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

RAILWAY INTEI LIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RICEIPIS FOR THE WEEK•
Miles Opened. Receipt&

Railways,

1864. 1863. - 1864.
Belfast and N. Counties 135 136 1,865
Belfast and County Down 49 49 070
myth and Tyne 2B 28 1,963
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 5,611
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington Bl 8/ 262
Cork and Bandon ^o 20 312
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 123
Cork and Youghal 321 32/ 442
Cornwall
Deeside l7 17 201
Dublin & Belfast Junction
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,377
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9ll 485 2,060
Edinburgh and Glasgow 173 1695 7,621
Furness, &c
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik~&E.Union
Great Northern 353 851 31.1e3
Great North of Scotland 6B 58 1,596
(it. Northn. & Wcstn. (Irel.) 7ll 714 519
rit.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3731 329 7,112
Great Western 10561 10561 58,090
Inverness & Aberdeen Junc B6/ 861 925
Inverness & Perth Junction 1194 - 930
Irish North-Western 145 115 1,378
Lancashire & Yorkshire 402 8954 35,480
Limerick and Ennis... 244 24 192
Limerick and Foynes 268 26 05
Llanelly 464 464 605
Londen & North-Western
London and Blackwall 54 5. 1,732
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 261 t 2591 15,203
London, Chatham, & Dover 725 725 4,304
Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 51 1100
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend - -
Man.,Sheflield.&Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 95 94 1,265 1,082
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6570 44,176 34,426
Midland Gt.Westn. of 'rind 2591 2591 4,731 4,5 5
slonkland
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,711 2,432
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Dart 1005 10791
North London 9 9
North Stalibrdshire 254 254
Oswestry and Newton...- 5O 42
Rhymney l9/ 191
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 62 62
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 128
Somerset and Dorset 66 391
South Devon
South-Eastern ....... ......... 306 306
Taff Vale 57 57
Ulster lO3l 1051
Vale of C1wyd........: lO 10
Vale of Neath 324 251
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31
Waterford and Limerick 77 77
West Cornwall 271 271
W.lisiztlepoolllarbr.&Rail. 52 52
Whaven,Cleator,& Egrmnt:: 7 7
Whitehaveu Junction l3 13
Whitehaven & Furness Jun••
• 35 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52
Austrian
Belgian Eastern Junction 26 2'
1 -/
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 18 167
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l 1615
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of France
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090
Great Indian Peninsula 5 3 495
Great Luxembourg
4 134
Great
re a t
Western Southern
of
ff
Canada,lndia
.
3373495
3731915
Madras ........
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 551 49901
Northern of Canada ... .....
Northern of France 697 697 -
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn lBO5 1713 127,770 123840
Paris and Orleans ...........
Pernambuco
Royal Danish
Sambre and Meuse CS AR 1,443 1.498
South Austrian
Southern of France 770 560 25,416 21.073
Victorian 196 106 8,923 0,767
Welland - 25 25 - -
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France

1,903
628
1,6‘.8
6,46:
15.735
2h
312

285
1,265
276
1,2141

1,504
8,047
2,766
7,519
23,059
27,642
2,074

473
7,758
55,632
980

30,770

MO
81,909
1,651
19.186
11.380
2 863
310

11,508 10.906
51,971 17,107
3,572 2,901
8,705 7,709
1,156 911
975 964
2,128 1,978
4,850 4,607
4,720 1.695
531 363
3.310 3,210
18,166 17,026
5,943 4,499
2,331 2,172

177 150
2,652 2,035
244 328
974 1,202
760 790
3,8,5 3,374
740 853
1,125 771
1,11,2 769

1,2 9 1,128
33,001 32,750
303 268
3,501 1,939
2,263 2,118
4,555 3,699
4,489 3,789
1,6 9 9
CO, 89 51,466
23,972 13,905
18,b0t 18,537
12,69) 9,411
4,207 4,108
429 6 3
14,533 14,324
3,96 3,377
16,452 16,2 7
2,219 1,960

NORTH BRITI3Ir.
The half-yearly meeting was held at Edinburgh
on Wednesday, Mr. Hodgson, M.P., in the chair.
The report was held as read.
The CIIAIRMAN congratulated the shareholders
on the increase- in the weekly traffic returns, which
had en,bled the directors to raise the dividend from
11 to la- per cent. They had still a good many
drawbacks 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 coabt =agonies hdd attempted to bring the