The Sun. — 1856-03-20 (London, England)

THE RECENT RAILWAY COMPETITION.—A minute of the directors of the Great Northern Railway has jogt been communicated to the officers and servants of the company relative to the recent competition between the Great Northern, the London and North• Western, the Midland, and the Manchester, Sheffiefd, and Lincolnshire Railway Companies, as follows :—" Read,— Report of Match 3, from the general manager, enclosing a statement showing that in the five days ended Feb. 29,11856, during which very low fares were charted in competition with the London and North-Western CJinpany, 21,8431 passengers were conveyed by the cheap trAins on the Great Northern Railway, producing a total receipt of 3,756/. 155., and remarking that the arrangements fur the accommodation of _ _  the traffic were so well considered and carried out by the superintendent of the line and his assistants that he, the general manager, has not yet heard of a eiree complaint, tier did any accident occur on the Great N orthern way, though there was a slight one near Wcodhouse Junction, on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire  Railway, on the return of the last train of empty carriages.—Resolved, that the Board has great pleasure in thanking the officers and men in the service of the Great Northern Railway Company for the judicious arrangements and the efficient manner in which the passenger traffic was conducted during the late period of competition. J .R. MOWATT, Secretary. To Mr. W. Leith." The superintendent of the line has much satisfaction in making known the above resolution of the Board. The Bereelona papers contain accounts of two strange crimes just -vommitted in that city. A toreador named Sevilla got into a quarrel with a butcher of the Plaza de San Miguel, and struck him in the face, after which be took to flight. The next morning he walked slowly before the butcher's shop, and the butcher's rife seeing hire, cried out that if ever he dared present himself loafers her again she would make him repent his insult to her husband. After a while, the toreador returned, and said tauntingly, " You see, my fine lady, that Jam not afraid of you !" The woman, making no reply, seized one of the huge knives which Spanish butchers use, and which are nearly as sharp as a razor, and with one blow, skilfully applied, cut his. left arm completely off. She was immediately arrested, and as she was being conveyed to prison, exclaimed repeatedly, " I care not what is done to me, as long as my husband is avenged !" Before the emotion caused by this affair had subsided the second crime was perpetrated. A young man of 20, and a girl about 16, after walking arm-in•arm in the Calle do Capellanes, proceeded to the Plaza de Calenque, where they faced each other as if about to separate. After au animated but apparently not angry conversation, the girl suddenly drew a poignard front her pocket and stabbed her companion in the breast. The young man fell covered with blood and fainting into the arms of a labouring man who haepened to be passing at the moment, and the girl trek to (light and could not afterwards be discovered. The man was conveyed into a druggist's shop, and there a medical man ascertained that the dagger was poisoned. Means were immediately employed to counteract the effect • f the poison, and the wound, when dreseed, was declared, although serious, not mortal. The young man refuses to divulge the cause of the quarrel. NUMEROUS DETERMINED SUICIDES Or