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 Railway would, if constructed, encircle London north of the Thames. The Paris line extends from Auteil, just outside the fortifications, by Palsy, Les Batignolles, Montmartre, La Chapelle,  Belleville, St, Mande (outside the Place du Trone)e , s round to the stations of the Orleans Railway, clots to the Jardin des Plantes. 'The line also connec the various railways across which it passes' tt'lltss. enabling merchandise to be readily carried byhe 1 means from one metropolitan station to anotor' This railway was op eened on the 14th of July,lB6': and the results of the enterprise since that date the now before us, as reported by the compahY to t shareholders in Paris on the 14th of February 15653, t It will be sufficient if we state the traffic of 18his The total number of passengers conveyed over line during the entire year was 205,607, being a jjc average of 589 per day, or 32 per train. The tr" on ta was worked between five stations until the m ed. of November, when two other stations were orri:tt one of which Belatr, is " en correspondance's the Vincennes Railway. The results, as regPt''re, money, were by no means satisfactory. Thei,' ceipte were found to have amounted to 1,093 31'1 and the expenses to 1 293,772 f., showing a loss!), 197,4601. on the working. Although a consideraw! increase is expected in the traffic on the comPleti" of the line round the south of Paris ( vhioh, 11°,1; ever, will involve the-construction of two cc'i, bridges over the Seine) we believe the proprieto oe of the Chemin de Fer de Ceinture de Paris hs_o discovered that the traffic of a great city is not fru°, one suburb of it to another : and the discover', rO, bably, may not, be without its interest to the Pr jectors of the proposed similar circular rails"' round London.  Murder of a Wife at Hirwain, Glaraorgallshire, and Suicide of the Murderer.  pII The village of Hirwain, Glamorganshire, was,te Saturday thrown into a state of the greatest es el ment and consternation, in consequence of it 9 1)8; coming known that an engineer, named Evt,s-r Williams, had murdered his wife by strangling to whilst asleep, and had afterwards put a peri°7„o. his own existence by hanging himself from an crook in the ceiling of the kitchen of his clwelh11,1: house. The first alarm was given by a little g'ro'f a daughter of the deceased couple, who ran 6t the house screaming and in tvident terror, and vi'dj on being interrogated said that her father ti-a mother were both dead. The neighbours at first haPe that she was suffering from some childish fear' b on entering the house they were horrfied at fltutiirici' the man hanging by the neck, as already deser,ib..ei: from the ceiling of his kitchen. They cut na",a the body as speedily as possible and found it silo, warm, but the vital spark had fled. They thped, went upstairs, where the wife was found in 'O5 and apparently asleep. There were no indielitt°ol. of any struggle having taken place, but the Pia; woman was quite dead, and on her body be,l ci° examined it was found that she had been strane apparently in her sleep, by means of a cravat, Whicht° was found drawn so tightly round her throat ea 50 In her Os be to an extent embedded in the flesh. also the body was not quite cold. It has retiredhlj certained that the murderer and his victim , a to bed as usual on the Friday night, and there ;::(1 be no doubt that he got up at an early h°lll.', et having first des arched his wife in the rusi.ljt of indicated, went into the garden, cut clown a Pi-vjat a clothes line, and hanged himself with it. motive led to the perpetration of the doub;e_ic'tot has not been ascertained, but it is et; irt Williams, who was not forty years old, had bad health, and had suffered in his spirits s° that that lunacy may probably have led to the fesnce tragedy. Information of the sad event wont on sent to the coroner with a view to an inquest 00 bodies.