The Sun.
London, England, 1863-02-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY BILLS.

Yesterday the following railway bills were de-
clared to have complied with the standing orders of
Parliament :—Great-Eastern—to confer additional
powers on the company in reference to the Waveney
Valley, the Lynn and Hunstanton, and the Bishop's
Stortford, Dunmow, and Braintree Railways; also
in regard to the company's bill for running steam.
boats between Harwich and Lowestoft, and certain
foreign ports, and between King's Lynn, Hull, and
Newcastle, and to raise £250,000. Nor th London—
for a branch from the Caledonian-road to the Yaek-
road. Mid-Kent—to make two railways from their
Addiscombe Extension, one into Croydon and the
other to the London, Chatham, and Dover, near the
Beckham station, and to raise £75,000. Hadlow—
for arrangements with the London, Chatham, and
Dover, and Sevenoaks Railways. Mistley, Thorpe,
and Walton—for a line from the Great Eastern
at Mistley to Walton-on-the-Naze, and to
raise £60,000. Seaton and Beer—for an ex-
tension from the London and South-Western
to Seaton, and to raise £36,000. St_ Ives and
West Cornwall Junction—for a line to St. Ives,
and to raise £42,000. Irish North Western—for an
extension along the
quays at Dundalk.
The only case of
non-compliance was the Brecon
and Merthyr Tydfil Junction, for new lines.

Comparative Rates of Pay in the Navy
between 1841 and 1862.

On comparing :the rates of pay accorded to the various
ranks of the navy twenty years ago with those now granted,
it appears that the annual receipts of officers of the higher
eTades has been but little altered, that those of lieutenants,
masters, and engineers have been slightly increased, while
those of the petty officers and seamen have
been consider-
ably augmented. Thus we find that the average pay of all
ranks was in
1841 £36 12 4 per man per annum.
1852 .. 39 14 S
1862 .. 43 16 3 ),
and that t&hc.,
ecost
was oifnyictualling, including provisions, ne-
cessaries,lB4l
18521 f
1862 ),
£11159
06 70
7 15 6 per man per annum.
so that on wages and provisions alone each man employed
in the navy in 1862 cost £8 14s 5d more than in 1841. But
the best criterion by which to judge of the difference be-
tween the pay of the navy in the two periods is the amount
of wages granted to the able seamen, which is now £2B
lld per annum, while in 1841 it was only £22 2s. It will
be easily perceived from these figures how great is the
change and how much better is the position of the common
sailor than it was formerly, and it must moreover be re-
membered that in addition to this increase of money ac-
tually paid to him, he enjoys many advantages which in
the "good old times" were quite unknown ; he has a por-
tion of his clothing, all his bedding, and all his mess traps
supplied gratuitously, his pay in hospital continues under
certain limitations on the home stations, and abroad until
the patient is either cured or sent home as an invalid, he is
granted six weeks leave on the ship bring put out of com-
mission, with continuance of pay, he receives instruction
on board ship, part of his wages are paid monthly, he can
allot a portion of his money in maonndthhlye phaaaymthenetespttoienaneyf
'o
speenrdsoinnginanthoredUernhiteemd
eKfeinrgedeonamef his pay to be placed in
any savings bank on his account.— United &lace Maga-
zine.