The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-16 00:00:00

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NAME OF RAILWAY,

Miles
o)ened,
1856.

Belfast and Ballymena •• .• • • ...•
Belfast and County D0wn...........,
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 3,026
Bolton, Blackburn,and West York ....
Bristol and Exeter • 7.936
Ca1ed0nian............. .• •• • ....... 13,525
Chester and Holyhead 7,255
Cork, Blackrock, and Passage 380
Cork and Bandon 192
Dublin and Bel tast J unction 1, 1115
Dublin and Drogheda.... 1,678
Dublin and Kingstown 1,271
Dundee and Arbroath 614
Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 1,149
Dundalk and Euni5ki11eh............ 406
East 1,084
East Lancashire • • ........ .......... 6,917
Eastern Counties and N0rf01k......
Eastern Union • • • 23.726
Edinburgh and Glasgow 6,123
Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...—. 7,495
Exeter and Credit0n................
Farness Railway ... 1,274
Glasgow, and South-Western.... .. • • 6.834
Great Northern... ..... ....... ~ 24,162
Great Southern and Western(lreland3
6,407
Great Western .........• • • 30,859
Irish South Eastern .• • • •• ••
Lancaster and Carlisle..." • • • .......
Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............
Leeds Northern ..• •• • .•
Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport....
London and North Western 70,339
London and 1,779
London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 20,902
London and South We5tern......... 21,585
Londonderry and Enniskillen 721
Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c.
Manchester, Shoilleld,and Lincolnshire 9,843
Manchester and South Junction 841
Maryport and Carlisle 1,203
Midland - ........ • • 32,946
Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 3,235
Newcastle and Car1i51e..............
North British ••• • • .....
North Staffordshire
North-Western
4cottish Central
Scottish Midland
Shrewsbury and Birmingham •
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shropshire Union
South Devon . • •
South Eastern
South Wales
South York., Doncaster, and Goole
Waterford ',Ad Limerick ............
West Cornwall ...• • • ..... .......
Whitehaven Junction
York and Newcastle, and Berwick &
Ymk and North Midland & Leeds.,

BAITIMI.

115
37X
17

1,130

26%
117
191%
944
6%
20

7%
16%
31

G 7%
93
417

tin%
283
203%
388
251,E
90
28614

-161
637
183%
267

173%
9%
28
498%
12514
52

873
32
291 A

57%
289

27%
12
682

6,919
25,733

5,865
'1,509
1,216

•••••• • • •. I 893
•• •• •• •• •• 3,361
• 25,251
7,110
2,587
4,187
.514

FOXEIG N.
Dutch Rhenish .. •.......•••• .• ••
Lyons and Mediterranean ..........
Montereau and Troyes ...• ......••
Namur and Liege •• ........ •• ••
Northern of France .....
Orleans and Central ....
Paris and Lyons .. •• •• • • ...•
Paris and Rouen. .• •••••• •• •...
Paris and Strasburgh ..........
Rouen and Havre.... ••
Western of France....

.••••••••• 1 40,100

Naval and Military Intelligence.

ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 15,
PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.
Assistant• Paymaster G. R. Gliddon to the Tortoise.
Assistant. Surgeon M. P. S. Ward to the Portsmouth
Marines.

Assistant• Clerk H. P. Houghton to the Edinburgh.

CH AI,UG. 15.
The following officers belonging A THA
to
the provisional
battalion have completed their course of musketry in-
struction, under Capt. W. Nott, 83d R.giment, and
Lieut. A. M'Leod, 78th Highlanders. the instructors of
musketry at this garrison, viz.:—Lieut. H. S. Stubb,
321 Regiment ; Ensign R. Parsons, 35th Royal Sussex
Regiment; Ensign H. 0. Bateman, 431 Light Infantry ;
Enswnl. Apjohn, 45. h Regiment, Ensign F. Schlotel,
81st Loyal Lincoln Volunteers, and Ensign H. T. W.
0. Kenny, 84:11 Regiment.
First-class Surgeon W. Denny was this day relieved
from duty at the General HoTital, Fort Pitt, and or-
dered to proceed forthwith to London:
The whole of the corps of Royal Sappers and Miners,
together with the troops belonging to the East India
1 Company's service, are making extensive preparations
for the grind review and siege operations, which are to
take place by the Royal Engineers befora his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief.
His Royal Highness has not yet fixed what day he will
visit this garrison to witness the operations. The troops
belonging to the provisional battalion are to assist in the
cparations.

The following important circular, which effects consi-
derable changes in the practice of billeting and removing►
troops, has been forwarded to the clininaudant ef this
garrison from the lior,e Guard,, by order of the Secro•
tary of State for War :
"T,he Secretary of State for War having had under
consideration the prop')sal that in all cases in wbicb
troops are moved long distances by railways, and are
not billeted on the way from one station to another, the
full marching allowance should be granted, instead of
the allowance of 101.; due under the Mutiny Act, to
the innkeepers when troops are billeted, I have the
honour to acquaint you, for the information of his Royal
Highness the General Commander-in• Chief that with
the view of expediting the movement of troops, and at
the same time of avoiding the inconveniences and irre-
gularities arising from large bodies of troops being bil-
leted for a night in Fopulous places, Lord Panmure is
prepared to sanction a charge of the full marching al-
lowance for the soldier, provided the distance travelled
in one day and night shall exceed 100 mileS, or the
journey be carried into a late hour of the night, and
that the troops shall not be billeted at any place on the
journey, whereby the allowance of 10d. for the hot Meal
will become due to the innkeeper.
"The Quartermaster-General."

"B. HAWES.

METROPOLITAN BOARD OP WORKS.

Yesterday the ordinary weekly meeting of the board
was held in the Council Chamber, Guildhall. The
greater part of the day was occupied with the hearing of
appeals from parties againt the decision of the various
district board refusing to award them any, or sufficient,
compensation for loss of office under the Metropolis
Local Management Act. In the course of the proceed-
ings a leapr was read from the Treasury, in which it was
stated thal; their lordships had in some instances re-
scinded, and in others confirmed, the decision of the
board in respect to the compensation appeals from district
boards. The communication went on to say that their
lordships "considered the claims of the several parties
on the principles by' which they would he governed if
compensation were to be granted from the public reve-
nues, having regard to the nature of the duties on which
they were respectively employed, and distinguishing
those cases in which the parties were withdrawn from
the pursuit of their profession from others in which the
employment was not of a professional character."
Mr. DIFJPANGEA called Attention to the fact that the js
board could not well he charged with extravagance, for
the amount awarded by the board had been in many
cases much less than that fixed by the Lords of the
Treasury.
The letter was then ordered to be entered on the mi-
nutes.

On the recommendation of the finance committee, the
board ordered the construction of 2,000 feet of sewer for
the diversion of the Barnfield sewer in the isle of Dogs,
on payment by the Ironmongers' Company of the sum
of I,GOO/., being two-thirds of the estimated cost of such
work.

The remaining business, which consisted mainly of re-
commendationsfrom the superintending architects and
engineer's departments, was then transacted, and the
board adjourned.

SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED MURDER.

The Court of Assizes of the Bouches du Rhone, in its
last sitting, tried a young woman named Sihilot for an
attempt at murder. The prisoner, who is of consider-
able personal attractions, and of extremely modest bear-
ing, is the 'daughter of a farmer of Males, near Aix.
About two years ago an intimacy sprang up between
her and a young farmer of the same village, named
Boissy, and it ripened into affection. Boissy promised
her marriage, and on the strength of the promise
succeeded in seducing her. After a while she gave
birth to a child, and then Boissy abandoned her. In
June last he resolved to marry another young woman,
and this plunged the accused into despair. On the 25th
of tkat month she dressed herself in her brother's clothes,
and went to Boissy whilst he wai working in a field.
lie did not at first recognise her, and all at once she
rushed on him and stabbed him four times in the bead,
breast, and arms. Ile knocked her down, and gave her
into custody. The accused, who wept bitterly, told
the tale of her seduction and abandonment, and said
that she had gone to the field armed with a poignard,
not to stab the man, but to threaten him, in the event
of his refusing to make her reparation by mar-
riage ; that an altercation arose, and that she, in a
moment of distraction, had stabbed him once, and
once only, with the weapon ; that a struggle bad
then ensued between them, in which the man, in trying
to wrest 'the weapon from her, had received the three
other stabs. In giving his evidence, Boissy displayed
such a bad feeling to the 'poor girl, and so coarsely ac-
cused her of having been intimate with other men—an
accusation for which it was stated there was not the
slightest foundation—that he was regarded with disgust
by a crowded auditory%; and as his evidence in many
respects was in flat contradiction to that which he bad
given before the examining magistrate; the Coed ordered
him to be arrested as a perjurer. The jury acquitted the
accused. On leaving the dock she flung herself into the
arms of her parents, and her fellow.villagere congratu- .
Wed has

CORONATION OF THE EMPEROR OF

RUSSIA.

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of blood horses w
en Car-
riage4;"us they are
;hicles.
.'erhaps, howeve7
taste of the new ice and
will excite more interest than these. I wentowe he
same coach sin which the Empress Elizabeth to
her coronation 115 years ago. It is restored to the
state in which it bore into Moscow, in the ytarl74l,
the Imperial daughtet of Pater 11. ; and certainly
a good deal of curiosity has been elicited. by this
old relic, which is now to carry the prat Em-
press in the forthcoming procession.
I have been rather minute in describing these
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carria
inussgeßF, because such matters are'of real'lmport-
ance ia. us
—lf ever a people Were awed and
impressed by ceremonial and by splendour, it is the
.Russian. You cannot conceive in London with
what interest they watch the arrival, and compare
the state of the various ambaSsadors ; and, by- the-
bye, the St. Jean d'Acre, with Lord Granville
(long expected), has been telegraphed while I write,
as off Bornholm.

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