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

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Mlles
NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts.
opened,
1853.
BRITISH.
72 Aberdeen ................ •• .. ....• £1,7 18 2,040
37% Belcast and Ballymena 689 787
17 Belfast and County Down.• • • • . • • • ... 275 284
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,892 2,285
26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • -
8556 Bristol and Exeter . • .... . • •5,079 5,678
189% Ca1ed0n1an............. .......... 1 15,070 16,389
89% 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 •. .
53 Dublin and Drogheda.. •• .. ... • •
6 Dublin and Kingstown .• .. 1,089 1,131
16% Dundee and Arbroath •••••••• • • .. • • 508 536
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 682 -
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen • • • • • • • • 167 193
68 East Anglian.. ..... . • • . • • • • • • • • • 648 734
81% East Lancashire •• • • ................ 4,635 5,441
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • 16,464 17,675
95 Eastern Union • • • • • • • • • • • 2,657 2,921
78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee.• •• • • 2,523 3,011
6 Exeter and Crediton.. • • • • • • • • • • 131 134
19 Furness Railway ... .... •
171% Glasgow, and South-We,stena.• • • .... 4,891 5,102
283 Great Northern and E. L . 16,063 20,041
188 them and Westeml,(lreland) 5,310 7,094
31934 Great'extern •• • •
25% Irish South Eastern •••• • • •• .••• • .. 200 277
90 Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • ...... 5,401 6,806
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire • ... 18,223 19,930
70 Leeds Northern ...... • • ............ -
18f Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 485 484
553% London and North Western • • .... 50,746 54,071
536 London and Blackwall.• .•• • • • •• • 1,135 1,497
173% London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 13,358 14,823
253% London and South Western. ...... 12,740 13,976
41 Londonderry and Enniskillen •••••• • • 335 471
11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. -
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 7,688 8,416
95% Manchester and South Junction...... 690 734
28 Maryport and Carlisle . .
498 % Midland .. •• • .. •
126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 2,450 2,660
37 Monklands • • • • • • • • •• •• •• • • • • • • • • • • 875 923
7854 Newcastle and Car1i51e.............. 2,626 2,967
149 North British • ... ••.• • . • 4,048 4,704
232 North Staffordshire •• • • •••• • • • • -
47 North-Western ••..• • • • ........ •• .. 939 1,270
50 Scottish Central •• •• • ...... t• • } 3,028 3,334
32 Scottish Midland •• •••••• •• • • ••
29% 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 % South Eastern •••• • • • • .............. 19,237 20,138
131 South Wales • . •
77 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 2,064 2,615
40 Taff Vale •• • ....... ••-••••• • • .• • • • • 2,966 3,338
36 Ulster . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • . • . .. 1,894 1,289
50 Waterford and Limerick......... 412 -
25 West Cornwall .. • • • • .... •••• • • • • 525 621
12 Whitehaven Junction . • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 248 300
682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland & Leeds 27,470 30,853
FOREIGN.
574 Dutch Rhenish 1,495 1,701
18334 Lyons and Mediterranean .......... - 7,709
63 Montereau and Troyes ...... ........ 1,167 1,182
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 23,783
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 meeting 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
repasts with all the attributes of a first-class club, at
prices as low as those of a third-rate hotel. Wines,
too, fit for ducal beet, are served in the imperial mea-
sure at a figure which would confound, if it did not
* The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or-
shame the extortionate vendors of pseudo port and
sans and. Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines. sherries,—Evening paper.