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
11id. 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. Zecelpte.

Railways.

1865. 1864. 1865 1864
£ z
Belfast and N. Counties 9)l 991 2,110 2.0 !1
Belfast and County Down.... 441 44 651 605
Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 2,496 1,922
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 7,709 7,479
Caledonian, Scottish Central 4OB 408 27 699 27,2.6
Cambrian l3O 121 2,813 2.197
Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 311 - 490
Cockermouth and Workin
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 ___ __
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 81 - - -
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 651 651 2,007 2.001
Deeside l7 17 189 474
Dublin & Belfast Junction ...
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 2,004 1.680
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 911 3,906 3.020
Forth and Clyde Junction - -
Furness, &o 6O 5) 3,774 3,2E1
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 404 365 40,149 38,289
Great North of Scotland 991 991 2,986 3.-eoo
ot. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 867 566
qt.Soutbn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3871 8871 10,285 9.052
Great Western l2BO 1236 77,626 75,131
Hull & Hornsea
Highland ... 246 246 4,696 4,461
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,814 1,638
Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 403 44.922 41.690
Limerick and Ennis.. 241 241 216 193
Limerick and Foynes 261 261 146 121'
Llanelly 461 161 732 7z9
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 6l 51 2,165 2,016
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &B. Coast 272 2671 26, 74 23,489
London, Chatham, ,lz Dover; 1134 127 1 13,880 12,2 4
all Metiopolitan Extension (12 114 j 2,650 2,345
Do. Kent L oast
I
Lou.,
Tilbury, & Southend
61an.,Sheffielci, & Lincolnsh
Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9 91 1,:,92 1.649
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 3/ 31 2,627 2,•,22
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6721 641 63,937 51,419
Midland Gt.Westn. of Irind 2601 2601 6,077 5.244
llionmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,680 2,703
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Danl 11944
North London 9
North Staffordshire 258
Pembroke and Tenby lll
Rhymney l9l
Scottish North-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 315

484 898

6561
11601

27,700 26.251
73,295 70.138
L 3,6 0 3,0 8
8,2 0 8.554
163 130

902 953
5,990 5,666
1,175 954
5.703 1,940
31,490 29.974
0,009 5,779
2,774 2.378
236 230

79i
305

...
Taff Vale ..61
Ulster ... .. 1051
Vale of Clwyd. . . lO
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
W'haven,Cleatorot Egrmnt lO
Whitchaven Junction l3
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction 261
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9
Dutch Rhenish lOBl
Eastern of Franc*
Eastern Bengal
East Indian .... llO5
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377
Great Central of Belgium 285
Great Indian Peninsula 590
Great Luxembourg l3l
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345
Madras 571
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 6BO
Northern of Canada ... .....
Northern of France 728
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons. &Mediterrn 1967
Paris and Orleans 1616
Recife and San Francisco. &c 771
Scinde lO5
Do. Punjab, ezo 253
South Austrian, dra 2307
Southern of France i23
Victoria
Welland
West ,t N-Wn. of France

1051

516 iiB7
1,%65 1,507
689 667
1,103 975
911 917

13,579 42,000
373 298
356 294
4,289 2,593
7,627 6,799
6,276 5,622
80,962 69,712
;2,032 1,313
25,139 23,443
25,021 22,091
7,: 82 6,227
15,029 6,783
5,985 5,027
L 652 465
15,348 12,083
6,42 6,370
17,742 19,195

- -
70,781 63,670

-.-
1784481 147,840 130,329
1611 78,859 72,
095880
77i 813
105 -
32 1.3 4 808
1527 81.397 54,856
770 33,599 34,326
196 9,858 1,8.788
25 -

95 66,229 57,658

VACCINATION.--Sir,—See Medical Times of Sa-
turday, 9th inst., page 277, where it appears as a
fact "that more than 60 per cent. of the patients admitted
with smallpox at the London Smallpox Hospital last year
had boon previously vaccinated. So much for Jenner and
ANTI-VACCINATOR. VACCINATOR.
his vaccination.—Yours, &C.,

TIIE POTATO DISEASE.—The potato disease is
computed to have destroyed half the crop in the
neighbourhood of Spalding. A Boston report states, how-
ever, that in that part of Lincolnshire the disease is very
partial in its effects. Rocks and Regents are nearly all bad
in some districts, while flukes and seedlings are generally
well spoken of. There is a good supply of potatoes about
Godmanchester; unfortunately, however, the disease
prevails to some extent, and increases its ravages the
longer the roots are kept in the ground.
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When confidence in Holloway's preparations has once been
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