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

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Oct. 22, 1854 £19,126 5 5
Corresponding week last year 17,613 11 2
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffie return for
the week ending Oct. 22, 1854 £4,931 10 4
Corresponding week last year 4,754 9 3

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

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 msembly as on the previous day,
and the announcement was received with cheers, waving
of hats, and groans.

NEW EVIDENCE IN THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.—Is
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 'ear evidence
by " word of mouth," as expressed by the act, or as le-
gally called, rind rote, and it may be received either
before or after deposition or affidavit. Another im-
provement is, that the evidence is to be taken down.
DAILY COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE 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 tl.e

Crimea and the capitals of England andFi ance. A steamer,
it is said, 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 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 Urie, by drowning. On her arrival off
Tobermory, about two a.m. of Friday, the steamer was
obliged to wait off the harbour until the tide should per-
mit her entrance. Captain Urie told his mate to go
below and rest himself, while he watched for the proper
time at which to take the steamer up to 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 o• deck
all was quiet, and no 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, bet 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.

ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES.—Among the common
law reforms of last session is an act 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 thelUnited Kingdom." The
act is likely to he enforced at the forthcoming sitting
of the courts. It is stated in the preamble that
great inconvenience arises in the administration of
justice from the want of a power in the superior
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 be 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.

THE 11D311 PRICE OF BREAD —NOTTINGHAM, Wed-
nesday.—Last night, about half-past seven O'clock, a
number of persons, principally youth., assembled before
the shop of Mr. North, baker, of Oolwick-street, in the
lower part 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 a
brick-bat, hurled by one of the rabble. After this the
shop of Mr. Greenfield, in thesame district, was attacked,
but no great damage done. The report quickly spread
that another bread riot had commenced, and the baker'
of the town immediately closed their shops. Thisemogcne-
ing a number of master bakers went to the 1_
hi(the mayor
the protection of their property,
to consult the magistrates upon the matter,
hic Peldca.sk fir
lice force aheuld
(Mr. Reckless) and 'magistrates had a
and it was agreed that an increasedfp
special constables
be sent to-night, and a number opwrivate meeting,
notice, if found to be
warned to be ready in the shortest
Hutchinson
chops of Mr. Reeves (Nan, weni‘unimaersrhat)e,d here, the
necessary. B, sides the cases
was captured at one of the
broker.. A youth
and panes
before the magistrates this
(Pleasant-row), and Adainso (Narrow
visited by the rabble,
disturbances, and brought. .
es
and
costs,
he
was
discharged. •
morning., when, after
ACCIDENT NEAR TODMOEDEN.—On Satur-
day damages
RAILWAY
y night, as the Lancashire and Yorkshire passenger
dtraiiefrem Noimanton, due at Manchester at 25 niinuteg
past 10 o'clock, was passing Milne row, near Todmor-
den, 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-
ing and bruising some of the passengers and servants.
There were two guards to the passenger train, and one
of them, named Dyson, who was sitting at a window
hDlookingeaandi e
through
from 7 othueght
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fronte
gguard,
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shaken,
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several gentlemen travelling by the train were bruised,
but none of them dangerously injured. After a deten-
tion of about three hours, they were forwarded to Man-
chester by the mail train, where they arrived at about
halfpelit twelyo o'clock.
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