The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-24 00:00:00

MARYPORT AND CARLISLE.

The report of the directors states that the traffic receipts
for the year ending the 30th of June last amounted to
£23,768, against £26,049 at the corresponding period of
1857, showing a decrease of £2,281. The expenditure
amounted to £12,235, against £13,010 at the corresponding
period of 1837, showing a decrease of £775 OR the expen-
diture. The report states that the condition .of every class
of the rolling stock has undergone improvement during
the past half-year, the whole cost of which has been
charged against revenue ; and a general economy has been
effected in this department. The traffic is now worked
with increased facilities over a double line of rails between
Maryport and Wigton, and every facility afforded for con-
ducting the shipment of coal, coke, and lime on a large
scale. The directors have concluded arrangements with
Messrs. Walker, by which the whole of their coal will
shortly be brought on the line at Dearham, instead of, as
heretofore, the greater portion being carried to Maryport for
shipment. The Messrs. Walker are now making the
branch railway to connect the Lonsdale Pit with the com-
pany's line. Several unsettled claims against the com-
pany have during the last six months been satisfactorily
arranged. Outstanding accounts have been collected, and
the bank debt has been reduced by the issue of the 5 per
cent. preference stock. The falling off in the receipts is
attributed to the general depression trad,, and more
especially to the temporary loss of traffic in connection
with iron works. The directors recommend a dividend
on the original shares of the company at the rate
of four per cent. per annum. Mr. Dees, the engineer,
reports that great improvements have been made on
the railway during the past half-year. Upwards of one
mile of light rails have been taken out and relaid with
fish-jointed heavy rails, while nearly 3' miles, from Leegate
to Wigton, of double line have been laid down. The new
works at Maryport station and docks have been completed,
and great additional siding accommodation afforded thereby.
The auditors, Messrs. Richardson and Cowan, report that
£8,968 had been expended during the half-year on capital
account, including £1,660 for doubling 31 miles of the rail-
way. The total expenditure on capital account to the 30th
of June last amounted to £525,431 ; the authorised capital
being £550,000, there remains a sum of £29,566 not yet
expended.

EDINBURGH, PERTH, AND DUNDEE.
The directors of this company state in their report that
the revenue for the half-year ending the 31st of July
amounted for passengers, dec., to £35,619 ; for merchandise,
minerals, and cattle, to £46,105; rents and miscellaneous,
£2,414 ; total, £84,135. The !expenditure amounted to
£42,053, leaving £42,085. A comparison of the revenue and
expenditure showea that the receipts for the half-year end-
ing the 31st of July, 1857, amounted to £89,929, ending
the 31st of July, 1856, to £85,959, and ending the 31st of
July, 1855, to £79,351; the expenditure amounted to
£50,377, £41,405, and £43,760 respectively. The net re-
ceipts were for the half-year ending the 31st of July, 1858,
£3.2,058; ending the 31st of July, 1857, £39,551; ending the
31st of July, 1856, £44,554; and ending the 31st of July,
1855, £35,582. The falling oft in the receipts is attributed to
a continuance of that general depression in the trade and
commerce of the country, which the directors had referred
to in their last report. OA the other hand, a saving had been
effected in the workinr, expenses. The capital account has
been charged with sums amounting to £597 incurred during
the half-year towards the erection of a station-house and
booking-office at the Halbeath station, and in providing
new sidings and other accommodatioa works. Of the 5 per
cent. debenture stock £80,618 have been issued—part of it
at a small premium—and the proceeds applied partly to the
extinction of second-class debentures, and partly to the
payment of the bank debts, which are now reduced to
£64,074. Out of the net revenue of £42,085 the sum of
£23,490 is deducted for interest on first-class debentures,
£7,358 on second-class debentures and on debenture stock,
£1,954 on the Grantor preference stock, and £9,281 on
the 4 per cent. preference stock, at the rate of 31 per cent.
per annum, leaving a balance of £l. To this is added £2,046
surplus from the previous half-year, making £2,047. The
Arrangement Act provides that any deficiency of preference
dividend for the first half of the year shall be chargeable
against the surplus revenue of the second half. The revenue
of the current half-year will, therefore, be chargeable with
£1,718, to which extent the 4 per cent preference dividend
is short of the full amount. The charge for first-class de-
benture interest shows an increase of £5,416 as compared
with the corresponding half of 1857. The capital account
shows that. £3,321,88U had been received, and £3,314,832
expended, leaving a balance of £7,047.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING
'VISIT OF HIS EXCELLENCY TO DONEGAL.

On Saturday morning his excellency left Londonderry
to visit his relative, the Rev. Archdeacon Goold, who resides
at Sharon Glebe, in the county of Donegal. His journey is
thus described by the correspondent of a Dublin journal :
His excellency travelled in a carriage and four. Os
the arrival of the viceregal cortege at Newtowneunniag-
ham, a small hamlet near Sharon, his excellency was met
by a number of the gentry and inhabitants. Nearly 100 of
the party were mounted, not including those who rode in
the numerous vehicles which thronged the route. An ad-
dress was presented to his excellency by Mr. John G. Bowen,
J.P., of Burt House, and the reply-of the Lord Lieutenant,
which briefly expressed his appreciation of the enthusiastic
welcome he had received, was hailed with loud cheers by
the spectators. The country people showed their warm
feeling towards his excellency with great spirit and mani-
festations of rejoicing. In its progress from Newtowncun-
ningham to Sharon, the viceregal party assumed quite the
aspect of a precession-eand a procession, it may be remarked,
of rather a picturesque character, from the appearance of
the native horsemen, whose turn out was somewhat defi-
cient in uniformity of costume. At Sharon, a select dinner
party bad been invited to meet his excellency."
From Sharon his excellency went to view the extensive
improvements lately effected by Mr. William M'Cormick,
the eminent railway contractor. Arrived at Tready Point,
where a commodious pavilion bad been erected, his excel-
lency was conducted by Mr. M'Cormick over a considerable
portion of the ground which he has recently reclaimed.
The Lord Lieutenant expressed his admiration of the won-
derful energy which could accomplish so much as had been
performed by Mr. M'Cormick. A considerable body of
spectators bad assembled near the Mace. On his return to
the pavilion the Lord Lieutenant was loudly cheered. Here
were assembled a number of the gentry of Derry and Done-
gal, and several of the citizens of Londonderry, who had
been invited by Mr. M'Cormick to meet his excellency at
luncheon. The repast was laid out in the most tasteful
style, and nothing that taste could suggest was omitted
from the tables, which were loaded wi!il viands of the
choicest description. The worthy host had the Lord Lieu-
tenant on his right, and the Lord Bishop of Derry and
Raphoe on the other side. Among the company were
rather more than a sprinkling of ladies.
Mr. M'ConaticK having called on the company to fill
their glasses, said—May it please your excellency—my lords,
ladies, and gentlemen, I have, with his excellency's per-
mission, to propose a toast which lam sure you will all
receive with the utmost enthusiasm. It is the health of m
honoured guest the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. (Applause
I am not going to make a speech on this interesting ccca-
sion, for nothing I could say would add to your respect for
so noble a character; nor could I find language to express
the sense I entertain of the honour conferred on me by the
representative of our most gracious Majesty condescending
to come here to Derry and inspect the labours of so humble
an individual as myself. I, therefore, simply ask you to aid
me in giving his excellency a hsarty welcome—(cheers)—
by drinking to the health, long life, and happiness of the
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. (Prolonged applause.)
The toast was drunk with enthusiasm.
His EXCELLENCY rose to respond, which he did very
briefly. He said—l can hardly express my great satisfac-
tion at being so happy as to have another opportunity of
thanking you for the kind reception I have received. This
is the last opportunity I shall have, for I must now go away
possibly for ever. (Cries of " No, no." At all events I
shall scarcely ever have an opportunity of visiting this place
again, but I trust I may at some future period have the
happiness of meeting you as friends. (Cheers.) lam sure
every one of you must have joined with me in admiring the
energy of the man who carried out such an enormous work
for the benefit of this neighbourhood and of this country.
(Hear, hear.) It is indeed one of the most gigantic under-
takings I ever witnessed—(loud cheers)—commenced and
carried out by Mr. M'Cormick with a spirit worthy of his
character and position. (Cheers.) It is net only by any
effort on your part—by any good conduct on the part of the
landlords (and I believe that no landlords have been better
than the Irish landlords in latter days), but by the efforts of
men of enterprise and character, like Mr. M'Cormick, that
the country will rise to that prosperity to which her natural
advantages entitle her, and which the genius and
industry of her people, when well
enable her to achieve. (Hear, and _ directed, will
cheers.) That
genius and industry, when directed by the energy of
such a man as Mr. M'Cormielt, are invincible. (Renewed
cheers.) Even bad he not done me the favour of proposing
my health, I should have trespassed on you by asking you
to join with me in drinking the health of Mr. M'Cormick,
and I beg to couple with it
our wish for that success of his
gigantic enterprise which he so well eeserves. Loud
cheers.)
Mr. M'Consucx said—lf I found a difficulty in ad-
dressing your excellency on the first occasion, that difficulty
I feel still more now, in endeavouring to acknowledge the
flattering manner in which you have alluded to my labours
here. I have simply endeavoured to do my duty to toy
country by attersptingto increase her sphere of usefulness,
and to extend her means of providing for the comfort and
liapniness of my fellow countrymen, and I can assure your
excellency that the recollection of this day will cheer me to
the last hour of my life. (Loud cheers.)
His excellency here retired, and the company broke up.
The ca-riap,e of the Vigil Sheriff containing his excellency
and suite, forowed by the carriages of ihe Lord Bishop and
of Mr. al‘Corrnick, reached the Coleraine Railway Station
at Derry, at haif-past two o'clock. The Lord Lieutenant
was here met by the mayor and town clerk, and the other
members of the corporation, as well as by the port and har-
bour commissioners. The viceregal party having taken their
places, his Excellency shook the mayor warmly by the hand,
and assured him that be had never felt anything more
deeply than the enthusiastic reception he had met with in
the city of Derry and its neighbourhood. The special train
then started, amid the cheers of the spectators and the
firing of canon, and thus ended his excellency's visit to
Londonderry.
His excellency was to have spent yesterday at Garcon
Tower, the seat of the Marchioness of Londonderry, and,

according to the programme
Belfast early to day.
SIIIPWRECK
The following despatch, ,
gives the fullest particulars
ship Cairo, of New York,
harbour yesterday (Saturda
Savannah, for orders, with.;
rican barque Mayflower, an,
vessel, on board, whom she
flower sailed from New Or.
with a cargo of staves for
11 hands, a stewardess, t. pun's wits
and three
cabin and six steerage passengers. Oa the 3d August
she was capsized in a gale of wind in lat. 41 N., long. 44
W.; and the captain, his wife, four of the crew, and
two cabin passengers, MM. Vernear and Dusseau, both
Frenchmen, managed to get on to the vessel's bottom,
where they clung for some time; but the sea ran so high
that the captain's wife and the two French gentlemen, MM.
Vernear; and Dusseau, were washed off amilost. The re-
mainder held on for about half an hour, when the foremast,
mainmast, and mizen topmast broke away, and the vessel
righted, but was full of water. Two passengers, M. Victor
Palanque, M. Dechan, two boys named Bernard, Mrs. Ber-
ney, the stewardess, her son, and six of the crew, were found
drowned in her when she righted. The others still succeeded
in holding on, but with little prospect of eventually saving
their lives, as the gale continued to blow with unabated vio-
lence, and there was no chance of assistance. On the fol-
lowing day, however, the Cairo fell in with them, after they
had spent a terrible night, clinging to the wreck, and ex-
posed to all the fury of the gale, and brought them into Cork
harbour. Captain Platt, on the arrival of the ship in port,
wrote a letter expressive
of his deep gratitude for the kind-
ness he and the remnant of his crew had met with at the
hands of Captain Wooster, of the Cairo. The latter vessel
agents, Messrsg.HJEt
AentTeDLs
interesting
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left again on Saturday for Amsterdam, leaving Captain
Platt and Lis men to the care of the American Consular
The followliTi
ICAaPrelliaken from the
Ulsterman, a Belfast paper :—" A curious mistake occurred
a few days ago in connection with the telegraphic cable,
which has been so successfully laid between Ireland and the
American continent. One of the first messages transmitted
by the sub-oceanic cable from the Irish terminus to New-
foundland was to this effect: It is twelve noon in Dublin;
what o'clock is it with you?' The reply to this, as the
magnetic telegraph informed the public, was
eight o'clock
in the evening.' There is some confusion with regard to
this matter. The question of east and west longitude, and
the difference of time between Ireland and America is now,
therefore of some importance. Time and space are practi-
cally annihilated between the New World and the western
portions of the Old. An intelligent friend has favoured us
with the following calculation, in the reading of which it
must be borne in mind that Belfast time—the longitude
being to the eastward—is always in advance of the dials in
the transatlantic towns. The following is the calculation
referred to :
St. John's 52 degs. 36 mins. west long.
Belfast 5 degs. 55 mins. ~
Difference of long.
Difference of time
Belfast
Difference of lon 5 degs. 55 mins. „
g 66 degs. 7 mins. „
Difference of time
• lf New Orleans
BelDiffefas
rence of long 4B deggss.. 11 mins. mins.
JP
Difference of time ..
• 3,
Washington 76 degs. 55 mins.
Belfast

Difference of long 7l dogs.
Difference of time
Halifax 63 legs. 33 mins.
Belfast
Difference of long 57 degs. 38 mins.
Difference of time
San Francisco 122 degs. 27 mine. „
Belfast
Difference of long 116 degs. 32 mins. „
Difference of time
Belfast, 12 o'clock noon, corresponds with the following
hours at the places stated :
New Orleans 6 hours 24 mine. a.m.
New York 7 hours 28 mins. a.m.
St. Joha's
Washington
Halifax
San Francisco

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