The Sun.
London, England, 1861-01-12 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

The traffic returns of railways in the United Kingdom
for the week ending the sth January amounted to £447,756,
and for the corresponding week of last year to £447,684,
showing an increase of £72. The gross receipts for the
eight railways having their termini in the metropolis
amounted to £191,942, and for the corresponding week of
1860 to £196,034, showing a decrease of £4,092. The decrease
on the Eastern Counties Railway amounted to £1,485 ;
on the Great Northern to £1,848 ; on the Great Western
to £142; on the London and North-Westet a to £870; on
the London and Blackwall to £97 ; and on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast, to £555; total, £4,996. But
from this must be deducted £789, the increase on the Lon-
don and South-Western, and £ll5 on the South-Eastern—
together £904; leaving the decrease as above, £4,092. The
receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom amounted
to £255,814, and for the corresponding week of last year to
£251,650, showing an increase of £4,164, from which must
be deducted the decrease on the metropolitan lines, leaving
the total increase £72, as compared with the corresponding
week of 1860.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. ~........___,,
1861. 1860. 1861. 1860.
-----------. _
X £
Ballymena and Port Rush 35 35 291 282
Belfast and N, Counties 65 65 1,249 1,015
Belfast and County Down 21 21 564 505
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June - - _ _
Blyth and Tyne 2O 20 1,240 1,080
Bristol and Exeter 125 125 5,151 5,781
Caledonian
Cockernaouth& Workington 8 8 282 332
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 348 307
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6} 6} 202 228
Cork and Youghal 26 - 180 -
Cornwall s3} 5311 1,004 941
Deeside l7 17 193 223
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,307 1,240
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,469 1,464
Dub. & Wicklow (in.King,st ) 40} • 40} 1,762 1,914
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee and Arbroath l7} 11 646 688
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun. 31 31 1,112 1,065
East Anglian 67} 67} 734 808
E.Counties,Nrfk..&E.Union 499 499 18.618 20,103
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee 78 78 3,461 3,585
Forth & Clyde Jurction
Furness
Glasgow & Sor ',h-Western
283 1831 183
283/ 8,991 8,318
Great Northern 19,f80 21,528
Great North of Scotland
rit.Southu. & Westn.(lrind ) 329 2404 6,336 6,886
Great Western sB3} 5781 31,074 32,116
mverness & Aberdeen i UDC 55 55 616 612
Irish South-Eastern 2s} 25} 213 281
Lancashire & Yorkshire 395} 395} 35,895 I 33,850
Leomins..er and Kin ;:on
Limerick and Ennis... 241 241 129 146
Limerick and Foynes 26} 26* 100 137
Llanelly 46f 4 442 337
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l
„,..0Z 1,342 1,439
London & South-Western . 389 64
229 15,565 14,773
Loud. Brighton, & S. Coast 224 4 12,328 13,383
London, Chatham, & Dover 6 19} 731 277
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 42 40 1,001 980
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh 17' 174 11,107 12,118
Manch. S.J un.& Altrinchamf 9} 9} 1,083 1,911
34
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 614} ' 6144 31576 31,446
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind. 177 177
Monkland 56 56 2,67 t 3,229
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 11 44 1,145 967
Newcastle and Carlisle 7B 78 2,038 1,872
2,771 2,820
North British (incl. Selkirk
and Gal asbiels)
North Devon 35 35 6,115 5,872
403 404
N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 764 764
North London 9 9 33,812 32,459
North Staffordshire ' 246 233 2,217 2,372
Oswestry and Newton__
19 20 - 5,9
37987 7,516
Rhymnl 191
St. Helens Canal & Railway 30 30
3:
~'
80666415896 231 ~;43:880
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern ll5 115
Shrewsbury & Birmingham 29* 29* -
'-
Shrewsbury and Chester
Shrewsbury & Hereford - -
Shropshire Union 29f 29f 1,884 1,615
845 742
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 306
1711 15179111 115629::,609178956215530 19,6474136::5413:0133889
South Wales
S. Yorkshire ar d River Dun 118 118
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 55 55 6,648 6,513
Ulster 5l
Ulverstone and Lancaster
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 2sf 25} 13902" 1
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 ,128
Waterford and Limerick
,228
West Cornwall 271 271 1 1,190
W. Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 39 39 649 518
West Midland
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 8,855 6,280
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 227 2
287
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 498 543
467 584
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52
Austrian • B2B 673 867 767
28,665 23,095
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 261
Buffalo and Lake Huron - -
897
Demerara (fortnight) -- 1,357
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 -
109* 1081 2,77519 21'3661g
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of 'France ... ... 1032 1006 60,702 8,;193
Grand Trunk of Canada.... 970 46,921
9" 13,702 11 907
Great Indian Peninsula.... 2971 1914 3,571 3:63 z
Great Luxembourg l2B 128 2,010 1,905
Great Western of Canada 345 345 7,574 7513
Lyons and Geneva 142 142 6,615 4,262
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 301 284
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 613 602 691 710
53,530 52,971
Norwegian Trunk 44 44
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 840 946 604
Paris and Orleans 9 83.073 79,546
22
Paris and Strasburg - 922 44,197 45,068 ._
Royal Danish 69 69 -
Sambre and Meuse 343 348
1086; 10 8 268 38,848793 301,991521
South Austrian
Southern of France
777 773 20,831 16,270
Welland....
West Flanders -
- -
W. and N.W. of France 742 730 28,483 33,846

THE FORTHCOMING CONFERENCE ON RAGGED
AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS.

An influential meeting of gentlemen, who assembled on
the invitation of the Recorder and Mr. Charles Ratcliff,
took place yesterday, at Dee's Hotel, Birmingham, for the
purpose of making the necessary arrangements for the ap-
proaching conference in reference to "the education of the
dangerous and perishing classes of society," intended to be
held on the 23d instant, in this town. The attendance in-
cluded the Recorder, who presided ; the Mayor (A. Ryland,
Esq.), R. Spooner, Esq., M.P., the es-Mayor (Sir J. Rat -
cliff), Messrs. C. Ratcliff, John F. Ledsam, Aston, Barlow,
Yates, Hibbert, Morgan, Hasluck, Jones, &c., &c. ; Revs.
Burt, Pettitt, Brittles, Hill, Dr. Mackenzie. Apologies for
absence were read from the Hon. and Rev. G. M. Yorke,
Mr. Kynnersley, and other gentlemen interested in the
movement, and promising their co-operation.
In opening the proceedings, the Recorder observed that
they were met for the purpose of making the necessary
business preparations for the Conference, the object of
which had been fully explained in the circular accompany-
ing the invitations. He alluded to the Conferences which
had been previeusly held in the town, and which had con-
ferred such great distinction upon it, and to the important
results to which they had led, more particularly in regard to
the Reformatory Schools. He remarked that the Indus-
trial Schools had received the benefit of Government
assistance, and a bill is now in preparation for supplying
the deficiency with regard to them. He also noticed the
withdrawal of the assistance from Ragged Schools, and
observed that it was to that particular class of institutions
that the attention of the Conference would be directed. He
concluded by expressing his gratification that they would
have the benefit of Sir John Pakington's presidency at the
morning meeting, and that he hoped to be able to induce
Sir John Coleridge, the friend of education, who so long
adorned the judicial bench, to take the chair at the evening
meeting.

A large committee, consisting of the gentlemen present,
was appointed, with power to add to their number, and, at
the request of the meeting, Mr. Charles Ratcliff was ap-
pointed Hon. Secretary.
It was decided that the Mayors, Magistrates, Managers
of Reformatory and Industrial Schools, and Chaplains of
Prisons in the kingdom, and the Provosts of the different
Scotch boroughs, should be invited to attend the Con-
ference.
The Conference will take place at Dee's Hotel, in the
morning of the 23d, and a meeting in the evening at the
Town Hall, the use of which has been granted by the
Mayor.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING.
TIIE MURDERS AT BALLYMOTE.

A correspondent of the Freeman's Journal writes
as follows in reference to this dreadful affair :
" Longford, Thursday Night.
" This fearful murder has occasioned the most intense
sensation throughout the entire of the country wherever
the dreadful tidings reached. It had been ascertained this
morning that old Mr. O'Callaghan was found dead in his
bed with his throat cut. His old wife was found under
the shop counter with her throat cut from ear to ear, and
the body of the servant girl was discovered outside the
stable door with her head almost severed from her body.
The following facts have just reached me, which I hasten
to forward to you : —Some time since a man named Matthew
Phipps occupied a house and shop adjoining the house of
Mr. O'Callaghan, in which the fearful tragedy occurred.
This Phipps failed in business, became a bankrupt, and
subsequently left the town. On Monday. evening Phipps
was seen going into Mr. O'Callaghan's shop, and when the
murder was discovered two tumblers were on a table near
Mr. O'Callaghan's bed, who was lying ill at the time, and

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it was supposed that Phipps had been asked by the old man
to drink something with him. In the town of Sligo, on
Tuesday, Matthew Phipps went to a butcher named Con-
lish and ordered a neck of mutton, which he directed to be
sent to the Imperial Hotel, and paid 3s. 6d. for the meat.
He threw the silver on the scales, and as he did so Conlish
observed that the coin was bloody, but, thinking that it
might have come in contact with the bloody part of the
mutton, made no further observation, but sent a boy to
accompany Phipps with the mutton to the hotel. On the
journey from the butcher's stall towards the hotel Phipps
fell three times, as he was very tipsy. The boy called on
one of the constabulary, and said it would be well to take
the drunken man to the barrack, as he had a great deal of
money about him, A constable took him into custody, and
when he was searched with other money was found £37 in
notes, which were saturated with blood. He was detained
a prisoner until next morning (Wednesday), when he was
set at liberty, and the money returned to him. Some time
after he was let go the constabulary heard of the murder,
information was sent in every direotion, and a mounted
horseman traced the supposed murderer to a small place
called Riverstown, where he came up with him. He was
stupidly drunk at the time. He was taken into custody,
and was conveyed to Sligo Gaol, where he is lodged for
the present."