The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazint 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 Name of Railwny.
Miles £. Total. d.
Opened.
Oct. 23 Birmingham and Derby Junct. 334 1,283 8 0
23 Birmingham and Gloucester 62fr 1,862 10 6
23 Chester and Birkenhead ..... l5 446 12 7
. Dundee and Arbroath 164
23 Eastern Counties
23 Glasgow and Ayr.... .... .....
23 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenoek 22i 819 0 0
16 G ran d J unct. &Chester SzCrowelo3l 9,049 7 7
25 Great North of England 6 1,3?.9 6 5
24 Great Western 114 12,992 16 3
23 Hull and Sells,. . 3l 955 18 9
23 Lancaster and Preston'Junction 201 514 17 2
22 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,695 5 3
23 London and Birmingham _AI4 16,148 0 5
28 London and Blackwall
28 London and Brighton :404
28 Ditto Shoreham Branch. ..... 541 2'218 14 5
26. London and Croydon
28 L,nden and Greenwich 34 -779 8 0
23 London and South Western
21 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 536 12 8
25 Manchester and Birmingham 5. 312 13 3
18 Manchester and Leeds 5O 4,348 11 5
23 Midland Counties .
23' Newcastle and Carlisle
24 Northern and Eastern
23 North Midland 724 4,331 361
22 North Union •
23 Preston and Wyre ...... ... 194 249 5 11
24 Ulster
25 York and North Midland 23 1,655 15 10

STATE Or TRADE IN NOT-
TINGHAM.
(From the Nottingham Review of this day.)
The hosiery trade is still extremely dull, and never
has that manufacture been so generally stagnant since
1784-5, at the close of the American war, when trade,
after about nine months' severe depression, suddenly
rallied, and kept generally brisk until the commence-
ment of the French Revolution in 1793—a period of
more than eight years ; during which era such was the
state of prosperity that stockingers were at a premium,
the masters frequently laying a guinea upon the rafter to
induce a journeyman to take a frame. At the conclusion
of the American war, such was the number of robberies
in the torn, arising from want of employment, and the
discharge of the army and navy, that the house-
holders voluntarily performed watch and ward, and
in bodies paraded the streets all night. But in 1786, so
much had affairs changed, that it is asserted, there was
never a prisoner in the jails or House of Correction for
months, which led to the practice of making a fives-alley
of the town jail yard, which practice continued nearly
twenty years. A rumour has much spread that some of
the hosiers intend to reduce the making of cut-up hose
twopence per dozen; this scorns, if true, pitiful indeed,
as these unfortunate workmen ye been for a long time
at the starving point. The charges made upon this de-
scription of workmen are oppressive indeed; as the price
now stands, the journeyman having, in many ins:ances,
to work two whole days for the charges made upon him
for frame rent, taking-in, turning, winding, &c., before
he can earn any money for his own maintenance. There-
fore to reduce such men in their wages is cruel indeed,
if the reduction can possibly be avoided.
The stocking-frames seem, at last, as wo have long
apprehended they would, to be upon the move after the
lace machines. Last week, two went to Chemnitz, in
Saxony ; this week three wide two-needle frames have
been purchased to be sent to France, in the vicinity
of Beauvais, a large city about 30 miles to the
north of Paris, where stocking frames have sprung up
in the villages in great numbers, and to that extent,
that Frenclicotton hosiery has lowered in Paris, with-
in a few years, more than 20 per cent. The manufac-
ture is still extending, but like the Paris stockingers,
they are extremely jealous of English workmen, whom,
being swifter hands, they fear and hate in proportion
to their speed. It is asserted by the English in Paris,
that the purse of Louis Philippe has materially assisted
in this, as well as other speculations to raise the manu-
factures of France. One of his intimates openly asserts,
that the present King of France haS advanced more
than a million and a half sterling to promote the arts
and manufactures of France. " For instance," he stated,
•"ns he has advanced me 12,0001, to introduce a better
method of tanning into France ; the French being bad
tanners. His Minister, Guizot, opposed me, at the in-
stigation of the French tanners. I appealed (he ex-
claimed) to Louis Philippe, who said, in a determined
manner ' Never mind him ; go on. I am King of the
French, and not Guizot.' "

compromise
osr)d,setermtoiocfhabvArofiid
y,the", continuance
rberCobbolcdom (Tory) horastAhhe elndemoralizing
o , b y w h
Councillors —Chelmsford
and firetobel
-Blayoru,eanand and there
yreaenre to
Zbeone Tory Alderman
Chronicle.
almost
doswt eibgahinagmoneale pound
three-quarters. LARGE POTATO.—There has been produced
this season, at Poplar Bank, Kinnoul, a pota.to-measur-
}ol"4 ; server.
The arrangements now
ing in girth 15mDietTimnch.hlAessAinibiyrsg._
will reduce the time between
Suez and Bombay from 16 to 13 days, and thus will that
icno upOprPresidencylovegEorfßsslrbAti hsesh reachedng through
Egypt
from London in a month. Ere a
year more this will be accomplished, and become a per-
manent Government system. The supineness, or rather
the unaccountable apathy, that was evinced in high quar-
ters years ago, is probably the reason why this great ad-
vantage to the two countries—to all the connecting links
and various interests between it and England—was de-
layed. A better spirit has been shown, and British In-
dia becomes, by every overland mail, more and more a
part of the British empire. Perhaps the public remem-
ber the projector of this vast advantage to the two coun-
tries. It is painful to think that the British authorities,
ever ready to reward public benefactors, have in this in-
stance strangely overlooked a meritorious individual.
The toils he endured in his passage through Egypt, and
the great interests he exerted with the energetic I.)_aceran _
of that country, are in themselves sufficient considera-
tions
h o n ne ev%el:o
dons to recommend him to the favourable notioefelvonfga.
wise and enlightened Government. The name.
of
to
sucladr chcal bare be
slumberedadded,
afternoon, in
the top of the column of July yesterday
A person, between 40 and 45 years of age, Tr •
he threw
they were all occupied in enjoying the view,
company with a party to whom he
bfuotrf)o,er
awr,sh otometohmise. commu-
nication
the pavement below
himself over the balustrade down
toseveral of his limbs
and was taken up lifeless, /1
wit
at the Morgue, where
broken. His body was deposited was unknown. While
another person, who had
it now lies, and where that o
n but as the latter was
win-
dow, had previously. been taho
_y
d was not exposed.
from a third story
thrown himself, in the moriiikfneg,
immediately recognised; his
aordinary size was gathered
A pumpkin .of
as d four feet three inches in cir-
cumference,Colyton, which
weighedmeasured
thirtyu four pounds, and was grown
In the same garden a carrot was pulled
last week in the garden of the Rev. G. H. Scott, curate of
in the open air.
th.—Sberbourne Journa
and nine inches in erg L
sE
A KEEPER GE CRETS.—(From a Malta
of the weight of 2ilbs. thirteen inches.in circumference,
Syria that
paper.)-, he affair of Tutus, too, looks little
would interest y redact f
ve or us newspaper folks as it
1 We have no news from Egypt .and
. likely to be asp have
n a sour curmudgeon of a
promised,
eilsoving sailor for an Admiral, who seems
non-newspap
to think that secret orders, received or given, are not
the property of the press. Ido not mean anything per.;
and we gotten
sonal, but shall ask, is it likely that Sir John Omman-
nay,. or
anyother sea monster afloat, will be suffered to
retain a command who is capable of a sentiment or an
immorality like those conveyed in the following anec-
dote :—Very lately he was reminded that his predeces-
sors did not hesitate to communicate intelligence to par-
ties who would Make it reach the light. " Did they?"
(asked the haughty lunip of pitch and tar), " Then I'll
be d—d if I do!" Now, there's a fellow to have a flag!
There's a fellow to be entrusted with secrets! See that
he be superseded de suite.
_ _

NORTHMOLTON.—A very large hay-rick, the
property of Mr. George Shapland, of Oa ford Farm, caught
fire through heating on Saturday night last, and the whole
.
was consumed ; is valued at more than 50/.—North Devon
Journal.