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

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1863. 1862. 1863. 1862.
£ £
Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 2,378 2,357
Belfast and County Down 49 49 792 681
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 1,895 1,895
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 7,969 8,292
Caledonian 230 230 18,045 17,237
Cockermouth & Working-ton Bl 81 301 289
Cork and Bandon , 30 20 427 143
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 257 249
Cork and Youghal. -. 321. -32* 545 401-
. Cornwall Mt 531 1,639 1,702
Deeside l7 17 351 422
Dublin & Bell as t Junction .
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,866 1,851
Dublin and Meath - 187 -
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 5l/ 481 3,174 2,783
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 - -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1691 9,183 8.537
Forth & Clyde Junction 3O 30 - -
Furness, &c 5O 59 3,133 2,432
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt.Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.l.Tnion 653 614 32,626 32,347
Great Northern 351 351 33,340 33,327
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 2,032 1,950
(il. Northn. & Westn. (IreL) 7ll 561 362 336
qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3511 329 8,498 7,993
Great Western 10561 10041 67,297 70,939
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno.- 864 861 1,488 1,301
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,586 1,921
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 395 38,090 33,963
Limerick and Ennis.. 2l 2 183 170
Limerick and Foynes 2 26 91 116
Llanelly 46 4 826 721
Louden & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51 2,183 2,210
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2501 2411 29,569 30,550
London, Chatham, & Dover 724 721 6,642 6,663
Do. Metropolitan Extension 101 - 1,480 -
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
6lan.,Sheffteld, &Lincolnsh - 239* 239* 16,496 15,160
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91 ,1,548 1,377
Haryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,425 1,080
Metropolitan 3l - 1,979 -
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6141 45,503 44,677
Midland Gt.Westn. of hind. - 2591 1921 4,190 4,005
Monkland 7ll 711 1,460 1,585
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,519 2,236
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Danl 10791
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry and Newton 5O
Rhymney .. -- .. 191
St. Helen's Canal & Railway.. 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 391
South Devon ..- . ...
South-Ea5tern..........., 306
Taff Vale .... ..... - .....
Ulster
Vale of C1wyd....... . 10
Vale of Neath 251
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail 39
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian
Belgian Eastern Junction 261
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1851
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6ll
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5
Dutch Rhenish lOBl
Eastern of France. . ..
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 5381
Great Luxembourc, 134
Great Southern of ndia
Great Western of Canada 345
Madrid, Saragossa etAlibant 439
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn.... 1491
Paris and Orleans 1340
Pernambuco 771
Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian
Southern of France
Victorian 126
Welland.
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 758

410 f
1061 f
9
252

15,029 13,948
57,347 54,734
3,454 3,469
8,751 8,233
1,267 1,030

923 797
2,043 2,057
4,623 4,016
6,200 5,F33

138
394
754
306

392 374
4,375 4,360
30,197 32,134
5,673 6,064
1,904 1.906

-279 -217
2,571 1,913

,
394 380
1,025 1,630

-727 760
5,215 4,099
622 484
837 630
806 724

1,361 1,424

2
185 k

161 k
185
lost
1060
6381
1090
4371
134

1,921 1,748
2,688 3,212
6,426 6,402
51,718 51,913

16,072 14,093
10,658 6,997
4,357 4,321
557 V9O
8,126 8,299
19,142 16,912
1,793 2,365

1,000 1,074

13.51
1201

128,350 127,667
57,000 66,703
5'7
900 897
1,421 1,486
49,333 58,715
28,509 28,523
8,943 5,103
4N3 422
1,171 1,019
46,874 42,759

1315
777
151

THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG,

The Medical 7 imes publishes an interesting letter
on this subject, from its special correspondent with
the Federal army. The following is an extract :
The Gettysburg wounded were left to the care of
the country, and nobly did the country respond to
the call ; but it took time for the wants of the
wounded to be known, and for them to be supplied.
The immediate neighbourhood o f the scene of con-
flict was unable to do anything, however charitably
inclined, since the contending armies previous to and
immediately after the fight, had used up everything
eatable for miles around. A large force of volun-
teer and contract surgeons was the first asaistence
that arrived, and, having had certain of the
wounded placed under t heir charge, were soon
made useful; but the lint, bandages, chloroform,
left with us began to fail. NV hat was to be done ?
We looked at each other in dismay, when, lo!
r relief was at hand. The supplies of all the different
associations in the country poured in en masse, and
in a trice we found ourselves elevated from a state
of destitution to one of luxury. Everything we
could wish for the wounded was now at our dis-
posal. We now had a sufficiency of dressing ; we
had blankets, shirts, drawers, socks, soft pillars for
stumps to rest upon, fans to keep theflies away from
those who had strength enough to use them,
and mosquito-bars for those incapable of doing
so. Food we now had fit for sick and
wounded men, and brandy, wines, and fruits. Nor
was even tobacco forgotten by these kindly associa-
tions. A number of ladies connected with them
enliven our camps, and do more good as nurses,
each of them, than a dozen men detailed for that
purpose. The wounded, the government, the coun-
try can never sufficiently thank the Sanitary Com-
mission, the Christian Commission, Adams' Express
Hospital Corps, and the many other associations
which transformed the scene of misery here to one
of homelike comfort.

The rebel wounded in our charge have fared, so
far as comforts and attention went, as our own men
fared. Before our supplies came up they made no
complaints, after their arrival they declared they
had not had such a gay time since the Confederacy
commenced to exist. The surgeons, in bringing
their cases to the table never examined previously
if a man wore blue pants or grey, but looked simply
at the nature of the wound. Had they been within
their own lines they could not have been so well
attended to. I have seen now Confederate wounded
in the hands of the Federals, and Federal wounded
in the hands of the rebels, and I cannot but say that
in acting the good Samaritan the North bears off
the palm. At Chancellorsville battle the rebels re-
moved their wounded to be cared for at Richmond,
leaving the 1,200 Northern wounded to lie upon the
ground. The rebel soldiers near them gave them
what help they could, but the rebel government did
nothing but confiscate the captured surgeons' cases
and hospital knapsacks, looking on them as govern-
ment property. On the misery being represented
to those in authority, sugar, flour, bacon, and Tars
bread were plentifully issued to the wounded.
was all, they said, they could give, because it was
all they had. Still, they could have done more ;
they could have removed these 1,200 men to Rich-
mond along with their own wounded, to fare as they
fared ; they could have sent a detail of surgeons
from their army at Fredericksburg to attend to
theal ;
away by rail—straw at least might have been sent
and from Richmond—only a couple of hours
for them to lie upon. What would have been said
had the Unionists acted similarly at Gettysburg--
bad they removed their own wounded by rail and
left 10,000 rebels to lie upon the field with sim-
ply hard bread, bacon, sugar, and flour to sustain
them, and with no surgical assistance, save the
dozenmenwhombeeLene
done,sent over
Gea
ht o take care of
them Had thise p
t
the Yankees
we should never have heard the end of it. •

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this
company was held yesterday forenoon, a
offices, North John-street, Liverpool,—Charles thr, company's
'Turner,
E sq,, M.P., the chairman of the board of directors,idm presid-
ing. Among the gentlemen present we notee
man Samuel Holme,Deputy Mayor, Messrs 'Ralph
Br. Alder-
roe.,_le •
bank, Thomas Bench, George Booker, Richard Boughton,
Francis Maxwell, John Torr, Michael Bousfield, Michael
Belcher, T. D. Hornby, J. Younghusband, Win. I ither-
ington, Maxwell Hyslop, &c., &c.
Mr. VERCY M. DOVE, the actuary, read the notice‘con-
vening the meeting, the statement cf accounts, and the
report of the directors, of which the following is an ab-
stract
Having arrived at the eighteenth anniversary of the
existence of the company, it seems appropriate, as a pre-
liminary introduction to the subject, on this occasion to
divide the era of its experience into two equal parts, and to
contrast its position at its ninth with that which it has
attained at its eighteenth year of duration. Thus it presents
the following features :—Then—at its ninth year—its fire
premiums were about £112,000. Now—at its eighteenth
year—they amount nearer to three times than double tha
sum. Again, the life premiums were then £22,000. Now,
they are very nearly five-fold that amount. So with the
annuity branches—it is found that the amount paid for
purchase of annuities now is eight times the sum received
for the same purpose in the year selected for comparison.
FIRE BRANCH.
It is to be observed that, in the commencing months
of the past year, the pressure of well-remembered political,.
commercial, and other causes appeared;lsFtEe first time in
the history of this company, to have a depressing influence ;
and the continued impetus with which the company had
been uniformly favoured seemed to be, for a short period,
languishing, if not entirely suspended. Happily it was but
for a limited time, and it is satisfactory to add that a
vigorous application of the same moving causes, which have
been successful heretofore, have again already given an
accelerated motion to the progress of the company,—so
that the directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at
the close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that
the fire premiums have not only reached, but exceeded
£300,000.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds consider-
ably the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact
surpasses that of any year, with but two exceptions, since
the commencement of this office.
The balance to the credit on account of
British and Foreign Insurances being Z 45,107 10 5
and of the North American business,which
is kept separately