The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-10 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 :

•c: -
Week Last '3 •
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. .2
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C..)
May 3 Arbroath and Forfar •••• • • • - • • 181 147
2 Birmingham and Gloucester.... •
4 Chester and Birkenhead
1 Dublin and Drogheda. -
6 Dublin and Kingstown ••••• • • • • ••••• 1,749 1,831
4 Dundee and Arbroath ..... ......... 293 243
3 Durham and Sunderland .•••••• • • • • • • 785 355
3 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••• • • • ..... 2,631 2,471
4 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 5,098 4,2 2
3 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
3 Glasgow and Greenock. •••• • • • • •• • • 878 802
3 Grand Junction •
• 3 Gravesend and Rochester.. -
3 Great North of England 2,378 1,551
4 Great 'Western .• • ...... ........ 16,484 14,974
3 Hull and Selby
2 Liverpool and Manchester •••• • • • . 5,036 4,473
3 London and Birmingham .••. • • • • . 18,895 17,991
4 London and Blackwall ••••• • • • • ... • • 1,217 977
3 London and Brighton .•. • . • • ...... 4,322 3,547
6 London and Croydon .•••• • • - • • . 1,221 466
- London and Greenwich . • ..... 855
2 London and South Western ......... 6,500 6,461
4 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 913 752
- Manchester and Birmingham........ - 3,750
3 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc• • 5,952 4,822
3 Midland Counties .
3 Newcastle and Darlington .......... 1,234 591
3 Newcastle and Carlisle .............. 1,6E4 1,349
4 Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ 417 319
2 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,477 1,308
5 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans • • 6,074 5,801
5 Paris and Rouen
3 Preston and Wyre.... • ... • 401 310
3 Sheffield and Manchester ...... 636 621
- South Eastern • . 3,847
3 Taff Vale
Ulster . ....... .................... 553
4 Yarmouth and Norwich -
3 York and North Midland . •• • . 2,658 2,116

LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS,

(THIS DAY.)
(Before the LARD MAYOR, RECORDER, and ALDRRMRN.)
These sessions whre held this day. There was a great deficiency
of jurymen, both grand and petty. Of the former, four were fined
101. each ; of the latter, several were fined a similar sum, and as
there were not a sufficient number to form a second jury, all above
the first twelve were discharged from further attendance.

JJenri England was indicted for an assault on John Walton. It
appeared by the evidence, that the prosecutor went to some pre •
mises belonging to him, and let to a person named &infield, who
sold his business to the defendant. Prosecutor went to the house
to get his rent, and found the place nearly stripped ; he was going
to make a distraint, when defendant seized him by the collar, and
threatened to throttle him. The goods were got away, and the
key was kept for eight weeks afterwards. He had offered to settle
on an apology, and the rent due at the time being paid.
The RECORDER suggested to Mr. Wilde, defendant's counsel,
that the plea of Not Guilty should be withdrawn, and defendant
enter into a recognizance to appear for judgment next sessions.
He considered, that under the circumstances, it would be much
" cheaper" for the defendant.

Mr. Wittig said, that after what had fallen from the Court, he
had no hesitation in advising that course.
Defendant was then found Guilty.
Mr. PAYNE addressed the Recorder, and said, that as the Court
of Queen's Bench had decided that appeals could not be heard at
intermeuiate sessions, it was to be regretted some arrangement
could not be made that the jury should not be called on, as they
were now liable to be called eight times a year.

The RECoRDER said that when the Magistrates of the City of
London thought intermediate sessions unnecessary, he should feel
happy to relieve them I but he did not see why there should not
be intermediate sessions. It was so in other courts, and grave mat-
ters were tried. He thought, however, that it would be advisable
to appoint appeals to be heard on the adjournment day of the Quar-
ter Sessions, when ,the list of cases for the jury was light, or a
special day appointed, which would prevent the unnecessary and
prolonged attendance of parish officers.
The Grand Jury brought in several bills for assaults and mis-
demeanours, but the parties put in bail and traversed, and the
court broke up.

VAUXHALL GARDENS. Great preparations have
been made for the re-opening of Vauxhall Gardens on Monday
next. The new management proposes to reduce the price of re.
freshments to the same scale as that adapted at respectable taverns.
CONVICTS FOR VAN DIEMEN'S LAND AND NOR-
FOLK ISLAND. —The Naiad and Nymph steam.packets of the Wool.
with Company brought down the river upwards of 280 convicts
yesterday morning from Millbank Penitentiary, to be put on board
the David Malcolm hired convict ship, lying off the Royal Arsenal.
Burgess, who was sentenced to transportation for his connexion
with the bank robbery of about 8,0001., the greater part of which
was recovered, when taken in America; Dahlias, for the murder
of a woman on Battersea.bridge ; and Tolzer, for a murdar in Rat •
clitil.highway, are among the unfortunates, and will have to pass
the remainder of their lives on Norfolk Island, one cf the severest
penal settlements in New South Wales. The whole of the convicts
brought down yesterday have been sentenced to transportation for
crimes which call for the adoption of rigorous punishment, and
they will all be sent to Norfolk Island; but it is expected a
few will yet be received on board for conveyance to Van Diemen's
Land.

COLONEL SIBTHORP, 'M.P.—The gallant and inde-
fatigable representative for Lincoln (Colonel Sibthorp) has met with
so severe an accident that he will not, in all probability, be able to
attend the House of Commons for some time. On Saturday last,
as he was entering or leaving his club house, he fell down the steps
and fractured two or three of his ribs, and he is, we regret to hear,
in rather a dangerous state.—Lincolnshire Chronicle.
THE NEW DEAN OF WESTMINSTER. —Yesterday
the Rev. Samuel Wilberforce, D.D., the new Dean of Westmin-
ster, was installed into his new dignity in Westminster Abbey.
Nearly the whole of the prebendaries were preeent.