The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways. ,_____....._ e.___-,
- 1863. 1862. 1863. 1862.
£ X
Belfast and N. Counties...... 136 136 2,164 2,372
Belfast and County Do= .. • 49 49 643 685
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1, 2,170
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1.11.1 6,893 7,343
Caledonian
Cockermouth & 'Workington Bl 81 309 299
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 351 321
Cork,Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 218 259
Cork and Youghal 321 27 470 431
Cornwall 531 531 1,803 1,390
Deeside l7 17 322 336
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,473 1,515
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,653 1,922
Dublin and Meath
Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 541 481 2,531 2,243
Edinburgh and Qlasgow l6Ol 1691 8,657 8,356
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 5) 2,952 2,670
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 351 351 39,36) 39,450
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,690 2,186
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 161 572 510
'4 t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3511 329 9,037 8,689
Great Western 10561 10321 63,991 65.695
Inverness & Aberdeen June B5l 861 1,495 1,391
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,596 1,564
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 395 39,168 36.530
Limerick and Ennis... 241 24' 163 245
Limerick and Foynes 264 26 157 227
Llanelly 461 46 613 678
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51 1,017 1,942
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 2114 2111 23,219 24,920
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 721 6,043 6,136
Do. Metropolitan Extension 101 21 1,400 60
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheflield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham ot 94 1,509 1,452
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan - 1,663
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6141 49,277 46,478
Midland G t.lVestn. of Irind 2591 1921 4,518 4,501
Dlonkland 7ll 711 1,703 1,390
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,738 2,626
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Dark 1095 10771 57,533 54,413
North London 9 9 3,221 3,159
North Staffordshire 254 252 8,556 8.144
Oswestry and Newton 5O 42 1,249 1,130
Rhymney 194 194 997 896
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52 2,168 1,981
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 1324 5,570 5,521
Somerset and Dorset 391 394730 468
South Devon
South-Eastern 303 305 20,666 29,920
Taff Vale
Ulster 641 51 1,907 2,281
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath 321 251 2,411 2,011
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 407 387
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,569 1,578
West Cornwall 271 271 815 872
W.Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 4B 48 4,925 4,583
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrnant 7 7 566 577
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 907 736
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 815 743
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. •
Antwerp and Rotterdam 62 52 1,639 1,591
Austrian B2B 828 30,048 38,382
Belgian Eastern Junction 2- 261 315 322
Bombay, Baroda, & Ccn. India 1851 1321 1,322 947
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6ll 1611 2,333 1,062
Detroit and Milwaukee lBO 185 4,116 4,262
Dutch Rhenish lB4 1081 - -
Eastern of France .......
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1000 14,732 11,193
Great Indian Peninsula 5381 4371 4,227 4,400
Great Luxembourg 134 131 4,023 1,655
Great Southern of' India
Great Western of Canada 345 315 11,258 9,991
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 499 435 21,332 20,062
Northern of Canada .... - -
Northern of France ....... •. • 697 697 - -
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354 135,088 143,492
Paris and Orleans
pernambuco 77/ _ 506 -
Royal Danish 69 69 741 741
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,403 1,310
South Austrian ... 1430 1315 59,000 56,151
Southern of France .. • 777,‘, 777 33,228 31,607
,"
Victorian
Welland ....... - 25 25 283 640
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of; Fr aa .... 758 758 53,596 50,024

The following extraordinary story is now going
the round of the Naples journals A mason living
in the Rue Forba was awakened a few nights back
by a knocking at his door. On opening, ho saw
two strangers, who asked him to go along with
them to execute a piece of work of great urgency.
The man at first hesitated, but being persuaded by the offer
of a handsome reward, at length consented. Ile was then
blindfolded, and having been led to a carriage, the vehicle
drove off. Alter having been driven for some time, the car-
riage at length stopped. The men was lad up several flights
of stairs, and the bandage then taken from his eyes. He was
then ordered to make, in the wall of the chamber in which
he found himself, a hole sufficiently long and wide to
contain a coffin. The mason at first refused, but, being
menaced with death, he performed.the work requi red. When
he had finished, an empty coffin was brought from another
room, and at the same time a young woman, hand-
somely dressed, was dragged in, struggling violently. She
was then forced into the coffin, the lid screwed down, and
the coffin placed in the recess, which the mason, still under
menaces of death, was compelled to close up, so that no-
thing could be seen. That done he was again blind-folded,
and taken in the same carriage to the sea beach, where the
two strangers, having removed the bandage from his eyes,
gave him 10 piastres, told him to go his way, adding that
they did not impose even secrecy on him. The mason im-
mediately gave notice to the police of the incident,bAt could
allind ap ilif9rwativA as to tho