The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-17 00:00:00

RAILWAY REVENUE LAST YEAR.

It will be interesting to recapitulate the course taken by
the railway revenue of the empire last year. The receipts
for each quarter were as follows, as compared with the cor-
responding periods of 1861:

1862. 11.61. InOrease. Decrease,
First quarter.. £8,014,657..L6,237,004 .. .. £152,?0i
Second quarter 6,987,891.. 7,011,702 .. .. 43,811
Third quarter.. 8,0t8,984.. 7,60,661 .. £168,323 ..
Fourth quarter 7,098,710.. 6,982,688 ..• 214,014 ..

T0ta1..£28,198,282 £27,752,023 £682,377 £236,118
A general advance was thus established of £445,259 for the
year. These returns do not include the earnings of a few
small lines, but they aro sufficiently conclusive to enable a
general idea to be formed of the course of railway affairs
during the two years. - The mileage to which the figures
refer was 10,084 miles, Jan. 4, 1862, as compared with 9,846
miles, Jan. 4, 1861; 10,145 miles, April 5, 1862, as com-
pared with 9911 miles, April 5, 1861; 10,274 miles, July 5,
1862, as compared with 9,951 miles, July 5, 1861; 10,485
miles, Oct. 4, 1862, as compared with 10,186 miles, Oct. 4,
1861 ; and 10,557 miles, Dec. 27, 1862, as compared with
10,186 miles, Dec. 27, 1861. It appears probable that, not-
withstanding this increase of mileage and productive power,
the aggregate receipts last year would have experienced a
diminution in consequence of the depression of trade if the
influence of the Exhibition had not supervened. The year
opened pretty well, an increase of £9,017 having been noted
in the week ending Jan. 4, of £6,490 in the week ending
Jan. 11, and £1,281 in the week ending Jan. 18. For the
next 13 weeks, however, there was a continuous decrease—
viz., £18,185, Jan, 25 ; £24,281, Feb. 1; £16,614, Fet. 8;
£13,874, Feb. 15; £11,840, Feb. 22; £17,630, March 1;
£22,434, March 8; £11,485, March 15; £22,157, March 22;
£50,595, March 29; £34,160, Aprils; £29,73Lapril 12; and
£2,531, April_ 19. The Exhibition was now close at hand, and
an increase of £6,770 took place in the week ending April 26,
In the next week, however, depression again became mea-
-1 ter, and there was a reduction of £1,590. In the week end-
ing May 10 the balances again inclined the other way, and
an increase of £323 appeared. The Exhibition movement
had not yet commenced, and a decrease of £23,539 appeared
in the week ending May 17, of £56,951 in the week ending
May 24, and of £19,681 in the week ending May 31. At
last, however, the tide decisively turned, and increases were
recorded as under:—£4s,s2s, June 7; £27,134, June 14;
£16,177, June 21; £37,444, June 28; £42,213, July 6;
£26,799, July 12; £25,220, July 19 ; £23,024, July 26;
£35,310, Aug. 2 ; £33,918, Aug. 9 ; £39,866, Aug. 16;
£36,260, Aug. 23; £39,258, Aug. 30; £49,264, Sept. 6 ;
£41,771, Sept. 13; £36,793, Sept. 20; £35,619, Sept. 27i
£25,286, Oct. 4; £26,489, Oct. 11; £16,116, Oct. 18;£9640,
Oct. 25 ; and £17,980, Nov. 1. The influence of the
Fzhi-
bition now ceased, and it might, perhaPß,ish: This, ex-
pected that the increase would have ccasoe6L ,o been
how-
ever, was not the case, an augmentation of ,443 appearing
Nov 8 • £14,800, Nov. 16; £18,095, Nov. 22; £14,090,
Nov. 29; £17,756, Dec. 6; '
and £12,719, Dec. 13. In the
next week there was a decrease of £4,260, but the final week
of the year presented the satisfactory
increase of £36,000.
Thus, in 18 weeks of the year there was a decrease, and in
34 an increase. It is interesting to notice how steadily rail-
way receip • ts rise as the year advances and more genial wea-
ther encourages travelling. Thus, in the first week of Jan.,
1862, the amount acquired was £163,265 ; in the first week
of Feb., £172,171; in the first week of March, £466,290 ; in
the first week of April, £191,720 ; in the first week of May,
£529,860 ; in the first week of June, £576,474 ; in the first
week of July, £:)79,332 ;
and in the first week of August
£641,513, As the days began
begun to decline an to shorten, so the receipts
hdling to g£634,588 in the first week of
i
Sept., £612,660 n the first week,)f Oct., £559,960 in the first
wQek of Nov., and £.515,030 in the first week week of Dec.
It must be admitted that the fluctuations indicated by the
returns represent pretty accurately the state of the country.
Thus, the reason why the figures fer last autumn compared
favourably with those for the corresponding period of 1851
was that the depression caused by the American troubles had
ceased then to exert any comparative effect, being common
to both periods ; while in the spring of 1861 it was little felt,
and the traffic statements for the spring of 1862 consequently
did not constrast well with their predecessors. It is nab—
factory to note that, notwithstanding the continued inter-
ruption in the ordinary courses of industry, the new year
has opened well. The absence of the Exhibition stimulus
this year cannot but tell upon the receipts of 1863, but :If
the American complications could be adjusted all would'
, go well.

Mr. FIiWSAN brought up the foi!owirig repel. of
the Western Main Drr'nage of t?!. Metropolis
" Your Honourable Board on Friday last (No :4) having
instructed your committee to consider as to the desirability
of rescinding the order of the board of the 29th of June,
1868 (No. 4), dealing with the Westorn Division
and as to the discharge of the sewage into the proposed low
level sewer, and also as to the capabilities of the northc ea
outinll works now being executed for carrying c ff such addi-
tional sewage,: y(!ur committee have directed thefi,:pfirlT:iii-
attention to the stakes cornptisedin suet reference..
will probably be in the reeolleetliAn of honeitrablenlerobare
that in the year 1858 the repert, of Oes-srs. -Bi,ltler- and
llowkesley and your engineer on the Main Drainage 'onto
Metropolis was under their considation,.and that that re-
port, so far as related to the scheme for dealing withthc drain-
age of the westerudistrict, submitted two alterations, viz. :
First,,to carry the sewage of the district into thegeneral inter-
cepting system; and secondly, to deodorise such sewage at its.
junction with the Themes; and your hon. boarcVafter devot-
ing much consideration to those two questions,.and having
regard to the difficulties which presented themselves in deal-
ing wit 4 the drainage of the district, by reason of its low
level and the consequent increased coit'for puinping, ulfi-
matetydeelded to deal with it exceptionally, and to adopt the
which had already received
tPhlaell:s°aindee°tiotroisfa Mrn. aFs
su.Fgotsrt,edM.' R. Stephenson, Sir
W.
Cubit, Mr. Bazalgette, Mr. Heywood; end other engineers,
"Your committee have conferred with your...engineer as to
the "capability of the main °titian sewers to discharge the
sewage,coming from the western district, and.they fiod that
the capacity °Utiles& sewers is sufficient,, at all events for a
veryconsiderable period,to receive the sewage from that area;
that:being the case the question of conveyiiii—tin sewage of
the western district into the low level system, and ulti-
mately to the outfall at. Barking, resolves itself into one
expense, and your committee find that the cost'bf increasing
the pse WA° two levet sewers t.gd providing the_ requisite
additkniat pumping, power .nmOkttAt:;in, TOttnichluMbein
to about £180,000; ,and althetuilt this stun is a large one,
your committee, after a" most anxious consideration of
the-subject, are_tmaninacusly .of __opinion _that lit should

be incurred, and that the western area should be treated
differently from that of the other portiens of the metio-
polis,- but that the:whole of the seWege, notwithstanding
the additional cost, should be conveyed to the point' of
outfall at Barking Creek, and they accordingly recommend
That 4he resolution of the board, •of the 29th June, IESS
(No. 4), directing the forMation of 'deodorising works at
Fulham, be rescinded ; that the sewage
,from the' Western
area be carried'into the Low-level Sewer to be conveyed to
Barking Creek, and that the engineer be instructed to pre-
pare the;necessary plans and estimates for the works.'
(Signed) " Joie TIWAITES.
;saw.

i. 4c ROBERT YREEMAN.
"EDWARD COLLI.',ON."
The hon. member moved-the adoption of the recom-
mendation of the committee.

Mr. TITE. M.P., at some length went into a hiE-

tory of the resolution they wished to rescind. At
the time it was passed the main drainage scheme
was not decided upon, and the sum of £200,000 was
thought to be a large sum of money, but in compa-
rison with the works now in progress it was a trifle.
Although the members of thd board in 1858 were,
no doubt, justified in the course they adopted, yet
circumstances had 'changed since then, and they
were noireright in rescinding the resolution they
had then come to.'

Mr. NEWTON went into the debates that had
occurred in 1858 on the subject, and considered the
circumstances warranted the board in projecting
those works, but now that a more complete scheme
was being carried out those works ought not to-be
proceeded with.
Mr. CARPMAEL and Mr. D'IFFANGER supported
the motion.

Mr. SAMUDA said the question was not the reso-
lution of 1858, but the position of affairs at the iire-
seat. time. If he had been a member of the board
$l3 4858 he should have voted for tlierialuiion, and
now that circumstances. were altered he should vote
for rescinding it.
Mr. CRELLIN thought the board in 1858 came to
a proper conclusion, and he thought nothing had oc-
curred since to induce the board to alter its opinion.

Mr. WILKINSON said that when the resolution w
passed, it was accepted only as an economical mode
of purifying the sewage, but now, as it could be
carried away through the main drainage works, he
would vote for its be'ng_so carried, as he believed
it to be a saving of expense to the ratepayers. -
Mr. DixoN reminded the board that, according

to the present plan, if any obstruction should take
place, or if there should be any failure in the works,
the district of Fulham would be flooded, and ho

would be no party to placing that locality in such
a position.
Mr. H. LOWMAN TAYLOR supported the motion,
because, if the plans of the board were not carried
out, the system of drainage in the metropolis would
not be perfect.
Mr. FREEMAN, in reply, said that in 1858 the re.
solution was adopted only as a temporary measure,
and so great was the difference of opinion on the
part of the members, that the board deferred buy-
ing the land necessary for the works until the latest
moment. He, therefore, hoped the board would
unanimously adopt the motion.
The board then divided, when the motion, was
carried by a majority of 33 to 1. . .

A deputation of medical gentlemen, principally
medical officers of health, consisting of Drs. Thom •
son, Aldis, Challice, Gibbon, Barclay, Viner, White-
man, Iliff, and Hillier, and Messrs. Burge, Liddie,
and Rendle, were in attendance to give their advice
and assistance to the board if necessary.
The CHAIRMAN said that the board having
adopted the report nearly unanimously there would
be no necessity for hearing the deputation.
The gentlemen, however, wishing to be heard by
one of their number, the board, as a matter of cour-
tesy, decided on hearing one of them.
Mr. BURGE then said the proceedings of that
day had rendered their labours very light. It
was their duty to watch over the health of the
metropolis, and whatever steps they took were
only taken in the public interest, and with no desire
to obstruct the board in their operations. He was
quite sure that the decision of the board that day
would be received by the whole of the medical pro-
fession as a boon, and would be a lasting benefit to
the metropolis.
The deputation then withdrew.
The contract was given to Mr. Dethick, subject
to the usual securities.
The routine business having been disposed of, the
board adjourned.

ON SPEAKING TERMS WITS DR. JortssoNiT
One of the most remarkable connecting links h.;
tween the present and the past, was Samuel Roger2l
abouttheir
writings,
lived until the close of 1855, yet who once wit a
young literary friend to the house of
when
terror took pos-
session Johnson in Bolt-
court, with a view to consult him
They were at the very door,
h
session of their souls, and they fled from the tremor-
Leviathan rolling about among tho
seen
ns deityth e within. Rogers, however, must often have
human billows of Fleet •street ; and ho shook hands,
when he was a youth, with the Doctor's special
horror, Jack Wilkes. Walter Savage Landor, who was
nine years old when Johnson died in 1784, is still spared to
us. Had he ever seen the great dictator of letters, he would
probably recollect him. The time has not long gone Ly,
when it was no uncommon thing to meet with men who
could speak of Johnson from personal remembrance; yet
Johnson had been touched for the king's evil by Queen
Anne. The writer has known two men, one of whom
had conversed with the lexicographer, while the other
had only men him in the streets. The former, at the time
of the interview, was a studious youth, preparing himself
for a literary career, in which he afterwards acquired soma
name. He had gone into a booksellt r's shop to inquire
some classical author, and found Johnson sitting thew.
The latter, seeing the young man poring over a Greek or
Latin book, asked to look at it, questioned him about
Ws studies, and received such satisfactory answers
that he returned the volume with the impressive sen-
tence, uttered in his most dignified and yet blandest man-
( x cathedra
r : You may go on, sir ; you may go on. The youth
"
, tugs
magnificently ordained, as it iNeze,
James Boaden, susequently author of a "Life of 3(1,n
Kemble," and of a novel which attracted attention, called
" The Man of Two Lives." He survived until 1839, and
prolonged to that late period something of the Johnsonian
manner, though softened with greater amiability. His de-
portment and mode of delivery were at once formal and suave,
He was fond of the Johnsonian " sir ;" and his respectful
Politeness in addressing ladies was altogether that of the
old school. Like Johnson, Boaden loved nothing better
than to "fold his legs and have his talk out ;" and, being a
man of large reading and cultivated mind, his conversation
was well worth listening to,—Dicken'd ".da the Jean
.Round,"

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