The Sun. — 1836-06-07 (London, England)

EASTERN COUNTIES, RAILROAD.—We last week spoke. in favourable terms of the Eastern Counties Rail. road, because we were convinced of its feasibility and utility. Our views upon this subject have been fully justified by statemews which we have received from persons best qualified to exhibit its merits. The Bill was brought in by that stanch friend.of the country, Sir Charles Broke Yore, and appears to us to promise—as it is the longest line of road which has this session received the sanction of Parliament—to be the most profitable ; the length of line is 127 miles. The estimated number of annual passengers is upwards of two millions ! and the_amount of goods nearly four hundred thousand tons The revenue from these sources is anticipated at 502,9001. per annum, and, be it observed, is entirely exclusive of the revenue (certainly not inconsiderable) which will arise from the conveyance of cattle and sheep to London, from the great grazing counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, as well as from the re-establishment of packets from the north of Europe to Yar. mouth and Harwich, which is certain to take place as soon as the Eastern Counties Railroad is completed—at least if •,:„ saving of one entire day in our communication with -..orthern Europe be regarded as a matter of any itaport.:,,,,;: In the conduct of this Bill through Parliarivent, to much praise cannot be given to Mr. Braithwaite, tine engineer, and Mr. Robertson, the secretaq, for .the clearness 'and ability with which they gaYO fltelr 9-v•' ence before the Committee.—John Bull,  A petition to the House of Commons was yesterday received in town from Leeds, signed by 5,000 persons, in favour of the Irish Municieal Corporation Bill passed by the Commons, and in opposition to the Bill brought into the House of Peers by Lord Lyndhurst. A controversy occupies the attention of the members of the United Unit;'ersity's Club (whose house is now building near at. James's Palace), on the subject of having a smakin'' room attached to the house. A strollg party of the 3 school objects to smoking cigars, as a sottish and bad custom, while younger nimbus defend it as neither one nor the other. The number pro and con. are nearly balanced. Some absurd reports have been in circulation for the last two days that the plague had appeared in London. One version stated that seven persons had died on unlading some ship in the river. Another, that at a large linen-draper's in the vicinity of Oxford-Street, seven people died, after being employed in opening some bales of foreign goods. A third, that a house in Seven Dials, in which it commenced, was on Sunday burnt down, "by authority," to prevent further mischief. We are enabled to state, from the best authority, that the whole oldie circumstances from which this rumour arose have been strictly investigated by Sir William Pyrn, and that there is not the slightest foundation for the report.—Morning Paper. A most daring attempt at burglary and murder has lately been made at Lydiard, in this county. The Rev. Giles Daubeny and his family bay, absent from home, a man servant, named Fletcher, was left in care of the house, and which office lie certainly filled in a most praiseworthy and courageous manner. In the middle of the night he heard footsteps, which, of course, excited his suspicion, and gently walking out at the back of the house, came to the front, and discovered a ladder at the drawing-room window, into which two men had just made their toothy: he immediately ran to the foot of the ladder, and hailed' them, when both of the villains jumped to the ground, and one of them instantly discharged a pistol, the ball from which passed through Fletcher's hat ; he being provided with a brace of pistols, fired off both at the wretch who attempted his life ; there is no doubt the felloW is severely wounded, as a great quantity of blood hp' traced for a considerable distaPico. A reward of offered, but as /et uoitteeessfully,.....-0 Saturday, court-martial April, to of ;as held at Malta on the 19th 14— ..y Lieutenant Puddicombe, R. M., and Mr. I • ....cock, midshipman of his Majesty's ship Portland, duet unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman. The Court sat five hours, and the charges being pro%•e d Lieutenant Puddicombe was sentenced to lose one year's time in the service, and Mr. Hancock two.—Plyninath Journal. M