The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY -TRAFFIC RETURNS.

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending June 19, 1853 (283 miles) £15,904 2 6
Corresponding week last year (2234 miles) 11,628 3 0

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending June 26, 1853 .. R20,244 17 8
Corresponding week last year 18,042 11 9

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending June 26, 1853 £6,005 18 9
Corresponding week last year 3,606 2 8

Increase in 1853 £2,399 16 1
CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending June 25, 1853 £207 0 4
Corresponding week last year lBO 0 4

WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAlLWAY.—Traffic return
for the week ending June 18 (29 miles) £l5O 13 11
Corresponding week last year (13 miles) 54 5 9

THE LATE MURDER AT BACTON RECTORY.—Every day
since the murder of Maria Steggall, the late housekeeper
to the Rev. Barton Barker, rector of Bacton, the rev.
gentleman, we regret to say, has become more and more
afflicted in his mind, so much so, that on Thursday last
his friends deemed it advisable to have him removed to
a private asylum at Norwich.—lpswich. Express.

THE SHIPPING TRADE.—FOREIGN GOODS.—The Cus-
toms authorities have directed that the practice of
charging the merchant or shipowner at the rate of six-
pence per hour for the extra attendance of tidewaiters,
in the discharge of wood, goods, and ice, for any time
after the legal hours of business, be discontinued, and
that those articles, and all other goods discharged under
the supervision of the waterguard department, whether
to be landed or delivered overside, be allowed to be
taken out of the importing vessel from six o'clock a.m.
to six p.m., from the Ist of March to the 31st of Octo-
ber, and from seven o'clock a.m. to four p.m., from
the Ist of November to the last day of February, with-
out expense to the parties. In any case of discharge
before and after the hours mentioned payment is to be
required.

RIGA RAILWAY. —The Riga advices mention that a
concession made last month to a company of merchants
and others of that place, for a railway from Riga to join
the Warsaw line at Dunaburg, a distance of about 140
miles, is for 57 years with a guarantee of 44 per cent.,
the road, which would cost about 2,000,0001., becoming
the property of the Government at the end of that period
without any payment to the shareholders. These terms,
estimating a due allowance for a sinking fund, are too
unfavourable to attract notice in England, even sup-
posing the absence of adverse political considerations,
and the subscriptions, therefore, it may be presumed,
will be almost entirely confined to parties in Russia.
The probabilities of the line itself proving profitable are
considered to be extremely vague, and, consequently, the
conditions demanded by the London houses who were at
one time in treaty for the privilege, involved a guarantee
of at least 4 per cent. for 66 years.
DEATH FROM THE BITE OF A CAT.—About a fortnight
ago a man named Richard Hunt, residing at St. George's,
Somerset, near Bristol, went to kill a cat, and while in
the act of so doing the cat bit him on the thumb. No
notice was taken of it at the time, but in the course of a
few days the thumb began to get inflamed, and Mr.
Allen, surgeon, was called in, but notwithstanding all
his efforts the inflammation could not be stopped, and
the poor man died last Sunday night. Some idea may
be formed of the state of the sufferer, from the fact that
immediately after death decomposition set in, and he had
to be buried on Tuesday, while two people who were in
attendance upon him have become seriously ill, and a
third is much affected.

DEATH IN A HOT BATH.—An occurrence of a most
painful nature took place at the Droitwich Saline Baths
on Monday last. It appears that Mr. Thos. Loynes, an
aged gentleman, residing in Birmingham (accompanied
by his wife), had been staying at the White Hart Inn,
for the purpose of taking the baths for the benefit of
his health. On the morning of' the above day he went
to take his accustomed bath, and, after it had been pre-
pared at the usual temperature, expressed a wish to
have it a degree or two hotter, and it was accordingly
advanced to 102 degrees, although the deceased's
medical adviser had recommended him not to take the
bath too hot, as he was apprehensive of its producing
faintness. After the lapse of half an hour the attendant
found that the hot water boiler was empty, and at once
proceeded to Mr. Loynes's bath, where he found the
unfortunate gentleman quite dead, apparently from
scalding. It was conjectured, however, that having incau-
tiously turned on the hot water, the deceased fainted
from the heat, and then lost all power of turning off the
tap, and that death took place before the scalding. An
inquest was held on the following day before Mr. W. S.
P. Hughes, coroner, when the following verdict was re-
turned :—" Died from suffocation in a bath, in conse-
quence of turning on the tap of hot water, and losing
his power to turn it off again by fainting 02 other sudden
seiguo,—.Birminyiarn ORette,