The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-19 00:00:00

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 19,

The Hamburg and American Company's steamer
Germania, from New York on the sth inst., has
arrived off Netley Hospital. She is awaiting orders
before proceeding to Hamburg, in consequence of
Danish ships being off the mouth of the Weser.
She brings 35 bags of mails, 35 passengers for
Southampton, and 71 for Hamburg. No specie.
On the sth she spoke the Bremen ships Colum-
bia and Victoria, and an English ship showing the
third D.P. 9,400; on the 14th inst., the English
bark Gientill, and on the 16th the English bark
Quebec.

Her news has been anticipated.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, April 18.—The Emperor's letter pub
lished by the Monateur, and the announcement of
the reduction to be made in the registration dues,
have produced a very great effect, and prices
have agei❑ made an immense stride upwards.
Threes, for the Account, after having been
done at 681 r., are now firm at 67fr. 65c. Mobilier
have advanced to 1,295 f. The Railway Market
has been similarly acted on, and most of the lines
are quoted higher. The quotations closed as fol
lows :-

41 per Cents .. 94
Do. end month....
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 55
Credit Mobilier 1270
Do. end month 1280
Bank Shares 3300
Credit koneier 1320
Roman

'ltalian Loan 7O
Do. end month 69 40
New ditto **
Do. end month....
Russian
Austrian
Spanieh Threes —
from., Debt
Deferred

tIALLWAY,6.
Cash. Account.
900 ~ 902 50
983 75 .. 980 --

Orleans
Northern ... •
New ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean
New ditto
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sariiinian
Austrian
Lonbard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona

955 - .. 965 --
902 50 .. - -
650 - .. 685 -
500 - 506 -

485 - - -
375 - .. 375 -
422 50 .. 427 50
562 u 0 .. 567 50
500 - .. 505 -
585 .. 587 50
280 - -

Railway and Public Companies in
Parliament,

The committee on the proposed new Metropolitan Rail-
ways met the first t;me yesterday, Lord Stanley in the chair,
the other members being Mr. Ingham, Lord Athluraney,
Mr. Cobbett, and Mr. J. Hardy. There was a great array
of counsel, Parliamentary agents, and other professional
gentlemen employed. The bills before the committee were
23 in number. The chairman said the committee would first
take into consideration the Great Northern (No. 1, Barnet
Branch), and London, Chatham, and Dover (No. 1), and
afterwards in their order of rotation the London, Brighton,
and South Coast new lines (Battersea) ; Metropolitan
Railway (additional powers) ; and London, Chatham,
and Rraer Railway (No. 2, new lines). It would be
for the convenience of all patties that this announce-
ment should be made, as the inquiry into these cases
would no doubt occupy all the week. Counsel appearing
for the promoters of the Great Northern bill were Mr.
Denison, Q.C., and Mr. Davison; for the Regent's Canal
Company, in opposition, Mr. R. Gurney, the Recorder, and
Mr. Hope Scott, Q.O ; for the Metropolitan Railway Mr.
Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. V. Harcourt, and Mr. Holway ; for
the London, Chatham, and Dover Mr. Burke, Q.C., Mr.
Round, and Mr. Somerset; for the Midland Railway Sir W.
Alexander, Mr. Hope Scott, and Mr. Venables. There was
also a petition against the bill from two shareholders, Messrs
Archbutt and Pocock. Mr. Denison then at considerable
length opened the case for the Great Northern Railway,
stating that the principal objects of that company's rippli
cation were to empower them to make a branch line of one
mile 32 chains from the main line to Barnet, and an ap
preach thereto to be completed in four years, to acquire
land for station purposes to the westward of their goods
station at King's-cross, to run over the Metropolitan Rail-
way between King's-cross and its Farringdon•street Ter-
minus, to run over the London, Chatham, and Dover be-
tween its junction with the Metropolitan Railway and the
Crystal Palace at Sydenhaw, and the Victoria Station at
Pimlico, and to agree with the London, Chatham, and
Dover for the mutual use of their undertakings. The pro-
moters also sought power to confirm an agreement of Dec.,
le6o, between the Great Northern and Metropolitan Rail
ways, for the use of working by the former company of
their trains on the before mentioned portion of the Metro-
politan Railway, and for an option to the Great Northern
to take on lease la❑d for a warehouse at the east of the
Metropolitan Railway at Clerkenwell. For these purposes
it was proposed to raise a further sum of £200,000 by new
ordinary and preference sheres, and £60,000 by loan. The
opposition of the Regent's Canal Company was to the con-
struction of a proposed bridge ever their canal, and that of
other interests might be made subject matt( r of mutual
accommodation and clauses. Mr. Seymour Clarke, general
manager of the Great Northern Railway, was under ex-
amination until the committee rose. In Mr. Scholefield's
committee the case for the Chertsey Extension of the Lon-
don and South Western Railway was concluded, and that
for the proposed Staines, Egham, and Woking Junction
Railway opened by Mr. Phinn, Q.C. The Perth Extension
of the North British Railway still progresses in Mr. Has-
sard's comtnittee,who are hearing the opposing parties. The
miscellaneous bills proceeding in other committees are the
Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance and Globe
Insurance Companies ; the Nottingham Gas and Belfast
Improvement. In the committee of which Lord Wodehouse
is chairman, :Mr. Hawkshaw, C.E., and other witnesses
were examined in opposition to the proposed Bute Docks at
Cardiff, and the case of the West London Docks and Ware-
houses Bill was opened by Mr. Burke, Q.C., in Earl Cath-
cart's committee. The object of the bill is to change the
name of the undertaking to that of the Railways Junction
Warehouses and Canal Company, to take additional lands,
to lay down tramways, and connect them with the London
and Brighton Railway at Battersea, to make working agree-
ments with that company and the London and North-
Western, Great Western, and London, Chatham, t.nd Dover
Companies, to raise in addition to their authorised share
capital of £130,000, a further sum of £O,OOO, and to bor-
row £130,000. Sir C. Fox, the engineer, was the chief
witness examined.