The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums
received on the principal Railways of Great Britain for
the week ending on the day of the month prefixed to
each. The return includes the money received for
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer-
chandise:—
Week Total.
Name of Railway.
ended .E. s. d.
Mar. 23 Arbroath and Forfar llB 4 5i
23 Birmingham and Derby Junction 1,279 5 11
22 Birmingham and Gloucester 1,988 3 2
23 Brandling Junction 755 6 10
22 Chester and Birkenhead
26 Dublin and Kingstown 646 12 4
24 Dundee and Arbroath 214 6 2i
23 Durham and Sunderland 519 5 11
23 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1,982 5 0
24 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 3,331 10 11
23 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,228 18 11
23 Glasgow and Greenock 651 11 4
23 Grand Junction 6,651 19 0
23 Great North of England 1,253 6 8
24 Great Western
22 Liverpool and Manchester
23 London and Birmingham
28 London and Blackwall 629 5 7
23 London and Brighton
27 London and Croydon
28 London and Greenwich 687 1 7
24 London and South Western .......
21 Manchester, Bolton and Bury 739 6 14
23 Manchester and Birmingham 2,828 8 9
23 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 5,383 2 10
23 Midland Counties
23 Newcastle and Carlisle 1,415 14 2
24 Newcastle and North Shields 3lB 11 11
23 North Midland
22 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,113 19 9
19 Paris and Orleans
25 Paris and Rouen 3,925 0 0
23 Preston and Wyre 238 12 4
23 Sheffield and Manchester 469 8 1
28 South Eastern
23 Taff Vale
24 Ulster
23 York and North Midland

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

GLOBE.—The County Courts Bill—which had
been delayed until hope of its appearance had almost
become extinct—was last evening introduced to the
House of Commons by Sir James Graham. The
more easy recovery of small demands—whether of
the nature.of simple-contract debts ; or of damages
for trespass against the person or property of the
claimant ; or for the unlawful holding of pro-
perty, rendering the party liable to an action of
trover—are proposed to be brought within the juris-
diction created by the Bill, should it pass into
a law. The County Courts (sometimes called the
Freeholders'
.Courts) are among the most ancient
Courts of the realm ; but they partake of the de-
fects which time, and the changed condition of so-
ciety, necessarily create in ancient institutions. No
limitation exists as to the amount for which a per-
sonal action may be brought in them ; a writ of
justicies is therefore issued to remove actions from
their jurisdiction into the superior Courts in West-
minster-hall. While the practice of the superior
Courts has been re-modelled and their machinery
simplified, in accordance with the recommendations
of the, report of the Common-law Committee in
1839, the county courts remained unimproved. This
abstinence from interfering with their constitution,
probably arose from an anticipation that they
would undergo a complete remodelling by Parlia-
mentary enactment, with a view to simplifying
their operations and extending their jurisdiction.
So far as we have been able to examine the Bill
now introduced, it appears to be adapted to the ob-
jects proposed to be effected by its means. The claim
is to be limited to 151., the subject-matter of the
jurisdiction we have already described: in the case of
small debts the writ of summons must be issued at
least seven days previous to the day of trial :
either party may demand a jury, which is to be com-
posed of five : the Court may order the debt to be
paid by instalments : execution to issue against either
the body or goods of the defendant. Upon giving
proper securities, either party may remove the case
into a superior Court ; and also obtain a new trial,
on the same conditions. Cases for the recovery of
possession of premises, in which two magistrates
have now the power to interfere, are to be trans-
ferred to the Judge of the Court. In cases of debt,
the Court is empowered to examine either, or both,