The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-25 00:00:00

Miles
NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts.
opened,
1851. 1850. 1851.
SRI TISH.
.--
72 Aberdeen ... ..... „ .... , .
37% Belfast and Ballymena ••••••• • • • • • • • 378 537
17 Belfast and County Down .• • • • • • • • • .. - 129
33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 688 1,060
27 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York • • • • 419 621
8536 Bristol and Exeter • • .... • • .......... 3,015 3,318
160 Caledonian... ... .. ... .. .. .. .. 5,667 6,218
943 i Chester and Holyhead ..... •• .. 1,177 2,203
32 Dublin and Belfast Junction - . . . • . 234 429
53 Dublin and Drogheda.... • • .•••• • • .. 654 837
6 Dublin and Kingstown ............ • • 479 557
16% Dundee and Arbroath .............. - 381
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 496 598
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen • ...- • • . • • • 135 155
67% East Anglian.... .• .• ..... ........... 611 563
79 East Lancashire •• • ..... ............ 2,589 3,532
322 Eastern Counties and N0rf01k........ 13,613 12,736
95 Eastern Union ... ••• . ...... ......... 1,625 1,755
116% Edinburgh and Glasgow.... ...... .. 2,451 3,241
71 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...... 1,940 2,194
18 Furness Railway ... .............. - 141
171% Glasgow, and South:Western - .... .. 2,796 3,204
22% Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock -•. 833 857
236 Great Northern and E. L........... 2,612 6,892
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 3,629 4,004
262% Great Western •••••• • • • • • .. 12,753 13.611
90 Lancaster and Car1i51e........
260 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. •
39 Leeds and Thirsk ...........
12;3 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport 66 -
5181,4 London and North Western .....
5% London and Blackwall.• •••••• • • • • .• 536 789
171% London, Brighton, and South Coast 5,776 8,078
239 London and South Western 7,148 8,251
15 Londonderry and Enniskillen • • . . . .
1i % Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 72 100
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and,Lincoln.shire 4,005 5,814
9% Manchester and South Junction-- - 321 395
28 Maryport and Carlisle • • - - - 579
496 M Midland •••••• • • • • • -- - - 18,449 19,685
50 Midland Great Western (Irish) .... -- 927 I,k 01
60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. - ......„ .. 1,805 1,925
146 North British • • .............. ...... 2,922 3,057
222 North Staffordshire .. •••• • • .. 3,146 4,363
47 North-Western .................... - 439
45 Scottish Central ................ „ . 1,155 1,541
32 Scottish Midland „ ....., 322 482
47 Shrewsbury and Chester
30 Shropshire Union .. •••••••• • • • • • • • • 388 352
58 South Devon... ..... . .
234 South Eastem .. •••• • • .
75 South Wales .. ••.. . • - 833
69 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. - 1,173
40 Taff Vale ••• • • ...... ••• • •
731 ii 826
25 Waterford and Limelick • • .... ••• • • • - 321
13 West Cornwall .. ••• • • .... •• • . 287 277
12 Wnitehaven Junction .• ••••••• • • • • • • 162 184
293 York and Newcastle, and Berwick... J 1,343 12,672
256 York and North Midiand .••• • • • .... 5,537 6,617
FOREIGN.
76 34 Ainiens and Boulogne. •••••• .• -•• •• 1,107 1,026
44 Dieppe .. . 4eB 392
63 Montcreau and Troyes ........ „„ „ 568 874
336 Northern of France •.•• • • • ......... 14,586 15,888
143 Orleans to Boutges (Cent.) .. ... . 2,028 2,658
72 Orleans to Bordeaux .............. „ 2,256 2,697
82 Pr ris and Orleans .... •• . .... 6,054 7,910
85 Paris and Rouen . .................. 5,401 5,170
593 Rouen and Havre .. .. .. .... .. „ 2,251 2,121

METROPOLITAN SEWERS ComaussioN.--Yesterday
a meeting of the joint General Committee of the Metropoli-
tan Commissioners of Sewers was held at the chief office,
Greek-street, Soho, at half-past eleven o'clock precisely, for
the purpose of considering " the joint report of Mr. Frank
Forster, the engineer to the Commission, and Mr. Haywood,
the surveyor to the City Commissioners, on the drainage of
that portion of the district north of the Thames, referred to
them." There were present Sir Henry de la Beche, R.E.
(chairman) ; S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P.; Philip Hardwick,
Esq. ; J. Lawes, Esq. ; Thomas Hawes, Esq. ; Captain Daw-
son, R.E. ; and the undernamed City Commissioners, viz :
Deputy Peacock (Chairman of the City Sewers) ; Deputy
Harrison, Alderman Lawrence, and Henry Lowman Taylor,
Esq. A synopsis of the proposal for the northern drainage
was submitted to the Commissioners present, and approved
of by them ; and, in consequence, an order was made by the
Committee that the officers of the City and Metropolitan
Courts should report, in full, at the next public meeting,
which, it was agreed, should be held on Friday next, the
31st instant. The Committee then adjourned.

CHILD MuaDaE.—During the last few days the
vicinity of John-street, llolloway-mount, Curtain-road, has
been in a state of excitement in consequence of the dis-
covery of a child murder under circumstances of considerable
atrocity. It appears that on Tuesday morning a man named
John Dutton, a shoemaker, residing in the house of Mr.
Wilson, No. 7, John-street, Holloway-mount, Curtain-road,
Shoreditch, went to the water-butt in the back yard, to pro-
cure some water, when his attention was attracted by some
peculiar sounds in the water-closet, and conceiving that it
might be a puppy dog belonging to one of the lodgers in the
house, he made an alarm, and on looking down the closet,
they discovered the body of a newly-born child, lying in a
cramped position, and whining. They took it up in a dying
state, and instantly sent for Mr. Bowers, surgeon, of the Cur-
tain-road, who rendered it every assistance, and ordered it
to be taken to Shoreditch workhouse, where it shortly after-
wards expired. Yesterday an inquest was he'd upon the
body of the deceased child, when it was adjourned, with in-
structions to Sergeant Harvey to use his best efforts to trace
and apprehend the unnatural mother.
There is a freemasonry in sorrow which makes all
brothers, and which the common children of that sad parent
are seldom slow to recognise.—Eliza Cook's Journal.

ELOPEMENT.—A few days ago a young lady, pos-
sessed of considerable fortune, eloped and got married to a
policeman stationed at Drogheda, where she resided.
THE EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCKS EXTENSION
RAILWAY TO CAMDEN TOWN.—This railway, which will
connect the East and West India Docks with the North-
Western Railway at the goods station of the latter company,
at Camden Town, has all its arches completed. The viaduct
across the Hampstead-road is erected over that thoroughfare,
and on each side it, several feet above the bridge, sheets of
cast iron are being rivetted together, for there is a constant
traffic under it, to prevent the transit of the trains being
seen by the horses in the various vehicles, &c. The line is
expected to be opened about the middle of the next month.
When completed a large amount of goods traffic, which is
now conveyed by vans through the metropolis, will be for-
warded by this line to and fro, and there can by means of it
be a direct communication with all the northern parts of the
country, as besides its junction with the North-Western it
crosses the Northern and Eastern Counties lines.
TIME THE AVENGER. By the author of "Emilia
Wyndham," "The Wilmingtons, &c.—" in
this fiction,"
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says the Weekly News, " there is all that intenariety of
01)e
same
and of power which has earned for the auth S 3
distinctive character among contemporary novelists that
Ford and Webster possessed among the dramatists of the
Elizabethan age. With the direct force of homely
. pathos
veryits.
siar rarely
sh.
does this powerful writer strike to the heart in numberless
passages of this strange sad history.
hThere is a vitality, a
strength of truth, about the
ebook,r actionsw which
hoff s a s
been surpassed, even in the
The work is full of the outpourings of a soul resolute in the
strength of a firm conviction, and fervid with the glow of an
irxepropible ardour to dv goed."