The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The Nord of yesterday introduces a chess pro-
blem into its columns, and announces that in future it will
give two problems every month. The position of the pieces
is indicated by the usual kind of design.

the Treasury is authorized, if required by the exigencies of
the public service for the payment of the army and navy
and other creditors of the Government,to issue on the credit
of the United States the sum of 300,000,000 dole of United
States' note in such form as he may deem expedient, not
bearing interest payable to bearer on demand, and of such
denominations; not less than 1 dol, as he may prescribe,
which notes shall be lawful money and legal tender in pay-
ment of all debts, public and private, within the United
States, except for duties on imports and interest on the
public debt ; and any holder of the said United States'
notes, or of United States' notes heretofore issued, deposit-
ing any sum not less than 50 dole with the Treasurer, As-
sistant-Treasurers, or depositaries of the United States,
shall receive duplicate certificates, one of which shall entitle
the holder to an equal amount of the 6 per cent. bonds,
coupon or registered; and any one of the said notes when
returned to the Treasury may he reissued from time to time
as the exigencies of the public service may require.
" Sec. 4. And be it further enacted that, in lieu of postage
and revenue stamps for fractional currency, the Secretary of
the Treasury may issue fractional notes of like amounts, in
such form as he may deem expedient, and may provide for
the engraving and preparation th.ffeof in the Treasury De-
partment building ; and all such notesissued shall be received
in payment of postage and revenue stamps, and of any dues to
the United States less than 5 dols, except customs, and shall
be exchangeable at the office of the Treasurer of the United
States, or any assistant-treasurer or depositary for the
United States' notes of an equivalent amount, provided that
the whole amount of fractional currency issued, including
postage and revenue stamps, issued as currency, shall not
exceed 50,000,000 dols.
" Sec. 5. And be it further enacted that the Secretary of
the Treasury is authorised to receive deposits of coin and
bullion, with the Treasurer or any assistant-treasurer, or
designated depositary, in sums not less than 20 dols, each,
and corresponding with the denominations of the Govern-
ment notes not bearing interest. The coin deposited for or
representing such receipts shall be retained in the Treasury
for the payment of said receipts on demand, and for no
other purpose whatever, and such receipts, representing
coin held in the Treasury for payment of
interest on the
public debt, may be issued in payment of such interests,
and such receipts shall be received at par in payment for
duties on imports as coin.
" Sec. 6. And be it further enacted that the United
States' notes and the coupon or registered bonds authorised
by this act shall be in such form as the Secretary of the
Treasury shall direct, and shall bear the written or engraved
signature of the Treasurer of the Unite I States and the
Registrar of the Treasury, and also, as evidence of lawful
issue, the imprint of a copy of the seal of the Treasury De-
partment, which imprint shall be made under the direction
of the Secretary, after the said notes or bonds shall be re-
ceived from the engravers, and before they are issued ; or
the said notes and bonds shall be signed by the Treasurer
of the United States, or for the Treasurer, by such persons
as may be specially appointed by the Secretary of the Ti ea-
sury for that purpose, and shall be countersigned by the
Registrar of the Treasury, or for the Registrar, by such
persons as the Secretary of the Treasury may specially ap-
point for that purpose ; and all the provisions of the act
entitled ' An Act to authorise the Issue of Treasury-notes'
approved on Dec. 23, 1857, so far as they can be applied to
this act, and not inconsistent therewith, are hereby revived
and re-enacted.
" Sec. 7. And be it further enacted that all banks, asso-
ciations, corporations, or individuals issuing notes or bills
for circulation as currency shall be subject to and pay a duty
of 1 per cent. semi-annually, from and after April 1, 1863,
upon any circulation of notes or bills as currency issued be-
yond the amount hereinafter named—that is to say, banks,
associations, corporations, or individuals having a capital of
not over 100,000 dole, 90 per cent thereof ; over 100,000 dole,
and not over 200,000 dole, 80 per cent thereof ; over 200,000
dole, and not over 300,000 dole, 70 per cent thereof; over
300,000 dols, and not over 500,000 dols, 60 per cent thereof ;
over 500,0000 dols, and not over 1,000,000 dols, 50 per cent
thereof ; over 1,000,000 dels, and not over 1,500,000 dols, 40
per cent thereof ; over 1,500,000 dole, and not over 2,000,000
dole, 30 per cent thereof; over 2,000,000 dols, 25 per cent,
and a list or return shall be made and rendered within 30
days after the time fixed as aforesaid to the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue, which shall contain a true and faith-
ful account of the amount of duties accrued, orwhich should
accrue from time to time as aforesaid, during the time when
such duties remain unaccounted for ; and there shall be an-
nexed to every such list or return or declaration under oath
or affirmation, to be made in form and manner as shall be
prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, of the
president or some other proper officer of said bank, associa-
tion, corporation, or individual respectively, that the same
contains a true and faithful account of the duties which
have accrued, or which should accrue and are not accounted
for; and for any default in the delivery of such list or re-
turn, with such declaration annexed, the bank, association,
corporation, or individual making such default shall forfeit
as a penalty the sum of 500 dols ; and such bank, associa-
tion, corporation, or individual shall, upon rendering the
list or returns as moresaid, pay to the Commissioner of In-
tonal Revenue the amount of the duties due on such list
or retvrn, and in default thereof shall as a penalty the
sum of 500 dollars ; an 3 in case of neglect or refusal to
make such list or return as aforesaid, or to pay the
duties as aforesaid, for the space of thirty days alter
the time when such list should have been made or ren-
dered, or when said duties shall have become due and pay •
able, the assessment and collection shall be made accord-
ing to the general provisions prescribed in an Act entitled,
An Act to provide internal revenue to supply the Govern-
ment, and to pay interest on the public debt,' approved
July 1, 1862;
See. 8. And be it farther enacted, that the provisions
of the Act entitled Act to provide for the better
organization of the Treasury, and for the collection, safe
keeing, transfer, and disbursement of the public noes,reveu
p
approved August 6, 1816, be, and the same is, hereby
t
modified as to authorize tbse Secretary of the Treasury a

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
The traffic receipts of railways in the United Kingdom
amounted for the week ending the 17th of January, on
10,588 miles, to £486,870, and for the corresponding week
of last year, on 10,193 miles, to £461,560, showing an in-
crease of 395 miles, and of £25,310 in the receipts. The
gross receipts on the following 14 railways amounted in the
aggregate, on 7,268 miles, to £381,758 ; and for the corre-
sponding week of 1862, on 7,008 miles, to £360,846, show-
ing an increase of 260 miles, and of £20,912 in the receipts.
The increase on the Caledonian amounted to £511; on the
Great Eastern to £1,609 ; on the Great Northern to £2,418;
on the Great Southern and Western to £2BB ; on the Great
Western to £2,039 ; on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to
£525; on the London and North-estern to £1,482; on
the London, Brighton, and South Coast to £695; on the
London and South-Western to £1,263; on the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire to £721 ; on the Midland to
£2,378 ; on the North British to £675 ; on the North-
Eastern to £1,364; and on the South-Eastern to £1,674;
total, £20,912. The goods and mineral traffic on those lines
amounted to £217,653, and for the corresponding week of
1862 to £203,355, showing an increase of £14,298. The re-
ceipts for passengers, parcels, &c., amounted to £164,105;
against £157,491, showing an increase of £6,614, The
traffic receipts on 65 other lines amounted, on 3,320 miles,
to £105,112, and for the corresponding week of last year,
on 3,185 miles, to £100,714, showing an increase of 135
miles, and of £4,398 in the receipts. The total receipts of
the past week show an increase of £6,690 as cm-
pared with those of the preceding week, ending the 10th inst.
Miles Opened. Receipts.

iway

1863. 1862.

1863. 1862.
£ £
Belfast and N, Counties ..... 136 136 1,730 1,656
Belfast and County Down 49 49 597 502
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,248 1,525
Bristol and Exeter l2l/ 107 5,091 5,016
Caledonian 230 230 16,231 15,721
Cockermouth & Workington B/ 8/ 221 288
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 302 279
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 147 163
Cork and Youghal
5/ 4
53 1,053 1,
318 200
00
Cornwall 3
Deeside l7 17 224 254
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,287 1,326
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1,279 1,426
Dub. & Wicklow and We'd d 4B/ 48/ 1,405 1,10 t 1
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,015653 7, 1,025
104
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1691 6,
30 30 200 259
50 5 I 2,712 2,258
tr,ourrtnhes&s,Cszloyde Junction
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 330 330 25,047 23,629
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,743 1,828
ot. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 451 397 398
qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 329 329 7,321 7,05
Great Western 992 9615 49,162 47,123
Inverness & Abereen
Irish North-Western 145 130 1,691 1.559
Irish South-Eastern ......... 25/ 251 3 5 266
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3955 395 31,120 30,595
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foy-nes
Llanelly 4O 46 437 478
London & North-Western . •
London and Blackwall
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2474 2114 14,543 13,378
London, Chatham, & Dover 725 724 2,525 1,579
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Pdan.,Shetfield, & LincolnAh
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham 95 91 1,060 i,( 37
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan n - 2,306
Midland (incl. N.-western) 630 6144 37,988
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 249/ 192/ 4,077
Monkland 7l/ 714 1,574
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,315
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and New. & Car 894/
North London
North Staffordshire 248
Oswestry and Newton... 42
Rhymney l9/
St. llelen's Canal & Railway 52
Scottish Central 56
Scottish North-Eastern 132
Somerset and Dorset 39i
South Devon ,. . 754
South-Eastern . 306,
Stockton and Darlington .... 185
Taff Vale 5l
Ulster
Vale of C1wyd.......
Vale of Neath 251
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
West Cornwall 274
W.Hartlepool Harbr. &Rail.
W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7
Whitehaven Junction l2
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35

3451 11,006
8674 36,190
9 3,087
246 7,545
42 864

19i 820
52 1,914

56 2,930

132 4,110

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52
Austrian B2B
Belgian Eastern Junction 264
Buffalo and Lake Huron 1614
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5
Dutch Rhenish lOB4
Eastern of France lO7B
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O
Great Indian Peninsula 495
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Western of Canada 345
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 439
Northern of Canada ... .. 94
gorthern of France 7Ol
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman .. 484
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1491
Paris and Orleans 1340
Pernambuco. 7l
tt.

35,610
3, 95
1,574
2,424

754 2,868 2,771
306 17,208 15,531
161 9,201 7,653
51 4,727 5,428
51 1,800 1,602
10 171 127
25} 1,801 2,167
31 471 292
77 1,247 1,033
271 614 650
39 3,061 4,280
7 561 456
12 ' 807 638
35 740 64:3

52 c 95 672
828. 21,315 30,757

Royal Danish 69
Sambre and Meuse 6B
South Austrian 1797
Southern of France ..... ...... 777
Welland.... 25
West Flanders •• •• • 75
W. and N.W. of France 758

26i
161 i 1,377 1,851
185 3,240 3,3i6
1081 3,401 3,456
1060 42,775 15,31 2
4601 10,875 9,760
lu9o

4371 7,633 6,035
128 3,579 3,113
345 1u,662 11,467
435 13,724 10,112
94 654 615
680 - -
44 897 938
40 201 161
1354 101,972 117,932
1201 51,466 47,874
989 -
69 666 497
68 1,350 1,204
1251 - -
777 20,819 21,204

25 -- --
75 925 822
758 35,049 35,207

RAILWAY BILLS.
Yesterday, before the Examiners, the following bills
were declared to have duly complied with the Standing
Orders of Parliament :—Great Eastern, for proposed new
metropolitan station and branches ; North British, for
power to run steamboats between Port Carlisle and Silloth,
and certain places in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, for an extension from near
Thorne, in the West Riding, to the Saddlethorpe station of
the Hull and Selby, with junction lines at Goole, and a
branch to Howden, and to raise £257,000 ; Boston and
Frieston Shore Railway and Pier, to make arrangements
with the Great Northern to reclaim lands from the sea, and
raise £90,000; London and North-Western, for new
branches in Cheshire, to abandon part of Chelford and
Knutsford line, and raise £120,000; Dundee, Perth, and
Aberdeen Junction, for new lines from the Dundee and
Newtyle to the Scottish North-Eastern and Alyth Rail-
ways; Wolverhampton and Bridgenorth, at an estimated
cost of £150,000; South Staffordshire, Furness, and Mid-
land, to unite those railways by a branch, each company
to raise £75,000.
The cases of non-compliance included the Regent-circus,
but only in respect of an omission in the books of reference;
the Midland for a Railway from Mangotsfield to Bath, and
to raise £265,000 new capital.
The adjourned cases comprised Great Eastern (March and
Spalding line), Edinburgh and Glasgow, and other cora-
-1 panies, Isle of Wight Valley Junction, Potteries Junction,
and Midland (extension to London).

pre-
Importing Tea without colour on the leaf
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the usual
kinds. Horninian's Tea is uncoloured, therefore, always
good alike. Sold in packets by 2,250 agents.
Since the press amnesty of last year the -Revue
des Deuce Mondes has received one avertissement
for an article on the finances, which article was con-
firmed to the letter soon after by M. M'ould's famous
report to the Emperor; the Press°, one; the Journal
des Debats, ono; the Sieele, one ; the Temps, one ; the
Revue Nationale, one; the Mare de la Loire, one; the
Memorial des Deux Sevres, one; the Opinion Nationale,
two; the Gironde, two; the Progres de Lyon, two; the
opinion du midi, two ; the Courrier de Dimanche, three;
and the journal de la Cote d' Or, one. Besides these, the
Orleanais, the Gutenburg, the Jeune France, and the Tra-
vail du Main have been suppressed after the requisite
number of avertissements or prosecutions. The Gazette de
France and the Union h
of course, by have each had a prosecution, fol-
lowed, condemnation.