The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-09 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

Railwa s. Miles Opened. Receipts.
y____A_____, „..-----A.----
'1.862. 1861. 1862. 1861,,
Ballymena and Pert Rush _ - £-
i
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,357 2,501
Belfast and County Down 49 49 631 750
Birkd., Lanc., & Ches. June _ - - -
Blyth and Tyne 22 22 1,894 1,940
Bristol and Exeter l2l
214 17,172 16,971
, 1254 8,292 8,106
21
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington 281 269
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 343 322
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 4 249 264
Cork and Youghal • . 3a 276 404 279
Cornwall 531 534 1,702 1,562
Deeside l7 17 422 408
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,276 1,391
Dublin and Droghed .a. .. . 63 63 1,854 1,994
Dub. & Wicklow (in. Kingst.) 184 484 2,841 :2,920
Dundalk and Enniskillen - -
Dundee and Arbroath .2 . 174 174 - -
Dundee, Perth, & Aber...lll;i 3l 31 1,336 1,473
East Anglian
E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Union 499 499 30,08/ 27,605
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee -
Forth & Clyde Junction
-
Furness
, 50 50 2,432 2,230
Glasgow & South-Western' 1834 1834 9,242 9,202
Great Northern 330 330 32,484 28,615
Great North of Scotland
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind ) 329 329 7,,,,3
8,581
Great Western 9645 9434 69,904 60,859
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 73. 55 7,301 936 Irish South-Eastern
Lancashire & Yorkshire 395 3951 33,N3 39,111
Leominster and Kin ton
Limerick and Enni5......., 24 24 170 Limerick and Foynes
116
Llanelly 4 721 595
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall .. -
London & South-Western
30,441 25,9 30
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 211 234 30,550 28 51
London, Chatham, & Dover 72* '74 6,661 2,544 3
Lond., Tilbtug, & Southend .121 42i 2,534 2-383
Blan.,Sheffield,&Lincolnsh 231 234 15,160 Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham g 16,190
1,240 1,297
Maryport and Carlisle ... 28 28 1,061 1 176
Midland (incl. N.-Western ) 6221 614-4 44,677 '
41,753
Midland Gt. Westn. of 'rind 192 192/ 4,005 3,681
77824
74864 1,5852246 1,587
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
2,417
Newcastle and Carlisle,.
North British ((m& beltirli - -
12,726
and Galashiels) ...
North London Bedale&Leybrn) 878
North Devon 35 , 35
8674 45,65061 46,909
N-Eastern(4
9 9
North Staffordshire ' 246 246
8,233 3073 2,825
Oswestry and Newton..... • 42 42 7,409
1,030 753
Helens 194 194
St. Canal & Railway 52 797 658
Scottish Central
4 01s A .Q.
Scottish North-Eastern.. 132 t 1321 .-' - =,=•-••,
Shrewsbury & Birmingba;x", ___ 0,528 5,610
Shrewsbury and Chester - -
Shrewsbury & Hereford - -
Shropahire Union 291 1,894 2,101
South Devon • 75i 755 940 995
South-Eastern.-- ....... 306 306 4,360 4,319
South Wales 1714
1714 32,134 28,491
S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 - -
Stockton and Darlington - -
54 9,127 8,858
Taff Vale 5l
Ulster 5l 51 5,064 4,808
Ulverstone and Lancaster
Vale of Clwyd. - -
Vale of Neath 35 35 217 242
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
31 1, 13 1,861
Waterford and Limerick 77} 77 1 630 1,842 380 487
West Cornwall 274 ,
274
W. Hartlepool Harbr.&RaiL 39 39 - -
4,096 4,970
West Midland. -
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 - -
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 484 391
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 630 622
35 724 042
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam. • • 52
Austrian B2B 52 1,424 1,148
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 673 37,162 39,161
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 1 :1,748 1,075
Dutch Rhenish lOB4 185 3,211 1,991
Eastern of France. ...... .. • 1032 ,01°843, 5,267 5,173
633 -.,...4 51,913 54,538
Rut Indian ...
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O ..°,,,,q• 11 437 8,744
Great Indian Peninsula 4374 +Z. 14,093 12,904
Great Luxembourg 134 ..,,,,1 6,997 6,355
Great Western of Canada 345 34-1 4,321 3,323
Lyons and Geneva .
maw
31041 142
68:724994
66:609132
Madrid, Saragossa &A
Northern of Canada ••--• • • • 94 284 16,912 15,918
Northern of France 7Ol 94 -
Norwegian Trunk
44 623 52,716 46,191
Paris, Lyons,
& Mediterrn•• 879 44 1,331 1,341
Paris and Orleans
922 979 93,484 54 079
Royal Danish 69 747 , 521 85,995
922
Pernambuco ............ -
50,-
Sambre and Meuse 6B 69 897 657
South Austrian ...... ...• •• • 1294
12 1,487 1719
' 431 55,715 50784
Southern of France ..••••
..
7.7)"., 777 26,465 '
Welland •• .. „, 22,058
West Flanders .• 25 75 268 268
W. and N.W. of France.... 750 7 1019 1,019
755 0 42,,750 42,875

CLOSING OF THE QUEEN'S PRISON.---The Queen's
Prison will be shortly closed, the act of parliament to
discontinue the same as a place for debtors having
received the royal assent on Thursday, and the inmates,
twenty-three in number, will be forthwith removed to
Whitecress-street Prison, tinder an order of Chief Justice
Cockburn. Some of the prisoners have been a long time
confined, one for more than thirty
years. The officers of the
lace are to be pensioned, and the
building applied to some
public propose. It vests in the Commissioners of Publics
Works. Of late years imprisonment for debt has been
decreasing. The number now in the three metropolitan
prisons—namely,
the Queen's prison,
Whitecross-street,
and Ilorsemonger-lane Gaol,
is about 100. Some years
hack about 600 debtors were eoufm ed.