The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN.

LONDON AND SOIITH-EASTERN RAILWAY. Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Feb. 12, 1.853 £10,827 19 11
Corresponding week last year 9,819 1 1

Increase in 1853 £l,ooB 18 10
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Feb. 12,
1853
Corresponding week last year 7,040 4 6
Total of the half-year to this date, 1853.
Total of the half-year to this dato, 1852 53,663 10 10

waAnYd'sallPlDLrisses,
sePOsEtofTtlihEs Cereal, OP ASTHMATIC
and LLuinvegrsizAl,
gentlemanCOHunuS named Middleton, of Scotland-road,d
states in a letter to Professor Holloway, dated
sufferedated January 1,
il severely
1853, that for upwards of five years
from asthma, attended with a violent cough, which so
prostrated his strength and debilitated his cuoigisatt
totally to unfit him for any of the active duties ofulirell'iles
was attended by the most eminent medical men, but. all
failed to give him relief. At length he tried Holloway'sl
Pills, and in about three months this wonderful medicine
effected a perfect cure of his decease, and restored him to
sound health. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor
Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London.
The attention of all classes has been attracted to the
undeniably virtues of Parr's Life Pills, and a vast majority
of the people have evinced their unqualified approval of
the high character awarded this medicine, and are daily
becoming more and more convinced of the astonishing effi-
cacy of this renovator of the human race. Parr's Pills are
strongly recommended to those who are suffering from
headache or indigestion, whether arising from constitu-
tional inaction, biliary dissarrangement, or over-indulgence
at the table, as they have never been known to fail in
according immediate relief. Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St.
Paul's Churchyard ; Barclay and Sons, Faningdon-street ;
Sutton and Co., Bow Churchyard ; Hanney and Sanger,
Oxford-street ; Baxter, High Holborn Preston and Sons,
Smithfield, London ; and by most respectable dealers in
medicine. PricQ 141., 2s. 9d., and family packeti, lls.
each.

Commander Henry Parker, 1814, has been appointed to
Greenwich Hospital, vice Robinson, deceased. Commander
Parker is the senior commander on the active list, and his
services are recorded as under by O'Byrne " Henry
Parker entered the navy Jan. 27, 1801, as first-class
volunteer, on board the Belleisle, 74, Captains William
Domett, Chas. Boyles, John Whitby, and Wm. Hargood ;
in which ship ho continued for a period of six years and a
half. At first he was stationed in the Channel ;+ he after-
wards accompanied Lord Nelson to the West Indies and
back in pursuit of the combined squadrons of France and
Spain ; and on Oct. 21, 1805, he was present as midship-
man (a rating he had attained in June, 1801) at the battle
of Trafalgar. He next, Sept. 14, 1806, witnessed the de-
struction, off Cape Henry, of the French 74-gun ship
L'lmpetuenx ; and in Nov., 1807, on his -return from a
second visit to the West Indies, where he had removed
with Captain Hargood to the Northumberland, 74, he .was
ordered to join the Swiftsuro, 74, bearinc, the flag at 'Hali-
fax of Sir John Borlase Warren. UnderAhat officer'(witli
the exception of an interval between Nov., 1811 and May,
'lBl3, passed on board the Dragon, 74, Captains T. For-
rest, F. A. Collier, and R. Bathe) Mr. Parker, whose first
commission bears date April 28, 1808, continued almost
uninterruptedly employed in the same ship and in the San
Domingo, 74, part of the time as flag-lieutenant, until ad-
vanced to his present rank, Juno 27, 1814. His last ap-
pointment was to the coast-guard, in which service he re-
mained from Fob. 3, 1832, until the early part of 1835.
Commodore Parker married, April 10, 1822, Lady
Frances Theophila Anne Hastings, eldest daughter of the
late and sister of the present Earl of Huntingdon."

PORTSMOUTH, Fut. 14.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. B. Martin, em-
/ barked her complement of marines to-day, on board the
hulk the Victorious. She has not entered many men, but
rendezvous are opened for them.
Marlborough, 130, screw line-of-battle ship, is now
- completely in frame -it is determined on lengthening this
sister vessel to the Duke of Wellington by the bows, which
will enable her to have a much finer entrance, and as a
matter of course will increase her speed.
The London, 92, Captain G. R. Mundy, still wants
nearly 300 hands to complete her complement to 851; she
wanted 290 on Saturday.
The Fury, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander Tatham, left this
afternoon for the Mediterranean station.
The Agamemnon, screw two'-decker, 91, Captain Sir
Thomas Maitland, C. 8., discharged a lurther number of
her sick to the naval hospital on Sunday, by the Echo,
steam-tug, and others to-day. We are informed upwards
of 50 of the infected were left behind on the vessel leaving
Sheerness for Spithead.
The Barracouta, 6, spaddle-sloop, Commander George
Parker, arrived at Spithead to-day from Sheerness with
supernumeraries, &c.
The Rattlesnake, 8, Commander Trollope, was docked
to-day to repair a leak near her sternpost.
The Hercules, 72, fitted up as an emigrant ship toconvey
emigrants on Government account to Australia, from the
Hebrides, was at Queenstown on the 11th inst. A letter
from her says—" It having been published in divers papers
that the fever which broke out on board this ship is of a
most malignant nature, I ask you, for the sake of the fami-
lies. of those who have relatives and friends in the ship, to
insert now that only ono case of typhus has occurred,
which proved fatal at the hospital, but this is the only one
which can with truth be mentioned as of a malignant na-
ture. A great many cases of smallpox have appeared
(which, without a shadow of doubt, was introduced by the
emigrants), but I am happy to say they are mostly modi-
fied cases ; for instance, out of 70 and more attacked, only
four were of a confluent type ; three of these, I am sorry
to say, have died since they landed at Haulbowline. I
must beg to bring also under your notice the highly
praiseworthy care and unceasing attention bestowed
upon the poor emigrants by Captain Baynton, the
officers generally, and the crew of this good ship ; and
I can assure you I am only echoing the feelings of all
on board, when I add that in the selection of such a
captain by the Emigration Board for such a truly onerous
trust in a man-of-war the Commissioners have indeed
chosen ono who will ever study to promote the comfort
and happiness of all entrusted to him. It will be grati-
fying to our friends on land to know that we are all in
great hopes the disease (small-pox) will soon be eradicated,
and the Hercules will again start with her large and happy
Highland family under better auspices, carrying them in
safety to the land of plenty, whore they will with gratitude
remember the Hercules and her kind crew."

PLYMOUTH, FEB. 13.
Tho Ithadamanthus sailed this morning, taking some
stores for all tho eastern yards, six boats, which the
lighters could not conveniently stow, and a number of
supernumeraries.
The Sybilla convict ship, arrived this morning, and will
completo her cargo from Dartmoor, and then sail for
Gibraltar.

WOOLWICH, FEB. 14.
The Firebrand steam-frigate, Captain Hyde Parker, will
be taken out of the basin on Saturday next, and on the
following Monday will proceed down the river to try her
engines and have her compasses adjusted at Greenhithe,
and, according to present arrangements, she will leave
Greenhithe for Portsmouth on Tuesday, the 22d inst.
Captain Geoffrey T. P. Hornby (1852), having completed
a course of study of steam at the factory at Woolwich dock-
yard, was examined on Thursday and Friday last by Mr.
Charles Atherton, chief engineer, as to his knowledge of
steam and the working of marine engines, and, having
passed satisfactorily, received his certificate accordingly.