The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.

The traffic returns of railways in the United King-
dom for the week ending January 30, amounted to 302,41011,
end for the oonosponding week of 1867 to 397,2901., show-
ing a decrease of 4,8801. The gross receipts of the eight rail-
ways having their termini in the metropolis amounted for the
week ending es above to 162,2161., and for the correspond-
ing week of last year to 164,6141., showing a decreer) at
2,3981. The decree's on the Eastern Counties Railway
amounted to 1,1671 ; on the London and North-Western
to 3,9111. ; end on the South-Western to 6001.; tow,
5,6781. But from this must be deducted the incense on
the Great Northern, 1,0281. ; on the Great Western of
1,4481.; on the London and Blackwell of 113 L; on the Lon-
don, Brighton, and South Coast of 67814 and on the &nth-
Eastern of 1131.; together, 3,0281., leaving the demo as
above, 2,3981. The receipts on the other lines ha the
united kingdom amounted to 230,1941., and for the cor-
responding period of 1867 to 232,6761., showing a decrease
of 2,4821. in the receipts of these lines, which, added to the
decrease on the metropolitan lines, makes the total de-
crease 4,88014 as compered with the corresponding week
of 1867.

The following are the railway returns of the put week:

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ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN
BIRMINGHAM.

Yesterday a man staying at the Clarendon Hotel,
Birmingham, attempted to murder a women who passed as
his wife, and then committed suicide. About • fortnight
ago Mr. Harrison, the proprietor of the hotel, received a
note dated Northampton, engaging apartments fora man and
his wife for • week. A front sitting-room and bedroom were
set apart fur them, and on Friday last they arrived. The man
append to be between 30 and 40 years of age ; the woman
at 20. Mr. Harrison supposed the man to be a commer-
cial traveller. Up to • quarter to 1 o'clock yesterday they
had not quitted their chamber, when a discharge of fire-arma
was heard, immediately followed by another, accompsnied
by shrieks of murder from the landing on which the bedroom
of the two persons was situate. Ou the servants rushing up
stairs they saw the woman standing outside the door partially
de...ad
•h blood streaming from a wound in her neck, She
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said, e has killed me," and then repeated several times the
word "jealousy." The man was found stretched upon the
bed, apparently lifeless, his right band grasping a pistol. A.
' second pistol lay upon the floor. Medical aid was procured,
but he was insensible, and died in • few moments. It was
found that the women was wounded on the right side of the
head, and that the bones had been shattered by the bullet,
the ball Itself remaining lodged. This was extracted
by Mr. Bolton, one of the surgeons of the General
Hospital, but it is doubtful whether she can recover.
Last evening she was in a very precarious state.
According to the woman she was In the act of getting out of
' bed, when the deceased told her to lift a handkerchief lying
on the counterpane. She did so, and di.covered two pistols.
In some alarm she asked what he meant, when he replied—
" Oh, nothing ; but there's one for you and one fur me." He
added, h.,wever, that she need not be afraid, and that she
must go to sleep again. She returned to bed, when the de-
ceased snatched up a pistol, and placing it to her head, die.
charged it
Part4lly stunned she rushed to the door, saw
him pat the other pistol to his ear and tall on the bed, where
he died. A letter, written by the deceased, and found on the
dressing table, states that his name is Ebenezer John Harri-
son, and that his parents reside in Derbyshire; that the
young woman was not his wife—a statement the truth of
which she admits—that she is the daughter of respectable
pare te is Northaniptonahke, and had been unfaithful to