The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-08 00:00:00

_RAILWAY TRAFEIC _RETURNS.

GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Feb. 25,11855 £17,917 4 3
Corresponding week last year 18,762 5 3
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending March 4, 1855 £4,038 14 2
Corresponding week last year 3,880 2 6

Inerexxo in 1856...

... £l5B 11 8

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.—Traftio re-
turn for the week ending March 4,:1.855 £17,923 7 6
Corresponding week last year 19,003 11 10

C LASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending March 3,4,1855 £4,922 9 10
Corresponding week last year 4,821 12 4

lucreaso in 1555..

£lOO 17 6

THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND NUISANCES REMOVAL
BlLLS.—Yesterday an influential and numerously at-
tended public meeting of manufacturers and others was
held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate•street, to con-
cert such steps as might be deemed advisable to oppose
the objectionable clauses of the Public Health Bill, 1855,
and Nuisances Removal Bill, now before Parliament.

THE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE COALWHIPPERS.—The
committee, who received subscriptions for the coalwhip-
pers of the port of London during the frost, request us,
on the part of the men, to return thanks to the bankers,
brewers, and others, who so liberally contributed to alle-
viate the sufferings of nearly 6,000 persons. The sum of
786/. 15s. 6d. was subscribed. This money was promptly
distributed, under the direction of the commtttee, in
bread, meat, coals, Sec., and ls. eack to 1,333 men.
THE CHANNEL MAIL SERVICE.—The following steam-
packets now carry the mails between Dover, Calais, and
Ostend :—Empress (L'lmperatrice), 303 tons, 100-horse
power, new vessel; Queen (La Reine), 30S tons,loo-horse
power, new vessel; Ondine, 280 tons, 70-horse power ;
Violet, 300 tons, 128 horse power ; Onyx, 300 tons,
I'2l-horse power ; Dover, 260 tons, 108-horse power.
The two first are new vessels, and have made the most
rapid passages. The Empress brought Lord Clarendon
from Boulogne to Dover on Sunday last in 1 hour and
41 minutes ; the Queen took the mail and 40 passengers
to Calais on Monday night in 85 minutes. These two
vessels run between Dover and Calais, making one pas-
sage to and from daily. The Onyx and Violet run be-
tween Dover and Ostend alternate weeks. The Dover
and Ostend mail service is performed only thrice a
week by the English packets ; the Belgian Government
steamers run the alternate days ; but an offer has been
lately made to the Belgians to absorb their poition
of
the service into the English end French mail service
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and one always ready at Doter, for immediate special
service.
VALUE OF GROUND IN THE CITY.—Some Eland in
Finch-lane, opposite the Australasian Bank, recently let
on a building lease by the Merchant Taylors Company,
produced about 151. a foot as ground-rent, the depth
being about 70 feet. The new buildings on the south
side of Cornhill, recently erected by Messrs. Savory and
the County Fire-office, are subject to a ground-rent of
1,200/. per annum. The frontage is about 54 feet, and
the depth about SO feet, and, calculating as in former
cases, the cost per acre amounts to 470,000/. Again—
the block of buildings called "Royal Exchange-build-
ings," occupying an area of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet,
produces a gross rental of 10,0001. a year. Travelling
westward to New Cannon-street, a piece of 1" d oppo-
site the triangular plot adjoining St. Paul'
about 4,500 feet superficial, has been let Paul's, containing
caongtraoiuninndg.
rent of 1,550/. a year, which, at 30
years
produces about 460,000/. an acre. To eel')
thermpurchase,
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however, we must go back to the plot of ground at the
north-east corner of Threadneedle-street and Finch-lane,
belonging to Mr. Alderman Moon, the present Lord
Mayor, which report says has been recently let at a
ground-rent of 1,000/. per annum. The superficial area
of this piece is about 1,600 feet, and calculating the
ground-rent at 30 years' purchase, we find its value is at
the rate of 840,000/. per acre ! Mach has been written
about the value of the triangular plot of land between
New Cannon-street and St. Paul's. The area of this
plot is 6,270 feet, and we understand a positive offer has
been made to take it at a ground-rent of 2,000/. a-year,
which produce, at 30 years' purchase, the sum named
(60,000/.) being at the rate of 420,000/. an acre. We
need scarcely give any additional examples to prove the
enormous value to which land in the city of London has
arriTed.—ne Builder,