The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-17 00:00:00

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FHE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.)

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock , 210% 2104
3 per Cent. Reduced - 98
3 per Cent. Consols
New 314 per Cents ................101 100% 101% 101%
Long Annuities to expireJan.lB6o 1114 11%
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860
India Stock .. 2771/2 277%

India Bonds, 1,0001- .
Ditto under 1,0001.
Consols for Account..... 931/2
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11/ d 56 54 pm. 54
Ditto 5001. .

Ditto Small
ONE
O'CLOCK.

99%

pm. 56
CLOSING
PRICES.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Columbian Bonds, ex Venezuela —
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent... • ....
Ditto. Deferred
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 —
D.tto Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, Converted. 6714 671/4
Ditto, Account 67%14% 671 A
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. —
Ditto, Account 42% 42%
Dutch, 2% per Cent .
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certific 984 97% 97%
PRICES OF CLOSINU
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l%, 2% ............ 234
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 20
Bristol and Exeter
73/4
Do. New .... -........2 ...... 7%
- - 60 /AI

15%

36%

Bristol and Gloucester... 30 ..........; 66.
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln 11A ...... 7%4..
Chester and Holyhead 5 ...... 16% ......
Chichester and Brighton 10 ...... 11%
Churnet Valley ......... 2 ...... 61/8 6 ......
Direct Northern
Dublin and Galway 2l/2...... 4%16
Dundalk & Enniskillen 214 ......
Dublin and Mullingar... 21/2 ......
Eastern Counties _ 25 ...••• -- **

__-
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per 114
Cent, No. 1.-51. 13s. 4d....... 114
.
Eastern Union l5 .. •••
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ......
Ditto, New Quarters.. 2%....• 6% 6%
Great North of England..loo .. -
....
Ditto New 5 ...... 511/
24%
Ditto New
185
Great Western BO2 ..
105
Ditto % Shares 5O ...... 105
51/143 5%
Guildford, Fare'm, Ports. 2%..... /4
1%
Harwich
...... .... 218 t 185

33
WA
64
18%
21
it%
13%

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Manchester
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London
London
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Brighton...
mi g
hi ut go hn m. . . (5S
ot ock.).. i .. .. —64 ......
Do. New Quarters ... 2 ...... 331/2 ...
London and Blackwell. 16/. 13s. 4d. 95i
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 18k
London and Greenwich 12/ 15s 4d... 10 94 11
Do. New
ins.e -4713/2222
:721/2/21i
.6, s
.... .
.....1.....
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killen
Do.
Manche:ter and Birmin. 40 .•• ••
Do. Quarters 4 ...... 914 914
Midland 100 ... 164 162% 164% 166
Do. New
125
Newcastle and Darling—
Midland,Birm.,Derby...loo ...... .. . 126 125
ton J unction ......... ... 25 ...... 4914
Do. New Brandling... 10 ...... 29 h 3O
odncr
and Ennis-
Western
ieEeernd
Lan i
Newitast le and Berwick 11A ...... 141 A 3A l4l.
North British
Do. New
Northern and Eastern... 45
North Kent
Norwich and Brandon... 10
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1,
Scottish Central ......... 2% ...... 63/4 6%
Shrews., WolverhamP., ,
Dudley, and Bimi ...... 2'24 • 4
•••• %14..,
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 28 d... 41 41
2%
63A— 7
South Wales. .......... ... 2% ...... 5% 6 6
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction ......... 1%•••••• 2% 2:v
York and North Midland 50 ......104 ...
Do., No. 3 ............
104
Ditto % Shares ........ 25
52 .. ........
... 52
68
Do. Selby ...............20 1 68%
Do. Extension ......... 1 A lB % % lB%
FRENCH RAILWAYS.

3AF
4%

70N

Boulogne and Amiens... 4
101/s
Bordeaux and Toulouse 2
Bordeaux, Toulouse, and 2%
Cette ......... .... ..... 2
Great North. of France.. 4
Do. do. (Rosamel's) 2 •
...... 28 1 4
BANKS.. • •
Louvain and Jetneppe... 2 ... . A ,
'7B d... .
Namur and Liege ...... 2% .... " •
Orleans and Bordeaux... 2
Paris & Lyons, Laflitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gan-
-31/31/iVs••• ....
neron's, ... ... ........... t
Paris and Rouen . ........ 20
Paris and Strasbourg ... 2
28%
Royal North of Spain ... 2
Rouen and Havre
JOINT
.......
240/2
STOCKU
National Provincial of
England: ............... 35 ..

274
4214
3
2814
21.2.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)

Group E.

THE NORTHUMBERL BERWANL; AND NEWCASTLE AND
ICK LINES.
resumed by Mr. Sergeant WRANGIIAM.—It
The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock, and the
cross- examination of Mr. Robert Stephenson, the eminent
ro‘l'in'asone of Mr. Samuda's experiments that there
falling
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is a greater tenuity produced at that end of the pipe next the
engineer,
ersetrhan at the nand. The barmeter rises as the pipe
exhausted;
the In the experiment tried by carrying 64 tons
bc(encoimn
hour by the atmospheric principle, the mean
quarter of a mile was slightly augmented.
lasttime before 64 tons could be put in mo-
tion,milesmust take
on
barometersome
but the space of time depends upon the amount of force
applied. In the experiment Just alluded to, the barometer
was raised to 24 inches. It was remarkably uniform, and
commenced at 22 inches, or I llb. per square inch, and 24 4.10
at the close. It rose to 24 inches during the first quarter of

a mile, and the speed continued to increase slightly. On
the atmospheric line a stoppage of 15 minutes must take
place at every point, and in his experiments 17 minutes Ak ere
taken up, consequent on the impossibility of attaining an
uniform velocity; and even assuming that Mr. Brunell is
correct in stating that 21 minutes aresufficient for exhaustion
in every mile, it would be impossible to calculate the stoppages
with reference to uniform speed at less than 15 minutes, when
proeeeding at the rate of (0 miles an hour. To go ore.. a
distance of three miles, 11 minutes are required from the
moment the train is attempted to be moved until the three
miles are gone over. He is now speaking of a4O ton train,
and he is of opinion that the general rate of travelling will
not exceed seventeen miles an hour, but it may go at a some-
what greater speed as the train approaches the engine. Mr.
Brunel maintains, that by means of this tank and by working
the motive power half the vacuum is obtained, but this only
reduces the time in pumping, but as there is but one engine
to work the two tubes, there is no gain in point of time
and :speed after the vacuum is obtained. Thinks that
from the great pressure on the reservoirs, they must be made
of iron. The pressure on them would be 1,200 tons, or 7
per square inch, or half a ton to a foot. There is great dan-
ger to be apprehended from trains on atmospheric railways,
whether the trains go right through or stop at particular
stations. In the case of a train going right through, and no
other train coming upon the line, then accidents are to be ap-
pended at the level crossings only. Does not recollect
any accident having occurred on the Great Western and
the London and Birmingham from trains going through
when they arrived at the level crossings, but then there
are few level crossings to be met with on either line. On
the Blackwell line the switches at the Minories are
locked, and the danger is thereby in some measure
obviated. The accidents on the Blackwell, where the
switches are placed at the Minories, arose from me,
mentum, which he . anticipates would be a cause from
wl:ich danger would be greatly to be apprehended
on an atmospheric railway. The engine matt at
the station should, if possible, be aware of the approach of a
train, but he is not necessarily so from the working of the
pump, because the pumping goes on when perhaps there is
no train on the line It is ridiculous to suppose that the
engineman, whose attention is absorbed by watching the
working of a large machine, could attend to the moving of
the switches on the approach of the trains, and he thinks it
would be most improper to devolve such a duty on a per-
son who has otherwise enough to attend to. Has known
of accidents occurring from self-acting switches, from going
back after having been properly opened. The Peterborough
line, although a single line railway, is unobjectionable with
the present traffic, but if the traffic increases much, two rails
will become absolutely necessary. His experience of the
running of large monster trains is not that they are always
behind time, on the contrary, they are generally punctual.
Delays might arise when monster trains are run, from a desire
to accommodate the public. Is aware that these is an ob-
jection entertained at the Board of Trade against monster
trains, but not against excursion trains. Has always recom-
mended the South-Eastern line to divide these monster
trains. The large engines which he has lately constructed,
and which he believes to be the largest in the world, are ca-
pable of carraing 600 or 700 tons at a speed of from 12 to 15
miles an hour, and he has tried one in which it pro-
pelled 500 tons at 18 miles an houa, and he con•
siders the engine capable of carrying lio tons
at the rate of ten miles an hour. They are of 300-horse
power. The goods trains are dispatched at night for the con-
venience of carriers and the public, and not for any particular
object which a railway company has in selecting night trains
for carrying goods. It is, of course, cheaper to a railway
company to concentrate the goods and forward them in large
trains, than if they were to forward them by smaller trains.
The 300 horse- power engines are not used to carry passengers,
but for goods only.
Again examined in chief by Mr. JlMMlED—Resistance is
composed of three elements—the first, is the mere friction,
which is 81b.. per ton ; the next, is the resistance arising
from gravity when the rail is not level, and that resistance
is, of course, variable; the force of gravity on 1 in 100, being
221 b per ton ; and the third arises from the atmosphere,
which varies with the velocity. Gravity contains two
laws, weight and bulk. The experiments made by
Messrs. Locke, Wood, and the other engineers, at
the request of the British Association were made on
trains varying from thirty to thity-five tons, which
is about the tonnage :proposed to be carried on the at-
mospheric lines; and in drawing my deductions from these
experiments, I bore in mind a particular part of their re-
port. It is that atmospheric resistance depends upon the
number of carriages of which a train is composed—the re-
sistance varying according to the number, or the resistance
to two carriages is double that to one carriage. On the
Peterborough line only two trains meet in one day, and the
line has been purposely constructed to have two rails, and
there is a clause in their Act which empowers the Board of
Trade to- compel them to have two rails whenever that is
deemed necessary. There is an electric telegraph on this
line. It is much easier to pull up with a locomotive than
with the atmospheric power, beeause when the steam is
turned off there is only the momentum to contend with,
and even this • can be coupteracted by moving the engine
backwards; but on the atmospheric line the train continues
to advance by the power by which it is propelled, besides
the momentum, until it has had time to be controlled by
means of the valve. If two thousand men were to be sent
from one place to another by an atmospheric rail-
way, it is evident, from the diagram, that the line would
be entirely stopped, because it appears that between
many of the trains there is an interval of an hour and
a half. Recollects when a large body of troops and a great
quantity of material were forwarded by the Birmingham
Railway, three or four years ago, and they were dispatched
with great expedition.
Mr. Hildyard—Yes ; and I remember that a French officer
who was present, told me that he was so much surprised with
it that lie considered that railways must effect a revolution
in military science.
Mr. ALEXANDER, Q.C.—They have at last got h good
witness in the case—(Laughter)—and as he is so ready to
give his testimony to the Committee, I hope lie will not
forget to recommend the French slicer to the favourable
attention of Marshal Soult.—(Laughter.)
The Committee then adjourned till twelve o'clock on Mon-
day.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DOWNING-STREET, MAY 10, 1845.

The Queen has been ].leased to appoint William Arrindell.
Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General for the colony of
British Guiana.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint E. F. Wylde,
F.:4, to be Clerk of the Peace at Worcester, in the Eettlement
of the Cape of Good hope.
WAR-OFFICE, MAY 16.
_ _

Ist Draf,roon Guards—Captain J. Crofts, from the 7th
Dragoon Guards, to be Captain, vice Jackson, who ex-
changes, May 16.
WHITEHALL, MAncu 26.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Frederick Potts, of the
city of Chester, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the
High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, MAY 3.

The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Coraer, of
Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery,
BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.

Frederic Lindsay Cole, wine merchant, Fenchurch-street,
City.
Absolom Francis, ironfounder, llalkin, Flintshire.
BANKRUPTS.

James Richards, plumber, Deptford. bridge, to surrender
May 30, at half-past twelve, and June 27, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-
lane ; Burn, Great Carter-lane, Doctors'.commons.
Frederic Lindsay Cole, wine merchant, Fenchurch- street,
June 5, at twelve, and June 27, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Goddard, Wood-street, Cheapside.
John Lampray, money scrivener, Warwick, May 30 and
June 24, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Morris and Walling-
ton, Warwick ; Harrison and Smith, Birmingham.
James Livingston and Thomas Brittain, plumbers, Man-
chester, May 30, at eleven, and June 20, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man-
chester ; Kelsall, Chester ; Goulden, Manchester ; Milne,
Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London.
William Summers aad Nicholas Rae, rope-makers, Strange-
ways, June 4, and July 1, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis-
trict Court. Stanway, official assignee, Manchester; Makin-
son, Manchester; Gregory, Faulkner, Gregory, and Bour-
dillon, Bedford-row, London.

Edward Lawton and Thomas Kay, iron founders, Roch-
dale, Lancashire, June 2, and June 30, at twelve, at the
Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee; May-
hew and Son, Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn ; Halsall, Mid-
dleton, Lancashire.

William Russell, James Knowles, and Henry Simister,
dye's Salford, May 24, and June 19, at eleven, at the
Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee; Vincent
and Sherwood, Temple ; Todd, Manchester.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending, May 13, 1845, is 28s. 10id. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.
Dividends, &c., in our next.