The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-11 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

TRAFFIC RETINNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles
opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts.
1852.
BRITIsrt. -----.1.--.
72 Aberdeen ...• .• __--•• - •• ....• £1,939 £1,728
37% Belfast and Ballymena ••••••• • • • •• •• 6978 316
4 742
17 Belfast and County Down. •.• . • 2
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1.550 2,020
830
26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • 850
g 5% Bristol and Exeter ••.. . • • • ...• ••• • • • 5,471 5,611
189 k Catodonum, .• _ . 9,4,1 9,666
94 Chester and .1.10Vi1e.5.a...... •::: :: •• 4, " =• i.O
6% .Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••• • •• 193 -
20 Cork and Bandon .. ••.••••• • • • • • • • • 38 211
56 Dublin and Belfast Junction •• ••• • • • 661 1,243
113
53 Dublin and Drogheda •-••• • • •' "'• •• 1,055 1,
6 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • •- - .. 1,073 1,338
16% Dundee and Arbroath ..............484 579
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 684 772167
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen
68 East Anglian.- -••••••••• • • • • • •• • • - 730
79 East Lancashire .. ••••• • • • • • .......• 4,776 5,101
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk .....• •• 14,642 15,619
95 Eastern Union.. ••••••.•• • - - - • • •• 2,101 2,552
89% Edinburgh and Glasgow .•••• • - _ •• 4,113 4,425
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...... 3,038 2,907
6 Exeter and Crediton.. •••••••• • • • • • • 126 134
19 Furness Railway ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 395 967
171% Glasgow, and South-Western........ 4,378 4,270
285 Great Northern and E. L. ••••• • _ •• 12,057 13,381
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 4,765
277 Great Western •• .. ...... --_ _ •• 23,304 19,160
25 Irish South Eastern •••••••••• • • • • • • 161 192
90 Lancaster and Carlisle• •••• • • •
18
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire. •••• • - ,320 19,948
70 Leeds Northern .. ••..•••• • • •• •• - 1,325 1,684
181 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport. •
539% London and North Western ..• •••• • • 60,054 53,783
5% London and Blackwall.• •••• • • • •
173 London, Brighton, and South Coast 14,547 14,047
2441 London and South Western. • ...
24% Londonderry and Enniskillen .• .• • •
• 168 244
11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 178
7
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire .53U 7,951
914 Manchester and South Junction •••••• 589 83
28 Maryport and Carlisle •••••• • • • • • •
498% Midland ••- • • "••••••••- .. .• .• - 2070 25,604
126 Midland Great Western (Irish) -•• .. 2,2 i 7 2,973
37 Monklands •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 867 781
60 Newcastle and Carlisle- ••_ •• .. ~ 2,477 2,596
149 North British ••.. • ... .• -••_ •• 4,158 4, 556
232 North Staffordshire •. _
•• • •
•• • • • •
•• 5,174 5,596
47 North-Western •• .. ...... • •
•• • •
••
•• 939 1,0a2
45 Scottish Central ••• ••••••• • • • • • • ..... 2,2.5 2,382
32 Scottish Midland •••• • • • •
••
..
••
••
•• 1,83 655
29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham ••
•• •• 606 928
47 Shrewsbury and Chester ............ 1,839 1,929
29 Shropshire Union .... • ....... • •
••
•• °II 705
58 South Devon• •••• • .. ........„..... 2,226 2,311
288 South Eastern •• •••••• • • •. • - ........ 20,697 20,3 i 5
100% South Wales ••• • .• - 1,347 2,655
77 South York., Doncaster, and Goole - 1,2116 1,368
40 ale ..... .••••• • • • • • .......... 2,278 2,556
36 Tatar.Uls ••••••" • * " • • • • •"• • • . • 1.001 1,119
50 Waterford and Limerick ••_•• •• , • • 263 513
16U West Cornwall ••••••••• • • •• .• - •• 106 528
12 Whitehaven Junction .• ••••••• • • • • • • 236 255
304% York and Newcastle, and Berwick:.. 16,626 15,022
279 York and North Midland .•••• • • . 10.392 10,701
FOREIGN.
571 Dutch Rhenish •••• •• - . ....... .• .•
21 Al aria Antonia ••••.. .. ..
63 Montereau and Troyes .
63 Namur and Liege .• •••• • • • 936 1,208
442% Northern of France •••••••••• •• •• .. 27.6 , 6 21,208
493% Orleans and Central .....• .• • • ...... 19,640 21,594
240 Paris and Lyons .• • •
84 Paris and Rouen .••• • • • •••• -••. • .• 9,003 _
305 Paris and Strasburgh ••••••" • • •• • • 824, _2O 22,656
59 Rouen and Havre .. ••.•••.• • • - .. . .3,0,3
69 Western of France .. ••••• • • • • • • • 5,595 4,894

LONGEVITY AT COCHERMOUTH.—Among the per
sons who died in Cockermouth, and were buried in the
churchyard of that town, in the year terminating on the
31st of May last, were 31 individuals, whose united ages
amounted to 2,571 years, being an average of nearly 83
years each. The oldest of the 31 was a man named Joseph
Ciementson, who reached It 0 The others were James
Scott, 82 ' • Mary Harrison, 77; Joseph Campbell, ‘ ;
Richard White,79 • Eleanor Hastings, 78; John Williamson,
80; Ann Scott, 77; Grace Donkin, 89; John Smith, 85;
George Edgar, 78; William Musgrave, 82; Ann Nixon, 92:
William Britton, 77 • Jane Wilkinso,nr,hB:
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Mary Sancton, 89; 'Catherine Fleming, 82; John Watson,
79 ; Mary Moncrief, 88 ; Deborah Swinburn, 91 ; Agnes'
Walker, 79; Jane Brown, 87; Jane Hewetson, 88 • Thomas
Barton, 89 ; Sarah Burnyeat, 82; Daniel Barnes, 79'• Isabella
s
Nean, 79 ; Isabella Townsley, 78.
varied from 70 to 76, viz. :—Jane Thnrsbv, 72 ; Jane Bowes,
70; Benjamin Largur, 71; Ann Wallas, 75; Isabella Crone,'
70 ; Ruth Grey, 75 ; Robert Moor, 71; Frances Robinson
72 ; John Unthank, 70 ; and Dockeray Marsden, 76, Of the'
above 31 aged persons it will be observed that 13 ranged
between 76 and 80 years, 15 between 80 and 90, and two be-
tween 90 and 100.
THE CHOLERA.--111ETILOPOLITAN COMMISSION OF
SEWERs.—The following resolution was passed at the last
meeting of the Metropolitan C
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" Re-
ommission of Se
solved, that inasmuch as it arpears to the court that the
cholera is rapidly approaching this country and metropolis
and it is urgently necessary for the public health that foul
open sewers and ditches should be covered over, and other
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works by loan on the security of the sewers-rates, it is, in
the opinion of this court, expedient and necessary that im-
mediate application be made to her Majesty's Government
for a temporary advance of such sum as will enable the
Commissioners to execute the works of urgent necessity
above adverted to; and it is ordered that it be referred to -a
committee of the entire body of Commissioners to consider
and determine the most convenient mode of bringing the
subject to the notice of her Majesty's Government, and that
id
such committee be authorised and empowered to communi-
cate with the Government for such purpose ; and ordered
further that the committee be summoned for Tuesday next,
ethonesl4ethraitniosn of thet.,atelevsaeind om'caltotce.
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rsA„.m., at this office, for
ELECTRIC ILLUMINATION.--It is stated that Mr.
Page, the Government architect, contemplates the employ-
ment of electricity in lighting np the suspension bridge now
in progress at Chelsea—four elegant towers intended to re-
cmeeivuetathhaevleamtepnsdeadppteoaaridnagptinthte principle
design . Some peri-
ftiea
electricltee lampexperi-
ments
to the purposes of illumination.