The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOIL THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. „........__.,,._.-.A.-.
1863. 1862. 1863. 1862.
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,111 2.019
Belfast and Comity Down 49 49 692 637
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,803 1,909
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1214 6,,,59 7,292
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington Bl 84 293 317
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 318 318
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 238 303
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall s3t 531 1,425 1,580
Deeside l7 17 292 318
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,405 1,267
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,915 1,891
Dublin and Beath - 177 -
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 484 484 2,381 2,699
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,151 1,09:3
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1694 1694 7,999 7.175
Forth & Clyde Junction - -
Furness, &c 5O 5 ) 3,062 2,551
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk~&E.l.Tnion
Great Northern 330 330 27.13; 27,567
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,773 1.767
ur. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ls 164 613 784
qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329 8,120 8,707
Great Western 992 9641 63,519 66.255
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 864 734 1,338 1,004
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,615 1,743
Irish South-Eastern 234 251 242 222
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3051 3951 35,210 33,102

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Berwick-on-Tweed toek place on :•aturday, and the elec-
tion yesterday, Mr. Alex. Mitchell, of Stow, was brought
forward by the Liberals, and Mr. W. W. Cargill, merchant,
London, by the Conservatives. At the nomination Mr.
Mitchell had the show of hands, but at the close of the poll
yesterday, after a severe contest, Mr. Cargill was returned
by a majority of 18, the numbers being—Mr. Cargill (Con-
servative), 324; Mr. Mitchell (Liberal), 310.
THE LAST MINUTE ON BOARD AN EMIGRANT
SHIP.—I looked about me again, and saw the letter
writing going on with the most curious composure. Per-
fectly abet ratted in the midst of the crowd; while great
casks were swinging aloft, and being lowered into the hold;
while hot agents were hurrying up and down, adjusting the
interminable accidents ; while 200 strangers were searching
everywhere for 200 other strangers, and were asking ques-
tions about them of 200 more; while the children played
up and down all the steps, and in and out among all the
people's legs, and were beheld, to the general dismay, top-
pling over all the dangerous places ; the letter writers wrote
on calmly. On the starboard side of the ship, a grizzled
man dictated a long letter to another grizzled man in an
immense fur cap : which letter was of so protound a
quality, that it becomes necessary for the amanuensis at
intervals to take off his fur cap in both his hands for the
ventilation of his brain, and stare at him who dictated as a
man of many mysteries who was worth looking at. On the
larboard side, a woman had covered a belaying-pin with a
white cloth, to make a neat desk of it, and was sitting on a
little box, writing with the deliberation of a bookkeeper
Down upon her breast on the planks of the deck at this
woman's feet, with her head diving in under a beam of the
bulwarks on that side, as art eligible place of refuge for her
sheet of paper, a neat and pretty girl wrote for a good hour
(she fainted at last), only rising to the surface occasionally
for a dip of ink. Alongside the boat, close to me on the
poop-deck, another girl, a fresh well-grown country girl,
was writing another letter on the bare deck. Later in the
day, when this self same boat was filled with a choir who
sang glees and catches for a long time, one of the singers,
a girl, sang her part mechanically all the while, and wrote
a letter in the bottom of the boat while doing so,—Charles
.Dickens in " All Me Year Round," ju.st published.

TIIE BR EADALBANE SUCCESSION.—On Saturday
the judge of the first. division of the Court of Session
gave judgment on the petition of Lieutenant Campbell, one
of the claimants of this succession, for the sequestration of
the estates till the claims of parties are decided on. The
Court held that as the legitimacy of the father of Mr. Camp-
bell, of Glenfalloch, which the petitioner impugned in order
to defeat Mr. Campbell's claim to the succession, had been
hitherto recognised, Mr. Campbell's claim to be considered
the heir apparent must be allowed. It was considered that
the petitioner should have been more explicit in his state-
ments—for instance, that he should have mentioned the
date of the birth cf Mr. Campbell's father, as, although the
person whom his grandfather married had been at the time
the wife of another man, there was nothing to prevent the
supposition of a re-marriage and the birth of the respon-
dent's father afterwards. Lord Dees dissented from the
judgment of the Court, holding that suflicient facts had been
stated by the petitioner to justify the sequestration of the
estate. It was the duty of the respondent to have stated
the true facts about his grandfather's marriage, and not
have zonfintd himself to a simple denial. The Court re-
served to the petitioner the right to make a new application
as the case progressed. The petitioner was also found
liable in the expenses. It is understood he will immediately
appeal to the House of Lords.