The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-18 00:00:00

IRISH LINES.

DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN.—Traffic for the week end-
ing August 12, 1845 :—Passengers, 57,607 ; receipts,
1,197/. 12s. 10s. Corresponding week of 1844 :—Pas-
sengers, 49,957 ; receipts, 991/. lls.
DUBLIN AND DROGHEDA.—Return of traffic for the
week ending Thursday, August 14, 1845 :—Amount re-
ceived for passengers and parcels, 930/. 9s. ; number of
passengers, 15,717. Amount received in the corres-
ponding week last year, 739/. ls. 10d.
OPENING OF THE WORKS ON THE WATERFORD AND
KILKENNY.--This interesting ceremony took place on
Thursday, amidst a very large concourse of spectators,
including the elite of the rank and fashion of this and the
adjoining counties. Among the distinguished personages
present were the Marquis and Marchioness of Ormonde,
Lady Elizabeth and Lord Walter Butler, Sir John and
Lady Power, Mr. and Lady Louisa Tighe, the Mayor of
this city and Mrs. Crane, P. S. Butler, Esq., M.P., and
Mrs. Butler, W. H. Greene, Esq., Mrs. E. Smithwick,
the High :sheriff, Sir R. Cox, Bart., Joseph Pope, Esq.,
of W aterford, &e. The proceedings were ushered in by
the enlivening strains of one of our Temperance Ba:..ds ;
and the Marquis of Ormonde, taking a spade, turned up
the first sod. Having filled a wheelbarrow, he re-
moved it, and deposited its contents on one side. His
Lordship's labours elicited great cheering, after which
P. S. Butler, Esq., addressed the assemblage. He consi •
dered that the English capitalists who had invested their
money in the Irish speculations, were worthy of the
highest praise. Our patriotic Mayor next spoke. G.
Emery, Esq., said that he, as an Englishman, had been
greatly misled to ore he visited Ireland ; he had been told
of danger to life, and loss of property; he had the gratifi-
cation to say, that such ideas were false. He trusted
that the English and Irish would continue to assist each

other, and always preserve friendly relations; but, he
would remind the people, that no mon could expect to
pick up sovereigns for nothing, and those who expected
to win success must labour to deserve it. He concluded
by eating upon the assemblage for three cheers for the
Irish people, which were enthusiastically resi.onded to
by the asst.mbly, who, in return, gave three cheers for
Mr. Emery and his fellow directors. The principal per-
sonages then left the ground, the band playinc, " The
Boys of Kilkenny," and the field was quickly deserted;
but we trust that it will soon resound again with the
busy hum of men engaged in active labour. The pro-
ceedings of the day terminated in a flee given on the
college lawn, by the Directors of the Waterford and
Kilkenny Railway.
DUBLIN AND ENNISKILLEN.—We perceive by the
Ballyshannon Herald, that a public meeting, attended by
Colonel Conolly, M.P., and the leading landed pro-
prietors oft hat neighbourhood, was held in Ballyshannon,
upon the 9th instant, at which resolutions were 'unani-
mously adopted in support of this line.
The directors of the Waterford and Limerick have
chosen Mr. Saunders, brother to the secretary of the
Great Western of England, as secretary to their com-
pany.
The Ulster Railway Company have fitted up their
third class carriages with comfortable seats, and divided
them into compartments. As a natural consequence, the
number of passengers travelling by these carriages will
be greatly inereast-d. The arrzngument, should, how-
ever, have been adapted from the first, as was the case
on the Dublin and Drogheda line, the carriages on which
are among the most comfortable to be met with anywhere.
—Banner of (Ater.

THIRD-CLASS RAILWAY
CARRIAGES.

A return relative to the con% eyance of third-class
" Fenny a-mile" railway passengers, with the litho
graphed plans of the carriages provided for their accom-
modation, has been printed, by order of the House of
Commons. Of course it is not possible to take advan-
tage, in the columns of a paper, of the lithographed
drawings of the third-class carriages ; but the return
gives a faithful description, which will afford the public
some opportunity of forming an idea of the leading ar-
rangements.
On the Bristol and Gloucester Railway, the number
of passengers for whom accommodation is thus pro-
vided amounts to 54, allowing 6 to a seat. The length
of the carriage is 20 feet 4 inches; the breadth, 7 feet
11 inches; and the height, 8 feet 6 inches to the top of
the tilt. There is a glass window at each end to admit
air and light, and a canvass curtain on each side over
the door. This train travels 37i miles in 3 hours.
On the Colchester and Cambridge line, the number
of passengers accommodated is 32 ; the length of the
carriage 20 feet ; the breadth 7 feet • and the height 6
feet. The size of the spaces for admitting light is 2
feet by 2 feet 3 inches. The space for admitting air and
light is at the sides, above the doors, and at the end.
There are no glass windows used. The Colchester trains
travel 51 miles in 3 hours 55 minutes, and the Cambridge
32 miles in 2 hours 22 minutes.

The Grand Junction carries 40 passengers ; the
length of the carriage is 16 feet 11 inches ; the breadth,
6 feet 8 inches ; and the height, 5 feet 34 inches. The
(inside) size of the space for admitting light is 18 by
184 inches, and for air, 25 by 184 inches. The outside
measure gives a length of 17 feet 4 inches, a breadth of
7 feet 2 inches, and a height of 5 feet 8 inches. For air
there are .3 apertures on each side of the body between
the doors, and for light 4 spaces on each side the body,
1 in each door. The train travels 974 miles in 74 hours.
On the Great Western line the number. of passengers
accommodated is 59 ; the length of the carriage, 20 feet
9 inches; the breadth, 8 feet 6 inches ; and the height,
6 feet 9 inches. There are 4 ventilators for admitting
light and air (situate on both sides), 254 by 13 inches ;
4 others, 154 by 13 ; 4 spaces per shutter, 30 by 15 ;
and 4 other spaces, 34 by 15 inches ; no glass is used.
The distance travelled is 118- miles in 9 hours 10 minutes.
The accommodation on the branch lines is pretty much
the same. _ _

On the London and Brighton the length is 17 feet 4
inches ; the breadth, 8 feet 2 inches ; the height, 6 feet
3 inches. 'there are altogether 50 openings, in the shape
of shutters, to let up and down. The distance, 56 miles,
is travelled in 4 hours.

On the Lancaster and Preston line there are 3 'win-
dows, 1 each side of the carriage (No. 1), and 1 above
each door, dividing in the middle and sliding sideways
for air and light. The upper parts of the windows are
glass. The distance, 201 miles, is travelled in 1 hour 30
minutes.... _ _ .

In another carriage (No. 2) there are 2 windoWs on
each side, and above the doors are sliding wooden
shutters, all dividing in the middle, and sliding sideways,
and over each door. Within the slide i 3 a space for air
and light. The windows iu carriage No. 2 are of glass.
On the Birmingham line there are spaces at the sides,
2 feet 6 inches by 1 feet 4 inches. The distance, 1121
miles, is travelled in 8 hours. _ _ _

On the Southampton line there are spaces at the sides
for air, by closed curtains, and for light, a skylight in
the roof ; the ends of the carriages are closed. The
space for light, when the curtains are drawn, is 144 feet
by 144 feet. There are glass lights in the roof. The
distance, 92 miles, is travelled in 7 hours 15 minutes.
On the Croydon line there are 8 wooden shutters to
let up And down, 2 feet 3 inches by 2 feet 1 inch ; there
are altogether 50 openings for admitting light and air.
On ' the. Manchester and Birmingham line there are 8
openings admitting air, 1 foot by 1 foot 10 inches ; 10
spaces for admitting light, 114 inches by 81 inches, and
2, 15 by 11i inches ; ,and 1 ventilator, and opening for
the roof lamp. There is glass used in the sliding panels
and doors. The distance, 85 miles, is travelled in 64
hours.

On the Leeds and Manchester line there are 4 glass
windows on (Etch side ; 1 in each door, and 2 in each
side of the carriage, and 1 ventilator in the centre of
each carriage side. The distance, 60 miles, is travelled
in 3 hours 5 minutes.

On the Newcastle and Darlington line the spaces for
admitting air and light are situate in the side of the car-
riage and in the top panel, and glass windows are like-
wise used. The distance, 38 miles, is travelled in two
hours. _

On the Midland line there is 1 space in each door, or
6 in each carriage ; glass is used in all, 15 by 12 inches.
On the South-Eastern and Dover there are 8 wooden
shutters to let up and down, 2 feet 3 inches by 2 feet
1 inch. No glass is used.
On the Arbroath and Forfar line the situations of the
spaces for admitting light and air are on both sides of the
carriages, on the upper part of the doors. .There are
three doors on each side of the carriage. On one side of
the carriage are two panes of glass in each door, and a
small wooden shutter above the panes of glass, which
opens for admitting air ; on the other side of the car-
riage there are openings in each door, which are pro-
vided with wooden shutters that can be drawn up at
pleasure by the passengers, so as to close partially or
entirely the openings.
On the Great North of England Railway there are
two windows, with ventilators above them on each side,
and a sash opening in each door. Glass is used.
On the Newcastle-on-Tyne and North Shields line
there are spaces at the sides, but no glass is used.
On the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal and
Railway Company's line there are glass windows for air
and light in each door, and in the sides for light only.
The regulations issued by the Board of Trade are, that
the Lords' Commissioners cannot certify any carriage
fur these trains to be sufficiently protected from the
weather, i❑ the sense of the Act, unless it is capable of
being entirely closed, with provisions for the admission
of light and air.

PRIVATE BILLS 11s1 THE HOUSE
OF COMMONS.
The following standing otders have been lately pub-
lished :
" That no private Bill be brought into this House but
upon a petition first presented, with a printed copy of the
proposed Bill annexed ; and that such petition be signed
by the parties, or some of them, who are suitors for the Bill.
" That all petitions for private Bills be presented
within 14 days after the first Friday in every session of
Parliament.
" That a declaration, in writing, signed by the agent
for the proposed Bill (or some one of such agents), shall
be annexed to such petition, stating to which of the three
classes of Bills such Bill in his judgment belongs ; and
if the proposed Bill shall give power to effect any o the
following objects, that is to say:—
" Power to take any lands or houses compulsorily, or
to extend the time granted by any former Act for that
purpose.
" Power to levy tolls, rates, or duties, or to alter any
existing tolls, rates, or duties ; or to confer, vary, or
extinguish any exemption from payment of tolls, rates,
or duties, or any other right or privilege.
" Power to interfere with any Crown, church, or cor-
poration property held in trust fur public or charitable
purposes.
" Power to make a burial-ground.
" Power to relinquish any part of a work authorised
by a former act.
" Power to divert into any intended cut, canal, reser-
voir, aqueduct, or navigation, or into any intended varia-
tion, extension, or enlargement thereof respectively, any
water from any existing cut, canal, reservoir, aqueduct,
or navigation, whether directly or derivatively, and
whether under any agreement with the proprietors
t hereof or otherwise.
" Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge any cut,
canal, reservoir, aqueduct, or navigation.
" Power to make, vary, extend, or enlarge any railway.
" The said declaration shall state which of such powers
are given by the Bill, and shall indicate in which clauses
of the Bill (referring to them by their number) such
powers are given, and shall further state that the Bill
does not give power to effect any of the objects enume-
merated in this order other than those stated in the de-
claration.
" If the proposed Bill shall not give power to effect
any of the objects enumerated in the preceding order,
the said declaration shall state that the Bill does not
give power to effect any of such objects.
" And that a copy of such declaration be deposited at
the office of the Board of Trade.
" That all petitions for private Bills, with their an-
nexed Bills and agents' declarations, and all petitions for
additional provisions in private Bills, with the proposed
clauses annexed, and all estate bills brought trom the
House of Lords, after having been read a first time, shall
be referred to a Select Committee on petitions for private
Bills.
" That there be seven clear days between the day on
which the petition for any private Bill relating to
England shall be presented and the day on which the
sub. Committee shall sit thereupon ; and ten days in case
such Bill shall relate to Scotland or Ireland.
" That all reports of the Select Committee on Peti-
tions for Private Bills, in which they shall report that
the standing orders have not been complied with, be re-
ferred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders.
" That all petitions for leave to dispense with any of
the sessional orders of the House relating to private Bills