The Sun.
London, England, 1849-08-04 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

RAILWAY TRAFFIC,—The following arc 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 :

" •
Week Last b
P. Q
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. t
o PO
July 28 Aberdeen .......... ...... • 662 284
29 Amiens and 80u10gne..... ••
28 Belfast and Ballymena • • •• •••• • • 641 554
29 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 992 933
29 Bolton, Black burn, Clitheroe, and W. Y. 422 278
29 Bristol and Exeter •• • •..... 4,611
22 caledonian.... 6,042 4,431
29 Chester and Holyhead. ........ •• .. 2,312 1,460
26 Dublin and Drogheda.. • • ••••••• •• 811 775
31 Dublin and Kingstown
28 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen........ 1,?64 1,333
29 East Anglian.- •• •• •••• • •• 725 634
28 Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• ........ 3,927 3,768
28 Edinbnrgh and Northern • 2,492 1,9.3
29 Eastern Counties and .North Eastern.. 15,825 16, 79
22 East Lancashire .• ..
89 Eastern •••• • • .. 1,720 1,335
28 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 3,235 2,603
28 Glasgow and Greenock ....... - .... 1,252 1,439
29 Great Northern and E. 2,385 -
28 Great Southern and Western 3,610 4,047
29 Great Western, &c • • • .• 21,857 21,836
28 Kendal and Windennere• • .... • 229 203
29 Lancashire and Yorkshire .... 14,390 11,926
22 Lancaster and Carlisle .... • . ...... 2,600 2,113
29 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport- 222
24 Londonderry and E.nniskillen- .• 167 163
29 London and North Western, •• 47,710 48,916
29 London and 1,020 1,244
28 London and Brighton .......•• 11,7:17 14,444
29 London and South Western ....... •• 12,663
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23 Manchester. Sheffield. and Lincolnshire 5,639 3,200
29 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 22,721 23,498
29 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 1.122 801
- Monklands . .
- Newcastle and Car1i51e............ _
29 North British .. •• • ...... ••••• •• • • 3,649 2,911
28 Paris and Rouen .•• • •
28 Rouen and Havre 2,846 1,937
29 z;coalsh Central .............. • ..... 1,443 986
29 Shrewsbury and Chester .• .......... 1,530 651
28 South Eastern and Branches ........ 12,121 12,090
22 South Devon.. .•• •• • • .... 1,920 1,718
28 Tad' Vale ••••• • • • • ............... 2,612 L 9.39
29 Ulster .•• •• •-• ..... ............. 952 748
2, Waterford and Limerick.- .• •• 2;12
22 Whitehaven Junedon ..... 215 175
29 York and Newer stle . ...• •• • • ...... 12,334 13,336
28 York and North Midland . .......... 8,474 9,421

THE POTATO.—It is most gladdening to hear such
good accounts of the potato crop. The old root to
which—say what we will—the English are as much at-
tached as the Irish—without, however, depending on it
as the staple article of suszenance—seems about to be
restored to us in its ancient plenty and quality. Instead
of the country being patched, as in the last three years,
with the brown and black evidences of rutting haulms—
as if the simoom had swept across our fields—we now see
by the side of the golden corn, and near the labourers'
cottages, breadths and plots of dark green potato leaf-
age—features which we began to fear were to be en-
tirely lost to the English landscape. Cause of great re-
joicing will this be to the great mass of our country-
men; to the poor for the welcome help which the potato
is likely to afford to their simple meals, and to " the
better-to-do " classes for the restoration of an appen-
dage of their dinner-tables, which, thou,h not an abso-
lute necessary, has become almost so—like tea—from
long usage. Truth to say, John Bull has come to look
on the potato as quite as natural an adjunct to his beef
as horse-radish and mustard; and all the proposed sub.
-stitutes, such as rice, parsnips, harocot beans, &c., even
when he has had the resolution to adopt them, have
been " put up with" in a sprit of most uneasy resigna-
tion. In sober seriousness, the present appearance of
the potato crop is a cause for heartfelt gratitude to the
God of all good increase; and it is to be hoped that
the plentiful in-gathering which is now in prospect, if
it should be made, will not be taken without the ex-
pression of national thankfulness to Him with whom
alone rests the control of the earth's productions.—Bath
Chronicle.
ADVANTAGES OF STEAM.—The Glasgow and Ayr
Railway Company now run a cheap train from Glasgow
to Ayr every Saturday
.afternoon, to give the working
classes a cheap excursion. The train, last Saturday,
consisted of thirty-six carriages, conveying above 1,100
passengers, and was drawn by two powerful engines. At
Ayr the party enjoyed themselves for three hours and a
half— bathing, visiting the birth-place of Burns, "
Alio-
way's auld haunted kirk, &e.—and reached Glasgow,
on their return, at eleven o'clock at night. The whole
distance travelled by train was eighty miles, and the t, re
was only half-a-crown by the first-class, and eighteen
per ce by the third ! This is one of the advantages of
railways.

Where education has been entirely neglected or
improperly managed, we see the worst passions ruling
with uncontrolled and incessant sway. Good sense de-
generates into craft, and anger rankles into malignity.
Restraint, which is thong ht most salutary, comes too late,
and the most judicious adurinittons are urged its vain.—
Eliza Cook's Journal.
THE CONVICTS AT WooLwtcu.—The convict who
escaped :row toe dockyard a te,w days ago h -is not, b',en
heard of, and is the same whose associates tried to kvour
his escape about eighi mouths ago, by surrounding Air.
i Cope n Newgate. The convicts are now allowed to wear
their hair any length thiy choose, :aid many of th'[O
wear large whiskers without restriction, which would
render it a difficult task for tha police-consta,h,s to dis-
tinguish them from the dockyard mechanics if they
attempted to escape in working men's clothes. The
convicts have also many other indulgences which cause
the blame of any successful attempts to escape to be
attributed more to the system than to the parties placed
in charge. over them, or the constables who have the
charge of the dockyard plea.