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

£21,713 11 9
LONDON AND SOLITII-EASTERN.—Week eliding Aug. 7 :
Total receipts £24,918 7 5

Total

Corresponding, week of last year £23,415 3 7
LONDON, BRIGHTON, &c.—Week ending Aug. 7:—
Passengers, &c. £19,603 0 0
Goods, ste.

Total £22,701 0 0
Corresponding week of last year £20,420 0 0
LONDON, TILBURY, AND SOUTHEND DETENSION.—Week ending

Aug. 1:

Passengers
Goods

.£2,155 0 0
201 0 0

Total £2,656 0 0
Corresponding week of last year £2,5C5 0 0
LONDON AND BLAcxwALL.—Week ending Aug. 8:
Passengers £1,725 8 9
Goods 97 3 0

Total £1,822 11 9
Corresponding week of last year £1,673 7 3
LONDON AND NORTH WHaTKRN:•Week ending Aug. 8 :--.
Passengers, brae. £40,245 0 0
Goode, &c. 27,203 0 0

T. £67,448 0 0
Corresponding week of last year-274,171 0 0
These returns include (both for the present and correspon
week) the traffic of the Buckinghamshire and North Union J
but not the traffic of Ihnideisticin Canal, Shropshire Union
ton and Wyre, South Junction, and Manchester and Bust''

ways.
011ISTER AND 110LY1111,AD.—Week ending Aug. 8'
Passengers, &c. £5,423 0 0
Goods, &c.

Taal

Corresponding week of last year... £7,314 0
This includes the steamboats and Mold and Caernarvon,
EAST ANGT.TAL—Week ending Aug. 1:
Passengers, &c. £519 19
Goods, &c.

Total £1,015 11
Corresponding week of last year £957 r.
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSIIIRE.—Week girding A'
Total traffic £28,199
Corresponding week of last year... 428,337
This includes the Blackburn line traffic.
EAST LiivcAsuinE.—Week ending Aug. 8
Passengers, &o £3,483 0
Goods
Total £7,549 0)
Corresponding week of last year 47,527 C
This includes the Blackburn line traffic.
LANcArrEa EARLTSLY, &c:Week ending Aug.,
Passengers and parcels
Goods, &c.
Total £7,851
Corresponding week of last year .„L7,82.
Balsam. AND EXETER (117 miles open.)—Week er,
Passengers, &C. £s,l,
Goods -'
Total

EXF.TNR AND CREDITON—Week end"
Passengers )
Goods, ace
~ ,

Total
MANCHESTER, SOUTH JUNCTION, arm%
Aug 8
Total traffic
Corresponding week O'
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD. ti

Passengers and par
Goode, &c •

Corresponu,
This return includes
Altrincham receipts;
Oans.l receikts.

SHOCKING RAILWAY A.
accident occurred near the Rah..,
shire and Yorkshire Railway, on 'it,
two o'clock, by which David Higham, a Iko •
above branch of the railway, came to an untimely -a
ceased was working in company with about 30 others_.
were engaged in re-arranging the sleepers, when a trai..
waggons drawn by an engine belonging to the Earl
Crawford and Balcarres, of the Haigh Collieries, approached.
All the men, with the exception of Higham, jumped out of
the track of the engine, but, in spite of the whistle of tlist
engine and the shouts of his companions, Higham obstinately
remained, continuing his occupation of dropping spikes to
knocked
driven into the sleepers, and was consequently knocke
down by the engine, and his bead, faliing upon the rails,
was severed from his body. The deceased was a native of
Creston, and had been working near Rainford for some
time.

PLAYING AT ITANGING.—At Liverpool, a boy,
aged 15, the son of a Jewish rabbi, named Gro wall, residing
in Great Howard -street, on Tuesday was playing witlt
some companions, and with the object of imitating an exe
cution, fastened OPe end of a cord upon a nail, and the other
1
round his neck. His companions thought he was no./.3,__1._
play, but to their horror the jest had been turneileirgo 91
lied
foal reality, and th,. boy was actually hanging.
before he could be liberated.
t de of
of the magnt u
little delusion in the estimates we form
troops that it
main..
TuE 110mAN EmPIRE.—We are sometimes under 3
the Roman empire or the multitude of
numerous. France and
tains an army considerably moreu„.R fa in the number Of their
tsiued. ltuFsia surpasses it in extent of territory, and main—
Austria, who rank next to
pire. The military
ct
esinglyoiairinginto the field a muCht
mre estimated at 450,000 men -
standing armies, could
larger force than theemwptroel
force of the Pagan .
of France and Austria ,
gunpowder and the.
are each or
the CLristian monarelnes
650,000
them reputed to maintain
an army of men • sad
invention of'
f- s 1 here e
when we reflect
force of artillery it is evident that any one of
enormous
the first rate .te powers of modern Europe could bring into the
upon the
that would
field a destructive force. sweep from the face of
the earth the 30 legions of Adrian. The very division of
Europe into a number of States invclves this increase or
soldiery. In the old Roman empire the great Mediter—
ranean Sea lay as peacfful as a lake, and the Roman ship%
had nothing to dread but the winds and the waves; wbereo
in modern Europe many quite artificial boundaries have to,
he guarded by an army of soldiers. " Belgium defeniks her
flit ct int 100,000 Illeil. and the marshes of Holland w ..e se-.
eured.by 60,000 Dutch," Hitherto everything has ter ded to
Pvt'lni, t''4' Itilitary po•Acr in Cl,sistendon).—By chwool
or August.