The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-10 00:00:00

Railway Traffic Returns for th 3 Week.

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained. up
o this day, are in round figures as under :

1864. 1863.
Great Western
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire...,..
Bristol and Exeter .. 6,276 5,917
North Eastern 59,0J6 54,625
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln '8,197 17,C66
Great Eastern
These returns when compared with those of the
same period of last year are of a very satisfactory
character. On the Great Western there is an in-
crease of £6,446 ; North Western, £8,131 ; South
Western, £2,766 ; Brighton, £2,663 ; Midland,
£5,552; South Eastern, £2,213; Great Northern,
£4,179; Lancashire and Yorkshire, £llB ; Bristol
and Exeter, £359 ; North Eastern, £4,381; Mari.
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, £531 ; and Great
Eastern, £2,Q04.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market very firm. Saks, probably 10,000 bales,

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Nov. ID.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but a little
cloudy.

FALMOUTH, Nov. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Commis-
sioner, from Swan River

PORTLAND, Nov. 9.—Wind W.—Arrived—P3lly, from
London for Mauritius, with topmasts carried away, having
been in collision eff th 3 Wight, with the schooner Sarah

Morgan.
CROOLHAVEN, Nov. 9.—Wind E.—Arrived—Terrible,
from Monte Video.

OFF THE NEEDLES, Nov. o.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—
Saxonia, screw steamer.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Duke
of Cornwal!, steamcr, from Dublin, and piocteded for
London.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
The Saxonia's mails and passengers for Hamburg were
:rantferred to the Bavaria, which left Cowes at 5 o'clock.
The Saxonia repairs here.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH,)
GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
Arrived, Nov. 9—Anna, from Stockholm—Ann Lay,
from Cronstadt—Pink, from St. Peterabarg—Dublin Lass,
and Promise, from Guernsey,

Arrived, Nov. 10—Happy Return, from Cronstadt—
Providenco, from Gravelines.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Min, from Lpndon for Shanghai.
Sailed—Nyami, screw steamer, for Cronstadt.

About £4,000 in gold was taken into the Bank
yesterday.

The directors of the Continental Bank Corporag

tion have made a final call of £5 on the original
shares (making £25 paid) payable by the 10th
proximo.

Despatches were received yesterday at the
Colonial Office from the Governors of the Bahamas and
Labnan.

PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning.—The screw
steam sloop Qreyhound, 17, from the West Indies, arrived
in the Sound this morning,

A melancholy occurrence took place at Athy
(Ireland) on Saturday night, which resulted in the death by
fire of threo persons, and the serious if not fatal injury of
two others. A cabin in the outskirts of the town, containing
seven persons, took fire about midnight. As the roof was
thatched with straw, it was soon a mass of flame. A brave
fellow named Curry rushed into the flames, and, with the
aid of his son, rescued five of the inmates. The other two
escaped. Of the five saved three died before morning.
Their bodies presented a terrible spectacle.
TIIE POOR OF PARIS.—The Empress of the
French, as patroness of the most important charities of
Paris, has, through her private secretary, thanked Mr
Blanchard Jerrold for his studies of the poor of the French
capital, under the title of " The Children of Lutetia." Mr
Jerrold is now studying the charities and poor relief of Bel-
gium and Holland.

A remarkable case is being heard in the Master
of the Rolls Cuurt. It appears that a Mrs. Gedney,
of Candlesby Ilan, Lincolnshire, was in possession of pro-
perty which, if she had no children, passed to a gentleman
named Smith and others. In 1854 she was said to have
been delivered of a girl in London. In 1857 she died, and
then her husband was told that the child was not that of
his wife, but that Mrs Gedney had come up to London and
induced a Dr. Goss and his wife to procure a new-born
baby from a lying-in hospital. She went through the form
of a confinement, and afterwards passed off the child thus
obtained as her own. Some very remarkable evidence was
given against the plaintiff. The case is not yet finished.
DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.—Oa Monday night an
outrage, happily of rare occurrence in our country,
took place at Dunbog Manse, which, though attended with
much damage to property, was happily unaccompanied by
loss of life. It appears that the iron bush of a cart wheel,
tightly plugged up at both ends with wood, in one of which
a hole had been drilled, through which it had been filled
with gunpowder, with a fuse inserted—thus forming a
grenade—had been placed within a foot of the .new oriel
window of Dunbog Manse, and fired. The bush ourst into
splinters, spreading in all directions; two of them passed
through the dining-room window, and through tie ceiling,
lodging in the floor of the room above; another passed up
through the drawing-room, The whole of the plate-glass
in the dining-room (valued at £11) was blown to a fine pow-
der, while the whole glass of the study and pantry windows
and fanlight of the door was broken. Fortunately Mr
Edgar was from home, and his housekeeper had recently
gone over to Mr Baliinghall, Dunbog. The police are bu:y
invesrgating the case.— Llsindee Aden tiser.

MR. FARADAY AND SPIRITUALISM.—Mr. Fara-
day has sent the following charactethte reply to
a spiritual invitation :--" Gentlemen, I am obliged by your
courteous invitation, but really I have been so disappointed
by the manifestations' to which my notice has at different
times been called that lam not encouraged to give any
more attention to them, and I, therefore, leave those to
which you refer in the hands of the professors of legerde-
main. If spirit communications not utterly worthless
should happen to start into activity, I will trust the spirits
to find out for themselves how they can move my attention.
lam tired of them. With thanks, I am ever very, truly
yours, M. FARADAY. Royal Institution, Oct. '
M. Fie ury, a gentleman residing in the Limousin,
a district of the Hiute-Vienne, having read of the
plan adopted by Boni-bonne!, the panther-killer in Algeria,
of attaching a goat to a stake as a bait, determined to try
a similar manceuvro to destroy the wolves which abound
near his houie. Taking advantage of a fine moonlight
night, and accompanied by a friend, M. Fleury placed
himself in ambush behind a stack, at about 15 yards front
which he attached a goat to a stake. After waiting fLr
sonic time an enormous wolf coming from a thicket on the
edge of the field fl,:w on the goat and immediately received
a ball which passed through its neck. The animal gave a
loud howl and fell, and M. Fleury was about rushing to-
wards it when it again rose, and two more shots were neces-
sary before the animal was finally despatehed, It was a
large female weighing 741 b.