The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-14 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain
for the week ending on the day of the month prefixed
to each. The return applies and includes the money re-
ceived for passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails,
and merchandize £ s. d.
Sept. 4. Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,344 19 1
3. Birmingham and Gloucester 2,102 18 8
5. Dundee and Arbroath 309 10 0
5. Eastern Counties
4. Glasgow and Ayr 1,691 9 5

4. Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock 1,049 0 2
Aug. 28. Grand Junct. & Chester & Crewe 9,791 3 4
Sept. 6. Great North of England 1,352 4 5
5. Great Western 14,844 16 2
4. Hull and Selby 1,091 6 0
4. Lancaster and Preston Junction 484 16 10
3. Liverpool and Manchester
4. London and Birmingham 19,217 3 2
9. London and Blackwall 953 9 6
9. London and Brighton
8. Ditto Shoreham Branch 242 6 11
7. London and Croydon
9. London and Greenwich 935 18 6
4. London and South-Western 7,379 19 5

2. Manchester, Bolton, and Bury... 653 8 5

6. Manchester and Eirminghani ... 343 18 7
Aug. 30. Manchester and Leeds . . 5,066 17 4
Sept. 4. Midland Counties 2;904 11 0
4. Newcastle and Carlisle 1,770 11 3
5. Northern and Eastern 975 2 9
4. North Midland 4,89G 4 101
3. North Union 1,418 12 5
4. Preston and byre 660 1 5
5. Ulster 173 10 5
6. York and North Midland 1,783 7 8

DEPENDING ON ONE'S Wirs.—A journey-
man tailor, who left this n&ghbourhood on tramp a short
time ago, played off the following not very creditable
trick. Being " hard-up," (as the phrase goes), and rather
fatigued, he rested his arms upon a gate leading to a corn
firld, and was
.ruminating, when a body of Irishmen came
up. Fancying, from the tailor's manner, that he was the
owner of the field, and in the act of looking at the crop to
see if it were ready for the hook, they at once asked for
" the job." The 'tailor hesitated for a moment, as if in
deep thought, and then gave a half negative. The hesi-
tation of the tailor caused the poor Irishmen to renew
their entreaties, and at last the tailor said he had an ob-
jection to Irishmen, having employed some last year that
did not do their work properly. The reapers assured
" his honour" that they would behave " dacently" and
do the work as it ought to be ; but his honour was not
disposed to trust them, unless they would deposit a cer-
tain sum in his hands. The poor fellows raised several
pounds, the fruits of their industry, which they placed
in his honour's hands, receiving, in return, orders to
commence cutting the wheat on the following morning.
We are sorry to add, the tailor, who practised the decep-
tion, got clear away with his booty before the " mistake"
was discovered. He may yet receive his deserts.--Der-
byshire Chronicb.

J. BEALL'S MACHINE FOR SWEEPING
STREETS.—The following description of this machine is
given in the words of the inventor, we have not seen
it, and therefore can give no opinion as to its use, for
the purposes intended.) It may be used with forty
shovels or scrapers, and eighty beesoms or brushes, made
in a peculiar manner,—or forty shovels, with forty
beesoms ; the number being more or less, as the size of
the machine may require. The machine is. to be worked
with horses. Oxford-street might be swept at one.sweep,
collecting the mud, &c., close to each curbstone, in the
time which it would require for the horses to walk, from
the one end to the other ; or, if more convenient, Ox-
ford-street might be swept by going once up and once
down, collecting the mud,
middle of the street. It is easily contracted, so ashcti°.
&c., at each side, and in the
allow carriages to pass. In snow and thawing weather,
~
by using the machine. about seven o'clock in
ing, it would make a clear carriage-way,
omnibuses and
necessity of having additional horses to omm.
coaches, &c. pthveerant the
An occurrence :similar to that
excited indignation in London, :thewanton destruction
has recently taken
which h recently
of works of art in public exhibittons,
in Ihe place at Cologne. One of the finestbeen pictureswantonly cut.
pre-
sent exhibition of that city
hasll FAT. About a fort-
DEATH FROM
neighbourhood of Whitworth,
the disease now raging
iiiglii. ago, a funkier in It3lelDnf b
near Rochdale, lost e_
on Saturday week, retailed it.
sold it to a person who,
among cattle ; after its daeaptehrshoens. gotliiot dressed, and aonfditthoenn
Z suddenly affected ; one
thei\To followingless
man
it is
died, and . feared some others will not recover.—
Liverpooll/icb
Chro
....
—LARGE SALMON.-011 Monday
tian littliyrt3b'Ziatn%
Drummond, of Srathallan, killed a
with the rod, in the Tay, to the westward of our
salmon
.lastDtuheNKHEoLn.D•_,lr.
h weighed 411bs. imperial. This; fine fish
m have been the monarch of the stream ;as accord-.
• tn't‘
the testimony of the oldest " knights of the pirn,"
bridge,
ing t? wine
this is the largest salmon that has been caught in this
quarter for the last half century. There is preserved
kitchen of Dunkeld House the outlines of a
tremendous
lnion cut on a board, killed nearly a cen-
tury ago. which weighed 561bs. Dutch. The anglers of
shout
therese s ant day have to content themselves with less
the p .
weighty results.—Perth Paper.
The General Steam Navigation Company's
Packet, the' Ocean, from Rotterdam, arrived off the
Custom-house on Sunday,