The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-05 00:00:00

United States Postal Arrangements.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

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Allies Opened. Receipts.
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Railways.

1865. 1864. 1865 1864
4 Z
Belfast and N, Counties On 991 1,707 1.571
Belfast and Comity Down 44.} 4ii 601 575
Myth and Tyne 3O 56 '1,878 1,333
Brecon and Merthyr
Bristol and Exeter 1214 1211 5,667 5.414
Caledonian, Scottish Central 4151 408 27.651 24,611
Cambrian l3u 121 2,079 1,713

CocKermouth K & Penrlth .. 314 - 325 -
Cockermouth and Workin 9 9 315 233
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 315 250
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 65 f 4 134 9)
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 655 655 1,526 1.477
Ceeside , 17 17 26) 271
Do Extension
Dublin & Bed as t J unction-. 63 63 1,3,8 1.2 9
Dublip and Drogheda 75 75 1,493 1.108
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd, 106 91 k 2,576 2.386
Forth and Clyde Junction
Ic'uruess, &c 5O 5) 3,621 2,836
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk~&E.Union
Great Northern 4Ol 401 35,661 3 ,369
Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,699 1.531
Do Branches 42 4 i 1,065 1,015
(.1 I. Nortnn. & Westn. (Irel.) 715 715 583 534
3LSoutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 3875 3875 8,310 7.375
Great Western l2BO 1270 63,963 60,886
Hull & Hornsea
Highland
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,710 1,644
Lancashire & Yorkshire 4u3 403 39,665 35.A0
Limerick and Ennis... 245 241 .78 118
Limerick and Foynes 265 265 92 90
Llanelly 465 465 521 449
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 293/ 21174 17,739 14.518
London, Chatham, & Dover; j 134 127 1 7,614 63 1
all Metropolitan Extension /12 115 i 1,9 0 1,375
Do. Kent toast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Shellield,&Lincolnsh .. 246 2i6 111,659 17,246
Stanch. S.J un.& Altrincham.. 95 95 1,518 1,278
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,-06 1.496
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6775 6515 50, 11 47,022
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2tos 2605 4,669 4,5,,5
Monmoutlish. Hail. & Canal 44 44 2,878 2, 26
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12061
North London ll
North Staffordshire 258
Pembroke and Tenby ll5
Ithymney l9l
Scottish North-Eastern l3B

6561 23,735 21.751
1160;{ 61,290 67,271
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9- 4,316 3;193
258 8,098 6.933
116 75 66
19f 1,015 839
138 5,6,1 5,052
66 1,089 649
79i 3.635 3,411
306 22,888 20.677
61 5,500 6,117
1051 2,555 2.3 2
10 116 141
31 291 339
77 985 905
10 597 548

Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon ..... 98
South-Eastern 315
Tall Vale 6l

Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77

Vrhaven,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. 10
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Austrian B2B
Bahia and San Francibco
Belgian Eastern.) unction 26i
Bombay, Baroda, & en. India 306
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish

826 34,,55 36,370
761 ],023 663
26} 341 270
184 9,7.7 3,‘ 0)
189 4,674 5,,5!
1( 81 5,321 5,19:

Eastern 01 France l5 1
Eastern Bengal
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377
Great Central of Belgium— 285
Great Indian Peninsula 590
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras. ...

14.3 61.,;713- 3 57,7,9
no 2,510 2, 18
1105} 3,,,795 3z,873
1;)77
.23 2,7 20,129
261 6,685 6,50
553 36,200 15, 40
134 5,9 4 ;4.041
79 ti3B 659
315 10,557 9.683
533 8,167 6,2 V

u,. ~,258
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant.. 778 713 17,759 15,892
Northern of Canaria . . 94 94 933 78.5
Northern of France 724 724 6 ',7, 8 51,6;4
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, dc Mediterrn 2006 197, 1:'5,491 120,485
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 67,994 62, 764
Recife and San Francisco, kn. 774 774 1,6.,5 1,037
Sosnde. • 165 105 1,375 2,158
Do. Punjab, &e 253 45 1,3:9 290
South Austrian, &c .. 1658 1827 93,2,1 91,677
Southern 01 France 863 823 26,972 26,777
Victoria
Welland
West .1& N-Wn. of France

The will of Thomas Ovington Harrison, Esq., of
Gloucester-terrace, Regent's Park, shipowner, was
proved in London, on the 18th ult., by the execu-
tors and trustees, 'William Henry Carrington, a
member of the firm of Lachlan, Macleod, and Co. ;
John Watson Knight, the testator's son-in-law ; and
George Robert Booth. The personalty was sworn
under £120,000. The will is dated Oct. 20, 1865,
and a codicil on the 24th of November following.
The testator died on the 29th of December, at the
ago of 53. He bequeaths to his wife an annuity of
£2,500, leaving her an immediate legacy of £5OO and
his household furniture, plate, pictures, books, car-
riage, and horses absolutely. Bequeaths a sum of
£60,000 in trust for his daughter, Mary Knight,
wife of his executor, J. W. Knight, the interest for
her sole and separate use, and upon her decease
to her husband and children ; and leaves the
residue of his property to his daughter in like man-
ner. There aro contingent interests to some of
his family in the.eTent of his daughter dying with-
out issue. He has left legacies to his cousins and
other relatives, and annuities to his sisters-in-law;
to each of his executors £5OO ; to Mr. Booth a fur-
ther sum of £3OO by the codicil ; to one male ser-
vant £150; to his coachman £lOO, and to all his
other servants one year's wages and mourning.
There are the following charitable bequests :—To
the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society,
£3OO ; the Seamen's Orphan Asylum, Sunderland,
£2OO ; the Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum and
the New Infirmary, Sunderland, each £5OO ; and to
the Belvedere Hospital for disabled and worn-out
seamen, 50 guineas, in addition to former gifts.
TILE FORTIFICATIONS OF ANTWERP.—For the last
fortnight the south side of Antwerp has resembled an
im-
mense ant-hill, nearly 3,000 labourers being employed in
levelling the ramparts, either with the spade or by mining.
The fort of Montebello has already nearly disappeared, as
only a few vestiges of it remain. These works are carried
on with a rapidity really marvellous ; and the population,
favoured by the fine weather, oollect in vast numbers to
witness the scene.

THE FENIANS.—There are in Dublin, known to
the police as strangers—for the most part military
Americans—no loss than 2,000 persons who have entered
the country within the last two months or so. These
" suspects" have committed no offence, but their pre-
sence and appearance in the streets keep up apprehen-
sions and injure business. Under the ordinary opera-
tions of the law the authorities cannot deal with them,
aonrds. Patrick'sthfoyaybeDensyg,agoerdfporlosttninygoathn insurrectionary
rodste.lrtioist
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believed, therefore, that the Government will immediately
apply to Parliament for a measure authorising them to
suspenr I the Habeas Corpus Act. The Irish public would
not object to such a proceeding. The Government have
given to the principal officers holding military commands
commissions as justices of the peace, to enable them to
discharge their duties in an emergency without a warrant
from a civil magistrate. Hugh Francis Brophy, now on
trial in the Commission Court, was arrested with Stephens
in Fairfield House. A letter produced in evidence showed
that the prisoner was giving orders for the making of pikes
on the 18th of September, three days after the /rig People
had been seized, which, the Solicitor-General said,
" afforded a remarkable corroboration of the statement
made by Stephens on the night of the seizure, that
things would go on as usual.' " A man named Johnson
has been committed to prison in Belfast for having in his
possession 12 rifles, and also 12 bayonets, 'n
packedb'
h
and sewed up in hemp matting. The parcel was in a place
of concealment. There have been several other seizures
of
arms in the same quarter of less importance
and persons
have been arrested for defacing the
proclamations.,
At
Hillborough Petty Sessions, in the county of Down, a man
named M'Donald has been arraigned on a charge of writ-
ing and publishing a treasonable letter within the last six
months, and with being a member of the treasonable con-
spiracy." When arrested he was in the American uniform.
After a patient investigation, during which the prisoner,
who defended himself, disclaimed Fenianism, he was let
out on bail, to appear at the next day's sitting of the
court.

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