The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE:

RAILWAYS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.

It appears from a return issued by the Board of
Trade that the total traffic receipts on railways in
the United Kingdom for the year 1864 amounted on
12,789 miles to £34,015,564, against £31,156,397
in the year 1863 on 12,322 miles of railway, show-
ing an increase of 467 miles, and of £2,859,167 in
the receipts. The total working expenditure for the
year amounted to £16,000,308, or 47 per cent.,
against £15,027,234, or 48 per cent., in 1863, show-
ing an increase of £973,074, being about 29 per
- cent. of the increased receipts. The net receipts,
after some deductions, amounted to £17,911,239,
against £16,048,931 in 1863, showing an increase of
£1,862,308. The total traffic receipts on railways
in England and Wales amounted on 8,890 miles for
the year 1864 to £28,667,649, against £26,212,822
in 1863 on 8,568 miles of railway, showing an in-
crease of 322 miles, and in thereceipts of £2,454,827.
The total receipts on 2,105 miles of railway in Scot-
land amounted to £3,766,309, against £3,424,921 on
2,013 miles in 1863, showing an increase of 92 miles,
and in the receipts of £341,388. The total receipts
on 1,794 miles in Ireland amounted to £1,581,606,
against £1,518,654 on 1,741 miles in 1863, showing
an increase of 53 miles, and in the receipts of £62,942.
The total number of passengers conveyedon railways
in the United Kingdom in 1864 was 229,272,165,
against 204,635,075 in 1863, showing an increase of
24,637,090. Of the total number of passengers con-
veyed in 1864 136,301,581 were third-class,
65,269,169 second-class, and 27,701,415 first-class,
and, compared with the total number conveyed in
1863 there was shown an increase of 15,229,183 in the
number of third-class and Parliamentary passengers,
of 7,792,500 in the number of second-class pas-
sengers, and of 1,615,407 in the number of first
class passengers—the total increase £24,637,000.
The total receipts for passengers in the United
Kingdom in 1864 amounted to £13,915,600, of
which £393,550 had been recei#ed from holders of
season and periodical tickets, £5,375,048 from third
class and Parliamentary, £4,545,472 from second
class, and £3,601,530 from first class passengers,
showing an increase as compared with the receipts
for passengers in 1869 of £1,078,490, of which in-
crease £59,294 was derived from holders of season
and periodical tickets, £441,975 from third class
and Parliamentary, £344,367 from second class,
and £232,854 from first class passengers. The total
receipts from passengers, mails, luggage, excess
fares, horses, and dogs amounted to £15,684,042,
against £14,521,528 in 1863, showing an increase of
£1,162,512. The total receipts from goods, mine-
rals, and live stock amounted to £18,331,524 in
1864 against £16,634,869 in 1863, showing an in-
crease of £1,696,655, of which £765,262 was de-
rived from general merchandise, £883,221 from
coal, coke, and other minerals, and £48,172 from
live stock. In the working expenses for 1864 the
sum of £2,997,121, or 18.73 per cent. was charged
for maintenance of way and works ; £4,474,292, or
27.96 per cent. for locomotive power and stationary
engines; £1,416,341, or 8.36 per cent. for repairs
and renewals of carriages and waggons; £4,547,589
or 28.42 per cent., for coaching and merchandise ;
£633,850, or 3.96 per cent. for rates and taxes ;
£430,865, or 2.69 per cent., for Government duty ;
£135,665, or 0.86 per cent., compensation for per-
sonal injury ; £117,400, or 0.73 per cent., com-
pensation for damage and loss of goods ; £224,959,
or 1.40 per cent., for legal and Parliamentary ex-
penses ; and £1,023,226, or 6.39 per cent., for mis-
cellaneous working expenditure not included in the
foregoing, making the total expenses asbefore stated
£16,000,308.

The total amount of share anal loan capital paid
up on railways in England and Wales to the 31st
of December, 1864, was £352,855,395; on railways
in Scotland, £47,736,564 ; and on railways in Ire-
land, £24,891,479 ; total, £425,483,438, against
£404,215,802 at the end of 1863, showing an in-
crease of £21,267,636. Of the £425,483,438 paid
up, £931030,792 consisted of loans on debentures ;
£13,049,541 debenture stock or funded debt ;
£101,647,626 preferential capital, and £214,755,479
ordinary capital. The total amount of capital autho-
rised to be raised on shares and loans at the end of
18G4 was £520,522,34 against £474,999,545 at
the end of 1863, showing an increase of £45,522,780.

GREAT NORTHERN, GREAT EASTERN, AND MAN-
CHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
(TRAFFIC ARRANGEMENTS).
Perhaps one of the most important applications
to Parham:2:A intende 1 to be made nJxt session
is for a bill to enable these companies from time to
time to enter into agreements with respect to the
working, use, management, and maintenance of
their several undertakings, the supply of rolling
stock and machinery, and of officers and servants
for the conduct of the traffic thereon ; the pay -
ment to be made and the conditions to be per-
formed with respect to such working, use, manage-
ment, and maintenance ; the interchange, accom-
modation, and conveyance of traffic coming from or
destined for the respective undertakings of those
companies, and the division and appropriation of the
revenue arising from that traffic; also to authorise
the appointment of joint committees for carrying into
effect any agreement, and to confirm any agree-
ment already made between these companies, or
which previously to the passing of the bill might be
made, in respect of these matters, and especially to
confirm two several heads of agreements, the one
dated June 20 and the other Aug. 3, 1865, subject
to such modifications as might be made by the three
companies, or as Parliament, might prescribe. This
notice, taken in connection with the one given by
the Great Eastern of the same kind, shows that the
powers sought would amount practically to an amal-
gamation of the three companies. Considering the
ramifications of those lines to Liverpool and various
important manufacturing places and mineral dis-
tricts, the tendency—however beneficial the arrange-
ment to the contracting parties—must be to still
further increase the number of warehouses, show-
rooms, and storehouses in London, and thus further
decrease house accommodation, without an apparent
chance of any corresponding advantage in the shape
of improved stations accommodation, train service, or
anything else, in the suburban districts occupied by
the Great Northern and Great Eastern Companies.

GREAT EASTERN, GREAT NORTHERN, AND MAN-
CHESTEP
s SHEFFIELD AN
An important notice Of D LINCOLNSHIRE.
intended application to
Parliament in the ensuing session has been .iven for
authorising the Great Eastern on the one hand, and
the Great Northern and the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Rail way Companies, or either of
them, on the other, to enter into agreements
for
giving running powers to the Great Eastern Com-
pany over all or certain parts of the railways of
the other companies, or one of them, with use of
stations, &c. ; traffic facilities, with liberty to em-
ploy separate clerks and agents in any of the towns
served by the other companies ; to enable the
Great Eastern to make through rateswith the Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire Railway Company for certain
traffic via the lonp line of the Great Northern ; the
interchange and exchange of traffic between the com-
panies, and all other arrangements with reference
to traffic. It is proposed to authorise those com-
panies respectively to levy tolls, rates, duties, and
charges, and to be carriers on the railways of the
others, also t
rates, duties, and
o provide for the altering of existing
charges ; and all other powers for
carrying those provisions into effect ; to confirm
certain heads of agreement, dated the 20th of June,
1865, made between thethree companies, and cer-
tain other heads of agreement, dated the 3d of
August, 1865, and made between
the Great Eastern
and Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Rail-
way Companies, and any other agreements which
might hereafter be entered into between the said
companies, or any of them, or otherwise to provide
for carrying the same into effect, with such modifi-
cations as Parliament might think expedient.

MIDLAND AND GREAT WESTERN JUNCTION.
Parliamentary notices have been given for bring_
ing this scheme before Parliament next Session.
The object is to cross the Severn at Lydney, mid-
distance between the authorised Newnham and high-
level bridges. If the project succeeds, it is supposed
that both theNewnham and high-level bridges would
then_b? abandoned, and the Lydney would become
the joint property of the Great Western and Alid-