The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-14 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

SOUTH-EASTERN OF PORTUGAL.
The directors of this company state in the report
that an additional sum of £22,223 has been received
from the Government of Portugal, on account of the
subvention, making £159,250 paid by them. The
remaining debentures, amounting to £88,900, have
all been taken up. The progress of the works is
such that about 60 miles will be opened in June
next, and the entire railway in a few months after-
wards. In anticipation of this, the directors are
taking the necessary steps for sending out the pro-
per officers to work the line. A resolution will be
submitted to the shareholders for payment of the
expenses already incurred in respect to the proposed
extension lines, and authorising the directors to
take such further steps as they may deem expedient,
with a view to the purchase of the line from Bar-
riero to Vendas Novas, and obtaining for the com-
pany the necessary authority for making such exten-
sions of the company's original line as they think
desirable. Mr. C. P. Symonds, the engineer, state
that since his last report the Works on three sec-
tions of the line have been extended over a length
of rather more than 62 miles. He expects that by
the end of June next a length of 58 miles will
be open for the development of traffic from Evora
on the east, and from Alenovas Vianna, Villa Nova,
and Alvito to the south, with the outlying districts
beyond those places, leaving less than 20 miles to
complete the total length of the line. The capital
'ceount shows that £405,772 had been expended,
leaving a balance against the company of £15,843.

GREAT WESTERN OF CANADA.
The report of the directors of this company state°
that the receipts on capital account during the past
half-year amounted to £3,450; but 6 per cent. bonds
duo in October last to the amount of £12,000 having
been paid off, leaves the total receipts, on the 31st
of January last, £5,212,395. The aggregate expert'
'liture to the same date amounted to £5,031,728,
leaving a balance of £180,667, The outlay on caps'
tal account during the half-year for new sidings and
other works amounted to £12,426. The English
*mud, yielding to the expressed wishes of a number
of proprietors, rt commend the opening of a " per'
manent way renewal account," and, therefore, for
the present half-year, of the total sum of £36,368,
expended for renewals, the sum of £30,000 is charge°
to revenue, and £6,368 is proposed to be carried t°
a renewal account. The revenue account for 1138
past half-year shows that the gross receipts amount
to £309,305, and the working expenses, inoluciia
taxes, insurance, and rent of suspension bridge, t°
£136,200, leaving a balance of £173,105. From ail°
is deducted £17,498 for interest on Governinerl!
loan, £35,573 interest on Government bonds, £40,87P
loss on the conversion of American currenoi/
£30,000 proportion of renewals of rails, eleeper6'
bridges, &c., and £249 Flamborongh accident 00:
count, leaving a balance of £48,906. To this lg
added £2,704 from the preceding half-year, making,
£51,610 available, from which the directors reeolD
mend a dividend at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum'
leaving a balance of £1,338.

THE MURDER IN ST. GILES'S.—ID consequence
of the confusion which followed immediately uP°ll
the discovery of the murder in George-street, and the r 051:
terions escape of the murderer, it has been publicly state°
in many quarters that there will be difficulties in the visit
of identifying the perpetrator of the crime in the event o
his apprehension. This is a mistake, as the police have fit
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least 10 or a dozen persons who could speak to the man
was with Emma Jacksou between six and seven o'clock °di;
the morning of Ihursdy, while there are others who ss,,
them together on the previous night. In tact thereis little
doubt that she was living with the man who murdered beif
during the thee days in which she had absented ners'm,
from her home. Two persons who had been sleeping in t',
house in George-street on Wednesday night met
Jackson and her paramour as they were entering on
day morning, end it is expected that both of these pers°',
will be able to identify the man. Most active enquiries
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being made amongst the associates and friends of the "h,,
ceased, which, it is confidently expected, will. result in
apprehension of the murderer, although the ta,de
devolves on the police is one of considerable difficulty. 1 bee
state that they have a tol,,rably accurate description of t;
man, gleaned from particulars v hich those who saW big
with Jackson have given them. It was at first thoug
that the murderer lived in the same neighbourhood as tue,
deceased, namely, that of Berwick-street, especially as sot
was seen with him so near to that spot, but .t is now tboupea
hat that is not the case, as no one who saw him recog'i'f
him as a neighbour, or even remembered seeing bid
before.