The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-31 00:00:00

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

(TROY Ova Owl 0011818PORDZITT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING.
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The rumour was set about at the Bourse that
the Emperor had this morning pronounced a second
speech at Lille, explaining and extenuating
the first, which you must by this time
know has caused alarm throughout France.
On this news the Rents, which opened
at yesterday's depressed quotation of 69fr. 30c.,
and went down to 69fr. 22ic., sprung up rapidly,
and it closed at 69fr. 47 }c., with a rise of 17}c.
The Multiteur du Soir does not contain the speech
in question, and I shall be very much surprised
indeed if when the text appears sober men construe
it as importing any change in the situation. All
that the Havas telegraph says of it is the follow-
ing: . .

Lille, August 30, Noon.

The Emperor visited the Bourse thiA morning. In reply
to a speech of the President of the Chamber of Commerce
his Majesty said that business was no doubt not to good
DA might be desired, but that certain journals exaggerated
the situation. He added that he hoped to see trade re-
vive with the certainty of peace, and that he would do his
beet to restore confidence.

That is all. Whatever the Emperor may have
really said, it is news of the day that this is what
the frequently-erring telegraph represents him to
have said ; and it is upon these few words that the
position of the Bourse is reversed. It is a slight
fabric indeed upon which to build anything
more permanent than a speculative opera-
tion for an hour. Assuming it to be
correct, and not susceptible of modification
by a context yet to be seen, it amounts to nothing.
The truism that trade would be better if people
were sure of peace is not equivalent to a declara-
tion that the Emperor is not going to war.
The Emperor's promise to do hilt best to estab-
lish confidence was scarcely wanted. He
always preaches confidence. He told the Mayor
of Lille to have confidence in him three
days ago ; but the command was no more obeyed
than that of the Zouave Jacob to Marshal Forey
to be cured. If the Emperor did not mean by his
Arras and Lille speeches to prepare the country for
war, they were the greatest blunder he
has ever yet perpetrated. He was delivered
over to himself when he made them. No
minister was with him. M. Rouher and
the Marquis de Moustier, if we may judge by
what their friends and subordinates say here, must
have stood aghast when they read about "black
points" and " reverses," and patriotism not to be
" untimely" given way to. It is a curious instance,
by the way, of the danger of trusting to telegraphic
reports of the Emperor's speeches that the reason-
ing of a leading article of the Times two days ago
turned mainly upon a mistranslation of the prin.

cipal word in the Arras speech. The Times twice
tells its readers that the Emperor warned his
Arras audience against intemperate impulses, how-
ever patriotic. What his Majesty really said was a
widely different thing. The French word he used
was intempestif, which means not intemperate,
but ill-timed. And thus it happened that
while Paris was alarmed because the Emperor
by a palpable negative pregnant had insinuated
that in his own good time he would give full satis-
faction to patriotic feelings, the readers of the
Times were under the impression that he had de-
nounced permanently and decidedly, instead of
suspensively merely, those " patriotic" feelings
which those who have but a very slight knowledge
of the art of reading between the lines know to mean
a defiance to Prussia. Prussiawill take uptheglove.
I feel persuaded that within a very few days M.
de Bismarck will do something decided which will
force the Emperor either to eat his words as he did
his Auxerre speech or to go forward. The Epoqic
mentions a rumour this evening that Prussia,
which has not yet evacuated Luxemburg, will,
by way of reprisal, send eight battalions into the
neighbourhood, if not to re-occupy the fortress.
That would indeed be a strong measure, but
I am not sure that it would be an
imprudent one, as it would, I think, at
once reduce the alleged Prusso-Austrian
alliance to its true value. A more credible report
is that the cabinet of Berlin has diplomatically de
mended explanations touching the Salzburg inter-
view.

The Epoque says that Marshal O'Donnell is in
Paris. It does not venture to give its usual bul-
letin of news favourable to the insurrection.

Rudolph Weigel, the well-known book and print-
seller of Leipzig, died, says the Atkentrum, on tho an :1 of
August, after a long sad painful illness. He was a man of
great experience and extensive reading, yet of singular
modesty in the expression of his opinions. He was known
all over Europe as a collector of rare works on Art, of
prints and artiste autographs. He was a diligent contri-
butor to our knowledge of the bibliography of Art in
every one of its branches.

THE CHOLERA IN ITALY.—The death, by cholera,
of the sister of Cardinal Antonelll and • d►ughter of
Prince dArsoli, at Rome, and of Princess de Partanna, at
Palermo is announced. The Italian journals announce
that the cholera is spreading at Messina, but without giving
the mortality. Accounts from Palermo state that from
the 24th to the 25th there were 97 cases and 52 deaths ;
and at Rome from the 23rd to the 24th 48 asses, of which
22 were fatal.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT THE FRENCH ACA-
DERT.—The annual public sitting of the French Academy
took place yesterday at 2 o'clock, Count de Fallon:, the di-
rector, presiding. IL Villemain, perpetual secretary, read a
report on the competition for literary works, and the chair-
man that on the recompenses awarded for acts of virtue.
Before proceeding to announce the reooessful competitors,
the piece of verses was read which obtained the prize for
" The Death of President Lincoln," and of which M.
Orenier is the author. One prize of 2,500 fr., two of
2,000 fr., three of 1.000 fr., and fifteen of 500 fr., were
*warded for acts of devotedness and self-negation. Eight
recompenses of 2,000 fr. each were given for the follow-
ing works :—Madame Craven, for her " Recite dune
Recur ;" IL Gerard, Inspector of the Academy of Paris.
for "La Morale de Plutarque ;" M. Gander, Pro-
fessor, for his " Boesuet, Oratenr ;" M. Margerie,
Professor, " Theodioee, etudes our Dieu ;" M. Beaus-
sire, "De la Überte dans l'Ordre Intellectual et
Moral ;" MM. Mace, Stahl, and Verner, " Le Magnin de
l'Education et de Recreation ;" M. Geffroy, professor,
"Gustave 111. et la Cour de France ;" end M. Emile Belot,
professor, " Histoire des Chevaliers Romaine." The special
prize of 3,000 fr., founded by the late M. Bortlin, was
given to M. Caro for his " Philosophie de G,vthc." As is
usual on such occasion, the hall was crowded with a
fashionable anditoli,
DEATH OP A WATERLOO VETERAN.—Last week
one of the soldiers who fought under Wellington at
Waterloo, died an obscure and somewhat strange death in
Penrith Union Workhouse. The deceased, whose name
was John Hodgins, a native of Tipperary, Ireland, Will on
Saturday week discovered 13 log in a ditch near to Round
Thorn, Penrith, in a helpless and apparently dying condi-
tion, having to all appearances travelled that days, journey
which had proved too much for his exhausted consti-
tution. The poor man was conveyed in a cart to the
workhouse, where he died, His appearance was most
extraordinary, and was the subject of much astonish•
ment to those who sew him. He was said to have been 29
stones in weight, measured lift. 2Yin. in height, 2ft. 4in.
across the shoulders, and was 80 years of age, his great
weight being chiefly owing to his immense bone and extra-
ordinary muscular development, the proportions of which
were most enormous. The coffin in which he was interred
more resembled a large sized boat than the ordinary
receptacle for a full-grown corpse. Hedging was in receipt
of a government pension of 6d. a day for two years after he
obtained his discharge from the British army. In his pockets
were found a number of letters in the handwriting of
people of distinction. One of these was from the Rev.
B. A. Marshall, of Carlisle, stating that the writer was
fully acquainted with the history of the deceased. He
served as sergeant in the 4th Dragoon Guards in the
Peninsular war, and was present at the closing scene of
Waterloo. On an envelops written by the deceased was
the following :—" Oft and oft the right honourable the
Countess of Carlisle, its, Ste., relieved me with half
sovereign."—Cariiste lounge!.

LORD REDESDALE AND THE GREAT EASTBILV
RAIL WA Y.

Lord Redemiale has addressed to the Tim.-;
letter in reply to or., from Mr. Baxter, the solicitor,
recently published in that journal, referring to a commun.,.
cation which that gentleman bad with his lordship
respecting his remarks in the House of Lords on the co
n•
duct of the Great Eastern directors in relation to a pro.
posed payment to Mr. Brassey of 40,000/. on account of the
Dunmow Railway. The noble lord, after complaining
a want of accuracy on the part of Mr. Baxter, and retatrkit;
that all he desires la to place the true state of the sat
before the Great Eastern shareholders, proceeds to any :
" The Dunmow Act passed in 1861. In 1862 the union
all the Eastern railways under the Great Eastern Company
took place. In the bill relating to the Epping liver, leave
was given to abandon a line which that company was unchr
obligations to make, on the ground that the wants of the
district were better supplied by the Dunmow line, and tl.!
committee, in granting the abandonment, subjected the
Great Eastern to the penalty of suspension of dividends 49
their ordinary share capital in the event of the Dimio,
line not being finished within the appointed time—a exec.
what irregular provision, as the line belonged to another
company, to which the Great Eastern were only authorised
to subscribe to a limited amount. As the Great Euten,
pay no dividend on ordinary share capital, the
penalty was of no great consequence to chew.
Mr. Bidder took advantage of this excuse for proposing,
at • meeting of directors, that the company should enter
into an agreement with Mr. Brassey to construct the line
under certain conditions, which was agreed to. All the
directors, as well as Mr. Bidder and Mr. Bracey, must have
known that this was an illegal agreement, the Great
Eastern having no authority to raise money for the par.
pose, or to make the line. The only excuses they could
have had for entering into it would have beeu a desire to
save time and a determination to seek the necessary
powers in the next session. This they did not do, although
they got an act enabling them to guarantee a dividend on
the Dunmow share capital. Two ears later, in
they brought in a bill for the pis of the line. In
it, which was the first binding agreement 1.-
t ween them and Mr. Brassey, it was provided that they
should pay the coat of the construction of the Dunmow line
including the application to parliament, but that the sann to
be so paid should not exceed 80,0001., and that on receiving
that amount the Dunmow Company, after paying their
debts, were to divide the residue among theirshareholders,
execute a deed of transfer of their undertaking, and then
cease to exist. The Dunmow Company is Mr. Brusey
alone. It was a contractor's line, and there are no other
shareholders. Mr. Baxter, in his interview with me, ad.
mitted that the act was binding and conclusive, but said
that Mr. Brassily knew nothing about its being passed. I
told him that unless Mr. Brassey gave that testimomy on
oath before a committee I could not believe It, nor
do I think that any man in his senses could
when the relations between him and the Great EMl‘ertl
and .Dunmow Companies are considered. However,
it matters little so far as the character of the Great Eastern
directors is concerned. If they, believing Mr. Brassey to
be entitled to 120,0001., obtained that act, keeping its pn,
visions secret from him, they swindled him, and if 24r,
Braise knew its provisions he is bound to be content with
80,0001., and the proposal of the directors to give bin
40,0001. more was, as I described it, a gross job. tinder
either alternative, they are proved to be unworthy of the
confidence of the shareholders, and it is clear to me from
this proceeding, and from the state into which they h
brought the concern, that there is no chance of any inn
provement in the affairs of the company unless the 12*
nagement la placed in other hands."

The Rev. John Scott, of Tyd St. Giles, has been
appointed to the vicarage of Wiabech St. Peter, e.,cast
by the appointment of Dr. Howson to the deanery• of
Cheater. Mr. Scott is brother to Hr. G. Gilbert Scan,
the eminent architect, and a grandson of Scott, the cm.
mentator.

A silver cradle has been presented to Mr. John
Morgan, the mayor of Stafford, to commemorate the birth
of a son during his year of office. The " is a
truth an epergne, and it east 1001.
We (A thencrum) understand that a house (No.
17, Saville-row) has been taken for the temporary acconnso
dation of the University of London, at present lodged
the east wing of Burlington-house. It is expected the
the university will remove at Michaelmas, after which the
work of demolition will commence to clear the ground far
the new buildings in which the Royal Society and sofas
other societies are to be located. The rear of the nes
building for the university is now up to a level with the
roofs of the houses in Burlington-gardens, and as the
masons have resumed work on the Meade, we may pm
sume that the vexed question as to style has been settled.
The new galleries for the Royal Academy are rising higher
and higher, with solid and well-built smile, and give good
reason to infer that the stipulation requiring their root*.
in by Christmas will be complied with.
THE LATE PRuEESSOR FARADAY. —The Athetvw
published a letter from the deceased Professor to Dr. Pon
giving an account of his introduction to Sir Ilumpir!
Davy. It is as follows :—" You &eked me to give pa
an account of my first introduction to Sir H. Dopy,
which I am very happy to do, as I think the n.
eumstance will bear testimony to his goodness of hem
When I was • bookseller's apprentice, I was very fad
of experiment, and very averse to trade. It bappred
that • gentleman, • member of the Royal Is-
stitution, took me to hear some of Sir H. DA7S
last lectures in Albemarle-street. I took notes, ,ad
afterwards wrote them out more fairly in s
quarto volume. My desire to escape from trade, slzh
I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into na
service of science, which I imagined made its purred
amiable and liberal,l induced me at last to take the lid
and simple step of writing to Sir IL Davy, expression 2J
wishes, and a hope that, if an opportunity came in his ay,
he would favour my views ; at the same time I seat Is
notes I had taken at his lectures. The answer, which =AI
all the point of my communication, I send you ions
original, requesting you to take great care of it, and text
me have it back, for you may imagine how much I valise.
Yon will observe that this took place at the end of Or ye
1812, and early in 1813 he requested to see me, and • !I
me of the situation of assistant in the laboratory of is
Royal Institution, then just vacant. At the same tie
that he thus gratified my dances as to scientific eel >7•
ment, he still advised me not to give up the presides!
had before me, telling me that science was a harsh Nis-
tress, and in • pecuniary point of view but poorly rev,al•
ing those who devoted themselves to her service. lb
smiled at my notion of the superior t,oral feeling, rf
philosophic men, and said he would leave we to then•
perience of a few years to set me right on the matter.
Finally, through his good efforts, I went to the
Institution early in /larch of 181.1, as assistant in
laboratory ; and in October of the same year went
him abroad as his assistant in experiments and in wring.
I returned with him in April, 1815, resumed soy stare
in the Royal Institution, and have, as you know, c•
since remained there."

SAYINGS BANKS UNDER TRUSTERS—.The moot
received by these saving banks throughout the Fuel
Kingdom in the year 18.c2 was 7,t41,1771., that raid 11
depositors 6,684 ,906 L , and the con muted capitals
By a comparison of the financial transactions during 40
last fifteen years it is found that the amount rece.ral
reached its staxisten in 1860, the amount paid in Iv,.
whereas the oomputed capital appears to bare beat lapel
in 1861. Since the opening of the rost-ofhee
banks the receipts of these banks have regularly dechaa
In 1865 a sum of 2,5211. was transfern.d from, awl si
of 23'2,3121 to the Post-office savings book, and aerie; liat
year 2,3071. were transferred front, and 2:170,11:V.
same establishment. The total amount received tweet"
banks under trustees during the p 22 putt year was 7,:042
the total amount paid 10,652,993/., and the total costar,
capital 36,307,019 L
ASSAULT BY • LADY OT TITLE. —At the
tinge police-court, on Wednesday, the Viscountess FN
fort de Montmorency was summoned fur atorultin:
servant, Eliza Bennett. It appeared that the conipho
had been in the service of ILady Frankfort about
weeks only. On Wednesday, the i!let hot., her mi•
called ber many foul names, and aft, retards onletvi
to take the tea kettle downstairs. :tea
began to descend the s'airs, Lady Fraekfoit called o
her to take down a pillow which leol h. n vonlitvti
by a dog. Before the girl had time to pick up the
the lady threw it at her, the vomit dying in her fac,.
magistrates considered the assault jeered, an l tin, •
Viscountess Frankfort de Montmorency 4Th.. and rt.!
two months' imprisonment in default Of loymeat. •
fine was paid.
EXTRAORDINARY STORY.—AS showing o.te o:.
sition which is still manifested by sonic claims o° woe
to the use of machinery in their trade, the D0rf;...0..
frra ph tells the story of what has loppened
li'Dermid, upholsterer, of Darlington. Thi,‘ gent.'
it seems, has invented a machine by which he Pri"
save one-third of the usual amount of lab ea'
banging, and has taken out a patent for it. lie
get it introduced in London, but although tie'
were favourable to the design, the work,iien wre
and either purposely spoilt the paper, or refits...ito
apparatus. He hail been recomniended to the ehi.!
large paper-hanging firm, bathe found that in the Pr
calls the gentleman could not be conmun.ir de'
was always out. He learnt some time afterward-. eir
be had repeatedly left cards for the ptincip 1. th..
gentleman had never been permitted to of Ili*.
tion, and when ultimately he did MI he
not adopt it beer.use of the hostilityof n•
instance he was civilly invited by genic or
hangers to attend in a certain quarter awl
machine. This he did in the innocence of he a:.
all he got for his pains was a heavy ht.'w fr th,
one of the party, end a strong blackgnarlinz.
he did not attempt to hit hack, or he
scarcely have got off pith his life. On !cone!
these fellows followed him, and iloprecAting
to which he had been subjected, gained such a
of confidence as to persuade him to go to
part of London to see a paper-lianger,
was induced to leave one of his machines. T '
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(TIM DAY.)

COURT OF BA.N KRUPTCY.
(lkfon• Mr. Commissioner Winslow.)
IN RE Jolt BOLTON.

this was an application for release on behalf of the
pan: r, who had carried on the business of la
cattle
r. ot Simpson Ferry, Stratford. in the county of
The petition was filed on the 2.lrd of January
h.,. mil on the 14th of May the order of discharge was
suspended for 12 months, without protection, upon the
• I that the bankrupt had contracted debts without
i,,isonahle mean, or expectation of making payment. He
ei thereupon arrested by Messrs. Stafford's creditors,
• Lad proved their debt, and he has since been in prison
at thtti. suit.
Mr. Ihiria supported the application Mr. Jessop, on
behalf of the detaining creditors, opposed it.
.Ifter hearing the arguments at considerable length.
Honour declined to grant the release. He said
ti,„, he had no poser to release a bankrupt except under
circumstances mentioned in the 182nd and
socticuci of the act of IS4B. The power
of the court was restricted to three classes
of cases; nrst, where a bankrupt had been arrested in
den nice of his protection : second, where he had been
arrciacii after obtaining his order of discharge ; and
third, there was the inherent jurisdiction which the
,rt peisessed under the 112th section. But here the case
• different. The bankrupt had been arrested after he had
pair-ed his examination, but at a time when he was with-
out his order of discharge and without protection. He
felt bound to construe the statute strictly and according
to the light which had been thrown upon it by the decisions
of the Court of Appeal, particularly in a case of Kim-
berley. *lore the jurisdiction of the oeurt was held to be
limited to the particular class of cases he had referred to.
If any court had jurisdiction be thought it was the court
out of which the process issued, the creditor having
elected to iome in under the bankruptcy.
Application refused.

TUE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

WORSHIP-STREET.

BARING ROBBERY ACROBri • COURTIER.
Tiv,Mai lint 110 r, a miserably-clad youth, of forbidding
countenance, was charged before Mr. Ellison with steal-
ing a gold watch, gold chain, and gold locket from the
neck of Miss Harriett Robinson, an employee in the shop
of Mr. W. Pringley, fancy baker, 270, Hackney-road.
Prosecutria deposed—On the evening of Friday, the 23rd
instant, I was in the shop alone, and wore a gold
watch, value, I believe, 8!. secured with a gold chain and
lo.. Let round my throat. The prisoner, whom I particu-
larly noticed, came to the counter and asked me for
a penny loaf. I hod not the slightest idea of his inten-
tion, for there was nothing particular in his manner to
suspect ; but the instant I placed the bread on the counter
he put down a penny-piece with the one hand and grasped
the chain with the other, pulling it until the links broke,
when watch and all passed into his hands, and he ran off.
I followed and gave an alarm, but could not see anything
of him or my property.
ißy Mr.
thief.

Mr. Ellison—This occurred • week since. When did
you next see him?
Prosecutrix—Last night, at the station-house.
A plain-clothes oonstsble—This young lady gave so
accurate • description of him, sir, that I recognised
Dim immediately. I saw him last night in Shore-
ditch, and so also did she when he was among twelve
others in a cell shortly afterwards. If I am allowed a
remand, I am told that something can be proved against
the prisoner. There are so many cases of " snatching"
now about the East-end that extra men are placed on
duty to stop it.
Prisoner (with the greatest nonchalance}—Well, I
don't know anything about the robbery.
Mr. Ellison directed a remand.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ROBBERY At A PICTCRX-GALLERY.--COMMITTAL.
Charles Grady, alias Piddle, John Taylor, alias Curly,
and SaraA Moire were charged before Mr. Knox with steal-
ing an oil painting, of the value of 20/., the property of
Mr. Fitzpatrick, picture-dealer' Pall-mall.
The evidence showed that the picture having been
pledged at Mr. Harrison's, Wardour-street, by Howe, and
a description afterwards being seen by Mr. Harrmon's
assistant of the picturein the " Police List," he com-
municated with Sergeant Hagen, of the C division who
went to Howe's lodgings, in St. Ann's-court, IVaAlour-
street, and asked her about the picture • but she denied
all knowledge of it. Sergeant Hager took Howe to Mr.
lilirrison's where she was at once identified as the person
pledging the picture. She then stated that she had pledged
it fortwomen she knew as "Fiddle" and" Curly," and that
she was to have 2s. for her trouble. Sergeant Hagen then
took her to the station, and went to Windmill-street and
made inquiries for the male prisoners, and afterwards,
thinking it probable that they would go, in consequence
of inquiries being made for them to Howe, to warn her
what to say, he went to Howe's lodgings, and after be
bad waited there some time the male priaoners, as ho
expected, arrived and he then took them into custody.
WGrady said be knew nothing of the picture, and
Taylor said he stole it.

Sergeant Hagen said he believed both the male pri-
soners had been several times convicted.

Mr. Knox committed the prisOnersK; trial.
GREENWICH.
FIGHTING ON THE HITCH FOB POSSESSION OF A BOAT.
Timms Henry Lam, a Thames waterman, was charged
as follows :

It appeared that at 2 o'clock this (Saturday) morning
the captain of the ship William and Dinah, belonging to
Cools, gave information to Inspector Valley, of the
Thames police, that the ship's boat had broken adrift,
and that if found it was to be taken charge of. At 5
o'clock the boat was discovered near Rotherhithe, and was
taken away in tow of the police galley. Immediately
afterwards the prisoner came along and called
to the police, asking them what they intended to do
with the boat. Having got into a boat, be rowed after
the police galley, and coming up to it jumped into the
ships' boat, and taking out a knife was about cutting
the boat adrift again. Police-constable Newton, No. 37,
was then ordered to get from the galley into the boat to
prevent this, when the prisoner struck him in the breast
end knocked him backwards, be narrowly escaping falling
into the river.

The prisoner said he found the boat adrift, and had
chalked upon it his name and address, which had been
mopped out. Ile considered that he had as much right to
the possession of the boat as the police.
Inspector Varley admitted the prisoner's name was
written in chalk, and that by his directions it was washed
off.

Mr. Traill said the inspector had acted wrongly in doing
this, and believing the prisoner had committed the assault
under a mistaken notion of his rights, he should merely
require him to enter into recognisanoes for his future good
behaviour.

THE PAN-Axaueur SIRVICI6B. —The services in
connection with the approaching synod, which are to be
held under the sanction of the Archbishop, of Canterbury
and the Bishop of London at the church of St. Lawrence-
by•Guildhall, will commence on Saturday, the 14th of
September, and conclude on Sunday evening, September
72. The Bishop of London has promised to preach the
opening sermon. The Bishopsof eipetown and St Andrew's
and some of the American prelates have promised to
preach. An effort is to be made through these services to
strengthen the foreign missions of the church of England.
SINCULAB CAKE OF CHILD MURDER.—A very
painful and remarkable ease of child murder was com-
mitted in Lakenheath, Suffolk, on Thursday morning, the
22nd inst. The victim is a female child, 9 months old, the
daughter of Richard and Mary Ann Cathercole, the latter
of whom appears to have got up on Thursday morning
unknown to her husband, carried the child into the yard,
and, having placed it in a wash-keeler, pumped water
upon it, and held it down in the moat deliberate and de-
termined manner until it was dead ; and immediately
walked off to the house of the police-constable, where she
insisted on being taken into custody. The coroner's jury
have returned a verdict of " wilful murder" against her.
/for fol k New.

Yesterday morning the body of an unknown man
was found on the London and North-Western Railway,
about 100 yards below Longwood Station, near Hudders-
field. The left arm, left leg, and jaw were fractured, and
the head rut in two places. The man appears to have
been trespassing on the line, and was killed by a passing
train.

TRAFFIC R6CRTTI9.—The traffic returns of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom for the week ending August
21, amounted on 12.621 miles to K 31,1371., and for the
corresponding week of 1816 on 12560 miles, to 788,9931.,
showing an increase of 263 miles and of 42,144/. The
raw receipts on 14 of the principal railways in the
I.7nitel Kin;dom amounted, for the week, on 9,268 miles,
to 692,h707., and for the corresponding week of last
year, on 9,102 miles, to 660,9061., showing an
Increase of 166 miles and of 31,9641. The
increese on the Caledonian amounted to 9481. ; on
the Great Eastern to 2,3941.; on the Great Northern
to 2,6151. ; on the Great Southern and Western to
1,1134/.; on the Great Western to 2,5391.; on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire to 1,7881.; on the London and North
Western to ; on the London and Brighton to
h‘997. ; on the London and South Western to 1,037/. ;
on the 51anchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire to 1,4601.;
on the Midland to 5,1731.; on the North British to
1.2701. ; on the North-Eastern to 4,007/. ; and on the South
Eastern to 3,1951. ; total, 31,9641. The receipts on 52
other railways in the United Kingdom amounted on 3,555
miles to 38,2677., and for the eorresponding week of last
ye sr, on 3,456 miles, to 123,0871., showing an increase of
07 miles and of 10,180/. The goods traffic on the 14
ir.tema of lines above mentioned amounted for the week
t' 329,579/. against 316,4707., showing an increase of
1.'•10/. The passengers, parcels, mails, he., traffic on
Sae lilts amounted to 363,2411., and for the correspond-
ing week of 1866 to 344,436/.' showing an increase of
1x,8;,1. The total receipts for the past week show a de-
crease of 2,913/., as compared with those of the preceding
Meek, ending the 17th inst.