The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles
NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts.
opened,
1851. 1850. 1851.
BRITISH. --
72 Aberdeen --..-- .. - - .... ... .. £l,OO £1,380
37% Belfast and Ballymena ••• • • .
17 Belfast and County Down . • • • • • • • • • .. 200 215
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,733 1,357
27 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .. .. 389 674
85% Bristol and Exeter • • .... • • .......... 4,121 4,432
160 Caledonian. .
94% Chester and Holyhead.• • ............ 2,532 2,635
49 Dublin and Belfast Junction • • .. • • .. 279 610
53 Dublin and Drogheda...... ......... 916 934
6 Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • 768 771
16% Dundee and Arbroath 375 453
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 555 656
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen- .. - - .... 145 148
67% East Anglian.- -- .. .... .......... 733 658
79 East Lancashire .. ... ..... ..... .
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • •
95 Eastern Union
116% Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • .
71 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee.... • • 2,113 2,082
18 Furness Railway ... - „ -
171 14 Glasgow, and South-Western - ....
22% Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock •
236 Great Northern and E. L. • •
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 4,256 4,731
262% Great Western .... ......
90 Lancaster and Carlisle •.•••• • . • .• 3,539 4,009
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire..• ••• • •
39 Leeds and Thirsk
12' Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport ..
51844 London and North Western ••. • •
5% London and Blackwall 754 1,119
1731 London, Brighton, and South Coast 8,041 9,411
239 London and South Western.
15 Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ 174 181
11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 107 124
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 5,317 6,009
9% Manchester and South Junction - .... 355 i 448
28 Maryport and Carlisle .. 586 610
496 k Midland .. •• • .. .. .. ...... .. .. .. .. 21,271 20,120
50 Midland Great Western (Irish) • . . . . . 1,316 1,367
60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. • ......... - 2,000 2,164
146 North British ••-•••••••• • • • • • . . . . . 3,188 3,429
222 North Starionishira ................ 4,419 4,963
47 North-Western • - 626
45 Scottish Central ••• • • • .............. 1,333 1,827
32 Scottish Midland - • ............• .. 392 547
47 Shrewsbury and Chester •••• • • • • .... 1,690 1,857
30 Shropshire Union
58 South Dev0n........ .
201 South Eastern .. .
75 South Wales - 93,,
69 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 1,081 1,207
40 Taff Vale ••••••• • • • • • • • ............ 2,067 2,347
36 Ulster .••••• • • • .• • ............ ..... 828., 920
25 Waterford and Limerick • • - 347
13 West Cornwall ...... • .... •••• • • • • 301 330
12 Whitehaven Junction ... • . • • • • • • • • • • 179 194
293 York and Newcastle, and Berwick . - 12,897 13,966
256 York and North Midland ... •• • • .... 6,891 6,815
FOREIGN.
76% Amiens and Boulogne. - ...• • • ..............1,396 1,396 1,550
44 Dieppe .. • • • • • • .... • • ... 400 -
63 Montereau and Troyes ...... ........ 865 090
336 Northern of France ••••-•• • • • • • • - 15,296 19,080
143 Orleans to Bourges (Cent.) .......... 2,756 3,391
72 Orleans to Bordeaux . 9,178 3,324
82 Paris and Orleans .... ••..••.• • • • • • • 7,686 8 479
S 5 Paris and Rouen...
59% Rouen and Havre

BOUNTY AND BENEVOLENCE.—Though there are
doubtless still some who " do good by stealth, and blush to
find it fame," yet such instances of benevolence as we are
about to record are especially deserving of notice, inasmuch
as at least they are not of frequent occurrence. Soon after
her arrival in Dublin, as Miss Catherine Hayes, the highly
gifted and amiable vocalist, was passing along one of the
principal thoroughfares her attention was attracted to a
group consisting of a middle aged woman with a child at her
breast and a little boy of about eight years of age standing
by her side, who joined his mother in singing with an un-
usual degree of taste and skill one of the popular ballads of
the day. Their appearance, though sufficiently miserable,
still bore traces of respectability, and cleanliness struggling
with extreme poverty. Miss Hayes tendered the poor
woman some temporary relief. at the same time compli-
menting her on the talent of her little boy, when the woman
with tears of gratitude informed her that she was the widow
of an humble but respectable professor of music, who had
been suddenly cut off by an attack of typhus fever, leaving
herself and three children entirely destitute. Her narrative
of distress immediately touched the heart of our fair vocalist
to the quick, and in a few days, having made inquiries which
verified the poor woman's statement in every particular, and
finding, moreover, that the little boy possessed an excellent
ear for music and a beautiful voice, she so effectually exerted
herself in behalf of the poor family that the little boy, after
having been sufficiently instructed in music at Miss ilayes's
expense, has been lately received into the choir of St.
Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, and the mother, who is an ex-
cellent workwoman, has been placed in a situation which
promises her comfort and respectability for the remaicder of
her days.
DEATH OF THE HON. LADY HAEVEY.---It is with
unfeigned sorrow that we have to announce the demise of the
amiable consort of our venerable and esteemed Lieutenant-
Governor. This sad event took place at the Government
House in this city, on Thursday last. From the peerage we
learn that the Hon. Elizabeth Lady Harvey was third
daughter of Jerard, first Viscount Lake, a general in the
army. Colonel in Chief of the 60th (Royal Rifles) Regiment,
and Governor of Plymouth. He was advanced 13th Sep-
tember, 1804, to the dignity of Baron Lake of Delhi, Laswary,
and Ashton Clinton, county of Bucks, for the intrepidity,
eminent judgment, and active spirit displayed by him when
commanding the British army during the Mahratta war.
The subject of the present notice was married, 16th Jnne,
1806, to our present Lieutenant-Governor, at that time a
major in the army, and attached to the staff of Lord Lake, la
which capacity he served with distinction throughout the
entire war. Since her marriage, Lady Harvey has accom-
panied her husband in all his varied and distinguished ser-
vices, in almost every quarter of the globe. With the single
exception of Canada, Lady Harvey has gracefully dispensed
the hospitalities of every Government House in the British
North American Colonies. And we are confident that we
speak the sentiments of the people of Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Prince Edward's Island, in
expressing the deepest regret on the occasion of the death
of Lady Harvey, and the warmest sympathy with her
distinguished husband in his sad bereavement and irre-
parable loss.—Nora Scotian, Halifax, N.S., Wednesday,
April 16.

" HE LOVES AND HE RIDES AwAr."—A bloom-
ing maiden, of 60, resident in Ilyson Green, a few weeks ago,
with all the fervour of first love, became deeply enamoured
of an itinerant spectacle-monger. After two whole weeks'
deliberation, Derby, we believe, was the town selected to be
honoured by the performance of the nuptial ceremony.
Afterwards returning to Ilyson Green, and enjoying two
days of real bliss, but not being able to procure a suitable
residence, arrangements were made for migrating to Leic atod
The lady acquiesced, and at once packed up her clothes,medal,
at the same time handed over a silver watch, a gold
and 1r; sovereigns to her dearly beloved, for geerselecauNr,iitn
when he took his departure for Nottingham station
for her on
when every domestic comfort would beprepared.
add the villain had
his beloved spouse to follow him to Leicester i the evening,
her arrival at Leicester. It is needlesesetoend
money. Since
decamped with the whole of her clothes
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the lion. Captain Drum-
Duke of Athol, accompanied
his stalwart of stalwart Highlaruiraen, all
OTTER. HUNT.—COUrARb ANGUS.
Drum-
mond and a large body
attired in the
, highlandmet costume, in charge of a splendid
pack of otter at the Bridge of Dean, near Meig 1 e ,
week, fur ;the Prosecution of otter hunting.
one day lastttbe
neighbourhood, previously advised by
hounds
Some gentlemen o
his Grace of the
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meet, here joined the party, and the day's
sport proved moat e