The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-07 00:00:00

Street Tramways in London.

METROPOLITAN TRAMWAYS.* (With Explanatory

Statement and Map.)

The above pamphlet shows the advantages of
tramways as applied to the traffic of the metropolis,
with tables giving the width of American streets
compared with those of London, and the traffic re-
turns along the streets of this metropolis, on which
it is proposed to lay down the tramways and the
principal thoroughfares of New York. The pro-
moters have deposited plans and sections of their
proposed routes, in compliance with the " standing
orders" of the Lords' Committee of the last session.
These routes embrace four lines. 1. The Holloway,
Islington, and Finsbury tramway, commencing in
the Archway-road, and proceeding thence along the
Holloway-road, Upper and High-street, Islington,
and the City-road to Finsbury-place. 2. The
Hornsey, Camden-town, and Tottenham-court-
road Tramway proceeds along Seven Sisters'-
road, Park-road, Camden-road, High-street, Cam-
den-town, Hampstead-road, and Tottenham-
court-road, terminating where the last-mentioned
road joins Oxford-street. 3. The \Vkitechapel,
Mile-end, Bow, and Stratford tramway proceeds
through Whitechapel High-strut, Whitechapel-
road, and Mile-end-road, to Bow and Stratford,
terminating at Leyton, in Epping Forest. 4. The
Clapham and Kennington tramway proceeds along
High-street, Clapham, and Clapham-road to Ken-
nington-park-road, where it joins No. 5, the
Brixton tramway, which proceeds along Effra and
Brixton-road to the termination of No. 4, where
both join No. 6—The Kennington-park and West-
minster-bridge tramway, which proceeds along
Kennington-green, Kennington-road, and West-
minster-bridge-road, to its junction with West-
minster-bridge. These three lines will form, when
complete, the Brixton, Clapham, Kennington, and
Westminster-bridge route. If the figures given be
correct, the width of theomnibus in ordinary use, tak
ing the outside of the wheels, is 7f t. 3in., the widthin- -
side being 4ft.9in. The tramway carriage is 6f t. 10in.
in extreme width, and sf. 9in. inside, thus having
the double advantage of occupying five inches less
space in the street, and giving the passenger the
benefit of one foot more accommodation where it is
most required. In the former the wheels are out-
side the body of the vehicle, in the latter they are
beneath it, and the space thus saved is utilised.
The projectors, knowing that the leaders of the op-
position against them will be the General Omnibus
Company, are severe on the carriages they run, and
they contrast those they are prepared to supply in
comfort to the disadvantage of the Omnibus Com-
pany. They are careful also to point out that in-
stead of tearing up the street, as these lumbering
vehicles do, they will keep that portion over
which their carriages ply in repair, and, run-
ning on rails, the carriages cannot damage the
paving. They call the attention of the ratepayers
to the fact, and also to the circumstance that although
the omnibuses damage the streets so much they do
not pay anything towards repairs. The promoters
promise better accommodation, with a more smooth
and comfortable drive, reduced fares, more easy
access, quicker means of stoppage, and greater
safety. They show that the introduction of street
railways into the United States was opposed as
violently as it is now here, but their advantages
have proved so great that people would no more
think of discontinuing them than they would rail-
ways and steamboats. In the year 1673 the writer
of a pamphlet, called " The Grand Concern of
England," gravely depicted the misery and ruin to
trade occasioned by the introduction of stage coaches !
The vested interests of the pack-horses were then
the main causes of opposition. The rails are not
to project above the level of the street, and will
offer no obstruction whatever to vehicles passing
along and over that portion where they are laid
down. The main thoroughfares in New York,
where these cars form the principal means of. loco-
motion, are no broader than the streets selected for
the tramways in London, while the traffic in New
York is, on the whole, greater than in these streets
of this metropolis. In Dublin the street rail has
been tried and has answered ; also at Liverpool and
at Birkenhead. In an action tried by a special jury
at Chester, in which the Birkenhead Street-railway
Company was indicted for a nuisance, the plaintiffs
failed altogether, and the feeling of the town was
shown to be strongly in favour of the company.
The objections raised have been quoted au d
if-answered. The project is not an experiment, and it
can be shown to have answered admirably in the
large cities of America, which is certainly the CM,
there can be no reason why it should not answer
here.

4 I'. S. King, 3.1, Parlitunent-stroat. 1867,

THE SUMTER.—ThiS once famous Confederate
privateer, transformed into a quiet and paaceablc
merchant steamer, is now in the Tyne discharging
what our American cousins would call a cargo of
" notions," or, in other words, a general cargo,
from Ilaniburgli. The vessel is not known by her
old name, but that of the Gibraltar.
FOXHOUNDS FOR AMERICA.—Last week a-pack
of young foxhounds, consisting of 40 couple, ar-
rived in London from Warwickshire, to be shipped
a to America fog wolf bunting,

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senting a total of 151,998 tons and 23,857 horse
power, while there were building or contracted for
185 vessels, with a 'tonnage of 140,548, and 18,750
horse power, making in all 418 vessels, 292,516
tons, and 42,607 horse power. This year the re-
turns show a considerable falling off, especially as
regards vessels in hand. 'There
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portant
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making in all 348 vessels, 214,130 tons, and 26,311
This striking deficiency may be easily accounted for
by the partial depression in the shipbuilding trade
which followed the cessation of the war in Ame-
rica ; by the subsequent monetary panic, which,
from the prevailing want of confidence has had
such an effect in limiting operations in so many
brandies of business, and also by the variances
which have existed between employers and
workmen in different departments, and particu-
larly in the shipbuilding trade itself, the dis-
organised state of that portion of the labour market
having, we are informed, been the occasion of a loss
to the Clyde of orders which, in the condition of
matters, could not be undertaken, to the extent of
at least £350,000. The amount which from this
cause the workmen in the shipbuilding trade have
lost in wages has been estimated at from £150,000
to £160,000. Of that sum about £65,000 applies
to the period of the look-out ; but it should be ex-
plained that only one-half of that amount was ef-
fected by the resolution of the masters, as one-half
of the men would have been on strike at anyrate
during that time. The loss of the other portion of
the £150,000 is due to the action of the workmen,
in some of them remaining out after they had the
option of returning to their employment. But these
statements do not show all the injury which has
been occasioned by this unfortunate dispute, and if
we calculate on the extent to which other branches
have suffered who contribute to the get up of a ves-
sel, it is believed the actual loss in the value of ship-
ping will not be much short of a million sterling.
The struggle has now terminated, the men being
now paid for: he hours they work,although 57 aweek
is considered the standard. The carpenters were
the last to yield, having remained out on strike
from 16 to 18 weeks, and during that period the re
pairing trade was almost at a complete stand, and
orders had to be taken to other ports. At present
the ship-building trade continues very dull. Few
orders are coming in. An immense number of
hands are in consequence idle, and some of the mas-
ters are thinking of putting down ships to keep the
men at work during the winter. A reduction of
from 2s. to Gs. a week has taken place in the wages
of all classes employed in shipbuilding. Masters
are using every means to pay the men according to
their merits ; and while some have been reduced by
ss. or Gs., probably others have experienced no re-
duction at all. There is a general feeling enter-
tained that the trade will experience a great revival
in the spring of next year ; but before the winter is
over there is little doubt that much and increasing
will be
Nexopreartivenrcietidshbliatihl.e workmen and
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Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

5111 es Opened. Receipts
Railways. ---,...
,-_,........,,,... ..„,
1866. 1865- 1866 1865
.£ 4
Belfast and N. Counties...... 931 99t 2,23 2.251
Belfast and County Down.... 49 19 681 5)5
Blyth and Tyne 36 6 1,708 1,751
Brecon and Merthyr ........ 68 64 1,276 1,5Q5
Bristol and Exeter l3ll 1215 5,692 5,213
Caledonian, Scottish Central 562 562 34,242 32,855
Cambrian l3O 130 2,020 2,132
361 235
Cockermouth K. & Penrlth .. 311 31i
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 333 ',91
Cork, Blackrock, &Passage di 61 141 128
Cork and Limerick [Area -
Cornwall 655 651 1,519 1.495
Deeside l7 17 2;5 295
Do Extension
Dublin & Bell ast J unction.... 83 63 1,501 1.459
Dublin. and Drogheda 75 75 1,4 6 1.419
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6 106 2,760 2,120
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c B5 85 3,9)9 3.992
Glasgow & South-Western .: 249 £49 10,215 10,8 8
Gt. Eastern,Nrik~& E. Union
Northern..

Great Norti•
Great North of Scotland 242 241 2,83 L 2,643
tit. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) Bll 711 789 658
rirt•Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 419/ 3871 - -
Great Western 13114 12804 62,304 30.878
Highland
Hoylake - - -
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,839 1,797
Isle of Wight ....... ....• .. 12 8 279 66
Lancashire & Yorkshire 493 403 16,378 42,202
Limerick and Ennis.
Limerick and Foynes 261 261 73 E 9
Llanelly 46 461 615 570
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 314 j 2931 22,437 i 8,59
Loudon, Chatham, & Dover; i 1351 134 1 9,433 8.207
all sletropolitan Extension 1 121 12 j 2,2-11 2,360
Do. Kent Coast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Londonderry and Coleraine 361 331 380 369
Man.,Shetlield, & Lincolnsh .. 246 246 22,587 21,591
Manch. S.J un.& Altrincham.. fii 91 1,557 1,636
Maryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,333 f,' 96
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 697 6/71 52,331 54,136
Midland Gt. Westn. of hind. - 3,951
ffonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 442601
2602
211 .187 2,636
North British, Edin., Pertn
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12201 12171 70.209 70,132
North London ll 11 4,737 4.307
North Staffordshire 258 258 8,208 8.777
Pembroke and Tenby 271 116 219 104
Rhymuey 221 191 961 791
Scottish North-Eastern . . 113 138 -- -
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1.693 1,0 8
South Devon
South-Eastern 330 315 23,631 19 435
Taif Vale 63 63 4,654 5,230
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 128 237
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,191 988
West Cork • • - - --
`rexham, Mold, &.3 . 14 14 -- -
1,1
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt.. 10 10 633 671
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian 822 822 53.7-9 50.879
Bahia and San Francisco
372
Belgian Eastern J unction 261 261 312 72
Bombay, 13aroda,& Cm. India 306 306 8,314 7,378
Detroit and Milwaukie
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 11431 6,052 13, /3
Easturn of France
Eastern Bengal
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 "..6,263 26,148
Great Central of Belgium 285 285 6310 6.993
Great Indian Peninsula 784 590 16,383
5,63
24.896
Great Luxembourg 134 131 5,341 )
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 315 9.C6 1 :12,915
Madras
Madrid. Saragossa &Alicant BSB 7; S 2' .7 .7 17.971
Northern of Canada ....
4 724
Northern of France ...... .. •. 76 -.-
44 - -
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
20 6 148,952 147,956
Paris, Lyons. & Mediterrn.... 2151
Paris and 0r1ean5............ 1621 18:8 761,,811146 78,042576
Recife and San Francisco. &0• 771 771
Sc•nde ....... • ............... 1(9 2531°
11.'289963 1,15923
Do. Punjab, &c. .............. 253
SouthDo Austrian,ped m 0 nt I ezi
1ine5........
~., ........ : : :
.. 1798 1594 71,009 6300:0:154
619 619 19,527 16,583
Wn.
2%3 30,
elo
Victoriauthe r .
n ...... ..
..
.................
25 25 . 661 52
...
295610
10048 11,061
Welland .. . ..... .......... .
West &N- of France .. 1218 1154 50,223 4 ',31 :
,

It appears that the ascertained stock of cotton at
Liverpool at the end of the year proves, as usual, to
be considerably above the estimate, the amount
being 516,778 bales, an OXCC3S of 90,020.
intelligence has been received at Constantinople
of the surrender of two fortified places occupied by
the insurgents in the western part of Candia. The
Cretans lost 200 men, awl the remainder fled in
confusion to the coast, seeking refuge on hoard
ve,rksels lying in readiness to receive them.
Tho total value of the prizes to be given at the
Paris Exposition is $160,000 in gold. In the de-
partment of arts there are seventeen grand prizes,
valued at ply) each ; thirty-two first prizes, valued
at $l6O each; forty-four second prizes, valued at
$lOO each; and forty-six third prizes, valued at
$BO each. Besides these there are to be various
other grand prizes and allowances of money, of a
total value of $10,000; 100 gold medals, poo each ;
1,000 silver medals, 3,000 bronze medals, and over
5,000 " honourable mentions,"

A sudden and most unexpected
weather occurred yesterday in Londe
day afternoon a slight thaw set in, the ,
having risen to 8 deg. above freezing poin, boa "1
7 o'clock in the evening the frost set in again very
strongly, and the slippery state of the roads and
pavement made them very dangerous for passengers,
and many accidents occurred. At midnight a
strong and biting wind set in, accompanied by a
fall of snow for about half an hour ; this was fol-
lowed by a complete hurricane of wind, bail, and
sleet, which continued until an early hour yesterday
morning, and then another change took place ; -the
wiud ceased, the atmosphere became many degrees
warmer, and a heavy fall of rain occurred, which
continued more or less during the remainder of the
day. As might be expected the streets were in a
frightful state, the rain and melting snow mixing
together and forming a slush ankle-deep. The
omnibus and cab traffic was almost entirely sus-
pended. The change in the weather was a great
disappointment to the lovers of skating ; but, not-
withstanding, several hundred persons assembled on
the ice in the different parks early in the forenoon
of Sunday, although it was in some places very rot-
ten and dangerous, and in all parts covered with
water to the depth of from two to three inches. The
rapid melting of the vast quantities of snow caused
much inconvenience and some damage in low-lying
districts.

Among the phenomena of the past week a most
singular fact is the lowness of the temperature in
London, as compared with other places in a bighez
latitude. On the 3d inst. London was returned in
mthienilmnuemteotreomlopgeircaatlurreepoofrtlsB asdegh.,avviiiiiigileenajtoAy
edbera-
deen the thermometer did not fall below 2S deg.,
Shields 30 deg., Scarborough 32 deg., Yarmouth
33 deg., while at the Helder the temperature was
36 deg. On the following day the minimum tem-
perature at the Helder was 39 deg., and in London
19 deg.—an adverse difference of 20 deg. of tempe-
rature, with about 2 deg. of latitude in favour of our
metropolis.
At Portland a furious gale from the south-east
prevailed during the whole of Saturday, causing a
tremendous sea, by the violence of which about 130 ft.
of the staging which connects the inner with the
outer breakwater was carried away. A more violent
sea has not been experienced since the formation of
the breakwater commenced, 12 years since, but the
adequacy of the work for its intended object was
proved by the comparative safety in which the ves-
sels anchored in the harbour rode out the gale, one
vessel only, the Celeste bark, having dragged her
anchors. The force of the wind was equally great
at Weymouth, where the light at the mouth of the
harbour .was washed away. Yesterday the wind
veered to the south-west, and was much less violent.
The thermometer had risen to 51 deg.
From Portsmouth we learn that the sharp, clear
weather of Friday last on the south coast was suc-
ceeded on Saturday by a south-east gale, which
swept the Channel and coasts all that day and the
greater part of the following night, heavy falls
of sleet and hail taking place at short intervals.
Her Majesty's turret sloop Wivern, Captain H.
Burgoyne, V.C., lying at Spithead, rode out the
gale safely, with two anchors ahead and an enor-
mous length of cable veered out. One merchant
vessel dragged her anchor for some distance past the
Mother-bank, but was ultimately got up without
suffering any damage. No casualties had been re-
ported from sea at Portsmouth up to sunset yester-
day. As daylight broke yesterday the wind lost its
greatest strength and veered to S.S.W., the atmo-
sphere gradually clearing as the day advanced, and
the wind veering further round, with the sun, to
south-west and west.

A telegram from a Falmouth correspondent
dated yesterday informs us that one of the heaviest
gales ever remembered visited that port for nearly
22 hours, commencing on Friday about midnight
and not abating till 10 p.m. on Saturday, during all
which period the sea was terrifically high, accom-
panied with rain and wind blowing from the south-
east. The only casualties within the port are as fol-
lows :—The schooner Enterprise, a coaster, clay
laden, strained under Trefusis-house after parting
her cables, and lies on the rocks entire after being
scuttled. The bark Vulcan, Harper master, from
Bahia, with piassava, and bounded to Liverpool,
parted both cables from her anchorage near the
Black Rock, and after touching the ground near the
eastern breakwater and breaking her rudder drifted
again into deep water and brought up with spare
bower and stream in the inner harbour ; vessel not
leaky. A Spanish brig and a coasting schooner
came into collision, and both received damage. The
Swedish brigantine Carole, Christensen master,
from Rio Janeiro, coffee laden, and which sailed
from this port on the 3d inst. for Altona, in being
driven back in the gale missed the harbour, and on
Saturday, at 7 p.m., drove on the rocks near Swan-
pool, at high water, and bilged; the crew, except
the cook, were most providentially saved, and the
cargo landed on the rocks. The wind yesterday
veered to the south-west, and the weather mode-
rated.

From Plymouth we are informed by telegraph
that snow fell there on Thursday and Friday. On
Saturday there was a severe frost. Warm rain was
followed yesterday by a strong gale from W.N.W.,
which is increasing. On Saturday morning some
30 trawl sloops belonging to Plymouth were caught
by a storm from the south-east. In Whitesand-
bay four lost their nets, and two ran to Falmouth.
The Emblem, Capt. Williams, got =bayed off
Seaton. A boat in attempting to enter Looe-har-
bour was capsized and the three men in her were
drowned ; the remainder of the crew, two lads, are
supposed to have perished in the Emblem, which
was dashed to pieces at noon. The ketch Hearty,
Capt. Allen, from Swansea for Treport, put in and
landed Capt. Jones and the crew of the iron
schooner Ebbw Vale, which had been run into by
the schooner Cherub. The True Briton, with pas-
sengers for Melbourne, left Plymouth Sound on
Friday evening. The steamer Peninsula, from
Cadiz for London, put in this morning short of fuel.
We learn by telegraph from North Shields that
yesterday a severe gale prevailed, in which the
Mary, the M'Cora, and the Merghee, all of Whit-
stable, and the Lucerne, of Blyth, became total
wrecks at the South Pier. The crews were saved,
with the exception of two lads. The gale was
abating last evening, but the barometer was low.
A thaw was proceeding.
The weather in Yorkshire during the past week
has been very severe, the cold having on two nights
been within a few degrees of that of the Christmas
eve, 1860. The lowest registers have been :—At
Alalton—Monday night, 20 deg. ; Tuesday-1 deg. ;
Wednesday, 21 deg. ; Thursday, 10 deg. ; Friday,
4 deg. At Welbarn, and also at Welburn, the
temperature has been even colder. A thunder-
storm
shower
evening,occurred
of
asnn do wai s
oa o
and sd
the Tthaheuurrreorwaaa.ys morning during a
On lightning Saturday
the wind had changed to S.E., and the weather
was warmer, the thermometer marking 33 deg. A
thick fog prevailed.
The weather was intensely cold in Northumber-
land on Saturday morning, and a dense fog prevailed,
which put a stop to traffic in Shields harbour during
several hours of the forenoon. The upper reaches
of the Tyne are entirely covered over with ice, and
information has reached Newcastle that the Elbe
is frozen over. Saturday morning was the coldest
experienced on the north-eastern coast this winter.
The intense frost and the quantity of snosv which
lies on the ground has put a stop to building and all
out-door employment.
At Liverpool on Saturday night a heavy gale, ac-
companied by snow, blew over the town. The
snow drifted in several places to two and three feet
deep, and traffic, particularly on the railways, was
much impeded.. Yesterday morning a thaw com-
menced.

DESTRUCTION OF Mn. JOHN DAY'S STABLES.—.
Intelligence was received on Friday night by Mr. John
Day (who was thou in Loudon) that the entire range of his
stabling at Banstead bad boon burt to the ground. The
cause of the fire is as yet unknownn, and the almost impass-
able state of the roads rendered it difficult fur any of the
engines to render any effective assistance. We de not
know whether the buildings were insured, but in any case
the los to Xr. Day will be very great.

Nov ready, price 365., 155., and 10s., with Map,
POST OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
1867 (68th Year.)

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The European 42s.
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THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING

To conclude with the Pantomime NUMBER NIP; or,
Harlequin and the Gnome-King of the Giant Mountain.
Mesdames Lydia Thompson. Hudspeth, Bodenham, Seymour,
Turdonni, and 11. Vandenhoff; Messrs. Tom Matthews,
rarsby, Clifton, Robins, Se) ton, and Master Percy Roselle;
Messrs. Boleno,Savitle, Lauri, Cormack, Barnes, and Morris;
Madame Bolen() and Mane. Marion.