The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re-
ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britain
for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed
to each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandize :
ended Name of Railway. Miles Total.
Opened. X. s. d.
Sept. 24Birmingham & Derby Janet. 48 1,389 10 4
23 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 2,214 7 3
17 Brandling Junction 25 8,812 ft- 4
23 Chester and Birkenhead ..
• Dundee and Arbroath ...
24 Edinburgh and Glasgow
25 Eastern Counties ........
Glasgow and kyr .. 4O
24 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 22*
24 Grand Junct, Chester &Crewe 113
24 Great North of England 45
25 Great Western
—. Hayle
24 Hull and Selb_y 3l
Lancaster & Preston Junction 201
23 Liverpool and Manchester 3l
24 London and Birmingham ll2*
29 London and Blackwell ... ...
24 London and Brighten
---- Ditto Shoreham Branch
27 London and Croydon
22 London and Greenwich 3l
25 London and South Western
22 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10
24 Manchester & Birmingham
27 Manchester and Leeds
24 Midland Counties s7i
24 Newcastle and Carlisle 6oi
22 Newcastle and North Shields 7
25 Northern and Eastern • 3ok
24 North Midland
23 North Union ...
24 Preston and Wyre
24 Sheffield and Manchester 7
29 South Eastern
24 Taff Vale . 3O
25 Ulster 24
24 York and North Midland 2B

1,996 3...6
1,077 13 6

900 9 5
7,606 5 5
1,323 4 3

14,632 7 11

1,062 5 10

4,539 10 0
17,264 6 3

748 9 11
4,523 14 '0

305 0,.11k

709 14 4
6,657 16 10
562 8 91
2,348 6 1
5,018 0 7
2,841 6 01
1,b66 2 0

-422 18 5
1,317 1 11
4,822 19. 4
1,023 0 1

'265 0 3
190 2 8
1,559 13 0

606 13 .0
395 10 7
1,818 16 9

FRENCH MAIL PORTS.

(TRANSLATION.)
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Boulogne-Sur-Mer, Sept. 29, 1842.
ckire.t.boEdatitof —On the 27th instant the English
pa
bearing the Dover mail, arrived off Ca-
but being unable to enter that harbour she was
• iged to fall back upon Boulogne, at which port she
landed her dispatches. On the 28th, the weather
continuing the, same as on the preceding evening, we
"Peeled that the English mail would, as on the
previous occasion, arrive at Boulogne. We saw no-
arri?g_ief it, however, and the estafette from Calais
nia;;t'o here at half-past two, under the idea that the
" Packet had come direct to Boulogne. The esta-
fetteo was detained here until nearly four o'clock, and
8 that hour, nothing being in sight at sea, it was
dispatch on to Paris. About six o'clock a telegraphic
"'Patch announced that the packet, with the mail,
which had left Dover at half-past eight in the morn-
.shad arrived at Calais at four o'clock, after a pas-
sage of eight hours. The letters could not be
forwarded to Paris, and will not be until to-day.
l• ieu Prance and Europe in general will have to
suffer from a delay of 24 hours in the arrival of their
letters, through the absurd obstinacy of the Captains
of the English mail packets in refusing to come to
Boulogne, and that notwithstanding the orders
which have been given them to make for this
Nit whenever there is a probability that they
will be unable to reach Calais before the hour fixed
for the departure of the estafette. No one, either at
Calais or Boulogne, had the least doubt as to the im-
-I)ossibility of the packet reaching Calais in time,
especially after what had occurred on the previous
evening. The entrance to the harbour of Boulogne was
yesterday so easy, that the packet from London ar-
rived at eleven o'clock, tusd the Dover packet, with
x°•
rty-two passengers on board, and three car-
riages, made her passage in two hours and
fifty-five minutes. Nothing, therefore, can ex-
cuse the obstinacy of the Captain of the English
Mail packet. As these circumstances are of
frequent recurrence, we cannot be too severe in ob-
serving on the conduct of men, who seem to make a
ll_port of compromising the most important interests.
• is time to put a stop to such a state of things.
I have the honour to be, Mr. Editor,
• • . Your very humble servant,
The Mayor of Boulogne,
AL. ADAM.

T.S.—At this moment the English Mail Packet,
:Which left Dover this morning at half-past six, has
arrived at ten o'clock in the harbour of Boulogne. If
the others had thus made for this harbour instead of
eridegfOuting to reach Calais, those delays of which
such just complaints are made would not take place.

(Translation.)
4wste
'QR.; TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
tsK3.ll- Boulogne-sur-Mer, Sept. 30, 1842.
Mr. Editor,—The occurrences of the last three days
ought to be sufficient to make the Captains of the
English Mail Packets determine no longer to
compromise the public service by seeking to
l-•?
avoid bringing the mail to Boulogne. Dread-
K, no doubt, the consequences of the grave
E., faults Which they have recently committed, by volun-
tarily delaying for 24 hours the correspondence of the
whole of Europe, without being able, as they have
?Lc, so frequently before done, to allege the least pretext
,t,t to excuse these delays, of which, for such a length of
tzx time, such frequent and just complaints have been made,
they this day, as well as yesterday, at once made for
the o."t of Boulogne, and at ten o'clock this morning
•‘ they, landed their dispatPhes, which will await here
until half-past one o'cl the arrival of the et t tte
from Calais. It is absolutely necessary that strict
measures should be taken to secure a continuance of
this improvement, and to prevent a return of former
abuses.
Be pleased to accept, Mr. Editor, the assurance of
my distinguished consideration.
The Mayor of Boulogne-sur-Mer,
AL. ADAM.
P.S.—I have just learned that the estafette from
Calais was detained there yesterday, and did not
ar-
rive at Boulogne until five o'clock, although the let-
ters from England were here at ten o'clock in
the morning. I have been informed that all the
letters, except those for Paris and for Boulogne,
have had to be sent back to Calais, where they
are sorted for the other towns. Thus, if the este-
fette coming from Paris had not been delayed, so
as to take these letters from hence to Calais, or if the
• packet had not arrived here until after the estafette
had passed through, all the letters for Line Rouen,
Havre, and other places, would have been delayed for
four-and-twenty hours. It is sufficient that such a
faulty arrangement should be pointed out to secure
its correction.

HOP INTELLIGENCE.—WORCESTER, SEPT. 30.
The supply of new hops at market, on Saturday last,
amounted to about 2,500 pockets. The demand being
brisk, most of the samples were sold, and at the close
of the day, 2,163 pockets new, and 17 old, were
weighed at the public scales, and 1,250 new, and 22
old in the week. Prices from 80s. to 90s. to 955. per
cwt.—Worcester Herald.

A STAGE TRICK.—A Brussels journal says—" M
Lonppi, formerly director of an Italian opera corn
pany, had long been a prisoner for debt in the prison
of St. Leonard at Liege. He had made three different
attempts to escape, but had always been defeated. To
Prevent any future attempt a gaoler slept in his room
as a watchman. One day last week, however, he
contrived to deceive his Cerberus, by putting lauda-
num into his drink, having previously procured the
kys of all the doors between him and freedom.
When the deceived guardian was fast asleep, Louppi
stole quietly out, leaving a letter behind him, promis-
ing the gaoler that he should never have the trouble
,
of watching over him again."
Loss By CORN SPECULATIONS.—It is estimated
that the late speculations in wheat have inflicted a
;on upon the speculators to the amount of two mil-
lions of pounds sterling! This enormous loss is
mainly owing to the annual lottery of the sliding scale.
DEATH .01, THE "LEEDS CONSERVATIVE JOURNAL."
---Tbis.paper, which was commenced by Mr. Perring
On leaving the Intelligencer, and of which the first
• - number was published on the 7th of May, has this
-Week ceased to exist. A letter in another column from
Perring shows the circulation of the paper to hay
been considerable,—Leeds Mercury.
Wakefield Cattle Market continues to be supplied
in a great degree with foreign cattle. A considerable
Portion of the beef sold in the shambles is imported,
and the quality is so good that the difference cannot
he distinguished. Prices continue about the same.
The last arrival from Algiers gives an account of
the trial and condemnation to death of a Moor, against
whom there were not less than 26 charges for atro-
cious crimes, Amongst the witnesses who appeared
was a poor Germsn widow, whose husband he had
murdered. After this murder, and having stripped
the house of his victim of Xlll that was valuable, the
Wretch carried off the woman and her two children
to the environs of Aiba, where he treated her with the
most brutal indignity, and broke her arm. She at
length obtained her liberty, and arrived at Milianah
With one of her children. The other had died of
hunger.—Galigneazi•
SpORTING.—The grouse shooting last week was
nearly a blank to the swisman. Birds were very
and packed in flocks of from sixty to eighty,
looking about them on the bare hill teps, ready for
'start down the wind with the velocity of hawks.
?ley defied cartridges or any other projectile reach-
ing them, and tantalised sportsmen with the sight of
What it was impossible for them to ShAot• Frosty
nights and clear days are now looked for, 0 enable
goir southern friends to make up a good bag wee-
sdonally before leaving the north. In deer-stalking,
%erne very successful shots were made lately, At
Invereshire, Walter Gisborne, Esq., killed three stags
in one day. One of them weighed twenty-four stone,
and had a royal head of horns ; another weighed
eighteen stone, with ten antlers on his horns.—ln-
tertian C•iiri•r.

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APPREHENSION OF FEARGUS
• O'CONNOR.

Feargus O'Connor, who had hitherto steered clear
of the meshes of the law in any part he might have
taken in the recent Chartist disturbances, has at
length been apprehended by the police authorities,
and lodged in custody on a charge of sedition.
It appears, that in consequence of certain discove-
ries recently made by the Magistracy of Manchester,
it was determined by that body to issue a warrant
for the apprehension of Mr. O'Connor, and that the
warrant was placed in the hands of an officer, who
came to town for the purpose of effecting his capture,
in which he succeeded on Friday morning at an early
hour.

Mr. O'Connor was taken at his own residence at
Hampstead, at half-past six o'clock, and conveyed to
the police station-house in Gardener's-lane, West-
minster.

Informatim of the fact of his apprehension having
been given at the Home• office, a messenger was dis-
patched to request tha presence of the Solicitor-Gene-
ral, Sir W. Follett.

Mr. Hall, tht Chief Magistrate of Bow-street
Police Court, attended by Mr. Burnaby, his clerk,
arrived at the Home-office shortly afterwards, for the
purpose of taking a private examination of the pri-
soner; he was, however, removed to Bow-street,
where, shortly after one o'clock, he and John Arch-
bold Campbell, who keeps a shop for the sale of Char-
...

tist publications, No. 180, High Holborn, were
brought up in the custody of Inspector Hughes, A
division, and M'Mulle, of the Manchester police, for
the purpose of entering into recognizances on a
charge of sedition at Manchester in the month of
August last.

The case was disposed of in the Magistrate's pri-
vate room, Mr. Hall not being the sitting Magistrate
of the day.
Mr. Waddington, barrister, and Mr. Faulkner,
solicitor, attended on the part of the Crown to watch
the proceedings; and Mr. Concannon, a solicitor, ap-
peared on the part of O'Connor.
Mr. Henry, the Magistrate of Lambeth-street, and
Mr. Wray, the Receiver-General of the police force,
were also present;
O'Connor being conducted into the room,
Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk, proceeded to read
the warrant of Mr. John Frederick Foster, a Magis-
trate of Manchester, which charged O'Connor with
" having on the 17th of August, with divers other
persons, unlawfully and wickedly conspired, confe-
derated, and agreed to excite her Majesty's liege sub-
jects to sedition and disaffection against the laws of
this realm, and to cause insurrection, riots, tumul-
tuous and illegal assemblies, and by force, violence,
and intimidation, to prevent certain of her Majesty's
subjects from following their lawful occupations, and
to force them to depart therefrom, and to disturb the
peace of our said Lady the Queen, and the kingdom
of England."
Mr. Waddington said, he had the honour to appear
on the part of the Crown, and he was willing to hear
what answer the defendant had to make to the charge.
The defendant replied, he had performed a most
magnanimous act, in preventing the people from com-
mitting outrages, and he never considered he should
be called upon to account for such conduct.
Mr. HALL said, that whatever confessions the de-
fendant had to make, or whatever examinations he
had to undergo, should be taken in the regular course
before the Magistrates at Manchester, it being his
duty merely to apportion the amount of bail after a
plea had been put in to the charge.
The defendant replied, he had no answer to make,
except that he was not guilty of the charge, but he
wished the examination of his physician to be taken as
to the state of his health. He would in a short time
be prepared with bail if required, and, as to the
charge, he had no more to say, except that in conse-
quence of the active measures he had adopted to pre-
vent serious outrages taking place on the Corn-law
question, he had been charged by th' press with being
in the pay of the Tory party.
Mr. HALL—Then I am to understand you mean to
put in bail ?
The defendant replied in the affirmative.
Mr. Waddington observed, that if bail was pro-
cured in London, the defendant could not know the
nature of the depositions, but if that was not done, he
should be forthwith conveyed to Manchester, where
the case would be gone into.
The defendant said, he would prefer putting in bail
before Mr. Hall, from whom he would meet with
every kindness; but if he was compelled to appear
before the Bench in Manchester, he was sure to meet
with insult, although he had done much good, which
the Magistrates there would not readily admit.
Mr. HALL—Then you are ready and willing at
present to put in bail?—The defendant said he would
before the rising of the Court.
Mr. HALL—Are you under other recognizances at
present ? Defendant--Yes ;to keep the peace.
Mr. HALL—Was that upon a Government prose-
cution ? Defendant—Yes ; I was obliged to find bail
after I was discharged from York Castle.
Mr. Waddington begged to observe" that the Go-
vernment did not wish to press for excessive bail,
although the charge was of a very serious nature.
Mr. HALL said, the charge in the warrant was of a
character very little short of treason, and the public
would naturally expect that the amount of bail re-
quired would be commensurate with the offence, and
in case it was procured within a reasonable time, the
defendant might be saved the trouble of being sent to
Manchester. The amount of bail he should call upon
the defendant to enter would be, himself in the sum of

1,000/., and two sureties in 500/. each, to answer to
the charge at the next gaol delivery at Manchester.
The defendant thanked the Magistrate, and he was
conducted by the officer into an adjoining room.
The other defendant was then brought in, and
having admitted he was the person charged in the
warrant, said, that having been only a few hours in
custody, he had had no time to communicate with his
friends, who would procure the required sureties.
Mr. Waddington told him the same time would be
allowed him to find bail as if the offence was commit-
ted in London, which was until the rising of the Court.
Mr. HALL told the defendant he had time enough
to send to his friends, and the amount of bail he should
require would be, himself in 8001. and two sureties in
4001. each, to answer the charge at the next gaol de-

livery at Manchester.
Defendant—Oh ! that's impossible ; in fact it's
tantamount to saying I must be sent to prisan, for I
cannot procure such bail.
Mr. HALL said, the only reason why he made any
difference in the amount of bail was, that he was in a
more humble sphere of life than the other defendant,
although the nature of the charge in the warrant was
the same. •
Mr. Waddington said, it only remained to have
the defendant conveyed to Manchester in custody by
the officer.—The defendant was then removed.
In the course of the evening Mr. Cleave, of Shoe-
lane, Fleet-street, and Mr. Oldfield, of Bolt-court,
Fleet-street, were accepted as sureties for O'Con-
nor, and after a description was taken of the several
letters which were found upon him, he left the Court
accompanied by his friends.

ARREST OF TEN CHARTISTS
FOR CONSPIRACY.
MANCHESTER, FRIDAY.—This morning consider-
able interest was excited in Manchester in conse-
quence of the arrest of ten individuals, on warrants
granted at the instance of the Government solicitors,
on charges, it is said, of a very serious nature, arising
out of the recent outbreak in the manufacturing dis-
tricts. It is said the charges are of a much more
grave character than any which have yet been made,
and in which are included several leading Chartists.
About one o'clock the Stipendiary Magistrate, Mr.
Maude, and several other Magistrates, took their seats
in the New Bailey Court. There were also on the
bench Colonel Wemyss and Sir Charles Shaw.
The following prisoners were then placed at the
bar :—The Rev. James Scholefield, James Leech,
John Massey, Robert Ram-den, Bernard M'Cartney,
Thomas Railton, Christopher Doyle, James Ellison,
John Norman, and William Scholeeld.
Mr. Gregory, the solicitor, employed by Govern-
ment, said the prisoners at the bar were charged with
a conspiracy, along with a great number of others,
not as yet in custody, and, under these circumstances,
he had to apply, on the part of the Crown, that they
should be remanded until Tuesday next. He under-
stood that there was one person in custody along with
his son, and that it would be a matter of very great
inconvenience for both of them to be absent from their
duties at once; and it having been intimated to him
that if one of the party were at liberty it would be of
very great importance to them, he was ready to con-
sent to any reasonable application which might be
made, so as to secure attendance on Tuesday next.
Mr. Cobbett, who appeared for the two Scholefields
and Leech, said the application was for rather a long
remand, when no other reason was state 1, except
that other parties were implicated in the same
charge. Under any circumstances the cases could
be as easily proved against the parties in custody in
the absence as in the presence of others implicated
with them ; and, therefore, five days' imprison-
ment was rather too long, unless it was intended to
take bail for their appearance in the meantime. After
the offer made by Mr. Gregory, he should say nothing
with respect to the Scholefields, but, in the case of
Leech, he begged to make a particular application.
That individual was already under particularly heavy
bail to appear and take his trial at the Special Com-
mission, and would be unable to traverse. He was at
present engaged in preparing hii defence, and that lie
might not be prevented from properly getting up his
derepeef he (Mr. Cobbett) asked the Court to permit
him to 14e 41 Prated on his undertaking to appear on
Tuesday.
Mr, Bent also applied of behalf pf PCartney for
his liberation on bail, He said he was in business at
Liverpool as a bookseller, which business :could not go
en without his presence. He therefore applied for h;s

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