The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTEL LIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1864. 1863.

1864. 1863.

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1211
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Working-ton Bl 84
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 64
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belt ast Junction.
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and We xld 9ll 481
Edinburgh and Glasgow 173 161
Furness, &c 5O 5'
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 353 351
Great North of Scotland 5B 56
(i t..N orthn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 714 711
qt.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 3731 329
Great Western 1056/ 10561
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 864 861
Inverness & Perth Junction 1194
Irish North-Western 145 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 3954
Limerick and Ennis... 241 24/
Limerick and Foynes 264 264
Llanelly 464 464
Londen & North-Western
London and Blackwall 54 5/
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 2504
London, Chatham, & Dover 72 224
Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 54
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Han.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 94 91
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6:0
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2591 2594
Monkland 714 714
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44
North British, Edin., Perth

1,865 1,903
670 628

1,903 1,698

5,611 5,462
. 17,151 15.735
262 245
312 312
IZ3 163
442 385

1,600 1,265

204 270
1,275 1,260
1,:177 1,417

107 140
2,009 1,501
7,6!1 8.047
3,1,61 2,706
8, 72 7,510
26,E34 23,059
31,1(3 27,642
1,596 2,073
549 473

7,112 7,78
58,090 55,632
925 960

1,3;8 1,791
35,480 30,770
192 188
95 116

605 550
91,251 81,909
1,732 1.651
29,410 19,186
15.203 11,380
4,301 2 863
1100 310

19,164 12.848
1,295 3,082

1,531 1.204
2,055 1,951
44,176 34,426
4,731 4.5 5
1,601 1,521
2,741 2,432

and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton 5O
Rhymney l9.
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66

11,508 10.906
51,971 17,107
3,572 2,001
8,705 7,709
1,156 911

975 964
2,126 1,978
4,850 4,667
4,720 4,695

South Devon .. . 74
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale 67

534 363
3.340 3,2 W
13,166 17,026
6,943 4,449
2,334 2,172

Ulster lO5l
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Death 321
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77

177 150
2,652 2.035
244 328

974 2,202

West Cornwall 27&
W.Hartlepool Harbr. &Rail 52
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l3
Whitchaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
&ntwerp and Rotterdam 52

760 790
3,855 3.374

740 653
1,125 771
1,052 769

1,2:9 1,128
33,001. 32,750

Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 26i
Bombay, Baroda, do Cen. India 1851
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6ll
Detroit and Milwaukie IS9
Dutch Rhenish lOBl
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France 1135
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 5 3
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southefn of India
Great Western of Canada 315

303 268
3,501 1,959
2,265 2,118
4,555 3,699
4,489 3.789
1,6,1 929
60, 89 51,466
23,972 13,995
18,01. 18,537
12,69) 9,411
4,297 4.108
429 613
14,533 14,124
3,96 i 3.577
16,452 16,2 7
2,219 1,960

Madras 417
Madrid, Sarag,ossa&Alleant.
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5
Paris and Orleans 1614
Pernambuco 77é
Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse .. 68
South Austrian
Southern of France 770
Victorian 196

1,021 831
440 202
127,770 123,840
64,937 59,577
1,263 1,314
1,647 662
1,443 1,498
50,589 49,337
25,416 23,073
5,923 8,767

1168
680
196

A curious case has jut come before the Correc-
tional Tribunal of Chinon (Indre-et-Loire). MM.
T— and C, wine dealers, of Bordeaux, were tried on a
charge of having fraudulently endeavoured to compel M.
Foucqueteau to receive a quantity of wine under pretext
that it had been ordered by his father. It appeared from

the statement of counsel, that C— arrived at Chinon on

Nov. 2 last, a few hours after the sudden death of M. Fouc-

queteAu, president of the Tribunal of that town, and that
he determined to take advantage of that cireum-

stance to effect the sale of a quantity of wine, by pretending
that M. Foucqueteau had ordered it just before his decease.

He accordingly addressed the following letter to his partner
at Bordeaux :—" I eand you my orders No. 72, 73, and 74 ;
I have not yet finished at Chinon. Remember that, as to
No. 72, it is a second edition of the order at Anglers." On
the following day T— sent off a quantity of wine amount-
ing to 1,339 fr. and at the same time he wrote to Mr.
Feucqueteau a letter containing the bill, and expressing his
hope that the wine would give satisfaction. As the letter
arrived when M. Foucqueteau, jun., was in great distress
on account pf his father's death, no attention was paid to it,
but when the wine arrived a week later, he refused to receive
it, and after examining his father, and making inquiries
among his friends, he became convinced that the order
had never been given. Several letters passed between him
and the defendants, but as they contained state-
ments which he knew to be false, he persisted in his refusal,
and commenced proceedings against them. In court, C—
admitted that no order had been given, and expressed his
regret that he had yielded to a momentary impulse, though
he could not see that he had done anything very wrong.
The president, after expressing his astonishment at hearing
such an opinion uttered by a person who wished to be
thought a respectable man of business, asked the defendant
what be meant by saying in his letter of the 2d November
that the order No. 72 was a second edition of the order at
Angers." The defendant C-- replied :—" Two years ago
I met a commercial traveller who told me that when at
Angers he happened to see a grand funeral pass along the
street, and finding that the deceased was a man of great
property whose fortune would all go to distant relations,
he determined to send a good lot of wine to him under pre-
tence that he had been ordered. The wine was received
by the heirs of the deceased, who paid for it and
became excellent customers from that time. The
recollection of this fact induced him to try the same trick on
M. Foucqueteau." He declined giving the traveller's name
The President remarked that it would be to the defendant's
interest to give the name, as from the manner in whch he
alluded to the order in the letter of Nov. 2, it would seem
that the defendant himself had played the trick at Angers.
The defendant denied this, but persisted in his
refusal to name the traveller. The other defen-
dant declared that he at first considered the order
genuine, but soon afterwards learned that it was not so
The Public Prosecutor pressed for a conviction against both
defendants, but admitted that T— was less to blame than
the other. The Tribunal having declared the charge proved
against both defendants, condemned C— to a fortnight's
imprisonment with 200 fr. fine, T--- to a week's imprison-
ment with 100 fr. fine, and both conjointly to the costs.

A petition signed by 13 Arabs residing at El..
Arrouch and neighbourhood (province of Constantine) has
been addressed to the Senate, praying for the applicati,n
of French justice in their country. The petition-
ers state that the Emperor Napoleon the Third,
in his Speech on opening the Chambers, recognised
them as his subjects, and that what they most desire
from French civilisation is the inviolable and sacred
guarantee which protects the respective rights of all French
subjects. The French laws, they say, form a precise and
regular Code, and every man knows his rights, and what
reparation he can obtain for a violation of them. The peti-
tioners then point out that the Arab laws are founded on
customs which at present differ in almost every tribe, so
that the people live in continual uncertainty.
A bill has been introduced by her Majesty's Government
for the extension of the Factory Acts to certain trades not
included in the previous acts, but in which children, young
persons, and women are employed. The trades which it
is now proposed to include within the provisions of the
Factory Act are the following :-1. The manufacture of
earthenware, except bricks and tiles, not being orna-
mental tiles. 2. The manufacture of lucifer matches. 3.
The manufacture of percussion caps. 4. The manufac-
ture of cartridges. 5. The employment or paper staining.
6. The employment of finishing, haching, lapping, making
up, or packing any yarn, or any mixtme of them, or any yarn
or cloth, or any other material or material warehouses, or
in those of finishers, or in those of makers up and
packers. 7. The employment of fustian cutters. The
following are the main provisions of the bill :—The Fac-
tory Acts shall be incorporated with this act, and shall
apply to the several manufactures and employments
mentioned in the first schedule, with the qualifications and
subject to the additions thereinafter mentioned :-1. The
term " factory" to have the same meaning as in the Factory
Acts. 2. During the first six calendar months next ensuing
the passing of this act, children of not less than 11 years of
age may be employed for the same time, and subject to the
same conditions, for and subject to which young persons
exceeding 13 years of age may be employed in pursuance of
the said Factory Acts. 3. During the first 30 calendar months
next ensuing the passing of this act, children of not less
than 12 years of age may be employed for the same time,
and subject to the same conditions, for and subject to
which young persons exceeding 13 years of age
may be employed in pursuance o f the said Factory
Acts. 4. In the manufacture of inciter matches, no child,
young person, or woman shall be allowed to take his or her
meals in any part of the factory where any manufacturing
process (except that of cutting the wool) is usually carried
on ; and any child, young person, or woman who is allowed
to take his or her meals in any part of the factory in con-
travention of the said provisions shall be deemed to be em-
ployed contrary to the provisions of the Factory Acts. 5.
In the employment of fustian cutting, no child shall be al-
lowed to commence work until the attainment of the age of
ll years; and any child who is allowed to commence work
in the employment of fustian cutting before the said age of 11
years shall be deemed to be employed contrary to the said
Fishery Acts, 6. During the first 18 calendar months next
ensuing the passing of this act, so much of the said Factory
Acts as provides that during any time allowed for meals no
child, young person, or woman shall be employed or allowed
to remain in any room in which any manufacturing process
is carried on, and that all the young persons employed in a
factory shall have the time for meals at the same period of
the day, shall not apply to the employment of paper stain
ing or to the manufacture of earthenware.