The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-15 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles
opened. NAME OF RAILWAY.: Receipts.
1853.
- 1853. 1854.
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••••..-•• - - • • .. . .... £1,669 1,901
72 Aberdeen .. ----..
37% Belfast and Ballymena .............. 701 834
17 Belfast and County Down.• • • .• .. • • .. '250 260
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,717 2,282
- Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .. .. 868 894
85% Bristol and Exeter • • .......... ••• • - 4,615 5,487
12,775 15,004
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94% Chester and Holyhead -• • .... •• - 3,203 4,148
6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage -.. •• 160 203
. 20 Cork and Bandon .................. 235 247
56 Dublin and Belfast Junction ........ 768 878
62% Dublin and Drogheda.. • ... .. ..... .. 1, 125 1,252
6 Dublin and Kingstown .............. 789 830
16% Dundee and Arbroath .............. 465 602
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 740 864
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen.. - - • • • • • • 171 211
68 East Ang1ian........................ 753 911
81 East Lancashire.. ....... ........... 4,633 4,806
3.11% Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • ..I 18,391 21,164
95 EastemUnion - ................ • •
78 Edinburgh, Perth. and Dundee.• .. • . 2,452 3,089
6 Exeter and Credit0n................ 132 100
19 Farness Railway ... .............. 426 787
171 Glasgow, and South-Western.. ...... 4,756 5,594
283% Great Northern and E. L........... 14,425 17,127
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 4,917 5,617
819% Great Western ............ 20,481 23,153
25% Irish South Eastern •••• - - - 173 278
90 Lancaster and Carlisle...... .. 4,603 5,802
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire 18,221 18,424
- Leeds Northern ...... • • ...... • • .. • • - -
lS Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport 425 452
553%, London and North Western .. .
5% I London and Blackwell •• • .......
1734 London, Brighton, and South Coast 11,493 12,963
253% London and South Western.... 11,020 13,667
41 Londonderry and Enniskillen
- Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c - -
167% Manchester, Shefffeld,and Lincolnshire 6,833 7,818
9% Manchester and South Junction." 568 665'
28 Maryport and Carlisle
498% Midland •••••-••--.. • • .. • . • •
126 Midland Great Western (Irish)
37 Monklands • ... .• ••.. ••
78% Newcastle and Car1i51e....... .....
149 North British .... •. b ....... •
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47 North-Western .... • •
50 Scottish Central .................. 1
32 Scottish Midland .... ... .. 2,637 3,146
29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham
47 Shrewsbury and Chester
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29 Shropshire Union .......... „ 672 611
58 South Devon --.. .. . ......
2884 South Eastern 1 ~737
16,047
162% South Wales .................. .
2,830 4,534
77 South York., Doncaster, and Goole :. 1,409 1,662
40 Taff Vale .• • • .........• .• ••• • • •
36 Ulster •'•••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • .. • •
68 Waterford and Limerick ....
25 West Cornwall ......
584 619
12 Whitehaven Junction
5,23
682 York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
York and North Midland 8c Leeds. 24,157 26,985
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25,402 29,888
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534:4372%
25,491 31,409
240 14,652 15,720
84 Paris and Rouen. •
17,504 21,800
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••• • • 3.193 3,447
101 Western of France •••• • • • • 4,081 5,058

• The receipts include the traffic on the Orleans and Central, Or-
eans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes.

ILLEGAL CONVEYANCE OF LETTERS.—A notice has
just been issued from the General Post-office against the
illegal conveyance of letters. Private friends or special
messengers may convey letters. Commissions, affidavits,
writs, and processes from courts of justice, need not
pass through the post ; nor letters sent abroad in a pri-
vate vessel ; nor those concerning and accompanying
goods by common carriers. With the above exceptions,
common carriers, owners, drivers, and guards of stage
coaches, owners, commanders, seamen, and passengers
of ships, are expressly forbidden to carry letters. The
penalty for acting illegally in this matter is 51. a letter,
and 1001. per. week for whoever makes a practice of it.
DESERTION OF MEN FRO3I THE TRANSPORTS AT
DEPTFORD.—Much inconvenience has been felt among
the fleet of transports lying at Deptford, by an exten-
sive desertion of men 'into the navy. Boats from the
several naval rendezvous in the river are nightly cruising
round the ships, inducing the men to leave. The Born.
bay has lost 20 seamen, the Dunbar 15, the Caduceus
16, and the Pride of the Ocean 15, in this way. We
understand that Mr. Dunbar, the owner of some of the
ships, is taking steps to obtain redress from the GeTern,
(47.4 1kicr.7,616 (look.