The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-22 00:00:00

RAILWAY

RAILWAY TILAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

"5
Week Last a ,y, a
'siding NAILS OF RAILWAY. week. E ;:.....
si
u.r.4.
-.-..... ____ ...._ _.....
x X
13.10.15 Aberdeen .. --••••••- •• •• •• ••• •• 635 521
- Amiens and Boulogne. ... ...... ..... _ 2,025
15 Belfast and Ballymena .............. 422 380
- Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire - 875
16 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y. 421 211
16 Bristol and Exeter . ..... . • ••• • .. 4.30 i -
9 Ca1ed0nian............. .......'... • • 7,037 5,068
16 Chester and llolyhead..... •• • ... •• .. 2,0. 4 -
13 Dublin and Drogheda• ••• • • ••••• • • • • 755 797
18 Dublin and Kingstown • - ..•• 787 1,008
15 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen • - .... 1,038 1,009
16 East Angllan.... •• • • ................ t,44 807
15 Edinburgh and Glasgow . ...... 4,014 4,453
16 Edinburgh and Northern.. .. ...... 2,419 2,535
16 Eastern Con sties and North Eastern.. 14,343 16,215
9 East Lancashire •• • ................. 3,', 1.,5 1,477
16 Eastern Union •••.••••••• • - • • • • • • • • 1,636 1,410
15 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 3,126 2,910
15 Glasgow and Greenock •• • • •-- .. 1,122 1,190
16 Great Northern and E. L. • • .... ••• .. 2,806 -
15 Great Southern and Western •• - • ... 3,388 3,325
16 Great Western, Ste ••• • • ..... •••• •• • • 19,771 21,585
- Kendal and Windermere........., .. - -
16 Lancashire and Yorkshire •••• • • 13,270 14,559
9 Lancaster and Carlisle ••••••• • • . • • • • 4,079 2,871
16 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport •• • • 122 -
15 Londonderry and En. dskilleu ........ 127 119
16 London and North Western, &c. .... • 43,426 46,817
16 London and Blackwall.. • ........... 79'7 1,215
35 London and Brighton .••••••• • • • • • • • 11.999 11,531
16 London and South Western ••.• •. •• 10,•633 11,565
15 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 4,961 3,668
16 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham •• • • 23,958 '25,387
16 Midland Great Western (Irish) .. - - 1,097 1,053
- Al onklands .•• • • - -
- Newcastle and Car1i51e..............- _
--
16 North British .. •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 3,205 3,122
15 Paris and Rouen . ...... • ... -..... 7,395 6,531
15 Rouen and Havre
16 Scottish Central .. ••• • • ....... •.. . • 1,722 1,447
16 Shrewsbury and Chester • • •••• ••• • • • 14 9 849
1.5 South Eastern and Branches ••• • • ... 12,5 6 10,';89
9 South Devon ••• • • - 1,764 1,838
15 Taff Vale ••.••••. • • • • • • ....... ••• •• 2,319 2,!42
651 777
8 Water:ord and Limerick .. •• •. .. 271 -
9 Whitehaven Junction .•• • • .......... 213 180
16 York and Newcastle .••••-• • • • • • .. 13 944 13,841
15 York and North Midland .--•• • • .. 8,232 10,044

A CHAR asT PE :1 lON BY PUNCH.
(From Punch.)
To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty.
May it please your Majesly.—
Whereas Death, the grea+ Gaol•Ddiverer, has by
Cholera set Frye from stminster Prison, Joseph Wit
hums and Alexander rititirpe, foolish men, foolishly
preaching the Charter, by means of pike and blunder-
. .

Punch humbly prays that your Majesty will, in this
maw!' of political tranquilli y, and of grave mortal
chastisement, orders for the release of certain ma-
guid: d men, it is hnpcd better instructed for the future
—and thereupon pardon and set tree William Vernon,
Ernest Janes, Little Cuffey, and other such offt.nders,
now made harmless by the common sense and the com-
mon loyalty of the English people.
And your Petitioner will ever Print and Pray,—
PUNCH.

VISIT OF THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE TO MAN-
CHESTER —On Thursday the Duke of Cambridge, at-
tended by Baron Knesebeek and 51r. E. B. Horsfalf, late
Mayor of Liverpool, visited Manchester, and took a
hasty look at the various processes of th-a cotton and
other manufactories. On the same day the Chevalier
Bunsen, the Prussian ambassador, his son, and a party
of distinguished foreigners and strangers, accompanied
by the Lord Bishop of Manchester, visited the museum
of the Manchester Natural History Society. The whole
party were greatly pleased to learn the liberal terms on
which an institution calculated to do so much good is
made easily available to all classes of society.
HORRIBLE MURDER AT SEA.—A most horrible
murder was discovered to have taken place on the 14th
of August last, on board the ship Washington, which
strived at New York in the latter part of the same
month, from Germany. It appears, that, on the 234
Instant, while the stevedores were engaged in discharging
the cargo, they were attracted by a stench proceeding
from the hold of the vessel. On examination, it was
discovered to proceed from the body of a man which was
found lying among the boxes, with his throat cut from
ear to ear, and in a much decomposed state. At an in-
quest which was held on the body, the captain stated
that he arrived at New York from the river Ems, on the
23,1 of August, with 175 steerage passengers ; that the
lower hold of the vessel was stored with goods in
boxes ; that on the 15th of July one of the pas-
sengers was missed ; that search was made lor
him throughout the ship, but no trace of him
could be obtained; the passengers said that the deceased
had jumped overboard; the night that deceased was
missed was very dark and stormy, and the crew were
engaged on the upper deck. It was stated by several of
the crew that during the voyage the passengers were
quarrelsome, and from the fact that the deceased was
known to have money about him, which was missing on
the discovery of the body, little doubt remained that he
had been robbed and murdered. The name of the de-
ceased was Carl Pretesh, a native of Prussia, and he was
twenty-one years of age. It was proved that the
wound in deceased's throat was inflicted before death,
and was sufficient to have caused his death; but though
a most searching it.quiry was instituted, no clue could
be obtained to the guilty parties. The verdict was,
" That the deceased came to his death by a wound in-
flicted on his throat by some of the steerage passengers
of the ship Washington, on the night of the 14th July,
who are unknown to the jury."
ELOPEMENT AT ULVERSTON.—The fairer portion
of the inhabitants of Ulverston were on Wednesday last
thrown into a pleasing state of excite meat by the report
that an elopement from that town bad taken place the
previous day. The parties are a gallant son of Escula-
pius and the fair daughter of a wealthy gentleman re-
siding at Urswick. Fortunately for the enamoured
couple, the electric tt legraph, that fearful enemy to pil-
grims on their way to Uretna, is quite unknown in this
part of the country ; and so well were measures taken to
baffle pursuit, that ere this doubtless the blacksmith will
have tied the indissoluble knot. The last accounts of
the fugitives was from Wicham, where they took coach
for Havenglass, and from the latter place they would,
no doubt, proceed by rail to the land of the mountain
and the flood. It is supposed that the parties have been
prematurely hurried into taking this step from a fear of
the threatened proceedings of that old bunks, Lord
Campbell, in the next session of Parliament, respecting
Scotch marriages.—Lancaster Guardian,
ACCIDENT TO LORD ALEXANDER RUSSELL—On
Thursday morning last, as Captain Lord Alexander
Russell (of the Rifles) was driving along the Abbot's
Leigh-road, for the purpose of being present at the
bridal breakfast at Leigh Court, the drag upset while
turning a corner, when his Lordship and a s? rvant were
thrown out, and the latter had his leg fractured in two
places. The man was taken to the infirmary, where he
now lies. His Lordship escaped with a few bruises and
a violent shake.—Darset County Chrohicle.
REMAINS OF ROMAN ART.—One Of the most
beautiful specimens of tessellated payment ever found
in this country has just been discovered in the principal
Street of the old town of Cirencester, the site of the
ancient Corinium. A piece was found some few weeks
ago, which was taken up with a view to its preservation,
by laying it down again as the floor of a museum, and
on pursuing the excavations, at the suggestion of one of
the Archmologic Al Societies, the present beautiful spe-
cimen was found. The room measures twenty-five feet
square, and contains nine circles, of nearly five feet
diameter each. Four only are at present wholly ex-
posed to view. They contain bold and well- executed
heals of Ceres and Flora, and t xcecdingly spirited re-
presentations of Ac' X.JII and his dogs, and Silenus riding
on his ass. The whole of this portion of the room is in
most perfect preservation, but it is feared that the re-
mainder will be injured by the foundations of a house
stands near.