The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-30 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST.
The following circular has been issued by the
secretary of this company :—" The directors of the
London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway have
had their attention drawn to a circular issued (18th
December instant) by the directors of the South-
Eastern Railway Company to their proprietors, ex-
planatory of the policy proposed to be pursued by
them in the ensuing session of Parliament ; and in
the interest of above 600 joint proprietors of Brigh-
ton and South-Eastern stock, the Brighton board
deem it to be their duty to submit the following
statement for consideration. In that circular the
Brighton board are charged with a breach of the
agreement made between the two companies in
1864, by supporting the Surrey and Sussex line in
the last session. This charge the Brighton board
emphatically deny, and express their surprise at its
being repeated after the unanimous decisions of the
select committees of both Houses of Parliament
where the whole opposition to the bill was based on
the question of the alleged breach of faith. By the
agreement before referred to, the Brighton and
South-Eastern boards mutually undertook not to
make any inroad into the system of each other, and
the Brighton board maintain that the Surrey and
Sussex line from Croydon to Groombridge is no in-
fringement of that agreement, as will be seen by the
accompanying map. Under the agreement of 1864,
moreover, the traffic of the South-Eastern Company
is to be admitted to Eastbourne by means of the
Brighton Company's line from Tunbrige Wells, and
the Brightma board, in adopting the Surrey and Sussex
line, have merely connected the two points of their
system at Croydon and Groombridge, and thereby
shortened the distance to St. Leonards and Hastings,
in the same way that the South-Eastern are doing by
their new line through Sevenoaks. It should be also
borne in mind that the existing Brighton line to Has-
tin gs was made several years before the South-Eastern
constructed their present line to that place in op-
position to the Brighton company. The question of
' breach of agreement' was contested before the
select committees of both houses of Parliament, as
being the only objection that could be offered to a
line which was so obviously required by the public ;
but the South Eastern objected to its being in the
hands of the Brighton company, who would thereby
be brought within the same distance of Hastings as
themselves. The Brighton directors do not enter
on the subject of the proposed outlay of six millions
involved in the new partnership schemes of the
South Eastern and London, Chatham, and Dover
companies, which is a matter for the consideration
of the proprietors of those companies, but the
Brighton board are fully entitled to express their
regret at the expense and serious interference with
the interests of their proprietors consequent on a
parliamentary contest, even when they have every
reason to anticipate the same success in opposing
the same scheme for the fourth time, as in 1863,
1864, and 1865: they feel that the interests of their
proprietors and the earning of remunerative divi-
dends are best consulted by peace and not by war,
by co-operation and not by opposition, by develop-
ing the capabilities of neighbouring companies for the
common interests of their respective proprietors, for
whom directors are only trustees, and not by enter-
ing into hostile speculations which can only result
in injury to each other."

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Miles Opened.

Receipts.

atlwayo.

1865.

1861.

1845 1864

A Z
Belfast and N. Counties 9)1 991 2,086 1.745
Belfast and County Down 441 4.1 710 640
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 2, 87 1,414
Brecon and Merthyr 64 61 1,290 961
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 8,360 7,651
Caledonian, Scottish Central lOB 408 28,817 25,889
Cambrian
Cock ermouth K & Penrith .. 314 - 348- -
.3ock.:rmouth and Workin .. 9 9 407 279
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 4- 7 335
Cork, Blaclvock, & Passage 6l ei 127 129
Cork andloughal
Cornwall •• 654 651 2,0 0 1.828
Deeside l7 17 289 .95
Do Extension
Dublin & Belfast J unction .... 63 83 1,607 1.391
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,721 1.519
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 914 3,020 2,691
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 5,) 3,702 2,933
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.;&E.Union - :.- 663 40..43 36.124
Great Northern 404 385 46,474 40,8 8
Great North of Scotland 5B 53 1,18 ) 1.505
Do Branches
0 t..Nortiin. & Wes tn. (Ire!.) 7ll 711 585 629
qt.Soutlin. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3874 88%1 8,804 8.240
Great Western l2BO 1270 81,409 75.379
Hull & Hornsea
Highland
Irish North-Western 145 145 2,071 1,514
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 43,788 37,316
Limerick and Ennis.. 241 241 192 184
Limerick and Foynes 261 264 108 82
Llanelly
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 6l 51 1,797 1,796
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast
London, Chatham, & Dover; c 134 12/ 1 10,347 8.194
all Metropolitan Extension 1
22 1 114
j 2,660 1,421
Do. Kent toast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheflield, & Lincoinsh
Ranch. S.J un.454 A ltrincham 9l 91 1,673 1,419
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6774 6511 56.700 53.553
Midland Gt. Westn. of I rind 260/ 2601 5,492 5.167
llonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 3,027 2,719
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12060 11604 75,465 65,697
North London ll 9 4,27/ 3,054
North Staffordshire 258 258 8,8 9 8.557
Pembroke and Tenby ll4 114
,09 60
Rhymney l9l 191 1,175 1,060
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 b,6.8 5,096
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1,257 815
South Devon
South-Eastern 315 306 23,652 23 500
Taff Vale 6l 61 6,445 6,611
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 209 3 3
Waterfbrd and Limerick 77 77 1,435 1,213
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 605 714
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 -- -
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 - -
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. •
Austrian B2B 828 50,870 40,V5
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern J unction 264 261 372 312
Bombay, Ilaroda, & Cen. India 306 1851 8,354 2.4
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 6,711 6,67
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern of ',ranee - -
Eastern Bengal
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1335 26 933 24.754
Great Central of Belgium 285 261 0,441 6,052
Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 31,501 14,062
Great Luxembourg 134 134 6,031 4.670
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 3-16 315 13,025 11,633
Madras
Madrid, Saragossa &Aiicant 778 713 - -
Northern of Canada ...., , „ ~, 91 91 _ . -
Northern of France 724 724 63,402 60,184
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman - -
Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn 2006 1974 148,792 139,088
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 - ...
Recife and San Francisco, &c 771 774 9.4 688
Scincle lO5 105 - -
Do. Punjab, &c 253 45
South Austrian, &c 1658 1527
Southern of France 663 823
Victoria

59,936 54,901
29,806 28,239
11,666 8.845
3,235 153
49,744 42,962

Welland 25 25
West 416 N-Wn. of France

A couple who met for the first time in a car ou
the New York and Erie Railroad, tho other day, liked
each other so well that when the train reached Elmira
they got out, struck for the nearest clergyman's, and were
married.