The Sun.
London, England, 1847-09-25 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

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RAILWAY TaArnc.—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:

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Sept 4
19 Amiens and Boulogne .•• .. • ......... 718
18 Arbroath and Forfar .............., 261 183
17 Chester and Birkenhead ............. 824 777
16 Dublin and Drogheda.... • • .........
21 Dublin and Kingstown .... . . • • 862 933
868 1,091
18 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen ........ 920 347
18 Edinburgh and Glasgow . ... 4,684 4,509
19 Eastern Counties and North East.ern" •• 12,176 10.129
18 East Lancashire •1,066 -
12 Eastern Union .. • 1,261 586
18 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 2,779 2'506
18 Glasgow and Greenock. • ''''''' '• • • !,,M - I,:lie
18 Great Southern and Western •••• • • • • I
21,041 20,417
19 Great Western, &c.• •''•' • • • • ...
11 323 11,818
18 Lancashire and Yorkshire ....... ••• • •
17 Lancaster and Carlisle „... .. ••.
451,616433 447352
18 London and North Western, & . .
,055
1,2,6
19 London and Blackwell .•• • •
.• •••• .... •••• .... 1
19,18
LoLoutudloonn ana Brighton ..te.... 191,388970 11,000
8307
and South es rn .••• • • • „ ,
and
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182,906 2,819
is meryport and Carlisle ••••••• • • • • • • • 672 -
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8 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 26,079 23,217
19 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 700 -
18 Newcastle and Carlisle. .. ....... 2,346 2,295
- Newcastle, Berwick, and /forth Shields -
19 Norfolk •• • • ... ...... ......... ••• • • • 2,365 1.739
18 North British .. ••••••• • .. • • • ..... .. 2,837 2,004
IS Paris and Rouen • •
- Preston and Wyre • . -
18 Rouen and Havre .. ••••• • • • • ... • •
.. 3,386 -
17 Shrewsbury and Chester .• • ... .... • • 587 -
18 South Eastern and Branches .... .• • • 11,361 11,504
17 South Devon ••••••...••. • • • • • • • • • .. 1,613 1,17:'
18 Taff Vale ••••••••••.•• • • • • • • • • • • . . . 1,7 i 4 1,464
19 Ulster .•••• • • • • • • •. • • 576 786
18 Whitchaven Jtmetion .•... .. ........ 249 -
18 York and Newcastle .
18 , York and North Midland .••... . • . . . 10,110 7,748

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY, SEPT. 24.
The supplies this week are pretty good; and there is a
fair display of samples from vessels near at hand. We
have a good retail demand for wheat at a reduction of
2s. per quarter on new, of which the supply principally
consists, and ls. to 2s. on old. Malsters generally have
not commenced working, which causes barley to be in
limited request, and prices are 2s. to 3s. per quarter
lower. Oats and shelling meet a ready sale at fully last
week's prices. Beans aro the turn dearer.
Elam CLlAPEL.—Yesterday, in consequence of an
order by Aldermeh Hooper and Johnson for the imme-
diate suppression of the nuisance caused by the breaking
up the vaults and coffins underneath this chapel, a
number of workmen were employed in laying concrete
over the ground, breaking the roof, and stopping up all
holes, to prevent further escape of effluvia or obnoxious
gas.

ELOPEMENT OF THE BRITIMIT
QUEEN.
An inquiry of rather a delicate nature touching
the recent performance of the lady who, among tra-
velling companies, is known by the above designation
(but whose real name is Mrs. King), was instituted
before the magistrates in this town on Tuesday last,
when a young man, named House, of Market La-
vington (the latter portion of whose life has been
passed in the employ of the famed Mr. Wombwell, of
wild beast notoriety), was brought up under Super-
intendent Wolfe's care, charged with having in his
possession a quantity of wearing apparel and about
1501. in money, belonging to Mrs. King's lawful
lord and master. It appeared that about a month
since, in consequence of a misunderstanding with his
employer, Mr. King relinquished his avocation and
settled in private life at Newcastle-upon- Tyne ; but,
not to disappoint the public of the delights pictured
in the hand-bills, he permitted his better half (at
Mr. Wombwell's request) to remain with the
company a short time longer, at the ex-
piration of which he looked forward to the
domestic repose which the joint exertions of him-
self and his wife had promised to secure. Letter after
letter, couched in the most affectionate terms of
anxiety for her return, and at the same time convey-
ing sincere respects to Mr. House (who was one of
the band), had been posted by the attached husband ;
all of which—as Mrs. K. unfortunately, could neither
read nor write—were placed in the hands of House,
who answered them as his feelings prompted him.
At length the engagement with the company expired,
but no Mrs. King appeared at Newcastle. Her hus-
band began to grow uneasy; and, upon inquiry, dis-
covered, with astonishment, that the faithless Mrs.
King had left the establishment with his " friend "
nearly a fortnight. Dismayed and bewildered, the
thought suggested itself that the pair might contem-
plate a trip to America. Off he started to Liverpool,
searched the whole of the packets bound for that wide
land of adventure, but Mrs. King was nowhere to be
found. Gloucester was next visited ; then Chipper'.
ham ; and subsequently Devizes, where such a
clue was found as to induce Mr. King to place
the facts of his situation in the possession of
the police, through whose aid he was escorted to
Lavington (where House has a mother and sisters
living). Here the whole secret was soon unravelled ;
wearing apparel (belonging to both Mr. and Mrs.
King), and 1481. in gold and notes, were found, and
subsequently the wife herself was compelled to face
her much-abused partner in a private house in the
town. Upon this, all parties were brought before the
magistrates ; and after, a_great deal of theatrical dis-
play, Mr. House (upon his refusal to give up the
property) was banded over for a night's lodging in
the police cell. The next morning found him with
his determination unaltered, notwithstanding an offer
of 201. by Mr. K. to settle the matter. A warrant of
committal, ho wever, soon turned the tide; House, in
his cell, reflected upon the matter, accepted the 204 ;
and, taking with him the remainder of his property,
Mr. K. (with his wife by his side) started in a car-
riage and a pair of mules for Chippenham, en route for
the north, where change of climate and scene may,
it is to be hoped, efface all unpleasant recollections
of the past.—Devizes Gazette.

A BURIED WOMAN ALIVE AND

WELL.

" Truth is strange, stranger than fiction," and the
following story is not more extraordinary than true.
Two or three weeks ago the daughter of an old sol-
dier, who resides in Miller-street, in the north-
eastern part of the city, was seized with fever, and
was conveyed to one of the hospitals. The old man,
of course, made frequent inquiries at the hospital as
to the progress of the disease, and was pained to learn,
on every visit, that his daughter was gradually get-
ting worse. At last he received the melancholy in-
formation that she was dead. The necessary ar-
rangements were made for the funeral, and the body
was interred in Sighthill Cemetery, on Thursday of
last week. On Tuesday last, while the mother of the
buried woman was engaged in her usual household
avocations, the door slowly opened, and, 10, there en-
tered, pale and emaciated, the figure of her dead
daughter, which uttered the word " mother." "Ye
canna get in here—ye canna get in here !" exclaimed
the affrighted mother, " your father buried you
last week." And having thus endeavoured to lay
the ghost, fainted. On coming to her senses,
and observing the unwelcome visitor sitting
in the house, she rushed down stairs to
the workshop of her husband, and exclaimed,
in the same voice of extreme terror, "Oh, the daugh-
ter ye buried last week is sitting up stairs!" and she
went off in another fit, while the husband in terror
and surprise dropped the implements of his craft, with
which at the time he was engaged. When the old
couple had recovered a little self-possession, neigh-
bours were called in, the haunted house was entered,
and there sat—not an intrusive, ill-bred ghost—but
the veritable daughter, pale and thin, but as truly in
life as ever she was. Here was a mystery not easily
to he solved at the moment, but subsequent inquiries
showed that the daughter and an Irishwoman of
nearly a similar name lay in the hospital next bed to
each other. hence the mistake of the father being
misinformed as to the state of his daughter's health;
and when the Irishwoman died, her body was given
to the supposed father, who is, we learn, a Scotch-
tn..n, and from the circumstance of the virulence of
the disease, interred without identification. We
have been informed that the father of the recovered
(laughter is about to institute legal proceedings against
the manager of the hospital for the expense in-
curred by him in the interment of a stranger.—Glas-
gow Examine?...