The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-22 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEEK.

• Miles Opened.' 1. Rpciipts.
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1859. 1858. 1859. • 1858.
£ X.
Ballymena and Port rush 35 35 - -
Bedale and Leyburn lO 10 108 83
Belfast and Ballymena 65 65 1,115 1,098
Belfast and County Down 2O 17 383 • 2:13
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June 32 32 2,2b'9 2,066
Myth and Tyne 2O 13 686 1,017
Bristol and Exeter llB 117 5,292 4.914
Caledonian
Ches.&Holyhead(with Mold) 94} 944 - -
Cockermouth & Workington 81 8. 203 146
Cork and Bandon 9O 20 266 254
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6} ei 252 205
Deeside l7 17 2641 203
Dublin & Belfast Junction 56 56 1,148 1,115
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,426 1,444
Dub. & Wicklow (in.Kingst ) 40} 401 1,247 1,189
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath l7} 17} 503 515
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun. 31 31 1,030 743
East Anglian 671 671 842 826
E.Counties,Nrik.,&E.Union 489 489 23,013 22,406
East Kent l9l - 236 -
E.Lancashire(in.lllackburn) 111 105 6,299 5,094
Edinburgh and Glasgow... 142 142 5,564 5,083
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,063 2,949
Forth & Clyde Junction - - 261 227
Furness
Glasgow & South-Western. 1835 ,1835 5,685 5,277
Great Northern 283 "283 21,896 22,312
Great North of Scotland
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrhid ) 229 2031 5,891 5,689
Great Western 466 466 25,835 25,425
Hull and Holderness
Inverness & Aberdeen June 57 15 552 -
Irish South-Eastern 2s} 255 171 206
Killarney Junction
Lancaster and Carlisle (in.
Kendal and Windermere) 1 100,- , 5,783 5,548
Lane. & Yrks.(in.Blackburn) 299 29* 23,001 19,185
Limerick and Foynes 2 20-. 115. 101
Llanelly 4C: 35} 421 331
London & North-Western . 686. 647 60,665 53,818
London and Blacks all 5 SP. 1,289 1,250
London & South-Western . 289 270, 13,148 11,497
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast. 199 183!, 11,391 10,726
L'derry and Enniskillen ~. 60 60 762 705
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend. 42 40 990 812
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh. 173.1 173 9,662 8,703
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9 95 835 816
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland
.5674 31,953 30,052
Midland Gt. Wes tn.of 1 rind. 177 177 3,919 3,930
Monkland 52 52 1,567 1,289
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,062 1,81.8
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 2,767 2,701
Newport,Abcrg.,& Hereford 50 43 1,359 1,003
North British (in. Dalkeith) 149 149 5,356 4,813
North Devon 35 35 343 327
North-Eastern 7251 720 29,742 28,596
North London 9 9 2,319 2,306
' North Staffordshire 233 233 6,805 6,183
North-Western 461 464 - -
N. Yorkshire and Cleveland 10} - - -
Oxford, Wore., & Wolver 94 94 4,237 3,687
Peebles lB 18 172 158
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 2,078 1,448
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115 3,488 3,440
Shrewsbury & Birmingham 291 29% 1,643 1,366
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury & Hereford
Shropshire Union 291 214 711 731
' South Devon
South-Eastern 3Ol 301:- 15,145 15,413
, South Wales l7l 171} 6,219 6,662
S. Yorkshire and River Dun 108 108 3,156 2,882
Stockton and Darlington
• Taff Vale 53 38 4,062 2,616
: Ulster 36 36 1,679 1,348
' Ulverstone and Lancaster
T Vale of Neath 255 254 1,573 1,052
Warrington and Stockport l2 12 - -
- Waterford and Kilkenny .31 31 201 288
4% Waterford and Limerick
) West Cornwall 271 274 452 625
, W.II artlepool II arbr. & Rail 39 39 3,170 2,608
12 . 480 316
S Whitehaven .1., Yu rn t.ss Jun. 35 35 445 332
, W'haven,Cleator,&Eg,rmnt. 7 7 298 144
- I,OREION AND COLONIAL.
I:lL.lantikOeCllt:i:rundraolDn Rotterdam 52
8:5:281
V Wliitehapaiai
52
1 Austrian
Belgian Eastern Junction 2o
1,191 858
• Detroit and Milwattkie lB5l 140 1,344 847
,
t Dutch Rhenish
Grand Trunk of Canada 879 819 7,633 9,05 C
Great Indian Peninsula l3O 881 3,160 1,601
1. Great Luxembourg 122 38 1,758 80C
Great Western of Canada 294 283 6,740 8,09:
g 1 embardo-Venetian 283 249 5,327 4,401
e Lyons and Geneva 142 107 3,252 1,91 t,
,f Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 284 176 6,596 5,074
Y 1 Antwerp
''' Maria Antonia' 2l 21 211 191
if Northern of France 574 574 43,368 38,891
e Norwegian Trunk 44 44 557 501
_ Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn B4l 781 61,512 47,901
.r Paris and Orleans 922 771 39,860 31,574
It Paris and Strasburg 979 791 • 38,691 28,6 f.
Y Royal Danish 69 69 354 38-
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,263 1,07,1
1- Southern of France 777 577 13,522 9,034
h West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 716 594 30.566 23,71:
612714(34 : 22'6:219'1283 22'62576i

2,608
316
332
144

673
22,592
269

9,05 C
1,601

'BOO
8,095
4,409
1,919
5,076

199
38,891

47,908
31,576
28,641

1,074
9,030

.646
23,715

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT GLASGOW.—On Monday
a robbery, to the amount of upwards of £9OO, was reported
at the Glasgow Police-office. The unfortunate, who is from
Port Glasgow, stated that his partner in business had
Jaanded over to him a sum of £928, which had been drawn
Trom the National Bank at Greenock on Saturday for the
purpose of wing a composition to the creditors of the firm.
After receiving the money, he had allowed himself to be
inveigled into a house of ill-fame in High-street, whero he
was robbed of the whole of the money. Two men and a
woman are in custody.
[ADVERTISEMENTI—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
looping Cough.—Every nurse thinks she knows a remedy
for this complaint, but unfortunately the bills of mortality
show them to be fallible. The late Dr. Thompson always
recommended 'sufferers from hooping cough to be kelt
warm, fed on a milk and :vegetable diet, and rubbed well
on the spine and pit of the stomach with Holloway a Oint-
ment three times a day; wearing flannel next the skin.
No treatment is so safe, speedy, and efficient, no case
can resist it, and no ill consequences ever result from it.
The cough continuing from habit after the disease declines,
is readily and radically removed by Holloway's prepara-
tions, which act more like magic than medicine in every
stage of this tiresome disease.

The Curacoa, 31, screw, Capt. Thos. H. Mason,
will leave the fitting basin in the Portsmouth
Dockyard on Monday, and will shortly proceed to
New York.

The lire, steam store vessel, Master Commander
Pullen, arrived at Woolwich last evening from
Portsmouth.

The Diadem, 31, screw, will be taken from the
King's Stairs Jetty, at Portsmouth, on Monday,
and be placed in the steam basin for examination
and repairs.
The Liffey, 51, screw, Capt. George W. Preedy,
anchored at Spithead yesterday morning, last from
Portland Roads.

The Perseverance, 8, iron screw troop frigate,
Commander Edward R. Power, will leave the steam
basin at Portsmouth Dockyard, on Monday, and
prepare for the conveyance of troops to Malta.
The Rhadamanthus, steam store vessel, Master
Commander Sturdee, having undergone repairs to
her keel, is now being re-coppered, and is ordered
to be brought forward for service.
The Brandon, hired steam vessel, taken up by
the War Department, for the conveyance of mili-
tary stores to Constantinople, will leave the Thames
for her destination to-morrow.

We are informed that the vessels mentioned in
The Sun of Thursday as having been chartered for
the conveyance of troops to India have been en-
gaged merely for freight of miscellaneous stores,
and not for troops.
The screw•steam guardship of Coastguard, Rus-
sell, 60, Captain Wodehouse, went from Hamoaze
on Thursday into Plymouth Sound, She is very
short of hands.
y.
`;'-'l"fer. Majesty's ship SiinootaXiiiThAlider John
M. Cooke, was still, we hear by th 3 mail which has
just arrived, at Bombay, undergoing repairs. She
was expected to leave towards the end of January
with invalids for England.
TRANSPORT OF SIEGE MORTARS.—Several expe-
riments have recently been carried out at this gar-
rison in order to test the practicability of moving
heavy mortars with the same facility as guns.
Some of the heaviest mortars with the mortar beds

have been attached to gun carriages manufactured
at the Royal Arsenal, and the utmost Tequisite
amount of speed has been obtained with six horses
over a rough road.

ENGLISH TRAVELLERS AMONGST

BRIGANDS.

A letter from Rome of the 15th contains an ac-
count of another daring act of brigandage. It says :
"The extension of railways in the dominions of
his Holiness will present to travellers the advantage
of approaching the Eternal City without being
subject to the onslaughts of brigands as much as
is, unfortunately, the case just now, when bad
roads, tediots hills, and solitary wastes invite out-
laws to lay violent hands upon straggling vetturino
vehicles or ponderous family carriages.
" A specimen of this disagreeable kind of excite-
ment was experienced on Wednesday last by Mr.
and Mrs. Robertson, who were travelling to Rome
with post-horses, and had arrived ut their last day's
journey, at the town of Viterbo, on the preceding
evening. The postilion who drove them out of that
town was probably in league with the robbers, for
he was observed to pull up his horses at a lonely
spot of the forest which covers the mountains of
Viterbo, and immediately afterwards five men
rushed out of the brushwood, armed with guns and
the usual complement of small weapons, and wear-
ing black veils over their faces. These worthies
lost no time in opening the carriage door, and were
proceeding to drag out the travellers, commencing
with the gentleman, but Mrs. Robertson, who has
a perfect command of the Italian language, re-
proached them in such powerful terms for their
audacity in venturing to lay violent hands upon a
lady, that they finally desisted from their project of
dragging her out also, and by that means she was
able to preserve her jewel•box, upon which she sat
whilst the brigands turned up the cushions, exa-
mined the pockets, and searched the interior of the
carriage. Mrs. Robertson, with admirable presence
mind, had received her husband's purse from him
whilst he was being pulled out of the carriage, and
had taken out the chief part of the gold it con-
tained, so that when it was handed over to tho
brigands with its silver and,small change it was not
worth much more than a couple of napoleons.
"The robbers having made sure of Mr. Robert-
son's man-SeiVant and 'maid tiie latter being
infinitely more alarmed than her mistress—pro-
Veeded to undo the luggage on the imperial, but
their scrutiny of that indispensable appendage to a
travelling carriage was interrupted by the unwel-
come intelligence, communicated to them by Mrs.
Robertson, to de effect that they had better be
quick in their operations, as a party of gendarmes
were at a short distance behind, and would soon
appear in sight. This was perfectly true, as the
travellers had passed the gendarmes a little time
before, escorting a cartful of prisoners towards
Rome. The net's of their vicinity rendered the
brigands nervous ; they detached one of their
number to a neighbouring eminence, to keep a
look-out on the approaching enemy, and soon after
abandoned their plunder on the high road, to seek
the safer shade of the forest, leaving the well
satisfied travellers to continue their journey to
Rome, where they arrived the same evening with-
out further inconvenience, the attack having taken
place about eight o'clock in the morning. • A report
of the occurrence having been made to the British
representative on the following day, Mr. Odo
Russell proceeded to the Vatican to narrate the

affair to Cardinal Antonelli. His eminence ex-
pressed his regret at the reappearance of brigand-
age so near the capital, and gave immediate orders
for patrols of dragoons and gendarmes to be sent in
search of the offenders."