The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR. THE WEEK.
Niles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

18fr1. 1863.

1864. 1863.
1,865 1,903
670 628
1,063 1,648
5,611 6,46:
17,151 15.735
262 243
312 312
123 163
412 385
1,600 1.265

Belfast and N. Counties 136 136
Belfast and Comity Down 49 49
Blyth and rryn e 2B 28
Bristol and Exeter 121% 121%
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington B% 8%
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6% 6%
Cork and Youghal .. 324 32%
Cornwall 652 53%
Decside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Weald 91% 48%
Edinburgh and Glasgow 173 160%
Furness, &c 5O 5 .J
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E. Union
Great Northern 353 851
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
(it. Northn. & Wes tn. (Irel.) 71% 71%
rit.Southn. & Westn.(lrlud.) 373% 329
Great Western 1056% 1056%
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 864 1363
Inverness & Perth Junction 119%
Irish North-Western 145 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 895%
Limerick and Ennis... 241 241
Limerick and Foynes 264 26%
Llanelly 461 46%
Londen & North-Western
London and Blackwall
London & South-Western
. 441%
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 250%
London, Chatham, & Dover 72 72}
Do. Metropolitan Extension 10% • 5%
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 9% 9%
liaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 630
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 259% 259%
Monkland 71% 71%
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton... 5O
Rhymney 19%
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 6O
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Taff Yale 57
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath .
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 274
W. Hartlepool Ilarbr.&RaiL
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrnuat 7
Whitehaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52
Austrian B2B 828
Belgian Eastern Junction 26 V%
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 167%
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l 161%
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189
Dutch Rhenish ....
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France 1135 1302
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090
Great Indian Peninsula 553 495
Great Luxembourg 134 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 315
Madras ......
Madrid, Saraiossa &Alicant.. 650 490
Northern of Canada ....• • •
Northern of France ......
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman •... .
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn ISOS 1713
Paris and Orleans
Pernambuco ..
Royal Danish
Sambre and Meuse 6B at;
South Austrian ...... ..
Southern of France ........
Victorian 196 195
W elland ..... 25 25
West Flanders
W . and .N. W. of France. 932 813
he .----

201 276
1,275 1,289
1,377 1,447

197 110
2,060 1,504
7,021 8.047
3,261 2,766
8, 72 7,519
26,834 23,059
31,103 27,642
1,596 2.073
549 473
7,112 7,728
58,090 •55.632
925 960

930
1,3;8 1,791
35,480 30,770
192 188
95 116

605 550
91,251 81.909
1,732 1,651
20.410 19,186
15,203 14,380
4,301 2 863
1100 310

19,164 12.848
1,205 1,082
1,531 1.204
2,055 1,054
44,176 34.426
4,731 4,5 5
1,601 1,521
2,741 2,432

4104
um
9
254

11,508 10,906
51,971 57,107
3,572 2,901
8,705 7,709
1,156 911

138
391;
75i
308

105 i
10
251
31

760
3,835

740
1,125
1,052

1,2 9
33,00 I.

303
3,503
2.265
9,555
4,489
1,611
60, 89
23,972
18,101
12,693
4,297

429
14,533
3,96 ,
16,452
2,219

1,021 831
410 202
127,770 123 840
t 4,9 57 69,5,7
1,263 1,314
1,647 662
1,443 AOB
50,589 49,337
25,416 23,073
8,923 8,767

981 925
40,010 35,290

NORTH BRITISH.

The half-yearly meeting was held at Edinburgh
on Wednesday, Mr. Hodgson, M.P,, in the chair,

Tlip report was held as read.
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the shareholders
on the increase in the weekly traffic returns, which
had enabled the directors to raise the dividend from
11 to 1/ per cent. They had still a good many
r)rawb'cks to contend with. At Carlisle the Citadel
Station Committee threw impediments in the way
of their traffic; the London and North-Western de-
clined to book through to certain stations, and the
west coast companies had attempted to bring the