The Express.
London, England, 1862-06-14 00:00:00

RAILWAY AND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN

PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday, on the re-assembling of the committees
of the House of Commons, the bill of the South Yorkshire
Railway for a line of three miles from a junction with
their line at Kimberworth to a double junction with the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. at Attercliffe, and
another of eight miles between Bentley and Thorne, and to
raw 133,0001., was weed. The billof the same company for
their proposed Ball Extension from a junction with their
line at Bentley with branch offshoots to Howdeo and the
West Dock at Kingston-on-Hull, with tramways, and
to raise 533,0001., was opened, Mr. Baxter, of the
firm of Baxter, Rose, and Norton, being examined
at considerable length by Mr. Burke and Mr. -Merewether.
The bill of the WestS'bropshire Railway Company for
mineral branches in that district was passeeL Lord Stan-
ley's committee on the competing lines between Mold and
Wrexham, resumed their inquiry, and beard counsel in
reply upon the general merits of the rival schemes. A
committee also met to consider the tale of Wight and the
Newport and Ryde Railways, but not being able to make a
quorum, adjourned until Monday next.
The only
.bill passed in the Lords was the North Eastern,
Market It erghton and Beverley. for a line of ten miles be-
tween those places, and to the Victoria Docks, and to raise
117,0001.

Tax THAMIB EMBANKlllol.—Yesterday, on resuming
the consideration of this question, the Hoe. Mr. Cowper in
the chair, the committee agreed to a clause vesting in the
Metropolitan Board of Works the execution of the act, and
the entire control of the undertaking. By the bill as it
originally stood it was proposed that the Metropolitan
Board should appoint a committee. consisting of its own
chairman and eight other members, two of whom should be
the corporation members of the City of London having
seam at the board. Clauses were also agreed to giving
power to the board to grant building leases of ground
004 wanted for the purposes of the act, and forbidding the
erection of houses in front of the gardens of the Inner sod
Middle Temple. Provisions were also inserted relative to
the rating of money for the purposes of the works, and for
Be repayment, and a protective clause was inserted in favour
of the Duke of Northumberland, to the effect that the
Board at Works should not take any more land belonging
to the duke, except with hie consent, than was required for
the formatioa of the atreeta in continuation of horthum-
berland.etreet and Whitehall-place, unless for sewerage
purposes, or the erection of public monuments and foun-
tains. The committee have adjourned until Monday.

FEDERAL PRIZICA.—LIVERPOOL, JUNE 12.—The
following prizes have been taken to Key West:—lase
(schooner) with coffee, powder, kr., from Nagnill, takes off
Charlotte /tambour by the United Butes steamer R. B.
Clayier. N. C. Bee (schooner), from Charleston to Nassau,
with cotton, captured North if Abet° by the Milted
States 144/1100, Sae tiw de Cuba. New York, May 29.
Th. J. B. Brinkley (schooner), wee seised in Poociaiokir
Sound 25th May, by the United States Member Reliance,
on suspicion of troths; with the Coafederates, sad arrived
at Baltimore 37th In charge of • min master. Au
iron steamer, loaded with cotton, was captured 15th May
by the Oohed States steamer R. R. Cayler, and seat to this
poet Liverpool, June 12.—Neweistk (schooner), from
Mob& to Havaansh, with cotton and stares, taken off Cuba
by the United States brig Baßabridff°.