The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-13 00:00:00

Railways.

Miles Opened.

1862. 1861.

1862.

1861.

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X £
Ballymena and Pert Rush - - - -
Belfast and N. Counties 136 136 2,450 2,228
Belfast and County Down 49 49 701 686
Birkd., Lane., & Ches. June - - - -
Blyth and Tyne 22 22 1,832 1,799
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1255 7,737 6,914
Caledonian 230 £3O 17,176 16,676
Cockermouth& Workington 85 85 321 287
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 356 370
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 244 260
Cork and Youghal 321 27 432 274
Cornwall 531 535 1,524 1,831
Deeside l7 17 422 405
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,488 1,482
Dublin and Drogheda 63 63 1.800 1,846
Dub. & Wicklow (in. King-st ) 485 485 3,178 3,348
Dundalk and Enniskillen 145 130 - -
Dundee and Arbroath l7l 171
Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 1,078 1,226
East Anglian _.- -
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edinburgh, Perth,& Dundee - - - -
I Forth & Clyde Junction
Furness
Glasgow & South-Western 198 198 9,200 8,449
Gt.Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union 646 616 29,389 30, 183
Great Northern 330 330 32,7i2 29,152
Great North of Scotland
51 t.So. Westernestn.(lrind) 329 329 7,981 9,147
Great
Inverness & Aberdeen Juno 735 55 1,460 1,167
Irish South-Eastern 251 255 263 362
Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 3955 42,264 42,901
Leominster and Kington
Limerick and Ennis
Limerick and Foynes 26 264 137 138
Llanelly 4 4 720 540
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 55 51 2,160 1,696
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2411 2312 25,271 21,284
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 724 6,564 ,2,353
Loud., Tilbury, & Southend 421 425 2,613 2,354
~ Man Sheffield, & Lincolnsh 236 236 15,002 15,524
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrinchamj 91 91 1,177 1,291
Ma port and Carlisle
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 628 614/ 45,822 43,921
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind l92s 1921 4,355 5,548
Monkland 72 56 1,729 1,460
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,568 2,202
Newcastle and Carlisle 7Bl 78/ - -
North British (incl. Selkirk
and Galashiels)
North Devon 3.5 35 - -
N-Eastern(Bedale&Leybrn) 8781 8675 47,087 45,878
North London , 9 9 2,901 2,451
North Staffordshire , 246 246 8,408 7,145
Oswestry and Newton 42 42 1,024 658
Rhymney l9 981 752
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 525 5219/ 2,025 1,856
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern 1321 1321 5,883 5,850
Shrewsbury & Birmingham - - - -
Shrewsbury and Chester - -
Shrewsbury & Hereford - -
Shropshire Union 291 291 918 89)
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 306 31,459 25,855
South Wales l7ll 1711 - -
S. Yorkshire and River Dun 118 118 - -
Stockton and Darling-ton
Taff Vale 5l 54 5,889 5,087
Ulster 5l 51 2,008 1,809
Ulverstone and Lancaster - -
Vale of Clwyd.. lO 10 213 185
Vale of Neath 35 35 2.132 1.804
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 411 987
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,092 1,425
West Cornwall 275 275 832 731
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&RaiL 39 39 4,201 ,4,976
West Midland. - - - -
W'haven,Cleator,&ligrmnt 7 7 582 314
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 741 645
Whitehaven & Fairness Jun 35 35 753 618
FoREIGN AND COLONIAL
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,424 1,377
Austrian B2B 673 43,896 48,148
Belgian Eastern Junction 265 264 318 292
Buffalo and Lake Huron
Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 185 3,811 3,020
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081 4,879 4,318
Eastern of France. 1032 1032 59,405 59,770
East Indian
,
Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O 1090 12330 10,608
Great Indian Peninsula 1371 3501 4,159 2,369
Great Luxembourg- 134 128 4,540 3,821
Great Western of Canada 345 345 8,881 8,089
Lyons and Geneva ll2 142 6,830 6,883
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 301 284 16,8, )6 14,510
Northern of Canada
Northern of France 7Ol 623 - -
Norwegian Trunk 44 44 1,444 1,372
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 879 879 102,368 93,688
Paris and Orleans 922 922 56,887 69,9,0
Pernambuco 6O - 657 -
Royal Danish 69 69 826 871
Sambre and Meuse 6B 68 1,441 1,492
South Austrian
Southern of France . 777 777 29,189 25,921
Welland....
•• 25 25 734 437
West Flanders
W. and N.W. of France...•• • 750 750 50,271 53305
MONMOUTHSHIRE.

MONMOUTHSHIRE.
haltof
The directors' report states that the receipts for the half-
yearht half-year amounted corresponding
h ending the 30th of June last were £2OO more than in
£59,121, the
T hexepreeneseeipsttsof73oth,6eB27ort
52 per cent., and the net earnings to £21,439. The ave-
rage rate of interest now paid on the total amount of bor-
rowed capital is £4 7s 7d per cent per annum. The general
revenue account shows there is a balance of. £l4 306 and
the directors recommend that a dividend at the
rate of 51
per cent. per annum (less income-tax) be declared on the
ordinary shares of the company for the past half-year, being
at the same rate as that declared for the corresponding half
of 1861, leaving a balance of £538. The West Midland
Railway Company have, notwithstanding strenuous oppc-
sition on the part of this company, obtained powers to use
compulsorily the Eastern Valley Railway between Coed- y-
gric and Newport. The London and North-Western Rail-
way Companyhave obtained powers to enter into agreements
with this company for the working and transmission of
traffic. They have also, subject to certain conditions, ob-
tained power to take a lease of the Tredegar and Aberga-
yew Railway, the construction of which is nearly com-
pleffd. The capital account shows that £1,178,955 had been
expended to the 30th of June last, leaving a balance of
£15,983 against the company.

EAST SOMERSET.
The directors' report states that the accounts furnished
by the Great Western Railway Company of the working of
the line previously to the opening to Wells show a balance
of £4,561 due to that company, for £3,000 of which the
directors of that company have agreed to accept payment
in shares-of that company, leaving a balance of £1,561,
from which the directors think some deduction will be
made. The gross earnings of the line for the four
months since the opening to Wells, ending the 30th of
June last, amount to £2,118, which, after deducting £6BB
for interest on debenture debt and rent charges for tho
same period. leaves £1,429 to be divided between the two
companies, and, having regard to the short period during
which the line has been opened to Wells, the directors con-
sider this a satisfactory commencement. The proportion of
the profits at the rate of 60 per cent. to the Great Western
Company is £B5B, and at the rate of 40 per cent. to this
company, £572, which would have enabled the directors to
declare a dividend at the rate of 3/ per cent, per annum for
the four months since the opening to Wells, on the prefer-
copatty, but for the debt due to the
Great Western Comence shares of the p
ma
n
y
,
Tho directors have determined
that the Great Western Company shall retain this sum
towards the liquidation of the debt, and therefore no divi-
dend will be declared. The only other claim against the
corlipbae dnyuie
is
a sum of between £3 000, and £4,000, which
w
to the bankers on the capital account, to meet
which the directors have in reserve certain preference
shares.

WORCESTER, BROMYARD, AND ,
LEOMINSTER
conditionally
The report of the directors states that the financial posi:
tion of the company has been much improved since the last
scon,
half-yearly meeting. Several large land owners have liber-
ally agreed to sell their land at the agricultural price, and
dtooutabkleedthtehevallunueouthnetreooff itnhesihrarseusi, Manyripti gentlemen have
upon such an increase by others or by net,
subscribers as
will raise sufficient capital to enable the lu-cetera to effect
an advantageous contract for the execution of the Works.
The West Midland Company have agroed to double the
number of their shares, provided parties locally iizterosted