The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-27 00:00:00

BAILWAY TR AFFIC BET URNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending July 23, 1853 £19,238 15 4
Corresponding week last year 17,569 11 3

Increase in 1853 £1,669 4 1
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending July 23,
1853 £14,177 3 7
Corresponding week last year 13,868 3 7
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 55,003 2 6
Total of the half-year to this date, 1852 53,268 12 1
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
,nrn for the week ending July 23, 1853 ,.£5002, 13 5
corresponding week last year 4,340 16 4
Increase in 1853

2661 17

THE NEW STAMP DITTY.—It is important to the mer-
cantile and general trading interests to know that the
new Stamp duty comes into operation from and after the
10th of October next, when every receipt for money
paid, irrespective of the amount, will require to be given
on a ld. stamp.
THE NEWMAN DEFENCE FUND.—The Birmingham
Gazette states that Dr. Newman has handed over the
balance of his defence fund, 3,6001., to the new Roman
Catholic University in Ireland, with the exception of a
few hundred pounds given to one of the religious houses
in this country.
A NOVELTY IN COMAIERCIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.—The
following notice, which was yesterday posted up in 3
most conspicuous portion of the Exchange News-room,
will convey a most satisfactory idea of the brisk state
of the trade in fine goods at present carried on bet
11
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the 1
lid w
this port and New York. We must premise thatB
tic only arrived in the Mersey on Tuesday night,
not sail again till the 27th inst. :—" Cargo for the Baltic ,
for New York, will be received at the Lluskisson Doek
to-morrow morning, at 8 o'clock.
consequence of
the great pressure of goods, shippers
will
have to deter-
mine their priority of shipment of goods
now in town, and
ready for shipment, by casting lots at Brown,_ Shipley, and
Co.'s office, this afternoon.—July 20, 185 . In obedi-
ence to this notice, about seventy persons presented
themselves at Messrs.
Brown,Shipley, and Co.'s office
in the course of the afternoon, when a scene of unusual
interest and animation varied the ordinary routine of
business—the drawing of the lots exciting as great in-
terest as would be displayed by a group of gambles round
a rouge et noir table. The Baltic carries about 700 tons
of goods ; the rate of freight, which has been raised 1/.
since the Ist inst., being Si. The quays of the liuskis—
son dock, during the last few clays, have been entirely
blocked up with carts, loaded with fine goods.—Liver-
pool Times.
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The Great-Western, in
consequence of the impediMents in the way of adequately
developing the Birmingham and Oxford, fails to com-
pete with the standard of 1851, but it displays a lively
advance upon the income per mile for 1852-- a solid and
thorough test of what the Birmingham and Oxford'must
yet become. There can, therefore, be no doubt that
the steady four per cent. will be fully and gratifyingly
maintained:

EVANESCENT ART.—The most remarkable exhibition
of distolving views is that of the National Gallery,
where, through various chemical processes and mechani-
cal means, the pictures of the ancient masters are under-
going dissolution.—Punch.