The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-28 00:00:00

OTTOMAN (SMYRNA TO AIDIN).

The directors state in their report that they have devoted
all their available resources to the completion of the un-
finished portions of the opened line to Ephesus, and have
endeavoured to increase the traffic upon it by so improving
the arrangements that the advan.age of the railway over the
old camel transport might have its due influence with the
merchants iu the interior, and induce them to send all their
produce by the railway. The directors have been disap-
pointed in these expectations, and have not found the traffic
increase in the ratio they had anticipated. The evils of a
break in the transport are assigned as the sufficient and
certain cause of the continued employment of the camels,
added to the comparative shortness of the distance after
the camels have traversed the worst part of the journey over
the mountain pass. The only effectual remedy lies in the
earliest possible completion of the line through the hills to
Aidin; and until this is accomplished it is now the opinion
of the beat local authorities that the great trade of the
Meander valley will be retained in great part in the hands
of the camel owners. The difficulty of obtaining the re-
maining capital in the continued depressed state of the com-
pany's shares has, up to a very recent period, prevented
their being ab'e to suggest any feasible plan for the pur-
pose. The necessity of completing the line to Aidin is so
urgent and imperative that the directors have opened com-
munications with the Ottoman Government on the subject,
as the interests of the Government are affected equally with
those of the shareholders. Crampton, the contractor, has
recently returned from Constantinople, where the question
has been very fully considered and its importance admitted.
The receipts on capital account amounted to £354,781 and
the expenditure to £869,709, leaving a balance of £14,928
against the company. The revenue account showed that
£8,748 had been received during the half-year ending the
31st of December, and £7,257, or 33.15 per cent. expended,
leaving a balance of £1,471.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR TIIE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. -A.--
1863. 1862. 1863. 1862.
£ £
1,903 1,592
628 550
1,693 1,788
5,462 5,542
15 670 15,' go
224 258
312 319
163 167
385 : 94
1,265 1,253
276 170
1,259 1,2 5
1,447 1,442
1,41 1,332
1,010 1,133
7,702 6.889
241 229
2,786 2,U49
7,549 7,926
23,09 24,172
26,761 23,216
2,073 1,i97
471 299
7,758 7.537
54,551 49 642
060 771
1,784 1,4;•9
185 156
10,770 29,25
leB 194
116 116
550 6 8
81,909 77,010
1,651 1,349
19.156 14.913
14,380 13,172
2,863 1,517
1239 917
12,848 13,185
1,082 1,032
1,204 1,010
- 1,954 -
6144 34,426 36,726
1924. 4,525 4,387
714 1,521 1,6:.1
44 2,432 2,456

Belfast and N, Counties 136 136
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28
Bristol and Exeter l2l} j(,7
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington B/ 8/
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61
Cork and Youghal •• • 32/ 32i
Cornwall 531 53/
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63
Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 4Bl 484
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Juu 3l 31
Edinburgh and glasgow 1691 1691
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furneme, Sze 5O 51
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.linion
Great Northern 330 330
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
lit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 71/
4t.Sout lin. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 320
Great Western 992 9611
Inverness & Aberdeen June._ 731 73/
Irish North-Western„ 145 130
Irish South-Eastern 251 251
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 3951
Limerick and Ennis..
Limerick and Poynes 26 261
Llanelly 46 461
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 5f
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2: 01 2111
London, Chatham, & Dover 72* 92}Loud., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheffield,&Linoolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l ot
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630
Midland Gt. Wes tn. of Irind 219/
Monkland 714
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car 894/
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Os westry and Newton 42
Rhymney l9l
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern 1321
Somerset and Dorset 394
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Stockton and Darlington
Tall Vale 5/
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.. lO
Vale of Neath 251
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W. H artlepool II arbr.&ltaiL
W'haveu,Clcator,&Egrmut 7
Whitehaven J unction l2
Whitehaven & Furness jun~

3451 10,906 9,7 3
8671 37,721 37,213
9 2,970 2,525
252 7,709 7,216
42 911 650
191 1,64 832
52 1,978 2,041
56 2,928 2,915
1321 4,402 4,513
391 363 294
751 3,2:0 2,963
306 17,026 15,8
161 9,386 7,887
54 5,499 4.902
51 1,828 1,639
10 10 IGS
251 2,055 2,010
31 328 305
77 1,'_02 1,075
271 790 781
39 3,',74 3,561
6-33 981
12 771 63J
35 769 641

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,128 1,C45
Austrian B2B 828 32,720 34,889
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 266 268 215
Bombay, Baroda, & l en. India 1674 1324 1,638 693
Buffalo and Lake Huron 1614 1614 2,118 2,239
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 3,699 1,745
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France lO7B 1060 46,609 45,683
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1,_90 14,582 8,200
Great Indian Peninsula 445 4373 9,411 5,483
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,706 4,226
Great Western of Canada 345 315 14.324 10,10 G
Madrid, Sark-rossa &Alicant 4.)9 435 16,531 12,752
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 7Ol C9B 41,513 46.862
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman _
... 4Bl 40

Paris, Lyons, Sr Mediterrn 1491 1354 121,231 113,996
Paris and Orleans 1340 1201 69,577 55,250
Pernambuco 774 1,411
[Loyal Danish 69 69 562 581
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,498 M3l
South Austrian
Southern of France 777 777 23,0,3 24,013
Welland •• 25 25
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 758 758 35,290 35,258