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
endeavotr ed to increase the traffic upon it by so improving
the arrangements that the advantage of the railway over the
old camel transport might have its due influence with the
merchants in 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 best local authorities that the greet 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 able 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
these of the shorohnidore. Crampton, tho oontrootor, haa
recently returned from Constantinople, where the question
has been very fully considered and its importance admitted.
The receipts on capital account amounted to £854,781 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 THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1863. 1862.

Belfast and N. Counties ..... 136 138
Belfast and County Down 49 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28
Bristol and Exeter l2l} 167
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington
Cork and Bandon 2O 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 63 53
Deeside l7 17
Dublin & Belf as t Junction 63 63

Dublin and Drogheda - - 63 63
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd. 481 481
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 31 31
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1691
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 5
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 330 330
Great North of Scotland 5B 58
,t. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 71}
4t.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 329 329
Great Western 992 9641
Inverness & Aberdeen June— 731 731
Irish North-Western 145 130
Irish South-Eastern 251 251,
Lancashire & Yorkshire 895 3951
Li: :rick 'ld E - -ir - 24 24'

26
46
11 1130

_,imerick any.. —nnis.
Limerick and Foynes 2B;
Lianelly 4Bl
Londen & North-Western
London and Blackwall M
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2.01
London, Chatham, & Dover 721
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
51an.,Shefileld, & Lincolnsh
Stanch. S.J un.& Altrincham 9l
51aryport and Carlisle 2B
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630
Midland Gt.Westn. of'lrind 2491
slonk land
Aionmouthsh. Rail. & Canal
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car 8941
North London 9
North Staffordshire 254
Oswestry 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 .... D's
Taff Vale 6/
Ulster 5l

Vale of Clwyd
Vale ot A eatu 2s}
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
___ ___

%Vest Cornwall 27i
W. Hartlepool Harbr. &Rail 39
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun :ss

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

5i
400}
241
92!
421
237

6146
1926
716
44

3451
8671
9
252

10,906 9,7 3
37,721 37,213
2,970 2,525
7,709 7,216
911 650

132
39i
75¢
308
161

964 832
1,978 2,041
2,928 2,915
4,402 4,513
363 294
3.2 , 0 2,963
17,026 15,8 , 4
9,386 7,887
6,499 4,902
1,828 1,639
150 168
2,0 ,5 2,010
328 305
1,`„:02 1,075
790 781
8,174 3,564
653 981
771 63)
769 641

Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,128 1,045
Austrian _ 828 828 32,760 34,889

.14,1 OV 07,..-
Belgian Eastern Junction 263 26e 268 275
Bombay, Baroda, & ;'en. India 161 134 1,658 693
Buffalo and Lake Huron 1614 1613 2,118 2,239
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 3,699 1,744
Dutch Rhenish - -
Eastern of France lO7B 1060 46,609 45,683
East Indian - -
Grand Truuk of Canada lO9O 1190 14,582 8,200
Great Indian Peninsula 495 4373 9,411 5,483
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,706 4,226
Great Western of Canada 345 345 14,324 10,106
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 439 435 16,534 12,752
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 7Ol 698 47,513 46,862
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman - -
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354 121,231 113,946
Paris and Orleans 1340 1204 69,677 55,250
Pernambuco 771 - 1,411 -
Royal Danish 69 69 562 681
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,498 1,141
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