The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-03 00:00:00

CONTINENTAL LINES.

Tomas AND NANTES.—The works on this line are urged on
most actively, and it is thought that towards the Ist of Oct.
a single way will have been laid down throughout the whole
distance between Orls?ns and Tours, and that a trial trip will
be made. The viaducts of Tavers and Beaugency were
finished a fortnight or three weeks back, and the laying down
of the rails is going on with great celerity in their neighbour-
hood. A letter from Tours states that it is considered certain
there that the line will be opened as far as that city by the
end of the year.
MARSEILLES TO TOULON.—A meeting of the Provisional
Board of Directors of this Company, for a railroad between
these places, with an extension to llyeres,7 and several branch
lines, took place at Toulon last week, the President, Count
Latour-du-Pin Chambly in the chair. The capital is to be
38,000,000 f., and the shares 500 f. each.
Swiss LlNEs.—The Committee appointed by the Swiss
Government for directing the lines in that country, has de-
cided upon the execution of the following lines, viz., Bale to
Olten, Olten to Zurich, Olten to Lake de Biel, and Olten to
Lucerne, being in all 44 Swiss leagues, and requiring an ex-
penditure of 30,000,000 f.
LOCOMOTIVE MANUFACTORY AT ST. PETERSBURGIL—
There exists in the capital of Russia an immense establish-
ment of the above description belonging to Messrs. Eastwick
and Harrison of Philadelphia, who have entered into a
contract with the Russian Government to furnish all the
machinery necessary for the construction and working of the
vast lines projected in the whole empire. They employ at
St. Petersburgh not fewer than 3,000 workmen. To keep in
good order this congregation of men, compoied of Americans,
Germans, Englishmen, and Russians, a company of soldiers
is always stationed at the manufactory, and a special body of
police is appointed to attend there. Men of turbulent con-
duct, if foreigners, are dismissed at once on any grave contra-
vention of the regulations, and if Russians, they are tied up
to a triangle and whipped with the knout. MM. Eastwick
and Harrison have several times protested against this mode
of punishment, but unavailingly.
NEW COMPANIES.—The following is a summary of the new
companies, 35 in number, proposing to enter the field next
session, as competitors for ministerial concession.
PARLS AND STRASBURGIL—No fewer than eight com-
panies have started for this line ; namely—Ganneron, capital,
125 millions of francs Be:l'Est, 125 millions ; Becket, 125
millions ; Gentil and Fol, 125 millions ; Caumont Laforce,
125 millions ; Doudeauville, 125 millions ; Flury Herard,
130 millions.

Tours AND ANTES.-Six companies ; namely—Mac-
kenzie and Co., 60 million francs : Carette and Minguet,
35 millions • Drouillard, 35 millions ; Raiguecourt, 34
millions ; O'Neil and Co., 60 millions ; Jacques Lefevre, 35
millions.

1- CRETE, AND SAINT QUENTIN.—Five companies, namely—
Cysaeus, 35 millions ; Cayette and-Minguet, 30 millions ;
Colbert, 35 millions ; Arnoux, 35 millions ; Flury Herard,
49 millions.

PARIS AND LYONS.—Eleven conpanies, namely—Lafitte,
Blount, and Co., 200 millions ; De l'Union, 200 millions ;Fan-
neron, 200 millions; Calon the Younger, Lapinsonniere,
Du Sud Est, Messageries Royales, Pecan, Chastellux,
Ossian Verdeau, and Independante, each with a capital of 200
millions.

LYONS AND AVIGNON.-Eight companies, namely—Le-
cointo des Arts, 110 millions ; Talabot, 110 millions ; Meri-
dionale, 80 millions ; Chastellux, 110 millions; Griolet, 110
millions ; Odiot, 4,400,0001., and amongst the English Di-
rectors connected with which are Mr. Hudson, M.P. ; Sir
John Easthope, M.P. ; and Mr. J. L. Ricardo. " The no-
minal capital of these companies," says the Chemins de Fer,
" collectively amounts to between four and five milliards of
francs, whereas the amount required for the execution of the
lines is only five hundred millions. Supposing all the sub-
scription lists to be filled up, and a deposit of one-tenth made
immediately by the subscribers, there will be taken from cir-
culation for two or three months or more nearly 500 millions,
instead of 50 millions, supposing that only one company
existed for each of the intended lines. This large drain of
capital must have considerable effect upon the money market.
Several more new companies for lines which will not be ad-
judicated during the present year are talked of."

THE LAND RAIL.—(From a Hampshire Corre-
spondent.)—This very delicious eating bird has been some-
what plentiful among us this year, and a few brace were
killed on the 25th of last month. They were one lump of
fat, and came to the table in prime order. They eat like no
other game bird, for they partake of a mild richness which
singularly characterises their species. I do not remember
ever to have seen one of these birds among the extensive
and varied collection of the London poulterers, nor is it by
any means a common bird in this country. It is in this
neighbourhood (Milford) called the corn crake, and it mi-
grates, as soon as the October frosts sets in, to Spain, where it
enjoys more lenient winters than our island affords, whereas,
the water rail, its congener, stays with us all the year round
and may be met with in most of the marshy districts. On
Wednesday next we shall " soar for nobler game," and aban-
don the open fields for the heavy covers. Pheasants are
plentiful in our neighbourhood.—Post.
JACK SHEPPARD —A short time since was ob-
served in a broker's shop, in Wilderness-row, Clerkenwell,
two ancient portraits, evidently after the style of that cele-
brated artist Sir John Thornhill, who painted the Court of
George the Second. A person afterwards purchased the pair
for a mere trifle, and took them home with him. It has since
been discovered, beyond all doubt, that they are original
likenesses of Jack Sheppard and his mother. They were for
more than a century hanging up in an old public-house called
the Bell, at Willesden, and were taken off from time to time
by successive landlords, as a part of the stock of the pre-
mises. There is a strong family likeness between the parent
and the son, and the contour of the countenance of the latter
teems with character of a nature which coincides perfectly
with the life and history of the 'ubject. The painting must
have been executed about the period that Jack Sheppard
broke out of the round-house at Willesden.

[ADVEItTISEMENT.J—AN AUTHENTICATED CURE
OF A FEARFUL CASE OF PILES, BT HOLLOWAY'S PILLS
AND OINTMENT I—John Thompson. Esq., the very respect-
able editor of the Armagh Guardian, an Irish newspaper,
vouches as to the fact of an extraordinary cure of a case of piles,
of a most distressing nature, and of some years' standing, which
was effected by these medicines when every other means had
failed. The person alluded to is a gentleman of large estate and
great influence in the County of Armagh. No one need suffer
very long from piles, fistula, and what is termed " a bearing
down," if they have recourse to these far-famed remedies. Sold
by most of the respectable chemists throughout the civilised
world, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand,
London.