The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-13 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for
the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to
each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandise:—
Week Total.
ended Name of Railway. £. a. d.
May 4 Arbroath and Forfar 147 2 7
4 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,343 4 7
3 Birmingham and Gloucester 2,059 17 7
3 Brandling Junction 591 4 0
3 Chester and Birkenhead
Dublin and Kingstown —
5 Dundee and Arbroath 243 8 9i
4 Durham and Sunderland 354 11 5
4 Edinburgh and Glasgow • 2,470 15 7
5 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 4,272 1 1
4 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,305 8 2
4 Glasgow and Greenock BOl 14 2
4 Grand Junction 9,019 18 0
4 Great North of England 1,551 9 2
5 Great Western
3 Liverpool and Manchester
4 London and Birmingham
5 London and Blackwall 977 2 8
4 London and Brighton
7 London and Croydon
9 London and Greenwich 854 13 0
5 London and South Western .......
2 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 752 3 10i
4 Manchester and Birmingham 3,749 19 5
4 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 5,866 4 4
4 Midland Counties
4 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,349 2 1
5 Newcastle and North Shields 319 7 5
4 North Midland
3 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,308 4 5
April3o Paris and Orleans 5,800 11 3
May 6 Paris and Rouen 5,368 0 0
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4 Preston and lyy-re 3lO 9 9
4 Sheffield and Manchester 620 11 4
9 South Eastern
4 Taff Vale - 866 15 5
5 Ulster r:i 552 9 4
~ 4 York and North Midland

SIR WALTER SCOTT'S MONUMENT.—The London
Committee for completing this truly national work have, we
regret to state, been compelled to appeal to the public for as-
sistance to finish it. The monument consists of a handsome
Gothic shrine from a design by the late Mr. Kemp, *losing
a marble statue by Mr. Steele, to the memory of Sir Walter
Scott, The Committee were guided in their adoption of the
plan by the weight of public opinion in favour of that ulti-
mately selected, and from which the monument is now in
course of erection in Edinburgh, the city of Sir Walter's
birth. The greater part of the building is already erected,
but the funds originally subscribed are found inaiequate for
its completion, and although great exertions have been made
to raise the whole amount in Edinburgh, about 1,0001. is still
wanting. We cannot conceive a greater humiliation to any
nation than the fact that a monument to such a man should
remain unfinished. This claim to respect and distinction
should not be confined either to the city or the land of his
birth. The only limit we would propose would be that the
sum required should be raised by subscription from those only
who have derived pleasure and instruction from his works.
We are satisfied that a collection on such terms would soon
enable Messrs. Coutts, the bankers to the Committee, to an-
nounce the receipt of a balance sufficient for the object.
THE CHILD MURDER AT HAMPTON COURT. A
curious question arises respecting the right of the Coroner of
her Majesty's palaces to hold an inquest on those portions
of the body of the child found in one
wof the drains of the
palace at Hampton Court. By the S. 2 HenryVlll ,c. 12,
—" If a murder be committed within the precincts of the
King's palace, the inquisition shall be taken by the coroner
of the household, by twelve or more of the yeomen, officers of
his Majesty's household." Now, in the case in question, the
body was found in or near the mouth of a drain which runs
from the palace, and under a public road, and the towin-
path of the river Thimes, and certainly out of the precincts
of the palace. Nor can it be assumed that the murder must
necessarily have been committed in the palace, as, although
the drain at the mouth of which the limbs of a child were
found, runs under a portion of the palace, it communicates
with other places far removed from it, and, besides, the
limbs might possibly have been thrown into the mouth of
the drain from the river Thames. Under these circum-
stances, the Coroner for the county of Middlesex has
very properly held his inquisition, and it now remains to be
seen whether the Coroner of her Majesty's palaces will held
another, summoning for that purpose twelve or more of the
yeomen, officers of her Majesty's household, as directed by
the Act already quoted.