The Sun. — 1864-02-22 (London, England)

RAILWAY NEWS.—It may be matter of interest at the present time, when the subject of circular railways for London is under the consideration of Parliament. to hear what has been the result of the Chemin de Fer de Ceinture de Paris, which encircles Paris, north of the Seine, as Mr. Fowler's proposed Outer Circle Railw•iy would, if constructed, encircle London north of the Thames. The Paris line extends from Auteil, just outside the fortifications, by Patsy, Les Batignolles, Montmartre, La Chapelle,  Belleville, St, Mande (outside the Place du Vont clog round to the stations of the Orleans Railway, to the Jardin des Plantes. The line also coullect, the various railways across which it enabling merchandise to be readily carried bY,.lar• means from one metropolitan station to an 18x2, This railway was opened on the 14th of July' re and the results of tie enterprise since that date the now before us, as reporteJ by the companY to. _t. shareholders in Paris on the 14t,b. of IgB3 It will be suffi,:ient if we state the traffic of thtg The total number of passengers convey (311%f,. an passes, tbil.; line during the entire year was 205,607, The average of 589 per day, or 32 per train. The ' ,oth was worked between five stations until the rhL of November, when two other stations were oPestir,‘ one of which Belau., is " en correspontiance' the Vincennes Railway. Ttie results, as resPe'money, were by no means satisfactory. Ttle fir ceipts were found to have amounted to 1,093,311 and the expenses to 1 293,772 f., showing a I°ssie 197,460 f. on the working. Although a consideo;' 0 increase is expected in the traffic on the cornPlet',o°, of the line round the south of Paris (which, bt)til ever, will involve the. construction of two c°s'l,s bridges over the Seine) we believe the propriel°o of the Chemin de Fer de Ceinture de Paristr discovered that the traffic of a great city is" " -„t° one suburb of it to another : and the disco the bably, may not be without its interest to the P jectors of the proposed similar circular railvcld round London.  Murder of a Wife at Hirwain, Glamorgaw shire, and Suicide of the Murderer.  The village of Hirwain, Glamorganshire, Saturday thrown into a state of the greatest e$ be. ment and consternation, in consequence of its gD coming known that an engineer, named r'y ,r Williams, had murdered his wife by strangling b' whilst asleep, and had afterwards put a his own existence by hanging himself from an ir° crook in the ceiling of the kitchen of his dwellin,gl house, The first alarm was given by a little l; of daughter of the deceased couple, who ran out 0' the house screaming and in evident terror, and wf,bd° on being interrogated said that her father fl-d mother were both dead. The neiglaltours atfirst bePheut that she was suffering from some childish feer,A7,nz on entering the house they were horrfied at flnut.ed-the man hanging by the neck, as already descriv,; period from the ceiling of his kitchen. They cut d°".3 the body as speedily as possible and found it Still warm, but the vital spark had fled. They tn, went upstairs, where the wife was found in L:el3s and apparently asleep. There were no indie3tino of any struggle having taken place, but the woman was quite dead, and on her body beied, examined it was found that she had been straeg .ch apparently in her sleep, by means of a cravat, Wbi to was found drawn so tightly round her throat fis se be to an extent embedded in the flesh. In her es;,, also the body was not quite cold. It has bee certained that the murderer and his victimre-r,it a to bed as usual on the Friday night, and there va be no doubt that he got up at an early henr':er having first despatched his wife in the we-riltof indicated, went into the garden, cut down a Rkbat a clothes line, and hanged himself with it. criU►e motive led to the perpetration of the doub;e d that hri not been ascertained, but it is sal Williams, who was not forty years old, had boolot bad health, and had suffered is his spirits s that that lunacy may probably have led to the feoce tragedy. Information of the sad event wasst "oe sent to the coroner with a view to an inquest°ll bodies.  363" I olert 0 "