The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-12 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1864.

1863. 1864. 1863.
£ £
1,888 1.764
600 654
1,579 -
5,196 5,383
16.817 14.768
225 223
424 357
111 145
406 286
1,324 1,206

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down.... 49 49
Blyth and Tne 2B 28
Bristol and Exeter 1215 1214
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington B5 85
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 64
Cork and Youghal 325 325
Cornwall
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfas t J unction ...
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63
Dublin and Meath
Dub. &Wicklow and Wexid 915 484
Edinburgh and ‘ilasgow 1695 1691
Furness, &c 5O 5
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union 663 64i
Great Northern 353 351
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7l/ 711
rit.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3734 329
Great Western 10564 10565
Inverness & Aberdeen June 864 861
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191
Irish North-Western 145 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 3951
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 265 265
Llanelly 461 461
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2614 2614
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 721
Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 55
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Ran.,Sheffield,&Lincolnsh
Ranch. S.Jun.& Altrincham 95 91
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 620
Midland Gt. Westn. of 'rind 2.295 2595
Monkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Danl 1095
North London 9 .
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton 5O
Rhymney 194
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale 57

1,292 1,285
1,417 1.311
171 141
2,428 1,872
7,433 7,963
3,099 2,788
8,458 8,195
27,740 28,297
30,768 27,749
1,572 1.801

-476 525
6,870 7,184
54,993 54.893

937 88:
1,003 -
1,486 1,771
35,280 31,770
173 188
1)1 122

656 510
88,859 83,887
1,613 2,160
18,216 20,268
14,210 15,5 ;7
3,b98 3,050
875 408

985 954
15,488 14,630
1,184 3,0,3
1,371 1.384
1,900 2,5 4
43,828 39,635
4,720 5,0u9
1,597 1,526
2,575 2,179

410 i
10791
9
254

11,926 11,343
52,448 48,577
3,241 3,238
8,336 7.914
1,131 898

138
30i
75i
306

Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 32}
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 27i
W.Hartlepool Harbr. &Rai 1 52
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l3
Whitchaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 2O
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish
1082

852 818
2,070 2,194
4,607 4,363
4,925 4,897

'5(l 401
2.996 2,844
16,538 10,421
5,462 5,460
2,455 2.263

137 127
2,477 2.005

.3.01 366
1,125 1,288

828
167}
1611
189
108/
lio
1302

Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 553
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345

Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &Aucant 650
Northern of Canada
Northern of France ... 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Meditcrrn 1895
Paris and Orleans 1614

753
1090
495
131

'74k 774
3,944 1,218
754 700
1,001 832
932 847

Pernambuco . 774
Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian
Southern of France .. 770
Victorian 196
Welland
West Flanders 75
W. and N.W. of France . 932

1,247 1,096
29,071 32,565

3,157 1,6 8
1,936 2,381
4,506 4,491
4,146 3,583
1,43 870
52,957 50,797
21,785 13,138
19,180 18,534
10,644 8,9 0
4,119 4,406

li 5 12,319 14,910
47 5,061 3,653
190 17,312 15,911
94 2,148 1,947
i 97 47,513 47,174
44 637 584

481
1713
1494

347 237
106,880 119,012
5),974 54,281
769 835

1968
680
196

1,348 1,463
4e, e 29 49,708
19,001 21,700
11,119 8,786

1,049 901
36,901 35,655

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN.

The half-yearly meeting #f this company was held
on Wednesday, at Glasgow; Mr. J. Lumsden in the

chair.

P,e report was taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said the
result of their last half-year's business gave them
an increase of upwards of £12,000 in the receipts
over those of the corresponding half.year. This
increase in the traffic, and the extra mileage worked
by the opening of the Kirkcudbright and Bridge-of-
Weir, Railways, had rendered it necessary to pro-
vide a considerable addition to the carrying stock
of the company. The directors were fully convinced
that it was true economy to keep both the line and
rolling stock in first-rate order. During the past
half-year a very considerable sum had been ex'
pended on renewals, and the directors had instructed
the engineer to proceed vigorously with works to
keep the permanent way in the most efficient state
of repair. The average rate of interest was at pre-
sent lower than it ever was before, being only
£3 18s, 101 d. per cent. The extensive shipbuild-
ing y ards established in the neighbourhood of Go-
van, and the rapidly increasing trade there had in-
duced the directors, in conjunction with the Cale-
donian Company, to apply to Parliament for a
branch railway from the joint line to that district,
and, from the saving that would be effected by
superseding in a great measure the long and expen-
sive cartage of the material used by engineering
works, they had no doubt it would very soon yield
a. remunerative return for the capital invested,
Resolutions were passed adopting the report;
declaring a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum on the ordinary stock of the company, re-
electing the retiring directors and auditor; and
authorising the conversion of some of the company's
mortgage debt into funded debt.