The Sun.
London, England, 1850-09-07 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

TRAFFIC REIT' 'NS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

Miles
opened NAME OF RAILWAY. I Receipts.
1850.
, 1819. 1850.
BRITISLI.
--
72 Aberdeen •• •• •• ..... £670 £1,804
37% Belfast and Ballymena ............ 445 511
17 Belfast and County D0wn............ 221
16 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 994 1,273
14 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York 431 674
85% Bristol and Exeter • ........... ...... 4,616 4,911
160 Ca1ed0nian......... •• 6,809 7,350
9434 Chester and Holyhead••• ...• •• .. 2,492 4,066
32 Dublin and Belfast Junction ........ 238 467
53 Dublin and Drogheda.. •• • . ••• .• .• 805 1,002
7% Dublin and Kingstown ••• • • ••••• •• •• 1,014 1,230
16 Dundee and Arbroath •• •••••• .• •• - 054
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 805 852
19 Dundalk and Enniskillen • 131 109
67% East Ang1ian........ ................ 673 702
75) East Lancashire •• .• .• 3,859 3,761
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk ........ 15,254 13,156
95 Eastern Union ••• • • • ••••..• • • • • • . • 1,497 2,384
575 Edinburgh and Glasgow .... .• •• •• 4,269 4,321
71 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee -...• 2,746 3,173
18 Furness Railway ... .............. 332
100 Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr ....
2214 Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock .... 1,523 1,591
219 Great Northern and E. L... •• 2,262 5,861
158% Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 3,123 4,575
230 Great Western
90 Lancaster and Carlisle
253% Lancashire and Yorkshire..• • •• •• 13,791 16,077
39 Leeds and Thirsk .•
125, Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 171 221
470 London and North Western .•• • 47,029 51,212
55{ London and 81ackwa11.............. 954 1,263
171% London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 12,932 13,3.53
239 London and South We5tcrn......... ;1,410 13.052
15 I,,ndonderry and Enniskillen ........ 119 126
11% Mallehesler, Buxton, and .siatlock, &c. 193 203
167% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 5,062 6,249
yiy Manchester and South Junction.• •• •• 353 445
28 Maryport and Ca. lisle • • • • • • 655 640
4915{ Midland ••• • • •••• • • ........ 24,168 24,968
50 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 1,148 1,315
CO Newcastle and Carlisle.. 2,243 2,4.,2
135 North British •• ••••.. 3,9:•5 4,140
242 North Statiordshira ...... .......... 4,593 4,987
37 North-Western - 745
45 Scottish Central •••• • • .• •• .• • • 1,762 1,905
2 Scottish Midland •.......... 450 559
2919 Shrewsbury and Birmingham ........ 143 722
47 Shrewsbury and Chester •.•• • ...... 1,515 1,666
30 Shropshire Union •••• • • •• •• •• 282 487
58 South Devon.. •••• . •....... •• 1,955 2,241
234 South Eastern •••• •• • • ••• • • ....... 13,038 16,606
75 South Wales . • •• •
69 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. - 1,948
40 lair Vale ..
36 Ulster. ...........................• 678 821
13 West Cornwall .• •• • • • ............ 248 267
12 Whitehaven Junction ... • ..
29014 York and Newcastle, and Berwick
256 York and North Midland. 9.139 9,948
FOREIGN.
7650 Amiens and Boulogne. .• •• •• 1,718 2,229
942 1,064
63 Montereau and Troyes • •
336 Northern of France
143 Orleans to 11, urges (Cent.)
72 Orieans to Bordeaux .... • ... . 3.265 3,474
82 Paris and Orleans •••••• .... •
85 Paris and Rouen .••••••••••• • • • • • .• 8,295 9,310
69% Rouen and llavre .. •••••. • • • • ...• .. 3,568 3,818

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, Sam 6.
STOCK EXCHANGS.—The share market presents a much
brisker appearance than it did yesterday, and prices are
higher. The transactions to-day were Bristol and Exeter,
61,/.2 c. ex div.— Caledonian, 8 5-16 c.—Great estern,
G 5 c.—Ditto, 17/. Shares, 6% dis.—London and North.
Western, 111 c. ex div.—York and North Midland, 17'4
c. ex div.

LIVEEPOOL, SETT. 6.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The share market was dull to-day
at the quotations. The transactions were as follow :—Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, Consolidated, 43LA —Ditto, Fifths,
8% dis.—London and North-Western, 110—Ditto, New
Quarters, 74 c. p. Ditto, Fifths, p. Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 151/2 Midland, 35 Ditto,
Halves, 25 dis.— Ditto, Consol. (B. and D.) 1614—Liver-
pool, Crosby, and Southport, 44 dis.—South-Eastern and
Dover, Ditto (No. 4), Registered, s%—York and
North Midland, 1714,1 —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Ori•
ginal N. and B.), IPA—Shrewsbury and Chester, Prefer-
ence, guaranteed 8 per cent., 12.
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 6.
STOCK EXCHANOIL—We have little change to notice in
this share market. Only a small business has been done,
and prices remain without any material deviation. The
transac i )ns were as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 43
Ditto Fifths, dis.—Ditto ( West Riding Union), 7i,
dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 15t4 n.—
Ditto, Preference, B,,i—East Lancashire, 8% c.—Ditto, Pre-
ference, Quarters, 7 Via—Royston and Hitchen, ex in.—
Scottish Central, l 2).

—YORK, SEPT. 5.
STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur-
chase), 41. 3s. 9d.—Great Northern, 11A—North British ,
6k; —York and North Midland, 17%.

FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.--A return has been made of
the amount and value of the stock and other securities held
by the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt
on account of friendly societies from 1828 to 1849. The fol-
lowing is the yearly amount of the value• during that period,
from which it will be seen that these institutions have in.
creased in importance every year:—
Year. Val. 01 Stock Year. Val. of Stock
1828
1829
18::0
1831 .. ......... 27 ,155 1842
183 L

633

.34 . 519,94311845

.835

836

837
838

798,5 9 le4B
C 44,348
945,221 1849

It will
be
rr obusapsreafalling-
ceding year. That was attributable to bad trade and in.
sufficient employment; but it is gratifying to observe that
o i
teiri No' cad mo thatu ti
n asn 1:046
m, p
alr 8e 4d7
kith
1845,1848 athnearteh we
there was an improvement in 1849 over the best of the pre-
ceding years of nearly 100,0001.
M. Poitevin has communicated to the newspapers
the following account of his balloon ascent on Sunday :—" I
soon reached the clouds, and rapidly passed ebove them, but
I did not rise so high by far as on the last occasion, and yet
my horse bled from the mouth and nostrils. This emission
of blood shows NvLatt was previously proved to me by a num-
b' r of experiments, namely, that the beds of the atmosphere
do not progressively decrease : in other words, that the baro-
metric column, after having fallen to 4,000 metres, may rise
to 6,000 metres and even mote. In passing through the
clouds, I was I.ot, as on the last occasion, covered with con-
gealed vapours ; the electric state of the atmosphere was in
equilibrium. 1 arriv,d at a quarter-past six between the
commune of Nozay and that of rterceussis, and was very
ki"(11Y received by 111. Erizon, of I3ellebat, in the latter com-
mune."—

ORNITHOLOGY.—A beautiful specimen of the nr,ght
jar, or " Goat-suelier," was shot in the parish of Wythain a
short time ago, and is now in the hands of Mr. John Evans,
of Bourn, for preservation. It is a rare bird in that neigh-
bourhood, although found in the southern counties, and is
migratory, arriving in England in May and leaving in Sep-
tember. It derives its name of Goat-sucker from a super-
stition of universal prevalence that it fastens upon the feet of
goats and cows, which afterwards become dry and diseased.