The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-24 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-
cbandize :
Week
Name of Railway. Miles
ended Opened.
Sept. I7Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48
16 Birmingham and Gloucester... 55
10 Brandling Junction - 25
16 Chester and Birkenhead
18 Dundee and Arbroath ..... 164
17 Edinburgh and Glasgow
18 Eastern Counties
17 Glasgow and Ayr .. ..... 40
17 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 221
17 Grand J unct, Chester &Crewe 113
17 Great North of England 45
18 Great Western
Hayle l6
17 Hull and:Selby
Lancaster & Preston Junction 20a
16 Liverpool and Manchester 3l
17 London and Birmingham-- 1126
22 London and Blackwall 34
17 London and Brighten
Ditto Shoreham Branch .....• 56
20 London and Croydon lO6
22 London and Greenwich 3l
18 London and South Western
15 Manchester, Bolton, and. Bury 10
17 Manchester & Birmingham
17 Manchester and Leeds
17 Midland Counties 576
17 Newcastle and Carlisle 6ok
15 Newcastle and North Shields 7
18 Northern and Eastern
17 North Midland
16 North Union
17 Preston and Wyre 196
17 Sheffield and Manchester 7
22 South Eastern
17 Taff Vale .....
10 Ulster ......
17 York and North Midland 2B

Total.

£. s. d.
1,570 7 4
2,121 6 5
806 15 2
625 17 0
274 0 1
3,008 12 1
1,170 17 5
1,133 16 10

921 19 5
7,887 16 3
1,432 19 6
14,661 7 7

1,100 1 11

4,581 13 10
18,061 19 5
926 13 2
4,499 6 11

343 5 0
739 8 r
7,133 3 5j

560 111 0
2,647 15 2
5,120 16 5
3,205 12 11
1,695 3 9
376 1 5
1,299 13 0
5,704 19 1
1,346 6 0
331 0 6
202 13 6
1,518 11 I
553 11 9
386 10 6
1,845 6 2

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WATER COMPANIES.
TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN. .
Sin,—As you have inserted in your valuable
Paper the complaint of one " Householder" in
the district of St. John, Lambeth, against the
imposition about to be inflicted on the inhabi-
tants, perhaps you will hale tire goodness to no-
tice this, for the benefit of those similarly situate.
Your Correspondent complains of the extra
charge of 4s. upon 245.; but what would he have
done had he been served with a notice, as I have,
and many of my neighbours, that we are to pay,
after the 29th, 120 PER CENT. more, raising the
charge from 11. 12s. to 81. 18s. !! and this for a
ten-roomed private house. We have no remedy,
as your Correspondent observes; the two Com-
panies having agreed together. Perhaps a little
showing-up in your Paper would make this mo-
nopoly a little insecure, by the establishment of
another Company ; and 1 know, in that case,
nine-tenths of the inhabitants would support
them. ANOTHER HOUSEHOLDE
St. John's District, Lambeth, Sept. 23, 1842.

THE SHERIFF'S LIVERIES.—The state liveries for
Mr. Sheriff Eicher have been manufactured by
Messrs. Swain and Co., tailors to her Majesty. The
coats are of a lightish blue superfine cloth, trimmed
with gold lace, on which are worked the rose, sham-
rock, and thistle. They have 9paulettes on each, and
are lined with scarlet silk. The gold lace, which is
very broad, displays good taste in its design, and is mas-
sive and rich. The smalls. are very plain, having
no ornament about them except gold bands at the
knees ; but the waistcoats are very handsomely
trimmed, and are quite worthy to be worn with the
coats. The smalls and the waistcoats are of scarlet
cassimere, and the whole will surely enhance the re-
putation of Messrs. Swain and Co., who have had
such great experience in this kind:of manufacture.
Though we have little skill in criticising such works,
we can safely say, that in our humble opinion, work-
manship and taste displayed, do great credit to the
manufacturers.

MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.--A proof of
the extraordinary reduction or friction on a railway
as compared with that of the common road, may be
arrived at by the fact, that a four-horse coach, run-
ning between London and Birmingham, left, by the
wear of horse-shoes and wheel-tyres, 11 lbs. of iron
on the road each journey of 118 miles • while at the
present time a first-class carriage, weighing 31 tons,
with a brake, is now running on the Manchester and
Leeds Railway per 25,000 miles with Banks's tyres,
having lost in weight by this distance not more than
n lbs., and, from every appearance, this carriage is
likely to run a distance of three or four times the cir-
cumference of the earth without the least repair to
the wheels. The wheels were old ones, repaired on
Banks's plan, when put under the carriages, the cost
of repair not being more than half the price of a set of
wheels for a stage-coach.—Railway Times.
MURDER NEAR MALLOW.-011 Tuesday night last,
between 10 and 12 o'clock, a party of persons pro-
ceeded to the orchard of John O'Brien, Rockforrest,
near Mallow, for the purpose of stealing fruit, being
driven from the premises a few nights previous. On
entering the orchard, the owner, O'Brien, resisted them,
and they murdered him brutally, having fractured his
head with stones. The persons of the locality are
making every exertion to render amenable the perpe-
trators, and four persons are already in custody on
suspicion.—Cork Examiner.
Several persons on the Grand Parade were very
much surprised on Saturday evening, about nine
o'clock, at witnessing a most beautiful and perfect
lunar rainbow. The moon was shining full and
bright at the time ; but the part of the heavens in
which the rainbow was observed presented a dusky
appearance. This curious phenomenon lasted for about
seven minutes, and was a perfect arch running from
south to north, and as distinct as if the drops of rain
had been acted on by the rays of the sun.—Cork
Examiner.

We find the following under the head of " Rare
instance of conjugal love" in the Espectador of Ma-
drid :—" A few days ago there died at Ibirieu a man
named Huici of some injuries which he had received
in a quarrel. His wife, unable to bear up with her
grief at his loss, committed‘suicide the following day."
THE LATE DR. IRELAND.—The late Dean of West-
minster was no ordinary character. The life of Dr.
Ireland, like that of his friend Mr. Gifford, in the
early part of it, was a chequered one, struggling with
difficulties. Let others speak of him as a scholar,
learned divine, and philanthropist, as he was in the
true sense of the word. His benevolent actions while
living are known within the precincts of Westminster
Abbey, as were his charitable donations at Islip, Ash-
burton, and Oxford ; and the disposition of the inward
man may be collected from the following bequests in
his will :-1,0001. for the Western Dispensary, after
a life interest therein in Islip ; 2,0001. Westminster
Hospital, after a life interest therein in Westminster;
5,0001. for a chapel in Westminster; 2,0001. King's
College, for promotion of religious education ; 1,0001.
Society now forming in London for the education of
the sons of clergymen ; 1,0001. Trustees for poor per-
sons in Ashburton ; 10,0001. University of Oxford,
for a professor of theology; 2,0001. Oriel College, for
an ex h ibition.—Morning paper.
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OTTERY ST. MARY.—On Sunday morning last, as
divine service was about to commence, the church in
this place presented a scene of an unusual and riotous
appearance, occusioned by the Rev. Vicar's claiming
a pew in the church lately occupied by the Rev. G.
Smith, and subsequently claimed by his executrix.
The Rev. Doctor on Sunday came to take possession
of the seat for the first time, when it was occupied by
three persons on behalf of Miss Smith, the executrix
--her servant and two tenants. On seeing this, the

Rev. Divine at once sent for the two constables, Reed
and Mayne, also the two churchwardens, Messrs.
Coleridge and Newbury, when a scene of hauling and
hustling took place, which ended in the summary
ejectment of those occupying on behalf of Miss Smith,
but the whole affair had more the appearance of a
skirmish in an ale-house than an assembly for worship
in the house of God.—Exeter Times.
THE LORD-LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND.—IES Ex-
cellency Earl De Grey leaves St. James's-square, to-
day, not for Dublin Castle, as erroneously stated, but
to visit Earl and Countess Cowper, at Pansanger,
Herts. From thence the Noble Earl goes to Wrest
Park, his seat in Bedfordshire, and afterwards to
Newby Hall, Yorkshire, where his Lordship :einains
a few days, and from thence will go to Ireland to re-
sume the high duties of Viceroy. Capt. A. Magennis,
Private Secretary to his Excellency, has left for
Dublin.

WINDSOR CASTLE.—IIer Majesty the Queen has
caused cards to be issued by the Lord Chamberlain,
inviting a numerous and distinguished circle at the
Castle from to-day until Wednesday, to meet his Im-
perial Highness the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria.
The Duke of Wellington, who arrived at Apsley
House yesterday from Widmer Castle, goes to-day,
and Prince and Princess Leichtenstein left Mivart's
Hotel yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty until
Monday. The Earl and Countess of Jersey leave
Middleton Park, near Bicter, on Monday, for
Windsor Castle and many other personages of dis-
tinction have likewise received the Royal commands
to join the brilliant party partaking of the regal fes-
tivities at the Castle.

In the course of Tuesday night a cow was run over
on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway, about
two miles frcm Spetchley. The poor animal was cut
to pieces, and some luggage trucks were thrown off the
line, but beyond that, :and the necessary dela, no
other Inconvenience occurrecie—Worcester Herald.