The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-13 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 includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandize :
Week
ended
Dec.
3

Miles Total.
Name of Railway.
Opened. £. s. d.
4 Birmingham and Derby Junct. 384 1,021 11 0
Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,356 8 7
Chester and Birkenhead ..... l5 :152 5 8 ,
Dundee and Arbroath 165197 8 0
Eastern Counties
Glasgow and Ayr
Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock 224 610 1 7
Grand Junct. &Chester & Crewel 03:4' 6,818 17 8
, Great North of England 45 1,122 10 10
5 Great Western 1184 9,393 lu 3
4 Hull and Selby.
4 Lancaster and Preston Junction 201 372 7 7
3 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,072 14 8
4 London and Birmingham ll4 12,784 411
5 London and Blackwall
4 London and Brighton 404 1,224 12 4
4 Ditto Shoreham Branch 54 93 18 6
7 London and Croydon ...... ...... 104 236 0 1
9 London and Greenwich 3l 758 3 8
4 London and South Western
2 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 559 9 3
6 Manchester and Birmingham 5 342 2 1
4 Manchester and Leeds 5O 3,549 4 2
4 Midland Counties .
Newcastle and Carlisle ... ... 604 No returns
5 Northern arid Eastern
4 North Midland .. 724 3,781 19 7.4
3 North Union .
4 Preston and Wyre
5 Ulster
6 York and North Midland.-- 23 1,426 6 11

N0v.27
Dec. 6

TERN LITERARY and SCIEN-
TIFIC INSTITUTION, HACKNEY-ROAD.
On Tuesday evening last, Mr. F. Rowton delivered
the second of an extremely interesting course of lectures
on the genius and writings of " Boz," to a crowded
audience, assembled in the theatre of this Institution.
Having considered the author's humour and knowledge
of character in his last lecture, Mr. Rowton proceeded
in this to speak of Dickens's powers of description,
pathos, and satire. In illustration of the first of these
lualities, Mr. R. read, with excellent effect, the chapter
' Oliver Twist," entitled, " The Jew's last night
We were pleased to perceive that an in-
cidental remark of Mr. Rowton's on the brutalizing
nature of public executions, met with a ready response
from the majority of his audience, As specimens of
Dickens's pathos, the Lecturer selected the final release
of the Chancery prisoner (from the Pickwick Papers),
and the death of Kelly and her Grandfather (from the
Old Curiosity Shop), and analysed the pathetic quality of
the author's mind with much clearness and judgment.
He then referred to Boz's satire, upon which lie made
some very just and appropriate critical remark.% He
described it as being invariably marked by discrimination,
good purpose, and manliness. In speaking of its aims,
Mr. R. showed the author's contempt for affectation, in
his ridicule of ladies who are all-soul, like Mrs.Wititterley,
Of pragmatic patrons of literature and the arts, like Mr.
Curdle, with his definition of the dramatic unities, of effe-
minate dandies, like Mr. Mantalini, and of hollow heart-
less men of the world, like Sir John Chester. The Lec-
turer menticned also Dickens's satire on the insolent
in office, instancing Mr. Fang and Mr. Bumble ; and al-
luded likewise to Miss Montflathers, and the prevailing
system of 7oung-lady education. As a fair specimen of
the author s power and humour in satirical writing, Mr.
Rowton recited the well-known trial scene in the case of
Bardell v. Pickwick, in a style that brought down the
hearty laughter, and equally hearty cheers of the audi-
ence. With this extract Mr. R. concluded his lecture.

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