The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-01 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Mlles
NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts.
opened,
1853.
1852. 1853.
72 Aberdeen .. •••••••••• ••• •• .£1.718 2,040
37 44 Belfast and Ballymena • • • • .... 689 787
17 Belfast and County Down .• •••••••• .. 275 284
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,892 2,285
26)6 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York -
85154 Bristol and Exeter ••..• . • • .... •• • • 5,079 5,678
1894 Caledonian.... . ..... 1 15,070 16,389
894 Edinburgh and Glasgow . •
94% Chester and Holyhead • . 4,560 5,692
634 Cork, Blackrock, and Passage • • 191 407
20 Cork and Bandon .• • • ............ 153 247
56 Dublin and Belfast Junction ........ 1,039 1,323
53 Dublin and Drogheda...... 1,111 1,653
6 Dublin and Kingstown ........ 1,089 1,131
16% Dundee and Arbroath ••••• • • • • • • • 508 536
31 Dundee, Perth, and AberdeonJunction 682 -
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen 167 193
68 , East Ang1ian........ 648 731
811)6 East Lancashire • ..... 4,635 5,441
322 Eastern Comities and Norfolk.. • • .... 16,464 17,675
95 Eastern Union ••••••..
78 Edinburgh, Perth. and Dundee...". 2,523 3,011
6 Exeter and Crediton.. • • .... • • • • • • .. 131 134
19 Furness Railway ... •••••••• ••.. • • 444 684
171% Glasgow, and South-Western •• • • ...• 4,891 5,102
283 Great Northern and E. L.- •• 16,063 20,041
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5,310 7,094
3191% Great Western
25% Irish South Eastern • • 200 277
90 _Lancaster and Carlisle • . 5,401 6,806
260 Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ 18,223 19,930
70 Leeds Northern •••-• -
18k Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 485 484
553)6 London and North Western .• ....• • • 50,746 54.071
516 London and 81ackwa11.......... •• • • 1,135 1,497
1734 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 13,358 14,823
253% London and South Western. 12,710 13,976
41 Londonderry and Enniskillen • . 335 471
1116 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. -
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 7,688 8,416
934 Manchester and South Junction."... 690 734
28 3f aryport and Carlisle ••• • • • ......., 716 751
498% Midland •.• . • ••••• • • . • • • ... 24,553 27,055
126 Midland Great Western (Irish) • • • • 2,450 2,660
37 bfonklands •••••• • • • • .• •• • • 875 923
78 34 Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • .... ••.. • • 2,626 2,967
149 North British • ..... •••••••• • • • • • • • • 4,048 4,704
232 North Staffordshire • • .•••• . • .• -
47 North-Western ••.•••••••• • • • • • • • • • 939 1,270
80 Scottish Central
32 Scottish Midland 3,028 3,334
2916 Shrewsbury and Birmingham 923 912
47 Shrewsbury and Chester • ...... 2,058 2,191
29 Shropshire Union .. ......... 629 756
58 South Devon .. •• •• .• • • •• •• • • 2,512 2,638
288 4 South Eastern-- •• • • .... 19,237 20,138
131 South Wales .. • •• • •• • 2,575 4,416
77 South York., Doncaster, and Goole 2,064 2,615
40 Taff Vale ••..••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 2,966 3,338
1,094 1,289
50 Waterford and Limerick • • • • 412
25 West Cornwall . • • • • •• • • • • 525 621
12 Whitehaven Junction .•
682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds 27,470 3L',853
FOREIGN.
574 Dutch Rhenish .. • . 1,495 I,VOI
183% Lyons and Mediterranean • 7,7t'9
h 3 Monterean and Troyes 1,167 I,lBl'
63 Namur and Liege •• .. 1,293 1,829
443% Northern of France 28,107 32,366 ;
577 Orleans and Central* ..... ........ 23,202 -
240 Paris and Lyons ••••• • •• ...... 17,254 19,387
84 Paris and Rouen. •• •• .. •••• •• •••• •• 8,743 11,361
392 Paris and Strasburgh ,.. 18,019 23,733
59 Rouen and Havre...-. ...... .. 3.540 4,915
66 Western of France ••• • .. 6.016 6,120

REFORM IN THE CHARGES OF HOTEL KEEPERS.—
The prominent notice the press has taken of the high
charges of travelling expenses in England has aroused
the ire of the hotel keepers, who, instead of meetinr, the
indignant clamour by a reduction of their items, have,
at their recent conclaves, given indubitable evidence of
their determination to adhere to their bill, their whole
bill, and nothing but the bill. The world knows now,
however, what the profits of the tribe are, and it is yet
to be seen whether opposition does not arise which will
effectually get rid of the grievance. That even the larg-
est and most magnificent establishments could not find
fair remunerative profits at lower prices is simply pre-
posterous. One of the most comfortable and elegantly
furnished houses at the "West-end—formerly Crockford's
—gives by its printed tariff, a flat contradiction to this
assertion, and yet at this mansion—now the Wellington
—are prepared by cooks of eminence, and superintended
by men of intelligence and civility, dinners and other
9,3871 repasts with all the attributes of a first-class club, at
,1,361
23,733 prices as low as those of a third-rato hotel. Wines,
4,915 too, fit for a ducal bufet, are served in the imperial mea-
-6,120 sure at a figure which would confound, if it did not
* The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or- - Lhame the extortionate vendors of pseudo port and
tans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines. hecries.—Evcning paper.

413%
577
240