The Sun.
London, England, 1854-03-23 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN'S'.

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending March 12,1851 £18,250 6 1
Corresponding week last year 11,359 13 10

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending March 19, 1854-- £17,592 8 3
Corresponding week last year 17,478 9 9

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending March 19, 1854 • £3,680 14 7
Corresponding week last year 3,194 16 4

Increase in 1854.

£485 18 3

EXPORTS FROM ODESSA.—Telegraphic advices from
Odessa state that an order had just been received from
St. Petersburg that all grain•ships which had not already
cleared were to be stopped and forced to unload. Should
this prove correct it will be followed by heavy losses,
since it has hitherto been believed that, notwithstanding
the prohibition against further exports after the 13th
of March, all ships which had commenced loading be-
fore that period would be allowed to fill up and depart.
THE ST. FERGUS MURDER.—The new trial of Dr.
Smith for the murder of M`Domld is fixed for Wednes-
day, the 12th of April next.
CrrY COMMISSION or SEWERS.—On Tuesday at the
meeting of the Court much attention was given to cases
of projecting light reflectors placed against shop win-
dows, and obstructing the public thoroughfares, and the
inspectors were ordered to summon all parties offending
in that way.
EXTENSIVE FIRE IN TIIE BLACKFRI,IIIS-ROAD.
Yesterday afternoon, between the hours of one and two
o'clock, a fire, attended with a considerable destruction
of property, broke out on the premises belonging to
Messrs. William and George Howard, scale-board and
spl►nt-cutters and wholesale box manufacturers, carrying
on an extensive business in York-street, Blackfriars-
road. The premises comprised sundry erections, and
stretched in one direction almost as far as Rowland
Hill's Chapel ; and had the outbreak taken place in the
night, it is quite propable that that sacred edifice would
have been also reduced to ruins. The discovery was
made by a gentleman named Nash, whose attention, it
appears, was attracted to an unusual body of smoke is-
suing from a building nearly 60 feet long, used as the
cutting-houses, in which were some valuable machinery
worked by manual power, and a costly stock in trade,
Adjoining this building, and also under it, were sundry
piles of deals, and a short distance off was the main
factory, composed principally of timber, so that at one
time a terrible conflagration was expected. The moment
the discovery was made, information of the disaster was
despatched to the engine-stations, and forthwith Kibble-
white attended with the Christ Church parish engine,
and was quickly followed by Messrs. Henderson and
Hambletoo with the Brigade engines from Southwark
Bridge-road and Waterloo-road stations, as well as the
West of England engine and the company's firemen. ,
Fortunately, an abundant supply of water was pro-
cured from the mains of the Lambeth and Southwark
companies, and the firemen taking advantage of
the same, they set their engines to work, and power-
ful streams of the opposing element were thrown
upon and into the blazing building ; but notwithstand-
ing the work of destruction continued, and in spite of the
exertions of all present, the flames could not be extin-
guished until the premises in which the disaster com-
menced were burned out, the contents including the ma-
chinery consumed. Fortunately, the other buildings
belonging to the firm received little, if any, damage.
Mr. Howard and Mr. Nash, in endeavouring to subdue
the fire before the arrival of the engines, had the hair on i
their heads and eyebrows much burnt. The origin of
the fire is unknown. The premises and their contents
were loured in the -Unity Fre-office.