The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.,

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re•
ceived on the principal Railways of Great Britair
for the week ending on the day of the month prefixec:
to each. The return includes the money received foi
passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and mer
chandise

Week Name of Railway. Miles Total.
y.endedOpened. X. s. d.
Dec.l7 Birmingham & Derby Janet. 48 1,191 13 0
16 Birmingham and Gloucester 55 1,498 17 7
Brandling Junction 25
17 Chester and Birkenhead ..
18 DOndee and Arbroath ...
17 Edinburgh and Glasgow
18 Eastern Counties
17 Glasgow and Ayr .. .... .....
17 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 224 570 12 2
17 GrandJunct., Chester &Crewe 113 6,949 10 10
17 Great North of England 45 1,236 11 4
18 Great Western
Hayle lB
17 Hull and Selby
Lancaster & Preston Junction 204
18 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 3,653 14 3
17 London and Birmingham 1124 13,857 2 4
22 London and Blackwell . 34 5111 0 4
17 London and Brighton
Ditto Shoreham Branch
20 London and Croydon lOl 215 19 10
22 London and Greenwich 3l 695 4 11
18 London and South Western
16 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 576 4 3
17 Manchester & Birmingham ..• 31 2,134 18 7
17 Manchester and Leeds
17 Midland Counties 574 2,445 15
17 Newcastle and Carlisle ......
15 Newcastle and North Shields 7 280 11 8
18 Northern and Eastern ...
17 North Midland
16 North Union
••.... 224 870 0 5
17 Preston and Wyre ............ ... 194 131 12
17 Sheffield and Manchester ..... . 7 215 7 4
22 South Eastern
.... 47 1,527 8 3
17 Taff Vale .... ............... .... 31 571 2 6
18 Ulster ............................. 24 410 6 11
17 York and North Midland....,. 28 1,421 17 7

The Board of Ordnance have given orders to have
some of the stalls of the stables of the Horse Artillery
barratks at Woolwich, and the Hyde-park cavalry
barracks, to be paved with the patent elastic pavement.
FUNERAL' OF LADY DENDIGLI.—The remains of
this deeply:lamented lady arrived at the Rugby sta-
tion by mail train, on Friday night, from whence
they Avere conveyed to Street-Ashton House, the seat
-of'Colonel Feilding, where they will lie in state a few
hours. The funeral procession will leave Street-
Ashton, on its way to the family vault at Kirby, on
Saturday evening, at ten o'clock. Her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, Lord Ducie, Lord Howe, and
several other noblemen, with the tenantry of Lord
Denbigh, are expected to join the procession. Newn-
ham Paddox, the seat of Lord Denbigh, at present
occupied by Mr. Errington, will be closed on the day
of interment, Mr. and Mrs. E. and family leaving on
that day for Leamington.
FRAMPTON PARK.-Mr. and Mrs. Brinsley Sheri-
dan will receive company during the recess. Mrs.
Sheridan and the Hon. Mrs. Dawson Darner and
Mrs. George Bankes patronise the county ball at
Dorchester, on the 10th of January, of which Mr.
Sheridan and Colonel Darner are stewards.

TRADE OF HoLmnatu.—As we ventured to pre.
diet at the time, the impulse given to our trade in the
beginning of October, by the demand for plaid ker-
seymeres, has proved of short duration; and the mills
are now very inadequately employed; in fact, they
were never worse off for work than they have been
during the last three weeks. Very few of them have
been lighted up, and many of them have not half
work for the brief period of daylight. Every body is
complaining; what goods are sold is at a loss, and pay-
ments are so long deferred that the clothiers are much put
about for money. Things were in a bad state last year
at this time, but we have gone worse and worse. The
working classes are somewhat relieved by the reduction
in the price of food, yet, there are vast numbers who
are gradually sinking into the gulph of pauperism,
and those who have yet managed to do without paro-
chial support, are, at our fortnightly petty sessions,
summoned by scores to show cause why they cannot
pay to the support of others, and they bring reasons
of a heart-rending nature in plea to be excused; they
cannot support themselves ! ! Take one case as an
example. It was for an arrear of some twelve or
fourteen shillings, and the poor woman who appeared
to answer to the overseer's summons, stated that they
had six children, her husband was confined to his bed
by sickness, and all they had to depend upon was
eight shillings per week, his allowance from a sick-
club. No matter, if such unfortunates have not money,
if they have money's worth : the law is imierious.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.— There 1S not
an average attendance of merchants at the piece mar-
ket to-day, and the purchases made are of a limited
character, being chiefly small lots to assort with stocks
of plain goods adapted to the winter season. There
still continues the same monotonous state in the yarn
trade. Short-time working, which is very pruden-
tial, still continues to be found the most suited to the
present prices and demand. There is not that ani-
mation in the wool trade that we noticed a fortnight
ago. The spinners appear to have resisted any fur-
ther attempt to advance, and the staplers state that it
is quite impossible to fetch wools from the growers
to meet the prices offered by the buyers ; consequently
the supply in the market is not materially augmented.
MANCHBSTER,THURSDAY EvßraNG.--Ihe increased
production of cloth consequent on all the mills which
were some time since on short time, now working
full hours, has evidently had some effect on the cloth
market, as evidenced in the decline of prices of all
descriptions of printing cloth. The season just before
Christmas, though always rather a dull one by com-
parison, is not sufficient to account for the great in-
disposition to purchase which now so generally pre-
vails. The market has not in any way improved since
Tuesday ; indeed, if any change at all, neither the
demand nor the prices are hardly so buoyant as on that
day. Two or three weeks more will test the opinion
here expressed more fully. There is not much doing
in Twist, and those spinners who press sales are com-
pelled to accept a shade less price.

CHRISTMAS BENEVOLENCE TO
THE POOR.
(From our Evening Edition of Saturday.)
Mr. Thomas Adams, the Rector's Warden, was
yesterday honoured with the Queen's commands,
through the medium of the Earl of Liverpool, the
Lord Steward, to cause to be distributed this day (in
order that the festive season of Christmas might not
pass over without the poor and needy enjoying
" Christmas cheer"), to each of the inmates of the
several alms-houses in the town, and also to all those
families (who reside in the borough) whose necessi-
ties compel them to be recipients of out-door relief
from the Board of Guardians of the Windsor Union,
bread, meat, plum-pudding, &c., in the following pro-
portions :—To each single person, 41bs. of meat. 21bs.
of bread, 11b. of plum-pudding, one peck_of potatoes,
one quart of ale, and a sack of coals. Where the fa-
mily consists of a man and his wife only, 61bs. of
meat, 4lbs. of bread, 2lbs. of plum-pudding, one peck
of potatoes, two quarts of ale, and one sack of coals ;
and for each child the following addition will be
made :-21bs. of meat, 31bs. of bread, lib. of plum-
pudding, half a peck of potatoes, and one pint of ale.
Upwards of one hundred families, averaging five per-
sons in each, will thus be enabled, on Christmas-day,
to participate in those "seasonable enjoyments,"
through the bounty of their Sovereign, which, but
for the Royal benevolence, they would have been
deprived of.
Ihel Rev. Mr. Cope, of Harnham, adjoining Sa-
lisbury, has requested the ministers of the parishes of
St. :Martin and Harnham, to select forty of the most
deserving poor of those parishes, fbr whom an excel-
lent dinner of Christmas fare is to be provided on
Christmas Day, in a spacious apartment on Mr. Cope's
premises, which has been purposely prepared, in a
very comfortable style, for the occasion.
The Duke of Northumberland has caused to be dis-
tributed, through the parish authorities, a good sup-
ply of coals, potatoes, and other necessary articles to
the poor of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields. The parishes
of St. Marylebone and St. Pancras have ren-
dered great assistance to the poor of those pa-
rishes by a seasonable supply of those articles. St.
Clement Danes has likewise issued a quantity of
coals to the poor of that parish ; and several parishes
in the City have contributed largely towards the alle-
viation of the distresses of their poor, and some bene-
volent private individuals have distributed seasonable
gifts to the necessitous.

- A circular has just been issued by the guardians of
the poor, calling on the benevolent to subscribe a suf-
ficient sum to provide the poor of Minster_ Union with
roast beef and plum pudding on Christmas Day; the
appeal is strengthened by the fact that the poor-rate
is not available for that purpose.—Kent Paper.

CHRISTMAS•DAY IN THE
PRISONS.
(From our Evening Edition of Saturday.)
For the mast part, the inmates of the criminal and
debtors' prisons are, on Christmas-day supplied with
good old English fare.
At Newgate the prisoners (including those under
sentence) will attend Divine service in the morning,
and will afterwards be each supplied with llb. of
roast beef, potatoes, bread, and a pint of porter, at the
expense of the Lord Mayor. Mr. Cope, the Governor,
will provide an excellent repast for the turnkeys. The
numbers are—men 136, and females 26. Of the
number there are sixty transports.
At Giltspur-street Compter, Mr. Whithair, the
Governor, will, also at the expense of the Lord
Mayor, provide each of the prisoners with llb. of
roast beef, bread, potatoes, and a pint of porter, after
having attended Divine service. Males 163, and
females 30.

HORSEMONGER-LAND.—There are eighty poor debt-
ors, chiefly on tally-bills, sixty master debtors, and
fifty criminals. The latter, and the poor debtors each
alternate year receive 41bs. of beef, under the will of
Mr. Carter, of Allhallows, but this year, • unfor-
tunately, they will not receive it, and have conse-
quently no extra allowance.
GENERAL PENITENTIARY 31.1 LL A NK..--.580 male
and 162 female prisoners, in all 742, wili. receive no
indulgence or extra allowance whatever. On Thurs-
day last the Right Hon; Sir James Graham, Major
Jebb, and other gentlemen, made a thoroughinspec-
tion of this prison.
WESTMINSTER BRIDE WELL, TOTHILL-f El:vs.-7308
male and 107 female prisoners, in all 415, will each
receive an extra allowance of meat, besides porter.
BRIDEWELL, BRIDGE-STREET, BLACK FRIARS, and
the Bridewell contiguous to Bethlehem, containing
200, as also the Debtors, Whitecross-street, are pro-
vided with Christmas fare, at the expense of the Lord
Mayor. In the Borough Compter, wherein are 18
prisoners, a similar repast will also be provided by the
Lord Mayor. All the prisons under the Corporation
of London are supplied by the Lord Mayor on Christ-
mas Day, and by the Sheriffs on New-Year's Day ;
and on Twelfth Day the prisoners in the Borough
Compter will be regaled by the High Bailiff.
ILFORD GAOL.—The inmates, 54 males and four
females, will each have roast beef, plum-pudding,
vegetables, and beer. . _

WooLwicu.—The convicts, about 3,500, will have
each a pint of porter, and extra, food.
MIDDLESEX HOUSE OF CORRECTION, COLDBATH-
FIELDS.—No extra allowance or indulgence.
THE QUEEN'S PRISON.—The gifts which were for-
merly received at the Fleet and Marshalsea, are now
appropriated among the inmates of this prison, which
at present are 280.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Leeds Mercury of Saturday.)
FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. 23.—Al-
though this is the season of the year when business
generally is done on a more limited scale, the trans-
actions of the past week, though not perhaps equal to
the average of the fortnight or three weeks previous,
have, nevertheless, been fully as extensive as might
reasonably have been expected, and prices contiuue
very steady.
ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 23.—Con-
sidering the near approach f Christmas, the sales of
wool during the present week have been to a moderate
extent, and last week s prices are firmly maintained.
WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC. 23.—The wool
trade has been in a perfectly quiescent state this week
scarcely a buyer having been in the market, which,
perhaps, ought to be expected, on the eve of the close
of the year. Stocks of long wool are, however, light
in the market, and prices are firm at late quotations.
LEEDS.—From the circumstance of the weather
continuing so unusually mild at this late period of
the season, the demand for winter goods has entirely
ceased, and the time for taking stock being just at
hand, very few purchases are made on speculation.
The markets at both our Cloth Halls have, in conse-
quence, been exceedingly dull this week. There are,
however, a few orders out, for goods for the East
India and China markets, which will give employ-
ment, to a certain extent, in several of the clothing
villages. There is also an increase of confidence that
an improved state of trade will take place early next
year. There has been very little doing in the ware•
houses this week.

MARKET NEWS.