The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-12 00:00:00

ever.

RAILIVAY INTELLIGENCE.

CHESHIRE MIDLAND.
An official inspection of this line, from Altrin-
cham to Knutsford, was made on Saturday by Mr.
Underdown, the general manager, and his staff,
accompanied by Mr. Lees, director, and by Mr.
Mawson, engineer, when the first train was run
over it, and everything found to be in good work-
ing order. The distance from Altrincham is nearly
seven miles, and the line has been constructed for
£150,000. The stations are at Peel Causeway
(Bowden), Ashley (for Rostherne), Mobberley, and
Knutsford. The remaining portion of the railway,
to Northwich, is to be opened during the present
summer, By means of this railway Knutsford and
the other places on this line are brought into direct
communication with London (over the Sheffield and
and Great Northern lines), and with Liverpool,
Manchester, and other large towns. At Northwich
it will form a junction with the West Cheshire,
and over that will communicate with the Birken•
head lines.

SOMERSET CENTRAL.
A special meeting of this company wasll before
held on
Friday at Glastonbury, to consider a
bi
Parliament for amalgamating the Dorset Central
Company with the Somerset Central. Mr. Marry,
chairman of the company, presided.
The clauses of the bill having been read,
The CHAIRMAN moved a resolution approving thel
o u
bill, and remarked that by adopting it they
Would
be giving stability, wealth, and prosperity to the
Somerset Central Company.
A long discussion ensued, in the course of which
it was stated that in 1858 the company offered 5
per cent. interest on £17,000 preference stock. A
Bristol shareholder invested a large
recommended others to do so, He now found that
sum in it, and
it was not a preference stock,
payable before any
other dividends, but guaranteed on a certain por-
tion of the capital of the
by the Secretary and Chairman that the interest of
guaranteed by £95,000 worth of
ordinary
hartyse holders
Thebiloli
the £17,000 was
hionwteerveesrt, ponrotvhidisedxflo7r,othooe
payment of all arrears
of the £95,000 could receive any-
thing.
The resolution approving the amalgamation was
adopted, with only three dissentients.

GRAND TRUNK OF CANADA.
The traffic receipts on this company's line for the
week ending the 19th of April amounted for local
passengers to 18,268 dols. ; for foreign passengers,
to 2,747 dols.; for mails, &c., to 2,838 dole; for local
freight and live stock, to 32,203 dole. ; for timber
and lumber, to 4,921 dole. ; for firewood, to 1,039
dols.; and for foreign freight and live stock, to
4,800 dols.—total, 66,836 dols. (£13,733) against
78,413 dols. (X 16,112) for the corresponding week
of last year, showing a decrease of 11,577 dollars
(£2,379). The total receipts from the Ist January
to the above date amounted to 1,179,050 dollars
(£242,270), and for the corresponding period of
1861 to 1,022,016 dols (£'210,003), showing an in-
crease of 157,034 dole. (-£'32,267).

DbEyßi‘LirA.NAllberD;;)o9lyli:
A report made
proposed extension of the dock, recoera.Etneedns tthhee
cost of £25,000 ; a cofferdam jettY
making of a breakwater near the sea outlet, at a
channel at a cost of £21,000; an entrance lock to
and entrance
cost £45,000, other works, quays, Sze., to cost
£94,000, entrance between ocks, including bridge
and gates, £15,000, which, together with £lO,OOO
for contingencies, make the total estimatt) of the
new works £210:000. The River Wear Commis-
sioners have determined at present to proceed
with
the breakwater at the sea outlet at a cost of
£25,000.