The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-16 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following arc 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:—

••••
Week Last Et
ending FAME OF RAILWAY. week. t
O.
u.F.
-- --_-.------- -- -.-__
X X
Mar. 9 Aberdeen ........... ..... •• .. • • 924 404
10 Ainlens and Boulogne. ••• • • • - 1,253 1,319
9 Belfast and Ballymena •.•••.• • • • • • • • 512 482
10 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 791 710
10 Bolton, Blackburn, C litheroe, and W. Y. 411 381
10 Bristol and Exeter . . -
3 Caledonian........ •.•••_•• • • • • . • . • 6,165 4,489
10 Chester and Holyhead ..... ••..•• • • • • 1,330 1.085
7 Dublin and Drogheda.. •• • • ••••• • • • • 776 687
12 Dablin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 610 596
9 Dr ndee, Perth, and Aberdeen •••• • • •• 1,028 1,003
10 East Anglian.... ••-••••.•• • • • • • • • • • 728 709
9 Edimbr-gh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 3.012 3,291
9 Edinburgh and Perth .• ••••• • • • • • 2,001 1,689
10 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 14,553 13,313
10 East Lancashire ••••..• . . . . • . ..... .. 2,790 2,004
10 Eastern Union ...,
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9 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • •• 2,895 2,551
9 Glasgow and Greenock• ••••• • • • - .... 982 1,015
3 Great Northern and E. L... .. ...• • • 2,764 1,600
9 Great Southern and Western ........ 3,1,59 3,136
10 Great Western, Scc • • ... ..... ........ 17,340 17,926
10 Lencasbire and Yorkshire •• •• 11,923 11,270
3 Lancaster and Carlisle • ......
- Leeds and Thirsk ........ „„., .
. • • - -
10 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 101 72
1 9 Londonderry and Enniskillen 123 126
10 London and North Western, &c .:: ••. .
40,562 38,211
10 London and Blackwall• ••.•••• •• • • • • 601 433
9 London and Brighton ............... 7,655 7,110
10 London and South Western. •••• • • • • 8,303 8,230
10 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 3,009 3'155
20,186
10 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham •• • •
20,320004 1 A
10 Midland Great Western (high) •• - - 1.829 769
9 Monklands ... ••••••••••** • • ' • • • • • • • 3,134 2,599
10 North British ••..•••••••• • • • • • • • • ••
9 Paris and ltouen .••••••• • • • - • • ••
-'• 2098 21,79
9 Rouen and Havre ••• • • ..... • • • • 1 23, 858
••• •• .41'; 256
1,287 1,238
10, Ssecootttuisshh Cmeindt1rana1d.......................... •• • .... •
10 Shrewsbury and Chester •••• • • • • -
407 _
10 Shropshire Union Branches ....... •• _
F,
18
r. 753
9 South Eastern and •• •
.• • • .•
..
..
.. ..
... .......... 1550 1,582
.. 1,792 1,842
10 809 713
256
- Whitehaveu Junction .••••••• • • • • • • • -
-93 Waterford
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10 York and Newcastle .••••••.• •• • • .. 13,007 11,377
10 York and North Midland ...

ENTRANCE TO ST. JAMES'S-PARK.—A very trifling
change might be advantageously made in the entrance to St.
James's-park—that is, to cut off about sixty feet of the
garden of St. James's Palace, which is elongated beyond the
building, and to carry the roadway straight from Pall-mall
into the park. St. James's-park cannot be said to have any
very convenient or ornamental entrance from the metropolis,
the low contracted arches of the horse Guards being both
mean and obstructive. The way through the stableyard
and Cleveland-row is also the reverse of spacious or beau-
tiful; while cutting away this small slice of the garden
a broad, airy,
I would afford to the Sovereign and the Court,

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and unobstructed communication between the moat &egos
stre t of the capital (Pall-mall) and the palatial abode o
ally. At present this tortuous way, occasioned by this
11 spot of enclosed garden, is scarcely frequented ;- grass
grows between its uneven pavement ; .and a large dust-yiv,
with its-cavernous mouth fully expanded, betrays accumu-
lated filth, cinders, cabbage.stalks, and broken garden pots.
Such is the most open and spacious entrance to St. James's-
park.— The Builder.
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON.—.The
plans arid specifications for the final completion or•fhis
national charity are now under .consideration; and it Was
decided by the: meeting of the board of managenient, over
which. the Hon. Octavius Duncombe, M.P., presided, that
thO eastern wing shall be proceeded with as slieetiily; as
possible. •
WISLEYAN REFORM.---A. numerously • attended
meeting of the friends and supporters of Wesleyan reform
took place on Thursday evening at Exeter-hall, Mr. William
Gaudy, of Spitalfields, in 'the chair. Several of the delegates
whci had attended the aggregate meeting were preient, end
took part in the proceedings of the evening. The subjects
for discussion were the propriety of obtaining a greater
infusion of lay influence amongst the connexional coin-
niittece ; the abrogation of the declaratory rule of 1835, and
the restoration of the expelled ministers, Messrs. Everett,
Dunn, and Grata:a, to their .former position as ministers is
the Wesleyan Society. After a lengthened discussion upon
the above subjects, resolutions to carry them out were passed,
and the meeting separated after a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

R:,NIARKAIII.E ESCAPE.—On Sunday aftern
three lads, named Ray, Leslie, and Wishart, all apprentice
seamen, left Aberdeen harbour in a pilot boat on a pleasure
sail. A storm arising towards night, after holding out to
seaahey made fur the harbour, but seeing another boat alt bht
swamped in getting in, they desisted, and again went out to
sea, the boat being driven by the wind towards the north.
In the course of Monday they found themselves near the
Moray Firth, the situation of which was known to (meat
the young men. They had laid themselves down in the
bottom of the boat, but the wind veering round and also
moderating, on Monday afternoon they set sail, and again
lying down, exhausted Ly cold and hunger, were driyan
southwards as far as the mouth of the Tay. the lights there
being discernible on Tuesday morning. They constructed
of iron bars in the boat a rude anchor, which they Owe*
overboard, but after dragging 13 fathoms of rope it
_did net
reach the ground. They then laid down in despair, the boo
being nearly filled with water, and they were again drift
to sea by the current. On Tuesday, about midday, a breeie
to landwards sprung
.up, encouraged by which they set thh
sail and were drifted to land, and jumped ashore among thh
rocks opposite Catterline, exactly 48 hours after leaving
Aberdeen harbour. During this time they tasted no food
and suffered much from cold. They were, however, kindly
treated by a gentleman in the nighbourhotd cf their land-
ing place, by whose generous offices ibey were recovered,
and travelled home on iirceinesday.—Aberdeen Journal.
SCOTCH REPRESENTATIVE PEERS.—The Earl of

Airlie and Lord Blantyre were elected on Wednesday repre-
sentative peers for Scotland, in the room of the late Earl of
Airlie and Lord Colville of Culross.

PORT ♦'VINE.—The attention of the wine trade is
being directed to the heavy duty charged by the Portuguese
Government on wine shipped direct from Oporto to Great
Britain, and it is understood that steps are to be taken to re-
monstrate, through Lord Palmerston, against its confirm.
ance. The impost amounts to about 6/. per pipe; and as the
quantity exported to this country is on an average 22,000
pipes per annum, it appears that we pay 132,0001. more for
our port wine than we should do if we were put on the
same terms as other countries—a mere nominal duty being
charged on the same wines if shipped to America. In con.
sequence of this unequal charge we have lately received one
or two cargoes of port wine from Oporto via New Bruns-
wick, by which a saving of 3/. per pipe is effected after twic e
crossing the Atlantic. This anomaly has been preserved
for many years to the great injury of the trade and consumer.
The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire
crown: the air is our robe cf state, the earth is our
throne, and the sea a mighty minstrel playing More it.
—Eliza Cook's Journal.

ADVENTURES OF A STRAY SIIIP.—On the 9th. of
January the Talbot steamer, plying between Bristol and
Carmarthen, when off the Sker point, ran foul of L'Hiron-
delle, a French vessel, laden with a valuable cargo of oil:
The vessel was left in a sinking state, as then supposed, and
the Talbot having received the crew on board proceeded on
her voyage. From the 9th to the 30th nit. no trace of the
missing vessel was obtained, but on that day intelligence was
received at Lloyd's that she had been seen between the Small's
and the Bishop's-rocks. Ultimately this fugitive of the
ocean was found high and dry on Towyn-sands, in Merio-
nethshire. Her masts and sails were gone, but the hull was
little damaged; 64 hogsheads and pipes of oil were landed,
and eight more partially damaged. It would thus appear
that this vessel alone, unguided, undirected, drifted about,
for at least thirty days, a distance from 150 to 200 miles.
FtsuiNG FOR RATS —A new branch of industry
has sprung up in Newcastle. Juvenile disciples of Isaak
Walton—the shade of the old angler frowns upon us while
we write—may be seen in the streets, patiently reposing by
the aide of a grate, with a line and baited hook in the sewer,
to catch rats. Their prey are sold to the jackals of the rat
hunters, men who keep hundreds of rats in store, and sell
them to sportsmen.--Gateshead Observer.

A NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDER.—A Mr.
Napier, of Swansea, has announced to the Scientific Institution
of that town that he has discovered a new expl( sive sub-
stance, which he designates " white powder," having ten
times the force of common gunpowder. It is composed of
the following ingredients :—One part yellow prussiate of pot-
ash, well dried ; one part sugar, well dried ; two parts chlo-
ride of potash. These materials are finely ground separately,
seitd then intimately mixed.
Mr. Watkinson, the proprietor of the Boston Free
Press, was found guilty at Lincoln, on Wednesday, before
Lord Campbell, of having published a libel on the Rev. D.
Moore, the chairman of the Spalding Sessions. The sentence
will not be pronounced until Easter Term, in the Court of
Queen's Bench.

- At Stafford a young man, named Daw, recovered
201. damages for false imprisonment, from an accountant
named Hay, residing at Wolverhampton. Daw, who was
well known to the defendant, was found by the latter in his
stable courting the cook, whereupon he was given into cus-
tody by Hay, charged with being found on the premises with
intent to commit a felony. The magistrate before whom the
plaintiff was brought dismissed the charge.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has
refused to grant an extension of letters patent for certain im-
provements in combing wool and other fibrous substances.
William Escott, for forging a bill of exchange for
201., was sentenced to twelvemonths' imprisonment by Mr.
Sergeant Murphy, at York, on Thursday.
At Aylesbury, on Thursday, the Lord Chief Baron
ordered sentence of death to be recorded against George
Arnold, for feloniously shooting at William Nixon. The
prisoner, who presented the appearance of a respectable
tradesman,wais reported to have made several attempts on his
own life of late. During the period of his imprisonment he has
daily committed to paper his " reflections," interspersed with
poetical effusions, and written in beautiful characters, and
remarkable for the accuracy of the language in which they
are couched. After the sentence had been passed on the
prisoner this book was handed up to the Learned Judge, whb
was understood to express it to be his intention to submit it
to the Secretary of State.
Mr. Justice Wightman yesterday, at Bedford, sen-
tenced William Mitchell to fifteen years' transportation, for
having set fire to three stacks of wheat.
An Italian organ-grinder, named Francis Piedestro,
was committed by Mr., Burnell, for two months, for a savage
assault on a policeman who endeavoured to removn him from
Walter-crescent, where he was grinding his organ, for the
avowed purpose of annoying a gentleman who had refused to
give him fid. to move on. The fellow blubbered like a child
when he was led off to prison.
Two respectably-dressed persons, named Charles
Pound and William Langford Jenkins, were yesterday
charged before Mr, Arnold, at Worship-street, with having
obtained, under false and fraudulent representations, the
sum of 8004, in cash and bills of exchange, from Mr. William
Newman, a colour-manufacturer, in Great Chart-street,
iloxton. Mr. Vann, who appeared for the prosecution, in-
timated that at the next examination he should be able to
clearly establish the false pretence upon which the money
had been advanced. Mr. Arnold ordered the defendants to
be remanded for a week, but consented to accept bail for their
future appearance, which he fixed at an amount, themselves
and their sureties, of 6,0001.

TUE ARMY.—Major-General Sutterland, Henry
Rainey, C. 8., and the lion. Charles Gore, C. 8., have been
placed upon the list of general officers, receiving the unat-
tached pay of 255. per diem.
IMPORTANT TO LICENSED VicTuALLEns.--At_the

last Woburn Petty Session the landlord of the White Bear
was charged with allowing card-placing in his house, con-
trary to the tenor of his licence. kr. Brickwood, solicitor,
of Luton, who appeared for the defendant, contended that a
police officer merely seeing two persons sitting with cards in
their hands was no proof that a game had been played, and
that if charges of such a nature were entertained by the
bench no publican would be safe, for any two men might go
into a public-house, and pull out a pack of cards, and thus
render the landlord liable to be proceeded against. The
magistrates, entertaining this view of the matter, dismissed
the case.
ST. LUKE, CHELSEA.—THE LONDON (WATFORD)
Sranic WATER COMPANY.—A numerous and highly re-
spectable meeting of the parishioners took place on Tnursday
night at the Commercial-hall in the King's-road, Mr.
Churchwarden Fielder in the chair, when a deputation from
the above company. including Mr. Patch, of Bridge-street,
Parliament-street, the active agent, and Mr. Homersham, of
the Adelphi, the engineer of the company, explained the ob-
jects of the proposed undertaking, which was to afford the
inhabitants of the north-western portion of London, now
most insufficiently supplied with what has been truly deno-
minated " the life blood of a city," an abundant supply of
pure spring water. The present company was projected for
the purpcse of obtaining water by means of shafts from the
chalk formation in the neighbourhood of Watford, which
water it was proposed to be lifted into reservoirs on Stan.
(to the respective heights of 400 and 490 feet
above the Trinity high-water mark at London-bridge), and
brought to London and the suburban districts
ostricit..sreisnolucatipoanca tioutc:
pipes along the Edgeware-road. A
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and theun u, presentholeso
gentlemen connected with the existing monopolies—
cost, were carried, but not without an opposition on the part
of some
the water companies— which, however, signally failed, and
the meeting, after pledging itself to support the proposed
scheme, adopted a petition to Parliament, praying for the
intervention of the Legislature.
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of the Board of Customs, has retired, after a length of public
service, extending, we believe, to considerably more than
half,,
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have cured me of several ulcerous sores, which had their
origin in imperfectly healed wounds received in the battle of
Waterloo. The pain was of constant duration, and I was con-
fined to my bed always during the harvest months. I have
now for two years been enjoying the best of health, solely in
consequence of using Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which
cured me in a very short time ; in gratitude for which I pub-
lish this testimony. (Signed) J. de Swart, of Lent, on the
Vossepels, near Nymegen, Holland, Oct. 4th, 1849." Sold
by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment,
4401, Strand, London.
COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.—By a re-
turn just presented to Parliament, by her Majesty's command,
of grants made to schools upon conditions not involving the
acceptance of management clauses, it appears that 444
schools have received grants of that description to the amount
of 10,6';1/. Os. iid., already paid, and 17,2284 condition ally
due. The return does not include the numerous clasp of
schools which have obtained grants to enlarge and fuirnish
them with fixtures, being already held in trust for educatienal
purposes at the time APPlYing to the Qqracciittes of Condi
on Education.