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

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending May 6, 1855 £20,118 14 11
Corresponding ding week last year 18,069 7 8
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic 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
Inereaie in 1855. £3ll 13 3

Letters from Berlin crf 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 Medina in the Uni-
versity of Glasgow. Dr. Couper was the second occu-
pant of that chair, having succeeded the late Dr. Richard
Millar, in 1834..

AN INCOME-TAX COLLECTOR.-000 of the collectors
of the income tax in a district near Birmingham has been
committed for trial at Warwick assizes, on a charge of
embezzling sums of money collected by him on account
of the income tax. He had returned a number of houses FOR ALTERING VOTING
void on which the tax had been collected, but in We THE LATE COMMITMENT
PAPERS.—Since the commitment of Messrs. BalVGiles,
and Arding, from Lambeth police court on Wednesday
subsequent half-year he had paid the amount in full.
THE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, Wednesday.—The
last, the two former for 14, and the latter; for 21 days,
depressed state of the iron trade has been again verified to the House of Correction, Wandsworth, every effort
by the failure of another extensive establishment. Messrs. had been made to obtain their discharge, 'but up to the
Davies, of Westhromwich, long known as one of the present they have been unavailing. Last evening the
leading firms in South Staffordshire have issued circu-
parties still remained in prison.
Jars for a meeting of their creditors at the Queen's Hotel, THE GRENADIER GUARDS AND THE WAR IN THE EAST.
in this town, on Friday ner.t. Their liabilities are un- —The services rendered by two men of the Grenadier
derstood to be very heavy, but, as in other cases which Guards in the East are worthy of particular mention—
have recently occurred, it is hopes that arrangements we mean Sergeant Daniel Owen and Private Isaac
Church, of the 2d battalion of the above regiment, to
will be made by which bankruptcy may be avoided. It '
is useless to conceal the fact that other houses are freely whom were presetted, a few days since, by their colonel,
spoken of, and that credit at the present moment is ins the Prince Consort, medals for meritorious conduct in
very unhealthy condition. A firm extensively engaged
the field. The medals in question, it must be borne in
in the tube manufacture was to-day reported lb diffi. 'mind, are quite distinct from those known as the Crimean
culties. 1 medals, with which both men are to be presented on
SINGULAR CASE OF A MISSING LETTER AND CHEQUE.— Friday next by the Queen. Private Church had been
During the period of the last Liverpool election (in March) ;but four years in the army ; at the battle of Alma he was
a letter was addressed by
certain duty, had the option of retiring to the rear, and Mr. Hudson, M.P., to Mrs. engaged as a pioneer, and on the accomplishment of a
Cox, 29, Shaw-street, Liverpool. The letter contained a '
cheque for 101. 10s., being the half-yearly payment of out of danger. On seeing his comrades of the Guards
dividends to which the lady was entitled under a settle- so. cut down at Inkerman, he seized the musket and
ment of which Mr. Hudson was trustee. Mrs, pouch of a wounded soldier, and, full 'of freshness and
Cox, however, does not reside at No. 29, but at fury, went into the heat of the action. • His conduct so
No. 74, in Sbaw-street, and the letter, instead of attracted the attention of the Duke of Cambridge, that
finding her, was delivered at the house of Mr. Joseph he most favourably reported him to the Prince Consort.
Cox, a chandelier - manufacturer and brass- finisher, , Church lost his right hand in action, and on Friday last
residing in Renshaw-street. Mr. Cox, according to his was discharged on a pension of 10d, per diem. The
Prince Consort told him on parade that he would lay his
own statement, wrote to Mr. H.udso,n for an explana-
tion ; but receiving no reply, he came to the somewhat case before the Queen, and do his utmost to obtain for
singular conclusion that the money bad been sent to in-
added, he would also endeavour to find him some em-
thehim a pension of ls, per diem. His Royal Highness
Reform Association. What steps they took in the
fluence his vote, and placedl the matter in the hands of ,
ployment suited to his present condition, for which
matter have not transpired ; but it turns out that a little Church expressed his'thanks. Church is a Bedfordshire
time after Mr. Cox, through a Mr. Valiance, oLtained the man by bird-. Sergeant Owen was one of the Duke of
money for the cheque. Mr. Hudson Cambridge's favourite sharpshbotere—or, rather game-
inquiries, having learned from Mrs. Hudson,
that the remit-
in answer to his
keepers, as the officers facetiously termed those of his
tance bad not reached her, caused inquiries to be made, class. The sergeant had been foisome days on the !ook
out for a man who had poke I off several of ours. He at
which resulted in the apprehension of Cox on Saturday. poke
winged him, and carried his prisoner alive to the
charged On Monday he . was brought before the magistrates,
Duke of Cambridge, dryly observing, " I have brought
chat;ged with having
feloniously
Appwpriated the letter '
and cheque. The case was remanded. your Royal Highness a live 'un at last."