Dundee and Arbroath . • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Durham and Sunderland . • • • • • • • . • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow . • • • •• • • • •
Eastern Counties and North Eastern..
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • •• ••
Glasgow and Greenock.• •• • • •• • • • • •

Grand Junction • • • • • • • • • • • •••• • • • • • • •
Gravesend and Rochester.. • •
Great North of England • • • • • • •• • • • •
Great Western . • • • • • •
Hull and Selby
Liverpool and Manchester • • • • • .....
London and Birmingham . • • • • • • • • • •
London and Blackwall• • • • • • • •
London and Brighton. • • • • • • • •
London and Croydon ......• • • • • • • • •

London and Greenwich. •• •• •• •• • • ••
London and South Western. •• •• •• ••
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury • • • • ••
Manchester and Birmingham...... • •
Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.•
Midland C0untie5...................
Newcastle and Darlington •• •• •• •• ••
Newcastle and Carlisle ••••••• • • • ••

Last
week,

777
1,237

776
2,931
6,393
1,963
1,923
15,852

19,632

20,765
1,039
6,516
1,663

7,837
1,020
4,392
7,612
17,744
2,898
1,957
528
528

Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........
North Union and Bolton and Preston
Paris, Corbel], and Orleans .• • • • • • • • .
Paris and Rouen . • • • • • . • • •• •• • • ....

It 4
23 ro
c, to
o a

643
1,331

2,585
4,430
1,657

965
13,596

17,890

19,756
1,036
5,934
539

Preston and Wyre•• •• •• •• ••.

Sheffield and Manche5ter............
South Ea5tern•...•....... ...... ....
Ulster . •••• •• .• •• ••••••••••••• .....
Yarmouth and Norwich ............
York and North Midland...

7,339
1,842
1,266
7,599
1,170

6,209

7,015

• 935
3.903
6,662

1,244
1,747

380
5,974
6,841

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

793
7,136
908
584

• -
3,604

BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND TONBRIDGE WELLS.
UCEFIELD, FRIDAY.—This afternoon, at four o'clock,
a large number of the gentry and formers of the district
assembled at the Maidenhead Inn, Uckfield, to meet the
projectors of this line, and discuss the propriety of car-
rying the direct line through it.
On the motion of Mr. J. T. UNDERWOOD, the Rev.
EDWARD TURNER was voted to the chair, who stated the
route of the intended line to be a direct means of commu-
nication between Brighton and Tonbridge Wells, com-
mencing at a point of junction with Brighton and Lewes,
at Lewes, by the valley of Ouse, to pass Uckfield and Ro-
therfield to Tonbridge Wells ; there forming a junction
with the Tonbridge Branch of the South Eastern. The
proposition went on to state that the general opinion of
the inhabitants of Uckfield was, that the proposed line
was much required.
Mr. WILLIAM HALLET, the projector of the line, in a
speech of some length, detailed the advantages that
would accrue to the various towns, and gave it as his
opinion, in an engineering point of view, that the route
would be the cheapest, and by far the safest in that
difficult part of the country. A good deal had been
said about the line not paying its working expenses.
He remembered that when the Brighton line was pro-
jected, the shareholders were called idiots to think of
its ever paying. The sequel had shown how erroneous
such an opinion was.

Mr. STRATFIELD objected to the line passing through
Uckfield, on the ground that it was not required, and
that it would materially injure the trade and interests of
the town.

Mr. EDWIN JAMES, barrister, addressed the meeting
at some length. The meeting was not one of those pro-
jected by men who would get up a line of rail from
John o'6roat's to Land's-end, for mere stockjobbing
purposes. This line would be carried out, but the pre-
sent question was, should it pass through that town ?
Mr. H. LAW was of opinion, with Mr. Stratfield, that
tho line would injure the tradesmen of the town, by
enabling persons to go to London for what they wanted.
This was the case with Reading.
Mr. GLAZER said he had been a resident in Reading,
and so far from trade being injured there, it had beenbe-
nefited by the railway.
The Rev. H. HALL, of Fromsfield, was glad to hear of
the proposed line coming to that town, as he considered
railways conducive to moral civilisation.
Resolutions in favour of the line having been carried,
the meeting separated.

NOTTINGLIAM AND LINCOLN.—On Tuesday a meeting
of the Directors of the Midland Railway was held at the
Derby station, and the contract by Messrs. Holland and
Smith of Leicester, for the promotion of the Nottingham
and Lincoln line, having been given up by them, the
works were re-let to Messrs. Craven, of Bingley, York-
shire, who, pursuant to the terms of their contract, will
on Monday next commence the formation of the line.
Arrangements are, it is said, in progress for the amal-
gamation of the Scottish Western and Scottish Grand
Junction lines.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)

LIABILITY OF PUBLICANS.—THE FIRE AT THE HORSE
AND GROOM, WEST COWES.—On reporting this calami-
tous fire, wo stated that there were doubts expressed
whether the insurance would be recovered, in consequence
of a quantity of fireworks being in the room, and explod-
ing soon after the fire commenced. We explained that
they did not belong to the party insured, nor his tenant,
but to a guest ; and what an awkward situation a publi-
can would be in if he was to he made answerable for the
contents of his customers' trunks. We are happy to say,
the Norwich Union Office paid the full amount of damage
claimed by Mr. Eames's surveyor. They first sent their
own surveyor down to view the premises and report the
case, and within one week from the date of the fire the
claim was paid in full. '
GAs.—Cowes was to be lighted up with gas in August
last, but it is now, in October, as dark as ever, and
great dissatisfaction is expressed with the contractor at
the very unsatisfactory way in which the works are
executed, and the continued delays.

COURSE OF EXCHA:
Amsterdam CF. 12 9i
Ditto, at sight l2 7i
Rotterdam 2U. 12 10
Antwerp 26 15
Hamburgh M.B. 13 14i
Altona

Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80
Ditto, 3 months 26 5
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 10
Frankfort on Maine l2O

Petersburgh, 3 Us...

Berlin -

Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 4
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 367,
Cadiz
Silbao

Barcelona

9 GE.—(YESTERDAY
Gibraltar.....
Leghorn ........ SO 80
Genoa 26 5
Milan .
Venice ..., ......., —
Naples
Palermo, per oz 1
Lisbon 53
Oporto.. • .. s3i
Rio Janeiro ..
Bahia
Buenos Ayfes
New York
Philad~illir~
PRICE:4 Z.;EP BULLION, PER OZ
Foreign bars. £3 17 9
Portuga: (.:Jeld Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons—. 0 0 0
New Dcsuars 0 4 9i
Silver In tzars 0 4 11

Seville —

THE ART OF FLOATING.—The following hints are
well worthy of attention :—" Any human being who will
have presence of mind to clasp the hands behind
the back, and turn his face towards the zenith,
may float at ease, and in perfect safety, in tole-
rably still water—aye, and sleep there, no mat-
ter how long. If, not knowing how to swim, you
would escape drowning when you find yourself in deep
water ; you have only to consider yourself an empty
pitcher ; let your mouth and nose—not the top of your
heavy head—be the highest part, and you are safe ; but
thrust up your bony hands and down you go—turning
up the handle tips over the pitcher. Having had the
happiness to prevent one or two drowings by this simple
instruction, we publish it for the benefit of all who either
love aquatic sports or dread them."
Dispatches were also sent off yesterday evening from the
Colonial,office for the Governor of the Nauritius.