The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-25 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 :

Week Last $ll
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. t
Jan. 18 Arbroath and Forfar ............... 178 136
17 Birmingham and Gloucester.. 1,906 1,573
- Brandling Junction .
18 Bristol and Gloucester .............. 981 -
17 Chester and Birkenhead 420 314
16 Dublin and Drogheda...... -
21 Dublin and Kingstown .............. 552 566
19 Dundee and Arbroath.......
18 Durham and Sunderland
18 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• ..
19 Eastern Counties and North Eastern 3,786 3,522
18 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr 1,403 1,123
18 Glasgow and Greenock ••••• • • • • 686 643
18 Grand Junction . • • • . 7,005 6,438
18 Great North of England • • .... • ... 1,616 1,382
19 Great Western 14,129 11,590
17 Liverpool and Manchester
18 London and Birmingham .••• • • • • - • 14,512 13,630
19 London and 81ackwa11........ •. • . 733 625
18 London and Brighton .•••.••• • • • • • • . 3,074 2,805
21 London and Croydon... 846 227
23 London and Greenwich :• ••• • • .
19 London and South Western ••• • •
19 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury .. •• • • 840 736
17 Manchester and BlAningham 3,248 2,541
18 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc 6,261 5,261
18 Midland Counties .•• • •
12 Newcastle and Darlington ••••• • • • • • 1,007 -
18 Newcastle and Carlisle ...• ••• • • ..... 1,417 1,272
19 Newcastle and North Shields •••• • • • • 341 293
17 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,368 -
20 Paris, Corbell, and Orleans.. •.•• . • • • 3,921 3,316
20 Paris and Rouen .••••• • • • • • ........ 4,085 2,782
18 Preston and IVyre • . ... ......... 336 204
18 Sheffield and Manchester . • ........ 607 , 468
23 South Eastern .•• • • • ...... 3,582 2,186
18 Taff Vale ........ ••••••.• • • .• .• . • 883 551
19 Ulster . • • • •
19 Yarmouth and Norwich • • -
18 York and North Midland . ...... • •

JEWISH EMANCIPATION.—A rumour has just
reached us, that a private meeting of the liberal mem-
bers of the Court of Common Council, convened by Mr.
Ashurst, has taken place, for the purpose of considering
the propriety of petitioning for Jewish emancipation.—
Jewish Chronicle.
NEW CANDIDATE FOR YORK CITY.—It is rumoured

that Mr. Hudson, of active railway notoriety, intends
soliciting the suffrages of the electors of the ancient city
of York, on the first vacancy.—Leeds Times.
EAST CORNWALL ELECTION.—The Somerset County
Herald states that Mr. Carew, of Anthony, near Tor-
point, will be the Tory candidate for East Cornwall.
THE SHAPWICS, MURDERS.—During the past week
a report has been generally circulated in this town, and
as generally believed, that the wretched woman Free-
man, at present confined in Wilton gaol, has exhibited
symptoms of lunacy. Such, we are informed, is not
the case; she has had perfect health from the commence-
ment of her confinement. —Son erset County Gazette.
REJECTED LINES.—We hear that it is the intention
of the gentlemen who compose the Provisional Com-
mittees of some of the projected lines against which the
veto of the Whitehall tribunal has pronounced, to call
meetings of their respective shareholders, with the view
of resigning their trust ; thus leaving the shareholders
to decide on the propriety and prudence of risking their
money in a Parliamentary contest with the Railway De-
partment of the Board of Trade.—Railway Record.
MELouisTs.—The first meeting of the Melodist
Club was held on Thursday, B. B. Cabbell, Esq., pre-
siding, who proposed the various toasts by very neat
speeches, and, when he gave the health of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, patron of the club,
announced that his Royal Highness would honour
the meeting in February with his presence, to pre-
sent the prize to the successful candidate for the
best convivial duet, the gift of his Royal Highness.
The healths of the Earl of Westmoreland and Lord Sal-
toun, Vice-Presidents, were drunk with musical ho-
nours ; and Sir Andrew Barnard, G.C.8., was elected
by acclamation a member and a Vice-President. Solos
on the oboe, pianoforte, and Welsh harp, were performed
by Messrs. G. Cook, W. 11. Holmes, and E Roberts.
Numerous songs and glees were excellently sung by
Messrs. T. Cooke, C. Taylor, Terrail, Foord, Horn, E.
Taylor, Parry, Gear, Francis, King, Moxley, Hawkins,
&c., and the evening passed off in the most harmonious
manner. The adjudication of the Royal prise will take
place on February 27.
KENDAL AND WINDERMERE RAILWAY.—We are
glad to learn that the eminent contractors, Messrs.
Brassy, Mackenzie, and Stephenson, have taken the
whole of the works on this line, and at a sum which will
make the total cost of the undertaking unexampled in
cheapness.--Railway Record.
DOVER AND GREENWICH RAILWAYS.—The work-
ing stocks of these Companies were valued by Mr.
Jeffery, of Gray's Inn-road, on the part of the Green-
wich; and by Mr. Bridges on the part of the Dover.—
Railway Record.
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND.—We are
assured, on good authority, that Viscount Sandon, M.P.
for Liverpool, is to succeed the Earl of St. Germans at
Dublin. The Noble Viscount came rather unexpectedly
to town from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire, where his
Lordship was passing the winter with hie father, the
Earl of Harrowby, and a family circle. Yesterday after-
noon the Noble Viscount, as will be seen by the Court
Circular, waited upon Sir Robert Peel, and was engaged
in a protracted interview with the Right Hon. Baronet.
Amongst the rumours with respect to the appointment
of Lord Eliot's successor, it is said that Sir Thomas
Fremantle is likely to be selected.—Morning Paper.
The Dublin Evening Post, in a Second Edition,
says—" It has been communicated to us, upon what we
think unexceptionable authority, that Lord Lincoln,
son of the Duke of Newcastle, is to be the new Chief
Secretary."
SUBMARINE FORESTS.—The stormy weather of
November had the effect of laying bare in the bay of
Mont St. Michel several trees in perfect preservation,
and amongst others an oak more than thirty feet in
length. In the course of the past summer some work..
men, in sinking a well on the property of M. Jallaud, of
Beauvoir, met with a layer of timber, and leaves reduced ,
almost to the state of turf. These remains, as well as
those which are frequently taken up from the marshes
of Dol, evidently come from the ancient forest of Seicy,
which tradition states to have been overwhelmed by the
sea at the commencement of the ninth century.
The new Church Extension Fundlalready exceeds '
11,000 L, and is rapidly increasing. ►