The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-13 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money tight. Gold, 57 per cent. pm. Exchange
on London, 172; on Paris, 3.20. Stocks dull.
New York Centrals, 137 ; Illinois, 1261; Erie,
1071 ; United States 6 per Cent. Bonds, 106.
Cotton dull ; Middling Upland, 821 ; Crude
Petroleum, 222 to 30; Refined do., 45 to 46.
GREENCASTLE, FEB. 12.
The Canadian steamer Damascus atrived here
this afternoon with 4,500 dole. in specie.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE,

NORTH-EASTERN.

The directors in their report state that the results of
the half-year's working must be regarded as satisfactory,
the increase in the receipts over those of the corresponding
half-year of 1832 being £90,151, to which every description
of traffic has contributed. The directors recommend that the
following dividends be declared :—On the Berwick ordi-
nary stock, at the rate of 5} per cent. per annum ; on the
York ordinary stock, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum
on the Leeds ordinary stock, at the rate of 3 per cent. per
annual; on the Thirsk and Malton stock, at the rate of 4i
per cent. per annum ; on the Carlisle ordinary stock, at the
rate of 7-14 per cent. per annum; and on the 4 per cent. pre-
ferential stock an equalising dividend, at the rate of 3t per
cent. per annum ; and on the Darlington ordinary shares,
at the rate of 8 per cent, per annum. As the receipts for
the last half-year still considerably exceed those for the pre-
ceding six months, the directors propose, with the view
in some measure of equalising the d:vidends, to charge
in future the whole of the annual cost of renewal of way to
the second half of each year. The large interest of the
company in the east coast line of communication between
London and Scotland, together with recent proposals of
new lines by other companies and attendant circumstances
threatening to affect that interest, had induced the directors
to consider the best means of improving the east coast route.
They had therefore resolved, subject to the approval of the
shareholders, to apply for an act for the construction of a
line from York via Selby, to join the Great Northern near
Askern. Apart from the benefit to be derived from thus
improving the east coast system, the directors anticipate an
extent of new traffic) over the proposed line amply sufficient
to justify the outlay; and in every point of view, therefore,
they have no doubt of the policy of the measure, and strongly
recommend its adoption.

~,4rrea.y

WIMBLEDON AND CROYDON.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yester-
day at the London-bridge station—Mr. Reed in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN moved that a dividend of 4s per share,
being at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum, olear of all de-
ductions, except income tax, be declared payable forthwith.
The resolution was agreed to, and Messrs. Jack and
Cooper, the retiring directors, were re-elected.

BRIGHTON, UCI‘FIELD, AND TUNBRIDGE.
The half-yearly meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the London-bridge station—Mr. L. Schuster in
the chair.
The report stated that the whole of the additional land
required for the purposes of the company had been obtained,
and the works were being pushed forward with vigour.
On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. CART,
the report was adopted.
The meeting was then made special, and an agreement
for leasing the line to the London,. Brighton, and South
Coast Company was approved.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts•

1864.

1864. 1863.

Belfast and N. Counties ..... 136
Belfast and County Down 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B
121 i
Bristol and Exeter
234*
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington Bll
Cork and Bandon 204
Cork, Blacluock, & Passage
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall . 65
Deeside 7
63

1,802 1.824
659 578
1,220 1,483
5,174 5,311
16,376 14,877
311 269
455 396
140 152

1214
1-,34}

Dublin & Belfast Junction
Dublin and Drogheda 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid 9li
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691
Furness, &c 0
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 353
Great North of Scotland
tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll
rit.Soutlin. & Westn.(lend.) 373i
Great Western 10561
Inverness & Aberdeen June B6/
Inverness & Perth Junction 119}
Irish North-Western 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 264
Llanelly 461
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 261
London, Chatham, & Dover 72
Do. Metropolitan Extension 10
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
blanch. S.J un.& Altrincham „ k
Maryport and Carlisle 2B
Metropolitan 3l
ncl. N.-Western) 641

ig4
169 t

Midland (ink... A.- II e..—_, _
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irlnd 25971!
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton 5O
Rhymney —... 191
St. Helen's Canal & Railway.. 52
Scottish Central .. B9
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon ...... 751
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale 67
105}
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 32i
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
`V. Hartlepool Harbr.&Rail 52
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7
Whitchaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
AustrianB2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 2
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish lOBl
Eastern Bengal llO
Eastern of France ... 1135
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 553
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras 417
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 690
Northern of Canada.. 94
Northern of France. ...... ..„ 697
Norwegian Trunk -
Ottoman •.
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterp lBO5
Paris and Orleans 1614
Pernambuco 771
Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse
South Austrian ...... ..
Southern of France ...... ... • 770
Victorian ....•••••••••••"" 196
25
Welland
West Flanders . ............ 75
W. and N.W. of Franee • ..... 932

71t
329
10321
862

145
885}
24f
26

4/4
11794

5
441
261

42}
2391
91
28

635
2591
714
14

4101
10791
9
254

138
39i
75i
308

iié
1713
1494

1412
680
196

424 351
1,433 1,143
263 238
1,281 1,248
1,522 1,502
193 135
2,553 1,944
7,517 6.202
3,068 2,487
8,306 7,591
30,032 27,588
30,109 25,919
1,531 1.617
435 421
7,470 7,1.65
55,379 5,1656
1,039 79J
1,050
1,461 1,631
35,023 31,490
185 178
113 101
519 373
91,260 81,2.9
1,633 1,596
19,02; 17,41 t
15,001 14,345
3,626 2 779

/595 170
1,070 963
16,505 14,638
1,199 1,061
1,12.2 1,361
2,0i3 2,313
43,469 38,943
3,388 4,674
1,610 1,492
2,818 2,073

11,644 10.774
53,106 47,210
3,256 3,017
8,768 7,856
1,065 905
921 865
2,083 1,957
4,514 4,275
4,778 4.687
169 293
3.031 3,119
17,651 16,714
6,608 4,497
2,105 2,022
147 143
2,336 1.811
270 276
1,169 1,395
657 668
3,926 4.049
722 537
999 870
991 7to

1,062 1,016
29,098 26,997
2t6 2►4
3,1e7 i,962
1,425 2,068
3,507 3,599
3,801 3,153

52,545 51,307
18,278 10,180
18,858 19,47
11,605 7,900
3,804 4,181
676 423
12,287 13,170
4,155 3,962
14,180 19,772
1,002 677
50,547 48,275

317 290
119,017 117,381
01,412 53,976
997 -

1,197 1,295
41,350 38,551
25,558 23,491
9,121 8,058

36,896 33,2,7

MUNIFICENT LEGACY.—The late John F arnell,
Esq„ of Isleworth, has left the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion a legacy of £l,OOO, free of duty,
WHITE PORCELIAN REFLECTORS have been added
to some of the Paris gas-lamps, and are said to increase
considerably their illuminating power,

—A
very excellent portrait of Mr. KEBLE, the
author of " The Christian Year," has been engraved by
Mr.W. !1011, from a drawing recently taken by Mr. George
Richmond.

ANOTHER EDMUND KEAN COMING P—Tbe name
of a ➢ir. Talbot is mentioned as about to come to London,
and who is likely to revive even the glories of the great
Kean.

NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY.—The directors re•
commend a dividend, at the rate of 51 per cent.
per annum on ordinary Berwick Stock; at 5 per cent. on
the York ordinary; at 3 per cent. on the Leeds ordinary;
at 41 in the Thirsk and Malton; at 7/ on the Carlisle ordi-
nary ; and at the rate of 8 per cent. on the Derbyshire
ordinary shares.