The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-11 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS ON RAILWAYS IN THEIR
UNITED KINGDOM FOR 1867.
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United I

The traffic receipts on railways in the Unit.-
Kingdom amounted for the year 1867, on 13,802 mdes
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of railway, to 38,670,5401., against 37,415,9271. on et.
13,424 miles of railway in the year 1866, showing_
_an in- se.
crease of 1,234,613/. The increase of Dale in 1866 over It.
1865 amounted to 2,080,0891., so that the inverse of traffic 114.
in the past year over the preceding year was leas by 825,4761. fR
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hath the increase of traffic in 1866 over 1865. Consider-
the state of financial matters during the year tn.
and the serious losses incurred by the failure and St.
winding-up of several joint-stock companies, it is tle
satisfactory that the falling off was not greater. I
Owing to the very severe weather in the first quarter of
1867, the increase =that %meter was only 71,500/. over the FL"
same quarter in 1866, while the increase in the first quarter at.
of 186 e over 1865 amounted to 673,5001., being 602,0001., et
• thus amounting at once for the greater part of the ea
comparrtive deficiency. The increase of traffic in the 12._
second quarter of 1867 was 352,7001., against 524,0001. in
1866 over the same quarter in 1865 ; the increase in the
third quarter amounted to 596,0004, against 297,5001. in to
1866 over 1865 ; and in the fourth quarter to 361,4001.,
against 446,000/. in 1866 over 1865. The traffic receipts
on the 14 principal lines of railway in the United King- ot:,
dom for the year 1867 amounted, on 9,497 miles, to
32,038,5881., and for the year 1866, on 9,242 miles, to
3 1 1 4 ,9 4 S . , showing an increase of 882.640/. to
The increase in the receipts on the Caledonian Railway me
amounted in the year 1867 to 6,015/. ; on the Great le
Eastern, to 16,43 W '. • on the Great Northern, to 110,306/. ; 100
on the Great Southern and Western of Ireland, to
41,2171. ; on the Great Western, to 26,543/. ; on the Lan-
cubits and Yorkshire, to 91,111/. • on the London and too
North-Western, to 88,395/. ;on the London and Brighton, Ht.
to 74,9381. ; on the London and South Wester a, to 20
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26,331. ;on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 41-
to 14,261/. ;on the Midland, to 160,41 W. ;on the North I.
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Ihitish, to 41,9161.,. on the North Eastern, to 93,5681. ;100
and on the South Eastern, to 90,5751. The total too
receipts on the smaller lines amounted to 6,631,9521. ; 100
and for the year 1866, to 6,269,9791., showing an 100
increase of 361,9731. The total traffic receipts 100
on the Caledonian Railway for the past year et
amounted to 1,767,097/. ; on the Great Eastern, to to
1,866,718/. ;on the Great Northern, to 2,104,066/. ;on to
the Great Southetn and Western, to 524,5761. • on the N.
Great Tresteru, to 3,896,5114/. ; on the Lancashire and et
Yorkshire, to 2,449,125/.; cm the London and North West-
ern, to 6,370,946/. ; on the London. Brighton, and South IL°
Coast, to 1,243,717/. ;on the London and South Western, 10
to 1,313,917/. ;on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln- at,
shire, to 1,097,167/. ; on the Midland, to 2,826,Zi1f. ; on st,
the North British, to 1,405,765/. • on the North Eastern, et.
to 3,770,606/. • and on the South 'Eastern, to 1,372,139/. 20
total, 32.0:e4,58/9. The total capital expended on the ,5:0
railways in the United Kingdom to the end of July, ioo
1867, amounted to 457,167,3 W/. on 13,802 miles of rail- at.
way, being an average cost of 3:4,1214/. per mile. The
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traffic receipts amounted to 38,670,54 W., being at the rate 10
of 2,14091. per mile ; the working expenses appear to have
been 50'6 per cent., against 4814 per cent. in 1866, and la
48 per cent. in 1865. It is a fact that the working ex- to
palms of railways have gone on steadily increasing from st,
an average of 40 per cent. of the gross receipts in 1845 to In.
We per cent. in 1867, to that there is tot much proba-
bility of reduction in the percentage of working expenses.
The percentage of traffic receipts, as compared with the
amount of capital expended, has varied from 9*0.5 per cent. ,a
in 1815 to 5•70 per cent. in 1850, when it was at the
lowest. Front thence it then gradually augmented to
8'57 per cent. in 1n6.5. The percentage of receipts to sO,
expenditure in the past year was 846 per cent., and the 1,00,
percentage of net profits on the enormous expenditure of W.
45",000 rate
,000/. was only at the of 4'lB per cent., which, 2
wunri'der;:let.circurastanoes, must be deemed an unsatisfac-
Tbe traffic receipts of railways in the United Kingdom 111
amounted, for the week ending January 4, on 13,14 n miles, Mt
to 650,2Z1/., and for the correanonding week of last year, 14
on 12,831 miles, to 611,34:9., showing an increase of 315 et
miles and of :91,830/. The gross receipts on the following st
13 railways amounted, in the aggregate, on 9,497 miles, to N
544,2361., and for the corresponding week of 1867, on 9,942 11
miles, to 511,991/., showing an increase of 255 miles and N
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of 32,315/. The increase on the Great Eastern amounted
to 2,4719. ;on the Great Northern to 3,11441. ; on the M
Great Southern and Western, to 1278/. ; on the Great ti
Western to 4,951/. ;on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to It
1,71KV.; on the Loudon and North Western to 2,5'261.; on the
London, Brighton, and South Coast to 3,5091.; on the Lon-
don and South Western to 2,407/. ;on the Manchester, 11l
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire to 918/. ; on the Midland
to 4,2257. ; on the North British to 2,181/. ; on the North
Eastern to 841/. ; and on the South Eastern to 2,0907. d
total, 38,03 ; but from this must he deducted 51
7119., the decrease on the Caledonian, leaving the 1
increase, es above, 32,315/. The goods and mineral traffic
on those lines amounted to 293,0211., and for the corm-
stranding week of 1867 to 279,7'•r21.,showing an increase
of 13,2991. The receipts for passengers, parcels,
amounted to 951,215/. against 2.12,19 W., showing an in-
crease of 19,0867. The trails receipts on 52 other lines
ausonn.ed, on 3,643 miles, to 105,9871., and for the
corresponding week of last year, on 3,589 miles. to
tr 9,499/., showing an increase of 410 miles and of 6,565/.
The total receipts of the past week show a decrease of
53,39-4. as compared with those of the preceding week,
ending the 24th of December.

Mr. Joseph Glass, who died st Buxton on the
29th of last month, was the inventor of the chimney-
sweeping machine now in use. " Not until the produc-
tion of this philanthropic invention," says the Athourunt,
" were the advocates of the suffering climbing boys able
to procure the passage of the bill for the suppression of &
cruel practice. Mr. Gleam, having perfected his machine
and proved its practicability, was examined before •
committee of the House of Lords ; the result being the
act of parliament for the suppression of the climbing-boy
system of sweeping chimneys. Mr. Glass received the
silver medal and the prize of 2007., but he never patented
his useful invention. He waa actively engaged for many
years, first, in advocating the claims of the climbing boys,
and afterwards in prosecuting the masters who attempted
to evade the provisions of the act."
ALLEGED IMPORTANT ARREST IN DUBLIN.-011
Wednesday evening, between five and six o'clock, Messrs.
F.gginton and Carey, of the detective police. arrested Is
Duke-street, near Grafton-street, a man who is said to
have been the leader of the " affair" at Tallaght on the
sth of March, last year. The prisoner gave the name of
Ferguson, but on further inquiry he refused to give any
name or to reply to any question. The general opinion is
that the prisoner is Lennon. whose name was so frequently
mentioned in the trials at the first spethd commission.
He will be brought up again in a few days, but the polies
authorities do not feel justified in giving any information
respecting the arrest. The prisorer is about twentrfive
years old, and seems to have experienced some hardship.
He has been removed to Kihnainham gaol. We under-
stand that the police made a most minute search for per-
sons charged with Fenianism in a house in Dawson-street
on Wednesday night, but without success. The marine
guard continues on night duty on the East Pier, and the
Board of Public Works have erected • shed there to protect
the men from the weather. Marines are still located in
the Sondycove Battery.—Preemaa's.fourisof.
FRENCH Pnotz. —Nom, of all modern intellects,
that of France is meet like to the Greek in the love of
artistic form ; in the passion for definiteness of thought
and figure ; and in the habit of pushing • principle to
what seems the logical conclusion, so that the thinker's
eye shell be soothed by the artistic completeness of the
argumentative lines, and not shocked by those Wese_
lai:Ves of compromise which the eseentielly English mind
wee without discomfort. That measured beauty of farm
which gives a supreme charm to French prose, sad that
air of logical rigour which marks French speculation, come
front the same impulse. Att means beauty set in
like order; philosophy means principles set ina
order ; and both rmult from ;the passion for eons
ness, or the horror of an inharmonious line.
Kant, rounding off the limits within which the intellest
CM work scientifically, and Goethe, clothing the esseleas
of life with the artistic Deity of Faust, there le lithe
surface affinity; yet in reality both minds *bey the same
rule ; each says in his own way that, if we oily leek deep
enough, we shall se* • rounded completeness In what
seems a shapeless mass to the eye visperilled by the
euphrasr and rue of thought and andedr. The parks
for completeness may indeed exist wltheall the isselliat
for ptlering In materials that ema sifted a essimptste-
nese which *all be real. In Franc* *et passim ices lees
than those faculties; bones, with all Its
B=er best work Ise • oertsia thinness bauble
work of Gerznanyand England ; berbesety In not staddh/f
organised as the beauty of We; she has ao illtakespute
sad no Goethe.--irrain's dragazies for Alma.

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