The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-09 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending June 4, 1853 £16,410 17 4
Corresponding week last year 16,206 3 9

Increase in 1853 £2o4 13 7
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending June 4,
1853 £12,016 3 7
Corresponding week last year 12,013 15 3
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853 228,646 6 9
Total of the half-year to this date, 1852 205,901 18 1

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WII3TERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
'wurn for the week ending Jrne 4, 1853 £5,025 4 2
Corresponding week last yea: 4,094 11 7

Increase in 1853 £93o 12 7

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return fo,
the week ending May 29, 1853 (283 miles) £16,260 13 0
Corresponding week last year (223 i miles) 11,754 4 2

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LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending June 5, 1853 .....,£19,140 12 0
Corresponding week last year 22,108 3 8
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending June 5, 1853 £4,247 17 9
Corresponding week last year 3,702 2 7

Increase in 1853 £545 15 2
CORK AND BANDON* RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending June 4, 1853 £217 12 9
Corresponding week last year 144 11y1

SILK MANUFACTURE.—Advices from Lyons state that
"the looms have been somewhat slack, but that renewed
orders from London and Paris, to an extent equal to
anything of late years, have again excited industry and
capital. Some of the finest fabrics yet made, and
through which this additional impetus to the trade of
this city has been given, were commissioned by the
Maison Delisle in Paris, and Sewell and Co., of Old
Compton-street, London. The latter house appears of
late to have arisen to considerable importance, if we may
judge from its name being so often alluded to in the
official Continental trade reports.
FATAL OCCURRENCE ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAILWAY.—Yesterday, Mr. Baker, coroner, received
information [that a man named William Sprines, who
resided in Bull-yard, Stoke Newington, had been killed
on the Eastern Counties Railway, near Tottenham. He
had been fishing in the Lea, and was crossing the line
on his way home as the seven a.m. Hertford train came
up, knocked him down, and cut him in two before the
driver could bring it up. The deceased was in the
habit of crossing the line near the same spot, and was
frequently cautioned not to do so, as it was not a public
footway. He was 70 years of age.
LIBRARY IN NOTTINGHAM.—Yesterday morning the
foundation-stone of a new building to be used as an
artizans' library was laid in Thurland-street, Notting-
ham, by the Rev. Benjamin Carpenter, president of the
institution.
AMERICAN CRADLE.—An American has obtained a
patent for a new cradle, which moves between two up-
right columns placed upon a moveable base, upon the
principle of the pendulum of a clock: It runs by means
of a weight in one of the columns, and when wound up
will run 24 hours, or as much shorter time as the nurse
may desire.
AN ARGUMENT.—There would be no counterfeits but
for the sake of something that is real. For though all
pretenders seem to be what they really are not, yet they
pretend to be something thrt really is. For, to counter-
feit is to put on the iikene2s and appearance of some
real excellence. There would be no brass money, if
there were not good and lawful money. Bristol stones
would no pretend to be diamonds, if there never had
been any diamonds. Those idols in Henry the Seventh's
time (as Loid Bacon calls them), Lambert Simnell and
Perkin Warbeck, had never been set up, if there had not
once been a real Plantagenet and a Duke of York. So
the idols of the heathen, though they be set up in affront
to the tree C od, yet they rather prove that there is one
than the contrary.— Archbish9p Tillotson.
INEBRIETY.—When this vice has taken fast hold of a
man, farewell industry, farewell emulation, farewell atten-
tion to things worthy of attention, farewell love of virtuous
society, farewell decency of manners, and farewell, too,
even an attention to person : everything is sunk by this
predominant and brutal appetite. In how many instances
do we see men who have begun life with the brightest
prospects before them, and who have closed it with-
out one ray of comfort and consolation. Young
men, with good fortunes, good talents, good tempers,
good heaLts, and sound constitutions, only by being
drawn into the vortex of the drunkard, have become
by degrees the most loathsome and despicable of
• mankind. In the house of the drunkard there is

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what he calls pleasure, brings pain as hourly as
the night brings morning. Poverty and misery
are in the train. To avoid these results, we are
called upon it to make no sacrifice. Abstinence requires
no aid to accomplish it. Our own will is all that is re-
quisite ; and if we have not the will to avoid contempt,
disgrace, and misery, we deserve neither relief, nor com-
passion.— Weekly Magazine.
TRAFFIC IN AUSTRALIAN GOLD.-Mr. Pegler, a gold-
smith of Southampton, has received a consignment of Aus-
tralian gold. It was purchased at Melbourne for 31.125. 3d.
per ounce a short time before the Sarah Sands left Port
Philip. The expense of conveyance to Southampton has
been exactly 2s. per oz., viz., 41d. per oz. for freightage,
ls. 6d. per oz. insurance, and box in which it was sent
home and the ship charges cost 10. an oz. more. The value
of the gold in Southampton is as nearly as possible 41. an
ounce. The transaction has, therefore, turned out a pro-
fitable one, realising as it does ss. 9d. an ounce. Before the
Sarah Sands, however, left Port Philip, gold rose to 31.175.
an ounce in Melbourne; and it is very evident that if
that price is sustained gold-buying in Australia cannot
be a remunerative employment. A box sufficient to
hold 50 ounces of gold dust, and which is necessary for
the safe transmission of the precious metal to England,
costs in Melbourne, 6s.