The Sun.
London, England, 1850-02-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

RAILWAY nun:le.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
we) s for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week In the previous year:—

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Jan. 26 Aberdeen .......... - .... •• • • ••• • • 631 ii 399
27 Amiens and Boulogne ....... ........ 1,142 I,' I;
26 Belfast and Ballymena ••••-•• • • • • • • 414 3:)5
27 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 732 695
27 Bolton, Blackburn, Clltheroe, and W. Y. 420 336
27 Bristol and Exeter • ... ..... ... -
20 Caledonian.... .........
2G Chester and llolyhead ..... ...... •
24 Dublin and Drogheda• .•• • • • ...... • • 713 645
29 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • " 583 687
26 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen. •••• • • • 923 890
27 East Anglian.. -•••,••• • • • • • • •
2G Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• •• . • - 2,439 2,615
26 Edinburgh and Perth ••.•.•.. • . • • 1,754 1,430
27 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 13,532 13 133
20 East Lancashire •••••••••• • • • • " • • • • 2,588 1,712
26 Eastern Union ••••••••••• • • • • • • • ' • ' • 1,604 1,105
26 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 2,407 2,035
26 Glasgow and Greenock. •••• • • • • 0. •• 810 772
20 Great Northern and E. L - 2,398 1,628
26 Great Southern and Western •••• • • • • 3,521 2,929
27 Great Western, &c •• .. ..... .....• . . . 16,434
.16,674
27 Lancashire and Yorkshire..• ••• .• .... 11,419 9,765
20 Lancaster and Carlisle •••• • • ..
- Leeds and Thirsk - ......... .....
70 765
27 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport •• •
26 Londonderry and Enniskillen.• ••.. • • 114 89
27 London and North Western, &e.
27 London and Blackw•all.• •••••• • • • • • • 544 581
26 London and Brighton .• • • . 6,344 6,709
27 London and South Western .•••• • . • - 7.089 8,195
27 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire '4,410 2,707
27 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.. • • 19,214 18,611
27 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • • . 1,131 974
26 Monklands ••
.•,..•• 760 689
27 North British • ... ,•••••••• • • • • • • • .. 2,837 1.9 i
26 Paris and Rouen. ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 6,274 4,929
26 Rouen and llavre
27 Scottish Central ... ••• .• ...... ••„ .• 896 750
26 Scottish' Midland ..............., .. 238 226
27 Shrewsbury and Chester • • .... ••• • .. 1,291 1,235
27 Shropshire Union .................. 343 --
26 South Eastern and Branches .. •.• . - 7,731 6,63 G
20 South Devon.• • ..... .••..••..• • • • .. 1,356 1,176
2GTaff Vale ...• ...................... 1,671 1,782
27 Ulster. ••.••• • • • .
- Waterford and Limerick.............- 233
20 Whltehaven Junction ........• .... • • 161 168
27 York and North Mid,and ........... 11,374 12,163
27 York and Newcastle . •

DISTRESSING SUICIDE Br A LICENSED VIC-
TUALLER'S WIFF.—On Thursday an inquest was taken
before. Mr. M. Wakley, at the Middlesex Hospital, on
view of the body of Mrs. ElizAbeth Mitchell, aged 35
year', the wit's of Mr. Mitchell, the proprietor of the
Crown public-house, at the corner of Broad•street,
Golden-zquaTe. The deceased, while labouring under
delirium tremens, leaped from a seeond-floor window into
the 3 ard, a distance of 30 feet, and sustained some dread-
injuries in the fall. She died on Tuesday last at the
above-mentioned hospital. The jury returned a verdict
of " Death from delirium tremens; but whether the de-
ceased jumped from the window with a suicidal intent or
not there was not sufficient evidence to prove."
WARNING TO MAGISTRATES' CLERES.—The Cri-
minal Court of Appeal yesterday declared that the convic-
tion of Christopher and others, at Liverpool, was bad be-
cause the depositions, on which they had been committed,
had been taken by the magistrate's clerk in the absence of
the prisoners, and because the Recorder refused to permil
the counsel for the prisoners to put a question to one of the
witnesses for the purpose of eliciting from him what had
passed between himself and the magistrate's clerk. The
Chief Justice in giving judgment said "The clerk had done
an act which the law would not sanction. The convic-
tion was therefore bad, and the prisoners must be dis-
charged.
EXECUTION OF MARGARET LENNOX ALIAS
HAMILTON.—This criminal suffered, the last penalty of the
law for the crimes of forgery and murder, on Thursday
morning, in front of the Court-house, at Glasgow. Strenuous
efforts had been made by a number of ladies and other
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sons to obtain a commutation of the sevneteensce,whlliti
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tion; ; they consisted chiefly of people of the lowest grade,
with numbers of women mixed up here and there with the
mass. The miserable culprit, who had retained her firmness
up to Wednesday evening, had undergone from that time a
complete change, and become perfectly helpless. She was
supported on the scaffold between two officers of the police,
by whose assistance she walked slowly to the gallows. The
rope was then placed around her neck, and the officers
having quitted her, she fell backwards, evidently in a
swoon. The executioner at this moment pulled the rope, the
drop fell, and she died instantaneously while in a state of in-
sensibility. The body, after hanging the usual time, was
cut down, and interred within the precincts of the prison.
The deceased was in the 25th year of her age ; she had been
married two YeArg, and URI IQ4 an 4444 gicntb§ old.