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

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

The last week's railway receip's, ascertained up
to this day, are in round figures as under :

18G4. 1563.
Great Western
Sorth-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland

South Eastern
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 34,308
Bristol and Exeter .. 6,276
North Eastern 59,006
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 18,197
Great Eastern

20,437
31,901
34,190
5,917
54,625
17,066
30,339

These returns when compircd with those of the
same peri3d 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; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 1'531 ; and Great
Eastern, £2,004.

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day,

Market very firm. Sales, probably IQOOO bales.

SHIPPING-THIS DAY,

LONDON, Nov. 10.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly; moderate breeze and fine weather, but a little
cloudy.

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

PORTLAND, Nov. 9.—Wind W.—Arrived—P.)lly, from
London for Mauritius, wilh topmasts carried away, having
been in collision cff al.; Wight, with tho schooner Slrah.

Morgan.

CB.OOITIAVEN, Nov. 9.—Wind E.—Arrived—Terrible,
om Monte Video.

OFF THE NEEDLES, NuV. 9.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—
Saxonia, screw steamer.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Duke
of Cornwall, steamer, from Dublin, and pioeteded for
London.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday Morning.
The S.lXOlaia'S mails and passengers for Hamburg were
transferred 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. Petersburg—Dublin Lass,
and Promise, from Guernsey.

Arrived, Nov. 10—Happy Return, from Cronstadt—
Providence, 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 Corpora
tion have made a final call of £5 on the original
shares (making £25 paid) payable by tho tOth

proximo.
Daspatches were received yesterday at the
Colonial Office from the Governors of the Bahamas and
Labnan.
PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning.—The screw
steam sloop (areyhound, 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 three persons, and the serious if not fatal injury of
two others. A cabin in the outskirts of the town, containing
seven petsors, 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.
THE POOR OF PARIS.—The Empress of the
French, as patroness of the most important charities of
Paris, has, through her private secretary, thanked Air
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.
glum and Holland.
A remarkable case is being heard in the Master
of the Rolls CJurt. It appears that a Mrs. Gedney,
of Candlebby Hall, Lincolnshire, was in possession of pro-
perty which, if she had no children, passed to a gentleman
named Smith and others. In. 1851 she was said to have
been delivered of a girl in London. In 1857 sho 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 eff the child thus
obtained as her own. Some very remarkable evidence was
given against the plaintiff. The case is not yet finished.
DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.—On 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 bash of a cart wheel,
tightly plugged up at both ends with wood, in one of which
a hole had been drided, through which it had been filled
with gunpowder, with a fuse inserted—thus forming a
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lodging in the fluor 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 Baltinghall, Danbog. The police are buy
investigating the case.— Dundee Adeetiker.
M. Fitury, a gentleman residing in the Limousin,
a district' of the Haute-Vienne, having reed of the
plan adopted by Bombonnel, the panther-killer in Algerii,
of attaching a goat to a stake as a bait, determined to try
a similar mancouvre to destroy the wolves which abound
near his holm. 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 from
which he attached a goat to a stake. After waiting Er
some time an enormous wolf coming from a thicket on the
edge of the field Etv on the goat and immediately rtceived
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 mere shots were neces-
sary Lefore the animal was fimily dcsratched. It was a
large female weighing 741 b.