The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-15 00:00:00

BIRTUIN TUE WEEK.

Males ... ... SOO MI 749
Females ... ... ... ... 728

Total ... ... 1,477
*ln this number are included 25 by Scarlatina, 50
by Typhus Fever, 136 by Diarrhoea, and 16 by Cholera.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC..--IG will be seen, from the
railway returns for the past week, so far as they
have been ascertained, that the receipts of the Lon-
don and North-Western have this week reached the
enormous amount of 70,0001., and that the increase on,
the corresponding week of last year is close on 17,0001.
It will be seen that in the Great Western and the
London and South-Western, and the Greet Northern,
the "takes" last we k were also enormously great.
DIVIDENDS ON THE LIVERPOOL, CROt.BY, AND
SOUTHPORT.— A dividend of four per cent., including
income-tax, will be declared at the half-yearly
meeting of" the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport
Compiny.
GAUL AND BANDfIN.—Tne Chief Justice of the
Central Court, Dublin, has given permission to issue
warrants fur the apprehension of the parties charged
with having plAced the obstructions on this line, be-
tween Upton and Cork, and with having been con-
cerned in the late riots, and also if necessary, to prefer
indictments.

OXF)RD, WORCEaTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON,
Tne meeting of proprietors is adjourned to the 27tb,
in cowl, pence of the inAbility before that time, of
the committee lately appointed by the shareholders,
to make a satisfactory report.
HEREFORD AND SHIUMSBURT.—The works are
proceeding actively between Shrewsbury and Ludlow,
to which points the line is expected to be opened be-
fore the end of the year.
OPENING OF THE FOREST OF DEAN.—It has been
announced that this line will be positively opened on
the 25th inst. The first locomotive has been placed
on the rails at Over, near Gloucester, and it is to be
employed in the completion of the works.
VALE or NEATH.—It is expected that this line
will be opened in the course of the next fortnight
or so.

Tux PROPOSED RAILWAY
BETWEEN BURY ST.
EDMUNDS AND NEWMARKET.--0311.. C. Fane, the
chairman of the Newmarket Railway
Company, in a
letter to Mr. T. K. Eagle, respecting the connexion
of a line of railway from Newmarket to Bury St.
Edmunds, states that the directors are anxious to ex-
tend the line to the latter town as soon as the branch
to Cambridge is completed, and so make a complete
communication from Ipswich to Cambridge and the
north and west of England.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC AND THE
EXHIBITION.

It appears that the increase of traffic on railways
in the United Kingdom from the Ist of January to
the 27th April last was 11.15 per cent. over the cor-
responding period of 1850 ; the increase in the
month of May was at the rate of 8'65 per cent. ;
the increase in the month of June was 19.67
per cent. ; and the increase in the month of July
was 20.2 per cent. over the corresponding period
of 1850. On comparing the receipts in the cor-
responding period of 1850 with those of the preced-
ing year (1849), it appears that up to the 28th April,
1850, the general increase amounted to 13 59 per
cent. ; in the month of May to 6 65 per cent. ; in the
month of June to 29'77 per cent. ; and in the month
of July to 15.1 per cent. The increase of traffic, on

eight railways includA in the above, having their
termini in the metropolis, from the Ist January to the
27th April la,t, was 7 per cent. over that of the cor-
responding period of laot year; in the month of May
it was 11.27 per cent.; in the month of June 28 65
per cent. ; and in the month of July 36 9 per cent.
Oa comparing the receipts on the metropolitan lines in
the corresponding periods of 1850 with those of 1849 it
appears that up to the 28th of April the general in-
crease in the traffic amounted to 2 9 per cent.; in
the month of May it amounted to 755 per cent.; in
the month of June to 8 88 per cent.; and in the
month of July to 5 8 per cent. over the same month
in 1849. This shows that the Exhibition has had a
very considerable effact in increasing the traffic on the
metropolitan lines since its opening on the Ist May.
The general increase on the latter lines up to the
end of April was 7 per cent. against 2 9 per
cent. at the corresponding period of 1850
(over 1849); up to the end of May the increase
amounted to 8.1 per cent. against 4 04 per cent ; up
to the end of June the increase amounted to 11 89 per
cent. against 490 per eent, in the corresponding
period of 1850 (over 1849) ; and up to the 26th of
July the increase amounted to 508 4931., or 15 8 per
cent. against 154,4741., or 504 per cent. at the
corresponding period of 1850 over 1849. The
general traffic of railways in the United King-
dom was, up to the end of April, 1115 per cent.;
up to the end of May, 10.5 per cent. ; up to
the end of June, 1213 per cent.; and up to the
26th of July, 974,772/ or 14.08 per cent. over the
corresponding period of 1850. The total increase of
traffic on railways in the United Kingdom up to the
27± of April last, amounted to 398,2801., of which
the metropolitan lines took 114,924 or 28 85 per
cent. ; up to the 31st of May the total amounted
to 506,8401', of which they took 180,3431, or
35.6 per cent.; up to the 29th of June the total
amounted to 711,7201., of which they took
322.4181. or 45'3 per cent.; alai up to the 26th July
they amounted to 974,7721., of which the metro-
politan lines took 508,5941., or 52.2 per cent., leaving
466,178/, or 47 8 per cent. for the other lines. The
total receipts at the end of those periods on the
metropolitan lines respectively were 1,753,2831.,
2,399,179?., 3,037,0631, and 3 727:447/. ; and on be
other lines respectively, 2,216,6191., 2,933,798[.,
3,542,0211., and 4,171,8151.. From the above figures
it would appear that the-increase of traffic on the
metropolitan lines, arising entirely from the Exhibi-
tion, up to the 26th July, amounted to 220,9831.,
namely, 19,6251. in May, 71,035/. in June, and
130,3231. in July.—Railway Journal.