The New York herald., 1844-08-30
Receipts from Jan. lst to Aug. l7th sls3s4 AIS 395
Week ending Aug. 24th .."....... l3.764 2l,247
Total to August a4th.... -. ssaa,l4s s44o.s4a

For the week ending the Gath inst the receipts for pas
sengers were and from freight So 200 than for
the same week in ls4s showing for the week
OF $74S3 All the railroads Of the country appear be
n very prosperous condition The railroads Of Great
Britain have within the last years. increased in pro-
ducveness very much and the stocks Of several have
advanced very rapidly The Bristol aud Exeter has I'D
vanced from f35 to f7s per share; Birmingham and
Gloucester, f4l to fll2 North Midlands f56 to flOs
Manchester and Leeds, f5s to fll6; Sheffield and
Manchester, ESQ to fs5; Birmingham and Derby ear to
ES4; Midland Counties. ESQ to fi0s; Manchester and
Birmingham fl9 to f55. In Great Britain
railroad stock paying four per cent is at par and
rises nearly 100 per cent for every addition.
al four per cent which it pays stock paying ten per
cent commsnds f23O for f00 invested The railroads of
this country cannot for many years. reach the same
degree Of productiveness of the English railroads The
dense population of Great Britain and the immense
amount OF the internal commerce of the country swells
the income Of roads in that country to enormous
amount that notwithstanding the very great outlay
in construction, many roads pay than ten per
annual dividends The nett income yielded by 1886 miles
Of railroad in operation in Great Britain in ls43
structed at the cost of ESQ., 100 sterling
about $3.50 900 00O Yet with tins extravsgant outlay Of
capital find the average nett receipts for Isaa exceed
The receipts from passengers f3 500 PAT
Do from merchandise and mails. ;. 1884 4Os
94,sa7,e5s
This expenses. ....................... 93i ,062
Nett receipts sterling. ............ .f2. 500, 500
OF the above ftysix millions of pounds sterling Ca
900 expended in 1913, towards completing
raj works commenced, while only So miles added
to the system during that year. That idea may be
formed of the immense expenditure English railways
compared with American it is sufficient to state that the
former cost, average single with double tracks)
f35374 or $l760C0 per me while the latter. sim
gle track and equal extent to 5000 miles, $40 600
per mile, $4,000 sterling; not equal by $40 OoO
to the average cost of right Of way and land damages
England, per mile.
The twenty days allowed by law to continue the sale Of
the Deeware division of the Pennsy canals expired
the 27h instant when only thirty shares had been
sod The seller gave notice the close of the sale that
the money would be returned to the purchasers of
shares This first attempt to dispose of the public works
in accordance with the law passed the last session Of
Congress- has proved failure and have great fears
that the attempt to sell the line, may prove unor
tunate The tax law, passed at the me has yet
been tested That may fail eectualy the late sale
We annex a table showing the quantity of cotton yarn
exported from Great Britain for the first six months Of the
years lsa and 1884, naming the countries to which the
exports went and the quantity taken by each shows
falling off Of nearly twelve and half per cent
CorToN YARN EXPORTED FROM GREAT BRITAIN IN THE
FIRST SIX MONTHS IN THE YEARS 1873 AND 1884,
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