The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic
return for the week ending Jan. 11, 1857 L'55,3,74 0 0
Corresponding week last year
GREAT NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for the
week ending Jan, 4, 1857 £21,463 11 11
Corresponding week last year 20,674 3 11

CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for
the week ending Jan. 11, 1857 £4,570 0 0
Corresponding week last year 4,253 0 0

Increase in 1856 .

£314 0 0

LANCASUIRE AND YORSSIIIRD lIAILWAY.—Traffic re-
turn for the week ending Jan. 11, 1837 £21,857 310
Corresponding week last year

EDINBURGH, PERTH, AND DUNDEE AND SCOTTISH CEN-
TRAL RAILWAYS.—Traffic return for the week ending
Jan. 11, 1857 £6,012 15 8
Corresponding week last year 5,330 12 6
CORK AND BANDON RAlLWAY.—Traffic return for week
ending Jan. 10, 1857 £2B7 15 0
Corresponding week last year

LONDON GENERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY.—Traffic re-
turns for the weelt ending Jan. 10, 1357 £10,642 13 6

CONVEYANCE or MAILS.—The charge for the convey-
ance of the Poet-office mails was, in the year ended
March, 61G,596/.

VALUE OF BRITISH DANK DEPOSlTS.—Yesterday, at
the Auction Mart, Mr. Shuttleworth offered to public
auction a balance of Account amounting to 25L/. 19s. 61.,
in the Royal British Bank, with the warrant for the
first dividend, which sold at 11g. 61. per 11. Three
similar balances of 1711. 9s. 11d., 3871. 14s. 9d., and
871. 2s. 9d., respeotively sold at ss. the 1/.
Flns.—Yesterday morning, about one, a fire broke
out at 'the Fortune of War public-house, East-street,
Manchester-square, in the occupation of Mr. Chapman,
licensed victualler, and was nearly attended with the
loss of several lives. It was first observed by a police-
constable in the lower part of the house, when he gave
an immediate alarm, upon which the inmates, who were
asleep, appeared at the windows. Mrs. Chapman was
at the first floor, rt hen she was urged to wait till the
arrival of the engines, but she refused to do so, and got
out. She grasped hold of the lamp-iron and dropped
from it. A police-constable tried to save her, in doing
which they were both thrown to the pavement. They
were both so seriously hurt that it was necessary to take
them to the hospital. The barman lowered himself
from the second floor by tying two sheets together, but
before he reached the pavement the fire escape arrived,
by which he was rescued from his perilous position.
WINE DUTIES REDUCTION.—Mr. Oliveira, M.P., in a
communication dated Oporto, Jan. 5, says :—" At Lis-
bon the prices cf wines havo very much risen in conse-
quence of the last vintage baying been a very short one,
and stocks held by merchants are much reduced ; whilst
here, in Oporto, the stocks are reduced to about 80,000
pipes, and only 15,000 have been entered as the produce
of last vintage, and the exports last year were 42,000
pipes. Many influential persons both in Lisbon and
Oporto favour the principle of a reduced duty in Eng-
land, and it is not improbable that local committees will
be formed in both cities to correspond with the committee
in London, and to assist in bringing about a mutual re-
duction of tariff. The new Chamber has among t its
members a considerable number who are inclined towards
free trade principles, and they intend to advecate their
views. The export of cattle from Oporto increases very
much, having last year amounted to 4,268 head, as
under :—To London, 3,427 ; to Liverpool, 127 ;
Southampton, 712."

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THE RUSSIANS IN Cie!came. —The gftzette of the
Cauccts7l3 relates in the following style the mighty deer's
of the Nogais Militia : " Forty men of that body,
under the command of Major Doubiega, and accompanied
by Captain-Lieutenant Potou:off, left Fort Kaladjineki,
situated oa the Great Laba (a southern tributary of the
liouban river), in order to march to the banks of the
Chedok, a stream that -flews into the La..le Labs,
where a detachment of Russian troops was engaged in
the construction of a new fort. This small feice had
already passed without opposition over a great part of
the distance between the two forte when it was attacked,
about a league from the Chedok, by a troop of 300
Cireassians. To alielat from their horses, to form a
hollow Kitten, and open an effective fire, was for cur
40 brave fellows the work of an instant. The splen-
did coolness of Major Deubiaga wins tee best en-
c nira.gemeet for his men ; as for M. Potoe'off, known
as a crack shot in the Caucasne, he had ahorady eeiptied
the saddles of eight men, when several bullets bit him in
both his legs and his head ; he incontinently attempted
to get up again, hut being unable to stand, he eat down
anal recommenced shco'.ing. The Cireas, ians did not
dare to attack this handful of brave fellows in close fight,
and were satisfied with firing on them from a distance ;
nevertheless the position of the Nogais became critical ;
three of their comrades had already fallen, and 25 were
wounded more or less severely; among the latter were
lalejer Donbiaga and M. Potonloff ; 14 men alone re-
mained on their legs. The firing bad lasted upwards of
half-in-hour, and the Circassians were preparing to cut
down the militiamen, when by a providential chance
two sotniae of Cossacks from the fort of Chedok, arid
one eotnia from that of Kcladjinski, where they had
beard the firing, arrived in aid of their comrades. When
they saw the Cossacks issuing frein the forest, the Cir.
c,aseians took to flight, and thanks to the speed of their
horses, which had thus to rest during the combat, they
escaped from certain death. The Cossacks pursued them
as far as the River Khodae, and killed more than a score
of them." It may be as well to compare this boastful
narrative with the statements of our Constantinople cor-
respondent to-day about the indifferent success of the
Russian arms in Circassie.
CONVICTION AND SENTENCE FOR WILL FOF.GERY.—
At the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, on Wednes-
day last, Dr. Dionysius Wielobycki, who had been con-
victed on the Friday previous of forgery and utteringof a
fabricated will, was sentenced to 14 years'transportation.
The prisoner, originally a Polish refugee, had for 12 or
13 years practised as a homoeopathic physician in E tin-
burgh, his income having latterly approached to 1,2001.
He had borne a respectable character, and bad generally
won the confidence and regard of his patients. He hed been
called some years ago to attend a family of elderly per-
sons in Portobello, of whom only one, Miss Isabella
Darling, now survived, and so 'great influence had be
obtained over them that he had managed to eccure pos-
session of all their funds, about 4,0001,, with the view of
will to on his
nephews
htewwos
investing them for their benefit. Thomas Darling, who
died in April, 1856, left his property by w
sisters, Margaret and Isabella, exchmeeg
and nieces by other sisters. Margaret died in the Oct.
following, and, after an opinion bad been obtained from
counsel to the effect that, Margaret having died intee-
tate, the nephews and nieces could not by Thomas's
will be excluded from their proportion of Margaret's
share, the prisoner next day uttered a document pre-
tending to be a will of Margaret conveying her property,
to Isabella. Fromthe
faeile, a
nd evidenceignorant it appeared
htanda t. t
rlas
na
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belle, a weak,
scribed the will from scrolls supplied by tlitehiairii.bonetenr
and forged the signature, and that,..
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asi a
forgery
lurgery
uttered by the prisoner and caeller,
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soner and Isabella Darling destroyed it between them,
by the agent for the nephews and nieces, thepri-
al72dooa/ .
The evidence also showamerul share
,cowmhpierhomneisaerlywas made with the claimants for
I will in his favour from Isabella Darling, that he had re-
attendance, neency, See. ; tnhtaetd
theto tphreiisrorniegrhtf
bad
got
a.
re-
ceive I considerable sums from the family for medical
him about 500/, is notes atnhdatsitlhveery
hoarded, without receiving any receipt or acknowledg-
choaind,awlshoicinhtrtuhsetyedhatdo
meet. All the correspondence of the family in dismis-
sing the former and employing a new law agent, and in
transacting their pecuniary affairs, fora year and a half,
was either written by the prisoner or by Isabella from
scrolls supplied by him, Isabella stating in the witness-
box that she very often did not understand what the
doctor gave her to write. In passing sentence, tho Lord Justice Clerk remarked that the offence was
not only of the gravest description of the class of for-
gery, but it was all the more flagrant that is had been,
committed by a medical adviser intruding himself into
the pecuniary affairs of his patients. The judges at the
trial had in this case consulted all the other judges of the
Court, and they found them all firmly and decidedly of
opinon that, notwithstanding the recommendation of the
jury to leniency on the ground of former good character,
no exception to the course of practice could be made in
this case, and the Court felt they had no alternative but
to sentence the prisoner for the period of 14 years. The
trial and its result have occasioned great sensation in
Edinburgh, where the prisoner was extensively known.