The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts.
opened,
1850. -------
1849. 1850.
DR! TISII. ---
72 Aberdeen .... ..... .-- . . •.. - ..... £703 £1,750
37% Belfast and Ballymena •• ••-••• • • • •• 451 557
17 Belfast and County D0wn............- 227
16 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,057 1,234
14 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • 497 654
85% Bristol and Exeter ............ 4,499 -
160 Caledonian.- 2
663 8,
.... •• • • ........... 6,9632 7,485
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3i Chester and Holyhe. ••.. • ........ • 952
Dublin and Behest Junction ,
.......• 259 466
53 Dublin and Drogheda.. -.. ......... 788 I,OOG
714 Dublin and Kingstown ............•• 920 959
18 Dundee and Arbroath ••••••• • •• . . •• - 460
31 Dundee, Pertb, and Aberdeen Junction 631 679
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen. •..••• • • • • • 166 115
67XEast Anglian.... • • ............ •.• • .. 848 606
7536 East Lancashire •• • ................. 3,603 4,004
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk ........ 15,190 13,266
95 Eastern Union • ... •••• • • • • .......... 1,512 2,456
5734 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • . ........ 3,976 4,162
71 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee .•• • • . 2,847 2,861
18 Furness Railway ••••...• • .. • • • • - - 395
100 Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr -•• • • • ... 2,960 3,171
2216 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock •• • • 1,206 1,220
219 Great Northern and E. L ••• .. 2,412 5,701
188 4 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 3,68! 4,526
230 Great Western ••• • • . .......... 16,151 17,667
90 Lancaster and Carlisle •• • • .... ...... 4,310 5,003
253 4 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. ••• • • • .... 13,442 17,604
39 Leeds and Thirsk ..................988 1,250
12h, Liverpool, Crosby, andSouthport •• • • 167 253
470 London and North Western ..... .... 45,754 48,925
5% London and 81ackwa11...... ••..• • .. 989 1,200
1714 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 12,744 12,610
239 London and South Western.' • ..• • ... 11,015 12,977
15 Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ 126 124
1134 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, Ste. 163 207
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 5,225 6,441
9) Manchester and South Junction.. •• .. 371 382
28 Maryport and Carlisle .. •• • •
49134 Midland ••• • • • ................. - 23,441 24,262
50 Midland Great Western (Irish) .• •• .. 1,083 1,204
60 Newcastle and Carlisle .. ••.. .. -.. 2,210 2,519
135 North British • • ...• • ... 3,891 -
262 North StaffordsLtira ......... • ...... 4,517 5,097
37 North-Western ••..• • • • - 831
45 Scottish Central .•• • . • ............ • 1,784 2,013
32 Scottish Midland •••• • • • ......... .. 498 631
2936 Shrewsbury and Birmingham . • ... •.. - -
47 Shrewsbury and Chester •••• • • • • .... 1,404 1,639
30 Shropshire Union .. •••••••• - - • . • • 304 485
58 South Devon... • .... • •..... ..
234 South Eastern .• • • ......
75 South Wales .. • • ...... - 1.089
69 South York., Doncaster, and Goole • • - 1,082
40 Taff Vale •• • ••• • •
36 Ulster . ........................701 810
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13 West Cornwall .•• • • ......... -.. 293 319
12 Wliltehaven Junction ..... ...... •• • • 228 231
290 4 York and Newcastle, and Bet wlek .• • 14,391 15,422
256 York and North Midland. .......... 9,766 10,619
FOREIGN.
7634 Amiens and Boulogne. ..... .
44 Dieppe .••••••••••.• • • .. .. ..
63 Monterean and Troyes • • .... • ....... 1,004 1,034
335 , Northern of France ••• • • • .......... 16,733 20,844
143 Orleans to Bourges (Cent.) .. ..
72 Orleans to Bordeaux .... ••. • • • ...... 3.311 3,427
82 Paris and Orlear a .... ••.. • • ........ 8,753 7,988
85 Paris and Rouen. •.••• • • • • • ........ 8,202 8,627
b 914, Rouen and Havre .............. .... 3,313 3,650

PAUPER. ELOPEMENT TO GRETNA GREEN.—A
few days ago, Felix Lough, late of London, widower, who
has a family of three children, and now an inmate of Penrith
Union workhouse, eloped to Gretna Green with Mary Jack-
son, widow, who has a family of four children, and also an
inmate of the same workhouse. A few days previous to the
elopement the parties gave notice to Mr. Slee, the master of
the workhouse, that they intended to leave the workhouse,
eel accordingly did so. Ilow they raised the wind is not
known, but the fact is that they set off on foot upwards of 30
miles to Gretna, arid on arriving there found that they had
little or no cash to pay the officiating priest, who asked a sum
twenty times more in amount than what they were possessed
of, and persisted that Ile would not marry them for a far-
thing less. However, Felix Lough, in a most melancholv
strain, explained that his wife was dead, that Mary Jackson's
husband was also dead, that they were both paupers belong-
ing to Penrith Union workhouse, and becoming quite con-
vulsed, and letting flow a flood of tears over his wrinkled
cheeks, in the most affecting manner exclaimed—" For good-
ness take do m wry us, for Mary Jackson was the first sweet-
heart that I ever had, aye, long before I was married to my
first poor wife, but then she would not have me; now she has
consented to be my wife. 0 do marry us." " Yes, yes, it
is all true, do wed us," said Mary Jackson. The priest was
moved with compassion ; he married them. Soon afterwards
they set off on their return to Penrith on foot, and on their
arrival there they were foot sore and completely dished up,..
and not having a place where to lay their heads, they e'en
applied to Mr. Armstrong, the relieving officer, for an order
into the workhouse again, who, according to the present,
state of the poor-law, was obliged to give them an order,
and now the new married couple, in accordance with the
same law, are spending their honeymoon in the workhouse,
apart from each other.—Carlisle Patriot.
TERRA-COTTA TABLETS FOR TOMBSTONES.---111
turning over the leaves of a new work on pottery and porce-
lain, we are incidentally led into the reflection that the
ancients almost anticipated and stole from us au idea, ex-
clusively, as we bad thought—namely, that terra-cotta—a
sort of pottery, in fact—would be an excellent, because a
cheap and durable, material for funereal monuments or tomb-
stones, for the poorer classes, if inscribed with the names and
genealogical correlations of the dead before exposure to the
pottery fire. And we must here further strengthen the argu.
ment against the sirgin novelty of our own suggestion by a
brief allusion to a recent discovery of ancient customs, still
more to the point than any, it may be, to be gathered from
known rec3rds, even when the volume alluded to was.written.
In the Ethnological sub-section of the British Associati
lately, Major Rawlinson stated that Mr. Layard had, at Kor-
jinyik, penetrated into a chamber which appeared to be of
the same class as the " house of records" noticed by the pro-
phet Ezra, where was found the copy of a decree of Cyrus,
permitting the Jews to return from captivity. In this
chamber Mr. Layard found, in terracotta, tables piled up
from the floor to the ceiling, and representing apparently the
archives of the Assyrian empire curing the long historical
succession. Mr. Layard had packed, by the last accounts, five
cases for transport to England ; and these only occupied one
small corner of the apartment. Here, then, we find that terra-
cotta tablets inscribed with everlasting records, like Job's
writing with a pen of iron in the rock, so far from being a
novelty, are as old as any of the oldest records of human
ingenuity.—Builder.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM A MAD BULLOCK—
Yesterday morning, while a bullock was being driven elong
Cross-causeway, Edinburgh, to the cattle• Mat ket, it broke
away from the persons who were in charge of it, tossed a
little girl up in the air, knocked a man over, who could not
get out of the way in time, and rushing up to an old woman
who was sitting at her apple-stand, disposed of her and her
wares in precisely the same manner. The infuriate beast
then espied a drove of cattle, also proceeding to market, a
short way in advance, and immediately adding himself to the
ranks, was quietly driven to his destination. In regard to the
pal ties injured, we believe none of them were seriously hurt
except the old woman, who was immediately afterwards con-
veyed to a neighbouring druggist's, where her wounds were
properly dressed, and she is now progressing favourably.—
,North British Mug