The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-03 00:00:00

ast from Goriattum to Amboor, a distance of 17

miles, and on the Ist of the following month to
Vaniambody, ten miles further. Advices of the
13th of March announced a further opening of 14
miles to Tripatore, making the entire distance now
open from Madras 137 miles. Those extensions
had brought the railway into connexion with
some of the principal roads of the interior. From
Tripatore westward to Salem little more was
required to be done than to finish the laying
of the permanent way. The Board hoped to ba
able before long to announce the opening of the
railway on that important point, which was half-
way across the Peninsula, being 207 miles from Ma-
dras. The engineer was confident that before the
end of the year the road would be laid through to
Paulghaut. The works on all the district west of
Salem were expected to be very near completion by
the end of this year, and that but little would then
remain to be done before opening the railway
throughout froth one coast to the other. The le agth
of the Bangalore branch as now surveyed and set
out, was 841 miles. A great part of the land had.
been handed over by the. Government to the com-
pany's engineers, and the works had been com-
menced in several places. An early opening of
eight miles of the Bellary line from Arconum Junc-
tion to Trittany was anticipated. Tn the course of
the year the engineer hoped to open further to Nag-
gry, and soon atter further to Curcumbady. On the
Completion of the present issue of debentures, the
amount of capital raised under the contract for the
main or south-west line would be £4,000,000. A
call of £5 per share was made on the 16th january
last on the million of share capital, " 4th Exten-
sion," issued under the contract for' the Bellary or
north-west line. The working of the traffic on the
south-west line during the six months ending the
31st of December last had produced for conveying
357,757 passengers £14,357, against 151,300 pas-
sengers conveyed and £10,994 received during the
corresponding half of the preceding year. The first-
class fares were reduced by one-third, and the third-
class fares to one-half the previous amount since
the Ist of August last. The receipts for goods traffic
amounted to £9,597 against £6,823 in the correspond-
ing half of the preceding year . The total receipts
for the half-year amounted to £31,837, and the
working charges to £12,166, or 38.21 per cent.,
against £21,760 and £8,740, or 40.21 per cent. re-
spectively for the half year ending 31st of December,
1858, showing an increase of £10,078, or 461 per
cent, on the receipts, and of £3,416 in the expenses.
The traffic receipts per mile had gradually risen
from £3O per month at the first opening of the line,
in 1856, to nearly £57 per month in the five last
months of 1859, being an increase of 90 per cent. in
three years. The payments into the Government
treasury, at Madras, on account of net traffic earn-
ings to the 31st of December last, in reduction of
interest advances, had amounted to £60,439 ; to
which a further sum would be added on the adjust-
ment of the maintenance charges for the last 18
months. The rolling stock of the railway continued
to be maintained in good and efficient order. The
passenger trains travelled at 20 miles per hour, and
the goods trains at 15 miles per hour. The total
expenditure on capital account to the 31st of De-
cember last amounted to £3,426,076.
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COUNTRY MARKETS.

LYNN-MAY 1.

The supply of wheat was good, and there was a fair
attendance of farmers and factors. Trade ruled slow, at
is below last week's rates. •.

Old white 50s to 56s I Old red 478 to 52s
New white... 488 to 54s I New red .. 488 to 52.

HULL-MAY 1.

There was nothing doing in wheat to-day, and prices
underwent no change. Oats in demand. Peas searce, and
in good inquiry. Barley inactive.
Wheat.... Old white per qr. s6s Od to 582 Oct
Old red
New white .. „
New red .... ,
Dantzic, Konb , &c. old white 46s Od to 50s Od
Dutch, Belgian, and French 46s Od to 56s Od
Baltic and Hamburg, red 44s Od to 48s Od
St. Petersburg and Riga, old 39* Od to 44s Od
Barley.... English malting 4os Od to 44s Od
Grinding 3ls Od to 34s Od
Saai and Oderbruelc
Holstein and Danish .. 34s Od to 35s Od
Grinding
Oats English, old
Archangel and Riga, per st Os 1014 to lld
Friesland and Dutch Oslld to 0811
Swedish and Danish Oslld to osll d
Beans ....English, old, per qr.
New pigeon 4os Od to 428 Oct
New tick. 42s Octto 44s Oct
_ _ _ _

4yp.- tian 37s Od to 38s Od
Peas Foreign breakers
Grinding
Tares ....Winter —s Od to —s Od
Indian Corn ',
508 Od to 52s Od
Linseed,
cfrueedskiinngg.
44s Od to 50s Od
Linseed cakes (Hull)
Foreign 715 oto 8 5 0
Rape cakes 415 oto & 0 0
Bones 415 oto 6 6 0