The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-14 00:00:00

DEMERARA.

The traffic receipts on this company's line for the
fortnight ending September 16 amounted to $4,264,
and for the corresponding fortnight of 1864 to
$4,106, showing an increase of $l5B.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.
' Mlles Opened. Receipts.
Railways. .------"----1.------"----
1865. 1864. 1865 1864
£ £
Belfast and N. Counties 931 991 2,039 1.852
Belfast and County Down 444 414 688 629
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2,538 2,042
Brecon and Merthyr
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1214 7,287 6,689
Caledonian, Scottish Central 4OB 408 28 660 26,822
Cambrian l3O 121 2,117 2.125
Cock ermouth K & Penrlth - 407 -
Cockermouth and Workin - -
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 518 432
Cork, 131ackrock, & Passage 6l (4 235 180
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 651 654 1,916 1.841
Deeside . 17 17 466 323
Dublin & 13elfast Junction.... 63 63 1,772 1.575
Dublin anti Drogheda 75 75 2,143 1.74
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd. 105 91i 4,740 3,671
Forth and Clyde Junction -
Furness, &c 5O 51 3,7,1 3.222
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 4Ol 365 41.383 39,259
Great North of Scotland
ot. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 636 f 93
qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 3874 3874 10,461 8./52
Great Western l2BO 1236 76,218 74,277
Hull & Hornsea .. 13 13 159 137
Highland
Irish North-Western . 145 145 2,092 1,880
Lancashire & Yorkshire...... 403 403 41.827 37,300
Limerick and Ennis.. 241 241 222 153
Limerick and Foynes 261 261 105 1(8
Llanelly 461 461 737 634
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western ... 12731 12711 121,702 113,008
London and Blackwell .. si 51 2,1%2 1,850
London & South-Western ... 490 k 4514 27,730 16.777
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast... 272 2671 28,282 24.184
London, Chatham, & novel; ( 134 12/ 1 11,336 9.877
all Metropolitan Extensicn tl2 111 j 2,5u0 1,850
Do. Kent L oast

I
Lou., Tilbury, & Southend .. 42 421 2,*. 86 1,870
lian.,Sheffield,& Lincolnsh.. 246 216 30 357 19,20
Ranch. S.J un.& Altrincham.. 9 91 1,467 1,395
Maryport and Carlisle .. 28 28 1,717 1.513
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western,.. 6721 611 56,437 51,680
Midland G. t.Westn. of Irind .. uot 2601 8,905 8.7 3
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Cana.. 44 44 3,083 (2,5 0
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DtrL 11941 11601 7.4,315 68 768
North London 9 9 3,670 3,3 7
North Staffordshire .. 258 258 8,361 8.531
Pembroke and Tenby .. 111 111 147 9.1
Ithymney .... 19/ 191 1,C42. 1'56
Scottish Nor th-Eastera...... 138 138 6,110 6,085
Somerset and Dorset ... 66 66 1,10.3 9 8
South Devon
South-Eastern 315 303 32,596 30,109
Taff Vale ... 61 61 5,815 5,131
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd . ...... 10 10 206 19S
Waterford and Kilkenny..... 31 31 566 417
Waterford and Limerick ..... 77 77 1,555 1,673
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. 10 10 629 7v3
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 1,110 1,077
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 950 10)08
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Austrian . 828 828
Bahia and San Francisco 7.% 761 3 1 311
Belgian Eastern J unction 24 264 421 366
Bombay, Baroda, & 'en. India 306 1854 2, 82 2,! 07
Detroit and Milwaukie 189 189 8,916 6,2 9
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of France
1176 1428

Eastern Bengal .. ..
East Indian . 1105 1066 23,5 3 16,7;9
Grand Trunk ot Canada 1177 1.415 3 .715 27.636
Great Central of Belgium— 28.5 261 7,557 5,917
Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 15,.09 8,332
Great Luxembourg 134 134 6,041 4.991
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 3 5 17,331 16,723
Madras 571 448 7,235 6,095
Madrid, Sararrossa &Aiicant 6B) 650 _
1
Northern of Canada ...... •• - 91 91 2,224 1,431
Northern of France 728 728 70,205 63,8 5
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967 1781 155,083 149,950
Paris and Orleans 1616 1611 80,004 73.571
Recife and San Francisco. &G. 77.4 774 705 555
Sc nde les 105 717
,1,279
Do. Punjab, &a 253 32 725 93
South Austrian, dtc ......
Southern of Prance 823 770 32,539 31,112
Victoria

Welland

West .5z N- Wn. of France .. 1119 953 6' ,715 54,719

The Cotton Supply Association.

At the meeting of the Executive Committee, held
on Tuesday, a letter was read, accompanying a
sample of cotton grown at Missolonghi, Greece,
from seed sent out by the Association, which was
valued at 30d. per pound, and stating that the crop
on an estate in Negropont, planted early in the
year, had suffered considerably from locusts. A
letter was received from King William's Town
acknowledging the grant of cotton seed and a gin
which had been made to the Kaffrarian Agricultural
Society, and enclosing a sample of Kaffrarian grown
cotton, which was valued at 24d. per pound. A letter
was received from Carthage, Africa, describing the
writer's proceedings, with a view to promote the
growth of cotton in that district. A letter was read
from the honorary agents of the association atßom-
bay, reporting that they had supplied Egyptian seed
to the cotton inspector at Ahmedabad and other
parties. A letter from Lucknow, accompanying an
article in the Oudh Gazette upon the last annual
meeting of the association, represents the importance
of renewed efforts on the part of the Government to
make the resources of India still further available
for the production of cotton of an improved quality.
The writer expresses a belief that if suitable mea •
sures were adopted, not only would India send cot-
ton of a satisfactory description in greater abun-
dance than hitherto, but that a larger demand than
ever would arise for our manufactures, and that
thus both India and England would be mutually
benefited. A letter fowarded by the India-office
was received from the Collector of Kurnool, in the
Madras Presidency, reporting the failure of some
experiments with New Orleans cotton seed which
had been made in that district. The seed only ar-
rived towards the end of September, when the pro-
per sowing season was past, but several ryots were
induced to sow it at the late crops, without success,
however, in any instance. It stated that in most
cases the seed did not germinate, and when it did
so the plants withered very shortly, and that only
in five villages of Pattikonda did a total extent of
31 acres produce about six maunds of uncleaned
cotton. The general failure of exotic seed in the
district of Kurnool, when sown by native agricultu-
rists, renders them unwilling to make use of it. A
further communication was received from the Go-
vernment of Bombay, furnishing detailed statements
of cotton cultivation, and the out-turn of the crop
in that presidency for the season 1864-65 as com-
pared with 1863-64. The collector's returns exhibit
a small decrease, but the Cotton Commissioner con-
siders the estimate to have been underrated, with
the exception of Surat and Kaira, and he has added
an additional column, showing an increase of 24,000
candies. The total return of American cotton cul-
tivation in the Southern Mahratta country is com-
puted at not less than 366,900 acres, after deduct-
ing a decrease of 43,000 acres in the Dharwar
Collectorate, as compared with the preceding
year. The Commissioner in Scinde reports that
there is an increase apparent in the area of
land cultivated with indigenous cotton throughout
Scinde to the extent of 28,436 acres, which is no
doubt due to the exceptionally high price of cotton
during the year. The cultivation of foreign cotton
has been confined to the Kurrachee Collectorate. It
is further stated that the prospects of the season's