The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-10 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS.

We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re-
ceived 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-
chandize :
Week
of Miles Total.
y. .
Name Railwa
ended Opened, d,

Sept. 3 Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 . 1,365 5 9
2 Birmingham and Gloucester.:. 55 1,847 7 10
Aug. 27 Brandling Junction 25 881 12 6
Sept. 2 Chester and Birkenhead ..
4 Dundee and Arbroath ... ..... 161 250 8 0
3 Edinburgh and Glasgow
4 Eastern Counties
3 Glasgow and Ayr 40 .1,160 17 3
3 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 221 962 15 2
3 Grand Junet., Chester &Crewe 113 7,807 0 4
3 Great North of England 45 1,349 9 1
4 Great Western
Hayle ......... ... 16
11

3 Hull and Selby
Lancaster & Preston Junction 20a
2 Liverpool and Manchester 3l 4,493 7 8
3 London and Birmingham ll2i . 16,151 11 4
8 London and Blackwall .... ..
3 London and Brighten
Ditto Shoreham Branch -
6 London and Croydon ' ' 10f 361 710
8 London and Greenwich 3l 793 3 8
4 London and South Western
... Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 .
... Manchester & Birmingham
3 Manchester and Leeds
3 Midland Counties ...
3 Newcastle and Carlisle ......
1 Newcastle and North Shields 7 400 9 1
4 Northern and Eastern
3 North Midland 4
22i 724 4,485 7 5
.. North Union -
3 Preston and Wyre l9i 318 12 7
3 Sheffield and .111anchester 7 ..171 17 5
8 South Eastern
3 Taff Vale
4 Ulster 24 425 19 11
3 York and North Midland 2B 2,188 310

THE QUEEN'S EMBARKATION
FOR SCOTLAND.

The following is a copy of the official report of the
Lord Mayor on the subject of her Majesty's embarka-
tion for Scotland

" The Lord Mayor has the honour to report to the
Court of Aldermen that, her Majesty the Queen having
been pleased to signify her intention to visit her domi-
nions in Scotland, and to proceed thither by water,
some time in the course of the month of August last,
his Lordship felt it to be his duty, as Conservator of
the river Thames, to attend her Majesty upon her
embarkation, and to escort her throughout his juris-
diction, in like manner as was done in the Mayoralty
of the late Mr. Alderman Magnay, in the year 1824,
when his Majesty King George the Fourth went to
and returned from Scotland ; and in the Mayoralty
of Mr. Alderman Farebrother, in the year.lB34,
when her Majesty Queen Adelaide proceeded to the
Continent upon a visit to her relatives, and upon
her return.

" The Lord Mayor consequently proceeded to
make the requisite arrangements, and applied to the
Right lion. Sir James Graham, her Majesty's prin-
cipal Secretary of State for the Home Department,
and to the Right Hon. Sir John Barrow, one of the
Secretaries-to the Admiralty, respectfully requesting
to be informed (as lie was anxious to pay all due re-
spect to her Majesty) of the time and place from
which it would please her Majesty to embark, that he
might be in attendance upon her Majesty, and accom-
pany her throughout his jurisdiction.
" That in addition to a reply from Sir John Bar-
row, transmitting a letter from Mr. Drummond,
Secretary to the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, his
Lordship received a letter from Sir James Graham,
stating that he had laid the Lord Mayor's letter before
the Queen, and had received her Majesty'scommands
to inform his Lordship that the time of her Majesty's
departure for Scotland was not definitively fixed :
that her Majesty would embark from the Royal Dock-
yard at Woolwich ; and that it was her pleasure that
all ceremonies connected with the conservancy of the
river Thames should be dispensed with on the occasion.
" His Lordship, therefore, gave directions to Capt.
Fisher, the Superintending Harbour-master of the
Port of London, to be in attendance at Woolwich,
with the officers and boats of the harbour service, on
the day of her Majesty's embarkation, and to afford
every facility in his power for the same."

We alluded last week to the probable retirement of
Mr. John Leadbetter from the Chairmanship of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company, in conse-
quence of his views on the subject of Sunday travelling.
We have since learned that on Thursday week Mr.
Leadbetter was requested to attend the first meeting of
the Board after the general meeting, it being im-
perative under the new Act then to elect all the officers
of the Company. Before proceeding to the busi-
ness of the day, Mr. Leadbetter required a pledge from
the Board that the question of Sunday travelling should
be considered an open question, and with this pledge
he would act as Director, or as their Chairman, if
elected. The question having been decided by
so large a majority in February, even of resi-
dent Scotch proprietors, and in August, with-
out a division, no such pledge could be given, not even
that the question would ever again be entertained, on
which Mr. Leadbetter resigned his office, and retired
from, the Board. Mr. John Learmonth, of Edin-
burgh, was then elected Chairman ; and Mr. John
George Hamilton, Deputy-Chairman ; and an in-
fluential individual is to be proposed at the next
meeting (a resident of Glasgow) to fill up the
vacancy. 'WEI are glad to find that the majority of the
Directors have been so firth in a matter where any symp-
tom of yielding would have been turned to the account
of the Agnewites. Notwithstanding Mr. Cadell's inti-
mation that he will bring forward the question at the
next meeting, the anti-Sunday travelling agitation may
be looked upon as at an end. It is high time that it were.
—Railway
yT
iNinzes.
MARRIAGE HIGH LIFE.—OH Thursday, the
Bth instant, at the parish church of Freshwater, Isle of
Wight, by the Rev. J. F. Isaacson, the rector, the Hon.
Francis Grosvenor Hood, Captain and Lieut.-Colonel in
the Grenadier Regiment of Guards, and brother of the
Viscount Hood, to Elizabeth Jane, second daughter of
Vice-Admiral Sir Graham Eden Hamond, Bart., and
K.C.8., of Norton Lodge, Freshwater.
THE AR DlY.—The Board of Ordnance have been
pleased to notice " the field train department" in their
order to the officers of artillery for the income tax ; but
they were forgotten by the Board in the naval and will-
tary inquiry, and neglected in the Ordnance regulation of
the 10th April, 1841. The public ought to know these
acts of injustice to men who have served their country
twenty years in the late war.
ENIGMA.--What word is that in the English lan-
guage, and in common use, which will describe a person
or thing as not to be found in any place, and yet, without
any other alteration than a separation of the syllable,
will correctly describe him as being present at the same
moment ?—Morning Post. Answer.—Nowhere : Now-
here.