The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-17 00:00:00

INDIAN TRAMWAY.

An extraordinary meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the office, Moorgate-street, Sir Macdonald Ste-
phenson in the chair.
Mr Scott, the secretary, having read the notice convening
the meeting,

The CuAnntior said they had to pass a formal resolution
under the provisions of the Act, in order to confirm the re-
solution adopted at the last meeting. He then moved that
the following resolution be confirmed :—" Resolved, that
the deposits received from persons willing to subscribe to
the new capital be returned to them, and that the capital of
the company for the present be fixed at a sum not exceed-
ing £100,000."

Mr NORTON seconded the motion, and it was carried
unanimously.
A Shareholder feared that Sir C. Wood was making the
same mess of their undertaking as of the other Indian mat-
ters referred to in the newspapers.
The CHAIRMAN explained that the company had sent two
missions to India, and all the minor Governments were
quite ready to go into the business with the company, but
on their return to England they found the procrastean sys-
tem was to be adopted. The directors could not help that
state of things. There was no doabt it was being carried
out in ignorance of the wants of the country. The position
of the company was very satisfactory, and they believed the
line now making would pay well. They had already lost
several years, and they could have made 1,000 miles of
tramway while they had been making the 17 miles,
The meeting then separated.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.
Miles Opened. Receipts.
Ball Ways.
1864. 1863. 1864. 1863.
A
2,355 2.325
75E 807
2,190 1,847
7,479 7,260
20,013 18,017
1,819 1,610
365 315
398 330
209 220
471 476
2,001 1.7u7
477 343
1,465 1.418
1,880 1,715
252 197
3,020 2,761
3,281 2,912
9, •80 8,832
33,361 31,301
37,591 34,349
.I,Ba 7 2,081
566 615
9,052 8,392
72,306 66,741
114
1,617 1,543
2,8;4
1,638 1,613
3,010 125
41,890 37,877
192 178
121 115
727 646
1.13,871 1( 3,541
2,0 . 6 1,910
27,853 25,095
23,489 21,128
8, 49 6, 70
2,315 1,395
19,155 17..120
1,649 1,3:4
1,554 1.329
2,222 1,643
51,419 45,971
5,254 5,109
1,582 1.691
2,704 2,758

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Blyth and Tne 2B 28
Bristol and Exeter l2l} 1211}
Caledonian 262k £44i
Cambrian
Cockermouth & Workington Bi 8i
Cork and Bandon 2O 20

Cork, Blackrock, & Passage... 61
Cork and Youghal . .... 32k 321
Cornwall 651 531
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. &Wicklow and Wexld 9ll 51
Furness, &c 5O 5 i
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 387 351
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
Li t. Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 7l 711
SlLSouthn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3871 3511
Great Western 1205 1158
Hull and Hornsea l3
Inverness & Aberdeen June lO6l 1061
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191
Irish North-Western 145 145
Kent Coast 27 10
Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 3951
Limerick and Ennis... 241 24*
Limerick and Foynes 261 261
Llanelly 461 461
London & North Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &8. Coast 2671 2611
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 72*
Do. Metropolitan Extension 111 101
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 641
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 262 2591
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Rhymney l9l
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon ...... 791
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale 57
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd. . lO
Vale of Neath 431
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W. Hartlepool II arbr.& RaiL
W"haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO
Whitchaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction.— 26
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1851
Detroit and Allilwaukie ISS
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France 1135
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1335
Great Central of Belgium 18)
Great Indian Peninsula 553
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras. ..
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant,
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 607
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5
Paris and Orleans 1614
Pernambuco 771
Royal Danish 69
Scinde....
South Austrian .
Southern of France .... 770
Victorian 196
Welland .—... ...... 25
West Flanders 75
W. and N.W. of France

5831 24,675 22,774
1.095 6.5,216 58,131
9 3,178 3,131
252 9,001 8.349
194 953 813
113 6,731 6,251
118 5,7,8 6,724
65 951 495
751 4.910 4,157
306 29,371 28,599
67 5,779 5,831
1051 2,360 2.638
10 23J 214
431 2,910 2.551
31 387 450
77 3,507 1.4;4
275 8 5 79
521 4,833 4 872

7 '037 6 8
13 £75 8.1
35 917 833

828 12,000 31,699

'279
201 291
185.1 2,107 1,60
185 5,861 5,718
108/ 5,581 5,100
110
1302 71,076 61,471
031 2?,715 19,111
1335 2 ,09L 18,264
- 6,031
495 8,101 4,923
134 5,5 7 5,043
79 503 630
3i5 11,351 8,746
447 5,781 4.105
490 19,262 18,368
91 1,733 1,0 ,8
697 61,724 59,373
44

48} 395 368
17 3 153,140 139,',.93
1434 72,813 ;(8,795
77} 6:5 527
69
105
14t'4 59,018 9,131
6SO 35,531 34,105
196 9,3 t-‘ 7,738
25 442 391
75 1,3:32 1,24
960 50,692 56,033

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Royal Sovereign turret ship, Capt. Sherard Osborne,
C. 8., now at Portland, has been almost daily under weigh
since the Ist September, testing her many novel fittings
and accustoming her officers and crew to working her guns
and turrets. The ship, from her extraordinary beam of 63ft
4in and her barrel-shaped bottom, tests the turrets to their
utmost, and it may be safely said that when they can be
worked in such a ship with such ponderous ordinance as her
present 12 ton guns, they will work anywhere. The ship
never was intended for and never can be a seagoing ship.
Some of our contemporaries run away with the idea that
Capt. Osborn is testing the sea-going qualities of the Royal
Sovereign, whereas he is merely testing the sea-going
fighting qualities of the cupolas or turrets. The guns were
worked and have been repeatedly fired with the ship rolling
10 and 12 deg. each way in a minute. No ship, it is sup-
posed, in the service could have cast loose a 100 pounder of
five tons under similar circumstances without some serious
accident, The 12 ton 150 pounders have now been fired 30
times each, and not a single breeching has been carried
away. We know a ship in the Channel Fleet which can-
not fire a 100 pounder five or six times in a seaway without
calling for a fresh breeching. The wooden gun carriages
show symptoms of the trial to which they been subjected,
and all on board the ship call for iron carriages as well as
iron guns and turrets. The unaccountable manner in which
the Royal Sovereign was sent away from Portsmouth with-
out defects and alterations being completed, although the
dockyard found time to plaster 40 tons more of wood and
iron over the already overladen sides of this ship, has occa-
sioned great discomfort to all on board during the broken
and rainy weather recently experienced, and prevented all
.the experiments being carried out which Capts. Osborn and
Coles would hare desired. had she been an Admiralty
pet, no care or expense would have been spared; as it is,
no one, we are told, at Whitehall would break their hearts
if the crew of the Royal Sovereign declare her to be every-
thing that was wretched.

The iron-clad frigate Achilles, 20, 1,250-horse power,
commissioned at Chatham on Thursday afternoon by Capt.
E. W. Vansittart (Jan. 9, 1856), is to have a complement of
705 officers and men, for which number she is to be at once
stored. She will be ready to receive her Royal Marines and
Marine Artillery on board on Monday next, as soon as the
exact detail of her number have been received at head-
quarters from the Admiralty. The work of fitting the frigate
for sea has proceeded very rapidly, during the past few
weeks, and there is comparatively little in the way of dock-
yard fittings remaining to be executed on board. Steam was
got up in her boiler a few days since, under the direction of
Mr J. Lays, the chief engineer, when the whole of the ma-
chinery was found to work satisfactorily. As already re-
ported in The Sun, the bottom of the Achilles has become
exceedingly foul from the length of time she has been lying
in Chatham harbour, which will necessitate her being
docked immediately she reaches Portsmouth.
Yesterday Mr E. J. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the
Navy, visited Chatham dockyard, and, accompanied by the
heads of trio shipbuilding department of the establishment,
spent some time in the inspection of the Bellerophon, 14,
4,246 tons, 1,000-horse power, and the Lord Warden, 24,
4,067 tons, 1,006-horse power, ironclad frigates under con-
struction, and during his visits examined the principal por-
tions of each vessel, in order to ascertain the progress made,
as well as the quality of the work in both frigates. Although
only commenced in April last, the Bellerophon has already
more than half of the inner portion of her plates fixed in
readiness for the course of planking to which will be bolted
the Ginch armour-plating. The progress made in the con-
struction of the Lord Warden is equally satisfactory, most
of the teak planking on both her port and starboard sides
being completed and waiting the reception of the armour,
while the first portion of the inner 11-inch plating is now
in course of being fixed, Notwithstanding that the Lord
Warden is not so forward as the Lord Clyde, building at
Pembroke, which will be ready for launching in the course
of the ensuing month, there is no.v no doubt that the Lord
Warden will be afloat early in the approaching year, should
anything hke the same energy be continued which has l eon
displayed in her construction during the past few months.
Upwards of 2,000 tons ofit-incb, 5-inch, and 6-inch armour
plates for both the Bellerophon and the Lord Warden have
been received :11 Chatham dockyard from Miliwall and the
Atlas Iron Works, Sheffield, and as the whole of the addi-
tional machinery for preparing and fitting the plates of the
size and weight intended for the two ironclads has been
erected at the dockyard, no possible delay will arise in the
work of fixing the armour to the sides Of both the frigates
as soon as they are ready to receive it.

In accordanco with instructions to that effect received at.
Chatham from the Controller of the Navy, the workmen
employed in the saw mills at Chatham dockyard have dis-