The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY 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:—

0.
Week Last $49.!
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. 2ii 7,,,,
c, x
-- -
£ £
Oct. - Arbroath and Forfar ••••••••• •• •• • • - 171
16 Chester and Birkenhead .-•••• •• •• - 705 649
15 Dublin and Drogheda.. -••-.•••• •• •• 753 785
20 Dublin and Kingstown -.•--- •• • • 892 854
18 Dundee and Arbroath . .. .......• . 305 325
17 Durham and Sunderland - .... - - 645 810
17 Edinburgh and Glasgow . ... .....• • . 4,278 3,310
18 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 10,099 7,251
17 East Lancasihre (six days) .......... 818 -
- Eastern Union. - -
17 4 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .... • • 2,305 1,988
17 Glasgow and Greenock.. - - ... .... 987 834
- Gravesend and Rochester........ •• • • - 206
17 Great Southern and Western ...... • • 1,080 -
18 Great Western, SE.c -.. .... .. •••• • • • • 20,055 20,137
- Hartlepool .. • - 1,284
17 London and North Western, &c. 42, 59 40,690
Is London and Blackwall- .• .. •. • . .... 846 939
17 London and Brighton .• • •••.• • • . • . 8,328 6,888
Londoß and Croydon . .. - -
18 London and South We5tern......... 6,812 7,269
- Manchester, Bolton, and Bury .....• - 996
17 Manchester, Leeds, and Ilull Assoc.. 8,849 7,192
19 M aryport and Carlisle ••••••• • • . • . . . 473 --
17 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 19,067 18,271
17 Newcastle and Carlisle• • • ......• •• .. 2,012 1,675
- Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ - -
17 Newcastle and Berwick .. 482 -
18 Norfolk •• • • ......... ..... .......• • • 1,552 1,476
17 North British .............• •••• • • .. 1,207 -
- Paris, Corbel, and Orleans •. • • .... - 7,097
19 Paris and Rouen •• •• • ... 7,122 6,342
17 Preston and Wyre...... .. -. . ...... 687 551
17 Sheffield and Manche5ter............ 1,814 1,196
17 South Eastern and Branches ........ 9,400 7,706
16 South Devon ........ . .....- ...... 850 -
17 Taff Vale • • •.. •.•••.• • • • • • • ........ 1,303 1,199
18 Ulster • ...... ..
17 York and Newcastle ..••• - - • • .... 5,949 5,417
17 York and North Midland ....... •• .. 7,069 5,512

USE OF THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The other
day a pheasant, which had perched upon the wires of the
Lincoln and Nottingham Railway, was killed by elec-
tricity. The railway people were conveying a message
along the line, which was doubtless the cause of its
death. The telegraph was employed the other day to
stop a clandestine marriage. A young lady and gentle-
man decamped together by rail from Nottingham to
have the indissoluble knot tied at Lincoln ; but about
an hour after the loving pair had set off, the lady's
mamma, finding her daughter absent, went to the rail-
way station, and ascertained that she had left for Lin-
coln with her lover. The telegraph was instantly set to
work, and when the lady and gentleman arrived, a po-
liceman was in attendance to receive them, and the pair
were forthwith taken out of their carriage, placed in a
return train, and sent back to the mamma, who had un-
fortunately found her daughter " was out."—Lincoln
Mercury.

MONEY-RETURNING TELEGRAPH. Wednesday
morning a lady inadvertently left her purse, containing
301., on the counter at the Witham station of the Eastern
Counties Railway. It remained unobserved by the sta-
tion-clerk, until both the train and her ladyship left ;
whereupon he instantly " telegraphed" the occurrence
to the authorities at the Chelmsford station, who, 011 the
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SUICIDE BY A MINING SHAREBROKER.-011 Thurs-
day Mr. Mills held an inquest at the Earl of Cathcart,
Munster-street, Regent's Park, on the body of Mr.
George Goodall, aged 44, a mine and sharebroker, of
42, Clarence-gardens. Elizabeth, relict of deceased,
,said that 'on Friday morning he appeared much de-
pressed in spirits, and asked her to go into the City to
transact some business for him. She went, and on re-
turning about seven in the evening, found that he had
gone out to a neighbouring tavern. She sent for him,
and he came, evidently affected by liquor, which yeas
not an unusual occurrence. A short time afterwards be
went to bed, and was soon seized with what she thought
a fit. A medical man was promptly in attendance, and
treated deceased for what he considered a naturally.
sudden attack, but without success, as death almost in-
stantaneously ensued. Deceased had frequently alluded
to self-destruction, both in the presence of witness and
her daughter. He was in the habit of taking opium,
and a short time since took four times his usual quan-
tity, which, though it did not destroy life, had pro-
duced the most prostrating effects. There appeared to
be nothing in his pecuniary affairs to affect his mind,
but it was proved that his father had been the inmate of
a lunatic asylum. Dr. Jenner, who had opened the
body, found Prussic acid in the stomach, and said that
death was caused by that poison. Verdict " Temporary
insanity."

Dr. Cabusse, one of the prisoners of Abd-el-Kader,
has been created by the King a Knight of the Legion of
Honour, as a reward due to denoted attention to bill
fellow-prisoners,-..Galignani.