The Sun.
London, England, 1855-05-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Trafrtc return for the
week ending May 6, 1855 £20,118 14 11
Corresponding ding week last year 14,069 7 8
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffie re-
turn for the week ending May 13, 1855 £19,101 17 6
Corresponding week last year 19,017 19 3
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending May 13, 1855 £5,131 5 10
Corresponding week last year 4,819 12 7
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Increase in 1855 £3ll 13 3

Letters from Berlin of the 10th state, that although
the King is now free from fever he has not regained his
former health, and he has been counselled by his physi-
cians to repair to Erdmannsdorff for the benefit of the
mountain air.

The North British Mail announces the death of Dr.
John Couper, Professor of Materia Medica in the Uni-
versity of Glasgow. Dr. Cooper was the second occu-
pant of that chair, ha \ring succeeded the late Dr. Richard
Millar, in 1834.

AN INCOME-TAX COLLECTOR.—One of the collectors
of the income tax in a district near Birmingham has been
committed for trial at \ Var wick assizes, on a charge of
embezzling sums of mo.aey collected by him on account
of the income tax. He bad returned a number of houses
void on which the tax had been collected, but in the
subsequent half-year he had paid the amount in full.
THE IRON TRADE.-=-13:111MINGHAM, Wednesday.—The
depressed state of the ir•)n trade has been again verified
by the failure of another tortensive establishment. Messrs.
Davies, of Westbromwicti, long known as one of the
leading firms in South Staffordshire, have issued circu-
lars fur a meeting of their c,-editors at the Queen's Hotel,
in this town, on Friday nei :t. Their liabilities are un-
• derstood to be very heavy, b ut, as in other cases which
have recently occurred, it is hopel that arrangements
will be made by which bankruptcy may be avoided. It
is useless to conceal the fact that other houses are freely
spoken of, and that credit at the present moment is in a
very unhealthy condition. A firm extensively engaged
in the tube rna,nt.facture was to-day reported in difE.
cuities.
SINGULAR CASE OF A MISSING L 'ETTER AND CHEQUE.—
During the period of the last Liverpc `ol election (in March)
a letter was addressed by Mr. Hud 'ion, M.P., to Mrs.
Cox, 29, Shaw-street, Liverpool. Th letter contained a
cheque for 101. 10s., being the half. yearly payment of
dividends to which the lady was entit led under a settle-
ment of which Mr. Hudson was trustee. Mrs.
Cox, however, does not reside at 1 Zo. 29, but at
No. 74, in Shaw-street, and the letter, instead of
finding her, was delivered at the hon.s.e of Mr Joseph
Cox, a chandelier - manufacturer al xi brass-finisher,
residing in Renshaw-street. Mr. Cox according to his
own statement, wrote to Mr. liudso.2 for an explana-
tion ; but receiving no reply, he canto to the somewhat
singular con;:lusion that the money bad boat: sent to in-
fluence his vote, and p!acedl the in atter in the hands of
the Reform Association, What steps they took in the
matter have not transpired ; but it t urns out that a little
time after Mr. Cox, through a Mr. V allance, obtained the
money for the cheque. Mr. Hudson, in answer to his
inquiries, having learned from W.rs. Cox that the remit-
tance had not reached her,
cattlJed inquiries to be made,
which resulted in the apprehi nsion of Cox on Saturday.
On Monday he was broue ut before the magistrates,
charged with having felonic ,usiy appropriated the letter
and cheque. The case WV remanded.