The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-21 00:00:00

MAILS DUE.

A.ustralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. April 18.
via Marseilles April 12.
brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. April:s.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Mar. 30.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton April 3.
via Marseilles Mar. 28.

Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton Mar. 28.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton April 3.

viz I\l4r6eilles I‘far.
India (Bombay), via Southampton Mar. 28

7 via Marseias Mar. 22,
Portugal.... April 5.
..\ ialta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Mar. 28,
via Marseilles .. Mar. 22.
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo ..
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet .. ..Mar. 24,
by U.S. packet....

by Canadian packet. Mar. —.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tencritie ..
Bahamas, via New York April 7.
Mexico. Mar. 30.
All parts of West Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Mar, 30.
California. and British Columbia.. J .-

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

SCOT DISH NORTH-EASTERN.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at
Aberdeen on Thursday : Mr. Stirling, the chairman, pre-
sided.

The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The
Sun, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving that the report be adopted,
confessed that at this time last year he looked forward with
no little concern to the effect which the opening of the In-
verness and Perth Highland line would have upon the traffic
of the Scottish North-Eastern Company. He was glad,
therefore, to be able to point to the report as showing that the
company had not only maintained their ground, but that
there was a satisfactory increase in the receipts. He might
mention that by the opening of the Inverness line they no t
only lost the through passengers from Aberdeen to Perth.
who all had formerly travelled 93 miles over the Scottish
North-Eastern at an average fare of 10s. each, but they had
also lost the whole traffic upon the seven miles between
Stanley and Perth. In these circumstances it was grati-
fying to find that the traffic from other quarters having
been consi,lerably increased fully made up for the antici-
pated loss. For this they were greatly indebted to a
most abundant harvest throughout the country, and the
unexampled prosperity of the staple trade of the district—
the flax trade. Having quoting various figures from the
report, ho adverted to the bills the company were now
promoting before Parliament, the arrangements regarding
which, of the whole, were in a favourable position, and con-
cluded by expressing his readiness to answer any questions
respecting the affairs of the company.
Dr. MATHEW seconded the adoption of the report, which
was cordially agreed to ; the usual dividends were declared
on the preference stocks, and also dividends on the Aber-
deen Original Stock at the rate of 1 per cent. per annum;
on the Scottish Midland Ordinary Stock at the rate of 41
per cent. per annum; and on the Dundee and Arbroath
Ordinary Stock at the rate of 71 per cent, per annum for the
past half year.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to the
chairman.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.
1863. 1864. 186% '
£ L
Belfast and N. Counties ..... 136 136 1,745 1,902
Belfast and County Down 49 49 708 60
Blyth and Tyne ............. .. 28
__
28 1,572 1,457
Bristol and Exeter 121 i 121% 5,303 5,i82
Caledonian
215 245 16,544 16,228
Cockermotith& Working-ton ti bi -
f; ,rk and Bandon 2O 20 328 314
Cork,
- - Blaekrock, &Passage.. • 64 6} 115 IS9
32: 32,1 101 :i52
Drogheda 75
651 571 1,45?: 1,417
Deeside..... , l7 'l7 42 236
t
. ._ Doi, s Junction 63
Dublin a 63 1,239 1,367
You,glial
and death .......... 23 63 1,147 1.512
anslaWndicklow and Wexid 9l} 184 1,794 2,177
CD ourbnl
Dublin
an 1):
23 208 130
169} 169} 7,524 7.203
Furness, &c
14CDIDiribbn:liburgh and fiilasgoW
50 5 , 2,952 2,659
Glasgow & South-Western l9B 198 8,593 8,495
Gt. Eastern,Nrtk.,&E.Union - 663 61i 27,567 27,061
Great Northern 353 351 29,774 24,534
Great North of Scotland 1:8 58 1,633 1.6.3'
Gt. IN orthn. & Westn. (irel.) 713 711 490 570
3 t.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrlnd..)- 374 529 6,817 7,141
Great Western 1056. 10564 55,211 53,433
I Tavern ess & Aberdeen June 864 84 905 853
Inverness & Forth Junction 119; -- 948 -
lritth North-Western 145 145 1,6;7 1,805
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 395} 36,393 34,360
Limerick and Ennis •.. 24 241 144 211
Limerick and Foynes 264 264 133 2 5
Llaneliy 461 461 584 543
8 1
London & North-Western

Railways.

18C4.

MADRID, March 18.—The Minister of Finance
is preparing a measure for discounting the bills
given in payment of the national property. The
money will be advanced by the Bank of Spain in
co-operation with au English house.
The acclunts received this morning respecting
the state of trade in the ruanuf.ietnring districts
during the past week are exceedingly favourable.
At Manchester the recent movement in the cotton
market occasioned a better feeling among dealers
and speculators, and in woollen and wcrsted at
Leeds, Halifax, Bradford, and Huddersfield more
business hes been transacted, and an improvement
in prices established. Excepting ShEffild, opw-
tions in the hardware districts have been conducal
and at Wolverhampton, the
eciu
iraeta2h en
Americant t:nd Indian 'account
ronarera largeo n scale,
were still considerable.