The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-17 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
Name of Railway.vMiles Total.
Opened. £. s. d.
ended
Sept. 10Birmingham & Derby Junct. 48 1,503 15 11
9 Birmingham and Gloucester... 55 1,880 14 2
3 Brandling Junction
9 ( ;hester and Birkenhead .., l5 565 10 6
11 Dundee and Arbroath ... ..... 164 318 3 1i
10 Edinburgh and Glasgow
. Eastern Counties
10 Glasgow and kyr 40 1,283 7 9
10 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenw•lc 24 970 4 11
10 Grand Junct., Chester &Crewe 113 7,663 5 0
10 Great North of England 45 1,291 11 1
11 Great Western
Hayle lB
10 Hull and Selby
Lancaster & Preston Junction 201
9 Liverpool and Manchester • 3l 4,548 10 10
10 London and Birmingham ll2 16,252 17 10
15 London and Blackwall 34 1,040 11 7
10 London and Brighten
Ditto Shoreham Branch
—_
13 London and Croydon loi 385 12 9i
15 London and Greenwich 34 767 10 0
11 London and South Western
8 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury 10 610 10 Oi
3 Manchester & Birmingham
10 Manchester and Leeds
10 Midland Counties s7i 2,722 5 1i
10 Newcastle and Carlisle 6oi 1,546 7 8
8 Newcastle and North Shields 7 417 11 6
11 Northern and Eastern ...
10 North Midland
9 North Union
10 Preston and Wyre
10 Sheffield and Manchester . 7 183 5 5
15 South Eastern
10 Taff Vale
11 Ulster
10 York and North Midland 2B 1,903 15 3

DOVER CROPPING AFFAIR,
(From the Dover Chronicle of Sept. 17.)
INVESTIGATION INSTITUTED BY THE

HOME SECRETARY.
On Monday morning last, at ten o'clock, Mr. W.
Russell, inspector of prisons, entered upon the inves-
tigation at the gaol here, of the conduct of the gaoler
and turnkey, in the late memorable cropping affair.
The inquiry was held before a very full meeting of
the Magistrates ; but as reporters were excluded, our
account of the proceedings must necessarily be limited
to what has transpired from various quarters, satisfy-
ing ourselves with furnishing our readers with a less
detailed report than we could have wished, but never-
theless with, we believe in substance, a tolerably cor-
rect version of what passed.
Messrs. Fitzjames and Gladstone were first called
upon by Mr. Russell to state their account of the
proceedings of which they so justly complained.
Their depositions of what passed, which were taken
down in writing by Mr. Russell, appeared to make
considerable impression on him, as well as on those
Magistrates present who had not previously heard the
account from these gentlemen's lips.
The gaoler was then heard in his defence, in which
he endeavoured simply to prove that he had treated
the prisoners in question in a similar manner to all
others committed to his custody under the same cir-
cumstances, sheltering himself under the rules laid
down for his guidance, which (although it appears
they are capable of much amendment) were sadly
overstrained, in the opinion of the Inspector of Pri-
sons, to cause them to bear the construction at-
tempted to be put on them.
After the examination of the gaoler, Mr. Coleman,
the surgeon to the gaol, was called, whose evidence
merely.
,went- to prove that Messrs. Fitzjames and
Gladstone, on the usual examination taking place,
were perfectly clean in their persons and dress.
The turnkey was next examined, who gave, we
hear, a very straightforward evidence, but certainly
rather condemnatory than otherwise of the haste re.
sorted to in this instance by the gaoler.
The inquiry was conducted with the utmost fair-
ners on the part of Mr. Russell, who, at the close of
the proceedings, addressed a few remarks to Messrs.
Fitzjames and Gladstone, expressive of his deep re-
gret that they should have been subjected to what
certainly appeared to him an undue and unnecessary
rigour on the part of the gaoler. He could not, how-
ever, discover from the evidence he had taken, any
actual malice towards them on the part of the gaoler ;
and though he chose to strain, as he certainly did,
sonic of his prison regulations to the utmost, instead of
using a prudent discretion in carrying them into prac-
tice, yet it might certainly be said he had acted
within the letter of his instructions, and was, there-
fore, probably free from the imputation of &uilt. At
the same time, he observed to Messrs. Fitzjames and
Gladstone, that they ought to have been aware that
singing and uproarious conduct of any kind could not
for a moment be tolerated in a prison ; and that the
gaoler, as far as that was concerned, was perfectly
right in checking it.

—Subsequent to Messrs. Fitzjames and Gladstone
leaving the room, Mr. Russell had the gaoler and
turnkey before him, animadverting in strong terms
upon their past conduct, and cautioning them for the
future. He likewise called the attention of the Ma-
gistrates to the immediate revision of their prison rules.
We hear that a separate communication to the Ma-
gistrates has been made from the Home-office, requir-
ing their explanation of the affair.

THE AMERICAN DlVER.—Smith, the diver, took
another leap from Sunderland Bridge, on Monday,
amidst a vast crowd of spectators, but it nearly cost him
his life. The height is upwards of 110 feet, but he darted
into the water without Tear, and afterwards arose appa-
rently in avery feeble and exhausted condition. On being
brought ashore, he was seized with convulsions, when it
was found necessary to bleed him. At first the blood
flowed slowly, and was as black as treacle, showing the
great congestion which hanaken place in the lungs, to-
gether with the gorged state of the heart and blood
vessels. He suffered for some time from nervous ex-
haustion, but ultimately rallied. A third attempt would
prove fatal. •
This morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, as
a man named William Wills, in the employ of Mr.
Hutton, News-agent, Catherine-street, Strand, was
crossing New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, he was ob-
served suddenly to stagger and fall. as if in a fit. Police-
constable Burgess, 529, hastened to his assistance,
and, with the aid of another person, conveyed him
into the house of Mr. Taylor, surgeon, opposite,
who endeavoured to bleed him, but without avail,
the vital spark having for ever passed away. Mr.
Taylor gives it as his opinion that life had instanta-
neously become extinct, arising most probably from ex-
treme exhaustion. The deceased, who was much re-
spected, was 40 years of age, and resided at No. 2, Cross-
street, Drury-lane, had, it appears, until lately, been out
of employment upwards of two years. He has left a wife
and child to deplore their sudden bereavement.
The wife of a workman residing in the Rue St.
Victor was a few days ago delivered of her 22d child, at
the age of 58 years!—Paris paper.
The "truck system" is carried on to such an ex-
tent at Mountsorrel, that one workman has received no
cash for fourteen weeks. —Nottingham Mercury.
The VICAR or GEDNEY.-011 Sunday morning
last the process of suspension was served upon the Rev.
'l'. 5. Escott, as he was going to church ; and the same
uas on the church doors, for the edification of all who
went to worship. This was the only " service" which
took place at Gedney Church on Sunday last.—Stam-
ford Mercury.

A gang of pickpockets is now frequenting the dif-
ferent markets and fairs in this county, who carry out
their designs on their neighbours' pockets by means of
neatly dressed boys, whose apparent innocence disarms
all suspicion of their being thieves.—hasten Herald.
The Directors of the Blackwall Railway Company
came to a resolution, a few evenings since, to increase the
fares to passengers in the first class from Gd. to Bd., and
in the second class from 4d. to Gd., and the advanced
fares have already been exacted.
The Bishop of Exeter is rapidly recovering from
the effects of bis late accident.