The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-21 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE WEE

Miles Opened. Receipts.
' Railways. „....____...„.___ ~...._..-___,
. I 1861. 1860. 1861, 1860.
I'-'''''-''' --= •••••.........
X 1
Ballymena and Port Rush 35 £
35 241 255
Belfast and N. Counties 65 65 1,098 1,105
Belfast and County Down 21 21
Bi rkd., Lane., & Ches. June - - 546 491
Blyth and Tyne
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian 2O 20 1,349 1,127
- -
125 125 5,222 5.514
21 2191 16,534 15,118
Cockermouth & Workington 8i -
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 -314 262
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 193 200
Cork and Youghal ...... ..., 2B} 6}
189 -
Cornwall 531 ' 531 944 900
Deeside l7 17 231 267
Dublin &Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda ....
63 1 544 1,539
Dub. &Wicklow(in.Kingst.) 401 404 i'.ro , ,Q.
Dundalk and Enniskillen
22 1,685 1,396
Dundee and Arbroath l7l 174
494 579 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l ,`
~. 1,007 853
East Anglian 67i 64
866 866
E.Counties,Ndk.,&E.Unioll 499 499 21,575 24,155
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth, & Dundee 78 78 3,233 3,230
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
Glasgow & South-Western 1831 1831 6,427 6,296
Great Northern 283 283 23,156 23,574
Great North of Scotland
it Soutlm. &V;estn.(lrind ) 329 24981 7,308 6,278
Great Western 5831 57 32,071 33,243
invernesi; & Aberdeen Junc. 55 55 , 645 706
Irish S'outh-Eastern 254 25 290 242
Lancashire & Yorkshire 39' 395 t 33,423 32,410
Leominster and Kington
Limerick and Ennis.
241 173 146
. Limerick and Fovnea 2 M 159 127
Lianelly 602 301
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 72,
ot 1,263 1,379
London & South-Western . 389 339 13,530 14,380
Lond. Brighton, & S. Coast 2244 223} 11,976 11,955
London, Chatham, & Dover 56,- 19t 581 255
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 42 40 771 984
M ffi an.,Sheeld,& Lincolnsh 17 173
31
10,085 10,489
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham. 9 1,015 934
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6141 6111 34,912 35,532
Midland Gt Westn. of hind 177 177 4,611 4,099
Monkland 56 56_ -
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 " 2,149 2,074
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 2,975 2,650
North British (incl. Selkirk
and Galashiels)
North Devon 35 35 326 301
r N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 764 764 30,306 31,283
9
' North London 9 2,233 2,303
North Staffordshire ' 246 233 4,995 7,683
Oswestry and Newton....„ 20 - 378 _
Rhymney
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 30 30 1,918 1,896
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern.... 115 115 3,820 3,800
Shrewsbury & Birmingham 29* 29}
____,
_
Shrewsbury and Chester ... 48 48 _
Shrewsbury & Hereford ... 51 H 1,779 1,583
Shropshire Union 29*,2 41 785 745
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 306 15,893 16,480
South Wales l7ll 1711 6,264 6,826
S. Yorkshire and River Dun US 118 2,446 3,681
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 55 55 5,118 4,608
Ulster al 51 1,633 1,582
Ulverstone and Lancaster . 19 19 577 556
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 251 24
.1,521 1,504
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31
~ 249 229
Li
Waterford and Limerick
West Cornwall 27} zit 623 574
W. Hart lepool Harbr. &R ail 39 P 3,383 3,718
West Midland 162 158 6,452 6 229
,
W'haven,Cleator,&l4,3grmnt. 7 7343, 298
Whitehaven Junction... „. 12 12 531 548
Whitehaven & Furness Jun. 35 35 t 59 505
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam... 52 52 . 838 905
Austrian B2B 873 - -
Belgian Eastern Junction 26} 261 223 205
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Demerara (fortnight) - - - -
Detroit and Milwaulde lB5 185 1,341 1,471
Dutch Rhenish lO9l 1081 - -
Eastern of France 1032 1006 12,613 7,750
Grand Trunk of Canada 970 970 12,780 11,808
Great Indian Peninsula 297} 1941 3,6+1 3,613
Great Luxembourg l2B 128 2,004 1,912
Great Western of Canada 345 345 7,119 7,016
Lyons and Geneva 142 142 3,852 3,445
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 301 284 12,050 11,079
Northern of Canada - -
Northern of France 613 • 602 41,726 41,444
Norwegian Trunk 44 , 44 711 709
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840 29,166 14,063
Paris and Orleans 922 922 26,256 12,961
Paris and Strasburg - - - -
Royal Danish 69 69 - -
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,053 1,155
South Austrian
Southern 9f France 777 , 773 6,890 2,923
Welland 25 25 • - -
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 742 730 8,994 5,883

A letter from Rotterdam, dated Jan. 15. se vs If the distress of the homeless poor in Lcoalon it
great at this ine!ement season, that of the inhabi-
tants of the district through which the river Waal
wends its course to join the Maese is frightful to
au ,extreme. in the beginning of January it was
observed that the vast accumulations of snow in
this district was causing the rise of the river to a
dangerous extent. With anxiety and, dread the
inhabitants watched the daily increase of the in-
vading waters, now laden with immense masses of
ice, and strenuously exerted themselves to
strengthen the resistance offered 1,,y, those artificial
barriers by which alone Holland is preserved from
total submersion. But still the flood rose, and the
ice-masses formed themselves, as it were, in huge
battering-rams, pressing with irresistible strength
against the dikes and dams. The sound of the church
bell, clear and ominous in tli.e frosty air, kept telling
the sad tale of imminent danger, and warning all
who could labour to aid irl the good cause, and those
who could not to preprtre for the worst. Higher
and higher rose the waters, and soon the surface of
the ponderous shifting ice-masses stood within half
an inch of the dike-level. Good God ! should it
rise that half inda higher, their cottages, their
cattle, their provisions, their all would become s
prey to the unspar'ing havoc ! Then rose to heaven
many a prayer for help—for mercy ! At last a
bulging out in f,he dike directed the anxious gaze
of all to •one spot—for the waters were pressing
hard upon it. With the 'strength and energy of
despair they tried to stay the progress of the flood
as it sought egress from its narrow channel into
their fields and dwellings. Xerxes as well tried to
bind the ocean in chains. Suddenly the dike
yielded, and the waters poured through—the ice-
masses and the flood rose above it, and swept
on in their terrific course, submerging fields, barns,
and cottages, drowning the cattle, destroying
all. The aged and the sick, the women and
children, sought a refuge in their attics, where
benimbed with cold, without bedding, clothes, fire,
or provisions, they had to pass days of inexpressible
terror-7°f _horrible starvation. For a long time it
was impossible to approach them, and it is feared
go bee been swept away in the flood,
a inhabitants frozen to death on the ice-masses.
many
nd it s a ntt
One family of seven persons was rescued from the
attic in which they had sought shelter, so thoroughly
exhausted by cold and hunger that they could not
even answer the questions of their deliverers. A.
poor mother, with her infant, to which she had
given premature birth, was lying in bed in the
bleak attic of her homely dwelling, while her hue-
band, from an aperture in the roof, sought, by
cries and signals, to attract the attention of
a few brave men, who at the imminent risk
of their lives were endeavouring to make their
way between the ice-blocks in order to
rescue some of their perishing fellow-creatures
from destruction. They went to the poor fellow's
help, descended into the attic through the aperture
in the roof, through which they returned, bringing
with them the mother and her babe. It was time,
for the waters had already risen to within two
inches of her bed.
The distress and alarm of these districts are
great, for the evil may have only commenced.
Should a sudden thaw set in, or the wind blow
fiercely from the north-west, God knows what
additional misery and destruction will ensue. Sub-
scriptions are pouring in from liberal hands for
the relief of the suffering thousands, cast by this
calamity in penury on the world. But it will
require the expenditure of large sums to
provide for even their more pressing neces-
sities. Even as I write, fresh intelligence
arrives from the inundated districts detailing
additional scenes of wretchedness—people dying
from cold and hunger ; their houses cut away by
ice, as corn is mown down by the harvester's scythe;
a church which had stood hundreds of years swept
down, as a puff of wind sweeps down a house of cards;
and the prospect is even yet more fearful. Holland
has often suffered much from inundations, but never
within the memory of living man has an inunda-
tion been accompanied with so much distress and
destruction—with so much heartrending grief and
despair.
A VICTIM TO .REGULATION.

We report to-day the proceedings at a coroner's
inquest, held in Belfast yesterday (Thursday), the
details of which no right-minded man will read
without a shock of painfal feeling. If indignation
be superadded to pain, it will do no discredit to the
reader's humanity.
Mary Moore, a. poor woman in Abbey-street was
seized with the pangs of labour at midnight on
Tuesday. Her daughter went for a midwife, who
saw on her arrival that the case demanded instant
medical aid, and sent off as fast as possible for
a doctor. The woman's daughter went to Dr.
Beck, of North-street, and saw his son. " Have
you the money on you ?"(to pay the fee) said that
person. The answer being in the negative, the
rejoinder was, " Well, we cannot go." Instantly
the girl went to Dr. Johnston's, in Donegall-street,
but that gentleman, a dispensary doctor, was from
home. Next door lived Dr. Halliday, another of
the dispensary doctors. He was called up, and told
that there was a woman " bad in labour," in Abbey-
street. This gentleman's reply was, that" he didn't
go to a cake of that kind'down of a guinea." The
girl ran on to Dr. Bryce's. He " didn't know
whether that was his district or Dr. Halliday's."
Again she went to Dr. Halliday, and was referred
by him to Mr. Vance, the relieving-officer. But
there was no relief for poor Mary Moore. The
relieving officer "gave no till half-past nine
o'clock.' Finding the doctors deaf to her applica-
tions, the girl went to the Lying-in-Hospital, where
she was told that her mother would be admitted, if
brought up. For this purpose a car was required ;
and the girl had but sixpence, Not a carman
could she find to convey the suffering woman to
the hospital for less than a shilling. And so the
time wore on. At half-past nine the relieving
officer issued his " lines," but, at ten o'clock, poor
Mary Moore died in her mortal agony, and a second
life died with her. In her sore travail she cried,
" The Lord relieve me of my troubles," and the Lord,
more merciful than dispensary officials, did not turn
a deaf ear to her entreaty. Doctor Smyth examined
the body after death, and testified that the woman
would not have died if there had been medical
attendance.

Mary Moore has died in this prosperous and
highly civilised community from a brutal neglect,
which she would not have encountered in Kaffraria.
Of course, there is no one to blame. The coroner,
after hearing the evidence, " did not see there was
any person they could inculpate as being the cause
of her death." There is no law to compel the
exercise of humanity, and no law, it would seem,
to punish the want of it. James Moore may mourn
for his wife and for his unborn babe, :but he must
have consolation in the assurance that the lives of
both were duly sacrificed according to law, and in
strict compliance with parochial regulation and
medical etiquette. Dr. Beck could not attend
without his fee in advance ; Dr. Halliday couldn't
go down of a guinea ; Dr. Bryce had his doubts as
to the boundaries of his district; Mr. Vance could
not issue his " lines" before the regulation hour;
the cab fare to the Lying-in-Hospital is indubita-
bly a shilling, and no cabman is bound to take less
than his fare, though human lives depend on it.
And, therefore, a woman in her hour of mortal t
anguish—in that hour which sentimentalists idly
imagine to constitute the highest appeal to man's
sympathy and aid--must die as no brute
..ce
beast
would be allowed to perish by .t' owner, and there
cm th
is no one whom we c.,== inculpate as g
cause of her deatb.- God help the poor .
Can they, oe nothing done to avert the rec.ur-
rene
dozen
of such shocking cases as this?.. This
town of ours has wealth and public institu-
tions ; boards of poor law and
es by. the committees
and
of charity ; church
clergymen by the hundred and yet. the Mary
Moores of the community die. like dogs in a kennel,
under circumstances that might make every man
among us blush to bear the name. Surely there is
some horrible
.error in our systems/of relief when
a case like thts can 1
dappen. Surely our public
and professional. men can so regulate that we shall
never agtm have such another outrage on our civi-
lisation as the miserable death of this wretched
victim to regulations.—Northern Mag.

A suspension, which it is hoped and believed
will prove only temporary, took place on Saturday of one
of the oldest and most respectable firms in the Levant trade
—Messrs. Francis Ede, Son, and Co. Their liabilities are
supposed to range between £250,000 and 1100,000, but an
impression prevails that in the course of a day or two
arrangements may be effected by which all engagements
will be provided for. The difficulty is understood to have
arisen mainly from the means of the firm being at this
period of high rates of discount locked up to some extent in
the local loans to the Turkish Government on the security
of Customs' duties, which come in slowly.—Times.
DREADFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—AS the
Cowes and Portsmouth steam-packet Emerald was on her
passage from Cowes to Portsmouth, on Saturday afternoon,
Captain Barrett, of the Royal Yacht Squadron yacht
Zouave, belonging to Richard Arabin, Esq., who had been
drinking too freely, when off Norris Castle made a lurch,
and fell through the skylight over the engine into the
machinery, and was in a moment crushed to pieces. nis
remains were sewn up in a blanket and landed at R,yde,
where he has a wife and large family of children. The
engineer was in the engine-room at the time, and, seeing
the unfortunate man fall through, stopped the engine
almost at the instant, but too late—one crash, and
all was over.