The Sun.
London, England, 1847-08-14 00:00:00

RAIL WAY RETURNS

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year :

4
Week Last El a
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. g 5.
o be
Q. 9
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Z A
Aug. 2 Amiens and Boulogne . .............. 682 -
7 Arbroath and Fortar •••••••• • • • • • •• 369 348
6 Chester and Birkenhead. •••••• • • • • • • 1,104 1,088
5 Dublin and Drogheda ••.• .• ......• .• 1,167 1,020
10 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • - • • 1,333 1,171
7 Dundee, Pertb, and Aberdeen •.•• • • • • 1,127 433
7 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 4,175 4,116
8 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 13,026 8.996
7 East Lancashire • . ...... .... •••• • • • • 1,132 -
1 Eastern Union.. ••• • • •
7 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 2,917 2,314
7 Glasgow and Greenock. •
7 Great Southern and Western •••• • • • • 2,,087 -
8 Great Western, &c ••••••••• • ' • ' • • • • • 23,300 21,770
- Ipswich and Bury • • - -
6 Lancaster and Carlisle ••-••• • • • " • • 1,602 -
7 London and North Western, &c.. •• • • 49,322 47,696
8 London and Blackwall.• •••••• • • ' • ' • 1,403 1,440
7 London and Brighton .•••••• • • • • " • • 12,232 10,530
8 London and South Western •••• • - ' • 11,929 8,943
7 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.• 9,410 10,440
7 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 2,551 2,270
7 Maryport and Carlisle •• • • ........ • ' 760 599
7 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham •• • • 24,893 20,105
8 Midland Great Western (Irish) •• - " 1,002 -
7 Newcastle and Carlisle .•••••• • ' • • • • • 2,754 2,134
- Newcastle, Bervrick, and North Shields -
Preston and Wyre ••••••••• • ' • • • • • • • 570
2,451 1,481
7 North British .. •••••••••• ' • • • • • • . - 2,872 2,334
7 Paris and Rouen .•••••••••• • • • • • • • • 8;144 7,216
3,-627 -
-
7 Rouen and Havre .. •••••••• • "• • • • • 501 -
6 Shrewsbury and Chester ...... '•• • • ' 11,410 10,180
7 South Eastern and Branches •• ••" • •
6 South Devon ••.•••.••••• • • • • ' • • ••
• • 1.933 1,050
7 Taff Vale ............ ••••••• • •• • • • • 1,513 1,09
7 York and Newcastle .•••••• • • " • • • • 191;989901
826 690
8 Ulster .
7,414.
262 -
7 Whltehaven Junction .• ••••••• ' • '• ''
7 York and North Midland ..•••• • • • "

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minator, of ' it
ere
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the nomination M. WALTER'S ELECTION,..--In connexion with the
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great fact," which he ought not to loose sight of, i.e.,minator, Mr. Bowley, proposed to withdraw him if the
IVa l t er s,
of actariNdiotitutti.u.:hNaltrn.,
Liberals would withdraw Mr. Gisborne. If Mr. Gis-
horne's friends had agreed to the proposition, the Tories
were egreeahle to let in, unopposed, Sir J. C. frlohltouse,
Lib,ral, and Mr. F. O'Connor. Chartist I This matter-
of- fact act et the Nottingham Tt ries, Mr. Walter may
think worth some little notice.—From a Corresp,ndent.
BlRTii.—On the 10th of August, at Collumpton,
1) v , on. the lady of Widiam Charlt-s Gra4, 11eq., of a
daughter. I

THE ITOUS WHERE BURNS LIVED AND DIED IN
DuDIEHIEs.—It %v.!l be own, from another part of our
paper, that the house in which Shakspere, the great poet
of Englat d, was brrn is now in the mrrket. It is rather
a curious eomeidet.ep that the house in which Burns, the
great poet of Scotland, lived fur many )e:trs, and in which
be. died, is in the narket at the some OLOC.--Dumfrie,s
Herald.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE BRITANNIA.

EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.

(FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY MORNING.
The arrival of the royal mail steamer Britannia,
Captain Harrison, at this port, after a voyage of
twelve days and a half, from Boston, including her
calling and stay at Halifax, has put us in possession
of our files of papers to the Ist inst., her day of de-
parture from her first port.
The Britannia has 107 passengers. She met the
outward bound steamer, Hibernia, between Halifax
and Boston, which latter port she might be expected
to reach on the 2d inst.
The United States steamer Washirgton had
arrived out at New York on the 30th of July.
The commercial news is important; the rate of
exchange had declined to 51 per cent., and between
that rate and 61- there was an active business done,
with plenty of bills offering. The following are the
quotations, •--

Whipple has been lassoed near Vera Cruz. C iptain
Willi-on Duff died on the 16th. and Lieutenant Parker,
of the nav,, died Oil the 12 h. on ti.urd f the Nligsis-
sippi. The Sea of Anal:ucte of the 13. h gays, that by
private s,'xorest from PuettJa, too been re-
ceived that Cadwall,oler a d Pillow, with the trains,
had arrivel at Per,,te, and had been a tacked at Lah,s)a
by a large Mexican force, and completely routed the
enemy, with but litsle loss.

" This express left Puebla on the 3d, and the news was
rcoeived there the day previous, that three commis
sioners had been appo►nted to meet Mr. 'l'rist at
Martin on the B.h, and learn thr.►ugh him the terms
offered by the President. A letter from Mexico,
dated the 2d, says there is no doubt but that th.-
treaty will be concluded immediaiely 133 tee commis.
sinners, the peace party is so sir ng, and that Santa
Anns will probsbiy pronounce for peke. DuILIPS
of the commissioners given are Oarostiz. Baranda, and
Tornel News trotn G. fiend Pillow 11,(1 arrived at
Pu.•b?a by an •,xpress rider, and an expre-s from Gene-
ral Scott from Puebla to Vera Cruz was mut &Teti, after
desperate re-istat,oe,

"Turning from the warlike tenor of the advices, we
proceed to that portion of it which treats of peace. The
papers•betore us announce that Mexico had at last ac-
cepted the offer to neg_ otiate. ar,d that three commis-
sioners were appointed to meet Mr. Trist, the American
Minister. The result will soon be known. It is said
that Santa Anna was disposed in favour of peace.
" General l'a)lor's position remained unchanged, and
no clue to his future intentions hut' been promulgated.
Recruits are slowly gathering to his forces.
"The advices just received contain accounts from Ca-
lifornia. The two regiments of volunteers from New
York had arrived in the territory, to occupy and colo-
nise the coast around Monterey and the Bay of San
Francisco. A newspaper has been established at each
of these points, and another in Oregon. American en-
terprise is thus spreading the English language along
that wide extended coast, and diffusing the arts of civi-
lisation and peace among the untutored savages of the
wilderness. A new city has been laid out in the Bay of
San Francisco.