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

RAILWAY RETURNS

e ItWAY MAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
s ter tho past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns arc made, together with the receipts of the same
wee]: in the previous yeal•:—

0
Week Last a t
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. ifi.
- ---
Dec. 8 Aberdeen 7741 460
9 Amiens arid Boulogne. •••• • •
8 Belfast and Ballymena ••••••• • • • • • •• 590 352
9 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 728 665
9 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y. 413 275
9 Bristol and Exeter • ..... • ..... • • .... 3,395 -
2 Ca1ed0nian............. 5,882 4,077
9 Chester and Holyhead... • 1,993 1,040
6 Dublin and Drogheda.. • .....•• •• 602 603
11 Dublin and Kingstown .. •••• • • •• 587 722
8 Dundee, Perth, end ,k.berdeen• •••• • • • 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 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr •..... 2,660 2,406
8 Glasgow and Greenock• •• • • 924 83)
2 Great Northern and E. 2,565 -
8 Great Southern and Western ........ 3,490 2,872
9 Great Western, &c •• . •
9 Lancashire arid Y0rk51iire............ 11,485 9,547
2 Lteticaster and Carlisle •••••••• • . •• 2,757 1,813
2 Leeds and Thirst: ••••• • • • • • 657 -
9 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southpor t.• • • 70 59
8 Londonderry and Enniskiilen ........ 122 108
9 London and North Western, &e. ..... 36,605 36,012
9 Loudon and Blackwall• • .......... 568 521
9 London and Brighton . • ............. 7,505 7,105
9 London and South Western. •• . • 7,174 9,583
9 Manchester, Sheffield, and Li ncolnslii re 4,424 . 2,4 3 5
9 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham 19,065 19,645
9 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • •• 1,029 1,074
- Monlclands .•....................... - 871
9 North British .......... •• • • 2,902 2,261
- Paris and Rouen •• .• .• •• • • - 4,891
- Rouen and Havre - 2,017
9 Scottish Central ...... .......... 1,069 644
S Scottish: Midland .. • . 324 267
9 Slit ewsoury and Chester ..••........ 1,322 1,213
9 Shropshire tjul.on .................. 331 --
8 South Eastern and Branches .... •... 7,681 6,788
2 South Devon. ••• .••
8 Taff Vale • 1,608 1,519
9 Ulster. ....................
- Waterford and Limerick... - 284
2 Vt, iffiehaven Junction
9 York and Newcastle .••••••• • • • • • • • 11,615 13,731
9 York and North Midland. • • 5,542 7,126

MUNICIPAL REFORM.— Yesterday morning a
public meeting was held in the New Court, Old Bailey,
for the purpose of adopting measures to secure an ex-
tension of the municipal franchise to all Parliamentary
electors, an equalization of the representative system in
the various wards, and a thorough reform of existing
abuses in the administration of the corporate affairs of
the city of London. Sir J. Duke took the chair, sup-
ported by Deputy Bedford, Alderman Sydney, Messrs.
Isherman, R. Taylor, Williams, Barnard, Buckmaster,
Turner, and other members of the Common Council. The
chairman, after remarking that the attendance war very
small, considering the number of signatures to the requi-
sition, requested that a fair hearing "should be accorded
to all the speakers, pro and con. Mr. Smith addressed
the meeting, entering into a long and learned discourse,
going back to the earliest records of the municipality,
for the purpose of proving that a great num-
ber of their ancient rights and liberties have
been broken down, and had fallen into neglect
and disuse, owing, as he stated, in a great measure to
the want of public spirit manifested by the citizens,
whom he denounced 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 have occupied in
the said city a dwelling for the spice of a year and a
day; and it is the duty of the commonalty to take part
in all that relates to the welfare of the said city, and to
discharge actively for themselves the functions which
Meng to them as members of the corporation."
Alderman Sydney seconded the resolution, strongly ad.
vocating the cause of reform, and regretting the gradual
diminution in the number of the freemen of the city,
especially in the ward of Farringdon Without, which,
instead of being, as formerly, the largest in the city,
now bare ly mustered GOO freemen. This resolution was
put and carried nem, con. After a long discussion as to
the propriety of entering upon the five remaining reso-
lutions, the meeting having then lasted four hours and a
half, it was at length agreed that those assembled should
meet in the New Court on Monday evening. A vote of
thanks to the chairman terminated the proceedings.
THE THREE ABOLISHED LAW COURTS.—The fettle-
Hens of. the three abolished law courts—namely, the
Marshalsea, Palace, and Peveril Courts, will cease and
determine from and after the 31st instant, after which
day the records, muniments, and writings of the several
courts-shall, as soon as conveniently, be placed under
the charge and superintendence of the Master of the
Rolls. as Record Keeper, to be deposited and kept in
such place or)places as the Master of the Rolls shalldirect.
By a clause in the Act abolishing the courts, ell judgments
obtained in any 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 during some time part in a state of alarm, in
consequence of robberiese ommitted 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 ot
a quarter of mutton. Ia another case, a passenger (a
poor mar.) put all the money he had in the lining of his
hat, was stopped going up the bill. Thu robbers searched
his pockets, but suffered the hat to go unexamined. Ho
escaped without ill-treatment, and was not a little pleased
with his own good luck. Last week a burglary was
committed at Itellgrove, in one of the cottages formerly
occupied by the horse police. Tho robbers took down
the back window-shutter, and carried off from a chest
in w hick it had been deposited to pay the owner's rent,
3/ Ws. A house and shop at the end of D.srtlbrd was
also broken open and property stolen.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.—TIie 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,ar.d frequently with serious injury to the cor-
spondenee
in consequence of the melting of the wax, and
adhesion of the letters to each other, the public are re-
commended in all possible cases to use either prepared
wax or wafers in sealing their letters sent to India, or
other hot climates, ar.d also to advise their corre-
spondents in those countries to pursue the same course.
Postmasters are enjoined to give every publicity to this
caution.

\ TUB MURDER IN lIARLET:STREET.—The coroner's
inquest ou the body of a child named Droke, who, as
appeared from a subsequent confession, was murdered by
its mother in Harley-street, Cavendish- square, was con-
cluded at North Leverton, Nottinghamshire, on the 10th
inst., when the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful mur-
der against some person unknown."