The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-09 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as fol-
low:—Eastern Counties 7 1-16—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
621—Ditto, Fifths, 7 9-16 dis.—London and North-Western,
New Quarters, 3% p—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 34% Midland, bB—Ditto, New Preference, • 41-4 per
cent., 9-16 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 1834—York
and;North Midland, 2314.
MANCHESTER, J. 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business to-day was larger than
yesterday, bat prices fluctuate. The transactions were as
follow :—Eastern Counties, 6 15-16—Lancashire and York-
shire, 621,4—Ditto, Fifths, 7 9-16 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire 3414—York and North Midland, 23%
South-Eastern and Dover, 211,4—Midland, 5814—Kendal and
Windermere, 1034.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAL—(MiIes in work, 2411)
—Return of Traffic for the Week ending Dec. 28, 1851 :
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails ... £5,324 17 11
Merchandise and minerals ... 4,649 19 7
Cattle ... ... ... ... 105 5 0

Total .. ... ... £lO,OBO 2 6
Corresponding week, 1850 (236 miles):—
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £4,659 10 10
Merchandise, Cattle, &c. ... 2,184 3 0

Total £6.843 13 10
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for the
week ending Jan. 4 ... £13,862 2 10
Corresponding week last year... 11,427 16 0

MIDLAND RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for the week
ending Jan. 4:— ... ... ... £20,048 3 11
Corresponding week last year... 19,280 12 2

YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.—The following
is the traffic return for the week ending Jan. 4 :
Passengers, &c.... £3,640 7 11
Merchandise and minerals ~. 3,964 17 7

Total ... .... ... £7,605 5 6
EASTICRN COUNTIES AND NORFOLK RAILWAY...Traffie
return for the week ending Jan. 4 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £7,270 12 4
Merchandise, cattle, and. cartage 5,433 2 8

Total ... £12,7C3 15 0
Corresponding week of 1851 ... 12,539 15 2
BnisTor. AND EXETER RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week
ending Dec. 28 :
Passengers ... .4" ... £2,532 19 11
Goods ". .. 896 13 3

Parcels ... 247 16 2

Mails

223 4 2

Total ... ... ... £3,900 13 6
LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY. Amount of revenue
!or.the week ending Jan. 4:—
Passengers ... .... ... £77512 0
Goods ... .. •.. ... 24 0 0

Total ... ... ... £799 12 0
Corresponding week last year ... 730 7 0
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTED Rimwer.—Traffic receipts
for the week ending Jan. 4 ;—...
Passengers ... ... ... £59515 3
Parcels, horses, &c. ... ... 29 811
Merchandise, minerals, .Sac. ... 786 7 5

Total .. ... ... £1,411 11 7
Corresponding week last year ... 1,386 16 0
MANCHESTER, BuxToN, MATS:ODX, AND MIDLANDS JUNC-
TION RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for the week ending
Jan. 4 :

Passengers, &c.... .... ... £5l 510
Merchandise ... ... ... 60 11 3

Total ... ... £lll 17 1
Corresponding week last year ... 121 10 7
CALIDONIAN RAILWAY.—(IB9i miles opened.) —Return of
traffic for the week ending Dec. 28:—
Passengers, &c. ... £2,891 11 7*
Goods, &c. ... 4,906 9 7

Total .. •£7,798 1 24
Corresponding week last year ... 7,276 9
SCOTTLSIT CENTRAL R6.ll.WAY.—Traffie for the Week
ending Jan. 4, 1852 ;
Passengers (7,547), parceas, horses,
and carriages ... £Bl2 13 6
Goods, cattle, &c. ... 913 3 8

Total .. .. 1,725 17 2
Corresponding week in lart year... 1,473 1 3
Perth, Jan. 7, 1852.
GREAT SOUTHERN AND WE3TERN (IRELAND) RAILWAY
,188 miles). -- Return of for th.4l week ending Jan. 3 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £2,981 3 8
Merchandise and cattle 853 7 2

Total ... ....E3,834 10 10
Corresponding week last; year ... 3,956 13 1

NAVAL INT_BLLIGENCE.

Illustrious, 72, Captain Ytetes, ordinary flag-ship, will
be paid off at Portsmouth toeday, and the men will be
turned over to the new guar 1-ship Neptune.
Fairy, royal yacht tender, has been taken into dock,
and her boilers have been taken out to get at some de-
fective rivets in her bottom. The side of the ship that
was payed over with Mr. Hiey's composition about eight
months ago is in most excuilent order and free from
oxidation, except where so one abrasion has rubbed off
the substance; the other sid‘ of her bottom, payed over
witk Mr. Peacock's composi lion, is not in such a satis-
factory state.
Sprightly steam-tender, Muster-Commander Allen, re-
turned to Portsmouth, from the River, on Monday, with
supernumeraries for the Brit ;mania.
Tweed, 18, Commander .Lord F. A. Russell, arrived
at Devonport on Wednesday morning from South
America. She left Rio on the 15th of November, two
days prior to the Southern eton, whose arrival was an-
nounced yesterday. The T'weed fell in with the Gil-
mour, of Bristol, in lat. 45..54, long. 27.57 W., water-
logged, and deserted by her crew.
PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY...—The Megmra new steam-
frigate (screw), 1,391 tons, a ad 350-horse power, Master-
Commander J. C. Barlow, has broken down off Ply-
mouth, from Sheerness, on her first voyage en route to
the Cape, with the 60th Riffles on board, whom she em-
barked at Dover. A letter we have received from an
officer says, " She was sent to sea on the 3d of January,.
with one of the finest regiments the world could boas_t
on board, destined for tho Cespe of Good Hope. it h.anci.
for some days been known that this gallant and distin-
guished guished corps was to embark for immediate service
thet
the Cape, and a steamer lrerge enough to convey
whole regiment was ordered to Dover to reeeidvneet,liem.
the
Mark the result. The morning of the 3d was
amid the
s
sea like glass, and this gall ant band embarked
cheers and regrets of the inlaubitants tobelanded at the
ainst the
Cape, and to immediately take the field
ag
enemy. This steamer (Meg sera) was
as i
one of those singled
superior to anyee
out by the Board of Admi)ralty
have ready, and so well filled tlatEll no one could c rae
pliin of any want of accom. xiodation.She started, oth;
prayers and good wishes of thousandts tterrific accompanied her.
err
Night came on, and with it a
s O
Admiralty,Perfectly
gale—no-
thing stowed away—all c tlnfusionisPei
ofandthe
t
unfitted for a troop-skip vva s h
that she had not even a plat 5o fitted to receive the sol-
diers' rifles or accoutrements, not, even a locker of any
description to stow away
s been fitted that there
teeir food; and it is farther a
fact that so shamefully has
he
was not even a place to ectatam the officers' wine and
stock. At midnight we are told the scene was frightful
—BOO men with no place to sleep in_beer-barreis,
hampers of better cheer, great drums, officers' stock,
men's wives, baggage of e' eery description—all reeling
and knocking about togeth ,er. At this moment the gale
was at its height, the ruddE to became choked, so that for
a time the vessel would not steer; her topsides cpened
so much as to admit of the water rushing in, and her
decks fore and aft were v:p to the ankles in water, at
which moment some confusion took place in the engine-
room, from the circumstan co of some of the compart-
ments of the machinery ca tching fire," &c.
The Simoom iron (sere w) steam-ship, also destined
for a trooper, has been r smoved from the coaling hulk
Malabar to the south jetty to-day, to take in 150 tons of