The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-08 00:00:00

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THE FUNDS—(CLOSING PRICES)
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced ...
1100)
3 per Cent. Consols:
•00%
New 314 per Cent •. . 104,
Long Annuities to expire Jan 1860 12 3-16
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ... 11 15-16
India Stock for Account
India Bonds, 1,000/ —
Ditto under 1,000/. . .
Bank Stock for Account 21211
is
Consols
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11/,d 65 pm.
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small ... 66 pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 401,4
Columbian Bonds 6 per Cent l4l/
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. . - 0 I
,2
Ditto 3 per Cent. .. • 361/,;?,
SHARES.
Pirect Northern, 21,,"! paid 23"
/8
Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2.'2 paid ... 5
Dublin and Mullingar, 21. /f} paid
Eastern Counties, 25 paid -
Great North of England, 100 paid 1463/4
Ditto, New Shares, 5 paid 2SU
4
Great Western, 75 paid... ...... •••••
Dittu Half Shares, 50 paid
Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid
/4
London and Birmingham (Stock) .. 228
Ditto Quarter Shares, 2 paid
London and Blackwail, 163 71,
London and Greenwich, 12.7,y paid
London and Croydon, 13/. 15s. 9, raid ......
London and York. 21,2 paid
Midland, 100 paid
Newcastle and Darlington Junction, 24 paid 63
Neweaatic and Berwick, 11.; paid
Northern and Eastern, 45 paid 59
1\ orth Kent. 234 paid
Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid
Portsmouth Direct, 1 paid
Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid 21,.i
South Devon, 10 paid
South Eastern and Dover, 331 paid 411.i
South Wales, 21/.; paid
West London, 0111 Shares, 20 paid 7
'York and North Midland, 50 paid
Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid 321,.
Ditto Extension..
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid
Orleans and:Bordeaa, 2 I.aid 4
4 /4

BLACKWALL RAILWAY COM-
PANY.—(THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the Shareholders of this
Company was held this morning, at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, for the purpose of receiving the re-
port of the Directors on the subject of a proposed branch
railway, from the Stepney Station of the London and
Blackwell Railway, through Stratford, Leytonstone,
Wanstead, Woodford,Chigwell, Loughton, and Abridge,
to Epping. The chair was taken at twelve o'clock by
J. N. Daniell, Esq.
After the notice calling the meeting had been read,
The SECRETARY proceeded to read the report. He
commenced by stating that the attention of the Directors
basing been called to a considerable tract of thickly-po-
pulated country, lying between the Eastern Counties' and
Northern and Eastern Railways, they thereupon de-
termined to ascertain what were the facts as '
to the amount of the present existing traffic
in that part of the country, not making use of either of
the railways Lefore-melitioned, and the amount was
found to be much larger than they could possibly have
anticipated. The traffic returns had been made by
persona in whom the Directors felt the most perfect
confidence. The following was the traffic of one week,
taken at the beginning of November last :

Estimated
Number of Con- number of
veyances. Passengers.
Double-bodied carriages 504 1,512

Single ditto
Gigs and taxed carts
Vans

.. 874 1,748
.. 3,041 6,792
... 113 226

Stage coaches
Omnibuses
Horsemen

275 2,475
183 2,196
". • ... 878

Total passengers

Goods—Waggons, 516, at 3 tans each
Carts, '2,132, at 2 tons each ..

1,548
4,264

5,e 12
Deduct one-third empty

Total tons
These returns did not include the multitudes who visited
Epping Forest and the neighbourhood during the sum-
mer months on pleasure excursions. The revenue from
traffic beyond Stratford was estimated as f 'Bows :
Passengers-411,502, at, Is £20,575
205,751, at ls. 15,430
411,502, at 2s 41,150

77,155

Coach parcels, usually est'mated at
one-tenth of the pa,senger traffic
Assume only one-third of the goods
traffic after the deduction previ-
ously made of one-third, or 1,300
tons per week carried various
distances, say on the average
eight miles, at 2d. per ton per
mile

7,715

4,506

Giving for the grow receipts, from that part of
the line beyond Stratford
Add half the existing traffic between Stratford
and the City, or 3;34,980 passengers per
annum, at the average fare of 53.