The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

BAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MALDON AND BRAINTREE EXTENSIONS.
The long-contemplated exten4ion of the Maldon,
Witham, and Braintree line to Newport, on the Cam-
bridge branch of the Eistern Counties Railway, is being
revived. The object is to facilitate the communication,
now circuitous, between Essex and the midland and fen
districts. It is expected that the subject will be sub-
mitted shortly to a public meeting

FORTH AND CLYDE JUNCTION.
The report of the directors of this company states that
the receipts for the past half-year, although a little less
than those for the previous six months, are on the whole
satisfactory ; and this decrease would nut have arisen but
for the temporary withdrawal of a portion of the coal
traffic at the other end of the line, which took place during
the first three monthi of the year, but which has again
been secured, and will continue throughout the winter
months, thereby tending considerably to increase the
receipts during that season, when the psssenger traffic may
naturally be expected to tall off. As the line was not
open until the 26th of May last year, a comparison
cannot now be made with the half-year corresponding
to that just finished ; but for the period from the 26th
of May to the 31st of July the increase this year, as
compared with the same period last year, amounts to
700/., and up to September 12 is 1,200/. ; the weekly
receipts having exceeded 4001., and showing an aver-
age weekly increase of 861. The working expenses
are still higher than the directors could wish, but
this arises principally from more train mileage having
been run than will again be necessary now that the re-
quirements of the district are ascertained. The balance
remaining over aft,:r payment of all expenses, al,,ng
with that brought forward from last half-year, amounts
to 2,7591., out of which the directors propose that
a dividend at the rate of two per sent. be paid,
which, on the present share capital of 106,2281., will
absorb 2,1241., leaving a balance of 6341. to be carried
forward to next half-year's account. The capital account
shows that 156,359/. had been received and 188,9951.
expended, leaving a balance of 32,6361. against the com-
pany. The revenue account showed that 7,0901. had
been received and 4,6221. expended, leaving a balance of
2,4681. To this is added 2,1861. from last half-year,
making 4,6541. From this is deducted 1,8951. interest
on loans, leaving 2,759/. in favour of revenue.

LONDON AND SOUTII-EAsTSRA RATLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Sept. 19, 1857 £24,706 0 5
Corresponding week last year ,..... 23,910 16 11

Decrease in 1857
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Sept. 19,
1857 £18,637 9 1
Corresponding week last year 18,979 17 9
Total of the half-year to this date, 1857 221,292 7 0
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 225,371 18 0
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic
return for the week ending Sept. 20, 1857 270,101 0 • 0
Corresponding week last year
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending Sept. 20, 1857 £8,714 0 0
Corresponding week last year 6,239 0 e
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—Traffic return Tor th
week ending Sept. 13, 1857
Corresponding week last year 24,539 12 10
LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffie re-
turn for the week ending Sept. 20, 1857 —227,977 6 0
Corresponding week last year 24,955 13 1
CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY.--Trefflo return for the
week ending Sept. 19, 1857 £289 3 3
Corresponding week last year 262 15 4
GREAT LUXEMBOURG IIAILWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Sept. 20, 1357 £1,061 8 5
Corresponding week last year B2l 0 6

GREAT SOUTHBBN AND WESTERN RAILWAY.—We
understand that the directors of this company, with that
enterprise and desire to contribute to the comfort of per-
sons travelling by their line, which have ever characterised
their management, are about to add another instance to
the many they have already given of their determination
to make the Great Southern and Western Railway as
perfect and as complete in its details as any line of rail-
way in the kingdom. Arrangements are now being
made, we understand, by which, by aid of 0(2 most
scientific adaptations, the whole of the trains travelling
at night will be lighted by brilliant gas.—Freentan's
Journal.
SUICIDE BY AN AUTILLERYMAN.—An inquest was held
yesterday, at the Gun Tavern, Woolwich, before Mr.
Carttar, on the body of a gunner named John Smith,
who committed suicide by hanging on the prev►ous Sa•
turday morning. The deceased, who was a single man,
was employed as an orderly, and it was his duty to at-
tend to one of the battalion officers. On Saturday morn-
leg, about 9 o'clock, two non-commissioned officers, who
are employed as battalion clerks, entered the office and
found the deceased in a posture which led them to sup-
pose that be had fallen asleep on the desk. It was then
discovered that the deceased had strangled himself by
means of a cord which was attached to the desk, and
that his feet were not removed from the fiaor. No evi-
dence was adduced as to the cause of the rash act, and
the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity."
WATER-SPOUTS AND GREAT Loss OF LILE.—The
Arad Gazzette mentions that a water-spout burst over
Maria-Re6dna, a place of resort for pilgrims near Arad,
on the 13th of September. Up to the 15th seventeen
bodies were discovered and buried, and several others
are missing. There was a report that from 70 to 100
persons were lost, but this required confirmation. Many
horses and booths belonging to the small traders were
swept away. A German peasant had two handsome
horses, which ho had purchased only a few days before
for 1,000 fierins, swept away, and then in despair at his
loss threw himself into the floed and was drowned. An•
other water-spout burst over Arnaz, in the Val d'Aost,
on the 10th. The loss of human life has been thirty, as
ascertained by the authorities, up to the present time,
but it is feared that many more have been sacrificed. The
damage done is estimated at 500,000 francs,. One whole
family were swept away, and not a soul was left to toll
the tale.