The Sun.
London, England, 1845-09-05 00:00:00

THE 8 t_ N, LON DON,
_FRIDA Y _EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5 1845.

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO THE

CONTINENT.

GOTHA, SEPT. I.—Yesterday the Queen attended
Divine service in the parish church of St. Augustine
here. It is an old and simple looking Gothic building,
without any external ornament, standing near the centre
of the city. It was formerly an old monastic edifice, but
the greater portion has been pulled down. The interior
is fitted up with three ranges of galleries one above the
other ; the painting and ornamental portions being
somewhat gaudy and theatrical, as is the case in many
of the continental churches. The pulpit stands at the
east end : near it, on a level with the first range of galle-
ries, is the ducal box, fitted up with windows, &c., like
the one at Coburg. The front of the galleri-3s is orna-
mented with the arms of the Coburg and Gotha
families, and a variety of heraldic devices in white and
gold aro displayed in various parts of the building. The
church also contains a fine organ, and at the east end is a
splendid painting of the Crucifixion, by Jacobus. Her
Majesty and the Prince arrived shortly after eleven
o'clock, and were conducted to the ducal pew by the
clergyman. With her Majesty came the Duchess of
Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Coburg, Prince Ferdi-
nand, and several members of the royal suite. The Lu-
theran service was performed, the greater portion being
chanted, and all the congregation joining. In addition
to the organ, which was finely played, -there was a full
military band, with kettle-drums and trumpets ; and
although the music was, on the whole, of a very high
order, the noise at times was overpowering, and spoiled
some of the most beautiful passages. The service ter-
minated at half-past twelve ; the Queen returned to
the palace in her carriage, and the Duke and Duchess
of Coburg walked back on foot, without even a single
attendant. Her Majesty afterwards drove out to Mols-
dorf, one of the Duke's chateaus, about twelve miles
from Gotha, thence to Ohrsdorf, a hunting lodge, of
which a portion stands in the territories of the Duke of
Coburg, and a portion in those of Prince Hohenloe.
The royal party afterwards visited Tehterhausen, where
luncheon was prepared, and partaken of, and the Queen
returned to Gotha to dinner.

In the evening the Queen and the Prince paid a private
visit to the tombs of the Dukes of Gotha, where the
Prince's grandfather and great grandfather are interred.
The burial place is a wooded little island, in the centre
of the public park, and is reached through long hedge
rows of beech and poplar, quaintly cut and trimmed.
There is a very large sheet of water, well stocked
with water fowl, on the southern side, and a little
floating bridge carries the visitor over to the burial
ground in a few minutes. The little islet is
thickly studded with weeping willows ani cypresses,
dipping their long green plumes into the glassy lake
below. The pathways are bordered with flowers, and
in the centre stand, not marble mausoleums, but beds of
flowers perfuming the air with their fragrance, and on
the adjoining trees wreaths of flowers and itionottilles
and simple tablets, which indicate the names of the
sovereigns who sleep beneath.
The town has been a series of military bustle and
musical excitement since eight o'clock this morning ; a
grand musical festival being arranged for this afternoon,
at which a thousand singers and performers are to assist.
The performance will take place in the open air, a large
amphitheatre in front of the palace, and below the ter-
races, having been prepared for the performers and the
audience. The grand business of the day will com-
mence at three o'clock, but the different military bands
and sangervereins, or singing unions, who are to take
part in the concert, are already mustering and marching
in from the surrounding districts.
RETURN OF TEIE QUEEN.
BRUSSELS, SEPT. 2.—The following paragraph is from
the forthcoming number of the Politigue :--
" A courier, who has arrived at Brussels, from Co-
burg, brings the positive; intelligence that Queen Vic-
toria and Prince Albert will proceed direct from Co-
logne to Antwerp, and reach the latter city on Satur-
day, the 9th instant. Their Majesties the King and
Queen of the Belgians, the young Princes, and
all the Court, will meet the illustrious guests at
Antwerp, who will be accompanied by several
high personages from Germany. The Queen of
England and the Prince will be entertained at a
banquet in the Palace of Antwerp, by their Belgian
Majesties, who will remain there for the night. Queen
Victoria will sleep on board the Royal yacht the Vic-
toria and Albert, and leave early on the morning of the
7th. The banks of the Scheldt and the tower of Notre
Dame will be brilliantly lighted up during her Britannic
Majesty's embarkation, and there is some talk of a fete
similar to the one which took place at Cologne. Count
d'Arschot and Mr. Conway, of the royal household,
have gone to-day to Antwerp, in order to make some
arrangements with the local authorities respecting the
fete, the expenses of which will, it is said, be partly de-
frayed by the civil list."

HAMBURG AND FLANDERS MAIL.

BERLIN, Atm. 28.—The King has conferred on Dr. Bun-
ten, the Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court
of Great Britain, the rank of actual privy councillor, with the
title of excellency.
Leirsre, Atm. 27.—The mortal remains of the eleven
victiu s of the deplorable events of the 12th of August, were
buried this morning.
POSEN, AUG. 15.—1 t is generally reported that M. V.
Minutoli, the president of cur police, who, by his prudence
and humanity during the late troubles, did great service to our
town, is to succeed M. Niederotatter at Warsaw. This would
be a most happy choice of our foreign department, for it would
not be easy to find another person so thoroughly acquainted
with all the affairs of Poland, and so able a man of business as
he. He is besides acquainted with the members of the Polish
Administration, and therefore well qualified to support the in-
terests of Prussia in the Polish capital. It is, however, a
question whether M. V. Minutoli may he disposed to accept
an office, which, at this time, is not an easy one.
BERLIN, Auc. 28.—The complaints made by the Saxon
Government of the accounts published in the journals relative
to the events at Leipsic, have led to serious results. Two
Prussian journals, those of Magdeburgh and Breslau, against
which the complaints were especially directed, are said to have
been ws.rned by the Prussian Government with a threat that
their licenses would be withdrawn. If this news, which comes
from a ♦ery respectable quarter, should be correct, it must
excite some surprise, for these accounts had passed through the
hands of the Prussian censor►, and:the writer can hardly be
proved to have had any bad intentions, for they coincide with
those of almost all the German journals.
WURZBURG, Atm. 25.—A Ministerial rescript is much
talked of here, which, it is generally affirmed, authorises the
Post-office to open, in tl.e" presence of .witnesses, letters and
packets when there is reason to suspect that they may inclose
prohibited newspapers. In this manner the subscribers of the
Franc/int Journal, whose copies come together in one packet,
have been obliged, in several towns, to deliver it to the censor,
who then, at his discretion, keeps back the paper, or has it sent
to the subscriber.

COPENHAGEN, Au°. 30.—This forenoon the Karnlschalka,
a Russian man-of-war, passed this city, bound, it is said, to the
Mediterranean.

A letter from Bormholm of the 25th says—" A Rus-ian
fleet of four ships of the line (one of them carrying above 100
guns), three frigates, and two brigs, and a Swedish frigate, have
arrived here during the storm which continued from the 20th
to the 23d, and on Saturday passed Hammeren, steering west-
ward. On the 20th, towards sunset, the whole Russian fleet
passed within cannon shot of us ; nay; the largest ship of the
line, with the admiral on board, passed within the merchant-
men that were lying at anchor, on account of the storm. We
never before saw ships of the line come so near the land."
BERLIN, SEPT. I.—His Majesty the King arrived to-day at
Sanssoaci, on his return from Munich.
BRUSAILS, SEPT. 2.—The average price of wheat last week
was 21f. 99c., and that of rye 15f. 97c. Both may be im-
ported duty free, the export duty is 25 centimes per 1,000 kil-
logrammes.
The Archduke Frederick of Austria left Brussels this morn
ing by railway for Germany.
A courier from Coburg has arrived at Brussels with positive
intelligence that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert o ill proceed
direct from Cologne to Antwerp, where they will arrive on
Saturday.
The King and Queen of the Belgians, with the young Princess
and the whole of the Court will go to Antwerp to receive their
august guests, who will be accompanied by many persons of dis-
tinction from Germany.
The Queen of England and the Prince will dine with our
King and Queen at the Palace. The Court will pass the night
of the 6th at Antwerp, but Queen Victoria will sleep on board
the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and put to sea very early
on the morning of the 7th.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bstyssms, SErr. 3.
Actual Debt, 2;6 per Cent .....
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent.........
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent....
Ditto Three per Cent • .
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto ......
Ditto, ditto, 1840 . • ••• • • • • • ...... • •• • • 101%
Ditto, ditto, 1842•....... ...... .• 101 %
Ditto of the City, 1832
Ditto, 1843 .
Bank of Belgium •
—Brussels Papers, Sept. 4.
HAMBURGH BORSENILILLE, SEPT. 2.
Bills. Money
kustrian 5 per Cents • • • • • • • • • • • • • 114%
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •• • • •• • • • • 1650
Anglo-Russian Loan . ... ........
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 113 112%
Ditto Ist series Inscription.. .• • • 105% 10514
Ditto, Rope and Co., 3d and 4th series• • 993
Ditto, in Certificate.. •••••• . • • • • ..... 993
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ••• • • 93
Ditto Stieglitz .. • •••• • • • ••••• • • • • 91% 91%
Spanish New 5 per Cent . 20% 20
Ditto 8 per Cent
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent • .
Dutch Actual Debt, 23¢ per Cent ••• • • 623
Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••• • • • • .
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 86% 8614
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •• • • 87
National Bank Shares• • • •• • • ••• • • •
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vizrais, Auu. 27-
E. per Cent. hletalliques• •-• •• • • ••••• • • • • • 11234
4 per Cent. ditt0........... ............ 1013
ditto... 3
Loan, 1834
Ditto, 1839 ••• • • • •• • • ••• • • • 1293(
Bank Shares . •
Esterhazy's Loan •••• • • • • •••.••• • • • • • •

RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand • .• .• 213
Vienna—Milan .• • • • • • •
Gloggnitz •• • • •••• • • •• ... ••••• • • .. 152?
Leghorn ••• • • .
Pesth
Allgemeine Zeltung, Aug. 30.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BMIN, Auo. 30.
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 3% percent ••••• • .. • • 100.. i 994 i
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent..
Exchange on London, 2 months •• • ..... 625 6 24n
Universal Prussian`Gazette, Aug. 31.

SCOTCH ACTS OF PARLIAMENT
The following is a list of the Acts affecting Scotland,
which have passed during the last session of Parliament.
They are as follow:-
1. Act for consolidating in one Act certain provisions
usually inserted in Acts authorising the taking of lands
for undertakings of a public nature in Scotland.
2. Act to facilitate the transmission and extinction of
Heritable Securities for Debt in Scotland.

3. Act to simplify the form, and diminish the ex-
pense, of obtaining infeftment in Heritable Property in
Scotland.

4. Act for amending the laws concerning Highways,
Bridges, and Ferries in Scotland, and the making and
maintaining thereof, by Statute Service, and by the Con-
version of Statute Service into money.
5. Act to regulate the issue of Bank Notes in Scot-
land.
6. Act for amending an Act for making provision for
Parish Schoolmasters in Scotland.

7. Act to amend the Law of Arrestment of Wages in
Scotland.
8. Act for the amendment and better administration
of the laws relating to the Belief of the Poor in Scot-
land.

EXETER RAILWAY MARKET.—North Devon, 2 to
21 prem ; Exeter and Yeovil, to prem. ; Exeter, Top-
sham, and Exmouth, to i; Exeter and Creditons, 91. per
share ; Eastern Counties, 21/.
WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.—From 1810 to 1838 this
bridge coat in repairs 83,097/. 6s. 9i-d. From 1838 to 1844
the amount was 83,6611., and a further sum of 52,879/. was
required 'for further works. The property belonging to the
bridge only realises 7,464/. 11a. Bd. a year.
Mr.\Stanton, M.P., has contradicted the report that
he is abourto retiro.fr4m the representation of Stroud.
FATAL AcciDEirt, AT IloaNsny.—Yesterday Mr.
G. J. Atills held an inquest at the Nightingale, Hornsey, on
the body of James Bondy, aged fifty-twot a bricklayer, living
at Nightingale-place. On Monday night last deceased said he
was determined on getting drunk, and did so. However, at
six neat morning he went to his work at a house erecting in
Maynard-street, Crouch-end, and whilst walking along a joist
and turning a party wall in front of the building, he missed his
llo!d of the wall and fell a depth of eight feet to the ground,
and then rolled into a tank six feet deep, nearly killing a man
who was at work in it. Deceased was taken out insensible,
and died of concussion of the brain eight hours after the fall.
Verdict, " Accidental death."

SUICIDE FROM DISTRESS.—Last night Mr. Baker
held an inquest at the King's Arms, Kingsland, on the body of
William Blackman, aged 64, a labourer. The deceased lodged
at No. 6, Abbot-street, Kingsland, and had for a number of
years been employed on the road by the highway board of
Hackney parish, until about five weeks since, when he was dis-
charged, without any ostensible cause. The deceased had
made repeated applications to the board for work, but had
been unsuccessful, which had so pressed upon his mind that
for some time past he had been in a low and desponding state.
On Wednesday night he returned home, having been trying
the whole day to get some work, and went to bed. Not getting
up the next morning at his u.tial time, his landlady became
alarmed, and having in vain called to him through his room
door, she sent for a police-constable, who broke the door open,
w hen the deceased was found hanging by a rope fastened to
the bed-post, quite dead and cold. Verdict—" Temporary in,
sanity."
A WATER- DRlNKtlt.—Yesterday a man named
John Harber,living in East-street, Regent's Park, undertook
for a wager of 203. to drink a pail of water (four gallons) within
half an hour, which he accomplished, drinking it by
,a pint at
a time till be had swallowed the whole. Ile then declared that
he would drink 12 pints of beer in as many minutes; no one,
however, seemed to doubt it, and that part of his performance
was dispensed with.
FR EE MASONRY. —On Wednesday tvening a
crowded meeting of the members of the Grand Lodge of the
Order of Freemasons was held in their splendid hall, at the
Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields,
at which the Chairman (in the absence of the tart of Zea-
land, Grand Master), Mr. Rowland Alstony ProVintial Grbhd
Master for the county of Essek, prepentcti, by direction of
her Grace the Duchess of Inverness, to the Freemasons of
England, the magnificent candelabrum which had been AMU
etght years since presented by that body to his Royal Highness
the late lamented Duke of Sussex, while Grand Master; the
Chairman, in doing so, pronounced an eloquent eUlogitint bn
the character and virtues of the illustrious deceased Prince,
and adverted to the great loss the craft had sustained by his
demise, and handed in an appropriate letter from the DieheSS
of Inverness soliciting their acceptance of so valuable a relic,
and it was also stated that her Grace had directed the cande,
labra to be purchased at the sale of his Royal Highness's
effects, at the cost of 500/., with a view to its presentation.
The valuable and highly-prized relic was received by the meet-
ing with the deepest enthusiasm, and it is under's. Doti that a
general meeting of the fraternity will be promptly called for
the purpose of passing an appropriate tribute of thanks to the
Duchess of Inverness.

THE GREAT BRITAIN.—A curious dispute has
arisen in connexion with the wagers laid as to the time in which
this %essel would perform the voyage to New York. Fifteen
days seems to have been generally the period selected by the
betters; and the question now is, whether the time is to be
reckoned by the ordinary mode of computation or by calculat-
ing the actual time of sailing according to the ship's chrono,
meter. By one method, the length of the voyage will be less
than fifteen days, by the other it will be more. Thus, the
Great Britain sailed from Liverpool on the 2tith of July at four
; she arrived at New York on the 10th of August, at
three, P.M. There is a slight difference in some of the ac-
counts, but this appears to be the correct one. The time be-
tween port and port, according to dates, would, therefore, be
14 days 23 hours. But New York is 74 degrees west of Green-
wich, which is equal in time to 4 hours 56 minutes. The dif-
ference between Liverpool and Greenwich is equal to 12
minutes, which, 'deducted from 4 hours 56 minutes, leaves
4 hours 44 minutes to be added to the 14 days 23 hours; mak-
ing the real time which the vessel took to perform the voyage
15 days, 3 hours, 44 mioutes. It is a nice point; but we
should certainly say that the fifteen days" taken as the basis
of the wagers, meant fifteen days of twenty-four hours each,
and taking the difference of longitude into account, the vessel
did net make the passage in fifteen of such days.—Liverpool
Courier.

RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES

IN THE
PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND
SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND.

NAMES or RAILWAYS.

Aberdeen • • • .
Airdrie and Coatbridge
Arbroath and Forfar ....
Ditto Half Shares ....
Armagh, Coir., & Portrnsh
Bandon and Bantry
Belfast and Ballymena ..
Belfast and County Down
B rim hd.Lan. & Ches.Jnc.
Birmingham and Glo'ster

Do. New (iss . at 7% dis.)
Ditto Half Shares ....
Birminglun & Oxfrd.Junc.
Blckburn, and Preston..
Blckburn, Darwn,& Boltn
Bolton, Wigan, & Liverpl.
Boston, Stamfrd and Birm
Brighton, Lewes, & Hast.
Bristol and Exeter...
Ditto New. • ....
Bristol and Gloucester
Bristol and S. Wales June.
British and Irish Union..
Caledon. and Ayrsh. June
Caledon. & Dumbar. June.
Caledonian
Ditto Extension ......
Cambridge and Lincoln..
Chester and Birkenhead..
Ditto New Shares ....
Ditto Half Shares ....
Chester and IL lyhead
Cheltenham and Oxford..
Chichester and Brighton..
Churnet Valley . •
Clitheroe Junction ......
Clydesdale Junction
Cork, Blackrck & Passage
Cork and Bandon
Cork and Killarney
Cork and Waterford
Cork and Youghal
Canterbury and Dover...
Coventry and Leicester..

Derby and Crewe . • • •
Direct Lon. and Manchsta•
Diss, Beccles, & Yarmoth
DirectMan.(Remington's)
Direct Northern • • • • • • • •
Direct Norwich . • • • • • • • •
Dublin and Belfast June.
Dublin, Belfast, & Coln e
Dublin and Drogheda. • • •
Dublin and Galway . • • • •
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath . • •

Ditto New • • • • • •
Dundee and Perk •• • •
Durham and Sunderland
East Lancashire (No. 1)
Ditto (No. 2)
Eastern Counties . • • .. • •

Do. New . • • • • • • • • • •

Do. Perp.s pr Ct., No. 1

Do. 6. ' No. 2
East Dereham & Norwich
East Union . • • • • • • • • • • • •

Ditto Extension • • • • • •
Edinbgh, Glas., and Dum.
Edinburgh and Glasgow..
Do. Quarter Shares • ••
Do. New Quarter Shares
Edin b. Leith, and Grantors
Do. Prof. 5 per Cent.•
Edinburgh and Northern
Edinburgh and Peebles • •
Edinburgh and Perth. • • •
Ely and Huntingdon ••
Enniskillen and Sligo.. • •
Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr
Fltwood, Prstn, & W. Rid.
Gamkirk and Glasgow • •
Glasgow and Ayr. • •
Do. Quarter Shares....
Glasgow and Greenock • •

Ditto New . • ... •. •• ..
Ditto Preference • • • • •
Glasgw, Dmfries, and Car.
Glsgw, Kilmarnck, & Ard.
Glasgow and Belfast Un.
Goole and Doncaster • • • •
Grand Junction . • • • . • • • •

Ditto Half Shares • • • •
Ditto Quarter Shares • •
Ditto New Quarters • •
Ditto Eighths .
Grand Union . .... • • • • • •
Great Eastern & Western
Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens.
Gt Grimsby and Sheffield
Gt Sthrn & Wstrn (Irind)

Ditto Extension .• • • • •
Great Monster • • • • • • • • • •
Gt Northern of Scotland
Grt Northern of England

Do. New 401. Shares • •
Do. New 301. Shares • •
Great Western •••• •• •• • •
Ditto Half Shares • • • •

Ditto Fifths ..—.......•
Girlltl.d, Farehm,Bo Ports.
Ilarwieh . • • ............

Hudrsfld & Man. ii.BiCan
Huddersfield and Sheffield
Hull and Gainsborough
Hull and Selby.. • •
Ditto Quarter Shares • •

Ditto Half Shares • • • •
Inverness and Elgin •• ••
Isle of Jersey . • • •
Kendal and Windermere
Kingstown and Bray • • • •
Killarney Junctions .••
Lancaster and Carlisle
Lancaster and Preston ..
Leeds and Bradford

Ditto Extension .. • •
Leeds and Dewsbury. • . •
Leeds and Thirsk .•• • . .
Leeds & W. Riding June.
Leicester & Birmingham
Leicester and Bedford ...
Limerick and Waterford
Limrck, Ennis, & Kil. Jne.
Lincoln, York, and Leeds
Liv. Man. & Gt N. of Eng.
Liverpool and Manchester

Ditto Half Shares • • •

Ditto Quarter Shares..
LiverpLOrmskrk,& Prstn
London and Birmingham

Ditto Thirds • • •
Ditto Quarters .• • •
London and Blaekwall .
London and Brighton. •
Ditto Consolid. Eighths
London and Croydon

Ditto New . ••• • • • •

Do. Guarant. 5 per Cnt.•
London and Greenwich..
Do. Pref. or Privilege • .
London and South Westrn
Do. New Cons. Eighths
1)o. New, 501 Shares..
Do. New, 401. Shares..
London and York .......
Ditto (Bawtry)
London and Windsor....
Londu, Salsbury, & Yeovl
Londonderry & Coleraine
Londonderry & Enuiskilln
Lynn and Ely ..........
Lynn and Dereham .....
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto Half Shares ..
Ditto Quarter Shares..

Ditto Sixteenths . • •. • .
Manchstr and Birkenhead
Manchester &Birminglim
Ditto Quarter Shares • .
Ditto New Quarters ...
Do. Con. & Welsh June.
Manchestr, Boltn, & Bury
3lnchstr, Buxtn, & Matlk
Man. Shef. and Mid. June.
Manchestr & Southamptn
Midland .. • • • • • • • • • . • • • •
Ditto Fifths • • • • • • • • • •

Ditto New .• • •
Do. Con. r, irm. & Derby
Midind Gt Westrn (Irish)
Do. Extension to Sligo
Newestl & DaringtnJunc.
New (Brandling)
Newcastle and Berwiek•
Newcastle and Carlisle
Nwestle, Durham, & Lan
Newfort & Abcrgavenny
Newry and Ennis.killen• .
Newark and Sheffield . • .
North British • • • • • • • •
Ditto New Shares .•
Northern and Eastern
Do. Scrip (iss.at 5 dis )

Do. Quarter Shares • .
North Devon
North Kent • • •• ++ • • • • • •
North Stafrordshire
North Eastern .• • • . • • • • •
North Union (A). • • • • • • •
Ditto (13) • • • • .•
North Wales Mineral—
Ditto New Shares • • • •
North Western :++• : s • •
North Walt9l L.. ia; i +
N-orivich and Brandon

Ditto New. • • • • • • • • • • •
Not., Belvoir, & Grauthm
Nottingham rind tOsioh• •
Nott.,Erwsli• Arai. & Man.
NottinghaM.& Manspold
gifttrd and ttirtnitig. MA!:
oxford and Worcester • •
Oxford and Cambridge
Perth and Xn.ycnieS • : • •
Porbirlottili Direct.:....
Preston and Wyre •
DittO
Dd. si:er Ct. onar

Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & div.
Preston & Wyre
Richmond & Ws:Rpajtine
Win'cesti; Sc Tring
Seottish Central, ... .. • •

ScottM Midland.: • . • • • •
Sh_eTeld and
Ditto (barter Share• •
Ditto ditto (No. 2)• •
m) Dltio, di (P-o. A).:
Sheffield and Lincoln.. • •
Sheffield and Rotherham
Shrewsbry& rtiftudjUnt.
Shrewib., Wor., & Crewo
Shrws.,Wolv., Diu & Bir
Shrwlbry & Trut Val.
Shr*S;
Slamannan • ... • • ;.
South Devon • • • • . • . • • • •
South Midland:. • • •• .•
South Entitein and Dover

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fiksi ;;
Staines and Richmond . • •
Staffordshire & Shropshire
Stirling, and DunfernahrilS
South Write?! t;
Teen and DoVe Valley' • •
Trent ,• • • • • •,; • • •
Do. anqllob•headdiinE.
','Ate of Neath .. • • • • •
West London, Old Shares
West End & Sothrn Cohn.
tlt:d Carib* • • ; •
Warwick and Cheltenham

15956d1

4%
4

liS64
48%

133%

5889.1

15-889 d

4-!ip

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183s9dj

438 P
17s6P
7%

17%
40s p
60s p

1315 P,

Waterford and Kilkenny
Watrfil,Wxfd,Wiek& Dtib
Wakefield and liradtbrd

Waldid, Pontefret;& Gool
Wakefield and Harrogate
Warwick and London
West LaiMisllirt
Worcester and Tring.. •
Whitehavn and Fumes%
Do. New Half Shares• •

914
4i4

!32s p

Welih
We.t C0rnwa11.........
West Yorkshire
ilsontwn, M.& Coltness
Wilts, Somrst, & Weymth
Yarmouth and Norwich .•
Ditto New . •
York and Carlisle .. •
Yor!c and North Midland
Ditto Half Shares

!a‘4
4%

Sept.
3.
41i
4%

79s
63s
89s
13%
7956 d

Ditto Scarbro' Branch
Ditto Selby • • • • • • • • .•
Ditto Extension ......
Yorkshire& Glasgow iln.

HULL, SErr. 4.

16-2s6dl

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8 Is6p

16556 d,

9%
2%
)5
3%
2%

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3i4
24

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p

STOCK ExcnaweE.:the sales are—Hull and Selby, Half
23}4-London and Croydon, Nov, 365. p,—Blackburn,

Darwen, and Balton, 1014—Caledonian Extension, 3%—
Eastern Union Extension, 3% G: a Grimsby and Sheffield,
Quarter Shares, 41/2—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction,
30—Huddersfield and Manchester Railroad and Canal, 30
—Leeds and Thirsk, 21—Lynn and Dereharn, 514—North
British, Half Shares, 10—STorth Wales s—Oxford, Worces-
ter, and Wolverhampton, 11—Armagh, Coleraine, and Port-
rush, 3—Bandon and Bantry, 2/. Is. 3d.—Cambridge and
Lincoln, 4%—Coventry, Nuneaton, &c., 3%—Derby and
Crewe, 51/2—Dublin and Galway, 614—East Lincolnshire,
31/2—East Coast, 3%—Glasgow and Dumfries, 23/—Grand
Union, 755. 60.—Great Eastern and Western, 3%—Leicester
and Birmingham, 3—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle
Junction. 7%—London and Birmingham Extension, 31/2--
London and Manchester (Remington's), 414—Manchester,
Buxton, and Matlock, 934—Nottingham, Erewash, &c., 5
—Nottingham and Mansfield, 31/2—Rugby and Huntingdon,
4—South Midland, 6%p.—Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junc-
tion, 7—Staines and Richmond, 31/2—Tean and Dove Valley,
334—Trent Valley Continuation, 314—Wakefield and Brad-
ford, 81/6—West Yorkshire, 211/2—Welsh Midland, 5143_
York and Carlisle, 63/4—Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 44 Bs.

YORK, SErr. 4.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Union Ex ten •
sion, 31. 143.—North British, New, 10% —Clitheroe June.
tion, 6—Grand Union, 3/. 11s —Great Grimsby and Sheffield
Junction, 18%—Lancashire, Yorkshire, and North Eastern
3%—Leeds and York, 103%—Leicester and Bedford, 4-2
London and York, 6%—Manchester, Buxton, &c., 9%—
Newcastle and Berwick' 2514—Nottingham. Erewash, and
Ambergate, WA—North Staffbrdshire, 61/6—North Western,
61,4—Welsh Midland, s—West Yorkshire, 18%—York and
Carlisle, 5%.

SHEFFIELD, SEPT. 4

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birmingham and
Gloucester, 133—Eastern Counties, 21—Sheffield and Man-
chester, 1431/,'2York and Selby 501. shares. 771/2—Cam-
bridge and Lincoln, 51-16—Goole and Doncaster, 3
Grimsby and Sheffield, 17% —Ditto, Quarter shares, 414
Grimsby Railway and Dock Extension, 7—Grand Union
(Nottingham to Lynn), 3%—London and Windsor, 2
London and York, 7—Leeds and Bradford, 60—Leeds and
Dewsbury, 39—Nottingham, Erewash, and Ambergate, 5 1-16
—North Western, 714—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 61. Is. 6d.
—Wakefield and Harrogate, 3% p.

LUDDERSFIELD, SErr. 4

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Cambridge and Lin-
coln, s—Essex and Suffolk, 31s. p.—Grand. Union, 31/2
GlaFgow and Dumfries, 2—Huddersfield and Manchester,
251/—Leicester and Birmingham, 7%—Liverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 7—Manchester and•Birkenhead Continuation,
355. p.—North Western, 7—West Yorkshire, 18.
EDINBURGH, SEPT.

STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales arc-Aberdeen, 3/. 155.-
Aberdeen, Banff. and Elgin, 2/. lOs -Arbroath and Forfar,
25L-Ditto, Half Shares, 151.-Armagh and Portrusb, 21.-
Banffshire, 21. Os. 6d.-British and Irish Union, 3/. I4s. 6d.
-Belfast and County Down, 31. 155.-Cambridge and Lin-
coln, 31. 10s.-Caledonian, 12/. 55.-Caledonian Extension,
3/. 12s. 6d.---Caledonian and Dumbarton, 3/. 17s. 6d.-Clydes-
dale Junction, 91. 2s. 6d.-Direct Northern, 2/. Its.-Dundee
and Arbroath, 37/. Is. 6d.-Ditto, New, 181.-Dundee and
Perth, 61.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 3/. 35.-Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 901.-Ditto, Quarters, 21/. 155.-Ditto, New,
151.-Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dumbarton, 1/. 10s.-Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Gran ton, 261.-Ditto, Preference, 171. 10s.
-Edinburgh and Northern, 2/.165.-Ditto, New, 1/.los. 6d.
-Edinburgh and Peebles, 3/. ls.-Edinburgh and Perth,
11. 165.-Glasgow and Ayrshire, 731.-Ditto, New Stock,
221.-Ditto, 17/. 10s.-Glasgow and Belfast Union, 44-
Glasgow and Garnkirk, 411.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Car-
lisle, 31.-Glasgow and Greenock, 211.-Ditto, New Stock,
10/. 55.-Ditto, Preference, W.-Great North of Scotland,
3/. 55.-Inverness and Elgin, 1/. 65.-Kilmarnock and Ar-
dro!san, 5/. 155.-London and York, 6/. 10s. -31onkland
and Kmtilloch, 331.-Morayshire, 11.-North British, 29/.
-Ditto, Halves, 9/. 55.-Ditto, One-fifth, 8/. IN.-North
Wales Mineral, New, 6/. 55.-Perth and Inverness, 2/. 7s. 6d.
-Scottish Central, 71. 145.-Scottish Midland, 2/. 45.-
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 5/. 35.-Shrewsbury
and Hereford, 1/. 18s. 6d.-Slamannan, 18/...105.-South
Midland, 9'. 2s. 6d.-Stirling and Dunfermline, IL 175.-
Tean and Dove Valley, 31. 7s. 6d.-Waterford, Wicklow,
and Dublin, 1/. 165.-Wishaw and Coltness, 391.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

THE CROYDON ATMOSPHERIC.

Yesterday having been appointed for the purpose of
publicly testing the working qualities of the atmospheric
railway laid down from the Dartmouth Arms to Croydon,
a distance of five and a half miles, the public, or at least
that portion of it supposed to be interested in these mat-
ters, was invited to witness the experiments. Among
the many who were present, we noticed Lord Claude
Hamilton, ALP., and several other persons of high stand-
ing in the scientific world. The Chairman and Direc-
tors of the Croydon Company were also in attendance.
It had been arranged that the first "trip" should have
been at two o'clock, but some unforeseen circumstances
arose to defeat this intention, and it was nearly three
ere the train departed from the further terminus. The
last of the experiments concluded at about six o'clock.
The atmospheric principle is probably known to the
greater portion of our readers, but a brief recapitula-
tion of the principal features upon the present line may
not be considered out of place.
_ _ _ _

We have said that the length of railway completed is
five and a half miles ; workmen are, however, busily
employed in laying down tubes for the remaining five
miles to London, and next summer will probably see,
in a finished state, a through line to Epping (in
all eighteen miles), intended to connect with the railway
known as the Portsmouth Atmospheric, which received
the sanction of Parliament during the bygone session.
Throughout the length of line is laid down between the
rails a tube of iron, having a groove in its upper surface
into which a piston, some eighteen inches in diameter,
is sunk, the same piston being connected with the lead-
ing carriage of the train. Three stationary engines,
each of two fifty-horse power, at nearly equal distances,
the centre at Norwood, and the remaining two at either
extreme, exhaust the air from before the train, and a
valve behind giving it admission, the atmospheric pres-
sure upon the piston drives the carriages on in exactly
the same proportion with the vacuum formed before
them. To prevent any loss by leakage, a leathern flap,
protected by plates of iron, covers the groove. A wheel
going before the piston raises the flap, while, another
wheel following, closes it, and with a preparation of bees-
wax and tallow, so to speak, so hermetically seals it,
that not the slightest loss is in this way sustained. The
ruling gradient is 1 in 600, excepting at the crossing of
the Brighton line, where the engineer has, in the most
masterly manner, obviated all the disadvantages arising
from a crossing on the level by leading the Croydon
over the former line by a wooden bridge at an inclina-
tion of 1 in 50.

At foulkteen minutes to three o'clock, by order of
Mr. Samuda, who directed the proceedings, the engines
were ordered to exhaust the tube. That at Norwood,
however, not being in working trim, was dispensed with,
and the further engine, at th Dartmouth Arms (a dis-
tance, be it remembered, of five miles and_a half), was
alone required. The train, consisting of seventeen car-
riages, filled to overflowing, and weighing, probably,
above eighty tons, started from Croydon at the rate of
some thirty miles an hour, and continued that speed
till it reached the extreme end, thus silencing for ever
the scientific wiseacres, who before the Committees at
Westminster affirmed that any stationary engine at a
greater distance than three miles would be useless, be-
cause it could only insure a speed of 15 miles an hour.
After a few minutes spent at the Dartmouth Arms, Mr.
Samuda returned over the same ground at very nearly,
if not at the same, rate of travelling. It was then deter-
mined to test the principle at an increased speed, and
after the lapse of some time the -train, with only eight
carriages, was started, and with a vacuum of from 201bs.
to 261bs. on the square inch, it came up to 70 miles an
hour, and this too over the rising inclination of one in
fifty. The return trip was equally satisfactory. The
result amply verified the promises made by Mr. Samuda
before the Railway Committees, and it requires no very
keen perception to see, that before many years have
gone by locomotive engines, like the stage-coach horses
of yore, shall have left but a name behind them.
The advantages are manifest, for not only is there no
possibility of accident, but even with the greater, as
well as with the lesser speed, the motion was such that
we could write with the greatest ease, even in a third.
class carriage, and it might in a first-cla.ss almost be
doubted whether there wero any motion at all. With
respect to the stationary engine-houses, they are con-
structed in the best possible taste, a sort of Gothic-
Elizabethan, and with their high chimneys, like church
spires, forming not only a striking but a pleasing fea-
ture In the landscape.
Along the line there were crowds of lookers-on, who
seemed deeply interested in the result.
Mr. Samuda will continue his experiments until
the line Is opened, which is expected in a fortnight
dr three weeks. This much is evident, that the success
of the principle is decisive, and that Mr. Samuda, who
has been, if not tile creator, certainly the improver,
deserves well of his country.

GREAT EASTERN AND WESTERN MEETING

AT LEI)BURY.

The 4eputation of the Grtat Eastern and Western
Railway attended at the Feathers, on Tuesday, for the
purpose of laying before the inhabitants the nature of
the t.lfit'ottittootlation it was the intention of that Company
to afford to the town and neighbourhood.
'this meeting was taken advantage of by some parties
who have put fonteird a scheme for a railway between
Worcester, Ledbury, and Ross, running in front of Great
Malvern; through the beautiful valley immediately under
it; and frOm thence across the property of Earl Somers
and Mf! biddulph; to Ledbury, and thence to Ross, for
the purpose of getting A demonstration in its favour.
Thi§ object they managed to atitilfi:
Mt. Robert Biddulph having been in the chair,
WAttii, M. 1.; explained to the meeting net the
Objett of the deptitation was simply to pass the compli-
ment to the inhabitants of dti tiiplansition of the views of
the Great Eastern and Western Company its regard to
their town; and that he did not seek for any expression
of *filth): Clei the eontrary, he wished them to have
an opportunity of weighing the merits of all the
schemes that might be offered to them before they
pledged theft seltes to any in particular. He th( n
stated that the Great Eastern and Western line would
rut two miles to the north of Ledbury, where a first-
class Station would be provided for the accommodation
of the district, and that a branch line would be brought
dot4in the *alley to any point of the town that the in-_
habitants might consider most desirable. By means of
the Great Eastern and Western Railway, the markets
be
ketf
s
Birminghamof and South Staffordshire would
opened to the neighbourhood, as also those of
food
hills of South Wales. A great portion of the
ood
consumed by the enormous population in the mineral
districts was at present supplied by sea ; and the
Great Eastern and Western was the only line that
would place Ledbury in direct and unbroken commu-
nication with them. In proof of this he showed that by
this line the distance between Ledbury and Merthyr by
rail would, with the branch, be under sixty miles ;
whereas, by those lines purporting to connect South
Wales with Herefordshire by the coast line, a distance of
120 miles would have to be traversed. Oa Mr. Ward
resuming his seat,
Mr. JONES, the solicitor of the Worcester, Ledbury,
and Ross line, stated that, in his opinion, the Grcat
Eastern and Western would not accommodate the town
so well as his line. He did not like branch lines—they
were very inconvenient ; which he instanced by stating
that in the event of the train on the main line being de-

tained for an hour and a half, the branch line IN oald al-o
be detained. He then pointed out that the South Wales line
started to Fisliguard and got down to Swansea up to
Neath, down to Cardiff; touched at Newport, and at pre-
sent stopped at Chepstow, that it had failed to pass over
the Severn at Heck Cribb, and that the Company in-
tended to try to pass it next session ; that the
South Wales Company meant to go up to Monmouth
and thence to Ross ; and that his line going from
Worcester to Lcdbury and Ross, was on the high road
to South Wales, and thercrore to be preferred to the
line of the Great Eastern and Western. He then re-
quested Captain Jones to move a resolution pleding the
town in favour of his direct and independent scheme,
which resolution Captain Jones accordingly moved, and
it having bet n duly seconded,
Mr. MARTIN, the banker, reminded the meeting that
they had not met to discuss the merits of rival schemes,
but to hear what were the intentions of the Great
Eastern and Western Railway in regard to their town;
that he had never heard of Mr. Jones's scheme until be
had come into that room; and be cautioned them against
stultifying themselves by a pledge until they had had
time to reflect on all the schemes that were projected.
He concluded :by moving an amendment to the effect
that the meeting was not at present in a position to
come to any resolution on the subject.
_ _

This view of the case was also taken by the Rev. Mr.
Underwood, of Bosbury, and Mr. Biddulph Phillips ; but
Mr. Jones insisting on having the resolution put from the
chair, it was found on a show of hands that thirty-seven
only were for the amendment, whilst some fifty gentle-
men he!d up their hanls for the original motion.
Mr. JONES then called for three cheers to celebrate
his triumph. We are informed, however, that every in-
dividual possessed of any portion of the property over
which the projected lines purpose to pass was decidedly
opposed to the Worcester and Ross scheme, and that Mr.
Robert Biddulph himself had, that morning, directed its
projector to erase his name from the list of the provi-
sional committee, i❑ which it had been inserted without
his knowledge or leave. Mr. Ward and Mr. Douglasse
afterwards took some refreshments at Mr. Biddulph's,
having received their strong assurances that a branch
line, with a station just at the outskirts of Ledbury,
would furnish all the accommodation required by the
town, and would certainly be the arrangement which all
the influential inhabitants would prefer.-IVormtel
Journal of yesterday.