The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-14 00:00:00

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RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.

MIDLAND RAlLWAY.—Traffic Returns, including the Bris-
tol and Birmingham receipts, also Leeds and Bradford, Not-
tingham and Lincoln, Syston and Melton, Stamford and
Peterborough, Leicester and Swannington, Ashby Canal and
Erewash Valley, and Nottingham and Mansfield:—
Week ending Dec. 8 ... 419,355 8 7
• Corresponding week of last year, exclu-
sive of the Nottingham and Mansfield
receipts ... ... 19,065 5 6
Aggregate :-1849, 520,537/. 17s. Id. ; 1850, 535,618/. 3s.
1 Id. Miles opened for traffic : —lBso,Double line, 470} ; single,
26 total, 494. 1819, Double line, 467 i ; single, 23i—
total, 4,91.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCIIILNSHIZE RAILWAY.
—Traffic returns for the week ending Sunday, Dec. 8, 1850,
inclusive :

Passengers, parcels, &c. £2,463 8 6i
Goods, merchandise, &c. 3,588 7 8

Total ... £6,051 16 24
Corresponding week in 1849 4,428 1 Oi
Number of miles opened, 1671. The above includes the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Company's
proportion of the receipts of the Manchester South Junction
and Altrincham Railway; also, the Grimsby Dock duties,
&c., and Chesterfield Canal receipts. Number of miles
opened corresponding week 1849, 1604.

APPOINTMENT OF MR. PRATT TO THE MAGRI*
TRACY.—The Lord Chancellor has acted on the recommen-
dation of the Borough Council, and has included John Friend
Pratt, Esq., in the commission of the peace. We were the
first to suggest Mr. Pratt's appointment; which we did
from the belief that an additional magistrate was much
wanted in Portsea, and that Mr. Pratt was well qualified to
fill the post. Circumstances that have transpired since the
suggestion was made have confirmed our opinion of Mr.
Pratt's qualifications for a magistrate.—Hampshire Ind*.
pendent.

FOREIGN SWINE.--A steamer which has just ar-
rived from Boulogne has brought, as part of her cargo, a
large number of live suekiag pigs, the produce of France.
LARGE Thursday last a pig of the short-
eared breed was taken in at the store of Mr. John Walker,
bacon curer, Cockermouth, fed by. Mr. Miles Robinson, of
Scales Farm, Brigham, weighing 49 stone, being the largest
pig slaughtered in that neighbourhood this season.—Carlisle
J.urnal.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
By the QUEEN.—A PROCLAMATION.

Victoria, R.—Whereas, our Parliament stands pro-
rogued to Tuesday, the 17th day of this instant Decem-
ber, We, with the advice of our Privy Council, do hereby
publish and declare, that the said Parliament shall be
further prorogued, on the said 17th day of December in-
stant, to Tuesday, the 4th day of February next ; and
We have given order to our Chancellor of that part of
our United Kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a
Commission for proroguing the same accordingly ,• and
We do hereby further, with, the advice aforesaid, de-
clare our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parlia-
ment shall, on the said Tuesday, the fourth day of Fe-
bruary next, assemble and be holden for the dispatch
of divers urgent and important affairs; and the Lords
Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citiaens, and
Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and Burghs
of the House of Commons, tare hereby required and
commanded to give their attendance accordingly, at
Westminster, on the said Tuesday, the fourth day of
February next.
Given at our Court, at Windsor, this twelfth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty, and in the fourteenth year
of our reign.
GOD save the QUEEN.