The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The following is a summary of the railway pro-
ceedings of the week. The report of the directors
of the London, Chatham, and Dover states that
the working for the past six months shows an in-
crease:of 45 per cent. in the passenger and 40 per
cent. in the goods traffic over the corresponding
period of 1862, but they express their regret that
this increase bas.not-benefited the revenue, in con-
sequence of the large amount expended in earning
it. The board further states that the receipts on
the metropolitan extensions, although only opened
for traffic between Victoria and the Elephant and
Castle, have averaged about £9O per mile per week;
that since the opening to Beckenham the receipts
have averaged more than £133 par mile per week,
and that the last week gave a return of £l5O per
mile per week. At the half-yearly meeting the
report was adopted ; Mr. Holroyd, the late secre-
tary, was elected a director of the company, and
Mr. Johnson, who has been appointed in his place,
was voted a salary of £5OO per annum. At the
Sevenoaks meeting the report, which was adopted,
stated that the receipts for the past year, which
was the first year of working, had been £5,170, but
it was expected that there would be a consider-
able increase when the goods termini with
the London, Chatham, and Dover, and the
Lewisham and Tunbridge lines were completed.
The net available balance of revenue on the half-
year's working of the Waterford and Limerick is
£2,400, out of which the directors recommend
dividend of ss. per share on the original capital.
The report of the directors of the WestHartlepool
was adopted at the half-yearly eting. At a
special meeting of the company tkwme directors were
authorised to raise, under their act of the present
year, £729,000 on debentures, to pay off the primary
charges against the company, and £300,000 on de-
benture, for other purposes. The half-yearly report
of the directors of the Metropolitan was unani-
mously adopted at the general meeting, and a divi-
dend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum declared.
The chairman expressed his conviction that the
traffic for the past six months was not one-third of
what they might fairly expect hereafter. At the
South-Eastern meeting the report was adopted,
and a dividend at the rate of 42 per cent. per annum
was declared on the half-year's working. The
Great Northern meeting also adopted the report, and
dividends were declared as follows :—At the rate of

1 per cent. on the Hertford stock, 4 per cent. and 5
per cent. on the Luton stocks, 41 per cent. Per
annum on the Great Northern original stock of 3
per cent. for the half-year on the B stock, and of
£1 be. per cent. for the half-year on the A stock.
The directors were authorised to subscribe on behalf
of the company £30,000 to the Stockton and Wood-
ley Junction, £58,000 to the Stockport, Timberley,
and Altrincham ; £65,000 to the Cheshire Midland,
any. At the
and £67,000 to the West Cheshire Comp
Vale of Neath a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent.
per annum was declared. The receipts on the half-
year'sNorth and South-Western
the
working of
Junction showed an increase of £604 over the cor-
respondingeriod of the preciou P s year, and out of
the balance,X2,lo3,the directors recommend a divi-
dend at the rate of 5 per cent.
per annum, which
was declared at the meeting of shareholders. The
report of the directors of the North-Western, which
was adopted at the meeting held at Leeds, stated
that the receipts for the year 1862 amounted to
£59,301, and the Midland Company had paid
£11,910 for guaranteed interest and dividend. The
dividend at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum was
declared, and the chairman announced that the in-
creased dividend of 3 per cent. would commence
at the beginning of next year. At the meeting of
the Corn wall the report was adopted, and the
directors were authorised to issue a further amount
of debentures to the extent of £82,980. The Taff
Vale meeting declared a dividend at the rate of 9
per cent. per annum, and the agreement for working
the Llantriesant line was approved of. The directors
of the Whitehaven and Pernees Junction, at their
meeting, congratulated the shareholders on the fact
of the receipts having increased 25 per cent. over the
corresponding half of 1862. A dividend at the rate
of 5 per cent., as recommended, was declared. At
the meeting of the Crystal Palace and South Lon-
don Junction the directors reported that the whole
of the works were progressing very rapidly, and
that the line would be opened within the term of the
contract, The half-yearly report of the Staineo,

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the meeting of shareholders, showed tseicffI
ceipts for the year to have been .£12,275,1reing S
increase of £1,937 over the previous half-year. The
directors of the Mid-Wales report that the works on
the line are in active progress, and that the lino
are in active progress, and that the line will be
opened in the spring of next year. At the Severn
Valley the report was adopted, and a dividend at
the rate of 3 per cent. per annum declared on the
ordinary stock of the company. At the Bedford
and Cambridge the report was adopted, and a
dividend at the rate of 31- per cent per annum de-
clared. The directors of the Keut Coast state in
their report, which was adopted at the share-
holders' meeting, that the double line between
I-lerne Bay and Margate, and the second line of
rails between Faversham and Herne Bay, will be
opened by the Ist of next month, and that the line
to RarnFgate will be opened by the commencement
of October. At the' Oiwestry and Newtown, n
dividend at the rate of 4:1 per cent..per annum was
declared, The directors of the Cannock Mineral
recommend a dividend at the rate of 3!, per cent.
At the half-yearly meeting the report was adopted
and tha dividend declared. Tho directors of the
u and Trunk Company state in their report, that
at hued earnings oftpheen half-year f e
eeh-yaa
de
been
reen amounted277,2too4i;4l3e4a,v3ns
a balance of £157,136.

THE WATER SUPPLY IN PARIS,

augmentation
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The constantly increasing size of Pariq, the
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in the extent of its gardens and plantations, an
superficies of street, road, and boulevard it is flow greater
deemed
necessary to water in dry weather, obviously implic au
increased consumption of water, for which it is urgent that
the municipal authorities should provide. The subject is
one upon which a good deal has of late been written in the
newspapers and in pamphlets, and its importance is all the
more pressing because it appears that for a long time past
the supply of water in Paris has been less than was
necessary to satisfy all the demands of health and
cleanliness, and far less than that enjoyed by most
other European capitals. A recent writer on the
Inbject .cEraitae.s tttttttttt 'tlia. fetid lapply of water to
Paris is hardly 90 litres (a litre is equal to 1 760 English
pint) per inhabitant daily ; that is to say, six times less than
to the inhabitant of Marseilles, seven times less than to the

inhabitant of New York, 12 times less than to the inhabi-
tant of Rome. Old Paris was built at the bcttom of a chalky
basin, up the sides of which it has been constantly climbing.
Within its new barrier, the fortifications are 7,800 hectares
of ground, or more than 16,000 acres. According to the last
census, its inhabitants are 1,600,000. Converging towards
it, and running around it, numerous railways and canals
combine to supply its enormous consumption of all imag,in •
able things. The Seine, but a slender stream for so great a
city, flows lazily through its heart, and afterwards meanders,
in many bends and folds, through its pleasant environs,
as if reluctant to leave the greatest ornament of her banks.
The annual consumption of Paris is of course prodigious ;
everything ateounds in this centre of gaiety and plea-
sure. For thirty leagues around the country contributes
to the supply of its wants ; from the south the rail-
ways bring fruit and much of the finest poultry,
from the various seaports immense supplies of fish. The
canal and river boats bring wine, wood, iron, and other
heavy merchandise; stone for building is plentiful in the
quarries of Penis itself. There is lack but of one thing--
the most precious, the most indispensable of all—and that
one thing is water. The Seine is there, certainly; but it
can afford but a small portion of what is needed. Besides
that a very costly machinery would be necessary to raise
200,000 cubic metres of water daily to all the elevations of
the city; it has been proved by:men of science that if such
a quantity of water was taken from it the current would
n. o longer have sufficient strength to carry off the drainage
from the sewers. All that is taken, therefore, is about
40,000 cubic metres, which is used filtered (a very expen-
sive ?recess) for drinking, and in the houses, The Canal
de 1' Ourcq affords 108,000 metres for other purposes. It
was hoped at oue time that the Artesean wells would be a
great resource, but their yield is uncertain and intermittent*
and they reckon for little. The well at Passy is barely
sufficient to supply the Bois de Boulogne. Of course .a
large quantity of water is required to wash out the contents
of the sewers into the Seine, just as it is necessary to leave
the river a sufficient water power to carry the drainage
away. In short, the water borrowed from that river and the
Ourcq canal forms the sole supply of the capital. The chalky
character of the soil of the basin in which Paris stands ren-
ders the springs that rise there unwholesome for drinking
purposes, and hence the necessity of incurring the expense
of filtering the Seine water, which, even when it has under-
gone that process, is by no means of first-rate quality. After
a great deal of labour on the part of the Prefect of the Seine
Department, after many commissions have sat and many
reports been made, it has been decided to substitute for the
water of the Seine that of two streams—the Dhuis and the
Surnielin, which is to be made to flow to Paris from a dis-
tance of 139 kilometres. For further wants there are kept
in reserve 60,000 cubic metres from another stream, the
Somme Sonde, but that would require works along anextent
of 252 kilometres. There was talk of making a diversion
from the Loire by means of a canal 175 kilometres, in length,
which would have supplied half a million of cubic metres
day, but this was abandoned, partly on account of difficul-
ties and expense and partly in consequence of the opposition
made by the people d welling on the banks of that river. Of
course every attempt to divert streams for the use of Paris
excites discontent somewhere or other. As soon as the works
are completed which are required in order to bring the waters
of the Dhuis and Surmelin to Paris, the quantity now de-
rived from the Seine for the use of the houses will be ape
plied to purposes of general utility and cleanliness. The
143,000 cubic metres of water, which now constitutes the
whole supply of Paris, is estimated to be quite 100,000
metres less than this capital ought to have. Only two-fifths
of this deficiency is to be supplied by the works now in pro-
gress ; the great question is—whence s the rest to come
It is very costly to divert streams from a great distance.
One writer on the subject has supposed to get water from
the Seine at a moderate distance below Paris. Owing
to the twists and turns the river makes in that part of its
course, the water might be brought over a short distance
from a very considerable one down the stream, which in
the interval would have completely diluted the drainage of
Paris. This water would not be used for drinking.
Paris earnestly demands more water—the more earnestly
that it has not yet recovered its usual complexion, or ceased
to perspire from the effects of the late intense heat. In its
warm weather still—although there Was a good deal of
rain early yesterday morning, and the day was sunless,
the thermometer stood at 73 deg. at half-past two. But
one feels delightfully cool by contrast with the temperature
of 20 and even nearly 30 deg. higher which was endured in
the earlier portion of the month. Scorched as it lately was,
Paris would gladly have seen the kennels running all day,
and the water cart perpetually at work. Instead of that,
Paris had to swallow a vast deal of hot dust. Amid the
many great things that have been done for Paris under the
present reign, the hydraulic department has undeniably
been somewhat neglected. Paris has been plenteously
supplied with light and air, but it has not enough waters
A Paris journal lately stated positively, and doubtless with
perfect truth, that the scarcity of monumental fountains
here is due to the deficiency of water. It may with great
reason
rs iste d
plentifullyupon
distributedt at it i at
throughleas as
the
necessary
houses
to
haveriof
Paris,
especially to that topmost story in which poor
,: bnt e
water
people live, as to have gas illuminating all the staircase
end conveyed into a vast number of the apartments. It was
probably the scarcity of water that first led to the Parisian
practice of waxing floors and stairs instead of washing
them—and the Englishman newly come to Paris is speedily
apprised by the uncomfortably small dimensions of his
basin and ewer that he is no longer in a land where pro-
fuse ablution is encouraged by an abundance of the refresh-
ing element.

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