The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-09 00:00:00

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Miles Opened. Receipts.

ti
1864. 1863.
2,411 2.378
892 792
2,265 1,719
8,089 7,969
20,541 18.045
1.752 1,556
351 317
330 427
232 257
555 545
2,174 1,639
4/9 351
1,353 1.380
1,842 1,866
256 187
3,380 3,171
9,135 8,776
3,233 3,133
10,657 9,5:3
34,635 32,626
38,032 33,310
585 2,032
361 362
9,451 8,493
72,151 67,297
235
1,868 1,418
2,321
jl.BlB 1,586
3,20 J 120
43,973 38,090
ISS 183
116 94
785 8:6
118,071 108,561
2,221 2,183
29,907 28,-, 87
29,669 29,569
6,2 4 6 372
2,7 k 0 1,480
19,367 17,3 i 5
1,503 1,415
1,571 1,26:
2,.60 1,073
49,.83 45,503
4.186 4,180
1,7:8 1.460
2,711 2,519

Belfast and N, Counties 136
Belfast and County Down 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B
Bristol and Exeter l2l}
Caledonian 252
Cambrian 9l

Cockermouth & Working-ton
Cork and Bandon

Cork, Blackrock, &Passage...
Cork and Youghal „•• 32
Cornwall 651
Deeside . 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction.... 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 9ll
Edinburgh and Glasgow 173
Furness, &o 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 353
Great North of Scotland 6B
Ut. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 712
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3731
Great Western 10563
Hull and Hurnsea l3
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno lO6l
Inverness & Perth Junction 119}
Irish North-Western 145
Kent Coast 27
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402
Limerick and Ennis... 242
Limerick and Foynes 261
Llanelly 462
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall of
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &B. Coast 2612
London, Chatham, & Dover 72*
Do. Metropolitan Extension 111
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
hlanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9}
Maryport and Carlisle 2B
Metropolitan 32
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262
Monkland 7ll
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 4l
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton 5O
Scottish C
Rhymney
entral
9941
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale ..... 67
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath..... 43f
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&RaiL
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO
Whitehaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

1211
L'34k

711
329
1054

Austrian B2B
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction 2
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 181
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish lOBl
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of Prance .... 1135
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Central of Belgium lB
Great Indian Peninsula 553
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras

895}
24
26

Madrid, Saragossa SzAlicant
Northern of Canada 94
Northern of France 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman _ _

-
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1805.
Paris and Orleans 1614
Pernambuco 773/4
Royal Danish . 69
Soinde lO6
South Austrian .. .. 1527
southern of France .......... 770
Victorian 196
Welland
West Flanders 75
W. and N.W. of France . 960

1204
45501
2501

10i
239 k

St
6:iu
259

410&
1079/
9
252

191
91
138
391
751
806

1051
10

15.911 15.029
63,686 57,317
3,528 3,3:5
0,631 8,751

1,038 923
6,569 5,455
6,765 6,710
949 592
4.543 4,375
30,296 30,197
5,722 5,672
2,334 2.121
256 270
3,134 2.679
395 394
Jo 53 1,c25
76g 727
4,572 4,990
621 612
1,047 Ea 7
857 106

31,238 30,060
339
302 295
3,714 2,768
1,966 1,921
4,403 2,658
7,185 6,438
1,612 1,806
86,572 P,043
21,159 15,5•4
20,'45 16,072
- 6,6 8 1,84.,8
495 11,128 11,338
134 4,541 4,357
79 533 567
315 8,94' 8,126
447 6,301 5.360
490 14.4,170 20,010
91 2,352 r,1.7
697 55,585 53,805
44 1,416 1,001
4 387 34:3
1713 13?,6/6 128,350
119/ 62,915 67,000
77 582 682
69
105
1471

185
185
1081
110
1302
932 k
1090

1.518 2,272
50,680 47,60
29,06 t 27,088
8,831 9,743
351 367
1,255 1,171
51,827 45,871

FEARFUL FALL OF A FEMALE INTO THE MAIN
DRAINAGE WORKS.—Yesterday Mr. Carter, the
coroner, received information of the death of Mrs. Martha
Matthews, aged 31 years, who resided at 73, Albany-road,
Camberwell, which was occasioned under the following
frightful circumstances :—lt would appear that on Satur-
day she came from her door, opposite to which—in the road-
way—was a cutting about 25 feet deep, belonging to the
works of the Main Drainage. Having some curiosity to
see the men at work she leaned over the barrier, when she
lost her balance, and with a loud scream she was precipi-
tated head foremost into the sewer. As soon as possible she
was brought to the surface in an insensible condition, and
conveyed to Saint Thomas's Hospital, where; she was at
once attended by Mr Siddall, the house surgeon, who found
that her skull was fractured and that she was otherwise
so dreadfully injured that she expired in a few hours. The
deceased had left behind a family of five young children,
and at the time of the occurrence was far advanced ba
pregnancy.
SEA-SICY IN A TEMPERANCE SHIP.---We now
proceed to Boston, Massachusetts,taking the steamer
from New York for some 150 miles, to join the rail which
ran into the city. It was a dark stormy evening when we
embarked, and soon, in consequence of a deluge of rain, we
were driven down into the close and unwholesome cabin,
the vessel rolling fearfully. It was of rare occurrence for
me to feel sea-sick, but that evening I did, and in a state of
misery known only to those who are so situated, I asked
the nearest nigger present to give me some brandy. Hogrinned and said, " You get no brandy here, mean; him's
a temperums ship." "The deuce it said I; " what am I
to do r" "Stop a bit, said he, " I'll get something for you."
He immediately returned with a soda-Water bottle full of a
dark-looking liquor, which he poured into nay half cup of
tea, saying, " Dere, massa, sarsaparilla bero good ting for
sea-sickness." I tasted, and found it was excellent brandy.
I gave him half a dollar, and requested a little more sar-
saparilla, which be again poured into ray fresh tea cup,
while he held his side with laughter and grinned like a hyena.
I found in after-travelling that whenever I had the ill-
fortune to get on board a temperance ship, that the niggers
were always well supplied with sarsaparilla and liquors of
every kind.—Musical and Personal Recollections of Henry
Phillips.

SUICIDE FROM A STEAMER.—About three a.m.
on Sunday morning,
while the steamer Rainbow was on,
her passage from London for Great Yarmouth, a passen-
ger was observed by the watch to lay his hat upon the
deck and then jump overboard. An alarm was at once
raised, but in vain, as the deceased did not again rise to the
surface. The suicide took place off Southwold, on the
Sutfilk coast. The deceased was dressed in a black tuit,
and in the hat was found the following address, without a
name Mrs, 93, Florence-road, New-cross, Lon-
don, S.E," The maker's name in the hat was " Both
vwEck, Fiorselydown, Broadway, Deptf.,rd."