The Sun.
London, England, 1851-12-06 00:00:00

RAIL `VA Y RETURNS

TRAFFIC RI.TUT:N OP THE PAST WEEK.

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opened.

NAME OF RAILWAY.

➢RI T 31.1.

2634
85%
189?,
94%
634

Aberdeen
Belfast and Ballymena
„.
Belfast and County D0wn............
Birkenhead, Lar.c.e;:iire, and Cheshire
Bolton, Black burn, and West York ....
Bristol and Exeter • •
Ca1ed0nian............. ............

Chester and „
Cork, rilackro ek, anti Psissa
.Dublin and ileltast Junction
Dublin.and Drogheda ...... .........
Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • . • • .. • •
Dundee and Arbroath .. • • • • ......

Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction
Dundalk and Enniskillen • •,• • • • • • • • •
East Anglian..•. • • • • • • ...... • • • • • • • •

East Lancashire .• • •

17114
2411 A
188
264

12%
539 N

173%
244%
15
114
167%
28
496%
126

X 1,276
534
143,

589
3,4/2
6,876
2,2zg

413
840
1,00!
360-

624
3,3;9
13,451
1,952
3,723
2,104

261
11•34

574
21%
63
442%
1344
240

Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. • • ....
Eastern Union .. .. . •

Edinburgh and Glasgow .•• • ..... • ••
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee • ... ••
Exeter and Credit0n............
Furness hallway ...
Glasgow, and South-Western••
Great Northern and E. L
Great Southern and Western (Ireland)
Great Western .. •.. .....
Irish South Eastern
Lancaster and Carlisle • ......,
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Leeds and Thirsk
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport
London and North Western . ...
London and 81ackwa11..............
London, Brighton, and South Coast..
London and South Western. • • ......
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Buxton,a. n. d.
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Matlock,
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8,..
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•
1 !,T7 Orjaaarr::::lttl'i3cliaccii's:nhhisi ildeet itr tress :ti.t? :tee arinrrilh:a6drid. and Carlisle......
11 Carlisled:
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licirth-West"-a •• ...... ••••••••
Scottish Midland :• •• ••
• ••
••
• ••
-7
Shrewsbury and B•rining
• ••
• • • • • ••
••
" "
ih •ain ......
Shrewsbury and chest'''.
• •
Shropshire Union '
••••• • • . "
South Eastern... ••• • • • '
South Wales : • • • ' • • • • • • • • • • • • .
South York., Dulicas•te • • • • • • • .....
Tail- Vale .......... r, Ana Goole
Ulster . .. • • . ......... • • • • • • • • • '' " • '
Waterford and Limerick • :• • • • • • • • • ••
West Cornwall ...... . ••• •• •••• ••
Whitehaven Junction ... • • • • • • • • • • • •
York and Newcastle, and nerwlc —7' ••
York and .North Midland .......k:::

284
3,482
6,141
4,223
13,1,u

3,912

1851.

FOREIGN.
Central of France •• ........ ,
Dutch ithetiish ...............
'Maria Antonia
Montereau and Troyes
Northern of France
Orleans and 80rdeaux.........
Paris and Lyons .... • ..... •• .
Paris and Orleans .............
Paris and Rouen. .............
Paris and Strasburgli .........
Rouen and ilaNre .............
Tours and Nantei-.• • .......

742
2,261
3,317
4,3`,1
405
4.475

,i1,1Q4
"1711
1,&t)
6n
'; 3,471
.7.i-,613
,464
' '--110
la. 616
e 92 .
914

466
' 633 -
158

3,760
13,226
1,97.5
3,351
'1,126

289
3,703
10,180

4,b60

14,228
1 . 6
3,5,56

945
2,270
3,153
4,614,
53s
1,4;41

502
1,476
497
1,455
10,238
1,334
1,394
2,355
922
359

'l3l
1.+7 201
13,665 ~12,(79
7,421- -b,09

3,154 3,303
716 779
111; 176
1,025 I 16^ •
4
17,426 j 19,200

6,112 11;50
7,850
7,92 •
6,080
4,652 7:603
319
2,347 2,,0G
• --

OFFICERS OF THE GUARDS.

The West-end of London is at present ringing with the
scandals of the younger officers of one of the regiments
of the Guards. This one has " bolted" over head and
ears in debt; that one has followed him to see if affairs
are quite as bad as rumour alleges; Lord This is in for
10,000/., and off to Constantinople; tho Honourable Mr.
That's name being to 7,0001. worth of bills, he is not to
be found; a fifth is actually in gaol, and another off to
America. In short, there is a sort of civil war raging
between the Guards and the Jews, and about, it is re-
ported, nothing less than 70,0001. of bills of exchange.
Here is fresh food for the scandal raised by the case of
the Allt,ynes and the D'Arcys; and here is reason why
that scandal should not be allowed to die away before
some steps are taken by the military authorities to
strike at the root of the evil systemlwhich bears such trait.
Are not these young men, who claim to be of the best
blood of England, the victims of the Horse Guards,
its follies and absurdities. It first puts them into a false
position, then treats them as special and favoured per-
sons; holds them forth to the world as men of unbounded
wealth; affords them all the opportunities of a great
metropolis, with nothing to do in it but compass their
own detruction; and as one batch is ruined by racing,
dicing, gambling, credit, and—what the late Mr. Crock-
ford told a Parliamentary committee did it all—"-opera
boxes and women," the Horse Guards repeat the opera-
tion—as if the Household Troops were a model school
of virtue and propriety. And these metropolitan ',regi-
ments, the tone of their morality, the ordinary character
of their pursuits, and the practices they resort to, in
their turn become a sort of standard to offieers of similar
ages in every other regiment in the empire.
" Hero lies Laziness the Mother of all the Vices!"
was the inscription a French wit proposed for the tomb
of the mother of the Regent Orleans; and at the root of
all these scandals in the army is the want of occupation.
Young men, having nothing to do, cannot be kept out
of mischief when congregated together; and there they
are, lounging about garrison towns and depots nearly
all the day; thankful for anything to cccupy their at-
tention, be it a pretty face in a bonnet shop, or two
straws running down a gutter. The consequence is in-
evitable. They bet, they race, they play; at first a
little, gradually that little increases, until, as in the case
of Mr. Kennedy, one mere boy will bet half his fortune
on a single event, sod another will defraud him out of it.
All young men in the army are not such fools or such
knaves as the two we have named. Some have rational
occupations, others turn out excellent officers, but that
extreme case di+closes the logical tendency of the pre-
' sent military system of England.—Daily Aews.