The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-24 00:00:00

EAST INDIAN.

The report of the directors states that no additional mile-
age had been opened in Bengal during the half-year, but

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it was expected that the line from Benares to Mirzapore
would have been completed and ready for traffic by ttie Ist
of the current month. In the North-West Provinces an
additional length of 481 miles from the Toondla Junction
to Allyghur was opened on the let of March, so that on the
30th of June last the company had open for traffic 935 f
miles. On the Jubbulpore line the contractors, Messrs.
Warings and Hunt, were making reasonable progress. The
permanent way arid works had been maintained in efficient
order during the half-yeai at a cost ol 12fd per train mile.
The number of passengers conveyed on the Bengal division
during the past half-year was 1,392,600, of whom 13,978
were first• class and 45,909 second-class passengers. The
gross traffic receipts on this division for the half year ending
the 30th of June last had been £391,832 and the net receipts
£198,082. The net traffic receipts from the opening of the
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line to the 30th of June last had been -C1,085,135. On the
North-West Provinces the average length of line in work
for the half-year was 304 miles. The permanent way and
works had been maintained in efficient order at a cost of
rather less than 91d per train mile. The working expenses
had been 49'67 per cent of the gross receipts. The number
of passengers conveyed during the half-year was 287,917,
of whom 2,956 were first-class, and 5,823 second-class pas-
sengers. The proportion of railway materials included in
the traffic returns of the past half-year was about 221 per
cent. The gross traffic receipts for the half-year ended
30th June last have been £124,532, and the net receipts
£62,675. The net traffic receipts since the opening of the
line for public traffic had been £298,048. The board had
been informed that the Government of India was favourably
disposed to the construction by the company of the line to
the Kurhurballee coalfields, and that the surveys which the
board suggested last February were progressing.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Reeelpts.-N

Railways.

1863. 1862. ,----
1863. 1862
£ £
Belfast, and N. Counties • 136 136 2,046 2,005
Belfast and County Down.... 19 49 724 690
Blyth and Tyne • 28 28 1,921 1,410
Bristol and Exeter........... 1214 1215 6,426 4,568
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington. • 84. 85 305 317
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 421 337
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage•• • 61 65 149 192
Cork and Youghal ... 324 825 391 34
Cornwall 654 631 1,554 1,371
Deeside
Dublin & Belfast Junction... • 63 63 1,380 1,521
Dublin and Drogheda 6
75 3 1,712 1,
12 766
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 5ll 484 2,076 1,828
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Forth & Clyde Junction 3O 30 260 293
Furness, &c 5O 50 2,435 2,651
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrlk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 351 351 33,5u7 30,891
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,533 1,588
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 714 564 451 432
53t.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 373/ 329 8,328 6,041
Great Western 10561 10324 62,197 63.096
Inverness &Aberdeen Junc- • 864 865 1,337 991
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 - 1,812 -
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,795 1,703
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3955 3955 34,480 32.320
Limerick and Ennis...
Limerick and Foynes 26/ 264 154 363
Llanelly 464 461 628 619
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51 1,821 1,831
London & South-Western 4504 4411 22,637 23,780
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2611 2115 20,323 21,,94
London, Chatham, & Dover 725 nt , 6,679 1.568
Do. Metropolitan Extension 104 55 1,355 280
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Shefheld, & Lincolnsh
blanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 95 95 1,287 1,051
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,402 1,',87
Metropolitan 34 - 1,887 -
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6145 44,415 41,615
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2594 1924 1,919 4,083
Monkland 714 715 1,780 1,515
Moninouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,523 2,480
Not th British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 1095
North London 9
North Staffordshire 251
Oswestry and Newton 5O
Rh ymney 195
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 306
Taff Vale 57
Ulster 644
Vale of Clwyd ..... 10
Vale of Neath 325
Waterford and Kilkenny.
Waterford and Limerick
West Cornwall ... .
W.Hartlepoolllaibr.:4;liail.., 48
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction .. .
Whitehaven & Furness Jun.. - 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam
BelgianAustri Eastern Junction 822864
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India, 1855
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Detroit and Milwaukie
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France
East Indian ....... .. 9331
Grand Trunk of Canada,
Great Indian Peninsula 5385
Great Luxembourg .. .
Great Southeen of India . , 79
Great Western of Canada,,,, 345
Madrid, Sarag•ossa &Alicant • . 650
Northern of Canada ... ..... ',. 04
Northern of France
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman ...... 485
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn.... 1805
Paris and 0r1ean5........... • 1614
Pernambuco ................. 774
SouthSsßoamouytabiilreeDAl
maaaunnnosddift sreMhi
ra.son France. u.. s.. e..
.." ....
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1430
17
076876
650
Victorian 9
1111,.vv .ec als ltoadtn.dlN
N.W.
w .
of Fran 0 e •
..... 932

410}
10771

12,380 11,466
57,646 53,848
3,213 3,094
b,577 8,071
1,221 1,067
942 881
2,102 1,976
5,130 4,914
5,(20 4.792
610 387
3,783 3,472
23,844 24,759
5,689 5,227
2,005 1,818
187 183
2,901 2,020

495 46i
1,643 1,448
770 762
4,816 4,425
639 570
910 784
803 744

1,637 1,428
37,406 4',123
153 409
1,459 899
2,434 2,026
5,221 4,580
4,997 4.891
57,920 57,059

19,695 18,394
4,576 9,303
4,710 4,755
961 961
12,933 12,887
19,7e6 18,287
1,7,7 3,234
60,154 61,631
864 1,463
523 356
154,089 146,662
77,182 67,206
371

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1676
1431

1315
680
151

1,442 1,454
58,864 58,872
30,095 27,659
7,113 5,065
520 517
1,057 984
54,617 48,373

Lord Palmerston's Church Patronage,

As the time when the appointment of one of the highest
spiritual officers of the Church is under consideration, it may
be interesting to glance at the nominations to the episcopalertso
bench which have been made during Lord Palmerston's
Premiership, representing as they do a larger ainounttno'sf
ecaCsiastical patronage than has fallen into the hands of any
Minister in modern days. The present Prime Minister
into power in Feb., 1855, upon the overthrow of Lord ca
me
Aber-
deen's Government, consequent on the adverse vote of the
House of Commons on the conduct of the Russian war, and
held office until defeated in Feb., 1857, on the Conspiracy
Bill. After remaining in opposition for 16 months,Lord
Palmerston again assumed the Premiership in June, 1859,
s reign as First Lord of the Tree-
so that the noble viscount'
sury has altogether extended over a
Period of 7 years and 4
months. During the year 1855 not a single vacancy occurred
amongst the right rev. occupants of the episcopal bench,
but in the following year Lord Palmerston was called upon
to make no less than five appointments—namely, to the
bishoprics of Carlisle, Durham, Gloucester and Bristol,
London, and Ripon. The annual value of these sees re-
spectively is as follows—London, £lO,OOO ; Durham, £8,000;
Gloucester and Bristol, £5,000 ; Carlisle, £4,500 ; and
Ripon, £4,500—showing a total annual value of £32,000.
To the see of Ripon Dr. Bickersteth was appointed—Dr.
Longley, who had previously held it, being translated to
Durham. Dr. Villiers was installed at Carlisle, Dr. Baring
at Glocester and Bristol, whilst the metropolitan see, vacant
through the resignation of Bishop Blomfield, was conferred
on Dr. Tait, Dean of Carlisle. In 1857 there was but one
vacancy, and that was ill the see of Norwich, value £4,500.
To this bishopric Dr. Pelham was appointed. Passing over
the interregnum in Lord Palmerston's power, which took
place during the years 1858 and 1859, we come to 1860, a
year in which manyrich pieces of ecclesiastical patronage
fell to the disposal of the lerd of Broadlands. In May
Dr. Musgrave, Archbishop of York, died, the revenues of
the see being £lO,OOO per annum. Dr. Longley was now
translated from Durham to York, Dr. Villiers was trans-
lated from Carlisle to Durham, and Dr. Wadegrave was
placed in the vacant see of Carlisle. The same year also
witnessed vacancies in the Bishoprick of Rochester and
Worcester, each of the value of 15,000 per annum. To the
former was appointed
Dr. Wigram and to the latter Dr.
Philpot. D
to Durham. r. Villiers did not long survive hia translation
from Carlisl
He died in 1861, and was suc-
e
The translation of the latter
ceeded by Dr. Baring.
prelate rendered vacant the see of Glocester and Bristol,
which was given to Dr. Thomson. But it was not until
the autumn of 1862 that the richest pieces of Church pre-
ferment fell to the disposal of Lord Palmerston. In the
month of August in that year the venerable Primate of
Ireland, the Right Rev. Lord John Beresford, who had
been in failing health for many months, was gathered to
his fathers at the age of nearly 90 years. The value of the
primacy was about £14,500 a year, and to is succeeded a
near relative of the deceased, the Right Rev. Lord Marcus
.-Gervaia Beresford, aforetime )3iEthop of Eilmore, Elphio,