The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 1,186 g..

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

The traffic receipts of railways in the United Kingdom
amounted, for the week ending the 25th of July, on 10,843
miles, to £630,160, and for the corresponding week of last
year, on 10,404 miles, £613,530, showing an increase of 439
miles,*and of £16,630 in the receipts. The gross receipts on
the following 15 railways amounted, in the aggregate, on
7.631 miles, to £003,896, and for the corresponding week of
1862. on 7,373 miles, to £498,892, showing an increase of
238 miles, and of £5,004 in the receipts. The increase on
the Caledonian amounted to f 1,144 ; on the Great Southern
and Western to £157 ; on the Great Western to £511; on
the Lancashire and Yorkshire to £3,038 ; on the Manches-
ter, Sheffi •Id, and Lincolnshire to. £1,72.7 ; on the Midland
to £'2,376; on the North British to £1,769; on North
Eastern and Stockton and Darlington to £2,242; total,
£12,964. But from this must be deducted £2,595, the de-
crease on the Great Eastern; £2,027 on the Great Northern,
£582 on Lond. and N. Western; £997 on London, Brighton,
and South Coast ; £489 on the London and South Western ;
and £1,270 on the South Eastern, together £7,960, leaving
the increase as above, £5,004. The goods and mineral
traffic on those lines amounted to £223,491, and for the cor-
responding week of 1862 to 4215,803, showing an increase
of £7,688. The receipts for passengers, parcels, &c.,
amounted to £280,405 against £283,089, showing a decrease
of £2,684, the comparison being with an International Ex-
hibition week of last year, The traffic receipts on 63 other
lines amounted, on 3,212 miles, to £126,264, and for the
corresponding week of last year, on 3,031 miles, to £114,638,
showing an increase of 181 miles, and of £11,626 in the re-
ceipts. The total receipts of the past week show an increase
of £11,885 as compared with those of the preceding week,
ending the 18th inst.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways.
1863. 1862. 1863. 1862.
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,488 2.335
Belfast and Comity Down 49 49 820 651
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 1,719 1,787
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 6,993 7,189

Caledonian - 230 £3O
18;248 17:104
Cockermouth& Workington 84 84 352 285
Cork and Bandon 3O 20 362 319
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 64 334 250
Cork and Youghal 324 324 702 511
Cornwall 534 534 1,485 1,514
Deeside - -
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,364 1,380
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,890 1,846
Dublin and Meath - 179
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 544 484 3,315 2,639
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,282 1,146
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1694 1694 9,175 8.625
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 5) 2,958 2,237
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk~&E.l.Tnion
Great Northern 351 851 30,808 32,835
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,977 2.130
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 665 482 356
G t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3544 329 8,830 6,679
Great Western 10564 10044 68,313 67.832
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno- 864 682 1,649 1,332
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,632 1,746
Irish South-Eastern 254 254 - -
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3954 3954 36,250 33.212
Limerick and Ennis... 23 241 188 180
Limerick and Foynes
Llanelly
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 64 51 2,121 2,225
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2504 2414 22,162 23,159
London, Chatham, & Dover 724 724 6,054 6,222
Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 - 1,350
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
slan.,Sheffield, &Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 94 gi 1,548 1,377
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 34 - 101 -
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6114 44,529 42,153
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2594 1924
,4,478 3,977
Monkland 7li 714 1,441 1,717
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,514 2,429
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee .
- -- -

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N-Eastern and New. & Car 1079/ 10614 55,059 52,808
North London - 9 9 3,427 3,517
North Staffordshire 254 252 8,305 7,994
Oswestry and Newton...
Rhymney 194 194 847 973
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52 2,002 1,911
Scottish Central
Scottish Neyth-Eastern l3B 138 5,590 5,527
Somerset and Dorset 394 394 364 347
South Devon ' 754 754 3.955 4,018
South-Eastern 306 306 28,176 29,446
Stockton and Darlington
Taff Vale 55 55 5,805 5,211
Ulster 644 514 2,130 2,044
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 254 254 2,567 1,861
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 W 2 370
Waterford and Limerick 77. 77. 1,240 1,180

West Cornwall 271 271 831 824
W.HartlepoolHarbr. &Rail.
Pir' haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 7 707 483
Whitehaven Junction l2 12- 826 633
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 866 658
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,493 1,266
Austrian B2B 828 29,112 33,155
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 264 293 294
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1854 1324 2,966 1,039
Buffalo and Lake Huron 1614 1614 2,166 1,695
Detroit and Itlllwaukie lB5 185 3,05,9 3,246
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 6,078 5,391

Eastern 01 France.
East Indian
_ _

Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1690 15,414 13,878
Great Indian Peninsula 425 4371 11,3:8 6,745
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,446 4,347
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 345 8,538 8,286
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 429 435 19,712 16,886
Northern of Canada ..
Northern of France 6S7 691
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491 1354 125,994 123,190
Paris and Orleans 1340 1204 57,432 55,70
Pernambuco 774 682 77

Royal ifanish 69 69 691
Sambre and Meuse 6B 6 1,411 1,377
South Austrian
Southern of France ...... 7.77 777 21,029 24,e2

Victorian 196 143 9,743 g,us‘s47
Welland.

West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France 758 758 43,555 40,301

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.

It appears that the directors of this company have decided
on recommending a dividend for the past half-year of 31
per cent. per annum, carrying forward a balance of £3,700.
The dividend for the corresponding half of 1862 was at the
rate of 3 per cent. per annum.

WORCESTER, BROM YARD, AND LEOMINSTER,
An adjourned special meeting of this company was held
at Malvern on Thursday, Mr. C. Hastings in the chair, to
consider a provisional agreement with the West Midland
Company for working the traffic.
The CHAIRMAN having stated the object of the meeting,
The SOLICITOR read the agreement, which was to the
effect that the West Midland or Great Western should work
the line for 521 per cent. of the receipts, and the Worcester,
Bromyard, and Leominster Company were to receive the
remaining 471 per cent. ; the West Midland were to allow
a rebate in the event of the receipts of the Worcester, Brom-
yard, and Leominster lino being insufficient to pay the in-
terest and other fixed charges.
The CHAIRMAN congratulated the company on the satis•
factory character of the agreement, and moved its confirma-
tion.

Mr. KING, M.P., seconded the resolution, which was
carried, and a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the
proceedings.

WEST MIDLAND.

A special meeting of this company was held at Malvern,
on Thursday, Mr. Price in the chair, to consider a working
agreement entered into with the Worcester, Bromyard, and
Leominster Company.
A formal resolution confirming the agreement, was put
and carried, and the proceedings terminated.

The Representation of Pontefract.

(From the Leeds Mercury.)
Last night a meeting of the electors of Ponte-
fract was held at Knottingley, to hear an address
from the Liberal candidate, Sir Edmund Head. The
candidate was introduced by Mr. John Carter, of
Lime-grove, Knottingley, who said they would all
agree with him that Mr. Milnes, who had so pro-
perly been raised to the Peerage, had served them
well and truly for a period of 25 years—(bee.r)----
and he hoped he might enjoy for many years the
high honour conferred on him by her Majesty the
Queen. (Applause.) He had much pleasure in
introducing to them Sir Edmund Head,
who for many years had been governor of
New Brunswick, in North America, and likewise
of
.the united provinces of Upper and Lower
Canada. He believed that from Sir Ed-
mund's knowledge of practical questions, he
would represent them most ably in Parlia-
ment, should they be fortunate enough to send him
there as their member. (Hear, hear.)

Sir EDMUND H. HEAD, who was warmly re-
ceived, said he had come before them as a stranger,
and he felt that in order to secure their support he
must explain to them the grounds on which he
sought to represent them in Parliament. The state
of the case was this :—Mr. Milnes had been elevated
to the Upper House. He rejoiced in that elevation,
because he felt that Mr. Milnes fully deserved it,
and he asked them to send in his place a member
who would support that Government by the advice
of which Mr. Milnes had received the dignity that
had been conferred upon him. (Hear, hear.) The
question was on what principles he came before
them, and he would say that be came before them
on the great principles of civiland religious liberty,
which had been maintained, as he understood, by
their representatives for a long time, and which, he
believed, they were all deeply and heartily attached
to. (Hear, hear.) The principles of civil and re-
ligious liberty were dear to the people of England.
(Hear, hear.) Whenever an advance had been made
in that direction, by what party had it been made ?
He asked them, whenever civil and religious liberty
had been promoted, whenever toleration had been
extended, whenever the rights of those who did not
belong to the Established Church had been advanced,
or whenever the rights of those who claimed a
lower franchise and wished for additional power in
consequence of superior qualification to wield it,
had been extended, who fought for them ? The
answer was the great Liberal party. (Hear, hear.)
And who opposed the granting of those rights as a
general rule ? He did not wish to attack any party,
but he would say that those rights had been fought
for by the Liberal party, and opposed by the other.
(Hear, hear.) That was the great distinction in the
two parties. They might find every day questions
arising in which the two parties differed very little
one from the other. There were not many ques-
tions now which formed a test, but that was because
the Liberal party had fought out the questions,
and the others had been obliged to give them up.
(Hear.) That was the reason there was so little
difference, because the other side had been forced to
adopt the results fought for by the Liberals. (Hear,
hear.) There was, however, a teal distinction be•
tween the parties. When they wanted to know
what a man would do hereafter, they ought to look
at what he had done before. (Hear, and applause.)
He asked for the support of the electors as one be-
longing to the Liberal party, as one who would
support that Government which had conferred an
honour on their late representative, and he looked to
those who had recognised the merit of their present
representative (Mr. Childers) to return one who en-
tertained the same principles and who was ready to
abide by them. (Applause.) With regard to do-
mestic questions, he should always lean to that side
which he believed to be in favour of free govern-
ment and of increasing the rights of those who were
fit to use them ; of extending religious liberty, and
of allowing every one the right of exercising his
own opinion. (Hear, and applause.) In that con-
sisted the true principle of the party with which he
would, if returned, identify himself in Parliament.
(Hear.) He thought, as a whole, the present Go-
vernment deserved the confidence of the people.
(Hear.) He did not say all the measures that had
been adopted by them met with his approbation, but
he thought the general current and tenor of their
measures were towards those principles of libe-
rality which he had been attempting to de-
scribe. (Hear. hear.) He thought, in another
matter of paramount importance to the people
of England, of paramount importance to the
industrial classes, the present Government had done
their duty, and that was in keeping the country in
a state of perfect peace. Government had so admini-
stered the foreign affairs of this country as to keep out
of war as much as possible. He looked upon war as
the greatest curse that could happen to the human
race, the greatest evil that could occur to this or any
other nation. (Hear.) He was not prepared to sub-
mit to insult from any nation—(hear, hear)—nor
was he prepared to support any Government that
submitted or truckled to any nation ; but there was
a wide distinction between that and going readily to
work and involving the country in endless expense,
and perhaps on account of a people with whom we
had nothing whatever to do. While we had every
sympathy with foreign nations who made efforts on
behalf of their own independence—while he rejoiced
that Lord Palmerston had thrown the moral weight
of England in the scale in favour of Italy—(hear),—
while he saw the noble effbrts put forth by the Poles
to free themselves from Russian oppression, yet he
trusted nothing would be done by the English Go-
vernment that would stir up a war with those coun-
tries. (Hear.) He did not wish to see the taxes,
which were already heavy enough, increased in con-
sequence of a war on behalf of a foreign people. His
policy, therefore, was for non-interference, except so
far as expression of opinion was concerned, for those
who were tyranised over, because the work of libera-
tion from tyranny must be performed by the people
themselves. (Hear, hear.) It was not for foreign
nations to spend their money and waste their
blood is trying to put right what, after all,
they might leave in a worse state than when they
began. (Hear.) He believed the present Govern-
ment deserved the support of the people, and for
that reason he was prepared to give it his support.
(Applause.) He would not say that he would sup-
port that Government through thick and thin. He
should exercise his own judgment. (Hear.) He
knew that in this country no Government could
be carried on except by the machinery of party,
and therefore it was necessary sometimes
to support the Government, oven when there might
be a question upon the policy of the measure
itself, simply on the ground that if that Govern-
ment were turned out they would get one that was
worse, and have imposed upon them matters that
were worse than those they felt it to be their policy
to support. (Hear.) All that was perfectly con-
sistent with the exercise of proper and discreet
judgment on questions which arose from day to day,
and that judgment, if elected, he should always
endeavour to exercise in a manner most consistent
with right and most iu accordance with the feel
ings of his constituents. (Hear, hear.) There
were certain questions which afft eted all parts
of the country, and some of those questions
did not admit of being solved satisfactorily to
overybotiv. He knew very well that some in
that neighbourhood had had rrason to ne disconj
tented with the operations and changes in the nae
vigation laws. He was quite awake to the import-
ance of the British interests in the coasting trade—.
(hear, hear)—alive to all that depended upon their
commerce, and upon the trade that took place from
ORO port to another within our own seas. He could
not at that moment pretend to tell them how far it
was possible to right the grievances which existed
under the present. order of things, but he should be
happy to receive from any of them such informa-
tion on any of these grievances as thel, might be

disposed to give—(hear)—and if returned he would
do his best to set those grievances right, or to bring
them under the notice of those in authority. (Hear.)
He entered upon that contest trusting, he hoped
not in vain, to the sympathies of the Liberal
party. The question before them was a per-
fectly simple one, It was this,—Would they
send to the House of Commons a member who
represented the principles of that party which was
supported by their present member, and which was
supported by Mr. Milnes ; or would they send a
member to the House of Commons whose vote would
neutralise the vote of the other member, and render
the voice of Pontefract as, in cffect,goad for nothing ?
(Hear.) If they sent one man connected with one
party, and another connected with the other party,
it came to pretty much the same thing as if they
did not send any anybody. (Hear.) If they did
not want to do that, they must take a Liberal
candidate, and if they did not think him fit he hoped
they would get another, and it would give him
very great pleasure to see him elected. (Cheers.)
Sir Edmund said he was ready to answer any ques-
tions which might be put to him, but none being
asked.

Mr. MOORHOUSE expressed his confidence that
Sir Edmund's principles were in unison with those
of the majority of the electors, and stated that it
would be ungrateful in them to weaken, even by a
single member, that Government which had con-
ferred so distinguished an honour on their late
respected member, Mr. Monckton Milnes. (Cheers.)

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Lords Commissioners of the Ad&ralty, ac-
companied by the officials of the department of the
Controller of the Navy and engineering work, paid
their annual official visit of inspection to Sheerness
dockyard yesterday. They arrived at the dock-
yard about half-past 11 a.m., in her Majesty's yacht
Enchantress, Master-Commander John E. Petley.
The party consisted of his Grace the Duke of
Somerset, K.G., First Lord ; Vice-Admiral the
Hon. Sir W. F. Grey, K.C.8., Rear-Admiral C.
Eden, C. 8., Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8.,
and Mr. J. Stansfeld, M.P., Junior Lords ; Rear-
Admiral the Right Hon. Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8.,
M.P., First Secretary ; Rear-Admiral R. S. Robin-
son, Controller of the Navy ; Col. G. 'l'. Greene,
Director of Admiralty Engineering Works ; Mr.
E. T. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy ; Capt.
R. Hall, private secretary to the Duke of
Somerset; Sir R. Mayne, and other officials. Their
lordships on landing were met by Vice-Admiral Sir
George R. Lambert, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief
at the Nore ; Capt. Charles Wise, A.D.C., superin-
tendent of the yard; Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., of her
Majesty's ship Cumberland, guardship of the Sheer-
ness steam reserve; Capt. J. Fulford, of her Ma-
jesty's ship Formidable, flagship ; Col. W. R. Ned-
ham, R.A., Garrison Commandant ; Lieut.-Colonel
Talbot, R.A., commanding First Depot Brigade
Royal Artillery; Col. S. Freeth, R.E., commanding
Royal Engineers, and the head officials of the seve-
ral departments connected with the yard. Their
lordships visited first the Capt.-Superintendent's
office, where they were engaged for some time in
the transaction of official business. They pro-
ceeded afterwards to the naval barracks, which
were thoroughly inspected. The screw steam
frigate Arethusa, 35, recently brought forward in
this yard for the first division of the steam reserve,
was next inspected, and the serviceable appear-
ance of the vessel called forth their Lordships'
warm commendation. Passing onwards to the east
mast-house, a large number of boilers lying in front
of the factory department attracted their notice,
and were duly examined, after which they visited
successively the mast-houses, boiler shop, coal store,
the new well now being constructed by Mr. T. Tilley,
contractor, of Ealing, and the vessels Terrible, 21,
paddle-wheel frigate, 1,850 tons, 500 horse power,
and the Scylla, 21, screw steam corvette, 1,467 tons,
400-horse power. Their Lordships and suite were
then escorted to the official residence of the Capt.-
Superintendent, where they partook of luncheon.
They afterwards inspected the new slaughterhouses
erected by order of the Lordships for the supply of
beef to the navy. Returning thence to the
dockyard, a large model of the yard as ex-
hibited and explained to them. The inspection con-
cluded with a visit to the Conqueror (late Waterloo)
78, screw steam line-of-battle ship, 2,845 tons, 500
horse power, lying in the harbour. Their lordships
dined at the Admiralty-house with the Commander-
in•Chief, and left Sheerness in the Enchantress at
11 o'clock p.m. for Chatham.

Her Majesty's iron steam storeship Industry,
Master-Commander Edward C. T. Youel, was yes-
terday undocked at Woolwich, after being surveyed
and repaired. On being hauled into the river by
the steam tug Bustler, both her tow••ropes parted,
and the tide making slowly up at the time, she
drifted foul of the flagship Fisgard, and also carried
away the figurehead of the steamer Kite lying at
her moorings, and recently brought home from
Bermuda, condemned. Having sustained some slight
injury, she will be detained for a few days for re-
pairs, after which she will proceed to Deptford to
ship victualling stores for Ascension.
The Dauntless, Capt. Dickson, left her moorings
in the Southampton Water on the 25th ult., for a
cruise, to exorcise night and general quarters. She
made her number off Portland, and on Thursday
night returned to her berth off Netley Point.
Mr. Tucker and Mr. Leffey, principal foremen of
shipwrights in Woolwich dockyard, under special
sanction of the Board of Admiralty, have entered
into the service of the Turkish Government for the
term of three years, and will leave Woolwich this
morning, the former for Glasgow and the latter for
the Thames Ironworks, to superintend the construc-
tion of four iron-cased ships of war of heavy burden,
which are already commenced.
The following appointments were made on Thurs-
day at the Admiralty ;—Lieut. Albert P. Still and
Ueut. James A. Boxer to the Marlborough ; Mal-
colm M‘Neile, midshipman, to the Marlborough;
Alex. M. Gardiner, midshipman, to the Phoebe ;
John P. Ripon, naval cadet, to the Phoebe ; Victor
A. Bradshaw, Richard W. Fawkes, and Edward J.
Fellowes, naval cadets, to the Meeanee ; Claude H.
S. Buckle, Fred. T. Deane, and Cecil Wright, naval
cadets, to the Marlborough ; GE o. P. W. Freeman,
naval cadet, to the Revenge ; Samuel B. Kemble,
naval cadet, to the Orlando; Wm. Macleod, sur-
geon, to the Russell; Edward Brown, engineer, to
the Asia, for the Albacore; \Vm. Herd and John
Davis, assistant engineers, to the Hawke ; G. R.
Bissaker, Robert Ditchburn, John Barr, George
Murray, Thomas Scott (B), Josh. Hughes, T. S.
Blyth, F. M. C. Richards, and Thomas J. Richards,
assistant engineers, to the Marlborough, as super-
numeraries for disposal.

THE ARMY.
A detachment of Royal Artillery, consisting of
draughts from the A, B, and C batteries of the
depot brigade, were yesterday paraded at Wool-
wich, and inspected by General Sir B. Dacres, com-
manding the garrison. The detachment consisted of
Captain Oldfield, Captain Bazalgette, Lieutenants
O'Connor, Smythe, Richmond and Bradnell, five ser-
geants, three farriers, and 247 rank andve filsee. After
and
the inspection they proceeded to
Grand
embarked on board the troopship Ifelrresdale, for
Calcutta,tofill up vacancies created in the 16th, 19th,
and 22d brigades stationed in the Bengal
Presi-
dency.
During the past few days a number of noc_cora.
missioned officers of the Royal Engineers, who have
been employed in telegraphic operations at the out-
stations, have arrived at head quarters, Chatham,.
n
readiness to proceed with the detachment of Royal.
Engineers about to be despatched to the East lorotentlheede.
gproarpphestehroofuhgehicr)get.risiiiaptioolenddiian.llailyei:og wnd.coomnintihsesi
on this duty
officers and men who will be er-p',3•5