The Sun.
London, England, 1853-09-10 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles
opened, NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts.
1853.
BB.ITISH.
72 Aberdeen .... • ..... •• • ..... £1,728 2,165
37% Belfast and Ballymena •••••• •• • • •• 743 834
17 Belfast and County Down• • • • • • • • • • .. 316 255
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,020 2,527
26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • -
1:11 111 1 56:444150
85)4 Bristol and Exeter • • ...• • . • 1 4
.• 56
1891 Caledonian.- .. .•
89 Edinburgh and Glasgow •• • • ••
• 94% Chester and Holyhead ••.. • • •• 4,730 8,767
61.4 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage ••• • • • 228 232
20 Cork and Bandon .. • • ...• • • . • . • • • •• 211 192
56 Dublin and Belfast Junction .... •. • 1,113 1,607
53 Dublin and Drogheda.. • •
6 Dublin and Kingstown ••• • • • •..... 1,368 2,975
16% Dundee and Arbroath .• •••••• • • • • • • 579 656
81 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 772 882
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen • • .. • • • • • • • • 167 226
68 East Anglian.. • . . ....... 730 717
81' East Lancashire....
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk ...... .. 15,619 17,495
95 Eastern Union.. 2,552 3,025
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee.... • . 2,907 3,371
6 Exeter and Crediton.. • • .....• • • • • • • 134 139
19 Furness Railway •• • • • .. ••..•• .. • • 567 833
171% Glasgow, and South-Western•. . . 4,270 5,117
283 Great Northern and E. L.• • 13,381 16,148
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5,689 5,117
319 Great Western •.••• • • • • • ...... 19,160 23,652
2514 Irish South Eastern ••• ..
90 Lancaster and Carlisle • - • ... •. •..•.. 5,8,2 7,067
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire... ..... 19,928 21,447
70 I Leeds Northern • ..••
18i Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 577 665
553% London and North Western . ... 53,783 56,402
5% I London and Blackwall• • •• • • 1,575 1,593
17311 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 14,847 15,259
25314 London and South Western. •• • • 14,248 14,686
41 Londonderry and Enniskillen • • • • •• • • 245 483
11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, lee. -
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 7,981 8,511
9% Manchester and South Junction ••• • • - 683 681
28 Mai yport and Carlisle • • •• • • • • • • •• • • 763 905
498% Midland
126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • • 2,974 3,275
781 951
78% Newcastle and Car1i51e........ ••• • • • 2,596 3,322
149 North British ....... .
232 North Staffordshire ........ •••• • • • • -
47 North-Western „, 1,052 1,492
50 Scottish Central ..................
3,038 3,521
32 Scottish Midland .. •
29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• • • 928 857
47 Shrewsbury and Chester .......• .• .. 1,920 2,173
29 Shropshire Union .............• 705 802
58 South Devon.. • . .•• • • •••• • • • • 2,311 2,432
288 South Eastern...• .• 20,316 21,138
131 South Wales .. • • .••• • • • .......... 2,655 -
77 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 1,368 1,469
40 Taff Vale •••••••• • • • • • • • 2,556 2,815
36 Ulster. •••••••••••••• •• •• • • • • •• •• 1,119 1,417
50 Waterford and Limerick • 514 -
25 West Cornwall ...... ............. 528 630
12 Whitehaven Junction ••••••••••••••• 256 296
682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds 27,406 30,507
FOREIGN.
5714 Dutch Rhenish .
18334 Lyons and Mediterranean ••- • • •• - 7,150
Montereau end Troyes ....
63 Namur and Liege 1,209 -
413% Northern of France ...... •• • •
577 Orleans and Central* .. 21,594 -
240 Paris and Lyons .......... ..... 16,333 19,209
84 Paris and Rouen.
392 Paris and Strasburgh 22,056 23,239
59 Rouen and Havre.. „ „ 3,518 5,078
66 Western of France ...... • • • •

* The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or-
aus and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines.

cial reportsharvest.
and AND AUSTRIAN HARVEST.—The Prussian
yen.ted tahtae
. Austrian Government have just published the offi-
• h have reached them on the results of the
which
In Prussia, although the frequent rains pre-
the province o'f al,froT
and Brandenburg
harvest from being an abundant one, there
is, it is
a scarcity. The crop of rye in
merama, Saxony and ssia and in the provinces of Posen
g?od and eve modunn ; in
only in in Lithuania, in NVesiaa it is erate, and it is
' of wheat, with this differ e same may be said of the crop
phalia that it is 1;44
Rhenish that, in Westphalia, it is
Province
Lithuania, rather worse' than
extern Pomerania, and in West-
better, and in the
that of the rye. In
crop of barley has been a fair one. and Silesia the
indicate
vegetable
age have been everywhere abunrieti The crops of for-
them was afterwards destroyed b ant' but a part of
The price of corn appears to be ketr,t the Pad weather.
failure in the potatoes, but. the disease
is only partial, and there is nothing to
produce will be less than in former years,
iPn tnit a fear
of
4,,:,lniat the
e
are satisfactory in the Tyrol and in Upper Austr9B
middling in Carniola and in Austrian Silesia; goodriain;
Moravia and the Pukowine, and very fair in the Duchy
of Cracow, The reports from Hungary, Gallicia, Tran-
sylvania, Lombardy, and other parts of the empire have
not yet been received, but there is nevertheless reason to
believe that without being as abundant as might have
been hoped, the returns will be satisfactory. The price
of land in certain parts of Hungary has doubled, a fact
which shows the progress making by agriculture in that
country.
Loan ELPRINSTONE.—The Morning Herald says
that Lord Elphinstone has been appointed Governor of
Bombay ; and Mr. Thomason, late Governor of the
North-west Provinces, has been appointed to the go-
vernment of Madras.