The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-21 00:00:00

THE RATAN AFFAIR.

The investigation into the Ratan affair, by which
Sam Rogers, the jockey, and a Mr. Braham, his
friend, living at Newmarket, are charged, with other
professi-mal betting men, of laying large sums against
the horse to procure its defeat, has been entered into
by the stewards of the Jockey Club at Newmarket.
The inquiry has originated in a joint letter from Cap-
tain Rous and Lord George Bentinck to the stewards,
and the examination commenced on Tuesday. The
court consisted of the Marquis of Exeter, Lord Strad-
broke, Colonel Anson, the Duke of Beaufort, and
Colonel Peel. The public press on the occasion v ere
refused admission, an intimation being given that the
stewards had employed a short-hand writer of their
own from the office of Mr. Gurney, and they should
hereafter publish what portions of the evidence they
deemed expedient.
Captain Rous opened the case, stating the facts
simply as they had come to his knowledge.---Lord
George Bentinck entered into the entire history of
the case, drawing deductions, and showing the neces
city for inquiry. It is understood that Rogers, in the
first instance, voluntarily went to Mr. Crockford, and
stated that overtures had been made to him to lose
the race, and that, impressed with a belief that if he
did not appear to accede, the parties who held out the
temptation would find some other means to attain
their end ; he had agreed to lay 10,0001. to 2,0001.
against the horse, and signed his name to this bet on
the solicitations of a Mr. Braham, in the book of Mr.
Ives, a gentleman well known in the betting circles,
and that, subsequently, other bets hal been made
against the horse, on his account, by a gentleman
named Crommelin, at and after the Chester Meet-
ing, to win a stake, if the horse lost, of 1,0001.—
The inducement of Rogers to make this statement is
not known. By some the confession of the circum-
stance is attributed to anonymous letters sent
to Mr. Crockford, senior, which that gentleman
sent to Rogers's father ; while others assert that he
made the disclosures of fear of discovery, and to gain
protection should his guilt be discovered. The
statement was then communicated to Lord
George Bentinck, who, on the Wednesday following,
publicly called over Sam Rogers's betting-book at
Epsom, Mr. Ives being present. Lord George Ben-
tinck required, if any bet were not mentioned it might
be claimed, but neither Mr. Ives, or any other person
answered. Sam Rogers solemnly declared his inten-
tions to have been pure, and that he never would re-
ceire or pay if the horse won or lost ; he at the same
time made statements highly prejudicial to the bets
made by Mr. Crommelin. Lord George Bentinck
placed the fullest reliance on all these statements of
Rogers, believing him to have been imprudent,
but sincere and honest, and, under this persuasion,
he permitted him to continue to ride for himself and
the Duke of Richmond. His confidence in him was
the firmer because, on oath before a Select Committee
of the -House of Lords, be denied that he had or was
to receive any portion of the bets he had laid. Sub-
sequently Lord George Bentinck discovered that
Rogers had departed from truth in many material
points, and more especially that he had actually re-
ceived 1,6601., a fact disclosed by Braham, who ab-
sconded. Braham's story of the transaction was also
quite at variance with Rogers's, and he owned that
he himself had solicited Ives and Crommelin, through
Stebbings, to execute the commission, assuring them
that, however good the horse might be, he was in-
capable of winning the Derby ; and further, that in-
stead .of 10,0001. to 2,0001., the actual bet laid by
Rogers, through him, to Mr. Ives was 5,0001. to
1,0001. With Ives the negotiation was made in Febru-
ary, with Mr. Crommelin not till the Chester Meeting.
Messrs. Ives and Crommelin, in explaining on their part,
said they had betted only on the firm belief they had
in Rogers when he represented that the horse could
not win, and they were both desirous of a full ex-
planation, so as to refute the calumnies against them.
On the first day Sam Rogers and Braham were exa-
mined ; and on Wednesday, Rogers was again called
in, and followed by Mr. Crockford. Foster, a shoe-
maker, a friend of Braham, was next examined, after
which Mr. Ives was called in, and entered into the
most unreserved account of his portion of the transac-
tion. Some warm altercation ensued between Lord
George Bentinck and Mr. Ives, and at last the court
was cleared. On Thursday morning, Rogers, Bra-
ham, and Foster, as well as Mr. Ives, were recalled.
At the evening sitting, Mr. Crommelin was called in, and
entered into an account of his conduct from first to last,
refuting what had been said in his disfavour. This led to
the recal of Rogers, who said and unsaid, and equi-
vocated so palpably, that he was ordered to withdraw,
and the impression in favour of Mr. Crommelin was
general and conclusive. His defence, and the re-
examination of Rogers and Braham, lasted from five
till eight o'clock. On Friday Mr. Ives was again
called in, and Mr. Hill and Mr. Sadler were likewise
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RECKLESS CONDUCT OF PlTMEN.—Th.threepit-
men
recently brought before the magistrates of
this
borough, and removed by them to Essington, charged
with having drawn the flame through the Davylamps for
the purpose of lighting their pipes, have been committed
to Durham House of Correction for three weeks.
Sunderland Herald.
'fru Br sr INCOSIE-TAX.—Dean Swift proposed to
tax female IJeauo, and to leave every lady to rate her
own charms. He said the tax would be cheerfully paid,
and very productive to a Cateinty.

PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.

FIRST REPORT OF THE CO,IIIIIISSIONERS
FOR INQUIRING INTO THE STATE OF
LARGE TOWNS AND POPULOUS DIS-
TRICTS.

We proceed at once to quote, from the interesting
evidence of Dr. Southwood Smith, the following pas-
sages, as illustrating the almost inconceivable condi-
tion f wretchedness which prevails among a numerous
community in one of the largest suburban districts
of London :
" The evils which you described in 1838 as referable
to these districts still continue, and with increasing viru-
lence ?—At the present moment with increasing viru-
lence, certainly.
"The districts referred to contain a vast population,
not in one part of London, alone, but in different parts
of it, to which the same considerations apply ?—Th
fever districts of the metropolis are situated in different
parts of it ; and it is in accordance with ordinary ex-
perience to find fever raging in some of these districts,
at the very time that others are enjoying a temporary
immunity from it. In former years I have found, on my
personal examination, some localities in which there was
not a single house in which fever had not prevailed, and
in some cases not a single room in a single house in
which there had not been fever. I observed this parti-
cularly in certain localities in Bethnal-green and White-
chapel ; now, during the present year, there has been a
very remarkable absence of fever in these its ordinary
seats, while in other districts it has been more than com-
monly prevalent.
"Did you attribute that, in those districts, to bad
drainage, or want of water, or some causes of that kind?
—ln every district in which fever returns frequently,
and prevails extensively, there is uniformly bad sewage,
a had supply of water, a bad supply of scavengers, and
a consequent accumulation of filth ; and I have observed
this to be so uniformly and generally the case, that I
have been accustomed to express the fact in this way. If
you trace down the fever districts on a map, and then
compare that map with the map of the Commissioners of
Sewers, you will find that, wherever the Commissioners
of Sewers have not been, there fever is prevalent ; and,
on the contrary, wherever they have been, there fever
is comparatively absent.
" This statement is made in your report—' It appears
that the streets, courts, alleys, and houses in which fever
first breaks out, and in which it becomes most prevalent
and fatal, are invariably those in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of uncovered sewers, stagnant ditches and
ponds, gutters always full of putrefying matter, night-
men's yards, and privies, the soil of which lies openly
exposed, and is seldom or never removed. It is not pos-
sible for any language to convey an adequate conception
of the poisonous condition in which large portions of
both these districts always remain, winter and summer,
in dry and in rainy seasons, from the masses of putrefy-
ing matter which are allowed to accumulate.' Does much
of that to which you refer still remain in the same state?
—lt is essentially the same. I have very recently been
over the same places with a distinguished foreigner, who
takes an interest in the welfare of the humbleticlasses, and
who was desirous, his attention having been drawn to
these reports, to test their accuracy by a personal in-
spection of the places described. Before we set out on
our visit he could not conceal that he thought the de-
scription exaggerated. From the cleanliness, neatness,
and apparent healthfulness of the main streets and
thoroughfares in London, he could not bring himself to
believe that there could be large districts containing
hundreds of thousands of the peoplec allowed, year after
year, to remain in such a neglected and poisonous con-
dition. It would be incredible,' said he, 'it would be
unworthy of your state of civilisation, were such descrip-
tions true, even of a few isolated places; but when it is
asserted that they are true of the localities in which a
very large proportion of the population resides, I own I
feel curious to see these places.' It so happens that the
district over which I took this gentleman has been im-
proved in some respects since these reports were written.
A common sewer has been made in the most densely
crowded and filthiest locality; and the very worst place
I ever saw, namely, Baker's Arms-alley, a narrow court
in Rosemary-lane, Whitechapel, has been materially
changed for the better, by the building of the Blackwell
Railway directly through it. But these improvements
relate only to a few of the larger thoroughfares ; the
places most concealed from the public view, the most
close, crowded, and filthy districts, remain wholly un-
altered. When my foreign friend saw these places, he
admitted that the wretchedness of their condition had
been understated—when he expressed his astonishment
that a concern for the common safety had not induced
the authorities to attend to the sanatory condition of
these extensive districts, I told him (but he thought the
statement scarcely mended the matter) that these places
were as unknown to our legislators, to almost all our
people in power, as, an hour ago, they had been to
himself.
" Have you, from your experience in these matters,
formed a strong opinion that fevers and other diseases
to which the humbler classes in these populous districts
are subject, might be, to a great extent, removed by
cleansing, draining, and improvements in building ?
Every day's experience convinces me that a very large
proportion of these es ils is capable of being removed ;
that if proper attention were paid to sanatory measures
the mortality of these districts would be most materially
diminished, perhaps in some places one-third, and in
other places even one-half.
" Are you aware that the rate of mortality is actually
found to be nearly double in some of the neglected dis-
tricts in the east, compared with what it is in the western
part of London ?—I am ; and this interesting and im-
important fact is dependent on several circumstances,
and not on any one cause. Thus a larger proportion of
the people who reside in the western part of London con-
sist of the wealthier, while the eastern part is prin:ti-
pally inhabited by the poorer classes. The higher value
of life indicated in the western district is partly owing to
the better food and clothing of the wealthier classes, to
their more temperate habits, and less exhausting labour,
and especially to the better care taken of their infants
and children, and, in general, to the more favourable
circumstances under which infancy and childhood, the
most precarious and mortal epochs of human life, are
placed.* But still the poorer classes, in these neglected
localities and dwellings, are exposed to causes of disease
and death which are peculiar to them ; the operation of
these peculiar causes is steady, unceasing, sure ; and the
result is the same as if twenty or thirty thousand of
these people were annually taken out of their wretched
dwellings and put to death, the actual fact being that
they are allowed to remain in them and die. I am now
speaking of what silently, but surely, takes place every
year in the metropolis alone, and do not include in this
estimate the numbers that perish from these causes in
the other great cities, and in the towns and villages of
the kingdom. It has been stated that "the annual
slaughter in England and Wales, from preventible
causes, of typhus fever, which attacks persons in the
vigour of life, is double the amount of what was suffered
by the allied armies in the battle of Waterloo." This
is no exaggerated statement ; this great battle against
our people is every year fought and won ; and yet few
take account of it, partly for the very reason that it takes
place every year. However appalling the picture pre-
sented to the mind by this statement, it may be justly
regarded as a literal expression of the truth. lam my-
self convinced, from whatl constantly see of the ravages
of this disease, that this mode of putting the result does
not give an exaggerated expression of it. Indeed the
most appalling expression of it would be the mere cold
statement of it in figures.
" But great as the mortality from these causes may be,
do you think the mortality alone includes the whole of
the evil 2—Certainly not; the number of people who die
can be taken only as an indication of the much greater
number who fall sick. The mortality, even of the
London Fever Hospital, to which the worst cases of fever
in the metropolis are sent, is not, on an average of ton
years, more than one in seven; in some years it is not
more than one in ten or twelve, and, comparing the
number attacked with the number that die over the
whole kingdom, the mortality would not, in ordinary
years, amount to one in twelve ; so that the number of
sufferers from this disease is at least twelve times greater
than the number of persons that actually perish from it.
" The classes of the population referred to are chiefly
those occupied in labour; in case of their being affected
by fever they are, of course, disabled from obtaining sub-
sistence for their families?—This is among one of the
most powerful causes of pauperism. The returns made
in the year 1838 to the Poor-law Commissioners from
the twenty metropolitan unions, in answer to queries
sent to the medical officers, with a view to ascertain the
actual prevalence of fever during one year, contained in
the several unions, as well as the number actually
attacked with fever. From these returns it appears, that
of the total number who received parochial relief in most
of the districts, a very large proportion received it in con-
sequence of their being ill with fever; but in one district,
namely, St. George's, Southwark, out of 1,467 persons
who received parochial relief, 1,276, that is, the whole
number with the exception of 191, are reported to have
been ill with fever. This is an unusually large propor-
tion; but these returns in general place in a very striking
point of view the pauperising influence of fever.
"If this be the case, the power of the humble classes
of getting their bread and maintaining their families is
extremely diminished by the neglect of sewage, draining,
and cleansing which exists in these localities?—There is
a special reason why it must be so, the knowledge of
which has been taught by large experience, though that
knowledge has hitherto been confined to very few: but
the fact itself is one which ought to be familiar to the
mind of every man, and more especially to that of the
legislator. There are certain diseases which prevail so
remarkably at certain epochs of life, that you may
assume that three-fourths of the persons who die at those
epochs die of those diseases. Now it is established by
indubitable evidence, that of all the acute diseases to
which the human frame is subject, during that variable,
but most important, period of human life which inter-
venes between puberty (when the dangers of infancy and
childhood have been passed) and old age—of all the
acute diseases which cut short this, the most precious
part of the term of existence, and the only part of that
term which it is in the power of human precaution and
wisdom to extend indefinitely, fever is incomparably the
most prevalent: so prevalent, indeed, that it may be said
to be the disease of adolesence and manhood. I was
first taught this fact while making some researches into
the cause and results of fever, derived chiefly from the
records of the Fever Hospital, and as long ago as the
year 1830 I published a table exhibiting the evidence of
it. I took out one by one the ages of all persons who
had died of fever in this hospital during the four years
from 1825 to 1828, both inclusive, being [the four years
immediately preceding the year in which I was making
the investigation."

We are able to state, from authority, that one day
next week a marriage will take phiee between the Hon.
Horace Cochrane, sucomi sun (if the Earl of Den(l3nald,
and Mrs. George' Carnegie, widow of the late GeGrgu
James Carnegie, Esq., nephew to the late Earl of Nor-
theek.—Court Journal. -

1844.

COPPER TANKS AT ST. HELENA.
Some letters lately appeared in the Times, stating that
the water supplied to the India ships touching at St.
Helena contracted poisonous qualities, by being kept for
a long time in tanks of copper. Some of the passen-
gers and crew of the Moffatt, from Bo:nbay, having
been seized with severe symptoms, and of a suspicious
character, the symptoms were attribute to the water
being poisoned as above. This induced Messrs. Ma-
son and Dawson, the doctors professionally attending
one of the parties, to institute an inquiry into the
matter, for which purpose Dr. Venables, of St. Vin-
cent-place, Islington, an eminent physician, well
versed in animal chemistry and toxicology, was re-
quested to undertake and assist in the investigation.
The report is so far satisfactory, inasmuch as it nega-
tives the presence of copper in any form, the analysis
showing that the water did not afford even a trace.
A specimen, taken from an iron tank in which it was
kept on board the vessel, held a large proportion of
peroxide or rust of iron in mechanical diffusion. The
peroxide, it is observed, was evidently derived from
the rusting of the tank, and diffused through the
water when agitated or disturbed. Otherwise it was
found tolerably pure and wholesome, free from any
bad taste or smell, specific gravity 1.0025, slightly
acidulated with carbonic acid, and probably holding
a trace of iron in solution. Some very useful obser-
vations upon the danger of using water kept in copper
vessels follow. Thus it is stated :—Copper is not
readily attacked by pure water, but under the joint
influence of air and moisture it is corroded. By agi-
tation the crust becomes detached, and is diffused
through the water. A fresh portion undergoes the
same process, and by a succession of corrosions, &c.,
the water may become strongly impregnated with a
poisonous form of copper, which, by the agitation of
the water in the casks communicated by the motions
of the ship, will be mechanically diffused, and persons
drinking it almost to a certainty poisoned. During
cooking, too, the insoluble oxide may be rendered so-
luble, and thus converted into a still more active and
speedy poison. Hence the propriety of doing away
with copper tanks, if in use, and their replacement by
others of a less deleterious nature, are strongly urged.
The labours of Dr. Venables and his colleagues are a
public benefit, and highly creditable to their zeal and
philanthropy.

THE OPENING OF THE NEW
EXCITANGE.

The preparations which the joint Gresham Com-
mittee are making for the reception of her Majesty
Queen Victoria and her Illustrious Consort, on the
opening of this magnificent edifice, on Monday, the
28th inst.,' are upon the most extensive scale. The
Chairman of the Gresham Committee, Richard Lam-
bert Jones, Esq., and a special sub-committee, have
met every day during the week, in order to give the
necessary directions ; and, seconded as they have been
by the energy and ability of Mr. Tite, all the arrange-
ments for the grand ceremonial are in a great state of
forwardness.
At the west end of the building, in front of the
portico, is a temporary covering, which is so con-
trived that if the weather prove favourable it can be
removed on the morning or the day appointed for the
royal visit.
Her Majesty will be received at this barrier, in
front of the steps of the portico, by the Lord Mayor,
the Court of Aldermen, and by Mr. R. L. Jones, the
Chairman of the Gresham Committee, the Master of
the Mercers' Company, and a certain number of the
Court of the Mercers, thus representing the two cor-
porations, who are the joint trustees of Sir Thomas
Gresham, the original founder of the Exchange. Her
Majesty will be conducted quite round the merchants'
area in procession, attended by the former gentlemen
and the architect, who will explain the nature of the
arrangements and decorations of this important part
of the structure. The procession will then continue
up stairs, through the grand staircase of Lloyd's to
their magnificent apartments, to their library, which
is to be fitted up temporarily as a throne-room. Her
Majesty will here receive the address, and afterwards
retire to the private apartments fitted up for her until
the banquet is ready.
As the new Exchange is fire proof, or rather as
each separate establishment is distinct from its neigh -
bour, a door-way, in order to obtain a suite of rooms
for her Majesty, has been cut through one of the
party walls into the apartments to he hereafter oc-
cupied by the Corporation of the London Assurance.
These rooms are in the front, towards Cornhill, and
are now being arranged with the same simple ele-
gance which characterises the rooms built for her
Majesty at the Farnborough station by the same
architect.
The number of visitors to the dejeune will be about
1,400, beyond which number it is found that accom-
modation cannot possibly be afforded. Of these about
700 will be seated in the Ambulatory, and the same
number will be seated in Lloyd's apartments.
11Mr. Staples, of the Albion, as has been already
qated, has the contract for the dejeune, which is to be
on the most splendid and liberal scale. The plate
will he supplied solely from the stores of the Corpo-
ration of London and of the Mercers' Company, and
not, as has been incorrectly stated, partly from the
Goldsmiths' Company.
In the Ambulatory and merchants' area every pro-
vision is being made to protect the company from
draughts, or the encroachments of bad weather. The
north and south entrances will be closely boarded up,
and ample protection will be provided at the east and
west ends. A very thick and brightly ornamented
carpet will be laid on the parts of the area and build-
ing on which her Majesty will walk, and under the
tables and seats for the company temporary flooring
and drugget will be laid down, so that there will be
complete security against damp. The seats will be
Confined to a double row, quite round the Ambula-
tory, which, from its ample dimensions and noble
height, will admit of such a regulation, without at all
being liable to be prejudiced as to the view of its
architecture.
The tesselated pavement in-the open area is finished,
but it is not intended to introduce the statue of her
Majesty, es has been somewhere erroneously repre-
sented, until the marble figures now being carved by
Mr. Lough, can be entirely completed. We are in-
formed, upon good authority, that that gentleman has
finished the model, but it was never intended for the
Gresham Committee to put up a mere plaster figure,
when a few months will suffice to complete the sculp-
ture in a material worthy of its subject, and the grand
position assigned to it.

Her Majesty will arrive at Temple-bar at twelve
lo'clock. A speech will be delivered, according to
custom, upon the visit of the Sovereign to the City, at
!St. Paul's, by a scholar of Christ's Hospital ; and it
;is believed, if her Majesty have time to hear it,
nother will be spoken at St. Paul's school by one of
'the youths on Dean Colet's foundation, of which place
of education the Mercers' Company are trustees.
The procession from Temple-bar to the Exchange
jwill be led by a certain number of the Corporation,
Aldermen and commoners, on horseback, in accord-
lance with ancient custom.
It is supposed by the Committee that her Majesty
kvill arrive at the Exchange at about one o'clock, and
!leave the building on her return to Windsor at three.
;Her Majesty will appear in state and in the state
!carriage, accompanied by her Ministers and suite.
Most of the distinguished Members of both Houses
of Parliament, and all the leading merchants and
'bankers, have been invited.
As the day appointed for the ceremony approaches,

ithe anxiety exhibited amongst the crowds who are
:constantly seen collected around the superb edifice
'becomes every hour more eager and urgent. The
following is a description of the interior :—Passing
'through the grand portico, under a lofty archway, the
ivisitor proceeds at once to the grand area, or mer-
chants' walk, which is surrounded by an arcade sup-
ported on massive pillars. The area is beautifully
laid with a tesselated pavement, and the decorations
of the arcade in a building of such a structure form
the most novel and not the least attractive of its fea-
tures. These decorations are after the plans and
drawings of Mr. Sang, and have been elaborated
under his constant -personal direction, on the system
of wax painting which he introduced into this coun-
try three years ago, the colours not being mixed with
oils but with wax and some other ingredients, so as to
give not only peculiar brilliancy of tint, but a hard-
ness and smoothness of surface, combined with dura•
bility, unequalled by any oil painting.
The side walls and roof of the arcade surrounding
the merchants' area, divided into compartments, have
afforded great scope for the exercise of this distin-
guished artist's taste and skill in arabesque painting.
The side walls are divided into arched panels, by
pilastres corresponding in character with those front-
ing the area, and the ornaments of the different
compartments, arches, and panels are at once strictly
classic, and in keeping with the architectural charac-
ter of the edifice. Each arched panel is surrounded
by a quiet gillosh frieze, upon a Pompeian red ground,
quite original in its details, embodying, amidst all its
brilliancy, a great many neutral tints, which soften
down the dazzling effect of the positive colours, and
give a light and extremely pleasant aspect to the
whole arcade. _ _

In the semicircles, the wall arches around the whole
of the arcade, some very bold ornaments have been
introduced upon dark, positive grounds, all different
from each other in general design and the minutest
details. These are surrounded by clusters of fruit
and flowers, executed with almost incredible trans-
parency of colouring, upon a black ground, which
produces at once a most striking and pleasing effect.
Immediately under these wreaths of flowers and fruit
there are candelabra, in the style of the Logii of
Raphael. The middle panel is surrounded by scroll
ornaments, and has a Roman tablet in the centre,
enriched with pralysque, on whirls the differPnt mer-
cl!ant.; v.lilks will be inscribed.

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Tir.2 deliige:s the candelabra and medallions intro-
duced in the different panels vary almost in every
instance, while the mythological and commercial

emblems represented in the compartments of the roe'
and side-wall panels, give a character of the west
agreeable variety to the whole. The base of the side
panels is painted in neutral tints, and is skirted in the
wainscot, which harmonizes well with the architec.
tural arrangements of the arcade.
The arms of the different nations are intreeeced,
into the principal covers of the roof; also the arras .t.
the Right Hun. Magnay, the Lord Mayor of
London, she Mercers' Company, th Building Co
mittee, Mr. Tite, the architect, and Mr. Sang, the
artist.

ORLEANS, TOURS, 4nd BORDEAUI‘

RAILWAY.
The ergineer of the Chemins de Fer has lately,
visited the works on the line between Orleans ailcl
Tours, and gives an account of their progress. Ill°
line from Orleans to Tours is about 74 miles log,
and has many bridges crossing roads. There are °,,
curves under 650 feet radius, and the gradients sl°
extremely favourable. From these facts, we Dial
safely say that the working of the line will be easfi
and secure ; and one trip through the country whic
the line traverses will be sufficiently convincing
the productiveness of the enterprise. It is diffic a
to conceive why Bullot, Drouillard, Martin, and Co.,
refused the terms offered by the Chambers, in 18Iq;
The bridge which crosses the Loire at Mount L°llli.
is almost finished ; it is executed by M. Lavaure,
Nantes, on the plan of the Fonts et Chaussees,
is elegant, solid, and enduring. The only works °f
importance which are still unexecuted, are the station
at Tours, and the bridge which crosses the highway
at the Faubourg Barmier at Orleans. It will "-
proper to enter slightly upon the details of thss!
works. The earthwork in course of execution °!n
the right of the Fauxbourg Bannier appears to be
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intended for the construction of a station. We bit!
reason to believe, however, that if it has not alreal
been decided to accept the use of the Paris gig
Orleans terminus in common with that companY,
is at least under serious consideration. The part °
the railway near Orleans crosses the Fauxble
Bannier on embankments, and a bridge is t°,„
constructed to cross the highway from Paris to vehii,
leans. This bridge, which is not yet comniencbje
will be of such magnitude as to occasion considerat.e
delay. After passing the Fauxbourg Branier the
delay. After passing the Fauxbourg BrAnlerlos
line is bifurcated ; one branch joins the Orlesilt
station, and the other meets the Paris and Orleall,s°
nearly three-quarters of a mile from the latter el;
The body of workmen employed on the earthworthe
does not seem to be so well organised as to give 05
best result ; thus all the earth is removed by tne.,3o
of tumbrels, each drawn by three horses, which c°7„,
drag a tenfold weight with waggons moving on•
porary rails. In conclusion, the works still lit7v
finished between Orleans and Tours are suffloiel:4
advanced or unimportant to allow of the expectt-6,
that the opening of the line may take place in 1°,,,m
on the anniversary of the day of adjudication. it,
greatest, and indeed almost the only serious difficill
lies in procuring the requisite stock, but this Igo,
probably be surmounted by proper arrangeolilas
As for the rails, by dividing them among varh-te
manufactories, they might be obtained in time It
commence laying them in the beginning of 1845. r
is to be hoped, therefore, that the month of (Nobs;
1845, will witness the opening of the Bordeaux°
—Railway Chronicle.