The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-13 00:00:00

DANUBE AND BLACK SEA.

A special general meeting of this company was
held on Thursday at the offices, Abingdon-street,
Westminster—Mr. Liddell in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said the meeting had been con-
vened for the pu?pose of obtaining the sanction of
the proprietors to a convention with the Imperial
Ottoman Government, by which the company pro-
posed to transfer the nominal ownership of the har-
bour of Kusteudjie, on the Black Sea. The company
were to receive £7,500 a year in lieu of the dues,
and £2,500 for the maintenance of the harbour and
quays. In consequence of the difficulty experienced
with ambassadors and sea captains as to the levying
of dues a deputation waited upon Earl Russell, who
warmly took up the views of the company, and wrote
a despatch requesting the English Ambassador to
bring his influence to bear on the matter. Eventu-
ally the convention passed, owing in a great mea-
sure to the exertions of Lord Lyons, and it now only
awaited the ratification of the Sultan.

In reply to questions, the CHAIRMAN said he be-
lieved the payment by the Turks would be good for
someyears, and in default of their receiving £lO,OOO
a year as stipulated, the company could still work as
usual, owing to the receipts for grain aid other
traffic.

A resolution pledging the sanction of the share-
holders to the convention was then agreed to unani-
mously, and a vote of thanks to the chairman con-
cluded the proceedings.

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.
Mlles Opened. Receipt&

gailways.

1865. 1864. 1865 1854

£ C
Belfast and N, Counties 94 991 2,825 1.736
Belfast and County Down 443/4 4,3/4 570 576
Blyth and Tyne 36 36 1, 56 1,n31
Brecon and Merthyr
Bristol and Exeter 1213/4 1213/4 5,b 8 6.414
Caledonian, Scottish Central 4OB 408 27.455 21.9,6
Cambrian l3O ,21 1,951 1,730
Coaermouth K do Pcnrlth
Cockermouth and iVorkin
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 38, 315
Cork, .illackrock, & Passage 64 13/4 1,1 133
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall
Deeside l7 17 2 ,5 3t.5
Do Extension
-- -- -- -

Dublin & lieltaat J unction 63- 63- 1,379 1.307
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75 1,490 1 311
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid lO6 911 2,954 2,717
Forth and Clyde Junction
Furness, &c 5O 150 3,262 2 816
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Kastern,Nrik.,&E.Union
Great Northern 404 885 33,103 33,364
Great North of Scotland 5B 53 I,tsol 1,1.91
Do Branches 42 4! 1,169 1, 18
ot. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 439 342
rirt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlad.) 3871 881 6.159 5.836
Great Western l2BO 1270 62,58 J 60,34 J
Hull & Hornsea
Highland
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,406 1,457
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403 403 40,709 3 '.t 80
Limerick and Ennis.. 241 241 .57 179
Limerick and Foynes 261 261 84 98
Llanelly 46t 461 547 486
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2933 2671 19,373 17,.33
London, Chatham, & Dover; 1 134 127 / 7,729 6.563
all Metropolitan Extension /12 111 1 2,300 1,60 J
Do. Kent L oast
_ _

Lon., Tilbury, & Southend 421 42! 1:194 1,130
Ran.,Sheilield,&Linoolnsh 246 2i 6 17,8' 2 16,317
Manch. S.J un.& A ltrineliam 91 1,620 1,115
Karyport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,3 8 1.4.6
Metropolitan
Midland (final. N.-Western) 6778 6511 41,155 38,888
Midland Gt. Westn. of 'rind 2601 2601 2,796 2,998
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,385 2,517
North British, Edin., Perth
_and Dundee

N-Eastern and Stock 4z DarL 12061 11601 80',V81 55,8 8
North London
_ll :_9 4,238 4,273

North Staffordshire
258 258 7,656 6 925
Pembroke and Tenby lll 11/ 96 67
Ithymney l9l 191 1,003 917
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 5,6:8 5,096
Somerset and Dorset 66 66 1,063 782
South Devon
South-Eastern 315 306 19,640 18 220
Taff Vale 6l 61 5,519 5,624
Ulster
..... lO9 109 2,748 2.998
_ . .

. _
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 380 453
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,232 1,318
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO 10 630 . 609
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 --
W hitehaven & F urnesaJ um
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. _ _ _

Austrian
828 825 50,482 41,696

Bahia and San Francisco 761 761 958 6 7
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 26i CS 44
Bombay, Baroda, & e'en. India 306 185} 8,587 2.184
Detroit and Milwaukic lB9 184 4,842 6,139
Dutch Rhenish lOB2 1(82 5,051 4.183
Eastern of France 1551 1483 60,. 99 63,396
Eastern Bengal
East Indian

Grand Trunk of Canada . .
1377 1377 25,462 22,916
Great Central of Belgium 285 261
Great Indian Peninsula 590 553 34,639 12,748
Great Luxembourg. 134 134 5,487 ;3.880
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 345 315 13,263 13.160
Madras

blaarid, Saragossa &Alicant 778 713 19041 17,178
Northern of Canada 94 94 1,291 890
Northern of France 724 724 63,1- 43 60, 56
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman _ _ _
_4Bi . 181 767 638

Paris, Lyons, & llediterrn 2006 1974. 115,342 139,643
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1618 78,314 69,289
Recife and San Francisco. &c 77e 77i 1,018 765
Sc.nde • 105 105 1,451 2,342
Do. Punjab, &c 253 45 1,452 451
South Austrian, &c 1658 1527 69.44 57.913
Southern of France 863 823 31,312 27,399
Victoria
Welland 25 25 1:5 65
West & N-Wn. of France

A BULL IN A QUANDARY.—A valuable bull, be-
longing to the celebrated Warlaby herd, and said to be
worth .£l,OOO, was despatched by rail the other day from
Catterick, in Yorkshire, to a farm in Northumberland.
The necessary license was obtained, but the station-master
at Catterick would not book the bull farther than New-
castle. It was, therefore, necessary to obtain a fresh
license at that place, and as no farmers could bo found
who had a2B days' knowledge of the boast, it can neither
go north nor south, but is kept in the truck at the New-
castle Station.
INEXHAUSTIBLE IVORY.—New Siberia to
the
Isle of Lackon are, for the most part, only an
agglomeration of sand, ice, and elephants' teeth. At every
tempest the sea casts ashore fresh heaps of mammoths
tusks, and the inhabitants are able to drive a profitable
trade in the fossil ivory thrown up by the waves. Dur-
ing summer innumerable fishermen's barks direct their
course to this isle of bones; and in winter immense car-n
vans take the same route, all the convoys drawn by dogs,
returning charged with the tusks of the mammoth, weigh-
ing each from 150 to 200 pounds. The fossil ivory thus
obtained from the frozen north is imported into China and
Europe, where it is employed for the same purposes as
ordinary ivory—which is furnished, as we know, by the
elephant and hippopotamus of Africa and Asia. The isle
of bones has served as a quarry of this valuable material
for export to China for 500 years ; and it has been exported
to Europe for upwards of 100. But the supply from these
strange mines remains undiminished. What a Number of
accumulated generationi does not this profusion of bones
and tusks imply.—Pichnis All the Year Round."