The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-14 00:00:00

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.

The traffic receipts on this company's lines for
the week ending the 25th of March amounted on
1,377 miles to £26,310, and for the corresponding
week of last year to £24,781 on 2,335 miles, show-
ing an increase of £1,529.

VICTORIAN.
The traffic receipts of the Victorian Government
lines for the year 1864 amounted on 251 miles open
to £515,707, and for ,the year 1863 on 196 miles
open to £464,771, showing an increase of 55 miles
or 27.1 per cent. in length, and of £30,936 or 10.96
per cent. in the receipts.

SINGULAR PROGNOSTICATION.—OR Wednesday
last the Rev. Stephen Barclay Drury, an unmarried
clergyman of 26, who has for about 12 months acted as
the curate of Phillack and Gwithian, had a conversation
with the brother of the rector of those parishes, Mr. Chas.
Hockin, and related a dream which he described as a very
singular one, and as having made a deep impression on
him. His words were :—" I dreamt I was to be buried,
and I followed my coffin into the church, and thence to the
tomb. I took no part in the service, and when we came to
the tomb I looked into it and saw it was very nice. I then
asked the undertaker who was to be buried, and he an-
swered You.' I then said, 'I am not to be buried—l am
not dead.' The undertaker then said, I must be paid for
the coffin ;' upon which I awoke." On Sunday morning
and afternoon Mr. Drury officiated at Gwithian, and, after
the second service, remained with the children to practise
singing. Returning to his lodgings in Gwithian at half-
past four he waited a little, took with him Thomas h
Kempis' " Christian Pattern," and set out for a walk, ac-
companied by a Newfoundland dog. He asked for a bit
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round his neck. Mr. Drury
was never again seen alive. absence throughout the
night occasioned no surprise, as he sometimes went to and
slept at Copperhouse, two miles off. On Monday morning
oe
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returnedhhe
a Gwinear miner, in quest of seaweed at low water, near
the rocky shore of tiodrevy, saw a body in a pool 70 or 80
yards from the sea. Mr. Drury's gold chain was about his
neck, and his watch-case—the workings of the watch had
apparently been knocked out by the sea. His book was in
his coat pocket ; his hat was gone ; and his pockets were
filled with sand. The body was forty yards from rocks
about thirty feet high, and a pathway led from the preci-
pitous cliffs above to these rocks. There was a cut over
the right eye, and in the head, such cuts as, in the opinion
of experienced men, would be caused by a fall on rocks.
Mr. Drury was quite dead and stiff. Au inquest, under the
county coroner, Mr. John Roscorla, was held on Tuesday,
at Gwithian, when these circumstances were elicited, and
a verdict was returned of "Found drowned." From the
facts, however, that Mr. Drury had never shown the least
sign of depression—that he started with the expressed in-
tention of giving the dog a dip, and that he was very near-
sighted—the general inference is that the unfortunate
gentleman slipped on the rocks, was stunned, fell into the
water, and so casually and singularly fulfilled his strange
dream of a few days previously.—Cornish Telegraph.
The LOCK-Gl:Yr.—Lord Lichfield has written to
correct a statement made by Mr. George Potter in his
journal (the Beehive), to the effect that " his (Lord Lich-
field's) proposal
was not arbitration," but-a reference to his
lordship's nominees, which could not be considered a selec-
tion of arbitrators in the ordinary sense. This has been
set forth as a reason for the South Staffordshire men to
reject his proposals; but the truth is that in the agree-
ment which was submitted to the men it is expressly pro-
vided that the matters in dispute shall be settled by the
award of "such persons as Lord Lichfield shall name, with
the consent of both parties thereto."