The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND .30UTII-EASTEItN RATTAwAY.—Traffic re-
turn for tho week eliding March S, 1856 £14,95) 17 8
Correvoudiug week last yea-

Increase in 1856
LONDON, BRIGTITON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Tiaffic return for the week ending March 8,
1856 £11,092 12 10
Comsponding week last year 9,667 3 11
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 1P0,417 3 9
Total of the half-year to this date,lBss 86,449 17 9
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—Tragic return for the
week eDding March 2, 1856 £21,753 10 10
Corresponding week last year 19,592 9 7

LANOASHIRI3I AND YORKSHIRE ItattwAt.--Traffie re-
turn for the week ending March 9, 1.856 £20,578 14 10
Corresponding week last year. 18,376 1 11

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
tha week ending March 9, 1.556 P 4,503 17 4
Corresponding week last year 4,163 17 5

Increase in 1356

2341 19 11

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WNSTEBN RAILWAY.---Traffic re-
tarn for the week ending March 8,1856 £5,833 4 3
Corresponding week last year 4 5,210 5 5

Increase in 1856.
CORK IND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffie return for week
ending Maroh 8, 1855
Corresponding week last year 257 0 3

LONDON GENBRAL OMNIBUS Comr&Nr.—Traffic re-
turns for the week ending March 8, 1858—(Aversge num-
ber of °omnibuses working daily, 323) 25,741 1 11

THE VERDICT IN THE CASE OF JOHN SADDEIR.—It i 9
reported that, under a charter of Richard the Second,
the lord of the manor of Hampstead is entitled to all the
property of felons which ordinarily becomes forfeited to
the Crown. _ _

A SOH' ON FIRE.—A. fire occurred on beard the
ship Mitchell, Icing in Wapping Basin, the property of
the captain, which destroyed the forecastle ; the lower
part of the deck teas likewise obliged to be cut away,
and the bulwarks wore damaged by fire also. The cause
of the fire, or whether the owner was insured, could not
be learned.
EMBEZZLEMENT AND SVICIDE BY A SAVINGS-BANK
ACTUABY.—.MucIa excitement has been occasioned in
Crickhowell, Giamorganshire, by the following melan-
choly affair. A few days ago the directors of the Crick-
howell Savings-Bank discovered that their actuary, Mr.
Edward Barfield, irnmnonger and hardwereman in that
town, had appropriated various deposits to his own use,
and to cover his abstractions had made a number of
fraudulent entries in the books. A warrant was issued
for his apprehension, and placed in the hands of Inspec-
tor Gregory, who, upon going to the shop, and telling
Mr. Burfivld his business, was told by the latter that
lie would follow him directly to the magistrates' office.
then went up-stairs as though to fetch his hat and
coat, but immediately afterwards the report of firearms
was heard. Running upstairs the inspector found Bur-
field in a dying state, he having shot himself in the head
with a pistol. He died in about an hour. The unhappy
man had been always greatly respected, and the whole
affair has excited the utmost surprise and pain. The
amount of his defalcations has not yet transpired.
A PROFITABLE INYESTMENT.—The traffic returns of
the London General Omnibus Company are affording
the public some insight into the profits of the omni-
bus trade. They show the receipts from 315 working
omnibuses to be 5,822/. 17s. in one week, or at the
rate of 181. 9s. Bd. for each omnibus. Now, as the ex-
pense of working any one vehicle, with its conductor,
its driver, its ten horses, and their provender, its
" duties," or mileage tax paid to Government, its
" wear and tear," or insurance to reproduce itself and
its horses in case of accident or wearing out, amounts
only to 151. weekly, by the largest estimate yet given, it
becomes plain that the difference between 151. and
181. 9s. Bd. is the profit earnings of each omnibus on the
road, or 1751. per annum per omnibus, being on the 315
omnibuses a grand total cf 55,1251 ; or in another form,
taking the expense of an omnibus at 1001., the value of
its " times" at 1001., and its horses at 251. each, or
2501. for the ten, this would leave a profit of 1751. per
annum accruing upon an outlay of 4501., or at the rate
of 39/. 19s. and a fraction per cent—a profitable in-
vestment certainly.