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 then past six months shows an in-
creasoof 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 has not benefited the revenue, in con-
sequence of the large amount expended in earning
it. The board further states that the receipts of
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 por 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, bat
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 a
dividend of ss. per share on the original capital.
The report of the directors of the West Hartlepool
was adopted at the half-yearly meeting. At a
special meeting of the company the 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.
raously 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 net one-third of
what they might fairly expect hereafter. At the
South.Eestern meeting the report was adopted,
and a dividend at the rate of 41- 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 11=e:tford stock, 4 per cent. and 6
per cent. on the Luton stocks, 41 per cent. Per
annum on the Great Northern original stock of 3
At the
per cent. for the half-year on the B stock, and of
yPer cent.
i!,l ss. per cent. for the half-year on the A stock.
of the company £30,000 to the Stockton and Wood-
The directors were authosroisretdhtoansubd sscroilleho.n.wbeeshtaerlfn
Wood-
ley Junction, £58,000 to the Stockport, Timberley,
and Altrincbam ; £65,000 to the Cheshire Midland,
£2,103,the directors recommend a divi-
dend nd
Vale£o6f 7N, 0
eoao t tho
at
dividendh e s t Cheshire
per annum was declared. The receipts on the half-
yeat'a working of the
Junction showed an increase of £604 over the cor-
responding period of the precious year, and out of
per cent, per annum, which
was declared at the meeting of shareholders. The
report of the directors of
dividend£s9'3ol, at antdhe trhaete
tdheendbaaltantheee,rateofs
the North-Western, which
was adopted at the meeting held at Leeds, stated
that the receipts for the year 1862 amounted to
Midland
£11,910 for guaranteed interest and dividend. The
Companye
cent.
per
e ran hadnum paidwas
of 3 per
declared, and the chairman announced that the in-
creased dividend of 3; per cent. would commence
at the beginnin—
g 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. Thu Taff
Vale meeting declared a dividend at the rate of 9
per cent. per annum, and the agreement for working
the Llantrissant line was approved of. The directors
of the WhitchavFn end Farness Junction, at their
meeting, congratulated the shareholders on the fact
of the receipts having increased 25 per cent. over the
corresponding half of 1852. A dividend at the rato
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, end
that the lino would be opened within the term of the
contract. The half-yearly report of the stgincs,

it 'crease of £1,937 over the previous half-year. The
directors of theMid-Wales report that theworks on
Lb line are in active 'progress, and that the line
are in active progress, and that the line will be
opa nod in the spring of next year. At. the Severn
Val; ley the report was adopted, and a dividend at
the rate of 3 per cent. per annum declared on the
ordia iary stock of the company. At the Bedford
and Carn'nidge the report was adopted, and a
divida,..nd at the rate of 31 per cent. per annum dc-
clareC. The directors of the Kent Coast state in
their :report, which was adopted at the share-
holder:V fneetieg, that the double line between
Herne Bay nud Margate, and the second line of
rails 14 Tweet' Faversham and Herne Bay, will he
opened by the Ist of next month, and that the line
to Itarna,•t;ate will be opened by the commencement
of OctoL ,er. At the o,iwestry and Newtown, a
At the yearly
dividend at the rate of 41 per cent. per annum was
ihvei ;el exrirdm
tidseeeslabruedd.beelle£2(7li7r:2cotolis
i(e)fay the
ecclarett . The directors of the Cannock Mineral
recommend a (..',iraailend at the rate of 3;- per cent.
meeting tile report was adopted
and
dd
Grand. Trunk Company state in their report,,that
thatt.3 tit
the earnings of the half-year amounted to 4'434,345;
lug
a balance of £157,136.

THE WATER SUPPLY IN PARIS.

The constantly increasing size, of Paris, the augmentation
in the extent of its gardens and plantations, and the great:
superficies of street, road, end boulevard it is now deemed
necessary to water in dry weather, obviously implies an
increased consumption of water, for which it is urgent that
the municipal authorities should provide. The subject is
one upoa which a good deal has of late been written in the•
newspapets and in pamphlets, and its importance is all the
more pressinii because it appears that for a long time past
fai fr. ''.2ast'riT
ri eces •Ft natisfyletroth-ealth* unit''_:
eleanliriest, anal :far less: * Thet• • ettjaYed: meat'
baits European capitals. A. , recent writer ort;',;the
subject eltleulates teat the total-supply dater
Paris is hardly 90 litres' (a t:o
pant) `per inhabitant, daily ; that is to say, six tames less than
to the inhabitant of Marseilles, seven flings lees than to the
inhabitant of New York„l2,times less than 'the'
timedßo ne,,.Old,.Paris was, built at the bottom eta Chality
basin;uP the sides of which it has beCia constantly climbing..
Withinita new oarri'er,-the fortifiCations sire.7,Boo.lae4tares
of ground, or. more than-16,000• ecres..According.to.thalast
census, ite.: inhabitants are 1,600,000. Converging towards
it, and sniping', areUnti:
combineto supply its enormous consurupgtiii:of all imagii•
able,thingS. :I:lle.Scioe, Wit ,a slender stream forso,great a
city, flows lazily through its heart, and afterwards meander's,
in many bends and :folds, through its pleasant environs; '
as if relitetant,to leave the greatest ornament of her banks.
The annual consumption of Paris is of course prodigious ;
everything et‘eotinds in this centre of gaiety 'and plea-
sure.. Fib thirty leagues around the'-"coltniri Contributes
to
.the, supply of its, wants ; from, the „south, ~the rail-c
2o,oncledtohoineg4isicwmateetrire
ways , bring fruit and much of the finest koultry;
from the various 'seaports' immense supplies' offish:
canal and river
„boats, bring wine,' wood, iron;: And. other,
heavy mqchandise is stone for building is plentitul • in' the
quarries
.of Paris itself. There is lack but of one thing—
tfie most preeitMae the most 'infliaPensable of all'—'and that
Sums
iche
ertineyily:tioolBatf
can afford but a small ioriion of wh t. isneeded. Besides
s of water daily'to ati
that ,a very costly machinery would •be necessary t r •
the city; it has been proved.laY;mentof-selence.that lif Such .
a quantity' of water was taken . from tit the,chrrent .would
no longer have sufficient strength. to caltaroff the drainagefram the sewers. 'All that is taken, therefore; iii4abOut
40;000 cubic metres; which is used filtered a(a veryi expert-
eiva,proceas) for drinking, and in the shouses.,. The Canal
de POureq affords 108,000 metres for other purposes. It
Was hoped at one time that tho Akesean wells would be
great resource, but their yield uncertainan a
intermittent,de
and they reckon for little., :The well, at ,Paasy is barely
sufficient to supply the Eois de Boulogne. Of course, a
large qUantity of water is' reqUiied.' to SiaiSh rout the contents
'of the sewers into.the Spine, just as it:is necessary to leave
the,river a sufficient water ;power to carry the drainage
away. In shcrt, the water boirowed fl'om that river and the? -
'Ourcq canabforms the sole supply Of the capital. The chaftrY
character of the soil'of the basin in which Paris standaren-
tiers the springs that rise there unwholesome for drinking.
purposes, and hence the necessity of incurring the expellee
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
report's been made, it has been deeided to substitute for the •
water of the SCine that of two streams—the Dhuis and the
Surmelin, 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 •Soude, but that would require w.orka alt.ng 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 a
day, but this was abandoned, partly on account of difficul-
ties and expense and partly in consequence of the opposition
made by the people dwelling 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 ap..
plied to purposes of general utility and cleanliness. The
148,000 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 is the rest to come 2
It is very costly to divert streams from a groat 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 mornithr, 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 b
Parisas the
present reign, the hydraulic department undeniably
been somewhat neglected. Paris has been plenteously
supplied with light and air, but it has not enough water.
A Paris journal lately stated positively, and doubtless with
perfect truth that the scarcity of monumental fountains
deficiency of water. It '
here is due to the
reason be insisted upon that it is at least as necessary to
have water plentifully distributed through the houses of
Paris, and especially to that topmost story in which poor
people live, as to have gets illuminating all the staircase
and conveyed into a vast number of the apartments. It we
probably the scarcity of water that first led to the Parisian
practice of waxing flaors 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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