The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-11 00:00:00

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THE GOODWIN SANDS.
Alltkion was made not long since to the:many sirs
projects for dealing with this dream land, as if it woreV,-- —#.---
reality, and .sterecting, constructing
harbours
)(caudate, while those projects are yet in Lighthouses,"pelts,
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be useful to record particulars of a deed accomplished—
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of the "safety beacon" erected there by Captain Bullock
under the sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty,
and which has now withstood the storms of two winters,
and one of them of unusual severity. Captain Bullock,
in a letter to Captain Beaufort, hydro g,rapher to the Ad-
miralty, states, that in carrying on the survey of the
Thames it was found expedient, as the work proceeded
seawards, and the receding landmarks grew indistinct,
to erect fixed marks on the diffel ent sands.
The first of them was nothing more than an iron
bar driven into the sand, with a flag-staff affixed to it.
This stood but a tide or two, and was succeeded by
various modifications of the same simple plan, stayabeing
added to support the shaft ; but in vain, the marks
erected in this manner all yielded to the first gale
of wind. It then appeared that some foundation
was wanted to enable them to resist the force of
the waves. To remedy this defect the bar was fixed
in a broad cross of wood, from the extremities of which
chains were attached to the staff, and after many
trials success :vas attained by this means. The results
of the experiments above related, joined to the know-
ledge of the lamentable loss of life annually taking place
on the " Goodwin Sands," induced the persuasion that,
since it was found practicable to fix a beacon on
them, it was an imperative duty to erect one calcu-
lated for the preservation of life. The safety beacon
now standing upon the Goodwin Sands inay be
thus described :—The shaft, or mast, forty feet in
height, and 12 inches in diameter, is sunk into the sand,
through a strong frame of oak, in the form of a cross,
firmly secured by four long bars of iron, and laden
with several tons of ballast, chalk, &c. The mast is
sustained by eight chain " sin ouds," in pairs, and
attached to iron piles, 17 feet long, which are driven
down close into the sand, and are backed by mush-
room anchors to prevent their coming home, or to-
wards the mast. On the shaft is fitted an octagon gal-
lery, capable of holding 30 or 40 people, and never
less than 16 feet above high water mark ; beneath
the gallery there is temporary safety for 20 persons
more. 'the mast is also fitted with a light topmast,
on which a blue flag (always at hand) can
be hoisted, when aid is required from the shore,
but which is kept struck, or down, to give the wk
the appearance of a wreck, thus ansaaling the dontle •
purpose of a beacon of warning, and a place of
refuge. Directions are given in eight languages, and
bread and water, with a small supply of spirits, are left
upon the beacon, properly protected from the weather.
To the beacon is also appended a chain ladder of easy
ascent, as well as " cleats" to the mast, and a large •
basket chair is kept in readiness, with ropes and blocks,
• to succour the exhausted.

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW
RAILWAY.

The following extracts afford a fair specimen of the opinions
of the Whig, Tory, and Radical press in Scotland, on the mo-
tion of the Agnewites to stop Sunday trains :
( From the Aberdeen Herald.)
As far as the Edinburgh and Glasgow railway is concerned
the question of a reasonable amount of Sunday travelling ac-
commodation to the public has been set at rest, for a time, if
not for ever. But the sensible portion of the community must.
not imagine that the efforts of the Pharisees will cease, or that
there will be no further need of resistance to encroachments
on civil and religious liberty. The wild party in the Church
are at the bottom of the movement, and we may rest assured
that they will not speedily desist. They look. to it as a means
of restoring clerical influence, which has lately been rather on
the wane, and they are aided by some professing friends of
religious freedom, who, while they loudly clamour for secta-
rian equality, are afraid to carry out their own scriptural and
Protcs:ant principle to the legitimate length of emanicipatiog
individual minds from their dgrading subserviency to ecclesi-
astical superiors. Some Dissentinn clergymen seem as much
afraid to allow their hearers the right of private judgment as
ever the Pope of Rome was.
(From the Edinburgh Chronicle.)
The tyrannical attempt to stop the running of trains on the
Edinburgh arid Glasgow Railway, on the morning and evening
of Sunday, was most signally defe, ted by the shareholders at
their half-yearly meeting on Tuesday last. On no former
occasion have the high-flying section of the Church exerted
more base and unscrupulous means to gain an object of their
ambition. The forced and forged signatures, of boys and
girls, of servants, shop-keepers, and other dependents ; the
mad abuse poured upon those who conscientiously approve of
the course adopted by the Railway Company; the frantic conspi-
racy to ruin the Company, and ab ore all the injurious assumption
of a thorough knowledge of the Divine will, on matters concerning
which there is no revelation, have tended to disgust all sober
and intelligent men, and to create in their minds a feeling of
indignation against the pharisaical pretonde-s to exclusive
piety, more general and intense than has been manifested on
any former occasion. One would suppose from their language
that neither mail coaches, nor private carriages had ever run
on Sunday in Scotland, although both in Edinburgh and Glas-
gow the latter are more common than on other days, and cause
more labour and Sabbath desecration than railway trains can
ever occasion.
( From the Renfreu'shire Reftrmer.)
After having procured shares to be permitted to plead, and, if
possible, force the proprietors of this great national undertaking
to succumb to the doctrines of the Agnewites, the father of the
flock, Sir Andrew, on finding himself beat, most unchristian-
like attempts to inforce his notions of Christianity by means of
the Court of Session, by running opposition coaches, and by
every other method he can contrive to annoy the public, and
injure the interest, of the proprietors. Meetings—(not public
meetings, the Sir Andrew's dare not face the public)—but
meetings of the select to support such schemes are now to be
set on toot to cover their defeat, and, if possible, to raise the
means of running coaches in opposition to the railway.
This is even more ridiculous than the feigned petitions
got up by the Kirk Sessions in omosition to Sunday trains. It
was a simple thing to get up a pile of petitions on pious S.r
An tress's principle of employing the parish sch, lmas'er to
write down the male and female names of the rural inhabit-
ants on pretence he was sending in a clean copy ; but Sir An-
dre w will find it a very different matter indeed to extra,t mo.
ney from the pockets of the lieges to gra'ify his whims, froin
obtaining leave for the schoolmaster to write their names. gr
Andrew's subscriptions will be a greater failure than his m,-
tion on Tuesday, because though he were foolish enough to
run coaches for ten years round, though they were even to
ra ry passengers gratis, such coaches would never go fourth
part filled.

MONEY MARKET .11(1 CITY NE
SUN. —We have had a very dull market for the English Stocks
yesterday, although the accounts from India, it is hoped, will
eventually prove to be less disastrous than has been repre-
sented in some of the published ads ices. It is evident that
were full credence to be attached to them, the fall of prices
would have more likely been lor 2 than kto per Cent. Cell-
sots for immediate transfer were flat, at SO to 89k, and for
the account at 89k to SOL Exchequer Bills were rather
(lull at 30s. to 325. prem. ' • and India Bonds at 10s. prem. ;
New Thre •-and-a-Half per Cents. were at 98a to
In the Foreign market business was not active, but there
was more doing in the Mexican bonds. Prices were without
any very material alteration. Spanish Active Bonds were at
2414 to 11 ;New Three per Cents. Portuguese, at 331,4 ; and
the Old Five per Cents. at 59. Colombian bonds were at 243
to 24i6-; Mexican Pt a rally to 37i; and 38{ ; and Peruvian at
16 Dutch Five per Cents, were worth 1024 to 1024.
The R ilway Shares rallied a little to-day. Brighton ob-
tained I4i, Blackwall l3i, Midland Counties 19i, Northern
and Eastern 4k, North Midland 30, the New bk, the Bir-
mingham and Gloucester 43, the Eastern Counties l 3k, and
the Edinburgh and Glasgow 7 disr oust, being for the latter a
slight decline. London and BirminF,ham were 84k to 8.5 k,
the Thirds 26k, the North Midland Thirds 3,4, the Liverpool
and Manchester 88, the Great Western 23k, and the South
Western I 9 premium. London and Westminster Bank
Shares were 2k premium.

THE MARKETS.
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