The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

CHESTER AND HOL-THEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic retujin for
railway and steam-boats for the week ending
Dec. 19, 1852 £3,074 6 6
Corresponding week last year 2,443 13 6

Increase in 1852 £63o 13 1
SCOTTISH CENTRAL RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Dec. 19, 1852 £2,007 9 2
Corresponding week last year 1,608 4 6

ENLARGEMENT OF KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL. —The
works that had commenced some months ago for the en-
largement of the hospital having been suspended since the
laying of the foundation stone, in consequence of some
pecuniary matters, have again been resumed during the
last few days, and a number of men are now busily at
work in clearing away the rubbish, so that the foundation
may be commenced immediately, and the building completed
as as soon as possible, as the present hospital, situated, as it
is, in a densely-populated neighbourhood, is far from being
• sufficiently spacious for the daily applications from persons
who solicit to be admitted as in-door patients, as t
iu the different wards are nearly all occupied, and many
oases are obliged reluctantly to be refused admission
in
consequence. The new building will afford ace° oda_
tion for from two to three hundred more patients. The
old burial-ground of St. Clement's Danes in Portugal-
street, which was purchased by the trustees and directors
of the hospital, has not yet been at all disturbed, and the
removal of the bodies will not commence till a' fter the
ensuing spring.
THE COUNTESS BOCAR3IE.--It has been stated that
the widow of the Count de Bocarme, who was executed
for the murder of his brother-in-law, was on the point of
being married again, but that the marriage had been
postponed to await the decision of the Tribunal respect-
ing an application by a member of her family to declare
her incapable of managing her own affairs, on the ground
of prodigality. The case came on last week before the
Civil Tribunal of Tournay, in Belgium, at the suit of
M. Baugnies. M. Duchateau, of the bar of Tournay,
stated to the court, the grounds of the application. He
declared that the Countess de Bocarme had, by her habits
of luxury and extravagance, ruined the estate of her
husband, and that, since she had inherited the property
of her murdered brother, she had been equally reckless
in her expenditure, frequenting the most fashionable
places, putting herself prominently forward, having car-
riages and valuable horses, expensive apartments, &c.,
and dissipating the property she has inherited so rapidly,
that, after the payment of the interest due on the deficit
of the succession of the Count of Bocarme, she would
really be possessed of only 2,000 fr. a year. This sum
being insufficient to meet even a small portion of her
annual expenditure, she had, said the counsel of M.
Baugnies, raised by mortgage and otherwise, between
October, 1851 and 1852, 84,000 f. on the property which
came to her by the death of her brother, thus dissipating,
in the course of a single year one-third of the entire suc-
cession. In this state of things, and with a view to pre-
serve her children from ruin, M. Baugnies, although only
a distant relative, had resolved to apply for her civil in-
terdiction. The court, after hearing the counsel of M.
Baugnies, adjourned for a week to hear the pleading of
M. Morel for the Countess de Bocarme.—Galignani,