The Sun.
London, England, 1855-06-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending June 2,
1855 £15,133 5 11
Corresponding week last year 18,809 7 4
Total of the half-year to this date, 1855 241,039 4 6
Total of the half-year to this date, 1854 248,095 13 4
LONDON AND;SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic ie-
turn for the week ending June 2, 1855 £19,831 6 10
Corresponding week last year 16,436 19 1

Increase in 1855

...R3,394 7 9

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending June 2, 1855 £6,206 7 11
Corresponding week last year 6,023 10 2

Increase in 1855

,RlB'2 17

A SHIP ON SEIORE.—ANTWERP, JUNE 4. —The Henry
William Mitchell (English schooner), from Liverpool to
Rotterdam, is on shore off Terveere. Her cargo is dis-
charging.
WRECKS.-41 return just published shows that the
number of vessels wrecked in the month of May was
98 ; in April, 109 ; March, 149 ; February, 164 ; and
in January, 238—making a total of 758 vessels wrecked
during the present year.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—Return of admissions for six days
ending, June 2—Number admitted, including season
ticket holders, 61,549 ; amount received for admissions,
1,913/. Ils. 6d.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—Shilling-day.—June 5. -Admis-
sions on payment, 8,275 ; ditto by season tickets, 507.
Total, 8,782.
COLLISION AT SEA.—DEAL, Wednesday.—The Im-
peratrice, screw steamer (220 transport), from London
for the Crimea, got in collision with the Belgian schooner
Commerce, off Dungeness, last night. The schooner has
lost bowsprit and sustained other damage, and the trans-
port damaged to such an extent that she was compelled
to put back, making so much water that she has sunk
in the Gull Stream, with her bows under water. Three
tugs are in attendance on her.
CRICKET.—The annual match of the Marylebone and
Surrey Clubs was commenced at Lord's on Monday,
and resulted in the Surrey Club being beaten in one inn-
ings and 14 runs. It was concluded yesterday. Score :
Marylebone, Ist innings, 193 ; Surrey, Ist innings, 56 ;
2d innings, 123.
BANK of BRITISH NORTH AMERlCA.—Yesterday the
yearly meeting of- the proprietors of this corporation
was held st their head-office in Bishopsgate-street ;
Mr. Oliver Farrer presiding. The report stated that
the net profits for the year ending 30th December,
1854, were 99,691/. 17s. 2d., which sum, though about
1,000/. less than the year preceding, in reality repre-
sented a largei amount of business, as a greater amount
had been added in 1854 to the reserve fund. The
balance of undivided profits on the 30th of Decem-
ber, 1854, was 140,0411. 7s. 2d., being an increase
on the rest of 14,691/. 17s. 2d. over the previous year.
The directors proposed a dividend at the rate of 6 per
cent., and a bonus of 30s. per share. The chairman, in
moving the adoption of the report, said the affairs of the
bank were never in a more healthy or prosperous con-
dition. The report was adopted, as was also a resolu-
tion authorising the directors to apply a sum of 2,0001.
for the benefit of the family of Mr. Attwood, their late
secretary, who died suddenly on the 24th of April last.
The directors, who retired in rotation, were Mr. W. It.
Chapman, Sir A. P. Green, and Mr. J. J. Cummins, all
of whom were re-elected.

THE EXPEDITION TO THE -SEA OF
AZOFF.

CONSTANTINOPLE, May 28.—The Banlhee has just
arrived, bringing news which gladdened the heart of
every Englishman. Kertch, was taken on the Queen':
birthday, without firing a gun. The whole of the
correspondence between the Governors of Kertch
and the military authorities, together with the
archives of the place for many years, were found
floatieg in the ' harbour by a midshipman of the
Royal Albert, and are safe in the possession of
the English. From these it appears that the want of
provisions was much felt in the Crimea, bread having
risen to double its former price. A letter was found
;tom the Russian Commander-in-Chief, ordering the
immediate preparation of an hospital for 16,000 :sick
and wounded, a proof that the Russians expect
not only an unhealthy season but a bloody campaign.
The possible bare particulars are as follows :—On the'
23d a mixed force, consisting of 10,000 French, 5,000
Turks, and 3,500 English, left Kamieih and Balaklava.
The expedition entered the Straits of Kertch on Thursday
(24th) and reduced the forts of Ambulaki, the enemy aban-
doning the place and blowing up five magazines. The
gunboats silenced the Pavlovskaya battery, destroyed
Russian gun-boats, and took a number of small brigs.'
The garrisons of Kertch and Yenikale, said by some to
be 10,000 strong, by others to amount only to 2,000,
were seen to leave and fall back into the interior by the
southern road. Meantime, the troops landed without
opposition at Ambulaki, where they bivouacked for
the night. 'They then moved in towards Kertch. Dur-
ing this time the gun-boats were actively engaged beat-
ing up the Tamanskoi Gulf, and in reducing the forts
on the sand-bank. All the inhabitants fled, and many of
the houses were burning on Thursday. By 3 o'clock on
Friday, Kertch and Yenikale were in the hands of the
Allies, with all the guns in batteries anti the stores. The
flotilla at once entered the Sea of Azoff, which it will
penetrate up to within 20 miles of Taganrog. The ene-
my had entirely disappeared by Friday evening.
Nearly 3,000 men have set 'out from Yarna to form
the nucleus of the Turkish Contingent.