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

RAILWAY

FARNHAM TO ALTON.

The Government Inspector, CaptaiiiGalton, accompanied
by Mr. John Bas:, 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 minntely examined
all the works, whi .c.ll.a.ppear to,havo—been --con'tpteted icrthe
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 Holt 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 TRAFFIC.—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 Wales, which in 1850 amounted
to 58,514,435, reached 70,471,179 in 1851, showing an
increase of 20 per cent., while the receints from
those passengers rose
of
fromlB 5,p8e7,60c3ett.t0
The mean
e,
lengthbeing tan increase
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
length
of vebreaeinhypar3er
in Eredtnhgelaanvderaagnedanwnaulaesl
has
been been 21 per cent., being more than three times the rates of
sin of
fthre traffic c
last year; and that while the average number of passengers
has increased annually 11'03 per cent., the receipts from
pearpaisetnhgaetrs althoughhave increased
railway 6
4p per
communicationscent.
in i twould
Englandap..
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
in-
crease
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 degree in the past year during the Exhi-
bition. The mean length of railway open for-traffic in Scot-
land during the year has increased 6.2 per cent., while the
number of passengers has only increased from 8,444,191 to
9,21•0,313, or 4.9 per cent., and the receipts from them
from 600,0821. to 622,5491., or 3.7 per cent. The mean
length of railway open for traffic in Ireland during
passengers conveyed has only increased from D
them having
risen ~,,
5,633,603, or 2.5 per cent.; the receipts
cent. In Lug-
risen from 339,076/. to 365,6034 or 7.8 per
have risen from
land and Wales the receipts for goods
per cent.; in Scotland,
year has increased 12% per cent., while the_,4n9us77b96er
to
5,840,771/. to 6,044,1834 or
12.810.3
4 per cent. The general
::f passengers conveyed in
from 174,959/. to 198,4594 or 13.4
in the United Kingdom
from 721,176/. to 814,053/,
results of traffic over all the reil per cent. ;in Ireland,
:1.13
show that the aggregate num
in 1851, to 85,391,095 ; being
1850 amounted to 72,854,422;3
017.2 per cent. The gross re-
an increase of 12,536,67 in,, __
Imo amounted to 6,827,761/. ; in
re-
ceipts from
PassengeThowing an increase of 1,113,0031., or
1851, to 7,940,764/i,
sum receive for the transport of
16.3 per cent. Th. 1850, to 6,376,9071., and, in 1851, to
goods amounted! In
an
increase of 679,788/., or 10.6 per
7,056,6951., shown of all the railways, arising from
cent. The g descriptionsA, which in 1850 amounted to
traffic of
,—lamounted, in 1851, to 14,997,4591., or very
13,204,,0004 showing an increase of 1,792,7914 or
nearly 15,T.
13.5 Per °en,. DEAL—An interim call upon the shareholders
Dovxn 4--- • be made to meet expenses.
. Aare is to
of Cnoser, AND SOUTHPORT.--This company
10/11314"1"and opened t • herr extension
! t comeleted . line from
hasiw3- suutepert, the watering-place of the manufac-
Briataale to
spring district.
line is Wewle UNION.—A line proposed to be constructed to
unite Central Wales and Milfordhaven with Manchester arid
the northern parts of England.

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laTedoewe S.
h Oa
Town-hall,
LATE Loss or Luz AT BLACIEFRIARIP.
sAtenalintnell E
BRlDGeNvEr:TiWiTaamhses,iallaggnalldineSztmroesmnuamthßeeadtesbyo,elidt
itheseeldthraoyf
perished by the running down of a shallop near 131 k '
are-
who
bridge, on Sunday evening, the 11th inst ,by the Dahlia
Southwark, before Mr. Payne, the coroner, andjury. Mr.
Rallantine and Mr. Ratcliffe, of the firm Of Pladgate 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, who was on beaiti
the Dahlia when the accident happened, John Maddox,
mate of the Dahlia, Alfred Cresswell, a butcher,,Direl
Weston, one of the persons saved from the shallop, !!!d
several others. After the evidence had been given, we
coroner, in summing up, directed the attention of thatilit9_'
to the points of the evidence as they severally bore.,n
the questions in dispute. The points to be c___Tc:
were whether the shallop was overturned by n''''
the col-
lision that could not be prevented, or whether
t.e
b persons
lision occurred through the negligence t
o:gligence of the
conducting the shallop, or through theof the Dahlia steamer.
individual who at the time had charge
as bound to keep otie
Neither the shallop nor the steamere
_w
the
course was clear ;
particular side of the river, providaccsl
according to the rules
but otherwise they were boundto
navigation, and which
which were laid down for the Thames
were so employed. If,
were well known to 1.11 whopersonss
arty acted in op ositi '
under these circumstances, either
that
ppar Party would doubtless to
these well-known rules,ifnnv
would thereby have causer the
guilty of negligence,.
duals who had unfortunately• hed
perished
death of the three indivt .
n• The jury
the colasio • returned a verdict
in consequence
di : at the same time the jury were unani-
of " Accidental death a _
sumcient lo',k-out was not kept on
mously of opinion
and recommend that in future arrange-
board the steamer,
by the steam-boat companythatwill
secure
meets be made -..
accidents, as far
sentlic from .
~ as possible, during the pub
d state of the river.
crowded
,1!E. ---11.
~ .
lawyer be E „ ToN'T 1., certain d hia,
;, taken in his favourite attitude—standing with his
portra- -.9 Pocket. H' friends• tas all went to see
hand in his is and clients •
d everybody exclaimed, " Oh, how like! it's the very
it, an •,, issented " 'Taint
picture of him. An old farmer only d ,
like!" exclaimed everybody, " just show us wherein 'taint
like." " 'Taint—no 'taint" responded the farmer; " don't
you see he has got his hand in his own pocket? 'twould be
as like again if bedhad it in somebody else's."