The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-08 00:00:00

TBE SUN, LOSDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 8 1866.

been £4,551; the expenses £3,021, or 58 per cent.,
leaving a net profit of £1,530. Of the capital of
£lOO,OOO there is nearly £lO,OOO unexpended. Mr.
Holloway's able report on the working of the line
furnished full details which deserved perusal. Every
assistance had been afforded by the Madras Govern-
ment and by the Madras Railway and their officers.
The directors expected an early reply from the Se-
cretary of State as to the extension of those works
on the Indian sift. gauge, and upon such terms as
would be acceptable and sufficient. The release from
any payment for interest by the Government this
year upon upwards of £30,000,000 to the East In-
dian and Great Indian Peninsula Railways would
probably have its due weight with the Government
as to extending those works before the large foreign
loans had diverted much of the available capital of
the country. If it were needful to confirm the value
of those undertakings, the exertions being made in
America by subsidies of from £3,300 to £9,900 per
mile to the Pacific Railway would suffice ; but the
Government were alive to the subject, and they
would very soon have their final decision. The sad
accounts from India showed that the famine in the
Orissa districts continued unabated, the deaths
from starvation averaging in each hospital 100 a day.
Upwards of 100,000 persons were fed daily by the
Government and privatecharity, and the total mor-
tality was estimated at 1,000,000, out of a popula-
tion of 5,000,000. Well might the Times' correspon-
dent write that " Famines are very ;,dear to the Go-
vernment." Nothing could ever check the evil and
its periodical recurrence but a comprehensive system
of irrigation to produce and railways to transport
the means of sustenance throughout the country.
(Hear, hear.)

•
Resolutions were passed adopting the report and
accounts and re-electing Major-Gen. Alexander and
Mr. Baine, the retiring directors. Mr. Kimber was
elected a director, in the room of Mr. Allan, who re-
tired. The retiring auditors, Mr. Franklin and Mr.
Smith, were re-elected, and ten guineas voted to each
for the past year. The proceedings concluded with
a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.

Miles Opened. Receipts.
..----"----,---.....-...,
1860. 1865. 1866 1865

Railways.

£ £
Belfast and N, Counties 991 99i 2,166 2.025
Belfast and County Down 49 49 663 543
Blyth and Tyne 36 36 1,898 2,506
Brecon and Merthyr ..... ... 68 64 1,323 1,182
Bristol and Exeter l3li 121 i 6,17 J 5,877
Caledonian. Scottish Central 562 562 33.091 .32,763
Cambrian l3O /30 2,1.8 2,151

Cockermouth K & Penrlth .. 314 3!4 3 9 322
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 414 401
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 64 64 127 1 6
Cork and Limerick Direct
Cornwall 654 654 1,442 1.4.8
D-eeside l7 17 311 364
Do Extension
Dublin &14ellastJ unction.... 63 63 1,(01 1.479
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,833 1.u70
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextel lO5 106 3,139 2.951
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c B5 85 4,465 4.447
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrlk.,&E.Union
Great Northern 422 10t 41,3.6 36,934

Great North of Scotland 242 21 l 3,1.15 3, '7B
',it. Northn. & Westn.(lrel.) B4l 711 SIA 439
lt.Southn. tix IVestn.(lrind.) 4191 3871 9.135 7, 22
Great Wemtern l3lll 1280 a 67,347 53.231
_ . _

Highland ... 216

3,2 30)75

11.41ak-.3
Lribh North- Western 145 145 2,108 1,567

Isle of Wight . ...... ....• .. 12 8 191 110
Lancashire& Yorkshire 403 403 43 786 39.498
Limerick and Ennis... 241 24f 143 127
Limerick and Foynes 261 26i 1 3 ) 118
Lianelly
Lly ay' Valley
London & North-Western
Loudon & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 314) 2931 26,739 19,078
London, Chatham, & Dover ; j 1351 134 / 8,543 7.686
all Metropolitan Extension / 121 12 j 1,911 1.900
Do. Kent ',oast
_ . ._.

Lou., Tilbury, & Southend 421 421 I,lbo 1,132
Londonderry and Coleraine 361 361 369 284
ilan.,Shellield,& Lincolush 246 246 22,045 20,587
Slanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9} 91 1,895 1,583
Ilaryport and Carlisle
lietropolitan
llidland (incl. N.-Western) 697 6/71 50,973 4 ~683
Ilidland Ci t. Westn. of hind 2tul 2601 5.341 4,731
ilonmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 3.122 2,6J5
North British, Edin., .Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 12201 12•)7} 70,465 66,605
North London ll 11 4,v54 4,101
North Staffordshire 258 258 8.081 8.538
Pembroke and Teuby 271 11# 216 112
ally mney ' 221 191 1,181 1,069
Scottish North-Eastern 143 138
Somerset and Dorset 66 68 1.153 1,0 2
South Devon
South-Eastern 330 315 21,0,3 19,911

Pia Vale 63 83 6,57) 5,602
Ulster

_
Vale of Clwyd. - 10 ISt 117
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 285 275
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,532 1,e63
West Cork. l7f
N, rex ham, Mold, ,tc . 14 14 216 255
W'lla.veu,Cleatorot Egrmnt.. 10 10 695 625
lootimuiv AND COLONIAL.

Austrian 822 822 53,559 46,304
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction-- 204 264 3,3 4 8
Bombay, Baroda, & I:en. India 306 306 6,8 7 7.1, 8
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 7,3 9 8,476
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1(.81 5,923 5.315
Easturn of France 1855 1551 77, 91 73.539
Eastern Bengal
East Indian - -
Grand Trunk of Canada 1377 1377 29,3_8 28.857
Great Centrai of Belgium 285 245 7 u,O 6,857
Great Indian Peninsula 7Bl 590 14,775 18,973
Great Luxembourg 134 134 6,789 6.215
Great Southeen of India
Great Western of Canada 343 3,5 12,181 15,507
Madras.
sladrid. Saragossa &Aiicant BBB 778 2 ,864 13,217
Northern of Canada - . 94 94 - -
Northern of France 764 724 67,485 64,211
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman - -
Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 2151 2000 15171,903 15",251
Paris and Orleans ll2l 18 8 83,875 . 78,125
Recife and San Francisco, &c. 774 776 950 912
ScJacte lO9 105 2,375 2,031
Do. Punjab, &c 253 253 983 959
South Austrian, ctc .. . 1798 1694 82,126 62.656
Do, Piedmont lines 649 649 21,6.7 17860,
Southern of France 9.0 823 3:,786 25,123
Victoria

Welland. 25 25 1,068 883
West & of France .. 121 S 1151 58,322 52,512

THE PARIS EXHIBITION OF 1867.

In continuing our summary of the code of gene-
ral regulations approved by the French Imperial
Commission, we come to the Section 3, which in-
cludes the special arrangements respecting the pro-
ducts of agriculture and industry. Detonating,
explosive, and other substances of a dangerous na-
ture, are distinctly excepted from admission.
Spirits and alcohols, oils and essences, corrosive
substances, and generally substances which may
affect injuriously other products exhibited, or in-
commode the public, will only be received in strong
vessels specially adapted for the purpose, and of
small dimensions. Percussion caps, fireworks, Luci-
fer matches, and other similar articles, can only
be received when made in imitation, and deprived
of all inflammable ingredients. Exhibitors of pro-
ducts of an unwholesome and disagreeable nature
will be bound to conform at all times to such mea-
sures of safety as may be subscribed to them. The
Imperial Commission reserves to itself the right to
cause the removal of any products, whether French
or foreign, which by their nature or their bulk
might appear injurious, unsuitable, or incompatible
with the objects of the Exhibition.

Exhibitors of apparatus requiring the use of
water, gas, or steam, are to state, when 'sending in
their application for space, what amount of water
gas, or steam, will be necessary. Those who wish
secondpower
chapter
t
The
i t
to exhibit machines in motion are to state at what
speed each of these machines is to be driven, and the
motive
tehird section
reception, and placing of goods in the
Exhibition building and in
the park.
the despatch,
of
packing and carriage
of the goods sent to the Exhi-
bition and of the goods hi
there, is to be borne by twheec xhhhaibivtoersbn both exhibited
toan and
fro. The Imperial Commission will not interfere in
any way between the contractors
for the carriage of
packages and the exhibitors in respect of the des-
patch and the reception of the goods. The exhibi-
tors must, therefore, either personally or by their
agents, see to the transmission and reception of the
packages, and verify their contents. If neither the
exhibitor nor his agent be present to receive the
packages on their arrival at the Exhibition the car-
rier is bound to remove them immediately. Packages
from foreign countries must be marked in such a
way as to show distinctly from whence they come.
The Imperial Commission will mak.: arrangements
with the foreign commissioners in order that these
packages may be transmitted in accordance with the
regulations specified in Article 40 for French
packages. On this point, however, the foreign com-
missioners will adopt the course which they may
consider most advisable. French and foreign goods
will be received into the Exhibition from the 15th
January, 1867, up to the 10th March following,
inclusive. The Exhibition is specially constituted a
bonded warehouse. Foreign goods intended for the
Exhibition will be admitted into France, under
bond, up to the sth March, 1867, by the following,
ports and frontier towns :—Dunkirk, Lille, Valen-
ciennes, Feignies, Jenmont, Vireux, Givet, Longwy,
Thionville, Forbaeb, Wissenbourg, Strasbourg, Saint

Louis, Pontarlier, Bellegarde, Saint Michel, Nice,
Marseilles, Cotte, Le Perthus, Hendaye, Bayonne,
Bordeaux, Nantes, Saint Nazaire, Granville, Havre,
Dieppe, Rouen, Boulogne, and Calais.
The Imperial Commission will issue special in-
structions relative to the period when the materials
for the buildings, as objects for exhibition, the sepa-
rate parts of machines and apparatus, heavy and
cumbersome articles, and those which require
masonry or special foundations are to be brought
into the precincts of the Exhibition. Such works arc
to be performed by the exhibitors and at their own
cost, in accordance with the plans submitted to
them for the approval of the Imperial Commission.
The Imperial Commission will supply gratuitously
the water, gas, steam, and motive power for the
machines admitted. This motive power will, ex-
cept in special cases, be transmitted by a hori-
zontal main shaft, the diameter and the num-
ber of revolutions per minute of which will be made
known by the imperial Commission before the 31st
December, 1866. The exhibitors will have to fur-
nish driving pulleys on the main shaft, connecting
pulleys, and intermediate shafting for the purpose
of regulating the proper speed of the apparatus, as
well as the belts necessary for each of these mo-
tions. Steam-engines which require to be supplied
with steam from their own boilers cannot be shown
in the Exhibition building, and special directions
will therefore be issued respecting them. All other
expenses, such as the employment of workmen in
the building, the reception and opening of packages,
the con-
esa,nd other
stthreurcetmionovaolfancdoucnhtearrsg,e osftapgaecsk,inggl-acsass
cases, &c., the placing of goods in the Exhibition
building and in the park, the decoration of the
stalls, and the return of the goods, are to be borne
by the exhibitors, French as well as foreign. The
Imperial Commission will point out to exhibitors,
who may apply, contractors for the execution of their
work, and for the removal and custody of their
cases ; but they are at libertyto employ any contrac-
tom or workmen they may think fit. The various
stalls and fittings may be erected in the Exhibition
as fast as the buildings are completed ; they must
be commenced at latest on the Ist of December,
1866, and must be ready for the reception of goods
before the 15th January, 1867. _

But the British Commissioners have pointed out
that it is desirable to avoid the use of glass cases as
much as possible, and that when cases were neces-
sary the frames only should be made in England
and the glass obtained in Paris, as there was much
breakage of glass in transmission on the occasion
of the Exhibition at Paris in 1855.

By another recommendation the minute from
South Kensington on this occasion has remarked
that in order to display objects to the greatest ad-
vantage it has been found desirable to have cases of
a simple and unostentatious character. It was re-
commended that the framework be either metal
bronzed, or wood stained black, and that the name
of the exhibitor, his address, and class, should be
attached to the case within the framework. The
department, upon the particulars being sent and
approved, provided, and will provide, at its own
cost, all labels to be placed above 10 feet from the
ground on walls or screens, &c.
Specimens of the size and character of the letters
recommended to be used on cases, and also of those
which would be used for large labels, were enclosed
with this minute. Exhibitors were requested not to
prepare any other kind of labels without first sub-
mitting a pattern to the officer in charge of arrange-
ments. Aud to practically enforce this advice a
specimen of the style of glass case and the lettering
recommended may still be seen at the South Ken-
sington Museum. .

The passages reserved outside the exhibiting
space being strictly calculated for the purpose of
circulation, packages and empty cases are not
allowed to remain therein. Cases must, therefore,
be unpacked as fast as they are received. The
Imperial Commission will direct its own officers to
unpack for the exhibitors, and at their risk and
peril, the cases left in the passages intended for cir-
culation. From the 11th to the 28th March, 1867,
the goods already unpacked and placed in the stalls
are to be arranged and displayed for exhibition. The
29th and 30th March are reserved for the purpose
of a general cleaning. A review of the whole Exhi-
bition, as we have already announced, will take place
on the 31st March. The Imperial Commission will
take all measures necessary to have the Exhibition
complete in all its parts by the 28th March. It will
therefore dispose of all those portions of space
which, on the 14th January, 1867, are not occupied
by stalls ready for the reception of goods, and of all
those stalls which, on the 10th March, do not con-
tain goods enough to fill them. Immediately after
they have been unpacked the cases that have been
used for the carriage of the goods, either in France
or from abroad, are to be removed by the exhibitors
or their agents. If they should fail to do this with-
out delay the Imperial Commission will remove the
cases and packing, and will not be in any way re-
sponsible for their preservation. Special instruc-
tions will be published hereafter for the organisation
and arrangement of the products and objects for
exhibition which are to be placed in the park.
By the 3d chapter, the general administration
and police arrangements are precisely set out. The
name of the prodThc nu
ac
me r
bwoei
of
l be affixed
a the
ee
added
retailer
with
the tothe
whopr g o
usually
ucoeords
exhibited.
producer's
acoentsseansti.lisTagheenlt may
yrial Commission will, when re-
quired, make arrangements for the exhibition of
goods under the name of the retailer when they are
not sent for exhibition by the producer. Exhibitors
are requested to insert after their own names, or
the names of their firms, the names of those persons
who have contributed in a special manner to the
merit of the products exhibited, either as inventors
or designers, or by some process of manufacture,
or by some remarkable skill in the workman-
ship. The cash price of the objects exhibited,
and the place where they may be purchased, may be
stated. The information must be given upon all
objects included in Class 91. In all the classes
the prices, if stated, must be adhered to by the
exhibitor as respects the buyer, under penalty of
exclusion from competition. Objects sold may not
be removed before the close of the Exhibition with-
out the special permission of the Imperial Commis-
sion. The Imperial Commission will take every
means to preserve from damage the articles ex-
hibited, but it will not hold itself in any way.re-
sponsible for any loss by fire, or for any accident,
damage, or injury, great or small, which may
happen to them, from whatever cause it may arise.
Exhibitors must take upon themselves the expense
of insurance if they should see fit to avail them-
selves of that precaution. The goods exhibited will
be watched by the necessary staff, but the commis-
sion will not be responsible for any thefts or em-
bezzlements which may be committed. A special
notice, posted in the Exhibition building and in the
park, will make known the staff appointed to orga-
nise the interior of the building. It will also con-
tain the names of the officers whose duty it will be
to give assistance to the exhibitors, and to watch
over the security of the Exhibition. A ticket will
be delivered to each exhibitor, which will give him
free admission to the Exhibition. This ticket will
not be transferable. If it should be proved that the
exhibitor has lent or given his ticket to some other
person it will be forfeited, without prejudice to
further proceedings at law. To secure the carrying
out of this regulation, the ticket of admission must
be signed by the holder, who will have to enter the
Exhibition by certain prescribed doors only, and he
may be required to establish his identity by signing
his name in a book to be kept for that purposo. Ex-
hibitors will be allowed to have their goods taker
cure of by the agents they may select, but they must
be approved of by thelmperial commission. Fersonal
tickes of free admission will be given to these
agents under the conditions laid down in the fore-
going article. An exhibitor's agent can only re.
ceive one ticket of admission whatever number of
exhibitors he may represent. Exhibitors or their
agents must not solicit visitors to make purchases ;
they will confine themselves to answering inquiries,
to handing the address cards, prospectuses, and lists
of prices which they may be asked for. The Impe-
rial Commission will fix hereafter the prices of ad-
mission to be paid by visitors in order to be ad-
mitted into the Exhibition. An international jury
for making the awards will be formed, divided into

nine groups, corresponding with the nine groups of
the products of agriculture and industry enumerated
in the system of classification. The number, the
nature, and the various grades of the awards, as
well as the constitution and functions of the jury,
whose duty it will be to apportion them, will be
published hereafter.
The last chapter regulates the proceedings which
are to take place on the closing of the Exhibition
and removal of the goods. Immediately after
the closing of the Exhibition the exhibitors must
begin to pack and remove their goods and fittings.
This operation must be completed before the 30th
November, 1867. After that date the goods, cases,
and fittings, which may not have been taken away
by the exhibitors or their agents will be removed
and deposited in public warehouses at the cost and
risk of the exhibitors. The objects which by the
30th June, 1868, may not have been removed from
that warehouse will be publicly sold, and the net
proceeds of the sale will be applied to some work of
charity.
We have thus minutely recapitulated all the
arrangements which regard the interests of exhibi-
tom from the United Kingdom. The staff officers
we have also added as it was supplied by theproper
authorities. All inquiries in this country from
actual or intending exhibitors are answered at South
Kensington ; those in Paris can be addressed to the
official bureau, at 71, Champs Elysees. This man-
sion was the residence of the sister of the Empress
of the French, the Duchesse d'Albe. The ground
floor will probably be occupied by the office of the
British executive. On the first floor the President
of the Council, as the chief of the executive, will
hold levees, &c., as he may think fit. The execu-
tive commissioner will occupy as a temporary resi-
dence the third floor, and such portions of the upper
part of the edifice as may be necessary. Provision
will be made in the fourth storey, &c., for those of
the staff who will be required to be in attendance
on the Exhibition.