The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-01 00:00:00

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST
RAILWAY.

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Traffic—Week ending Nov. 29,1851 ... £8,210 11 3
Traffic—Week ending Nov. 30, 1850 ... 8,1 t 2 6 6
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 295,691 19 0
Total of the half-year, to this date, 1850 ... 2e8,406 12 9
Total number of Passengers—Week ending
Nov. 29,1851 43,921
Passengers ... ...£6,049 6 1
Goods ... 2,161 5 2

Total ... ... £8,210 11 3
Total miles open, 1851, 17314 ; ditto, 1850, 17114
London Terminus, Dec. 1, 1851.

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
MONEY ORDERB.—Winchburgh, county! of Linlith-
gow, N. 8., having been constituted a post town, the
office there will be opened for the issue and payment of
money orders on and after the Ist December next, on
which day the issue and payment of money orders will
cease at Kirkliston and Uphall, in the same county.
Lydney, Gloucestershire, baying also been constituted
a post town, will on and frau' the Ist December become
a major money order office, instead of a minor office as
at present.
On the same day the undermentioned offices will be
opened as minor money order offices:—
Dowlais, Glamorganshire.
(Instead of a major money order office, as at present.)
May field, Sussex.
On the 17th December, Wadebridge, Cornwall, will
be opened as a minor money order office.
These alterations must be made in the lists of money
order offices.

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DEATH 01. MARSHAL SOULT.—INE Dave to record
an event which recent news has led the public of Europe to
expect, and which, had there been no forewarning, the great
age of the deceased would have rendered no surprise.
Marshal Soult, one of the most distinguished of French sol-
diers, and one of the most exalted of French statesmen, died
on the night of the 26th ult., at St. Armand.

We regret to announce to our readers the postpone-
ment of the intended opening of the Stour Valley Railway,
which was to have taken place this day. The causes of the
delay appear in our advertising columns. It is certainly
lamentable that the quarrels of two rival and hostile com-
panies should deprive the public even for a time of so great
a convenience as the opening of this important line; but at
the same time we cannot but commend the prudent precau-
tion of the London and North-Western directors in declining
to expose the passengers on she line to the frightful danger
of almost certain collision. It is difficult to understand how
two parties whose interests have unfortunately become
diametrically opposed are to run their trains into opposition
on the same line of rails with safety to the pblic.
trust, however, that some arrangement will speedily be come
to by which the line may be opened without this apprehended
danger.
THE PEEL PENNY SUB9CRIYTION.—Mr. Hume
has written a letter to a contemporary,
stating that the sub.
scription has been closed, and all the accounts audited and
settled by the committee, the amount being about 1,700/.
sterling, which is in the Bank; and that, on his return to
London, measures will be adopted by the committee and
trustees for the application of the funds in the manner that
shall appear to them the best calculated to carry out the
resolutions agreed to at the public meeting at the Whitting-
ton Club.