The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEER.

1 Mlles
opened,' NAME OF RAILWAY.: fieceipta.
1803. I
1
BRITISH. 1852. 1853.
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72 I Aberdeen ..... £1,520 1,821
37% Belfast and Ballymena - .... -..- .• 681 701
17 1 Belfast and County Down.. - - .... 176 184
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,527 .696
• - Bolton, Blackburn, and West York - - - _
8534 Bristol and Exeter ..... .• • ..• •••• • - •
123,533158 143,13170,
18934 Caledonian.-- ...... .......... }
89 Edinburgh and &wow .• •-..- • •
94's Chester and Holyhead••••• - .... - - 3,074 3,862
63y Cork, Blackrock, and Passage -- •• 128 136
20 Cork and Bandon .............. 142 196
56 Dublin and Belfast Junction ••- • • - 823 776
6234 Dublin and Drogheda- -•..- •• •• 909 1,072
6 Dublin and Kingstown -.•.•- - - - 572 542
16% Dundee and Arbroath ---- • • .• 402 464
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 730
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen.... --..- 173 180
68 East Ang1ian........................ 627 782
81% ' East Lancashire ............ •
• •
• •
• •
• •
•• 4,059 4,563
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. ...... 15,974 17,628
95 Eastern Union-........ • ••• .. 2,116 2,175
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...... 2,014 2,359
6 Exeter and Credit0n................ 81 100
19 Furness Railway • 291 474
1715 Glasgow, and South-Western- -•. • • 3,882 4,566
283 Great Northern and E. L.-. ... -. • 14,402 18,455
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 4,701 5,353
31931 Great Western •• • ....... • ... -•• • • 17,527 20,823
2514 Irish South Eastern •• - ............
177
90 Lancaster and Carlisle-- .. ••• • • • 4,426 202
5,134
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire •
• • 17,478 17,042
- Leeds Northern ...................,
- -
181, Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport •• . • 248 258
5N 3% London and North We5tern........,
..... 45,
879
1731 i London, Brighton, 4 10,019
41 L and South Coast.. 10,005 1,040
25334 London and South Western. ........ 9,455 10.8'• 7
- ondonderry and Enniskillen --•• • • 355 381
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
1675 Manchester, Shall old, and Lincolnshire 6,682 7,435
91, Manchester and South Junction •• •• •• 499 567
28 Mary ort and Carlisle .. ..... 670 730
498% Midland ..... ...... ..... -•••• •• 24,720 25,790
126 Midland Great Western (Irish) •• •• •• 2,415 2,609
37 Monklands ••••- " " • • ••
••
••
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812 1,054
2,189 ,786
7814 Newcastle and Carlisle.. •• •••••• • • ••
.3,831 4321
149 North British --•••••• '• •• •• ••
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North Staffordshire •• •••• • • •• ••• • " - -
• •
47 North-Western •• •• •• .. •• ' ' • • 743 1,026
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2,703 2,689
:>0 Scottish Central ••••••• • • • •; ::::
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32 Scottish Midland •• ••
670 888
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29% Shrewsbury and Ilfrm g
......•• •• 1,648 1,654
569 693
1,605 1,71*
24,7 13shhrreowsp,hbirureyuanni
n•• ••••• • " . ' 12 394 19 820
58 South Devo
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288 Seat h Easte
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. ..... •• 2,601 3,766
131 South Wales .
•• 2 61(i 3,183
77 south York., •••Doncaster, and Goole .. 1,428 1,616
40 Taff Val .... ........... ••• • •• 1,088 1,209
36 In".
• • •and Limerick ............ 393 594
Waterford
68
520 586
York and Newcastle, 682
Midland & Leeds 24,414 25,281
Cornwall
York and North
2125 WhWesittehaveNn Junaacttiloen, :rn..d.13..e.rv0...e. 245 273
Berwick
'FOREIGN.
574 Dutch Rhenish •••••••••••• • • •• •• • • 781 1,180
183% Lyons and Mediterranean .......... 6,9298 8,204
63 Montereau and Troyes .• .. • ..... • ... 26 1,006
63
................ 1,242 1,621
443(
NNoarthmuerrnanodf Lpireangee.e.
22,432 25,948
077 Orleans and Centra1...,•..... 18,833 29,538
240
84
392 Paris and Strasburgh •• .... •••• .• • • 14,399 19,107
Paris Paris and
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Lloounsen. :.• :: - :•• :: ••
• •'•• ••• 163,337 15,7597
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66 WesternBouen
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.: : 32:569559 33:7451

* The receipts Include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or
leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes. •

THE THIEVES or GLASGOW.—On Monday a most ._ ovie
painful and instructive exhibition, and one, too that
would have been regarded with serious if not thrilling
interest by those who have occasion at times to thread
the streets and lanes of our great city at a late hour,
presented itself in the court-yard of the central police
establishment. This consisted of a row of 13 young
men of from 20 to 30 years of age—all well known
as
desperate thieves— and their appearance there is thus
explained. On Friday night last, about 8 o'clock, an
elderly gentleman was going into the court leading to
his house in George-street, when he was garotted and
otherwise severely assaulted and struck on the face, and
robbed of a pocket-book and a number of (to him) valuable
papers, by two men, whom he could only recognise in
the dark as being young men, wearing coats and caps.
He gave information to the police, and in a few hours the
detachment of thieves already referred to were brought
in from their accustomed haunts, and ranged up in the
manner described, to enable the gentleman to try to
identify his assailants. AVe believe the result was un-
successful ; and it could not be otherwise in the circum-
stances. These young men were singularly uniform in
dress, face, figure, height, and general appearance ; and,
although this similarity may have led to their being
brought up for examination in this instance, there was
something in the_ sight leading to the conclusion that
this uniformity was the result of careful and systematic
professional arrangements for the purpose of baffling
identification. To the mind of the man who had been
attacked, any two of them answered the general descrip-
tion f
ended tThis m
ewas
being e difficultysetatli
ber; and
there
North British. Mail.
AND MISTLETOE.—The holly was dedicated
to ohi
s the inquiry, assailants.
in • and, as the fetes of that deity were cele-
brated December, and the Romans were accustomed
to
decorate their houses with holly, the early Christians
HOLLYSatu r n ,
decorated their houses in the same manner while they
were celebrating their festival at Christmas, in order
that they might escape observation. The mistletoe was
dedicated to Friga, the Venus of the Scandinavians ;
and as she was the goddess of love, hence arose the cus-
tom of kissing under the mistletoe.