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

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND SOUTH-EASTER"( RATLIVAT.—TrnMe re-
turn for tho week ending March S. 1836 £
14,95') 17 8
Corravonding week last year 13,153 7 1

Increase in 1856
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST ItAILIYAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending March 8,
1856 £11,092 12 10
Corresponding week last year 9,667 3 11
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 1"0,117 3 9
Total of the half-year to this dat0,1855
GREAT NORTHERN RAILITAY.—Traffie return for the
week ending March 2, 1856 £21,753 10 10
Corresponding week last year
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY."—Traffic re-
turn for the week cuffing March 9, 1356 00,573 14 10
Corresponding week last year 18,376 1 11
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending March "9, 1856 £4,503 17 4
Corresponding week last year 4,163 17 5
Increase in in 1856

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN 11,11LwAT.—TraMe re-
tnrn for the week ending March 8,1856 £5,833 4 3
Oorresponding week last year 5,210 5 5

Tacrease in 1856
CORK AND -BANDON RAILITA.Y.—Traffic return for week
cnviing March 8, 1856 £!B7 5 3
Corresponding week last year 257 0 3
LONDON GENERAL 01INIBUS COMFANY.—Traffic re-
turns for the week trading March 8, 1856 —(AvArago num-
ber of onanibussa working daily, 323) £5,741 1 11

LOST STEAM-STIIPS,—Since 1553 12 steam-ships lost at
sea have cost 1,250 human lives and 57.250,000 of pre•
perty. The Independence sunk with 120 lives in the
Pacific, and the Tennessee and the St. Louis followed,
total wrecks. The Humboldt and the San Francisco
were wrecked in the Atlantic in the same year. The
Franklin, City of Philadelphia, and Yankee Blade fall in
the catalogue of 1854. The City of Glasgow, with 480
lives, and the Arctic, with hundreds mere precious lives.
were the crowning catastrophes of that year. In 1855
we have the sinking of the North Carolina and the
stranding of the Golden Age, which last, however, was
saved and repaired.—Hunt's Yew York Merchani•t Maga-

zinc.
EMBIIZZLBIIHNT AND SITICIDB BY A SAYINGS-BANE
ACTUARY.—Much excitement has been occasioned in
Crickhowell, Glamor-gene Lire, by the following melan-
choly affair. A few days ago the directors of the Crick-
howell Savings-Bank discovered that their actuary, Mr.
Edward Burfield, ironmonger and hardwareman in that
town, bad 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 apprehendiou, and placed in the hands of Inspec-
tor Gregory, who, upon going to the shop, and telling
Mr. Burfield kis business, was told by the latter that
he would follow him directly to the magistrates' office.
He then went up-stairs as though to fetch his hat and
coat, but immediately afterwards the report of fire arms
was heard. Running up stairs 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.
PROFITABLI INVESTMENT.—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 5,8221. 17s. in one week, or at the
rate of 18/. 9s. Bd. for each omnibus. Now, as the ex-
pense of working any one vehicle, with its conductor,
its driver, its tea horses, and their provender, its
" duties," or mileage tax paid to Government, its
" wear and tsar," 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 riven, 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 55,125/. ; 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 391. 191. and a fraction per cent—a profitable in-
Thitn2ent certainly.

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