The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-13 00:00:00

OFFICIAL TRAFFIC RETURAI

EASTERN COUNTIES, NORFOLK, AND EASTERN UNION .—Wook ending
Aug. 8 :

Passengers, ko. rl4 11 5
Goods, &v.

Total . ...t27,234 17 3
Corresponding week of last yer.h...£25,3i7 15 6
GRE&T Norruzax.—Week aiding Aug. I.:—
Passengers, eze.

Goods 13;2;5 0 0
.
—......
Total!
Corresponding week of last year—S,2s372 2 3
GREAT irzszaarr.—Week enclinri Aug. 8:_
Total trait° ..235,008 5 4
Corresponding week of last year....g33.006 14 it
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN—W Lek ending Aug. 8;
Passengers P1:,917 15 11'

UU,RI6

• Total
LONDON AND SOUTH-EAsTLIN.--Weok ending Aug. 7
Total receipts t21,9!8 7 5
Corresponding week of last year A 23,115 3 7
LONDON, IlitiowroN, &a,—Week ending Aug. 7:—
Passengers, &c. £19,G03 0 0
Goods, &c.

Total £22,704 0 0
Corresponding week of last yoar £20,426 0 0
LEMON, TILBURY, AND 3011THIEND EXTENsIOIV.—Week ending
Aug. 1
_ _

Passengers
Goods

£2,455 0 0
201 0 0

Total £2,656 0 0
Corresponding week of last year £2,565 0 0
LONDON AND BLAcKw.sm...—Week ending Aug. 8:
Passengers £1,725 8 9
Goods

, Total £1,822 11 9
Corresponding week of last year X 1,673 7 3
LONDON AND NORTH Warm/tr.—Week ending Ang. 8 :
Passengers, &a - £40,245 0 0
mss► &c. 27,203 0 0

Tat a: £67,418 0 0
Corresponding week of last year Z74„17t 0 0
These returns include (both for the present and corresponding
week) the traffic of the Buckinghamshire and North Union Lines.
but not the traffic of Huddersfield Canal, Shropshire Union, Pres-
ton and Wyre, south Junction, and Manchester and Buxton Bail-
WAY%
OHICSTXR AND 110LTHFAD. —Week ending Aug. 8
Passengers, &c. £5,423 0 0
Goods, &.e

Total
Corresponding week of last year £7,314 0 0

This includes the steamboats and Mold and Caernarvon Brandles.

EAST AI GLIAN.—Week ending Aug. 1 :
Passengers, &c. £519 15 7
Goods, &c. 49d 0 G

Total £1,015 16 1
Corresponding week of last year £957 1 11
Lalnssiirsz AND YORKSHIRE.—Week dir,g Aug. 8:

Total traffic
Corresponding week of last year...£28,337 0 0
This includes the Blackburn line traffic.
AST LANCASHIRE.—Week ending Aug. 8: --
Passengers, &c £3,413 0 0
Goods

Total ttrilti 0 6
Corresponding, week of last year £7,527 0 0
This includes the Blackburn line traffic.
LAricAfrrrat CAat.ist.v, &c.—Week ending Aug. 1:
Passengers and parcels
Goods, &c.
--.

Total £7,851 2 1
Corresponding week of last year L7,821 15 7
Blturror. AND EskTka (117 miles open.)--Week ending Aug, I.
Passengers, &e.
Goods

Total £7,r.03 3 2
le UM AND CIIEDITON—Week ending Aug. 1 :
Passengers
Goods, .ite 63 3 8

Total £243 3 4
itANCIIXSTIII, SOUTH JUNCTION, AND ALTILINCIIAM.—Week ending

Aug. 8:
Total traffic £92B 3 3
Corresponding week of last scar ...£1,252 18

iLiNCULSTER, SuErrIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE- Week ending

Aug. 8:
Passengers and parcels t4.938 9 0
Goods, Se 5,835 11 0

Total £11,774 0 9
Corresponding week of last• year £ 11,702 10 8
This return includes half of the Manchester South Junction and
A.ltrinclutm receipts; Grimsby Dock duties, &c. ; and Chesterfield
Canal receipts.

SIIOCKING ACCIDENT.—A melancholy
accident occurred near the Raiuford Station on the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire Railway, on Tuesday afternoon, about
two o'clock, by which David Higham, a labourer on the
above branch of the railway, came to an untimely end. De-
ceased was working in company with about 30 others, who
were engaged in re-arranging the sleepers, when a train of
wngeons drawn by an engine belonging to the Earl of
Crawford and Balcarres, of the Haigh Collieries, approached.
All the men, with the exception of Ingham, jumped out of
the track of the engine, but, in spite of the whistle of the
engine and the shouts oehis companions, Higham obstinately
remained, continuing his occupation of dropping spikes to
a
be driven into the sleepers, and was consequently knocked
down by the engine, and his bead, faliing upon the rails,
was severed from his body. The deceased was a native of
Croston, and had been working near Rainford for some
time.

PLAYING AT HANGING.—At Liverpool, • a boy,
aged 15, the son of a Jewish rabbi, named Growall, residirg
in Great Howard - street, on Tuesday was playing with
some companions, and with the object of imitating an exe—
cution, fastened one Pod of a cord upon a nail, and the other
round his neck. His companions thought he was only in.
play, but to their horror the jest had been turned into *
fire' reality, and th,, boy was actually hanging. lie died
before he could be liberated.

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THE ROMAN EMPIRE.—We are sonictinfes under £‘
little delusion in the estimates we form of the maCnituda of
the Roman empire or the multitude of troops that it nmain:
tained. Russia surpasses it in extent of territory, and main.la
tains an army considerably more numerous. France anti
Austria, who rank next to Russia in the number of their
standing armies, could singly bring into the field a muck
_larger force than the whole Roman empire. The military
fmce of the Pagan empire is here estimated at 450,000 men;
the Christian monarchies of France; and g
uAustriagunpowder
ow d areern
and the
tho:
ov that any one of
offident
them reputed to maintain nu army of 650,000 men ; and
when
reflectee of le
uponartthileryit is
inventione
theen fi
ornrlswotue- asrfor tq powers of modern Europe could bring into the
field a destructive force that would sweep from the face of
the earth the 30 legions of Adrian. The very division of
Europe into a number of States involves this increase or
soldiery. In the old Roman empire the great Mediter.
ranean Sea lay as peaceful n a lake, and the Raman Alpe
had nothiqg to dread but the winds and the waves.; whiteat
in modernn-Europe many quite :artificiallimmderies babe to
he guarded by an army of soldiers. " )30gium defew's her
flat with 100,000 men, and the marshes of Holland are se.
eurediby 60,000 Dutch." Hitherto everything has tended to
develop the military power in Christendom.—Blackwooci
or August.