The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

RAILWAY TaAPJ IC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail.
,taps 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 i u the previous year:—

Week Last Rig 4
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week.
••••-••••
.£
Dec. 8 Aberdeen ................ • 741 460
9 Amiens and Boulogne. ••• • • •
8 Belfast and Ballymena •• • • •••• • • • • 390 352
9 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 728 665
9 Bolton,Blackburn, Clitheroc, and W. Y. 413 275
9 Bristol and Exeter • • .... • • ....
2 Caledonian....
9 Chester and Holyhead ••..,. • • .. 1,293 1,040
6 Dublin and Drogheda •. • • ......... 602 603
1 1 Dublin and Kingstown •.••••• • • • • • • • 587 722
8 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen •• • • .... 920 969
9 East Anglian...... ..... ........ 546 669
Edinburgh and Glasgow . • • • • . • • • • • .. 2,870 2,847
8 Edinburgh and Perth •• • • • ...... 2,364 1,630
9 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 14,175 13,857
- East Lancashire •• • • ............ • • - 1,569
9 Eastern Union • • ...... ........ 1,501 1,180
8 Glasgoa v. Kilmarnock, and Ayr •• •• .. 2,61,0 2,406
8 GI/141;w v and Greenock.. . • ••• . • •• .. 924 839
2 Great Northern and E. L. •••• • . • 2,565 -
S Great Southern and Western •• • . . 3,190 2,872
9 Great Western, Sze ...... . ........ 16,656 17,101
9 LancaFhire and Yorkshire.... .... .... 11,485 9,547
2 Lancaster and Carlisle ••• . • •
2 Leeds and Think .... •• • • -
9 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport. •• • 70 59
8 Londonderry and Enniskillen.. •
9 London and North Western, &c. 36,605 36,012
9 London and Blackwall 568 527
9 London and Brighton
9 London and South Western
9 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 4,424 2,436
9 Midi:xi td, Bristol, and Birmingham •• • • 19,065 19,645
9 Midlat'd Great Western (Irish)
- Monkb (rids .....
9 North _British .... •
- Paris stud Rouen . ..... - 4,891
- Ron en and Havre - 2,(44'
9 Scottish Central
Scottish;S Midland ..... 321 267
9 Shrews bury and Chester
9 Shrops hire Union 334 --
8 South Eastern and Branches .... 7,631 6,788
2 Sou,'-.h •Devon.. •••• .. . •••••• • • .. • • 1,255 1.073
8 Taff Vale .......................... 1,608 1,518
9 Ulster .
••••• Wate rford and Limerick, 284
2 'Whits thaven Junction ............... 207 170
9 York and Newcastle . .... • . .. 11,615 13,734
9 York and North Midland .••••• • • • .. 5,412 7.126

MUNICIP'AL REFORM.— Yesterday morning a
public meet irog was held in the New Court, Old Bailey,
for the purpose of udoptirg measures to secure an ex-
tension of t tte municipal franchise_ to all Parliamentary
electors, an equalization of the representative system in
the various wards, and a thorough reform of existing
abuses in th u administration of the corporate affairs of
the city of 3 London. Sir J. Duke took the chair, sup-
ported by Deputy Bedford, Alderman Sydney, Messrs.
lsherman, R. Taylor, Williams, Barnard, Buck roaster,
Turner, and ether members of the Common Council. The
chairman, aft. it remarking that the go ndance tray very
small, considering the number of signatures to the requi-
sition, request ted that a fair hearing should be accorded
to all the spel kers, pro and con. Mr. Smith addressed
the meeting, e nteriug into a long and learned discourse,
going back tc the eailiest records of the municipality,
for the put pose of proving that a great num-
ber of their arcient rights and liberties have
been brokeix down, and had fallen into neglect
and disuse, owing, as ho stated, in a great measure to
the want of public spirit manifested by the citierens,
whom he dlst ounced as giving their whole attention to
profit whilst ;their best institutions fell into decay. He
proposed the first resolution—" That: the corporation of
the city of ;London embraces, according to law and
ancient right, .all the commonalty who hare occupied in
the said city a dwelling for the space of a year and a
day; and it is the duty of the commonalty to take part
in all that rebel TS to the welfare of the said city, and to
discharge anti lely for themselves the functions which
belong to Lb em as members of the corporation."
Alderman SyyJney seconded the resolution, strongly ad-
vocating the c use of reform, and regretting the gradual
diminution ire the number of the freemen of the, city,
especially in ethe ward of Farringdon Without, which,
instead of bei rig, as formerly, the largest in the city,
now barely mustered 690 freemen. This resolution was
put and carri e l new. con. After a long discussion as to
the propriety. of entering upon the five remaining reso-
lutions, the re eeting having then lasted four hours and a
half, it was at length agreed that those assembled should
meet in the r Lew Court on Monday evening. A vote of
thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings.
THE THRIT ABOLISHED LAW COURTS.—The func-

tions of the, three abuli..hed law courts—namely,ll;e
Marshalsea, ;Palaco, and Peveril Courts, will come and
determine froL a and after the 31st instant, after which
day the records, muniments, and writings of the several
courts shall, ws soon as conveniently, be placed under
the charge an d superintendence of the Master of the
Rolls, as Retard Keeper, to be deposited and kept in
such place or ph ces as the Master of the Rolls shall direct.
By a clause in4he Act abolishing the courts, all judgments
obtained in way of the three courts, on or after the 31st
instant, may be enforced by the process of the 'court
in which such, judgments shall respectively have been
obtained.

The people residing near Shooter's-hill, in Kent,
have been dtaing some time past in a state of alarm, in
consequence of robberiesc ornmitted on the road eastward
of the Bull. In one instance, a man, a man who had
been to Woolwich for his Sunday dinner, was robbed of
a quarter of =Jaen. Is another case, a passenger (a
pour man) put all the money he had in the lining of his
hat, was stopped going up the hill. The robbers searched
his pockets, but suffered the hat to go unexamined. He
escaped without ill -treatment, and was not a little pleased
with his own good luck. Last week a burglary was
committed at Bellgrove, in one of the cottages formerly
occupied by the horse police. The rubbers took down
the back window-shutter, and carried off from a chest
in which it had been deposited to pay the owner's rent,
31. 10s. A house and shop at the end of Dartford was
also broken open and property stolen.

POST OFFICE Ncilci.--The practice of sealing
letters passing to and from the East and West -Indies
and other hot climates, with wax not properly prepared
for such climates, being attended with much incon-
venience, and frequently with serious injury to the c,tr-
spondence in coTusquence of the melting of the wax, and
adhesion of the letters to each other, the public arc re-
commended in all possible cams to use either prepared
wax or waters in sealing their letters sent to luctin, or
other hot climates, and also to advise their: corre-
spondentsysueveythpeubs
jaimeiter course.
Postmasters
in those countries tgoivpeuer
caution.are enjoined to

THE MURDER IN HARLEY-STREET.—The c;oroner's
inqnest on the body of a child named Drake
appeared from a subsequent confession, was nr,i; who, as
dered by
its mother in Harley- street, Cavendish-aqua.re, was con-
cluded at North Levcrton, Nottinghamshire, on the 10th
inst., when the jury returned a verdict of /` Wilful mur-
der against some person unknown."