The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
The traffic receipts of railway s in the United Kingdom
amounted for the week ending the 24th January, on 10,588
miles, to £485,456, and for the corresponding week of last
year, on 10,193 miles, to £458,575, showing an increase of
395 miles, and of £26,881 in the receipts. The gross receipts
on the following 14 railways amounted in the aggregate, on
7,268 miles, to £382,996; and for the corresponding week
of 1862, on 7,008 miles, to £360,870, showing an increase
of 260 miles, and of £22,126 in the receipts. The increase
on the Caledonian amounted to £411; ou the Great Eastern
to £1,306 ; on the Great Northern to £757 ; on the Great
Southern and Western to £575 ; on the Great Western to
£1,986 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to £1,216 ; on the
London and North Western to £4,994; on the London,
Brighton, and South Coast to £1,121; on the London and
South Western to £2,699; on the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire to £757 ; on the Midland to £2,253 ; on
the North British to £1,470; on the North Eastern to
£1,292 ; and on the South Eastern to £1,289 ; total, £22,126
The goods and mineral traffic on those lines amounted to
£220,543, and for the corresponding week of 1862 to
£205,654, showing an increase of £14,898. The recepts for
passengers, parcels, &c., amounted to £162,453, against
£155,225, showing an increase of £7,228. The traffic re-
ceipts on 65 other lines amounted, on 3,320 miles, to
£102,460, and for the corresponding week of last year, on
3,185 miles, to £97,705, showing an increase of 135 miles,
and of £4,755 in the receipts. The total receipts of the
past week show a decrease of £1,414 as compared with those
of the preceding week, ending the 17th inst.
Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways.
1863. 1862. 1863. 1862.
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties . IN 136 1,790 1,735
Belfast and Comity Down.... 49 49 566 500
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 1,175 1,673
Bristol and Exeter l2l+ 107 5,136 5,051
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington B+ 81 21 298
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 315 325
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6+ 64 138 167
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 534 534 1,067 979
Deeside l7 17 218 226
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,252 1,289
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,239 1,388
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexf d 4B+ 48+ 1,282 1,127
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,002 1,1•.0
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1694 169+ 6,514 6,887
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 5) 2,367 2,276
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 330 330 23,200 24,443
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,669 1,606
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 45+ 414 297
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 329 329 7,716 7,141
Great Western 992_ 9614 50,017 48,031

Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 731 733/4 789 653
Irish North-Western 145 130 1,550 1.414
Irish South-Eastern 251 251 271 189
Lancashire & Yorkshire 39 3951 30,894 29.678
Limerick and Ennis... 24 24/ 127 142
Limerick and Foynes 26 261 100 126
Llanelly 46 464 471 442
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 54 53. 1,640 1,319
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2473/4 2411 14,081 12,96)
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 721 2,598 1,545
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
51an.,Sheffield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91 1,057 1,011
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 34 2,474
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 630 6141 38,286 36,027
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2491 1921 4,313 4,050
Monkland 714 711 1,439 1,503
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,010 2,332
North British, Edin., Perth

and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car 8942 8674 3',853 36,561
North London 9 9 3,049 2,702

North Saffordshire - .. ...,v.... .
254 252 7,332 6,369
Oswestry and Newton 42 42 919 5u2
Rhymney...—...— ... 194 194 741 868
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52 1,700 1,953
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern 132 132 4,107 4,458
Somerset and Dorset 394 258
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 306 16,885 15,596
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 54 54 4,337 5,159
Ulster 6l 51
,1,611 1,603
Vale of Clwyd. . lO 10 i3B 137
Vale of Neath_ _____ 25% 25% 1,712 2,055

Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 4'895 239
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 991 961
West ll Cornwa
636 648

W.Hartlepool Harbr. 39 39- 2,973 3,801
W'haven,CleatorotEgrinnt... 7 7 580 444
Whitehaven Junction........ 12 12 823 638
Whitehaven & Furness Jun... 35 35 71S 671

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,008 884
Austrian B2B 828 26,033 29,935
Belgian Eastern Junction 26& 26} 245 231
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 3,659 3,091
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 3,255 3,6)2
Eastern of France
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090 19,551 18,964
Great Indian Peninsula 495 437/ 7,382 5,609
Great Luxembourg 134 134 3,690 2,938
Great Western of Canada 345 345 13,135 12,765
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 159 435 14,608 11,345
Northern of Canada ... .....
Northern of France 7Ol 680 48,558 46,034
Norwegian Trunk - -
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354 107,333 121,215
Paris and Orleans 1340 1204 53,541 49,142
Pernambuco 7l -- 1,067
Royal Danish 69 69 432 360
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,268 1,255
South Austrian
Southern of France ..... 777 777 21,819 22,527
Welland •• • 25 25 - -
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 758 758 32,414 32,152

ton to subscribe ; Cleveland, to extend the line for comple-
tion of works and to raise £75,000; Cockermouth and Work-
ington, for new works and additional capital; Aberystwith
and Welsh Coast, for further lines in the district and to raise
£240,000; Mid-Wales, to raise a further sum of £200,000 to
carry out the works ; Peterborough, Wisbeach, and Sutton,
for a railway between these places, at an estimated cost of
£lBO,OOO. The non-compliance with the standing orders
included the bills of Oswestry, Ellesmere, and Whitchurcb,
for divers deviations and extensions, and to raise £240,000 ;
Inverness and Perth Junction for deviations and purchase
of additional lands; Whitford and Milford Haven for a
line from the South Wales at Whitland to Begally and
Pembroke, and to raise £240,000 by new shares. The Bill
of the Lytham and Preston Railway was withdrawn.