The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

RAILWAY TIIAFFIC.—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 :

Last bo
Week fi ~,, .
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. E., 4,.
ter,
Q a
- -
£ x
May 9 Arbroath and Forfar ••••.••• • • • • • • • 192 140
- Bristol and Birmingham .•••••• • • • • • • - -
8 Chester and Birkenhead .••••• • • • .. - 2,476 1,948
• 7 Dublin and Drogheda. ••• • • • •••• • • • • 751 771
12 Dublin and Kingstown • ...... • • 973 1,001
10 Dundee and Arbroath ... •. • -- • • 278 278
9 Durham and Sunderland • .. 683 589
9 Edinburgh and Glasgow .... ...... - 3,178 2,842
10 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 8,363 5,147
9 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr .... - 2,054 1,785
9 Glasgow and Greenock.. ....... .... 915 912
- • Grand Junction •. • .... ..... ........ - • -
9 Gravesend and Rochester •. • . 225 -
- Great North of England • -. . - -
10 Great Western .••••• • • • • • • ......... 19,568 18,369
11 Hartlepool .. • . ... ... . -
9 London and Birmingham, &c. .• ••. • . 39,626 35,216
10 London and Blackwall.• • •
9 London and Brighton . • ...
12 London and Croydon ............... 1,634 1,477
- London and Greenwich .•••. • • • ... • • - -
9 London and South Western. •••• - . . 7,745 7,271
10 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 1,074 957
9 Manchester and Birmingham ........
164i288340944
14
56:,702
9 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoe.•
9 Midland Counties .•. ..
9 Newcastle and Darlington ••••• • • • • • 2,618 2,471
- Newcastle and Carlisle •••.••• • • • • • • • - 1,651
10 Newcastle and North Shields •••• • • • 510 381
10 Norfolk ............................ 1,206 303
- North Union and Bolton and Preston - -
11 Paris, Corbel, and Orleans ...... .... 7,280 6,102
llParis and Rouen .••••• • • • • • ........ 6,011 5,80 s
9 Preston and Wyre•
9 Sheffield and Manchester ... - ....... 1,660 708
9 South Eastern • ..................... 7,139 5,166
9 Taff Vale
623 586
10 Ulster . ... ........... ........ -
- Yarmouth and Norwich •••••• • • • • • • 5-1-20 --
9 York and North Midland .•-••• • • • • • ,

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Regiment are under orders to em
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at Gravesend, on being
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on-commissioned officers, and men, with
MAY 15.—Thbearkh,
d in that vessel. consequently there
not to proceed
their families, are or child on board. By this order Lieutenant-
will not be a woman
and Assistant-Surgeon Park are both prevented
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that the married officers, n
Colonel C. E.
proceeding with the regiment, as also the sergeant-Major and many
others, who are married. The strength of the regiment under present
orders embarkation consists of the grenadier comprny, the 2d, 3d,
sth, silt, ud
light
companies, comprising in the whole 13 sergeants,
16 corporals, 19 drummers, and 576 rank and file, with the following
officers :—Major James Patience, Captain James Fitzherbert de
Tessier, Captain St. Leger Barry, Captain W. Pym Young,
Lieutenant C. A. Cuthbert, Lieutenant Thomas Barnard, Lieu-
tenant R. H. Macgregor, Ensign Francis Percival Drought,
Ensign Charles J. Ewen, Ensign R. M. Slegg, Ensign W. F. T.
Marshall, Ensign J. J. Endgeon, Surgeon Prendergait, Paymaster
J. W. Marshall, and Adjutant C. Rhatlgan. Captain Oliver Barker
D'Arcey is on leave, and Captain George F. Murray is on board the
John Calvin, convict-ship, in charge of a convict guard In lieu of
Captain St. Leger Barry. On Saturday, the 16th instant, a detach-
ment from the provisional battalion, consisting of 2 sergeants. 1
drummer, and 42 rank and Me, under command of Captain J. Green-
wood, 31st Regiment, with Lieutenant Warren Ahmuty, 57th, will
march from this garrison en route for duty at Harwich, to relieve
at that station a similar detachment of the 65th, under command of
Captain Peter Wolf and Lieutenant J. Hervey Elton Elwe., which
returns to this garrison to join their regiment. The two recently-
formed companies of the Chatham division of Chelsea Pensioners are
ordered to assemble at Chatham next week for drill, and the whole
of the four companies, each comprising one sergeant-major, 4 ser-
geants, 4 corporals, 2 drummers, and 60 rank and file, will after that
assemble for a few days exercise. The two recently. formed compa-
nies are incorporated with the Pensioners of the Royal Marines.
Captain E. J. Vaughan, staff-officer of the district, takes command
of these veterans of cavalry, artillery, and line regiments.
THE FRUIT CROPS IN KENT.—The.—The orchards around
us in this" garden of England" are now luxuriantly in bloom, and,
abundant crops.—Maidstone Journal
should the weather remain favourable, there is every prospect of
PRINTING MACHINE INDEX.—We understand that
is thrown off, to the extent
Mr. Edward Strong has contrived, by a small addition to the print-
ing-machine, to register every copy that
of 100,000. As such
a means of registration is much needed, the
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