The Sun.
London, England, 1857-12-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS:

LONDON AND SOUTII-EASTERA RATLWAY.—TrMEC re-
for the week coding Dec. 26, 1857 £19,157 6 6
Corresponding week last year

Increase in 1857
LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY.—
Traffic return for the week ending Dae. 26,
1857 £13,187 3 0
Corresponding week last year 12,752 2 9
Total of the half-year to this date, 1857 42'),861 2 3
Total of the half-year to this date, 1856 42),738 18 11

GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Dec. 20, 1857 il_B,l7l 16 1
Corresponding week last year 27,855 1 0

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Dec. 27, 1837 £18,357 14, 6
Corresponding week last year 22,669 1 8
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Tr Alc
return for the week ending Dec. 27, 1857 256,288 0 0
Corresponding week last year

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the:week ending Dec. 27, 1857 £4,127 0 ' 0
Oorresponding week last year 4,393 0 0

THE PROTECTED IMPROVEMENTS IN PARIS. --The
following are the items of the intended Paris improve-
ments :-1. Building a set of roads (chaus4les) arid
boulevards, which, branching of from the railway ter-
minus, will unite all, the diAricts of the town and aivide
it, as it were, like the squares of a chess-board ; the
streets to be embellished in succession. 2. Improvement
of the sanitary condition of Paris, by the leading of pure
water into all the stories of houses, and a perfect sewage
of the streets. 3. A • new organisation of the inferno,
communications, which, although it will not reach the
regularity of a railway traffic, will still afford grey
alleviation to the overcrowded streets. The contibita,
tion of the railway up to the markets (hales),
the completion of the circular railway line around Paris,
on the left bank of the Seine, the utilization of this line,
and the chief market terminus for the transport of tra-
vellers, and especially the conveying of the workingmen
over the whole extent of the line to their often diAarit
dwellings, is among the chief items of this grand plan.
-To this is to be added the removing of the octroi stations
(tollbare) to the external fortifications, the transferring
of the hospital beyond the centre of the towr, and the
energetic exertions at the workmen's habitations.—lllus-
trated Inventor.

(Cheers.) Anything he could say would only tend
t 3 weaken very much the force of these expressions.
He need not say that he concurred entirely with
every sentence ofthatresolution. The great amount
of time which he was aware had been devoted to
the management of the Exhibition by thegentlemen
who now sat on his right hand was not sufficiently
known to many members of the community. No
one could gainsay what a serious thing it was for
gentlemen concerned in the management of exten-
sive business to withdraw from it so large a portion
of time for a public undertaking. It had been said
that in Manchester people had no taste for anything
except for cotton and money, but this Art Treasures
Exhibition had shown, at all events) that although
they had a great taste for money, and were tole-
rably successful in the indulgence of that predilec-
tion—(hear, and laughter)—they did not regard
money as " the end of all things." (Hear, hear, and
cheers.) They had never been backward in the pro-
motion of great public benefits, and they had given
sufficient manifestation of their interest in the at-
tainment of commercial freedom and the insurance
of cheap bread to all classes of the community.
(Cheers.) It used to be said that in the town of Man-
chester there was a conspicuous want of architectu-
ral taste, but he was glad to say that in the last 15
or 20 years there had been a marked improvement
in this respect. Ho was only afraid they were over-
doing it, for the erections now springing up on all
sides were really more like palaces than places of
tensiness. (Cheers and laughter.) He felt proud of
.th town-council for their performance of this act of
justice to the members of the executive committee.
.He begged to thank Mr. Fairbairn for the many
acts of condescension and kindness for which he was
indebted to that gentleman and the rest of the com-
mittee. The resolution was not yet engrossed on
vellum, as it should have been in readiness for this
occasion, but he was anxious that the formal presen-
tation of it should take place in the course of the
year 1857—(hear)—and the document itself should
be handed over to them as soon as it was prepared.
He was sure that this acknowledgment of their ser-
vices on behalf of the citizens of Manchester would
be highly valued and _prized by them, and that it•
would be no less esteemed by those who would come
alter them. (Cheers.,
The toast was drunk -with three times thre6 cheers.
Mr. T. FAIRBAIRN, the chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee, said—Mr. Mayor, and gentlemen
of the city council, the members of the executive
committee of the late Exhibition of Art Treasures of
the United Kingdom owe you their warmest thanks
and gratitude for the distinguished honour you
have paid to them by the unanimous adoption
at your last meeting, after most eloquent
and elegant introductions by Mr. Rumney
and Mr. Rawson--(hear, hear)--of the resolutions
which have just been read and presented to us.
We recognise in this spontaneous expression of good
feeling and in the cordial approbation which you,
speaking for your constituents, assure us will long
be felt for the exhibition itself, and for the humble
services we rendered in its management, the very
highest reward we could look for after our labours,
of the public acknowledgment of which we one and
all of us have just reason to feel proud. (Cheers.)
So marked a compliment and distinction must at
all times, and under any circumstances, occasion
varied emotions of pleasure, gratitude and satisfac-
tion. (Hear.) But honours of this kind can only
be thoroughly prized, and can only exercise their
full and most beneficial influence in stimulating to
future exertions, when they carry along with them
records of success, and when they are in truth in
the minds of their recipients the echo of self-ap-
proval. (Hear.) Now, gentlemen, the success of
the late exhibition was in every respect uneluivo-
cal and decided. (Loud cheers.) As the executive,
we have every reason to feel proud of the whole
history of that undertaking. (Cheers.) We acknow-
ledge, with yourselves, the characteristic public
spirit and liberality of the gentlemen who subscribed
to
,the guarantee fund--(cheers)..-whose eat ly and
cordial approval of the project, and whose munifi-
cent contributions in support of it, gave an autho-
rity to our proceedings without which our applica-
tions to the owners of works of art throughout the
kingdom would have failed to command attention.
your thanks to the gene-
rous Wejocoin mntriobauttohresartotilty in
the collection—the vast extent
and richness of whose posseations have not more
astonished the world than have their ready sacrifice
of personal enjoyment and convenience, and their
desire to assist in every way in their power the ad-
vancementand improvementof theirfellow-country-
men, excited its warmest admiration. (Cheers) Wo
further acknowledge with peculiar pleasure the
steady and excellent support that was extended to
the exhibition by its visitors, of all ranks and classes;
and fortunately, also, we can record with ml-
feigned satisfaction and pride, the excellent con-
duct of the humbler classes, who on this occasion,
as on many previous ones, proved themselves most
jealous guardians of the safety of property, and the
truest friends of order. (Cheers.)
For these various
manifestations of genuine consideration and kind-
ness towards their city and towards themselves, I
believe that time people of Manchester owe a very
deg) debt of gratitude, which they will long re-
member—a debt which they can only repay by con-
tinuing to encourage all good and liberal work.,
and by the firm determination always to hold a for-
ward rank in every movement which claims to in-
crease the happiness, to protect the honour, cr to
consolidate the power of our country. (Cheers.)
Mr. Mayor, I will only add again the sincere ex-
and sumptuous entertainment, and
also their appreciation of the uniform consideration
andPil .es'
st
gratifying°n
o f
kindness which they
th thanks of the committee for this
e
most
Seve al other teaks were afterwards given and
responded to. have received at the
hands of the council of this city. (Loud cheers.)

THE LAW OPlUM—Yesterday the law offices were
opened after the Chrietniss recess, in anticipation of the
ensuing Hilary Term, which commencts on Jan. 11.
THE WEAR COMMISSIONERS AND -SUNDERLAND DOOK.
—Toe long pending dispute between the directors and
shareholders of the Sunderland Dock and the Commis•
sinners of the river Wear, with regard to the latter hodl,
charging the usual river dues upon vessels leaving tbe
ivek by t'le sea ontle, -without any compensation to the
dock proprietors, has been amicably settled by those
bodies. Tbo following terms, to be ratified by Parl:a-
moot, have been agreed to :—" So long •as there shall
br not less than seven feet water at low waiter of ordi-
nal), spring tides from the outer dock gates of the
ionthein outlet into the sea into deep water the corn-
inksioi.ers to pay the dock cernpany the annual sum of
2,0001., sul•ject to the folloWing graduated rise and fall
ff shipments of c al in any year exceed 900,000 char-
ao additional Id. per cha:dron to be paid on such
excess, but never to rise above the total sum of 3,0001
A.nd in case shipments fall below 900,000 olialdrons, ld.
per chaldron to be deduct d from the 2,000/, per ani um.
And if the shipments foil below 600,000 chalirons, then
all payments to cease. The dock company to allow ships
not I)ading or unloading in the dock to pass from the
river through the southern outlet on payment of tke
same tolls as ships loading in the'dock, not exceeding in
any case 4d. per registered ton, vesiielp passing inwards
with or without cargo, and afterwards returning through
the dock, being only charged onco.

BOW-STREET.—Mary Diefke and Mary Ann
Dusseldorf were finally examined on the eharge of
shoplifting ; and a German named Frederich Diefke
the husband of the first prisoner, was charged as
the wilful receiver of the stolen property.
It appears that the prisoners were part of a gang
of foreigners, who, locating themselves in the
neighbourhood of the Dover-road, Southwark, em-
barked every morning for the West-end on thieving
excursions. Some of the party had been already
in custody for similar offences. Police constable
R. Pell, 3 M, having watched the two female pri-
soners on. the 23d inst., saw them go into the shop
of Mr. Cadman, Strand, and come out again, when,
after proceeding a short distance, one of them pre-
cluded a silk umbrella from under her shawl. He
detained the women, and found that the umbrella
had been stolen. The same woman had previously,
on the 15th inst., visited the shop of Mr. Morton,
of the Turnstile, where, while pretending to look
at a variety of goods, which were to be sent to a
false address, they contrived to stow away a consi-
derable quantity of cutlery, some of which was
pledged in the. Strand. Some of the stolen goods
and a great number of pawnbrokers' duplicates were
found at the male prisoner's • lodgings, where both
the women lived also.
Mr. Henry committed them for trial.
A man named John Teban, a discharged servant,
was also committed for stealing coats, umbrellas,
&c., from the halls of gentlemen's houses. le
usually inquired for the, housemaid, and when
asked if hemeant "Eliza," or "Jane," he promptly
replied " Yes."-- While the housemaid was being
sought, 'the -prismier stripped the house, and de-
eanaped.

MARLBOROUGH-S TREE T—Mary Ann E tTer-
ton, a young woman of very ladylike appearance,
was charged on su4picion of sterling a gold watch,
value 30 guineas from the persou of Mrs. Eliza
Elstob, of 7, North-place, Camberwell.

Mrs. Elstob stated she was iu the German Fair,
Langham-place, the preceding afternoon between
4 and 5: Ti ere was a considerable crowd of persons
collected round the musicians listening to the music,
to which spot she likewise was attracted. She saw
the prisdner in front of her and felt her press on
her muff, under which was her watch, secured by
a detector. Almost directly upon feeling
this pressure she missed her watch and am the pri-
soner's hand about her muff. She seized her by the
wrist, but she managed to get her hand into her
own muff, and, with the other hand, appeared to
pass something to a stout woman near her. She
kept her hold of the prisoner, raised an alarm, and,
a policeman coming up, gave her into custody.
Her watch, value 30 guineas, had not been traced.
Police-constable 343 of the A division was on
duty at the German Fancy Fair, and took the pri-
soner into custody as above stated. A lady's valua-
ble gold watch, horizontal movement, beautifully
enamelled back, and jewelled in eight holes, was
found on the prisoner, together with two diamond
rings, a pair of diamond earings, and a gold brooch
with the portrait of a gentleman on it.
The prisoner reserved her defence and was re-
manded till Tuesday.

MARYLEBONE. —Thos. Meredith was charged
with having, on the night of the 23d iust., burglari-
eusly entered the house of Mr. H. Jackson builder,
33, Tuayer-street, Manchester-square, and stolen
therefrom a coat, a jacket, a pair of shoes, and
three pairs of boots.
The stolen jacket was now produced and identi-
fied; it had been purchased of the prisoner by a
man named Goulden, in John's-court, Wigmore-
street.
. The article was identified by the prosecutor, and
the prisoner was committed for trial.

WESTMINSTER.—AIfred Johnson and John
M'Donald were finally examined, charged with
stealing two diamond rings from the shop-window
of Mr. Edward Smith, of 17, Victoria-road, Pim-
lico, silversmith and pawnbroker.
The robbery was committed on Monday fortnight
during the heavy fog. A lit►le girl, named Rich-
ardson, attracted by the showy articles in the win-
dow, advanced towards it, and saw Johnson and
'lwo _other men at it. Johnson had an instru-
ment of some kind against the window, and im-
mediately afterwards a piece of glass dropped
out, when Johnson thrust his hand through
the aperture, and, taking two rings out,
handed them to one of his comrades.
At thAt moment the thieves caught sight of a
Mr. Makepeaca and his wife, who had just come up
in time to witness the robbery, and darted off. Mr.
Makepeace pursued Johnson until ho was captured.
The other prisoner, who had been seen with him
an hour previously, trying to cut another window
in Tothill=street, was subsequently apprehended,
and Loth the girl Richardson and Mr. and Mrs.
Makepeace said tint to the best of their . belief he
was one of the two engaged in the robbery at Mr.
Smith's. The rings were not recovered.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.—William Jessop was
charged with the following outrage :
Harriette Davis, who appeared to be, and was
described by her landlady, as a very quiet and in-
offensive young woman, but who was in the most
deplorable conditit n from injuries and exhaustion,
stated that the prisoner on Monday night saw her
home, where shortly afterwards be made a request
she could not comply with, and immediately she
' said so he grasped her by the throat, and, flung her
over the edgy, of part of the furniture, declared he
would strangle her, and held her in that position
till she was nearly senseless, when he e.t length re-
leased hr. She then tried to esca e from the room,
but the prisoner on seeing her doing so seiz-3d the
poker, and struck her such a fearful blow with it
on the side of the head as to pitch her from the top
of tLe stairs to the bottom. On partially recovering
from the joint effects of the blow and fall she
with the blood s roaming down her face, into the
back kitchen, to hide herself, but the prisoner
followed her, flung her down, knelt upon her
stomach, thrust his hand into the pocket of her
dress, from which he took some money, and then
att.eupted to escape from the house. She con-
trived to follow him, to give him into custody,
but on reaching the passage the prisoner suddenly
Wined upon her, and struck her such a blow on
the head aVi hitalf a pair of firetongs that she fell
to the ground senseless, and remembered nothing
more that occurred to her till she found herself in