The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

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RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—TraffIo re-
turn for the week ending March 19, 1853 E10,921 711
Corresponding week last year 10,516 8 7

Increase in 1853 ROI 19 4
GLASGOW AND SOUTII-WISTBRN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending March 19, 1853 £4,227 16 5
Corresponding week last year 3,776 18 5
x (1 Increase in 1853

£450 18 0

BORDEAUX AND CETTE RAlLWAT.—Yesterday a meet-
ing of the committee in respect to the Bordeaux and Cette
line took place at the London Tavern, at which were pre-
sent Mr. Ald. Salomons, Mr. Oliveira, M.P., Mr. R. W.
Kennard, and Mr. B. B. Williams. The chair was
taken by Mr. Ald. Salomons, who gave an account of the
visit of the committee to Paris, which had ended in
no satisfactory result as to the caution-money, although
they had the greatest expectation that the Emperor would
KO justice done to the shareholders. After a statement
from Mr. Kennard, various resolutions were submitted
and adopted, the chief of which was to the effect that
the caution money of 10,000,000 f. had been in suspense
since 1846, and that the interest on it at four per
cent. would amount to three millions more. They,
therefore, conceived that it could never be contem-
plated that the sum of 5i millions of francs should be a
payment in full for this caution money, unless the five
millions deducted from the new company be added
thereto. Several other resolutions were passed, and a
vote of thanks was given to the committee.
DETERMINED SUICIDE. —A SUICIDAL NEIGHBOUR-
HOOD.—Between one and two o'clock o 4 Sunday morn-
ing, William Thomas Tucker, aged 47, a married man
with a large family, residing at 39, Wells-street, Oxford-
street, returned home, and soon afterwards went to bed
a little excited from drink, but without betraying any
strangeness •f manner. Upon his wife awaking, about
eight o'clock, she was horrified at finding him apparently
quite dead, and immediately gave the alarm, when a
medical man attended and pronounced life extinct some
time. Near the bed was found a laudanum phial
recently emptied, the contents of which deceased had
swallowed. No doubt poverty led the unfortunate man
to drink, and that induced him to seek a remedy for his
troubles in suicide. Mr. Tebbuits, the summoning
officer, forwarded information of the melancholy occur-
,rence to the coroner. Singular to say, in the same street,
within a brief period, several persons •have committed
suicide.

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during the present year, and the following season will
appear in opera at London. Afterwards, she will come
to the United States, and give operas in all the Princi-
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Paper.ining here probably two or three years.
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NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.--The results of the meet-
ing of the North British Railway, just held at Edin-
burgh, have inflicted another check upon the attempted
repudiation of the preference shares. -Upon the divi-
dend on these shires being proposed, a poll was de-
manded, but out of the shareholders present, only three
could be found to support the resistance, while 122 were
in favour of the payment. As regards proxies, the re-
sult was less creditable, since, although there was a con-
sithra.ble majority for sustaining the rights of the pre
ference holders, the minority was sufficiently large to
cause regret among all parties interested in the stability
of railway property, the numbers being 875 aga.itT
Many persons are in the habit of parting
with their
proxies upon mere general solicitations, without ;
Put and it
considering the uses to which they may bte the unsatls
is to be hoped that it is to this reason tsbacomp
compared with
factory amount of the proxy majority,eate
be attributed.
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the personal one, is in the P
‘ -Rrevsentrarliamentary return
OCCUPIERS (IRELLND/•--.7 a my., it appears that
obtained by Sir Robert Ferguson,
ns Ireland, is 564,144. D.
the total number of occupiers
in all the electoral divisions in numbers are—in Connaught,
• ces the ainlueLatins:4l. and under,
tributed in provinces
Munster, 149,803 ;
92,612 • in
and is trlsters MU&
Leinster,