The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-20 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways 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:—

.G
Week Last Et' ~-.
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. E s:°
t t.
C.) 2,
----- ---
X £
April 13 Aberdeen ...... ....
- Amiens and Boulogne. - ............ - 1,487
13 Belfast and Ballymena .........• •• •• 526 558
14 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 928 915
7 Bolton,l3lackburn,Clitheroe, and W. Y. 411 458
14 Bristol and Exeter • • -
7 Caledonian........ - ... .......... - 5,859 5,210
14 Chester and ..............2,371.... 2,371 1.377
11 Dublin and Drogheda ...... ......... 910 733
16 Dublin and Kingstown .. •••• •• •• 734 753
13 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen ........ 515 528
14 East Anglian.... ••-••••••• • • • • • • • •• 699 666
13 Edinburgh and Glasgow .-.••.. •• •• 3.999 3,810
13 Edinburgh and Perth • • .......... 2,144 1,935
14 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 15,182 13,910
14 East Lancashire •• • ................. 2,829 2,678
14 Eastern U • 2,101 1,324
13 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... 2,809 2,712
13 Glasgow and Greenock• • • ...... .... 996 923
7 Great Northern and E. L......... ~ 3,233 1,851
13 Great Southern and Western ........ 5,032 3.743
14 Great Western, &c •• 21,580 20,0:8
14 Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ 11,891 12,343
7 Lancaster and Car1i51e.............. 3,332 2,223
7 Leeds and Thirsk ...............„. 765 235
14 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 100 110
13 Londonderry and Eniiiskitien .... „.. 161 158
14 London and North Western, &c. ..... 43,707 40,8 ,8
14 London and Blackwall.. 756 631
13 London and Brighton .. ..... ........ 10,253 9,566
14 London and South Western ......... 9,508 9,469
14 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 4,903 3,406
14 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... 20,988 20,456
14 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 1,410 1,367
13 Monklands ... •• • • .................. 734 739
14 North British ••..••• • •• - - ........ 3,100 2,798
13 Paris and Rouen .• • •............... 6,096 5,199
13 Rouen and Havre .................. 2,351 2,668
14 Scottish Central •••• • • • • ............ 1,330 1,054
13 Scottish Midland ••• • • • •........... 400 280
14 Shrewsbury and Chester • • .......... 1,335 1,466
14 Shropshire Union .. •••• . . . ..... .... 438 --
13 South Eastern and Branches ........ 10,675 9,019
7 South Devon. •••••... •• • • •• •....... I,r 34 1,887
13 Taff Vale ••••.•••••••• • • • • • • • . • • • .. 2,401 2,027
808 870
- Waterford and Limerick............. - -
7 Whitehaven Junction .• •• • •......... 182 157
14 York and Newcastle . •............. 14,496 11,551
14 York and North Midland ........... 7,037 6.697

WEBSTER'S ROYAL RED BOOK FOR
APRIL, 1850.

We have now before us a new edition of this most
useful Court and fashionable register, which is cor-
rected up to the present month, April, 1850. It con-
tains, in addition to a comprehensive street guide, a
list of the nobility and gentry, arranged alphabeti-
cally, with their town and country residences, Houses
of Lords and Commons, Baronets of the United
Kingdom, Crown and Law Officers, Ambassadors,
Consuls, Bankers, Army and Navy Agents, Hotels,
Clubs, and various other valuable information, the
knowledge of which is indispensible alike to the
beau monde and to those whom they patronise. It is
clearly and neatly prite3, is elegantly got up, and is,
in fact, a complete mirror of fashion.

LAND-TAX COAIMISSION FOR THE HOLBORN DlS-
TRlcr.—Yesterday a meeting of the Commissioners of Land•
tax for the above-named district, was held at the Sheriffs'
Court, Red Lion-square, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
The meeting was numerously attended by Commissioners,
James Ilargraves Mann, Esq., presiding. Nothing tran-
spired, however, worthy of a detailed report, although it was
imagined that the sulject of the equalisation (,f the laud-tax
would have been discu,sed by the Commissioners. The
chairman said, however, with reference to the matter, that
it was not the intention of the commission to enter into the
question of the inequality of the tax, until the report of a
committee now bitting upon the subject had been made
known to them. After the disposal of a few matters of
course, the Commissioners adjourned. _ _

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NLW CHURCH IN MARTLEDONE.—An appeal has
been issued for aid in the erection of a new church for the
poor in the parish of Blarylebone, who constitute the
greater portion of the population. and for whose spiritual
requirements the present church accommodation is lament-
ably insufficient, and indeed totally ineffectual. An influen-
tial committee has been formed by whom a site has been
procured, and upon which it is proposed to erect a church
capable of accommodating 1,500 persons, two-thirds to be
free to the poor, and the remaining third subject to a very
moderate rental. To accomplish their plan the committee
calculate upon a sum of 12,000/. as being necessary for the
erection and endowment of the church, and they appeal to
all who'are blessed with the means to assist them in their
pious undertaking—a request in 'which we hope they will
not be disappointed.
ROFIL ADELAIDE.—The following is copied from
the Jersey Times of the 12th inst. :—" Drowned in the Royal
Adelaide, on her passage from Cork to London, the 30th
March, Anthony Le Ber (Le Bert) Esq., and his family,
consisting of his wife and six children, three sons and three
daughters, the eldest 16, and the youngest 8, leaving behind
one daughter."—London Sun of Monday.—We will thank
oar London contemporary to correct this mis-statement.
The erroneous announcement in question was made by an-
other Jersey journal, and given by us in our paper of }riday
last as from that journal, not on our own authority. Th•
total incorrectness of our local contemporary's announce-
ment we had the pleasure of explaining in our following pub-
lication. W e have sins enough of our own to answer for
without being burthened by those of other people.
BULLS AND CLIARIDES.—A bull—which must by
no means be past over in the recapitulation of the family of
wit and humour—a bull is exactly the counterpart of a wit-
ticism : for as wit discovers real relations that are not appa-
rent, bulls admit apparent relations that are not real. The
pleasure arising from bulls ; roceeds from our surprise at
suddenly discovering two things to be dissimilar in which a
resemblance might have been suspected. The same doctrine
will apply to wit and bulls in action.. Practical wit discovers
connexion or relation between actions, in which duller under-
standings discover none; and practical bulls originate from
an apparent relation between two actions which more correct
understandings immediately perceive to have none at all.
In the late rebellion in Ireland, the rebels, who had conceived
a high degree of indignation against some great banker,
passed a resolution that they would burn his notes;—which
they accordingly did, with great assiduity; forgetting, that
in burning his notes they were destroying his debts, and that
for every note which went into the flames, a correspondent
value went into the banker's pocket. A gentleman. in speak-
ing of a nobleman's wife, of great rank and fortune, lamented
very much that she had no children. A medical gentleman
who was present observed, that to have no children was a
great misfortune, but he thought he had remarked it was
hereditary in some families. Take any instance of this branch
of the ridiculous, and you will always find an apparent rela-
tion of ideas leading to a complete inconsistency. I shall
say nothing of charades. and such sort of unpardonable
trumpery : if charades are made at all, they should be made
without benefit of clergy, the offender should instantly be
hurried off to execution, and be cut off in the middle of his
dulness, without being allowed to explain to the executioner
why his first is like his second, or what is the resemblance
between his fourth and his ninth.— Sydney Smith.
POWER OF lIIBIT.—Habit uniformly and con-
stantly strengthens all our active exertions : whatever we do
often, we become more and more apt to do. A snuff-taker
begins with a pinch off snuff per day, and ends with a pound
or two every month. Swearing begins in anger; it ends by
mingling itself with ordinary conversation. Such-like
instances are of too common notoriety to need that they be
adduced ; but, as 1 before observed, at the very time that the
tendency to do the thing is every day increasing, the pleasure
resulting from it is, by the blunted sensibility of the bodily
organ, diminished ; and the desire is irresistible, though the
gratification is nothing. There is rather an entertaining
example of this in Fielding's " Life of Jonathan Wild," in
that scene where he is represented as playing at cards with
the Count, a professed gambler. " Such," says Mr. Fielding,
" was the power of habit over the minds of these illustrious
persons, that Mr. Wild could not keep his hands out of the
Count's Lockets, though he knew they were empty; nor
could the Count abstain from palming a card, though he was
well aware Mr. Wild had no money to pay him.—Sydney
Smith.
i ORSEWMPP ING EXTRAORDINARY.—One fine sun-
shiny day last week the gay promenaders and humble pas-
sengers in the crowded. and fashionable Buchanan-street,
Glasgow, were unexpectedly treated to a spectacle rather
rich of its kind, and more common to the free citizens of the

" tar west," on the free soil of the United States, than the
staid and sober scents usually witnessed on the thorough-
fares of the city of Glasgow. It would appear that a certain
hon. citizen had conceived, whether on veritable grounds or
other wise is net averred, that another gentleman was on too
friendly terms with his wife. Of course this was an " offence"
for which no " gentleman" could condescend to seek redress
in any ordinary
.way, or through the constituted tribunals,
and hence the injured husband resolved to obtain satisfaction
in the only way his righteous indignation and his honour
could permit him to adopt. Armed, therefore, with that
potent instrument of chastisement, a good horsewhip, he
sallied forth in quest of his cowardly toe, and, as fortune
in
would have it, caught him the thronged thoroughfare
above referred to. The sequal is soon told. All the pity and
compassion of the incensed " gentleman" forsook his breast ;
his blond boiled in iris veins, and having summoned to his
aid a sufficient quantum of manly courage, he then and
there proceeded to inflict that amount of corporeal punish-
moat which, as he conceived, the object ofwere his
.resentment so
justly merited. The number of stripes inflicted ere not
exactly noted. It may suffice to state, that the unfortunate
offender considered them enough, as he instantly retreated,
and took refuge in a shop, whose open door invited him to an
asylum within its graceful precincts.— Glasgow Chi oiacle.

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