The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MONTGOMERYSHIRE LINES.
1. Great North and South Wales and Worcester (with branch
to Newtown)
2. Gloucester, Aberystwith, and Central Wales
3. Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh
Junction
4. Radnorshire, Aberystwith, and Welsh Midland Junction
5. Shropshire Union and Canal
6. Worcester and Porthdynllaen.
CARNARVONSHIRE LINES.
1. Chester and Holyhead (Extension to Mold, &c.)
2. Great Ormshead Harbour and Railway
3. London and Dublin Direct
4. London and Holyhead Direct
5. North Wales (Bangor and Porthdynllaen Deviations)
6. Port Madoc Harbour
7. Porthdynllaen Harbour
8. Worcester and Porthdynllaen (Great Western).
ANGLESEY.
I. Docks at llolyhead.

THE COMING CHRISTMAS.
I Coming events cast their shadows before. You will
say, perhaps, that the sun, like other great folks, rarely
comes to town at this time of the year, and his absence
makes us all as shadowless as Peter Schlemit ; but the
coming event of Christmas casts a most portentous
shadow before, at Barry's temple of nick-nacks at the
Egyptian-hall, where the pleasantest half-hour possible
may be passed in inspecting all his recent importations
from Paris. In going in, mind that you do not, inad-
vertently, that which Louis XL could not accomplish,
—knock down Charles the Bold ; look at Jean Sans
Pour, and him of Santillane, and other bronze
statuettes, so admirably executed that you cannot
suppress a secret desire that some one may
send one or two of them as Christmas cadeaux ;
and those charming little cassettes, half-desk half-dress-
in-case, in which, like Pandora's box, something good
is always to be found at the bottom ; and then those
millions of petits reins, all so ornamented that it is abso-
lutely necessary that the airy nothings should have a
local habitation on your drawing-room table ; and those
' embossed pocket-books, and calendriers of all sorts,
shapes, and bound sizes, in either velvet or morocco, for
ladies of business habits, for since Lady Aylesbury has
set the fashion, hundreds of ladies are now given to
" raillery." But, " basta cosi," let us cross Piccadilly, and
stroll up Bond-street ; what a blaze of triumph, as the
poet Bunn would say, attracts the eye in Doudney's
shop; what grotesque waistcoats, what excruciating coats,
what varied devices to make the human form divine
appear symmetrical. What an odd idea it was
for a tailor to settle in the wilhome Alexandrian
Museum. Look in, and you will see Doudney over-
whelmed with business, and like Shakspeare's smith,
with shears and measures in his hand. What admirable
workmanship is displayed in those registered cloaks
lying en the counter, and which the Count Circular
lately announced as having had the honGur of gaining
her Majesty's approbation. Beware, oye dress and
mantua-makers, Doudney is galling your kibe, for he
has already been sporting on your domains, and his
well-lined carriage-cloak is already on the shoulders of
many a dame who formerly shivered under your fairy-
like ifab, ics. And then there is another of these
schneider, named Becker, in the Rue Neuve des Petits
Champs, 15, who is also making energetic efforts
to eclipse his rivals in the French capital ;
those who delight in a combination of elegance
and comfort VI their attire, makes a point of enlisting
the services of the skilful workman. A Frenchman is
in his fashions as Sir Robert Peel is in his politics—to
one thing constant never ; it would be, therefore, hope.
less to enumerate the novelties at Becker's, but they are
all to be commended for the good taste which he inva-
riably displays. And in that same city of Paris, in the
Rue d'Alger, 13, there dwells a watchmaker, Capt, who
has :assuredly the art, ad capt-andum vulgus, for every
one speaks in the highest possible terms of his clocks
and watches. He has attained the most unerring accu-
racy in chronometers, as several French naval captains
have testified. His flat watches also perform their func-
tions with inconceivable precision ; and he will sell you
a watch no thicker than a five-franc piece, which will
keep time as well as the renowned horloge in the Bourse.
The evening papers have of late been extolling the sys-
tem of book-keeping promulgated by Mr. Foster, whose
establishment adjoins the entrance to King's College.
Mr. Foster is knovtn to the mercantile world as the
author of an invaluable code of instructions for mer-
chants' clerks, and others, who sit over the bulky ledger.
His fame as a penman is, we believe, unrivalled ; and,
it is said he is remarkably successful in imparting his
art to his pupils. Many people think it fine to write
badly, because Byron, Canning, and Voltaire wrote a
bad hand. Even Hamlet says
" I once did hold it, as our statists do,
A baseness to write fair ;"
but he afterwards found that his skill in writing did him ,
yeoman's service.—Post.

LORD DRUISILANRIG AND THE
PRIZE RING.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—From a paragraph in Tuesday evening's Sun, I
find that there is a dispute as to whether Caunt or Ben-
digo won the prize battle, and that thousands of pounds
are dependent on the verdict in the case of " Caunt v.
Drumlanrig," being an action, as appears by your report,
to recover from the stakeholder the wager or battle-
money deposited in his hands to abide the decision of
the fight. Now, Sir, is there any reasonable man ex-
isting who for one moment can suppose that the
Judges of the Court of Exchequer will suffer themselves
to be made the umpires of the prize ring ? If there be, he
will surely be disappointed ; for the instant it appears
that the money sought to be recovered was a wager to
decide the event of a contemplated breach of the peace,
will the judges stop the trial.
My opini.)n is, that any loser of a prize fight may
bring an action against a stakeholder, and recover, not
the whole stakes or battle-money, but simply his own
deposit ; so if Caunt has taken this position, and seeks to
recover 100/, and not the double deposit, he will most
certainly recover his cash. Caunt will prove the deposit
of a certain amount of money in the hands of
Lord Drumlanrig do you suppose that the Court.
will allow the defendant to prove that he has
paid it away to a party who committed a
breach of the public peace, and that in the committal of
such offence the event terminated against the plaintiff,
and_ that he paid away the money agreeably to the terms
of the deposit ? The Court will be very likely not only
to inform Lord Drumlanrig that he must repay the
plaintiff the money deposited by him, but that his Lord-
ship has also rendered himself liable to an
indictment for taking part in a breach of the
peace by becoming stakeholder in a prize fight.
Whichever position Caunt takes—viz., to recover the
battle-money or simply his own deposit, you may rest
assured that the event of the trial will not decide the
bets on the prize fight between Caunt and Bendigo.
The Court of Exchequer, I say again, will not allow
itself to be made the umpire of the prize ring.
Yours, &c.,
" LOMBARD-STREET TO A CHINA ORANGE."
Ilfracombe, Dec. 11, 1845.

SCILLY.—The barque John Esdale, reported last
week wrecked on the Western Rocks, drove ashore on the
Island of St. Agnes, notwithstanding the exertions of the
pilots and boatmen to prevent this happening, and to get
her to St. Mary's. The hull now lies on the rocks literally
broken in pieces, and will be sold in a day or two for the
benefit of those concerned. The next spring tide would
carry all away. About seven thousand deals have been
landed on St. Agnes, which is strewed with fragments of the
wreck. The weather has been so boisterous that the master
of the Seven Stones' Light Ship has not been able to get off
since the Ist instant.— W est Briton.
YARMOUTH.—THE HERRING FISHBRY.--The sea-
son which is now drawing to a close has been, on the whole,
one of the most successful which has been known for many
years, and we trust the benefits of that success will be felt
in the provision which the poor men employed therein have
been enabled to make for their support during the winter
months. One firm in this town employing eight boats has
realised an average of 41 lasts a boat, one realisine La lasts,
and another 533/4. The crew of one boat divides 2-80/., and
the firm paid 1,7004 only for doles to the several crews, ex-
clusive of ferrying, victualling, store. &c. &c. This large
outlay at this season of the year affords' a timely relief to
many families, who might ;,therwise have been compelled to
endure the sharp pir,.things of want. We repeat the hope
we expressed last week, that the facilities afforded by the
railway for securing a profitable market for the proceeds of
car fisheries will lead to a consolidation of their interests,
which will greatly tend to the promotion of their prosperity.
—Norf ,11‘ Chronicle.
PRESENT FROM SIR J. E. TENNENT TO THE
MUSEUM AT BELFAST.—We learn, with pleasure, that a
letter has been received by the secretary of the Na-
tural History and Philosophical. Society of this town,
from Sir James Emerson Tennent, stating that he
has been on a tour through Upper Egypt, and that he has
procured, in the neighbourhood of Thebes, two mummies for
the museum in connexion with the above Society. Sir
James states that he intends one of these as a permanent
gift to the Museum, and the other to remain in it till claimed
by his son, if he should, at a future period, visit Belfast.
Our late representative speaks of a mummy cat, also, which
he means to contribute towards the Society's collection of
curiosities; and, last, not least, he mentions that he has
brought down from Thebes the hand of the colossal statue of
Amunoph 11. (horn B.C. 1580), which travellers used to
remark at the south-west propylon of the Grand Temple of
Karnak ; the four fingers of which are two feet five inches
across, corresponding with a full length figure of 56 feet.
The Pacha, in order to allow Sir James an opportunity of
thus complimenting his former constituents, has permitted
the exportation of this relic of art, together with the objects
above specified ; and we expect soon to be enabled to an-
nounce their arrival at their destination.—Banner of Ulster,

DEPOSITS WITH CLERKS OF THE PEACE.
(From the Shrewsbury Chronicle.)
The plans, sections, and other specifications of the fol-
lowing lines have been lodged with the Clerks of the
Peace for the several counties :
PLINTSHIRE LINES.
1. Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction and Mold Extension
2. Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llan-
gollen
3. Chester and Holyhead (tributary branches)
4. Chester and Birkenhead (widening and branches)
5. Liverpool, Birkenhead, Parkgate, and Holyhead Junction
6. Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh
Junction
7. Mold Junction
S. Shropshire Union
9. Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead Junction
10. Wrexham, Nantwich, and Crewe Junction.

DENBIGHSHIRE LINES.
1. Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Rhuabon, and Vale of Llan-
gollen
2. Birkenhead and Holyhead Junction and Mold Extension
.. Chester and Holyhead (branches) --
d. London and Holyhead Direct
5. Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh
Junction
6. North Wales Railway and Ormshead Harbour
7. North Wales Mineral (with branches)
8. Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester Junction
9. Trent Valley Continuation and Grand Junction
10. Wrexham, Xantwich, and Crewe Junction.