The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-25 00:00:00

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week

Miles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. „,-......_____,,..---__........_
1864. 1863. 1864. 1863.
X Z
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 1,860 1.739
Belfast and Couuty Down 49 49 702 637
Bl'th and Tyne 2B 28 1,842 1,490
Bristol and Exeter l2li 121 i 4,961 6,2 W
Caledonian 2Bl} £62} 18,419 16,*98
Cambrian
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 332 2 0
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6} gi 110 :1C
Cork and Youghal ... 32} 32} 405 422
Cornwall . 651 65} 1,3.8 1,391
Deeside l7 17 26.1 191
Dublin & Belfast Junction ...
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,429 1,47.1
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 9l} 911 2,2i5 2,25 i
Furness, &c 5O 5, 2,808 3,280
Glasgow & South-Western
663 28,150 26,894
GG
Great .e
Ea
at
stern
NorthernN rik
~&E.Union
387 353 31.160 30,491
Great North of Scotland 99 99 2,327 2.217
(it, Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 71i 4.3 449
Gt.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrind.) 3B7} 3731 70,6 7,05,
Great Western _ 1225 118,4 57,829 51.842

inveiness & Aberdeen June 117 1171 1,007 826
Inverness t& Perth Junction 1194 1194 1,321 968
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,489 1,573
Kent Coast 27 27 440 260
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 402 35,235 34,9.0
Limerick and Ennis.. 24 2461 175 1:9
Limerick and Foynes
Llanelly 461 4 511 578
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Biackwall 5l 51 1,612 1,617
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 267 2613 14,182 13.5. 7
London, Chatham, & Dover 72 721 4,213 3,878
Do. Metropolitan Extension 11 101 1,315 600
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
1
Man.,Shetfield, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 94 94 1,175 1,242
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1037 1,305
Metropolitan
Midland (incL N.-Western) 6631 611 14,035 41.14)
Midland Gt. Westn. of hind 282 2591 4,318 3.922
Monkland 7ll 714 1,403 1,623
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,620 2,566
North British,
,Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 1095 52.210 51,914
North London 9 9 2,956 2.971
North Staffordshire 254 251 7,083 8.461
Rhymney 194 191 913 983
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern....., 138 138 5,400 4,786
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 734 581
South Devon
South-Eastern 3OB 306 15,553 15.4:0
Taff Vale 57 57 5,469 5,738
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Vale of Neath 431 431 2,574 2.38
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 320 358
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,005 930
West Cornwall 274 274 750 800
W. Hartlepool Harbr.&RaiL 524 524 3,81 4.079
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 659 676
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 897 1,053
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 811 1,034
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.Austrian B2B 826 20,942 30,021
Bahia and San Francisco -
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 261 319 265
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1851 1854 3,5; 7 3,353
Central Italy
Detroit and dilwaultie
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France 1176 1428 61,012 53,148
Eastern Bengal
East Indian .......
Grand Trunk of Canada ...... 1:,77 1335 20,r54 21,2.2
Great Central of Belgium_ _ 295 272 P,612 -
SLoutixtehmernb°o f Luxembourg.,.,,,....
India ..
Great Indian Peninsula 5 3 533 15,313 11,169
.. .
GGrreeeaaattt Western of Canada 345 315 10,650183 13,409992
Great
Madras 571 448 7,710 4.954
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 6B') 650 17,989 21,031
Northern of Canada .......,
~ 91 91 1,659 1,172
Northern of Franoe .......
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman .. ...... ... ... • . 484 484 620 3il
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterna 1967 1781 124,9,3 124,769
Paris and 0r1ean5..........., 1616 1611 6 ',056 60.740
Pernambuco
771 774 1,941 1,590
Scmde. .. . 105 105 1,231 1,9 3
Do. Punjab, ~tc ... •
South Austrian, &c ..
.. 1461 1360 38,152 38,084
Southern of France.......... 623 770 25,637 21,807
Vi.,toria • 251 196 13,511 9.838

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Welland
W. &N- %Vesta of France lOl 93 40,531 40, 12

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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The Megera, screw troopship, Capt. M. B. Dunn,
arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from Gibral-
tar. She sailed from Gibraltar on the 18th inst.,
and experienced fine weather throughout the voyage.
The ship's machinery worked very satisfactorily
during the voyage out and homeward. Her passen-
ger and troop list comprises Capt. Percival, Rifles ;
Lieut. Savage, 9th Regiment, and Mr. Sendy, civil
service, home on leave ; Mrs. and Miss Prevost,
wife and daughter of Capt. Prevost, R.N., Naval
Superintendent at Gibraltar ; 25 military invalids,
and several time-expired soldiers, with two women
and seven children, in charge of Lieut. Wilson, 15th
Regiment, and a number of naval invalids. Fourteen
convicts were also brought to England from Gibral-
tar in the ship, and were transferred yesterday to
the convict prison at Portsea. The troops and
seamen were also landed yesterday from the ship,
the seamen being transferred to the Victory guard-
ship, and the troops quartered in Portsmouth garri-
son for the night, to be sent on to the Royal Vic-
toria Hospital at Nettey this morning. The Megwra
awaits orders at Spithead, but as her cranes and
some other of her fittings are lying at Devonport
dockyard, it is expected that she will proceed to that
port.

Orders from the Admiralty were received yester-
day afternoon on board the Prince Consort, 35,
C. 8., Hamoaze, to despatch
aCbaoPutt. G.
12.0 oOfWhillerecsr'ewby the paddlewheel Wexford,steam-
vessel Ireland, to the assist-
ance of M
thedus
steamship Lord a
War to
Department
Pan-
mure, Commander Moore, which is ashore there.
She left Woolwich on Saturday last with four 600-
e
pounders for the armament of the Scorpion, fitting
out at Birkenhead. The Medusa may leave this
morning.

The sum of nearly £lOO,OOO has been taken by
the Admiralty in the Navy Estimates for 1865-6 for
the new works to be executed during the year for
enlargement and improvement of Chatham dockyard,
as well as for the other undertakings connected
with the extension of that establishment. Of this
amount the sum of £700,000 will be required this
year for the construction of the additional docks
and basins and the other works for the enlargement
of the dockyard. The original estimate for the ex-
tension of the dockyard by throwing into the estab-
lishment the whole of St. Mary's Island, containing
between 300 and 400 acres, was £943,876, a further
sum of £306,124 being required for additional work
now proposed to be executed by contract, making
the total estimated outlay £1,250,000. The sum
already expended on the works is £130,868, which
leaves about £1,026 to complete them. Hitherto
the whole of the works have been executed by con-
victs, some 800 or 900 of whom have been daily
employed on the undertaking for some years past,
but the Admiralty have decided on supplementing
their efforts by the employment of skilled labour, at
an additional outlay of £300,000. Among the other
works proposed to be carried outat Chatham Dock-
yard during the present year is the enlargement of
the smithery, at a cost of about £4,000, this work
being rendered necessary from the increasing de-
mands made on that establishment consequent on
the Admiralty having
decided on making Chatham
an almost exclusively iron shipbuilding yard. The
sum of £10,240 will also be taken for new ma-
chinery, and a further sum of £2,500 for preparing
the foundations for the new machines proposed to
be erected, together with £5,600 for the repairs of
existing plant. The present surgery having proved
altogether inadequate, it is proposed to erect a new
one in the dockyard at a cost of £1,090. The other
works proposed include the erection of a new angle-
iron smithery and other necessary buildings, at an
estimated outlay of about £2,000. With regard to
the staff of Chatham Dockyard, the Estimates show
that several important alterations are proposed. The
offices of store receiver, master sailmaker, foreman
of painters, and measurers are all abolished—a new
appointment, that of cashier, with a salary of £5OO
per annum, together with an inspector of stores, at
£350 per annum, being made. The salary of the
principal converter of timber is reduced from £275
to £l5O, and that of the foreman of riggers increased
from £l5O to £l9O per annum. There is also pro-
vision made for a foreman of sailmakers at £l6O
per annum.

Admiral Fitzroy's drum,
indicating dangerous
gales, was hoisted at noon yesterday at Plymouth.
The French gunboat Cuvier left on Thursday after-
noon_ for Falmouth.

Five hundred men belonging to the 2d Regiment

embarked yesterday on board the troopship Urgent,
at Plymouth, which has not sailed for Queenstown
in consequence of the stormy weather.
The colonelcy of the 73d Regiment has become
vacant by the death of Lieut.-General B. Orlando
Jones, 1.H., X.T.S. The deceased officer origi-
nally served with the 36th Regiment in Hanover,
during the campaigns of 1805-6. He also served
during the whole of the Peninsular campaigns,
without having been absent from his duty for a
single day. He was present at nearly all the battles
fought in the Peninsula, and was twice wounded.
The commissions of the deceased General bore date
as follows :—Ensign, May 29, 1805 ; lieut., Oct.
23, 1806 ; eapt., Sept. 9, 1812 ; brevet major, Sept.
4, 1817 ; major, July 6, 1826 ; brevet lieut.-col.,
Jan. 10, 1837 ; col., Nov. 11, 1851; major-gen.,
Aug. 31, 1855 ; lieut.-gen., Nov. 12, 1862 ; col. of
the 73d Regiment, Sept. 15, 1860. The deceased
officer was a knight of Charles 111. of Spain.