The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-05 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday, in the committee of the House of Commons,
the Crystal Palace and South London Junction was passed.
The bills of the North and South 'Western Junction, Ham-
mersmith and City, Hammersmith and Wimbledon, and
Kew, Turnham-green, and ,Hammersmith were passed.
The bill for the South-Eastern to make an extension to
Eastbourne was also passed. The clauses of the Lancashire
and Yorkshire (additional powers) and Leeds and Halifax
(new works) were passed.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Receipts.
RAllWais. ..___--A---‘,„..-....-_,
1864. 1863. 1864. 1863.
.£ L
Belfast and N. Cotittied 156 136 1,749 1.826
Belfast and County Down.. 49 49 608 665
Blyth and Tyne 2B 28 1,987 1,640
Bristol and Exeter l2ll 121 i 5,119 5,437
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Working-ten_ kii 84 218 283
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 207 317
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 112 152
Cork and Youghal .. 321 321 379 309
Cornwall 65/ 531 1,351 1,125
Deeside l7 17 221 231
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,260 1,231
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,393 1,425
Dublin and Meath
Dub. &Wicklow and Wextd 915 481 1,899 1,615
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1695 1691 7,053 7.002
Furness, &c 5O 5) 3,170 2,795
Glasgow & South-Western ~ 198 193 8,148 8,012
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union 663 611 26,659 26,258
Great Northern 353 351 30,494 27,710
Great North of Scotland . .
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 711 409 428
gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3731 829 6,769 6,816
Great Western _ 10561 10561 54,724 52. 507
.. . _ _ . _ _._

Inverness & Aberdeen June - 865 86j 958 907
Inverness & Perth Junction 1191 - 1,012 -
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,667 1,647
Larir.ashire& Yorkshire 492 3951 34,830 31,080
Limerie and Ennis 241 241 151 176
Limerick and Foynes 261 261 82 89
Llanelly 46! 461 540 501
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 5l 51 1,513 1,630
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2611 . 261 12,307 14, 22
London, Chatham, & Dover 721 225 3,475 2 779
,7,-`9. Metropolitan Extension 101 51 1,790 300
Tilbury, & Southend
Lond.,
&Lincolnsh
' 'l.l
ISilaannlSi.hSei'ulatt. Altrincham 9l el 1,162 1,063
Maryport and Can.._ .0
Metropolitan
Midland (incl. N.-Western).. 611 6':o 42,478 18,001
Midland Gt.Westn. of hind... 2593/4 2591 3,646 6,313
5,-.z.nitland
nornii:.Nutlish. Rail. & Canal 4l 44 2,647 2,401
North lir;:.'sb,
and Dundee ""- & parl 1095 10794 51,004 47,731
N-Eastern and Stoc,,.
Edin., Perth
North London
, '‘4 254 8,425 7,816
9 V 3,138 3,049
North Staffordshire :.. /2 1,107 899
Oswestry and Newton... 5O '' 9/7 868
Rhymney
191 10 ^ 9.0 2'075
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 62 ',..-
,1 2
«1213
Scottish Central
,
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 138 4,99.5 4.8 u.,
Somerset and Dorset 66 391 t 57 350
South Devon - 755 755 3.020 2,865
South-Eastern 305 305 14,783 16.137
raff Yale 57 55 5.783 5.805
Ulster
Vale of Clwyd
Vale of Neath 32/ 255 2,510 2.931
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 327 335
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,064 1,281
West Cornwall 275 275 726 71,
W.Halllepool Harbratßail 52 52 3,616 3.923
W'haven,Cleatorot Egrmnt 7 7 662 Cl'3
Whitehaven Junction l3 13 1,048 813
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 933 70:
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 1,029 1.034
Austrian B2B 828 28,531 18,'.01
Belgian Eastern Junction 26 21 318 211
Bombay, Ilaroda, & Cen. India 185 1671 3,066 1,772
Buffalo and Lake Iluron l6l 1611 2,283 2,537
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 189 4,481 3,437
Dutch Rhenish
Eastern Bengal
Eastern of Franca
East Indian
_,(...i Nit 22,521 12,088

Grand Trunk of Canada lO9- 1090- 18,186 16,553
Great Indian Peninsula 5 3 495 10,644 i'.l (32
Great Luxembourg 134 134 4,0; 3 4,653
Great Soutl►e:n of India
Great Western of Canada 345 315 14,013 13,985
Madras _. _. 417 447 4.993 4,063

..,.
Madrid, Saragossa&Aiicant 650 449 1509 15,633
Northern of Canada .......• 9l 91 1,732 1,671
Northern of France 697 697
Norwegian Trunk
Ottoman
.... - - 315 311

Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn 1805 17t3 100,022 119,814
Paris and Orleans 1614 1404 58,9G4 57.584
Pernambuco 771 1,590 1,665
Royal Danish 69 69
Sambre and Meuse
South Austrian 6B 653 1,3-26 1,408
1527 ige,s
sonthern of France ......
680 24,158 21,71 S
Vict6flan 196 196 9,303 9,333

NVellanu
West Flancicrs
75 1,012 056
W. and N.W. of France

Steam Shipbuilding on the Clyde.

The fine paddle steamer Washington, built by Messrs.
Scott and Co. for the French Compagnie Gt.ln6rale Trans-
atlantique, has made a .7atisfactory trial trip. The burden
of the Washington, which 1;8 intended to run between
New York and Havre, is 3,400 .fills builders' measure-
ment, and her machinery has been supplied by the
Greenock Fonndry Company, who have fitted her with
side lever engines of about 850 horse power nominal. The
diameter of the cylinders is 941 in, and the length of stroke
is Oft. The paddles are 37ft Gin in diameter, and the
engines are supplied with steam from four large boilers,
each fitted with 254 brass tubes, 7ft long by 3in diameter,
The large boilers are all cased in malleable iron plates, so
constructed that any part can be removed without taking
down the whole casing. The Washington " ran the lights"
on her trial trip in 761 minutes,
'lice paddle steamer Lady
Bowen, built by Messrs. A. and J. Inglis for the Queens-
land Steam Navigation Company has also made a trial trip,
and "run the lights,"
that is, accomplished the distance
between the Clock and Cumbrae lighthouses, in 69 min.
The Lady Bowen, which is 527 tons register, has two oscil-
lating engines of 150 horse power. Messrs. L. llill and Co.,
of Port Glasgow, have launched a screw steamer named the
Jamaica Packet, for the Jamaica coasting trade, under the
agency of Messrs. Jamieson, Sauter, and Co., of Kingston,
Messrs. W. Denny and Brothers, of Dumbarton, have
launched a screw of 872 tons, named the Tennessee; she is
872 tons burden, and is to be fitted with engines of 150
horse power by Messrs. Denny and Co. An armour-plated
frigate, intended for the Danish Government, has been
launched by Messrs. J. and G. Thompson of Govan. She
is to be fitted with engines of 600 horse power, and her bur-
den is 3,500 tons, her length being 2Soft ; her armour plates
are 41in thick, With a strong backing of teak and iron
plating.

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The Subutban Traffic on the Great Western

Railway,

Some correspondence has passed between Mr. de
Salis and the directors of the Great Western Rail-
way, the former complaining very bitterly of the
saspension by the Great Western Railway of the
through traffic between Farringdon-street and
Windsor, which had been provided for a short time.
The writer points out that, by so doing, the Great
Western has done great injustice to the residents
upon the line, and inflicted a serious injury upon
their own shareholders, as the Great Western Com-
pany have embarked £300,000 in money and plant
towarps the construction of the Metropolitan Rail-
way. Mr. de Salis says that the neglect of the
Great Western to develop its suburban traffic has
been continuous. "Your West Drayton station,"
he says, " with the wide and salubrious expanse of
country around it, appears destined to continue
limited in size to ten or twelve small houses ;
situate on the South-Western line it would have
become a new Kingston. Your Hanwell and
Southall stations, with sites surpassingly well
adapted for villa residences, are to remain unuti-
lised and unbuilt upon, but if placed on the Brighton
line it would have become a Croydon ;" and as for
Ealing, he says, had the Great Western not barred
the line to the city it would have been a Norwood
or a Sydenham. The writer also points out the
great personal inconvenience and annoyance in-
flicted on the population of the suburban districts,
and that the policy pursued by the directors tends
to nip in the bud all the plans which
may be formed or forming for the future
progress and development of the localities
interested. To this communication Mr. Saunders,
on behalf of the directors, replies :—" The
directors are anxious that the through communica-
tion should be resumed at the earliest practicable
period, and with this view negotiations are now
pending between the officers of the two companies ;
but to enable the traffic to be carried on in a manner
to afford proper accommodation to passengers tra-
velling to the City,without undue interference with
the traffic of the main line, much is needed to be
done in the shape of increased accommodation over
our own line, as well as in connection with the
Bishop's-road station. So long as passengers with
their luggage require to pass between the Metropo.
litan Railway and the down platform of the Pad-
dington station, inconvenience to some extent must
exist ; and although it is unnecessary that I should
say anything in reference to your remark as to the
want of attention on the Metropolitan Railway, I
think I may say that the directors of that company
are actuated by the same desire that is felt here, to
afford the best accommodation in their power to the
suburban traffic on the Great Western Railway, and
I hope before long that the running of through
trains may be resumed with advantage to the
neighbourhood and with benefit to the companies I
themselves."