The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAT.—Traffic re-
turn for the weok ending Oct. 22, 1854 £19,126 5 5
Corresponding week last year 17,613 11 2

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending Oct. 22, 1851. 04,931 10 4
Corresponding weok last year 4,754 9 3

Increase in 1854 £l77 1 1
CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Oct. 21, 1851 £l74 2 7
Corresponding week last year 217 16 8
GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY —Traffie re-
turn for the week ending Oct. 7, 1854 £5,773 14 5
corresponding week last year 5,122 0 8

FEOME ELECTlON.—Yesterday morning the returning
officer (Mr. Wickham) made the official declaration of
the poll from the hustings, the numbers being, as already
reported—Viscount Dungarvan, 181 ; Mr. Nicoll, 129 ;
majority for Viscount Dungarvan, 52. There was not
nearly so•numerous an assembly as on the previous day,
and the announcement was received with cheers, waving
of hats, and groans.
NEW EVIDENCE IN TEE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS —Tit
the approaching sittings of the Ecclesiasticrl Court, the
act to alter the mode of evidence will take practical
effect. The Court, if they think fit, may hear evidence
by " word of mouth," as expressed by the act, or as hp
gaily called, viva ewe, and it may be received either
before or after deposition or affidavit. Another im-
provement is, that the evidence is te be taken down.
DAILY COMMUNICATIONS 'WITH TM! EAST.—The Paris
correspondent of the Independance Beige writes to that
journal that the French, English, and Turkish authori-
ties at Constantinople have combined to organise a ser-
vice which will supply a daily communication between the
Crimea and the capitals of England andFi once. A steamer,
it is .aid, will be despatched day by day as a rule from Se-
bastopol, Balaklava, or some other convenient port to
Constantinople, where the intelligence it conveys will be
forwarded by courier to Bucharest, and thence further to
Kronstadt or Hermanstadt, both inTransylvania, and the
nearest respective termini of the Austrian telegraphic line.
In the present and expected state of navigation and of the
country to be traversed it is not anticipated that news
will be transmitted nnder this arrangement in a shorter
space than eight or nine days. The extension of a tele-
graphic line from a point in the Austrian system to Bu-
charest will abridge the interval by a day ; but this work
is not likely to be complete for a month or five weeks.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT SEA.—The steamer Islay, which
arrived at Greenock from the north on Saturday morn-
ing, brought the intelligence of the death of her master,
Captain John Uric, by drowning. On her arrival off
Tobermory, about two a.m. of Friday, the steamer was
obliged te wait off the harbour until the tide should per-
mit her entrance. Captain Urie told hie mate to go
below and rest himself, while he watched for the proper
time at which to take the steamer up te the town. He
was last seen on the quarter-deck. A girl, who was a
passenger, heard a splash, and, as she thought, a cry,
and told some of the crew, but when they went on deok
all was quiet, and ne ill was suspected. .About two
hours afterwards the captain was missed, and the boat
was lowered and the crew began dragging, and in a short
time the body was found below the steamer. The cause
of his falling overboard is unknown, bat it is supposed
that he had been sitting on the quarter-deck rail, and,
tired out by want of proper rest during a stormy pas-
sage, had dropped asleep and fallen into the sea.—
Greenock Advertiser.

ATTENDAYOB 02 WITNESS2S.—AriOng the common
law reforms of last session is an stet to compel the atten-
dance of witnesses out of the jurisdiction of the courts
of common law. It is entituled "An Act to enable the
Courts of Law in England, Ireland, and Scotland to
issue process to compel the attendance of witnesses out
of their jurisdiction, and to give effect to the service of
such process in any part of the)United Kingdom." The
act is likely to ho enforced at the forthcoming sitting
of the courts. It is stated in the preamble that
great inconvenience arises in the administration of
justi• tics from the want of a power in the superier
ce
courts to compel the attendance of witnesses resident in
one part of the United Kingdom at a trial in another,
and the examination of such witnesses by commission is
net in all cases a sufficient remedy. It is therefore en-
acted that witnesses shall attend, and a statement is to
be made at the bottom of the writ that it was issued
under a special order. Witnesses making default in at-
tending are to Le punished by the court of the country
in which the process was served, but persons are not to
be punished unless it is shown that sufficient money to
pay the expenses of coming and returning had been ten-
dered. The act is not to prevent the admissibility of
evidence where now receivable, nor to prevent the issuing
of a commission to examine witnesses.
Tire HIGH PRIDE OP BRIIAD.—NOTTINGIIAW, Wed-
nesday.—Last night, about half-past seven o'clock, a
number of persons, principally youths, assembled before
the shop of Mr. North, baker, of Colwick-street, in the
lower pert of the town, and broke a number of panes of
glass in his windows. Mr. North was standing in his
shop, and was struck a violent blow in the face by
brick-bat, hurled by one of the rabble. After this the
shop of Mr. Greenfield, in the same district, was attacked,
'cut no great damage done. The report quickly spread
that another bread riot had commenced, and the bakers
of the town immediately closed their shops. Thicser.7.7.
morn-
in a number of master bakers went to the pouh
d ask for
to consult the magistrates upon the matter,hic
the protection of their property, upon which
(Mr. Reckless) and magistrates had p
police force should
and it was agreed that an increased vahtaathe
meeting,mayor
f special constables
be sent to-night, and a number
necessary. Besides the,:lsreosw
_iarsk),
Hutchinson warned to be ready iu the shorteesntounnoietircaet„eidf febuenrde,tettee
shops of Mr. Reeves_alnNs.'
were visited by the rabble,
(Ploasant-row), and Ad
and panes broken.
youth was captured at one of the
disturbances, and broughtA
before the magistrates this
morning, when, after paying damages and costs, he was
ent
ger
discharged.
RaiewaY ACCIDENT NEAR TODMORDEN. Oti as St
tu•
day night, as the Lancashire and Yorkshire p
r
train from Normanton, due at Manchester at 25 minutes
past 10 o'clock, was passing Milne row, near Todmor-
dee, it overtook and ran into a luggage train from Wake-
field to Bury, with considerable violence, breaking up
five or six waggons of the goods train, and severely shak-
ingPaasBs 6e.neger s and
a
and bruising some of the servants. u
0
There wore two guards to the p getrain,
of them, named Dyson, who was sitting at and ono
of window
looking front the front of his ran, was pitched with his
head through the glass, sustaining
sortie severe cute.
Daniels, the other guard,
was a good deal shaken, and
but tdraanvgeellrionugslbyy
injured.t hoti.ain were bruised,
severalno none of gentlemen
deten-
tion of about three hours, they wereforwardedAfter tao Ma-
Man-
chester by the mail train, where they arrived at about
half past twelve o'clock.