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

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways. .......--"-.,....._,,
1863. 1862. 1863. 1862.
X X
Belfast and N. Counties ..... . 136 136 2,104 2.372
Belfast and County Down 49 49 643 685
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,628 2, i7O
Bristol and Exeter - 1215 121/ 6,893 7,343
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington S. 84 309 299
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 351 321
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 61 218 219
Cork and Youghal . 324 27 470 431
Cornwall 534 534 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 - 194 1 4
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd si4 48/ 2,531 2.243
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1694 8,657 8,356
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. E astern ,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern ... .. .. .
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,690 2.086
lit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 865 572 519
, 'it.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 3544 329 9,037 8,689
Great Western .. . ... ~
Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 863 1,495 1,391
Irish North-Western ll5 145 1,596 1,564
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 3954 39,168 36.530
Limerick and Ennis 214 244 163 245
Limerick and Foynes
Llanelly 464 464 613 678
London & North-Western • •
London and Blackwall
London & South-Western . - 150/ 4414 15,502 26.322
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast
London, Chatham, & Dover 72t 721 6,043 6,136
Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 21 1,400 60
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
slan.,Sheffield, &Lincolnsh
blanch. S.J un.& Altrincham 94 94 1,509 1,452
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 34 - 1,663 -
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6144 49,277 16,478
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2594 192* 4,518 4,509
Monkland 7l/ 714 1,703 1,390
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal l4 44 2,738 2,626
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
ti-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095 10774 57,533 54,413
North London 9 9 3,221 3,159
North Staffordshire 254 252 8,556 8,444
Oswestry anti Newton..
Rhymney 194 194 997 896
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 62 2,168 1,981
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 132/ 6,570 5,524
Somerset and Dorset 39/ 39/ 730 468
South Devon 754 751 4.115 4,049
South-Eastern 306 306 29,666 29,920
Taff Vale ..... 55 55 5,840 5,549
Ulster . . ... , ............... 595 51 1,907 2,281
Vale of Clwyd ........ . ....... 10 10 211 241
Vale of Neath 324 25 2,411 2,011
Waterford and Kilkenny 3 131 4
407 387
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,569 1.578
West Cornwall 27/ 275 815 872
W.HartlepoolHarbr.StßaiL
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 7 566 577
Whitehaven Junction .... ..
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 815 743
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,639 1,591
Austrian B2B 828 30,048 38,382
Belgian Eastern Junction 26,_ 26/ 315 322
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1851. 1321 1,322 947
Buffalo and Lake Huron 161- 1614 2,333 1,062
Detroit and Milwaukie ' 189 185 4,116 4,262
Dutch Rhenish .. lOB4 1084 - -
55,194 60,961
Eastern of France lO7B 1060
East Indian .. .
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090 14,732 11,193
Great Indian Peninsala 5385 4374 4,227 4,400
Great Luxembourg
Great Southern of India •• • • 79 79 551 377
Great Western of Canada. •. . 345 315 11,258 9,991
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicanl. • 499 435 21,332 20,062
Ca Northern of nada ....• ••• • • ,3,1 91 - -
Northern of France - -
Norwegian Trunk 4l 44 1,116 1,338
Ottoman .. .. .-. ..
Paris, Lyons, .3L
Paris and Orleans 1340 1204 69,634 66,026
Pernambuco ...... 774 - 506 ---.
Royal Danish ................ 69 69 741 741
Sambre and Meu5e........... 68 68 1,403 1,310
South Austrian .
....... 1430 1315 59,000 66,151
Southern of France ....• ..... • • 777 777 33,228 31,607
Victorian 196 151 8,319 6.n,?
Welland
West Flanders
75 75 1,126 1,121
W. and N.W. of. Fr 11aa..-- 758 758 65,596 60,021

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, he saw
two strangers, who asked bim to go along with
them to execute a piece of work of great urgency.
The roan at first hesitated, but being persuaded by the offer
of a handsome reward, at length consented. Re was then
blindfolded, and having been led to a carriage, the vehicle
drove off. Atter 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 oyes. Re was
then ordered to make, in the wall of the chamber in which
be found hiniselt, a hole sufficiently long and wide to
contain a coffin. The mason at first refused, but, being
menaced with death,heperformed.the workrequired. When
he had finished, an empty coffin was brought from another
room, and at the same time a young woalan, hand-
somely dressed, was dragged in, struggling violently. 6he
was then forced into the coffin, tho 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 ho was again blind-folded,
and taken in the same carriage to the sea beach, where the
two sti angers, 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 iucident,but could
afford no information as to the locality:),