The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-21 00:00:00

IRELAND.

THE ELECTIONS.
Duitux, TUESDAY.—The battles for the counties, although
little more than fairly begun. have already produced some
unhooked. for results. In the county of Cork (the " Irish
Yorkshire") the two Conservatives, after making a great
show of fight, retreated at the last hour, thus giving the
two late Liberal Members quiet re possession of their seats.
But a far more decisive victory for the principle of free
trade has been achieved in the highly aristocratic Queen's
county. The candidates were Sir Charles Coote, Prot n's
ist; the Right Hon. John Wilson Fitzpatrick, a Whiectio -
g, but
one of the .. fair trial" (Darby) class, and at all times,
Policy of 184 'teatithdiirnd
all seasons, an opponent of the
;
was Mr. Michael Dunne, of Ballymenas, of wlieolm very little
)
o h e
indeed was known, beyond the fact that he bd,
clear-headed
to a
dt
ehde
class of "gentlemen farmers —a plain, shrewd
man, a warm friend of free trade, tenant
right, &c. Al-
though supported by the undivided influence of the priest-
hood,fo
it was scarcely deemed possible that he would do
more than come •to a poll, of his ultimata
defeat no one entertained ther shadow of a
doubt. Great, then, must have been the consternation of the
Ministerial party when the day of nomination arrived, to
(hid that Mr. ifilzpatrick, apparently panic-stricken. bad
abandoned his pretensions, and permitted
to he quietly elected as the 11 . col league of the lordly proprietor
of Ballyfinn. The announcementabiinv of this sin I
" Fanner " Dunne
hardly credited in D g tha r....c,70P0
contests appear to be virtuailestderdC3lT they are
evening. T
completed it is unnecessary toyrefeerctio 3tcli;erbnut until
The coirest for Westmeath,it will be perceived, i 4 v,„9"'ffili;
fitked to three candidates, another of theP claimants (Mt'
Ennis) having been compelled by a combination ot
stances to waive hie pretensions to represent the conn,ti):.elbhy,
eirci_tpu;
nature of these will be best understood by the rePI.UI,,r corn- '
Mr. Entli3 to, the recolimen lation of his, own 140 r. c.,
~
c., ~ 4
LI in orcla to pit-
initte6, that he eliouli retire from the in , yr....., are
vent disunion in the ranks of the Liberal party- 11''
c corn lain
written words, and let it be recollected t
m 4nt:attbtOlic ChPurchC•a't
is himself an ardent votary of the It°7,-,-:gultingar, July 18.
„ h great pun the tin
"My dear Sir,--I have received --c'ito.tircy top me fr tfai;
nimbus rezonamendation which
7suhoold withdraw fr''on.l
inembe-s_ of my committee-4"ction of this cell,' tv- from t,„..11
present confect for the
i (Hence to this communion Le‘ecd to re,2ign
eosne,ni feel myself e , . " • ' a aue-

[PRICE SD.

Imy pratensions ; and, in doing so, I desire to record my gra-
titude to those honourable and independent individuals who
have clung to my cause at
great peril to their owii interests,
and in defiance of an amount of agitation, lay and clerical,
such as the annals of electioneering have rarely supplied. It
, is plain that in our county at this moment independence is
the merest mockery, and that the individual who seeks to re-
, gulate his political conduct irrespective of mere party consi-
derations enjoys no public confidence, hoWever (as in my
case) he may meet with secret sympathy.
" I am, my dear Sir, your obliged servant,
" JOHN ENNIS."
A letter from Downpatrick gives the annexed particulars
of some riots consequent upon the county election now in
progress there:—
" Downpatrick, Monday, July 19.—The nomination of
candidates for this county took place to-day in the Court-
house h this town, amid a scene of uproar and tumult un-
paralleled in the annals of electioneering. As early as three
o'clock in the morning the two parties, adherents of Lord
E. Hill and Mr. Kerr on the one side, and of Mr. W. S. Craw_
ford on the other, commenced hostilities. Both mobs, col-
lected from all parts of •the country, had mustered in great
force on the previOus night. prepared for action. At the
earliest dawn the Hill and Kerr party had obtained posses-
sion of the entrance to the Court-house, tvhich position they
maintained until nine o'cloclr, when they were dislodged by
the oppcsite party after a severe encounter.. The Kerr and
Hill party then managed by a stratagem to obtain entrance
into the gallery of the Crown Court, and when the -doors
were opened Cravford'i men rushed in while the High
Sheriff, Mr. N. D. Crommelin, was reading the writ ; a
savage assault,was made upon the occupants of the gallery
by the bludgeon men of the league, which resulted in the
forcible ejection of the former, -after a scene of bloodshed
and
,ferocity never before witnessed. For upwards of an
hour the Court-house resounded with the noise of the blows
and the yells of human fiends. At length, after numberless
wounds of an appalling nature had leen given and received
on both sides, the nomination, Wite about toapraceed, when
the Court-house was Itttacketfibil the outside by the
party who had been ejected from the gallery reinforced by
about a thousand,-men who had just entered the town.
Stones came flying through thewindows,And all the respect-
able people rushed out, the Sheriff adjourning the court for
two hours. Meantime the scene of the riot was changed to
the street outside, where the parties charged each other,
and were with the greatest difficulty separated by the mili-
tary and constabulary. Shortly after noon, some degree of
quiet being restored, the nomination was proceeded with.
THE FUNDS.—Three per Cent. Consols, 100%; Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 103%; ditto, for account,
10th of August, 103% • Bank Stock, 218%; Hibernian
Bank, 2.5/. paid, 31%; 'British Australian Gold Mine, 11.
1; Mining Company of Ireland, 71. paid, 8% ex.
div.; Noaveau. Monde Mine, 1/. paid, 1% %. Railways—
Belfast and Ballymena,
andßandon, 50/. pal 1, 1G1,4 d'
501. paid, for account 3514 ; Cork
and Belfast Junction, ;a/.
Dublin and Kingstown Half Alialadr,
for account, 161 a, • Dub-
linit
for account, 41 40%;
Dundalk and Enniskillen, 301. paid, Shares,
121. 10s. paid, 18;
501. ditto, ta
_f4oor account,
ditto,o nt 16 1634 ; Great Southern and Western,
for account, 461,4 ; Irish South -Eastern,
for account, 51i • Killarney Junction, el.
paipdaidi 5,4 ;ditto,
2%; Midland Great' Western and Royal Canal, 473.rlaocsconalitc?
47,4 ; Waterford and Limerick, 501. paid, 23%; ditto,' for,
account, 2324; Waterford and Kilkenny, 20/. paid, 7%.

SPORTING NOTES.
No. CCLXVIIL
THE NOTTINGHAM MEETING.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—The racing yesterday at Stamford came off much in
the way I imagined it would—Retail, for the Burghley
Stakes, being the only exception.
The meeting at Nottingham—this year a tolerable one—is
marked for decision to-morrow and Friday ; it commences
with the Robin Hood Stakes of 10 sous. each, with 50 added,
for two yrs old. The entry includes the names of Placid,
Whalebone, Lambton, and Exact. Placid is penalised 71bs,
and Lambton 41bs, consequently the former will have to
carry Bst 101 b, and the latter Bst 111 b. This, without Mas-
saroni or the Gip, two darkies, are of some account, would
seem to give the race to EXACT, Bst 31b.
The Nottinghamshire Handicap of 20 sous. each, 10 ft,
&c., will, in all probability, be contested by a small field,
consisting of the following :—Goldfiuder, Retail (71bs ex-
tra), Gholab Singh, Ischia, Babette, and perhaps Cindrick.
The race I expect will be conp.ned to Goldfinder, Retail, and
Babette; Ischia being the only one of the opposition side
likely to trouble this trio. The result will probably be in
favour of the crack

GOLDFINDER,
Babette and Ratan finishing second and third, with Ischia
close up.

The Sherwood Handicap is almost certain to have THE
SHEOPSHIEE WITCH and ITALIAN first and second.
The Scarborough Stakes and Members' Plate, together
with the Queen's Plate, Grand Stand, and Forest Stakes, are
not yet closed. _

The Chesterfield Handicap of 15 sous. each, 10 ft, &c.,
mile and a half, will have but a small field; the issue, to my
thinking, being in favour of HUMPHREY, CANDLEWICK, and
PURITAN, they finishing as placed.
The .Bunney Park Stakes of 10 sous. each, 5 ft, will, 1
should' imagine, have the following fur starters :—Placid,
Bst 61b ; Eaton, Bst, 71b ; Prevention, Bst 31b ; Lambton, Bst
71b;' or Exact, Bst 31b; and the'Maicl of Golborne, Bst 31b.
Belltinker has paid forfeit. The result will probably show
PLACID and PREVENTION in the two first places; Osborne's
starter well up.
There has been comparatively little betting on the Not-
tingham events, Goldfinder having spoilt speculation for the
Nottinghamshire Handicap, and Candlewick having done a
like action for the Chesterfield Handicap. The latest prices
rule as follows:—Robiobood Stakes-6 to 4 agst Lambton,
2to 1 agst Exact. Nottinghamshire Handicap-6 to 4 agst
Goldfinder. 4 to 1 agst Babette, 5 to 1 agst Lindrick, 5 to 1
agst Ischia; Retail at wholesale prices, ranging from 2to
to 4 agst The Shropshire
sto 1. Sherwood Handicap
Witch, 7to 4 apt Italian. Chesterfield Handicap-3 to 1
agst Candlewick, 4 to Igigst Puritan, 5 to 1 agst any other.
Bunney Park Stakes-2 to lon the field.
—Goldfinder, Placid, Exact,
Horses arrived or exected
Lambton, Puritan, Prevepntion, filly by Orlando, Humphrey,
Ischia, Retail, Lady Hesketh, Babette, May Day, Candle-
wick, mare by Don John,
Shropshire W itch' Italian, Lin-
drick, Eaton Priam Junior, Waalt. Presto, Lerrywhent,
Conmore, King of Troy.—l a
July 21. THESPIRTT OF THE TURF.

SPORTING :INTELLIGENCE.
STAMFORD RACES.—Toaspar.
The Assembly Room Plate of 15 SOW. each, 5 ft, with 20
added. T.Y.C. ,
Mr. Armstrong's Placid, 2 yrs, 6st 121 b..., ....11b ( (Charlton Norman) ) I
Lord Exeter's Mountain Flower, 3 yrs, Bst I 2
Lord Clifden's Feramorz, 2 yrs, 6st Illb ....... (G.
M Mann) 3
Betting-7 to 4on Placid and sto 2 agst ountain
Mile-post,ft, and go
once round. y., ,
Flower. Won by a head ; a bad third.
15
n
The Burghle
ady
ded. StakeTo start
of 2
at t
5 sovs. eache bNew ,
...,.. (Bartholomew) 1
Sir IV. Booth's Retail, 6 yrs, Bst 71b
Mr. Pilling's Lady Eden, 5 yrs,
(R• Thorp) 0
7st 31b (Charlton) 2
Lord Clifdeu's Harpsichord, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (Flatman) 3
Mr. Munten na Presto, 4 yrs. 7st 91b ••• •""."" '(Sharpe) 0
Captain Lowther na King of Troy, Est 11b...(5. Steggles) 0
Lord Exeter's Ilex, 3 yrs, sst 10113 ...
Mr. Crawley na L yrs, Sat 91b
errywheut, 3
0
Betting-7 to 2 agst Retail, 4to 1 each agst Lerrywhent
and King of Troy, 6 to I agst Lady Eden, 7 to 1 agst Harp-
sichord, and Bto 1 agst Ilex. Won by two lengths; a head
between second and third ; King of Troy well up.
The Stamford St. Leger of 25 sous. each, 10 ft, with 50
added. About a mile and a quarter.
Mr. Pilling's The High Sheriff ..• a••• ......(F• Marson) 1
Lord Exeter's Mountain Flower (Normani 2
Mr. Payne's Wingenund (Flatman 3
Mr. Crawford's Fledgling ••• ......
Osborne) 1
•• •.. ( Rogers 4
Betting-6 to 4 agst Wingenund, 2to 1 agst The High
(Steggles) 2
Sheriff, and 4to 1 agst Mountain Flower. w
OR by half a
length. A bad third.
Handicap Plate of 50/. Twice round.
Mr. .I... Osborne na Conmore, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ...... (
Mr. Clifton na King of Trov, 3 yrs, Set 121 b .
(Thorpe) 5
Mr, Rayner's Presto, 4 yrs,"7st 21b ..... • •
o 1 agst Presto, 7 to
two lengths between
Mr. Parr's Selina, 6 yrs, &t 91b ................ (Gr• 11,-nallnd 3
Lord Burghley's Egalite, 5 yrs, Est - ...... (Halt) 4
each, with 25
Betting-2 to 1 agst King of Troy, 3. ............
2 agst Selina. Won by half a length,
second and third.
Two Years Old Stakes oTf. 2yo.
cEIO.VS.
added.
Lord Exotor'd V.at, 2.(1' 51h*
Mr. J. Scott's Eaton, Bst 101 b.• • • ......•• ---r•"•••""'") 1
Betting-3 to lon Eaton.. " Charlton) 2
GOODWOoD STAKIES.-- co • Won by a neck.
ffers to
and to take 25 to 1 about B lay 20 to 1 agst Champion,
BETTING AT XI ackbiter.
ANCHESTER.—Tu
NOTTINRAISISHIRE H ESDAT.
1 agst Retail (t), 5 AanalCirP —Even on Goldfinder, 4to
, to 1 •
GOODWOOD TAKItS agst Lindrick (t).
12 to 1
agst Champion (t), 12 to agst Houlakin (t), 12 to 1
Haricot (t), 100 to 7 agst Weathergage (t),12 to 1 apt
Cariboo (t), 100 agst Bushranger (t), 100 to 6 NC"
nelius (t). to 6 agst Don Pedro (1),100 to 5 agst Cor-
nelius
WOOD CUP .-7 t 4( ), 500 to 100 agst
.---i o agst Stilton t
Kingston (t), 11 to 2 • 1 ' " 1 Aga sew-
agst Little Harry, ,B) to
LllißSter (t), 100
Nothing to 8 agst Heroine (t).
done on any other event.

, I, A. g•
COURT C ['WU prince Albert, with
The Queen and his Royal Hig and
vietnorlrondaz evening, and
Zdron, got under weigh,
the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred,
.hinnedessillibeeiretna, Royal
morning the royal
Princess Louisa, on board the
steam yacht, arrived off Torbay
anchored for Oa night•
team e‘.l yard
yacht, accompanied by the:
to the west% .
and proceeded on her course
yesterday afternoon at the
A Cabinet Conned was 0, The Ministers present were
Foreign-office, Dow,nlrlSirr: chancellor, the Earl of Lone.
'f;e;te
‘,rodu
the Earl of Darby,ftglishury, 51-r. Secretary Walpole, the
dale, the Marquie °. Sir John Pakington, the Chancellor of
Earl of Malmeshtnira
-, •e'Dake of Northumberland, the Right
the E.,„hequer,.
es, and Lord John Manners. The Council
Hon. J. C. I.l„edr" half.
sat an bout a-efaßeaufort had an interview with the Earl
The puke day at hisofficial . Du` residence in Downing-
of Derby ~ -
strect.
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Disraeli
The
arro.,
• -nd in town on Monday night from Hughenden Manor,
.
Mr. Richard Lewis, of Hobert Town, had an interview
i Sir John Pakington Yesterday at the Colonial-oflice.
Mr. W. Hawkins had sho an interview with the Right
lion. ilaronet.
I ord John / Manners arrived in town yesterday from Tot-
bridge Well%
The Judicial Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council
sat yesterday in the o C uncil Chamber. The Lords present
were Lord Cranwortb, Lord Justice Knight Bruce, the Judge
of the Admiralty Court, andlfr. Edward Ryan. An appeal
from Gibraltar; " The Queen v. Cornwell" (part heard), was
concluded.

TUE STOCXPoBT Itm,Td.—On Friday, the magis•
trees resumed their investigation into the circumstancei
connected Avid' the late disturbances, -but the iequiry Wl.l
s
egain adjourned. Several additional parsons have been ar-
rested within the last fevfdays; and the total number of
'Whom about 40 *itre nighttY
illeetrsoouutsoinn
bail.ehstody iS nOv; '57, -of

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ,+ :75,
• TIMES.—It is not very easy to understaqd the motives
a 44fr/"\
which bave-inspired some of the recent rejections of candi-e4, ci
..,4,,, $,..
dates. We will not venture to do more than allude taintlre' 'reae''s 'qa )
eV. , 4
to the story of Aristides, but will adopt as a plainer illuStia-
~-);.. , /. *.i.
se)...e
(0‘,...)
tion of our suspicions the instance of an old posting hW, ..4.Wiees:_, ,„,/,•.
The old mare might have been true to the road for twenty tjeS:,,, ' .'," „,
years, hove never shirked her collar on the accent or savtgeVe 2f.- iNfil * ea,"
her loins on a decline—but it was all no use.' The time mnit:',,,,a5,,,....._&4-4, ,
jeto,
come at last when she could no more live up to the eeces-,;,-,-',...!',..L--u4 ..7:
k.„.., :
eery pace on the road, nor even answer to the whip as the . e.,..:,,, 7.4 tp.,-,
jaded post-boy did his best to flog up a trot into the yard of ----„,:e
the Dolphin or the Royal George. What then? -To the '
knackers with her! Past service counts for nothing in the
eyes of the contractor. The old mare has done her work,
and naUst go. - It is upon this principle, we presume, that
Mr. D'Eyncourt has been rejected for Lambeth, Mr.
Greene for Lancaster, and Mr. Bernal for Rochester.
We ventured to offer a few observations upon the rejection of .
Mr. D'Eyncourt . when the , metropolitan elections were '
brought to a close. Here was the cash of an ultra-Liberal,
who had done ultra-Liberal work during the entire coarse of
his public life, yet he was rejected this time by the ultra-
Liberal constituency of Lambeth, which he had represented
since 1832, simply - because the constituency required a
change of Members. Mr. D'Eyncourt was called to the bar
well nigh half a century ago, but he tells us he bears hie'
years like.old Adam in the play. His old age is, as "a lusty 1
winter—frosty but kindly." Unfortunately, we think, the
Lambeth electors. were not of the same opinion and turned
oat a man who had served them long and well, for little bet-
ter reason than that they Were tired of him. There is the
all the Whig Administrations since the passing of the
Me of Mr:Bernaragain, no long Chairman of -Committees
The electors of Rochester were fairly weary of
dßuerfionrgm
Bill.
his face. His connexion with,the -borough had lasted, with
but a short interval, from the year 1820 to the present time,
and this, upon tie new principy3 of discarding old servants, •
wprocure his rejection. There is Mr. Greene,
again, sufficientinwh t
has represented Lancaster for the last twenty-
eight years. This gentleman was a most useful and assidu-
ous Member of Parliament. From the year 1841 to the year
1847 he acted-as Chairman of the Committees of 'the whole
House. He made no display, and probably did not possess
any of those brilliant oratorical talents which have distin-
guished oar leading statesmenin the Lower House; but he
was always at his post, and always acted a part which en-
titled him to, the respect of his fellow senators. . Well, the
aspiring men of Lancaster have pushed their old Member out,
and taken a new servant in his place. These three cases of Mr.
D'Eyncotitt, lli. Bernal, and Mr. Greene, probably all stand
on .the same footing. They are all three can aside be-
cause of their long service, rather than for any specific crime.
-
The failure of Sir George Clerk at Dover iesreferrible to. '--,
anothu,, cause. lie, in common with ail that imams of the,
late 4-Robert Peel's followers, must make up his mind ea •
be beaten every* here and at all timese until he can attach
himself to some party or other which is recognised by public
opinion. In 1847 it was all well enough. The service ren-
dered was,recent, and the public gratitude was warm. We
are bound to state that during the course of the corn-law d 01..,
bate no member of his Government rendered more efficient '
service to the First Minister than did Sir G. Clerk. Pet' '
tectlyirepervions to the fallacies and the sarcasm of Lord G.
Bentinckand Mr. Disraeli, he would rise at the conclusion of a
t lireee hour set speech, and with half-a- dozen sentences from the
Prices Current, or the back numbers of the Mark-lane _Express,
knock the whole fabric of nonsense about their ears. He
is gone, as Mr. Cardwell is gone, in great measure because
he is 11 Peelite, and a 'Peelite is merely- norninis umbra. It
only shows what vitality there was in the policy of that
great man, that for so long a period after his death mere -re-
verence to his name could in some measure form a bond of
anion amongst a knot of able and active politicians. The
lofty views of Sir Robert Peel will remain for ever on record
in our Parliamentary aanals, and the beneficial effects of his .
commercial policy will long continue to be felt by the British
peepleewho owe-to him so deep a debt of gratitude, but '
Petlites can exist no more as a political party. In one sense
we are all Peelites. We say " all," because his most invete-
rate opponents are at this time paying the highest tribute to --
the value of his great political achievements. We all reve-
rence the memory of the departed Statesman, but a political
party cannot be held together upon sympathies and regrets.
The rejection of Mr. Pusey for Be:kshire was, perhaps, of
all, the most singularly ill-timed. If this gentleman yielded
sto mo.councviceen, it was because conviction came upon him with
h force phat all struggle was in vain. Before a twelve-
month is out there will not be
ex
smonpaelte.of the thnetaohtponnofoes; thytthfamepoerlais,re wheoo
combined to put his butadversary
must perforce follow his
who to the last moment t they prefer the shifty candidate,
in love with error that
the man who had the fortitudewili deceive and dupe them, to
.andTthe integrity to speak
to them in the language of truth
Lewis too, who
erefordshire f has
or been extrudedu frohmerethies Mrerp.resCeernnteawtialion
obviothat
his
can
of Hno
make out, except that he is too geooete
b
fors
nents and his constituency. But the men of Herefosrd'sphpiree-
have a very judicious terror of anything like a man of
ability. They feel uncomfortable with him. There is n- o '
sympathy, no pleasant flow of feeling between the consti-
tuency and such a representative. Thus they have discarded
their clever servant, and have taken a dull one in his place,
who will be a more fitting colleague to Messrs. Hanbury and
Booker. The rejection of Mr. Grantley Berkeley. for West •
Gloucestershire 'is more intelligible. The constituency was
probably sick of a private squabble between two brothers,.
about which no living man, but the Eteocles and Polynices
of the affair, cared a single straw. His last desperate rush
for a return by his agricultural protection motion of 1850
could not save him, or replace so ricketty a candidate upon
his legs. Had the intelligence of his resignation reached us
yesterday, we should have been inclined to class his name
with that of some other gentlemen of whom the House of
Commons is fairly rid.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY BRANCH FROM

FARNHAM TO ALTON.

The Government Inspector, Captain Galton, accompanied
by Mr. John Bass, the company's engineer, and Mr. Patrick
Ogilvie, the contractor, Mr. Brafsey's agent, went over the
new branch of the line on Saturday, and minutely examined
all the works, which appear to have been completed in the
most satisfactory manner. This line is nine miles in length,
passing through a most picturesque country, including the
Valley of the Wey and a portion of the Holt Forest.. Ar-
rangements, we believe, were made for opening the line
yesterday, but we have received no communication on the
subject up to the time of going to pr...Fs.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC—It appears from the report of Captain,
Simmons, Royal Engineer to the Railway Department of ths;
13i,ard of Trade, that the number of passengers travelling on
railways in England and Wales, which in 1850 amounted
to 58,514;435, reached 70,471,179 in 1851, showing an
increase of 20 per cent., while the receipts from
,those passengers rose from 5,8813,603/. to 6,952,6121.,
being tan increase of 18 per cent. The mean
length of railway upon which this traffic was con-
ducted had increased in the same period only 6.6 per
cent. It appears that in the preceding years for which
returns of traffic have been prepared the average annual in-'
crease in the length of railways in England 'and Wales has
been 21 per cent., being more than three times the rates of
last year; and that while the average number of passengers
has increased annually 11'03 per cent., the receipts from
passengers have increased 6•4 per cent. Hence it would ap-
pear that although the railway communications in England
and Wales have, in the past year, increased at a rate much'
below the average (being about one-third), the number of
passengers has increased at a rate nearly amounting to double
the annual average, and the receipts derived from them at
nearly three times the ordinary rate of increase. The num-
ber of passengers in the last year has exceeded the number
which would have been conveyed by railways. if they had
only increased at the ordinary rate, by 5,502,602 ; and the
receipts from them in the same manner by 687,1381.
The increase is in a great measure to be attributed to
the vast facilities for travelling afforded to the public
by means of excursion trains, which, in 1850, had
received a great impulse, but was developed in
an extraordinary degree in the past year during the Exhi-
bition. The mean length of railway open for traffic in Scot-
land during the year has increased 6.2 per cent., while the
number of passengers has only increased from 8,444,191 to
9,236,313, or 4.9 per cent., and the receipts from them
from 600,082/. to 622,5491., or 3.7 per cent. The mean,
length of railway open for traffic in Ireland during the
year has increased 12;i per cent., while the number of
having
passengers conveyed has only inreased from 5,495,796 to
5,633,603, or 2.5 per cent.; the receipts from them
In Eng-
land from 339,076/. to 365,6031., or 7.8 per cent. In
from
land and Wales the receipts for a
5,840,7711. to 6,044,1831., or 10.3 peroocdesnetch.
t in Ireland,
from 721,176/. to 814,053/, or 12.8 perccen cent.; Scotland,
t. The general
from 174,959/. to 198,459/., or 13.4 p
results of traffic over all the rails'
passengers conveyed in
show that the aggregate number
to 85;391,095 ; being
1850 amounted to 72,854,422; 16
109 per cent. The gross re-
ceipts from passengers
an increase of 12,533,673,
showing an in,:rease of 1,113,003/., or
in
1851, to 7,940,7641., s"°"-B,:im receive for the transport of
16.3 per cent,. The gross_
1850, to 6,376,907/., and, in 1851, to
goods amounted,
showing an increase of 679,7881., or 10.6 per
or 17... .
7,056,6951.,
enue of all the railways, arising from.
cent. The gross
reriptions, which in 1850 amounted to-
traffic of all cesucaed, in 1851, to 14,997,459 L. er very
13,204,688/, 0E:1°1., s.
n wing an increase of 1,792,7914 or
nearly 15,000,uuu
13 5 ur ce.
A , interim call upon the shareholders
a". AR;,
i 6 10 las made to meet expenses. •
of ss. a share CROSBY, AND .SOUTHPORT.—This companr
LivEnroo,
completed an opened their extension line from
has just outhport, the watering-place of the manufae-
Brioadele
• g district.
tune
-r-Lcu UNION.—A line is proposed to be constructed to
unite Central Wales and Milfordhaven with Manchetter and
the northern parts of England.

r THE LATE LOSS OF LIFE AT BLACKPRIARS.
BRIDGE.—The inquest on the bodies of Thomas Weston,
and Emma Bates, the three individuals wbo
the running down of a shallop near Blackfriirs-
nPArilinsgebee,WdoiblnliyaSmunday evening, the 11th inst., by the Dahlia
steamer, was again resumed yesterday at the Town-hall,
Southwark, before Mr. Payne, the coroner, and jury. Mr.
Ballantine and Mr. Ratcliffe, of the firm
of Fladgate and
'Starke, again attended on the part of the steam-boat com-
pany ; and Mr. Lewis appeared on behalf of the friends of
the deceased. The evidence, like that given at Guildhall.
before the presiding alderman, was very contradictory. lb.
witnesses were Robert Davies, a printer, who was on boar"; the Dahlia when the accident happened, John Maddox,
mate of the Dahlia, Alfred Cresswell, a butcher, Mrs.
Weston, one of the persons saved from the shallop, and
several others. After the evidence had been given, the
coroner, in summing up, directed the uttection of the .fury
to the points of the evidence as they severally horuptf
the questions in dispute. The points to be considerede
ac-
were whether the shallop was overturned
persons
lision occurred through the negligence of the of the
cident that could not be prevented, or whetbbhye; °the col-
conducting the shallop. or through the neeglaig
to keep one
Neither the shallop nor the steamer was
individual who at the time bad charge
boundofthn
the course was clear;
particular side of the river, provided ,
cording to the rules
but otherwise they were bound to act
,I;,,igation, and which
which were laid down for the Thamesviera
so employed. If,
were well known to all parsons who viers
tyaeted in opposition. to
bile steamer.
would doubtless be-
f,berabY have caused the
guilty of negligence,
underthe well- these
knownrule circumstance,iieeni,t,,hubei:rit pr
,t,
and i7syche find unfortunately perished
death of the three indivilliisaion. The jury returned a verdict
it the sme time the jury were utianj-
oinf
,C,3AlleSC'egidUeenlitCael
:t at
Val?"
odte.aththe c°••' n: ;gut leak - out was not kept on
as far as posslLle,
inonsly of opinion twat
recom 'bend that in future arranto-
hoard tLe steamer,
thea
steam-boat- colupany that will secure
the public from
accidents,
a the river." during the pre7
sent crowded state
~ ,
had his
, Ligr. --3- eerie • lawyer
" TAPI'" in his favourite atiitnde standing with his
ments be made bycidentp,
portrait tayenocket.
Ills friLnds end clients all went to see
e very
hard in I"' P•hody t xA,;ime,d, " oh, how liter! it's a •
i', and etv,fm.i, An 6.(1 farmer only dissented," 'Taint
VVc° °•v•lailned ever\ b,;(lv, " 'll •t show, us wherein 'taint
il'u•' e:.''l.' • t ' ' '''l '''responded the farmer; • " don't
air: —no -taltlt. like."
ld be
see he Las L hisP-' la,ltd in his own pocket' %WM
sou se .
if
.......
- el“.' ;3."
L like_agttn he hail it in somebet •--

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