Per mile. Per train mile. Coaching £889 3s. 10d. Goods and Minerals 1,356 9s. 8½d. The results of the working of the German railways for the year 1884 were as under:-- Total of State Railways. Private Railways. all Railways. Gross receipts £44,621,504 £4,127,569 £48,749,073 Expenses 24,267,185 2,206,937 26,474,122 ----------- ---------- ----------- Net receipts £20,354,319 £1,920,632 £22,274,951 The expenses being 54·38, 53·47, and 54·31 per cent., respectively, on the receipts-- The average amount per mile and per train mile of the following receipts:-- Coaching receipts £12,989,912 Goods and Mineral 33,591,675 Miscellaneous 2,167,486 ----------- £48,749,073 being Per mile. Per train mile. Coaching receipts £575 3s. 4¼d. Goods, &c. £1,486 9s. 10¾d. The private railway companies in Belgium are not required to furnish the Government with returns similar to those supplied to the Board of Trade in this country. It is, therefore, difficult to obtain complete information on this head. But the results of the working of the State railways, which, as has been explained, form more than 71 per cent. of the whole system of the country, are accessible, and may for this purpose be taken as fairly representative. Gross receipts of the State railways for the year 1884, viz., Coaching £1,620,565 Goods and Minerals 3,088,109 Miscellaneous 98,970 ---------- £4,807,644 and the expenses to 59·72 per cent. £2,871,268 ---------- leaving net receipts £1,936,376 Thus, the average amount of the gross receipts per mile, and per train mile respectively, is Per mile. Per train mile. Coaching £840 3s. 1¾d. Goods and Minerals £1,600 5s. 11½d. On the State, Holland, Dutch Rhenish, Dutch Central, and Brabant Railways, which comprise more than 90 per cent. of the whole railway system of Holland, the gross receipts for the year amounted to--