The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-13 00:00:00

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week.
Miles Opened. Reoe!pm

Hallways.

1866.

1805.

----,
1866 1865
£ 4
1,825 1,681
583 612

Belfast and N. Counties .
Belfast and Comity Down....
Blyth and Tyne
Brecon and Merthyr
Bristol and Exeter 121&
Caledonian, Scottish Central 4151
Cambrian 11)
Cockermoutla K & Penrlth .. 311
Cockermouth and Workin .. 9
Cork and Bandon 2O
Cork, Blackrock, &Passage 6l
Cork and Youghal
Cornwall 651
Deeside l7
Do Extension
Dublin & Reif ast J unction .... 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd lO6
Forth and Clyde aunction
Furness, &c 5O
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eitstern,Nrik.,&E.l.lnion
Great Northern lO4
Great North of Scotland 5B
Do Branches 42
Gt. Nortlin. & Weatn. (Irel.) 7ll
rit.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 8874
Great Western l2BO
Hull & Hornsea
Highland ... 246
Irish North-Western 145
Lancashire & Yorkshire 403
Limerick and Ennis..
Limerick and Foynes 261
Llanelly 461
Llynvi Valley
London & North-Western
London & South-Western
Loud. Brighton, &S. Coast 2931
London, Chatham, & Dover; j 134
all Metropolitan Lxteosion j 12
Do. Kent _oast
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheilield, & Lincolnsh
Ranch. S.J un.& A ltrincham 94
Maryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 6776
Midland Gt.Westn. of hind 2Ol
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl 12071
North London ll
North Staffordshire 258
Pembroke and Tenby ll4
lifiymney lB4
ScottishNorth-Eastern l3B
Somerset and Dorset 66
South Devon
South-Eastern 315
Tad' Vale 6l
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd.
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l
Waterford and Limerick 77
%V'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt lO
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Austrian B2B 825
Bahia and San Francisco
Belgian Eastern Junction 261 26
Bombay, Daroda, & Cen. India 306 185
Detroit and Milwaukic lB9 189
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1U8?
Eastern of France ..... 1551 1483
Eastern Bengal ... ..... 110 110
East Indian
Grand Trunk of Canada 1177 1377
Great Central of Belgium 285 261
Great Indian Peninsula 590 553
Great Luxembourg 134 134
Great Southern of India
Great Western of Canada 343 315
Madras.
Madrid, Saragossa &Alicant 778 713
Northern of Canaaa
Northern of France 721 724
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
Paris, Lyons, & 3lediterrn 2006 197
Paris and Orleans lB2l 1613
Recife and San Francisco. &c. 771 774
Se nue l(5 105
Do. t'unjab, ttc 253 45
South Austrian, &c ". . 1653 1527
Southern of France e63 823
Victoria
Welland.
%Vest & N-Wn. of France

1,141 5.3
5,687 6,410
25 572 22,841
2,023 1,042

"332 -
326 297
305 342
152 128
471 366
1,396 1.170
26) 248
91 62
1,358 1.282
1,561 1.495
266 23)
2,890 2,591
250 231
3,618 2,808
9,433 8,372
32,956 31,402
35,084 32,631
1,693 1.349

1,084 923
705 413
7.952 7.465
64,395 60,879

92 78
2,755 2,226
1,617 1,640
4j,383 35,370
159 23
167 92
474 493

207
474 387
1273} 106,330 99,122
470 f 2 ,781 18.771
2671 17,913 15,614
127 j 7,983 8,618
111 2,100 1,5
27 780 610
42► 1,067 919
2i 6 19,638 16,358
94 1,416 1,253
28 1,531 1,386
31 3,6 9 ,418
6511 49,299 44,024
2608 5,085 4,441
44 2,092 2,417

22,411 <0,446
66.394 53,9,1
4,360 3.106
8,061 0.345
9.1 46
1,104 1,0.13
6,G 1 5,062
1,134 688
3.468 3,29
20,699 19.121
5,286 6,388
2,699 2,566
109 149
375 3t6
1.251 911
689 571
32,r44 31,863

565
287
2,800
4,496
5,333
5k,016
31,543

6,333
12,165
4,011
473
11,306
7,17(
15,320

785
51,674

0.4
123,318
62,7 6 .•
1,037
2,158
267
44,932
21,356
10.520

45,118

4?,76

The Price of Gold.

Tne quotation of gold at Paris is about 1 per mule pm,, and
the short exchange ou London is 25.15 per £1 sterling. On
comparing these rates with the English Mint price of £3
17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that gold is
about t-ltths per cent. dearer iu Paris than in London.
By advice s from Hamburg the price of gold is 424 per mark
and the short exchange on London is 13.41 per £1 sttrlitti.
Standard gold at the Engll,ll Mint price is, therefore, at
about the same price in London and Hamburg.
n,e courre of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 108/ to 104 per cent. At these rates there
is no profit on the importation of go'd frau the Unite
Sates.

HYDE-PARK IMPROVEMENTS.—The alterations
which were commenced during the past autumn in Hyde-
park, for the purpose of widening the carringe drive on
the north side of the Serpentine the entire distance from
Hyde-park-corner to the turn of the road adjoining Ken
sington-gardens, have now been completed. An impor-
tant part of the improvement effected in this locality is the
formation of an entirely new foot path along the whole
distance, on the park side of the road, for the purpose. of
giving more accommodation lib the throng promonadnag
on the same side.

MAILS FOR MEXICO, VIA NEW YORlC.—lnforma-
tion having been received from the Postmaster-
General of the United States that letters, &c., may be
forwarded to Mexico by means of the United States mail
packets, which leave Now York for Vera Cruz on the Bth
and 23d of every month, any letters and newspapers for
Mexico which may be specially directed " via New York,"
will in future be forwarded by that route.

THE INTERNATIONAL SC ULLERS' MATCII.—Our
readers will be happy to learn that there is some
prospect of the match between Kelley and Hamill being
satisfactorily arranged for the approaching summer The
bringusthe news that Kellesar Our latest foreign files
oin:fikv6eYlipmpileerroafcePuebp.o3n a course to be
ephepo d, viz.,to
to meet Hamill upon the coYndasitioenxsprlesstedrhoiss wsebilliugness
Nroeww
after his arrival in London, and a second, alsoeonf by Hamill,
over the usual metropolitan course, provided Kelley is
beaten in the first encounter. Harry, it is said, has de-
posited £250 in the hands of the editor of the Sportsman,
so that all now remaining to be done in order to effect the
match is for Hamill to cover the amount named, which we
are confident ho will immediately proceed to do.
JUMPING DOWN A COALPIT.—On Saturday last
at Beeston, near Leeds, Sarah Twidell, the wife of a collier,
but who had for some time been separated from her hus-
hutd, committed suicide by jumping down the shaft of a
coalpit. The shaft was of considerable depth, an
htfull
d the
f
woman was killed on the spot, her body being rig y
mutilated.
THE WOOLLEN TRADE.—WhiIe the woollen
manufacture of the United States has doubled since the
war commenced, it is shown by official figures that in the
four years ending June 30, 1805,
woollens imported make a grand agg g
trheoawtoooofl,ssll3lo3d2oyo,,oaonod,
of which the unrnanufactured wool amounts to 287,000,000
of pounds, costing $45,000,000. Nearly all of the imports
of wool under the late tartiff came in either at three or six
cents per pound, the duty averaging less than five cents.
The wools of Australia and South Africa, which are fine
morinoes, are invoiced at less than twenty-four cents per
round.