The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-23 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, FEB. 21.—Wind this day at noon S. to S.W.
DEAL, FEB. 19. —Wind S.S. W., moderate ; 20th, S.'4%'
ditto.—Arrd. Jane Clark, Lawson, northward. Arrd,. from
the River, Pilot, for South Seas ; Ganges, for Sydney ; Char-
lotte, Madras; Emerald, Antigna.-201h, Chiett.ii•.t. St. He-
lena ; Jane Erskine, Pernambuco ; Helen, Trinidad ; St.
James, New York ; Dart, Madeira ; Pegasus, v..;orfu.
OFF RAMS(;ATE, FEB. 19.—Independent., Hull, forßombay.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 19. Arrd. Lady Mary Wood,
(steamer), Gibraltar, left 10th inst., Cadiz 11th, Lisbon 14th,
Oporto and Vigo 15th. The K,..tit (steamer), Lakeman, from
Torquay to this port, got aground between Christchurch
Head and Hurst Castle during a thick fog, and is expected to
go to pieces ; cargo saved.
Pools, FEB. 19.—S1d. Experiment, Newfoundland.
TORBAY, FEB. 19.—S1d. Newport, Rio Janeiro.
OFF SALcostax, FEN. 19.—Mary Young, Young, Leglioin.
JERSEY, FEB. 17.—Arrd. Charles, Haman, TeneritTe.
Sld. Damon, Malta.
BRISTOL, FEB. 20.—Arrd. Commerce, Fayal. Sid. En-
terprise, New York.
MILFORD, FEE. 19.—S1d. Neptune, Fayal.
CORK, FEB. 17.—Arrd. Alert, Gordon, Laguna. Sld, Bel-
videre, New York.

LEITII, FEB. 17.--Arrd. Sisters, Hall, Leghorn.
BRIDLINGTON, FEB. 20. —The Ann and Jane, of Yarmouth,
get on the rocks to the nothward, has been assisted off, and is
coming into the harbour.
BERWICK, FKV. It.—The Majestic steam-tug, which was
ashore on Holy Island, has been got off, and put on the slip to
repair.
PORTSMOUTH, FEN. 19.—Wind S.E.-20. S.S.E. to S.—
Arrd. Malacca, London for Calcutta ; her Majesty's ship Al-
fred, Sheerness, for Rio Janeiro; her Majesty's ship Formid-
able, Sheerness.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 20.—Wind S. E.—Sld. Warlock and Lady
Fitzherbert, Sydney ; British Queen, Palermo.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 19. —Wind variable.—Arrd. Mary Ann
Scott, Lee Sables. Sld. Manuela, Havannah ; Erculand a.),
Naples. Arrd. off, Ocean, Horderske. for Batavia.
BRIDPORT, FEB. 19 —Sid. Susan, River Gambia.
GLOUCESTER, FEB. 20.—Sid. Flora. Azores.
LONDON, Fin. 22.—Wind this day at noon S. to. S.W.
Orr Dovr it, FEB. 21. —Favourite, Newcastle for Valparaiso.
DEAL, FEB. 21.—Wind S. W., fresh. Six p.ln ,
Wind W.
to N.W.—Arrd. Kyle, Fletcher, Calcutta; Countess of Dur-
ham, Singapore. Arrd. from the River, the Cleopatra. for
Demerara; Planet, Jamaica; Amelia Constance, Guadaloupe ;
Helen Mary, Ceylon ; West Indian, St. Helena ; Talbot, New-
foundland ; Magnet. westward.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 21.—Wind N. N. W. —Arrd. Oberon,,
Chincha, sailed Bth, and from Lima Nov. 18 ; Judith, Lima ;
Resolution, Maranham, sailed Jan. 16 ; Dalmatia, Byron,
Wellington, Suatra, and Pallas, New Orleans; Henry Stret-
ton, Longcote, and Talbot, Mobile • Sarah, Savannah ; Hu,
St. Andrew's, New Brunswick. 'h Hum
,St. Palestine and tho Bril-
liant, got ashore on the Riga Sico Shoal previous to Dec. 20;
the former came off, but the latter remained.
PORTSMOUTH, Fan. 21.—Wind S. S.W. to NAV., strong
and squally.—Arrd. her Majesty's ship Winchester, Bermuaa,
sailed 6th inst. ; Gratitude, Shiclds, Valparaiso; Tamerlane,
Newcastle, for Liverpool, under quarantine, having communi-
cated with the Maxwell, from Odessa.
COWES, FEB. 21.—Arrd. Rapid, Bahia for Hamburgh.,
Lon--
LYMINGTON, FEB. 21.—The Kent steamer, from l'or.imty
tcoasStloeu, tihutsonbe,
caosmhoerea
totalbew weerneaC.hristchurch Head and -aunt
don, after being on the Cork Sand,
and Jane, from Ye,r-
HARWICH, FEB. 21.—Arrd. Cabthaterwi
BRIDLINGTON, FEB. 21.—The Ann
yesterday on the rocks morning,
mouth to the northward, got
the harbour with triAinz
i,gßo aggseirdm. ,swßiio Janeiro
Al' Mont-
ftsure p
The Sir IV. Curtis, bound to Leith, has re, aired,
and will proceed. nithe'ouptudnaimleage damage,
BRIDLINGTON,
FEB.O —Wind S. to S.W.--Arrd.
FAI MOUTH, r
from St. Thomas, ‘,„. Alert
Went sailed ..ontas, zetit. ult.
dbaumt
awgaes assisted off and broughtinto
packer, ti
;
rose steamer, Sou ,
..,oa Bay,
G3thtrokn; fEorlizNa'
Penguin packet,

EDINBURGH ANI) GLASGOW
RAILWAY.
OPENING OF THE LINE.
The opaiir, of this great line of communication, which is
destined to . form an era in the intercourse between the
two cities, as well as throughout Scotland, and as making one
of the great steps in the progress of internal prosperity, took
place last Friday morning. The road leading to the station
was crowded with spectators, hastening to different places where
they might obtain a view of the train as it came along the
lits.. The embankment, along which the carriages were to
pass, is elevated twelve or rourtkn feet above the fields
through which it stretches westward in a direct line upwards
of two miles, and every elevated spot near the station was occu-
pied by dense masses, while inside the walls great numbers
were stationed in galleries, in the different houses and offices,
and along the lineof the railway.
. In Glasgow, as might be expected, the epening excited con-
siderable interest. 'the coaches were filled as fast as parties
arrived. The band of the regiment stationed in Glasgow was
present, and played several lively airs. When the first ten
coaches were filled they were attached to a rope and drawn up
the tunnel and inclined plane to Cowlairs station, where they
remained till other two trains of ten carriages were in like
manner drawn up. When all were attached together, the
whole train, forming a magnificent array of thirty first-clsss
carriages, and drawn by three engin•s, set off soon after half-
past nine o'clock. There was also a pilot eng.ines.which kept
from half a mile to a mile in front of the tram, to ascertain
that all was safe and practicable for the progre:sof the carriages.
The rate of travelling, on an average, was twenty .niles an
hour; but it often reached thirty; the pace being, of course,
much slower at other parts of the line. At Falkirk the train'
stopped for about twenty minutes, to supply the engines with
water'; they then set off again for Edinburgh.
At ten minutes lust twelve the train, consisting of tirentPsix
carriages,. drawn by three locomotive engines, approached with
great rapidity, and landed at the station amid the cheers of the
assembled" multitude. There were about 1,000 persons in
these carriages. - . _

The first ermine was directed throughout the day by Mr.
Miller, engineer of ht, hue.

_ .
It was a considerable time before all the preparations were
Made for the setting out of the Edinburgh train. It consisted'
of twenty-seven carriages, and left the station at ten minutes
past -one. In its progress it was hailed as before with the
acclamations of the spectators. In all the towns and villages
through which the line of carriages passed, the inhabitants
welcomed its approaeli in crowds with every demonstration of
wonder and delight as the vast trains, each" extending in
length between 200 and 300 yards, swept along. In some
parts they proceeded at the rate of thirty miles an hour; and
the general speed was from twenty to twenty-five, and some-
times less at particular parts of the road.
It was 34 minutes past one when the train passed the Almond
Viaduct ; and the view here, aided by the fineness of the day,
of the distant and romantic scenery of Arthur's Seat, the
'Castle, and the Pentland Hilts, as they gradually receded from
the sight, was rema kali:), striking and beautiful. At 43 mi-
nutes past one the train entered the 'Winchburgh tunnel, which
it passed in little more than half a minute. It then proceeded
along the deep cutting in this part of the line for several miles;
when at 55 minutes past one the ancient Palace of Linlithgow
was descried in the distance. After a short stoppage at this
place for water, the- train proceeded, and immediately crossed
the splendid Mori Viaduct, when the beautiful scenery in this
neighbourhood preseatiitt new attractions. About half-past two
the Callender Tunnel was entered, and passed in a minute and
a quarter ; and after 'iitnthei stoppage at the Falkirk station,
the train emerged into iravide and open country, with the Carse
of Falkirk; the Frith of Forth, and the high grounds in the dis-
tance. The train arrived at the station, at Cowlairs, at 47
minutes past three, and then descended the inclined plane and
tunnel.

The second train, which left Edinburgh at about Mir an
hour after the first, occupied nearly the s•ime time in the journey
to Glasgow.

tiAIiQUET.

On arriving at the station at Glasgow, proceeded at
they
once to the banquet-hall, which was an extremely e'egant and
spacious building, handsomely decorated, and the cross sup-
ports of the roof stutldoil with small jets of gas.
Soon after five o'clock, John Leadbetter, Esq., Chairman of
the Board of Directors, took the chair, supported on the right
by the Lord Provost of Glasgow, Mille Robertson of Glasgow,
Colonel Fleming, Commander of the district, William Gray,
Esq., Dean of Guild, Glasgow ; Bailies Richardson, Thom-
son, Johnston, and Wilkie, of Edinburgh, Dean of
Guild Ramsay, Treasurer Drysdale, Convenor Scott, &e. ;
on' the left by. the Lord Provost of Edinburgh; Sir
Wyndham Carmichael An,truther, A. Macneil, Esq.,
Advocate, L. Colquhoun, Esq., Sheriff of Dumbarton;
Provost Repel' of Leith'; Crossfield, Esq., of Liverpool;
B. 'Scott Monereiff, Esq , Mr. Miller, eng.neer of the rail-
way, &c. John Learmonth, Esq., Chairman of the Edinburgh
Board of Directors, -tilled the office of croupier, supported
right and left by;Thomas Douglas, Esq., Sutherland Mackenzie,
Esq , Captain Sinclair, It. N., Mark Sprot, Esq., Mr. Simp-
son of Pitcorthie, 11. G. Bell, Esq., and W. H. Dunbar, Esq.,
advocate.
The usual lops and constitutional toasts having been pro-
posed by the Chairman,
The Loan Paovos•r of Edinburgh rose, and proposed
• Success to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway." —( Cheers. )
The exertions, he remarked, of the Directors and Shareholders
of the railway bad been brought this day to a happy conclu-
sion, and it seemed as if the &stance between Edinburgh and
Glasgow were this day annihilated—( Great cheering)—as if
by some gigantic power the two cities had been uprooted from
their old foundations, and forced into immediate-contact.
Mr. LEADBETTER said—When I look back upon the past,
and trace the progress of this undertaking through all its va-
rious fortunes ; when I find that its germination took place
in 1835 ; and that after a deadly struggle during three Ses-
sions of Parliament, it received the Royal assent in July,
1838; when I find that subsequently a million and a quarter
of money was earruled on the formation of the line—an ex-
penditure requiring the utmost care and anxiety—l cannot but
regard this day as the crowning termination of all our labours.
• —( Great cheering.)
The other toasts, to the Lord Provost, the Magistrates
of Edinburgh, &c., were-drunk, and the party broke up.
On leaving 'the train was delayed for more than two hours
by an unexpected occurrence, namely, the breaking of the rope
on the inclined plane, when the last train was proceeding up
wards. Or. examieing the rope in the part where it was
broken, it. :seined evident that. it was done by design. This
sualriciou4iirair is utidyr judicial inquiry. It was twenty mi-
nutes past nine when'the train, in cons-quence of this delay;
left the station at Glasgow, and, after halting a quarter of an
hour at Falkirk, rein:llrd Edinburgh at twelve o'clock.
We subjoin an account of the extent and direction, and
other circumstances connected with this railway.
_ The improvement of the intercourse between the east and
• west of
.Scotland, by uniting the two cities of Edinburgh and
Glasgow, and with them the two opposite seas of the Ger-
man Ocean and Atlantic, has been long agitated in this coun-
try. So long ago as the year 1797, the whole intervening
country was surveyed, and various levels and lines laid down,
in the view of determining, by the advice of John Rennie, and
ether eminent engineers, the best line for a navigable canal.
These plans ended iii the construction of the Union Canal
about the year 1810; but there still seemed wanting a more
direct line of communication, and a new company having been
formed in the year 1835, the present line was adopted by the
advice of eminent railway engineers called down from England
for the purpose of determining this great and important preli-
minary question,
The whole length of the line is 46 miles. It passes suc-
cessively through the counties of Edinburgh, Linlithgow,
Stirling, Dumbarton, and Lanark, including a population in
and near the line of upwards of 600,000. From the ter•
minus in the Haymarket, the line runs westward for eight
miles, where it sweeps round to the north, and crosses the
wide and low valley of the Almond Water, by the great
viaduct formerly described in our paper, consisting of 36
arches, each 50 feet span, and rising from 40 to 100 feet ; and
immediately adjoining there is another smaller bridge of seven
arches across the turnpike road. The line still sweeping round,
passes Winchburgh-hia. by a tunnel 360 yards in length.
Emerging from this the line has been cut through vast clay
and rocky excavations, extending in one continued- cut for
nearly four miles, and in some parts 50 feet deep. The line
now runs neatly due west to Linlithgow, partly on the natu-
ral surface of the • ground and partly on various small em-
bankments and cuts ; and from Linlithgow still westward
about a mite further, to -the next great valley of the Avon,
which is crossed by another magnificent viaduct, also formerly
described, consisting of 20 armies, 50 feet span, and rising in
the deepest part 100 feet, besides three smaller arches. The
line proceeds westward!, and parallel with the Union Canal,
towards Falkirk, and passes under Callander ridge by a second
tunnel 830 yards in length, and 130 feet under the surface.
Emerging from this the whole low country of the Carse of
• Falkirk opens into view, and the line runs westward to Lock
16, where it crosses the Union Canal by a magnificent bridge
of a single span 130 feet across.
From this point the line runs westerly, and nearly along the
surface for seven or eight miles, when it enters the great whin-
stone Cut of Croy ridge, extending about a mile in length,
anti in the deepest parts, at the summit level, consisting of
very hard reek, fifty. and sixty feet deep. The line then
continues west.grly, inclining to the south, and passing
over several mows, and soft alluvial hollows, enters the
Crosshill cutting, and then the last great tacky exca-
vation of Colston and Kamuir, consisting of solid freestone
rock for nearly a mile, and upwards of fifty feet deep in the
centre, terminates at Cowlairs, where the inclined plane and
tunnel • descends for '2,200 yaids to the Glasgow station and
-terminus, at the head of Queen -street, forming, in point of
• convenience and vicinity to the centre of the town, one of the
• -most perfect termini to be found on any .Railway.

A»ELPIIi THEATRE.

M. Scrilitiso;igi;al comedy of La Chaise, consideredone ofhis
best pieces, appeared in an English dress at this theatre on Monday
night under the title of the Breach of Promise of Marriage.
The immorality grafted on it by the taste of the French stage
has bsen dismissed by the adapter, and it also partakes of other
general alterations. The chief sustainer of the piece is Amery
EMr. Lyon), a yonn,t,v musician, who is patronized by Lady
astland (Mrs Yates), and who becomes in love with him.
Amery, preliminarily to this, had attached himself to Ellen
( Miss E. Chaplin), the daughter of a Bristol merchant, hut reit-
dered vain by the condescension-of Lady Eastland, he returns.
her passion, Her brother, however, Lord Starboard (Mr. Yates),
being cognizant of these circumstances, urges, by all the in-
' -' tuential means of which he is master, the marriage of Amery
' with his sister's rival. ellen. This is effected, and Lady East-
land
Some light under-play on the part of Dabbleton (Mr. Wright).
a spruce and coxcombical attorney, who addresses letters to
Lady EaStland, without knowing her rank, and who, by rea-
rn of his uncourageous nature, is constantly in dread of duels
rani her br..ther, furnishes some happy points and witty
escapades. Mr. Yates made an excellent Admiral, and the
drollery of Mr. Wright was very effective. The house, which
wd! crowded, received the piece with great applause, and it
certainly promises to become a favourite.

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Lord and Li
'1 ' , Petre are expected in Mansfield-
At.ee t early next ' '.
Laniship ss ou t:vck from Kemp Town for the season. His
3, lscrWilliam Petre, h on the eve
sof
Coin enikin for the e II". hienrY
g• colony of New Holland.
CORN-LAWS. _A discussion was held on Friday
eri ening, at the Union
That titte'ruus
fore a respc:ctable ~,„1 :i‘nral,.. Pantoti-street, Haymarket, be-
meeting, when it was unani-
MikUsly resolved—,•
emu. try, since 113.
1.4,
tended
system existing in this
front the markets of other :ad. to exclude our manufactures
wizen .tins country lias required nations, and that, consequently,
for it it, gold, which has caused corn, it has been obliged to pay
of the pi educing classics. the presant distress and ruin
DEsTRUCTI V E Ft ItES.--0, Mo
nday, shortly
after Ave o'clock, a fire. attended with the 1
•ty broke out in the shop of Mr.
propse , ‘, lire, of considerable
~ builder, No; ti'2, I;apping-street, opposite lirii. carpenter and
.... tunately the Aremen succeeded in obtaining a T.-street. For-
-, supply of water on land, and by the continual workingt excellent
engines, as well As that of the lower float belonging tclth'f eight
don establishment:is succeeded in confining the danwseet.Lon-
house of Mr. Hare and two others (unoccupied) in cloth:
court. The inmats'l,all escaped in their night-clothes. Mr-
Hare is insured fteJsis property (about 5001.) in the Royal
Exchange-offiee.• 34bont half-past two o'cloek another fire
was discovered in the drying-rooms belonging to Mr. Cooke,
currier, Arbite's-grsounci, Bermondsey, and no: withstanding
.itily &few minutes elapses before the Southwark-bridge, Wa-
-Ift.lios.,:road, and West of England engines were brought into
lie• a portion e considerabl of
or,ginated in the P the stock was, destroyed. It
e drying-roosts near the stem