The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK,
Miles Opened. Receipts.
'i.i
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties . 136 136 2,376 2,317
Belfast and County Down.... 49 49 729 05
Myth and Tyne • 28 28 2,110 1,976
E Bristol and Exeter 1214 1211 8,123 8,128
Caledonian
Coekermouth & Workington B/ 81 3 5 272
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 329 305
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 651268 245
Cork and Youghal .. 321 27 510 406
Cornwall
Deeside l7 415 387
5i731 5s 1,574 1,662
Dublin & Belfast Junction (53 63 1,3.3 1,3.1
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 2,001 1,850
Dublin and Meath - 186
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexal 5ll 481 2,913 2,793
Dundee, Perth, & Aber"' un 3l 31 -
Edinburgh and (dlasgow 1691 1601 9,0-11 B,ldl
Forth & Clyde Junction - -
Furness, &c
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E. Union
Great Northern 351 510 31,803 34.070
Great North of Scotland 5B 58. 2,413 2,200
ti t..Nortlin. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 161 451 372
'3l.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 3541 329 8.175 8.036
Great Western loo6+ 10181 68,189 72.4:29 Inverness & Aberdeen J unc B6l 86; 1,847 1,391
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,8:;9 1,931
Lancashire& Yorkshire 3951 3951 40,110 37.485
Limerick and Ennis..
Limerick and Foynes
Llanelly
845 691
Loonnddoonn
a&nd North-liiacklwVeasiltern
Londn is South-Western 550 441 2:1361, 2i5:i.55
Londonrighton, &S. Coast::: 2611 2411 23,2,6 2,1.990
Lpoon.dmone,tliohpaotilltaamn,
it Dover,, 721 721 0,063 0.851
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend .11
2414 '4;l 31'757040 2,406
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh .:
blanch. S.J un.& Altrincham.. 3114 2391 115:77 111,26:3-133
Maryport and Carlisle ....... 28-
Metropolitan ................ 31 28
1,281 1,17+
Midland (incl. N.-Western)..
2.,6.4_11
_6_l4_l 4 AI :75:58 45
.801
, 0 5
Monkland 3
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal ;rl %Ii 14
..
43 08 34
1,713
9
North British, Edin., Perth 44 2,47 2,34
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton 5O
lihymney l9l
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 391
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale

Railways.

1863. 1862. ''

410,E
10651

14,232 13,010
59014 54,394
3,318 3,092
7,485 8.464
1,317 1,09
815 Z. 90
2,2:9 2,2c9
5,643 5,312
6,810 6,5.18

13.4
39i
76i
306

4.155 4,189
29,360 29,218
5,7]7 5,772
1.951 1,786
27L 28(;
2,53? 1.9 v)
4..6 464
1,0U6 1,391
818 1,t0,;
4,008 4,014
5u4 432
8,4 7,9
843 02

Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Death 321
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 27&
W.Hartlepoolllarbr.&ltail 4S
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 264
Bombay, Baroda, & ten. India 185}
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6l}
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France lO7B
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula s3B}
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 439
Northern of Canada ... .....
Northern of France ......
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491
Paris and Orleans 1340
Pernambuco 7711
Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian . 1430
Southern of France .. .. 777
Victorian 196
Welland.....
West Flanders
W. and N. W. of France 758

1,871 1,531
30,145 38,141

261 '289
3,147 1,178
1,548 1,7.0
3,031
0,433 5,714
53,K.00 54;292
19,4;4 1 ,501
15,641 12,4.62
6,327 5,362
4,519 4,338

573 .165
8,566 9,267
19,455 17,223

691 56,u66 57,223
44 1,345 1,244
40 470 242
1351 129,941 127,293
1201 66,956 67,613
636
69 770 723
' 1,459 1.437
1315 51,121 56,54
777 30,263 26,435
151 7,035
25 333 411
75 1,316 1,084
758 49,372 15,587

A QUASI-CONFEDERATE AGENT.—During eight
or ten days past there has sojourned at Queens-
town a rather young man, of seafaring aspect, giving his
name as " Captain Fisher," who has succeeded in gullingthe knowing ones of the town to an extent that no person
possessing any knowledge of them would have given them
credit for. From the time of his arrival till the moment of
his departure he has played the part of confidential agent
of the Confederate Government of South America, and
such has been the tact and ability with which he has worn
the mask, that scarce one of those who held most familiar
converse with him had, up to the last moment, the slightest
suspicion of its reality. Tha local authorities appear
to have fallen victims to the hoax played by " Captain
Fisher" as completely as the least informed of those who
made his acquaintance. He was lionized by a large section
of the respectable townspeople, and hotel proprietors felt
themselves honoured by being permitted to hold him their
debtor. " Captain Fisher" also appears to have had a sort
of prescriptive right to the use of everybody else's property,
be the same an overcoat, an opera glass, a Malacca cane, or
a £lO note, it mattered not. Suddenly, however, "Captain
Fisher," confidential agent to the Confederate Government
withdrew his presence in a manner most unceremonious
from amongst his large circle of Queenstown acquaint-
ances and admirers—fortunately for himself, just in time
to escape the consequences of the denounzent which was
impending. On Saturday morning he left his hotel with
one gentleman's coat on his back and another gentle-
man's valuable glass in his hand—merely to speak fur a
moment with a captain on business, and leaving in-
structions, should any one inquire for him, that he
would be back at nine o'clock sharp. The term "nus of
the Direct Railway, however, chanced to fall in his way
within the hour stipulated, and " Captain Fisher" found it
more convenient to proceed to Cork than to return to meet
the numerous friends who would, doubtless, be anxious to
say good morning to him at the hotel. The transit thence
to the terminus of the Great Southern and 'Western Rail.
way was easy and natural, and so the quasi Confederate
agent departs—whither no one knows—leaving, as a small
souvenir of his distinguished patronage, sundry little bills
(the least amounting to £l2) due at the several hotels and
other establishments which he had frequented during his
stay. The cat now escapes from the bag, and some little
inquiry results in the discovery that he has played a similar
game at Liverpool (whera he was known as Captain Gor-
don), Belfast, and other places with scarcely inferior success.
Cork Herald.

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY.—The geological survey
made considerable progress during the last year ; 2,430
square miles were surveyed in Great Britain ; the publica-
tion of the maps proceeded, and memoirs were issued illus-
trating the geology of the Isle of Wight and the country
round Bolton-le-Moors. In Ireland the new ground exa-
mined amounted to about 1,028 square miles ; four new
numbers explanatory of the maps were issued. The sur-
veyors were also engaged on the re-examination of the
districts of igneous rocks running from Wicklow into
Waterford. Of the Royal school of mines, formerly called
the Government school of mines, Sir Roderick Murchison
reports satisfactorily. Statistical records of all our lead
mines, carefully prepared, now extend back to 1768.
Since 1845 every sale has been recorded. The production
of copper and tin mines is regularly registered, and
the statistics of capper mining are now complete
from 1815, and those of tin since 1852. The estimated
value (at the place of production) of the coal and metals
produced in the United Kingdom in 1861 was £34,602,833.
The results elicited by the Exhibition were very encourag-
ing to all who take an interest in the Royal School of
Mines. The pupils were foremost among the champions of
the great industrial contest. The now industry of coal -tar
colours is generally admitted to have been the most str king
feature in the department chymistry, and this industry ema-
nated directly from the laberatory of the Royal School of
Mines; Mr. Perkin, Dr. Medloek, Messrs. Nicholson, Maule
and Simpson, to whose exertions the colossal development of
these branches of chymical manufacture is chiefly due, re-
ceived their ehymical education from Dr. Hoffman in this in-
stitution. The foreign jurors bore testimony to the accuracy
of delineation in the maps and sections of the department,
and the order and arrangement of the museum; and it was
from this that so many valuable donations were offered to
the museum of Signor Sells, recently Minister of Finance
of the Kingdom of Italy, himself a distinguished mathema-
tician and crystallographer, and employed by his Govern-
ment to visit the mining and geological schools and esta-
blishments of Europe, with a view to the formation of a
geological survey of Italy, writes in an official report,
" England is, without doubt, the country where geological
maps are prepared with much greater accuracy than in any
other land. The singular importance of her mining indus-
tries' the spread of the elementary principles of geology,
the zeal applied by the geologists charged with these
labours, and the precision of their works have been so ac-
complished that few undertakings of the British Govern-
ment have so much contributed to the benefit of the public
as the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom."

ARCHJEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES AT CHESTER.
The remains of a very fine Roman bath, or temple of
health, has, within the past few days boon disovered at
Chester. We gather from a contribution to tho Chester
Chronicle that if the size of the building may be judged by
these remains, and a calculation made, bated ore the theory
that the building was in the shape of paralle!ogram, it
would lead to the conclusion that the erection was 60ft.
wide by 120 ft. long. The hypocaust is composed of 120
pillars, cut out of the red sandstone of the neighbourhood,
and they do not seem to have suffered much from the
effects of heat. The tiles above these pillars, and which
would form the floor of the caldarium, are pierced, and
placed a few inches apart, and not made of stone the same
as the remainder of the floor. A few paces off is a terse.
baled pavement of small dice-like pieces of stone, which
was in all probability the floor of the repidarium. About
60ft. from the hypocaust are the massive foundations and
remains of six or seven large columns, eight or nine feet
apart; and strewed about arc portions of shalt and richly
ornamented capitals. About 361 t. from these columns there
have been discovered the remains of anotherr row of pillars
of similar magnitude. The space covered by the whole of
these columns is about 50ft. or 61,)ft. These remains tend
to show that the building was a very long one, and of con-
sideral architectural pretensions.

THE MAHARAJAH DULEEP SINGH has lately
bagged, en filo Lodi. Kennard moors of GrantuPy, about
300 brace of E,Ku5.., besides other game,