The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-06 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS,

THE GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffie return for
the week ending Dec. 25, 1853 £21,489 7 7
Corresponding week last year 15,527 14 8
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Jan. 1,1854 218,124 17 8
Corresponding week last year 17,818 16 7
CHESTER AND HOLTHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending Jan. 1, 1854 £3,846 14 2
Corresponding week last year 3,517 8 8

£32.1 5 6

Increase in 1854

RISE IN THE PRICE OF COALS. —ln consequence o
the few ships in the river from the colliery districts, and
the rise of coals at the Royal Coal Exchange, the retail
dealers in the metropolis and the suburbs have raised
the price of coals from 3d. to 4d. per cwt. ; the best
Wallsend are 2s. 4d. to 2s. 6d. ; other sorts from 2s. to
2s. 2d. per cwt. ; coke, 10d. to 11d. per bushel. Should
the severe weather continue, a further rise is expected.
THE LONDON BRIDGES.—The passenger who stands
at night on any of our bridges, and looks down on the
dark waters rolling their foetid freight beneath him, has
before him a picture in little of much of that life which
rolls to and fro through the streets of this metropolis.
Lights here and there rather enhance than relieve
the gloomy character of the scene—the reflections from
the lamps of the bridge beyond, the lantern in the
steamer's prow, rays from the windows of the river-side
public-houses, and the blaze of the forge, glaring red and
lurid upon the dingy stream, and giving the idea rather
of some infernal process going on than one of toil forg-
ing another link in the chain of industry. The mind
conjures up no dreams of commerce. Even the dull
monotonous beating of the steamer's paddles, so matter-
of-fact a sound by day, has another and a boding mean-
ing now ; and it chills you to hear the surging of the
tide against the piers. Fancy listens to the drowning
gurgle, thick and choking, of the wretch who has
fled hither from a proud, tyrannical world, which
a little courage would have beaten to his feet ;
seeking oblivion of care, to sleep a moment, and wake
—no matter to what. Then the long melancholy train
of suicides passes before the imagination a the ageant
for the hour. The gambler, the spendthrift, broken
man of commerce ; the sensualist who has outlived his
appetites ; the weary, toil-worn wife ; the outcast, vic-
tim of her beauty, who, perhaps, but a few months ago,
smiled in a home of plenty, and stands now ragged and
care-mad on the river's brink. And when one turns
from the cheerless prospect, and regards the stream of
vice and poverty that flows by, how like are the two !
Cold, chilling, dreary. The one flowing to the stormy
ocean, the other to eternity.—Home Companion.
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