The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-10 00:00:00

EV_E'NING, APRIL 10, it-,b;f,

AttCTIC EXPEDITION.
1 The ship's companies were mustered yesterday by
the Commodore Superintendent Captain Eden, and
'appeared very satisfactory. Tney are still short of
their fresh provisions; for what with examinations
and condemnations and new tenders, great delay has
been occasioned in completing the orders. We find
one of the messes have followed the examples of the
board and declined their stock from one of the most
respectable firms. Sir Baldwin Walker, with Mr.
Watts, and a great many persons, visited the ships
yesterday. The officers have been attending the de-
monstrations given by Mr. Hay on the galvanic bat-
teries, manipulating upon the batteries and charges,
to make themselves perfectly acquainted with the best
methods of applying this agent to the destruction of
the ice, as it was found in former explosions that
with the Bickford's fusees it was impossible to get a
simultaneous fire of the charge, a single one producing
little benefit in breaking large masses. It is expected
great advantage will be derived from a number of
charges fired simultaneously on the whole length of
ice at the entrance of Wellington Inlet, which is sup-
posed to be about 30 miles long, forming a barrier to
the open water alluded to by Captain Penny and
others. The plan proposed by Captain Sir Ed ward
Belcher is to plough certain deep grooves from end to
end of the ice, and then taking advantage of the state of
the winds and tide to carry away the ice, will explode
charges from one end to the other, as simultaneously
as possible, by fusees, assisted with the batteries. The
present board have not only granted the batteries
and wire necessary for carrying out Sir E. Belcher's
proposition, but, very desirous for its susses., most
considerably directed their chemical officer, Mr. Hay,
immediately to advise with Sir F. Beaufort, and to
attend at Woolwich during the short period that re-
mains before they leave, to assist Sir E. Belcher in
arranging his projected plans, and to give every faci-
lity to all the officers of the expedition who are in-
terested in this portion of the scheme, by having the
benefit of his long and great practical experience by
daily demonstrations and manipulations on the bat•
teries, of which they gladly avail themselves as well
as the bombardiers. We could mention where the
services of the chemical assistant might' have been well
directed. We have seen no testimony from any che-
mical officer on the state of the preserved meats, &c.
It appears to us that some of the contractors would
have felt better satisfied if their articles had been
condemned by practical officers, rather than by medi-
cal men, as the state of the provisions must arise from
some changes produced by accidental circumstances,
which it is the province of the chemical rather than
the medical man to ascertan.

RAILWAY RETURNS

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Mlles
NAME OF RAILWAY.Opened,
Receipts.
1852. - 1854. 1852.
51111511.
-------
.4 £
72 Aberdeen .. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1,428
• .. • •
1,250
37% Belfast and Ball3.,nena ••••••• • • • ~ .. 601 602
17 Belfast and County Down.• .• •• • • .... 119 182
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,265 1,434
26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York ....
~,!)1 P t 416
85% Bristol and Exeter ...... • • ..• ••• - - •,;,
1:7., 8 3:11z
2L240 2,432
189 Caledonian.... ...... ... .......... • •
9,,
,is Chester and Holyhead.• •..•••• • • • • • •
130
') Cork, Blackrock, and Passage • • • • ..
5;8 723
P Dublin and Belfast Junction .• .• • • ..• 845 lost,
53 Dublin and Drogheda 773 1,063
6 Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • •
16% Dundee and Arbroath ••••••• • • • • • • • 656 6u2
,I, Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction it) 157
,',' Dundalk and Enniskillen• •••••• • • • • • 642 635
_la° East Anglian.. ..... ... ••••••• • • • • • • • 3,695 4,147
79 East Lancashire ••••..•••• • • •• " • • • • 12,715 13,936
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. ••• • .. 2,005 2,020
95 Easter a Union• ••••••••••• • • • ' • • • • ' • 3,18.5 3,2 1 0
89'4 Edinburgh and Girqgolv ••••- - • • • • 2,129 2,287
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee•• •• • • ......
102
6 Exeter and Creditor.. •••••• • • • . 393 -
19 Furness Railway •••••••• ' - '• • • • • 4;237 4,075
171% Glasgow, and South-Western .• ••• • • . ~ 11, .
‘,6-2 318
241% Great Northern and E. L.• ••••• • • • • 4,273 4,225
188 Great Southern and Westeia,(lreland)
15,524 16,784
277 Great Western ••••••••• • • • • • - " • • 132 188
25 Irish South Eastern •••••••• • • • • • • • ' 3,763 4,148
90 Lancaster and Carlisle •••• • • • • ...... 1- 1a 4
15,608
a,
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire..• • • • • • • • • •
39 Leeds and Thirsk •• • • ..... "• -- • • 916 972224 265
12% Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport • •
539% London and North Westcra, .... •• • • 43,G27 43,247
5% London and Blackwall• ••••••• • • • • • • 918 834
173 1 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 9,
244 M ' London and South Western. ........ 9,367 0660 9,756
9,681
1 270
24% Londonderry and Enniskillen •••• • • • •
11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 122 90
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 6,209 6,278
448 9% Manchester and South Junction.. •• • • 502
~3
28 Maryport and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • 6
•
496 Midland ..... .. .. • •
21,682
126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • • 1,1422,223
37 Monklands ..
60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. ••.•••• • • • • • 2 249
3,202 32:172788
149 North British .... - - •• .• •• •• •• • • • •
222 North Staffordshire •• •• •• •• •••• • • • • 4,813 4,993
47 North-Western ••-•••••••••• • • • • • • 482 634
45 Scottish Central .• •• •• •• ...... •• - - 1,689 1,885
32 Scottish Midland ••••••-•• • • • • •• •• 461 610
29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham • • .... 559 5(4
47 Shrewsbury and Chester
29 Shropshire Union .. ••••- - - - - - boo 02
58 South Devon •.• • • ... . .............. 10 18 1,800
22814 South Eastern• •••• • • • . ..... ........ 10,111 10,882
93 South Wales -- - - ............ „ 949 1,463
77 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 1,01:0 1,416
40 Taff Vale ••••- •• •• - .............. 1,997 2,402
910 828
25 Waterford and Limerick ............320 261
16M West Cornwall ...... .......... 134 262
12 Whitehaven Junction ............... 188 798
30434 York and Newcastle, and Berwick ..• 13,7+0 14,227
279 York and North Midland. -•••• • • - 7•057 7,281
FOREIGN.
152 Central of France .....„ _,, ~
57U Dutch Rhenish ...... „. „
......,
213 .11aria Antonia ......., „„ „ , llB 1 163
63 Montereau and Troyes ..„
442% Northern of France .............. „ 16,50 20,287
134 k Orleans and Bordeaux.... - -
240 Paris and Lyons
.. - ....:::::: 5,191 12,259
82 Paris and Orleans ... .. .•• • • 7,522 9,'07
84 Paris and Rouen . ...• ••- • • • 5,565 -1 194 Paris and Strasburgh .. •.. • • 5,008 9,213
59 Rouen and Havre ......:: :: :::...,, 2,205
121 Tours and Nantes ...... .... . - •••• • 1.272 2,404

GOOD FRIDAY.
Notwithstanding that the weather yesterday was
less agreeable than on some previous Good Fridays,
owing to the strong easterly wind which prevailed,
yet thousands of the metropolitan inhabitants availed
themselves of the conveniences afforded by many of
the principal lines of railway leading out of London.
The Brighton Railway Company advertised an ex-
cursion train 'to Brighton and back at fares of 3s. 6d.,
ss. 6d., and 7s. 6d. each. The holiday folks who
were not afraid of the piercing wind mustered in
strong force at:the London-bridge terminus, and when
the first train (down) left at 8 o'clock, A al., every
carriage composing the train was filled with persons
of both sexes. The up-trains brought a corresponding
number of persons who were anxious to see some of
the numerous sights in London.
The directors of the South-Western Railway
offered to holiday seekers a journey out and in at
single fares and a small booking charge. The moment
the doors of the station were opened in the morning,
a great crowd was in waiting, and the first train
down, as well as each succeeding train, until an ad-
vanced hour in the afternoon, steamed away with
hundreds of the metropolitan residents, who were
anxious to inhale a hearty blow of fresh air. The
number who proceeded to Kingston, Hampton-court,
and by the loop line, was larger than on any previous
festive occasion, at such an early part of the year.
On the South-Eastern line the different trains that
left; London-bridge yesterday morning, for stations
beyond five miles from town, were literally crowded
with passengers. Reduced fares for travelling by this
line were announced for Good Friday, Easter Sunday
and Monday.
The trains on the Greenwich Railway carried an
immense number of persons.
As usual on such occasions, the numerous fleet of
river steamers were brought into active operation by
the holiday makers. The Diamond Company's packet,
the Ruby, started for the first time this season, and
conveyed a goodly company to Gravesend; several
fresh boats commenced running to Greenwich and
Woolwich. The Chelsea boats ran every ten minutes,
and, with the penny Westminster and the halfpenny
steam-boats, were abundantly patronised.
The new steam-boat pier erected on the Snrrey
aide of Hungerford Suspension-bridge, in connexion
with the South-Western Railway, was opened yes-
terday for the use of the public. The Iron and
Citizen Companies' boats continued calling throughout
ll
the day, landing passengers for the trains foEn
places between Chelsea and London-bridge. passen-
gersr_ra were also ferried by steam-boats to and,..it ~142
a-
Temple-bar-pier and Westminster-bridge-pier (ml
dlesex side) for one penny each.

DIAMOND DUST.
and excites
Jealousy is the greatest of misfortunes,
the least pity.
It is wonderful the aspect of moral obligation things
sometimes assume when we wish to do them.
There is a sense of insecurity in the beginning of all
change ; we dread movement until we are fairly roused,
and then we seem as if we could never know rest again.
A great step is gained when a child has learned that
there is no necessary connexion between liking a thing
and doing it.
No one can tell the misery of an unloved and lonely
child; in after-life, a degree of hardness e„me,
with
years, and the man is not susceptible of pain like the
child.
Love is the first influence by which the soul is
raised
to a higher life.
a rig
One is much less sensible of cold on
cu b
than on a cloudy one; thus the sunshine of Lht day
and hope will lighten every trouble.
our praise, fo
r
men should not be too niggardly in 0
men will do more to support a character than
o raise
one.
reat a luxur
An ill-humour is too gy to be abandoned
all at once. It is, moreover, a post
of
whenever any one endeavours to coax great advantage
-
like holding a fort, we elideavour to US out of it; it is
make good terms
before leaving it,—Eliza Cook's Journal.

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SITTINGS OF THE COURT Pt OP --
- --.ANKRUPTCY.—From
a return recently
Lissued. by the Muse of Lords it appears
that in 1851 he
London Commissioners sat an average
number of days,tof 120. The average number of hours a
, q five, The average
day w.,, number of sittings was 755,
c number ofadjudications the
and the svereg 95. In coun-
try districts in the same year the Commissioners sat 163
days on an average,
522 four hours a day. The average num-
ber of sittings WU , and the average number of adjudica-
tions 40,