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much further reduction could be attained at present.
The number of passengers had been 812,215, being
greater than in any previous six months, and the
receipts were £64,347 ; the goods traffic, exclu-
sive of railway materials, had been 132,911
tons, and the traffic, receipts £107,576. The
total receipts on the line for the half-year ending
the 30th of June amounted to £195,604, against
£185,898 in the corresponding half of 1866, show-
ing an increase of £9,706. The total expenses
amounted to £85,638, or 43.78 per cent., against
£86,654, or 46.61 per cent., and the net receipts to
£109,966, against £96,244 in the same half of
1866. The receipts per train mile were 6s. 111 d.,
against 6s. 91d. in the same half of 1866. The ex-
penses per train mile amounted to 3s. id., against
3s. 10. The net receipts showed an increase of
£10,722. The receipts for carriage of railway mate-
rials had declined to 1.67 per cent. of the entire re-
ceipts, so that the revenue wasbona fide earned from
the public. On the North-West line, the permanent
way open from Arconum Junction to Moodanoor,
153 miles, continued smooth and cheap of mainte
nance. It had cost for the half-year at the rate of
£66 18s. per mile per annum. The prevalence there
of drought, dearth, and sickness rendered it impos-
sible to retain or to bring together again for some
time sufficient supplies of labour for the prosecution
of the Works. Copious falls of rain, however, having
now happily restored a more natural and healthy
state of things, the works all along the line were
again in active progress. Beyond this point the
works of several districts were considerably advanced.
The quality of the masonry which had been passed
by the company's engineers appeared to be unexcep-
tionable. The total traffic receipts for the half-year
amounted to £45,406, and expenditure to £14,190,
or 31.25 per cent., leaving the net receipts £31,216,
against £18,629 in the same half of 1866. The re-
ceipts per train mile amounted to 7s. 10.1 d., against
6s. sid. in the same half of 1866, and the expenses
to 2s. skd., against 2s. 11d. in the corresponding half
of 1866. The number of passengers carried was
206,949, against 156,941 in the corresponding half
of 1866, and 31,423 tons of goods against 19,966
tons. The increase upon the entire traffic receipts of
the line for the half-year was equal to 63k per cent,
being £45,405 against £27,777 ; and the net receipts
had risen to £31,215 against £18,629, showing an
increase of £12,586, or 67 per cent., over those o
the corresponding half of 1866.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—Nov, 12.

THAMES.

SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A WOMAN.-William
Stanton, a broad-shouldered Irishman, with a red
face and partially bald head, aged 35 years, of No.
30, Sophia-street, Poplar, was brought before Mr.
Paget charged with committing a murderous and
unprovoked assault on Catherine Briant, of No.
14, Dolphin-lane, Poplar.
The complainant, who was in a weakly condition
from loss of blood, said she worked iu a rope-
ground. Last night she was talking to two other
young girls opposite the prisoner's house, and he
crossed the street, came to the place where they
were standing, and made use of a very indecent
observation respecting them 'all. She said to him,
"Go away, you nasty blackguard ; I don't think
you know who you are talking to." He then procured
a brick, and struck her a tremendous blow on the
nose with it. She fell as if shot, and became
senseless. When she recovered she was in the care
of a medical gentleman.
Ellen Sullivan and Sarah Lanbury,
.two decent
girls, corroborated the statement of the complainant.
Mr. Matthew Brownfield,. surgeon of the East
India-road, Poplar, said the complainant was
seriously injured. This was a compound fracture
of the nasal bone, and she would be disfigured for
life.

Mr. Paget—l perceive her nose is in a bad state.
Is she permanently injured? Will the passage
through the nose be stopped ?
Mr. Brownfield--No, sir. She will recover the
use of the nasal organlin two or three weeks, but
the disfigurement will be permanent.
The prisoner first set up a defence that his skull
had been fractured by a fall, and that when he
took a little drink he was mad and he did not
know what he did. His next defence was that the
girls were low strumpets, and followed him through
the streets yelling and hooting.
Sutherland, a police constable, 421 K, said that
all the girls were well conducted and respectable,
and not the sort of characters represented by the
prisoner.

The prisoner said he took up a piece of brick, and
threw it among the girls, not intending to strike
either.

Mr. Paget—Suppose you had struck this girl
by accident you would if you had been a humane
man, or a man of well regulated mind, have taken
her to the hospital and expressed regret. You did
neither. You struck this girl with the brick and
have caused a disfigurement for life. I shall con-
vict you of an aggravated assault and sentence you
to four months' imprisonment and hard labour.

SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A IVIFE.--Coleman Bun-
wen, an Irish labourer, aged 40, was brought before
Mr. Paget, charged with violently assaulting his
wife Margaret, and also assaulting William Folo,
porter at the workhouse of St. George-in-the-East.
The prisoner had been in the practice of beating
his wife and neglecting her. On many occasions
when he had earned a little money he would spend
it on himself, instead of sharing his loaf and meat
with his wife. They had fallen into distress, and
the St. George-in-the-East
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and starving, and in the afternoon went to the
workhouse in Old Gravel-lane to look after her hus-
band, and to share the is. he had earned. He caught
sight of her in the lobby, and she asked him to buy
her a bit of bread. The selfish brute said she should
have nothing. Some words ensued, and he seized
her by the hair of her head and beat her. In a
scuffle both went down, and the prisoner kicked his
wife in the stomach. Folo went to the assistance of
the woman, and the prisoner struck him several
times and tore his coat. Mr. Ralston and Mr.
Allison, the relieving officers, collared the prisoner
and gave him into custody.
The prisoner, in a whining tone, libelled his wife
and cried.

Mr. Bolston said the prisoner's wife was a re-
spectable and industrious woman.
Folo—Yes, sir, she belongs to the well-conducted,
hard-working class of such women.
Mr. Paget sentenced the prisoner to three months'
imprisonment and hard labour for the assault on his
wife, and one month's imprisonment and hard labour
for the assault on Folo, the sentences to be conse-
cutive.