The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-27 00:00:00

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ter °' obtained by the emple,yrnent of each letter-carrier in
suntra his own district, after the completion of his official
copr, duties. The work does great credit to Mr. Kelly,
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which
it is prepared, tied the information which it
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ant," FRENCH RAILWAY NEWS.
ingS, (From the Railway Express.)
e-stOw PARIS, TUESDAY, DEC. 23.-The great event of the
ii500:01 week has been the adjudication of the Lyons and St. i
ny, ,A Quentin Railways. In both -cases circumstances arose
ego°'" to give unusual interest to the proceedings. As there
was only one compaP.y for the Lyons line, the engineers
nib :Di having withdrawn, it was considered a certainty that the
DO, • fused company rineet btain it ; and in conseuence, the
irgae:
P"' • prices of promis,:s rosoe in the market, and the definitive
?,i shares went uro from 60 francs premium to 80 francs
1501
0 premium. For the St. Quentin line, it was believed, that
berd four compaaliee, independently of the Northern, would
eyes i send in tanders, and the most formidable opponent to the
le Ole latter veal considered to be the Company Cordier, for-
no4i": manly known by the name of the Company Kysaiius.
era- All, the four companies, however, were considered so
notSrl %%eel( when compared with Rothschild's, that their pro-
-1 tel
l
as
anises were all at a discount ; and it was looked en as a
a 4
we a' certainty, tnat if any other company but the Northern
i ch_lrCe obtained the line, the shares of such successful
ilicle`" company would go considerably below par, as
, atirlie was seen in the case of the Fampoux line.
31013°' Hence the subscribers of the several companies, strange
as it may seem, were all most anxious for the success of
rtaaias' the Rothschild Company, the day before the att djudie-
olicht4 tion; when the caution money of 3,000,000 francs was ,
Do - to be paid in by each, it was rumoured about, that the
and 0 - Cordier Company was unable to sends its quota. This,
*Oil on inquiry, was discovered to be true, and the cause was ,
°f la 1 I said to be the refusal of the English Committee to pay ,
, its portion of the funds This,* again, was found to be
!
eve the fact, for the representative of the English subscribers, i
terieien who had brought over the necessary funds to Paris, rm~e- •
fused absolutely to sacrifice the interests of his consti-
tsi •
ter tuents to the ruinously low lease which the French Com-
sbaP, mittee were inclined. to propose. He declared that if ,
a
Vo°, l
the figure, which Ite named, and which was such as a
t°° would not endue-ger the interests of the Company, was ,
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adopted by the ;French Committee, he would at once hand a
'tileOf
, forth the Fseiglish subscription. This being refused, he h
00 ,1,6 on his part held back the money, and the Company e
is could nut send in a tender.
till °' Various rumours were afloat that an understanding air
&11% had been come to between Rothschild and the others; f,
s, Pc6. but though such a course was more than once attempted, b
rt
1' ° it was found impossible to accomplish it, from the heavy _
_
foe n penalties imposed by the French code on any attempts a
0 to impede the course of fair competition, once that the a,
itt°l
earl!! various lists had been deposited with the Minister of a
Public Works. The Directors could, it is true, have a,
OP; , made a bargain for themselves, but as this mild he ,
is ti t° affected only by throwing the subscribers overboard, it ia
rtstios i is not wonderful that they avoided so disgraceful ap,
Lay be 1 course of proceeding.
1,410
rOJ.•-•,. j At last the day arrived (Saturday) in which Fr:
per,' t the decision was to take place. The crowd in „
„i 01 the court-3 and of the hotel of the Minister of Public hr
Oa' la
st fit Works was immense ' • and when, at last, the doors of
tea ill were opened., the crush was tremendous. After a quar- pt
e ter of an hour's battling, the public got wedged into wi
Petite their places in the adjudication-room, and M. Dumon, Ti
s a, the Manister of Public Works, opened the proceedings
ma Et
feel by reading the law of July 15, 1845, authorising the ad- tr'
e por, Jar:ication of the Lyons line for 45 years at most, and of wt
'
'else St. Quentin fur 75 years at most; each Company,
irr°Vl to
in the former case, to deposit 16,000,000 francs as cer- ne
,At ioa , lain money; and on the latter 3,000,000 francs. He next no
'''' the
on placed on the table two sealed packets, containing the wi.
bete maximum of lease, which, in accordance to the law, he had in
ratip himself fixed, and beyond which no tender could be an,
• 0 valid. The offer of the fused Company for Lyons was au
OW •
lea' then opened, and it appeared that they consented to a du
r Ota diminution of two years and six months, leaving the aif
length of the lease at 42 years and six months. The ably
'e Minister then broke the seal of one of the packets which ant
pied be had laid on the table, and read from the paper en- arn,
pa closed in it that he had fixed the lease at 41 years and „a't
ayeteeed
90 days. " Consequently," observed M. Dumon, " the „I'm
304
o°3l tender just presented, being higher than that determined Ls
lsae on by the Government, could not be accepted, and the ant
tables adjudication was accordingly adjourned." This most hot
4
TP- • logical deduction of the honourable Minister's, fell most sto,
bather unpleasantly on the ears of the parties most deeply con- wit
cerned. I scarcely ever beheld longer faces, for this wh,
eiait° denouement was never for a moment contemplated by a the
JO single person present. The agitation was for a few
t® 1
Oe
minutes extreme ; but when at last it had subsided, the
pea
00
o adjudication of the other line was proceeded to. The 5
maximum of the lease allowed by the Chambers was 75 big,
0 Tears, and the offers made were these :- full
1. The Company Colbert offered to the
2. T
af lb° take the line for 36 years 350 days
Go.
tbe he Company Ardoin Arnoux, of I
a 0 and M 49 yrs 2 mtbs 15 dys
aitres des Poste
all 3. The Company Carrette et Min-
oft
100 guet 43 years 285 days
aces
'id, Ili 4. The Company Rothschild 24 years 335 days mat
,e rici
rev A loud burst of laughter greeted this latter announce.
eve,
went, which the Minister immediately declared to be
obite accepted, being lower than the term which he had named can
re to° a in his sealed packet. A rush to the Bourse immediately PI
spit
0 ensued, although the incidents of the day were not yet ou
:a.
_Ale. at an end ; for M. C. Laffitte immediately rose and pro-
te.' Posed, in the name of the fused Company, of which he inst.
?..ig, Was a member, to take the Lyons line for a term of years wit.
A 17,8 fixed by the lion. Minister. M. Damon replied that he lit,
to ' could not return a decided answer at that moment. The
Olr ' the:
! ,at crowd then slowly withdrew, many hundred persons
rest
obi
00 • being still in the court-yard for an hour after.
vete
The scene at the Bourse, we are informed, was most The
ect
01°Il extraordinary: when the first messenger arrived from the
1 111 Minister's hotel, whether intentionally or not cannot be Thi
viitr 6a,id, though the former is to be presumed, the person
whi
rs‘e wno first ran up the steps cried out that Carrette and
cwh(
oll:, Ilinguet had got the St. Quentin line. A tremendous to
Or shout at once burst forth, as if the defeat of Rothschild cat
ill Was a universal benefit. The commotion was so great, tow
that the agent de change were obliged to desist from
de thir
business for a minute or two. When they resumed,
don
the Northern went down in about five minutes a
te' from 740 francs to 700 francs ! Just before th
)ber, the bell rang the true state of the case became known, s
lit
that and they then rallied to 715 francs. Yesterday they t_i co er
rie°'' opened at 740 francs, were done at 745, and closed at I. a
cora 737 francs 50 cents. It is probable that after so great a and
is 01 rise they will decline for some days, from sales being poh
acli: effected to realise profits. Biel
the
sat The offer of the Great Fused Company for the Lyons
line has been since accepted by the Minister of Public new
11 the
• Works. Having declared the length of the lease which
the ' be thought the line ought to be taken at, he could not ado,ec,
Oh .
Well do otherwise. a
two
Since my last, the market has been firm, and the saw,
)ese prices of both French funds and railway shares have
saic
for advanced.
04 The Orleans to Bordeaux line is not now expected to bon
If' be opened to Tours at the beginning of the year, as was Tat)
the expected. That event will not take place for a couple
ate of months later. The works on the Northern line are aala
Sill not either altogether tie far advanced as has been stated Iwaitri
the in some of the public prints.
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RAILWAY RETURNS. ried
tbe RAiLwAlt TRAFFIC.-The following are the Total Receipts of Rail- 13(1u
gas Ways for the past week-that is to say, up to the date to which the Cltit
elf/ respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same rice
Week in the previous year :- the
, 9 tern
it. 4 es thir
test Week Last o
,ki
at" Con
0 . ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. !1; .",;,;* ,
1,...P.- gee,
led aa P!..'- nor
the -
0' ..t X whi
Dec, 20 Arbroath and Forfar ...............175 122
roe - Bristol and 8irmingham.............- - Me:
:11' 19 Chester and Birkenhead .••.••• • • • • • • 463 391 war
18 Dublin and Drogheda• 603 508 the
;lie 23 Dublin and Kingstown
St' 21 Dundee and Arbroath. ••••••• • • • • • • • 214 ale tne
of 29 Durham and Sunderland ....... ••• • . • 456 336 rad,
20 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 2,201 1,798 site
let 21 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 7,036 4,233
ate 20 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 1,784 1,325 of s
20 GUIS ;ow and Greenock. •••••• • • • • • • 680 669 CIIC,
'O4 - Grand Junction •• • • - - ' unr
It) 1 20 Gravesend and Rochester • - vote
14 i - Great North of England •••••• • • • • • • - -
21 Great Western .••• • ..
Oe , 22 Hartlepool .. ••••••••.••- • • • • • • • • • • • 979 - cow
If 1 20 London and Birmingham, &c. .• ••- - - 32,651 30,631 able
21 London and Blackwall • 643 597
tO 1 20 London and Brighton .••••••• • • • • • • • 4,186 3,639 afte
it 1 23 London and Croydon .• .
- London and Greenwich. •••• •• •• •• •• - - • But
',lts 21 London and South Western .•••• • • • • 5,516 5,672
relu
0 21 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ••• • • • 844 780
- Manchester and Birmingham.. ••• • • • - 3,286 we
20 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc • • 6,018 4,858 GO,
I 20 Midland Counties .....
Y 1 , 20 Newcastle and Darlington ••.. • • • ... 2,454 1,014
20 Newcastle and Carlisle ••••••.. • • .. • • 1,717 1,572 a 1
21 Newcastle and North Shields... ••. • . 410 .33 peo
b 21 Norfolk •.......• 1,038 220 resi
19 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,444 1,471
0 , 22 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • • ........ 5,788 - can
0 22 Paris and Rouen . ..... ............. 4,626 3,929 tent
II 20 Preston and Wyre ••••••••• • • • . • • . • • 420 343 sisal
20 Sheffield and Manchester • • .......... 948 562
$ 20 South Eastern • anx
.. 5,451 4,518 /
„
',O Taff Vale ... ..... ........... •••• • • • 1,162 827 me
- Ulster . ... . - 655 tier
/ - Yarmouth and Norwich ...._
.- bro
1 20 York and North Midland . ...... •• • . 4,757 4,955 „,,

REPRESENTATION OF BRADFORD.—AIready the
requisition to Mr. Busfield and Colonel Thompson has re-
ceived about 500 signatures.—Leeds Mercury.
SUICIDE ON CHRISTMAS-DAT.-0/1 Wednesday
evening, about seven o'clock, a young man of respectable ap-
pearance called at the Gloucester Coffee-house, Aldersgate-
street, and inquired if he could be provided with a bed, ob-
serving that he was very much fatigued. He went imme-
diately to his room. The next morning he got up about
eleven o'clock, when, on entering the coffee-room, he asked
the proprietor, Mr. Smith, to let him have a tumbler. On
receiving it he returned to his room, but in about two mi-
nutes after he was again in the coffee room ; upon entering
which he instantly tell on the floor. Mr. Smith, thinking
that he was in a fit, bathed his face with vinegar, but be
could nct be revived. Mr. Lowe, a surgeon, found a phial
which had contained prus4c acid in the pocket of the de-
ceased. He had on a black dress coat, ablack silk waistcoat
with red spots, black dress trousers, Wellington boots of
chamois leather, a dress top coat, and a black silk scarf with
very small red spots round his neck. He was about five feet
four inches in height, of fair complexion, and 22 years of age,
with light brown hair, and no whiskers. There was in his
Pocket only a tavern bill.
A BOLD STROKE FOR A CHRISTMAS DINNER.—
At the Lambeth Police-court, yesterday, John Edwards
was committed to take his trial at the next Surrey
Seisions, on a charge of stealing a piece of ribs of beef.
It appeared that on Wednesday' evening, a lad, in the
service of a butcher in Harper-street, Old Kent-road,
tlas taking the piece of beef home to a customer, when
prisoner, with much dexterity, snatched it out of the
tray and ran away with He was, however, followed
and secured. The pritoner, in defence, said he had
nothlng for his supper on Christmas eve, or his dinner
on Christmas-day, and had made up his' mind to hare
something for both.