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,
6243—Ditto, Fifths, 7 9-16 dis.—London and North-Western,
New Quarters, p—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 3114 Midland, 68—Ditto, New Preference, 41,E per
cent., 9-16 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 18%—York
and ,North Midland, 2314.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 8.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business to-day was larger than
yesterday, but 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 34k—York and North Midland, 23%
South-Eastern and Dover, 21%—Midland, 58%_Kendal and
Windermere, 10%.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY..., (Miles 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 ... ... £13,862 210
Corresponding week last year... 11,427 16 0

MIDLAND RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for the week
ending Jan. 4:— ... ... ... £20,048 3 n
Corresponding weak 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
EAST2B,N COUNTIES AND NORFOLK RAILWAY....TISffiC
return for the week ending Jan. 4 :
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £7,270 12 4
Merchandise, cattle, and cartage 5,413 2 8

Total ... ....E12,703 15 0
Corresponding week of 1851 ... 12,539 15 2
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week
ending Dec. 28 :
Passengers ... .£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
for_the week ending Jan. 4:—
Passengers -.• ... ... £775 12 0
Goods ... .. ... ... 24 0 0

Total ... £799 12 0
Corresponding week last year ... 730 7 0
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER RAlLWAY.—Traffic receipts
:or the week ending Jan. 4 :
Passengers . £595 15 3
Parcels, horses, &c. ... 29 8 11
Blerchandise, minerals, &c. ... 786 7 5

Total .. £1,411 11 7
Corresponding week last year ... 1,386 16 0
MANCHESTICIL, BUXTON, MATLOCK, AND MIDLANI)S JUNO-
'now RAILWAY.—Return of traffic for the week ending
Jan. 4 :

Passengers, tec. ... ... ... £5l 510
Merchandise ... ... ... 60 11 3

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

Total .. £7.798 1 24
Corresponding week last year ... 7,276 9 5i
Scorrisa CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the Week
ending Jan. 4, 1852 :
Passengers (7,547), parcels, horses,
and carriages ... £Bl2 13 6
Goods, cattle, &c. 913 3 8

Total .. .. 1,725 17 2
Corresponding week in last year... 1,473 1 3
Perth, Jan. 7, 1852.
GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN (IRELAND) RAILWAY
,188 miles). Return of for the week ending Jan. 3:—
Passengers, parcels, &c. 3 8
Merchandise and cattle ... 853 7 2

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

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Illustrious, 72, Captain Yates, 'ordinary flag-ship, will
be paid off at Portsmouth to-day, and the men will be
turned over to the new guard-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. Hay's composition about eight
months ago is in most excellent order and free from
oxidation, except where some abrasion has rubbed off
the substance; the other side of her bottom, payed over
with Mr. Peacock's couiposition, is not in such a satis-
factory state.
Sprightly steam-tender, Master-Commander Allen, re-
turned to Portsmouth, from the -River, on Monday, with
supernumeraries for the Britannia.
Tweed, 18, Commander Lora 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 Southampton, whose arrival was an-
nounced yesterday. The Tweed 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 Megrera new steam-
frigate (screw), 1.391 toss, and 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 Rifles 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,t
with one of the finest regiments the world could bc2ta
hsedf
on board, destined for the Cape of Good Hope. I
for some days been known that this gallant &ndy
for
guished corps was to embark for immediate serves _doiestin-
the Cape, and a steamer large enough toece,__.it_he.
whole regiment was ordered to Dover tod rwai,"7u`""u
fine, the
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Mark the result. The morning
sea like glass, and this gallant baenfdtherneo
cheers and regrets of the inhabitanthset
fieldaain.st the
Cape, and to immediately tak t
wasone or those singled
enemy. This steamer (Meyers)superior to an
out by the Board of Admiralty sat
no One COUldy we
have ready, and so well fitted h
plain of any want of secommodsitioan. She started,cotinhe
gale—no-
thingperfeet stowed away—ail
unfitted for a troop-ship was l
prayers and good wishes of thousands terrific
acco. mpatued her.
Night came on, and with it
most
confusion ;
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the d
so perfectly
that she had not even a place
this pet
flotttedevetno
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asoely-
diers' rifles or accoutrements, not
description to stow away their food; and it is further a
fact that so shamefully has she been fitted that there
was not even a place to contain the officers' wine and
stock. At midnight we are told the scene was frightful
—BOO men with no place to sleep in—beer-barrels,
hampers of better cheer, great drums, officere stock,
men's wives, baggage of every description—all reeling
and knocking about together. At this moment the gale
was at its height, the rudder became choked, so that for
a time the vessel would not steer; her topsides opened
so much as to admit of the water rushing in, :and her
decks fore and aft were up to the ankles in water, at
which moment some confusion took place in the engine-
room, from the circumstance of some of the compart-
ments of the machinery catching fire," &c.
The Simoom iron (screw) steam-ship, also destined
for a trooper, has been removed from the coaling hulk
Malabar to the south jetty to-day, to take in 150 tons of