The Sun.
London, England, 1852-07-21 00:00:00

BRANCH FROM

FARNHAM TO •ALTON.

The Government Inspector, Captain Dalton, accompanied
by Mr. John Bass, the company's engineer, and Mr. Patrick
Ogilvie, the contractor, Mr. Brassey's agent, went over the
new branch of the line on Saturday, and minutely examined
all the works, which appear to have been completed in the
most satisfactory manner. This line is nine miles in length,
passing through a most picturesque country, including the
Valley of the Wey and a .portioa of the bat Forest. • Ar-
rangements, we believe, were made for opening the line
'yesterday, but we have received no communication on the
subject up to the time of going to press.

RAILWAY TEAFFIC.—It appears'from the report of Captain
Simmons, Royal Engineer to the Railway Department of the
Board of Trade, that the number of passengers travelling on
railways in England and I; ales, which in 1850 amounted
to 58,514,435, reached 70,471,179 in 1851, showing an
increase of 20 per cent., while the receipts from
those passengers rose from 5,8851,603/. to, 6,952,612/.,
being Lan increase of 18 per cent. The mean
length of railway upon which this traffic was con-
ducted had increased in the same period only 6.6 per
cent. It appears that in the preceding years for which
returns of traffic have been prepared the average annual in-
crease in the length of railways in England and Wales 'has
been 21 per cent., being more than three times the rates of
last year; and that while the average number of passengers
has increased annually 11.03 per cent., the receipts from
passengers. have increased 6,1 per cent. Hence it would ap..
pear that although the railway communications in England
and Wales have, in the past year, increased at a rate much
below the average (being about one-third), the number of
passengers has increased at a rate nearly amounting to double
the annual average, and the receipts derived from them at
nearly three times the ordinary rate of increase. The num-
ber of passengers in the last year has exceeded the number
which would have been conveyed by railways. if they had
only increased at the ordinary rate, by 5,502,602; and the
receipts from them in the same manner by 687,1381.
The increase is in a great measure to be attributed to
the vast facilities for travelling afforded to the public
by means of excursion trains, which, in 1850, had
received a great impulse, but was developed in
an extraordinary degre- in the past year daring the Exhi-
bition. The mean length of railway open for traffic in &a-
line' during the year has increased 6.2 per cent , while the
number of passengers has only increased from 8,444,191 to
9,2"6,313, or 4.9 per cent., and the receipts from them
from 600,082/. ta 622,549 i., or 3.7 per cent. The mean
length of railway open for traffic in Ireland during the
year has increased 12'4 per cent., while the numoer of
pusengers conveyed has only increased from 5,495,796 to
5,633,603, or '2.5 per cent.; the receipts from them having
risen from 339,0761. to 365,6034 or 7.8
Eng-
land and Wales the receipts for gaols -
5,849,771/. to 6,044,1834 or 10.3
in Ireland, from 721,176/. to 814,0531., or 12.8 per per
hcaevnet .
risen I n
from;
Thein Scotland,
general
from 174,959/ to 198,4591., or 13.4pnerccecenatliC:
results of traffic over all the railways
to 85;i91,095; being
-inerthee United Kingdom
show 0
amountedh at the a
tgog7:2e ftiast4e4n2u2m; bficiosfspastengers conveyed in
per cent. The gross re-
an increase of 12,536,673, or
increase of 1,113,0031., or
1851, to 7,940,7641., showing
receive for the transport of
5 to 6,376,9071., and, in 1851, to
goods amounted, in
re-
ceipts from passengers in 1850 amounted to 6,827,761/. ; in
16.3 per cent. The
7,056,6951., showing girB"sfa'scruemase of 679,7881., or 10.6 per
it
of all the railways, arising from
cent. The gross revs
tions, which in 1850 amounted to
traffic of all aestienrgd,
no to 14,997,459 i, or very
13,204,6881', amai, showing an increase of 1,792,7914 or
nearly 15,000,00 g.
13.5 per cent.
, Etsat.—An interim call upon the shareholders
Dovaft •-•:;, to be made to meet expenses. -
of si. a sbar- CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT.—This company
Lrvaa4leted an opened their extension line from
has jastietincgrthport, the watering-place of the manufac-
tßorrifakgd ad
trd A line is proposed to be constructed to
weecai -pi lON.--
unite Wales with Manchester and
the /ma

THE LATE Loss OF LIFE AT BLACICFRIAES-
BR/DGE.---The inquest on the bodies of Thomas Weston,
Anne and Emma Bates, the three individuals who
perished Williams,
by th e running down of a shallop near Blackfriars-
bridge, on Sunday evening, the 11th inst., by the Dahlia
steamer, was again resumed yesterday at the Town-hall,
Southwark, before Mr. Payne, the coroner, and jury. Mr.
Ballantine and Mr. Ratcliffe, of the firm of Fladgate and
Starke, again attended on the part of the steam-boat com-
pany ; and Mr. Lewis appeared on behalf of the friends of
the deceased. The evidence, like that given at Guildhall
before the presiding alderman, was very contradictory. The
witnesses were Robert Davies, a printer, ivho 'was on hoard
the Dahlia when the • accident happened, John Maddox,
mate of the Dahlia, Alfred Cresswell, a butcher, Mrs.
Weston, one of the persons saved from ' the shallop, and
several others. After the evidence had - been given, the
coroner, in summing up, directed the attention of the'inrY
to the points of the evidence as they severally bore Upon
the questions in dispute. The points to beconsidered
were whether the shallop was overturned by mere ac-
cident that could not be prevented, or whet
her the
col-
lision occurred through the negligence of
conducting the shallop, or through the negligence of the
ssteamer.
Li
individual who at the time had charge of the.Da
Neither the shallop nor the steamer was bound
was clear; to keep one
particular side of the river, provided the the persons
to the rules
and which
Thames navigation,
which were laid down for the Them
e, so employed. If,
were well known to dl persons' who r
but otherwise they were bound to act according
party acted in opposition to
Pasrrty would doubtless be
would bad unfortunately perished
/hereby have caused the
these
er
well-known theseci r e umr'stitlaenc es,
then either tthheladrt
time the jury were unani-
The jury returned a verdict
in consequence o
: arecommend that in future arrange-
ments look=out was not kept on
deathgailty of° the heth negligence:r eef it individuals vcaaittailosnw
board the steamer, sad
steam-boat company that will secure
omfo‘u‘
stce,
ofidental deal
be made thehy as far as possible, during the pre-
the public from accidents,
of the river."
sent crowded state,, .
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