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,
107 - ; United States 6 per Cent. Bonds, 106.
Cotton dull; Middling Upland, 84 ; Crude
Petroleum, 221 to 30; Refined do., 45 to 46.
GREENCASTLE, FEB. 12.
The Canadian steamer Damascus arrived here
this afternoon with 4,500 doll. 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 1862 being £90,154, 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
annum; on the Thirsk and Melton stock, at the rate of 4i
per cent. per annum; on the Carlisle ordinary stock, at the
rate of 7t per cent. per annum; and on the 4 per cent. pre-
ferential stock an equalising dividend, at the rate of 31 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
is some measure of equalising the dividends, 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.

eor,•,-',,

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, clear 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, UCKFIELD, 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 end
required for the purposes of the company had been obtained,
and the works were being pushed forward with vigour.
On the motion of the CH.A.notax, 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. i
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1863.
136

1864. 1863.
£ 4

Belfast and N, Counties 136
Belfast and County Down 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B
Bristol and Exeter l2ll
Caledonian 231/
Cockermouth & Working-ton ell
Cork and Bandon 2Ol
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l
Cork and Y0ugha1..........,
Cornwall 6si
Deeside l7
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75

1,802 1,824

'659 578
1,220 1,483
5,174 5,311
16,378 14,877
311 269
455 195
140 152
424 351
1,433 1,143

Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll
Edinburgh and Glasgow 169.
Furness, &c 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 353
Great North of Scotland 5B
tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll
%t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3731
Great Western 10561
Inverness & Aberdeen June BB4
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191
Irish North-Western 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402
Limerick and Ennis... 241
Limerick and Foynes 26k
Llanelly 46!
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall
5
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261
London, Chatham, & Dover 72
Do. Metropolitan Extension 101
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Olan.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham - 91
Maryport and Carlisle 2B
Metropolitan 3l
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641
" gild Gt " - " - ellrind 2591

1214
£34}

481
1691

Midland dt.Westn. 0..
Monkland 7l
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254

71i
329
1034

Oswestry and Newton... 5O
Rhymney l9f
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central B9
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon 74
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale 67
Ulster los}
~..

Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath 32i
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 27}
W.llartlepoolliarbr.&Rail 52
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B
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 1125
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 553
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras
I Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 650
Northern of Canada ...
Northern of France 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterm lBO5
Paris and Orleans 1614
Pernambuco_ 77i
Re

Royal Danish ov
Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian .... 1527
Southern of France ..... ...... 770
Victorian .................... 196
Welland ...qr..— .... .... 25

West Flanders ..............
W. and N.W. of France . ..... 932

145
895}
_ .

46
1179 i
51
441
2611

42i
2394

St
630
259}
714
44

4101
1079 k
9
254

138
39i
75i
306

-263
1,281
1,522

238
1,218
1,502

193 135
2,583 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,(,65
55,379 5,1686
1,039 79J
1,050
1,461 1,631
35,023 31,490
185 178
313 101
519 373
91,260 81,2 9
1,633 1,596
19,02 ) 17,411
15,001 14,345
3,626 2 779

1,95 170
1,070 963
16,505 14.638
1,199 1,061
1,122 1,361.
2,0 i 3 2,313
43,469 38,943
3,388 4,674
1,610 1,492
2,818 2,073

11,644 10,774
53,106 17,210
3,256 3,017
8,768 7,856
1,065 905
921 865
2,083 1,957
4,511 4,275
4,778 1.587
169 293
3,031 8,119
17,651 16,714
5,508 4,197
2,495 2,022

147
2,E36

279
1,169

226
1,395

.657
3,926
72
999
911

668
4.049
537
870
7LO

1,062 1,016
29,098 26,997
206 214
3,17 1,962
1,425 2,068
3,50/ 3,599
3,804 3,153
52,545 51,307
18,278 10,180
18,858 19,:.47
11,605 7,906
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
623 664

3.7 290
1713 119,017 117,381
1494 61,412 63,976

1412
680
196
25

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

36,80-6 33,2-;-;

MUNIFICENT LEGACY.—The late John F
Esq„ of Islewortb, has loft the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion a legacy of £l,OOO, free of duty,
WHITE FORCELIAN REFLECTORS hate 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.lir. Roll, from a drawing recently taken by Mr. George
Richmond.

ANOTHER EDMUND KEAN COMING P—The name
of a Mr. 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 71 on the Carlisle ordi-
nary ; and at the rate of 8 per cent. on the Derbyshire
ordinary shares.