The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-16 00:00:00

GREAT LUXEMBOURG.

The report of the directors states that the gross
receipts for the half-year ending June 30 amounted
to £122,374, against £106,249 for the correspond-
ing half of 1864, showing an increase of £16,125.
The net earnings for the past half-year amounted
to £64,656, against £55,222 for the same half of
last year, showing an increase of £9,434. Not-
withstanding the utmost economy it had not been
possible to keep the working expenses below 47f per
cent. of the gross receipts, including the payment
of £1,557 for hire of foreign waggons, owing to a
deficiency in the company's rolling stock. The rate
of wages and the price paid for fuel and other
articles of daily consumption were higher than dur-
ing the corresponding period of 1864. There had
been an addition of £90,000 miles to the train mile-
age, involving an extra expense of £2,280. The
average cost per train mile, including repairs, was
111 d. The permanent way and rolling stock had
been maintained in good repair. The increase of
traffic had rendered indispensable a considerable
augmentation of engines and waggons, as well as of
siding and other station accommodation. The ex-
pectations expressed in the last report relative to the
development of the traffic had been amply realised.
The directors had every reason to believe that, large
as was the increase, the traffic would yet exhibit a
much greater development. The opening of the
Ourthe line, by which the coal basin of Liege would
be placed in direct communication with the indus-
trial parts of France, formed a further and very
important element in the prospects, now so en-
couraging, of the Great Luxembourg company.
Since the last report upwards of eight miles had
been entirely completed and opened for traffic. The
directors anticipated that the line would be ready
for opening throughout at an early period of next
year. The net earnings of the canal amounted to
£705. After deducting £35,701 for interest and
reimbursement of obligations, there remained a
balance of £27,649, out of which the directors pro-
posed to declare a dividend of ss. 6d. per share, and
to apply £1,049 towards the repayment of £15,535,
advanced by the Belgian Government as guarantee
of interest on the line from Namur to Arlon.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.
Mlles Opened. Receipts.

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1865.

Belfast and N. Counties 9)4
Belfast and County Down 444
Blyth and Tyne 2B
Bristol and Exeter 1214
Caledonian, Scottish Central
Cambrian l3l
Cockermouth K & Penrlth
Cockermouth and Workin
Cork and Bandon 2O
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 654
Deeside l7
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexld lO5
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &o 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E. Union
Great Northern lO4
Great North of Scotland 994
(.1 t. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll
qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3874
Great Western l2BO
Hull & Hornsea
Highland
Irish North-Western 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403
Limerick and Ennis... 244
Limerick and Foynes 264
Llanelly 404
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 54
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 272
London, Chatham, & Dover ; f 134
all Metropolitan Extension / 12
Do. Kent r oast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
slan.,Sheffteld,& Lincolnsh 2464
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 94
Maryport and Carlisle 2B
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6721
Midland Gt. Westn. of Irind 2604
Monmouthsh. RaiL & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 11944
North London 9
North Staffordshire 258
Pembroke and Tenby ll4
Rhymney 194
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 315
Taff Vale 6l
Ulster 1054
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO
Whitehaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian ... B2B
Bahia and San Francisco .... 764
Belgian Eastern Junction.... 264
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish lOB4
Eastern of France .. ll7 6
Eastern Bengal
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377
Great Central of Belgium 285
Great Indian Peninsula 590
Great Luxembourg 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras . • • •
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 6B)
Northern of Canada . . 94
Northern of France 728
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1967
Paris and Orleans 1616
Recife and San Francisco. &c. 774
Sande lts
Do. Punjab, &c 253
South Austrian, &c 2307
Southern of France 623
Victoria
Welland
West & N-Wn. of France