The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-02 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

RAILWAY BILLS.

On Monday in the committee on Metropolitan
Railways the opposition on behalf of the East and
West India Dock Company to the Blackwell Ex
tension was proceeded with. In Mr. Baillie's:com-
mittee on the competing Irish railways the case on
behalf of the Great Southern and Western and Mid-
land of Ireland was concluded. Mr. Hope Scott,
Q.C., then addressed the committee for the Dublin
Trunk Connecting Railway, for a principal line of
fire miles from the Great Southern and Western at
King's Bridge terminus, passing under and over the
Liffey and the Royal Canal to the Dublin and
Kingstown, near Sandymount, with six small lines
and junction curves, forming a railway roaod Dublin.
Tne capital required is £250,000 in shares and
£85,000 loan. Tne evidence of Mr. Moseley, general
manager of the Great Eastern Railway, was con-
tinued in the committee on the Great Eastern
Northern Junction Bill. Mr. Merewether, Q.C.,
summed up the opposition to the Lancashire
Union on behalf of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire. Evidence was given in Mr. Woodd's
committee on the proposed Teign Valley Line. The
bills passed in Mr. Msssey's committee include the
Belfast and Northern Counties, for a branch to
Pertrnsh harbour, and to raise for general purposes
£lOO,OOO on shares and £33,000 by loan ; Belfast,
Ballymoney, and Ballycastle Junction, for a railway
betweea those points of 15 miles, to raise £98,000
capital and £32,000 loan; Bristol and South Wales
Union, to extend the time for making their line to
the mouth of the river Avon ; Greenwich and South-
Eastern Docks, to extend the time for taking land and
completion of works for five years; Midland, for
extensions to Bath and to Thornbury,l7 miles, and
farther capital of £235,000, :and loan 178,600 ;
Oawestry, Newtown, and other companies Amal-
gamation and Arrangements Bills; Severn Valley,
to take lands, extend time, and raise £123,000 capi-
tal and,140,000 loan; North-Eastern, for additional
lines and powers; Rammell's patent pneumatic
railways and tubes ; Mid Wales, and the Trent
Ancholme, and Grimsby. In Lord Redesdale's
committee on the Bills of the Caledonian, the Lon-
don and South-Western (Chertsey), Salisbury and
Yeovil, and Witney Railways were passed.
On Tuesday the opposition of the East and West
India Dock Company was continued against the
extention of the London and Blackwell Railway.
The opposition of the South Devon Railway Com-
pany was heard against the Teign Valley Bill. Mr.
Hawkshaw, the engineer, was examined in favour
of the Great Eastern (Northern Junction). In the
committee on unopposed Bills the Charingaeross,
the Somerset and Dorset (Chedder Valley and Yat-
ton), ditto (extension to Shepton Mallet), the Weald
of Kent, the Wensum Valley, the West Sussex, the
North Devon and Somerset, the London and South
Western (North Devon Extension), and the Cheadle
and Manchester Bills were passed.

Yesterday Lord Stanley's committee decided that
BO much of the Blackwell Company's Bill as pro-
posed an extension from the Limehouse station,
passing between the River Thames and the West
India Docks, to the Isle of Dogs was not proved.
The committee approved the company's application
to enlarge the Fenchnrch•street terminus towards
Mark-lane, to widen the main line on the south side
near the Stepney station, and to take additional
lands eastward of the Limehouse station. The
cowmittee of which Mr. Scholefield is chairman,
passed the recommended Bill of the Glasgow City
Union Railway, and Mr. Merewether, Q.C., sub-
sequently called attention to the case of the pro-
posed Glasgow and North British Railway, in fa-
vour of which he stated there were 46 petitions, in-
cluding three from Chambers of Commerce, and 23
from mercantile interests. The engineering evi-
dence of Messrs. Hawkshaw, Fowler, and Stephen-
son engrossed the attention all day of the committee
on the Great Eastern (Northern Junctions) Bill.
Evidence was given in favour of the Drayton June-
tion for extension and connecting railways of 29
miles' length. Sir W. Russell, Mr. Allport, and
others were examined at great length by Mr. Cripps
on the merits of the East Gloucestershire Bill. A
committee of the House of Lords,EarlDevon chair-
man, considered the proposed extension of the Great
Northern to Barnet, and passed the bill. The bills
for the Bedford and Cambridge, and the Ely, Had-
denham, and Sutton were passed in Lord Redesdale's
committee.