The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-07 00:00:00

NAMES OF RAILWAYS

Aberdeen
Arbroath and Forfar ......

Ditto Half Shares .
Armagh, Colr., & Portrush
Belfast and Ballymena ...:
Belfast and County Down
Birmingham and Glo'ster
Do. New (iss. at 71,,h dis.)
Ditto Half Shares .
Birminghm & Oxfrd. Junc.
Blckburn, Chrly, & N. Un.
Brighton, Lewes, and Hast.
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New
Bristol and Gloucester .
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead .
Cheltenham and Oxford
Chichester and Brighton
Churnet Valley
Clydesdale Junction
Cork and Bandon
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford ..... • •
Cork and Youghal
Covntry, Bed wrth, & Nun.
Coventry and Leicester ...
Cornwall .
Diss, Beccles, and Yarmoth
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich . .....
Dublin and Belfast Junct.
Dublin, Belfast, & Colraine
Dublin and Galway
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath

Ditto New....
Dundee and Perth. ..
Eastern Counties
Do. New . • __ _

Do. Perp., 5 pr Cut., No. 1
Do. ditto N 0.2
East Dereham & Norwich
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension ......
Edinbgh, W' as. and Dum.
Edinburgh andGlagow
Do. Quarter Sbareq

Do. New Quarter Shares.
Ediub., Leith, and Granton

Ditto Pref. 5 per Cent.
Edinburgh and Northern
Edinburgh and Peebleshire
Edinburgh and Perth
Ely and Bedlerd
Enniskillen and Sligo
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchstr
Garnkirk and Glasgow
Glasgow and Ayr
Do. Quarter Shares......
Glasgow and Greenock ....

Ditto New

Ditto Preference ......
Glasgow, Dmfries, and Car
Goole and Doncaster
Grand Junction.
Ditto Half Shares

Ditto Quarter Shares ...
Grand Union .
Great Grimsby & Sheffield
Gt Sothrn & Wstrn (Irelnd)

21
111 h

Ditto Extension . ,
Great Monster •••
Great Northern of Scotlnd
Great Northern of Engind
Do. New, 401. Shares....
Do. New, 301. Shares....
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares

Ditto Fifths
Guildfrd, Farehm, & Ports
Harwich .
Hull and Gainsborough
Hull and Selby
Ditto Quarter Shares

iii%
49
3%
1%

105
211,4

Ditto Half Shares.
Inverness and Elgin ...
Kendal and Windermere..
Kingstown and Bray
Killarney Junctions
Lancaster and Carlisle.....
Leeds and W. Riding June
Leicester and Birmingham
Leicester and Bedford
Limerick and Waterford
Limrck, Ennis,& KiL June
Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto Half Shares

1514

-
1%

Ditto Quarter Shares ...
London and Birmingham .

Ditto Thirds -

248
55
37
11%

35%

Ditto Quarters
London and Blackwall
London and Brighton
Do. Cnsolidated Eighths
London and Croydon.

24%
1%

Ditto New
Do. Guarantd. 5 per cent
London and Greenwich
Do. Prefrnc. or Privilege
London & South Western
Do. New Cone. Eighths
Do. New, 501. Shares
Do. New, 401. Shares
London and York
London and Windsor
Londe, Salisbury, & Yeovil
Londonderry and Coleraine
Londonderry &Enniskillen
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Dereham...
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarter Shares
Ditto Sixteenths
Manchester & Birminghm
Ditto Quarter Shares
Do. New Quarter Shares
Manchstr, Buxtn, & Alatlk
Midland
Ditto Fifths
Ditto New

243(4
82/2
1.4J/4

-
51A

31,4
204
95
33

64%

534
180

28%

Do. Birminghm & Derby
Midland Gt Westrn (Irish)
Do. Extension to Sligo ..
Nwcastl & Darlingtn June
Do. New (Brandling)...
Newcastle and Berwick ...
Newcastle and Carlisle ....
Newport and Abergavenny
Newry and Enniskillen ...
Newark and Sheffield ......
North British .
Ditto V 2
Northern and Eastern .....
Do. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.)
Do. Quarter Shares ......
North Kent
North Staffordshire
North Wales
Norwich and 8rand0n......
Ditto New
Not., Belvoir, and Granthm
Nottingham and Boston
Nott., Erewsh Val. & Man
Oxford and Worcester
Perth and Inverness
Portsmouth Direct
Preston and Wyre.
Richmnd and W. End June.
Rugby, Worcester, & Tring
Scottish Central .......
Scottish Midland..
Sheffield and Manchester
Ditto Quarter Shares .••
Shrews.,Wolv.,Dudly,&Bir
Shrewsbry & Trnt Val. Un.
Shrewsb, Herefd, & N.Wals

2514

29%
8%

24
5%

ni

414
36

Slamannan
South Devon .
South Midland
South Eastern and Dover
Do. New (iss. 321.) No. 1
Do. (iss. 33/.65.8d.)„ 2
Do (iss. 301.) 3
Staines and Richmond
Staffordshire & Shropshire
Stirling and Dunfermline
South Wa1e5...... ........... •
Trent Valley
Du. and Holyhead Junc,
West London, Old Shares .
West End & Southrn Coun
Wexford and Carlow
Warwick and Cheltenham
Waterford and Kilkenny
Watrfd,Wexfd,Wick&Dub
Welsh Midland
West Cornwall
West Yorkshire .
Wilts, Somrst. & Wevmth
Yarmouth and Norwi,:h
Ditto New
York and Carlisle
York and North Midland
Ditto Half Shares..
Do. Scarborough Branch
Ditto Selby
Ditto Extension

30
46

814

5

5%
3()

55 1,4

254

FOREIGN RAILWAYS
Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux & Mediterranean
Bordeaux and Toulouse.—
Brdeaux,Toulouse,&Cette
Dendre Valley
Dieppe and Paris Junction
Dijon and Mulhouse.
East Indian.....
Gt Nrthn of Frnce (Lafitte)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Great Paris and Lyons .
Jam aica Junction
Do. South 11.1.idlnd June
Louvain and Jemeppe
Lyons and Avignon .
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon . .....
Orleans and Bordeaux
Over Yssel
Paris and Lyons (Lafitte's)
Ditto (Ganneron's)
Ditto (Calon's)
Paris and Orleans . ......
Paris and Rouen
Pars & Strsbrg(Gannern's)
Do. (Compte deL'Est)
Paris and St. Quentin
Rouen and Havre . ......
Royal North of Spain
Sambre and Meuse
Strasbourg and Baste
Tours &Nants(M'Kenzie's)
Do. (Lefebvre's)
Verona and Ancona
West Flanders

11%

6
25
63/4

2%
15714 N.
111 A

314,
1753
48%
413%
21A

16 16-16

I 2 ---15-16

-8%

4%

- :
7%

4
~3/

534
46th

-
8%

2
6
10,

3%

5p

33/4
15%

3%

-8.

6%

1356% . p.

Ms. 6d
375. p

2714

28%

- ",- I
335.

54

24,4

83/4

3,

15g.
41s.
7%

555.

U.

955. p

-
15%

265.

L4B. 6d

3%

6/. 14s.

1514

58g.

5 y 8
45

61,i

3%

154

CHELMSFORD AND BURY

RAILWAY.

Elsewhere we have given anotice--necessarily brief
from the pressure of so many meetings—of the opening
of the Railways to Ely and Norwich. Most sincerely
do we congratulate the Proprietors of the Eastern
Counties' Company and of the united Norfolk Company
on this consummation of a great undertaking. We
trust and believe that it will add materially to the pros-
perity of the Eastern Counties' Shareholders, and
render auspicious to both parties the amalgamation so
happily effected between the Companies whose lines
meet at Norwich.

It will be seen that great praise was awarded to the
contractors for the energy and liberality which they
have displayed during the progress of the works.
Never was praise better deserved. Messrs. Grissell and
Peto, and Mr. Jackson, who was associated with them
in the undertaking, have most admirably fulfilled their
part, and one cannot, in simple justice, but echo the
'commendation which, on Tuesday, was so amply be-
stowed, and which, coming as it did from quarters so
highly influential, must have been as gratifying to those
who received, it as it was honourable to those who be-
stowed it.

With respect to the general question of railway com-
munication for the East Anglian districts, the route to
Norwich, via Cambridge and Ely, is circuitous undoubt-
edly—not less than 1251 miles ; and it is not to be sup-
posed that the traffic between the metropolis and such
an important place as Norwich—to say nothing of its
almost equally important sister town, Yarmouth—will
continue to take that course a moment after a more
direct line of communication is opened. The distance
by the Eastern Counties' line to Colchester, and thence
by the Eastern Union and Eastern Union Extension to
Norwich, will be only 113 miles, and by the Chelms-•
ford and Bury, when extended to Thetford, only 110 f.
With respect to this last line, by the way, we are
glad to perceive an advertisement of " the Extension to
Thetford," which appears in our advertising columns
(for which extension an additional capital of 250,000/.
is required) that " by a special arrangement with the
solicitor of the Eastern Counties' Railway, • they (the
Provisional Committee of the Chelmford and Bury) are as-
sured of the concurrence of the good offices of that im-
portant Company i❑ the formation of their line." There
is more good sense and sound discretion in this determi-
nation than vre have been accustomed to observe in the
proceedings of the Eastern Counties' officials. It ought
clearly to be the policy of the managers of a great trunk
line like the Eastern Counties to give every possible en-
couragement to feeders from all quarters, whether pro-
moted by parties in or out of " the House ;" for how-
ever independent in respect of management such feeders
may be at first, they are sure to be absorbed and avoal-
gainated at last. And, least of all, should they be with-
held from giving such encourag,ment from any narrow
calculation of the gain to be made by compelling the pub-
lic to travel some dozen )r half-dozen miles more by rail
than there is any occasion for. They may rest perfectly
assured that the best line for the public. will always, in
the long run, be the best also for railway proprietors.
We have always thought well of the Chelmsford and
Bury branch, and have reason to know that it is thought
equally well of by the members of the Legislature most
conversant with the traffic wants of the East Anglian
districts. The members of the Committee of the House
of Commons, to whom the Norwich Direct, and Bury
and Cambridge lines were rbferred, took occasion re-
peatedly to advert to the Chelmsford and Bury line
(though it was not formally before them)? as being one
which was indispensable to the welfare of the commer-
cial and agricultural interests of Suffolk and Norfolk ;
and when giving the decision against the Norwich Di-
rect, Lord Sandon, the chairman, emphatically observed,
" The Committee was decidedly in favour of the Chelms-
ford and Bury scheme."—Railway Record.

LORD MELBOURNE'S OPINION

OF SIR R. PEEL'S MINISTRY.

At the annual meeting of the Fishmongers' Company,
Lord Melbourne was presented with the freedom of the
Company, and was afterwards present at the dinner.
His health having been proposed by the Prime Warden,
and drunk with great applause—
Lord MELBOURNE rose and said—Mr. Prime Warden
and gentlemen, before I thank this Company for the
great honour which they have done me, I must express
my regret and concern that the infirm state of my health
has compelled me so often to decline the invitations with
which I have been honoured, and to put off for so long a
time the reception of the honour which I have at length
received this morning, and which I highly value and
esteem.—(Hear, hear.) I assure you, gentlemen, that I
consider it a very high distinction to be enrolled among
the members of a Corporation so ancient and respectable,
and which has always been distinguished by its steady
adherence to the enlightened and constitutional
principles of civil ant) religious liberty.—(Hear,
hear.) In proposing -my health, the Prime Warden
has adverted, in terms highly flattering and compli-
mentary, and very gratifying to my feelings, to the Ad-
ministration of which I was the leading Member.—
(Hear.) That Administration is now defunct. We are
gone, as Members of and as a Government. But pars
melior nost, um is still adhuc viva et superstes ; the cm,
poreal frame may be said to have expired, and to be con-
signed to the tomb, but the immortal spirit, the ignea
vis animi, is still alive, and not only alive, but active and
efficient.—(Loud cheers.) Our principles and opinions,
our views of public affairs, still survive us.(Renewed
cheers.) They have been adopted and acted upon by
those who replaced us, and they have been productive,
during the session of Parliament that is just about to
terminate, of more than one wise and beneficial measure
of measures which I believe to be fit and essential, to be
founded upon sound principle, based upon good example,
and which, I have the greatest hopes, will confer lasting
benefit upon the part of the empire to which they espe-
cially apply, and upon the community at large. At
the same time we all well know that these very mea
sures have been productive, in one House of Parliament,
of much difference of opinion—that they have been the
cause of much bitter feeling, not to say malignant in-
vective, being levelled age.i.est the Right Hon. Baronet at
the head of her Majesty's Government, upon the notion
'of some supposed inconsistency of these measures with
his farmer opinionsand conduct.—(Hear, hear.) Placed
as I have been by circumstances in the position of an
antagonist and competitor to that Right Honourable
Baronet, it is natural that I should look into and ex-
amine his conduct, not with hostile jealousy or any
hostile feeling, but with care and anxiety.— (Hear,
hear.) It is natural that I should be anxious to
learn what his conduct has been, what have
been his measures, what have been the prin-
ciples upon which they have been founded, and
what the language in which he has urged and en-
forced those hear.) I have made
such inquiry and examination, and I think myself bound
to state, as the result of it, that I know of nothing in the
antecedent conduct of the Right Hon. Baronet which
should, in point of consistency, preclude him from bring-
ing forward either the measures which he has brought
forward, or any other measures in the same direction
which he may ...onvince his understanding or persuade
his conscience would be both expedient and conduce
to the benefit and advantage of his country.—(Loud
cheers.) Thus much I have thought it my duty to
say. I had intended to have said it in Parliament,
but I have never been able t 3 find an opportunity of
doing so. But, indeed, when I look at the assembly which
I have the honour of addressing, and consider how it is
composed, I do not think I am likely to find a better
opportunity of making this declaration than that which
is now presented to me.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I thank
you again for the honour which you have conferred upon
me. I wish you success in all your undertakings. I
know you will undertake nothing which, while it is for
your own benefit, is not also for the advantage of your
country ; and wishing you elllectiv:ly and individually
happiness, prosperity, peace, and every earthly blessing,
I respectfully take my leave. (The noble Lord sat
down amid loud cheers.)