The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES.

(From the Share List of John Railton and Son, Man-
chester, Oct. 14.)
Improvement per Cent. in the market valac of the follow-
ing lines of Railway, between the end of September,
1843, and September, 1844, upon the same amount of
paid up capital, and producing an average of 5.5 6-10th
per Cent. per Share, being more by 61 per Cent. than
at the end of August last.

_
Per Cent.
Preston and Wyre l7l
Sheffield and Manchester
Chester and Birkenhead
Birmingham and Gloucester 964-
Manchester and Bolton 8541
Gr. at North of England
Manchester and Birmingham -
Hull and Selby
Birmingham and Derby 55
Manchester and Leeds
Gr...at Western -
Northern and Eastern 45
South Eastern 454-
Newcastle and Carlisle
Eastern Counties 3 7 ir,
Midland Counties
North Midland .... .......
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Bristol and Exeter 27
Brighton
Lincaster and Preston
South Western
Grand Junction - 4
York and North Midland no enange.
London and Birmingham
Liverpool and Manchester less 1 9-10
The greatest rise took place in those lines where the
capicity of the works was not enough developed to be re-
lied on at the former period.
There are at the present time plans matured or pre-
paring to carry before the Board of Trade upwards of
ninety new schemes for railway extension, requiring a
subscribed capital of upwards of 60,000,0001.—t0 which
may be added 20,000,0001. for the authorised one-third
that can be borrowed. The present abundance and low
value of money (there being no foreign attraction more
luring) is highly favourable to the extension of public
works at home. No matter to what extent the rifeness
of speculation may lead individual adventure, a great
national benefit will be secured, available to all, without
infringing on the circulation of the country, so long as we
continue blessed with the succession of good harvest.; as
the main-spring of prosperity ; but should a failure en-
sue, and we become impoverished by foreign purchase
for the repair, we shall be deprived, in a corresponding
degree, of the advantages we now enjoy. Manufactures
and foreign trade we can expand or curtail at will, but
no art of man can put seasons out of course, or alter
their result. The Board of Trade has an irksome duty
to perform to suit all interests, and keep clear of the
confusion to which we are exposed.
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X.OUISTAINS OF PARIS—THE FRENCH VISIT.—OUr
wide-awake neighbours seem disposed to make the royal
visit to our Queen useful to them in more ways than
one. A French engineer arrived on Wednesday at the
Queen's Hotel, and proceeded to Messrs. Ireland and Co.'s
foundry to examine the filters now being made by them
under Stuckey's patent. He obtained a beautiful model
made vk ithin two days, and in the meantime visited Mr.
Cross's bleach-works at Bolton, where he saw one of the
filters, only about five feet in length, producing 200 gal-
lons per minute, or the enormous quantity of 288,000
gallons per 24 hours. Having obtained a copy of the
report of Dr. Ure, as to a cheap and effectual mode of
getting rid of the glutinous and adhesive matter occa-
sionally arising from the much used waters of the Lever
and the Medlock, and which sometimes obstructed the
self-cleansing machinery of the filters, he returned to
Paris via London yesterday. It transpired that General
the Marquis de Ruiniguy, who is now with Louis
Philippe at the British Court, is one of the chief proprie-
tors of the French Filtration Company, and as it is
known that all the public fountains of Paris are con-
tracted to be filtered under Stuckey's patent, the con
nexion of pleasure and business, the visit to Windsor
Castle, and to our Lancashire manufactories is tolerably
self-evident.—Manchester Courier.

DEATH OF A PROPHETESS.—On Saturday Mr. W.
Baker, Deputy Coroner, held an inquest at the Coach
and orses, Homerton, on the body of Rebecca Paine,
aged 60. The deceased lived in Cross-street, and in ad-
dition to her labours as a charwoman, she had for some
years lived upon the credulity of the superstitious
females of Hackney, by the exercise of her assumed
power of divination. Although not a duly initiated
member of the " nut-brown" fraternity, her character
as a prophetess brought her many dupes ; and there are
numbers of the fair sex now living in the vicinity of
Hackney, whose practical experience of the mutations of
connubial life have led them to revile, in no measured
terms, the fortune-teller of Cross street, by whose en-
chantments they were led to surrender the charms of
maidenhood. Last Thursday morning a little girl living
in the house with the deceased, lit her fire, and on pro-
ceeding to awake her, found Clat she was dead. Medi-
cal aid was obtained after a lapse of two hours. The
Jury returned a verdict of " Natural death?' Runham,
the summoning officer, stated that owing to the vagaries
of the deceased, her husband had for many years parted
from her. lie had written to him, but had received no
answer ; he (Runham) had therefore disposed of her
property for the purpose of defraying the expenses of
the funeral.

Loss OF LIFE IN THE REGENT'S-PAM—On Sun-
day afternoon, about half-past four o'clock, the following
melancholy occurrence took place in the Regent's-park.
Mr. Norbury, a linendraper, of Crawford-street, Bryan
stone-square, was proceeding towards home in his chaise
along the outer circle of the Regent's-park, accompanied
by his wife and daughter, aged four years, when the
horse suddenly took fright, as is suppose 1, at the noise
made in Mrs. Norbury opening her umbrella, and started
off at full speed until arriving at Macclesfield-bridge,
where the vehicle came in violent contact with a lamp-
post, and by the concussion Mr. Norbury, with his wife
and child, were thrown out. On being picked up, Mr.
Norbury was found to be in a state of insensibility, with
blood flowing copiously from his mouth, ears, and nos-
trils. They were, without loss of time, removed to a
surgeon at hand, where it was found that Mr. Norbury
had sustained a fracture of the skull, and severe internal
injuries, while Mrs. Norbury and her daughter had also
received serious hurts. The females were, after stimu-
lants had been administered to them, taken home in a
hackney coach, and Mr. Norbury was conveyed to the
Middlesex Hospital, almost immediately on entering
which institution he expired.
THE CLOWNS' SAILING MATCIL—The third of
these, what at one period was considered to be an under-
taking of very great novelty, that of -a person lx.siag
pulled or drawn down the river by means of four geese
being attached to a washing-tub, came off on the river,
between the Red House, Battersea, and Vauxhall-bridge,
yesterday afternoon. As this was the third within a
fortnight, undertaken by persons connected with Astley's
Theatre, something of the novelty had declined, when,
for the purpose of exciting the taste of the public, it was
announced that upon this occasion A. Nelson and Twist,
the pantaloon and clown, would each make a voyage in
different washing-tubs, drawn by their respective teams ;
this announcement, accordingly, drew together a large
assemblage of persons at the Red-house, when, after a
lapse of half an hour, the two aquatics, in full dress,
namely, their theatrical costume, took their seats, and
having picked up the reins, they each fired a pistol, when
the nee ley procession started. They were accompanied
by about 20 boats, which formed a kind of circle round
the geese and tubs, and having gained the middle of the
stream, they floated down to Vauxhall-bridge, which was
reached by half-past five o'clock. After getting about
200 yards through the bridge, the two washing-tubs
were brought up to a barge, when Nelson and Twist got
out of their craft, and each putting on a great coat, were
conveyed to Lyon's yard, Stangate, where they were
landed On the pa!sage down the water was very rough,
and as the tubs were passed by the above-bridge steamers
the surf from them caused the tubs to perform certain
motions which appeared not to be quite agreeable to the
hems of the ring of the Amphitheatre. The original
intention was to land at Westminster-bridge, but which
was very wisely prohibited by the police, as on the first
of these novel undertakings, the mob in the Palace-walk
was so great, coupled with the disturbances and robbe-
ries, that it was deemed advisable to prevent repetition.
Whatever effect it produces for Nelson and Twist (last
night being their joint benefit) it was attended with be-
neficial results for the proprietors of Vauxhall-bridge, as
at the time the party passed beneath it, there could not
have been less than 2,000 persons on the bridge, strain-
ing their eyes to catch 'a glimpse of the washing-tubs,
geese, and buffoons.

LONG LIFE IN THE LAKE DISTRICT.-L--Mally and
many are the accounts that appear in the newspapers,
from time to time, relating to longevity, but most of
them are only related after the heroes of them are dead.
Ours shall be a tale of living wonders. There are at pre-
sent residing in the neighbourhood of Hawkshead four
women, whose ages average 90 years each, two of whom
are never failing attendants at Hawkshead Church every
Sunday. They are all well and hearty, and are as likely
for living as they have been for the last twenty years.—
Westmoreland Gazette.

NERVOUS DEAFNESS.—By this term I wish to be
understood as indicating some peculiar condition of the
nervous portion of the auditory, apparatus, by which its
functions become uninterrupted, suspended, or otherwise
so impaired, that it is incapable of affecting the senso-
rium, so as to produce those effects necessary to the
sensation of hearing. In many cases of this sort there is
no apparent alteration in the condition of the parts, even
if examined by a lens, and the only evidence of disease
is the defect or incapability of distinguishing sounsdes.
In some instances the patient feels merely a confuundd
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Deafness.
TILE LATE STORM.—We have heard of consider-
able— damage being caused in the neighbourhood of this
city by the floods which have succeeded the late heavy
rains. One of the bridges on the Mallow road has been
carried away, and vehicles have now to take a consider-
able round in consequence. A respectable correspon-
dent writing from Castletownroche s...ys—" Three
bridges and four houses were swept away, and seven
acres of land inundated. On the grounds of Ballyduff,
near Castletownroche, the flood came down from the
mountain with overwhelming force, and caused the
greatest apprehension in the neighbourhood ; the con-
sequences to the poor people have been very disastrous."
—Cork Southern Reporter of Saturday.
Last evening Lord Teynham, late the Right Hon.
R. Curzon, preached at the new Baptist Chapel, corner
of Myrtle-street and Hope-street, of which the Rev.
Mr. Lister is the minister. Ills Lordship is a distin-
guished preacher among the Baptists.—Liverpool