The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-04 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 *f the month prefixed
to each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandise :

Week Miles
Total.
ended Name of Railway.
Opened. £. s. d.
N0v.27 Birmingham and Derby Janet. 384 1,124 18 7
26 Birmingham and Gloucester 524 1,330 4 5
27 Chester and Birkenhead ..... l5 566 9 9
28 Dundee and Arbroath l6i 247 14 4,
28 Eastern Counties 174 641 6 10
27 Glasgow and Ayr.. ..
27 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenoek 224 670 4 4
26 Grarl Junct. &Chester &Crewelo3l 7,373 16 9
29 Great North of England 45 1,321 15 4
28 Great Western 1184 9,829 8 11
27 Hull and Selby.... ....
27 Lancaster and Preston Junction 204 403 17 8
27 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,108 4 2
27 London and Birmingham 1124 12,987 18 5
Dec. 2 London and Blackwall . 34 537 0 8
N0v.27 London and Brighton 4oi 1,301 3 0

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27 Ditto Shoreham Branch ...... ... 5i 96 14 10
30 London and Croydon
Dec. 2 London and Greenwich 3l 755 10 10
N0v.27 London and South Western
25 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 545 18 11
29 Manchester and Birmingham 5 358 7 5
27 Manchester and Leeds 5O 3,753 13 4
27 Midland Counties .... 57 2,124 1 4i
27 Newcastle and Carlisle 6OA 1,504 10 0
28 Northern and Eastern
27 North Midland 721 3,508 3 5i
26 North Union .... ............ .... 25 925 7 b
27 Preston and Wyre
23 Ulster
29 York and North Midland 23 1,463 13 8

ANOTHER FREAK OF NATURE.-There is
a gooseberry bush full of young fruit in the rectory gar-
dens of Kegworth—the bush is protected with matting.
If the fruit do not ripen, there will, at least, be green
gooseberries.—Nottingham Review.
A gamekeeper, well known at Nuttall, who
figured in our columns a few weeks since as the shooter
of some bonnets, was again intoxicated this week, and
while so, deliberately fired at his brother I Fortunately
the shot had been extracted, or the result would have
been very serious.—Nottingham Review.
CAPITAL DAY'S SPORT WITH THE QUEEN'S

Hourins.- —Monday ; Nov. 29, these hounds met at Staun-
ton Wy ville—found atLangton Candle--ran briskly up to
Slawson, and killed—found again in Glooson-wood—ran
an hour and twenty minutes, chiefly in the wood, and killed
—found three foxes in Heythorpe Spinnies—got away gal-
lantly with one—ran between rugby and Rolleston, over
Skeffington-highfield, through Skeffington-wood, to Lau-
dington Reddish, where he was lost. Lords Cardigan and
Gardner, Mr. De Burgh, Mr. Greene, &c, did go the pace
as usual, taking some awful-looking timber in their swing,
and stopping at nothing. Indeed, Lord Gardner and " The
Master" have few rivals across the broad fields of Leicester-
shire in a first-rate run, particularly when bullfinches
are the order of the day, being considered by the less
daring very ugly customers to compete with. These
hounds are daily getting into greater repute, " winning
, golden opinions for the master and men, which must
be highly satisfactory to all who take an interest in
the chase, and, ye gods ! who do not in these glorious
Conservative times, Mr. Editor ? None but Goths and
Vandals, surely. The Duke of Montrose, who has
taken Seelby Hall, Northamptonshire, honoured the field
with his presence. The Melton men were all with
Lord Forrester, who met near ; but, notwithstanding
the absence of these great luminaries, there was a very
full meet.

CHATHAM.—The non-commissioned officers of
the Provisional Battalion having held a public meeting on
Thursday evening, the 18th of November, for the purpose
of congratulating Sergeant-Major Young, of the Provi-
sional Battalion, on his promotion to be ensign of the 41st
Regiment, and presenting him with a silver tankard and
a sword, for his general good conduct, the following pe•
remptory order has been forthwith issued to the troops by
Colonel Sir William Warre, K.C.B. :—" The Comman-
dant has observed with very great regret in the public
newspapers a paragraph stating that a numerous
meeting of non-commissioned officers of the Provi-
sional Battalion was held at an inn in Brompton, on
Thursday, the 18th ult., to which the non• commissioned
officers of the 99th Regiment were invited, for the expepss
purpose of collecting 4,n opinion and approbation of Ser-
geant-Major Young, of the Provisional Battalion, whilst
Sergeant-Major, such a proceeding being in direct vio-
lation of her Majesty's orders, as published in the Ad-
denda to the General Orders and Regulations of the
Army: Sir 'William Warre is the more displeased at
this disregard to the orders of the service, the circum-
stances and manner in which the meeting took place,
and the object of it, being concealed altogether from
Lieutenant-Colonel Wear, commanding the provi-
sional battalion, and from himself, lie (the Com-
mandant) cannot doubt that the non-commissioned
officers were fully aware of the irregularity of their con-
duct, which the Conimandant thus publicly censures,
and he desires that in future no meeting of any persons
whatever shall take place for any public purpose without
his sanction and consent, obtained through the com-
manding officer of the respective corps, J. D. O'BRIEN,
Brigade-Major."
SENSATIONS OF BEING CRUSIIED.—John
Dougherty, who was so dreadfully injured some time
since by being crushed between a car and the
side wall of the ticket office at the railroad depot,
has so far recovered as to be enabled to leave this city
for his home, at Lancaster, Pa. The case of Mr. D.
is a remarkable instance of escape from the very jaws
of death. His recollection of the sensations expe-
rienced during the accident is distinct and fearful
indeed. Ills first expectation was that the car
would be stopped, but it continued to advance, and
thus increased the pressure—those parts of his body
which were the most prominent being the first to
feel the effects of the crash. In a moment or two
he felt his ribs giving way, and to this succeeded
the terrible sensation connected with the violent injec-
tion of the blood from the body to the head, whch felt
to him like a flame passing from the latter to the
former. At this moment he became senseless, and the
car was immediately thereafter stopped and removed
backward for his release, the body fulling to the ground
as that of a dead man. His return to animation he
described as though he was under the effect of an un-
pleasant dream, from which he felt conscious he would
be relieved when he awoke.. To thoso who saw him after
the accident, it appeared impossible that he could sur-
vive, and yet, through a kind Providence, and the skill
and unwearied attentions of Dr. Dunbar, his principal
phi sician, he has been restored to life.—Baltimore
American.

THE DISTRESS IN PAISLEY.--DONATION
FROM THE DUCHESS OF KENT.—The following letter
has been received by the Rev. Mr. Baird, from the Hon.
Charles Augustus Murray, Master of the Household:—
" Buckingham Palace.
" Sir,—l beg to inform you, that since you did me the
honour to call on me, with Mr. J. Henderson I have ob-
tained from her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent a
donation of 251. towards the relief of your distressed
weavers ; and have also collected 501. among the ladies
and gentlemen on duty at the Palace, for the same ob-
ject. Both sums I have transmitted to Mr. Rogers, the
Sheriff of London. With my best wishes that these con-
tributions may be of some avail in diminishing the suf-
ferings of your poor,
" I remain, Rev. Sir, your faithful servant,
" Rev. A. Baird. " C. A. MURRAY."
The announcement we made in our last of a vessel
having sailed from Rotterdam, to purchase a thousand
blacks at Ashantee for the King of the Netherlands, is
fully confirmed by more recent accounts. The name of
the vessel, however, is not the Brittania, but the Europa.
—Anti-Slavery Reporter.
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The Gazette de Bcrri states from Bourges that
the consort of Don Carlos was attacked on Wednesday
last with a violent headache and sore throat. Tier Royal
Highness was bled, and on the following day was better,
and no danger was apprehended.