The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-09 00:00:00

THE STANDARD NOVELS AND ROMANCES.

The New Volume of this unrivalled Collection, in a neatly-
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By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Esq.
This Collection now contains the following, among many
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J. FENIMORE COOPER.—The Pilot, The Spy, The
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THE PATHFINDER.

By J. FEI;IISI6RE COOPER, Esq.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

The steam-packet season between Brighton and
Dieppe has been brought to a close owing to the dis-
continuance of the diligences from Dieppe to Paris,
which usually cease running about the beginning of
November for the. winter ; but it is expected that the
General Steam Navigation Company's packet, the
Lord Melville, Captain Goodhurn, will run between
Brighton and Havre during the winter. There has
been some talk of continuing the railway from Rouen
to Dieppe, the saving of distance by making Brighton
and Dieppe the route from London to Paris having
excited considerable attention, and if we are correctly
informed, strong efforts will be made to carry the rail-
way to Dieppe instead of Havre, and by this means
travellers might breakfast in London and sup in Paris
the same evening. The Southampton Company are
doing all they can, in conjunction with Sir J. East-
hope, to get the railroad to Havre, and the Brighton
Railway Company will doubtless use their exertions to
get the railroad to Dieppe. The distance from Lon-
don to Paris, via Brighton and Dieppe, can be accom-
plished now in about 22 hours ; by way of Brighton
and Havre, in 27 hours; via DOver and Calais, 30
hours ; :via Southampton and Havre, 31i hours.
There is also a considerable saving in expense as well
as time by way of Brighton and Dieppe.

THE COMPIIETION OF TILT TUNINEL.—TIIIS stupen-
dous work is finished, and Wapping has reason to be
proud of such a truly wapping undertaking. Per-
haps no enterprise ever had so much cold water thrown
upon it, and never was there a project which it seemed
at one time so difficult to go through with. The
engineer has worked like a horse, and has scarcely
ever been out of the shaft. The original shareholders,
whose pockets were well drained in fruitless efforts
to drain the tunnel, have now the satisfaction of once
more running through their property. For some
time the ardour of the projectors was damped by the
works going on too swimmingly. When accidents
were every-day occurrences the Tunnel was a matter
of interest ; but, since the water has been effectually
kept out, it has become a dry subject. On more than
one occasion the Company would have been swamped,
in spite of all hands being put to the pumps, if Go-
vernment had not lent them their succour. The
funds, in fact, were at low-water mark long before
the works reached the same desirable point; and the
more the Tunnel was set afloat, the more were the
shareholders aground in their undertaking. But the
perils are now past, and the Tunnel remains as a
monument to British enterprise. We should call it,
perhaps, a pillar to the fame of the engineer, if it were
not that a pillar is incomplete without two things,
one of which, the shaft, has been taken away, while
the Proprietors have long since lost sight of the
capital.— Cruikshank' s Comic Almanac for 1843.

NARROW ESCAPE FROM DROWNING.—On Satur-
afternoon, the British Queen, river steamer, had just
left the Paisley and Renfrew Railway wharf, on her
passage upwards, when the ferry-boat shot across
from the north side of the river, containing, besides
the ferryman, one man and two women, one of the
latter having a child in her arms, all of whom wished
to be put on board the steamer. From some cause,
however, hitherto unexplained, the ferry-boat put in
before the paddle-box ; but, fortunately, the master
of the steam-boat, Captain M'Aulay, had pre-
viously stopped the engine, and thus preserved the
small boat from being run down. The steamer,
nevertheless, being under weigh, caused such a surge
in the water as almost filled the ferry-boat, and fairly
floated the passengers out of her, all of whom were
left to struggle for their lives in the river. In this

emergency, ihe small boat of the British Queen was
lowered ; and a boat connected with a dredging ma-
chine belonging to the River Trustees was also rowed
to the spot, and such prompt and effectual assistance
rendered that the whole party were safely taken on
board the steamer, with the exception of the ferryman,
who, during the entire transaction, kept his position
in his own boat. The female with the child instinc-
tively clung to her infant, seemingly without being
aware of it, as, after she was taken on board the
steamer, she called out to ascertain if it was safe,
while all the time the little thing was clasped in her
arms.—Glasgow Argus.
We learn that there is now no doubt that the line
of the South-Eastern Railway will be opened to Ash-
ford early next month ; to Folkestone, in the spring
of 1843 ; and the whole line to Dover in the course of
• that year._ Canterbury Journal.