The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-29 00:00:00

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RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURN&

The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
to this clay, are in round figures as under :

1857. 1856.
Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver 4,714 4,294
Great Western £29,691 £29.563
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton 14,826 16,088
Midland
South-Eastern 19,488 21,883
Great Northern

Lancashire and Yorkshire
Bristol and Exeter

22.661 22,460
6,595 6.743

Chester and Holyhead
East Lancashire

6,478 6,474
6,020 6,634

Lancaster and Carlisle ....

7,512

6,632

London General Omnibus Compny 10,285 11,044
Illanchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 11,082 10,060
Nortb-E Astern
North Staffard

North London
Edinburgh arid Glasgow . .
Glasgow and South-Western

2,269 2,462
6,198 6,002
7,192 6,780

Great North of Scotland
Great Western of Canada
Grand Trunk of Canada

The Siamese Ambassador, yesterday morning, disem-
barked alongside-Portsmouth dockyar_i. The suite con-
sisted of 31 persons, all quaintly but gorgeously dressed.
They partook of luncheon with Sir G. Se, mour. and
then proceeded to their apartments at the George Hotel.
JOHN HOWtROPT, THE IMPOSTER —Four true hills
have been found against this man for obtaining monies
by -- false pretences and -ter conspiracy.—Mecneltester
Guardian.
" The rumour," says a letter from Rome of the 19th,
"of an intended marriage between the Pope's nephew,
Count Mastai, and Mdlle. del Drago is now so prevalent
here that there cannot be any irapropriety in mentioning
the project."
Accouhts from Vienna of the 22d, state that Prince
Danilo has sent his secretary Wlahovic to the Court of
Austria, but that that gentleman has a 4 yet only been
received in a private character by the sub-secretary of
State, Baron Werner.
THE IRON AND COAL TR/MEC—Notwithstanding the
unfavourable news from the United States and the high
rate of discount, the mills and forges in Wolverhampton
have not as yet exhibited any diminished activity—a
circumstance that shows the thoroughly healthy state of
the trade.
DEATH OP CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHN FRANCIS KELSO.
—This gentleman, who bad recently taken up his tem-
porary residence, with his wife and family, at Salthill,
near Windsor, has met his death on the Slough-road, on
Monday last, by being knocked down by a horse, ridden
by a man named Neighbour, a tailor, residing at
Windsor.
HAMPSTEAD HEATH.—Yesterday a meeting of dele-
gates from a large number of parishes was held at the
Court-house, Marylebone, for the purpose of determining
the steps necessary to be taken, with the view of intro-
ducing a bill into Parliament in the ensuing session for
the permanent preservation of Hampstead Heath to the
public. Initiatory steps to carry out the objects of the
meeting were agreed to unanimously.
THE AaT TREASURES EXHIEITION.—A general meet-
ing of the guarantee subscribers to the late Art Trea-
sures Exhibition was held yesterday, in the Towh-hall,
Manchester. Colonel Hamilton, secretary, read the
report, which stated it to be the opinion of the commit-
tee that the guarantee fund would not only remain
untouched, but that the subscribers would eventually be
called upon to appropriate a surplus to commemorate
the Exhibition. No tenders have been received as yet
for the building.
3 Tars ACCIDENT TO "Bret BEN."—Nothing, it is stated,
can be done in connection with the accident to " Big
Ben" until the commission appointed by the House of
Commons, consisting of Sir C. Barry, Professor Wheat-
stone, and Mr. Denison, Q.C., meet to determine whether
its immense mass of fourteen tons of the best Loll metal
shall be recast, or whether a new bell of different make
and metal shall be prodecred.

THE PORTUGUESE TELEGRAPHS. The system o

Portuguese telegraphs in direct connection with those of
Spain, France, and England have just been opened.
They have been carried out by English contractors for
the Government of Portugal, and unite in a telegraphic
network Lisbon, Oporto, Arrayollos, Elves, Estremoz,
Belem, Cintra, Caldes, Coimbra, Santarem, and other
towns, and will be of advantage in connection with the
trade of the Brazils, and the wine trade of the
metropolis.
LORD AIERCROMRY AND HIS TENANTS.—We under-
stand that Lord Abercromby, after spending a few months
very pleasantly at home, has again gone abroad, and is
likely to pass the ensuing winter in Egypt. During his
residence on the family estates his lordship visited the
tenants of the various farms, and by entering freely into
conversation, and addressing them in friendly and encou-
raging terms, his visits have had a beneficial tendency,
and in effect have promoted the good feeling so desirable
between landlord and tenant.—lliou Advertseir.
From documents lately discovered at Venice by M.
A. Baschet, sent thither by the French Government to
collect data connected with the hiatary of France, it ap-
pears that the project of cutting through the Isthmus
of Suez was entertained by the Venetians as early as
the year 1500. The Venetian Government was, /few.
ever, discouraged by Vasco de Gama's discoveries, and
broke off the negetiations which it had commenced with
the Ottoman Government for the purpose.
THEI MEDITERRANEAN ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—The
difficulty which occurred in the further extension of the
Mediterranean telegraph to Africa has been overcome,
and it is now daily expected that the line will be com-
pleted to Bona, in Algiers, the vessels being now on the
spot with the extra cable, The vessel with the cable to
unite Malta and Corfu with Cagliari left Liverpool on
Thursday last. The difficulties in the Mediterranean are
stated to be greater than those in the Atlantic, the for-
mer suddenly descending from 100 to 1,000 fathoms,
while the latter presents a nearly level surface for the
whole distance.

GROUND BROKEN ON THE FIRST RAILROAD IN
MINNESOTA.—We understand that the Minnesota and
Pacific Railroad Company have made arrangements by
which they will give employment to a large number of
labourers during this fall, and so long as the weather
will permit. This will be good news to a large class who
will be thrown out of employment by the stoppage of
city improvement,. The Times says the first ground
was broken on the IA instant, and a number of men
engaged at work between this city and St. Anthony,
that portion of the road being the first that will be com-
pleted. Six miles of the road are staked out for the
operations of the workmen.—St Paul Pioneer.
THE ROBBERY OF LADY ELLESMERE'S JEWELS AND
LADES,—In the month of January last, while the Coun-
tess of Ellesmere was proceeding to Windsor on a visit
to her Majesty, a box, containing costly dresses and
laces, and with a case of her ladyship's jewels enclosed
in it (the value oftbe whole estimated at nearly 15,0001.)
was stolen from the top of a cab, which was conveying
some of her ladyship's personal attendants from the town
mansion in Cleveland-square, St. James's, to the rail-
way station at Paddington. The box, broken up,
and of course empty, was soon afterwards found, in a
piece of waste ground in the neighbourhood of the
Curtain-road, Shoreditch ; and printed bills were
widely circulated, offering a reward of 5001. for the
discovery of the thieves and the stolen property, but the
most experienced of the detective police have been unable
to obtain any trace of either until within the last
day or two, when Inspector Thornton learned that
Evans, a detective attached to the G division had got
possession of some •f the missing articles. Evans, it
appears, had occasion to visit the house of a tradesman
in the neighbourhood where the box had been found,
and on searohing the ap-artments discovered quantities of
property, now believed to be the produce of extensive
depredations in the City and elsewhere, and amongst the
rest rich silks and laces, belonging, as has since been
ascertained, to Lady Ellesmere. Yesterday her lady-
ship's housekeeper and maid were taken by the officers
to inspect those articles, which they at once identified.
The lady's-maid who had packed the box recagnisei par-
ticularly a white veil of point lace, which she said had
been Ler ladyship's wedding veil. There were also
several stockings marked with her ladyship's initials,
and other things which she knew to have bee❑ in the
box. No clue has yet been found, however, to any of
the stolen jewels al d other valuables.
A MILD PRESCRIPTION.—The new correspondent of
Le Nord, who signs himself" Verax," and who professes
to be a civil servant of the East India Company of 30
years' standing, continues his " Revelations of India,"
but still without adding anything whatever to our stock
of information on the subject. He declares that our jec
cial spteM in India Is so oorrupt that what should be a
court of justice is no better than "a den of thieves ;"
and it is this, together with the iniquitous annexation of
native states, which has caused so violent and sudden

be protests against the
an explosion of hatred in CheheartE; ofliifonrdovoes.ngleTanhcilett;
thatutt e t eedv
even
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excessiveevlis h
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Government
`'do not justify Ihe brutal atrooities committed by
the sepoys ;" and for their punishment he goes on to
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would,"
propose a law by virtue of which every Mahomedan
should be deprldtvhra
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nofohies
of
fivtihl
erigrehbtesißiuwAitnhglaon-
India. Iw"
M (for Mutineer) upon his back, and I would propose a
law by which every person thus branded who might
hereafter be found within the English dominions in India
should be hanged without even the form of a trial, upon
the first tree
Say by
ib th
ae
live roadside, and if it were possible to
catch Nana , I would send him to London,
to be shut up in an iron cage, in which he should be
exhibited with the wild beasts at the Zoological Gardens."
It is remarkable that the same writer who recommends
this wholesale sentence upon the Mahometan population
(in which community, in spite of the 25 years' experience
in India for which " Verax" takes credit, he evidently
supposes Nana Sahib to be included), goes on to say, in
another part of his letter that he "shudders" to think
of the cruelty of General Neill in obliging the murderers
of our countrywomen to clean up the innocent blood
'which they had stilt.