The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-29 00:00:00

riliE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, MO&

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER.
The halt.yearly meeting of this company was held yes-
terday at the Grosvenor Hotel, Westminster—Lord Sondes

in the chair.
The report, an abstract of which has appeared in The
Sun, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, congratulated
the proprietors upon the increased traffic during the past six
months, which was satisfactory, although, owing to the
large amount expended in earning it, it had not benefited

evitalized arrears of interest under the lease of the Atlantic
and St. Lawrence line, and with certain other sums of
capitalized interest on second preference bonds (not included
at the 31st of December last), and en adjusted debts,
together with the c miniuted arrears of rent upon the
Detroit and Port Huron. The amount which bad hitherto
stood in the " general balances" at the debit of the " Port-
land Sinking Fund ' had been transferred to capital account.
The operation of this fund, whichwas intended gradually to
liquidate the Portland city loans, would ultimately reduce
the annual charge for bond interest, which formed a large
part of the lease rent of the Atlantic and St, Lawrence line.
The whole of the creditors of the commpany in England, and
many of the Canadian creditors, including the largest—
the Bank of Upper Canada—had been finally settled with
under the terms of the Arrangement Acts, 1562, and
deeds of relief and discharge had been executed. There
now remained the unsettled accounts with the provincial
Government, against which the Board considered the com-
pany had, if fairly dealt with, a much larger set-off. The
through arrangements with the Buffalo and Lake Huron
Cotnpan) had been much extended and improved. A more
full interchange of traffic now took place, and an agreement
had been drawee up in Canada between the President of the
Grand Trunk Company, and Mr. Alexander McEwan, on
behalf of the Buffalo and Lake Huron Company, subject to
the sanction of the Boards of the two companies, by which
running powers were proposed to be interchanged between
Buffalo and Detroit for a period of three years. The agree-
ment also contemplated (but upon condition of satisfactory
arrangements being first made with the connecting railways
in the United States) the laying down at an early date of a
third rail inside the present Mt. Cm . tract, so as to permit
the cars of the American lines on the 4ft. Binlin. gauge to
pass from Sarnia to Buffalo. All transhipment between
New York and Chicago or the Mississippi River would thus
be avoided, and a large accession of carrying power be ob-
tained without any other outlay of capital. The subject,
however, was still under discussion by the Boards. In con-
clusion, the Board trusted that the result of the half-year's
working, which reflected much credit on the company's
able executive, would be gratifying to the share and bond-
holders. A largely increased revenue had been earned at
diminished cost, and the net available balance of revenue
was larger than it had been at any previous period. A mate-
rial reduction had been made in the locomotive department,
esi ecially in the cost of fuel, and the permanent way had
been improved.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

Railways.

1863. 1862. 1863. 1862.
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties...... 136 136 2,353 2,321
Belfast and Comity Down.. • . 49 49 735 679
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2,041 1,573
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 7,414 7,431
Caledonian
Cockermouth & Workington B4 84 36 I 317
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 371 269
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage.,, 61 61 261 266
Cork and Youg-hal . 324 27 513 431
Cornwall 534 531 1,639 1,665
Deeside l7 17 413 3.5
Dublin & Belfast Junction- 63 63 1,4-1 1,401
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,897 1,930
Dublin and Heath - 180 ____
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid 5ll 484 2,915 2,668
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1691 9,028 8.185
Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness, &c
Glasg,ow & South-Westerly
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union - 683 614 29,992 29,617
Great Northern 351 351 31,877 33,070
Great North of Scotland
tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 161 461 874
qt.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3041 329 9,871 8,810
Great Western 10561 10181 63,927 68.176
Inverness & Aberdeen J unc B6l 86: 2,025 1,264
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,774 1,673
Lancashire & Yorkshire 8951 3954 40,250 37.735
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes
Llanelly 461 461 780 777
Londen & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51 2,198 2,247
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2611 2+ll 22,965 21,005
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 724 6,316 7,097
Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 - 1,400
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Slieffield,&Lincolnsh
Manch. S.J un.& A ltrincham 9l 91 1,307 1,262
liaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 34 - 1,544 -
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6141 48,105 45,812
Midland Gt. IVestn. of Irind 241 1921 4,619 4,236
slonkland 7ll 711 1,565 1,72,
llonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,559 2,555
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl- 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire •.,i.
Oswestry and Newton su
Rhymney l9l
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central Bl
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 391
South Devon 754
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale 55
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd , 10
Vale of Neath -"•• 321
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 271
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&ltail 4B
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness jun. ,
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 264
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 185 i
Buffalo and Lake Huron l6ll
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France lO7B
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 5381
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 499
Northern of Canada .... .....
Northern of France 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491
Paris and Orleans 1340
Pernambuco 771
Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian
Southern of France ......
Victorian 196
Welland
West Flanders 75
W. and N.W. of France . 758

4101 14,329 11,415
10651 60,049 57,147
9 3,408 3,:33
252 8,676 6.315
42 1,343 1,200
191 915 1,015
52 2,017 1,982
81 5,710 5,360
134 6,320 6,076
:394 430 399
754 4.*:28 4,195
306 29,631 28,518
55 5,395 5,809
51 1,840 1,801
10 289 283
251 2,331 1,946
31 361 404
77 1,350 1,131
27i 858 1,009
48 4,455 4,102
7 598 478
12 762 690
35 822 659

52 1,574 1,654
828 32,045 36,126
26i 277 313
132} 2,768 1,135
161} 1,605 1,880
185 3,031 3,023
108! 6,183 5,803
1060 520- 60 54,212
638} 19,n0 11,505
1090 15,623 12,3.5
4371 4.882 6,212
134 4,6 t 0 4,611
79 616 395
3i 5 7,902 7,886
435 18,671 17,181

91 1,653 1,870
691 62,314 60,800
41 1,268 1,444

40
346 29L
1354 133,240 133,123
1201 65,902 63,053
-- 482 -
69 )21 794

RR '1,261 1,461
1315 54,155 54,243
777 30,677 27,109
151 6,192 5,212
25 259 554

75 1,178 1,189
758 51,038 46,103

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Odin, 16, paddle frigate, Capt. Lord John
Hay, C. 8., was paid out of commission yesterday at
Portsmouth, under the superintendence of Capt. H.
Broadhead, commanding her Majesty's ship Asia
and the port reserves. She was commissioned at
Portsmouth in Sept., 1859, and conveyed the gun-
boats Foam, Weazle, and Grasshopper out to
China. She arrived at Hongkong on the 24th of
April following, and was soon afterwards sent to
the North, Lord John Hay then commanding the
gunboat division in the subsequent operations
against the Taku forts. After the reduction of the
forts the Odin remained there the whole of the en-
suing winter establishing a depot, and keeping open
the communication with the troops at Tien-twin. In
August, 1861, the Odin sailed for Japan, where she
remained as senior officer's ship until January 21,
1862, when she conveyed the Japanese Embassy to
Suez en route for England. after which she con-
veyed the Grand Duke of Saxe•Coburg and suite to
Abyssinia, and afterwards proceeded to Trinco-
malee, where her captain hoisted a commodore's
pendant as senior officer in command of the station,
and finally sailed for England in March of the pre-
sent year. In paying off, Lord John Hay presented
James Sutherland, the Odin's blacksmith, with a
silver hammer, value £l2, enclosed in an ebony
case, as a mark of approval of his conduct while
serving on board the ship. The following men were
recommended to tl-,e Admiralty for medals and gra-
tuities for good conduct and long service :—Samson
Hooper, chief boatswain's mate ; Henry Weller,
sick berth steward ; Sergeant Thornton, Royal
klarine Artillery ; James Sutherland. blacksmith ;
Robert Meredith, Quartermaster; John Auston,
leading stoker.

THE MEDITERRANEAN TELEGRAPHS.—On Satur-
day week a message was received at Malta from
on board the screw steamer Hawthorns, 64 miles off Alex-
andria, stating that the telegraph cable had been picked
up at that distance from that port. The spot, it is stated, is
that where a stouter cable was spliced to the deep-sea cable,
when the line was laid, owing to the rocky nature of the
bottom ore that part of the coast. Tho faulty parts having
been cut out the final splice was made on the morning of
the 18th inst., and at 3 30 p.m. the communication be-
tween Bengaze and Alexandria was completely re-
stored. The line throughout from Malta to Alexan-
dria is perfect, and is again open to the public.
Just at the moalent when the Alexandria cable was thus
successfully repaired, another of the Mediterranean lines, a
French one, that from Corsica to Toulon, laid by Messrs.
Glass, Elliot, and Co., in 1861, stopped working. It may be
remembered that the hemp covering of this cable, so
strongly approved by the French Emperor, was protested
against at the time by the makers as an insufficient protec-
tion against the numerous destroying agents to which sub-
marine cables aro subject. Mr. Andrews, engineer, and
general superintendent of the Mediterranean Extension
Telegraph CompnYl returned to Malta last week from his
official tour of inspection of the company's cables in Sicily
and Calabria,
which, it is said, were found in Very good
condition,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

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OXFORD RACES.-FRIDAY.

The Innkeepers' Handicap of 5 soar each, with 40 added ;

winners extra. half a mile

Lord Bateman's Miss Livingstone, 4 yrs, Bst 61b
(Fordham) 1
Mr. W. Robertson's Queen Elizabeth, 4 yrs, 7st 111 b
(Brewty) 2
Mr. Reeves's Odine, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (inc. 51b extra)
, (J, Grimshaw) 3
Mr. Peake's Girdle, 4 yrs, 6st 71b
Mr. Greenwood's Our Nell, 3 yrs,fist 7lb (A. Woodhouse) 5
Betting-7 to 4 agst Miss Livingstone, 2to 1 agst Odine,
3 to 1 agst Queen Elizabeth.
Odine made play to the distance, where she gave way to
the favourite, who was joined opposite the Stand by Queen
Elizabeth, and a fine race resulted in favour of Lord Bate-
man's mare by a head; three lengths dividing the second
and third.

The Stratton Audley Nursery Handicap of 10 sovs each,
with 100 added, for two-yr-olds ; winners extra. Three
quarters of a mile.
Mr. Ellison's Heber, 7st (Cannon)t 1
Mr. T. P, -'e Glendusk, 7st 121 b." "Heslop)t 2

ar. cares . iendusk, 7st - J)
Mr. Saxon's Jane Shore, 6st 131 b
Mr. Solomon's Aunt Judy, 7st 131 b ....(H Grimshaw) 4

The following also ran t—Fisherman's Daughter, Izaak
Walton, Lorette, Idumea, Contractor, Marpesiafilly, Under
the Cloud, Petit Oiseau, Dilston, King of Clubs, and Der-
mot Asthore.

Betting-5 to 2 agst Jane Shore, 7to 1 each agst Aunt
Judy, Izaak Walton, Petit Oiseau, and the Marpesia filly,
8 to 1 each agst Dilston and Heber, 10 to 1 agst Glendusk,
100 to 8 each agst King of Clubs and Dermot Asthore.
A fair start was effected, Aunt Judy being the first to
show in advance after they had settled into their places, and
next to her lay Isaak Walton for the first quarter of a mile,
when Jane Shore rushed to the front, Izaak Walt,n, Aunt
Judy, Glendusk, Heber, and Lorette being next in a cluster.
Just after passing the distance Aunt Judy, Heber, and
Glendusk joined Jane Shore, the four running neck and neck
to the stand, where Glendusk and Heber got the best of it,
and a splendid race between the pair terminated in a dead
beat, the favourite being beaten a neck from the dead
beaters, and Aunt Judy a neck from the third; Petit Oiseau
was fifth, Lorette sixth, and the others pulling up, were
tailed by Dermot Asthore and Contractor.
Deciding Heat-5 to 4on Glendusk.
Won by three-quarters of a length.
The Princess of Wales Stakes of 3 soya each, with 200 added.