The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-25 00:00:00

EIiGULND.

Private Banks
Joint-Stock Banks 3,331,516
SCOTLAND.

Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks 2,987,665

IRELAND.

Bank of Ireland 3,597,850
Private and Joint-Stock Banks

Total..

X 17,047,454
H. L. WICKHAM.

Stamps and Taxes, Oct. 25, 1844.

IMPORTANT RAILWAY
IN TELLIGEN CE.
On referring to a list of newly-projected lines of
railway, the promoters of which are actively prepar-
ing themselves for the earliest possible application to
Parliament, it will be found the number of schemes
amount to forty, extending over a distance of 2,173
miles, and involving an aggregate estimated expen-
diture of 39,695,0001. Of this number, five of the
projected lines are in Ireland, amounting to 2,695,0001.,
and extending over 237 miles ; the remaining enor-
mous amount of 37,000,0001. being the estimate for
lines in England. While it is certain that a great
many of these competing lines will not be carried out,
we may safely calculate on a good half, or 20,000,0001.,
being expended on railways in the next three years—
a sum which, under present circumstances, will, we
trust, have a most beneficial effect on the industrial
classes of the community; while the division of so
much capital into various channels must have its due
effects on monetary affairs, and, by the increased in-
terest afforded by such undertakings, tend to keep
down the price of Government funds, and induce still
further to the carrying out of large scientific works,
for increased facilities of communication between dis-
tant localities, the increase of trade and commerce,
and the moral advancement of the human family.
We are glad to see the railway system in Ireland be-
ginning to cause that interest in the moneyed world,
which the subject deserves, and trust that the pro-
jectd lines will meet with the most favourable con-
sideration from Parliament ; it will open a wide field
for the employment of her population, and the cir-
culation of upwards of 2,000,0001. sterling in Ireland,
within. a limited period, would disseminate an incal-
culable amount of good. That there are good grounds
for still farther extension of the railroad system, the
following extraordinary increase which has taken
place in the gross receipts of twenty-one extensive
lines in the first quarter of ,the present half-year, as
compared with the same period of last year, will
show :

Birmingham and Gloucester £11,721
Chester and Birkenhead

---Edi# #ur!hateGlasgow 1,541
t ' y, and Ayr 3,406
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6,367
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Miiatpdel and,Manchester
;:London and Birmingham
15,558
' London and grighton
v : London and Croydon
London and South-Western 8,399
Manchester and Birmingham 5,028
Manchester and Leeds 24,349
Midland Company 22,278
Newcastle and Carlisle
North Union . .
Preston and Wyre 1,802
Sheffield and Manchester 2,771
Ulster 403
York and North Midland 9,006
Total increase on the above 21 railways for the
quarter, 187,6641.—Mining Journal.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
INFERENTIAL PROOF OF THE
FALLACY OF THE ORGANIC THEORY OF
DOCTORS.

Compare the human body to a tree, with all its
roots and branches, and then fancy Doctors giving
thousands of different drugs, among which are num-
bered prussic acid, opium, mercury, &c., with a view
to eradicate disease out of different parts of the body.
Does it not seem an absurdity ? Hygeists, on the
contrary, treat the human body as they would a tree
going to decay, viz., by draining its roots of stagnant
impurities—the sole cause of its body and branches
being withered and in a dying state. Let Doctors,
if they can, prove the fallacy of this analogy. Doc-
tors might just as well prescribe different remedies
for the different branches of a tree gone to decay, as
prescribe different remedies for different parts of the
body. Are not trees and plants treated as a whole
So should it be with the human body.
Issued by Morison and Moat, of the British Col-
lege of Health, New-road, London, for and on behalf
of the body of Hygeists, who contend, that since all
diseases arise from one cause, namely, an impurity of
the blood, they can be cured by the Vegetable Uni-
versal Medicine, which being composed of innocuous
ingredients, may be taken by any person without the
aid of a Doctor.

PRINCELY TIIEFT.-It appears that Kennington-
common, whilom a place for cricket and other healthful
sports, is to be built upon, to benefit the estate of the
Prince of Wales as Duke of Cornwall. These places
have been called the lungs of a town. Surely to choke
the lungs is hardly the best way to captivate the heart.
Will the Prince of Wales be more beloved in Kennington
if only known as the Prince of Bricks and Mortar ?
Punch.

INTRODUCTION OF BRICHMAKING INTO ENGLAND.
—lt is generally admitted that the Romans introduced
the art of brickmaking into this country, for we have no
account of any being used prior to the Roman Conquest.
Nor does it appear that the Romans employed this ma-
terial otherwise than when compelled to do so is the ab-
sence of other material. The Roman walls were gene-
rally built with cement and tiles, or flint stores laid in
courses at convenient distances to bind the parts together,
and at the external and internal angles, to strengthen
them. These bands consisted of three or four courses of
tiles or stones laid through the wall, and were placed at
two or three feet from each other ; the intermediate
spaces being raised by a sort of cement composed of
mortar and pebbles, and sometimes of rag-stones, or such
materials as the country afforded. In this manner the
walls of Verulam, Colchester, Chesterford, and other
places were built. Alberti tells us, on the authority of
Varro, that the Gauls built their houses of baked brick,
but this does not correspond at all with the ancient sim-
plicity of those people, for the use of this material always
implies a certain advance in civilisation ; on the other
hand, in places where other material could not be pro-
cured, it is very probable they had recourse to unburnet'
brick or mud.—The Builder.

EXTENT IN AlD.—This process was put in requi-
sition at the Sheriffs Court yesterday, on the part of the
Crown, against the executors of a Mr. Gostling, one of
its debtors. The debt was 6,0001., for excise duties.
The property, worth near 15,0001., was all mortgaged to
i
its full value, and ts. available value was, consequently,
assessed at I. Writs were then enforced against the
two sureties, on the bond given for the debt ; but the
verdict in both cases was--no property ! The amount
was, therefore, lost to the revenue.